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CONTENTSarchitecture 5-6, 32-34, 41, 45, 53art 2, 29-31, 35-41, 46, 51-52, 90biography 26, 95biology 75, 78, 83, 97business 1, 17, 82cognitive science 18, 60-61, 63, 75, 85, 91, 95, 97computer science 61, 77, 79, 81-82, 88-89cultural studies 45-47current affairs 3-4, 8, 9, 13-14, 19, 22, 44design 5, 7, 32digital humanities 89-90economics 14-16, 48, 64-69, 68-69, 73environment 3, 8-10, 54, 56, 59, 72-74finance 15-16, 64, 66game studies 55, 87gender studies 20, 55higher education 24-25, 56-57history 7, 57, 65, 84history of science 62, 78history of technology 61-62information science 82, 84international security 70-71linguistics 26, 63, 79-80, 94music 37, 43neuroscience 58-59, 75-77, 91, 94philosophy 18, 28, 49, 55, 92-93, 95-98photography 40politics, political science 2, 13, 26, 47-48, 54, 63, 67, 70-73psychology 3, 12, 27, 92-93, 94regional 23-25science 11, 21, 59science, technology, and society 57, 61, 63, 84-85technology 11, 12, 19-20, 22, 32, 34, 39, 50, 90urban planning, urban studies 53, 56

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Lessons for a new generation ofleaders on teamwork, meetings,

conversations, free food, social media, apologizing,

and other topics.

May5 3/8 x 8, 104 pp.

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Simplicity: Design, Technology,Business, Life series

Also available in this seriesTHE LAWS OF SIMPLICITY

John Maeda2006, 978-0-262-13472-9

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business/leadership

REDESIGNING LEADERSHIPJohn Maeda with Becky Bermont

When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be presidentof the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how tobe a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor — witha love of argument for argument’s sake and the freedom to experiment — intothe head of a hierarchical organization. The professor is free to speak his mindagainst “the man.” The college president is “the man.” Maeda has had to teachhimself, through trial and error, about leadership. In Redesigning Leadership, heshares his learning process.

Maeda, writing as an artist and designer, a technologist, and a professor, discusses intuition and risk-taking, “transparency,” and all the things that a conversation can do that an email can’t. In his transition from MIT to RISD hefinds that the most effective way to pull people together is not social networkingbut free food. Leading a team? The best way for a leader to leverage the collectivepower of a team is to reveal his or her own humanity.

Asked if he has stopped designing, Maeda replied (via Twitter) “I’m designinghow to talk about/with/for our #RISD community.” Maeda’s creative naturemakes him a different sort of leader — one who prizes experimentation, honestcritique, and learning as you go. With Redesigning Leadership, he uses his experi-ence to reveal a new model of leadership for the next generation of leaders.

John Maeda is President of Rhode Island School of Design and formerAssociate Director of the MIT Media Lab. In 2008 Esquire magazinenamed Maeda one of the 75 most influential people of the twenty-firstcentury. He is the author of the bestselling The Laws of Simplicity(MIT Press, 2006) and other books. Becky Bermont is Vice President ofMedia + Partners at RISD and has partnered with Maeda since his timeat the Media Lab in efforts to bridge design, academia, and business.

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JOHN MAEDA ON LEADERSHIP• Feedback makes the mind grow stronger.

• “For example” is an exemplary tool forachieving clarity.

• The difference between a community and an audience is where you choose to standon the stage.

• The tide can sometimes turn in your favor. Rejoice when it happens.

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politics/art

Manifestos and immodest proposalsfrom China’s most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009.

March7 x 9, 320 pp.58 illus.

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Writing Art series

AI WEIWEI’S BLOGWritings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009Ai Weiweiedited and translated by Lee Ambrozy

In 2006, even though he could barely type, China’s most famous artist startedblogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream ofscathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuanearthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government’s “tofu-dregs engineering”), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for “fraud” by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection.Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai’s notorious online writings translated into English — the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog availablein any language.

The New York Times called Ai “a figure of Warholian celebrity.” He is a leadingfigure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator,social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous

“Bird’s Nest” stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; hereceived a Chinese Contemporary Art “lifetime achievementaward” in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his “citizen investigation” of earthquake casualties in 2009.Ai Weiwei’s Blog documents Ai’s passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China.

Ai Weiwei (b. 1957), artist, architect, activist, and outspoken socialcritic, is one of the most famous and controversial figures in Chinatoday. His work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States, in venues ranging from the Venice Biennale to the Guangzhou Triennial. Lee Ambrozy is a translator and scholar of Chinese art history.

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“GRIEF”Throughout these days of mourning, people do not need to thank the Motherland and her supporters, for she was unable to offer anybetter protection. Nor was it the Motherland, in the end, who allowed the luckier children to escape from their collapsing schoolhouses.There is no need to praise government officials, for these fading lives need effective rescue measures far more than they need sympatheticspeeches and tears. There is even less need to thank the army, as doing so would be to say that in responding to this disaster, soldiersoffer something other than the fulfillment of their sworn duty.Feel sad! Suffer! Feel it in the recesses of your heart, in the unpeopled night, in all those places without light. We mourn only becausedeath is a part of life, because those dead from the quake are a part of us. But the dead are gone. Only when the living go on livingwith dignity can the departed rest with dignity.

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BLOWOUT IN THE GULFThe BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in AmericaWilliam R. Freudenburg and Robert Gramling

On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in theGulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption ofoil from BP’s Macondo well. For months, oil gushed into the Gulf, spreadingdeath and destruction. Americans watched real-time video of the huge column of oil and gas spewing from the obviously failed “blowout preventer.” Theevening news showed heart-rending images of pelicans, dolphins, and other Gulf wildlife covered in oil. What has been missing until now, though, is a bookthat tells the larger story of this disaster. In Blowout in the Gulf, energy expertsWilliam Freudenburg and Robert Gramling explain both the disaster and thedecisions that led up to it. They note that — both in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere — we have been getting into increasingly dangerous waters over recent decades, with some in the industry cutting corners and with most federalregulators not even noticing. In the process, the actual owners of the oil —American taxpayers — have come to receive a lower fraction of the income from the oil than in almost any other nation on earth.

Freudenburg and Gramling argue that it is time for a new approach. BP’sOil Spill Response Plan was pure fantasy, claiming the company could handlethe equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill every day, even though “cleaning up” an oil spill is essentially impossible. For the future, our emphasis needs to be on true prevention, and our risk-management policies need to be based on better understandings of humans as well as hardware.

Blowout in the Gulf weaves these failures, missteps, and bad decisions into a fascinating narrative that explains why this oil spill was a disaster waiting to happen — and how making better energy choices will helpprevent others like it.

William R. Freudenburg is Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studiesat University of California, Santa Barbara. Robert Gramling is Professorof Sociology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Freudenburgand Gramling are the authors of Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions,Politics, and the Battle over Offshore Drilling.

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current affairs/environment

The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and

bad decisions led to America’sbiggest environmental disaster.

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“Blowout in the Gulf is a fast-paced, vivid account of the

century-long rush to exploit thatled to the BP disaster. As finiteand remote oil and gas suppliesdwindle, the risks, human and

enviromental, will only increase.As the age of oil approaches an

end, the authors point us in other,sustainable, directions.”

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secretary of the Interior; boardof directors, Lincoln Institute

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current affairs/psychology/military

A psychologist’s impassioned call to stop labeling our traumatized war veterans as mentally ill and a guide to how every citizen can help returning vets.

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WHEN JOHNNY AND JANE COME MARCHING HOMEHow All of Us Can Help VeteransPaula J. Caplan

Traumatized veterans returning from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are oftendiagnosed as suffering from a psychological disorder and prescribed a regimen ofpsychotherapy and psychiatric drugs. But why, asks psychologist Paula J. Caplanin this impassioned book, is it a mental illness to be devastated by war? What is a mentally healthy response to death, destruction, and moral horror? In WhenJohnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Caplan argues that the standard treatmentof therapy and drugs is often actually harmful. It adds to veterans’ burdens bymaking them believe wrongly that they have “gotten over it”; it isolates thembehind the closed doors of the therapist’s office; and it makes them rely on oftenharmful drugs. The numbers of traumatized veterans from past and present warswho continue to suffer demonstrate the ineffectiveness of this approach.

