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Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man - the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably eno

The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockhol

The underlying theme of Rudi Dornbusch's work is unabashedly Chicago, namely, theUniversity of Chicago belief that markets solve problems best and that most bureaucrats, even whenwell-intentioned, are

The First time I made a film in color... I imposed a small taboo on myselfinternally. It was to never shoot the color green. Nagisa Oshima is generally regarded as the mostimportant Japanese film dire

The pristine, the ruined, the ephemeral, and even the notional are the subject ofRobert Harbison's highly original and admittedly romantic contribution to the literature ofarchitecture. His fresh perc

Discusses medieval economic thought, centering on the belief that usury was immoral and unnatural

As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern thatmodern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human NatureObsolete? poses

PVM is a software package that enables the computer user to define a networked heterogeneous collection of serial, parallel, and vector computers to function as one large computer. Written by the tea

This is the story of how one company created and codified a new science "on the run,"away from the confines of the laboratory. By construing its service as scientific, Schlumberger wasable to get the

Volume 9 in the Babbage Reprint Series makes the Moore School Lectures (1946) available for the first time. Delivered by such notable engineers and scientists as J.P. Eckert, J. Mauchly, H. Goldstine,

Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding director ofthe Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that was modernism. In this book -- partintellectual biography, pa

A comprehensive overview of OpenMP, the standard application programming interface for shared memory parallel computing—a reference for students and professionals.

Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and r

Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm,

A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artificial intelligence but as artificial communication.Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a device know what our favorite songs are, or what we should write in an email? Have machines become too smart? In Artificial Communication, Elena Esposito argues that drawing this sort of analogy between algorithms and human intelligence is misleading. If machines contribute to social intelligence, it will not be because they have learned how to think like us but because we have learned how to communicate with them. Esposito proposes that we think of “smart” machines not in terms of artificial intelligence but in terms of artificial communication.To do this, we need a concept of communication that can take into account the possibility that a communication partner may be not a human being but an al

Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. Buthow do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much aswhat is actually pres

In Agreement and Head Movement, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax, the computational system that relates the lexicon to

In Agreement and Head Movement, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head movement is not part of the narrow syntax, the computational system that relates the lexicon to

The unprecedented military, economic, and political power of the United States has led some observers to declare that we live in a unipolar world in which America enjoys primacy or even hegemony. At

Insurance companies routinely use an individual's medical history and family medical history in determining eligibility for life insurance; this is part of the process of medical underwriting. Insure

In Critique and Disclosure, Nikolas Kompridis argues provocatively for a richer and more time-responsive critical theory. He calls for a shift in the normative and critic

The variety of constitutional designs found in democratic governments has important effects on policy choices and outcomes. That is the conclusion reached in Democratic Constitutional Design and Publ

A collection of essays, originally published in journals or given as speeches, explores the social, political, economic, and cultural devastation of AIDS, explaining why AIDS no longer determines the

Alex Cukierman is well known for his work on central bank behavior. This book brings together a large body of Cukierman's research and integrates it with recent developments in the political economy o

Two important subproblems of computer vision are the detection and recognition of 2D objects in gray-level images. This book discusses the construction and training of models, computational approache

This important new volume brings together Jurgen Habermas's key writings on religionand religious belief. In these essays, Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewishthought, on one h

This important new volume brings together Jurgen Habermas's key writings on religion and religious belief. In these essays, Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on on

Essays apply activity theory, a psychological theory with a naturalistic emphasis that came to fruition in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, to problems of human-computer interaction. Sections on activit

A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization."I wait for new Smil books the way

Combines in one volume Technics and Language and Memory and Rhythms, the cornerstones of Leroi-Gourhan's comprehensive theory of human behavior and cultural developmentAndré Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986)

This important study of the relationship between historical developments and the work of the scholars associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research yields fascinating insights into the a

From the coalition's desert showdown with Saddam Hussein to the dieter's duel with himself in the midnight kitchen, strategic choices determine destinies. These essays by wellknown scholars - economis

These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference andreferring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay thatcasts current trends in

Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. Buthow do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much aswhat is actually pres

Cognitive neuroscience explores the relationship between our minds and our brains,most recently by drawing on brain imaging techniques to align neural mechanisms with psychologicalprocesses. In Mind a

Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict's happiness and health but also thewelfare and well-being of others. It represents a loss of self-control and a variety of othercognitive impairments a

Chimeras and Consciousness begins the inquiry into the evolution of the collectivesensitivities of life. Scientist-scholars from a range of fields--including biochemistry, cellbiology, history of scie

In Music and Probability, David Temperley explores issues in music perception and cognition from a probabilistic perspective. The application of probabilistic ideas to music has been pursued only spo

In Language and Equilibrium, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of lang

Milk and Melancholy by Kenneth Hayes explores the transition from late-conceptual to postmodern photographic art practices through an unusual trajectory: artists' representations of milk. Across an ar