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CONTENTSarchitecture 3, 13-17

art 3-12, 18, 44

bioethics 66

biology, evolutionary biology 66-67

business 2, 41

cognitive science 2, 53, 70-71

cognitive neuroscience 69

computer science 29, 46-47, 56, 75-77

current affairs 25, 26

cultural studies 3, 9, 11, 34, 36-38, 39

economics 31, 38, 42-43, 50-52, 77-82

education 20, 81

environment 1, 11, 26-29, 41-42, 52, 62-64

evolutionary psychology 71

fiction 23, 37

film, film studies 32, 45

game studies 19, 74

gender studies 19, 24, 35, 47

history 42, 47

history of computing 48

history of science 48, 59

history of technology 46, 49, 58

international affairs 63, 65

linguistics 71

nature 30, 52

neuroscience 68-69

new media 18, 44-47

philosophy 32, 40, 53-54, 72-73

photography 10, 33

politics, political science 25, 27, 42, 48, 50, 55-56, 62, 64-65

race studies 20, 81

science 1, 26, 52

science, technology, and society 48-50, 57, 60, 61

technology 21-22, 45, 56, 60, 75

urban studies 22, 29, 49, 61, 65

vision 68

Semiotext(e) 36-40

Zone Books 33-35

Front cover, inside front cover, and back cover photographs by Julia Christensen. From Big Box Reuse.

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CO2 RISINGThe World’s Greatest Environmental ChallengeTyler Volk

The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way.

Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering

the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth’s natural cooling

process. Melting Arctic ice and mountain glaciers are just the first relatively mild

symptoms of what will result from this disruption of the planetary energy balance.

In CO2 Rising, scientist Tyler Volk explains the process at the heart of global

warming and climate change: the global carbon cycle. Vividly and concisely,

Volk describes what happens when CO2 is released by the combustion of fossil

fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), letting loose carbon atoms once trapped deep

underground into the interwoven web of air, water, and soil.

To demonstrate how the carbon cycle works, Volk traces the paths that carbon

atoms take during their global circuits. Showing us the carbon cycle from a carbon

atom’s viewpoint, he follows one carbon atom into a leaf of barley and then into

an alcohol molecule in a glass of beer, through the human bloodstream, and

then back into the air. He also compares the fluxes of carbon brought into

the biosphere naturally to those created by the combustion of fossil fuels and

explains why the latter are responsible for rising temperatures.

Knowledge about the global carbon cycle

and the huge disturbances that human activity

produces in it will equip us to consider the

hard questions Volk raises in the second half

of CO2 Rising: projections of future levels of

CO2; which energy systems and processes

(solar, wind, nuclear, carbon sequestration?)

will power civilization in the future; the

relationships among the wealth of nations,

energy use, and CO2 emissions; and global

equity in per capita emissions. Answering

these questions will indeed be our greatest

environmental challenge.

Tyler Volk is Science Director of Environmental Studies and Associate Professor of Biology at New York University. He is the author of Gaia’s Body:Toward a Physiology of the Earth (MIT Press),Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind, and other books.

An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused

disturbances to it that are at theheart of global warming

and climate change.

October5 3/8 x 8, 264 pp.

38 illus.

$22.95T/£14.95 cloth978-0-262-22083-5

Also available

GAIA’S BODYToward a Physiology

of the EarthTyler Volk

2003, 978-0-262-72042-7$22.00T/£14.95

science/environment

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=9652

HONEST SIGNALS How They Shape Our WorldAlex (Sandy) Pentland

How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely

interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle

patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them.

These unconscious social signals are not just a back channel or a complement

to our conscious language; they form a separate communication network.

Biologically based “honest signaling,” evolved from ancient primate signaling

mechanisms, offers an unmatched window into our intentions, goals, and values.

If we understand this ancient channel of communication, Pentland claims, we

can accurately predict the outcomes of situations ranging from job interviews

to first dates.

Pentland, an MIT professor, has used a specially designed digital sensor worn

like an ID badge — a “sociometer” — to monitor and analyze the back-and-forth

patterns of signaling among groups of people. He and his researchers found that

this second channel of communication, revolving not around words but around

social relations, profoundly influences major decisions in our lives — even though

we are largely unaware of it. Pentland presents the scientific background necessary

for understanding this form of communication, applies it to examples of group

behavior in real organizations, and shows how by “reading” our social networks

we can become successful at pitching an idea, getting a job, or closing a deal.

Using this “network intelligence” theory of social signaling,

Pentland describes how we can harness the intelligence of

our social network to become better managers, workers, and

communicators.

Alex (Sandy) Pentland is a leader in organizational engineering, mobileinformation systems, and computational social science. He directs theMIT Media Lab’s Digital Life Consortium, a group of more than twentymultinational corporations exploring new ways to innovate, and is Founder of MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship,established to support aspiring entrepreneurs in emerging markets. In 1997, Newsweek magazine named him one of the 100 Americanslikely to shape the century.

cognitive science/business

How understanding the signalingwithin social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.


$22.95T/£14.95 cloth978-0-262-16256-2

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architecture/art/cultural studies

What happens to the landscape, tocommunity, and to the population

when vacated big box stores areturned into community centers,

churches, schools, and libraries?

November10 x 10, 220 pp.

91 color illus.

$29.95T/£19.95 cloth978-0-262-03379-4

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BIG BOX REUSEJulia Christensen

America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways.

When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box “supercenter” down the road,

it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leaves behind

a changed landscape that can’t be changed back. Acres of land have been paved

around it. Highway traffic comes to it; local roads end at it. With thousands

of empty big box stores spread across America, these vistas have become a

dominant feature of the American landscape.

In Big Box Reuse, Julia Christensen shows us how ten communities have

addressed this problem, turning vacated Wal-Marts and Kmarts into something

else: a church, a library, a school, a medical center, a courthouse, a recreation

center, a museum, or other more civic-minded structures. In each case, what

was once a shopping destination becomes a center of community life.

Christensen crisscrossed America identifying these projects, then pho-

tographed, videotaped, and interviewed the people involved. The first-person

accounts and color photographs of Big Box Reuse reveal the hidden stories

behind the transformation of these facades into gateways of community life.

Whether a big box store becomes a “Senior Resource Center” or a museum

devoted to Spam (the kind that comes in a can), each renovation displays a

community’s resourcefulness and creativity — but also raises questions about

how big box buildings affect the lives of communities. What does it mean for

us and for the future of America if the spaces of commerce built by a few

monolithic corporations become the sites where education, medicine, religion,

and culture are dispensed wholesale to the populace?

Julia Christensen is an artist whose work has been featuredin the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, PreservationMagazine for the National Trust, and other publications; her art has been shown in galleries and museums nation-wide. She is Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor of theEmerging Arts at Oberlin College and Conservatory.


BADLANDSNew Horizons in Landscape edited by Denise Markonishforeword by Joseph Thompson

The artist’s relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel

in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing

on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New

Topographics movement turned their attention unsentimentally to the industri-

alized “man-altered” environment; in the 1980s, artists animated the natural

landscape with art, movement, and performance; and in the 1990s, Eco-Artists

collaborated with scientists to address sustainability, pollution, and politics.

Badlands explores the latest manifestations of artists’ fascination with the earth,

gathering work by contemporary artists who approach landscape through history,

culture, and science.

Badlands, which accompanies an exhibition at MASS MoCA, approaches

landscape as a theme with variations, grouping artists and their art (which is

shown in 150 color illustrations) by category: Historians, who recontextualize

the history of landscape depiction; Explorers, who explore the environment

and our place within it; Activists and Pragmatists, who alert us to problems

in the natural world and suggest solutions; and the Aestheticists, who look at

the beauty found in nature. Each section begins with an essay: Gregory Volk

maps the evolution of the genre from the Hudson River School to Earth Art;

Ginger Strand examines the relationship between man and landscape through

our cultural history; Tensie Whelan

discusses environmental science,

sustainability, and climate change;

and Denise Markonish considers the

new genre of landscape that emerges

from the work displayed in Badlands.

As a physical object, Badlands

supports the values represented by

its intellectual and artistic content:

it was produced using FSC (Forest

Stewardship Council) certified

techniques including paper,

printing, and inks.

Denise Markonish is a Curator at MASSMoCA. Badlands is her first curated exhibitat that institution.

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Contemporary art’s new relationship to the landscape.

September6 x 9, 232 pp.151 color illus., 30 black & white illus.

$24.95T/£12.95 paper978-0-262-63366-6

Copublished with MASS MoCA

ARTISTSRobert Adams, Vaughn Bell, Boyle Family, Melissa Brown, Center for Land Use Interpretation,Leila Daw, Gregory Euclide, J. Henry Fair, Mike Glier, Anthony Goicolea, Marine Hugonnier,Paul Jacobsen, Nina Katchadourian,Jane Marsching, Alexis Rockman, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Smolinski, Yutaka Sone, Jennifer Steinkamp, Mary Temple

EXHIBITMASS MoCAMay 25, 2008–Spring 2009

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ANISH KAPOORPast, Present, Future edited by Nicholas Baumeessays by Nicholas Baume, Mary Jane Jacob, and Partha Mitter, interview with Anish Kapoor, and foreword by Jill Medvedow

Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors who emerged

in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created a remarkable body of

work that blends a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the

manipulation of form and the perception of space. This book — the first major

American publication on Kapoor’s work — surveys his work since 1979, with a

focus on sculptures and installations made since the early 1990s. With more than

ninety color images of these ambitious and complex works, three original essays,

an extended interview with Kapoor, and selections from his sketchbooks, this

book confirms Anish Kapoor’s place as one of the most remarkable sculptors

working today.

Kapoor’s work has evolved into an abstract and perceptually complex elabora-

tion of the sculptural object as at once monumental and evanescent, physical and

ethereal — as in his famous Cloud Gate (2004) in Chicago’s Millennium Park.

The artworks in Anish Kapoor include such striking works

as Past, Present, Future (2006), 1000 Names (1979-1980),

and When I Am Pregnant (1992). This book, which

accompanies an exhibition at Boston’s Institute of

Contemporary Art, offers American readers a long-

overdue opportunity to consider the extraordinary

clarity, subtlety, and power of Kapoor’s art.

Nicholas Baume is Chief Curator at the Institute ofContemporary Art, Boston, and the curator of the ICA’s Anish Kapoor exhibition. He is the editor of Super Vision (MIT Press).

art

The first major American publication on this important

contemporary sculptor.

September6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 144 pp.

90 color illus.

$29.95T/£15.95 cloth978-0-262-02659-8

Copublished with the Institute ofContemporary Art, Boston

EXHIBITION Institute of

Contemporary ArtBoston

May 30–September 1, 2008

Also available

SUPER VISIONedited by Nicholas Baume2006, 978-0-262-02609-3

$34.95T/£20.95 cloth

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Anish Kapoor. 1000 Names, 1979-80. Mixed media and pigment, 62 in. (159 cm). The LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut

Anish Kapoor. When I Am Pregnant,1992. Fiberglass and paint. Courtesy of

the artist and Lisson Gallery, London

Anish Kapoor. Untitled, 1998.Fiberglass, polystyrene, and paint,

95 ½ x 132 x 63 ¾ in. (243 x 335 x 162 cm). Collection Prada, Milan



PAUL THEKArtist’s Artistedited by Harald Falckenberg and Peter Weibel

Paul Thek occupied a place between high art and low art, between the epic

and the everyday. During his brief life (1933-1988), he went against the grain

of art world trends, humanizing the institutional spaces of art with the force

of his humor, spirituality, and character. Twenty years after Thek’s death from

AIDS, we can now recognize his influence on contemporary artists ranging

from Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman to Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley, and

Paul McCarthy, as well as Kai Althoff, Jonathan Meese, and Thomas Hirschhorn.

This book brings together more than 300 of Thek’s works — many of which

are published here for the first time — to offer the most comprehensive

display of his work yet seen. The book, which accompanies an exhibition at

ZKM IMuseum of Contemporary Art presenting Thek’s work in dialogue

with contemporary art by young artists, includes painting, sculpture, drawing,

and installation work, as well as photographs documenting the room-size

environments into which Thek incorporated elements from art, literature,

theater, and religion.

These works chart Thek’s journey from legendary outsider to foundational

figure in contemporary art. In their antiheroic diversity, Thek’s works embody

the art revolution of the 1960s; indeed, Susan Sontag dedicated her classic

Against Interpretation to him. Thek’s treatment of the body in such works as

“Technological Reliquaries,” with their castings and replicas of human body

parts, tissue, and bones, both evoke the aura of Christian relics and anticipate

the work of Damien Hirst. The book, with more than 500 images (300 in color)

and nineteen essays by art historians, curators, collectors, and artists, investigates

Thek’s work on its own

terms and as a starting

point for understanding the

work of the many younger

artists Thek has influenced.

Harald Falckenberg is Presidentof the Kunstrverein Hamburgand cocurator of ZKM’s PaulThek exhibit. He is one ofEurope’s most important collectors of contemporary art and a prolific essayist on art issues. Peter Weibel isDirector of ZKM ICenter for Artand Media Technology, Karlsruhe,and coeditor of other ZKMbooks, including Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (MIT Press).

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Images of more than 300 works by this groundbreaking artist document his journey from legendary outsider to central figure in many contemporary art movements.

September8 1/2 x 11, 550 pp.300 color illus., 200 black & white illus.

$54.95T/£27.95 cloth978-0-262-01254-6

Copublished with ZKM ICenter for Art and Media Technology

ESSAYS BYJean-Christophe Ammann, Margrit Brehm, Bazon Brock, Suzanne Delehanty, Harald Falckenberg,Marietta Franke, Stefan Germer, Kim Gordon, Roland Groenenboom,Axel Heil, Gregor Jansen, Mike Kelley,John Miller, Susanne Neubauer, Kenny Schachter, Harald Szeemann,Annette Tietenberg, Peter Weibel, Ann Wilson

EXHIBITIONPhoenix-HallenHamburgMay 30, 2008–September 14, 2008

Also available

MAKING THINGS PUBLICAtmospheres of Democracyedited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel2005, 978-0-262-12279-5$50.00T/£32.95 cloth

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FRANZ WESTTo Build a House You Start with the Roof, Work 1972–2008Darsie Alexanderwith contributions by Rachel Harrison and Eric Banks and Tom Eccles

There is no easy way to define Franz West’s art: it is fundamentally sculptural

in its construction, veers frequently toward the biomorphic and prosthetic, mines

the intellectualism of Freud and Wittgenstein, and possesses an awkward beauty

that speaks with equal fluency to the tradition of painterly abstraction and the

aesthetics of trash art. West’s distinctive vision has resulted in one of the most

remarkable bodies of work produced since the 1960s. This book, with more than

160 color images, offers a comprehensive look at West’s work from the 1970s to

the present. A unique blend of illustration, essays, interviews, and artist’s pages,

it accompanies a major retrospective organized by The Baltimore Museum of

Art, and includes a new piece created specifically for the exhibition.

Emerging from Vienna’s confrontational performance art scene led by the

Actionists during the 1960s, West believed from the beginning that physical

engagement is an essential function of the art experience. This is clear both

in his Adaptives (Paßstück) series (begun in 1974), human-scaled sculptures

made of plaster to be held and worn by museum visitors, and in his later

installations incorporating cabinets, tables, and chairs. Interaction is no less

a premise in West’s more recent large-scale outdoor sculptures: a series of

brightly painted aluminum works adorning public

plazas throughout Europe and the United States.

The book mixes intense visual content with critical

commentary, an interview with the artist, a concen-

trated section on West’s working methods, an artist’s

response to the work through words and images, and

an extensive chronology and bibliography.

Darsie Alexander is Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Tom Eccles is ExecutiveDirector of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.Rachel Harrison is an artist who lives and works in New YorkCity and Eric Banks is former editor-in-chief of Bookforum.

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A book that makes clear why Franz West is not only Vienna’s most influential living sculptor,

but one of the most entertainingand cerebral contemporary

artists anywhere.

November9 1/2 x 11, 288 pp.

160 color illus.

$44.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01250-8

Copublished with The Baltimore Museum of Art

EXHIBITIONThe Baltimore Museum of Art

October 12, 2008–January 4, 2009Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

April 5, 2009–June 28, 2009

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Franz West. Paßstück, 1976–1977. Plaster, electrical pipe,paint, wire. Anonymous Dallas Collection. ©Franz West.

Franz West. Violetta. To the song ofGerhard Rühm: I like to rest, 2005,

and Swimmer, 2005. Epoxy resin andfiberglass. Both ©Franz West and

courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gellery.


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Works spanning the legendary and prolific artist’s twenty-yearcareer, including many of his self-portraits, paintings, sculptures,works on paper, installations, andexhibition posters.

October9 x 11 3/4, 288 pp.250 color illus.

$44.95T/£22.95 cloth978-1-933751-09-2

Distributed for the Museum ofContemporary Art, Los Angeles

EXHIBITION The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesSeptember 15, 2008–January 5, 2009

The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkMarch 1, 2009–May 11, 2009

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MARTIN KIPPENBERGERThe Problem Perspectiveedited by Ann Goldstein and Lisa Gabrielle Mark

Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) is a special case in art. His life and works

were inextricably linked in a remarkable practice that centered on the role of

the artist within both the culture and the system of art. With his larger-than-life

persona, Kippenberger cast himself as impresario, entertainer, curator, bohemian,

collector, architect, and publisher. He collected art, set up clothing companies and

nightclubs, and ran art-world scams. Nothing was sacred to this iconoclast except

the right to satisfy his enormous appetite for life, appropriate anything for his art,

and create continual chaos around himself. This book, which accompanies the

first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of Kippenberger’s work, at the Museum

of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, documents Kippenberger’s extraordinary

twenty-year career with works in many media —

paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations,

photographs, collaborations with other artists, posters,

postcards, books, and music. Among the major works

reproduced are key selections from the I.N.P. Bilder (Is

Not Embarrassing Pictures) and No Problem paintings

of the 1980s; the landmark 1987 exhibition of sculp-

ture “Peter. Die russische Stellung” (“Peter. The

Russian Position”); self-portraits in a variety of media;

Laterne an Betrunkene (Street Lamp for Drunks); the

Raft of the Medusa cycle of the 1990s; the renowned

Hotel drawings; and the monumental installation, The

Happy End of Franz Kafka’s “Amerika.” Accompanying

the artworks is an essay by exhibition curator Ann

Goldstein; newly commissioned texts by art historian

Pamela Lee, Kippenberger scholar Diedrich

Diederichsen, and curator Ann Temkin; reprinted

excerpts from a 1991 interview with Kippenberger by

artist Jutta Koether; and an illustrated exhibition his-

tory, chronology, and bibliography. Martin

Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective offers readers

the most comprehensive view yet of this legendary

artist’s body of work.

Ann Goldstein isSenior Curator at the Museum ofContemporary Art, Los Angeles, where Lisa Gabrielle Mark is Director ofPublications.

Top: Martin Kippenberger. The ProblemPerspective (you are not the problem, it´sthe problem-maker in your head),1986. Oil

on canvas, 180 x 150 cm.

Right: Martin Kippenberger. 1x Laterne anBetrunkene/Street lamp for drunks, 1988.

Steel, lightbulb, 280 x 40 x 40 cm.


THE BIG ARCHIVEArt From BureaucracySven Spieker

The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies

and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more

than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand,

the archive’s content stands as a quasi-objective correlative of the “living” past.

Twentieth-century art made use of the archive in a variety of ways — from

what Spieker calls Marcel Duchamp’s “anemic archive” of readymades and

El Lissitzky’s Demonstration Rooms to the compilations of photographs made

by such postwar artists as Susan Hiller and Gerhard Richter. In The Big Archive,

Sven Spieker investigates the archive — as both bureaucratic institution and

index of evolving attitudes toward contingent time in science and art — and

finds it to be a crucible of twentieth-century modernism.

Dadaists, constructivists, and Surrealists favored discontinuous, nonlinear

archives that resisted hermeneutic reading and ordered presentation. Spieker

argues that the use of archives by such contemporary artists as Hiller, Richter,

Hans-Peter Feldmann, Walid Raad, and Boris Mikhailov responds to and

continues this attack on the nineteenth-century archive and its objectification

of the historical process.

Spieker considers archivally driven art in relation to changing media

technologies — the typewriter, the telephone, the telegraph, film. And he

connects the archive to a particularly modern visual-

ity, showing that the avant-garde used the archive as

something of a laboratory for experimental inquiries

into the nature of vision and its relation to time.

The Big Archive offers us the first critical monograph

on an overarching motif in twentieth-century art.

Sven Spieker teaches in the Comparative Literature Programand the Department of History of Art and Architecture atthe University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the editorof ARTMargins, an online journal devoted to Central andEastern European visual culture.

art/cultural studies

The archive as a crucible of twentieth-century modernism

and key for understanding contemporary art.


78 illus.

$24.95T/£16.95 cloth978-0-262-19570-6

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art/photography

The first book on milk in art, from Harold Edgerton’s drops to Jeff Wall’s splash: a meditation with photographs.

October8 x 8 7/8, 156 pp.95 color photographs, 25 black & white photographs

$24.95T/£12.95 cloth978-0-262-08381-2

Copublished with Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Inc.

CONTENTSThe Photogenics of Milk

A Romance with Liquids: The MilkSplash in California Pop Art

The Optical Unconscious in extremis

Energy Made Visible: Vital Fluids inthe Street

ARTISTS INCLUDE David AskevoldJohn Baldessari Iain BaxterBraco DimitrijevicHarold EdgertonGeneral Idea Gilbert and George Jack Goldstein Mike Kelley Barbara Kruger David Lamelas Bruce Nauman Adrian PiperSigmar Polke Jackson Pollock Richard PrinceMartha Rosler Ed RuschaAndres Serrano Jeff WallWilliam WegmanA. M. Worthington

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MILK AND MELANCHOLYKenneth Hayes

Milk and Melancholy looks at milk through the lens of photography and from

the angle of art. Specifically, it considers the milk splash in all its manifestations,

representations, and variations, tracing the complex flow of the image in works

ranging from Harold Edgerton’s milk drop coronet to Jeff Wall’s exploding milk

carton. In Milk and Melancholy, Kenneth Hayes considers milk as corporate

advertising’s mustache of health; as the antiwine; as a complex mixture of fat,

protein, corpuscles, lactose, chyle, and plasma that lacks darkness but lacks also

the morally pure transparency of crystal; and as the luminous middle term

between mercury’s glare and water’s transparency. He offers the first-ever history

of the “knowledge of splashes,” a history that brings together Goethe’s theory of

optics, the invention of the stroboscope, and

the milk paint dripped by Jackson Pollock

in the 1940s. Taking Edgerton’s famous

photograph as a starting point, Hayes tracks

its influence in the infinite variety of repre-

sentations of milk in the work of more than

twenty artists including Pollock, Ed Ruscha,

Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Adrian

Piper, Martha Rosler, Mike Kelley, and

William Wegman. More than 100 images,

most of them in color and all of them

exquisitely reproduced, illustrate Hayes’s

text. With this book, a splash in its own

right, we will never see milk as a mere

grocery item again.

Milk and Melancholy is the first book

from Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art,

publisher of the award-winning magazine

Prefix Photo.

Kenneth Hayes is an architectural historian and a curator and critic of contemporary art. His work has appeared in such publications as Azure, Alphabet City, and Parachute.

Top: Jeff Wall. Milk, 1984. Color photograph, 187 x 228.6 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Ed Ruscha. Glass of Milk Falling, 1967.Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches. © Ed Ruscha.


FUELedited by John Knechtel

How will the world work in the post-oil, post-coal future? Our transition could

take the form of disastrous collapses in economic, political, and economic systems

— or of a radical reinvention of energy. We could relapse into a new Dark Ages,

or we could shift to a new economic model and international order that’s not

based on (the appropriately named) “fossil” fuels but on renewable energy. No

matter what, global warming and resource scarcity will force us to do something.

To avert environmental and economic disaster, we’ll have to think beyond the

weekly fluctuations in the price of gasoline and consider larger matters.

In Fuel, writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free future: an

architect plans “Velo-city,” a network of elevated bikeways; a designer models

a perfectly internalized, tail-chasing energy system; an urbanist examines the

new “Oil Cities” in Dubai and Saudi Arabia; a photographer documents

the social and environmental damage done by the

oil industry in Nigeria; and an architect proposes

that oil rigs be turned into sanctuaries for marine

and avian wildlife.

Reading Fuel, we read our current energy

moment in the broader context of a range of

possible futures.

John Knechtel is Director of Alphabet City Media in Toronto.

cultural studies/environment/art

Writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free

future and the radical reinvention of energy that would make

it possible.

October4 3/4 x 6 1/4, 320 pp.

200 color illus.

$15.95T/£10.95 cloth978-0-262-11325-0

Alphabet City 13

Also available in this series

FOODedited by John Knechtel

2007, 978-0-262-11309-0$15.95T/£10.95 cloth

Alphabet City 12

TRASHedited by John Knechtel

2006, 978-0-262-11301-4$15.95T/£10.95 cloth

Alphabet City 11

SUSPECTedited by John Knechtel

2005, 978-0-262-11290-1$15.95T/£10.95 cloth

Alphabet City 10

SUBTITLESedited by Atom Egoyan

and Ian Balfour2004, 978-0-262-05078-4

$35.00T/£22.95 clothAlphabet City 9

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Top: George Osodi, Oil Pipelines Okrika, 2006. From Fuel.

Top left: George Osodi, Oil Rig Sangana, 2006. From Fuel.

Left: Velo-city. From Fuel.






dance/art

How Yvonne Rainer’s art shaped new ways of watching and performing.

September7 x 9, 384 pp.83 illus.

$34.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-12301-3

An October Book

Also available

FEELINGS ARE FACTSYvonne Rainer2006, 978-0-262-18251-5$37.95T/£24.95 cloth

YVONNE RAINERThe Mind is a MuscleCatherine Wood2007, 978-1-84638-037-2$16.00T/£9.95 paperDistributed for Afterall Books

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BEING WATCHEDYvonne Rainer and the 1960sCarrie Lambert-Beatty

In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously trans-

formed the performing body — stripped it of special techniques and star status,

traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, asked it to haul

mattresses or recite texts rather than leap or spin. Without discounting these

innovations, Carrie Lambert-Beatty argues in Being Watched that the crucial

site of Rainer’s interventions in the 1960s was less the body of the performer

than the eye of the viewer — or rather, the body as offered to the eye. Rainer’s

art, Lambert-Beatty writes, is structured by a peculiar tension between the body

and its display.

Through close readings of Rainer’s works of the 1960s — from the often-

discussed dance Trio A to lesser-known Vietnam war-era protest dances —

Lambert-Beatty explores how these performances embodied what Rainer called

“the seeing difficulty.” (As Rainer said: “Dance is hard to see.”) Viewed from

this perspective, Rainer’s work becomes a bridge between key episodes in post-

war art. Lambert-Beatty shows how Rainer’s art (and related performance work

in Happenings, Fluxus, and Judson Dance Theater) connects with the transfor-

mation of the subject-object relation in minimalism and with emerging feminist

discourse on the political implications of the objectifying gaze. In a spectacle-

soaked era, moreover — when images of war played nightly on the television

news — Rainer’s work engaged the habits of viewing formed in mass-media

America, linking avant-garde art and the wider culture of the 1960s. Rainer is

significant, argues Lambert-Beatty, not only as a choreographer, but as a sculp-

tor of spectatorship.

Carrie Lambert-Beatty is Assistant Professor in the Departmentof History of Art and Architecture and the Department ofVisual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.




WORLD’S GREATEST ARCHITECTMaking, Meaning, and Network CultureWilliam J. Mitchell

Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously

perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the

sturdy Tuscan and Doric types traditionally signify masculinity, the slim and

elegant Ionic and Corinthian kinds read as feminine. Words are often inscribed

on objects. (On a door: “push” or “pull.”) Today, information is digitally encoded

(dematerialized) and displayed (rematerialized) to become part of many different

objects, at one moment appearing on a laptop screen and at another, perhaps, on

a building facade (as in Times Square). Well-designed artifacts succeed in being

both useful and meaningful. In World’s Greatest Architect, William Mitchell offers

a series of snapshots — short essays and analyses — that examine the systems

of function and meaning currently operating in our buildings, cities, and global

networks.