Sending anguished veterans off to talk to therapists, writes Caplan, conveysthe message that the rest of us don’t want to listen — or that we don’t feel qualified to listen. As a result, the truth about war is kept under wraps. Most of us remain ignorant about what war is really like — and continue to allow ourgovernments to go to war without much protest. Caplan proposes an alternative:that we welcome veterans back into our communities and listen to their stories,one-on-one. (She provides guidelines for conducting these conversations.) Thiswould begin a long overdue national discussion about the realities of war, and itwould start the healing process for our returning veterans.

Paula J. Caplan, a clinical and research psychologist, is an Affiliate atHarvard University’s DuBois Institute and a Fellow at the Women andPublic Policy Program in Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Sheis the author of The Myth of Women’s Masochism, They Say You’re Crazy:How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal, andeight other books. Her articles, essays, and op-eds have appeared inboth scholarly and popular publications.

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design/architecture

HELVETICA AND THE NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY SYSTEMPaul Shaw

For years, the signs in the New York City subway system were a bewilderinghodgepodge of lettering styles, sizes, shapes, materials, colors, and messages. The original mosaics (dating from as early as 1904), displaying a variety of serifand sans serif letters and decorative elements, were supplemented by signs in terracotta and cut stone. Over the years, enamel signs identifying stations andwarning riders not to spit, smoke, or cross the tracks were added to the mix.Efforts to untangle this visual mess began in the mid-1960s, when the city transit authority hired the design firm Unimark International to create a clearand consistent sign system. We can see the results today in the white-on-blacksigns throughout the subway system, displaying station names, directions, andinstructions in crisp Helvetica. This book tells the story of how typographicorder triumphed over chaos.

The process didn’t go smoothly or quickly. At one point New York Timesarchitecture writer Paul Goldberger declared that the signs were so confusingone almost wished that they weren’t there at all. Legend has it that Helveticacame in and vanquished the competition. Paul Shaw shows that it didn’t happenthat way — that, in fact, for various reasons (expense,the limitations of the transit authority sign shop), thetypeface overhaul of the 1960s began not with Helveticabut with its forebear, Standard (aka Akzidenz Grotesk).It wasn’t until the 1980s and 1990s that Helveticabecame ubiquitous. Shaw describes the slow typographicchangeover (supplementing his text with more than250 images — photographs, sketches, type samples, anddocuments). He places this signage evolution in thecontext of the history of the New York City subwaysystem, of 1960s transportation signage, of UnimarkInternational, and of Helvetica itself.

Paul Shaw, an award-winning graphic designer, typographer,and calligrapher in New York City, teaches at Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts. He is the coauthor of Blackletter: Type and National Identity and writes about letter design in the blog Blue Pencil.

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How New York City subway signage evolved from a

“visual mess” to a uniform system with Helvetica triumphant.

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architecture/design

A colorful account of Le Corbusier’slove affair with the automobile, hisvision of the ideal vehicle, and histireless promotion of a design thatindustry never embraced.

March9 x 9, 354 pp.180 color illus., 205 black & white illus.

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VOITURE MINIMUMLe Corbusier and the AutomobileAntonio Amadotranslated by Penelope Hierons and Barbara E. Duffus

Le Corbusier, who famously called a house “a machine for living,” was fascinated— even obsessed — by another kind of machine, the automobile. His writingswere strewn with references to autos: “If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with surprising precision,” he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his “white phase” of the twentiesand thirties, he insisted that his buildings be photographed with a modern auto-mobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936,entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition,submitting plans for “a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality,” theVoiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier’s energetic promotion of his design toseveral important automakers, the Voiture Minimum was never mass-produced.This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier’s adventure in automobile design.

Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail, linking it to Le Corbusier’s architectural work, to Modernist utopian urban visions, and to

the automobile design projects of other architectsincluding Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright.He provides abundant images, including many pagesof Le Corbusier’s sketches and plans for the VoitureMinimum, and reprints Le Corbusier’s letters seek-ing a manufacturer. Le Corbusier’s design is oftensaid to have been the inspiration for Volkswagen’senduringly popular Beetle; the architect himselfimplied as much, claiming that his design for the 1936 competition originated in 1928, beforethe Beetle. Amado, after extensive examination ofarchival and source materials, disproves this; theinfluence may have gone the other way.

Although many critics considered the VoitureMinimum a footnote in Le Corbusier’s career, Le Corbusier did not. This book, lavishly illustratedand exhaustively documented, restores Le Corbusier’sautomobile to the main text.

Antonio Amado Lorenzo, an architect, is Professor in the Department of ArchitectonicRepresentation and Theory at the University of Corunna, Spain.

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SPACESUITFashioning ApolloNicholas de Monchaux

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, eachwith a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresseswhose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of thatspacesuit. It is a story of the Playtex Corporation’s triumph over the military-industrial complex — a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, ofadaptation over cybernetics.

Playtex’s spacesuit went up against hard armor-like spacesuits designed bymilitary contractors and favored by NASA’s engineers. It was only when thoseattempts failed — when traditional engineering firms could not integrate thebody into mission requirements — that Playtex, with its intimate expertise, gotthe job.

In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layerspacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to thesuit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, amongother things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior’sNew Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK’scarefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage,NASA’s Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-styleengineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layer spacesuit,de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us aboutredundancy and interdependence and about the distinctionsbetween natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us toknow the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario.

Nicholas de Monchaux is Assistant Professor of Architecture at theCollege of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. His work has appeared in the architectural journal Log, the New YorkTimes, the New York Times Magazine, Architectural Digest, and otherpublications.

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How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of

intimacy over engineering.

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current affairs/environment

THE END OF ENERGYThe Unmaking of America’s Environment, Security, and IndependenceMichael J. Graetz

Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, whenwe turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to thepump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap. In The End of Energy, MichaelGraetz shows us that we have been living an energy delusion for forty years.Until the 1970s, we produced domestically all the oil we needed to run ourpower plants, heat our homes, and fuel our cars. Since then, we have had toimport most of the oil we use, much of it from the Middle East. And we rely onan even dirtier fuel — coal — to produce half of our electricity. Graetz describesmore than forty years of energy policy incompetence — from the Nixon admin-istration’s fumbled response to the OPEC oil embargo through the failure todevelop alternative energy sources to the current political standoff over “cap andtrade” — and argues that we must make better decisions for our energy future.

Rather than pushing policies that, over time, would produce the changes weneed, presidents have swung for the fences, wasting billions seeking a technologi-cal “silver bullet” to solve all our problems. Congress has continually elevated nar-row parochial interests over our national goals, directing huge subsidies and taxbreaks to favored constituents and contributors. And, despite thousands of pagesof energy legislation since the 1970s, Americans have never been asked to pay a price that reflects the real cost of the energy they consume. Until we face thefacts about price, our energy incompetence will continue — and along with it the unraveling of our environment, security, and independence.

Michael J. Graetz is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law at Columbia University. His other books include Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth.

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Forty years of energy incompetence:villains, failures of leadership, and missed opportunities.

April6 x 9, 400 pp.5 illus.

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environment/nature

THE FATE OF GREENLANDLessons from Abrupt Climate Change Philip Conkling, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, and George Dentonphotographs by Gary Comer

Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interruptedonly by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenlandis covered by ice; its ice sheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost1,000 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to west. But this starkview of ice and snow is changing — and changing rapidly. Greenland’s ice sheetis melting; the dazzling, photogenic display of icebergs breaking off Greenland’srapidly melting glaciers has become a tourist attraction. The Fate of Greenlanddocuments Greenland’s warming with dramatic color photographs and investi-gates Greenland’s climate history for clues about what happens when climatechange is abrupt rather than gradual.

Geological evidence suggests that Greenland has already been affected bytwo dramatic changes in climate: the Medieval Warm Period, when warm temperatures in Northern Europe enabled Norse exploration and settlementsin Greenland; and the Little Ice Age that followed and apparently wiped out the settlements. Greenland’s climate past and present could presage our climate future. Abrupt climate change would be cataclysmic: the melting ofGreenland’s ice shelf would cause sea levels to rise twenty-four feet worldwide;lower Manhattan would be underwater and Florida’s coastline would recede to Orlando.

