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CONTENTSanthropology 48architecture 22-25, 58art 11, 13, 16-21, 40-41, 56, 57, 63-64bioethics 61, 86business 8-9, 52, 65cognitive science 52, 67-68, 70, 74-76computer engineering 90-91computer music 64, 78-79computer science 70, 79, 91cultural studies 13-14, 28, 44-45, 49, 57current affairs 5, 26, 31-32, 36, 48, 50, 72design 2-4, 12economics 35, 53, 59-61, 92-97environment 27-28, 29-30, 53, 54, 98-100fiction 42, 47game studies 62, 81history of computing 37, 71information science 50, 66, 81Internet studies 36, 72linguistics 68-69, 87-89media 3, 55, 81neuroscience 58, 69, 70, 82-86new media 5, 11, 62-64, 78, 80philosophy 14, 43-44, 49, 51, 56, 68, 76, 78, 83philosophy of mind 74-76philosophy of science 77, 86politics, political science 30, 32, 48, 54, 72, 97-98, 98-99-100psychology 60, 74public policy 27science 6-7, 33-34, 38, 51, 53science, technology, and society 66, 73vision 70, 83-84technology, history of technology 10, 31, 53, 55, 65-66, 72-73, 80

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Front, inside front, and back cover illustrations by Branko Lukic from NONOBJECT.

The distinctive and amazing songs and calls of birds: a meditation and a lexicon.

September4 1/4 x 7, 160 pp.

24 illus.

$12.95T/£9.95 cloth978-0-262-01429-8

nature/literature

AAAAW TO ZZZZZD: THE WORDS OF BIRDSNorth America, Britain, and Northern EuropeJohn Beviswith photographs by the author

Birds sing and call, sometimes in complex and beautiful arrangements of notes,sometimes in one-line repetitions that resemble a ringtone more than a sym-phony. Listening, we are stirred, transported, and even envious of birds’ ability toproduce what Shelley called “profuse strains of unpremeditated art.” And forhundreds of years, we have tried to write down what we hear when birds sing.Poets have put birdsong in verse (Thomas Nashe: “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo”) and ornithologists have transcribed bird sounds more methodically.Drawing on this history of bird writing, in Aaaaw to Zzzzzd John Bevis offers alexicon of the words of birds. For tourists in Birdland, there could be no morecharming phrasebook.

Consulting it, we find seven distinct variations of “hoo” attributed toseven different species of owls, from a simple hoo to the more ambitioushoo hoo hoo-hoo, ho hoo hoo-hoo; the understated cheet of the tree swallow;the resonant kreeaaaaaaaaaaar of the Swainson’s hawk; the modest peep peep peep of the meadow pipit. We learn that some people hear theBaltimore oriole saying “here, here, come right here, dear” and the yel-lowhammer saying “a little bit of bread and no cheese.”

Bevis, a poet, frames his lexicons — one for North America and onefor Britain and northern Europe — with an evocative appreciation ofbirds, birdsong, and human attempts to capture the words of birds inmusic and poetry. He also offers an engaging account of other methods ofdocumenting birdsong — field recording, graphic notation, and mechan-ical devices including duck calls and the serinette, an instrument used toteach song tunes to songbirds.

The singing of birds is nature at its most sublime, and words are ourmedium for expressing this sublimity. Aaaaw to Zzzzzd belongs in thebird lover’s backpack and on the word lover’s bedside table, an unexpected and sui generis pleasure.

John Bevis is a writer, poet, and book artist living in London.

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design

What happens when designers think beyond the object to create positive, unexpected design experiences.

October8 x 10, 240 pp.82 illus., color throughout

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NONOBJECT Branko Lukic with text by Barry M. Katzforeword by Bill Moggridge

The “objective” world is one of facts, data, and actuality. The world of the“nonobject” is about perception, experience, and possibility. In this highly originaland visually extravagant book, Branko Lukic (an award-winning designer) andBarry Katz (an authority on the history and philosophy of design) imagine whatwould happen if design started not from the object but from the space betweenpeople and the objects they use. The “nonobject,” they explain, is the designer’spersonal experiment to explore our relation to the observable world.

So they show us an umbrella that puts us in a harmonious relationship withnature by sending falling rain rushing through the handle from an upturned topthat resembles a flower; a spoon with a myriad of tiny bowls that allow us tosavor our soup; a “superpractical” cell phone with keypad, speaker, and micro-phone on every surface. They imagine the ideal material, “Thinium,” incrediblythin and incredibly strong, environmentally and aesthetically beneficial. Theyshow us clocks and watches that free us from time told by artificial demarcationand consider the possibility of a digital camera that captures the part of thescene we didn’t see.

In NONOBJECT, product design meets philosophy, poetry, and the theaterof the imagination. The nonobject fills us with surprise and delight.

Branko Lukic is Founder of Nonobject, a multidisciplinary designconsultancy in Palo Alto, California, and creator of the philoso-phy of the nonobject. As lead industrial designer at frog designand IDEO, he led projects for such clients as Nike, Samsung,Pepsi, Starbucks, and Ford. He has won numerous design awards.Barry M. Katz, Professor of Humanities and Design at CaliforniaCollege of the Arts and Consulting Professor of Design atStanford University, has written extensively on the history and philosophy of design. He is the author of Technology andCulture: A Historical Romance and other books.

Illustration by Branko Lukic from NONOBJECT.



DESIGNING MEDIABill Moggridge

Mainstream media, often known simply as MSM, have not yet disappeared in adigital takeover of the media landscape. But the long-dominant MSM — televi-sion, radio, newspapers, magazines, and books — have had to respond to emer-gent digital media. Newspapers have interactive Web sites; television broadcastsover the Internet; books are published in both electronic and print editions. InDesigning Media, design guru Bill Moggridge examines connections and conflictsbetween old and new media, describing how MSM have changed and how newpatterns of media consumption are emerging. The book features interviews withthirty-seven significant figures in both traditional and new forms of mass com-munication; interviewees range from the publisher of the New York Times to thefounder of Twitter.

We learn about innovations in media that rely on contributions from a crowd(or a community), as told by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Craigslist’s CraigNewmark; how the band OK Go built a following using YouTube; how real-time connections between dispatchers and couriers inspired Twitter; how aBusinessWeek blog became a quarterly printed supplement to the magazine; andhow e-readers have evolved from Rocket eBook to QUE. Ira Glass comparesthe intimacy of radio to that of the Internet; the producer of PBS’s Frontlinesupports the program’s investigative journalism by putting documentation of itsfindings online; and the developers of Google’s Trendalyzer software describe itsbeginnings as animations that accompanied lectures about social and economicdevelopment in rural Africa. At the end of each chapter, Moggridge commentson the implications for designing media. Designing Media is illustrated withhundreds of images, with color throughout.

A DVD accompanying the book includes excerpts from all of the interviews,and the material can be browsed at www.designing-media.com.

Bill Moggridge, Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NewYork City, is a founder of IDEO, the famousinnovation and design firm. He has aglobal reputation as an award-winningdesigner, having pioneered interactiondesign and integrated human factors disciplines into design practice.

design/media

Connections and clashes betweennew and old media, as told by interviewees ranging from the

founder of Twitter to the publisherof the New York Times.

October8 x 9, 570 pp.300 color illus.

includes DVD

$39.95T/£29.95 cloth978-0-262-01485-4

INTERVIEWS WITH Chris Anderson, Rich Archuleta,

Blixa Bargeld, Colin Callender, Fred Deakin, Martin Eberhard,

David Fanning, Jane Friedman, Mark Gerzon, Ira Glass, Nat Hunter,

Chad Hurley, Joel Hyatt, Alex Juhasz,Jorge Just, Alex MacLean,

Bob Mason, Roger McNamee, Jeremy Merle, Craig Newmark,

Bruce Nussbaum, Alice Rawsthorn, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling,

Ola Rosling, Paul Saffo,Jesse Scanlon, DJ Spooky,

Neil Stevenson, Arthur Sulzberger Jr.,Shinichi Takemura, James Truman,

Jimmy Wales, Tim Westergren, Ev Williams, Erin Zhu,

Mark Zuckerberg

Also availableDESIGNING INTERACTIONS

Bill Moggridge2006, 978-0-262-13474-3

$42.95T/£31.95 clothincludes DVD

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design

Why we don’t really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity.

October5 3/8 x 8, 280 pp.66 illus.

$24.95T/£18.95 cloth978-0-262-01486-1

Also availableTHE INVISIBLE COMPUTERWhy Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is SoComplex, and InformationAppliances Are the SolutionDonald A. Norman1999, 978-0-262-64041-1$24.95S/£18.95 paper


LIVING WITH COMPLEXITY Donald A. Norman

If only today’s technology were simpler! It’s the universal lament, but it’s wrong.We don’t want simplicity. Simple tools are not up to the task. The world is complex; our tools need to match that complexity.

Simplicity turns out to be more complex than we thought. In this provoca-tive and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our tech-nology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It’s not complexitythat’s the problem, it’s bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarilyand confuses us. Good design can tame complexity.

Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity. But even suchsimple things as salt and pepper shakers, doors, and light switches become complicated when we have to deal with many of them, each somewhat different.Managing complexity, says Norman, is a partnership. Designers have to producethings that tame complexity. But we too have to do our part: we have to takethe time to learn the structure and practice the skills. This is how we masteredreading and writing, driving a car, and playing sports, and this is how we canmaster our complex tools.

Complexity is good. Simplicity is misleading. The good life is complex, rich,and rewarding — but only if it is understandable, sensible, and meaningful.

Business Week has named Don Norman as one of the world’smost influential designers. He has been both a professorand an executive: he was Vice President of AdvancedTechnology at Apple; his company, the Nielsen NormanGroup, helps companies produce human-centered productsand services; he has been on the faculty at Harvard, theUniversity of California, San Diego, Northwestern University,and KAIST, in South Korea. He is the author of many books,including The Design of Everyday Things, The InvisibleComputer (MIT Press, 1998), Emotional Design, and TheDesign of Future Things.

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new media/current affairs

NEWSGAMESJournalism at PlayIan Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer

Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most onlinejournalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written andedited as they are for print; video and audio features are produced as they wouldbe for television and radio. The authors of Newsgames propose a new way ofdoing good journalism: videogames.

Videogames are native to computers rather than a digitized form of priormedia. Games simulate how things work by constructing interactive models;journalism as game involves more than just revisiting old forms of news produc-tion. The book describes newsgames that can persuade, inform, and titillate;make information interactive; recreate a historical event; put news content into apuzzle; teach journalism; and build a community. Wired magazine’s gameCutthroat Capitalism, for example, explains the economics of Somali piracy byputting the player in command of a pirate ship, offering choices for hostagenegotiation strategies. And Powerful Robot’s game September 12th offers amodel for a short, quickly produced, and widely distributed editorial newsgame.

Videogames do not offer a panacea for the ills of contemporary news organi-zations. But if the industry embraces them as a viable method of doing journal-ism — not just an occasional treat for online readers — newsgames can make avaluable contribution.

Ian Bogost is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication,and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. He is the author of Unit Operations: An Approachto Videogame Criticism (2006) and Persuasive Games: The ExpressivePower of Videogames (2007) and the coauthor (with Nick Montfort) of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (2009), all published by the MIT Press. Simon Ferrari is a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Bobby Schweizer is a PhD studentat the Georgia Institute of Technology.

How videogames offer a new way to do journalism.

October6 x 9, 208 pp.

45 illus.

$24.95T/£18.95 cloth978-0-262-01487-8

Also availableUNIT OPERATIONS

An Approach to Videogame Criticism

Ian Bogost2008, 978-0-262-52487-2

$19.00S/£14.95 paper

PERSUASIVE GAMESThe Expressive Power

of VideogamesIan Bogost

2010, 978-0-262-51488-0$19.00S/£14.95 paper

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science

How biology has inspired technology — from a watch with an alarm modeled on a cricket’s noisemaking to a robot that can dance.

September6 x 9, 232 pp.103 illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01452-6


HOW TO CATCH A ROBOT RATWhen Biology Inspires InnovationAgnès Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyertranslated by Susan Emanuel

Humans have modeled their technology on nature for centuries. The inventor ofpaper was inspired by a wasp’s nest; Brunelleschi demonstrated the principles ofhis famous dome with an egg; a Swiss company produced a wristwatch with analarm modeled on the sound-producing capabilities of a cricket. Today, in the eraof the “new bionics,” engineers aim to reproduce the speed and maneuverabilityof the red tuna in a submarine; cochlear implants send sound signals to the audi-tory nerve of a hearing-impaired person; and robots replicate a baby’s cognitivedevelopment. How to Catch a Robot Rat examines past, present, and futureattempts to apply the methods and systems found in nature to the design ofobjects and devices.

The authors look at “natural technology transfers”: how thestudy of nature inspired technological breakthroughs — includ-ing the cricket-inspired watch; Velcro, which duplicates theprickly burrs of a burdock flower; and self-sharpening bladesthat are modeled on rats’ self-sharpening teeth. They examineautonomous robots that imitate animals and their behaviors —for example, the development of an unmanned microdrone thatcould fly like an albatross. And they describe hybrids of naturaland artificial systems: neuroprostheses translating the thoughtof quadriplegics; and a nanorobot controlled by muscle cells.Some of the ideas described have outstripped technology’scapacity to realize them; nature has had more than three billionyears to perfect its designs, humankind not quite so long.

Agnès Guillot is Assistant Professor in Psychophysiology at theUniversity of Paris X. Jean-Arcady Meyer is Emeritus Research Directorat CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Both areresearchers at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics,University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris.

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GENETIC TWISTS OF FATEStanley Fields and Mark Johnston

News stories report almost daily that scientists have linked a certain gene to adisease like Alzheimer’s or macular degeneration, or to a condition like depres-sion or autism, or to a trait like aggressiveness or anxiety. Accompanying thisremarkable progress in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior arenew technologies that are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone’s personalDNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the next ten years, hospitals may pres-ent parents with their newborn’s complete DNA code along with her footprintsand APGAR score. In Genetic Twists of Fate, distinguished geneticists StanleyFields and Mark Johnston help us make sense of the genetic revolution that isupon us.

Fields and Johnston tell real life stories that hinge on the inheritance of onetiny change rather than another in an individual’s DNA: a mother wronglyaccused of poisoning her young son when the true killer was a genetic disorder;the mountain-climbing brothers with a one-in-two chance of succumbing toHuntington’s disease; the screen siren who could no longer remember her linesbecause of Alzheimer’s disease; and the president who was treated with rat poison to prevent another heart attack. In an engaging andaccessible style, Fields and Johnston explain what our personalDNA code is, how a few differences in its long list of our DNAletters make each of us unique, and how that code influencesour appearance, our behavior, and our risk for such commondiseases as diabetes or cancer.

Stanley Fields is Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine at theUniversity of Washington and a Howard Hughes Medical InstituteInvestigator. Mark Johnston is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of ColoradoSchool of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genetics.

science/medicine

How tiny variations in our personalDNA can determine how we look,

how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.

September6 x 9, 240 pp.

45 illus.

$24.95T/£18.95 cloth978-0-262-01470-0



business/innovation

THE INNOVATOR’S WAYEsssential Practices for Successful InnovationPeter J. Denning and Robert P. Dunhamforeword by John Seely Brown

Innovation is the ruling buzzword in business today. Technology companiesinvest billions in developing new gadgets; business leaders see innovation as the key to a competitive edge; policymakers craft regulations to foster a climateof innovation. And yet businesses report a success rate of only four percent for innovation initiatives. Can we significantly increase our odds of succeeding at innovation? In The Innovator’s Way, innovation experts Peter Denning andRobert Dunham reply with an emphatic yes. Innovation, they write, is not simplyan invention, a policy, or a process to be managed. Innovation is a personal skillthat can be learned, developed through practice, and extended into organizations.

Denning and Dunham define innovation as the art of getting people to adopt change. They draw a distinction between invention and innovation: manyinventions never become innovations, and many innovations do not involve aninvention. They identify and describe eight personal practices that all successfulinnovators perform: sensing, envisioning, offering, adopting, sustaining, execut-ing, leading, and embodying. Together, these practices can boost a fledglinginnovator to success. Weakness in any of these practices, they show, blocks innovation.

Denning and Dunham describe innovation at scales ranging from the private (a family organization of chores and allowances) to the planetary

(the invention and adoption of the World Wide Web). Theyprovide a detailed account of the eight practices and how toaccomplish them; and they chart the path to innovation mas-tery, from individual practices to teams and social networks.

Peter J. Denning is Distinguished Professor, Chair of the ComputerScience Department, and Director of the Cebrowski Institute forInformation Innovation and Superiority at the Naval PostgraduateSchool in Monterey, California. He is the author of The Invisible Future,Talking Back to the Machine, Beyond Calculation, and other books.Robert P. Dunham founded the Institute for Generative Leadership and the consulting company Enterprise Performance.

Two experts show that innovation is a skill that can be learned anddescribe eight essential practicesfor achieving success.


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business/management

OPERATIONS RULESDelivering Customer Value through Flexible Operations David Simchi-Levi

In recent years, management gurus have urged businesses to adopt such strategiesas just-in-time, lean manufacturing, offshoring, and frequent deliveries to retailoutlets. But today, these much-touted strategies may be risky. Global financialturmoil, rising labor costs in developing countries, and huge volatility in the priceof oil and other commodities can disrupt a company’s entire supply chain andthreaten its ability to compete. In Operations Rules, David Simchi-Levi identifiesthe crucial element in a company’s success: the link between the value it providesits customers and its operations strategies. And he offers a set of scientifically andempirically based rules that management can follow to achieve a quantum leap in operations performance.

Flexibility, says Simchi-Levi, is the single most importantcapability that allows firms to innovate in their operations andsupply chain strategies. A small investment in flexibility canachieve almost all the benefits of full flexibility. And successfulcompanies do not all pursue the same strategies. Amazon andWal-Mart, for example, are direct competitors but each focuseson a different market channel and provides a unique customervalue proposition — Amazon, large selection and reliable ful-fillment; Wal-Mart, low prices — that directly aligns with itsoperations strategy.

Simchi-Levi’s rules — regarding such issues as channels,price, product characteristics, value-added service, procurementstrategy, and information technology — transform operationsand supply chain management from an undertaking based ongut feeling and anecdotes to a science.

David Simchi-Levi is Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, editor-in-chief of the journal Operations Research, and coauthor of Designing andManaging the Supply Chain and The Logic of Logistics. He is the founderof LogicTools (now a division of IBM’s ILOG), which provides softwaresolutions and professional services for supply chain planning.

Rule 2.1: The operations strategy that a company deploys must be centered onthe value proposition the firm provides to its customers.

Rule 2.2: Functional and innovative products typically require different supply chain strategies.

Rule 5.3: Invest Now or Pay Later: Firms need to invest in flexibility or theywill pay the price later.

Rule 6.1: Enabling, supporting and enforcing a business strategy are the objec-tives of IT investment

Rule 7.1: A small investment in flexibility can make a significant impact ontotal supply chain cost.

Rule 9.1: Modular product architecture is important when flexibility is required.

Rule 10.2: Recent changes in the economy — escalating oil prices, higherlabor costs in developing countries, and decline in consumer demand — willforce a new trend of more regional activities.

— from Operations Rules

An expert offers a set of rules that will help managers achieve

dramatic improvements in operations performance.


50 illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01474-8


technology/communication

Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.

November5 3/8 x 8, 384 pp.1 illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-08374-4

Also availableTHE MYTH OF THE PAPERLESS OFFICEAbigail J. Sellen and Richard H. R. Harper2003, 978-0-262-69283-0$21.00T/£15.95 paper


TEXTUREHuman Expression in the Age of Communications OverloadRichard H. R. Harper

Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there’s not enough time to get our actual work done. At home,we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps thatsignal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It’s too much, we cry(or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to seewhat Shaquille O’Neal has to say on Twitter. In Texture, Richard Harper askswhy we seek out new ways of communicating even as we complain about communication overload.

Harper explores the interplay between technological innovation and sociallycreative ways of exploiting technology, between our delight in using new formsof communication and our vexation at the burdens this places on us, and con-nects these to what it means to be human — alive, connected, expressive —today. He describes the mistaken assumptions of developers that “more” isalways better — that videophones, for example, are better than handhelds —and argues that users prefer simpler technologies that allow them to create social bonds. Communication is not just the exchange of information. There is a texture to our communicative practices, manifest in the different means wechoose to communicate (quick or slow, permanent or ephemeral). The goal,Harper says, should not be to make communication more efficient, but to supplement and enrich the expressive vocabulary of human experience.

Richard H. R. Harper, currently Principal Researcher in Socio-DigitalSystems at Microsoft Research, has explored user-focused technicalinnovation in academic, corporate, and small company settings. He isthe coauthor (with Abigail J. Sellen) of The Myth of the Paperless Office(MIT Press, 2001).



new media/art

Tracing the connections — bothvisual and philosophical — between

new media art and classical Islamic art.

September7 x 9, 392 pp.31 color illus.,

140 black & white illus.

$37.95T/£28.95 cloth978-0-262-01421-2

A Leonardo Book


ENFOLDMENT AND INFINITY An Islamic Genealogy of New Media ArtLaura U. Marks

In both classical Islamic art and contemporary new media art, one point canunfold to reveal an entire universe. A fourteenth-century dome decorated withgeometric complexity and a new media work that shapes a dome from pro-grammed beams of light: both can inspire feelings of immersion and transcen-dence. In Enfoldment and Infinity, Laura Marks traces the strong similarities,visual and philosophical, between these two kinds of art. Her argument is morethan metaphorical; she shows that the “Islamic” quality of modern and newmedia art is a latent, deeply enfolded, historical inheritance from Islamic art andthought.

Marks proposes an aesthetics of unfolding and enfolding in which image,information, and the infinite interact: image is an interface to information, andinformation (such as computer code or the words of the Qur’an) is an interfaceto the infinite. After demonstrating historically how Islamic aesthetics traveledinto Western art, Marks draws explicit parallels between works of classicalIslamic art and new media art, describing texts that burst into image, lines that multiply to form fractal spaces, “nonorganic life” in carpets and algorithms,and other shared concepts and images. Islamic philosophy, she suggests, canoffer fruitful ways of understanding contemporary art.

Laura U. Marks is Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and CultureStudies in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon FraserUniversity. She is the author of The Skin of the Film: InterculturalCinema, Embodiment, and the Senses and Touch: Sensuous Theory andMultisensory Media.


fashion/design

A richly illustrated study of fashion under socialism, from state-sponsored prototypes to unofficial imitations of Paris fashion.

October7 3/4 x 11 1/2, 300 pp.70 color illus.96 black & white illus.

$34.95T/£25.95 cloth978-0-262-02650-5


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FASHIONEASTThe Spectre that Haunted SocialismDjurdja Bartlett

The idea of fashion under socialism conjures up images of babushka headscarvesand black market blue jeans. And yet, as Djurdja Bartlett shows in this ground-breaking book, the socialist East had an intimate relationship with fashion.Official antagonism — which cast fashion as frivolous and anti-revolutionary —eventually gave way to grudging acceptance and creeping consumerism.

Bartlett outlines three phases in socialist fashion, and illustrates them withabundant images from magazines of the period: postrevolutionary utopian dress,official state-sanctioned socialist fashion, and samizdat-style everyday fashion.Utopian dress, ranging from the geometric abstraction of the constructivistsunder Bolshevism in the Soviet Union to the no-frills desexualized uniform of a factory worker in Czechoslovakia, reflected the revolutionary urge for a cleanbreak with the past. The highly centralized socialist fashion system, part ofStalinist industrialization, offered official prototypes of high fashion that werenever available in stores — mythical images of smart and luxurious dresses

that symbolized the economic progress that socialist regimesdreamed of. Everyday fashion, starting in the 1950s, was anunofficial, do-it-yourself enterprise: Western fashions obtainedthrough semiclandestine channels or sewn at home. The statetolerated the demand for Western fashion, promising the burgeoning middle class consumer goods in exchange for political loyalty.

Fashion, Bartlett suggests, with all its ephemerality anddynamism, was in perpetual conflict with the socialist regimes’fear of change and need for control. It was, to echo the famousfirst sentence from the Communist Manifesto, the spectre thathaunted socialism until the end.

Djurdja Bartlett is a Research Fellow at London College of Fashion,University of the Arts London.


PUSH COMES TO SHOVENew Images of Aggressive WomenMaud Lavin

In the past, more often than not, aggressive women have been rebuked, told tokeep a lid on, turn the other cheek, get over it. Repression more than aggressionwas seen as woman’s domain. But recently there’s been a noticeable cultural shift.With growing frequency, women’s aggression is now celebrated in contemporaryculture — in movies and TV, online ventures, and art. In Push Comes to Shove,Maud Lavin examines these new images of aggressive women and how theyaffect women’s lives.

Aggression, says Lavin, is necessary, large, messy, psychological, and physical.Aggression need not entail causing harm to another; we can think of it as theuse of force to create change — fruitful, destructive, or both. And over the past twenty years, contemporary culture has shown women seizing this power.Lavin chooses provocative examples to explore the complexity of aggression: thesurfer girls in Blue Crush; Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect; thehomicidal women in Kill Bill and artist Marlene McCarty’s mural-sized MurderGirls; the erotica of Zane and the art of Kara Walker; the group dynamics ofartists (including the artists group Toxic Titties) and activists; and YouTubevideos of a woman boxer training and fighting.

Women need aggression and need to use it consciously, Lavin writes. WithPush Comes to Shove, she explores the crucial questions of how to manifestaggression, how to represent it, and how to keep open a cultural space for it.

Maud Lavin is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History,Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sheis the author of Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontagesof Hannah Höch and Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and GraphicDesign (MIT Press, 2001).

“In investigating the nuances of feminine aggression and its variousforms of expression both historically and in contemporary culture,Maud Lavin also documents how we can understand it as a deeplyproductive and often necessary drive. Better yet, with her characteristicenergy and invention, she imagines it as a force at once creative,comedic, erotic — which is to say, one that is not restricting, butrather, both enriching and exhilarating.

— Akiko Busch, author of Nine Ways to Cross a River

art/women’s studies/cultural studies

The new celebration of women’saggression in contemporary culture,

from Kill Bill and Prime Suspect tothe artists group Toxic Titties.


19 illus.

$27.95T/£20.95 cloth978-0-262-12309-9

Also availableCLEAN NEW WORLD

Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design

Maud Lavin2002, 978-0-262-62170-0

$20.00T/£14.95 paper


Author Appearances • National Print Attention • National Broadcast CampaignNational Advertising: New York Review of Books, Bookforum, Art in America, Artforum, ArtNews • Web site feature



cultural studies/philosophy

Uncovering an archive of laughter,from the forbidden giggle to theexplosive guffaw.


$21.95T/£16.95 paper978-0-262-51474-3

Short Circuits series, edited by Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar, and Alenka Zupancic

Also available in the Short Circuits seriesA VOICE AND NOTHING MOREMladen Dolar2006, 978-0-262-54187-9$20.95T/£15.95 paper

THE ODD ONE INOn ComedyAlenka Zupancic2008, 978-0-262-74031-9$21.95T/£16.95 paper


LAUGHTERNotes on a PassionAnca Parvulescu

Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, theirfocus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous,jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anca Parvulescuproposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. She sets out touncover an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones.

Historically, laughter — especially the passionate burst of laughter — hasoften been a faux pas. Manuals for conduct, abetted by philosophical treatisesand literary and visual texts, warned against it, offering special injunctions toladies to avoid jollity that was too boisterous. Returning laughter to the historyof the passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where the history of the grimacing face meets the history of noise. In the civilizing process that leads to laughter’s “falling into disrepute,” as Nietzsche famously put it, we can see the formless, contorted face in laughter being slowly corrected into a calm, social smile.

How did the twentieth century laugh? Parvulescu points to a gallery of twentieth-century laughers and friends of laughter, arguing that it is throughGeorges Bataille that the century laughed its most distinct laugh. In Bataille’swake, laughter becomes the passion at the heart of poststructuralism. Lookingback at the century from this vantage point, Parvulescu revisits four of its most

challenging projects: modernism, the philosophical avant-gardes,feminism, and cinema. The result is an overview of the twentiethcentury as seen through the laughs that burst at some of itsmost convoluted junctures.

Anca Parvulescu is Assistant Professor in the English Department and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis.




psychoanalysis/Latin American studies

Freud's Mexican disciples, Mexicanbooks, Mexican antiquities,

and Mexican dreams.

September7 x 10, 408 pp.18 color illus.,

41 black & white illus.

$32.95T/£24.95 cloth978-0-262-01442-7

Also availableMEXICAN MODERNITY

The Avant-Garde and theTechnological Revolution

Rubén Gallo2010, 978-0-262-51496-5

$17.95T/£13.95 paper


FREUD’S MEXICOInto the Wilds of PsychoanalysisRubén Gallo

Freud’s Mexico is a completely unexpected contribution to Freud studies. Here,Rubén Gallo reveals Freud’s previously undisclosed connections to a culture anda psychoanalytic tradition not often associated with him. Freud found a receptiveaudience among Mexican intellectuals, read Mexican books, collected Mexicanantiquities, and dreamed Mexican dreams; his writings bear the traces of a longstanding fascination with the country.

In the Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s, Freud made an impact not onlyamong psychiatrists but also in literary, artistic, and political circles. Gallo writesabout a “motley crew” of Freud’s readers who devised some of the most original,elaborate, and influential applications of psychoanalytic theory anywhere in theworld: the poet Salvador Novo, a gay dandy who used Freud to vindicate marginalsexual identities; the conservative philosopher Samuel Ramos, who diagnosedthe collective neuroses afflicting his country; the cosmopolitan poet Octavio Paz,who launched a psychoanalytic inquiry into the origins of Mexican history; andGregorio Lemercier, a Benedictine monk who put his entire monastery intopsychoanalysis.

After describing Mexico’s Freud, Gallo offers an imaginative reconstructionof Freud’s Mexico. Although Freud himself never visited Mexico, he owned atreatise on criminal law by a Mexican judge who put defen-dants — including Trotsky’s assassin — on the psychoanalyst’scouch; he acquired Mexican pieces as part of his celebrated col-lection of antiquities; and he recorded dreams of a Mexico thatwas fraught with danger. Freud’s Mexico features a varied cast ofcharacters that includes Maximilian von Hapsburg, LeonTrotsky and his assassin Ramón Mercader, Frida Kahlo, DiegoRivera — and even David Rockefeller. Gallo offers bold andvivid rereadings of both Freudian texts and Mexican culturalhistory.

Rubén Gallo is Director of the Program in Latin American Studies andProfessor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages andCultures at Princeton University. He is the author of Mexican Modernity:The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (MIT Press, 2005).



art/photography

How New York artists have made use of the city’s run-down lofts,neglected piers, vacant lots, anddeserted streets.

September9 x 10 1/2, 300 pp.70 color illus., 130 black & white illus.

$49.95T/£36.95 cloth978-0-262-01482-3

ESSAYS BY Johanna Burton, Lynne Cooke,Douglas Crimp, Lytle Shaw, Juan A.Suárez

EXHIBITIONMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte ReinaSofia, MadridJune 8–September 29, 2010

Distributed by the MIT Press for theReina Sofia Museum


MIXED USE, MANHATTANPhotography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Presentedited by Douglas Crimp and Lynne Cooke

When the real estate bust of the 1970s hit New York City, artists found theirown mixed uses for the city’s run-down lofts, abandoned piers, vacant lots, anddeserted streets, and photographers and filmmakers documented their work.Gordon Matta-Clark turned a sanitation pier into the celebrated work Day’sEnd, and Betsy Sussler filmed its making; Harry Shunk made a photographicseries from Willoughby Sharp’s Projects: Pier 18 (which included work by VitoAcconci, Mel Bochner, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, and WilliamWegman, among others); Cindy Sherman staged some of her Untitled Film Stillson the same city streets. Mixed Use, Manhattan documents and illustrates themost significant of these projects as well as more recent works by artists whocontinue to engage with the city’s public, underground, and improvised spaces.