In his writing, Mitchell makes connections that aren’t necessarily obvious

but are always illuminating, moving in one essay from Bush-Cheney’s abuse of

language to Robert Venturi’s argument against rigid ideology and in favor of

graceful pragmatism. He traces the evolution of Las Vegas from Sin/Sign City

to family-friendly resort and residential real estate boomtown. A purchase of

chips leads not only to a complementary purchase of beer but to thoughts of

Eames chairs (like Pringles) and Gehry (fun to imitate with tortilla chips

in refried beans). As for who

the world’s greatest architect

might be, here’s a hint: he’s

also the oldest.

William J. Mitchell is the AlexanderW. Dreyfoos, Jr. Professor ofArchitecture and Media Arts andSciences and directs the Smart Citiesresearch group at MIT’s Media Lab. He was formerly Dean of the Schoolof Architecture and Head of theProgram in Media Arts and Sciencesat MIT. He is the author of ImaginingMIT: Designing a Campus for theTwenty-First Century, Placing Words:Symbols, Space, and the City, Me++:The Cyborg Self and the NetworkedCity, e-topia: “Urban Life, Jim — but Not as We Know It,” City of Bits:Space, Place, and the Infobahn, andThe Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, all published by The MIT Press.

architecture

Function and meaning in architecture and elsewhere, from

tongue-in-cheek instructions for creating a surveillance state to reflections on the

architecture of the potato chip.

September6 x 9, 160 pp.

$16.95T/£10.95 paper978-0-262-63364-2

Also available

IMAGINING MITDesigning a Campus for

the Twenty-First CenturyWilliam J. Mitchell

2007, 978-0-262-13479-8$24.95T/£15.95 cloth

PLACING WORDSSymbols, Space, and the City

William J. Mitchell2005, 978-0-262-63322-2

$17.95T/£11.95 paper

ME++The Cyborg Self and the Networked City


$15.95T/£10.95 paper

e-topia“Urban Life, Jim — but

Not as We Know It” William J. Mitchell

2000, 978-0-262-63205-8$18.95S/£12.95 paper

CITY OF BITSSpace, Place, and the Infobahn


$19.95S/£12.95 paper

THE RECONFIGURED EYEVisual Truth in the

Post-Photographic EraWilliam J. Mitchell

1992, 978-0-262-63160-0$36.00S/£23.95 paper

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NURTURING DREAMSCollected Essays on Architecture and the City Fumihiko Makiedited by Mark Mulliganforeword by Eduard Sekler

Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an

internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko

Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and

uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to

the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-

garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession.

This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism

and Maki’s own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architec-

tural and urban history.

Maki’s treatment of his two overarching themes — the contemporary city

and modernist architecture — demonstrates strong (and sometimes unexpected)

linkages between urban theory and archi-

tectural practice. After writing about his

first encounters with modern architecture

and with CIAM and Team X, Maki

describes his studies of “Collective Form,”

the relationship between cities and their

individual buildings. His influential essay

“The Japanese City and Inner Space”

traces characteristics of the Japanese city

from the Edo period to contemporary

Tokyo; his consideration of Japanese

modernism begins with a discussion of

“the Le Corbusier syndrome” in modern

Japanese architecture. Images and

commentary on three of Maki’s own

works demonstrate the connection

between his writing and his designs.

Moving through the successive waves

of modernism, postmodernism, neomodernism, and other isms, these essays

reflect how several generations of architectural thought and expression have

been resolved within one career.

Fumihiko Maki is one of Japan’s most prolific and distinguished architects, in practicesince the 1960s. His works include projects in Japan, North and South America, Europe,and Asia. He received the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993. Among his current works in progress are the World Trade Center Tower 4 in New York City and theMedia Lab Extension at MIT.

architecture

Unavailable as a collection untilnow, these essays document boththe intellectual journey of one ofthe world’s leading architects and a critical period in the evolution of architectural thought.

September7 3/4 x 9 3/4, 233 pp.100 illus.

$29.95T/£19.95 cloth978-0-262-13500-9

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I AM A MONUMENT On Learning from Las VegasAron Vinegar

Learning from Las Vegas, originally published by The MIT Press in 1972, was one

of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its era. Thirty-five

years later, it remains a perennial bestseller and a definitive theoretical text. Its

authors — architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour

— famously used the Las Vegas Strip to argue the virtues of the “ordinary and

ugly” above the “heroic and original” qualities of architectural modernism.

Learning from Las Vegas not only moved architecture to the center of cultural

debates, it changed our ideas about what architecture was and could be.

In this provocative rereading of an iconic text, Aron Vinegar shows that

Learning from Las Vegas is not only of historical interest but of absolute relevance

to current critical debates in architectural and visual culture. Vinegar argues that

to read Learning from Las Vegas only as an exemplary postmodernist text — to

understand it, for example, as a call for pastiche or as ironic provocation — is

to underestimate its deeper critical and ethical meaning, and to miss the under-

lying dialectic between skepticism and the ordinary, expression and the deadpan,

that runs through the text.

Vinegar’s close attention to the graphic design of Learning from Las Vegas,

and his fresh interpretations of now canonical images from the book such as the

“Duck,” the “Decorated Shed,” and “Recommendation for a Monument,” make

his book unique. Perhaps most revealing is his close analysis of the differences

between the first 1972 edition, designed for The MIT Press by Muriel Cooper,

and the “revised” edition of 1977, which was radically stripped down and largely

redesigned by Denise Scott Brown. The dialogue between the two editions con-

tinues with this book, where for the first time the two versions of Learning from

Las Vegas are read comparatively.

Aron Vinegar is Associate Professor in the Department ofHistory of Art and the Knowlton School of Architecture atOhio State University.

architecture

Rereading one of the most influential architectural books of the twentieth century — as

intellectual project, graphic design landmark, and prescient

introduction to issues of concern today.


82 illus.

$29.95T/£19.95 cloth978-0-262-22082-8

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LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS, REVISED EDITION

The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown,and Steven Izenour

1977, 978-0-262-72006-9$22.95T/£14.95 paper

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architecture

An examination of the standard reference book for architects, as both practical sourcebook and window on changes in the profession.

September9 1/2 x 11 3/4, 280 pp.99 illus.

$39.95T/£25.95 cloth978-0-262-10122-6

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DRAFTING CULTUREA Social History of Architectural Graphics StandardsGeorge Barnett Johnston

Architectural Graphics Standards by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve

Sleeper, first published in 1932 (and now in its eleventh edition), is a definitive

technical reference for architects — the one book that every architect needs to

own. The authors, one a draftsman and the other an architect, created a graphic

compilation of standards that amounted to an index of the combined knowledge

of their profession. This first comprehensive history of Ramsey and Sleeper’s

classic work explores the changing practical uses that this “draftsman’s Bible”

has served, as well as the ways in which it has registered the shifts within the

architectural profession since the first half of the twentieth century. When

Architectural Graphics Standards first appeared, architecture was undergoing

its transition from vocation to profession — from the draftsman’s craft to the

architect’s academically based knowledge with a concomitant rise in social

status. The older “drafting culture” gave way to massive postwar changes in

design and building practice.

Writing a history of the architectural profession from the bottom up —

from the standpoint of the architectural draftsman — George Barnett Johnston

clarifies the role and status of the subordinate architectural workers who once

made up the base of the profession. Johnston’s

account of the evolution of Ramsey and Sleeper’s

book also offers a case study of the social hierarchies

embedded within architecture’s division of labor.

Johnston investigates what became of the draftsman,

and what became of drafting culture, and asks —

importantly, in today’s era of digital formats —

what price is exacted from architectural labor as

architecture pursues new professional ideals.

George Barnett Johnston is an architect, cultural historian,and Associate Professor in the College of Architecture atGeorgia Institute of Technology.


PERSPECTA 41Grand TourThe Yale Architectural Journaledited by Gabrielle Brainard, Rustam Mehta, and Thomas Moran

The Grand Tour was once the culmination of an architect’s education. As a

journey to the cultural sites of Europe, the Tour’s agenda was clearly defined:

to study ancient monuments in order to reproduce them at home. Architects

returned from their Grand Tours with rolls of measured drawings and less

tangible spoils: patronage, commissions, and cultural cachet. Although no

longer carried out under the same name, the practices inscribed by the Grand

Tour have continued relevance for contemporary architects. This edition of

Perspecta — the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural

journal in America — uses the Grand Tour, broadly conceived, as a model for

understanding the history, current incarnation, and future of architectural travel.

Perspecta 41 asks: where do we go, how do we

record what we see, what do we bring back, and how

does it change us? Contributions include explorations

of architects’ travels in times of war; Peter Eisenman’s

account of his career-defining 1962 trip with Colin

Rowe around Europe in a Volkswagen; Robert

Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s discussion of their

traveling and its effect on their collecting, teaching,

and design work; drawings documenting the mono-

lithic churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia; an account of

how James Gamble Rogers designed Yale’s Sterling

Library and residential colleges using his collection

of postcards; and a proposed itinerary for a contem-

porary Grand Tour — in America.

Gabrielle Brainard, Rustam Mehta, and Thomas Moran are graduates of the Yale School of Architecture and practicing architects.

architecture

Architectural travel, from the Eternal City to the generic city.


160 illus.

$25.00T/£16.95 paper978-0-262-51225-1

CONTRIBUTORSEsra Akcan, Aaron Betsky,

Ljiljana Blagojevic, Edward Burtynsky,Matthew Coolidge and CLUI,

Gillian Darley, Brook Denison, Helen Dorey, Keller Easterling,

Peter Eisenman, Dan Graham and Mark Wasiuta, Jeffery Inaba and

C-Lab, Sam Jacob, Michael Meredith,Colin Montgomery, Dietrich Neumann,

Enrique Ramirez, Mary-Ann Ray andRobert Mangurian, Kazys Varnelis,

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown,

Enrique Walker

Also available

RE-READING PERSPECTAThe First Fifty Years of the Yale Architectural Journal

edited by Robert A. M. Stern, Peggy Deamer, and Alan Plattus

2005, 978-0-262-19506-5$75.00T/£48.95 cloth

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The cover of each copy of Perspecta 41features a different vintage postcard.



new media/art

The history of a pioneering era in computer-based art too oftenneglected by postwar art historiesand institutions.

December7 x 9, 568 pp.63 illus.

$44.95T/£28.95 cloth978-0-262-02653-6

A Leonardo Book

CONTRIBUTORSRoy Ascott, Stephen Bell, Paul Brown,Stephen Bury, Harold Cohen, Ernest Edmonds, María Fernández,Simon Ford, John Hamilton Frazer, Jeremy Gardiner, Charlie Gere, Adrian Glew, Beryl Graham, Stan Hayward, Graham Howards,Richard Ihnatowicz, Nicholas Lambert,Malcolm Le Grice, Tony Longson, Brent MacGregor, George Mallen,Catherine Mason, Jasia Reichardt,Stephen A. R. Scrivener, Brian Reffin Smith, Alan Sutcliffe,Doron D. Swade, John Vince, Richard Wright, Aleksandar Zivanovic

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WHITE HEAT COLD LOGICBritish Computer Art 1960–1980edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, and Catherine Mason

Technological optimism, even utopianism, was widespread at midcentury; in

Britain, Harold Wilson in 1963 promised a new nation “forged from the white

heat of the technological revolution.” In this heady atmosphere, pioneering artists

transformed the cold logic of computing into a new medium for their art, and

played a central role in connecting technology and culture. White Heat Cold Logic

tells the story of these early British digital and computer artists — and fills in a

missing chapter in contemporary art history.

In this heroic period of computer art, artists were required to build their own

machines, collaborate closely with computer scientists, and learn difficult com-

puter languages. White Heat Cold Logic’s chapters, many written by computer art

pioneers themselves, describe the influence of cybernetics, with its emphasis on

process and interactivity; the connections to the constructivist movement; and

the importance of work done in such different venues as commercial animation,

fine art schools, and polytechnics.

The advent of personal computing and graphical user interfaces in 1980

signaled the end of an era, and today we do not have so many dreams of

technological utopia. And yet our highly technologized and mediated world

owes much to these early practitioners, especially for expanding our sense of

what we can do with new technologies.

Paul Brown is Visiting Professor of Art and Technology at the University of Sussex. Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research, Institute for Cultural Research, at LancasterUniversity. Nicholas Lambert is Research Officer, School of History of Art, Film, and VisualMedia, at Birkbeck College, University of London. Catherine Mason is an art historian at workon a book about computers and artistic practice in art schools and academic institutions.


BEYOND BARBIE® AND MORTAL KOMBATNew Perspectives on Gender and Gamingedited by Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner, and Jennifer Y. Sun

Ten years after the groundbreaking From Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted

the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate

digital game play, the number of women and girl gamers has risen considerably.

Despite this, gender disparities remain in gaming. Women may be warriors in

World of Warcraft, but they are also scantily clad “booth babes” whose sex appeal

is used to promote games at trade shows. Player-generated content has revolu-

tionized gaming, but few games marketed to girls allow “modding” (game mod-

ifications made by players). Gender equity, the contributors to Beyond Barbie

and Mortal Kombat argue, requires more than increasing the overall numbers of

female players.

Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat brings together new media theorists, game

designers, educators, psychologists, and industry professionals, including some

of the contributors to the earlier volume, to look at how gender intersects with

the broader contexts of digital games today: gaming, game industry and design,

and serious games. The contributors discuss the rise of massively multiplayer

online games (MMOs) and the experience of girl and women players in gaming

communities; the still male-dominated gaming industry and the need for differ-

ent perspectives in game design; and gender concerns related to emerging seri-

ous games (games meant not only to entertain but also to educate, persuade, or

change behavior). In today’s game-packed digital landscape, there is an even

greater need for games that offer motivating, challenging, and enriching con-

texts for play to a more diverse population of players.

Yasmin B. Kafai is AssociateProfessor at the UCLA GraduateSchool of Education andInformation Studies. CarrieHeeter is Professor of SeriousGame Design in the Departmentof Telecommunication,Information Studies, and Media,and Creative Director for VirtualUniversity Design andTechnology at Michigan StateUniversity. Jill Denner is SeniorResearch Associate at ETRAssociates, a nonprofit agencyin California. Jennifer Y. Sun isPresident and a founder ofNumedeon, Inc., the companythat launched Whyville.net, aneducational virtual world tar-geted at children ages 8 to 14.

game studies/gender studies

Girls and women as game playersand game designers in the new digital landscape of massively

multiplayer online games, “secondlives,” “modding,” serious games, and casual games.


36 color illus., 42 black & white illus.

$29.95T/£19.95 cloth978-0-262-11319-9

CONTRIBUTORSCornelia Brunner, Shannon Campe,

Justine Cassell, Mia Consalvo, Jill Denner, Mary Flanagan,

Janine Fron, Tracy Fullerton, Elisabeth Hayes, Carrie Heeter,

Kristin Hughes, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, Yasmin B. Kafai, Caitlin Kelleher, Brenda Laurel,

Nicole Lazzaro, Holin Lin, Jacki Morie,Helen Nissenbaum, Celia Pearce,

Caroline Pelletier, Jennifer Y. Sun, T. L. Taylor, Brian Winn, Nick Yee

INTERVIEWS WITH Nichol Bradford, Brenda Braithwaite,

Megan Gaiser, Sheri Graner Ray,Morgan Romine

Also available

FROM BARBIE® TO MORTAL KOMBATGender and Computer Games

edited by Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins

2000, 978-0-262-53168-9$26.00T/£16.95 paper

UTOPIAN ENTREPRENEURBrenda Laurel

2001, 978-0-26262153-3$16.00T/£10.95 paper

PLAY BETWEEN WORLDSExploring Online Game Culture

T. L. Taylor2006, 978-0-262-20163-6

$29.95T/£19.95 cloth

CHEATINGGaining Advantage in Videogames

Mia Consalvo2007, 978-0-262-03365-7

$35.00S/£21.95 cloth

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STUCK IN THE SHALLOW ENDEducation, Race, and Computing Jane Margolis

The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and

advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to

recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school

students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportuni-

ties, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of

study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis looks at the

daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high

schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school,

and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. She finds an insidious

“virtual segregation” that maintains inequality.

Two of the three schools studied offer only low-level, how-to (keyboarding,

cutting and pasting) introductory computing classes. The third and wealthiest

school offers advanced courses, but very few students of color enroll in them.

The race gap in computer science, Margolis finds, is one example of the way

students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and educational

futures. Margolis traces the interplay of school structures (such factors as course

offerings and student-to-counselor ratios) and belief systems — including

teachers’ assumptions about their students and stu-

dents’ assumptions about themselves. Stuck in the

Shallow End is a story of how inequality is repro-

duced in America — and how students and teachers,

given the necessary tools, can change the system.

Jane Margolis is Senior Researcher at the Institute forDemocracy, Education, and Access at UCLA’s Graduate Schoolof Education and Information Studies. She is the coauthor of the award-winning Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women andComputing (MIT Press).

education/computer science/race studies

An investigation into why so few African American and Latinohigh school students are studyingcomputer science reveals thedynamics of inequality in American schools.


$24.95T/£16.95 cloth978-0-262-13504-7

Also available

UNLOCKING THE CLUBHOUSEWomen and ComputingJane Margolis and Allan Fisher2003, 978-0-262-63269-0$16.00T/£10.95 paper

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THE INNER HISTORY OF DEVICESedited and with an introduction by Sherry Turkle

For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life

on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her

insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The Inner History of

Devices, she describes her process, an approach that reveals how what we make is

woven into our ways of seeing ourselves. She brings together three traditions of

listening — that of the memoirist, the clinician, and the ethnographer. Each

informs the others to compose an inner history of devices. We read about objects

ranging from cell phones and video poker to prosthetic eyes, from Web sites and

television to dialysis machines.

In an introductory essay, Turkle makes the case for an “intimate ethnography”

that challenges conventional wisdom. One personal computer owner tells Turkle:

“This computer means everything to me. It’s where I put my hope.” Turkle

explains that she began that conversation thinking she would learn how people

put computers to work. By its end, her question has changed: “What was there

about personal computers that offered such deep connection? What did a com-

puter have that offered hope?” The Inner History of Devices teaches us to listen

for the answer.

In the memoirs, ethnographies, and clinical cases collected in this volume,

we read about an American student who comes to terms with her conflicting

identities as she contemplates a cell phone she used in Japan (“Tokyo sat

trapped inside it”); a troubled patient who uses email both to criticize her

therapist and to be reassured by her; a compulsive gambler who does not want

to win steadily at video poker because a pattern of losing and winning keeps her

more connected to the body of the machine. In these writings, we hear untold

stories. We learn that received wisdom never goes far enough.

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller MauzéProfessor of the Social Studies of Science andTechnology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of The SecondSelf: Computers and the Human Spirit (TwentiethAnniversary Edition, MIT Press), Life on theScreen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, andPsychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud’sFrench Revolution. She is the editor of EvocativeObjects: Things We Think With (MIT Press) andFalling for Science: Objects in Mind (MIT Press).

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Personal stories illuminate howtechnology enters the inner life.


4 illus.

$24.95T/£16.95 cloth978-0-262-20176-6

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FALLING FOR SCIENCEObjects in Mind

edited by Sherry Turkle2008, 978-0-262-20172-8

$24.95T/£16.95 cloth

EVOCATIVE OBJECTSThings We Think Withedited by Sherry Turkle

2007, 978-0-262-20168-1$24.95T/£15.95 cloth

THE SECOND SELFComputers and the Human Spirit

Twentieth Anniversary EditionSherry Turkle

2005, 978-0-262-70111-2$25.00S/£16.95 paper





technology/urban studies

Tracing the design of “techno-cities” that blend the technological and the pastoral.


$24.95T/£16.95 cloth978-0-262-11320-5

Lemelson Center Studies in Inventionand Innovation series

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INVENTING FOR THE ENVIRONMENTedited by Arthur P. Molella and Joyce Bedi2003, 978-0-262-63328-4$17.95T/£11.95 paper

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INVENTED EDENSTechno-Cities of the 20th CenturyRobert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella

Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky,

dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban

visionaries were looking for ways to improve both living and working conditions

in industrial cities. In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella trace

the arc of one form of urban design, which they term the techno-city: a planned

city developed in conjunction with large industrial or technological enterprises,

blending the technological and the pastoral, the mill town and the garden city.

Techno-cities of the twentieth century range from factory towns in Mussolini’s

Italy to the Disney creation of Celebration, Florida. Kargon and Molella show

that the techno-city represents an experiment in integrating modern technology

into the world of ideal life. Techno-cities mirror society’s understanding of

current technologies, and at the same time seek to regain the lost virtues of

the edenic pre-industrial village.

The idea of the techno-city transcended ideologies, crossed national borders,

and spanned the entire twentieth century. Kargon and Molella map the concept

through a series of exemplars. These include Norris, Tennessee, home to the

Tennessee Valley Authority; Torviscosa, Italy, built by Italy’s Fascist government

to accommodate synthetic textile manufacturing (and featured in an early short

by Michelangelo Antonioni); Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, planned by a team

from MIT and Harvard; and, finally, Disney’s Celebration — perhaps the

ultimate techno-city, a fantasy city reflecting an era

in which virtual experiences are rapidly replacing

actual ones.

Robert H. Kargon is Willis K. Shepard Professor of the Historyof Science at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the authorof The Rise of Robert Millikan: A Life in American Scienceand other books. Arthur P. Molella is Jerome and DorothyLemelson Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s LemelsonCenter. He is the author of "Exhibiting Atomic Culture: TheView from Oak Ridge" and the coeditor (with Joyce Bedi) of Inventing for the Environment (MIT Press).



THE CASTLE OF DREAMSMichel Jouvettranslated by Laurence Garey

This enlightening, entertaining, and intriguing novel begins as a story within a

story — or a story within a trunk. A Frenchman — our narrator, presumably

the author Michel Jouvet, or a literary version of himself — buys an antique

chest with brass fittings, labeled with the initials HLS and a partially worn

away date, “178-.” Happy to have such a handsome piece for his hallway, the

narrator is surprised to find within it bundles of ancient papers tied with string.

He has discovered the dream journals, experiments, and correspondence of

eighteenth-century amateur scientist Hugues la Scève. With Jouvet, a recog-

nized authority on sleep and dream research, as our guide, we follow la Scève’s

quest to unlock the mystery of dreams.

In his chateau and elsewhere, la Scève undertakes a series of complex and

often comic experiments: he records his own dreams and speculates on their

relation to waking life; he studies sleeping cats, rabbits, and other animals

(and observes rapid eye movement almost two centuries before modern science

discovers it); he records the sleep and dream experiences of a Swiss soldier

and a pair of Siamese twins. And, because sleep and dreams are often in close

proximity to the erotic, he considers the relation of dreaming and sexual

activity, heroically undertaking first-hand research with various women

(with the notable exception of his wife).

La Scève’s fantastic experiments and discoveries

have a solid scientific basis: Jouvet has transposed

some of his own cutting-edge research to the context

of the eighteenth century — when scientific knowl-

edge was more limited, but the joy of scientific study

was more widespread. La Scève’s experiments are a

testament to the power of scientific observation. The

tale that Jouvet discovered buried in the old chest

could have been true.

Michel Jouvet, a pioneer in sleep research, is EmeritusProfessor of Experimental Medicine at the University ofLyon, France. He is a member of the French Academy ofSciences and holds the Gold Medal of the CNRS (CentreNational de la Recherche Scientifique). He is the author of The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming (MIT Press).Laurence Garey has worked in brain research throughout hiscareer, at Oxford, the University of California, Berkeley, theUniversity of Lausanne, Switzerland, and other institutions.He is the translator of The Paradox of Sleep and other books.

psychology/fiction

A novel by a pioneering sleep researcher casts an

eighteenth-century aristocrat as its scientific and

romantic hero.

September5 3/8 x 8, 344 pp.

$24.95T/£16.95 cloth978-0-262-10127-1

Also available

THE PARADOX OF SLEEPThe Story of Dreaming

Michel Jouvettranslated by Laurence Garey

2001, 978-0-262-60040-8$20.00T/£12.95 paper

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essays/literature/gender studies

Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, JamesBaldwin, George Gissing, RandallJarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley,Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth,Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationshipbetween emotional damage and great literature.


$14.95T/£9.95 cloth978-0-262-07303-5

A Boston Review Book

PRAISE FOR THE SOLITUDE OF THE SELF

“I love writers who treat thinking

as a dynamic process. Ms. Gornick

does — here and in all her books.

Imagine a photographer of the

psyche. She studies her subject from

all angles. Whether in close-up

or on a landscape crowded

with political and religious

movements, she explores the

public and private selves . . . .

What a potent book this is!”

— Margo Jefferson,

New York Times


GOD AND THE WELFARE STATELew Daly2006, 978-0-262-04236-9$14.95T/£9.95 cloth

THE END OF THE WILDStephen M. Meyer2006, 978-0-262-13473-6$14.95T/£9.95 cloth

MAKING AID WORKAbhijit Banerjee2007, 978-0-262-02615-4$14.95T/£9.95 cloth

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THE MEN IN MY LIFEVivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage

in her last collection of essays, The End of the Novel of Love, a National Book

Critics Circle Award finalist. In this new collection, she turns her attention to

another large theme in literature: the struggle for the semblance of inner freedom. Great

literature, she believes, is not the record of the achievement but of the effort.

Gornick, who emerged as a major writer during the second-wave feminist

movement, came to realize that “ideology alone could not purge one of the

pathological self-doubt that seemed every woman’s bitter birthright.” Or, as

Anton Chekhov put it so memorably: “Others made me a slave, but I must

squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.” Perhaps surprisingly, Gornick

found particular inspiration for this challenge in the work of male writers —

talented, but locked in perpetual rage, self-doubt, or social exile. From these

men — who had infinitely more permission to do and be than women had

ever known — she learned what it really meant to wrestle with demons.

In the essays collected here, she explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, James

Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen

Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth. Throughout the

book, Gornick is at her best: interpreting the intimate interrelationship of

emotional damage, social history, and great literature.

Vivian Gornick is the author of many books, including Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, The Romance of American Communism, The End of the Novel of Love, The Situation and theStory, and, most recently, The Solitude of the Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

PRAISE FOR THE END OF THE NOVEL OF LOVE

“[Gornick] is fearless. . . . Reading

her essays, one is reassured that the

conversation between life and lit-

erature is mutually sustaining as

well as mutually corrective.”

— Elizabeth Frank,

New York Times Book Review

“Reading [Gornick] is a thrilling,

invigorating, challenging

experience.”

— Barbara Fisher,

Boston Sunday Globe

“Vivian Gornick’s prose is so

penetrating that reading it can

be almost painful. . . . [This book]

stands out as a model of luminous

clarity.”

— Susie Linfield,

Los Angeles Times





RACE, INCARCERATION, AND AMERICAN VALUESGlenn C. Lourywith Pamela Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Loic Wacquant

The United States, home to five percent of the worlds’ population, now houses

twenty-five percent of the world’s prison inmates. Our incarceration rate — at

714 per 100,000 residents and rising — is almost forty percent greater than our

nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is

6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan.

Economist Glenn Loury argues that this extraordinary mass incarceration is

not a response to rising crime rates or a proud success of social policy. Instead, it

is the product of a generation-old collective decision to become a more punitive

society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that

the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil

rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of

racial hierarchies.

Whatever the explanation, Loury argues, the uncontroversial fact is that

changes in our criminal justice system since the 1970s have created a nether

class of Americans — vastly disproportionately black and brown — with

severely restricted rights and life chances. Moreover, conservatives and liberals

agree that the growth in our prison population has long passed the point of

diminishing returns. Stigmatizing and confining such a large segment of our

population should be unacceptable to Americans. Loury’s call to action makes

all of us now responsible for ensuring that the policy changes.

Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departmentof Economics at Brown University. A 2002 Carnegie Scholar, he is the author of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality.

PRAISE FOR THE ANATOMY OF RACIAL INEQUALITY

“Intellectually rigorous and deeply

thoughtful. . . . The Anatomy of Racial

Inequality is an incisive, erudite book

by a major thinker.”

— Gerald Early,

New York Times Book Review

Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment

of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.