The planet appears to be in a period of acute climate instability, exacerbatedby carbon dioxide we pour into the atmosphere. As this book makes clear, it isin all of our interests to pay attention to Greenland.

Philip Conkling is Founder and President of the Island Institute in Maine. Richard Alley, a glaciologist, is Evan Pugh Professor ofGeosciences and Associate of the Earth and Environmental SystemsInstitute at Penn State. Wallace Broecker, an oceanographer, isNewberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University and a winner of the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences. George Denton, a geologist, is Professor of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Studies at theUniversity of Maine.

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Experts discuss how Greenland’swarming climate — seen in its

melting ice sheets and retreatingglaciers — could affect the

rest of the world.

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environment/current affairs

An accessible overview of the mostimportant environmental issues facing the United States, with new and updated material.


$19.95T/£14.95 paper978-0-262-51591-7


AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT CARDAre We Making the Grade?Second EditionHarvey Blatt

Americans are concerned about the state of the environment, and yet polls show that many have lost faith in both scientists’ and politicians’ ability to solveenvironmental problems. In America’s Environmental Report Card, Harvey Blattsorts through the deluge of conflicting information about the environment andoffers an accessible overview of the environmental issues that are most importantto Americans today.

Blatt has thoroughly updated this second edition, revising and adding newmaterial. He looks at water supplies and new concerns about water purity; thedangers of floods (increased by widespread logging and abetted by glacial melt-ing); infrastructure problems (in a new chapter devoted entirely to this subject);the leaching of garbage buried in landfills; soil, contaminated crops, and organicfood; fossil fuels; alternative energy sources (in another new chapter); controversiesover nuclear energy; the increasing pace of climate change; and air pollution.Along the way, he outlines ways to deal with these problems — workable andreasonable solutions that map the course to a sustainable future. America canlead the way to a better environment, Blatt argues. We are the richest nation inthe world, and we can afford it — in fact, we can’t afford not to.

Harvey Blatt is the author of America’s Food: What You Don’t Know About What You Eat(MIT Press, 2008, 2011) and other books. He taught geology at the University of Houstonand the University of Oklahoma for many years and is now Professor of Geology at theInstitute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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“A wonderful primer for the general reader. I’m not aware of anybook that provides such a useful overview of environmental science.”

— Jim Motavalli, editor, E/The Environmental Magazine

“Frank but hopeful, serious but readable, this is an excellent environ-mental science primer.”

— Publishers Weekly

“A good overview for the novice environmentalist.”— Booklist

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technology/science

A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an

era of incomprehensible technological complexity,

and change.

March5 3/8 x 8, 256 pp.

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THE TECHNO-HUMAN CONDITIONBraden R. Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz

In this latest version of humanity, we are equipped with a fully re-engineeredimmune system; the latest set of cultural assumptions about gender, ethnicity, and sexuality; and a suite of customized enhancements, including artificial joints, neurochemical mood modulators, and performance-boosting hormones. In TheTechno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity.They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escape the shackles of current assumptions about rationality,progress, and certainty, even as we maintain a commitment to fundamentalhuman values.

Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since the dawn of prehistory, when tool-making and meat-eating co-evolved with brain development and social complexity. What is different now is that we havemoved beyond external technological interventions to transform ourselves from the inside out — even as we also remake the Earth system itself. Copingwith this new reality, say Allenby and Sarewitz, means liberating ourselves from such categories as “human,” “technological,” and “natural” to embrace anew techno-human relationship. Describing the terms of this relationship, andexploring sociotechnical systems ranging from railroads to modern militarytechnology, Allenby and Sarewitz ultimately locate individual authenticity in thequest for a new humility in the face of the rapidly disappearing moorings of theEnlightenment.

Braden R. Allenby is Founding Director of the Center for Earth SystemsEngineering and Management, Lincoln Professor of Engineering andEthics, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at ArizonaState University. He is the author of Reconstructing Earth: Technologyand Environment in the Age of Humans. Daniel Sarewitz is Professor of Science and Society at Arizona State University and the author of Frontiers of Illusion.

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psychology/technology/nature

Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology.


$24.95T/£18.95 cloth978-0-262-11322-9

Also availableTHE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP WITH NATUREDevelopment and CulturePeter H. Kahn, Jr.$32.00S/£23.95 paper2001, 978-0-262-61170-1

CHILDREN AND NATUREPsychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigationsedited by Peter H. Kahn, Jr., and Stephen R. Kellert2002, 978-0-262-61175-6$34.00S/£25.95 paper


TECHNOLOGICAL NATUREAdaptation and the Future of Human LifePeter H. Kahn, Jr.

Our forebears may have had a close connection with the natural world, butincreasingly we experience technological nature. Children come of age watchingnature programs on television. They inhabit virtual lands in digital games. Andthey play with robotic animals, purchased at big box stores. Until a few years ago,hunters could “telehunt” — shoot and kill animals in Texas from a computer any-where in the world via a Web interface. Does it matter that much of our experiencewith nature is mediated and augmented by technology? In Technological Nature,Peter Kahn argues that it does, and shows how it affects our well-being.

Kahn describes his investigations of children’s and adults’ experiences of cutting-edge technological nature. He and his team installed “technologicalnature windows” (50-inch plasma screens showing high-definition broadcasts of real-time local nature views) inside offices on his university campus andassessed the physiological and psychological effects on viewers. He studied children’s and adults’ relationships with the robotic dog AIBO (including possible benefits for children with autism). And he studied online “telegardening”(a pastoral alternative to “telehunting”).

Kahn’s studies show that in terms of human well-being technological natureis better than no nature, but not as good as actual nature. We should developand use technological nature as a bonus on life, not as its substitute, and re-envision what is beautiful and fulfilling and often wild in essence in our relationship with the natural world.

Peter H. Kahn, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department ofPsychology and Director of the Human Interaction with Nature andTechnological Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Human Relationship with Nature: Developmentand Culture (1999, 2001) and the coeditor of Children and Nature:Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations (2002),both published by the MIT Press.

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GOVERNMENT’S PLACE IN THE MARKETEliot Spitzer

As New York State Attorney General from 1998 to 2006, Eliot Spitzer success-fully pursued corporate crime, including stock price inflation, securities fraud,and predatory lending practices. Drawing on those experiences, in this bookSpitzer considers when and how the government should intervene in the workingsof the market. The 2009 American bank bailout, he argues, was the wrong way:it understandably turned government intervention into a flashpoint for publicdisgust because it socialized risk, privatized benefit, and left standing institutionstoo big to fail, incompetent regulators, and deficient corporate governance. That’sunfortunate, because good regulatory policy, he claims, can make markets andfirms work efficiently, equitably, and in service of fundamental public values.

Spitzer lays out the right reasons for government intervention in the market:to guarantee transparency, to overcome market failures, and to guard our corevalues against the market’s unfair biases such as racism. With specific proposalsto serve those ends — from improving corporate governance to making firmsresponsible for their own risky behavior — he offers a much-needed blueprintfor the proper role of government in the market. Finally, taking account of regulatory changes since the crash of 2008, he suggests how to rebuild publictrust in government so real change is possible.

Responses to Spitzer by Sarah Binder, Andrew Gelman and John Sides,Dean Baker, and Robert Johnson, raise issues of politics, ideology, and policy.

Eliot Spitzer served as the 54th Governor of New York from January 2007until his resignation on March 17, 2008. In October 2010 he will launcha talk show on CNN with conservative analyst Kathleen Parker.

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In his first book, the former New York governor and current CNN cohost offers a manifesto

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economics/finance

An insider’s account of the workingsof the Federal Reserve, thoroughly

updated to encompass the Fed’saction (and inaction) during the

recent financial meltdown.

March6 x 9, 240 pp.

2 illus.