The book (which accompanies a major exhibition) focuses on several impor-tant photographic series: Peter Hujar’s 1976 nighttime photographs ofManhattan’s West Side; Alvin Baltrop’s Hudson River pier photographs from1975–1985, most of which have never before been shown or published; DavidWojnarowicz’s Rimbaud in New York (1978–1979), the first of Wojnarowicz’sworks to be published; and several of Zoe Leonard’s photographic projects fromthe late 1990s on. The book includes 70 color and 130 black-and-white images;a special section on visual documentation of performances and related activities,

arranged by artist Louise Lawler; Glenn Ligon’s textpiece, Housing in New York: A Brief History, 1960-2007 (2007); “Losing the Form in Darkness,” anautobiographical story by David Wojnarowicz; andessays by prominent art historians.

Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art Historyat the University of Rochester. He is the author of On theMuseum’s Ruins (1993) and Melancholia and Moralism:Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (2002), both published bythe MIT Press. Lynne Cooke is Chief Curator and DeputyDirector at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and Curator at Large for Dia Art Foundation.

Alvin Baltrop, from “Pier Photographs,” 1975–86, black-and-white photographs.

©The Alvin Baltrop Trust.

Moyra Davey, Newsstand No. 3, 1994.C-print. Courtesy Murray Guy, New York.


NEW REALISMS: 1957–1962 Object Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacleedited by Julia Robinson

As the 1950s became the 1960s, a new generation of artists around the globerejected direct painterly expression and returned decisively to the object. Movingaway from abstract expressionism and toward the sensibility that would becomePop, these artists — among them Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse, Yves Klein,Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Robert Rauschenberg — effectively estab-lished a new set of artistic paradigms that would influence the decade ahead.New Realisms: 1957–1962 maps this international field of artistic practice, show-casing more than 200 works by artists of the period. The title echoes the name ofthe French movement of the 1960s “Nouveau Réalisme.” Indeed, the work of theNouveaux Réalistes group anchors the book (and the exhibition it accompanies),but at the same time, New Realisms represents a wider range of related instincts,diversely expressed. The emphasis is on a constellation of activities in play beforethe new critical terms and categories of Pop Art were set in stone. The bookviews the emerging artistic scene from the other end of the telescope, as it were:from a European perspective rather than from that of American Pop Art. NewRealisms is emphatically hybrid, encompassing the initiatives of the French groupas well as trajectories in New York that stretched from painting to“Environment” to Happening.

Artists include Arman, George Brecht, Cesar,Christo, Gérard Deschamps, Jim Dine, FrançoisDufrêne, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Raymond Hains,Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, RoyLichtenstein, Piero Manzoni, Claes Oldenburg,Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Robert Rauschenberg,Martial Raysse, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de SaintPhalle, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, RobertWatts, and Robert Whitman.

Julia Robinson is Assistant Professor in the Departmentof Art History at New York University. Her writing hasappeared in such journals as Performance Research, ArtJournal, October, and Grey Room.

art


Works by a pre-Pop, post-abstractexpressionist generation of artistswho rejected painterly expression

and embraced the object.


250 color illus. 50 black & white illus.

$44.95T/£33.95 paper978-0-262-51522-1

ESSAYS BY Julia Robinson,

Hannah Feldman, Agnes Berecz,Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen,

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

EXHIBITIONMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

June 16th–October 4th, 2010

Distributed by the MIT Press for the Reina Sofia Museum

Top left: Raymond Hains, Untitled, 1959. Torn posters on wood (palissade), 150 x 66 cm.Private Collection, courtesy Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris.

Top right: Martial Raysse, Bird of Paradise, 1960. Plastic and metal, 170 x 60 x 30 cm. Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille. Photo: Ville de Marseill V. Ecochard.

Left: Christo, Wrapped Cans, 1958-59. Tin cans, rope and lacquered fabric. Collection Daniel Varenne.



An insider’s account of the art andartists of the most interestingRussian artistic phenomenon sincethe Russian Avant-Garde.


$27.95T/£20.95 cloth978-0-262-01423-6

Also availableILYA KABAKOVThe Man Who Flew into Space from His ApartmentBoris Groys2006, 978-1-846380-04-4$16.00T/£9.95 paperDistributed for Afterall Books

ART POWERBoris Groys2008, 978-0-262-07292-2$24.95T/£18.95 cloth

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HISTORY BECOMES FORMMoscow ConceptualismBoris Groys

In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of “unofficial” artists in Moscow — artists notrecognized by the state, not covered by state-controlled media, and cut off fromwider audiences — created artworks that gave artistic form to a certain historicalmoment: the experience of Soviet socialism. The Moscow conceptualists not onlyreflected and analyzed by artistic means a spectacle of Soviet life but also pre-served its memory for a future that turned out to be different from the officiallypredicted one. They captured both the shabby austerity of everyday Soviet lifeand the utopian energy of Soviet culture. In History Becomes Form, Boris Groysoffers a contemporary’s account of what he calls the most interesting Russianartistic phenomenon since the Russian avant-garde.

In 1976, Groys moved from Leningrad to Moscow; there he joined the artis-tic underground and became close to Russian artists Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov,Dmitri Prigov, Andrei Monastyrski, Lev Rubinstein, and Ivan Chuikov. He firstwrote about them in 1979 for a A-Ya, a Russian-language magazine publishedin Paris, calling them “Moscow Romantic conceptualists.” History Becomes Formcollects Groys’s essays on Moscow Conceptualism, most of them written afterhis emigration to the West in 1981. The individual artists of the group becameknown in the West after perestroika, but until now the artistic movement as awhole has received little attention. Groys’s account sheds light not only on theMoscow Conceptualists and their work but also on the dilemmas of Sovietartists during the Cold War.

Boris Groys is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New YorkUniversity. He is the author of many books, including Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment (2006) and Art Power (2008), both published by the MIT Press.





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THE GREAT MIGRATORRobert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American ArtHiroko Ikegami

In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg, already a frequent transatlantic traveler, becameeven more peripatetic, joining the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as cos-tume and set designer for its first world tour. Rauschenberg and the companyvisited thirty cities in fourteen countries throughout Europe and Asia. Duringthe tour, he not only devised sets and costumes but also enacted his own per-formances and created works of art, often using local materials and collaboratingwith local art communities. In The Great Migrator, Hiroko Ikegami examinesRauschenberg’s activities abroad and charts the increasing international domi-nance of American art during that period.

Unlike other writers, who have viewed the export of American art during the1950s and 1960s as another form of Cold War propagandizing (and famousAmerican artists as cultural imperialists), Ikegami sees the global rise ofAmerican art as a cross-cultural phenomenon in which each art communityRauschenberg visited was searching in different ways for cultural and artisticidentity in the midst of Americanization. Rauschenberg’s travels and collabora-tions established a new kind of transnational network for the postwar art world— prefiguring the globalization of art before the era of globalization.

Ikegami focuses on Rauschenberg’s stops in four cities: Paris, Venice (where he became the first American to win the Grand Prize at the VeniceBiennale), Stockholm, and Tokyo. In each city, she tells us,Rauschenberg’s work encountered both enthusiasm andresistance (which was often a reaction against Americanpower). Ikegami’s account offers a fresh, nonbinary perspective on the global and the local.

Hiroko Ikegami, an art historian who specializes in American art and the postwar globalization of the art world, is AssistantProfessor in the Graduate School of Human Sciences at OsakaUniversity. In Fall 2010 she will become Associate Professor inthe Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University.

Robert Rauschenberg on tour in 1964, and the early

globalization of the art world.


87 color illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01425-0

Recipient of a Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant

for 2009



A provocative investigation ofMarcel Broodthaers’s work as a reflection on the uses and abuses of language.

October7 x 9, 392 pp.46 illus.

$34.95T/£25.95 cloth978-0-262-01450-2

An October Book

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THE ABSENCE OF WORKMarcel Broodthaers, 1964-1976Rachel Haidu

In 1964, at age forty, Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) proclaimed that his yearsof writing poetry — of being “good for nothing,” in his words — were over, anda brief but dazzling artistic career began. Considered a founding father of institu-tional critique, Broodthaers created hundreds of objects, books, films, photo-graphs and exhibitions, including a “fictive” museum of modern art that evolvedfrom an installation in his own home to a massive exhibition of over three hun-dred works representing eagles. In The Absence of Work, Rachel Haidu argues thatall of Broodthaers’s art is defined by its relationship to language. His perceptionof his poetry’s “failure to communicate” led him to explore in his art the noncom-municative, nontransparent uses of language. By showing us the ways in whichlanguage is instrumentalized across society — used for its efficiency despite thecomplexities it introduces into communication — Broodthaers shows us how weimagine language to work and points us to its hidden operations.

Haidu’s characterization of Broodthaers’s contribution toinstitutional critique represents a major departure from theusual approach to this movement. Considering the wider political implications of his work, including its reflections onnational identity and democracy, she explores how they derivefrom historical references and examines his work’s relationshipsto the works of other contemporary artists. With The Absence ofWork, one of the first monographs on Broodthaers in English,Haidu demystifies a crucial and enigmatic figure in postwarand contemporary art.

Rachel Haidu is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and ArtHistory and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at theUniversity of Rochester.



Investigations of failure as a keyconcern — as theme, strategy,

and world view — of recent art.

October5 3/8 x 8 1/4, 240 pp.

$24.95T paper978-0-262-51477-4

Documents of Contemporary Art series

Copublished with WhitechapelGallery, London

Not for sale in the United Kingdom or Europe

Also available in theDocuments of Contemporary

Art seriesTHE SUBLIME

edited by Simon Morley2010, 978-0-262-51391-3

$24.95T paper

CHANCEedited by Margaret Iversen2010, 978-0-262-51392-0

$24.95T paper

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FAILUREedited by Lisa Le Feuvre

Amid the global uncertainties of our times, failure has become a central subjectof investigation in recent art. Celebrating failed promises and myths of the avant-garde, or setting out to realize seemingly impossible tasks, artists have activelyclaimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here successis deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged, and risk considered a viable strategy. The abstract possibilities opened up by failure arefurther reinforced by the problems of physically realizing artworks — wrestlingwith ideas, representation, and object-making. By amplifying both theoreticaland practical failure, artists have sought new, unexpected ways of opening upendgame situations, ranging from the ideological shadow of the white cube tounfulfilled promises of political emancipation. Between the two subjective polesof success and failure lies a space of potentially productive operations where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This collection of writings, statements,mediations, fictions, polemics, and discussions identifies failure as a core concern in cultural production. Failureidentifies moments of thought thathave eschewed consensus, choosing toaddress questions rather than answers.

Lisa Le Feuvre is Curator of ContemporaryArt at the National Maritime Museum,London, and Associate Lecturer in CreativeCurating at Goldsmiths College, London.

ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alÿs, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Phil Collins, Martin Creed,

David Critchley, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Isa Genzken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Félix González-Torres, Wade Guyton, International Necronautical Society, Ray Johnson,

Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Bruce Nauman, Simon Patterson, Janette Parris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Allen Ruppersberg,

Roman Signer, Annika Ström, Paul Thek, William Wegman

WRITERS INCLUDE Giorgio Agamben, Samuel Beckett, Daniel Birnbaum, Bazon Brock, Johanna Burton,

Emma Cocker, Gilles Deleuze, Russell Ferguson, Ann Goldstein, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Richard Hylton, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Lisa Lee, Stuart Morgan,

Hans-Joachim Müller, Karl Popper, Edgar Schmitz, Coosje van Bruggen




architecture

A young architect’s search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis.

September5 3/8 x 8, 224 pp.10 illus.

$21.95T/£16.95 paper978-0-262-01461-8


DOWN DETOUR ROADAn Architect in Search of PracticeEric J. Cesal

I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of ayoung man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understandarchitecture and found it had been on his doorstep all along. This had an air of hokey-ness about it, but it had been a tough couple of days and I was feeling sentimentalabout the warm confines of the studio which had unceremoniously discharged me uponthe world.

— from Down Detour Road

What does it say about the value of architecture that as the world faces economicand ecological crises, unprecedented numbers of architects are out of work? Thisis the question that confronted architect Eric Cesal as he finished graduate schoolat the onset of the worst financial meltdown in a generation. Down Detour Roadis his journey: one that begins off-course, and ends in a hopeful new vision ofarchitecture.

Like many architects of his generation, Cesal confronts a cold reality.Architects may assure each other of their own importance, but society has cometo view architecture as a luxury it can do without. For Cesal, this recognitionbecomes an occasion to rethink architecture and its value from the very core. He argues that the times demand a new architecture, an empowered architecturethat is useful and relevant. New architectural values emerge as our cultural values

shift: from high risks to safe bets, from strong portfolios tostrong communities, and from clean lines to clean energy.

This is not a book about how to run a firm or a profession;it doesn’t predict the future of architectural form or aesthetics.It is a personal story — and in many ways a generational one: a story that follows its author on a winding detour across thecountry, around the profession, and into a new architecturalreality.

Eric J. Cesal holds master’s degrees in business administration, construction management, and architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. He is now living in Port-au-Prince, managing and coordinatingArchitecture for Humanity’s design and reconstruction initiatives in Haiti.


architecture

An examination of architecture as it comes in contact with

other disciplines in the contemporary world.

October6 3/4 x 9 1/3, 224 pp.

10 color illus., 50 black & white illus.

$27.95T/£20.95 cloth978-0-262-01479-3

Work Books series

Copublished with Work Books

CONTRIBUTORS Brett Albert, Matthew Allen,

Esther Choi, Teddy Cruz, Suzanne Ernst, Liam Gillick,

K. Michael Hays, Sanford Kwinter,Sylvia Lavin, Michael Meredith,

Yu Morishita, Trevor Patt, Philippe Rahm, Joe Ringenberg,Jonathan Tate, Marrikka Trotter,

Douglas Wu


ARCHITECTURE AT THE EDGE OF EVERYTHING ELSEedited by Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter

Combining formal argument with informal conversations and design proposals,Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else offers creative ideas for “thinking andacting architecture differently.” What makes the book unique (apart from itslively graphic format) is the freshness of its voices — young architects andemerging practitioners who for the most part have not published before.Interwoven with their proposals are conversations among these new voices andmore established authors and practitioners, including Sanford Kwinter, SylviaLavin, K. Michael Hays, Philippe Rahm, Liam Gillick, Teddy Cruz, andMichael Meredith. Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else investigates theinner contradictions tangling and obscuring architectural discourse. It locatesarchitecture in a cultural, social, political, and situational landscape — the space itactually occupies in the contemporary world. Examining architecture as it comesinto contact with other disciplines — including art, art history, cultural studies,curating, landscape architecture, neuroaesthetics, pedagogy, philosophy, politicalscience, and urbanism — the book considers architecture’s precarious position atthe edge: at the edge of its own dilemmas and at the edge of “everything else.”

In different ways, all the contributors suggest how to understand the innova-tive possibilities and pitfalls of spatial practices — teasing, analyzing, and cele-brating architecture’s disciplinary ambiguity — with proposals that range from a“lo-res” architecture to one controlled by the curatorial impulse, from customiz-able “skins” on residential buildings to the collection of residual space for newuses. Their investigations encompass how to interpret, how to intervene, andhow to imagine. Breaking out of institutional molds and reaching across genera-tional divides, Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else marks the beginning ofa new conversation about architecture and its expanded landscape.

Esther Choi, a multidisciplinary artist and writer, is Assistant Professorin the Departments of Criticism and Curatorial Practices, Photography,and the Interdisciplinary Masters in Art, Media, and Design Program atthe Ontario College of Art and Design. Marrikka Trotter is the founderof the art and design initiative The Department of Micro-Urbanism. She teaches advanced studio at the Boston Architectural College, and her writing has appeared in Harvard Design Magazine.


EVENT-CITIES 4Concept-FormBernard Tschumi

Event-Cities 4 is the latest in the Event-Cities series from Bernard Tschumi,documenting recent built and theoretical projects in the context of his evolvingviews on architecture, urbanism, and design. Event-Cities 4 follows directly fromthe work of Event-Cities 3, which examined the interaction of architectural content, concept, and context. This volume takes the interaction a step further,looking at a series of projects for which program or context are insufficient as agenerative conceptual strategy, hence requiring a different approach. Tschumi hassaid, “Over the past years, there is one word I have almost never used, except inorder to attack it: ‘form.’ ” In Event-Cities 4, Tschumi introduces the “concept-form”: a concept generating a form, or a form generating a concept, so that onereinforces the other. The concept may be programmatic, technological, or social.The form may be singular or multiple, regular or irregular. Concept-forms act asorganizing devices or common denominators for the multiple dimensions of pro-grams and their evolution over time, and drive the projects featured in this book.

Highlights include master plans for a pair of media-based work spaces andcultural campuses in Singapore and Abu Dhabi; a major master plan for a finan-cial center with 40,000 projected inhabitants in the Dominican Republic; theinnovative Blue Residential Tower in New York City; a group of museums andcultural buildings in France, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and South Korea; a pedestrianbridge in France; and a “multi-programmatic” furniture piece, the TypoLounger.The book contains more than twenty of the Tschumi firm’s recent projects,showcasing the most current and forward-looking designs of one of the world’sleading architectural practices.

Bernard Tschumi is Principal of BernardTschumi Architects, New York and Paris. Hewas dean of the Columbia Graduate Schoolof Architecture from 1988 to 2003.

architecture

Tschumi introduces the “concept-form”: a concept generating a form, or a form generating a concept

September6 1/2 x 9, 640 pp.200 color illus., 350 black & white illus.

$35.00T/£25.95 paper978-0-262-51241-1

Also availableEVENT-CITIES 2Bernard Tschumi2001, 978-0-262-70074-0$45.00S/£33.95 paper

EVENT-CITIES 3Concept vs. Context vs. ContentBernard Tschumi2005, 978-0-262-70110-5$40.00T/£29.95 paper

INDEX ARCHITECTUREA Columbia Architecture Bookedited by Bernard Tschumi andMatthew Berman2003, 978-0-262-70095-5$38.00T/£28.95 paper






PERSPECTA 43TabooThe Yale Architectural Journaledited by John Capen Brough, Seher Erdogan and Parsa Khalili

We are beset by unspoken rules. As a result, we learn to find consensus in notsand to seek refuge in don’ts. A taboo is a restriction invented and agreed upon bya social group that maintains stability (disciplinary order) but also induces trans-gressions (the possibility of an avant-garde). Taboos structure our thinking andframe our discussions. In architecture, taboos create an operative way of thinkingabout and making architecture through unspoken agreement. This issue ofPerspecta — the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural jour-nal in America — tackles architectural unutterables. In articles and projects, his-torians, theorists, and practitioners investigate contemporary and historicalinstances of taboo, aiming to uncover its function in the pedagogy and praxis ofarchitecture.

The contributors, asked simply “What is Taboo?”, respond with a range ofexamples. These include an examination of the relatively unknown work of the Italian architect Rinaldo Semino; photographs documenting the unseen,peripheral spaces of American life; a series of marginalia illustrating certaintypographic don’ts in all their absurdity; a study of memorials erected to Maoistinsurgents killed by police and paramilitary forces in India; and a critique, byredaction and reconstruction, of Rem Koolhaas’s essay “Typical Plan.”

John Capen Brough is an architect practic-ing in New York City. Seher Erdogan is anarchitect practicing in New Haven. ParsaKhalili is an architect practicing in NewYork City. All three are graduates of the Yale School of Architecture.

Exploring the ill-defined realm of the architectural taboo, from the hidden spaces of American

life to artistic practices in postrevolutionary Iran.

September9 x 12, 196 pp.146 color illus.

$25.00T/£19.95 paper978-0-262-51479-8

Also availableRE-READING PERSPECTA

The First Fifty Years of the YaleArchitectural Journal

edited by Robert A. M. Stern, PeggyDeamer and Alan Plattus

2005, 978-0-262-19506-5$75.00T/£55.95 cloth

PERSPECTA 42The Real

The Yale ArchitecturealJournal

edited by Matthew Romanand Tal Schori

2010, 978-0-262-51393-7 $25.00T/£18.95 paper


architecture

CONTRIBUTORSPier Vittorio Aureli, Glen Cummings, Thomas de Monchaux, Arindam Dutta, Edward Eigen,

Mario Gooden, Alicia Imperiale, Pamela Karimi, Keith Krumwiede, Erika Naginski, NaJa & DeOstos, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Neri Oxman, Michelangelo Sabatino,

Taryn Simon, Marcel Vellinga, Loïc Wacquant

INTERVIEWSSunil Bald, Thomas Beeby, Peggy Deamer, Peter Eisenman, Greg Lynn, and Robert A. M. Stern




A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status.


$14.95T/£11.95 cloth978-0-262-01483-0

A Boston Review Book

RESPONSES FROMT. Alexander AleinikoffLinda BosniakJean Bethke ElshtainDouglas S. MasseyMae NgaiCarol M. Swain

Also available in the Boston Review seriesRACE, INCARCERATION, AND AMERICAN VALUESGlen Loury2008, 978-0-262-12311-2$14.95T/£11.95 cloth

THE MEN IN MY LIFEVivian Gornick2008, 978-0-262-07303-5$14.95T/£11.95 cloth

INVENTING AMERICANHISTORYWilliam Hogeland2009, 978-0-262-01288-1$14.95T/£11.95 cloth

AFRICA'S TURN?Edward Miguel2009, 978-0-262-01289-8$14.95T/£11.95 cloth


current affairs/public policy

IMMIGRANTS AND THE RIGHT TO STAY Joseph H. Carens

The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigrationreform in 2010, setting policymakers to work on legislation that might give theapproximately eleven million undocumented immigrants currently living in theUnited States a path to legalization of status. Commentators have been quick toobserve that any such proposal will face intense opposition.

Few issues have so divided the country in recent years as immigration.Immigrants and the Right to Stay brings the debate into the realm of public reason. Political theorist Joseph Carens argues that although states have a rightto control their borders, the right to deport those who violate immigration laws isnot absolute. With time, immigrants develop a moral claim to stay. Emphasizingthe moral importance of social membership, and drawing on principles widelyrecognized in liberal democracies, Carens calls for a rolling amnesty that givesunauthorized migrants a path to regularize their status once they have been set-tled for a significant period of time.

After Carens makes his case, six experts from across the political spectrumrespond. Some protest that he goes too far; others say he does not go far enoughin protecting the rights of migrants. Several raise competing moral claims andothers help us understand how the immigration problem became so large. Carensagrees that no moral claim is absolute, and that, on any complex public issue,principled debate involves weighing competing concerns. But for him the balance falls clearly on the side of amnesty.

Joseph H. Carens is Professor of Political Science at the University ofToronto. His book Culture, Citizenship,and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness won the2002 C. B. Macpherson Award from theCanadian Political Science Association.

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PREPARING FOR CLIMATE CHANGEMichael D. Mastrandrea and Stephen H. Schneider

Global momentum is building to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So far, sogood. The less happy news is that Earth’s temperatures will continue to rise fordecades. And evidence shows that climbing temperatures are already having seri-ous consequences for vulnerable people and regions through droughts, extremeweather, and melting glaciers. In this book, climate experts Michael Mastrandreaand Stephen Schneider argue that we need to start adapting to climate change,now. They write that these efforts should focus primarily on identifying theplaces and people most at risk and taking anticipatory action — from developingdrought-resistant crops to building sea walls. The authors roundly reject the ideathat reactive, unplanned adaptation will solve our problems — that species willmigrate northward as climates warm, and farmers will shift to new crops andmore hospitable locations. And they are highly critical of “geoengineering”schemes that are designed to cool the planet by such methods as injecting ironinto oceans or exploding volcanoes.

Mastrandrea and Schneider insist that smart adaptation will require a seriesof local and regional projects, many of them in the countries least able to pay forthem and least responsible for the problem itself. Ensuring that we address theneeds of these countries, while we work globally to reduce emissions over thelong term, is our best chance to avert global disaster and to reduce the terrible,unfair burdens that are likely to accompany global warming.

Michael D. Mastrandrea is ResearchAssociate at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) FourthAssessment Report in 2007. Stephen H.Schneider, Melvin and Joan Lane Professorfor Interdisciplinary Environmental Studiesand Professor of Biology at StanfordUniversity, was Coordinating Lead Authorof the IPCC’s working group on Impacts,Adaptation and Vulnerability, from 1997 to 2001, and, with his IPCC colleagues, was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in 2007.He is the author or editor of many books,including Science as a Contact Sport: Insidethe Battle to Save Earth’s Climate andScientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century(MIT Press, 2004).


environment/public policy

Why we should prepare for climatechange now by taking anticipatory

action in vulnerable regions.

October4 1/2 x 7, 96 pp.

$14.95T/£11.95 cloth978-0-262-01488-5

A Boston Review Book

Also available in the Boston Review seriesWHY WE COOPERATE

Michael Tomasello2009, 978-0-262-01359-8

$14.95T/£11.95 cloth

AFTER AMERICA‘S MIDLIFE CRISISMichael Gecan

2009, 978-0-262-01360-4$14.95T/£11.95 cloth

RULE OF LAW, MISRULE OF MEN

Elaine Scarry2010, 978-0-262-01427-4

$14.95T/£11.95 cloth

TAKING ECONOMICS SERIOUSLYDean Baker

2010, 978-0-262-01418-2$14.95T/£11.95 cloth







environment/cultural studies/art

AIRedited by John Knechtel

The thin layer of atmosphere that clings to the surface of our planet is a fragileand corrupted brew. Air is in constant, restless migration around the globe, con-necting us in the most intimate fashion. From the dust storms that sweep intoBeijing from faraway deserts to the smog from Chinese factories that shroudsLos Angeles, our air, the ultimate commons, is tragically defenseless. Breathingair is an involuntary physical function, but keeping the air breathable requires actsof political imagination and will. Air considers the condition of this basic compo-nent of life on earth from a range of perspectives. It reveals the thick materialityof air, air as stinky, clotted, corrupted matter — in a word, dirty. We see the stuffof air in the form of molecules from disintegrating artworks, or as the materialfor building forms; as the bearer of scents and germs and as the substrate forcommunications both digital and pneumatic. Here, an asthmatic strains to inhalethe air that bears the cause of her distress; a philosopher muses on the intelligi-bility of air; an artist dreams of being the accountant of dust; and city construc-tion sheds are replaced by a floating “urbanCLOUD.” Air leads us to perceive air,and the imperative to protect it, anew.

John Knechtel is Director of AlphabetCity Media in Toronto.

Writers, artists, and scholars consider the fragility of air, the ultimate commons.

October4 3/4 x 6 1/4, 320 pp.200 color illus.

$15.95T/£11.95 cloth978-0-262-01466-3

Alphabet City 15

Also available in the Alphabet City seriesSUBTITLESOn the Foreigness of Filmedited by Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour2004, 978-0-262-05078-4$35.00T/£25.95 clothAlphabet City 9

SUSPECTedited by John Knechtel2005, 978-0-262-11290-1$15.95T/£11.95 clothAlphabet City 10

TRASHedited by John Knechtel2006, 978-0-262-11301-4$15.95T/£11.95 clothAlphabet City 11

FOODedited by John Knechtel2007, 978-0-262-11309-0$15.95T/£11.95 clothAlphabet City 12

FUELedited by John Knechtel2008, 978-0-262-11325-0$15.95T/£11.95 clothAlphabet City 13

WATERedited by John Knechtel2009, 978-0-262-01329-1$15.95T/£11.95 clothAlphabet City 14

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Each volume of Alphabet City’s pocketbook anthologyseries gathers the work of a diverse group of writers andartists to investigate a single topic from many angles.









The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking

to transform the American food system from seed to table.


19 illus.

$27.95T/£20.95 cloth978-0-262-07291-5

Food, Health, and the Environment series

Also availableENVIRONMENTALISM UNBOUND

Exploring New Pathways for Change

Robert Gottlieb2002, 978-0-262-57166-1

$24.00T/£17.95 paper

REINVENTING LOS ANGELESNature and Community

in the Global CityRobert Gottlieb

2007, 978-0-262-57243-9$26.95T/£19.95 paper

food/environment

FOOD JUSTICERobert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi

In today’s food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions,low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restau-rants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than whole-someness, and the international reach of American fast-food franchises has beena major contributor to an epidemic of “globesity.” To combat these inequities andexcesses, a movement for food justice has emerged in recent years seeking totransform the food system from seed to table. In Food Justice, Robert Gottlieband Anupama Joshi tell the story of this emerging movement.

A food justice framework ensures that the benefits and risks of how food isgrown and processed, transported, distributed, and consumed are shared equi-tably. Gottlieb and Joshi recount the history of food injustices and describe cur-rent efforts to change the system, including community gardens and farmertraining in Holyoke, Massachusetts, youth empowerment through theRethinkers in New Orleans, farm-to-school programs across the country, andthe Los Angeles school system’s elimination of sugary soft drinks from its cafe-terias. And they tell how food activism has succeeded at the highest level: advo-cates waged a grassroots campaign that convinced the Obama White House toplant a vegetable garden. The first comprehensive inquiry into this emergingmovement, Food Justice addresses the increasing disconnect between food andculture that has resulted from our highly industrialized food system.

Robert Gottlieb is Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy at Occidental College in LosAngeles. He is the author of Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways forChange (2001), and Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City(2007), both published by the MIT Press, and other books. Anupama Joshi is Codirector ofthe National Farm to School Network and is based at the Urban & Environmental PolicyInstitute at Occidental College.

“Gottlieb and Joshi name names and pull no punches. Their pointof view, that the dominant agroindustrial food industry is inherentlyunjust to farm workers, consumers, and the communities that sufferfrom the external costs of food production comes through loud and clear.”

— Nevin Cohen, Eugene Lang College, New School for Liberal Arts





environment/politics

The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action whenpollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.


$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01440-3

Also available ECO-PIONEERSPractical Visionaries SolvingToday’s Environmental ProblemsSteve Lerner1998, 978-0-262-62124-3$30.00S/£22.95 paper

DIAMONDA Struggle for EnvironmentalJustice in Louisiana’s Chemical CorridorSteve Lerner2006, 978-0-262-62204-2$16.95T/£12.95 paper

SACRIFICE ZONES The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United StatesSteve Lernerforeword by Phil Brown

“I just got mad. I couldn’t breathe in my own house.”— Ruth Reed, a resident of Ocala, Florida,

who lives next door to a Royal Oak Charcoal factory

Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income orminority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many ofthem, like Ruth Reed, reach a point at which they say “Enough is enough.” Afterliving for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-related health problems, they start to take action — organizing, speaking up,documenting the effects of pollution on their neighborhoods.

In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, fromBrooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military basescausing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-income neighborhoods “sacrifice zones” — repurposing a Cold War term coinedby U.S. government officials to designate areas contaminated with radioactivepollutants during the manufacture of nuclear weapons. And he argues that resi-dents of a new generation of sacrifice zones, tainted with chemical pollutants,need additional regulatory protections.

Studies show that poor and minority neighborhoods are more polluted thanwealthier areas located farther away from heavy industry. Sacrifice Zones goesbeyond these disheartening statistics and gives us the voices of the residents

themselves. We hear from people like Margaret L. Williams,who organized her neighbors to demand relocation away fromtwo Superfund hazardous waste sites; Hilton Kelley, who cameback to his hometown to find intensified emissions from theExxon Mobil refinery next to the housing project in which hegrew up; and Laura Ward, who found technicians drilling ahole in her backyard to test groundwater for pollution from thenearby Lockheed Martin weapons plant. Sacrifice Zones offerscompelling portraits of accidental activists who have become grassroots leaders in the struggle for environmental justice and details the successful tactics they have used on the fenceline with heavy industry.