$14.95T/£9.95 cloth978-0-262-12311-2

0-262-12311-8

A Boston Review Book


THE STORY OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL Colin Dayan

2007, 978-0-262-04239-0$14.95T/£9.95 cloth

MOVIES AND THE MORAL ADVENTURE OF LIFE

Alan A. Stone2007, 978-0-262-19567-6

$14.95T/£9.95 cloth

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

Kerry Emanuel2007, 978-0-262-05089-0

$14.95T/£9.95 cloth

WHY NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT MATTERS

Hans Blix2008, 978-0-262-02644-4

$14.95T/£9.95 cloth

THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY IN IRAN

Akbar Ganji2008, 978-0-262-07295-3

$14.95T/£9.95 cloth

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current affairs/political science







GLOBAL CATASTROPHES AND TRENDSThe Next Fifty YearsVaclav Smil

Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a “fatal discontinuity,”

a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent,

gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars,

and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental, economic,

and political shifts that unfold over time. In this provocative book, scientist

Vaclav Smil takes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at the catastrophes and

trends the next fifty years may bring. This is not a book of forecasts or scenarios

but one that reminds us to pay attention

to, and plan for the consequences of,

apparently unpredictable events and the

ultimate direction of long-term trends.

Smil first looks at rare but

cataclysmic events, both natural

and human-produced, then at trends

of global importance: the transition

from fossil fuels to other energy

sources; demographic and political

shifts in Europe, Japan, Russia,

China, the United States, and the

Muslim world; the battle for global

primacy; and growing economic and

social inequality. He also considers

environmental change — in some

ways an amalgam of sudden disconti-

nuities and gradual change — and

assesses the often misunderstood

complexities of global warming.

Global Catastrophes and Trends does not come down on the side of either

doom-and-gloom scenarios or techno-euphoria. Instead, relying on long-term

historical perspectives and a distaste for the rigid compartmentalization of

knowledge, Smil argues that understanding change will help us reverse negative

trends and minimize the risk of catastrophe.

Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba and the author of many books, including Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of ComplexSystems, Energy at the Crossroads, The Earth’s Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change,Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization, all of which are publishedby The MIT Press. He was awarded the 2007 Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Award for excellence in writing and editing in the population sciences.

“In a world awash with alarmist commentators and vested interests, Vaclav Smil’s

Global Catastrophes and Trends is a timely antidote. . . . This is not a book for peo-

ple who have made their minds up in the absence of evidence. It is essential reading for

those interested in informing themselves about risks and trends that could derail our

settled expectations and concerned to ensure that the responses they advocate are of

sensible proportions.”

— Simon Upton, Chairman, Round Table on Sustainable Development,

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

current affairs/science/environment

A wide-ranging, interdisciplinarylook at global changes that mayoccur over the next fifty years —whether sudden and cataclysmicworld-changing events or graduallyunfolding trends.


$29.95T/£19.95 cloth978-0-262-19586-7

Also available

ENERGY IN NATURE AND SOCIETYGeneral Energetics of Complex SystemsVaclav Smil2008, 978-0-262-69356-1$32.00S/£20.95 paper

ENERGY AT THECROSSROADSGlobal Perspectives and UncertaintiesVaclav Smil2005, 978-0-262-69324-0$18.95T/£12.95 paper

THE EARTH’S BIOSPHEREEvolution, Dynamics, and ChangeVaclav Smil2002, 978-0-262-69298-4$22.00T/£14.95 paper

ENERGIESAn Illustrated Guide to theBiosphere and CivilizationVaclav Smil2000, 978-0-262-69235-9$20.95S/£13.95 paper

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THE SHADOWS OF CONSUMPTION Consequences for the Global EnvironmentPeter Dauvergne

The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth’s

ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising

consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and

pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and economic

processes displace the real costs of consumer goods into distant ecosystems,

communities, and timelines, tipping into crisis people and places without the

power to resist.

In The Shadows of Consumption, Dauvergne maps the costs of consumption

that remain hidden in the shadows cast by globalized corporations, trade,

and finance. He traces the environmental consequences of five commodities:

automobiles, gasoline, refrigerators, beef, and harp seals. In these fascinating

histories we learn, for example, that American officials ignored warnings

about the dangers of lead in gasoline in the 1920s; why China is now a leading

producer of CFC-free refrigerators; and how activists were able to stop Canada’s

commercial seal hunt in the 1980s but are unable to do so now.

Dauvergne’s innovative analysis allows us to see why so many efforts to

manage the global environment are failing even as environmentalism is slowly

strengthening. He proposes a guiding principle of “balanced consumption” for

both consumers and corporations. We know that we can make things better

by driving a fuel-efficient car, eating

locally grown food, and buying

energy-efficient appliances; but these

improvements are incremental, local,

and insufficient. More crucial than

our individual efforts to reuse and

recycle will be reforms in the global

political economy to reduce the

inequalities of consumption and

correct the imbalance between grow-

ing economies and environmental

sustainability.

Peter Dauvergne is Professor of PoliticalScience, Canada Research Chair in GlobalEnvironmental Politics, and Associate Dean of Arts at the University of BritishColumbia. He is the author of the award-winning Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia (MIT Press) and the coauthor (with Jennifer Clapp) of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (MIT Press).

environment/political science

An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing

the environmental consequences of five commodities.

October6 x 9, 328 pp.

$24.95T/£16.95 cloth978-0-262-04246-8

Also available

PATHS TO A GREEN WORLDThe Political Economy of the Global Environment

Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne2005, 978-0-262-53271-6

$26.00S/£16.95 paper

SHADOWS IN THE FORESTJapan and the Politics ofTimber in Southeast Asia

Peter Dauvergne1997, 978-0-262-54087-2

$28.00S/£18.95 paper

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food/environment

The complete story of what we don’t know, and what we shouldknow, about American food production and its effect on health and the environment.

October7 x 9, 384 pp.25 illus.

$29.95T/£19.95 cloth978-0-262-02652-9

Also available

AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT CARDAre We Making the Grade?Harvey Blatt2006, 978-0-262-52467-4$13.95T/£8.95

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AMERICA’S FOOD What You Don’t Know About What You EatHarvey Blatt

We don’t think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen

to fill our supermarket’s produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and

its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don’t realize that

the meat in one fast-food hamburger may come from a thousand different cattle

raised in five different countries. In fact, most of us have a fairly abstract under-

standing of what happens on a farm. In America’s Food, Harvey Blatt gives us the

specifics. He tells us, for example, that a third of the fruits and vegetables grown

are discarded for purely aesthetic reasons; that the artificial fertilizers used to

enrich our depleted soil contain poisonous heavy metals; that chickens who

stand all day on wire in cages choose feed with pain-killing drugs over feed

without them; and that the average American eats his or her body weight in

food additives each year.

Blatt also asks us to think about the consequences of eating food so far

removed from agriculture; why unhealthy food is cheap; why there is an

International Federation of Competitive Eating; what we don’t want to know

about how animals raised for meat live, die, and are butchered; whether people

are even designed to be carnivorous; and why there is hunger when food pro-

duction has increased so dramatically. America’s Food describes the production

of all types of food in the United States and the environmental and health

problems associated with each.

After taking us on a tour of the American food system — not only the basic

food groups but soil, grain farming, organic

food, genetically modified food, food pro-

cessing, and diet — Blatt reminds us that

we aren’t powerless. Once we know the

facts about food in America, we can

change things by the choices we make

as consumers, as voters, and as ethical

human beings.

Harvey Blatt is the author of America’sEnvironmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? (MIT Press). He taught geology at the University of Houston and the University of Oklahoma for many years and is now Professorof Geology at the Institute of Earth Sciences atHebrew University of Jerusalem.



NEW YORK FOR SALECommunity Planning Confronts Global Real Estate Tom Angotti foreword by Peter Marcuse

Remarkably, grassroots-based community planning flourishes in New York City

— the self-proclaimed “real estate capital of the world” — with at least seventy

community plans for different neighborhoods throughout the city. Most of these

were developed during fierce struggles against gentrification, displacement, and

environmental hazards, and most got little or no support from government. In

fact, community-based plans in New York far outnumber the land use plans

produced by government agencies.

In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community

planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and

began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban

renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmental hazards.

Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant in New York community

planning, focuses on the close relationships among community planning, political

strategy, and control over land. After describing the political economy of New

York City real estate, its close ties to global financial capital, and the roots

of community planning in social movements and community organizing,

Angotti turns to specifics. He tells of two pioneering plans forged in reaction to

urban renewal plans (including the first community plan in the city, the 1961

Cooper Square Alternate Plan — a response to a

Robert Moses urban renewal scheme); struggles

for environmental justice, including battles over

incinerators, sludge, and garbage; plans officially

adopted by the city; and plans dominated by

powerful real estate interests. Finally, Angotti

proposes strategies for progressive, inclusive

community planning not only for New York City

but for anywhere that neighborhoods want to

protect themselves and their land. New York for

Sale teaches the empowering lesson that community

plans can challenge market-driven development even

in global cities with powerful real estate industries.

Tom Angotti is Director of the Hunter College Center forCommunity Planning and Development and Professor ofUrban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, City Universityof New York. He is the author of Metropolis 2000: Planning,Poverty, and Politics, the coeditor of Progressive PlanningMagazine, and a columnist for the online journal GothamGazette.

urban studies/environment

How community-based planning has challenged the powerful realestate industry in New York City.


17 illus.

$24.95T/£16.95 cloth978-0-262-01247-8

Urban and Industrial Environmentsseries

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WILD COSTA RICAThe Wildlife and Landscapes of Costa RicaAdrian Hepworth

The small Central American country of Costa Rica — less than one-eighth

the size of California — boasts the highest density of plant and animal species

in the world. Its wild and rugged landscapes include dense rainforests where

jaguars roam, a volcano that spews rivers of molten lava, and beaches as

unspoiled as they were when Christopher Columbus first anchored his ships

off the Caribbean coast in 1502. Costa Rica’s rich biodiversity is the result of

a hugely varied topography that creates a wide range of natural habitats, and of

the presence of animals and plants native to both North and South America.

In Wild Costa Rica, photographer Adrian Hepworth explores the natural

riches of Costa Rica, providing engaging reports from the field and more

than 200 stunning color photographs.

We learn about Costa Rica’s rainforest, cloudforest, and paramo (high,

treeless plain); the abundance of plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,

and insects these habitats support; and the country’s network of protected

areas — a system of parks, reserves, and refuges that makes up over twenty

percent of Costa Rica’s land. These areas — including such flagship wildlife-

watching locations as Monteverde, Volcan Irazu, and Tapanti — attract

more than a million visitors every year. The money generated by responsible

eco-tourism is central to the survival of Costa Rica’s wild places.

Hepworth’s photographs

show us breathtaking vistas —

including the view of both

Pacific and Atlantic oceans

from Mount Chirripó, Costa

Rica’s highest peak — and

introduce us to distinctive

native wildlife, including the

scarlet macaw, the resplendent

quetzal, the three-toed sloth,

and spider and howler mon-

keys. Wild Costa Rica gives us

a fascinating picture of the

most biologically diverse

country in the world.

Adrian Hepworth is a wildlife photographer based in San José,Costa Rica. In 2002, he was a winner in the prestigious BBCWildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.

nature/travel

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An exploration of the most biologically diverse country on the planet, with more than 200stunning color photographs.

November9 x 11 1/2, 176 pp.250 color illus., 35 maps

$29.95T978-0-262-08383-6

For sale in North America, CentralAmerica (except Costa Rica), andSouth America only

Also available

ORANGUTANSBehavior, Ecology, and ConservationJunaidi Payne and Cede Prudente2008, 978-0-262-16253-1$29.95T cloth

WILD BORNEOThe Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah,Sarawak, Brunei, and KalimantanNick Garbutt and J. Cede Prudente2006, 978-0-262-07274-8$34.95T cloth

WILD CHINAJohn MacKinnonphotographs by Nigel Hicks1996, 978-0-262-13329-6$39.95T cloth

WILD THAILAND Belinda Stewart-Coxphotographs by Gerald Cubitt1995, 978-0-262-19364-1$41.95T cloth

WILD INDIAThe Wildlife and Scenery of India and NepalGuy Mountfortphotographs by Gerald Cubitt1991, 978-0-262-13276-3$41.95T cloth

WILD MALAYSIAThe Wildlife and Scenery ofPeninsular Malaysia, Sarawak, and SabahJunaidi Paynephotographs by Gerald Cubitt1991, 978-0-262-16078-0$41.95T cloth

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THREE LECTURES ON POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY Daniel Cohentranslated by William McCuaig

In this pithy and provocative book, noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his

analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak

of industrial society, Cohen writes, it is more difficult to speak meaningfully of

post-industrial “society.” The solidarity that once lay at the heart of industrial

society no longer exists. The different levels of large industrial enterprises have

been systematically disassembled: tasks considered nonessential are assigned to

subcontractors; engineers are grouped together in research sites, apart from the

workers. Employees are left exposed while shareholders act to protect themselves.

Never has the awareness that we all live in the same world been so strong — and

never have the social conditions of existence been so unequal.

In these wide-ranging reflections, Cohen describes the transformations that

signaled the break between the industrial and the post-industrial eras. He links

the revolution in information technology to the trend toward flatter hierarchies

of workers with multiple skills — and connects the latter to work practices

growing out of the culture of the May 1968 protests. Subcontracting and out-

sourcing have also changed the nature of work, and Cohen succinctly analyzes

the new international division of labor, the economic rise of China, India, and

the former Soviet Union, and the economic effects of free trade on poor coun-

tries. Finally, Cohen examines the fate of the European social model — with its

traditional compromise between social justice and economic productivity — in

a post-industrial world.

Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics at the École Normale Supérieure and theUniversité de Paris-I and a member of the Council of Economic Analysis of theFrench Prime Minister. He is a frequentcontributor to Le Monde and the author of The Wealth of the World and the Povertyof Nations, Our Modern Times: The NewNature of Capitalism in the InformationAge, and Globalization and Its Enemies, all published by The MIT Press.

economics

A noted economist analyzes theupheavals caused by revolutions intechnology, labor, culture, financial

markets, and globalization.

November5 3/8 x 8, 120 pp.

$18.95T/£12.95 cloth978-0-262-03383-1

Also available

GLOBALIZATION AND ITS ENEMIESDaniel Cohen

2007, 978-0-262-53297-6$14.95T/£9.95 paper

OUR MODERN TIMESThe New Nature of Capitalism

in the Information AgeDaniel Cohen

2004, 978-0-262-53263-1$14.95T/£9.95 paper

THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD AND THE

POVERTY OF NATIONSDaniel Cohen

1998, 978-0-262-03253-7$37.00S/£23.95 cloth

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film/philosophy

Mythic themes and philosophicalprobing in film, as seen in works of Preston Sturges, Jean Cocteau,Stanley Kubrick, and various other filmmakers.


$24.95T/£16.95 cloth978-0-262-19589-8

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INGMAR BERGMAN, CINEMATIC PHILOSOPHERReflections on His Creativity Irving Singer2007, 978-0-262-19563-8$24.95T/£14.95 cloth

THREE PHILOSOPHICAL FILMMAKERSHitchcock, Welles, RenoirIrving Singer2006, 978-0-262-69328-8 $16.95T/£10.95 paper

REALITY TRANSFORMEDFilm as Meaning and TechniqueIrving Singer2000, 978-0-262-69248-9$18.95S/£12.95 paper

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CINEMATIC MYTHMAKINGPhilosophy in FilmIrving Singer

Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythol-

ogy are both larger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world,

and they tell us a good story. Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and

intimate. Cinematic techniques — panning, tracking, zooming, and the other

tools in the filmmaker’s toolbox — create a world that is unlike reality and yet

realistic at the same time. We are passive spectators, but we also have a personal

relationship with the images we are seeing. In Cinematic Mythmaking, Irving

Singer explores the hidden and overt use of myth in various films and, in general,

the philosophical elements of a film’s meaning. Mythological themes, Singer

writes, perform a crucial role in cinematic art and even philosophy itself.

Singer incisively disentangles the strands of different myths in the films he

discusses. He finds in Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve that Barbara Stanwyck’s

character is not just the biblical Eve but a liberated woman of our times; Eliza

Doolittle in the filmed versions of Shaw’s Pygmalion is not just a statue brought

to life but instead a heroic woman who must survive her own dark night of the

soul. The protagonist of William Wyler’s The Heiress and Anieszka Holland’s

Washington Square is both suffering Dido and an awakened Amazon. Singer

reads Cocteau’s films — including La Belle et la Bête, Orphée, and The Testament

of Orpheus — as uniquely mythological cinematic poetry. He compares

Kubrickean and Homeric epics and

analyzes in depth the self-referential

mythmaking of Federico Fellini in

many of his movies, including 8½.

The aesthetic and probing inventive-

ness in film, Singer shows us, restores

and revives for audiences in the

twenty-first century myths of cre-

ation, of the questing hero, and of

ideals — both secular and religious —

that have had enormous significance

throughout the human search for love

and meaning in life.

Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of RealityTransformed: Film as Meaning and Technique, Three Philosophical Filmmakers:Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir, and IngmarBergman, Cinematic Philosopher, all published by The MIT Press, as well as many other books.





An account of the power relationsthat sustain and make possible

photographic meanings, with special attention to photographs of

Palestinian noncitizens of Israel andwomen in Western societies.

October6 x 9, 500 pp.8 color illus.,

100 black & white illus.

$36.95T/£23.95 cloth978-1-890951-88-7

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DEATH’S SHOWCASEThe Power of Image in

Contemporary DemocracyAriella Azoulay

2003, 978-0-262-51133-9$22.00T/£14.95 paper

Also available from Zone Books

PROFANATIONSGiorgio Agamben

2007, 978-1-890951-82-5$25.95T/£16.95 cloth

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THE CIVIL CONTRACT OF PHOTOGRAPHYAriella Azoulay

In this compelling work, Ariella Azoulay reconsiders the political and ethical sta-

tus of photography. Describing what she calls “the civil contract of photography,”

she gives an account of the power relations that sustain and make possible photo-

graphic meanings. Azoulay argues that anyone — even a stateless person — who

addresses others through photographs or is addressed by photographs, can become

a member of the citizenry of photography. The civil contract of photography

enables anyone to pursue political agency and resistance through photography.

Photography, Azoulay insists, cannot be understood separately from the

many catastrophes of recent history. The crucial arguments of her book concern

two groups with flawed or nonexistent citizenship: the Palestinian noncitizens

of Israel and women in Western societies. Azoulay analyzes Israeli press photo-

graphs of violent episodes in the Occupied Territories, and interprets various

photographs of women — from famous images by stop-motion photographer

Eadweard Muybridge to recent photographs from Abu Ghraib prison. Azoulay

asks the question: under what legal, political, or cultural conditions does it

become possible to see and to show disaster that befalls those who can claim

only incomplete or nonexistent citizenship?

Drawing on such key texts in the history of modern citizenship as the

Declaration of the Rights of Man together with relevant work by Giorgio

Agamben, Jean-François Lyotard, Susan Sontag, and Roland Barthes, Azoulay

explores the visual field of catastrophe, injustice, and suffering in our time. Her

book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the disasters of recent

history — and the consequences of how these events and their victims have

been represented.

Ariella Azoulay teaches visual culture andcontemporary philosophy at the Programfor Culture and Interpretation, Bar IlanUniversity. She is the author of Once Upon A Time: Photography Following Walter Benjamin and Death’s Showcase: The Power of Image in ContemporaryDemocracy (MIT Press).

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Understanding late medieval pictorial representations of violence.


$22.95T/£14.95 paper978-1-890951-38-2

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WHO ARE YOU? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern EuropeValentin Groebner2007, 978-1-890951-72-6$30.00T/£18.95 cloth

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DEFACEDThe Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle AgesValentin Groebnertranslated by Pamela Selwyn

Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, invisible enemies: violence and

anonymity go hand in hand. The visual representation of extreme physical

violence makes real people nameless exemplars of horror — formless, hideous,

defaced. In Defaced, Valentin Groebner explores the roots of the visual culture

of violence in medieval and Renaissance Europe and shows how contemporary

visual culture has been shaped by late medieval images and narratives of violence.

For late medieval audiences, as with modern media consumers, horror lies less

in the “indescribable” and “alien” than in the familiar and commonplace.

From the fourteenth century onward, pictorial representations became

increasingly violent, whether in depictions of the Passion, or in vivid and

precise images of torture, execution, and war. But not every spectator witnessed

the same thing when confronted with terrifying images of a crucified man,

misshapen faces, allegedly bloodthirsty conspirators on nocturnal streets, or bar-

barian fiends on distant battlefields. The profusion of violent imagery provoked

a question: how to distinguish the illegitimate violence that threatened and

reversed the social order from the proper, “just,” and sanctioned use of force.

Groebner constructs a persuasive answer by investigating how uncannily

familiar medieval dystopias were constructed and deconstructed. Showing

how extreme violence threatens to disorient, and how the effect of horror

resides in the depiction of minute details, Groebner offers an original model

for understanding how descriptions of atrocities and of outrageous cruelty

depended, in medieval times, on the variation of familiar narrative motifs.

Valentin Groebner is Professor of Medieval and RenaissanceHistory at the University of Lucerne. He is the author ofWho Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe (Zone Books).

“A shocking study that demystifies the significance of suf-

fering in late medieval society by placing representations

of penitence and the Passion on a par with the political

uses of brutality against the body. Iconoclastic, yet

humane, Groebner’s compelling essays uncover the full

spectrum of acts and images that, no matter how grisly

or grotesque, formed part of a semiotics of savagery that

continues to inform representations of law and order and

the practice of compulsion and constraint well into the

modern era.”

— Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University, author

of The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female

Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (Zone Books)



A SOCIETY WITHOUT FATHERS OR HUSBANDSThe Na of ChinaCai Huatranslated by Asti Hustvedt

The Na of China, farmers in the Himalayan region, live without the institution

of marriage. Na brothers and sisters live together their entire lives, sharing

household responsibilities and raising the women’s children. Because the Na,

like all cultures, prohibit incest, they practice a system of sometimes furtive,

sometimes conspicuous nighttime encounters at the woman’s home. The

woman’s partners — she frequently has more than one — bear no economic

responsibility for her or her children, and “fathers,” unless they resemble their

children, remain unidentifiable.

This lucid ethnographic study shows how a society can function without

husbands or fathers. It sheds light on marriage and kinship, as well as on the

position of women, the necessary conditions for the acquisition of identity, and

the impact of a communist state on a society that it considers backward.

Cai Hua is Director of the Center for Anthropologic and Folkloric Studies at PekingUniversity.

“Dr. Cai Hua has done Western anthropology

a great service by making it acquainted with

one of those few societies in Asia (and Africa

as well) who deny or belittle the roles of father

and husband in their social system. Thanks

to him the Na now have their place in the

anthropological literature.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

“Dr. Cai Hua’s revelatory work is replete

with invaluable ethnographic findings and

humane value.”

— Rodney Needham, Oxford University

A fascinating account of the Na society, which functions

without the institution of marriage.


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cultural studies

Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the SituationistInternational movement.


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THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLEGuy Debord1995, 978-0-942299-79-3$16.95T/£10.95 paperDistributed for Zone Books

GUY DEBORD AND THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONALTexts and Documentsedited by Tom McDonough2004, 978-0-262-63300-0$27.95T/£18.95paper

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CORRESPONDENCEThe Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957–August 1960)Guy Debordtranslated by Stuart Kendallintroduction by MacKenzie Wark

Yesterday, the police interrogated me at length about the

journal and other Situationist organizations. It was only

a beginning. This is, I think, one of the principal threats

that came up quickly during the discussion: the police

want to consider the S.I. as an association to bring about

the destruction of France.

— from Correspondence

This volume traces the dynamic first years of the Situationist International

movement — a cultural avant-garde that continues to inspire new generations

of artists, theorists, and writers more than half a century later. Debord’s

letters — published here for the first time in English — provide a fascinating

insider’s view of just how this seemingly disorganized group drifting around a

newly consumerized Paris became one of the most defining cultural movements

of the twentieth century. Circumstances, personalities, and ambitions all come

into play as the group develops its strategy of anarchic, conceptual, but highly

political “intervention.”

Brilliantly conceived, this collection of letters offers the best available

introduction to the Situationist International movement by detailing, through

original documents, how the group formed and defined its cultural mission: to

bring about, “by any means possible, even artistic,” a complete transformation

of personal life within the Society of

the Spectacle.

Writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary, Guy Debord (1931–1994) was a founding member of the Lettrist International andSituationist International groups. His films and books, including Society of the Spectacle(1967), were major catalysts for philosophicaland political changes in the twentieth century,and helped trigger the May 1968 rebellion in France.





ALL THE KING’S HORSESMichèle Bernsteintranslated and with an introduction by John Kelseyafterword by Odile Passot

“What do you do, exactly? I have no idea.”

“I reify,” he answered.

“It’s a serious job,” I added.

“Yes, it is,” he said.

“I see,” Carol observed with admiration. “Serious work,

with big books and a big table cluttered with papers.”

“No,” said Gilles. “I walk. Mostly I walk.”

— from All the King’s Horses

Michèle Bernstein’s novel, All the King’s Horses (1960), is one of the odder

and more elusive, entertaining, and revealing documents of the Situationist

International. At the instigation of her first husband, Guy Debord, Bernstein

agreed to write a potboiler to help swell the Situationist International’s coffers.

When she objected to the idea of practicing a “dead art,” Debord suggested

that it would be instead détournement — the Situationist reuse of media toward

different, subversive, ends.

Inspired by the pseudo-scandalous

success of Roger Vadim’s filmed version

of Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons

dangereuses and the adolescent Françoise

Sagan’s bestselling novel Bonjour tristesse,

Bernstein lampooned and borrowed from

both Sagan and de Laclos, concocting

a roman à clef that succeeded on several

levels. A moneymaker for the most radical

front of the French avant-garde, the novel

(by its very success) demonstrated the

bankruptcy of contemporary French

letters and the Situationist contempt for

the psychological novel, while (perhaps

unintentionally) holding up a playful

mirror to the private lives of two of the

Situationist International’s most important

members. All the King’s Horses is a slippery

rewrite of Dangerous Liaisons with Debord

playing the role of cold libertine, Bernstein

as his cohort, and disguised walk-on roles

by the likes of the painter Asger Jorn and

others.

Though Greil Marcus sparked interest in this novel in his 1989 book Lipstick

Traces, All the King’s Horses remained unavailable until its 2004 republication

in France. This Semiotext(e) edition is its first translation into English.

Michèle Bernstein was a founding member of the Situationist International with her first husband, Guy Debord. After the end of the SI, she became a literary critic for the Frenchleft-wing magazine Libération. Artist, critic, and gallerist John Kelsey cofounded the artists’collective The Bernadette Corporation, author of the novel Reena Spaulings (Semiotext(e)).

cultural studies/fiction

A Situationist International roman à clef, written by

Guy Debord’s first wife, a founder of the movement and one of

its influential thinkers.


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REENA SPAULINGS The Bernadette Corporation

2005, 978-1-58435-030-9$14.95T/£9.95 paper

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CAPITAL AND LANGUAGEFrom the New Economy to the War EconomyChristian Marazziintroduction by Michael Hardttranslated by Gregory Conti

The Swiss-Italian economist Christian Marazzi is one of the core theorists of the

Italian postfordist movement, along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, and Bifo

(Franco Berardi). But although his work is often cited by scholars (particularly

by those in the field of “Cognitive Capitalism”), his writing has never appeared

in English. This translation of his most recent work, Capital and Language

(published in Italian in 2002), finally makes Marazzi’s work available to an

English-speaking audience.

Capital and Language takes as its starting point the fact that the extreme

volatility of financial markets is generally attributed to the discrepancy between

the “real economy” (that of material goods produced and sold) and the more

speculative monetary-financial economy. But this distinction has long ceased to

apply in the postfordist New Economy, in which both spheres are structurally

affected by language and communication. In Capital and Language Marazzi

argues that the changes in financial markets and the transformation of labor

into immaterial labor (that is, its reliance on abstract knowledge, general

intellect, and social cooperation) are just two sides of the same coin.

Capital and Language focuses on the causes behind the international economic

and financial depression of 2001, and on the primary instrument that the U.S.

government has since been using to face

them: war. Marazzi points to capitalism’s

fourth stage (after mercantilism, industrial-

ism, and the postfordist culmination of

the New Economy): the “War Economy”

that is already upon us.

Marazzi offers a radical new under-

standing of the current international

economic stage and crucial post-Marxist

guidance for confronting capitalism in its

newest form. Capital and Language also

provides a warning call to a Left still

nostalgic for a Fordist construct — a

time before factory turned into office

(and office into home), and before

labor became linguistic.

