Bridges and Boundaries offers a conversation between what might loosely be describedas traditionalist diplomatic and military historians, and political scientists who employqualitative case study meth
The rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web is transforming the way information is accessed and used. New models for distributing, sharing, linking, and marketing information are appearing
Wild Malaysia is a major new pictorial study of the natural history of southeastAsia's southernmost peninsula and offshore islands, which are home to an enormous wealth of species.Produced in associat
For several decades, Dr. Morris has worked primarily with two problems: thedevelopment of a general theory of signs, and the development of a general theory of value. Heapproached both problems in ter
Good call or bad call, referees and umpires have always had the final say in sports. Bad calls are more visible: plays are televised backward and forward and in slow moti
During World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiques; in Mexico, the United States, and other countries, mules were used for smuggling and s
This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using te
Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance
There are many excellent computational biology resources now available for learning about methods that have been developed to address specific biological systems, but comparatively little attention h
The evolutionary roots of human communication are difficult to trace, but recent comparative research suggests that the first key step in that evolutionary history may have been the establishment of
As urban planning moves from a centralized, top-down approach to a decentralized,bottom-up perspective, our conception of urban systems is changing. In Cities andComplexity, Michael Batty offers a com
Sunk Costs and Market Structure bridges the gap between the new generation of gametheoretic models that has dominated the industrial organization literature over the past ten yearsand the traditional
A group of prominent international economists consider what makes for successfulconvergence—what policies and economic conditions help poor countries catch up to theliving standards of rich countries.
This wide-ranging review of some of the major issues in development economics focuses on the role of economic and political institutions. Drawing on the latest findings in institutional economics and
This wide-ranging review of some of the major issues in development economics focuses on the role of economic and political institutions. Drawing on the latest findings in institutional economics and
Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization is fundamentally altering media practices, institutions, and content. More than t
At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma.The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, an
An environmental lawyer offers an analysis of practices that contribute to the failure of successful waste disposal and suggests alternative methods to tackle various forms of waste and effectively al
Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entire
These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argumentthat historians must write in a "comic" mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion.Exploring a diverse
A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability.Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too m
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.Environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology have taken divergent path
When the Bush administration's faith-based initiative was introduced in 2001 as the next stage of the "war on poverty," it provoked a flurry of protest for violating the church-state divide. Most crit
A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates to their meaning. There is broad agreement in the field that there is some regulari
Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars in shaping the pre-Web social media
Illegal immigration continues to roil American politics. The right-wing media stir up panic over "anchor babies," job stealing, welfare dependence, bilingualism, al-Qaeda
Applied state estimation and association is an important area for practicing engineers in aerospace, electronics, and defense industries, used in such tasks as signal processing, tracking, and navigat
This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision making, and economic behavior. The essays focus on the
Many parts of the world in which common infectious diseases are endemic also have the highest prevalence of trace metal deficiencies or rising rates of trace metal pollution. Infectious diseases can i
Between Humanities and the Digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested,
In this book, Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haladjian consider the relationship between consciousness and attention. The cognitive mechanism of attention has often been compared to consciousness, becaus
Codeswitching is the alternate use of two or more languages among bilingualinterlocutors. It is distinct from borrowing, which involves the phonological and morphologicalintegration of a word from one
In the twenty-first-century digital world, virtual goods are sold for real money.Digital game players happily pay for avatars, power-ups, and other game items. But behind everyvirtual sale, there is a
One lens through which to view global economic interdependence and the spillover ofshocks is that of decoupling (and then recoupling). Decoupling between developed and developingcountries can be seen
As members of the baby boom generation head into retirement, they face an economicenvironment that has changed noticeably since their parents retired. Most of these new retirees willnot be equipped, a
Robotics: Science and Systems VIII spans a wide spectrum ofrobotics, bringing together contributions from researchers working on the mathematical foundationsof robotics, robotics applications, and ana
In " Lexical Analysis, " Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical appro
Can a celebrity chef find common ground with an urban community organizer? Can amaker of organic cheese and a farm worker share an agenda for improving America's food? In the SanFrancisco Bay area, un