Steve Lerner is Research Director of Commonweal, a health and environment research institute. He is the author of Eco-Pioneers:Practical Visionaries Solving Today’s Environmental Problems (1998) and Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’sChemical Corridor (2005), both published by the MIT Press.

“Easy to read, compelling, and hard to put down. The stories areimportant, have not been told, and need to be recounted in a publicway. This book will give motivation to some, solace to others, andconsternation to organizations that are exposed.”

— Peter L. DeFur, Virginia Commonwealth University





The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power

cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today’s globally integrated

economy possible.


88 illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01443-4

Also availableENERGY AT THE CROSSROADS

Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

Vaclav Smil2005, 978-0-262-69324-0

$19.95T/£14.95 paper

ENERGY IN NATURE AND SOCIETYGeneral Energetics of

Complex SystemsVaclav Smil

2007, 978-0-262-69356-1$34.00S/£25.95 paper

GLOBAL CATASTROPHES AND TRENDS

The Next Fifty YearsVaclav Smil

2008, 978-0-262-19586-7$29.95T/£22.95 cloth

WHY AMERICA IS NOT A NEW ROME

Vaclav Smil2010, 978-0-262-19593-5

$24.95T/£18.95 cloth

technology/current affairs

PRIME MOVERS OF GLOBALIZATIONThe History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas TurbinesVaclav Smil

The many books on globalization published over the past few years range fromclaims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis Khan as apioneer of global commerce. Missing from these accounts is a consideration ofthe technologies behind the creation of the globalized economy. What makes itpossible for us to move billions of tons of raw materials and manufactured goodsfrom continent to continent? Why are we able to fly almost anywhere on theplanet within twenty-four hours? In Prime Movers of Globalization, Vaclav Smiloffers a history of two key technical developments that have driven globalization:the high-compression non-sparking internal combustion engines invented byRudolf Diesel in the 1890s and the gas turbines designed by Frank Whittle andHans-Joachim Pabst von Ohain in the 1930s. The massive diesel engines thatpower cargo ships and the gas turbines that propel jet engines, Smil argues, aremore important to the global economy than any corporate structure or interna-tional trade agreement.

Smil compares the efficiency and scale of these two technologies to primemovers of the past, including the sail and the steam engine. The lengthy processesof development, commercialization, and diffusion that the diesel engine and the gas turbine went through, he argues, provide perfect examples of gradualtechnical advances that receive little attention but have resulted in epochal shiftsin global affairs and the global economy.

Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba and the author of many books, including Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties(2005), Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems (2007), Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years (2008), and Why America Is Not a NewRome (2010), all published by the MIT Press. He was awarded the 2007 Olivia SchieffelinNordberg Award for excellence in writing and editing in the population sciences.






current affairs/politics

Guidance for maintaining national security without abandoning the rule of law and our democratic values.


$21.95T/£16.95 cloth978-0-262-01475-5

Belfer Center Studies in International Security


LAWS, OUTLAWS, AND TERRORISTSLessons from the War on TerrorismGabriella Blum and Philip B. Heymann

In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberaldemocratic values and legal principles? During its “global war on terrorism,” theBush administration argued that the United States was in a new kind of conflict,one in which peacetime domestic law was irrelevant and international law inap-plicable. From 2001 to 2009, the United States thus waged war on terrorism in a “no-law zone.”

Gabriella Blum and Philip Heymann reject the argument that traditionalAmerican values embodied in domestic and international law can be ignored inany sustainable effort to keep the United States safe from terrorism. In Laws,Outlaws, and Terrorists, they demonstrate that the costs are great and the bene-fits slight from separating security and the rule of law.

Blum and Heymann argue that the harsh measures employed by the Bushadministration were authorized too broadly, resulted in too much harm, andoften proved to be counterproductive for security. Blum and Heymann recog-nize that a severe terrorist attack might justify changing the balance betweenlaw and security, but they call for reasoned judgment instead of a wholesaleabandonment of American values. They also argue that being open to negotia-tions and seeking to win the moral support of the communities from which theterrorists emerge are noncoercive strategies that must be included in any futureefforts to reduce terrorism.

Gabriella Blum is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School andauthor of Islands of Agreement: Managing Enduring Armed Rivalries andformer Legal Advisor for the Israel Defense Forces. Philip B. Heymann is James Barr Ames Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a formerDeputy Attorney General of the United States. He is author of Terrorism,Freedom, and Security (2003) and Preserving Liberty in an Age of Terror(2005), both published by the MIT Press.


Captivating stories of the very rare — birds not seen

for centuries, birds brought backfrom the brink of extinction —

illustrated with color photographs and maps.

October10 1/2 x 8 1/2, 240 pp.

200 color photographs61 color maps

$29.95T cloth978-0-262-01517-2

For sale in North America only

nature

ATLAS OF RARE BIRDSDominic Couzens

This book offers a guide to some of the rarest birds in existence, with maps thatshow where to find them. Focusing on fifty captivating stories of the very rare, it describes remarkable discoveries of species not seen for centuries and broughtback from the brink of extinction, successes like the Seychelles Magpie-Robinand the California Condor. The book is organized around key groups of species,with each species the subject of its own mini-chapter; we learn about the fivemost amazing tales of island endemics, the five most bizarre cases of a bird’sbecoming threatened, and other astonishing tales of bird life.

Atlas of Rare Birds is an accessible, readable, and visually appealing take onthe serious subject of threatened birds and possible extinctions — a timely topicbecause of increasing concerns about climate change and habitat destruction.The atlas format — featuring 200 color photographs and 61 color maps —shows the global nature of the problem and brings together the many strands of the concerted bird conservation effort taking place on every continent.

Atlas of Rare Birds is published in association with BirdLife International, the world’s largest global alliance of bird conservation organizations.

Dominic Couzens is a full-time ornithologist based in Ferndown, Dorset,England. He is the author of Top 100 Birding Sites of the World and Bird Migration.

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late addition


Fall 2010 mitpress.mit.edu

nature

A lavishly illustrated look at botanic gardens and the work that goes on behind the scenes to save our botanical heritage.

September10 1/2 x 8 1/2, 240 pp.200 color photographs

$29.95T cloth978-0-262-01516-5

For sale in North America only

BOTANIC GARDENSModern-Day ArksSara Oldfield

All life depends on plants, but we often take them for granted in our everydaylives. It is easy to ignore the fact that we are facing a crisis: scientists estimatethat one third of all flowering plant species are threatened with extinction. This lavishly illustrated volume considers the essential conservation role ofbotanic gardens, telling the story of how a global network is working to save our botanical heritage. Chapters feature gardens from countries around theworld, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Germany,Turkey, Uganda, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, and China.

Comments and photographs from the gardeners involved give the book apersonal touch, revealing the human side of the important work that goes onbehind the scenes of these spectacular gardens. Author Sara Oldfield shows us how botanic gardens are truly “modern-day arks,” safeguarding species andsaving resources on which we may someday depend.

Sara Oldfield, based in Kew, London, is Secretary General of BotanicGardens Conservation International. She is the author of Rainforest(2003) and Deserts: The Living Drylands (2004), both published by the MIT Press.

late addition


biography/science

The first biography in English of a nineteenth-century German

scientist whose experimentalapproach influences

today’s neuroscience.


32 illus.

$27.95T/£20.95 cloth978-0-262-01448-9


HELMHOLTZFrom Enlightenment to NeuroscienceMichel Meulderstranslated by Laurence Garey

Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of most remarkable figures of nine-teenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz(1821–1894) made significant contributions to the study of vision and perceptionand was also influential in the painting, music, and literature of the time; one of his major works analyzed tone in music. This book, the first in English todescribe Helmholtz’s life and work in detail, describes his scientific studies, analyzes them in the context of the science and philosophy of the period — inparticular the German Naturphilosophie — and gauges his influence on today’sneuroscience.

Helmholtz, trained by Johannes Müller, one of the best physiologists of his time, used a resolutely materialistic and empirical scientific method in hisresearch. This puts him in the tradition of Kant and the English empiricalphilosophers and directly opposed to the idealists and naturalists who inter-preted nature based on metaphysical presuppositions. Helmholtz’s research oncolor vision put him at odds with Goethe’s more romantic theorizing on thesubject; but at the end of his life, Helmholtz honored Goethe’s contributions,acknowledging that artistic intuition could reveal truths about the human mindthat are inaccessible to science.

Helmholtz’s work, eclipsed at the beginning of the twentiethcentury by new ideas in neurophysiology, has recently beenrediscovered by psychologists. They recognize in Helmholtz’smethods — which were based on his belief in the intercon -nectedness of physiology and psychology — the origins of neuroscience.

Michel Meulders is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience and HonoraryProrector of the Catholic University of Louvain, where he also was Dean of the Medical School from 1974 to 1979. Laurence Garey, a neuroscientist and anatomist, is the translator of Michel Jouvet’s The Paradox of Sleep (2001) and The Castle of Dreams (2008), both published by the MIT Press.


biography/science

The life and work of a leadingSoviet physicist and an explorationof the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science from Stalinthrough Gorbachev.


$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01458-8

Transformations: Studies in theHistory of Science and Technology


LENIN’S LAUREATEZhores Alferov’s Life in Communist SciencePaul R. JosephsonIn 2000, Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics forhis discovery of the heterojunction, a semiconductor device the practical applica-tions of which include LEDs, rapid transistors, and the microchip. The Prize was the culmination of a career in Soviet science that spanned the eras of Stalin,Khrushchev, and Gorbachev — and continues today in the postcommunistRussia of Putin and Medvedev. In Lenin’s Laureate, historian Paul Josephson tells the story of Alferov’s life and work and examines the bureaucratic, economic,and ideological obstacles to doing state-sponsored scientific research in theSoviet Union.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks built strong institutions for scientific research, rectifying years of neglect under the Czars. Later generations of scientists,including Alferov and his colleagues, reaped the benefits, achieving importantbreakthroughs: the first nuclear reactor for civilian energy, an early fusion device,and, of course, the Sputnik satellite. Josephson’s account of Alferov’s careerreveals the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science — a schizophrenic environment of cutting-edge research and political interference. Alferov, borninto a family of Communist loyalists, joined the party in 1967. He supportedGorbachev’s reforms in the 1980s, but later became frustrated by the recession-plagued postcommunist state’s failure to fund scientific research adequately. An elected member of the Russian parliament since 1995, he uses his prestige as a Nobel laureate to protect Russian science from further cutbacks.

Drawing on extensive archival research and theauthor’s own discussions with Alferov, Lenin’sLaureate offers a unique account of Soviet science,presented against the backdrop of the USSR’s turbu-lent history from the revolution through perestroika.

Paul R. Josephson, Professor of History at Colby College, isthe author of Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?, MotorizedObsession, and other books.


NO PRECEDENT, NO PLANInside Russia’s 1998 DefaultMartin Gilman

In 1998, President Boris Yeltsin’s government defaulted on Russia’s debts and thecountry experienced a financial meltdown that brought its people to the brink ofdisaster. In No Precedent, No Plan, Martin Gilman offers an insider’s view ofRussia’s financial crisis. As the senior representative of the InternationalMonetary Fund in Moscow beginning in 1996, Gilman was in the eye of thestorm. Now, he tells the dramatic story of Russia’s economic evolution followingthe collapse of the Soviet Union and analyzes the 1998 crisis and its aftermath.Gilman argues that the default and collapse, although avoidable, actually spurredRussia to integrate its economy with the rest of the world’s and served as a har-binger of the recent global economic crisis. Gilman details the IMF’s involve-ment and defends it against criticism by economist Joseph Stiglitz and others.

In the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union left Russia in chaos, with a barely functioning government and no consensus on the path toward a democratic and economic transformation. The smooth transition to a marketeconomy that had been accomplished in other countries inEastern Europe was impossible. Gilman describes the ordeal of the 1998 crisis and argues that the IMF helped Russia avoidan even greater catastrophe. He recounts Russia’s emergencefrom the IMF’s tutelage and explains how the shell-shockedRussian public turned to Vladimir Putin in search of stabilityafter the trauma of 1998.

No Precedent, No Plan offers a definitive account — the firstfrom an insider’s perspective — of Russia’s painful transition toa market economy.

Martin Gilman, with the International Monetary Fund from 1981 to2005, was the IMF’s senior representative in Moscow during Russia’speriod of default and rebuilding. Currently Professor of Economics at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, he lives in Moscow with hiswife, the distinguished Russian journalist Tatiana Malkina, and theirtwo children.

economics/Russian history

The definitive insider’s, account of Russia’s painful transition to

a market economy, as told by the IMF’s senior man in

Moscow at the time.


7 illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01465-6



Internet studies/current affairs

How Wikipedia collaborationaddresses the challenges of openness, consensus, and leadership.


$27.95T/£20.95 cloth978-0-262-01447-2

History and Foundations ofInformation Science series


GOOD FAITH COLLABORATIONThe Culture of WikipediaJoseph Michael Reagle Jr.foreword by Lawrence Lessig

Wikipedia the encyclopedia is built by a community — a community ofWikipedians who are expected to “assume good faith” when interacting with one another. In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this uniquecollaborative culture.

Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, univer-sal encyclopedia; its early twentieth-century ancestors include Paul Otlet’sUniversal Repository and H. G. Wells’s proposal for a World Brain. Both theseprojects, like Wikipedia, were fuelled by new technology — which at the timeincluded index cards and microfilm. What distinguishes Wikipedia from theseand other more recent ventures is Wikipedia’s good faith collaborative culture, as seen not only in the writing and editing of articles but also in their discussionpages and edit histories. Keeping an open perspective on both knowledge claimsand other contributors, Reagle argues, creates an extraordinary collaborativepotential.

Wikipedia is famously an encyclopedia “anyone can edit,” and Reagle exam-ines Wikipedia’s openness and several challenges to it: technical features thatlimit vandalism to articles; private actions to mitigate potential legal problems;and Wikipedia’s own internal bureaucratization. He explores Wikipedia’s

process of consensus (reviewing a dispute over naming articleson television shows) and examines the way leadership andauthority work in an open content community.

Wikipedia’s style of collaborative production has been imitated, analyzed, and satirized. Despite the social unease over its implications for individual autonomy, institutionalauthority, and the character (and quality) of cultural products,Wikipedia’s good faith collaborative culture has brought uscloser than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia.

Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. is an Adjunct Professor in the Department ofMedia, Culture, and Communication at New York University. In Fall 2010,he will be a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society atHarvard Law School.


history of computing

The first years of the company that developed the microchip and

created the model for a successfulSilicon Valley start-up.


117 illus.

$24.95T/£18.95 cloth978-0-262-01424-3

Also availableMAKING SILICON VALLEY

Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970

Christophe Lécuyer2007, 978-0-262-62211-0

$23.00S/£17.95 paper


MAKERS OF THE MICROCHIPA Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor Christophe Lécuyer and David C. Brockforeword by Jay Last

In the first three and a half years of its existence, Fairchild Semiconductor devel-oped, produced, and marketed the device that would become the fundamentalbuilding block of the digital world: the microchip. Founded in 1957 by eight former employees of the Schockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Fairchild createdthe model for a successful Silicon Valley start-up: intense activity with a commongoal, close collaboration, and a quick path to the market (Fairchild’s first devicehit the market just ten months after the company’s founding). FairchildSemiconductor was one of the first companies financed by venture capital, and its success inspired the establishment of venture capital firms in the San Francisco Bay area. These firms would finance the explosive growth ofSilicon Valley over the next several decades.

This history of the early years of Fairchild Semiconductor examines thetechnological, business, and social dynamics behind its innovative products. Thecenterpiece of the book is a collection of documents, reproduced in facsimile,including the company’s first prospectus; ideas, sketches, and plans for the company’s products; and a notebook kept by cofounder Jay Last that recordsproblems, schedules, and tasks discussed at weekly meetings. A historicaloverview, interpretive essays, and an introduction to semiconductor technologyin the period accompany these primary documents.

Christophe Lécuyer is Principal Economic Analyst in the Office of thePresident of the University of California and the author of MakingSilicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970(MIT Press, 2005). David C. Brock is Senior Research Fellow at theChemical Heritage Foundation’s Center for Contemporary History andthe editor of Understanding Moore’s Law: Four Decades of Innovation.



science/design

Science maps that can help us understand and navigate the deluge of results generated by today’s science and technology.

October13 x 11, 288 pp.500 color illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01445-8

EXHIBITIONOngoingNational Science Foundation,Washington, D.C.

The Institute for ResearchInformation and Quality Assurance,Bonn, Germany

Storm Hall, San Diego State College


ATLAS OF SCIENCEVisualizing What We KnowKaty Börner

Cartographic maps have guided our explorations for centuries, allowing us tonavigate the world. Science maps have the potential to guide our search forknowledge in the same way, allowing us to visualize scientific results. Sciencemaps help us navigate, understand, and communicate the dynamic and changingstructure of science and technology — help us make sense of the avalanche ofdata generated by scientific research today. Atlas of Science, featuring more thanthirty full-page science maps, fifty data charts, a timeline of science-mappingmilestones, and 500 color images, serves as a sumptuous visual index to the evo-lution of modern science and as an introduction to “the science of science” —charting the trajectory from scientific concept to published results.

Atlas of Science, based on the popular exhibit, “Places & Spaces: MappingScience,” describes and displays successful mapping techniques. The heart of thebook is a visual feast: Claudius Ptolemy’s Cosmographia World Map from1482; a guide to a PhD thesis that resembles a subway map; “the structure ofscience” as revealed in a map of citation relationships in papers published in2002; a visual periodic table; a history flow visualization of the Wikipedia articleon abortion; a globe showing the worldwide distribution of patents; a forecast ofearthquake risk; hands-on science maps for kids; and many more. Each entryincludes the story behind the map and biographies of its makers.

Not even the most brilliant minds can keep up with today’s deluge of scien-tific results. Science maps show us the landscape of what we know.

Katy Börner is Victor H. Yngve Professor of InformationScience in the School of Library and Information Science atIndiana University. She is curator of the “Places & Spaces:Mapping Science” exhibit that inspired Atlas of Science.

“Science is a voyage of discovery and Katy Börner has provided its first atlas. This excellent book offers a com-pendium of all that is best in explaining visual maps ofour scientific knowledge.”— Michael Batty, University College London, author

of Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities withCellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals


BECOMING MITMoments of Decisionedited by David Kaiser

How did MIT become MIT? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology marksthe 150th anniversary of its founding in 2011. Over the years, MIT has lived byits motto, “Mens et Manus” (“Mind and Hand”), dedicating itself to the pursuitof knowledge and its application to real-world problems. MIT has producedleading scholars in fields ranging from aeronautics to economics, invented entireacademic disciplines, and transformed ideas into market-ready devices. This bookexamines a series of turning points, crucial decisions that helped define MIT.Many of these issues have relevance today: the moral implications of defensecontracts, the optimal balance between government funding and private invest-ment, and the right combination of basic science, engineering, and humanisticscholarship in the curriculum.

Chapters describe the educational vision and fund-raising acumen of founderWilliam Barton Rogers (MIT was among the earliest recipients of land grantfunding); MIT’s relationship with Harvard — its rival, doppelgänger, and, for abrief moment, degree-conferring partner; the battle between pure science andindustrial sponsorship in the early twentieth century; MIT’s rapid expansionduring World War II because of defense work and military training courses; theconflict between Cold War gadgetry and the humanities; protests over defensecontracts at the height of the Vietnam War; the uproar in the local communityover the perceived riskiness of recombinant DNA research; and the measurestaken to reverse years of institutionalized discrimination against women scien-tists.

David Kaiser is Associate Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society anda Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing TheoriesApart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogyand the Practices of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.

higher education


The evolution of MIT, as seen in a series of crucial decisions over the years.


40 illus.

$24.95T/£18.95 cloth978-0-262-11323-6

CONTRIBUTORSLotte Bailyn

Deborah DouglasJohn Durant

Susan HockfieldNancy Hopkins

David KaiserChristophe Lécuyer

Stuart W. LeslieBruce Sinclair

Merritt Roe Smith

Also availableMIND AND HAND The Birth of MIT

Julius A. Stratton and Loretta H. Mannix

2005, 978-0-262-19524-9$60.00S/£44.95 cloth




An art project that spread AIDS consciousness like a virus, examined by an artist-activist.

September6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp.32 color illus.

$16.00T/£9.95 paper978-1-84638-065-5

$35.00S/£19.95 cloth978-1-84638-064-8

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CHRIS MARKERLa JetéeJanet Harbord2009, 978-1-84638-048-8$16.00T/£9.95 paper

HANNE DARBOVENCultural History 1880-1983Dan Adler2009, 978-1-84638-050-1$16.00T/£9.95 paper

art

GENERAL IDEAImagevirus Gregg Bordowitz

In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea (AA Bronson, FelixPartz, and Jorge Zontal) created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arrangingthe letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana’s famous LOVE logo. Thislaunched Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhi-bitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using themechanism of viral transmission. The Imagevirus spread like a virus, producingan image epidemic in urban spaces from Manhattan to Sydney. It was displayedas, among other things, a Spectacolor sign in Times Square, a sculpture on astreet in Hamburg, and a poster in the New York subway system. In this detailedstudy of the Imagevirus project, artist and writer Gregg Bordowitz analyzes thework from the perspective of his own involvement with activist art initiatives inNew York during the 1980s and 1990s.

Bordowitz explores the virus as idea, as tactic, and as identity. General Ideafelt compelled to make Imagevirus at a time when AIDS was emerging as aglobal epidemic affecting gay men disproportionately; when homophobiaseemed to drive U.S. AIDS policy; and when the exigencies of AIDS activismcreated a demand for agit-prop and direct action. General Idea adapted theirmethods to the new situation, using the threat of viral infection and a poeticunderstanding of language as their model for artistic production and ideologicalstruggle.

Gregg Bordowitz is an artist, writer, and Professor of Film, Video, and New Media at theSchool of the Art Institute, Chicago. He is the author of The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous andOther Writings, 1986–2003 (MIT Press, 2004). Bordowitz, who has been living with AIDSfor two decades, was a member of the groundbreaking AIDS activist group ACT UP.

AFTERALL BOOKS






DARA BIRNBAUMTechnology/Transformation: Wonder WomanT. J. Demos

Opening with a prolonged salvo of fiery explosions accompanied by the warningcry of a siren, Dara Birnbaum’s video Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman(1978–79) is a concise, action-packed, and visually riveting video. During itsseven-minute span we see, again and again, the transformation of the drab secre-tary Diana Prince into the super-heroic Wonder Woman. By isolating andrepeating the moment of transformation — spinning figure, arms outstretched— Birnbaum unmasks the technology at the heart of the metamorphosis. In thisillustrated examination of Birnbaum’s video, T. J. Demos situates it in its histori-cal context — among other developments in postmodernist appropriation, mediaanalysis, and feminist politics — and explores the artist’s pioneering attempts toopen up the transformative abilities of video as a medium.

Demos examines Birnbaum’s influence on such artists as Douglas Gordon,Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Candice Breitz, and the turn toward“postproduction procedures” — the mobilization of existing imagery for innovative uses. He also reveals a fascinating historical shift in the reception of Birnbaum’s work: a move from an emphasis on her deconstruction of mass culture ideology to an appreciation of her creative use of consumer imagery.

T. J. Demos is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College London,and the author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007). His essays haveappeared in such journals as Artforum, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst.


A critical examination of Dara Birnbaum’s action-packed

and riveting video of WonderWoman’s transformations.

September6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp.

32 color illus.

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Wavelength Elizabeth Legge

2009, 978-1-84638-056-3$16.00T/£9.95 paper

SARAH LUCAS Au NaturelAmna Malik

2009, 978-1-84638-054-9$16.00T/£9.95 paper

MARCEL DUCHAMPÉtant donnés

Julian Jason Haladyn2010, 978-1-84638-059-4

$16.00T/£9.95 paper

RICHARD LONGA Line Made by Walking

Dieter Roelstraete2010, 978-1-84638-058-7

$16.00T/£9.95 paper

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art/video







LAST SEEN ENTERING THE BILTMOREPlays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975–2008Gary Indiana

Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Crazy, in 1987, Gary Indianawrote and directed twelve plays for an informal company whose performersincluded the painter Bill Rice, composer Evan Lurie, the poet George-ThereseDickenson, writer and film actress Cookie Mueller, Warhol superstar and painterViva, writer Victoria Pedersen, singer/actress Sharon Niesp, photographer AllenFrame, the legendary Taylor Mead, novelist Larry Mitchell, and others.Performed at the Mudd Club, Club 57, The Performing Garage, and Bill Rice’sE. 3rd Street studio, Indiana’s plays offered a kind of community theater for NewYork’s underground.

This volume presents highlights of that repertoire, including Alligator GirlsGo to College, The Roman Polanski Story, and Indiana’s script for Michel Auder’svideofilm A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking, accompanied byarchival performance photographs and selections from Indiana’s contemporane-ous journals and poems. These hilarious, incisive writings and scripts evoke avivid and accurate portrait of writers and artists in the lower Manhattan of the1980s — arguably America’s last avant-garde — and anticipates Indiana’simpressive subsequent literary career.

Hailed by The Guardian as “one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche,”Gary Indiana is the author of a darkly satirical trilogy set in Southern California during the late 1990s: Resentment, Depraved Indifference and Three Month Fever: The AndrewCunanan Story. His 2008 novel Shanghai Gesture was praised by Bookforum as “structureddelirium . . . an aesthete’s hallucinatory folktale.” He is also the author of two collectionsof essays, Utopia’s Debris and Let It Bleed. Indiana teaches philosophy and literature atthe New School in New York City.

Previously unpublished plays and writings by one of today’s foremost satirical authors.


$17.95T/£13.95 paper978-1-58435-090-3

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Also available from Semiotext(e)DAVID WOJNAROWICZ A definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East SideInterviews by Sylvère LotringerEdited by Giancarlo Ambrosino2006, 978-1-58435-035-4$29.95T/£22.95 cloth

BAD REPUTATIONPerformances, Essays, InterviewsPenny Arcade2009, 978-1-58435-069-9$19.95T/£14.95 cloth


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NEITHER SUN NOR DEATHPeter Sloterdijk with Hans-Jürgen Heinrichstranslated by Steve Corcoran

We shouldn’t forget that ancient philosophy used to be a mental workout in which logical forms were used like machines in a gym. . . . Philosophy today is a super-workout for communicative energies capable of finding points of contactthroughout the entire world.

— from Neither Sun nor Death

Peter Sloterdijk first became known in this country for his late 1980s Critique ofCynical Reason, which confronted headlong the “enlightened false consciousness”of Habermasian critical theory. Two decades later, after spending seven years inIndia studying Eastern philosophy, he is now attracting renewed interest for his writings on politics and globalization and for his magnum opus Spheres, athree-volume archaeology of the human attempt to dwell within spaces, fromwomb to globe: Bubbles, 1998; Globes, 1999; Foam, 2004, all forthcoming fromSemiotext(e).

In Neither Sun nor Death, Sloterdijk answers questions posed by Germanwriter Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs, commenting on such issues as technologicalmutation, development media, communication technologies, and his own intellectual itinerary.

Iconoclastic and provocative, alternatively sparkling andbombastic, a child of ’68 and a libertarian, Sloterdijk is the mostexciting and controversial German philosopher to appear onthe world scene since Nietzsche and Heidegger. Like Nietzsche,Sloterdijk remains convinced that contemporary philosophershave to think dangerously and let themselves be “kidnapped” by contemporary “hypercomplexities”; they must forsake ourpresent humanist and nationalist world for a wider horizon atonce ecological and global.

Neither Sun nor Death is the best introduction available to Sloterdijk’s philosophical theory of globalization. It reveals a philosophe extraordinaire, encyclopedic and provocative, asmuch at ease with current French Theory (Gilles Deleuze, Paul Virilio, Gabriel Tarde) as with Heidegger and Indian mystic Osho Rajneesh.

Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely readGerman intellectuals writing today. He became president of the StateAcademy of Design at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in2001, and has been cohost of a discussion program, Der PhilosophischeQuartett (Philosophical Quartet), on German television since 2002.Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs is an anthropologist, writer, and publisher; he lives in Germany and Spain.


A series of dialogues with the most exciting and controversial

German philosopher writing today.

November6 x 9, 384 pp.

$17.95T/£13.95 paper978-1-58435-091-0

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Also available from Semiotext(e)TERROR FROM THE AIR

Peter Sloterdijk2009, 978-1-58435-072-9

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philosophy



THE AGONY OF POWERJean Baudrillardtranslated by Ames Hodgesintroduction by Sylvère Lotringer

History that repeats itself turns to farce. But a farce that repeats itself ends up makinga history.

— from The Agony of Power

In these previously unpublished manuscripts written just before his death in2007, Jean Baudrillard takes a last crack at the bewildering situation currentlyfacing us as we exit the system of “domination” (based on alienation, revolt, revolution) and enter a world of generalized “hegemony” in which everyonebecomes both hostage and accomplice of the global market. But in the free-formmarket of political and sexual liberation, as the possibility of revolution (and ourunderstanding of it) dissipates, Baudrillard sees the hegemonic process as onlybeginning. Once expelled, negativity returns from within ourselves as an antago-nistic force — most vividly in the phenomenon of terrorism, but also as irony,mockery, and the symbolic liquidation of all human values. This is the dimensionof hegemony marked by an unbridled circulation — of capital, goods, informa-tion, or manufactured history — that is bringing the very concept of exchange to an end and pushing capital beyond its limits: to the point at which it destroysthe conditions of its own existence. In the system of hegemony, the alienated, theoppressed, and the colonized find themselves on the side of the system that holdsthem hostage. In this paradoxical moment in which history has turned to farce,domination itself may appear to have been a lesser evil.

This book gathers together two essays — “The Agony ofPower” and “From Domination to Hegemony” — and a relatedinterview with Baudrillard from 2005, “The Roots of Evil.”Semiotext(e) launched Baudrillard into English back in theearly 1980s; now, as our media and information infested “ultra-reality” finally catches up with his theory, Semiotext(e)offers The Agony of Power, Baudrillard’s unsettling coda.

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, culturalcritic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theoriesof contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in theFrench intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.

Baudrillard’s unsettling coda: previously unpublished texts written just before the visionarytheorist’s death in 2007.

October4 1/2 x 7, 88 pp.

$12.95T/£9.95 paper978-1-58435-092-7

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Also available from Semiotext(e)RADICAL ALTERITYJean Baudrillard and Marc Guillaume2008, 978-1-58435-049-1$14.95T/£11.95 paper

FATAL STRATEGIESJean Baudrillard2008, 978-1-58435-061-3$14.95T/£11.95 paper


philosophy/cultural studies




THE MACHINIC UNCONSCIOUSEssays in SchizoanalysisFélix Guattaritranslated by Taylor Adkins

We certainly have the unconscious that we deserve, an unconscious for specialists,ready-made for an institutionalized discourse. I would rather see it as something thatwraps itself around us in everyday objects, something that is involved with day-to-dayproblems, with the world outside. It would be the possible itself, open to the socius, tothe cosmos . . .

— from The Machinic Unconscious

In his seminal solo-authored work The Machinic Unconscious (originally publishedin French in 1979), Félix Guattari lays the groundwork for a general pragmaticscapable of resisting the semiotic enslavement of subjectivity. Concluding thatpsychoanalytic theory had become part and parcel of a repressive, capitalist social order, Guattari here outlines a schizoanalytic theory to undo its capitaliststructure and set the discipline back on its feet. Combining theoretical researchfrom fields as diverse as cybernetics, semiotics, ethnology, and ethology, Guattarireintroduces into psychoanalysis a “polemical” dimension, at once transhuman,transsexual, and transcosmic, that brings out the social and political — the“machinic” — potential of the unconscious.

