The contemporary painter Gerhard Richter (born in 1932) has been heralded both asmodernity's last painter and as painting's modern savior, seen to represent both the end of paintingand its resurrectio
For years, the residents of Diamond, Louisiana, lived with an inescapable acrid,metallic smell -- the "toxic bouquet" of pollution -- and a mysterious chemical fog that seeped intotheir houses. They l
In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage inChicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks tothose who dispose o
This is a personal story of the educational process at one of the world's greattechnological universities. Pepper White entered MIT in 1981 and received his master's degree inmechanical engineering in
These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical questionthat has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent,and by what means, does a society's technology determine itspolitical, social, ec
Under the influence of postempiricism, the philosophy of science has changedenormously in recent years. New Philosophy of Social Science provides a clear and useful overview ofthe new synthesis that h
During the last two decades Richard Bernstein has established a worldwide reputationas one of the few philosophers able to bridge different traditions of thought and to clarify,through sympathetic cri
The first volume of Franklin M. Fisher's collected essays, Industrial Organization, Economics, and the Law, focused on the application of economic analysis to legal disputes in the areas of regulation
Abusing Science is a manual for intellectual self-defense, the most completeavailable for presenting the case against Creationist pseudo-science. It is also a lucid expositionof the nature and methods
The past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as “the world’s environmental conscience.”The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast,
Yugoslavia's diverse and interconnected art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s, linked to the country's experience with socialist self-management.In Yugoslavia from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, s
A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet,
Tracing the relation between fascism and settler colonialism.In the aftermath of World War II, the recently liberated nations in Europe were swift to resume colonial oppression abroad. On May 8, 1945,
A novel logic-based framework for representing the syntax-semantics interface of natural language, applicable to a range of phenomena.In this book, Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine propose a type-logic
How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good.Drones are famous for doing bad things: weaponized, they implement remote-control war; used fo
How some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce by pursuing "ends"--actual outcomes--rather than selling "means"--their products and services.Would you rather pay for healthcare or for better healt
An introduction to the concepts and principles of sound design practice, with more than 175 exercises that teach readers to put theory into practice.This book offers an introduction to the principles
An authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass the creations of humans.Today's computers are composing music that s
The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.The Hubble Space Telescope has revolut
Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more.Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that'
How the asset--anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism.In this book, scholars from a range of discipli
This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists' engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical and critical works have established Sound Art as an artistic ge
A photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea's "model" utopia. The story of Pyongyang is unique even in the annals of model cities and modernist utopias. Entirely rebuilt after the
A provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous. Humans are eating more meat than ever. Despite ubiquitous Sweetgreen franchi
Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age. In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that social relations, media, and commerce would move from
An authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass the creations of humans.Today's computers are composing music that s
How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites.Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001) was the last disciple of
A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.Everybody eats. We may ev
How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation. Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practic
An accessible and engaging guide to the atom, the smallest, most fundamental constituent of matter.Until now, popular science has relegated the atom to a supporting role in defining the different chem
An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through
The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)Beginning with the releas
Deming's classic work on management, based on his famous 14 Points for Management."Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The
Alexander Dorner's radical ideas about the purpose of museums and art, examined through his tenure as Director of the RISD Museum.Alexander Dorner (1893–1957) became Director of the Rhode Island Schoo
The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action.Graffiti itself became a form of freedom. -- Julien Besançon, The Walls Have the Floor F
The first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads."Practice" is one of the key words of contemporary
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand human moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivat
What has become of the so-called West after the Cold War? After the tripartite division of the world into first, second, and third has been superseded? Why hasn't the Wes
How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted
The expressive moment is that point in time when we grasp a situation and respond quickly, even before we are aware of it. In this book, Marc Leman argues that expression
