For more than thirty years, interdisciplinary history has included the study of all aspects of the family, including births, marriages, and household composition. This collection looks at the many dim
In this book Joseph Heath brings Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action into dialogue with the most sophisticated articulation of the instrumental conception of practical rationality-modern
In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantification
This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations. Besides overt phasal mo
This text makes accessible the most important methodological advances in bondevaluation from the past twenty years. With uncommon precision and a strong emphasis on theunderlying economic fundamentals
This book describes a fundamentally new theoretical framework for finding poor algorithms in an application program and replacing them with ones that parallelize the code. Parallel computation will
In this exploration of the relationship between modernity, dwelling, andarchitecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge the gap between thediscourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of mode
In the ancient world, the collection and study of celestial phenomena and theintepretation of their prophetic significance, especially as applied to kings and nations, wereclosely related sciences car
edited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman The connection between priceinflation and real economic activity has been a focus of macroeconomic research--and debate--formuch of the past cen
The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a n
Evolutionary game theory is one of the most active and rapidly growing areas ofresearch in economics. Unlike traditional game theory models, which assume that all players arefully rational and have co
Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art,architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on theother. In Evictions Rosalyn
This monograph exemplifies a new trend in grammatical theory in which researchers combine findings from more than one area of linguistics. Specifically, the author looks at the relationship between ph
This work examines how electoral laws, the timing of elections, the ideological orientation of governments, and the nature of competition between political parties influence unemployment, economic gro
The relationship between political and economic cycles is one of the most widely studied topics in political economics. This book examines how electoral laws, the timing of elections, the ideological
Too often, designers of computer systems, both hardware and software, use models and concepts that focus on the artifact while ignoring the context in which the artifact will be used. According to th
Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside? Paul Krugman argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they could not formalize led
Evolutionary game theory is one of the most active and rapidly growing areas of research in economics. Unlike traditional game theory models, which assume that all players are fully rational and have
The twenty chapters in this book show both sides of the interaction between logic and language: how logical systems are designed and modified in response to linguistic needs, and how mathematical theo
The combined study of logic and language goes back at least as far as the Middle Ages. In the last twenty-five years it has gained momentum with the formulation of Montague semantics and Generative Sy
The analysis and theory developed in Zero Syntax is an important contribution to the understanding of Universal Grammar. The overriding theme is the notion that the availability and syntactic positio
Political Economy and International Economics is the fifth volume of collected essays by the noted economist Jagdish Bhagwati. Following Essays in International Economic Theory (edited by Robert Feens
During the 1980s a dramatic change in the evolution of the modern corporation took place. The phenomenon, which has been labelled "refocusing," "de-diversifying," "de-conglomerating," or simply "getti
Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside? Paul Krugman argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they could not formalize led t
In this second collection of his writings on financial markets (the first, On Exchange Rates, covered international finance), Jeffrey Frankel turns his attention to domestic markets, with special atte
The standard version of the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade treats the factors of production -- land, labor, and capital -- as essentially analytically similar and symmetrical. In these s
This text is an analysis of the relationship between culture and technology. The author - an archaeologist, metallurgist, and anthropologist - shows how the methods of materials science, augmented by
A groundbreaking analysis of the relationship between culture and technology. This is a groundbreaking analysis of the relationship between culture and technology. Dorothy Hosler, an archaeologist,
Neural networks usually work adequately on small problems but can run into trouble when they are scaled up to problems involving large amounts of input data. Circuit Complexity and Neural Networks add
In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear in many years,Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept of civil society articulates a contestedterrain in the West that
David Dollar and Edward Wolff look at claims that a deindustrialized United States is on the road to secondrate status in the global marketplace and find them to be both unfounded and simplistic. Thei
The last decade has seen an important extension of the theory of international trade to include imperfectly competitive market structures. This book collects 19 of the most influential articles on tra
Substantially revised (the first edition was in 1977), this text and standard reference provides an introduction to the engineering of aircraft propulsion systems with the emphasis on the engine, rath
In this series of 15 essays, which won the Letterstedt Prize, Sweden's equivalent of the Pulitzer, distinguished cell biologist George Klein shares his considerable insights on science and on human na
Chaos theory has touched on such fields as biology, cognitive science, and physics. By providing a unified and complete explanation of new statistical methods that are useful for testing for chaos in
Uses excerpts from letters, memoirs, and documents to recreate the life of Ada Byron, daughter of the English poet, and discusses her contributions to mathematics and her friendships with the leading