To illustrate his theory, Guattari turns to literature and analyzes the variousmodes of subjectivization and semiotization at work in Proust’s In Search of LostTime, examining the novel as if he were undertaking a scientific exploration inthe style of Freud or Newton. Casting Proust’s figures as abstract (“hyper-deter-ritorialized”) mental objects, Guattari maps the separation between literatureand science, elaborating along the waysuch major Deleuze-Guattarian con-cepts as “faciality” and “refrain,” whichwould be unpacked in their subse-quent A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalismand Schizophrenia.

Never before available in English,The Machinic Unconscious has for toolong been the missing chapter fromDeleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipusproject: the most important politicalextension of May 1968 and one of themost important philosophical contri-butions of the twentieth century.

Félix Guattari (1930-1992), post-’68French psychoanalyst and philosopher, is the author of Anti-Oedipus (with Gilles Deleuze), and a number of bookspublished by Semiotext(e), including The Anti-Oedipus Papers (2006) andChaosophy (new edition, 2008).

An early work that lays the foundation for establishing

a “polemical” dimension to psychoanalysis.


$17.95T/£13.95 paper978-1-58435-088-0



Also available from Semiotext(e)THE ANTI-OEDIPUS PAPERS

Félix Guattari2006, 978-1-58435-031-6

$17.95T/£13.95 paper

CHAOSOPHYTexts and Interviews 1972–1977

Félix Guattari2008, 978-1-58435-060-6

$17.95T/£13.95 paper

SOFT SUBVERSIONSTexts and Interviews 1977–1985

Félix Guattari2009, 978-1-58435-073-6

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cultural studies





NEW EDITIONARCHEOLOGY OF VIOLENCEPierre Clastresintroduction by Eduardo Viveiros de Castrotranslated by Jeanine Herman

The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being reliesentirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is,the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society issociety against the State in that it is society-for-war.

— from The Archeology of Violence

Anthropologist and ethnographer Pierre Clastres was a major influence on GillesDeleuze and Félix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, and his writings formed an essentialchapter in the discipline of political anthropology. The posthumous publicationin French of Archeology of Violence in 1980 gathered together Clastres’s finalgroundbreaking essays and the opening chapters of the book he had begunbefore his death in 1977 at the age of 43. Elaborating upon the conclusions ofsuch earlier works as Society Against the State, in these essays Clastres critiques hisformer mentor, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and devastatingly rejects the orthodoxy ofMarxist anthropology and other Western interpretive models of “primitive soci-eties.” Discarding the traditional anthropological understanding of war amongSouth American Indians as arising from a scarcity of resources, Clastres insteadidentifies violence among these peoples as a deliberate means to territorial seg-mentation and the avoidance of a State formation. In their refusal to separate the political from the social, and in their careful control of their tribal chiefs —who are rendered weak so as to remain dependent on the communities they

represent — the “savages” Clastres presents prove to be shrewd politicalminds who resist in advance any attempt at “globalization.”

The essays in this, Clastres’s finalbook, cover subjects ranging from ethnocide and shamanism to “primitive”power and economy, and are as vibrantand engaging as they were thirty yearsago. This new edition — which includesan introduction by Eduardo Viverios deCastro — holds even more relevance forreaders in today’s era of malaise andglobalization.

Pierre Clastres (1934–1977) was a Frenchanthropologist and ethnologist who, in the wake of the events of May ‘68, helpedoverturn anthropological orthodoxy in the1970s. His books include Society Against the State (1974) and Chronicle of the GuayakiIndians (1972). Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and a professorat the National Museum of the FederalUniversity of Rio de Janeiro.


anthropology

Clastres’s final, posthumous bookon the affirmative role of violencein “primitive societies.”


$15.95T/£11.95 paper978-1-58435-093-4



Also available from Zone BooksSOCIETY AGAINST THE STATEEssays in Political AnthropologyPierre Clastrestranslated by Robert Hurley and Abe Stein1989, 978-0-942299-01-4$19.95T/£14.95 paper

CHRONICLE OF THE GUAYAKI INDIANSPierre Clastrestranslated by Paul Auster2000, 978-0-942299-78-6$19.95T/£14.95 paperNot for sale in the U.K. and British Commomwealthexcept Canada




DIARY OF AN INNOCENTTony Duverttranslated with an introduction by Bruce Benderson

I’d find it amusing if, in a few centuries, the only thing that our descendents condescendto retain of our artistic production, the only thing in which they’ll see worlds to admire,to penetrate, the only thing that they’ll show off as precious in immense museums afterhaving flushed down the toilet all our acknowledged masterpieces, the only thing thatwill give them nostalgia and love for us will be our porn.

— from Diary of an Innocent

Exiled from the prestigious French literary circles that had adored him in the1970s, novelist Tony Duvert’s life ended in anonymity. In 2008, nineteen yearsafter his last book was published, Duvert’s lifeless body was discovered in thesmall village of Thoré-la-Rochette, where he had been living a life of totalseclusion.

Now for the first time, Duvert’s most highly crafted novel is available inEnglish. Poetic, brutally frank, and outright shocking, Diary of an Innocentrecounts the risky experiences of a sexual adventurer among a tribe of adolescentboys in an imaginary setting that suggests North Africa. More reverie than nar-rative, Duvert’s Diary presents a cascading series of portraits of the narrator’sadolescent sexual partners and their culture, and ends with a fanciful yet rigorous construction of a reverse world in which marginal sexualities havebecome the norm.

Written with gusto and infused with a luminous bitterness,this novel is more unsettling to readers today than it was to itsfirst audience when published in French in 1976. In his openlydeclared war on society, Duvert presents a worldview thatoffers no easy moral code and no false narrative solution ofredemption. And yet no reader will remain untouched by thebook’s dazzling language, stinging wit, devotion to matters ofthe heart, and terse condemnation of today’s society.

Tony Duvert (1945–2008) is the author of fourteen books of fiction andnonfiction. His fifth novel, Paysage de fantaisie (Strange Landscape),won the prestigious Prix Médicis in 1973. Other books translated into English include the novel When Jonathan Died, and the scathingcritique of sex and society Good Sex Illustrated (Semiotext(e), 2007).Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of a memoir, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, winner of France’s prestigious Prix de Flore in French translation, and Pacific Agony(Semiotext(e), 2009).

“ Diary of an Innocent by Tony Duvert is a truly scandalous work,but first and foremost a work of great depth and freedom. . . . A bookthat reinvents the seduction of literature.”

— Abdellah Taïa, author of Salvation Army

Now in English, Duvert’s shockingnovel about a sexual adventurer

among a tribe of adolescent boys in Northern Africa.


$17.95T/£13.95 paper978-1-58435-077-4

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Tony Duverttranslated by Bruce Benderson

2007, 978-1-58435-043-9$14.95T/£11.95 paper

PACIFIC AGONYBruce Benderson

2009, 978-1-58435-082-8$14.95T/£11.95 paper


fiction




Why do nation-states wall themselves off despite widespread proclamations of global connectedness?


$25.95T/£19.95 cloth978-1-935408-08-6

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politics/current affairs

WALLED STATES, WANING SOVEREIGNTYWendy Brown

Why do walls marking national boundaries proliferate amid widespread procla-mations of global connectedness and despite anticipation of a world without borders? Why are barricades built of concrete, steel, and barbed wire whenthreats to the nation today are so often miniaturized, vaporous, clandestine, dispersed, or networked?

In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spateof wall building in contrast to the erosion of nation-state sovereignty. Drawingon classical and contemporary political theories of state sovereignty in order to understand how state power and national identity persist amid its decline,Brown considers both the need of the state for legitimacy and the populardesires that incite the contemporary building of walls. The new walls — divid-ing Texas from Mexico, Israel from Palestine, South Africa from Zimbabwe —consecrate the broken boundaries they would seem to contest and signify theungovernability of a range of forces unleashed by globalization. Yet these samewalls often amount to little more than theatrical props, frequently breached, andblur the distinction between law and lawlessness that they are intended to repre-sent. But if today’s walls fail to resolve the conflicts between globalization andnational identity, they nonetheless project a stark image of sovereign power.Walls, Brown argues, address human desires for containment and protection in a world increasingly without these provisions. Walls respond to the wish for horizons even as horizons are vanquished.

Wendy Brown is Emanuel Heller Professor of Political Science at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. She is the author of RegulatingAversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire and other books.


REASON AND RESONANCEA History of Modern AuralityVeit Erlmann

Hearing has traditionally been regarded as the second sense — as somehow less rational and less modern than the first sense, sight. Reason and Resonanceexplodes this myth by reconstructing the process through which the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality.

For the past four hundred years, hearing has been understood as involvingthe sympathetic resonance between the vibrating air and various parts of theinner ear. But the emergence of resonance as the centerpiece of modern auralityalso coincides with the triumph of a new type of epistemology in which theabsence of resonance is the very condition of thought. Our mind’s relationshipto the world is said to rest on distance or, as the very synonym for reason sug-gests, reflection.

Reason and Resonance traces the genealogy of this “intimate animosity”between reason and resonance through a series of interrelated case studiesinvolving a varied cast of otologists, philosophers, physiologists, pamphleteers,and music theorists. Among them are the seventeenth-century architect-zoolo-gist Claude Perrault, who refuted Cartesianism in a book on sound and hearing;the Sturm und Drang poet Wilhelm Heinse and his friend the anatomistSamuel Sömmerring, who believed the ventricular fluid to be the interface between the soul and the auditory nerve; therenowned physiologist Johannes Müller, who invented the con-cept of “sense energies”; and Müller’s most important student,Hermann von Helmholtz, author of the magisterial Sensationsof Tone. Erlman also discusses key twentieth-century thinkers ofaurality, including Ernst Mach; the communications engineerand proponent of the first nonresonant wave theory of hearing,Georg von Békésy; political activist and philosopher GüntherAnders; and Martin Heidegger.

Veit Erlmann holds the Endowed Chair of Music History at the Universityof Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music.

How the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality.


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A movement emerges to challengethe tightening of intellectual property law around the world.

November6 x 9, 640 pp.61 illus.

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CONTRIBUTORSAhmed Abdelatif, Philippe Aigrain,Jeffrey Atteberry, Yochai Benkler, Yann Moulier Boutaing, Carlos Correa,Laura DeNardis, Sarah Deutsch, Peter Drahos, Hala Essalmawi, Rick Falkvinge, Sean Flynn, Vera Franz, Spring Gombe, Anil Gupta, Ellen ’t Hoen, Charles Igwe, Eddan Katz, Kannikar Kijtiwatchakul, Gaëlle Krikorian, Lawrence Liang,Jiraporn Limpananont, James Love,Leena Menghaney, Viviana Munoz,Sisule F. Musungu, HeeSeob Nam,Chan Park, Eloan Pinheiro dos Santos,Achal Prabhala, Onno Purbo, Manon Ress, Caroline Rossini, Susan Sell, Sangeeta Shashikant, Roberto Verzola, Jo Walsh


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ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYedited by Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski

At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided witheveryday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technolo-gies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible bythe Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives ofmillions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS by limiting theiraccess to cheap generic medicines. For decades, governments have tightened thegrip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries; butrecently, groups have emerged around the world to challenge this wave of enclo-sure with a new counter-politics of “access to knowledge” or “A2K.” They includesoftware programmers who took to the streets to defeat software patents inEurope, AIDS activists who forced multinational pharmaceutical companies topermit copies of their medicines to be sold in poor countries, subsistence farmersdefending their rights to food security or access to agricultural biotechnology,and college students who created a new “free culture” movement to defend thedigital commons. Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property maps thisemerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and con-cepts. It gathers some of the most important thinkers and advocates in the fieldto make the stakes and strategies at play in this new domain visible and the termsof intellectual property law intelligible in their political implications around theworld. A Creative Commons edition of this work will be freely available online.

Gaëlle Krikorian is a doctoral student at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socialesin Paris and a member of the consultative board AC27 at the national research agency on HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis (ANRS). Amy Kapczynski is Assistant Professor of Law at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, Law School. She cofounded Universities Allied forEssential Medicines in 2002.


OBJECTIVITYLorraine Daston and Peter Galison

Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Dastonand Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences — and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. It is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fusedwith workaday practices in the making of scientific images.

Galison and Daston use images from scientific atlases — the compendia thatteach practitioners what is worth looking at and how to look at it — to uncovera hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas makeridealizes an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature, orrefuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity, orhighlights patterns in the name of trained judgment, it is a decision enforced byan ethos as well as by an epistemology.

As Daston and Galison argue, atlases shape the subjects as well as the objectsof science. To pursue objectivity — or truth-to-nature or trained judgment — isto cultivate a distinctive scientific self and to see not as a separate individual butas a member of a particular scientific community. Embedded in the atlas image,therefore, are the traces of consequential choices about knowledge, persona, andcollective sight. Objectivity is a book addressed to anyone interested in the elu-sive and crucial notion of objectivity — and in what it means to peer into theworld scientifically.

Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Historyof Science in Berlin, Germany. She is the coauthor of Wonders and theOrder of Nature, 1150-1750 (1998) and the editor of Things That Talk:Object Lessons from Art and Science (2004), both Zone Books. PeterGalison is Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science andof Physics at Harvard University. He is the author of Einstein’s Clocks,Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time, among other books, and coeditor(with Emily Thompson) of The Architecture of Science (MIT Press, 1999).

“The authors’ argument here is complicated but fascinating (and,because the argument is about images, the book is beautiful).”

— Science

“Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison is not just afine book, it is that rare thing, a great book. It is almost shockinglyoriginal, genuinely profound, and amazingly learned without everbeing pedantic. It should force everyone interested in science and itshistory or in objectivity and its history to think more deeply aboutwhat they think they already know.”

— Hilary Putnam, author of Ethics without Ontology

The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century

sciences, as revealed throughimages in scientific atlases.


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PARENTONOMICSAn Economist Dad Looks at ParentingJoshua Gans

Like any new parent, JoshuaGans felt joy mixed with anxietyupon the birth of his first child.Who was this blanket-swaddledsmall person and what did shewant? Unlike most parents, how-ever, Gans is an economist, and he began to apply thetools of his trade to raising his children. He saw hisnew life as one big economic management problem —and if economics helped him think about parenting,parenting illuminated certain economic principles.Parentonomics is the entertaining, enlightening, andoften hilarious fruit of his “research.”

Gans gives us the parentonomic view of delivery (if the mother shares her pain by yelling at the father,doesn’t it really create more aggregate pain?), sleep (thescreams of a baby are like an offer: “I’ll stop screamingif you give me attention”), food (a question of market-ing), travel (“the best thing you can say about travelingwith children is that they are worse than baggage”),punishment (and threat credibility), birthday partytime management, and more.

Joshua Gans is the father of three and Chair of Managementat the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne.He is the author of several economics textbooks and the 2007 recipient of Australia’s Young Economist award.

“Dr. Spock meets Freakonomics. Parenting will never bethe same.”

— Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor at Yale School of Management, coauthor of Co-Opetition

“What happens when Mr. Spock meets Dr. Spock? Theanswer is Parentonomics, an autobiographical account ofhow an economist used his professional training in gametheory to bring up his three children.”

— Tim Hartford, Financial Times

October — 5 3/8 x 8, 256 pp.

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HONEST SIGNALS How They Shape Our WorldAlex (Sandy) Pentland

How can you know when someone is bluffing? Payingattention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writesSandy Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle patternsin how we interact with other people reveal our attitudestoward them. These unconscious social signals are notjust a back channel or a complement to our consciouslanguage; they form a separate communication network.

Biologically based “honest signal-ing,” evolved from ancient primatesignaling mechanisms, offers an unmatched window into our intentions, goals, and values.If we understand this ancientchannel of communication,Pentland claims, we can accu-rately predict the outcomes of situations ranging from jobinterviews to first dates.

Pentland, an MIT professor, has used a speciallydesigned 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 channelof communication, revolving not around words butaround social relations, profoundly influences majordecisions in our lives — even though we are largelyunaware of it. Pentland shows how by “reading” oursocial networks we can become more successful atpitching an idea, getting a job, or closing a deal — better managers, workers, and communicators.

Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland, is a leading figure at the MITMedia Lab and is a pioneer in the fields of organizationalengineering, mobile information systems, and computationalsocial science.

“A slender hardback book is sitting innocuously in a pool ofsunlight on my desk. . . . You might not expect it to carrythe seeds of social revolution — but I strongly suspect that it does.”

— John Gilbey, “The Book of the Week,” Times Higher Education Supplement

October — 5 3/8 x 8, 208 pp.

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NEW TECH, NEW TIESHow Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social CohesionRich Ling

The message of this book is simple: the mobile phonestrengthens social bonds among family and friends.With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls toa location and ask hopefully if someone is “there”; witha mobile phone, we have instant and perpetual access to friends and family regardless of where they are. But when we are engaged inthese intimate conversations withabsent friends, what happens toour relationship with the peoplewho are actually in the sameroom with us?

In New Tech, New Ties, Rich Ling examines how themobile telephone affects bothkinds of interactions — thosemediated by mobile communica-tion and those that are face to face. Ling finds thatthrough the use of various social rituals the mobiletelephone strengthens social ties within the circle offriends and family — sometimes at the expense ofinteraction with those who are physically present.

Rich Ling holds the position of sociologist at the Norwegiantelecommunications company Telenor and is Professor at theIT University of Copenhagen. He is the author of The MobileConnection: The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society.

“Anyone who wants to know how our use of mobile phonesis changing our social lives should read this book.”

— Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community, and Smart Mob

“Rich Ling examines the social effects of the mobile telephoneand ends up finding more to praise than to blame.”

— Christine Rosen, The Wall Street Journal

October — 6 x 9, 240 pp. — 1 illus.

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CO2 RISINGThe World’s GreatestEnvironmental ChallengeTyler Volk

The most colossal environmentaldisturbance in human history isunder way. Ever-rising levels ofthe potent greenhouse gas carbondioxide (CO2) are altering thecycles of matter and life and

interfering with the Earth’s natural cooling process.Melting Arctic ice and mountain glaciers are just thefirst relatively mild symptoms of what will result fromthis disruption of the planetary energy balance. In CO2

Rising, scientist Tyler Volk explains the process at theheart of global warming and climate change: the globalcarbon cycle. Vividly and concisely, Volk describes whathappens when CO2 is released by the combustion offossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), letting loose carbon atoms once trapped deep underground into the interwoven web of air, water, and soil.

Knowledge about the global carbon cycle and thehuge disturbances that human activity produces in itwill equip us to consider the hard questions that Volkraises in the second half of CO2 Rising about futurelevels of CO2, future energy sources, and global equityin per capita emissions. Answering these questions will indeed be our greatest environmental challenge.

Tyler Volk is Science Director of Environmental Studies andAssociate Professor of Biology at New York University. He isthe author of Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of the Earth(MIT Press, 2003), Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, andMind, and other books.

“If there is one book on climate change that PresidentBarack Obama should read, it might well be Tyler Volk’sCO2 Rising.”

— Euan Nisbet, Nature Reports Climate Change

October — 5 3/8 x 8, 240 pp. — 39 illus.

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2009 winner, Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarshipin the Ecology of Social Interaction, given by the Media EcologyAssociation





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THE SHADOWS OFCONSUMPTION Consequences for the Global EnvironmentPeter Dauvergne

The Shadows of Consumptiongives a hard-hitting diagnosis:many of the earth’s ecosystemsand billions of its people are atrisk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars tohamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but, asPeter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and eco-nomic processes displace the real costs of consumergoods into distant ecosystems, communities, and time-lines, tipping into crisis people and places without thepower to resist.

Dauvergne’s innovative analysis allows us to see why so many efforts to manage the global environmentare failing even as environmentalism is slowly strength-ening. He proposes a guiding principle of “balancedconsumption” for both consumers and corporations.More crucial than our individual efforts to reuse andrecycle will be reforms in the global political economyto reduce the inequalities of consumption and correctthe imbalance between growing economies and environmental sustainability.

Peter Dauvergne is Professor of Political Science and CanadaResearch Chair in Global Environmental Politics at the Universityof British Columbia. He is the author of the award-winningShadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber inSoutheast Asia (MIT Press, 1997), and the coauthor (withJennifer Clapp) of Paths to a Green World: The PoliticalEconomy of the Global Environment (MIT Press, 2005).

“Engaging, convincing, and nuanced, Peter Dauvergne’sbook masterfully excavates and politicizes the shadows ofconsumption that modern life casts, from the consumptionof beef to the use of cars and fridges.”

— Peter Newell, Professor of Development Studies,University of East Anglia

October — 6 x 9, 336 pp.

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DESIGN FOR ECOLOGICALDEMOCRACYRandolph T. Hester

Over the last fifty years, the process of communitybuilding has been lost in the process of city building.City and suburban design divides us from others in our communities, destroys natural habitats, and fails to provide a joyful context for our lives. In Design forEcological Democracy, Randolph Hester proposes a rem-edy for our urban anomie. He outlines new principles

for urban design that will allowus to forge connections with ourfellow citizens and our naturalenvironment. He demonstratesthese principles with abundantlyillustrated examples — drawnfrom forty years of design andplanning practice — showing

how we can design cities that are ecologically resilient,that enhance community, and that give us pleasure.

Randolph T. Hester is Professor and former Department Chair in the Department of Landscape Architecture andEnvironmental Planning at the University of California,Berkeley, and Principal in the firm Community Developmentby Design. He is the author of Neighborhood Space, PlanningNeighborhood Space with People, and Community Design Primer.

“Randy Hester’s profusely illustrated book is the fruitfuloutcome of his life’s work in community design. Design forEcological Democracy shows us how to adapt human settlements so that people can get back in touch with thesources of natural creation.”

— Bill Thompson, Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine

“This wise, passionate, and inspiring book, full of successstories, is required reading for all who would build commu-nities that are more beautiful, sustainable, and just.”

— Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of LandscapeArchitecture and Planning, MIT, and author of

The Language of Landscape and The Granite Garden

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Co-winner, 2009 Gerald L. Young Book Award in Human Ecology,given by the Society for Human Ecology

Winner, 2007 Davidoff Award, presented by the Association ofCollegiate Schools of Planning

Winner, 2006 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning,presented by the Association of American Publishing/ProfessionalScholarly Publishing





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OPENING UPEDUCATION The Collective Advancementof Education through OpenTechnology, Open Content,and Open Knowledge edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumarforeword by John Seely Brown

Given the abundance of openeducation initiatives that aim to make educational assetsfreely available online, the time seems ripe to explore thepotential of open education to transform the economicsand ecology of education. Despite the diversity of toolsand resources already available — from well-packagedcourse materials to simple games for students, self-learn-ers, faculty, and educational institutions — we have yetto take full advantage of shared knowledge about howthese are being used, what local innovations are emerg-ing, and how to learn from and build on the experiencesof others. In essays by leaders in open education, OpeningUp Education argues that we must develop not only thetechnical capability but also the intellectual capacity fortransforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into com-monly usable and visible knowledge: by providingincentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) openeducation goods, and by looking beyond institutionalboundaries to connect a variety of settings and opensource entrepreneurs.

Through the support of the Carnegie Foundationfor the Advancement of Teaching, an electronic versionof this book is openly available under a CreativeCommons license at the MIT Press Web site,http://mitpress.mit.edu.

Toru Iiyoshi is Senior Scholar and Director of the KnowledgeMedia Lab at the Carnegie Foundation. M. S. Vijay Kumar isSenior Associate Dean and Director of the Office of EducationalInnovation and Technology at MIT.

“This book is probably the most comprehensive collection ofwritings to date on the open education movement.”

— C. Judson King, Director, Center for Studies inHigher Education, University of California, Berkeley


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FROM BETAMAX TO BLOCKBUSTERVideo Stores and the Invention of Movies on VideoJoshua M. Greenberg

The first video cassette recorders were promoted in the1970s as an extension of broadcast television technol-ogy — a time-shifting device, a way to tape TV shows.Early advertising for Sony’s Betamax told potential purchasers “You don’t have to miss Kojak because you’rewatching Columbo.” But within a few years, the VCR

had been transformed from amachine that recorded televisioninto an extension of the movietheater into the home.

In From Betamax to Blockbuster,Joshua Greenberg explains howthe combination of neighborhoodvideo stores and the VCR createda world in which movies becametangible consumer goods.Greenberg charts a trajectory

from early “videophile” communities to the rise of thevideo store — complete with theater marquee lights,movie posters, popcorn, and clerks who offered expertadvice on which movies to rent. The result was morethan a new industry; by placing movies on cassette inthe hands (and control) of consumers, video rental andsale led to a renegotiation of the boundary betweenmedium and message, and ultimately a new relationshipbetween audiences and movies.

Joshua M. Greenberg is Director of Digital Strategy andScholarship at the New York Public Library.

“Greenberg effectively recreates the excitement that was inthe air at the dawn of the video age.”

— David Siegfried, Booklist

“Josh Greenberg has given us a new way of viewing whatwe thought was a familiar story. . . . The VCR permanentlyaltered the American mediascape and Greenberg shows uswhy and how.”

— Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs


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CINEMATICMYTHMAKINGPhilosophy in FilmIrving Singer

Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods andheroes of mythology are bothlarger than life and deeplyhuman; they teach us about theworld, and they tell us a goodstory. Similarly, our experience of film is both distantand intimate. In Cinematic Mythmaking, Irving Singerexplores the hidden and overt use of myth in variousfilms and, in general, the philosophical elements of afilm’s meaning. Mythological themes, Singer writes,perform a crucial role in cinematic art and even philos-ophy itself.

Singer incisively disentangles the strands of differ-ent myths in the films he discusses. He finds, forexample, that 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 herown dark night of the soul. The aesthetic and probinginventiveness in film, Singer shows us, restores andrevives for audiences in the twenty-first century mythsof creation, of the questing hero, and of ideals — bothsecular and religious — that have had enormous signif-icance throughout the human search for love andmeaning in life.

Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is theauthor of the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Lifeas well as Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique(2000); Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles,Renoir (2004); Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher(2007), all published by the MIT Press.

“Singer has a great teacher’s gift for making fresh, unex-pected links among some of the best-known works of cine-matic art. A joy to read.”

— Edward Baron Turk, author of Child of Paradise:Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema


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THE ARTWORK CAUGHT BY THE TAILFrancis Picabia and Dada in ParisGeorge Baker

The artist Francis Picabia — notorious dandy, bonvivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist — hasemerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, andone of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigmathat was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia’s work in Paris during the Dada years, arthistorian and critic George Baker reimagines Dada

through Picabia’s eyes.The book tells the story of

a set of newly transformed artistic practices, claiming themfor art history — and namingthem — for the first time: DadaDrawing, Dada Painting, DadaPhotography, Dada Abstraction,Dada Cinema, Dada Montage.

Along the way, Baker describes a series of nearly for-gotten objects and events, from the almost lunaticrange of the Paris Dada “manifestations” to Picabia’spolemical writings; from a lost work by Picabia in theform of a hole (called, suggestively, The Young Girl) tohis “painting” Cacodylic Eye, covered in autographs byluminaries ranging from Ezra Pound to Fatty Arbuckle.

Art history has never looked like this before. Butthen again, Dada has never looked like art history.

George Baker is Assistant Professor of Art History at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles, and an editor at Octobermagazine and October Books. He is the editor of James Coleman(MIT Press, 2002) and a frequent contributor to Artforum.

“Original and often illuminating.”— Barry Schwabsky, The Nation

“George Baker’s gripping study of Francis Picabia offers amodel of Dada that goes well beyond the usual pietiesregarding its anti-art stance. Baker attends to Picabia’sproductive innovation in the Paris Dada moment, showingthat it was through form that Picabia remade modernismfrom the medium up.”

— David Joselit, Yale University


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HOW TO SEE A WORK OF ART INTOTAL DARKNESSDarby English

Work by black artists today isalmost uniformly understood interms of its “blackness,” withaudiences often expecting orrequiring it to “represent” therace. In How to See a Work of Artin Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severelysuch expectations limit the scope of our knowledgeabout this work and how different it looks whenapproached on its own terms. Refusing to grant racialblackness — his metaphorical “total darkness” — primacy over his subjects’ other concerns and contexts,he brings to light problems and possibilities that arisewhen questions of artistic priority and freedom comeinto contact, or even conflict, with those of culturalobligation. English examines the integrative and inter-disciplinary strategies of five contemporary artists —Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon,and William Pope.L — stressing the ways in which this work at once reflects and alters our view of itsinforming context: the advent of postmodernity in late twentieth-century American art and culture.

Darby English is Assistant Professor of Art History at theUniversity of Chicago. He is coeditor of Kara Walker: Narrativesof a Negress (MIT Press, 2003).

“One of the smartest, subtlest, and most compassionatebooks coming out of the academy to deal with the fraughtissues pertaining to identity politics.”

— Miwon Kwon, Department of Art History,University of California, Los Angeles

“A compelling and polemically daring reassessment of black-ness as an artistic genre and set of visual expressions.”

— Derek Conrad Murray, Art Journal

“A timely and relevant book, opening a debate that is longoverdue.”

— Sonya Dyer, Art Review


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MEXICAN MODERNITYThe Avant-Garde and the Technological RevolutionRubén Gallo

In Mexican Modernity, Rubén Gallo tells the story of a second Mexican Revolution, a battle fought on thefront of cultural representation. The new revolutionarieswere not rebels or outlaws but artists and writers; theirweapons were cameras, typewriters, radios, and othertechnological artifacts, and their goal was not to topple

a dictator but to dethrone nine-teenth-century aesthetics.

Gallo traces the ways artistsand writers, armed with theseartifacts, revolutionized represen-tation by breaking with the traditional modes of production

that had dominated Mexican cultural practices: TinaModotti rose against the conventions of “artistic” pho-tography by promoting a radically modern photographicaesthetics; typewriting authors rejected the literary precepts of modernismo to celebrate the stridencies ofmechanical writing; and young architects abandonedolder building materials for the symbolic strength of reinforced concrete.

Rubén Gallo is Director of the Program in Latin AmericanStudies and Professor in the Department of Spanish andPortuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University. He is the author of Freud’s Mexico (MIT Press, 2010).

“Gallo’s ambitious and integrative approach to cultural history results in a great many powerful insights. His eyefor telling moments in design, expression, and (not least)self-invention, give this book unusual depth.”

— Amy E. Slaton, The Americas


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BRANDSCAPESArchitecture in theExperience EconomyAnna Klingmann

In the twenty-first century, wemust learn to look at cities not asskylines but as brandscapes andat buildings not as objects but asadvertisements and destinations.In the experience economy, experience itself has becomethe product: we’re no longer consuming objects but sensations, even lifestyles. In the new environment of brandscapes, buildings are not about where we work and live but who we imagine ourselves to be. In Brandscapes, Anna Klingmann looks critically at the controversial practice of branding by examining its benefits and considering the damage it may do.

How can architects use branding as a means to dif-ferentiate places from the inside out — and not, as cur-rent development practices seem to dictate, from theoutside in? When architecture brings together ecology,economics, and social well-being to help people andplaces regain self-sufficiency, writes Klingmann, it canbe a catalyst for cultural and economic transformation.

Anna Klingmann, an architect and critic, is the founder andprincipal of KL!NGMANN, an agency for architecture and brand building in New York. Her work has been published in AD Magazine, Daidalos, Architectural Record, Architectured’Aujourd’hui, and other periodicals.

“ Brandscapes is the first architecture book that takes theExperience Economy as its premise to show architects —and by extension designers, engineers, and indeed all expe-rience stagers — how to create places that are authentic,meaningful, and engaging.”