Christian Marazzi is the coeditor (with SylvèreLotringer) of Autonomia: Post-Political Politics(published by Semiotext(e) in a new edition in2007), and the author of The Place for Socks,forthcoming from Semiotext(e).

cultural studies/economics

A major theorist in the Italian postfordist movement offers a radical new understanding of the current international economic situation.


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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ICELANDTravel Essays on ArtEileen Myles

Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing,

and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire’s

gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city — wandering on garbage-strewn

New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of

La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit — seeing it with a poet’s eye for

detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always

been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the

essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of her —

and our — lives in these contemporary crowds.

Framed by Myles’s account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit

inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive culture as a

whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best model for writing and

thinking about art and culture. The essays include fresh takes on Thoreau’s

Cape Cod walk, working class speech, James Schulyer and Björk, queer Russia

and Robert Smithson; how-tos on writing an avant-garde poem and driving a

battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body; and opinions on such

widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie Benning, actor Daniel Day-Lewis,

Ted Berrigan’s Sonnets, and flossing.

Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine “the rock star of modern poetry,” is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry,Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e)), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e)).Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Mostrecently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation.

art criticism/poetry criticism

A poet and post-punk heroinewrites on subjects ranging fromBjörk to Robert Smithson, from

traveling in Iceland to walking inThoreau’s footsteps on Cape Cod.


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VIDEO GREENLos Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness

Chris Kraus2004, 978-1-58435-022-4

$14.95T/£9.95 paper

THE NEW FUCK YOUAdventures in Lesbian Reading

edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz1995, 978-1-57027-057-4

$13.95T/£8.95 paper

NOT ME Eileen Myles

1991, 978-0-936756-67-7$12.95T/£8.95 paper

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Groundbreaking essays that introduce Guattari’s theories of “schizo-analysis,” in an expanded edition.


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MOLECULAR REVOLUTION IN BRAZILFélix Guattari and Suely Rolnik2008, 978-1-58435-051-4$17.95T/£11.95 paper

THE ANTI-OEDIPUS PAPERSFélix Guattari2006, 978-1-58435-031-6$17.95T/£11.95 paper

NEW EDITION

CHAOSOPHYFélix Guattariedited by Sylvère Lotringerintroduction by François Dosse

Chaosophy is an introduction to Félix Guattari’s groundbreaking theories of

“schizo-analysis”: a process meant to replace Freudian interpretation with a more

pragmatic, experimental, and collective approach rooted in reality. Unlike Freud,

who utilized neuroses as his working model, Guattari adopted the model of

schizophrenia — which he believed to be an extreme mental state induced by the

capitalist system itself, and one that enforces neurosis as a way of maintaining

normality. Guattari’s post-Marxist vision of capitalism provides a new definition

not only of mental illness, but also of the micropolitical means for its subversion.

Chaosophy includes such provocative pieces as “Everybody Wants to Be a

Fascist,” a group of texts on Guattari’s collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze

(including the appendix to Anti-Oedipus, not available in the English edition),

and “How Martians Make Love,” a roundtable discussion with Guattari,

Lotringer, Catherine Clément, and Serge Leclaire from 1972 (still unpublished

in French). This new, expanded edition features a new introduction by François

Dosse (author of a new biography of Guattari and Gilles Deleuze) and a range

of additional essays, including “Franco Basaglia: Guerrilla Psychiatrist,” “The

Transference,” “Semiological Subjection, Semiotic Enslavement,” “The Place

of the Signifier in the Institution,” and “Three Billion Perverts on the Stand.”

Félix Guattari (1930–1992), post-’68 French psychoanalystand philosopher, is the author of Anti-Oedipus (with Gilles Deleuze), and a number of books published bySemiotext(e), including The Anti-Oedipus Papers andMolecular Revolution in Brazil (with Suely Rolnik).




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SOLAR REVOLUTIONThe Economic Transformation of the Global Energy IndustryTravis Bradford

In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis

Bradford argues — on the basis of standard business and economic forecasting

models — that over the next two decades solar energy will increasingly become

the best and cheapest choice for most electricity and energy applications. Solar

Revolution outlines the path by which the transition to solar technology and

sustainable energy practices will occur.

Developments in the photovoltaic (PV) industry over the last ten years have

made direct electricity generation from PV cells a cost-effective and feasible

energy solution, despite the common view that PV technology appeals only

to a premium niche market. As the scale of PV production increases and costs

continue to decline at historic rates, demand for PV electricity will outpace

supply of systems for years to come.

Ultimately, the shift from fossil fuels to solar energy will take place not

because solar energy is better for the environment or energy security, or because

of future government subsidies or as yet undeveloped technology. The solar

revolution is already occurring through decisions made by self-interested energy

users. The shift to solar energy is inevitable and will be as transformative as the

last century's revolutions in information and communication technologies.

Travis Bradford is President and Founder of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, a nonprofit organization in Cambridge,Massachusetts, focused on using the power of the business and financial sectors to deploy cost-effective and sustainable technologies.

“Everyone who wants to understand the permanent energy answer

that can reverse climate change, eliminate oil shocks, and avoid future

Chernobyls should read this book. Bradford builds a compelling busi-

ness case that solar energy is the most disruptive technology in history."

— Denis Hayes, Former Director,

U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

“This is a timely and much-needed book. The solar industry is

evolving with dramatic speed, both technologically and economically.

With a business perspective and a wealth of knowledge about the

solar industry and the wider energy economy, Travis Bradford

provides an excellent account of solar energy today.”

— Dan Kammen, Professor and Founding Director

of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory,

University of California, Berkeley

“Every American who pays or knows someone who pays an electric

bill should read Solar Revolution.”

— Cecil Johnson, “Business Bookshelf,”

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“ Solar Revolution is an essential read because it analyzes the transformation of

the global energy economy. The market will drive the new energy economy, and solar

is already a growing and influential player. This is a positive vision of a sensible,

practical, sustainable energy future.”

— Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico

and former U.S. Secretary of Energy

environment/business

An innovative analysis that showshow the shift to solar energy — inparticular, the use of photovoltaic

cells — is both economically advantageous and inevitable.


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THE GREAT LEAD WATER PIPE DISASTER Werner Troesken

In The Great Lead Water Pipe

Disaster, Werner Troesken looks

at a long-running environmental

and public health catastrophe:

150 years of lead pipes in local

water systems and the associated

sickness, premature death, politi-

cal inaction, and social denial.

The harmful effects of lead water pipes became appar-

ent almost as soon as cities the world over began to

install them. Doctors and scientists noted cases of acute

illness and death attributable to lead in public water

beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century,

and an editorial in the New York Herald called for

the city to study the matter after a bizarre illness made

headlines in 1868. But officials took no action for

many years.

Troesken examines the health effects of lead expo-

sure, analyzing cases from New York City, Boston, and

Glasgow and many smaller towns in Massachusetts,

New Hampshire, and England, documenting the

widespread nature of the problem, the recognized health

effects — particularly for pregnant women and young

children — and official intransigence. He presents an

accessible overview of the old and new science of lead

exposure and he gives us compelling and vivid accounts

of the people and politics involved. The effects of lead

in water continue to be felt; many older houses still have

lead service pipes. The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster

is essential reading for understanding this past and

ongoing public health problem.

Werner Troesken is Professor of History at the University ofPittsburgh and Faculty Research Associate at NBER. He is theauthor of Water, Race, and Disease (MIT Press, 2004).

“Werner Troesken has written a fascinating detective story

of a little-known environmental disaster.”

— Dora Costa, Professor of Economics, MIT

October — 6 x 9, 328 pp. — 21 illus.

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THE FUTURE OF EUROPEReform or DeclineAlberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi

Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic

and political decline is almost inevitable, economists

Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi write in this

provocative book. Without comprehensive reform, con-

tinental Western Europe’s overprotected, overregulated

economies will continue to slow — and its political

influence will become negligible. In The Future of

Europe, Alesina and Giavazzi (themselves Europeans)

outline the steps that Europe

must take to prevent its eco-

nomic and political eclipse.

Europe, the authors say,

has much to learn from the

market liberalism of America.

Europeans work less and vaca-

tion more than Americans; they

value job stability and security

above all. Americans, Alesina

and Giavazzi argue, work harder

and longer and are more willing to endure the ups and

downs of a market economy.

Alesina and Giavazzi’s prescriptions are sure to

stir controversy, as will their eye-opening view of the

European Union and the euro. But their wake-up call

will ring loud and clear for anyone concerned about

the future of Europe and the global economy.

Alberto Alesina is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of PoliticalEconomics at Harvard University. He is the coauthor (withEnrico Spolaore) of The Size of Nations (MIT Press, 2003).Francesco Giavazzi is Professor of Economics at BocconiUniversity and Visiting Professor at MIT. He is the coauthor(with Alberto Giovannini) of Limiting Exchange Rate Flexibility:The European Monetary System (MIT Press, 1989).

“This book could have been a diatribe, but is saved from

that by the intelligence of the authors’ arguments and policy

recommendations. A must read for those interested in the

European economy.”

— P. K. Kresl, Choice


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THE MARKETPLACE OF CHRISTIANITYRobert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hébert, and Robert D. Tollison

This startlingly original (and sure

to be controversial) account of

the evolution of Christianity

shows that the economics of

religion has little to do with

counting the money in the

collection basket and much to

do with understanding the

background of today’s religious

and political divisions. The Marketplace of Christianity

applies the tools of economic theory (first providing

the reader with clear and nontechnical background

information on economics and the economics of religion)

to illuminate the emergence of Protestantism in the

sixteenth century and to examine contemporary religion-

influenced issues, including evolution and gay marriage.

The Protestant Reformation, the authors argue,

can be seen as a successful penetration of a religious

market dominated by a monopoly firm — the Catholic

Church. The Ninety-five Theses nailed to the church

door in Wittenberg by Martin Luther raised the level

of competition within Christianity to a breaking point.

The Counter-Reformation, the Catholic reaction, con-

tinued the competitive process, which came to include

“product differentiation” in the form of doctrinal and

organizational innovation. Economic theory shows us

how Christianity evolved to satisfy the changing

demands of consumers — worshippers.

Robert B. Ekelund Jr. is Professor of Economics and Edward K.and Catherine L. Lowder Eminent Scholar Emeritus at AuburnUniversity. He is the coauthor (with Robert D. Tollison) ofEconomics: Private Markets and Public Choice. Robert F. Hébertis Russell Foundation Professor Emeritus at Auburn University.Robert D. Tollison is Professor of Economics and BB&T SeniorFellow at Clemson University. Ekelund, Tollison, and Hébertare coauthors of Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as anEconomic Firm.

“Ekelund, Hébert, and Tollison have written a lucid, cut-

ting-edge treatment of religion and economics. An accessible

book for students in a variety of disciplines and for readers

with a wide range of interests.”

— Robert Barro and Rachel McCleary,

Harvard University


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BY FORCE OF THOUGHTIrregular Memoirs of an Intellectual JourneyJános Kornai

János Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist,

began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and

then became a critic of the communist political and eco-

nomic system. He lost family members in the Holocaust,

contributed to the ideological preparation for the 1956

Hungarian Revolution, and became an influential theo-

rist of the post-Soviet economic transition. He has been

a journalist, a researcher prohibited from teaching in his

home country, and a tenured professor at Harvard. By

Force of Thought traces Kornai’s

lifelong intellectual journey and

offers a subjective complement

to his academic research.

Disenchanted with

communism, Kornai published

Overcentralization (1959), the first

book written by someone living

behind the Iron Curtain to be

openly critical of Soviet-style economics. Kornai went

on to publish the controversial Anti-Equilibrium (1971),

Economics of Shortage (1980), The Road to a Free Economy

(1990), and the summary of his lifetime research, The

Socialist System (1992). Kornai’s memoir describes his

research as well as the social and political environments

in which he did his work. The difficulties faced by a

critic of central planning in a communist country are

made especially vivid by material from newly opened

secret police files and informers’ reports on his activities.

János Kornai is Permanent Fellow, Emeritus, at CollegiumBudapest Institute for Advanced Study, Allie S. Freed Professorof Economics Emeritus at Harvard University, and DistinguishedResearch Professor at Central European University. He is theauthor of many books.

“A thoughtful account of an extraordinary life and a portrait

of a certain kind of intellectual dissent too little written about

from personal experience.”

— Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal

“The story of a love affair with ideas. This is Kornai’s real

private life, and despite his prosaic style, his memoirs convey,

as few others do, the inner world of intellectual creation.”

— Robert Skidelsky, New York Review of Books


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FANTASTIC REALITYLouise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern ArtMignon Nixon

The art of Louise Bourgeois

stages a dynamic encounter

between modern art and psycho-

analysis, argues Mignon Nixon in

the first full-scale critical study of

the artist’s work. A pivotal figure

in twentieth-century art, Louise

Bourgeois (b. 1911, France) emi-

grated to New York in 1938 and is still actively working

and exhibiting today. From Bourgeois’s formative strug-

gle with the “father figures” of surrealism, including

André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, to her galvanizing

role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her

subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmod-

ernism, this book explores the artist’s responses to war,

dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of

the “woman artist” and the politics of sexual and social

liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis.

“Fantastic reality” is what Bourgeois calls the condi-

tion of her art. Starting from Bourgeois’s investigation,

through a multiplicity of forms and materials, of the

problem of subjectivity on the very threshold of emer-

gence, this book argues for a new psychoanalytic story

of modern art.

Mignon Nixon is Professor of Art History at the CourtauldInstitute of Art, University of London. She is the editor of Eva Hesse (MIT Press/October Files, 2002) and coeditor of The Duchamp Effect (MIT Press/October Books, 1996).

“In Fantastic Reality, Mignon Nixon not only illuminates

the work of this revolutionary artist but rewrites the history

of sculpture in the postwar years.”

— Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of

Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts,

New York University

“Nixon has offered, in addition to a psychoanalytic inter-

pretation of Bourgeois’s abstract art, a rich repertoire of

techniques through which abstract art can be used to probe

psychoanalytic thought.”

— Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association


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HERTZIAN TALESElectronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design Anthony Dunne

As our everyday social and cultural experiences are

increasingly mediated by electronic products — from

“intelligent” toasters to iPods — it is the design of

these products that shapes our experience of the

“electrosphere” in which we live. Designers of electronic

products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales,

must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic

role of electronic products in

everyday life. Industrial design

has the potential to enrich our

daily lives — to improve the

quality of our relationship to

the artificial environment of

technology, and even, argues

Dunne, to be subverted for

socially beneficial ends.

The cultural speculations and conceptual design pro-

posals in Hertzian Tales are not utopian visions or blue-

prints; instead, they embody a critique of present-day

practices, “mixing criticism with optimism.” Six essays

explore design approaches for developing the aesthetic

potential of electronic products outside a commercial

context — considering such topics as the post-optimal

object and the aesthetics of user-unfriendliness — and

five proposals offer commentary in the form of objects,

videos, and images. These include Electroclimates, ani-

mations on an LCD screen that register changes in

radio frequency; When Objects Dream . . ., consumer

products that “dream” in electromagnetic waves; and

Tuneable Cities, which uses the car as it drives through

overlapping radio environments as an interface of

hertzian and physical space.

Anthony Dunne is Professor and Head of Interaction Design atthe Royal College of Art in London. He is also a partner in thedesign practice Dunne & Raby, London.

“A worthwhile challenge to the market subservience that

dominates industrial design, indicating some of the ways

of turning design towards more speculative, critical

possibilities.”

— Design Philosophy Papers


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DIGITAL STORYTELLINGThe Narrative Power of Visual Effects in FilmShilo T. McClean

Computer-generated effects are

often blamed for bad Hollywood

movies. Yet when a critic com-

plains that “technology swamps

storytelling” (in a review of Van

Helsing, calling it “an example

of everything that is wrong with

Hollywood computer-generated

effects movies”), it says more about the weakness of the

story than the strength of the technology. In Digital

Storytelling, Shilo McClean shows how digital visual

effects can be a tool of storytelling in film, adding

narrative power as do sound, color, and “experimental”

camera angles — other innovative film technologies

that were once criticized for being distractions from

the story. It is time, she says, to rethink the function

of digital visual effects.

Effects artists say — contrary to the critics — that

effects always derive from story. Digital effects are

a part of production, not postproduction; they are

becoming part of the story development process.

Digital Storytelling is grounded in filmmaking, the

scriptwriting process in particular. McClean considers

crucial questions about digital visual effects and looks

at contemporary films (including a chapter-long

analysis of Steven Spielberg’s use of computer gener-

ated effects) and contemporary film theory to find the

answers. McClean argues that to consider digital visual

effects as simply contributing to the “wow” factor

underestimates them. They are, she writes, the

legitimate inheritors of film storycraft.

Shilo T. McClean is a consultant in storybuilding and digitalvisual effects. She has worked as a writer, producer, director,and script editor.

“Smart, compelling, and incisive, Digital Storytelling is

an essential text that will change the debate over the place

of digital effects in contemporary film.”

— Stephen Prince, Professor of

Communication, Virginia Tech


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CONTROL AND FREEDOMPower and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber OpticsWendy Hui Kyong Chun

How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control,

been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom

increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control?

In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

explores the current political and technological coupling

of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the

Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid)

myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she

says, stem from our reduction of

political problems into techno-

logical ones.

Chun argues that the rela-

tionship between control and

freedom in networked contact

is experienced and negotiated

through sexuality and race,

describing, among other phe-

nomena, the cyberporn panic of the 1990s and the

conflation by Internet promoters of technological

empowerment with racial empowerment. The Internet’s

potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises

of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather

from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to

other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber

optic networks — light coursing through glass tubes —

as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages

the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for

knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in

order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically

instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.

See also http://www.controlandfreedom.net.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Associate Professor of ModernCulture and Media at Brown University. She has studied bothSystems Design Engineering and English Literature.

“Wendy Chun’s important new book explores one of the

salient questions raised by networked computing: the para-

dox of furthering the directly opposed aims of surveillance

and democracy,.”

— Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine


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THE INTERNET IMAGINAIREPatrice Flichy

In The Internet Imaginaire, sociol-

ogist Patrice Flichy examines the

collective vision that shaped the

emergence of the Internet —

the social imagination that envi-

sioned a technological utopia in

the birth of a new technology. By

examining in detail the discourses

surrounding the development of

the Internet in the United States in the 1990s (and

considering them an integral part of that development),

Flichy shows how an entire society began a new tech-

nological era. The metaphorical “information super-

highway” became a technical utopia that informed a

technological program. The Internet imaginaire, Flichy

argues, led software designers, businesses, politicians,

and individuals to adopt this one technology instead

of another.

Flichy draws on writings by experts — paying

particular attention to the gurus of Wired magazine,

but also citing articles in Time, Newsweek, and Business

Week — from 1991 to 1995. He describes two main

domains of the technical imaginaire: the utopias

(and ideologies) associated with the development of

technical devices and the depictions of an imaginary

digital society. He analyzes the founding myths of

cyberculture and he offers a treatise on “the virtual

society imaginaire,” discussing visionaries from

Teilhard de Chardin to William Gibson, the body

and the virtual, cyberdemocracy and the end of

politics, and the new economy of the immaterial.

Patrice Flichy is Professor in the Department of Sociology atthe University of Marne de la Valleé, France.

“Flichy’s historical perspective, the depth of his research, and

the sobriety of his conclusions are more pressingly relevant

than ever.”

— James Harkin, Financial Times

October — 6 x 9, 264 pp.

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AESTHETIC COMPUTINGedited by Paul A. Fishwick

In Aesthetic Computing, key scholars and practitioners

from art, design, computer science, and mathematics lay

the foundations for a discipline that applies the theory

and practice of art to computing. Aesthetic computing

explores the way art and aesthetics can play a role in

different areas of computer science. One of its goals is

to modify computer science by the application of the

wide range of definitions and categories normally

associated with making art. For example, structures in

computing might be represented

using the style of Gaudi or

the Bauhaus school. This goes

beyond the usual definition

of aesthetics in computing,

which most often refers to the

formal, abstract qualities of such

structures — a beautiful proof,

or an elegant diagram. The

contributors to this book discuss the broader spectrum

of aesthetics — from abstract qualities of symmetry

and form to ideas of creative expression and pleasure —

in the context of computer science. The assumption

behind aesthetic computing is that the field of comput-

ing will be enriched if it embraces all of aesthetics.

Human-computer interaction will benefit — “usabil-

ity,” for example, could refer to improving a user’s emo-

tional state — and new models of learning will emerge.

Paul A. Fishwick is Professor of Computer and InformationSciences and Engineering at the University of Florida.

“Aesthetic Computing covers a wide range of subjects,

with themes including art, emotion, metaphor, mathematics,

transdisciplinarity, visualization, auralization, program-

ming, and interface design, just to name a few. One

strength of this collection is that the theoretical discussions

tend to be grounded in specific examples, which in many

cases draw on extensive previous work by the author.”

— Stan Ruecker, Literary and Linguistic Computing

September — 7 x 9, 480 pp. — 201 illus.

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ALWAYS ALREADY NEWMedia, History, and the Data of CultureLisa Gitelman

In Always Already New, Lisa

Gitelman explores the newness of

new media while she asks what it

means to do media history. Using

the examples of early recorded

sound and digital networks,

Gitelman challenges readers to

think about the ways that media

work as the simultaneous subjects and instruments of

historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies of

Edison’s first phonographs and the Pentagon’s first

distributed digital network, the ARPANET, Gitelman

points suggestively toward similarities that underlie the

cultural definition of records (phonographic and not) at

the end of the nineteenth century and the definition of

documents (digital and not) at the end of the twentieth.

As a result, Always Already New speaks to present con-

cerns about the humanities as much as to the emergent

field of new media studies. Records and documents are

kernels of humanistic thought, after all — part of and

party to the cultural impulse to preserve and interpret.

Gitelman’s argument suggests inventive contexts for

“humanities computing” while also offering a new

perspective on such traditional humanities disciplines

as literary history.

Lisa Gitelman is Associate Professor and Director, Program in Media Studies, at Catholic University, Washington, D.C. She is the coeditor (with Geoffrey B. Pingree) of New Media,1740-1915 (MIT Press, 2003) and the author of Scripts,Grooves, and Writing Machines.

“Lisa Gitelman is a brilliant scholar . . . . [She] uses new

historicist, philosophical, and technological observations to

make a compelling case.”

— M. E. DiPaulo, Choice

“Smart and engaging. . . This book is an invitation to do

media history in the archives; at the same time, it keeps

reminding us that the archives ain’t the archives anymore

and that any historical account is dependent on the media

forms it uses.”

— John Nerone, Journal of American History


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WOMEN AND INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGYResearch on Underrepresentation edited by J. McGrath Cohoon and William Aspray

Computing remains a heavily male-dominated field

even after twenty-five years of extensive efforts to

promote female participation. The contributors to

Women and Information Technology look at reasons

for the persistent gender imbalance in computing and

explore some strategies intended to reverse the down-

ward trend. The studies included

are rigorous social science inves-

tigations; they rely on empirical

evidence — not rhetoric,

hunches, or folk wisdom.

Taking advantage of the recent

surge in research in this area, the

editors present the latest findings

of both qualitative and quantita-

tive studies. Each section begins with an overview of

the literature on current research in the field, followed

by individual studies. The first section investigates the

relationship between gender and information technol-

ogy among preteens and adolescents, with each study

considering what could lead girls’ interest in computing

to diverge from boys’; the second section, on higher

education, includes a nationwide study of computing

programs and a cross-national comparison of comput-

ing education; the final section, on pathways into

the IT workforce, considers both traditional and

nontraditional paths to computing careers.

J. McGrath Cohoon is Assistant Professor in the Department ofScience, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineeringand Applied Science, University of Virginia. She is also a SeniorResearch Scientist at the National Center for Women andInformation Technology. William Aspray is Rudy Professor ofInformatics in the School of Informatics, Indiana University,and former Executive Director of the Computing ResearchAssociation.

“This work provides valuable insight into why women are

not choosing to pursue education and careers in information

technology.”

— K. J. Whitehair, Choice


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AMERICAN HEGEMONY AND THEPOSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION OFSCIENCE IN EUROPEJohn Krige

In 1945, the United States was

not only the strongest economic

and military power in the world;

it was also the world’s leader

in science and technology. In

American Hegemony and the

Postwar Reconstruction of Science

in Europe, John Krige describes

the efforts of influential figures in the United States to

model postwar scientific practices and institutions in

Western Europe on those in America. They mobilized

political and financial support to promote not just

America’s scientific and technological agendas in

Western Europe but its Cold War political and

ideological agendas as well.

Drawing on the work of diplomatic and cultural

historians, Krige argues that this attempt at scientific

dominance by the United States can be seen as a form

of “consensual hegemony,” involving the collaboration

of influential local elites who shared American values.

He uses this notion to analyze a series of case studies

that describe how the U.S. administration, senior

officers in the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the

NATO Science Committee, and influential members

of the scientific establishment — notably Isidor I. Rabi

of Columbia University and Vannevar Bush of MIT —

tried to Americanize scientific practices in such fields

as physics, molecular biology, and operations research.

John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History,Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

“Krige is a forceful writer, and the implications of his

research are sure to be provocative and long lasting.”

— Michael D. Gordin, Physics Today

September — 6 x 9, 392 pp.

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CALCULATING A NATURAL WORLDScientists, Engineers, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War ResearchAtsushi Akera

During the Cold War, the field of computing advanced

rapidly within a complex institutional context. In

Calculating a Natural World, Atsushi Akera describes

the complicated interplay of academic, commercial, and

government and military interests that produced a burst

of scientific discovery and technological innovation

in 1940s and 1950s America. This was the era of big

machines — the computers that made the reputations

of IBM and of many academic

laboratories — and Akera uses

the computer as a historical

window on the emerging infra-

structure of American scientific

and engineering research.

Akera’s study is unique in

that it integrates a history of

postwar computing (usually told

in terms of either business or

hardware) and a mapping of an

“ecology of knowledge” represented by the emerging

institutional infrastructure for computing. For example,

John Mauchly’s early work on computers is seen as

a product of his peripatetic career — his journey

through different institutional ecologies — and

John von Neumann’s work is seen as emerging from

the convergence of physics and applied mathematics

at the Institute for Advanced Study.

The military-industrial complex is often spoken of

as a coherent and unified power, but Akera argues that

it was the tensions as much as the convergences among

military, business, and academic forces that fueled

scientific and technological advances.

Atsushi Akera is Assistant Professor in the Department ofScience and Technology Studies at Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute.

“Akera’s well-researched and engaging book offers a new

synthesis of the history of postwar computing.”

— David Mindell, Director, Program in Science,

Technology, and Society, MIT


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UNBUILDING CITIESObduracy in Urban Sociotechnical ChangeAnique Hommels

City planning initiatives and

redesign of urban structures

often become mired in debate

and delay. Despite the fact that

cities are considered to be

dynamic and flexible spaces,

never finished but always under

construction, it is very difficult to

change existing urban structures; they become fixed,

obdurate, securely anchored in their own histories

as well as in the histories of their surroundings. In

Unbuilding Cities, Anique Hommels looks at the

tension between the malleability of urban space and

its obduracy, focusing on sites and structures that have

been subjected to “unbuilding” — redesign or reconfig-

uration. Viewing the city as a large sociotechnological

artifact, she demonstrates the usefulness of STS tools

that were developed to analyze other technological

artifacts and explores in detail the role of obduracy in

sociotechnical change.

Hommels examines the tensions between obduracy

and change in three urban redesign projects in the

Netherlands: a renovated city center that fell into drab-

ness and disrepair; a highway system that runs through

a densely populated urban area; and a high-rise housing

project, designed according to modernist precepts and

built for middle-class families, that became a haven for

unemployment and crime. Unbuilding Cities contributes

to a productive fusion of STS and urban studies.

Anique Hommels is Assistant Professor in the Department ofTechnology and Society Studies, Faculty of Arts and Culture,University of Maastricht, Netherlands.

“This book provides some interesting models of thinking for

the professionals of the built environment. . . . A useful con-

tribution to those involved in negotiations about urban

change, including presentational aspects.”