$24.95T/£18.95 cloth978-0-262-01562-2


INSIDE THE FEDMonetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to BernankeRevised EditionStephen H. Axilrod

Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed’sBoard of Governors for more than thirty years and after that in private marketsand as a consultant on monetary policy. With Inside the Fed, he offers his uniqueperspective on the inner workings of the Federal Reserve System during the last fifty years — writing about personalities as much as policy — based on his knowledge and observations of every Fed chairman since 1951. This new,post-financial meltdown edition offers his assessment of the Fed’s action (andinaction) during the crisis and expanded coverage of the Fed in the Bernanke era.

In this edition, Axilrod gives an account of the Fed’s dramatic, even mind-bending, experiences in the great credit crisis of 2007–2009. He assesses the full range of the Fed’s unusual and innovative actions during the crisis and thebeginnings of its aftermath. He questions whether the Fed used its monetaryand regulatory powers to full effect to minimize and contain the disruption of the nation’s — and the world’s — financial stability. And, in an entirely new chapter, he evaluates Bernanke’s performance through his full first term (as well as the early part of his second) in light of his actions during the crisis.In later chapters he also reevaluates the image, stature, and structure of the Fed in the aftermath of the crisis and the new comprehensive financial legislation subsequently enacted.

Great leadership in monetary policy, Axilrod says, is deter-mined not by pure economic sophistication but by the ability topush through political and social barriers to achieve a paradigmshift in policy — and by the courage and bureaucratic moxie topull it off.

Stephen H. Axilrod worked from 1952 to 1986 at the Board ofGovernors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., rising to Staff Director for Monetary and Financial Policy and Staff Directorand Secretary of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed’s mainmonetary policy arm. Since 1986 he has worked in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy with foreign monetary authorities.

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REFORMING U.S. FINANCIAL MARKETSReflections Before and Beyond Dodd–FrankRandall S. Kroszner and Robert J. Shilleredited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman

Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis sincethe 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruptionof credit flows, the loss of confidence in firms and credit market instruments, theintervention by governments and central banks: all were extraordinary in scaleand scope. In this book, leading economists Randall Kroszner and Robert Shillerdiscuss what the United States should do to prevent another such financial meltdown. Their discussion goes beyond the nuts and bolts of legislative and regulatory fixes to consider fundamental changes in our financial arrangements.

Kroszner and Shiller offer two distinctive approaches to financial reform, withKroszner providing a systematic analysis of regulatory gaps and Shiller addressingthe broader concerns of democratizing and humanizing finance. Kroszner focuseson key areas for reform, including credit rating agencies and the mortgage securitization market. Shiller argues that reform must serve to make the fullpower of financial theory work for everyone — bringing the technology offinance to bear on managing risk, for example — and should acknowledge the reality of human nature. After brief discussions by four commentators,Kroszner and Shiller each offer a response to the other’s proposals, creating a fruitful dialogue between two major figures in the field.

Randall S. Kroszner is Norman R. BobinsProfessor of Economics in the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Heserved as a Governor of the Federal ReserveSystem from March 2006 until January 2009.Robert J. Shiller is Arthur M. Okun Professorof Economics at Yale University. He is theauthor of Irrational Exuberance, Animal Spirits:How Human Psychology Drives the Economyand Why It Matters for Global Capitalism(with George B. Akerlof), and other books.Benjamin M. Friedman is William JosephMaier Professor of Political Economy atHarvard University and the author of TheMoral Consequences of Economic Growth.

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Two top economists outline distinctive approaches to post-crisis financial reform.

March5 3/8 x 8, 160 pp.

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Also available in this seriesOFFSHORING OF AMERICAN JOBSWhat Response from U.S. Economic Policy?Jagdish Bhagwati and Alan S. Blinderedited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman2009, 978-0-262-01332-1$18.95T/£14.95 cloth

COMMENTATORSBenjamin M. FriedmanGeorge G. KaufmanRobert C. PozenHal S. Scott






OFFSHORING STRATEGIESEvolving Captive Center ModelsIlan Oshri

In today’s globalized economy, firms often consider offshoring when confrontedby rising costs and fierce competition. One mode of offshoring has continued to grow despite the current global economic turmoil: the captive center. Captivecenters are offshore subsidiaries or branch offices that provide the parent companywith services, usually in the form of back-office activities. In Offshoring Strategies,Ilan Oshri examines the evolution of the captive center. He identifies basic captivecenter models, examines the captive center strategies pursued by Fortune Global250 firms, describes current captive center trends, and offers detailed individualcase studies that illustrate each model. His analysis highlights the strategic pathsavailable to firms that want to maximize the returns offered by captive centers.

Oshri outlines six models for captive centers that range from the basic whollyowned branch office to hybrids and joint ventures and identifies evolutionarypaths along which the basic model develops. He analyzes firms’ strategies duringinitial set-up, then tracks the changes as strategies evolve to meet different business needs. The case studies, all based on the Fortune Global 250, includethe development of a basic captive unit into a complex hybrid structure; theevolution of a captive center into a shared service center offering services toother international firms; the divestment of a captive center to a private equityfirm; and the migration of a captive center to a location where costs were lower.

Ilan Oshri is Associate Professor of Strategy and Technology Management at RotterdamSchool of Management, Erasmus University. He is the coauthor of The Handbook of GlobalOutsourcing and Offshoring and Outsourcing Global Services: Knowledge, Innovation andSocial Capital, and other books.

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The evolution of a rapidly growing mode of offshoring,

captive centers: basic models,strategies, and case studies of

Fortune Global 250 firms.

March5 3/8 x 8, 288 pp.

53 illus.

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CAPTIVE CENTER MODELSBasic captive center: wholly owned subsidiary or branch office

Shared captive center: also services outside clients

Hybrid captive center: outsources operations to outside local vendor

Divested captive center: sold by parent firm

Terminated captive center: closed down by parent firm

Migrated captive center: moved to another location



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An evolutionary and cognitiveaccount of the addictive mind candy that is humor.

May6 x 9, 344 pp.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01582-0

Also available SWEET DREAMSPhilosophical Obstacles to a Science of ConsciousnessDaniel C. Dennett2006, 978-0-262-54191-6$17.95T/£13.95 paper

philosophy/cognitive science

INSIDE JOKESUsing Humor to Reverse-Engineer the MindMatthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr.

Some things are funny — jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side,Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed — but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusinganecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, MatthewHurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitiveperspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem thatarose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking.Mother Nature — aka natural selection — cannot just order the brain to findand fix all our time-pressured mis-leaps and near-misses. She has to bribe thebrain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure hasbeen tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have becomeaddicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.

Hurley, Dennett, and Adams describe the evolutionary reasons for humorand for laughter. They examine why humor is pleasurable and desirable, oftensharable, surprising, playful, nonsensical, and insightful. They give an “inside,”mechanistic account of the cognitive and emotional apparatus that provides the humor experience, and use it to explain the wide variety of things that are

found to be humorous. They also provide a preliminary sketchof an emotional and computational model of humor, arguing(Star Trek’s Data to the contrary) that any truly intelligent computational agent could not be engineered without humor.

Matthew M. Hurley is researching emotions and creativity under DouglasR. Hofstadter at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition atIndiana University. Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and AustinB. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the authorof Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness(MIT Press, 2005, 2006) and other books. Reginald B. Adams, Jr., isAssistant Professor of Psychology at Penn State University.

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THE SECRET WAR BETWEEN DOWNLOADING AND UPLOADING Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine Peter Lunenfeld

The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century’s culturemachine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of production, the means of distribution, and the site of reception. We haven’t quite achieved the flyingcars and robot butlers of futurist fantasies, but we do have a machine that canfunction as a typewriter and a printing press, a paintbrush and a gallery, a pianoand a radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier. But, warns Lunenfeld, we shouldtemper our celebration with caution; we are engaged in a secret war betweendownloading and uploading — between passive consumption and active creation— and the outcome will shape our collective futures.