— B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, coauthors, The Experience Economy and

Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want

“ Brandscapes bravely argues for a public architecture to re-create delight, challenging designers to bring together thewow factor of consumer culture and people’s desire to belong.”

— Sharon Zukin, author of The Cultures of Cities


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ZEN-BRAIN REFLECTIONSReviewing Recent Developments in Meditationand States of ConsciousnessJames H. Austin, M.D.

This sequel to the widely read Zen and the Brain con-tinues James Austin’s explorations into the key inter -relationships between Zen Buddhism and brainresearch. In Zen-Brain Reflections, Austin, a clinicalneurologist, researcher, and Zen practitioner, examines

the evolving psychologicalprocesses and brain changes asso-ciated with the path of long-range meditative training. Austindraws not only on the latest neuroscience research and new neuroimaging studiesbut also on Zen literature and his personal experience with

alternate states of consciousness.Austin envisions novel links between migraines

and metaphors, moonlight and mysticism. The Zenperspective on the self and consciousness is an ancientone. Readers will discover how relevant Zen is to theneurosciences, and how each field can illuminate the other.

James H. Austin is Clinical Professor of Neurology, Universityof Missouri Health Science Center, and Emeritus Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado Health Science Center. He is the author of Zen and the Brain (1999), Selfless Insight(2009), and Chase, Chance, and Creativity (2003), all published by the MIT Press.

“With virtuosity Austin melds the discourses of neuroscienceand Zen meditation to tell a story that could not belong toeither alone.”

— D. V. Feldman, Choice

“It is simply the best description of Zen experiences I haveever come across. . . With these two books, Austin has becomemy roshi.”

— Taede A. Smedes, ESSSAT News


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REVISITING KEYNESEconomic Possibilities forour Grandchildrenedited by Lorenzo Pecchi andGustavo Piga

In 1931 distinguished economistJohn Maynard Keynes published ashort essay, “Economic Possibilitiesfor Our Grandchildren,” in hiscollection Essays in Persuasion. In the essay, he expressed optimism for the economicfuture despite the doldrums of the post-World War Iyears and the onset of the Great Depression. Keynesimagined that by 2030 the standard of living would bedramatically higher; people, liberated from want (andwithout 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(including four Nobel laureates) consider what Keynesgot right in his essay — the rise in the standard of living, for example — and what he got wrong — suchas a shortened work week and consumer satiation. In so doing, they raise challenging questions about the world economy and contemporary lifestyles in thetwenty-first century. Keynes’s short essay — usuallyseen as a minor divertissement compared to his othermore influential works — becomes the catalyst for alively debate among some of today’s top economistsabout 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 ofEconomics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

“In this book, Keynes’s essay (which says as much about his outsider-insider position in the Bloomsbury Group asanything else) serves as the ink blot in a Rorschach test forleading contemporary economists. Their interpretations of it reveal some of their underlying attitudes to economy andsociety, just as he revealed his when he wrote it.”

— John Toye, Economic History Review

September — 6 x 9, 232 pp. — 7 illus.

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MINIMUM WAGESDavid Neumark and William L. Wascher

Over the years, the minimum wage has been popularwith the public, controversial in the political arena, andthe subject of vigorous debate among economists overits costs and benefits. In this book, David Neumark andWilliam Wascher offer a comprehensive overview ofthe evidence on the economic effects of minimumwages. Synthesizing nearly two decades of their ownresearch and reviewing other research that touches onthe same questions, Neumark and Wascher discuss the

effects of minimum wages onemployment and hours, theacquisition of skills, the wage andincome distributions, longer-termlabor market outcomes, prices,and the aggregate economy.Arguing that the usual focus onemployment effects is too limit-ing, they present a broader,empirically based inquiry thatwill 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 minimumwages do not achieve the main goals set forth by theirsupporters. The authors argue that policymakersshould instead look for other tools to raise the wages oflow-skill workers and to provide poor families with anacceptable standard of living.

David Neumark is Professor of Economics at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. William L. Wascher is Associate Director inthe Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal ReserveBoard.

“This is a superb book, notable for both breadth and depth ofcoverage, on one of the most fundamental topics in economics.”

— J. P. Jacobsen, Choice

“The most comprehensive and thorough review, analysis,and discussion of the minimum wage that one is likely tocome across.”

— Walter E. William, Regulation


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RACE ANDENTREPRENEURIALSUCCESSBlack-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States Robert W. Fairlie and Alicia M. Robb

Thirteen million people in theUnited States — roughly one inten workers — own a business. And yet rates of busi-ness ownership among African Americans are muchlower and have been so during the last 100 years. Inaddition, and perhaps more important, businessesowned by African Americans tend to have lower sales,fewer employees and smaller payrolls, lower profits, andhigher closure rates. In contrast, Asian American-ownedbusinesses tend to be more successful. In Race andEntrepreneurial Success, minority entrepreneurshipauthorities Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb examineracial disparities in business performance. Drawing on the rarely used, restricted-access Characteristics ofBusiness Owners (CBO) data set compiled by the U.S.Census Bureau, Fairlie and Robb examine in particularwhy Asian-owned firms perform well in comparison to white-owned businesses and why black-owned firms typically do not.

Robert W. Fairlie is Professor of Economics at the Universityof California, Santa Cruz, and an adjunct researcher at theRAND Corporation. Alicia M. Robb is a Research Associate inEconomics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and asenior economist with Beacon Economics.

“This volume is required reading for anyone who wants tounderstand racial differences in the propensity to start andgrow new businesses.”

— Harvey Rosen, Department of Economics,Princeton University

“The work extends beyond the entrepreneurship literatureand has the potential to inform studies in sociology and eco-nomics and within business schools.”

— Linda Renzulli, Administrative Science Quarterly


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HAPPINESSA Revolution in EconomicsBruno S. Frey

Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrinedknowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas notin line with received theory. Happiness research, how-ever, has the potential to change economics substan-tially. Its findings can be considered revolutionary inthree respects: the measurement of experienced utility

using psychologists’ tools formeasuring subjective well-being;new insights into how humanbeings value goods and servicesand social conditions that includeconsideration of such non-mate-rial values as autonomy and socialrelations; and policy consequencesof these new insights that suggestdifferent ways for government toaffect individual well-being. In

Happiness, Bruno Frey, emphasizing empirical evidencerather than theoretical conjectures, substantiates thesethree revolutionary claims for happiness research.

Frey examines democracy and federalism, self-employment and volunteer work, marriage, terrorism,and watching television from the new perspective ofhappiness research. Frey describes how government canprovide the conditions under which people can achievewell-being, arguing that effective political institutionsand decentralized decision making play crucial roles.

Bruno S. Frey is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Research Director of CREMA (Center forResearch in Economics, Management, and the Arts). He is coeditor of Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field (MIT Press, 2007).

“Long a pioneer in the application of psychology to econom-ics, Bruno Frey provides a masterful synthesis of happinessresearch, and demonstrates both its policy value and grow-ing challenge to economic orthodoxy.”

— Richard A. Easterlin, Department of Economics,University of Southern California

September — 6 x 9, 256 pp.

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MEDICALMALPRACTICE Frank A. Sloan and Lindsey M. Chepke

Most experts would agree thatthe current medical malpracticesystem in the United States doesnot work effectively either tocompensate victims fairly or prevent injuries caused by medicalerrors. Policy responses to a series of medical malpracticecrises have not resulted in effective reform and have notaltered the fundamental incentives of the stakeholders.In Medical Malpractice, economist Frank Sloan andlawyer Lindsey Chepke examine the U.S. medical malpractice process from legal, medical, economic, andinsurance perspectives, analyze past efforts at reform,and offer realistic, achievable policy recommendations.They review the considerable empirical evidence in abalanced fashion and assess objectively what works inthe current system and what does not.

Medical Malpractice is the most comprehensive treat-ment of malpractice available, integrating findings fromseveral different areas of research and describing themaccessibly in nontechnical language. It will be an essentialreference for anyone interested in medical malpractice.

Frank A. Sloan is J. Alexander McMahon Professor of HealthPolicy and Management and Professor of Economics at DukeUniversity. He is the coauthor of The Price of Smoking (MITPress, 2004) and author or editor of many other books onhealth economics. Lindsey Chepke, an attorney, is a ResearchAssociate at the Center for Health Policy at Duke University.

“It is a scholarly masterpiece and is easily the definitivework on its subject.”

— Maxwell J. Mehlman, New England Journal of Medicine

“Will be of interest not only to medical and legal policymakersbut to physicians interested in this oftentimes most personalof topics.”

— Alan G. Williams, Journal of the American Medical Association


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CONFLICTS OF CONSCIENCE IN HEALTH CAREAn Institutional CompromiseHolly Fernandez Lynch

Physicians in the United States who refuse to perform avariety of legally permissible medical services because oftheir own moral objections are often protected by “con-science clauses.” These laws, on the books in nearly everystate since the legalization of abortion by Roe v. Wade,shield physicians and other health professionals from

such potential consequences ofrefusal as liability and dismissal.While some praise conscienceclauses as protecting importantfreedoms, opponents, concernedwith patient access to care, arguethat professional refusals shouldbe tolerated only when they arebased on valid medical grounds.In Conflicts of Conscience in Health

Care, Holly Fernandez Lynch argues that doctor-patientmatching on the basis of personal moral values wouldeliminate, or at least minimize, many conflicts of con-science. Licensing boards would be responsible for bal-ancing the interests of doctors and patients by ensuring asufficient number of willing physicians such that nophysician’s refusal leaves a patient entirely without accessto desired medical services. This proposed solution,Lynch argues, protects both a patient’s access to care anda physician’s ability to refuse.

Holly Fernandez Lynch is a bioethicist for the Henry M. JacksonFoundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, workingunder a contract with the Human Subjects Protection Branchat the Division of AIDS, within the National Institutes ofHealth, in Bethesda, Maryland.

“[Lynch’s] pragmatic approach is also innovative andrefreshing in a policy arena that is often fraught with anoverabundance of criticism with little substance on reform.”

— Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya, The Journal of Legal Medicine


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PERSUASIVE GAMESThe Expressive Power of VideogamesIan Bogost

Videogames are both an expres-sive medium and a persuasivemedium; they represent how realand imagined systems work, andthey invite players to interactwith those systems and form judgments about them. Inthis innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the wayvideogames mount arguments and influence players.Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, thestudy of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzesrhetoric’s unique function in software in general andvideogames in particular. Bogost argues thatvideogames, thanks to their basic representational modeof procedurality (rule-based representations and interac-tions), open a new domain for persuasion; they realize anew form of rhetoric.

Bogost calls this new form procedural rhetoric, atype of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of comput-ers. He argues that videogames have a unique persua-sive power: not only can videogames support existingsocial and cultural positions, but they can also disruptand change those positions. He looks at three areas inwhich videogame persuasion has already taken formand shows considerable potential: politics, advertising,and education.

Ian Bogost is Associate Professor in the School of Literature,Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology and a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC.He is the author of Unit Operations: An Approach to VideogameCriticism (2006) and coauthor of Newsgames: Journalism atPlay (2010), both published by the MIT Press.

“Bogost’s book provides a new lens — procedural rhetoric— to use in the analysis of games and an excellent survey ofthe history of games of this ilk.”

— Steve Jacobs, American Journal of Play

“An important addition to the debate over what games are,do, and can be.”

— Ernest W. Adams, game design consultant and educator


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DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACYTactics in Hard Timesedited by Megan Boler

In an age of proliferating media and news sources, whohas the power to define reality? When the dominantmedia declared the existence of WMDs in Iraq, didthat make it a fact? Today, the “social Web” (sometimesknown as Web 2.0, groupware, or the participatoryWeb) — epitomized by blogs, viral videos, and

YouTube — creates new path-ways for truths to emerge andmakes possible new tactics formedia activism. In Digital Mediaand Democracy, leading scholarsin media and communicationstudies, media activists, journal-ists, and artists explore the con-tradiction at the heart of the

relationship between truth and power today: the factthat the radical democratization of knowledge and mul-tiplication of sources and voices made possible by digi-tal media coexists with the blatant falsification ofinformation by political and corporate powers.

The book maps a new digital media landscape thatfeatures citizen journalism, The Daily Show, blogging,and alternative media. It includes not only essays bynoted media scholars but also interviews with suchjournalists and media activists as Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Media Matters host RobertMcChesney, and Hassan Ibrahim of Al Jazeera.

Megan Boler is Professor and Associate Chair of the Departmentof Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute of Studiesin Education at the University of Toronto.

“ Digital Media and Democracy shows how voices of dissent can come from many different quarters as peopleutilize the resources they have available in new and innovative ways.”

— David Stuart, Online Information Review


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TACTICALBIOPOLITICSArt, Activism, andTechnoscienceedited by Beatriz da Costaand Kavita Philip foreword by Joseph Dumit

Popular culture in this “biologicalcentury” seems to feed on proliferating representations of the fears, anxieties, andhopes around the life sciences, at a time when such basicconcepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, and the human itself are destabilized in the public eye.Tactical Biopolitics suggests that the political challengesat the intersection of life, science, and art are bestaddressed through a combination of artistic interven-tion, critical theorizing, and reflective practices.

Contributing authors practice and theorize biology(Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins, Fatimah Jackson,Jonathan King), bioart (Paul Vanouse, SymbioticA,Claire Pentecost), tactical media (Critical Art Ensemble,subRosa), anthropology (Paul Rabinow, GabriellaColeman), critical theory (Eugene Thacker), sociology(Troy Duster), science studies (Donna Haraway),health activism (Mark Harrington), feminist sciencefiction (Gwyneth Jones), and more.

Beatriz da Costa does interventionist art using computing and biotechnologies, and Kavita Philip studies colonialism,neoliberalism, and technoscience using history and criticaltheory. Both are Associate Professors at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine.

“ Tactical Biopolitics is a snapshot of the state-of-the-art atone of the farthest frontiers of interdisciplinary exploration.”

— Cheryl A. Kerfeld, PLoS Biology

“Scholars who concentrate on the nonscientific aspects ofbioscience and biotechnology are often identified with ethical and legal scholarship focused on a narrow range of issues. It is therefore refreshing to find in TacticalBiopolitics a diverse collection of essays that extend thehorizon of inquiry into the meanings and impacts of bioscience and biotechnology.”

— David Castle, The Quarterly Review of Biology


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A Leonardo Book

MEDIAARTHISTORIESedited by Oliver Grau

Digital art has become a major contemporary art form,but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstreamcultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldomincluded in the study of art history or other academicdisciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seekto change this. They take a wider view of media art,placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their

essays demonstrate that today’smedia art cannot be understoodthrough technological detailsalone; it cannot be understoodwithout its history, and it must be understood in proximity toother disciplines — film, culturaland media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences

dealing with images. Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from

thirteenth-century Islamic mechanical devices andeighteenth-century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns,and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp’sinventions and 1960s kinetic and op art. They reex-amine and redefine key media art theory terms —machine, media, exhibition — and consider the blurredlines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images. Finally,MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisci-plinary, expanded image science, which demands the“trained eye” of art history.

Oliver Grau is Professor for Image Science and Dean of theDepartment for Cultural Studies, Donau-Universität Krems.

“A rich selection of important texts by some of the mostnoteworthy figures in media art history, and together theywill do much to shape the content of this new discipline.”

— Charlie Gere, The Art Book

September — 7 x 9, 488 pp. — 92 illus. in color and black & white

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VIDEOThe Reflexive MediumYvonne Spielmann

Video is an electronic medium,dependent on the transfer ofelectronic signals. Video signalsare in constant movement, circulating between camera andmonitor. This process of simulta-neous production and reproduction makes video themost reflexive of media, distinct from both photographyand film (in which the image or a sequence of images iscentral). Because it is processual and not bound torecording and the appearance of a “frame,” video sharesproperties with the computer. In this book, YvonneSpielmann argues that video is not merely an interme-diate stage between analog and digital but a medium inits own right. Video has metamorphosed from technol-ogy to medium, with a set of aesthetic languages thatare specific to it, and current critical debates on newmedia still need to recognize this. Spielmann considersvideo as “transformation imagery,” acknowledging thecentrality in video of the transitions between images —and the fact that these transitions are explicitly reflectedin new processes.

Yvonne Spielmann is Research Professor and Chair of New Mediain the School of Media, Language, and Music at the Universityof the West of Scotland. She lives in Glasgow and Berlin.

“Available for the first time in translation, YvonneSpielmann’s Video: The Reflexive Medium provides uswith a keen parsing of the specificities of video as a medium.“

— Anne Friedberg, author of The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft


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MUSIC AND PROBABILITYDavid Temperley

In Music and Probability, David Temperley exploresissues in music perception and cognition from a proba-bilistic perspective. The application of probabilistic ideasto music has been pursued only sporadically over thepast four decades, but the time is ripe, Temperley argues,for a reconsideration of how probabilities shape musicperception and even music itself. Recent advances in the

application of probability theoryto other domains of cognitivemodeling, coupled with new evidence and theoretical insightsabout the working of the musicalmind, have laid the groundworkfor more fruitful investigations.Temperley proposes computa-tional models for two basic cogni-

tive processes, the perception of key and the perceptionof meter, using techniques of Bayesian probabilisticmodeling. Drawing on his own research and surveyingrecent work by others, Temperley explores a range of further issues in music and probability, includingtranscription, phrase perception, pattern perception, harmony, improvisation, and musical styles.

Temperley’s Bayesian approach not only allows him to model the perception of meter and tonality but also sheds light on such perceptual processes aserror detection, expectation, and pitch identification.Bayesian techniques also provide insights into suchsubtle and advanced issues as musical ambiguity, tension, and “grammaticality,” and lead to interestingand novel predictions about compositional practice and differences between musical styles.

David Temperley is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, and the author of The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures(MIT Press, 2001).

“As he did in The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures,Temperley here challenges the frontiers of the definition ofmusic theory and cognition.”

— J. Rubin, Choice


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THE INTERNET ANDAMERICAN BUSINESSedited by William Aspray andPaul E. Ceruzzi

When we think of the Internet,we generally think of Google,Facebook, Wikipedia, Amazon,and other sites for buying prod-ucts, searching for information, downloading entertain-ment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. Inthe academic literature about the Internet, however,these uses are rarely covered. The Internet and AmericanBusiness fills this gap, picking up where most scholarlyhistories of the Internet leave off — with the commer-cialization of the Internet established and its effect ontraditional business a fact of life. The chapters in thisbook, describing challenges successfully met by somecompanies and failures to adapt by others, are a firstattempt to understand a dynamic and exciting period of American business history.

William Aspray is Rudy Professor of Informatics at IndianaUniversity in Bloomington. He is the coeditor of Women andInformation Technology: Research on Underrepresentation(MIT Press, 2006) and Health Informatics: A Patient-CenteredApproach to Diabetes (MIT Press, 2010). Paul E. Ceruzzi isCurator of the National Air and Space Museum, SmithsonianInstitution, Washington, D.C. He is the author of A History of Modern Computing (second edition, MIT Press, 2003) andInternet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005(MIT Press, 2008)

“This excellent scholarly effort successfully places e-commercein a useful historical context.”

— R. C. Singleton, Choice

“An indispensable book for researchers and policymakersinterested in the topic. . . . I hope that it will inspire accountsof the Internet and business in other parts of the world.”

— Gerard Goggin, Prometheus


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THE PRIVACY ADVOCATES Resisting the Spread of SurveillanceColin J. Bennett

Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized,and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics,video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware byWeb sites, data mining and profiling, and many others.

In The Privacy Advocates, ColinBennett analyzes the people andgroups around the world whohave risen to challenge the mostintrusive surveillance practices byboth government and corpora-tions. Bennett describes a networkof self-identified privacy advocateswho have emerged from civil soci-ety — without official sanction

and with few resources, but surprisingly influential.Drawing on extensive interviews with key inform-

ants in the movement, Bennett examines how theyframe the issue and how they organize, who they are,and what strategies they use. He presents a series ofcase studies that illustrate how effective their effortshave been, examining conflicts over key-escrowencryption, online advertising through third-partycookies that track users across different Web sites, and online authentication mechanisms such as theshort-lived Microsoft Passport.

Colin Bennett is Professor in the Department of PoliticalScience at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He isthe coauthor (with Charles Raab) of The Governance of Privacy:Policy Instruments in Global Perspective (updated paperbackedition, MIT Press, 2006).

“ The Privacy Advocates will become one of the essentialbooks for understanding privacy issues in this decade.”

— Privacy Journal

“A major contribution to the literature of information privacyand social movements.”

— Paul M. Schwartz, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley


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SCHOLARSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGEInformation, Infrastructure,and the InternetChristine L. Borgman

Scholars in all fields now haveaccess to an unprecedentedwealth of online information,tools, and services. Althoughmuch attention has been paid tothe new technologies making this possible, from digi-tized books to sensor networks, it is the underlyingsocial and policy changes that will have the most lastingeffect on the scholarly enterprise. In Scholarship in theDigital Age, Christine Borgman explores the technical,social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infra-structure that we should be building for scholarlyresearch in the twenty-first century.

No framework for the impending “data deluge”exists comparable to that for publishing. Borgmanchallenges the many stakeholders in the scholarlyinfrastructure to look beyond their own domains toaddress the interaction of technical, legal, economic,social, political, and disciplinary concerns.

Christine L. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, LosAngeles. She is the author of From Gutenberg to the GlobalInformation Infrastructure: Access to Information in theNetworked World (MIT Press, 2000).

“Science policy-makers would do well to refer to this book inframing their aspirations for a scholarly infrastructure.”

— Richard Akerman, Nature

“Comprehensive, comprehensible and authoritative.”— David Bawden, Journal of Documentation

September — 6 x 9, 360 pp.— 4 illus.

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INSATIABLE CURIOSITY Innovation in a Fragile FutureHelga Nowotnytranslated by Mitch Cohen

Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientificactivity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations,does not know what it will find, or where it will lead.Innovation, argues influential European science studiesscholar Helga Nowotny, tames the passion of science,harnessing it to produce “deliverables.” Science brings

uncertainties; innovation success-fully copes with them. Societycalls for both the passion forknowledge and its taming. This ambivalence, Nowotny contends, is an inevitable result of modernity.

In Insatiable Curiosity,Nowotny explores the strands of the often unexpected inter-twining of science and technol-

ogy and society. Our dilemma is how to balance theimmense but unpredictable potential of science andtechnology with our acknowledgment that not every-thing that can be done should be done. We can escapethe old polarities of utopias and dystopias, writesNowotny, by accepting our ambivalence — as a legacyof modernism and a positive cultural resource.

Helga Nowotny, one of the leading European voices in ScienceStudies, is President of the European Research Council andChair, Scientific Advisory Board, University of Vienna.

“A voice of distinctive elegance, clarity, and sophistication. . . .A little book full of big ideas, Insatiable Curiosity is something to think with and through.”

— Edward J. Hackett, Science

“Acknowledging the disorienting forces of change, Nowotnynevertheless presents an eloquent, erudite argument forembracing the future in all its ambiguity.”

— Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Scienceand Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School

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CREATING SCIENTIFICCONCEPTSNancy J. Nersessian

How do novel scientific conceptsarise? In Creating ScientificConcepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central butvirtually unasked question in theproblem of conceptual change.She argues that the popular image of novel concepts and profound insight bursting forthin 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 resourcesprovided by the cognitive-social-cultural context of the problem; and dynamic processes of reasoning thatextend ordinary cognition.

Nersessian’s investigations of historical scientificpractices show conceptual change as deriving from theuse of analogies, imagistic representations, and thoughtexperiments, integrated with experimental investigationsand mathematical analyses. She presents a view of constructed models as hybrid objects, serving as inter-mediaries between targets and analogical sources inbootstrapping processes. She argues that these complexcognitive operations and structures are not mere aids todiscovery, but that together they constitute a powerfulform of reasoning — model-based reasoning — thatgenerates novelty.

Nancy J. 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 andon science learning.

“The book is a tour de force by a great cognitive scientist of science.”

— George Lakoff, Richard and Rhoda GoldmanDistinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and

Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley


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APPLYING COGNITIVE SCIENCE TO EDUCATION Thinking and Learning in Scientific and Other Complex DomainsFrederick Reif

Many students find it difficult to master the kinds ofknowledge and thinking required by college or highschool courses in mathematics, science, or other com-plex domains. Thus they often emerge with significant

misconceptions, fragmentedknowledge, and inadequate prob-lem-solving skills. Most instruc-tors or textbook authors approachtheir teaching efforts with a goodknowledge of their field ofexpertise but little awareness ofthe underlying thought processesand kinds of knowledge requiredfor learning in scientific domains.

In this book, Frederick Reif presents an accessiblecoherent introduction to some of the cognitive issuesimportant for thinking and learning in scientific orother complex domains (such as mathematics, physics,chemistry, engineering, or expository writing).

Reif examines with some care the kinds of knowl-edge and thought processes needed for good perform-ance; discusses the difficulties faced by students tryingto deal with unfamiliar scientific domains; describessome explicit teaching methods that can help studentslearn the requisite knowledge and thinking skills; andindicates how such methods can be implemented byinstructors or textbook authors.

Frederick Reif is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Educationat Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California,Berkeley.

“A veritable gold mine for all those who teach physics ormathematics at high-school or college level. . . . A broadrange of academics will find Applying Cognitive Scienceto Education intellectually stimulating.”

— Elspeth Stern, Science


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REDISCOVERINGEMPATHYAgency, Folk Psychology,and the Human SciencesKarsten R. Stueber

In this timely and wide-rangingstudy, Karsten Stueber argues that empathy is epistemically central to our folk-psychologicalunderstanding of other agents —that it is something we cannot do without in order togain understanding of other minds. Setting his argumentin the context of contemporary philosophy of mind and the interdisciplinary debate about the nature of ourmindreading abilities, Stueber counters objections raisedby some in the philosophy of social science and arguesthat it is time to rehabilitate the empathy thesis.

Stueber addresses the plausible philosophical mis-givings about empathy that have been responsible forits failure to gain widespread philosophical acceptance.Crucial in this context is his defense of the assump-tion, very much contested in contemporary philosophyof mind, that the notion of rational agency is at thecore of folk psychology. Empathy theorists, Stueberwrites, should be prepared to admit that, althoughempathy can be regarded as the central default modefor understanding other agents, there are certain limi-tations in its ability to make sense of other agents; andthere are supplemental theoretical strategies availableto overcome these limitations.

Karsten R. Stueber is Associate Professor of Philosophy at theCollege of the Holy Cross.

“Karsten R. Stueber’s Rediscovering Empathy is a sustained and powerfully argued critique. . . . Importantand well-argued.”

— Philosophical Investigations

“An ambitious new account of the simulation theory of folkpsychology. . . . A forceful, novel, and engaging defense.”

— Mind


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ORIGINS OF HUMANCOMMUNICATIONMichael Tomasello

Human communication is grounded in fundamentallycooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins ofhuman communication, Michael Tomasello connectsthe 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.

Drawing on empiricalresearch into gestural and vocalcommunication by great apesand human infants (much of itconducted by his own researchteam), Tomasello argues thathumans’ cooperative communi-cation emerged first in the natu-ral gestures of pointing and

pantomiming. Conventional communication, first ges-tural and then vocal, evolved only after humans alreadypossessed these natural gestures and their shared inten-tionality infrastructure along with skills of culturallearning for creating and passing along jointly under-stood communicative conventions. Challenging theChomskian view that linguistic knowledge is innate,Tomasello proposes instead that the most fundamentalaspects of uniquely human communication are biologi-cal adaptations for cooperative social interaction ingeneral and that the purely linguistic dimensions ofhuman communication are cultural conventions andconstructions created by and passed along within par-ticular 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 Why We Cooperate(MIT Press, 2009).

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Winner of the 2009 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in DevelopmentalPsychology, presented by the American Psychological Association





THE BOUNDARIES OF BABELThe Brain and the Enigma of Impossible LanguagesAndrea Moroforeword by Noam Chomsky

In The Boundaries of Babel,Andrea Moro tells the story of anencounter between two cultures:contemporary theoretical linguis-tics and the cognitive neurosciences. The study of lan-guage within a biological context has been ongoing formore than fifty years. The development of neuroimag-ing technology offers new opportunities to enrich the“biolinguistic perspective” and extend it beyond anabstract framework for inquiry. As a leading theoreticallinguist in the generative tradition and also a cognitivescientist schooled in the new imaging technology, Moro is uniquely equipped to explore this.

Moro searches for neurobiological correlates of “the boundaries of Babel” — the constraints on theapparent chaotic variation in human languages — byusing an original experimental design based on artifi-cial languages. He offers a critical overview of some of the fundamental results from linguistics over the lastfifty years, then uses these essential aspects of languageto examine two neuroimaging experiments in which he took part — making it clear that techniques andmachines do not provide interesting data without a sound theoretical framework.

Andrea Moro is Professor of General Linguistics at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.

“A lucid introduction to these exciting areas, superblyinformed and imaginatively presented, with intriguingimplications well beyond biolinguistics. . . . A rareachievement.”

— from the foreword by Noam Chomsky


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DYSLEXIA, LEARNING, AND THE BRAINRoderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett

Dyslexia research has made dramatic progress since themid-1980s. Once discounted as a “middle-class myth,”dyslexia is now the subject of a complex — and confus-ing — body of theoretical and empirical research. InDyslexia, Learning, and the Brain, leading dyslexiaresearchers Rod Nicolson and Angela Fawcett provide auniquely broad and coherent analysis of dyslexia theory.

Unlike most dyslexia research,which addresses the question“what is the cause of the readingdisability called dyslexia?” theauthors have addressed the deeperquestion of “what is the cause ofthe learning disability that mani-fests as reading problems?” Thisperspective allows them to placedyslexia research within the muchbroader disciplines of cognitive

psychology and cognitive neuroscience and has led to a rich framework, including two established leading theories, the automatization deficit account (1990) andthe cerebellar deficit hypothesis (2001).

The authors’ answer to the fundamental question“what is dyslexia?” offers a challenge and motivationfor research throughout the learning disabilities, layingthe foundations for future progress.

Roderick I. Nicolson is Professor of Psychology and Dean ofthe Faculty of Pure Science at the University of Sheffield.Angela J. Fawcett was Reader in Dyslexia at the University ofSheffield and is now Professor of Child Research and Directorof the Centre for Child Research at Swansea University.

“Nicholson and Fawcett have, over the years, challengedand engaged the dyslexia community. Their voice in thistext should be heard clearly by any student of the field —young or old.”

— Jeffrey W. Gilger, Associate Dean for Discoveryand Faculty Development, Purdue University,

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3D SHAPE Its Unique Place in Visual PerceptionZygmunt Pizlo

The uniqueness of shape as aperceptual property lies in thefact that it is both complex andstructured. Shapes are perceivedveridically — perceived as theyreally are in the physical world,regardless of the orientation from which they are viewed.The constancy of the shape percept is the sine qua nonof shape perception; you are not actually studying shapeif constancy cannot be achieved with the stimulus youare using. Shape is the only perceptual attribute of anobject that allows unambiguous identification. In thisfirst book devoted exclusively to the perception of shapeby humans and machines, Zygmunt Pizlo describeshow we perceive shapes and how to design machinesthat can see shapes as we do.

Pizlo argues that once shape is understood to beunique among visual attributes and the perceptualmechanisms underlying shape are seen to be differentfrom other perceptual mechanisms, the research onshape becomes coherent and experimental findings no longer seem to contradict each other. He offers a new theoretical treatment that explains how a three-dimensional shape percept is produced from a two-dimensional retinal image, assuming only thatthe image has been organized into two-dimensionalshapes.

