Ben Shneiderman's book dramatically raises computer users' expectations of what they should get from technology. He opens their eyes to new possibilities and invites them to think freshly about future
This textbook offers an understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. The approach is analytic and hands-on. The text uses interpreters, written in Scheme, to express the semantics
The underlying theme of Rudi Dornbusch's work is unabashedly Chicago, namely, the University of Chicago belief that markets solve problems best and that most bureaucrats, even when well-intentioned, a
How will continued proliferation of nuclear weapons change the global political order? This collection of essays comes to conclusions at odds with the conventional wisdom. Stephen Rosen and Barry Pose
Financial systems are crucial to the allocation of resources in a modern economy. They channel household savings to the corporate sector and allocate investment funds among firms; they allow intertemp
Provides an integrated overview of digital librairies, including a historical perspective, the state of the art, and late-1990s research. Although the book covers a range of technical, economic, socia
The Middle East remains one of the world's most volatile regions. Stretching from Morocco to Iran, the area has seen numerous international and internal conflicts over the past decades. Understanding
The "Internet edge" is our collective struggle to change as the world becomes more connected. Turmoil at the Internet edge occurs around interacting social, legal and technological realms. Examples in
with the cooperation of Robert V. D. CampbellThis collection of technical essays and reminiscences is a companion volume to I. Bernard Cohen's biography, Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer.
Although the international flow of telecommunications has grown rapidly, the expansion of direct trade in telecommunications equipment has not kept pace. In this book, Ronald Cass and John Haring ask
Anyone who watches the television news has seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second de
Ideals of democratic participation and rational self-government have long informed modern political theory. As a recent elaboration of these ideals, the concept of deliberative democracy is based on t
"1998 Winner of the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award" ." . . sets out a wealth of documented detail that shows how we should be super-sceptical of 'official' busin
Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science ofdesign, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapterthat sorts out the curr
Deadly internal conflicts threaten dozens of countries and major international security, it is examined in this book by 20 contributors of the Project on Internal Conflict at Harvard University's Cent
Control Flow Semantics presents a unified, formal treatment of the semantics of a wide spectrum of control flow notions as found in sequential, concurrent, logic, object-oriented, and functional progr
Ranging from broad inquiries into the roles of economics and sociology in the explanation of technolgical change to an argument for the possibility of "uninventing" nuclear weapons, this selection of
In order to address contemporary issues, industrial relations as a field of study will have to take an increasingly international and comparative dimension. Accordingly, this text looks at the critica
The fourth edition of "linguistics" has been thoroughly updated and science. This is especially evident in the chapter on language acquisition, which now includes sections on the acquisition of morpho
This primer provides an overview of the technical background needed to understand today's nonproliferation issues. It describes all the existing types of weapons of mass destruction and examines the t
How do Americans view environmental issues? From EarthFirst! members to sawmill workers, this study by a team of cognitive anthropologists offers both good and bad news for those addressing environmen
It is standardly assumed that universal grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. For example, English and Japanese phrases consisting o
In the shrinking arms market of the post-Cold War era, countries with advanced arms industries face difficult choices concerning force size, arms production, arms export and defence industrial capacit
The rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this book, Joseph Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical, or Walrasian model (the formal
Robert Morris is best known for his significant contributions to minimalist sculpture and antiform art, as well as for a number of widely influential theoretical writings on art. Illustrated throughou
This definitive study of the legendary British landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837) reveals the full breadth and originality of his vision of nature.In his heroic pursuit of 'natural painting'
"Valuing the Earth" collects more than 20 essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its ecological and ethical context. They demonstrate that, contrary to current macro-economic
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 regulati
Made-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piag
"Development of the Visual System "presents a selection of current studies that clearly illustrate principles of visual system development. These range from retinal development in fish and frogs to th
The full mathematical description of the functional programming language ML was given in Milner, Tofte, and Harper's "Definition of Standard ML. "This companion volume explains in depth the meaning, o
In print since 1948, "Dwelling House Construction is a homebuilding classic. This new edition has been substantially revised to take into account the many changes in materials and building technologie
The aesthetic appreciation of twentieth-century photography has grown rapidly over the last 20 years. In particular, photography at the Bauhaus - the most influential experimental school of art and de
These 16 contributions provide a field guide to robotics science today. Each takes up current work the problems addressed, and future directions in the areas of perception, planning, control, design,
The computational logic PX (Program eXtractor) is used to verify programs, extract programs from constructive proofs, and give foundations to type theories. While it is well known theoretically that p
This monograph develops an algebraic approach that can be used to construct convolutional codes that are efficient in both classical and nonclassical situations. Coding theory, which is an offshoot of
Although there has been a tremendous growth of interest in parallel architecture and parallel processing in recent years, comparatively little work has been done on the problem of characterizing paral
Modern Jerusalem is one of the most fascinating laboratories for urban development. These studies, conducted in 1980-1984 by teams of faculty, students, consultants, and advisors from the Jerusalem pl
Norbert Wiener was one of the great mathematicians of this century. The "Collected Works" reprint all of Wiener's scientific and scholarly papers, with commentaries by prominent scholars that place th
This volume of seventeen previously published essays by William J. Baumol brings together work on the theory of contestable markets, welfare theory, antitrust, pricing, and the history of economic tho