— Judith Ryser, Urban Design


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THE PATH NOT TAKENFrench Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830Jeff Horn

In The Path Not Taken, Jeff Horn argues that —

contrary to standard, Anglocentric accounts — French

industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-

faire British model but the product of a distinctive indus-

trial policy that led, over the long term, to prosperity

comparable to Britain’s. Despite the upheavals of the

Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, France developed

and maintained its own industrial

strengths. France was then able

to take full advantage of the new

technologies and industries that

emerged in the “second industrial

revolution,” and by the end of

the nineteenth century some of

France’s industries were outper-

forming Britain’s handily. The

Path Not Taken shows that the

foundations of this success were

laid during the first industrial revolution.

Technology is at the heart of Horn’s analysis, and

he shows that France, unlike England, often preferred

still-profitable older methods of production in order to

maintain employment and forestall revolution. Horn

examines the institutional framework established by

Napoleon’s most important Minister of the Interior,

Jean-Antoine Chaptal. Focusing on textiles, chemicals,

and steel, he looks at how these new institutions cre-

ated a new industrial environment. Horn’s illuminating

comparison of French and British industrialization

should stir debate among historians, economists, and

political scientists.

Jeff Horn, Associate Professor of History at Manhattan College,is the author of ”Qui parle pour la nation?” Les élections et lesélus de la Champagne méridionale, 1765-1830.

“Clearly written and drawing on an impressive range of

sources, this is an account of importance not only for French

history, but also for analyses of economic development.”

— Jeremy Black, History


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HARMONIOUS TRIADSPhysicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century GermanyMyles W. Jackson

Historically, music was long clas-

sified as both art and science.

Aspects of music — from the

mathematics of tuning to the

music of the celestial spheres —

were primarily studied as science

until the seventeenth century. In

the nineteenth century, although

scientists were less interested in

the music of the spheres than were the natural philoso-

phers of earlier centuries, they remained committed to

understanding the world of performing musicians and

their instruments. In Harmonious Triads, Myles Jackson

analyzes the relationship of physicists, musicians, and

instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany.

Musical instruments provided physicists with experi-

mental systems, and physicists’ research led directly to

improvements in musical-instrument manufacture and

assisted musicians in their performances. Music also

provided scientists with a cultural resource, which

forged acquaintances and future collaborations.

Jackson’s historical consideration of questions at the

intersection of music and physics shows us how each

discipline helped shape the other.

Myles W. Jackson is Dibner Family Professor History of Scienceand Technology at Polytechnic University, New York City. He isthe author of Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer andthe Craft of Precision Optics (MIT Press, 2000), which was winner of the Paul-Bunge-Prize of the German ChemicalSociety in 2005 for an outstanding contribution to the study of scientific instruments.

“If you are intrigued by the concept of ‘singing savants’ or

by the connection between Alexander von Humboldt and

Felix Mendelssohn, read on!”

— Daniel Kleppner, Lester Wolfe

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AN ENGINE, NOT A CAMERAHow Financial Models Shape MarketsDonald MacKenzie

In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues

that the emergence of modern economic theories of

finance affected financial markets in fundamental

ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based

on elegant mathematical models of markets, were

not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of

economic processes.

Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says

that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather

than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More

than that, the emergence of an

authoritative theory of financial

markets altered those markets

fundamentally.

MacKenzie examines the role

played by finance theory in the

two most serious crises to hit

the world’s financial markets in

recent years. He also looks at

finance theory that is somewhat

beyond the mainstream — chaos

theorist Benoit Mandelbrot’s model of “wild” random-

ness. MacKenzie’s pioneering work in the social studies

of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand

how America’s financial markets have grown into their

current form.

Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include InventingAccuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and MechanizingProof (2001) all published by The MIT Press.

“In one lifetime modern finance theory has revolutionized

the arts of canny investing. MacKenzie knows this exciting

story, and he tells it well.”

— Paul A. Samuelson, MIT, Nobel Laureate

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THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF SOCIALSECURITY IN AGING SOCIETIESVincenzo Galasso

Doubts about the ability of

industrialized countries to con-

tinue to provide a sufficient level

of retirement benefits to a grow-

ing number of retirees has fueled

much recent debate and inspired

a variety of recommendations for

reform. Few major reforms, how-

ever, have actually been imple-

mented. In The Political Future of Social Security in Aging

Societies, Vincenzo Galasso argues that the success of

any reform proposals depends on political factors rather

than economic theory. He offers a comparative analysis

of the future political sustainability of social security

in six countries with rapidly aging populations —

France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom,

and the United States. Using a quantitative approach,

he finds that an aging population has political as well

as economic effects: an older electorate will put pressure

on politicians and policymakers to maintain or even

increase benefits.

Galasso evaluates how each country’s different

political constraints shape its social security system,

considering such country-specific factors as the pro-

portion of retirees in the population, the redistributive

feature of each system, and the existing retirement

policy in each country. He concludes that an aging

population will lead to more pension spending; yet

postponing retirement mitigates the impact of this,

and may be the only politically viable alternative for

social security reform.

Vincenzo Galasso is Associate Professor of Economics atBocconi University. He is Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Research Fellow at Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy.

“Vincenzo Galasso has written a penetrating and thought-

ful book on a topic of undeniable importance.”

— Thomas Cooley, Paganelli-Bull Professor of

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THE ECONOMICS OF CONSUMER CREDITedited by Giuseppe Bertola, Richard Disney, andCharles Grant

Academic research and policy discussions of credit

markets usually focus on borrowing by firms and

producers rather than by households, which are

typically analyzed in terms of their savings and

portfolio choices. The Economics of Consumer Credit

brings together leading international researchers

to focus specifically on consumer debt, presenting

current empirical and theoretical research crucial to

ongoing policy debates on

such topics as privacy rules,

the regulation of contractual

responsibilities, financial

stability, and overindebtedness.

The rapidly developing

consumer credit industry in

the United States is mirrored

by that in Europe, and this

volume is noteworthy for its

cross-national perspective.

Giuseppe Bertola is Professor of Economics at the University ofTurin and Scientific Coordinator at Finance and Consumption,European University Institute, Florence. Richard Disney isProfessor of Economics at the University of Nottingham andResearch Fellow at the Institute of Fiscal Studies, London.Charles Grant is a Lecturer at Reading University and a visiting Research Associate at Finance and Consumption,European University Institute, Florence.

“This book will be a valuable asset to students, researchers,

and policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic.”

— Christian Gollier, IDEI, University of Toulouse

“This book redefines the cutting edge of research on con-

sumer credit. Given the breadth, depth, and rigor of the

scholarship (by many of the field's leading researchers), the

book will undoubtedly become an indispensable resource for

anyone who hopes to make contributions in related areas.”

— Christopher D. Carroll, Professor of Economics,

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MONEY, INTEREST, AND POLICYDynamic General Equilibrium in a Non-Ricardian WorldJean-Pascal Bénassy

An important recent advancement

in macroeconomics is the devel-

opment of dynamic stochastic

general equilibrium (DSGE)

macromodels. The use of DSGE

models to study monetary policy,

however, has led to paradoxical

and puzzling results on a number

of central monetary issues including price determinacy

and liquidity effects. In Money, Interest, and Policy,

Jean-Pascal Bénassy argues that moving from the

standard DSGE models — which he calls “Ricardian”

because they have the famous “Ricardian equivalence”

property — to another, “non-Ricardian” model would

resolve many of these issues. A Ricardian model repre-

sents a household as a homogeneous family of infinitely

lived individuals, and Bénassy demonstrates that a

single modification — the assumption that new agents

are born over time (which makes the model non-

Ricardian) — can bridge the current gap between

monetary intuitions and facts, on one hand, and

rigorous modeling, on the other.

Jean-Pascal Bénassy is Director of Research at CNRS (NationalCenter for Scientific Research), Paris, and a Research Fellow atCEPREMAP (Center for Economic Research and Applications). Heis the author of The Macroeconomics of Imperfect Competitionand Nonclearing Markets: A Dynamic General EquilibriumApproach (MIT Press, 2002).

“This book is a gem. . . . [Bénassy] writes with his usual

crispness and sharpness, and the reader comes out of the

book's ten chapters wanting to learn more.”

— Philippe Weil, European Centre

for Advanced Research in Economics and

Statistics, Université Libre de Bruxelles


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SCIENTISTS DEBATE GAIAThe Next Centuryedited by Stephen H. Schneider, James R. Miller, Eileen Crist, and Penelope J. Bostonforeword by Pedro Ruiz Torresintroductions by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

Scientists Debate Gaia is a multidisciplinary reexamina-

tion of the Gaia hypothesis, which was introduced by

James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s.

The Gaia hypothesis holds that Earth’s physical and

biological processes are linked to

form a complex, self-regulating

system and that life has affected

this system over time. Despite

initial dismissal of the Gaian

approach as New Age philosophy,

it has today been incorporated

into mainstream interdisciplinary

scientific theory, as seen in its

strong influence on the field of Earth system science.

Scientists Debate Gaia provides a fascinating, multi-

faceted examination of Gaia as science and addresses

significant criticism of, and changes in, the hypothesis

since its introduction, exploring the scientific, philo-

sophical, and theoretical foundations of Gaia.

Stephen H. Schneider is Professor of Biological Sciences andCodirector of the Center for Environmental Science and Policyat Stanford University. James R. Miller is Professor of EarthSystem Science in the Department of Marine and CoastalStudies at Rutgers University. Eileen Crist is AssociateProfessor of Science and Technology in Society in the Centerfor Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech. GeomicrobiologistPenelope J. Boston is Associate Professor of Cave and KarstScience and Director of the Cave and Karst Studies Program at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

“This is a stimulating, up-to-date account of one of the most

far-reaching modern ideas connecting biology and geology.”

— Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography,

University of California, Los Angeles,

author of Guns, Germs and Steel

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BRAIN AND CULTURENeurobiology, Ideology, and Social ChangeBruce E. Wexler

Research shows that between

birth and early adulthood the

brain requires sensory stimulation

to develop physically. By early

adulthood, the neuroplasticity of

the brain is greatly reduced, and

this leads to a fundamental shift

in the relationship between the

individual and the environment:

during the first part of life, the brain and mind shape

themselves to the major recurring features of their envi-

ronment; by early adulthood, the individual attempts

to make the environment conform to the established

internal structures of the brain and mind.

In Brain and Culture, Bruce Wexler explores the

social implications of the close and changing neurobio-

logical relationship between the individual and the

environment, with particular attention to the difficulties

individuals face in adulthood when the environment

changes beyond their ability to maintain the fit between

existing internal structure and external reality. These

difficulties are evident in bereavement, the meeting of

different cultures, the experience of immigrants, and the

phenomenon of interethnic violence. The groundbreak-

ing connections he makes provide a new biological base

from which to consider such social issues as “culture

wars” and ethnic violence.

Bruce E. Wexler is Professor of Psychiatry at Yale MedicalSchool and Director of the Neurocognitive Research Laboratoryat the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

“Bruce Wexler’s Brain and Culture is a major achievement,

touching the deepest biological and human issues and fram-

ing them in verifiable terms. A very powerful and very

important book.”

— Oliver Sacks, author of

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

“A fascinating step toward decoding the seemingly universal

us/them mentality. “

— Scientific American, “The Editors Recommend”

September — 5 3/8 x 8, 320 pp. — 2 illus.

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HOT THOUGHTMechanisms and Applications of Emotional CognitionPaul Thagard

Contrary to standard assumptions, reasoning is often

an emotional process. Emotions can have good effects,

as when a scientist gets excited about a line of research

and pursues it successfully despite criticism. But emo-

tions can also distort reasoning, as when a juror ignores

evidence of guilt just because the accused seems like a

nice guy. In Hot Thought, Paul Thagard describes the

mental mechanisms — cognitive, neural, molecular, and

social — that interact to produce

different kinds of human think-

ing, from everyday decision mak-

ing to legal reasoning, scientific

discovery, and religious belief,

and he discusses when and how

thinking and reasoning should

be emotional.

Thagard argues that an

understanding of emotional

thinking needs to integrate the

cognitive, neural, molecular, and social levels. Many of

the chapters employ computational models of various

levels of thinking, including HOTCO (hot cognition)

models and the more neurologically realistic GAGE

model. Identifying and assessing the impact of emotion,

Thagard argues, can suggest ways to improve the

process of reasoning.

Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, andComputer Science, and Director of the Cognitive ScienceProgram at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of Coherence in Thought and Action (MIT Press, 2000) andMind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, second edition(MIT Press, 2005).

“Impressively comprehensive, unfailingly sensible, and made

all the more appealing by its hip-pocket readability, Hot

Thought will be a godsend to instructors in philosophy and

cognitive science.”

— Patricia S. Churchland, UC President's Professor

of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego


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HEIDEGGER’S TOPOLOGYBeing, Place, WorldJeff Malpas

This groundbreaking inquiry into

the centrality of place in Martin

Heidegger’s thinking offers not

only an illuminating reading of

Heidegger’s thought but a detailed

investigation into the way in

which the concept of place relates

to core philosophical issues. In

Heidegger’s Topology, Jeff Malpas argues that an engage-

ment with place, explicit in Heidegger’s later work,

informs Heidegger’s thought as a whole. What guides

Heidegger’s thinking, Malpas writes, is a conception of

philosophy’s starting point: our finding ourselves already

“there,” situated in the world, in “place.” Heidegger’s

concepts of being and place, he argues, are inextricably

bound together. (Malpas also challenges the widely

repeated arguments that link Heidegger’s notions of

place and belonging to his entanglement with Nazism.)

The significance of Heidegger as a thinker of place,

Malpas claims, lies not only in Heidegger’s own inves-

tigations but also in the way that spatial and topo-

graphic thinking has flowed from Heidegger’s work

into that of other key thinkers of the past sixty years.

Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of Place and Experience: APhilosophical Topology.

“This is a brilliant book that will change the entire field of

Heidegger studies.”

— Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of

Philosophy, Stony Brook University

“Malpas’s work opens up new ways to read Heidegger (con-

sidered for too long the philosopher of time) by underscoring

the centrality of place and its many implications for under-

standing our world, our environment, and ourselves.”

— John Panteleimon Manoussakis,

Journal of the History of Philosophy

October — 6 x 9, 424 pp.

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SUBJECTIVITY AND SELFHOODInvestigating the First-Person PerspectiveDan Zahavi

What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere

social construct — or is it perhaps a neurologically

induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the

self has been questioned by both neuroscientists and

philosophers in recent years. Countering this, in

Subjectivity and Selfhood, Dan Zahavi argues that the

notion of self is crucial for a proper understanding of

consciousness. He investigates the interrelationships of

experience, self-awareness, and

selfhood, proposing that none of

these three notions can be under-

stood in isolation. Any investiga-

tion of the self, Zahavi argues,

must take the first-person per-

spective seriously and focus on the

experiential givenness of the self.

Subjectivity and Selfhood explores a

number of phenomenological

analyses pertaining to the nature

of consciousness, self, and self-experience in light of con-

temporary discussions in consciousness research.

Philosophical phenomenology — as developed by

Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and others

— not only addresses crucial issues often absent from

current debates over consciousness but also provides a

conceptual framework for understanding subjectivity.

By engaging in a dialogue with other philosophical and

empirical positions, says Zahavi, phenomenology can

demonstrate its vitality and contemporary relevance.

Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University ofCopenhagen and the author of Self-Awareness and Alterity in Husserl’s Phenomenology.

“ Subjectivity and Selfhood is a rich and clearly written

book which ranges over many topics.”

— David E. Cooper, Times Literary Supplement (TLS)

“This work takes a huge step forward in bringing phenom-

enological philosophy to bear on contemporary issues in the

philosophy of mind and cognitive science.”

— Evan Thompson, Professor, Department of

Philosophy, University of Toronto


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THE PRIVACY ADVOCATESResisting the Spread of SurveillanceColin J. Bennett

Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewil-

dering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and

distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of

cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others.

In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups around

the world who have risen to challenge the most intrusive surveillance practices by

both government and corporations. Bennett describes a network of self-identified

privacy advocates who have emerged from civil society — without official sanction

and with few resources, but surprisingly influential.

A number of high-profile conflicts in recent years have brought this interna-

tional advocacy movement more sharply into focus. Bennett is the first to exam-

ine privacy and surveillance not from a legal, political, or technical perspective

but from the viewpoint of these independent activists who have found creative

ways to affect policy and practice. Drawing on extensive interviews with key

informants in the movement, he examines how they frame the issue and how

they organize, who they are and what strategies they use. He also presents

a series of case studies that illustrate how effective their efforts have been,

including conflicts over key-escrow encryption (which allows the government

to read encrypted messages), online advertising through third-party cookies that

track users across different Web sites, and online

authentication mechanisms such as the short-lived

Microsoft Passport. Finally, Bennett considers how

the loose coalitions of the privacy network could

develop into a more cohesive international social

movement.

Colin J. Bennett is Professor in the Department of PoliticalScience at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the coauthor (with Charles Raab) of The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective (updatedpaperback edition, MIT Press).

An analysis of the people and groups who have emerged to challenge the increasingly

intrusive ways personal information is captured,

processed, and disseminated.


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THE GOVERNANCE OF PRIVACYPolicy Instruments in

Global PerspectiveColin Bennett and Charles Raab

2006, 978-0-262-52453-7$30.00S/£19.95 paper

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GOVERNING GLOBAL ELECTRONIC NETWORKSedited by William J. Drake and Ernest J. Wilson III

The burgeoning use and transformative impact of

global electronic networks are widely recognized to be

defining features of contemporary world affairs. Less

often noted has been the increasing importance of

global governance arrangements in managing the many

issues raised in such networks. This volume helps fill

the gap by assessing some of the key international

institutions pertaining to global telecommunications

regulation and standardization, radio frequency spec-

trum, satellite systems, trade in services, electronic com-

merce, intellectual property, traditional mass media and

Internet content, Internet names and numbers, cyber-

crime, privacy protection, and development. Eschewing

technocratic approaches, the contributors offer empiri-

cally rich studies of the international power dynamics

shaping these institutions. They devote particular atten-

tion to the roles and concerns of nondominant stake-

holders, such as developing countries and civil society,

and find that global governance often reinforces wider

power disparities between and within nation-states.

But at the same time, the contributors note, governance

arrangements often provide nondominant stakeholders

with the policy space needed to advance their interests

more effectively. Each chapter concludes with a set of

policy recommendations for the promotion of an open,

dynamic, and more equitable networld order.

William J. Drake is Director of the Project on the InformationRevolution and Global Governance in the Program for the Studyof International Organizations at the Graduate Institute ofInternational Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Ernest J. WilsonIII is Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at theUniversity of Southern California. He is the author of TheInformation Revolution and Developing Countries (MIT Press,2004).

October — 6 x 9, 720 pp. — 10 illlus.

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Information Revolution and Global Politics series

LIBERATING VOICESA Pattern Language for Communication RevolutionDouglas Schuler

In recent decades we have witnessed the creation of a

communication system that promises unparalleled con-

nectedness. And yet the optimistic dreams of Internet-

enabled engagement and empowerment have faded

in the face of widespread Internet commercialization.

In Liberating Voices, Douglas Schuler urges us to

unleash our collective creativity — social as well as

technological — and develop the communication

systems that are truly needed.

Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in

Christopher Alexander’s classic 1977 book, A Pattern

Language, Schuler presents a pattern language contain-

ing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges.

Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model

of social change that integrates theory and practice

by showing how information and communication

(whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based)

can be used to address urgent social and environmental

problems collaboratively.

Each of the patterns that form the pattern language

(which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100

contributors) is presented consistently; each describes

a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution.

The pattern language begins with the most general

patterns (“Theory”) and proceeds to the most specific

(“Tactics”). Each pattern is a template for research as

well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus

forming a single coherent whole. Readers will find

Liberating Voices an intriguing and informative catalog

of contemporary intellectual, social, and technological

innovations, a practical manual for citizen activism, and

a compelling manifesto for creating a more intelligent,

sustainable, and equitable world.

Douglas Schuler is a member of the faculty at The EvergreenState College, former Chair of Computer Professionals forSocial Responsibility (CPSR), and a founding member of theSeattle Community Network (SCN). He is coeditor of severalbooks, including Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civic Society in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004) and theauthor of New Community Networks: Wired for Change.

October — 8 x 10, 504 pp. — 5 illlus.

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CONTRIBUTORS Peng Hwa Ang, Jonathan D. Aronson, Byung-il Choi, Tracy Cohen, Peter F. Cowhey, William J. Drake,Henry Farrell, Rob Frieden, Alison Gillwald, Boutheina Guermazi,Ian Hosein, Cees J. Hamelink, Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Don MacLean, Christopher May, Milton Mueller, John Richards,David Souter, Ernest Wilson III, Jisuk Woo

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SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION ON THE INTERNETedited by Gary M. Olson, Ann Zimmerman, and Nathan Bosforeword by William Wulf

Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled

by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with

international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants.

Historically, scientific collaborations were carried

out by scientists in the same physical location — the

Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for example, involved

thousands of scientists gathered on a remote plateau

in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Today, information and

communication technologies allow cooperation among

scientists from far-flung institutions and different disci-

plines. Scientific Collaboration on the Internet provides

both broad and in-depth views of how new technology

is enabling novel kinds of science and engineering col-

laboration. The book offers commentary from notable

experts in the field along with case studies of large-scale

collaborative projects, past and ongoing.

The projects described range from the development

of a national virtual observatory for astronomical

research to a National Institutes of Health funding

program for major multi-laboratory medical research;

from the deployment of a cyberinfrastructure to con-

nect experts in earthquake engineering to partnerships

between developed and developing countries in AIDS

research. The chapter authors speak frankly about the

problems these projects encountered as well as the suc-

cesses they achieved. The book strikes a useful balance

between presenting the real stories of collaborations

and developing a scientific approach to conceiving,

designing, implementing, and evaluating such projects.

It points to a future of scientific collaborations that

build successfully on aspects from multiple disciplines.

Gary M. Olson is Paul M. Fitts Collegiate Professor of HumanComputer Interaction and Professor in both the School ofInformation and the Department of Psychology at the Universityof Michigan. Ann Zimmerman is a Research Assistant Professorin the School of Information at the University of Michigan.Nathan Bos is a Senior Research Scientist at the AppliedPhysics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University.


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Acting with Technology series

INSATIABLE CURIOSITY Innovation in a Fragile FutureHelga Nowotnytranslated by Mitch Cohen

Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific

activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations,

does not know what it will find, or where it will lead.

Science needs autonomy to cultivate this kind of

untrammeled curiosity; innovation, however, responds

to the needs and desires of society. Innovation, argues

influential European science studies scholar Helga

Nowotny, tames the passion of science, harnessing it

to produce “deliverables.” Science brings uncertainties;

innovation successfully copes with them. Society calls

for both the passion for knowledge and its taming.

This ambivalence, Nowotny contends, is an inevitable

result of modernity.

In Insatiable Curiosity, Nowotny explores the strands

of the often unexpected intertwining of science and

technology and society. Uncertainty arises, she writes,

from an oversupply of knowledge. The quest for inno-

vation is society’s response to the uncertainties that

come with scientific and technological achievement.

Our dilemma is how to balance the immense but

unpredictable potential of science and technology with

our acknowledgement that not everything that can be

done should be done. We can escape the old polarities

of utopias and dystopias, writes Nowotny, by accepting

our ambivalence — as a legacy of modernism and a

positive cultural resource.

Helga Nowotny, one of the leading European voices in ScienceStudies, is Vice-President of the European Research Counciland Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, University of Vienna.

PRAISE FOR THE GERMAN EDITION

“Seldom have the contradictions of our times been so

penetratingly described and traced back to their scientific-

historical causes. . . . Helga Nowotny has written a

wonderfully worldly-wise book that eliminates the last

remnants of trust in progress without completely sounding

the death knell of the project of modernity.”

— Ludger Heidbrink, Die Zeit

September — 5 3/8 x 8, 216 pp.

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POWER STRUGGLESScientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before EdisonMichael Brian Schiffer

In 1882, Thomas Edison and his Edison Electric Light Company unveiled the

first large-scale electrical system in the world to light a stretch of offices in a

city. This was a monumental achievement, but it was not the beginning of the

electrical age. The first electric generators were built in the 1830s, the earliest

commercial lighting systems before 1860, and the first commercial application of

generator-powered lights (in lighthouses) in the early 1860s. In Power Struggles,

Michael Brian Schiffer examines some of these earlier efforts, both successful

and unsuccessful, that paved the way for Edison.

After laying out a unified theoretical framework for understanding techno-

logical change, Schiffer presents a series of fascinating case studies of pre-Edison

electrical technologies, including Volta’s electrochemical battery, the blacksmith’s

electric motor, the first mechanical generators, Morse’s telegraph, the Atlantic

cable, and the lighting of the Capitol dome. Schiffer discusses claims of “practi-

cality” and “impracticality” (sometimes hotly con-

tested) made for these technologies, and examines the

central role of the scientific authority — in particular,

the activities of Joseph Henry, mid-nineteenth-cen-

tury America’s foremost scientist — in determining

the fate of particular technologies.

These emerging electrical technologies formed the

foundation of the modern industrial world. Schiffer

shows how and why they became commercial prod-

ucts in the context of an evolving corporate capital-

ism in which conflicting judgments of practicality

sometimes turned into power struggles.

Michael Brian Schiffer is Fred A. Riecker DistinguishedProfessor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Research Associate at the Lemelson Center, NationalMuseum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of six previous books on technology.

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WEATHER BY THE NUMBERSThe Genesis of Modern MeteorologyKristine C. Harper

For much of the first half of the twentieth century,

meteorology was more art than science, dependent on

an individual forecaster’s lifetime of local experience.

In Weather by the Numbers, Kristine Harper tells the

story of the transformation of meteorology from a

“guessing science” into a sophisticated physics- and

mathematics-based scientific discipline. What made

this possible was the development of the electronic

digital computer; earlier attempts at numerical weather

prediction had foundered on the human inability to

solve nonlinear equations quickly enough for timely

forecasting. After World War II, the combination of an

expanded observation network developed for military

purposes, newly trained mathematics- and physics-

savvy meteorologists, and the nascent digital computer

created a new way of approaching both atmospheric

theory and weather forecasting.

Harper examines the efforts of meteorologists to

professionalize their discipline during the interwar

years and the rapid expansion of personnel and obser-

vational assets during World War II. She describes

how, by the 1950s, academic, Weather Bureau, and

military meteorologists had moved atmospheric mod-

eling from research subject to operational forecasting.

Challenging previous accounts that give sole credit for

the development of numerical weather prediction to

digital computer inventor John von Neumann, Harper

points to the crucial contributions of Carl-Gustav

Rossby (founder of MIT’s meteorology program and

part of what Harper calls the “Scandinavian Tag Team”

working with von Neumann). This transformation of

a discipline, Harper writes, was the most important

intellectual achievement of twentieth-century meteor-

ology, and paved the way for the growth of computer-

assisted modeling in all the sciences.

Kristine C. Harper is Assistant Professor of History at the NewMexico Institute of Mining and Technology. In 2007-2008, shewas a Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the Universityof Utah and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.


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H.G. BRONN, ERNST HAECKEL, AND THE ORIGINS OF GERMAN DARWINISMA Study in Translation and TransformationSander Gliboff

The German translation of Darwin’s The Origin of Species

appeared in 1860, just months after the original, thanks

to Heinrich Georg Bronn, a distinguished German

paleontologist whose work in some ways paralleled

Darwin’s. Bronn’s version of the book (with his own notes

and commentary appended) did much to determine how

Darwin’s theory was understood and applied by German

biologists, for the translation process involved more than

the mere substitution of German words for English.

In this book, Sander Gliboff tells the story of how The

Origin of Species came to be translated into German,

how it served Bronn's purposes as well as Darwin’s,

and how it challenged German scholars to think in new

ways about morphology, systematics, paleontology, and

other biological disciplines. Gliboff traces Bronn’s influ-

ence on German Darwinism through the early career

of Ernst Haeckel, Darwin’s most famous nineteenth-

century proponent and popularizer in Germany, who

learned his Darwinism from the Bronn translation.

Gliboff argues, contrary to most interpretations,

that the German authors were not attempting to

“tame” Darwin or assimilate him to outmoded systems

of romantic Naturphilosophie. Rather, Bronn and

Haeckel were participants in Darwin’s project of

revolutionizing biology. We should not, Gliboff

cautions, read pre-Darwinian meanings into Bronn’s

and Haeckel’s Darwinian words.