Zygmunt Pizlo is Professor of Psychological Sciences andElectrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy) at Purdue University.

“This very accessible book is a must-read for those interestedin issues of object perception. . . . An important work.”

— R. Duncan Luce, Distinguished ResearchProfessor of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine


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THE ALLURE OF MACHINIC LIFE Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AIJohn Johnston

In The Allure of Machinic Life, John Johnston examinesnew forms of nascent life that emerge through technicalinteractions within human-constructed environments —“machinic life” — in the sciences of cybernetics, artificiallife, and artificial intelligence. With the development of such research initiatives as the evolution of digitalorganisms, computer immune systems, artificial proto-

cells, evolutionary robotics, andswarm systems, Johnston argues,machinic life has achieved a complexity and autonomy worthyof study in its own right.

Drawing on the publicationsof scientists as well as a range ofwork in contemporary philoso-phy and cultural theory, butalways with the primary focus on the “objects at hand” — the

machines, programs, and processes that constitutemachinic life — Johnston shows how they come about,how they operate, and how they are already changing.This understanding is a necessary first step, he furtherargues, that must precede speculation about the mean-ing and cultural implications of these new forms of life.

John Johnston is Professor of English and ComparativeLiterature at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author of Carnival of Repetition and Information Multiplicity.

“Johnston has done a magnificent job of surveying anddigesting the vast literature and producing an extraordi-narily clear account of this topic.”

— C. Tappert, Choice

“John Johnston is to be applauded for his engaging andeminently readable assessment of the new, interdisciplinarysciences aimed at designing and building complex, life-like,intelligent machines.”

— Mark Bedau, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College,

and editor-in-chief, Artificial Life


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The contentious history of the computer programmers

who developed the software that made the computer

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THE INVENTION OF THE INFORMATION AGE

Kurt W. Beyer2009, 978-0-262-01310-9

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THE COMPUTER BOYS TAKE OVERComputers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical ExpertiseNathan L. Ensmenger

Like all great social and technological developments, the “computer revolution” of the twentieth century didn’t just happen. People — not impersonal processes— made it happen. In The Computer Boys Take Over, Nathan Ensmengerdescribes the emergence of the technical specialists — computer programmers,systems analysts, and data processing managers — who helped transform theelectronic digital computer from a scientific curiosity into the most powerful andubiquitous technology of the modern era. They did so not as inventors from thetraditional mold, but as the developers of the “software” (broadly defined to includeprograms, procedures, and practices) that integrated the novel technology of elec-tronic computing into existing social, political, and technological networks. Asmediators between the technical system (the computer) and its social environ-ment (existing structures and practices), these specialists became a focus foropposition to the use of new information technologies. To many of their contem-poraries, it seemed the “computer boys” were taking over, not just in the corpo-rate setting, but also in government, politics, and society in general.

Ensmenger follows the rise of the computer boys as they struggled to establish a role for themselves within traditional organizational, professional,and academic hierarchies. He describes the tensions that emerged between thecraft-centered practices of vocational programmers, the increasingly theoreticalagenda of academic computer science, and the desire of corporatemanagers to control and routinize the process of softwaredevelopment. In doing so, he provides a human perspective onwhat is too often treated as a purely technological phenomenon.

Nathan L. Ensmenger is Assistant Professor of the History and Sociologyof Science at the University of Pennsylvania.


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NETWORKS AND STATESThe Global Politics of Internet GovernanceMilton L. Mueller

When the prevailing system of governing divides theplanet into mutually exclusive territorial monopolies offorce, what institutions can govern the Internet, with its transnational scope, boundless scale, and distributed

control? Given filtering-cen-sorship by states and concernsover national cyber-security, it is often assumed that theInternet will inevitably be sub-ordinated to the traditionalsystem of nation-states. In

Networks and States, Milton Mueller counters this,showing how Internet governance poses novel and fas-cinating governance issues that give rise to a global pol-itics and new transnational institutions. Drawing ontheories of networked governance, Mueller provides abroad overview of Internet governance from the forma-tion of ICANN to the clash at the World Summit onthe Information Society (WSIS), the formation of theInternet Governance Forum, the global assault on peer-to-peer file sharing and the rise of national-levelInternet control and security concerns.

Internet governance has become a source of conflictin international relations. Networks and States exploresthe important role that emerging transnational institu-tions could play in fostering global governance of communication-information policy.

Milton L. Mueller is Professor at Syracuse University’s Schoolof Information Studies and XS4All Professor at Delft Universityof Technology, the Netherlands. He is the author of Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace(MIT Press, 2002) and other books.


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AMERICA IDENTIFIEDBiometric Technology and SocietyLisa S. Nelson

The use of biometric technology for identification hasgone from Orwellian fantasy to everyday reality. Thistechnology, which verifies or recognizes a person’s iden-tity based on physiological, anatomical, or behavioral

patterns (including finger-prints, retina, handwriting, andkeystrokes) has been deployedfor such purposes as combat-ing welfare fraud, screeningairplane passengers, and iden-

tifying terrorists. The accompanying controversy haspitted those who praise the technology’s accuracy andefficiency against advocates for privacy and civil liber-ties. In America Identified, Lisa Nelson investigates thecomplex public responses to biometric technology. Sheuses societal perceptions of this particular identificationtechnology to explore the values, beliefs, and ideologiesthat influence public acceptance of technology.

Drawing on her own extensive research with focusgroups and a national survey, Nelson finds that consid-erations of privacy, anonymity, trust and confidence in institutions, and the legitimacy of paternalistic government interventions are extremely important to users and potential users of the technology. Sheexamines the long history of government systems ofidentification and the controversies they have inspired;the effect of the information technology revolution andthe events of September 11, 2001; the normative valueof privacy (as opposed to its merely legal definition);the place of surveillance technologies in a civil society;trust in government and distrust in the expanded roleof government; and the balance between the need forgovernment to act to prevent harm and the possiblethreat to liberty in government’s actions.

Lisa S. Nelson teaches in the Graduate School of Public andInternational Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

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How institutions forInternet governance are emerging from the tension between the territorially boundnation-state and a transnational network society.

An examination of thepublic’s perceptions ofbiometric identificationtechnology in the contextof privacy, security, andcivil liberties.



TRADING ZONES ANDINTERACTIONAL EXPERTISECreating New Kinds of Collaborationedited by Michael E. Gorman

Cross-disciplinary collaboration increasingly character-izes today’s science and engineering research. The problems and opportunities facing society do not come

neatly sorted by discipline.Difficulties arise whenresearchers from disciplines asdifferent as engineering andthe humanities work togetherand find that they speak largely

different languages. This book explores a new frame-work for fostering collaborations among existing disci-plines and expertise communities. The frameworkunites two ideas to emerge from recent work in STS:trading zones, in which scientific subcultures, each withits own language, develop the equivalents of pidgin andcreole; and interactional expertise, in which expertslearn to use the language of another research commu-nity in ways that are indistinguishable from expert practitioners of that community. A trading zone cangradually become a new area of expertise, facilitated by interactional expertise and involving negotiationsover boundary objects (objects represented in differentways by different participants).

The volume describes applications of the frameworkto service science, business strategy, environmentalmanagement, education, and practical ethics. Onedetailed case study focuses on attempts to create trad-ing zones that would help prevent marine bycatch;another investigates trading zones formed to marketthe female condom to women in Africa; anotherdescribes how humanists embedded in a nanotechnol-ogy laboratory gained interactional expertise, resultingin improved research results for both humanists andnanoscientists.

Michael E. Gorman is Professor in the Department of Science,Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Simulating Science and Transforming Nature.

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RECONCEPTUALIZING THEINDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONedited by Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband, andMerritt Roe Smith

This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding

view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead, theyexamine a lengthy and creative

period in the history of industrialization, 1750 to 1914,reassessing the nature of and explanations for England’sindustrial primacy, and comparing significant industrialdevelopments in countries ranging from China to Brazil.Each chapter explores a distinctive national productionecology, a complex blend of natural resources, demo-graphic pressures, cultural impulses, technologicalassets, and commercial practices. At the same time, the chapters also reveal the portability of skilled workers and the permeability of political borders.

By exploring unique national patterns of industrial-ization as well as reciprocal exchanges and furtive borrowing among these states, the book refreshes the discussion of early industrial transformations andraises issues still relevant in today’s era of globalization.

Jeff Horn is Associate Professor of History at ManhattanCollege and the author of three books, including The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution,1750-1839 (MIT Press, 2006). Leonard N. Rosenband isProfessor of History at Utah State University and the author of Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management,Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805.Merritt Roe Smith is Cutten Professor of the History ofTechnology at MIT and the author or editor of six books, mostrecently Inventing America: A History of the United States.


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Closely linked essaysexamine distinctivenational patterns ofindustrialization.




HEALTH INFORMATICSA Patient-Centered Approach to Diabetesedited by Barbara M. Hayes and William Aspray

The healthcare industry has been slow to join the information technology revolution; handwritten recordsare still the primary means of organizing patient care.Concerns about patient privacy, the difficulty of devel-

oping appropriate computingtools and information technol-ogy, high costs, and the resist-ance of some physicians andnurses have hampered the use of technology in health

care. In 2009, the U.S. government committed billionsof dollars to health care technology. Many questionsremain, however, about how to deploy these resources.In Health Informatics, experts in technology, joined by clinicians, use diabetes — a costly, complex, and widespread disease that involves nearly every facet ofthe health care system — to examine the challenges ofusing the tools of information technology to improvepatient care.

Unlike other books on medical informatics that discuss such topics as computerized order entry anddigital medical records, Health Informatics focuses on the patient, charting the information problemspatients encounter in different stages of the disease.

We need both technologists and providers at thedrawing board in order to design and deploy effectivedigital tools for health care. This book examines andexemplifies this necessary collaboration.

Barbara M. Hayes is Associate Dean for Administration and Planning at Indiana University School of Informatics at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of InformationTechnologies in the School of Information at the University ofTexas at Austin. He is the coeditor of Women and InformationTechnology: Research on Underrepresentation (2006) and TheInternet and American Business (2008), both published by the MIT Press.


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OUR OWN MINDSSociocultural Grounds for Self-ConsciousnessRadu J. Bogdan

In Our Own Minds, Radu Bogdan takes a developmen-tal perspective on consciousness — its functional designin particular — and proposes that children’s functionalcapacity for consciousness is assembled during develop-

ment out of a variety of onto-genetic adaptations thatrespond mostly to socioculturalchallenges specific to distinctstages of childhood. Younghuman minds develop self-consciousness — in the broad

sense of being conscious of the self ’s mental and behavioral relatedness to the world — because they face extraordinary and escalating sociocultural pressuresthat cannot be handled without setting in motion acomplex executive machinery of self-regulation underthe guidance of an increasingly sophisticated intuitivepsychology.

Bogdan argues that the sociocultural tasks and practices that children must assimilate and engage incompetently demand the development of an intuitivepsychology (also known as theory of mind or mindreading); the intuitive psychology assembles a suite ofexecutive abilities (intending, controlling, monitoring,and so on) that install self-consciousness and drive itsdevelopment. Understanding minds, first the minds of others and then our own, drives the development of self-consciousness, world-bound or extrovert at thebeginning and later mind-bound or introvert. Thisasymmetric development of the intuitive psychologydrives a commensurate asymmetric development ofself-consciousness.

Radu J. Bogdan is Professor of Philosophy and CognitiveScience and Director of the Cognitive Studies Program atTulane University and Visiting Professor of Philosophy andPsychology at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is theauthor of Interpreting Minds (MIT Press, 1997) and otherbooks.


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Experts in technologyand medicine use diabetes to illustratehow the tools of information technologycan improve patient care.

An argument that inresponse to socioculturalpressures, human mindsdevelop self-conscious-ness by activating acomplex machinery of self-regulation.



THE NEW SCIENCE OF THE MINDFrom Extended Mind to Embodied PhenomenologyMark Rowlands

There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mentalprocesses exclusively “in the head.” Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leadingphilosopher Mark Rowlands investigates the conceptual foundations of this new science.

Traditional attempts to study the mind are based on the idea that mentalprocesses — perceiving, remembering, thinking, reasoning — exist in brains;they are often described as “software” realized by the “hardware” of the brain.The new way of thinking about the mind has emerged from the confluence ofvarious disciplines in cognitive science ranging from perceptual and developmen-tal psychology to robotics. It emphasizes the ways in which mental processes are embodied (partly made up of extra-neural bodily structures and processes),embedded (designed to function in tandem with the environment), enacted (constituted in part by action), and extended (located in the environment).

The new way of thinking about the mind, Rowlands writes,is actually an old way of thinking that has taken on new form.Rowlands describes a conception of mind that had its clearestexpression in phenomenology — in the work of Husserl,Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. He builds on theseviews, clarifies and renders consistent the ideas of embodied,embedded, enacted, and extended mind, and develops a unifiedphilosophical treatment of the novel conception of the mindthat underlies the new science of the mind.

Mark Rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes,Body Language: Representation in Action (MIT Press, 2006), The Philosopher and the Wolf, and other books.

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new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all

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ENACTIONToward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Scienceedited by John Stewart, Olivier Gapenne, andEzequiel A. Di Paolo

This book presents the framework for a new, compre-hensive approach to cognitive science. The proposedparadigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive

science’s classical, first-genera-tion Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Enaction,first articulated by Varela,Thompson, and Rosch in TheEmbodied Mind (MIT Press,

1991), breaks from CTM’s formalisms of informationprocessing and symbolic representations to view cogni-tion as grounded in the sensorimotor dynamics of theinteractions between a living organism and its environ-ment. A living organism enacts the world it lives in; itsembodied action in the world constitutes its perceptionand thereby grounds its cognition. Enaction offers arange of perspectives on this exciting new approach toembodied cognitive science.

Some chapters offer manifestos for the enactionparadigm; others address specific areas of research,including artificial intelligence, developmental psychol-ogy, neuroscience, language, phenomenology, and cul-ture and cognition. Three themes emerge as testimonyto the originality and specificity of enaction as a para-digm: the relation between first-person lived experi-ence and third-person natural science; the ambition toprovide an encompassing framework applicable at lev-els from the cell to society; and the difficulties ofreflexivity. Taken together, the chapters offer nothingless than the framework for a far-reaching renewal ofcognitive science.

John Stewart is a Scientific Consultant and Olivier Gapenne is Assistant Professor at the University of Technology ofCompiègne, France. Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is Ikerbasque ResearchProfessor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.

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CAUSING HUMAN ACTIONSNew Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Actionedited by Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff

The causal theory of action (CTA) is widely recognizedin the literature of the philosophy of action as the “stan-

dard story” of human actionand agency — the nearestapproximation in the field to a theoretical orthodoxy. Thisvolume brings together leadingfigures working in action the-ory today to discuss issues

relating to the CTA and its applications, which rangefrom experimental philosophy to moral psychology.Some of the contributors defend the theory while others criticize it; some draw from historical sourceswhile others focus on recent developments; some relyon the tools of analytic philosophy while others cite the latest empirical research on human action. Allagree, however, on the centrality of the CTA in the philosophy of action.

The contributors first consider metaphysical issues,then reasons-explanations of action, and, finally, newdirections for thinking about the CTA. They discusssuch topics as the tenability of some alternatives to the CTA; basic causal deviance; the etiology of action;teleologism and anticausalism; and the compatibility of the CTA with theories of embodied cognition. Twocontributors engage in an exchange of views on inten-tional omissions that stretches over four essays, directlyresponding to each other in their follow-up essays.

As the action-oriented perspective becomes moreinfluential in philosophy of mind and philosophy ofcognitive science, this volume offers a long-neededdebate over foundational issues.

Jesús H. Aguilar is Associate Professor of Philosophy atRochester Institute of Technology. Andrei A. Buckareff isAssistant Professor of Philosophy at Marist College.


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A comprehensive presentation of anapproach that proposes anew account of cognitionat levels from the cellular to the social.

Leading figures working in the philosophy of actiondebate foundationalissues relating to thecausal theory of action.




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DISCOVERING COMPLEXITYDecomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific ResearchWilliam Bechtel and Robert C. Richardson

In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and RobertRichardson examine two heuristics that guided the

development of mechanisticmodels in the life sciences:decomposition and localiza-tion. Drawing on historicalcases from disciplines includingcell biology, cognitive neuro-science, and genetics, they

identify a number of “choice points” that life scientistsconfront in developing mechanistic explanations andshow how different choices result in divergent explana-tory models. Describing decomposition as the attemptto differentiate functional and structural components of a system and localization as the assignment ofresponsibility for specific functions to specific struc-tures, Bechtel and Richardson examine the usefulnessof these heuristics as well as their fallibility — thesometimes false assumption underlying them thatnature is significantly decomposable and hierarchicallyorganized.

When Discovering Complexity was originally pub-lished in 1993, few philosophers of science perceivedthe centrality of seeking mechanisms to explain phe-nomena in biology, relying instead on the model ofnomological explanation advanced by the logical positivists (a model Bechtel and Richardson found tobe utterly inapplicable to the examples from the lifesciences in their study). Since then, mechanism andmechanistic explanation have become widely discussed.In a substantive new introduction to this MIT Pressedition of their book, Bechtel and Richardson examineboth philosophical and scientific developments inresearch on mechanistic models since 1993.

William Bechtel is Professor of Philosophy at the University ofCalifornia, San Diego. He is the author of Mental Mechanisms:Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience and otherbooks. Robert C. Richardson is Charles Phelps Taft Professor ofPhilosophy and a University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of EvolutionaryPsychology as Maladapted Psychology (MIT Press, 2007). Bothare Fellows of the American Association for the Advancementof Science.


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ACTION, ETHICS, ANDRESPONSIBILITYedited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein

Most philosophical explorations of responsibility dis-cuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the“free will” problem. By contrast, these essays by leading

philosophers view responsibil-ity from a variety of perspec-tives — metaphysics, ethics,action theory, and the philoso-phy of law. After a broad,framing introduction by thevolume’s editors, the contribu-

tors consider such subjects as responsibility as it relatesto the “free will” problem; the relation between respon-sibility and knowledge or ignorance; the relationbetween causal and moral responsibility; the difference,if any, between responsibility for actions and responsi-bility for omissions; the metaphysical requirements formaking sense of “collective” responsibility; and the relation between moral and legal responsibility.

Taken together, the essays in Action, Ethics, andResponsibility offer a breadth of perspectives that isunmatched by other treatments of the topic.

Joseph Keim Campbell is Associate Professor in theDepartment of Philosophy at Washington State University.Michael O’Rourke is Professor in the Department of Philosophyat the University of Idaho. Harry S. Silverstein is ProfessorEmeritus in the Department of Philosophy at WashingtonState University. Campbell, O’Rourke, and Silverstein are coed-itors of three previous volumes in the Topics in ContemporaryPhilosophy series, Causation and Explanation (2007),Knowledge and Skepticism (2010), and Time and Identity(2010), all published by the MIT Press.


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An analysis of twoheuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models,illustrated with historical examples from the life sciences.

Leading philosophersexplore responsibilityfrom a variety of perspectives, includingmetaphysics, action theory, and philosophyof law.

CONTRIBUTORS Joseph Keim Campbell, David Chan, Randolph Clarke, E. J. Coffman, John Martin Fischer, Helen Frowe,Todd Jones, Frances Kamm, Antti Kauppinen, Alfred R. Mele,Michael O’Rourke, Paul Russell, Robert F. Schopp, George Sher,Harry S. Silverstein, Saul Smilansky, Donald Smith, Charles T. Wolfe




VOICE Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Mediaedited by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson, and Theo Van Leeuwen

Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agen-das. In the digital era, techniques and technologies ofvoice have provoked insistent questioning of the dis-

tinction between the humanvoice and the voice of themachine, between genuine andsynthetic affect, between theuniqueness of an individualvoice and the social and

cultural forces that shape it. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on these topics from history, philosophy, cultural theory, film, dance, poetry, media arts, and computer games.

Chapters cover such technologies as voice mail,podcasting, and digital approximations of the humanvoice. A number of authors explore the performance,performativity, and authenticity; while others examinemore immaterial concerns — the voice’s often-invokedmagical powers, the ghostliness of disembodied voices,and posthuman vocalization. The chapters evoke anoften paradoxical reassertion of the human in the useof voice in mainstream media including recordedmusic, films, and computer games.

Norie Neumark is Associate Professor of Media Arts andProduction at University of Technology, Sydney, and a soundand media artist. She is the coeditor (with AnnemarieChandler) of At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (MIT Press, 2005). Ross Gibson is Professor of Contemporary Art, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Theo Van Leeuwen is Professor of Media andCommunication at University of Technology, Sydney.

August — 6 x 9, 440 pp. — 20 illus.

$40.00S/£29.95 cloth978-0-262-01390-1

A Leonardo Book

DESIGNING SOUNDAndy Farnell

Designing Sound teaches students and professionalsound designers to understand and create sound effectsstarting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound canbe generated from first principles, guided by analysisand synthesis. The text takes a practitioner’s perspective,

exploring the basic principlesof making ordinary, everydaysounds using an easily accessedfree software. Readers use thePure Data (Pd) language to

construct sound objects, which are more flexible anduseful than recordings. Sound is considered as aprocess, rather than as data — an approach sometimesknown as “procedural audio.” Procedural sound is a liv-ing sound effect that can run as computer code and bechanged in real time according to unpredictable events.Applications include video games, film, animation, andmedia in which sound is part of an interactive process.

The book takes a practical, systematic approach to the subject, teaching by example and providingbackground information that offers a firm theoreticalcontext for its pragmatic stance. After mastering thetechniques presented in Designing Sound, students will be able to build their own sound objects for use in interactive applications and other projects.

Andy Farnell has a degree in Computer Science and ElectronicEngineering from University College London and now special-izes in digital audio signal processing. He has worked as asound effects programmer for BBC radio and television and asa programmer on server-side applications for product searchand data storage.


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Perspectives on the voiceand technology, fromdiscussions of voice mail and podcasts toreflections on dance and sound poetry.

A practitioner’s guide tothe basic principles ofcreating sound effectsusing easily accessedfree software.

CONTRIBUTORS Mark Amerika, Isabelle Arvers, Giselle Beiguelman, Philip Brophy, Ross Gibson, Brandon LaBelle,Thomas Levin, Helen Macallan, Virginia Madsen, Meredith Morse,Norie Neumark, Andrew Plain, John Potts, Theresa M. Senft,Nermin Saybasili, Amanda Stewart, Axel Stockburger,Michael Taussig, Martin Thomas, Theo Van Leeuwen, Mark Wood



THE AUDIO PROGRAMMING BOOKedited by Richard Boulanger and Victor Lazzariniforeword by Max Mathews

This comprehensive handbook of mathematical andprogramming techniques for audio signal processingwill be an essential reference for all computer musicians,computer scientists, engineers, and anyone interested in

audio. Designed to be used byreaders with varying levels ofprogramming expertise, it notonly provides the foundationsfor music and audio develop-ment but also tackles issuesthat sometimes remain myste-

rious even to experienced software designers. Exercisesand copious examples (all cross-platform and based onfree or open source software) make the book ideal forclassroom use.

Fifteen chapters and eight appendixes cover suchtopics as programming basics for C and C++ (withmusic-oriented examples), audio programming basicsand more advanced topics, spectral audio program-ming; programming Csound opcodes, and algorithmicsynthesis and music programming. Appendixes covertopics in compiling, audio and MIDI, computing, andmath. An accompanying DVD provides an additional40 chapters, covering musical and audio programs withmicro-controllers, alternate MIDI controllers, videocontrollers, developing Apple Audio Unit plug-insfrom Csound opcodes, and audio programming for the iPhone.

Richard Boulanger is Professor of Electronic Production andDesign at the Berklee College of Music and editor of TheCsound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design,Signal Processing, and Programming (MIT Press, 2000). VictorLazzarini is Senior Lecturer in the Music Department andDirector of the Music Technology Laboratory at the NationalUniversity of Ireland, Maynooth.


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COLOR FOR THE SCIENCESJan Koenderink

Color for the Sciences is the first book on colorimetry tooffer an account that emphasizes conceptual and formalissues rather than applications. Jan Koenderink’s intro-ductory text treats colorimetry — literally, “color meas-urement” — as a science, freeing the topic from the

usual fixation on conventionalpraxis and how to get the“right” result. Readers of Colorfor the Sciences will learn to

rethink concepts from the roots in order to reach abroader, conceptual understanding.

After a brief account of the history of the discipline(beginning with Isaac Newton) and a chapter titled“Colorimetry for Dummies,” the heart of the bookcovers the main topics in colorimetry, including thespace of beams, achromatic beams, edge colors, opti-mum colors, color atlases, and spectra. Other chapterscover more specialized topics, including implementa-tions, metrics pioneered by Schrödinger and Helmholtz,and extended color space.

Color for the Sciences can be used as a reference forprofessionals or in a formal introductory course on colorimetry. It will be especially useful both for thoseworking with color in a scientific or engineering con-text who find the standard texts lacking and for profes-sionals and students in image engineering, computergraphics, and computer science.

Jan Koenderink was Professor of Physics at Utrecht Universityfor many years. He is currently a Research Fellow at DelftUniversity of Technology and Visiting Professor at MIT andÉcole National Supérieure Paris. He is the author of SolidShape (MIT Press, 1990).

September — 8 x 9, 760 pp. — 916 color illus.

$70.00S/£51.95 cloth978-0-262-01428-1

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An encyclopedic handbook on audio programming for studentsand professionals, withmany cross-platformopen source examplesand a DVD coveringadvanced topics.

A comprehensive introduction to colorimetry from a conceptual perspective.



WIRELESSNESSRadical Empiricism in Network CulturesAdrian Mackenzie

How has wirelessness — being connected to objectsand infrastructures without knowing exactly how orwhere — become a key form of contemporary experi-ence? Stretching across routers, smart phones, netbooks,

cities, towers, Guangzhouworkshops, service agreements,toys, and states, wireless tech-nologies have brought withthem sensations of change,proximity, movement, anddivergence. In Wirelessness,Adrian Mackenzie draws on

philosophical techniques from a century ago to makesense of this most contemporary postnetwork condi-tion. The radical empiricism associated with the prag-matist philosopher William James, Mackenzie argues,offers fresh ways for matching the disordered flow ofwireless networks, meshes, patches, and connectionswith felt sensations.

For Mackenzie, entanglements with things, gadgets,infrastructures, and services — tendencies, fleetingnuances, and peripheral shades of often barely regis-tered feeling that cannot be easily codified, symbolized,or quantified — mark the experience of wirelessness,and this links directly to James’s expanded conceptionof experience. “Wirelessness” designates a tendency tomake network connections in different times andplaces using these devices and services. Equally, itembodies a sensibility attuned to the proliferation ofdevices and services that carry information throughradio signals. Above all, it means heightened aware-ness of ongoing change and movement associated withnetworks, infrastructures, location, and information.

The experience of wirelessness spans several strandsof media-technological change, and Mackenzie movesfrom wireless cities through signals, devices, networks,maps, and products, to the global belief in the expan-sion of wireless worlds.

Adrian Mackenzie is Reader and Codirector at the Centre forScience Studies at Lancaster University, U.K.


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INSTRUCTION AND TECHNOLOGYDesigns for Everyday LearningBrad Mehlenbacher

The perpetual connectivity made possible by twenty-first-century technology has profoundly affectedinstruction and learning. Emerging technologies thatupend traditional notions of communication and com-

munity also influence the ways we design and evaluateinstruction and how we understand learning and learning environments. InInstruction and Technology,Brad Mehlenbacher offers

a detailed, multidisciplinary analysis of the dynamicrelationship between technology and learning.Mehlenbacher describes how today’s ubiquitous technology conflates our once separated learningworlds — work, leisure, and higher educational spaces.He reviews the ongoing cross-disciplinary conversationabout learning with technology and distance educationand examines a dozen models of instruction and learning with technology drawn from peer-reviewedresearch. Taking an integrative perspective towarddesign, Mehlenbacher offers a framework for everydayinstructional situations, describing five interdependentdimensions: learner background and knowledge, learnertasks and activities, social dynamics, instructor activities,and learning environment and artifacts.

The technologies that distribute today’s classroomacross time and space call for a new discussion aboutwhat we value in the traditional classroom. WithInstruction and Technology Mehlenbacher lays thegroundwork for the long-term multidisciplinary investigation that will be required as researchers andpractitioners shape and extend the boundaries of thisemerging field.

Brad Mehlenbacher is Associate Professor of Distance Learningin the Leadership, Policy, Adult and Higher EducationDepartment, Primary Faculty Member with Human Factors and Ergonomics in the Psychology Department, AffiliatedFaculty Member with Communication, Rhetoric, and DigitalMedia in the English and Communication Departments, andAffiliated Faculty Member with the Digital Games ResearchCenter in the Computer Science Department at North CarolinaState University.


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An account of the sensations associatedwith being entangledwith wireless technolo-gies that draws on thephilosophical techniquesof William James’s radical empiricism.

A rigorous multidiscipli-nary analysis of theinfluence of emergingtechnologies on instruc-tion and learning thatlays the groundwork forfuture inquiry.



KOREA’S ONLINE GAMING EMPIRE Dal Yong Jin

In South Korea, online gaming is a cultural phenome-non. Games are broadcast on television, professionalgamers are celebrities, and youth culture is often identi-fied with online gaming. Uniquely in the online gamesmarket, Korea not only dominates the local market

but has also made its markglobally. In Korea’s OnlineGaming Empire, Dal Yong Jinexamines the rapid growth ofthis industry from a political

economy perspective, discussing it in social, cultural,and economic terms.

Korea has the largest percentage of broadband subscribers of any country in the world, and Koreansspend increasing amounts of time and money onInternet-based games. Online gaming has become amode of socializing — a channel for human relation-ships. The Korean online game industry has been apioneer in software development and eSports (elec-tronic sports and leagues). Jin discusses the policies ofthe Korean government that encouraged the develop-ment of online gaming both as a cutting-edge businessand as a cultural touchstone; the impact of economicglobalization; the relationship between online gamesand Korean society; and the future of the industry. Heexamines the rise of Korean online games in the globalmarketplace, the emergence of eSport as a youth cul-ture phenomenon, the working conditions of profes-sional gamers, the role of game fans as consumers, howKorea’s local online game industry has become global,and whether these emerging firms have challenged theWest’s dominance in global markets.

Dal Yong Jin is Associate Professor at KAIST (Korea AdvancedInstitute of Science and Technology).


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PEER PARTICIPATION AND SOFTWAREWhat Mozilla Has to Teach Government David R. Booth

To maintain and improve the Firefox browser, theMozilla Foundation depends not only on its team ofprofessional programmers and managers but also on anetwork of volunteer technologists and enthusiasts who

contribute their expertise. Inthis MacArthur FoundationReport, David Booth examinesthe Mozilla Foundation’s

success at organizing large-scale participation in thedevelopment of its software and considers whetherMozilla’s approach can be transferred to governmentand civil society.

David R. Booth is Creative Writing Professor in the MFA inWriting Program at the University of San Francisco.

July — 5 3/8 x 8, 112 pp.

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media

KIDS AND CREDIBILITYAn Empirical Examination of Youth, DigitalMedia Use, and Information CredibilityAndrew J. Flanagin and Miriam J. Metzgerwith Ethan Hartsell, Alex Markov, Ryan Medders,Rebekah Pure, and Elisia Sim

How well do children navigate the ocean of informationthat is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and

challenges for Internet-savvykids, offering extraordinarypotential for learning and social

connection but little guidance on assessing the reliabil-ity of online information. This report summarizes thefirst large-scale survey to examine children’s onlineinformation-seeking strategies and their beliefs aboutthe credibility of that information.

Andrew Flanagin is Professor and Miriam J. Metzger isAssociate Professor in the Department of Communication atthe University of California, Santa Barbara.