In The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading, Lunenfeld makes hiscase for using digital technologies to shift us from a consumption to a productionmodel. He describes television as the “the high fructose corn syrup of the imagination” and worries that it can cause “cultural diabetes”; prescribes mindfuldownloading, meaningful uploading, and “info-triage” as cures; and offers tips for crafting “bespoke futures” in what he terms the era of “Web n.0” (intercon-nectivity to the nth power). He also offers a stand-alone genealogy of digitalvisionaries, distilling a history of the culture machine that runs from thePatriarchs (Vannevar Bush’s WWII generation) to the Hustlers (Bill Gates and Steve Jobs) to the Searchers (Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google fame).After half a century of television-conditioned consumption/downloading,Lunenfeld tells us, we now find ourselves with a vast new infrastructure foruploading. We simply need to find the will to make the best of it.

Peter Lunenfeld is a Professor in the Design Media Arts Department atUCLA. He is the author of Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts,Media, and Cultures (2000, 2001) and User: InfoTechnoDemo (2005),and the editor of The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media(1999, 2000) all published by the MIT Press.

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As we hurtle into the twenty-firstcentury, will we be passive downloaders of content or

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New Essays on New Mediaedited by Peter Lunenfeld2000, 978-0-262-62137-3

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SNAP TO GRIDA User’s Guide to Digital Arts,

Media, and CulturesPeter Lunenfeld

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The realities of the high-tech globaleconomy for women and families in the United States.


$27.95T/£20.95 cloth978-0-262-01498-4

technology/gender studies

DIGITAL DEAD END Fighting for Social Justice in the Information AgeVirginia Eubanks

The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promotedthrough both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access,high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economicdownturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital DeadEnd, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of magical thinking: a technological utopia will come about simply because we want it to. This vision of the miraculous power of high-tech development isdriven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of theinformation age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-classwomen and families.

Describing her attempts to create technology training programs with a community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA, Eubanks showsthat information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means ofoppression. High-tech jobs for women in the YWCA community are data entry positions that pay $7 an hour. At work, their supervisors monitor everykeystroke. The state offers limited social service benefits in exchange for high-tech monitoring and surveillance of their lives, families, and communities.

Despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy,optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks and thewomen in the YWCA community collaborated to make tech-nology serve social justice. Eubanks describes a new approachto creating a broadly inclusive and empowering “technology for people,” popular technology, which entails shifting the focusfrom teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technologicalcitizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering social movement.

Virginia Eubanks is the cofounder of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP),a grassroots anti-poverty and welfare rights organization, and teachesin the Department of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany,SUNY. She edited the cyberfeminist ‘zine Brillo and was active in thecommunity technology center movements in the San Francisco Bay Areaand Troy, NY.

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How science consultants make movie science plausible,

in films ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Finding Nemo.

March6 x 9, 280 pp.

75 illus.

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LAB COATS IN HOLLYWOODScience, Scientists, and CinemaDavid A. Kirby

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, is perhaps the mostscientifically accurate film ever produced. The film presented such a plausible,realistic vision of space flight that many moon hoax proponents believe thatKubrick staged the 1969 moon landing using the same studios and techniques.Kubrick’s scientific verisimilitude in 2001 came courtesy of his science consult-ants — including two former NASA scientists — and the more than sixty-fivecompanies, research organizations, and government agencies that offered techni-cal advice. Although most filmmakers don’t consult experts as extensively asKubrick, films ranging from A Beautiful Mind and Contact to Finding Nemoand The Hulk have achieved some degree of scientific credibility because of science consultants. In Lab Coats in Hollywood, David Kirby examines the interaction of science and cinema: how science consultants make movie scienceplausible, how filmmakers negotiate scientific accuracy within production constraints, and how movies affect popular perceptions of science.

Of course, accurate science is only important to filmmakers if they believe it generates entertainment value. Scientific expertise, Kirby points out, is mostvaluable to filmmakers as a tool to help them utilize their own creative expertise.Drawing on interviews and archival material, Kirby examines such science consulting tasks as fact checking, shaping visual iconography,advising actors, enhancing plausibility, creating dramatic situations, and placing science in its cultural contexts. Kirbyfinds that cinema can influence science as well: Depictions of science in popular films can promote research agendas, stimulate technological development, contribute to scientificcontroversies, and even stir citizens into political action.

David A. Kirby is Lecturer in Science Communication Studies at theCentre for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at theUniversity of Manchester, England.

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How, in the name of greater security, our current electronic surveillance policies are creatingmajor security risks.


$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01530-1

Also availablePRIVACY ON THE LINEThe Politics of Wiretapping and EncryptionUpdated and Expanded EditionWhitfield Diffie and Susan Landau2010, 978-0-262-51400-2$15.95T/£11.95 paper


SURVEILLANCE OR SECURITY?The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping TechnologiesSusan Landau

Digital communications are the lifeblood of modern society. We “meet up”online, tweet our reactions millions of times a day, connect through social networking rather than in person. Large portions of business and commerce have moved to the Web, and much of our critical infrastructure, including theelectric power grid, is controlled online. This reliance on information systemsleaves us highly exposed and vulnerable to cyberattack. Despite this, U.S. lawenforcement and national security policy remain firmly focused on wiretappingand surveillance. But, as cybersecurity expert Susan Landau argues in Surveillanceor Security?, the old surveillance paradigms do not easily fit the new technologies.By embedding eavesdropping mechanisms into communication technology itself, we are building tools that could be turned against us.

Such attacks have already happened. Law-enforcement wiretapping capabili-ties built into the Greek Vodafone network were subverted and used to listen in to communications at the highest levels of the Greek government; a systembuilt for wiretapping Internet-based communications was shown to have seriousflaws that would allow a similar subversion. Landau argues that in embarking onan unprecedented effort to build surveillance capabilities deeply into communi-cations infrastructure, the U.S. government is opting for short-term security andcreating dangerous long-term risks.

Landau describes what makes communications securityhard, warrantless wiretapping and the role of electronic surveil-lance in the war on terror, the economic threats posed by elec-tronic spying, and the risks created by embedding wiretappinginto communications networks. How can we get communica-tions security right? Landau offers a set of principles to governwiretap policy that will allow us to protect our national securityas well as our freedom.

Susan Landau is the coauthor (with Whitfield Diffie) of Privacy on theLine: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (MIT Press, updated and expanded edition, 2007, 2010).

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A lively introduction to MIT hacks,from the police car on the

Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.

March8 x 9, 224 pp.77 color illus.,

65 black & white illus.

$22.95T/£16.95 paper978-0-262-51584-9


NIGHTWORKA History of Hacks and Pranks at MITUpdated EditionInstitute Historian T. F. Peterson with a new essay by Eric Bender

An MIT “hack” is an ingenious, benign, and anonymous prank or practical joke,often requiring engineering or scientific expertise and often pulled off undercover of darkness — instances of campus mischief sometimes coinciding withApril Fool’s Day, final exams, or commencement. (It should not be confused withthe sometimes nonbenign phenomenon of computer hacking.) Noteworthy MIThacks over the years include the legendary Harvard-Yale Football Game Hack(when a weather balloon emblazoned “MIT” popped out of the ground near the50-yard line), the campus police car found perched on the Great Dome, theapparent disappearance of the Institute president’s office, and a faux cathedral(complete with stained glass windows, organ, and wedding ceremony) in a lobby.Hacks are by their nature ephemeral, although they live on in the memory ofboth perpetrators and spectators. Nightwork, drawing on the MIT Museum’sunique collection of hack-related photographs and other materials, describes and documents the best of MIT’s hacks and hacking culture.

This generously illustrated updated edition has added coverage of such recenthacks as the cross-country abduction of rival Caltech’s cannon (a prank requiringmonths of planning, intricate choreography, and last-minute improvisation), afire truck on the Dome that marked the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and numerouspokes at the celebrated Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, and even a workingsolar-powered Red Line subway car on the Great Dome.

Hacks have been said to express the essence of MIT, providing, as alumnusAndré DeHon observes, “an opportunity to demonstrate creativity and know-howin mastering the physical world.” What better way to mark the 150th anniversaryof MIT’s founding than to commemorate its native ingenuity with this newedition of Nightwork?

Institute Historian T. F. Peterson continues to delight in the appearanceof each new hack. Peterson is grateful to Eric Bender, science writer and former editor of MIT’s Technologyreview.com, who contributed the new essay “Hacking in the New Millennium” to this edition.