Gliboff describes interpretive problems faced by

Bronn and Haeckel that range from the verbal to the

conceptual. One of these conceptual problems, the ori-

gins of novel variation and the proper balance between

creativity and constraint in evolution, emerges as crucial.

Evolutionists today, Gliboff points out, continue to

grapple with comparable questions — continuing a

larger process of translation and interpretation of

Darwin’s work.

Sander Gliboff is Assistant Professor of History and Philosophyof Science at Indiana University.


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TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETYBuilding Our Sociotechnical Futureedited by Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore

Technological change does not happen in a vacuum;

decisions about which technologies to develop, fund,

market, and use engage ideas about values as well as

calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology

focuses on the interconnections of technology, society,

and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as

Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and

Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent

thinking about technology and provide them with con-

ceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge

to help understand how technology shapes society and

how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new

perspective on such current issues as globalization, the

balance between security and privacy, environmental

justice, and poverty in the developing world.

The careful ordering of the selections and the

editors’ introductions give Technology and Society a

coherence and flow that is unusual in anthologies.

The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses

in STS and other disciplines. The selections begin

with predictions of the future that range from forecasts

of technological utopia to cautionary tales. These are

followed by writings that explore the complexity of

sociotechnical systems, presenting a picture of how

technology and society work in step, shaping and being

shaped by one another. Finally, the book goes back to

considerations of the future, discussing twenty-first-

century challenges that include nanotechnology, the

role of citizens in technological decisions, and the

technologies of human enhancement.

Deborah G. Johnson is Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor ofApplied Ethics and Department Chair, Department of Science,Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. JamesonM. Wetmore is Assistant Professor at the Consortium forScience, Policy, and Outcomes and the School of HumanEvolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.


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LIVING IN A MATERIAL WORLDEconomic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies edited by Trevor Pinch and Richard Swedberg

Although social scientists generally agree that technol-

ogy plays a key role in the economy, economics and

technology have yet to be brought together into a

coherent framework that is both analytically interesting

and empirically oriented. This book draws on the tools

of science and technology studies and economic sociol-

ogy to reconceptualize the intersection of economy

and technology, suggesting materiality — the idea

that social existence involves not only actors and social

relations but also objects — as the theoretical point

of convergence.

The contributors take up general concerns, such

as individual agency in a network economy and the

materiality of the household in economic history, as

well as specific financial technologies such as the stock

ticker, the trading room, and the telephone. Forms of

infrastructure — accounting, global configurations of

trading and information technologies, and patent law

— are examined. Case studies of the impact of the

Internet and information technology on consumption

(e-commerce), the reputation economy (the rise of

online reviews of products), and organizational settings

(outsourcing of an IT system) round off this collection

of essays.

Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studiesand Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is thecoeditor of How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (MIT Press, 2003) and the coauthor of AnalogDays: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer andother books. Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology atCornell University. He is the author of Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology, Principles of Economic Sociology,and other books.

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CONTRIBUTORS Elizabeth Popp Berman, Daniel Beunza, Michel Callon, Karin Knorr Cetina, Thomas F. Gieryn, Barbara Grimpe,David Hatherly, David Leung, Christian Licoppe, Donald MacKenzie,Philip Mirowski, Fabian Muniesa, Edward Nik-Khah, Trevor Pinch,Alex Preda, Nicholas S. Rowland, David Shay, David Stark, Richard Swedberg





MECHANICAL SOUNDTechnology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth CenturyKarin Bijsterveld

Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of tech-

nology have been the subject of complaints, regulation,

and legislation. By the early 1900s, anti-noise leagues

in Western Europe and North America had formed to

fight noise from factories, steam trains, automobiles,

and gramophones, with campaigns featuring confer-

ences, exhibitions, and “silence weeks.” And, as Karin

Bijsterveld points out in Mechanical Sound, public

discussion of noise has never died down and continues

today. In this book, Bijsterveld examines the persistence

of noise on the public agenda, looking at four episodes

of noise and the public response to it in Europe and the

United States between 1875 and 1975: industrial noise,

traffic noise, noise from neighborhood radios and

gramophones, and aircraft noise. She also looks at a

twentieth-century counterpoint to complaints about

noise: the celebration of mechanical sound in avant-

garde music composed between the two world wars.

Bijsterveld argues that the rise of noise from new

technology combined with overlapping noise regula-

tions created what she calls a “paradox of control.”

Experts and politicians promised to control some

noise, but left other noise problems up to citizens.

Aircraft noise, for example, measured in formulas

understandable only by specialists, was subject to

public regulation; the sounds of noisy neighborhoods

were the responsibility of residents themselves. In

addition, Bijsterveld notes, the spatial character of

anti-noise interventions that impose zones and draw

maps, despite the ability of sound to cross borders and

boundaries, has helped keep noise a public problem.

We have tried to create islands of silence, she writes,

yet we have left a sea of sounds to be fiercely discussed.

Karin Bijsterveld is Professor of Science, Technology, andModern Culture at the Department of Science and TechnologyStudies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

August — 7 x 9, 368 pp. — 24 illus.

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CULTIVATING SCIENCE, HARVESTING POWERScience and Industrial Agriculture in CaliforniaChristopher R. Henke

Just south of San Francisco lies California’s Salinas

Valley, the heart of a multi-billion dollar agricultural

industry that dominates U. S. vegetable production.

How did the sleepy valley described in the stories of

John Steinbeck become the nation’s “salad bowl”? In

Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, Christopher R.

Henke explores the ways that science helped build the

Salinas Valley and California’s broader farm industry.

Henke focuses on the case of University of California

“farm advisors,” scientists stationed in counties through-

out the state who have stepped forward to help growers

deal with crises ranging from labor shortages to plagues

of insects. These disruptions in what Henke terms

industrial agriculture’s “ecology of power” provide a

window onto how agricultural scientists and growers

have collaborated — and struggled — in shaping

this industry.

Through these interventions, Henke argues, science

has served as a mechanism of repair for industrial agri-

culture. Basing his analysis on detailed ethnographic

and historical research, Henke examines the history of

state-sponsored farm advising — in particular, its roots

in Progressive Era politics — and looks at both past

and present practices by farm advisors in the Salinas

Valley. He goes on to examine specific examples,

including the resolution of a farm labor crisis during

World War II at the Spreckels Sugar Company, the use

of field trials for promoting new farming practices, and

farm advisors’ and growers’ responses to environmental

issues. Beyond this, Henke argues that the concept of

repair is broadly applicable to other cases and that

expertise can be deployed more generally to encourage

change for the future of American agriculture.

Christopher R. Henke is Assistant Professor of Sociology atColgate University.


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NATURAL EXPERIMENTSEcosystem-Based Management and the EnvironmentJudith A. Layzer

Scholars, scientists, and policymakers have hailed

ecosystem-based management (EBM) as a remedy

for the perceived shortcomings of the centralized, top-

down, expert-driven environmental regulatory frame-

work established in the United States in the late 1960s

and early 1970s. EBM entails collaborative, landscape-

scale planning and flexible, adaptive implementation.

But although scholars have analyzed aspects of EBM

for more than a decade, until now there has been no

systematic empirical study of the overall approach. In

Natural Experiments, Judith Layzer provides a detailed

assessment of whether EBM delivers in practice the

environmental benefits it promises in theory. She does

this by examining four nationally known EBM initia-

tives (the Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Program

in Austin, Texas, the San Diego Multiple Species

Program, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration

Plan, and the California Bay-Delta Program) and three

comparison cases that used more conventional regula-

tory approaches (Arizona’s Sonoran Desert

Conservation Plan and efforts to restore Florida’s

Kissimmee River and California’s Mono Basin).

Layzer concludes that projects that set goals based

on stakeholder collaboration, rather than through con-

ventional politics, are less likely to result in environ-

mental improvement, largely because the pursuit of

consensus drives planners to avoid controversy and

minimize short-term costs. Layzer’s resolutely practical

focus cuts through the ideological and theoretical argu-

ments for and against EBM to identify strategies that

hold genuine promise for restoring the ecological

resilience of our landscapes.

Judith A. Layzer is Associate Professor of Environmental Policyin the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Sheis the author of The Environmental Case: Translating Valuesinto Policy.

October — 6 x 9, 416 pp. — 7 maps

$28.00S/£18.95 paper978-0-262-62214-1

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American and Comparative Environmental Policy series

WATER, PLACE, AND EQUITYedited by John M. Whiteley, Helen Ingram, and Richard Warren Perry

Many predict that by the end of this century water

will dominate world natural resources politics as oil

does today. Access to water is widely regarded as a

basic human right, and was declared so by the United

Nations in 1992. And yet the water crisis grows:

although the total volume of water on the planet may

be sufficient for our needs, much of it is misallocated,

wasted, or polluted, and the poorest of the poor live in

arid areas where water is scarce. The coming decade

will require new perspectives on water resources and

reconsideration of the principles of water governance

and policy.

Water, Place, and Equity argues that fairness in the

allocation of water will be a cornerstone to a more

equitable and secure future for humankind. With

analyses and case studies, it demonstrates that consid-

erations of equity are more important in formulating

and evaluating water policy than the more commonly

invoked notions of efficiency and markets.

The case studies through which the book explores

issues of water equity range from cost and benefit

disparities that result from Southern California’s

storm water runoff policies to the privatization of

water in Bolivia. In a final chapter, Water, Place, and

Equity considers broader concerns — the impact of

global climate change on water resources and better

ways to incorporate equity into future water policy.

John M. Whiteley is Professor of Social Ecology at theUniversity of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor of Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, andEnvironmental Destruction in the United States and Russia (MIT Press, 1999). Helen Ingram is Research Fellow at theSouthwest Center, University of Arizona, and ProfessorEmeritus at the University of California, Irvine. She is theauthor or editor of many books, including Reflections onWater: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts andCooperation (MIT Press, 2001). Richard Warren Perry isProfessor of Justice Studies at San Jose State University.


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CONTRIBUTORS Thomas Clay Arnold, Madeline Baer, Amy Below,David Feldman, Paul W. Hirt, Helen Ingram, Sheldon Kamieniecki,Maria Carmen Lemos, Stephen P. Mumme, Richard Warren Perry,Ismael Vaccaro, John M. Whiteley, Margaret Wilder





THE POWER OF WORDS ININTERNATIONAL RELATIONSBirth of an Anti-Whaling DiscourseCharlotte Epstein

In the second half of the twentieth century, worldwide

attitudes toward whaling shifted from widespread

acceptance to moral censure. Why? Whaling, once

as important to the global economy as oil is now, had

long been uneconomical. Major species were long

known to be endangered. Yet nations had continued to

support whaling. In The Power of Words in International

Relations, Charlotte Epstein argues that the change was

brought about not by changing material interests but

by a powerful anti-whaling discourse that successfully

recast whales as extraordinary and intelligent endan-

gered mammals that needed to be saved. Epstein views

whaling both as an object of analysis in its own right

and as a lens for examining discursive power, and how

language, materiality, and action interact to shape inter-

national relations. By focusing on discourse, she develops

an approach to the study of agency and the construction

of interests that brings non-state actors and individuals

into the analysis of international politics.

Epstein analyzes the “society of whaling states”

as a set of historical practices where the dominant

discourse of the day legitimated the killing of whales

rather than their protection. She then looks at this

whaling world’s mirror image: the rise from the

political margins of an anti-whaling discourse,

which orchestrated one of the first successful global

environmental campaigns, in which saving the whales

ultimately became shorthand for saving the planet.

Finally, she considers the continued dominance of

a now taken-for-granted anti-whaling discourse,

including its creation of identity categories that align

with and sustain the existing international political

order. Epstein’s synthesis of discourse, power, and

identity politics brings the fields of international

relations theory and global environmental politics

into a fruitful dialogue that benefits both.

Charlotte Epstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations at the Universityof Sydney.


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Politics, Science, and the Environment series

ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCEThe Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries ManagementD. G. Websterforeword by Oran R. Young

The rapid expansion of the fishing industry in the last

century has raised major concerns over the long-term

viability of many fish species. International fisheries

organizations have failed to prevent the overfishing of

many stocks, but succeeded in curtailing harvests for

some key fisheries. In Adaptive Governance, D. G.

Webster proposes a new perspective to improve our

understanding of both success and failure in interna-

tional resource regimes. She develops a theoretical

approach, the vulnerability response framework, which

can increase understanding of countries’ positions on

the management of international fisheries based on

linkages between domestic vulnerabilities and national

policy positions. Vulnerability, mainly economic in this

context, acts as an indicator for domestic susceptibility

to the increasing competition associated with open

access and related stock declines. Because of this rela-

tionship, vulnerability can also be used to trace the tra-

jectory of nations’ positions on fisheries management as

they seek political alternatives to economic problems.

Webster tests this framework by using it to predict

national positions for eight cases drawn from the

International Commission for the Conservation of

Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). These studies reveal that

there is considerable variance in the management meas-

ures ICCAT has adopted and that much of this vari-

ance can be traced to vulnerability response behavior.

Little attention has been paid to the ways in which

international regimes change over time. Webster’s

innovative approach illuminates the pressures for

change that are generated by economic competition

and overexploitation in Atlantic fisheries. Her work

also identifies patterns of adaptive governance, as

national responses to such pressures culminate in

patterns of change in international management.

D. G. Webster is a Researcher at the Wrigley Institute forEnvironmental Studies at the University of Southern California.


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Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation series

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INSTITUTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGEPrincipal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiersedited by Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder

Studies show that institutions play a role both in caus-

ing and in addressing problems arising from human-

environment interactions. But the nature of this role is

complex and not easily described. This book presents an

overview of recent research on how institutions matter

in efforts to tackle such environmental problems as the

loss of biological diversity, the degradation of forests,

and the overarching issue of climate change. Using the

tools of the “new institutionalism” in the social sciences,

the book treats institutions as sets of rights, rules, and

decision-making procedures. Individual chapters pres-

ent research findings and examine policy implications

regarding questions of causality, performance, and insti-

tutional design as well as the themes of institutional fit

(or misfit), interplay, and scale.

Institutions and Environmental Change is the prod-

uct of a decade-long international research project on

the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental

Change (IDGEC) carried out under the auspices of

the International Human Dimensions Programme.

The book’s policy insights demonstrate that research

on institutions can provide the basis for practical advice

on effective ways to deal with the most pressing envi-

ronmental problems of our times.

Oran R. Young is Professor in the Bren School of EnvironmentalScience and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also Codirector of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development. He is the authorof The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change(MIT Press, 2002) and many other books. Leslie A. King isVice President, Academic, of Malaspina University-College inBritish Columbia. Heike Schroeder is Tyndall Research Fellowin the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University’sCentre for the Environment.

November — 6 x 9, 400 pp. — 5 illlus.

$28.00S/£18.95 paper978-0-262-74033-3

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POLITICAL THEORY AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGEedited by Steve Vanderheidenforeword by John Barry

Climate change will shape the political, economic, and

cultural landscape as surely as it shapes the natural

landscape. It challenges our existing political institutions,

ethical theories, and ways of conceptualizing the human

relationship to the environment, it defies current princi-

ples of distributive justice, transcends current discourses

on rights, and disrupts our sense of place. Political

Theory and Global Climate Change argues that the con-

ceptual tools of political theory can help us understand

the obstacles to fair and effective global climate change

policies, and this volume offers a selection of innovative

and integrative scholarly efforts to do so. Illuminating

the variety of political, economic, and social problems

caused by global warming, the book applies a range of

theoretical approaches and methodologies — from

analytic philosophy and constitutional and legal theory

to neo-Marxism and critical theory — using climate

change as a case to test standard normative and

empirical premises.

The book first looks at distributive justice concerns

raised by climate change, including allocation of the

global atmospheric commons and how to establish

the basis for a fair and effective global climate policy

regime, then examines the complex relationships

between climate change and society, including the

way that social institutions and practices construct,

reinforce, aim to address, and are disrupted by climatic

instability. Showing how political theory challenges and

is challenged by global climate change, the book both

demonstrates and evaluates innovative approaches in

the developing field of environmental political theory.

Steve Vanderheiden is Assistant Professor of Political Scienceat the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author ofAtmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change.


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CONTRIBUTORS Martin J. Adamian, John Barry, Peter F. Cannavò, Stephen Gardiner, George Gonzalez, Amy Lovecraft, Timothy W. Luke, Leigh Raymond, Steve Vanderheiden

CONTRIBUTORS Frank Biermann, Carl Folke, Victor Galaz,Thomas Gehring, Joyeeta Gupta, Thomas Hahn, Leslie A. King,Ronald B. Mitchell, Sebastian Oberthür, Per Olsson, Heike Schroeder,Uno Svedin, Simon Tay, Arild Underdal, Oran R. Young





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GLOBAL POWERS IN THE 21ST CENTURYStrategy and Relationsedited by Alexander T. J. Lennon and Amanda Kozlowski

Although the United States is considered the world’s

only superpower, other major powers seek to strengthen

the roles they play on the global stage. Because of the

Iraq War and its repercussions, many countries have

placed an increased emphasis on multilateralism. This

new desire for a multipolar world, however, may

obscure the obvious question of what objectives other

powerful countries seek. Few scholars and policymakers

have addressed the role of the other major powers in a

post-9/11 world. Global Powers in the 21st Century fills

this gap, offering in-depth analyses of China, Japan,

Russia, India, and the European Union in this new

global context.

Prominent analysts, including Zbigniew Brzezinski,

C. Raja Mohan, David Shambaugh, Dmitri Trenin,

Akio Watanabe, and Wu Xinbo, examine the policies

and positions of these global players from both inter-

national and domestic perspectives. The book discusses

each power’s domestic politics, sources of power, post-

9/11 changes, relationship with the United States,

adjustments to globalization, and vision of its place

in the world. Global Powers in the 21st Century offers

readers a clear look at the handful of actors that will

shape the world in the years ahead.

Alexander T. J. Lennon is editor in chief of The WashingtonQuarterly, the journal of the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies (CSIS). He is the editor of The Epicenterof Crisis: The New Middle East (MIT Press, 2008) and otherWashington Quarterly Readers. Amanda Kozlowski is associateeditor of The Washington Quarterly.


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A Washington Quarterly Reader

DEMOCRACY AS PROBLEM SOLVINGCivic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe Xavier de Souza Briggs

Complexity, division, mistrust, and “process paralysis”

can thwart leaders and others when they tackle local

challenges. In Democracy as Problem Solving, Xavier de

Souza Briggs shows how civic capacity — the capacity

to create and sustain smart collective action — can be

developed and used. In an era of sharp debate over the

conditions under which democracy can develop while

broadening participation and building community,

Briggs argues that understanding and building civic

capacity is crucial for strengthening governance and

changing the state of the world in the process. More

than managing a contest among interest groups or

spurring deliberation to reframe issues, democracy can

be what the public most desires: a recipe for significant

progress on important problems.

Briggs examines efforts in six cities, in the United

States, Brazil, India, and South Africa, that face the

millennial challenges of rapid urban growth, economic

restructuring, and investing in the next generation.

These challenges demand the engagement of govern-

ment, business, and nongovernmental sectors. And the

keys to progress include the ability to combine learning

and bargaining continuously, forge multiple forms of

accountability, and find ways to leverage the capacity

of the grassroots and what Briggs terms the “grasstops,”

regardless of who initiates change or who participates

over time. Civic capacity, Briggs shows, can — and

must — be developed even in places that lack traditions

of cooperative civic action.

Xavier de Souza Briggs is Associate Professor of Sociology andUrban Planning at MIT. He has worked as a community plannerand senior urban policy official. A faculty research fellow ofHarvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, he is alsothe founder of The Community Problem-Solving Project @ MIT.His book The Geography of Opportunity: Race and HousingChoice in Metropolitan America received a Paul Davidoff Awardform the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.


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CONTRIBUTORS Franco Algieri, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Yong Deng,Xenia Dormandy, Evan A. Feigenbaum, Michael J. Green, Robert E. Hunter, Edward J. Lincoln, Jeffrey Mankoff, C. Raja Mohan, Thomas G. Moore, Robin Niblett, George Perkovich,Gideon Rachman, Richard J. Samuels, Timothy M. Savage, Teresita C. Schaffer, David Shambaugh, Robert Sutter, Dmitri Trenin, Celeste A. Wallander, Akio Watanabe, Wu Xinbo




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CONFLICTS OF CONSCIENCE IN HEALTH CAREAn Institutional CompromiseHolly Fernandez Lynch

Physicians in the United States who refuse to perform a

variety of legally permissible medical services because of

their own moral objections are often protected by “con-

science clauses.” These laws, on the books in nearly

every state since the legalization of abortion by Roe v.

Wade, shield physicians and other health professionals

from such potential consequences of refusal as liability

and dismissal. While some praise conscience clauses as

protecting important freedoms, opponents, concerned

with patient access to care, argue that professional

refusals should be tolerated only when they are based

on valid medical grounds. In Conflicts of Conscience in

Health Care, Holly Fernandez Lynch finds a way around

the polarizing rhetoric associated with this issue by

proposing a compromise that protects both a patient’s

access to care and a physician’s ability to refuse. This

focus on compromise is crucial, as new uses of medical

technology expand the controversy beyond abortion

and contraception to reach an increasing number of

doctors and patients.

Lynch argues that doctor-patient matching on the

basis of personal moral values would eliminate, or at

least minimize, many conflicts of conscience, and sug-

gests that state licensing boards facilitate this goal.

Licensing boards would be responsible for balancing

the interests of doctors and patients by ensuring a suf-

ficient number of willing physicians such that no

physician’s refusal leaves a patient entirely without

access to desired medical services. This proposed solu-

tion, Lynch argues, accommodates patients’ freedoms

while leaving important room in the profession for

individuals who find some of the capabilities of med-

ical technology to be ethically objectionable.

Holly Fernandez Lynch is an Associate in the Pharmaceuticalsand Biotechnology Group at Hogan and Hartson, LLP, inWashington, D.C.


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PROTOCELLS Bridging Nonliving and Living Matteredited by Steen Rasmussen, Mark A. Bedau,Liaohai Chen, David Deamer, David C. Krakauer,Norman H. Packard, and Peter F. Stadler

Protocells offers a comprehensive resource on current

attempts to create simple forms of life from scratch in

the laboratory. These minimal versions of cells, known

as protocells, are entities with lifelike properties created

from nonliving materials, and the book provides in-depth

investigations of processes at the interface between

nonliving and living matter. Chapters by experts in the

field put this state-of-the-art research in the context

of theory, laboratory work, and computer simulations

on the components and properties of protocells. The

book also provides perspectives on research in related

areas and such broader societal issues as commercial

applications and ethical considerations.

Protocells promises to be the essential reference for

research on bottom-up assembly of life and living

technology for years to come. It is written to be both

resource and inspiration for scientists working in this

exciting and important field and a definitive text for

the interested layman.

Steen Rasmussen is Scientific Team Leader for Self-OrganizingSystems at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mark A. Bedau is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College,cofounder and COO of ProtoLife Srl. and the coeditor ofEmergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science(MIT Press, 2008). Liaohai Chen is a molecular biologist andGroup Leader in the Biosciences Division at Argonne NationalLaboratory. David Deamer is Research Professor of Chemistryand Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz.David C. Krakauer is Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.Norman H. Packard is cofounder and CEO of ProtoLife Srl.Peter F. Stadler is Professor of Bioinformatics at the Universityof Leipzig. Rasmussen, Packard, and Stadler are ExternalResearch Professors at the Santa Fe Institute.

November — 7 x 9, 776 pp. 20 color illus., 100 black & white illus.

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EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATIVEFLEXIBILITYComplexity, Creativity, and Adaptability inHuman and Animal Communicationedited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel

The evolutionary roots of human communication are

difficult to trace, but recent comparative research suggests

that the first key step in that evolutionary history may

have been the establishment of basic communicative

flexibility — the ability to vocalize freely combined

with the capability to coordinate vocalization with

communicative intent. The contributors to this volume

investigate how some species (particularly ancient

hominids) broke free of the constraints of “fixed signals,”

actions that were evolved to communicate but lack the

flexibility of language — a newborn infant’s cry, for

example, always signals distress and has a stereotypical

form not modifiable by the crying baby. Fundamentally,

the contributors ask what communicative flexibility is

and what evolutionary conditions can produce it.

The accounts offered in these chapters are notable

for taking the question of language origins farther

back in evolutionary time than in much previous work.

Many contributors address the very earliest commu-

nicative break of the hominid line from the primate

background; others examine the evolutionary origins of

flexibility in, for example, birds and marine mammals.

The volume’s interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives

illuminate issues that are on the cutting edge of recent

research on this topic.

D. Kimbrough Oller is Professor and Plough Chair of Excellencein the School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology atthe University of Memphis. Ulrike Griebel is an adjunct facultymember of the Department of Biology at the University ofMemphis. Oller is an external faculty member and Griebel a member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution andCognition Research, Altenberg, Austria. They are the editors ofEvolution of Communications Systems: A Comparative Approach(MIT Press, 2004).


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Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology

BIOLOGICAL MODELING AND SIMULATIONA Survey of Practical Models, Algorithms, and Numerical MethodsRussell Schwartz

There are many excellent computational biology

resources now available for learning about methods

that have been developed to address specific biological

systems, but comparatively little attention has been paid

to training aspiring computational biologists to handle

new and unanticipated problems. This text is intended

to fill that gap by teaching students how to reason

about developing formal mathematical models of bio-

logical systems that are amenable to computational

analysis. It collects in one place a selection of broadly

useful models, algorithms, and theoretical analysis tools

normally found scattered among many other disci-

plines. It thereby gives the aspiring student a bag of

tricks that will serve him or her well in modeling prob-

lems drawn from numerous subfields of biology. These

techniques are taught from the perspective of what the

practitioner needs to know to use them effectively, sup-

plemented with references for further reading on more

advanced use of each method covered.

The text, which grew out of a class taught at

Carnegie Mellon University, covers models for opti-

mization, simulation and sampling, and parameter

tuning. These topics provide a general framework for

learning how to formulate mathematical models of

biological systems, what techniques are available to

work with these models, and how to fit the models

to particular systems. Their application is illustrated

by many examples drawn from a variety of biological

disciplines and several extended case studies that show

how the methods described have been applied to real

problems in biology.

Russell Schwartz is Associate Professor in the Department ofBiological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.


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neuroscience/vision

A comprehensive guide to current research, reflecting recent technical breakthroughsthat have established the usefulness of the mouse model as part of a bilateral exchangebetween experimental and clinical research.

August8 1/2 x 11, 872 pp.264 illus. in color and black & white

$135.00S/£79.95 cloth978-0-262-03381-7

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THE VISUAL NEUROSCIENCESedited by Leo M. Chalupa and John S. Werner2003, 978-0-262-03308-4$195.00S/£125.95 cloth

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EYE, RETINA, AND VISUAL SYSTEM OF THE MOUSEedited by Leo M. Chalupa and Robert W. Williams

Recent years have seen a burst of studies on the mouse eye and visual system,

fueled in large part by the relatively recent ability to produce mice with precisely

defined changes in gene sequence. Mouse models have contributed to a wide

range of scientific breakthroughs for a number of ocular and neurological diseases

and have allowed researchers to address fundamental issues that were difficult to

approach with other experimental models. This comprehensive guide to current

research captures the first wave of studies in the field, with fifty-nine chapters by

leading scholars that demonstrate the usefulness of mouse models as a bridge

between experimental and clinical research.

The opening chapters introduce the mouse as a species and research model,

discussing such topics as the mouse’s evolutionary history and the mammalian

visual system. Subsequent sections explore more specialized subjects, considering

optics, psychophysics, and the visual behaviors of mice; the organization of the

adult mouse eye and central visual system; the development of the mouse eye

(including comparisons to human development); the development and plasticity

of retinal projections and visuotopic maps; mouse models for human eye disease

(including glaucoma and cataracts); and the application of advanced genomic

technologies (including gene therapy and genetic knockouts) to the mouse

visual system. Readers of this unique reference will see that the study of mouse

models has already demonstrated real translational prowess in vision research.

Leo M. Chalupa is Distinguished Professor in the Departmentof Ophthalmology and the Section of Neurobiology, Physiology,and Behavior at the University of California, Davis. He is the coeditor of The Visual Neurosciences (MIT Press). RobertW. Williams is Professor in the Department of Anatomy andNeurobiology and the Dunavant Chair of DevelopmentalGenetics in Pediatrics and the University of Tennessee. He is codirector of the Center of Genomics and Bioinformaticsat the University of Tennessee Health Science Center andfounding director of the Complex Trait Consortium.