August — 5 3/8 x 8, 154 pp. — 45 illus.

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning

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The rapid growth of the Korean online gameindustry, viewed insocial, cultural, and economic contexts.

An examination of Mozilla’s uniqueapproach to softwaredevelopment.

Findings from a survey of youthfulInternet users.




NETWORKS OF THE BRAINOlaf Sporns

Over the last decade, the study of complex networks has expanded across diversescientific fields. Increasingly, science is concerned with the structure, behavior,and evolution of complex systems ranging from cells to ecosystems. Modern net-work approaches are beginning to reveal fundamental principles of brain archi-tecture and function, and in Networks of the Brain, Olaf Sporns describes how theintegrative nature of brain function can be illuminated from a complex networkperspective. Highlighting the many emerging points of contact between neuro-science and network science, the book serves to introduce network theory to neu-roscientists and neuroscience to those working on theoretical network models.

Brain networks span the microscale of individual cells and synapses and themacroscale of cognitive systems and embodied cognition. Sporns emphasizeshow networks connect levels of organization in the brain and how they linkstructure to function. In order to keep the book accessible and focused on therelevance to neuroscience of network approaches, he offers an informal andnonmathematical treatment of the subject. After describing the basic concepts of network theory and the fundamentals of brain connectivity, Sporns discusseshow network approaches can reveal principles of brain architecture. He describesnew links between network anatomy and function and investigates how networksshape complex brain dynamics and enable adaptive neural computation. Thebook documents the rapid pace of discovery and innovation while tracing thehistorical roots of the field.

The study of brain connectivity has already opened newavenues of study in neuroscience. Networks of the Brain offers asynthesis of the sciences of complex networks and the brainthat will be an essential foundation for future research.

Olaf Sporns is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department ofPsychological and Brain Sciences, Adjunct Professor in the School ofInformatics and Computing, a member of the programs in Neuroscienceand Cognitive Science, and Head of the Computational CognitiveNeuroscience Laboratory at Indiana University Bloomington.

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An integrative overview of network approaches to neuroscience explores the origins of brain complexity.

November7 x 9, 375 pp.15 color illus., 100 black & white illus.

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THE SELF-ORGANIZING SOCIAL MINDJohn Bolenderforeword by Alan Page Fiske

In The Self-Organizing Social Mind, John Bolender proposes a new explanation for the forms of social relations. He argues that the core of social-relationalcognition exhibits beauty — in the physicist’s sense of

the word, associated with sym-metry. Bolender describes afundamental set of patterns ininterpersonal cognition, whichaccount for the resulting struc-tures of social life in terms of

their symmetries and the breaking of those symmetries.He further describes the symmetries of the four funda-mental social relations as ordered in a nested series akinto what one finds in the formation of a snowflake orspiral galaxy. Symmetry breaking organizes the neuralactivity generating the cognitive models that structureour social relationships.

Bolender’s primary claim is that there exists a socialpattern generator analogous to the central pattern generators associated with locomotion in many animalspecies. Spontaneous symmetry breaking structures theactivity of the social pattern generator just as it does incentral pattern generators.

Bolender’s hypothesis that relational cognitionresults from self-organization is entirely novel, distinctfrom other theories that describe sociality in terms ofevolution or environment. It presents a picture ofsocial-relational cognition as resembling somethinginorganic. In doing so it reveals deep connectionsamong cognition, biology, and the inorganic world.

John Bolender is Assistant Professor in the Department ofPhilosophy at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey,and Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at Princeton University.


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A Bradford Book

DYNAMIC FACESInsights from Experiments and Computationedited by Cristóbal Curio, Heinrich H. Bülthoff,and Martin A. Gieseforeword by Tomaso Poggio

The recognition of faces is a fundamental visual func-tion with importance for social interaction and commu-

nication. Scientific interest infacial recognition has increaseddramatically over the lastdecade. Researchers in suchfields as psychology, neuro-physiology, and functional

imaging have published more than 10,000 studies onface processing. Almost all of these studies focus on theprocessing of static pictures of faces, however, with littleattention paid to the recognition of dynamic faces, facesas they change over time — a topic in neuroscience thatis also relevant for a variety of technical applications,including robotics, animation, and human-computerinterfaces. This volume offers a state-of-the-art, inter-disciplinary overview of recent work on dynamic facesfrom both biological and computational perspectives.

The book offers neuroscientists and biologists anessential reference for designing new experiments, andprovides computer scientists with knowledge that willhelp them improve technical systems for the recogni-tion, processing, synthesizing, and animating ofdynamic faces.

Cristóbal Curio is a Senior Research Scientist specializing in biologically motivated Machine Vision and HumanPerception and Heinrich H. Bülthoff is Professor and Director of the Perception, Cognition, and Action Department at theMax Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen.Martin A. Giese is Professor for Computational Sensorimotoricsat the Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute forClinical Brain Sciences and Center for Integrative Neuroscience,at the University Clinic Tübingen.


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A proposal that the basic mental modelsused to structure socialinteraction result fromself-organization inbrain activity.

State-of-the-art researchon the perception of dynamic faces, a topic of importance to brain, cognitive, andcomputational sciences.



BACK IN PRINT

VISIONA Computational Investigation into the HumanRepresentation and Processing of Visual Information David Marrwith a new foreword by Shimon Ullman and a new afterword by Tomaso Poggio

David Marr’s posthumouslypublished Vision (1982) influ-enced a generation of brainand cognitive scientists, inspir-ing many to enter the field. InVision, Marr describes a gen-

eral framework for understanding visual perception andtouches on broader questions about how the brain andits functions can be studied and understood.Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sci-ences have long valued Marr’s creativity, intellectualpower, and ability to integrate insights and data fromneuroscience, psychology, and computation. This MITPress edition makes Marr’s influential work available toa new generation of students and scientists.

In Marr’s framework, the process of vision constructsa set of representations, starting from a description ofthe input image and culminating with a description ofthree-dimensional objects in the surrounding environ-ment. A central theme, and one that has had far-reaching influence in both neuroscience and cognitivescience, is the notion of different levels of analysis —in Marr’s framework, the computational level, the algo-rithmic level, and the hardware implementation level.

Now, thirty years later, the main problems thatoccupied Marr remain fundamental open problems inthe study of perception. Vision provides inspiration forthe continuing efforts to integrate knowledge fromcognition and computation to understand vision andthe brain.

David Courtnay Marr (1945–1980), one of the originators of the field of computational neuroscience, was Professor of Psychology at MIT. Shimon Ullman is Samy and Ruth CohnProfessor of Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute ofScience, Rehovot, Israel. Tomaso Poggio is Eugene McDermottProfessor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciencesat MIT. Both Ullman and Poggio worked with David Marr.

July — 7 x 9, 432 pp. — 150 illus.

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THE MEMORY PROCESSNeuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectivesedited by Suzanne Nalbantian, Paul M. Matthews,and James L. McClelland

The Memory Process offers a groundbreaking, interdisci-plinary approach to the understanding of human mem-ory, with contributions from both neuroscientists and

humanists. The first book tolink the neuroscientific studyof memory to the investigationof memory in the humanities,it connects the latest findingsin memory research with

insights from philosophy, literature, theater, art, music,and film.

Chapters from the scientific perspective discussboth fundamental concepts and ongoing debates fromgenetic and epigenetic approaches, functional neu-roimaging, connectionist modeling, dream analysis,and neurocognitive studies. The humanist analysesoffer insights about memory from outside the labora-tory — from novels, drama, visual art, and film. Thechapters from the philosophical perspective serve asthe bridge between science and the arts. The volume’ssweeping introduction offers an integrative merging ofneuroscientific and humanistic findings.

Suzanne Nalbantian is Professor of Comparative Literature at Long Island University and the author of Memory inLiterature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience, AestheticAutobiography, and other books. Paul M. Matthews is VicePresident at GlaxoSmithKline in London, Professor of ClinicalNeurosciences at Imperial College, London, and the coauthorof The Bard on the Brain: Understanding the Mind through the Art of Shakespeare. James L. McClelland is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation at Stanford University. He is the coauthor of Parallel Distributed Processing (1986) and SemanticCognition (2004), both published by the MIT Press.

November — 6 x 9, 424 pp. — 4 color plates, 36 black & white illus.

$35.00S/£25.95 cloth978-0-262-01457-1

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Available again, aninfluential book thatoffers a framework forunderstanding visualperception and considersfundamental questionsabout the brain and its functions.

The convergence of neuroscience, philosophy, art, music,and literature offersvaluable new insightsinto the study of memory.



AUDITORY NEUROSCIENCEMaking Sense of Sound Jan Schnupp, Israel Nelken, and Andrew King

Every time we listen — to speech, to music, to foot-steps approaching or retreating — our auditory percep-tion is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricateprocesses that unfold within the source of the sound

itself, in the air, in our ears,and, most of all, in our brains.Hearing is an “everyday mira-cle” that, despite its staggeringcomplexity, seems effortless.

This book offers an integrated account of hearing interms of the neural processes that take place in differentparts of the auditory system.

Because hearing results from the interplay of somany physical, biological, and psychological processes,the book pulls together the different aspects of hearing— including acoustics, the mathematics of signal pro-cessing, the physiology of the ear and central auditorypathways, psychoacoustics, speech, and music — into acoherent whole. Additional resources for readers, stu-dents, and instructors, including sound samples, colorimages, animations, self-test questions, and links, areavailable on the book’s Web site.

Jan Schnupp is University Lecturer and Codirector of theAuditory Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics at Oxford University and a Fellow of St. Peter’s College. Israel Nelken is Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of AuditoryNeurophysiology in the Department of Neurobiology in theAndrew Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem. Andrew King is Professor ofNeurophysiology, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow,and Codirector of the Auditory Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Merton College.


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DYNAMIC COORDINATION IN THE BRAINFrom Neurons to Mindedited by Christoph von der Malsburg, William A. Phillips, and Wolf Singer

A fundamental shift is occurring in neuroscience andrelated disciplines. In the past, researchers focused on

functional specialization of the brain, discovering complexprocessing strategies based onconvergence and divergence in slowly adapting anatomical

architectures. Yet for the brain to cope with ever-chang-ing and unpredictable circumstances, it needs strategieswith richer interactive short-term dynamics. Recentresearch has revealed ways in which the brain effectivelycoordinates widely distributed and specialized activitiesto meet the needs of the moment. This book exploresthese findings, examining the functions, mechanisms,and manifestations of distributed dynamical coordina-tion in the brain and mind across different species andlevels of organization.

The book identifies three basic functions ofdynamic coordination: contextual disambiguation,dynamic grouping, and dynamic routing. It considersthe role of dynamic coordination in temporally struc-tured activity and explores these issues at different levels, from synaptic and local circuit mechanisms to macroscopic system dynamics, emphasizing their importance for cognition, behavior, and psychopathology.

Christoph von der Malsburg is Professor and Senior Fellow atthe Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS). WilliamA. Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at theUniversity of Stirling and Adjunct Fellow of FIAS. Wolf Singeris Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research inFrankfurt and Founding Director of both FIAS and the ErnstStrüngmann Institute for Brain Research.

August — 6 x 9, 436 pp. — 22 color illus.

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An integrated overview ofhearing and the interplayof physical, biological,and psychologicalprocesses underlying it.

An examination of how widely distributedand specialized activitiesof the brain are flexiblyand effectively coordinated.



NEUROETHICSAn Introduction with Readingsedited by Martha J. Farah

Neuroscience increasingly allows us to explain, predict,and even control aspects of human behavior. The ethi-cal issues that arise from these developments extendbeyond the boundaries of conventional bioethics into

philosophy of mind, psychol-ogy, theology, public policy,and the law. This broader set ofconcerns is the subject matterof neuroethics. In this book,leading neuroscientist MarthaFarah introduces the reader to

the key issues of neuroethics, placing them in scientificand cultural context and presenting a carefully chosenset of essays, articles, and excerpts from longer worksthat explore specific problems in neuroethics from theperspectives of a diverse set of authors. Included arewritings by such leading scientists, philosophers, andlegal scholars as Carl Elliot, Joshua Greene, StevenHyman, Peter Kramer, and Elizabeth Phelps. Topicsinclude the ethical dilemmas of cognitive enhancement;issues of personality, memory and identity; the ability ofbrain imaging to both persuade and reveal; the legalimplications of neuroscience; and the many ways inwhich neuroscience challenges our conception of whatit means to be a person.

Martha J. Farah is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of NaturalSciences in the Department of Psychology at the University ofPennsylvania, where she directs the Center for Neuroscienceand Society. She is the author of Visual Agnosia (second edition, 2004) and the coeditor (with Todd E. Feinberg) of Patient-Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience(second edition, 2005), both published by the MIT Press.


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Basic Bioethics series

HUMANITY’S ENDWhy We Should Reject Radical EnhancementNicholas Agar

Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniusesor to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fitonly for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this iswhat contemporary advocates of radical enhancement

offer in all seriousness. Theypresent a variety of technolo-gies and therapies that willexpand our capacities farbeyond what is currently possible for human beings. In

Humanity’s End, Nicholas Agar argues against radicalenhancement, describing its destructive consequences.

Agar examines the proposals of four prominent radical enhancers: Ray Kurzweil, who argues that tech-nology will enable our escape from human biology;Aubrey de Grey, who calls for anti-aging therapies thatwill achieve “longevity escape velocity”; Nick Bostrom,who defends the morality and rationality of enhance-ment; and James Hughes, who envisions a harmoniousdemocracy of the enhanced and the unenhanced. Agarargues that the outcomes of radical enhancement couldbe darker than the rosy futures described by thesethinkers. The most dramatic means of enhancing ourcognitive powers could in fact kill us; the radical exten-sion of our life span could eliminate experiences ofgreat value from our lives; and a situation in whichsome humans are radically enhanced and others are not could lead to tyranny of posthumans over humans.

Nicholas Agar is Reader in Philosophy at Victoria University ofWellington, New Zealand.


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Life and Mind series: Philosophical Issues in Biology andPsychology

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Explores the ethical,legal, and societal issues arising from brain imaging, psychopharmacology, and other new developments in neuroscience.

An argument thatachieving millennial lifespans or monumentalintellects will destroyvalues that give meaningto human lives.




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A new edition of a popular introductory linguistics text,

thoroughly updated and revised,with new material and

new examples.

Available7 x 9, 648 pp.

88 illus.

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LINGUISTICS An Introduction to Language and CommunicationSixth EditionAdrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers, Ann K. Farmer, and Robert M. Harnish

This popular introductory linguistics text is unique for its integration of themes.Rather than treat morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics ascompletely separate fields, the book shows how they interact. It provides a soundintroduction to linguistic methodology while encouraging students to considerwhy people are intrinsically interested in language — the ultimate puzzle of thehuman mind.

The text first addresses structural and interpretive parts of language, thentakes a cognitive perspective and covers such topics as pragmatics, psychology of language, language acquisition, and language and the brain. For this sixth edition, all chapters have been revised.

The organization of the book gives instructors flexibility in designing theircourses. Chapters have numerous subsections with core materialpresented first and additional material following as special top-ics. The accompanying workbook supplements the text withexercises drawn from a variety of languages. The goal is to teachbasic conceptual foundations of linguistics and the methods ofargumentation, justification, and hypothesis testing within the field. By presenting the most fundamentallinguistics concepts in detail, the text allows students to get afeeling for how real work in different areas of linguistics is done.

The late Adrian Akmajian was Professor of Linguistics at the Universityof Arizona. Richard A. Demers is Professor Emeritus of the Departmentof Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Ann K. Farmer is anInformation Engineer at Google. Robert M. Harnish is ProfessorEmeritus of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Arizona.

“The sixth edition of Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication is a wonderful introductory textbook for linguistics. The book is flexible enough to be used in both introductory and more advanced survey courses by including more advanced special topic sections and lengthy reference lists for the interested student.”

— Susannah Levi, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, New York University

NEW MATERIAL IN THE SIXTH EDITION• Updated examples

• New special topics section

• New discussions of the minimalist program, semantic minimalism, humangenetic relationships and historical relationships among languages, Griceantheories, experimental pragmatics, andlanguage acquisition

A LINGUISTICS WORKBOOKCompanion to Linguistics, Sixth Edition

Ann K. Farmer and Richard A. Demers

A Linguistics Workbook is a supplement to Linguistics: An Introduction, Sixth Edition

that can also be used with other introductory and intermediate linguistics texts.

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ARGUMENTS AS RELATIONSJohn Bowers

In Arguments as Relations, John Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that hasthe potential to unify data from a wide range of differ-ent language types in terms of a simple and universalsyntactic structure. In many ways, Bowers’s theory is the

natural extension of three lead-ing ideas in the literature: theminimalist approach to Casetheory (particularly Chomsky’s

idea that Case is assigned under the Agree functionrelation); the idea of introducing arguments in specifiersof functional categories rather than in projections oflexical categories; and the neo-Davidsonian approach toargument structure represented in the work of Parsonsand others. Bowers pulls together these strands in theliterature and shapes them into a unified theory.

These ideas, together with certain basic assumptions— notably the idea that the initial order of merge ofthe three basic argument categories of Agent, Theme,and Affectee is just the opposite of what has beenalmost universally assumed in the literature — leadBowers to a fundamental rethinking of argumentstructure. He proposes that every argument is mergedas the specifier of a particular type of light verb cate-gory and that these functional argument categoriesmerge in bottom-to-top fashion in accordance with a fixed Universal Order of Merge (UOM). In the hier-archical structures that result from these operations,Affectee arguments will be highest, Theme argumentsnext highest, and Agent arguments lowest — exactly the opposite of the usual assumption.

John Bowers is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of theLinguistics Department at Cornell University.

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THE SYNTAX OF ADJECTIVESA Comparative StudyGuglielmo Cinque

In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offerscross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources.Arguing against the standard view, and reconsideringhis own earlier analysis, Cinque proposes that adjectives

enter the nominal phase eitheras “adverbial” modifiers to the noun or as predicates ofreduced relative clauses. Some

of his evidence comes from a systematic comparisonbetween Romance and Germanic languages. These twolanguage families differ with respect to the canonicalposition taken by adjectives, which is prenominal inGermanic and both pre- and postnominal in Romance.Cinque shows that a simple N(oun)-raising analysisencounters a number of problems, the primary one ofwhich is its inability to express a fundamental general-ization governing the interpretation of pre- and post-nominal adjectives in the two language families. Cinqueargues that N-raising as such should be abandoned infavor of XP-raising — a conclusion also supported byevidence from other language families.

After developing this framework for analyzing thesyntax of adjectives, Cinque applies it to the syntax ofEnglish and Italian adjectives. An appendix offers abrief discussion of other languages that appear to dis-tinguish overtly between the two sources of adjectives.

Guglielmo Cinque is Professor of Linguistics at the Universityof Venice, where he is Director of the PhD Program inLinguistics. He is the author of Types of A Dependencies(MIT Press, 1990) and other books.

July — 6 x 9, 216 pp.

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A new analysis of adjectives, supported bycomparative evidence.





LOCALISM VERSUS GLOBALISM IN MORPHOLOGY AND PHONOLOGYDavid Embick

In Localism versus Globalism in Morphology andPhonology, David Embick offers the first detailed examination of morphology and phonology from aphase-cyclic point of view (that is, one that takes into

account recent developments in Distributed Morphologyand the Minimalist program)and the only recent detailedtreatment of allomorphy, aphenomenon that is central to understanding how the

grammar of human language works. In addition tomaking new theoretical proposals about morphologyand phonology in terms of a cyclic theory, Embickaddresses a schism in the field between phonologicaltheories such as Optimality Theory and other (mostlysyntactic) theories such as those associated with theMinimalist program. He presents sustained empiricalarguments that the Localist view of grammar associ-ated with the Minimalist program (and DistributedMorphology in particular) is correct, and that theGlobalism espoused by many forms of OptimalityTheory is incorrect. In the “derivational versus non-derivational” debate in linguistic theory, Embick’s argu-ments come down squarely on the derivational side.

Determining how to make empirical comparisonsbetween such large positions, and the different frame-works that embody them, is at the heart of the book.Embick argues that patterns of allomorphy implicategeneral questions about locality and specific questionsabout the manner in which (morpho)syntax relates to(morpho)phonology. Allomorphy thus provides a cru-cial test case for comparing Localist and Globalistapproaches to grammar.

David Embick is Associate Professor in the Department ofLinguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.


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AGREEMENT AND HEAD MOVEMENTClitics, Incorporation, and Defective GoalsIan Roberts

In Agreement and Head Movement, Ian Roberts exploresthe consequences of Chomsky’s conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax, the compu-tational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces.

Unlike other treatments of thesubject that discard the con-cept entirely, Roberts’s mono-graph retains the core intuition

behind head-movement and examines to what extent itcan be reformulated and rethought. Roberts argues thatthe current conception of syntax must accommodate aspecies of head-movement, although this operation dif-fers somewhat in technical detail and in empirical cov-erage from earlier understandings of it. He proposesthat head-movement is part of the narrow syntax andthat it applies where the goal of an Agree relation isdefective, in a sense that he defines.

Roberts argues that the theoretical status of head-movement is very similar — in fact identical in variousways — to that of XP-movement. Thus head-move-ment, like XP-movement, should be regarded as partof narrow syntax exactly to the extent that XP-move-ment should be. If one aspect of minimalist theorizingis to eliminate unnecessary distinctions, then Roberts’sargument can be seen as eliminating the distinctionbetween “heads” and “phrases” in relation to internalmerge (and therefore reducing the distinctions cur-rently made between internal and external merge).

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at CambridgeUniversity.


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An argument that patterns of allomorphyreveal that morphologyand phonology behave in a way that providesevidence for a Localisttheory of grammar.

An argument that, contrary to Chomsky,head-movement is partof the narrow syntax.





ROBOTICSScience and Systems Vedited by Jeff Trinkle, Yoky Matsuoka, and Jose A. Castellanos

Robotics: Science and Systems V spans a wide spectrum ofrobotics, bringing together researchers working on thefoundations of robotics, robotics applications, and the

analysis of robotics systems.This volume presents the pro-ceedings of the fifth annualRobotics: Science and Systems

conference, held in July 2009 at the University ofWashington in Seattle. The papers presented cover arange of topics, including manipulation, locomotion,machine learning, localization, visual SLAM, haptics,and biologically inspired design.

Jeff Trinkle is Professor of Computer Science at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute. Yoky Matsuoka is Torode FamilyEndowed Career Development Professor in Computer Scienceand Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle.Jose Castellanos is Associate Professor in the Department ofComputer Science and Systems Engineering at the Universityof Zaragoza, Spain.

October — 8 1/2 x 11, 500 pp. — 297 illus.

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ROBOTICSScience and Systems IIedited by Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox2007, 978-0-262-69348-6$75.00S/£55.95 paper

ROBOTICSScience and Systems IIIedited by Wolfram Burgard, Oliver Brock, and Cyrill Stachniss2008, 978-0-262-52484-1$80.00S/£59.95 paper

ROBOTICSScience and Systems IVedited by Oliver Brock, Jeff Trinkle, and Fabio Ramos2009, 978-0-262-51309-8$75.00S/£55.95 paper

SOCIAL MODELING FORREQUIREMENTS ENGINEERINGedited by Eric Yu, Paolo Giorgini, Neil Maiden,and John Mylopoulos

Much of the difficulty in creating information technol-ogy systems that truly meet people’s needs lies in theproblem of pinning down system requirements. This

book offers a new approach tothe requirements challenge,based on modeling and analyz-ing the relationships amongstakeholders. Although theimportance of the system-environment relationship has

long been recognized in the requirements engineeringfield, most requirements modeling techniques expressthe relationship in mechanistic and behavioral terms.This book describes a modeling approach (called the i*framework) that conceives of software-based informa-tion systems as being situated in environments in whichsocial actors relate to each other in terms of goals to beachieved, tasks to be performed, and resources to befurnished.

The book includes Eric Yu’s original proposal forthe i* framework as well as research that applies,adapts, extends, or evaluates the social modeling con-cepts and approach.

Eric Yu is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Paolo Giorgini is AssistantProfessor in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy. Neil Maiden is Professor of Systems Engineering and Head of the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City University, London. John Mylopoulos is DistinguishedProfessor in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento. He is the coeditor of Metamodeling for Method Engineering(MIT Press, 2009).


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State-of-the-art roboticsresearch on a range of topics.

A novel perspective on requirements engineering, founded on social concepts andstrategic analysis ofrelationships amongsocial actors.







INFORMATION RETRIEVALImplementing and Evaluating Search EnginesStefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, and Gordon V. Cormack

Information retrieval is the foundation for modernsearch engines. This text offers an introduction to thecore topics underlying modern search technologies,

including algorithms, datastructures, indexing, retrieval,and evaluation. The emphasisis on implementation andexperimentation; each chapterincludes exercises and sugges-tions for student projects.

Wumpus — a multiuser open-source information-retrieval system developed by one of the authors andavailable online — provides model implementationsand a basis for student work. The modular structure ofthe book allows instructors to use it in a variety of grad-uate-level courses, including courses taught from adatabase systems perspective, traditional informationretrieval courses with a focus on IR theory, and coursescovering the basics of Web retrieval.

After an introduction to the basics of informationretrieval, the text covers three major topic areas —indexing, retrieval, and evaluation — in self-containedparts. The final part of the book draws on and extendsthe general material in the earlier parts, treating suchspecific applications as parallel search engines, Websearch, and XML retrieval. End-of-chapter referencespoint to further reading; exercises range from penciland paper problems to substantial programming proj-ects. In addition to its classroom use, InformationRetrieval will be a valuable reference for professionalsin computer science, computer engineering, and soft-ware engineering.

Stefan Büttcher is a Site Reliability Engineer at Google.Charles L. A. Clarke and Gordon V. Cormack are Professors of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.


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CIRCUIT DESIGN AND SIMULATION WITH VHDLSecond EditionVolnei A. Pedroni

This text offers a comprehensive treatment of VHDLand its applications to the design and simulation of real, industry-standard circuits. It focuses on the use of

VHDL rather than solely onthe language, showing why andhow certain types of circuitsare inferred from the languageconstructs and how any of thefour simulation categories canbe implemented. It makes a

rigorous distinction between VHDL for synthesis andVHDL for simulation. The VHDL codes in all designexamples are complete, and circuit diagrams, physicalsynthesis in FPGAs, simulation results, and explanatorycomments are included with the designs. The textreviews fundamental concepts of digital electronics anddesign and includes a series of appendixes that offertutorials on important design tools including ISE,Quartus II, and ModelSim, as well as descriptions ofprogrammable logic devices in which the designs areimplemented, the DE2 development board, standardVHDL packages, and other features. All four VHDLeditions (1987, 1993, 2002, and 2008) are covered.

This expanded second edition is the first textbookon VHDL to include a detailed analysis of circuit simulation with VHDL testbenches in all four cate-gories (nonautomated, fully automated, functional, and timing simulations), accompanied by completepractical examples.

Volnei A. Pedroni received his PhD in Electrical Engineeringfrom the California Institute of Technology. He is Professor of Electronics Engineering at Brazil’s Federal University ofTechnology.


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An introduction to information retrieval,the foundation for modern search engines,that emphasizes implementation andexperimentation.

A presentation of circuitsynthesis and circuitsimulation using VHDL(including VHDL 2008),with an emphasis ondesign examples andlaboratory exercises.



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The interaction of open source and proprietary software and the implications for economic development.


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THE COMINGLED CODEOpen Source and Economic DevelopmentJosh Lerner and Mark Schankerman

Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate moreheat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source whilecritics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysisand systematic economic evidence of the impact of open source on consumers,firms, and economic development in general. This book fills that gap. In TheComingled Code, Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman, drawing on a new, large-scale database, show that open source and proprietary software interact in some-times unexpected ways, and discuss the policy implications of these findings.

The new data (from a range of countries in varying stages of development)documents the mixing of open source and proprietary software: firms sell pro-prietary software while contributing to open source, and users extensively mixand match the two. Lerner and Schankerman examine the ways in which soft-ware differs from other technologies in promoting economic development, what motivates individuals and firms to contribute to open source projects, howdevelopers and users view the trade-offs between the two kinds of software, andhow government policies can ensure that open source competes effectively withproprietary software and contributes to economic development.

Josh Lerner is Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking atHarvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance andEntrepreneurial Units. He is the author of The Boulevard of BrokenDreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and VentureCapital Have Failed and What to Do About It. Mark Schankerman is Professor of Economics and Research Associate at the Centre forEconomic Performance at the London School of Economics and ResearchFellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.


PRODUCT VARIETY AND THE GAINSFROM INTERNATIONAL TRADERobert C. Feenstra

The application of the monopolistic competition modelto international trade by Elhanan Helpman, PaulKrugman, and Kelvin Lancaster was one of the greatachievements of international trade theory in the 1970s

and 1980s. Monopolistic com-petition models have requirednew empirical methods toimplement their theoreticalinsights, however, and in thisbook Robert Feenstra describes

methods that have been developed to measure theproduct variety of imports and the gains from trade that are due to product variety.

Feenstra first considers the consumer benefits fromhaving access to new import varieties of differentiatedproducts, and examines a recent method to estimatethe elasticity of substitution (the extent of differentia-tion across products) and to use that information toconstruct the gains from import variety. He thenexamines claims of producer benefit from export vari-ety, arguing that the self-selection of the more produc-tive firms (as the low-productivity firms exit themarket) can be interpreted as a gain from product vari-ety. He makes use of a measurement of product varietyknown as the extensive margin of exports and imports.Finally, he considers an alternative approach to quanti-fying the gains due to product variety by comparingreal GDP calculated with and without the extensivemargin of trade.

Robert C. Feenstra is Professor of Economics and C. BryanCameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics at theUniversity of California, Davis. He directs the InternationalTrade and Investment Program at the NBER and is the authorof Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence andOffshoring in the Global Economy: Microeconomic Structure and Macroeconomic Implications (MIT Press, 2010).


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MACROECONOMIC ESSENTIALSUnderstanding Economics in the NewsThird EditionPeter E. Kennedy

This introductory text offers an alternative to the ency-clopedic, technically oriented approach taken by tradi-tional textbooks on macroeconomic principles. Concise

and nontechnical but rigorous,its goal is not to teach studentsto shift curves on diagrams but to help them understandfundamental macroeconomicconcepts and their real-world

applications. It accomplishes this by providing a clearexposition of introductory macroeconomic theory alongwith more than 700 one- or two-sentence “news clips”of economics media coverage that serve as illustrationsof the concepts discussed. Although the writing isaccessible, end-of-chapter questions are challenging,requiring a thorough understanding of related macro-economic concepts, problem-solving skills, and an abil-ity to make connections to the real world. Students willlearn practical macroeconomics and will be able tointerpret and evaluate media commentary on macroeco-nomics.

This third edition has been revised and updatedthroughout. New material covers the subprime mort-gage crisis and other subjects; new “curiosities” (boxedexpositions of important topics) have been added, ashave “news clips” about recent events; and the mostchallenging end-of-chapter questions are now sepa-rated from the less challenging. Many chapters includea set of numerical exercises (quite different from thosefound in traditional texts); a sample exam questionappears at the end of each section within a chapter;and a test bank of multiple-choice questions (withanswers) is available online. Technical material appearsin appendixes following each chapter. Other appen-dixes offer answers to the sample exam questions andthe even-numbered end-of-chapter exercises.

Peter Kennedy is Professor Emeritus of Economics at SimonFraser University.


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An examination of themethods to measure the product variety ofimports and the gainsfrom trade due to product variety.

