A handbook for scholars, students, policy makers, journalists, and peace andenvironmental activists, Nuclear Wastelands provides concise histories of the development of nuclearweapons programs of ever
This book investigates how citizens in the United States and Russia have used the democratic process to force their governments to address the horrendous environmental damage caused by the nuclear arm
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
A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status.The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting policymakers
Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-distant fu
Advances in medicine often depend on the effective collection, storage, research use, and sharing of human biological specimens and associated data. But what about the sources of such specimens? When
The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of mainstream economics to include broader social motivations and i
We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversa
Our increasingly integrated world relies on networks both physical and virtual to transfer goods and information. The Internet is a network of networks that connects people around the world in a real-
We now know that there is much more to classical mechanics than previously suspected. Derivations of the equations of motion, the focus of traditional presentations of mechanics, are just the beginnin
In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntacticstructure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice isencoded in a functional projection, Voic
In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntacticstructure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice isencoded in a functional projection, Voic
The Dodd--Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed by Congress in2010 largely in response to the financial crisis, created the Financial Stability Oversight Counciland the Consumer
Spreadsheets are used daily by millions of people for tasks that range fromorganizing a list of addresses to carrying out complex economic simulations. Spreadsheet programsare easy to learn and conven
Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatryand yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy byconsidering the questi
After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code isextensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clockthat wakes us t
In this challenging but exhilarating work, Sha Xin Wei argues for an approach tomateriality inspired by continuous mathematics and process philosophy. Investigating theimplications of such an approach
This book proposes a transdisciplinary approach to investigating human motor controlthat synthesizes musculoskeletal biomechanics and neural control. The authors argue that thisintegrated approach --
With Storytelling and the Science of Mind, David Herman proposes across-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. Thiscross-fertilization goes beyond the simpl
In the 1930s a series of seminal works published by Alan Turing, Kurt Godel, AlonzoChurch, and others established the theoretical basis for computability. This work, advancing precisecharacterizations
Many developing countries find it difficult to raise the revenue required to providesuch basic public services as education, health care, and infrastructure. Complicating the policychallenges of taxat
Contemporary artists beginning with Guy Debord and Richard Long have returned againand again to the walking motif. Debord and his friends tracked the urban flows of Paris; Longtrampled a path in the g
Contemporary art is increasingly part of a wider network of cultural practices, related through a common set of references in cultural theory. Within Europe, relations between national theoretical tra
How is the information we gather from the world through our sensory and motorapparatus converted into language? It is obvious that there is an interface between language andsensorimotor cognition beca
In a little more than a century, the Japanese diet has undergone a dramatictransformation. In 1900, a plant-based, near-subsistence diet was prevalent, with virtually noconsumption of animal protein.
There are few articles in science that remain relevant over a span of 100 years; MaxWertheimer's pioneering experimental studies on apparent motion and figural organization are notableexceptions. Wert
Design structure matrix (DSM) is a straightforward and flexible modeling techniquethat can be used for designing, developing, and managing complex systems. DSM offers networkmodeling tools that repres
Philosophical reflections on the environment began with early philosophers'invocation of a cosmology that mixed natural and supernatural phenomena. Today, the centralphilosophical problem posed by the
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health carereform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problemseem almost intra
Although our physical abilities clearly decline as we age, cognitive decline inhealthy old age is neither universal nor inevitable. In Nurturing the OlderBrain, Pamela Greenwood and Raja Parasuraman
As international trade has expanded dramatically in the postwar period--an expansionaccelerated by the opening of China, Russia, India, and Eastern Europe--illicit international tradehas grown in tand
In Software Abstractions Daniel Jackson introduces an approach tosoftware design that draws on traditional formal methods but exploits automated tools to find flawsas early as possible. This approach-
Tackling climate change and improving energy security are two of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges. In this book, Marilyn Brown and Benjamin Sovacool offer detailed assessments of the mos
What are the psychological foundations of morality? Historically, the issue has beenframed as one of emotion versus reason. Hume argued that reason is the slave of the passions and somorality must be
The ability to manage knowledge has become increasingly important in today’s knowledge economy. Knowledge is considered a valuable commodity, embedded in products and in the tacit knowledge of
In Majority Judgment, Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki argue that the traditional theory of social choice offers no acceptable solution to the problems of how to elect, to judge, or to rank. They find
The use of biometric technology for identification has gone from Orwellian fantasy to everyday reality. This technology, which verifies or recognizes a person's identity based on physiological, anatom
This text offers a comprehensive treatment of VHDL and its applications to the design and simulation of real, industry-standard circuits. It focuses on the use of VHDL rather than solely on the langu
The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting policymakers to work on legislation that might give the approximately eleven million undocumented immigr