A WIDENING SPHEREEvolving Cultures at MITPhilip N. Alexander

MIT was founded in 1861 as a polytechnic institute in Boston’s Back Bay, over-shadowed by its neighbor across the Charles River, Harvard University. Harvardoffered a classical education to young men of America’s ruling class; the earlyMIT trained men (and a few women) from all parts of society as engineers forthe nation’s burgeoning industries. Over the years, MIT expanded its missionand ventured into other fields — pure science, social science, the humanities —and established itself in Cambridge as Harvard’s enduring rival. In A WideningSphere, Philip Alexander traces MIT’s evolution from polytechnic to majorresearch institution through the lives of its first nine presidents, exploring how the ideas, outlook, approach, and personality of each shaped the school’sintellectual and social cultures.

Alexander describes, among other things, the political skill and entrepreneur-ial spirit of founder and first president, William Rogers; institutional growingpains under John Runkle; Francis Walker’s campaign to broaden the curriculum,especially in the social sciences, and to recruit first-rate faculty; James Crafts,whose heart lay in research, not administration; Henry Pritchett’s thwartedeffort to merge with Harvard (after which he decamped to the CarnegieFoundation for the Advancement of Teaching); Richard Maclaurin’s successfulstrategy to move the institute to Cambridge, after considering other sites

(including a golf club in Brighton); the brilliant, progressiveErnest Nichols, who succumbed to chronic illness and barelyheld office; Samuel Stratton’s push towards a global perspective;and Karl Compton’s vision for a new kind of Institute — a university polarized around science and technology.

Through these interlocking yet independent portraits,Alexander reveals the inner workings of a complex anddynamic community of innovators.

Philip N. Alexander is a Research Associate in the Program in Writingand Humanistic Studies at MIT.

higher education/regional

How MIT’s first nine presidentshelped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.


$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01563-9

Also availableMIND AND HANDThe Birth of MITJulius A. Stratton and Loretta H. Mannix2005, 978-0-262-19524-9$60.00S/£44.95 cloth







MENS ET MANIAThe MIT Nobody KnowsSamuel Jay Keyserforeword by Lawrence S. Bacow

When Jay Keyser arrived at MIT in 1977 to head the Department of Linguisticsand Philosophy, he writes, he “felt like a fish that had been introduced to waterfor the first time.” At MIT, a colleague grabbed him by the lapels to discuss darkmatter; Noam Chomsky called him “boss” (double SOB spelled backward?); andengaging in conflict resolution made him feel like “a marriage counselor trying to reconcile a union between a Jehovah’s witness and a vampire.” In Mens etMania, Keyser recounts his academic and administrative adventures during acareer of more than thirty years.

Keyser describes the administrative side of his MIT life, not only as depart-ment head but also as Associate Provost and Special Assistant to the Chancellor.Keyser had to run a department (“budgets were like horoscopes”) and negotiatestudent grievances — from the legality of showing Deep Throat in a dormitoryto the uproar caused by the arrests of students for anti-apartheid demonstrations.Keyser also describes a visiting Japanese delegation horrified by the disrepair ofthe Linguistics offices (Chomsky tells them “Our motto is: Physically shabby.Intellectually first class.”); convincing a student not to jump off the roof of theGreen Building; and recent attempts to look at MIT through a corporate lens.And he explains the special faculty-student bond at MIT: thefaculty sees the students as themselves thirty years earlier.

Keyser observes that MIT is hard to get into and evenharder to leave, for faculty as well as for students. Writingabout retirement, Keyser quotes the song Groucho Marx sangin Animal Crackers as he was leaving a party — “Hello, I mustbe going.” Students famously say “Tech is hell.” Keyser says,“It’s been a helluva party.”

This entertaining and thought-provoking memoir will makereaders glad that Keyser hasn’t quite left.

Samuel Jay Keyser is Professor Emeritus in MIT’s Department ofLinguistics and Philosophy and Special Assistant to the Chancellor.Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy from 1977 to 1998, he also held the positions of Director of the Center forCognitive Science and Associate Provost.

A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky’s

boss to negotiating with student protesters.

April5 3/8 x 8, 264 pp.

$24.95T/£18.95 cloth978-0-262-01594-3


higher education/memoir/regional





The intersecting worlds of ZelligHarris, Noam Chomsky’s intellectualand political mentor.

April6 x 9, 328 pp.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01526-4

Also availableNOAM CHOMSKYA Life of DissentRobert F. Barsky1998, 978-0-262-52255-7$21.95T/£16.95 paper

THE CHOMSKY EFFECTA Radical Works Beyond the Ivory TowerRobert F. Barsky2009, 978-0-262-51316-6$15.95T/£11.95 paper


biography/linguistics/politics

ZELLIG HARRISFrom American Linguistics to Socialist ZionismRobert F. Barsky

In 1995, Robert Barsky met with Noam Chomsky to discuss his work-in-progress,Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (MIT Press, 1997). Chomsky told Barsky thathe should focus his attention instead on midcentury linguist and activist ZelligHarris, who was, Chomsky modestly insisted, more interesting than Chomskyhimself. Intrigued, Barsky began to research Harris (1909–1992) and discoveredthe story of a major figure in American intellectual life “sitting in a corner in themiddle of the room” — part of crucial twentieth-century conversations aboutlanguage, technology, labor, politics, and Zionism. The intersecting worlds ofHarris’s intellectual and political activities were populated by such figures asLouis Brandeis, Albert Einstein, Franz Boas, Nathan Glazer, and Chomsky.

Barsky describes Harris’s work in language studies, and his pioneering ideasabout discourse analysis, structural linguistics, and information representation.He also discusses Harris’s part in the pre-1948 Zionist movement — whenmany Jews on the Left envisioned a socialist Palestine that would be a havennot only for persecuted Jews but also for disenfranchised Arabs and anyoneseeking a sanctuary against oppression — and recounts Harris’s debates on thesubject with Brandeis, Einstein, and a large group of students involved with a Zionist organization called Avukah. And Barsky describes Harris’s views oncapitalism, worker-owner relations, and worker self-management, the legacy ofwhich can be found in some of his students’ writings, notably those of Seymour

Melman. Barsky shows how Harris, as mentor, teacher, andcolleague, powerfully influenced figures who came to dominatethe twentieth century’s political discussion — thinkers as different as Noam Chomsky and Nathan Glazer.

Robert F. Barsky is Professor of English, French, European, and JewishStudies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (1997, 1998) and The Chomsky Effect: A Radical WorksBeyond the Ivory Tower (2007, 2009), both published by the MIT Press.

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DREAM LIFEAn Experimental MemoirJ. Allan Hobson

J. Allan Hobson’s scientific experimentation began in childhod, with a soot-filledinvestigation into the capacity of a chimney to admit Santa Claus. (He discoveredthat even with the damper open the chimney was far too narrow.) Hobson’s life as an experimentalist has continued through a pioneering career devoted to aligning psychology and biology and to investigating the relationship ofdreaming and consciousness. In Dream Life, Hobson conducts an experimentalinvestigation into his life and work.

Hobson charts his developing consciousness through a vividly imagined conception (in October of 1932), birth, and babyhood, offering a theory about“protoconsciousness” in fetuses and infants. He recounts his youthful zeal forscientific discovery, his early sexual experimentation, and his education. Hedescribes taking on the entrenched Freudians at Harvard Medical School in the 1950s, as a maverick psychiatrist who wanted to replace psychoanalysis with biological science. He describes his further studies, his marriages and love affairs, his travels, and what he learned about the brain from his whiplash-induced amnesia after a 1963 automobile accident and from his “brain death”after a stroke in 2001. Through it all, Hobson uses his life as the ultimate casestudy for his theory that REM sleep provides a test pattern that allows the brainto develop “offline.” Dreams — most intense in REM sleep, when the brain isactive — need no Freudian-style decoding, he says. Dreaming is a gloriousmental state, to be enjoyed and studied for what it tells us about consciousness.