“The book, Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the

Mouse examines the extensive ophthalmic research

currently being done, including: optics, psychophysics,

and visual behavior; the relationship of the eye to the

central nervous system; ocular development; development

of retinal projections to the brain; some examples of mouse

models of human eye disease; and a summary of some

advanced gene technologies. The many well-known

contributors to this book have provided good summaries

of a wide range of topics that will be useful to all who

study visual neuroscience.”

— Richard Smith, Research Scientist,

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SEXUALIZED BRAINSScientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligencefrom a Cultural Perspectiveedited by Nicole C. Karafyllis and Gotlind Ulshöfer

The now-popular idea that emotions have an intelligent

core (and the reverse, that intelligence has an emotional

core) comes from the neurosciences and psychology.

Similarly, the fundamental sexualization of the brain —

the new interest in “essential differences” in male and

female brains and behaviors — is based on neuroscience

research and neuroimages of emotions. In Sexualized

Brains, scholars from a range of disciplines reflect on

the epistemological claims that emotional intelligence

(EI) can be located in the brain and that it is legitimate

to attribute distinct kinds of emotions to the biological

sexes. The brain, as an icon, has colonized the humani-

ties and social sciences, leading to the emergence of

such new disciplines as neurosociology, neuroeconom-

ics, and neurophilosophy. Neuroscience and psychology

now have the power to transform not only the practice

of science but also contemporary society. These devel-

opments, the essays in this volume show, will soon

affect the very heart of gender studies.

Contributors examine historical views of gender,

sex, and elite brains (the influential idea of the “genius”);

techniques for representing and measuring emotions

and EI (including neuroimaging and pop science);

the socioeconomic contexts of debates on elites, EI,

and gender and the underlying power of the brain

as a model to legitimize social disparities.

Nicole C. Karafyllis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy andScience and Technology Studies at Johan Wolfgang GoetheUniversity Frankfurt and University of Stuttgart. GotlindUlshöfer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Johann WolfgangGoethe University Frankfurt and Program Director forEconomics, Business Ethics, and Gender at the ProtestantAcademy Arnoldshain, Germany.

November — 7 x 9, 416 pp. — 11 color illus.

$50.00S/£32.95 cloth978-0-262-11317-5

A Bradford Book

HANDBOOK OF DEVELOPMENTALCOGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCESecond Editionedited by Charles A. Nelson and Monica Luciana

The publication of the second edition of this handbook

testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive

neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging and record-

ing technologies, along with well-defined behavioral tasks

— the essential methodological tools of cognitive neuro-

science — are now being used to study development. The

Handbook covers basic aspects of neural development,

sensory and sensorimotor systems, language, cognition,

emotion, and the implications of lifelong neural plasticity

for brain and behavioral development.

The second edition reflects the dramatic expansion

of the field in the seven years since the publication of

the first edition. This new Handbook has grown from

forty-one chapters to fifty-four, all original to this edi-

tion. It places greater emphasis on affective and social

neuroscience — an offshoot of cognitive neuroscience

that is now influencing the developmental literature.

The second edition also places a greater emphasis on

clinical disorders, primarily because such research is

inherently translational in nature. Finally, the book’s

new discussions of recent breakthroughs in imaging

genomics include one entire chapter devoted to the

subject. The intersection of brain, behavior, and genet-

ics represents an exciting new area of inquiry, and the

second edition of this essential reference work will

be a valuable resource for researchers interested in

the development of brain-behavior relations in the

context of both typical and atypical development.

Charles A. Nelson is Research Director, DevelopmentalMedicine Center at Children’s Hospital Boston, and Professorof Pediatrics and Richard David Scott Chair in PediatricDevelopmental Medicine Research at Harvard Medical School.Monica Luciana is Associate Professor of Psychology and Child Development at the University of Minnesota.

August — 8 x 11, 956 pp.153 illus. in color and black & white

$165.00S/£94.95 cloth978-0-262-14104-8

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience series

First edition, winner of the 2001 Professional/Scholarly PublishingAnnual Awards Competition presented by the Association ofAmerican Publishers, Inc., in the category of Single VolumeReference: Science.

CONTRIBUTORS Anne Bartsch, Carmen Baumeler, Myriam Bechtoldt, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Malte-Christian Gruber,Michael Hagner, Bärbel Hüsing, Eva Illouz, Nicole C. Karafyllis,Carolyn MacCann, Gerald Matthews, Robert Nye, William Reddy,Richard D. Roberts, Ralf Schulze, Gotlind Ulshöfer, Moshe Zeidner



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CREATING SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTSNancy Nersessian

How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating

Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer

this central but virtually unasked question in the prob-

lem of conceptual change. She argues that the popular

image of novel concepts and profound insight bursting

forth in a blinding flash of inspiration is mistaken.

Instead, novel concepts are shown to arise out of the

interplay of three factors: an attempt to solve specific

problems; the use of conceptual, analytical, and material

resources provided by the cognitive-social-cultural con-

text of the problem; and dynamic processes of reasoning

that extend ordinary cognition.

Focusing on the third factor, Nersessian draws on

cognitive science research and historical accounts of sci-

entific practices to show how scientific and ordinary

cognition lie on a continuum, and how problem-solving

practices in one illuminate practices in the other. Her

investigations of scientific practices show conceptual

change as deriving from the use of analogies, imagistic

representations, and thought experiments, integrated

with experimental investigations and mathematical

analyses. She presents a view of constructed models as

hybrid objects, serving as intermediaries between targets

and analogical sources in bootstrapping processes.

Extending these results, she argues that these complex

cognitive operations and structures are not mere aids to

discovery, but that together they constitute a powerful

form of reasoning — model-based reasoning — that

generates novelty. This new approach to mental model-

ing and analogy, together with Nersessian’s cognitive-

historical approach, make Creating Scientific Concepts

equally valuable to cognitive science and philosophy

of science.

Nancy Nersessian is Regents’ Professor of Cognitive Science in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Faraday to Einstein:Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories, and numerous articles on the creative reasoning practices of scientists and on science learning.

November — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 54 figures

$32.00S/£20.95 cloth978-0-262-14105-5

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HUMAN REASONING AND COGNITIVE SCIENCEKeith Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen

In Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science, Keith

Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen — a cognitive

scientist and a logician — argue for the indispensability

of modern mathematical logic to the study of human

reasoning. Logic and cognition were once closely con-

nected, they write, but were “divorced” in the past cen-

tury; the psychology of deduction went from being

central to the cognitive revolution to being the subject

of widespread skepticism about whether human reason-

ing really happens outside the academy. Stenning and

van Lambalgen argue that logic and reasoning have

been separated because of a series of unwarranted

assumptions about logic.

Stenning and van Lambalgen contend that psychol-

ogy cannot ignore processes of interpretation in which

people, wittingly or unwittingly, frame problems for

subsequent reasoning. The authors employ a neurally

implementable defeasible logic for modeling part of

this framing process, and show how it can be used to

guide the design of experiments and interpret results.

They draw examples from deductive reasoning, from

the child's development of understandings of mind,

from analysis of a psychiatric disorder (autism), and

from the search for the evolutionary origins of human

higher mental processes.

The picture proposed is one of fast, cheap, auto-

matic but logical processes bringing to bear general

knowledge on the interpretation of task, language, and

context, thus enabling human reasoners to go beyond

the information given. This proposal puts reasoning

back at center stage.

Keith Stenning is Professor of Human Communication in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Seeing Reason and coauthor of Introduction to Cognition and Communication (MIT Press, 2006). Michiel van Lambalgen is Professor of Logic and CognitiveScience at the University of Amsterdam and coauthor of The Proper Treatment of Events.


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EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIORSecond EditionJohn Cartwright

Evolutionary psychology occupies an important place

in the drive to understand and explain human behavior.

Darwinian ideas provide powerful tools to illuminate

how fundamental aspects of the way humans think,

feel, and interact derive from reproductive interests

and an ultimate need for survival. In this updated and

expanded edition of Evolution and Human Behavior,

John Cartwright considers the emergence of Homo

sapiens as a species and looks at contemporary issues,

such as familial relationships and conflict and coopera-

tion, in light of key theoretical principles.

The book covers basic concepts including natural

and sexual selection, life history theory, and the funda-

mentals of genetics. New material will be found in

chapters on emotion, culture, incest avoidance, ethics,

and cognition and reasoning. Two new chapters are

devoted to the evolutionary analysis of mental disor-

ders. Students of psychology, human biology, and

physical and cultural anthropology will find Evolution

and Human Behavior a comprehensive textbook of

great value.

John Cartwright is Senior Lecturer and teaching fellow at theUniversity of Chester, where he teaches courses on evolutionarypsychology, genetics and evolution, and animal behavior.

“This book offers a well-balanced approach to the subject of

evolutionary approaches to human behavior. The revised

edition still contains more evolutionary biology than other

evolutionary psychology textbooks, which is a real strength.

The new chapter on ethics is a valuable addition, as it pres-

ents philosophical arguments linked to an evolutionary

approach to human behavior.”

— Julie Coultas, Visiting Research Fellow,

Psychology, University of Sussex

7 1/2 x 9 1/2, 448 pp. — 148 illus.

$36.00S paper978-0-262-53304-1

$80.00S cloth978-0-262-03380-0

A Bradford Book

For sale in the U.S. and dependencies and Canada only

ORIGINS OF HUMANCOMMUNICATIONMichael Tomasello

Human communication is grounded in fundamentally

cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original

and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of

human communication, Michael Tomasello connects

the fundamentally cooperative structure of human

communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice)

to the especially cooperative structure of human

(as opposed to other primate) social interaction.

Tomasello argues that human cooperative communica-

tion rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared inten-

tionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally

for collaboration and culture more generally. The basic motives

of the infrastructure are helping and sharing. Cooperative

motives each created different functional pressures for con-

ventionalizing grammatical constructions. Requesting help in

the immediate you-and-me and here-and-now, for example,

required very little grammar, but informing and sharing

required increasingly complex grammatical devices.

Drawing on empirical research into gestural and

vocal communication by great apes and human infants

(much of it conducted by his own research team),

Tomasello argues further that humans’ cooperative

communication emerged first in the natural gestures of

pointing and pantomiming. Conventional communica-

tion, first gestural and then vocal, evolved only after

humans already possessed these natural gestures and

their shared intentionality infrastructure along with

skills of cultural learning for creating and passing

along jointly understood communicative conventions.

Challenging the Chomskian view that linguistic knowl-

edge is innate, Tomasello proposes instead that the

most fundamental aspects of uniquely human commu-

nication are biological adaptations for cooperative social

interaction in general and that the purely linguistic

dimensions of human communication are cultural

conventions and constructions created by and passed

along within particular cultural groups.

Michael Tomasello is Codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. He is the author ofThe Cultural Origins of Human Cognition and Constructing aLanguage: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition.

September — 5 3/8 x 8, 400 pp.

$36.00S/£23.95 cloth978-0-262-20177-3

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INDETERMINACYThe Mapped, the Navigable, and the Unchartededited by Jose V. Ciprut

Distinctions have been made between what is physically

indeterminate out there and what is indeterminable by

human observation or in human action. The implica-

tions of these insights into indeterminacy and indeter-

minabilities for practical and theoretical knowledge

span physics, philosophy, ontology, causality, and the

philosophy of mind. In this book, contributors from

a range of disciplines consider the concept of indeter-

minacy and a few varieties of indeterminability, with

attention to the distinctions between the two phe-

nomena, appropriate approaches for examining both,

and the differences vis-à-vis uncertainty, vagueness,

and ambiguity.


$37.00S/£23.95 paper978-0-262-53311-9

$80.00S/£51.95 cloth978-0-262-03388-6

DEMOCRATIZATIONSComparisons, Confrontations, and Contrastsedited by Jose V. Ciprut

Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations

are open-ended processes; they depend on structures

and functions in systemic contexts that idiosyncratically

evolve in tone, tenor, direction, and pace. In interlinked

chapters that span a number of disciplines, this volume

reexamines the basic traits, the comparable outcomes,

and the self-defining dynamics of some of the more

widely attempted versions of democracy across the world.

The crucial question these chapters address is whether

democratization is possible without an understanding of

what is expected from a mode of citizenship inseparable

from an ethic of freedom.


$37.00S/£23.95 paper978-0-262-53308-9

$80.00S/£51.95 cloth978-0-262-03385-5

THE FUTURE OF CITIZENSHIPedited by Jose V. Ciprut

The ongoing expansion in the field of citizenship stud-

ies is one of the most important and remarkable recent

trends in social sciences and humanities research. This

volume examines — without advocating any ideological

agenda — the evolving meaning of citizenship, with an

eye to the future. The future of citizenship, they argue,

may be a worldwide “citizenship by voluntary associa-

tion,” paramount to a global civic interface.


$37.00S/£23.95 paper978-0-262-53312-6

$80.00S/£51.95 cloth978-0-262-03389-3

FREEDOMReassessment and Rephrasingsedited by Jose V. Ciprut

Some philosophers conceive freedom as a state; others

view it as an ideal. A songwriter sees it as a way of life:

“Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight

choir, I have tried in my way to be free.” In this cross-

disciplinary volume, the contributors reassess and

rephrase the conceptualizations and theorizations of

freedom and their applicability to daily life. Their

field-specific studies help reconcile theory and practice.


$37.00S/£23.95 paper978-0-262-53310-2

$80.00S/£51.95 cloth978-0-262-03387-9

ETHICS, POLITICS, AND DEMOCRACYFrom Primitive Principles to Prospective Practicesedited by Jose V. Ciprut

This volume examines continuities and change in the

normative underpinnings of both ancient and modern

practices of political governance, public duties, and

personal responsibilities. As such, it stands at the cross-

disciplinary intersection between the practice of demo-

cratic citizenship and the exercise of political ethics.


$37.00S/£23.95 paper978-0-262-53309-6

$80.00S/£51.95 cloth978-0-262-03386-2

Jose V. Ciprut is an economist, independent scholar, and theauthor of The Art of the Feud: Reconceptualizing InternationalRelations and Of Fears And Foes: Security And Insecurity In AGlobalizing International Political Economy.











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PRAGMATISM AND REFERENCEDavid Boersema

Despite a recent revival of interest in pragmatist philos-

ophy, most work in the analytic philosophy of language

ignores insights offered by classical pragmatists and

contemporary neopragmatists. In Pragmatism and

Reference, David Boersema argues that a pragmatist

perspective on reference presents a distinct alternative

— and corrective — to the prevailing analytic views on

the topic. Boersema finds that the pragmatist approach

to reference, with alternative understandings of the

nature of language, the nature of conceptualization and

categorization, and the nature of inquiry, is suggested in

the work of Wittgenstein and more thoroughly devel-

oped in the works of such classical and contemporary

pragmatists as Charles Peirce and Hilary Putnam.

Boersema first discusses the descriptivist and causal

theories of reference — the received views on the topic

in analytic philosophy. Then, after considering

Wittgenstein’s approach to reference, Boersema details

the pragmatist approach to reference by nine philoso-

phers: the “Big Three,” of classical pragmatism, Peirce,

William James, and John Dewey; three contemporary

American philosophers, Putnam, Catherine Elgin, and

Richard Rorty; and three important continental

philosophers, Umberto Eco, Karl-Otto Apel, and

Jürgen Habermas. Finally, Boersema shows explicitly

how pragmatism offers a genuinely alternative account

of reference, presenting several case studies on the

nature and function of names. Here, he focuses on

conceptions of individuation, similarity, essences, and

sociality of language. Pragmatism and Reference will

serve as a bridge between analytic and pragmatist

approaches to such topics of shared concern as the

nature and function of language.

David Boersema is Professor of Philosophy and Douglas C. StrainChair of Natural Philosophy at Pacific University, Oregon. He isthe author of Philosophy of Science.

December — 6 x 9, 328 pp.

$36.00S/£23.95 cloth978-0-262-02660-4

PSYCHOLOGICAL AGENCYTheory, Practice, and Cultureedited by Roger Frie

Agency is a central psychological phenomenon that

must be accounted for in any explanatory framework

for human action. According to the diverse group of

scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have con-

tributed chapters to this book, psychological agency

is not a fixed entity that conforms to traditional

definitions of free will but an affective, embodied, and

relational processing of human experience. Agency is

dependent on the biological, social, and cultural con-

texts that inform and shape who we are. Yet agency

also involves the creation of meaning and the capacity

for imagining new and different ways of being and

acting and cannot be entirely reduced to biology or

culture. This generative potential of agency is central

to the process of psychotherapy and to psychological

change and development.

The chapters explore psychological agency in

theoretical, clinical and developmental, and social and

cultural contexts. Psychological agency is presented as

situated within a web of intersecting biophysical and

cultural contexts in an ongoing interactive and devel-

opmental process. Persons are seen as not only shaped

by but also capable of fashioning and refashioning their

contexts in new and meaningful ways. The contributors

have all trained in psychology or psychiatry, and many

have backgrounds in philosophy; wherever possible

they combine theoretical discussion with clinical

case illustration.

Roger Frie is Associate Professor of Psychology at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, and Assistant ClinicalProfessor of Medical Psychology at Columbia UniversityCollege of Physicians and Surgeons. His recent books includeUnderstanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernismand Psychotherapy as a Human Science.

December — 6 x 9, 272 pp.

$34.00S/£21.95 paper978-0-262-56231-7

$80.00S/£51.95 cloth978-0-262-06267-1

CONTRIBUTORS John Fiscalini, Roger Frie, Jill Gentile,Adelbert H. Jenkins, Elliot L. Jurist, Jack Martin, Arnold Modell,Linda Pollock, Pascal Sauvayre, Jeff Sugarman




game studies/music

An examination of the many complex aspects of game audio, from the perspectives of both sound design and music composition.


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GAME SOUNDAn Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound DesignKaren Collins

A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an

important role in this: a player’s actions can trigger dialogue, sound effects, ambi-

ent sound, and music. And yet game sound has been neglected in the growing

literature on game studies. This book fills that gap, introducing readers to the

many complex aspects of game audio, from its development in early games to

theoretical discussions of immersion and realism. In Game Sound, Karen Collins

draws on a range of sources — including composers, sound designers, voice-over

actors and other industry professionals, Internet articles, fan sites, industry con-

ferences, magazines, patent documents, and, of course, the games themselves —

to offer a broad overview of the history, theory, and production practice of video

game audio.

Game Sound has two underlying themes: how and why games are different

from or similar to film or other linear audiovisual media; and technology and

the constraints it has placed on the production of game audio. Collins focuses

first on the historical development of game audio, from penny arcades through

the rise of home games and the recent rapid developments in the industry. She

then examines the production process for a contemporary game at a large game

company, discussing the roles of composers, sound designers, voice talent, and

audio programmers; considers the growing presence

of licensed intellectual property (particularly popular

music and films) in games; and explores the function

of audio in games in theoretical terms. Finally, she

discusses the difficulties posed by nonlinearity and

interactivity for the composer of game music.

Karen Collins is Canada Research Chair at the CanadianCentre of Arts and Technology, University of Waterloo.

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NETWORKED PUBLICSedited by Kazys Varnelis

Digital media and network technologies are now part of

everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of

communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous

mobile phone connects us with others as it removes

us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics

examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts

created by these technologies have transformed our

relationships to (and definitions of ) place, culture,

politics, and infrastructure.

Four chapters — each by an interdisciplinary team

of scholars using collaborative software — provide a

synoptic overview along with illustrative case studies.

The chapter on place describes how digital networks

enable us to be present in physical and networked

places simultaneously (on the phone while on the

road; on the Web while at a café) — often at the

expense of non-digital commitments. The chapter

on culture explores the growth of amateur-produced

and -remixed content online and the impact of these

practices on the music, anime, advertising, and news

industries. The chapter on politics examines the new

networked modes of bottom-up political expression

and mobilization, and the difficulty in channeling

online political discourse into productive political

deliberation. And finally, the chapter on infrastructure

notes the tension between openness and control in the

flow of information, as seen in the current controversy

over net neutrality. An introduction by anthropologist

Mizuko Ito and a conclusion by architecture theorist

Kazys Varnelis frame the chapters, giving overviews

of the radical nature of these transformations.

Online content including a research blog and lecture

videos may be found at http://www.networkedpublics.org.

Kazys Varnelis is Director of the Network Architecture Lab,Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, and Member, Founding Faculty, at the School of Architecture, University of Limerick.


$35.00S/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-22085-9

SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTINGedited by Dimitrios Georgakopoulos and Michael Papazoglou

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promises a world

of cooperating services loosely connected, creating

dynamic business processes and agile applications that

span organizations and platforms. As a computing

paradigm, it utilizes services as fundamental elements

to support rapid, low-cost development of distributed

applications in heterogeneous environments. Realizing

the SOC promise requires the design of Service-

Oriented Architectures (SOAs) that enable the devel-

opment of simpler and cheaper distributed applications.

In this collection, researchers from academia and indus-

try report on recent advances in the field, exploring

approaches, technology, and research issues related to

developing SOAs.

SOA enables service discovery, integration, and use,

allowing application developers to overcome many dis-

tributed enterprise computing challenges. The contrib-

utors to this volume treat topics related to SOA and

such proposed enhancements to it as Event Drive

Architecture (EDA) and extended SOA (xSOA) as

well as engineering aspects of SOA-based applications.

In particular, the chapters discuss modeling of SOA-

based applications, SOA architecture design, business

process management, transactional integrity, quality of

service (QoS) and service agreements, service require-

ments engineering, reuse, and adaptation.

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos is Senior Scientist at TelcordiaTechnologies, Austin, Texas. Michael Papazoglou is Professor ofComputer Science and Director of INFOLAB at TilburgUniversity, the Netherlands.


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CONTRIBUTORS L. Bahler, Boualem Benatallah, Christoph Bussler, F. Caruso, Fabio Casati, C. Chung, Emilia Cimpian,B. Falchuk, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Jaap Gordijn, Paul Grefen,Jonas Grundler, Woralak Kongdenfha, Yutu Liu, Mark Little, Heiko Ludwig, J. Micallef, Thomas Mikalsen, Adrian Mocan,Anne HH Ngu, Bart Orriens, Savas Parastatidis, Michael Papazoglou,Barbara Pernici, Pierluigi Plebani, Isabelle Rouvellou, Quan Z. Sheng,Halvard Skogsrud, Stefan Tai, Farouk Toumani, Pascal van Eck,Jim Webber, Roel Wieringa, Jian Yang, Liangzhao Zeng, Olaf Zimmermann



QUANTUM COMPUTING WITHOUT MAGICDevicesZdzislaw Meglicki

This text offers an introduction to quantum computing,

with a special emphasis on basic quantum physics,

experiment, and quantum devices. Unlike many other

texts, which tend to emphasize algorithms, Quantum

Computing without Magic explains the requisite quan-

tum physics in some depth, and then explains the

devices themselves. It is a book for readers who, having

already encountered quantum algorithms, may ask,

“Yes, I can see how the algebra does the trick, but how

can we actually do it?” By explaining the details in the

context of the topics covered, this book strips the sub-

ject of the “magic” with which it is so often cloaked.

Quantum Computing without Magic covers the

essential probability calculus; the qubit, its physics,

manipulation and measurement, and how it can be

implemented using superconducting electronics;

quaternions and density operator formalism; unitary

formalism and its application to Berry phase manipula-

tion; the biqubit, the mysteries of entanglement,

nonlocality, separability, biqubit classification, and

the Schroedinger's Cat paradox; the controlled-NOT

gate, its applications and implementations; and classi-

cal analogs of quantum devices and quantum processes.

Quantum Computing without Magic can be used as

a complementary text for physics and electronic engi-

neering undergraduates studying quantum computing

and basic quantum mechanics, or as an introduction

and guide for electronic engineers, mathematicians,

computer scientists, or scholars in these fields who are

interested in quantum computing and how it might

fit into their research programs.

Zdzislaw Meglicki, who holds doctorates in electronic engi-neering and physics, is Senior Technical Advisor to the Officeof Vice President for Information Technology at IndianaUniversity.


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DESIGN CONCEPTS IN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGESFranklyn A. Turbak and David K. Giffordwith Mark A. Sheldon

Hundreds of programming languages are in use today

— scripting languages for Internet commerce, user

interface programming tools, spreadsheet macros,

page format specification languages, and many others.

Designing a programming language is a metaprogram-

ming activity that bears certain similarities to program-

ming in a regular language, with clarity and simplicity

even more important than in ordinary programming.

This comprehensive text uses a simple and concise

framework to teach key ideas in programming language

design and implementation. The book’s unique approach

is based on a family of syntactically simple pedagogical

languages that allow students to explore programming

language concepts systematically. It takes as premise

and starting point the idea that when language behav-

iors become incredibly complex, the description of the

behaviors must be incredibly simple.

The book presents a set of tools (a mathematical

metalanguage, abstract syntax, operational and denota-

tional semantics) and uses it to explore a comprehen-

sive set of programming language design dimensions,

including dynamic semantics (naming, state, control,

data), static semantics (types, type reconstruction,

polymporphism, effects), and pragmatics (compilation,

garbage collection). The many examples and exercises

offer students opportunities to apply the foundational

ideas explained in the text. Specialized topics and code

that implements many of the algorithms and compila-

tion methods in the book can be found on the book’s

Web site, along with such additional material as a sec-

tion on concurrency and proofs of the theorems in the

text. The book is suitable as a text for an introductory

graduate or advanced undergraduate programming lan-

guages course; it can also serve as a reference for

researchers and practitioners.

Franklyn A. Turbak is an Associate Professor in the ComputerScience Department at Wellesley College. David K. Gifford is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Mark A. Sheldon is Visiting Assistant Professor in theComputer Science Department at Wellesley College.

August — 8 x 10, 1200 pp. — 411 illus.

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BIO-INSPIRED ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE Theories, Methods, and TechnologiesDario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi

New approaches to artificial intelligence spring from

the idea that intelligence emerges as much from cells,

bodies, and societies as it does from evolution, develop-

ment, and learning. Traditionally, artificial intelligence

has been concerned with reproducing the abilities of

human brains; newer approaches take inspiration from

a wider range of biological structures that that are

capable of autonomous self-organization. Examples of

these new approaches include evolutionary computation

and evolutionary electronics, artificial neural networks,

immune systems, biorobotics, and swarm intelligence

— to mention only a few. This book offers a compre-

hensive introduction to the emerging field of biologi-

cally inspired artificial intelligence that can be used as

an upper-level text or as a reference for researchers.

Each chapter presents computational approaches

inspired by a different biological system; each begins

with background information about the biological sys-

tem and then proceeds to develop computational mod-

els that make use of biological concepts. The chapters

cover evolutionary computation and electronics; cellu-

lar systems; neural systems, including neuromorphic

engineering; developmental systems; immune systems;

behavioral systems — including several approaches to

robotics, including behavior-based, bio-mimetic, epige-

netic, and evolutionary robots; and collective systems,

including swarm robotics as well as cooperative and

competitive co-evolving systems. Chapters end with a

concluding overview and suggested reading.

Dario Floreano is Director of the Laboratory of IntelligentSystems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology inLausanne (EPFL). He is the coauthor of Evolutionary Robotics:The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-OrganizingMachines (MIT Press, 2000). Claudio Mattiussi is a researcherat the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL.


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REVISITING KEYNESEconomic Possibilities for Our Grandchildrenedited by Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga

In 1931 distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes

published a short essay, “Economic Possibilities for Our

Grandchildren,” in his collection Essays in Persuasion.

In the essay, he expressed optimism for the economic

future despite the doldrums of the post-World War I

years and the onset of the Great Depression. Keynes

imagined that by 2030 the standard of living would be

dramatically higher; people, liberated from want (and

without the desire to consume for the sake of consump-

tion), would work no more than fifteen hours a week,

devoting the rest of their time to leisure and culture. In

Revisiting Keynes, leading contemporary economists

consider what Keynes got right in his essay — the rise

in the standard of living, for example — and what he

got wrong — such as a shortened work week and con-

sumer satiation. In so doing, they raise challenging

questions about the world economy and contemporary

lifestyles in the twenty-first century.

