Experts explore the maturation of nonlinear brain dynamics from a developmental perspective and consider the relationship of neurodevelopmental disorders to early disruption in dynamic coordination.Th
Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural hi
Those who continue to think never return to their point of departure. -- InconsistenciesThese 130 short texts -- aphoristic, interlacing, and sometimes perplexing -- target a perennial philosophical
California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at n
The shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication. -- from In the SwarmDigital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this c
What makes an expert software designer? It is more than experience or innate ability. Expert software designers have specific habits, learned practices, and observed prin
This anthology provides the first art-historical reassessment of information-based art in relation to data structures and exhibition curation. It examines such landmark e
A celebration of Borneo's natural wonders, from its rainforest-covered lowland areasto its mountain ranges, highland areas, and winding rivers, with over 200 stunning colorphotographs.
Winner, 1995, category of Archeology and Anthropology, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.Based on her extensive expe
The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the "useful" sciences in Prussia.Do today's technoscientific disciplines--including m
How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures.In this book, Michael Truscello looks at th
An examination of the conflict between values and bureaucracy in World Bank biodiversity partnerships.Multi-stakeholder partnerships have become an increasingly common form of global governance. Partn
The transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective through simple economic models.In Evolving Households, Jeremy Greenwood argues that t
Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances,
The first English-language monograph devoted to the full oeuvre of Alexander Kluge, the prolific German filmmaker, television producer, digital entrepreneur, author, thinker, and public intellectual.A
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.Citie
A critical examination of efforts by social media companies -- including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram -- to rein in cyberbullying by young users.Forthcoming from the MIT Press.
An approach to comparative economic systems that avoids simple dichotomies to examine a wide variety of institutional and systemic arrangements, with updated country case studies.Comparative economics
This introductory text offers an alternative to the encyclopedic, technically oriented approach taken by traditional textbooks on macroeconomic principles. Concise and nontechnical but rigorous, its g
Evolving Enactivism argues that cognitive phenomena -- perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition
What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, con
In 1968, Robert Smithson reacted to Michael Fried's influential essay "Art and Objecthood" with a series of works called non-sites. While Fried described the spectator's
Synthetic biology manipulates the stuff of life. For synthetic biologists, living matter is programmable material. In search of carbon-neutral fuels, sustainable manufacturing techniques, and innovati
In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a "free innovation pa
Hans Haacke's art articulates the interdependence of multiple elements. An artwork is not merely an object but is also its context -- the economic, social, and political
Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai B
Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Pressin 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in scientific visualization among historians,philosophers, and sociologists of scienc
Recent research in molecular biology has produced a remarkably detailed understandingof how living things operate. Becoming conversant with the intricacies of molecular biology and itsextensive techni
Design Things offers an innovative view of design thinking and design practice,envisioning ways to combine creative design with a participatory approach encompassing aesthetic anddemocratic practices
Working at the cutting edge of live performance, an emerging generation of artists isemploying digital technologies to create distinctive forms of interactive, distributed, and oftendeeply subjective
Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching forsolid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. Whatis librarianship w
The German expressionist, architectural visionary, author, inventor, and artist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) wrote several fictional utopian narratives related to glass architecture. In The Gray Cloth,
Foreword by Michael SorkinIntroduction by Richard Guy WilsonInflected by local climate, construction practices, regional culture, and Florida lifestyle, the work of the Sarasota school of architectur
A comprehensive text and reference that covers all aspects of computer music, including digital audio, synthesis techniques, signal processing, musical input devices, performance software, editing sy
An investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread.Hate speech can happen anywhere--in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khak
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaura
Why environmental learning is crucial for understanding the connected challenges of climate justice, tribalism, inequity, democracy, and human flourishing.How can we respond to the current planetary e
A short, rigorous introduction to intermediate microeconomic theory that offers worked-out examples, tools for solving exercises, and algebra support.This book takes a concise, example-filled approach
The essentials of communication for professionals, educators, students, and entrepreneurs, from organizing your thoughts to inspiring your audience.Do you give presentations at meetings? Do you ever h
A provocative call for the transformation of science museums into "idea colliders" that spark creative collaborations and connections.Today's science museums descend from the Kunst-und Wunderkammern o