J. Allan Hobson is Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Harvard MedicalSchool. He is the author of The Dreaming Brain: How the Brain CreatesBoth the Sense and the Nonsense of Dreams, Dreaming as Delirium: Howthe Brain Goes Out of Its Mind (MIT Press, 1999), The Dream Drugstore:Chemically Altered States of Consciousness (MIT Press, 1999, 2001), and other books.

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A pioneer in sleep and dream science surveys his life and work

through the lens of dreaming and consciousness.

March6 x 9, 304 pp.

30 illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01532-5

Also availableTHE DREAM DRUGSTORE

Chemically Altered States of Consciousness

J. Allan Hobson2001, 978-0-262-58220-9

$24.00T/£17.95 paper







philosophy

PERPLEXITIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Eric Schwitzgebel

Do you dream in color? If you answer Yes, how can you be sure? Before yourecount your vivid memory of a dream featuring all the colors of the rainbow,consider that in the 1950s, researchers found that most people reported dream-ing in black and white. In the 1960s — when most movies were in color andmore people had color television sets — the vast majority of reported dreamscontained color. The most likely explanation for this, according to philosopherEric Schwitzgebel, is not that exposure to black-and-white media made peoplemisremember their dreams. It is that we simply don’t know whether or not wedream in color. In Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel examines variousaspects of inner life — dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjectivephenomena — and argues that we know very little about our stream of consciousexperience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoingemotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.

Western philosophical tradition is nearly unanimous on the accuracy of ourknowledge or current conscious experience. Schwitzgebel is skeptical. Drawingbroadly from historical and recent philosophy and psychology to examine suchtopics as visual perspective, human echolocation (about which he is doubtful),and the unreliability of introspection even about emotional states (do we reallyenjoy Christmas? a family dinner?), he finds us singularly inept in our judgmentsabout conscious experience.

Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,Riverside, is the coauthor (with Russell T. Hurlburt) of Describing InnerExperience? Proponent Meets Skeptic (MIT Press, 2007).

A philosopher argues that we know little about our own inner lives.


$27.95T/£20.95 cloth978-0-262-01490-8

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art

ARTISTS’ MAGAZINESAn Alternative Space for ArtGwen Allen

Magazine publishing is an exercise in ephemerality and transience; each issuegoes out in the world only to be rendered obsolete by the next. To publish amagazine is to enter into a heightened relationship with the present moment.During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artisticpractice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerializedpractices of conceptual art. Artists created works expressly for these mass-produced,hand-editioned pages, using the ephemerality and the materiality of the magazineto challenge the conventions of both artistic medium and gallery. In Artists’Magazines, Gwen Allen looks at the most important of these magazines in their heyday (the 1960s to the 1980s) and compiles a comprehensive, illustrateddirectory of hundreds of others.

Among the magazines Allen examines are Aspen (1965–1971), a multimediamagazine in a box — issues included Super-8 films, flexi-disc records, criticalwritings, artists’ postage stamps, and collectible chapbooks; 0 to 9 (1967–1969), a mimeographed poetry magazine founded by Vito Acconci and BernadetteMeyer; FILE (1972–1989), founded by the Canadian collective General Idea,its cover design a sly parody of Life magazine; and Interfunktionen (1968–1975),founded to protest the conservative curatorial strategies of Documenta. Theseand the other magazines Allen examines expressed their differences from main-stream media in both form and content: they cast their homemade, DIY qualityagainst the slickness of an Artforum, and they created work that defied the formalist orthodoxy of the day. (A work by John Baldessari from the late 1960s shows a photograph of Artforum, captioned “THIS ISNOT TO BE LOOKED AT.”) Artists’ Magazines, featuringabundant color illustrations of magazine covers and content,offers an essential guide to a little-explored medium.

Gwen Allen is Assistant Professor of Art History at San Francisco StateUniversity. Her writings have appeared in such publications as Artforum,Art Journal, and Umbrella.

How artists’ magazines, in all their ephemerality, materiality, and

temporary intensity, challengedmainstream art criticism and the gallery system.

March7 1/2 x 10, 376 pp.

125 color illus.

$34.95T/£25.95 cloth978-0-262-01519-6

MAGAZINES EXAMINEDAspen, 1965–1971

0 to 9, 1967–1969

Avalanche, 1970–1976

Art-Rite, 1973–1978

FILE, 1972–1989

Real Life, 1979–1994

Interfunktionen, 1968–1975






art

A groundbreaking book thatdescribes a distinctively Chineseavant-gardism and a modernity that unifies art, politics, and social life.

April8 1/2 x 11, 408 pp.150 color illus., 173 black & white illus.

$39.95T/£29.95 cloth978-0-262-01494-6

TOTAL MODERNITY AND THE AVANT-GARDE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINESE ART Gao Minglu

To the extent that Chinese contemporary art has become a global phenomenon,it is largely through the groundbreaking exhibitions curated by Minglu Gao:“China/Avant-Garde” (Beijing, 1989), “Inside Out: New Chinese Art” (AsiaSociety, New York, 1998), and “The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary ChineseArt” (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2005) among them. As the first Chinese writer to articulate a distinctively Chinese avant-gardism and modernity — one not defined by Western chronology or formalism — Gao Minglu is largelyresponsible for the visibility of Chinese art in the global art scene today.

Contemporary Chinese artists tend to navigate between extremes, eitherembracing or rejecting a rich classical tradition. Indeed, for Chinese artists, theterm “modernity” refers not to a new epoch or aesthetic but to a new nation —modernity inextricably connects politics to art. It is this notion of “total moder-nity” that forms the foundation of the Chinese avant-garde aesthetic, and of this book.

Gao examines the many ways Chinese artists engaged with this intrinsictotal modernity, including the ’85 Movement, Political Pop, Cynical Realism,Apartment Art, Maximalism, and “The Museum Age,” encompassing theemergence of local art museums and organizations as well as such major eventsas the Shanghai Biennial. He describes the inner logic of the Chinese contextwhile locating the art within the framework of a worldwide avant-garde. Hevividly describes the Chinese avant-garde’s embrace of a modernity as one

that unifies politics, aesthetics, and social life, blurring theboundaries between abstraction, conception, and representation.Lavishly illustrated with color images throughout, this book will be a touchstone for all considerations of Chinesecontemporary art.

Gao Minglu, a leading authority on Chinese art, teaches at theUniversity of Pittsburgh. After leaving China in 1991, he became aleading researcher, writer, and authority on twentieth-century EastAsian art.






This foundational anthology mapsthe emergence of a dynamic

new global phenomenon: contemporary Asian art.

March7 x 9, 448 pp.16 color illus.,

38 black & white illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 paper978-0-262-51623-5

art

CONTEMPORARY ART IN ASIAA Critical Readeredited by Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio

In 2008, Asian artists stormed the citadel of the New York art world when two major museums presented retrospectives of Asian contemporary artists: Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Museum and Takashi Murakami at theBrooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, a painting by Zeng Fanzhi soldfor $9.5 million, setting a new world auction record for Chinese contemporaryart. The Western art world is still coming to grips with the fact: it is all aboutAsia now. This book is the first anthology of critical writings to map the shift in both the nature and the reception of Asian art over the past twenty years.Offering texts by leading figures in the field (mostly Asian), and including morethan fifty illustrations in color and black and white, it covers developments inEast Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), South Asia (including India andPakistan), and Southeast Asia (including Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand).Together, the twenty-three texts posit a historical and pan-Asian response to the question, “What is Asian contemporary art?” Considering such topics asAsian modernism (“productive mistranslation” of the European original), Asiancubism, and the curating, collecting, and criticism of Asian contemporary art, this book promises to be a foundational reference for many years to come.

Melissa Chiu is Museum Director and Vice President of Global ArtPrograms at the Asia Society in New York. Benjamin Genocchio is a former art critic for the New York Times and is currently Editor-in-Chiefof Art + Auction and Modern Painters magazine.





architecture/design/technology


SENTIENT CITYUbiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Spaceedited by Mark Shepard

Our cities are “smart” and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of usobject to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of citytraffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favoriteespresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk past a Starbucks.Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that can remember, correlate, and anticipate. Five teams of architects, artists, and technologists imagine a variety of future interactions that take place as computing leaves thedesktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the city.