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THE MINIMUM WAGE AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMESChristopher J. Flinn

In The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes,Christopher Flinn argues that in assessing the effects ofthe minimum wage (in the United States and else-where), a behavioral framework is invaluable for guid-

ing empirical work and theinterpretation of results. Flinndevelops a job search and wagebargaining model that is capa-ble of generating labor marketoutcomes consistent withobserved wage and unemploy-

ment duration distributions, and also can account forobserved changes in employment rates and wages aftera minimum wage change. Flinn uses previous studiesfrom the minimum wage literature to demonstrate howhis model can be used to rationalize and synthesize thediverse results found in widely varying institutional con-texts. He also shows how observed wage distributionsfrom before and after a minimum wage change can beused to determine if the change was welfare-improving.More ambitiously, and perhaps controversially, Flinnproposes the construction and formal estimation of themodel using commonly available data; model estimatesthen enable the researcher to determine directly the wel-fare effects of observed minimum wage changes. Thismodel can be used to conduct counterfactual policyexperiments — even to determine “optimal” minimumwages under a variety of welfare metrics.

The development of the model and the econometrictheory underlying its estimation are carefully presentedso as to enable readers unfamiliar with the economet-rics of point process models and dynamic optimizationin continuous time to follow the arguments.

Christopher J. Flinn is Professor of Economics at New YorkUniversity and Senior Research Fellow at Collegio Carlo Albertoin Moncalieri, Italy.


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JAPAN’S BUBBLE, DEFLATION, AND LONG-TERM STAGNATIONedited by Anil K Kashyap, Koichi Hamada, andDavid E. Weinsteinforeword by Kazumasa Iwata

Japan’s economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, andthe country entered its famous “lost decade” — a period

of stagnation and economicdisruption that persisted until2003. The current declines inglobal equity and real estatemarkets have eerie parallels to

Japan’s economic woes of the 1990s. If we are to avoidrepeating Japan’s experience on a global scale, we mustunderstand what happened, why it happened, and theeffectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of Japan’s policychoices. In this volume, prominent economists — Japanspecialists and others — bring state-of-the-art modelsand analytic tools to bear on these questions.

The essays generate new facts and new findingsabout Japan’s lost decade. The contributors offerforceful arguments showing that Japan’s experience,and the unconventional — sometimes unsuccessful —measures adopted by Japan’s government and centralbank, offer valuable lessons for our post-boom world.

Anil K Kashyap is Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economicsand Finance and Richard N. Rossett Faculty Fellow at theUniversity of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is thecoauthor of Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future (MIT Press, 2001). Koichi Hamada is Tuntex Professor of Economics at Yale University and theauthor of The Political Economy of International MonetaryInterdependence (MIT Press, 1985). David E. Weinstein is Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at ColumbiaUniversity and the coeditor of Reviving Japan’s Economy:Problems and Prescriptions (MIT Press, 2005).


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CONTRIBUTORS Kenn Ariga, Robert Barsky, Diego Comin,Robert Dekle, Kyoji Fukao, Koichi Hamada, Takeo Hoshi, Ryo Kambayashi, Anil K Kashyap, Takao Kato, Satoshi Koibuchi,Philip R. Lane, John Muellbauer, Keiko Murata, Maurice Obstfeld,Ryosuke Okazawa, Joe Peek, Ulrike Schaede, David E. Weinstein

The introduction of asearch and bargainingmodel to assess the welfare effects of minimum wage changesand to determine an“optimal” minimumwage.

New perspectives onJapan’s “lost decade”viewed in the context ofrecent financial turmoil.



POPULATION GAMES ANDEVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICSWilliam H. Sandholm

This text offers a systematic, rigorous, and unified pres-entation of evolutionary game theory, covering the coredevelopments of the theory from its inception in biol-ogy in the 1970s through recent advances. Evolutionary

game theory, which studies thebehavior of large populationsof strategically interactingagents, is used by economiststo make predictions in settings

where traditional assumptions about agents’ rationalityand knowledge may not be justified. Recently, computerscientists, transportation scientists, engineers, and con-trol theorists have also turned to evolutionary gametheory, seeking tools for modeling dynamics in multia-gent systems. Population Games and EvolutionaryDynamics provides a point of entry into the field forresearchers and students in all of these disciplines.

The text first considers population games, whichprovide a simple, powerful model for studying strategicinteractions among large numbers of anonymousagents. It then studies the dynamics of behavior inthese games. Ten substantial appendixes present themathematical tools needed to work in evolutionarygame theory, offering a practical introduction to themethods of dynamic modeling. Accompanying the textare more than 200 color illustrations of the mathemat-ics and theoretical results; many were created using theDynamo software suite, which is freely available on theauthor’s Web site. Readers are encouraged to useDynamo to run quick numerical experiments and tocreate publishable figures for their own research.

William H. Sandholm is Professor of Economics at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison.

January — 7 x 9, 560 pp. — 188 color ilus.

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THE THEORY OF MONEY ANDFINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSVolume 3Martin Shubik

This is the third and last volume of Martin Shubik’sexposition of his vision of “mathematical institutionaleconomics” — a term he coined in 1959 to describe

the theoretical underpinningsneeded for the construction ofan economic dynamics. Thegoal is to develop a process-oriented theory of money andfinancial institutions that rec-

onciles micro- and macroeconomics, using strategicmarket games and other game-theoretic methods.

There is as yet no general dynamic counterpart to theelegant and mathematically well-developed static theoryof general equilibrium. Shubik’s paradigm serves as anintermediate step between general equilibrium and fulldynamics. General equilibrium provides valuable insightson relationships in a closed friction-free economic structure. Shubik aims to open up this limited structureto the rich environment of sociopolitical economy without dispensing with conceptual continuity.

This volume considers the specific roles of financialinstitutions and government, aiming to provide thelink between the abstract study of invariant economicand financial functions and the ever-changing institu-tions that provide these functions. The concept of minimal financial institution is stressed as a means toconnect function with form in a parsimonious manner.

Martin Shubik is Seymour Knox Professor of MathematicalInstitutional Economics (Emeritus) at Yale University’s Cowles Foundation and School of Management. He is theauthor of hundreds of scholarly articles and many books,including Game Theory in the Social Sciences, volumes 1 and 2 (MIT Press, 1982 and 1984) and the previous two volumes of The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions(MIT Press, 1999).


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A systematic, rigorous,comprehensive, and unified overview of evolutionary game theory.

The third and last volume of a work aimed at providing the theoretical underpinnings for aneconomic dynamics.



THE INDIRECT SIDE OF DIRECT INVESTMENTMultinational Company Finance and TaxationJack M. Mintz and Alfons J. Weichenrieder

The recent increase in cross-border flows of foreigndirect investment has sharpened the research focus onmultinational taxation. In this book, taxation experts

Jack Mintz and AlfonsWeichenrieder examine howmultinational corporations useindirect financing structures —organizing themselves intogroups with several tiers ofownership — to reduce world-

wide taxes. They spell out in detail how different taxpolicies affect corporations’ choice of financing struc-tures, discussing the issues in both theoretical andempirical terms.

Drawing on a unique data set (MiDi) on Germanmultinationals provided by the Deutsche Bundesbankin Frankfurt, Mintz and Weichenrieder confirm theprevalence of indirect financing structures for bothoutbound and inbound German investment. They findevidence of “treaty shopping” to avoid withholdingtaxes (using a third country with more favorable taxrates as a conduit through which to route investments)and of “debt shifting.”

Mintz and Weichenrieder argue that increasing ourknowledge of the tax reasons behind conduit invest-ment will lead to a better understanding of how taxpolicy can affect macroeconomic flows of capital in theglobal economy. They review the trade-offs that gov-ernments face and discuss policy options, consideringnot only possible changes to corporate income tax pol-icy but also the potential influence of internationalcooperation on countries’ domestic tax policy.

Jack M. Mintz is Palmer Chair in Public Policy at the Universityof Calgary’s School of Public Policy. He is the author of MostFavoured Nation: Building a Framework for Smart EconomicPolicy. Alfons J. Weichenrieder is Professor of Economics andPublic Finance at the University of Frankfurt and ResearchProfessor at Ifo Institute Munich.


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DIMENSIONS OF COMPETITIVENESSedited by Paul De Grauwe

Competitiveness among nations is often approached as if it were a sports competition: some countries winmedals, others lose out. This view of countries fightingit out in the economic arena is especially popular inbusiness circles and among politicians. Economists,

however, take a very differentapproach to international eco-nomic relations, arguing thatinternational trade leads not to winners and losers but towin-win situations in which

all countries profit. In this volume, leading economiststake on the sometimes-derided concept of competitive-ness, demonstrating the value of systematic analysis in an area too often dominated by special interestgroups who use (and abuse) the concept to advancehidden agendas.

The chapters range from broad theoretical views tocase studies, examining the multiple factors that drivecompetitiveness. Contributors consider the conceptualframework underlying the World Economic Forum’sapproach to competitiveness; differences in per capitaGDP between the United States and the EuropeanUnion; an integrated approach to measuring competi-tiveness and comparative advantage; divergent trendsin price and cost competitiveness in the euro area;methodological issues in constructing competitivenessindicators; taxation and international competitiveness;and a case study of Mexico’s competitiveness in worldmarkets in comparison to China’s.

Paul De Grauwe is Professor of Economics at the CatholicUniversity of Leuven, the author of Economics of MonetaryUnion, and editor of two previous books in the CESifo Seminarseries published by the MIT Press, Exchange Rate Economics:Where Do We Stand? (2005) and (with Jacques Mélitz)Prospects for Monetary Union after the Euro (2005).


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An examination of indirect finance structures used by multinational corporations to reduce their worldwidetax payments.

Leading economists analyze the multiple factors that drive competitiveness among nations in world markets.



REFORMING RULES AND REGULATIONSLaws, Institutions, and Implementationedited by Vivek Ghosal

In recent years governments have paid increasing attention to weighing the socioeconomic benefits ofregulations against their costs. Rules and regulations

governing economic activity are typically formulated with a view to their benefits. Theireffects on the costs and ineffi-ciencies, in particular the possible chilling effects on

competition and innovation, have received limitedattention. In this collection, experts from Europe, the United States, and Asia examine a range of issuesrelated to the effect of rules and regulations on compe-tition, and explore the role of key institutions that affectmarket outcomes. Their contributions argue for usingquantitative methods to guide policy and reform rulesand regulation, and many of the essays offer method-ologies for assessment and recommendations for policy alternatives.

Topics covered include the effectiveness of R&Dtax incentives in OECD countries; the adverse effectof EU climate policy on competitiveness; telecommu-nication regulation in the developing countries ofIndia, China, and Sri Lanka; the role of banks in fos-tering small and medium enterprises in Argentina andChile; the evolution of the U.S. Federal Home LoanBank (FHLB) System; and developing quantitativescreening tools to assess which sectors in the economymight benefit most from regulatory reforms.

Vivek Ghosal is Professor of Economics at Georgia Institute ofTechnology and coeditor of The Political Economy of Antitrust.


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INSTITUTIONAL MICROECONOMICSOF DEVELOPMENTedited by Timothy Besley and Rajshri Jayaraman

The narrative of development economics is now infusedwith discussions of institutions. Economists debatewhether institutions — or other factors altogether(geography, culture, or religion) — are central to devel-

opment. In this volume, lead-ing scholars in developmenteconomics view institutionsfrom a microeconomic per-spective, offering both theoret-

ical overviews and empirical analyses spanning threecontinents.

After substantial introductory chapters by PranabBardhan and Marcel Fafchamps, two scholars whohave published important work on this topic, each ofthe remaining chapters examines a particular set ofinstitutions in a unique setting. These chapters treatthe effects of Angola’s violent conflict on that country’sdevelopment; institutional accountability in Uganda;the effect of Indonesia’s ethnic diversity on the distri-bution of public goods; the impact of trade liberaliza-tion on India’s investment climate; extended familynetworks in Mexico; and a microeconomic perspectiveon land rights in Ethiopia.

The chapters demonstrate the remarkable hetero-geneity of institutions — policy change is mediatedthrough local market institutions, government institu-tions, and families — as well as the empirical andmethodological ingenuity of current research into thiscrucial topic.

Timothy Besley is Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science and Director of STICERD (Suntory and ToyotaInternational Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines)at the London School of Economics. He is the author ofPrincipled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government.Rajshri Jayaraman is Assistant Professor at the EuropeanSchool of Management and Technology, Berlin.


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CONTENDING WITH TERRORISMRoots, Strategies, and Responsesedited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté Jr.,Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, scholars andpolicy analysts in national security have turned theirattention to terrorism, considering not only how to pre-

vent future attacks but also theroots of the problem. Thisbook offers some of the latestresearch in terrorism studies.The contributors examine thesources of contemporary ter-rorism, discussing the impact

of globalization, the influence of religious beliefs, andthe increasing dissatisfaction felt by the world’s power-less. They consider the strategies and motivations ofterrorists, offering contending perspectives on whetheror not terrorists can be said to achieve their goals;explore different responses to the threat of terrorism,discussing such topics as how the United States canwork more effectively with its allies; and contemplatethe future of al-Qaida, asking if its networked structureis an asset or a liability.

Michael E. Brown is Dean of the Elliott School of InternationalAffairs at the George Washington University. Owen R. Coté Jr.is Associate Director of the Security Studies Program at MITand Coeditor of International Security. Sean M. Lynn-Jones is Research Associate at the Belfer Center for Science andInternational Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Coeditor of International Security.Steven E. Miller is Editor-in-Chief of International Securityand Director of the International Security Program at theBelfer Center.

“It is hard to be stimulating and instructive on a subjectthat has held as much attention as has terrorism for adecade and more. But the essays in this volume combinethose characteristics for the benefit of students and expertsalike. The reader will come away with valuable newinsights and perspectives.”

— Philip B. Heymann, James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, author of

Terrorism, Freedom, and Security

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INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICSEmergent Patterns in InternationalEnvironmental GovernanceOran R. Young

International environmental regimes — institutionalarrangements that govern human-environmental interactions — are dynamic, changing continuously

over time. Some regimes gofrom strength to strength,becoming more effective overthe years, while others seemstymied from the beginning.Some regimes start strong,then decline; others are inef-

fective at first but become successful with the passage oftime. In Institutional Dynamics, Oran Young offers thefirst detailed analysis of these developmental trajecto-ries. Understanding the emergent patterns in environ-mental governance and how they affect regimeeffectiveness, he argues, is an important part of solvingenvironmental problems.

Young proposes a framework for analyzing patternsof institutional change based on the alignment ofinternal, endogenous factors — which include flexibil-ity, monitoring procedures, and funding mechanisms— with such external, exogenous factors as the attrib-utes of environmental problems, the political and economic contexts, and technological innovations. He offers five case studies of environmental regimes,governing environmental problems ranging from cli-mate change to the protection of the Northern FurSeal, each of which exemplifies one of the emergentpatterns he has identified: progressive development,punctuated equilibrium, arrested development, diversion, and collapse.

Oran R. Young is Professor and Codirector of the Program onGovernance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara, and Chair of the Scientific Committeeof the International Human Dimensions Programme on GlobalEnvironmental Change.


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THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS OF SACRIFICEedited by Michael Maniates and John M. Meyer

The idea of sacrifice is the unspoken issue of environmental politics. Politicians,the media, and many environmentalists assume that well-off populations won’tmake sacrifices now for future environmental benefits and won’t change theirpatterns and perceptions of consumption to make ecological room for the world’s three billion or so poor eager to improve their standard of living. TheEnvironmental Politics of Sacrifice challenges these assumptions, arguing that they limit our policy options, weaken our ability to imagine bold action forchange, and blind us to the ways sacrifice already figures in everyday life. The concept of sacrifice has been curiously unexamined in both activist and academic conversations about environmental politics, and this book is the first to confront it directly.

The chapters bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives to the topic.Contributors offer alternatives to the conventional wisdom on sacrifice; identifyconnections between sacrifice and human fulfillment in everyday life, findingsuch concrete examples as parents’ sacrifices in raising children, religious prac-tice, artists’ pursuit of their art, and soldiers and policemen who risk their livesto do their jobs; and examine particular policies and practices that shape ourunderstanding of environmental problems, including the carbon tax, incentivesfor cyclists, and the perils of green consumption. The Environmental Politics ofSacrifice puts “sacrifice” firmly into the conversation about effective environmen-tal politics and policies, insisting that activists and scholars do more than changethe subject when the idea is introduced.

Michael Maniates is Professor of Political Science and EnvironmentalScience at Allegheny College. He is the coeditor, with Thomas Princenand Ken Conca, of Confronting Consumption (MIT Press, 2002). John M. Meyer is Professor and Chair in the Department of Politics at Humboldt State University. He is the author of Political Nature:Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Western Thought(MIT Press, 2001).

“This is an excellent, thoughtful, and original book. I came to thematerial skeptically and came away from it convinced that this isindeed an important area to explore, and that much more can bemade of the idea of sacrifice than would generally be assumed.”

— Andrew Dobson, Keele University

An argument that the idea of sacrifice, with all its political baggage, opens new paths to environmental sustainability.

August6 x 9, 344 pp.

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CONTRIBUTORS Peter CannavòShane Gunster

Cheryl HallKaren Litfin

Michael ManiatesJohn M. Meyer

Simon NicholsonAnna Peterson

Thomas PrincenSudhir Chella Rajan

Paul WapnerJustin Williams



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GLOBAL COMMONS, DOMESTIC DECISIONSThe Comparative Politics of Climate Changeedited by Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom

Climate change represents a “tragedy of the commons”on a global scale, requiring the cooperation of nations

that do not necessarily put theEarth’s well-being above theirown national interests. And yet international efforts toaddress global warming havemet with some success; theKyoto Protocol, in which

industrialized countries committed to reducing theircollective emissions, took effect in 2005 (although with-out the participation of the United States). Reversingthe lens used by previous scholarship on the topic,Global Commons, Domestic Decisions explains interna-tional action on climate change from the perspective of countries’ domestic politics.

In an effort to understand both what progress hasbeen made and why it has been so limited, experts incomparative politics look at the experience of sevenjurisdictions in deciding whether or not to ratify theKyoto Protocol and to pursue national climate changemitigation policies. By analyzing the domestic politicsand international positions of the United States,Australia, Russia, China, the European Union, Japan,and Canada, the authors demonstrate clearly that decisions about global policies are often made locally,in the context of electoral and political incentives, the normative commitments of policymakers, anddomestic political institutions.

Kathryn Harrison is Professor and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom isAssociate Professor in the Department of Political Science atthe University of British Columbia.

August — 6 x 9, 320 pp.

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American and Comparative Environmental Policy series

KNOWLEDGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICYRe-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and PoliticsWilliam Ascher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy

During the George W. Bush administration, politicsand ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in

making environmental policy.Data were falsified, reportswere edited selectively, and scientists were censored. TheObama administration haspledged to restore science

to the policy making process. And yet, as the authors of Knowledge and Environmental Policy point out, theproblems in connecting scientific discovery to science-based policy are systemic. The process — currentlystructured in a futile effort to separate policy from sci-ence — is dysfunctional in many respects. WilliamAscher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy analyze thedysfunction and offer recommendations for incorporat-ing formal science and other important types of knowl-edge (including local knowledge and public sentiment)into the environmental policymaking process.

The authors divide the knowledge process intothree functions — generation, transmission, and use —and explore the key obstacles to incorporating knowl-edge into the making of environmental policy. Usingcase studies and integrating a broad literature on sci-ence, politics, and policy, they examine the ignoranceor distortion of policy-relevant knowledge, the overem-phasis of particular concerns and the neglect of others,and the marginalization of certain voices.

William Ascher is Donald C. McKenna Professor of Governmentand Economics at Claremont McKenna College. Toddi Steelmanis Associate Professor of Environmental and Natural ResourcePolicy in the Department of Forestry and EnvironmentalResources at North Carolina State University. Robert Healy isProfessor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School ofthe Environment and Earth Sciences and Professor of PublicPolicy Studies at the Terry Sanford School of Public Policy atDuke University.


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Comparative case studiesand analyses of theinfluence of domesticpolitics on countries’ climate change policiesand Kyoto ratificationdecisions.

An analysis of the challenges involved inincorporating scienceand other kinds ofknowledge into makingenvironmental policy.





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Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds, Bevis 1

Absence of Work, Haidu 20

Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property, Krikorian 50

Action, Ethics, and Responsibility, Campbell 77

Agar, Humanity’s End 86

Agony of Power, Baudrillard 44

Agreement and Head Movement, Roberts 89

Aguilar, Causing Human Actions 76

Air, Knechtel 28

Akmajian, Linguistics, sixth edition 87

Allure of Machinic Life, Johnston 70

America Identified, Nelson 72

Applying Cognitive Science to Education, Reif 67

Archeology of Violence, Clastres 46

Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else, Choi 23

Arguments as Relations, Bowers 88

Artwork Caught by the Tail, Baker 56

Ascher, Knowledge and Environmental Policy 100

Aspray, The Internet and American Business 65

Atlas of Science, Börner 38

Audio Programming Book, Boulanger 79

Auditory Neuroscience, Schnupp 85

Austin, Zen-Brain Reflections 58

Baker, The Artwork Caught by the Tail 56

Bartlett, FashionEast 12

Baudrillard, The Agony of Power 44

Bechtel, Discovering Complexity 77

Becoming MIT, Kaiser 39

Bennett, The Privacy Advocates 65

Besley, Institutional Microeconomics of Development 97

Bevis, Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds 1

Blum, Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists 32

Bogdan, Our Own Minds 74

Bogost, Newsgames 5

Bogost, Persuasive Games 62

Bolender, The Self-Organizing Social Mind 83

Boler, Digital Media and Democracy 62

Booth, Peer Participation and Software 81

Bordowitz, General Idea 40

Borgman, Scholarship in the Digital Age 66

Börner, Atlas of Science 38

Boulanger, The Audio Programming Book 79

Boundaries of Babel, Moro 69

Bowers, Arguments as Relations 88

Brandscapes, Klingmann 58

Brough, Perspecta 43 25

Brown, Contending with Terrorism 98

Brown, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty 48

Büttcher, Information Retrieval 91

Campbell, Action, Ethics, and Responsibility 77

Carens, The Case for Amnesty 26

Case for Amnesty, Carens 26

Causing Human Actions, Aguilar 76

Cesal, Down Detour Road 22

Choi, Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else 23

Cinematic Mythmaking, Singer 56

Cinque, The Syntax of Adjectives 88

Circuit Design and Simulation with VHDL, second edition, Pedroni 91

Clastres, Archeology of Violence, 46

CO2 Rising, Volk 53

Color for the Sciences, Koenderink 79

Comingled Code, Lerner 92

Computer Boys Take Over, Ensmenger 71

Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care, Lynch 61

Contending with Terrorism, Brown 98

Creating Scientific Concepts, Nersessian 67

Crimp, Mixed Use, Manhattan 16

Curio, Dynamic Faces 83

da Costa, Tactical Biopolitics 63

Dara Birnbaum, Demos 41

Daston, Objectivity 51

Dauvergne, The Shadows of Consumption 54

De Grauwe, Dimensions of Competitiveness 96

Demos, Dara Birnbaum 41

Denning, The Innovator’s Way 8

Design for Ecological Democracy, Hester 54

Designing Media, Moggridge 3

Designing Sound, Farnell 78

Diary of an Innocent, Duvert 47

Digital Media and Democracy, Boler 62

Dimensions of Competitiveness, De Grauwe 96

Discovering Complexity, Bechtel 77

Down Detour Road, Cesal 22

Duvert, Diary of an Innocent 47

Dynamic Coordination in the Brain, von der Malsburg 85

Dynamic Faces, Curio 83

Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain, Nicolson 69

Embick, Localism versus Globalism in Morphology and Phonology 89

Enaction, Stewart 76

Enfoldment and Infinity, Marks 11

English, How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness 57

Ensmenger, The Computer Boys Take Over 71

Environmental Politics of Sacrifice, Maniates 99

Erlmann, Reason and Resonance 49

Event-Cities 4, Tschumi 24

Failure, LeFeuvre 21

Fairlie, Race and Entrepreneurial Success 60

Farah, Neuroethics 86

Farmer, A Linguistics Workbook 87

Farnell, Designing Sound 78

FashionEast, Bartlett 12

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Feenstra, Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade 93

Fields, Genetic Twists of Fate 7

Flanagin, Kids and Credibility 81

Flinn, The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes 94

Food Justice, Gottlieb 29

Freud's Mexico, Gallo 15

Frey, Happiness 60

From Betamax to Blockbuster, Greenberg 55

Gallo, Freud's Mexico 15

Gallo, Mexican Modernity 57

Gans, Parentonomics 52

General Idea, Bordowitz 40

Genetic Twists of Fate, Fields 7

Ghosal, Reforming Rules and Regulations 97

Gilman, No Precedent, No Plan 35

Global Commons, Domestic Decisions, Harrison 100

Good Faith Collaboration, Reagle 36

Gorman, Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise 73

Gottlieb, Food Justice 29

Grau, MediaArtHistories 63

Great Migrator, Ikegami 19

Greenberg, From Betamax to Blockbuster 55

Groys, History Becomes Form 18

Guattari, The Machinic Unconscious 45

Guillot, How to Catch a Robot Rat 6

Haidu, The Absence of Work 20

Happiness, Frey 60

Harper, Texture 10

Harrison, Global Commons, Domestic Decisions 100

Hayes, Health Informatics 74

Health Informatics, Hayes 74

Helmholtz, Meulders 33

Hester, Design for Ecological Democracy 54

History Becomes Form, Groys 18

Honest Signals, Pentland 52

Horn, Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution 73

How to Catch a Robot Rat, Guillot 6

How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, English 57

Humanity's End, Agar 86

Iiyoshi, Opening Up Education 55

Ikegami, The Great Migrator 19

Indiana, Last Seen Entering the Biltmore 42

Indirect Side of Direct Investment, Mintz 96

Information Retrieval, Büttcher 91

Innovator's Way, Denning 8

Insatiable Curiosity, Nowotny 66

Institutional Dynamics, Young 98

Institutional Microeconomics of Development, Besley 97

Instruction and Technology, Mehlenbacher 80

Internet and American Business, Aspray 65

Japan’s Bubble, Deflation, and Long-term Stagnation, Kashyap 94

Jin, Korea’s Online Gaming Empire 81

Johnston, The Allure of Machinic Life 70

Josephson, Lenin’s Laureate 34

Kaiser, Becoming MIT 39

Kashyap, Japan’s Bubble, Deflation, and Long-term Stagnation 94

Kennedy, Macroeconomic Essentials, third edition 93

Kids and Credibility, Flanagin 81

Klingmann, Brandscapes 58

Knechtel, Air 28

Knowledge and Environmental Policy, Ascher 100

Koenderink, Color for the Sciences 79

Korea's Online Gaming Empire, Jin 81

Krikorian, Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property 50

Last Seen Entering the Biltmore, Indiana 42

Laughter, Parvulescu 14

Lavin, Push Comes to Shove 13

Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists, Blum 32

Lécuyer, Makers of the Microchip 37

LeFeuvre, Failure 21

Lenin’s Laureate, Josephson 34

Lerner, Sacrifice Zones 30

Lerner, The Comingled Code 92

Ling, New Tech, New Ties 53

Linguistics Workbook, Farmer 87

Linguistics, sixth edition, Akmajian 87

Living with Complexity, Norman 4

Localism versus Globalism in Morphology and Phonology, Embick 89

Lukic, NONOBJECT 2

Lynch, Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care 61

Machinic Unconscious, Guattari 45

Mackenzie, Wirelessness 80

Macroeconomic Essentials, third edition, Kennedy 93

Makers of the Microchip, Lécuyer 37

Maniates, The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice 99

Marks, Enfoldment and Infinity 11

Marr, Vision 84

Mastrandrea, Preparing for Climate Change 27

MediaArtHistories, Grau 63

Medical Malpractice, Sloan 61

Mehlenbacher, Instruction and Technology 80

Memory Process, Nalbantian 84

Meulders, Helmholtz 33

Mexican Modernity, Gallo 57

Minimum Wages, Neumark 59

Mintz, The Indirect Side of Direct Investment 96

Mixed Use, Manhattan, Crimp 16

Moggridge, Designing Media 3

INDEX

Moro, The Boundaries of Babel 69

Mueller, Networks and States 72

Music and Probability, Temperley 64

Nalbantian, The Memory Process 84

Neither Sun nor Death, Sloterdijk 43

Nelson, America Identified 72

Nersessian, Creating Scientific Concepts 67

Networks and States, Mueller 72

Networks of the Brain, Sporns 82

Neumark, Minimum Wages 59

Neumark, VOICE 78

Neuroethics, Farah 86

New Realisms: 1957-1962, Robinson 17

New Science of the Mind, Rowlands 75

New Tech, New Ties, Ling 53

Newsgames, Bogost 5

Nicolson, Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain 69

No Precedent, No Plan, Gilman 35

NONOBJECT, Lukic 2

Norman, Living with Complexity 4

Nowotny, Insatiable Curiosity 66

Objectivity, Daston 51

Opening Up Education, Iiyoshi 55

Operations Rules, Simchi-Levi 9

Origins of Human Communication, Tomasello 68

Our Own Minds, Bogdan 74

Parentonomics, Gans 52

Parvulescu, Laughter 14

Pecchi, Revisiting Keynes 59

Pedroni, Circuit Design and Simulation with VHDL, second edition 91

Peer Participation and Software, Booth 81

Pentland, Honest Signals 52

Perspecta 43, Brough 25

Persuasive Games, Bogost 62

Pizlo, 3D Shape 70

Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics, Sandholm 95

Preparing for Climate Change, Mastrandrea 27

Prime Movers of Globalization, Smil 31

Privacy Advocates, Bennett 65

Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade, Feenstra 93

Push Comes to Shove, Lavin 13

Race and Entrepreneurial Success, Fairlie 60

Reagle, Good Faith Collaboration 36

Reason and Resonance, Erlmann 49

Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution, Horn 73

Rediscovering Empathy, Stueber 68

Reforming Rules and Regulations, Ghosal 97

Reif, Applying Cognitive Science to Education 67

Revisiting Keynes, Pecchi 59

Roberts, Agreement and Head Movement 89

Robinson, New Realisms: 1957-1962 17

Robotics, Trinkle 90

Rowlands, The New Science of the Mind 75

Sacrifice Zones, Lerner 30

Sandholm, Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics 95

Schnupp, Auditory Neuroscience 85

Scholarship in the Digital Age, Borgman 66

Self-Organizing Social Mind, Bolender 83

Shadows of Consumption, Dauvergne 54

Shubik, The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions, Volume 3 95

Simchi-Levi, Operations Rules 9

Singer, Cinematic Mythmaking 56

Sloan, Medical Malpractice 61

Sloterdijk, Neither Sun nor Death 43

Smil, Prime Movers of Globalization 31

Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering, Yu 90

Spielmann, Video 64

Sporns, Networks of the Brain 82

Stewart, Enaction 76

Stueber, Rediscovering Empathy 68

Syntax of Adjectives, Cinque 88

Tactical Biopolitics, da Costa 63

Temperley, Music and Probability 64

Texture, Harper 10

The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes, Flinn 94

Theory of Money and Financial Institutions, Volume 3, Shubik 95

3D Shape, Pizlo 70

Tomasello, Origins of Human Communication 68

Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise, Gorman 73

Trinkle, Robotics 90

Tschumi, Event-Cities 4 24

Video, Spielmann 64

Vision, Marr 84

VOICE, Neumark 78

Volk, CO2 Rising 53

von der Malsburg, Dynamic Coordination in the Brain 85

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Brown 48

Wirelessness, Mackenzie 80

Young, Institutional Dynamics 98

Yu, Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering 90

Zen-Brain Reflections, Austin 58

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