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The possibility of a new emancipatory and democratizing politics, explored through the lens of recent urban insurgencies.In Promises of the Political, Erik Swyngedouw explores whether progressive and

A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies.Climate change, economists generally agree, is best

Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one a

Multiagent systems are made up of multiple interacting intelligent agents -- computational entities to some degree autonomous and able to cooperate, compete, communicate, act flexibly, and exercise co

Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and other environmental th

Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economicworld. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and newapproaches have

The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing,painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions,including historical re

Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability.This pathbreaking work offers an interdisci

Gabriel Catren is a philosopher and a physicist working at the Institut SPHEREScience, Philosophie, Histoire (Universit Paris DiderotCNRS, Paris).The great poets and thinkers of modernity described a

A comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the economics of the production, distribution, and consumption of wine.Wine economics is a growing subfield that examines the economics of the product

An interdisciplinary analysis of human interactions with mercury through history that sheds light on efforts to promote and achieve sustainability.In Mercury Stories, Henrik Selin and Noelle Eckley Se

A comprehensive and integrated introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain.Practice or training in perceptual tasks improves the quality of percept

How companies like Amazon and Netflix know what "you might also like" the history, technology, business, and social impact of online recommendation engines.Increasingly, our technologies are giving us

A range of empirical and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between biology and social cognition from infancy through childhood.Recent research on the developmental origins of the social min

An examination of why government agencies allow environmental injustices to persist. Many state and federal environmental agencies have put in place programs, policies, and practices to redress envi

Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher-including notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics-most published here for the first time. The California conceptu

An investigation of independent video games—creative, personal, strange, and experimental—and their claims to handcrafted authenticity in a purely digital medium.Video games are often dismissed as mer

Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts: a foundational text.This book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everythi

A proposal to reframe the Anthropocene as an age of actual and emerging coexistence with earth system variability, encompassing both human dignity and environmental sustainability.Is this the Anthropo

An architect and a photographer explore a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, and survivalists inhabiting a former military base in the California desert.Under the unforgiving sun of

An accessible guide to the major issues and arguments surrounding school choice.The issues and arguments surrounding school choice are sometimes hijacked to make political points about government cont

The relationship between management and digital technology: experts present a new agenda for the practice of management.Digital technology has profoundly affected the ways that businesses design and p

An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived eugenics.Part science and part social movement, eug

Felix Muñoz-Garcia's Advanced Microeconomic Theory provides examples and exercises that help students understand how to apply theoretical models and offers tools for approaching similar problems on t

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled frame

Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer -- and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist -- Felix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. Comp

Expansion, convergence, adjacency, projection, rapport, and intersection are a few ofthe terms used to redraw the boundaries between art and architecture during the last thirty-fiveyears. If modernist

In this book, Astrid Ensslin examines literary videogames -- hybrid digital artifactsthat have elements of both games and literature, combining the ludic and the literary. These workscan be considered

This book offers a general overview of the physics, concepts, theories, and modelsunderlying the discipline of aerodynamics. A particular focus is the technique of velocity fieldrepresentation and mod

The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain (and itscorollary, that cognition resides elsewhere) shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for manyyears. Recent behavioral

Transnational markets hold sway over all aspects of contemporary culture, and thathas transformed the environment of recent art, blurring the previously discrete realms of price andvalue, capital and

If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested indifficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that aclub sandwich and o

In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize

"Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and thematerial form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or'dematerialized.'"--Lucy R. Lippard, Six YearsI

In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary published their influential book TheMajor Transitions in Evolution. The "transitions" that Maynard Smith and Szathmary chose to describeall constituted m

Case studies from around the world and theoretical discussion show how the capacityto act collectively on local problems can be developed, strengthening democracy while changingsocial and economic out

Contract Theory by Patrick Bolton and Mathias Dewatripont, a comprehensive textbookon contract theory suitable for use at the graduate and advanced undergraduate levels, covers theareas of agency theo

In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century.

Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designablecharacteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed streetusers and design professionals

In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war “to end all wars” that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia.Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I’s mass slaughter and long before World War II’s mushroom cloud finale, H. G. Wells imagined a war that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in a utopia of enlightened world government. Set in the 1950s, Wells’s neglected novel The World Set Free describes a conflict so horrific that it actually is the war that ends war. Wells―the first to imagine a “uranium-based bomb”―offers a prescient description of atomic warfare that renders cities unlivable for years: “Whole blocks of buildings were alight and burning fiercely, the trembling, ragged flames looking pale and ghastly and attenuated in comparison with the full-bodied crimson glare beyond.” Drawing on discoveries by physicists and chemists of the time, Wells foresees both a world powered by clean, plentiful atomic energy―and the destr