The contributors — among them, four Nobel laure-

ates in economics — point out that although Keynes

correctly predicted economic growth, he neglected

the problems of distribution and inequality. Keynes

overestimated the desire of people to stop working and

underestimated the pleasures and rewards of work —

perhaps basing his idea of economic bliss on the life of

the English gentleman or the ideals of his Bloomsbury

group friends. In Revisiting Keynes, Keynes’s short essay

— usually seen as a minor divertissement compared

to his other more influential works — becomes the

catalyst for a lively debate among some of today’s top

economists about economic growth, inequality, wealth,

work, leisure, culture, and consumerism.

Lorenzo Pecchi is Managing Director at UniCredit Markets andInvestment Banking Division and Adjunct Professor at theUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata. Gustavo Piga is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.


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CONTRIBUTORS William J. Baumol, Leonardo Becchetti, Gary S. Becker, Michele Boldrin, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Robert H. Frank,Richard B. Freeman, Benjamin M. Friedman, Axel Leijonhufvud,David K. Levine, Lee E. Ohanian, Edmund S. Phelps, Luis Rayo,Robert Solow, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fabrizio Zilibotti



MINIMUM WAGESDavid Neumark and William L. Wascher

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred coun-

tries, both industrialized and developing. The United

States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938

and has increased the minimum wage and its coverage

at irregular intervals ever since; in addition, as of the

beginning of 2008, thirty-two states and the District

of Columbia had established a minimum wage higher

than the federal level. Over the years, the minimum

wage has been popular with the public, controversial in

the political arena, and the subject of vigorous debate

among economists over its costs and benefits. In this

book, David Neumark and William Wascher offer a

comprehensive overview of the evidence on the eco-

nomic effects of minimum wages. Synthesizing nearly

two decades of their own research and reviewing other

research that touches on the same questions, Neumark

and Wascher discuss the effects of minimum wages on

employment and hours, the acquisition of skills, the

wage and income distributions, longer-term labor mar-

ket outcomes, prices, and the aggregate economy.

Arguing that the usual focus on employment effects is

too limiting, they present a broader, empirically based

inquiry that will better inform policymakers about the

costs and benefits of the minimum wage.

Based on their comprehensive reading of the evi-

dence, Neumark and Wascher argue that minimum

wages do not achieve the main goals set forth by their

supporters. They reduce employment opportunities for

less-skilled workers and tend to reduce their earnings;

they are not an effective means of reducing poverty;

and they appear to have adverse longer-term effects on

wages and earnings, in part by reducing the acquisition

of human capital. The authors argue that policymakers

should instead look for other tools to raise the wages of

low-skill workers and to provide poor families with an

acceptable standard of living.

David Neumark is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. William L. Wascher is Associate Directorin the Division of Research and Statistics at the FederalReserve Board.

December — 6 x 9, 400 pp. — 50 illus.

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COMPUTATIONAL MACROECONOMICSFOR THE OPEN ECONOMYG. C. Lim and Paul D. McNelis

Policymakers need quantitative as well as qualitative

answers to pressing policy questions. Because of

advances in computational methods, quantitative

estimates are now derived from coherent nonlinear

dynamic macroeconomic models embodying measures

of risk and calibrated to capture specific characteristics

of real-world situations. This text shows how such

models can be made accessible and operational for

confronting policy issues.

The book starts with a simple setting based on

market-clearing price flexibility. It gradually incorpo-

rates departures from the simple competitive framework

in the form of price and wage stickiness, taxes, rigidities

in investment, financial frictions, and habit persistence

in consumption.

Most chapters end with computational exercises;

the Matlab code for the base model can be found in

the appendix. As the models evolve, readers are

encouraged to modify the codes from the first simple

model to more complex extensions.

Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy

can be used by graduate students in economics and

finance as well as policy-oriented researchers.

G. C. Lim is Professorial Research Fellow at the MelbourneInstitute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Universityof Melbourne. She is the coauthor of Dynamic Economic Modelsin Discrete Time: Theory and Empirical Applications and AnIntroduction to Dynamic Economic Models (both with BrianFerguson). Paul D. McNelis is Robert Bendheim Chair ofEconomic and Financial Policy at Fordham University GraduateSchool of Business Administration. He is the author of NeuralNetworks in Finance: Gaining Predictive Edge in the Market.


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MONEY, CRISES, AND TRANSITIONEssays in Honor of Guillermo A. Calvoedited by Carmen M. Reinhart, Carlos A. Végh,and Andrés Velasco

Guillermo Calvo, one of the most influential macro-

economists of the last thirty years, has made pathbreak-

ing contributions in such areas as time-inconsistency,

lack of credibility, stabilization, transition economies,

debt maturity, capital flows, and financial crises. His

work on macroeconomic issues relevant for developing

countries has set the tone for much of the research in

this area and greatly influenced practitioners’ thinking

in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.

In Money, Crises, and Transition, leading specialists

in Calvo’s main areas of expertise explore the themes

behind this impressive body of work.

The essays take on the issues that have fascinated

Calvo most as an academic, a senior advisor at the

International Monetary Fund, and as the chief

economist at the Inter-American Development Bank:

monetary and exchange rate policy (both in theory

and practice); financial crises; debt, taxation, and

reform; and transition and growth. A final section

provides a behind-the-scenes look at Calvo’s career

and intellectual journey and includes an interview

with Calvo himself.

Carmen M. Reinhart is Professor of Economics at the Universityof Maryland. Carlos A. Végh is Professor of Economics at theUniversity of Maryland. Andrés Velasco, on leave as SumitomoProfessor of International Finance and Development atHarvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is currentlyserving as Chile’s Minister of Finance. All three are ResearchAssociates at the National Bureau of Economic Research.


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DEPOSIT INSURANCE AROUND THE WORLDIssues of Design and Implementationedited by Aslı Demirgüç-Kunt, Edward J. Kane,and Luc Laeven

Explicit deposit insurance (DI) is widely held to be a

crucial element of modern financial safety nets. For this

reason, establishing a DI system is frequently recom-

mended by outside experts to countries undergoing

reform. Predictably, DI systems have proliferated in the

developing world. The number of countries offering

explicit deposit guarantees rose from twenty in 1980 to

eighty-seven by the end of 2003. This book challenges

the wisdom of encouraging countries to adopt DI with-

out first repairing observable weaknesses in their insti-

tutional environment. The evidence and analysis

presented confirm that many countries would do well

to delay the installation of a DI system. Analysis shows

that many existing DI systems are not adequately

designed to control possible DI-induced risk taking by

financial institutions, and the book provides advice on

principles of good design for those countries in the

process of adopting or reforming their DI systems.

Empirical evidence on the efficiency of real-world

DI systems has been scarce, and analysis has focused

on the experience of developed countries. The contrib-

utors to this book draw on an original cross-country

dataset on DI systems and design features to examine

the impact of DI on banking behavior and assess

the policy complications that emerge in developing

countries. Recent bank runs on loss-making banks in

Germany and the United Kingdom have pushed the

issues of DI systems back to the center of debates on

regulatory policy in both developing and industrialized

countries. The guiding principles identified in this

book can contribute powerfully to that debate.

Aslı Demirgüç-Kunt is Senior Research Manager, Finance andPrivate Sector, in the World Bank’s Development EconomicsResearch Group. Edward J. Kane is James F. Cleary Professor in Finance at Boston College. Luc Laeven is Senior Economistat the World Bank.


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CONTRIBUTORS Leonardo Auernheimer, Fabrizio Coricelli,Padma Desai, Allan Drazen, Sebastian Edwards, Roque B. Fernández,Stanley Fischer, Ricardo Hausmann, Bostjan Jazbec, Peter Isard,Graciela L. Kaminsky, Michael Kumhof, Amartya Lahiri, Igal Magendzo, Enrique G. Mendoza, Frederic S. Mishkin, Igor Masten, Pritha Mitra, Alejandro Neut, Maurice Obstfeld,Edmund S. Phelps, Assaf Razin, Carmen M. Reinhart, Francisco Rodriguez, Efraim Sadka, Ratna Sahay, Rajesh Singh,Evan Tanner, Carlos A. Végh, Andrés Velasco, Rodrigo Wagner

CONTRIBUTORS Thorsten Beck, Modibo K. Camara, Aslı Demirgüç-Kunt, Kalina Dimitrova, Stephen Haber, Patrick Honohan, Harry Huizinga, Edward Kane, Baybars Karacaovali, Randall Kroszner, Luc Laeven, William Melick, Fernando Montes-Negret, Nikolay Nenovsky



THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OFHECKSCHER-OHLIN TRADE MODELSA ReviewRobert E. Baldwin

No names are more closely associated with modern

trade theory than Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin.

The basic Heckscher-Ohlin proposition, according to

which a country exports factors in abundant supply and

imports factors in scarce supply, is a key component

of modern trade theory. In this book, Robert Baldwin

traces the development of the HO model, describing

the historical twists and turns that have led to the basic

modern theoretical model in use today. Baldwin not

only presents a clear and cohesive view of the model’s

evolution but also reviews the results of empirical tests

of its various versions.

Baldwin, who published his first theoretical

article on the HO model in 1948, first surveys the

development of the HO model and then assesses

empirical tests of its predictions. Most discussions

of empirical work on HO models confine themselves

to the basic theorem, but Baldwin devotes a chapter

to empirical tests of three related propositions: the

Stolper-Samuelson theorem; the Rybczynski theorem;

and the factor price equalization theorem. He concludes

that the formulation and testing of these later models

have improved economists’ understanding of the forces

shaping international trade, but that many empirical

trade economists (himself included) were so enamored

of the elegant but highly unrealistic factor price

equalization models developed from the insights of

Heckscher and Ohlin that they have neglected investi-

gation of other models without this relationship.

Robert E. Baldwin is Hilldale Professor Emeritus in theDepartment of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including most recently The Decline of US Labor Unions andthe Role of Trade. He is a Research Associate at the NationalBureau of Economic Research and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

December — 5 3/8 x 8, 212 pp. — 12 illus.

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EQUILIBRIUM, TRADE, AND GROWTHSelected Papers Lionel W. McKenzie edited by Tapan Mitra and Kazuo Nishimura

Influential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has

made major contributions to postwar economic thought

in the fields of equilibrium, trade, and capital accumula-

tion. This selection of his papers traces the develop-

ment of his thinking in these three crucial areas.

McKenzie’s early academic life took him to Duke,

Princeton, Oxford, the University of Chicago, and

the Cowles Commission. In 1957, he went to the

University of Rochester to head the economics depart-

ment there, and he remains at Rochester, now Wilson

Professor Emeritus of Economics. McKenzie’s most

significant research was undertaken during a period

that saw the development of the major themes of neo-

classical economics and the use of fundamental mathe-

matical methods to do so. McKenzie contributed to

both aspects of this research program. He helped shape

the direction of the field and, at Rochester, influenced

generations of future scholars. In 2002, The MIT Press

published McKenzie’s Classical General Equilibrium

Theory, a detailed summary of the model and method-

ology. This book, collecting his most important papers

in the form in which they were originally published,

can be seen as a companion to that one. The many

state-of-the-art results achieved in McKenzie’s original

papers present sophisticated theoretical work that will

continue to be important to future developments in

the discipline.

Lionel W. McKenzie is Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economicsat the University of Rochester. Tapan Mitra is Goldwin SmithProfessor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies in theField of Economics at Cornell University. Kazuo Nishimura isProfessor at the Institute of Economics Research at KyotoUniversity and, since 2006, its Director. Mitra and Nishimuraboth studied under Lionel McKenzie at the University ofRochester.


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SCHOOL CHOICE INTERNATIONALExploring Public-Private Partnershipsedited by Rajashri Chakrabarti and Paul E. Peterson

Public-private partnerships in education exist in various

forms around the world, in both developed and devel-

oping countries. Despite this, and despite the impor-

tance of human capital for economic growth, systematic

analysis has been limited and scattered, with most

scholarly attention going to initiatives in the United

States. This volume helps to fill the gap, bringing

together recent studies on public-private partnerships

in different parts of the world, including Asia, North

and South America, and Europe.

These initiatives vary significantly in form and

structure, and School Choice International offers not only

comprehensive overviews (including a cross-country

analysis of student achievement) but also detailed stud-

ies of specific initiatives in particular countries. Two

chapters compare public and private schools in India

and the relative efficacy of these two sectors in provid-

ing education. Other chapters examine the use of pub-

licly funded vouchers in Chile and Colombia,

reporting promising results in Colombia but ambigu-

ous findings in Chile; and student outcomes in pub-

licly funded, privately managed schools (similar to

American charter schools) in two countries: Colombia’s

“concession schools” and the United Kingdom’s City

Academies Programme. Taken together, these studies

offer important insights for scholars, practitioners, and

policymakers into the purposes, directions, and effects

of different public-private educational initiatives.

Rajashri Chakrabarti is an economist with the Research andStatistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Paul E. Peterson is Henry Lee Shattuck Professor ofGovernment and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University. He is theauthor or editor of many books, including Schools and theEqual Opportunity Problem, coedited with Ludger Woessmann(MIT Press, 2007).


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RACE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESSBlack-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United StatesRobert W. Fairlie and Alicia M. Robb

Thirteen million people in the United States — roughly

one in ten workers — own a business. And yet rates

of business ownership among African Americans are

much lower and have been so throughout the twentieth

century. In addition, and perhaps more importantly,

businesses owned by African Americans tend to have

lower sales, fewer employees and smaller payrolls,

lower profits, and higher closure rates. In contrast,

Asian American-owned businesses tend to be more

successful. In Race and Entrepreneurial Success, minority

entrepreneurship authorities Robert Fairlie and Alicia

Robb examine racial disparities in business perform-

ance. Drawing on the rarely used, restricted-access

Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) dataset

compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, Fairlie and Robb

examine in particular why Asian-owned firms perform

well in comparison to white-owned businesses and

black-owned firms typically do not. They also explore

the broader question of why some entrepreneurs are

successful and others are not.

After providing new comprehensive estimates of

recent trends in minority business ownership and per-

formance, the authors examine the importance of human

capital, financial capital, and family business background

in successful business ownership. They find that a high

level of startup capital is the most important factor con-

tributing to the success of Asian-owned businesses, and

that the lack of startup money for black businesses

(attributable to the fact that nearly half of all black fami-

lies have less than $6,000 in total wealth) contributes to

their relative lack of success. In addition, higher educa-

tion levels among Asian business owners explain much

of their success relative to both white- and African

American-owned businesses. Finally, Fairlie and Robb

find that black entrepreneurs have fewer opportunities

than white entrepreneurs to acquire valuable pre-business

work experience through working in family businesses.

Robert W. Fairlie is Associate Professor of Economics at theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, and an adjunct researcherat the RAND Corporation. Alicia M. Robb is a Research Associatein Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and asenior economist with Beacon Economics.


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CONTRIBUTORS Felipe Barrera, Cristian Bellei, Eric P. Bettinger,Rajashri Chakrabarti, Geeta G. Kingdon, Michael Kremer, Norman LaRocque, Stephen Machin, Karthik Muralidharan, Thomas Nechyba, Harry A. Patrinos, Paul E. Peterson, Ludger Woessmann



STRATEGIC BARGAINING ANDCOOPERATION IN GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATIONSAn Integrated Assessment Modeling ApproachZili Yang

The impact of climate change is widespread, affecting

rich and poor countries and economies both large and

small. Similarly, the study of climate change spans

many disciplines, in both natural and social sciences.

In environmental economics, leading methodologies

include integrated assessment (IA) and game theoretic

modeling, which, despite their common premises, sel-

dom intersect. In Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation

in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations, Zili Yang connects these

two important approaches by incorporating various

game theoretic solution concepts into a well-known

integrated assessment model of climate change. This

framework allows a more comprehensive analysis of

cooperation and strategic interaction that can inform

policy choices in greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation.

Yang draws on a wide range of findings from IA

and game theory to offer an analysis that is accessible

to scholars in both fields. Yang constructs a cooperative

game of stock externality provision — the economic

abstraction of climate change — within the IA frame-

work of the influential RICE model (developed by

William D. Nordhaus and Zili Yang in 1996). The

game connects the solution of an optimal control prob-

lem of stock externality provision with the bargaining

of GHG mitigation quotas among the regions in

the RICE model. Yang then compares the results of

both game theoretic and conventional solutions of the

RICE model from incentive and strategic perspectives

and, through numerical analysis of the simulation

results, demonstrates the superiority of game theoretic

solutions. Yang also applies the game theoretic solu-

tions of RICE to such policy-related concerns as

unexpected shocks in economic/climate systems and

redistribution and transfer issues in GHG mitigation

policies. Yang’s innovative approach sheds new light on

the behavioral aspects of IA modeling and provides

game theoretic modeling of climate change with a

richer economic substance.

Zili Yang is Associate Professor of Economics at SUNY Binghamton.


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THE DESIGN OF CLIMATE POLICYedited by Roger Guesnerie and Henry Tulkens

Debates over post-Kyoto Protocol climate change

policy often take note of two issues: the feasibility

and desirability of international cooperation on climate

change policies, given the failure of the United States

to ratify Kyoto, and the very limited involvement of

developing countries; and the optimal timing of climate

policies. These essays by leading international econo-

mists in this book offer insights on both these concerns.

The book first considers the appropriate institutions

for effective international cooperation on climate change,

proposing an alternative to the Kyoto arrangement and

a theoretical framework for such a scheme. The discus-

sions then turn to the stability of international environ-

mental agreements, emphasizing the logic of coalition

forming (including the applicability of game-theoretical

analysis). Finally, contributors address both practical

and quantitative aspects of policy design, offering

theoretical analyses of such specific policy issues as

intertemporal aspects of carbon trade and the optimal

implementation of a sequestration policy and then

using formal mathematical models to examine policies

related to the rate of climate change, international

trade and carbon leakage, and the shortcomings of

the standard Global Warming Potential index.

Roger Guesnerie is Professor at the Collège de France andPresident of the Paris School of Economics. He is the authorof Assessing Rational Expectations and Assessing RationalExpectations 2 (MIT Press, 2001, 2005). Henry Tulkens isProfessor of Economics and Public Finance and a member ofthe Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)at Université Catholique de Louvain.

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CONTRIBUTORS Philippe Ambrosi, David F. Bradford, Barbara Buchner, Carlo Carraro, Parkash Chander, Stéphane De Cara, Damien Demailly, A. Denny Ellerman, Johan Eyckmans, Michael Finus, Elodie Galko, Roger Guesnerie,Jean-Charles Hourcade, Pierre-Alain Jayet, Gilles Lafforgue,Bernard Magné, Sandrine Mathy, Michel Moreaux, Sushama Murty,William A. Pizer, Philippe Quirion, Katrin Rehdanz, P. R. Shukla,Jaemin Song, Ian Sue Wing, Sylvie Thoron, Richard S. J. Tol,Henry Tulkens



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Quarterly, ISSN 0747-9360Winter/Spring/Summer/Autumn112 pp. per issue — 7 x 10, illustratedhttp://mitpressjournals.org/di

GREY ROOMKaren Beckmanm,Branden W. Joseph, Reinhold Martin, Tom McDonough, andFelicity D. Scott, editorsGrey Room brings togetherscholarly and theoretical arti-cles from the fields of archi-tecture, art, media, and politicsto forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to

contemporary concerns. In its first eight years, Grey Room

has published some of the most interesting and originalwork within these disciplines, positioning itself at the forefront of the most current aesthetic and critical debates.

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has published the best that hasbeen written on New England’scultural, political, and social his-tory. Contributions cover a range of time periods, from beforeEuropean colonization to thepresent, and any subject germaneto New England’s history.

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Adaptive Governance, Webster 63Aesthetic Computing, Fishwick 46Akera, Calculating a Natural World 48Alesina, The Future of Europe 42Alexander, Franz West 7All the King's Horses, Bernstein 37Always Already New, Gitelman 47American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in

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Models 80Baume, Anish Kapoor 5Being Watched, Lambert-Beatty 12Benassy, Money, Interest, and Policy 52Bennett, The Privacy Advocates 55Bernstein, All the King's Horses 37Bertola, The Economics of Consumer Credit 51Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat, Kafai 19Big Archive, The Spieker 9Big Box Reuse, Christensen 3Bijsterveld, Mechanical Sound 61Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Floreano 77Biological Modeling and Simulation, Schwartz 67Blatt, America's Food 28Boersema, Pragmatism and Reference 73Bradford, Solar Revolution 41Brain and Culture, Wexler 53Brainard, Perspecta 41 "Grand Tour" 17Briggs, Democracy as Problem Solving 65Brown, White Heat Cold Logic 18By Force of Thought, Kornai 43Calculating a Natural World, Akera 48Capital and Language, Marazzi 38Cartwright, Evolution and Human Behavior, second edition 71The Castle of Dreams, Jouvet 23Chakrabarti, School Choice International 81Chalupa, Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse 68Chaosophy, new edition, Guattari 40Christensen, Big Box Reuse 3Chun, Control and Freedom 45Cinematic Mythmaking, Singer 32Ciprut, Democratizations 72Ciprut, Ethics, Politics, and Democracy 72Ciprut, Freedom 72Ciprut, Indeterminacy 72Ciprut, The Future of Citizenship 72The Civil Contract of Photography, Azoulay 33CO2 Rising, Volk 1Cohen, Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society 31Cohoon, Women and Information Technology 47Collins, Game Sound 74Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy, Lim 78Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care, Lynch 66Control and Freedom, Chun 45Correspondence, Debord 36Creating Scientific Concepts, Nersessian 70Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, Henke 61Dauvergne, The Shadows of Consumption 27

Debord, Correspondence 36Defaced, Groebner 34Demirgüç-Kunt, Deposit Insurance around the World 79Democracy as Problem Solving, Briggs 65Democratizations, Ciprut 72Deposit Insurance around the World, Demirgüç-Kunt 79Design Concepts in Programming Languages, Turbak 76Design of Climate Policy, The, Guesnerie 82The Development and Testing of Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Models,

Baldwin 80Digital Storytelling, McClean 45Drafting Culture, Johnston 16Drake, Governing Global Electronic Networks 56Dunne, Hertzian Tales 44The Economics of Consumer Credit, Bertola 51Ekelund, The Marketplace of Christianity 43Epstein, The Power of Words in International Relations 63Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth, McKenzie 80Ethics, Politics, and Democracy: From Primitive Principles to

Prospective Practices, Ciprut 72Evolution and Human Behavior, second edition, Cartwright 71Evolution of Communicative Flexibility, Oller 67Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse, Chalupa 68Fairlie, Race and Entrepreneurial Success 81Falckenberg, Paul Thek 6Fantastic Reality, Nixon 44Fishwick, Aesthetic Computing 46Flichy, The Internet Imaginaire 46Floreano, Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence 77Franz West, Alexander 7Freedom, Ciprut 72Frie, Psychological Agency 73Fuel, Knechtel 11The Future of Citizenship, Ciprut 72The Future of Europe, Alesina 42Galasso, The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies 51Game Sound, Collins 74Georgakopoulos, Service-Oriented Computing 75Gitelman, Always Already New 47Gliboff, H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German

Darwinism 59Global Catastrophes and Trends, Smil 26Global Powers in the 21st Century, Lennon 65Goldstein, Martin Kippenberger 8Gornick, The Men in My Life 24Governing Global Electronic Networks, Drake 56The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Troesken 42Groebner, Defaced 34Guattari, Chaosophy, new edition 40Guesnerie, The Design of Climate Policy 82H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism,

Gliboff 59Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, second edition,

Nelson 69Harmonious Triads, Jackson 50Harper, Weather by the Numbers 59Hayes, Milk and Melancholy 10Heidegger's Topology, Malpas 54Henke, Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power 61Hepworth, Wild Costa Rica 30Hertzian Tales, Dunne 44Hommels, Unbuilding Cities 49Honest Signals, Pentland 2Horn, The Path Not Taken 49Hot Thought, Thagard 53 89

INDEX

Hua, A Society without Fathers or Husbands 35Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science, Stenning 70I AM A MONUMENT, Vinegar 15The Importance of Being Iceland, Myles 39Indeterminacy, Ciprut 72The Inner History of Devices, Turkle 21Insatiable Curiosity, Nowotny 57Institutions and Environmental Change, Young 64The Internet Imaginaire, , Flichy 46Invented Edens, Kargon 22Jackson, Harmonious Triads 50Johnson, Technology and Society 60Johnston, Drafting Culture 16Jouvet, The Castle of Dreams 23Kafai, Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat 19Karafyllis, Sexualized Brains 69Kargon, Invented Edens 22Knechtel, Fuel 11Kornai, By Force of Thought 43Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of

Science in Europe 48Lambert-Beatty, Being Watched 12Layzer, Natural Experiments 62Lennon, Global Powers in the 21st Century 65Liberating Voices, Schuler 56Lim, Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy 78Living in a Material World, Pinch 60Loury, Race, Incarceration, and American Values 25Lynch, Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care 66Mackenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera 50Maki, Nurturing Dreams 14Malpas, Heidegger's Topology 54Marazzi, Capital and Language 38Margolis, Stuck in the Shallow End 20The Marketplace of Christianity, Ekelund 43Markonish, Badlands 4Martin Kippenberger, Goldstein 8McClean, Digital Storytelling 45McKenzie, Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth 80Mechanical Sound, Bijsterveld 61Meglicki, Quantum Computing Without Magic 76The Men in My Life, Gornick 24Milk and Melancholy, Hayes 10Minimum Wages, Neumark 78Mitchell, World's Greatest Architect 13Money, Crises, and Transition, Reinhart 79Money, Interest, and Policy, Benassy 52Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland 39Natural Experiments, Layzer 62Nelson, Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience,

second edition 69Nersessian, Creating Scientific Concepts 70Networked Publics, Varnelis 75Neumark, Minimum Wages 78New York for Sale, Angotti 29Nixon, Fantastic Reality 44Nowotny, Insatiable Curiosity 57Nurturing Dreams, Maki 14Oller, Evolution of Communicative Flexibility 67Olson, Scientific Collaboration on the Internet 57Origins of Human Communication, Tomasello 71The Path Not Taken, Horn 49Paul Thek, Falckenberg 6

Pecchi, Revisiting Keynes 77Pentland, Honest Signals 2Perspecta 41 "Grand Tour", Brainard 17Pinch, Living in a Material World 60The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies, Galasso 51Political Theory and Global Climate Change, Vanderheiden 64The Power of Words in International Relations, Epstein 63Power Struggles, Schiffer 58Pragmatism and Reference, Boersema 73The Privacy Advocates, Bennett 55Protocells, Rasmussen 66Psychological Agency, Frie 73Quantum Computing Without Magic, Meglicki 76Race and Entrepreneurial Success, Fairlie 81Race, Incarceration, and American Values, Loury 25Rasmussen, Protocells 66Reinhart, Money, Crises, and Transition 79Revisiting Keynes, Pecchi 77Schiffer, Power Struggles 58Schneider, Scientists Debate Gaia 52School Choice International, Chakrabarti 81Schuler, Liberating Voices 56Schwartz, Biological Modeling and Simulation 67Scientific Collaboration on the Internet, Olson 57Scientists Debate Gaia, Schneider 52Service-Oriented Computing, Georgakopoulos 75Sexualized Brains, Karafyllis 69The Shadows of Consumption, Dauvergne 27Singer, Cinematic Mythmaking 32Smil, Global Catastrophes and Trends 26Society without Fathers or Husbands, Hua 35Solar Revolution, Bradford 41Spieker, The Big Archive 9Stenning, Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science 70Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas

Mitigations, Yang 82Stuck in the Shallow End, Margolis 20Subjectivity and Selfhood, Zahavi 54Technology and Society, Johnson 60Thagard, Hot Thought 53Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society, Cohen 31Tomasello, Origins of Human Communication 71Troesken, The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster 42Turbak, Design Concepts in Programming Languages 76Turkle, The Inner History of Devices 21Unbuilding Cities, Hommels 49Vanderheiden, Political Theory and Global Climate Change 64Varnelis, Networked Publics 75Vinegar, I AM A MONUMENT 15Volk, CO2 Rising 1Water, Place, and Equity, Whiteley 62Weather by the Numbers, Harper 59Webster, Adaptive Governance 63Wexler, Brain and Culture 53White Heat Cold Logic, Brown 18Whiteley, Water, Place, and Equity 62Wild Costa Rica, Hepworth 30Women and Information Technology, Cohoon 47World's Greatest Architect, Mitchell 13Yang, Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas

Mitigations 82Young, Institutions and Environmental Change 64Zahavi, Subjectivity and Selfhood 54

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cognitive neuroscience 69

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science 1, 26, 52

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technology 21-22, 45, 56, 60, 75

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vision 68

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