“Too Smart City” employs city furniture as enforcers: a bench ejects a sitterwho sits too long, a sign displays the latest legal codes and warns passersbyagainst transgression, and a trashcan throws back the wrong kind of trash.“Amphibious Architecture” uses underwater sensors and lights to create ahuman-fish-environment feedback loop; “Natural Fuse” uses a network of “electronically assisted” plants to encourage energy conservation; “Trash Track”follows smart-tagged garbage on its journey through the city’s waste-managementsystem; and “Breakout” uses wireless technology and portable infrastructure tomake the entire city a collaborative workplace.

These projects are described, documented, and illustrated by 100 images,most in color. Essays by prominent thinkers put the idea of the sentient city intheoretical context.

Mark Shepard is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Media Study atthe University at Buffalo, University of New York, and an editor of theSituated Technologies pamphlet series, published by the ArchitectureLeague of New York.

Alternative ideas for a “smart” city,from a park bench that enforcestime limits by ejecting the sitter to “electronically assisted” plantsthat encourage conservation.

March6 3/4 x 9 1/2, 200 pp.80 color illus.20 black & white illus.

$24.95T/£18.95 paper978-0-262-51586-3

Copublished with the ArchitecturalLeague of New York

ESSAYS BYKeller Easterling, Matthew Fuller, Anne Galloway, Dan Hill, Omar Khan,Saskia Sassen, Trebor Scholz, Hadas Steiner, Kazys Varnelis, Martijn de Waal, Mimi Zeiger





architecture

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception

of architecture and the city.

March5 3/8 x 8, 232 pp.

58 illus.

$24.95T/£18.95 paper978-0-262-51579-5

Writing Architecture series

Also availalble in this seriesARCHITECTURE’S DESIRE

Reading the Late Avant-GardeK. Michael Hays

2009, 978-0-262-51302-9$19.95T/£14.95 paper

DRAWING FOR ARCHITECTURE

Léon Krier2009, 978-0-262-51293-0

$24.95T/£18.95 paper


THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ABSOLUTE ARCHITECTUREPier Vittorio Aureli

In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political,cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute not in the conventional sense of “pure,” but to denote something that is resolutelyitself after being separated from its other. In the pursuit of the possibility of anabsolute architecture, the other is the space of the city, its extensive organization,and its government. Politics is agonism through separation and confrontation;the very condition of architectural form is to separate and be separated. Throughits act of separation and being separated, architecture reveals at once the essenceof the city and the essence of itself as political form: the city as the compositionof (separate) parts.

Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advancedthrough the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city atlarge: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, andOswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressedthe transformations of the modern city and its urban implications through theelaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms. Their projects for thecity do not take the form of an overall plan but are expressed as an “archipelago”of site-specific interventions.

Pier Vittorio Aureli, an architect and educator, teaches at the Berlage Institute inRotterdam and the Technical University of Delft. He is the author of The Project ofAutonomy and other books.







architecture/technology

The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration.

March5 3/8 x 8, 184 pp.13 illus.

$21.95T/£16.95 paper978-0-262-51580-1

Writing Architecture series

Also availableARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF PRINTINGOrality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural TheoryMario Carpo2001, 978-0-262-03288-9$38.00T/£28.95 cloth


THE ALPHABET AND THE ALGORITHMMario Carpo

Digital technologies have changed architecture — the way it is taught, practiced,managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a “paradigm shift” forarchitecture, which paradigm is shifting? In The Alphabet and the Algorithm,Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identicalcopies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to the shaping ofarchitectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti’s inventionof architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of the architect’s design; and, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the massproduction of identical copies from mechanical master models, matrixes, imprints,or molds.

The modern power of the identical, Carpo argues, came to an end with therise of digital technologies. Everything digital is variable. In architecture, thismeans the end of notational limitations, of mechanical standardization, and ofthe Albertian, authorial way of building by design. Charting the rise and fall ofthe paradigm of identicality, Carpo compares new forms of postindustrial digitalcraftsmanship to hand-making and the cultures and technologies of variationsthat existed before the coming of machine-made, identical copies. Carporeviews the unfolding of digitally based design and construction from the early1990s to the present, and suggests a new agenda for architecture in an age ofvariable objects and of generic and participatory authorship.

Mario Carpo is Associate Professor of Architectural History in the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Paris, Professor at theGeorgia Institute of Technology, and Vincent Scully Visiting Professor in Architectural History at Yale University’s School of Architecture. He is the author of Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing,Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory(MIT Press, 2001) and other books.






THE FILMING OF MODERN LIFEEuropean Avant-Garde Film of the 1920sMalcolm Turvey

In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimentingwith the medium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and FernandLéger as well as filmmakers belonging to such avant-garde movements as Dadaand surrealism made some of the most enduring and fascinating films in the history of cinema. In The Filming of Modern Life, Malcolm Turvey examines five films from the avant-garde canon and the complex, sometimes contradictory,attitudes toward modernity they express: Rhythm 21 (Hans Richter, 1921),Ballet mécanique (Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, 1924), Entr’acte(Francis Picabia and René Clair, 1924), Un chien andalou (Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, 1929), and Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929). All exemplify major trends within European avant-garde cinema of the time,from abstract animation to “cinema pur.”

Turvey argues that these films share a concern with modernization and therapid, dislocating changes it was bringing about. He critically addresses majortheories of the avant-garde and its relation to modern life, including the claimthat film is “distracting” in the same way as a modern environment, and he challenges the standard view of the avant-garde as implacably opposed to bourgeois modernity. In fact, he writes, not only was there considerable disagreement among avant-garde movementsabout what aspects of modern life needed transformation, but the positions of individual avant-garde artists toward modernization were complex, even contradictory. All five films that Turvey analyzes embrace and resist, in their ownways, different aspects of modernity.

Although much has been written about each of these films,The Filming of Modern Life is the first book to examine themtogether, illuminating their shared concern with modernizationand its consequences.

Malcolm Turvey is Professor of Film History at Sarah Lawrence Collegeand an editor of October. He is the author of Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition.

film/art

The complex stance toward modernity taken by 1920s

avant-garde cinema, as exemplified by five major films.

March7 x 9, 232 pp.

88 illus.

$29.95T/£22.95 cloth978-0-262-01518-9

An October Book






art

A collection of essays on a key figure in postminimalist art, withtexts spanning thirty years.


$19.95T/£14.95 paper978-0-262-51577-1

$35.00S/£26.95 cloth978-0-262-01528-8

October Files series

Also available TWO-WAY MIRROR POWERSelected Writings by Dan Graham on His ArtDan Grahamedited by Alexander Alberro1999, 978-0-262-57130-2$25.00T/£18.95 paper

DAN GRAHAM Beyondedited by Bennett Simpson and Chrissie Iles2009, 978-1-933-75112-2$44.95T/£28.95 paper


DAN GRAHAMedited by Alex Kitnick

Since the 1960s, Dan Graham’s heterogeneous practice has touched on such disparate subjects as tract housing, the Shakers, punk music, and architecturaltheory; he has made videos, architectural models, closed-circuit installations, andglass pavilions. Graham, who came of age during the emergence of earth art,minimalism, and conceptualism, has situated his work on the borders betweenthese different strains of contemporary practice. Although varying widely in subject and medium, Graham’s artwork and writings display a consistent interestin spectatorship, public-private relationships, and the constructed environment.Graham’s extensive writings on his own work (collected in Rock My Religionand Two-Way Mirror Power, both published by the MIT Press) have made him,by default, the primary interpreter of his own art. This October Files volume

provides a counterweight, gatheringkey texts by critics and theorists that offer alternative accounts ofGraham’s art.

The essays span thirty years and include hard-to-find texts from exhibition catalogs and journals. The authors include suchdistinguished theorists, critics, andartists as Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,Beatriz Colomina, Thierry de Duve,and Jeff Wall.

Alex Kitnick, a PhD candidate in theDepartment of Art and Architecture atPrinceton University, has taught at theSchool of Visual Arts and Vassar College.

CONTENTSBenjamin H. D. Buchloh Moments of History in the Work of Dan Graham (1978)Alexander Alberro Reductivism in Reverse (1994)Birgit Pelzer Vision in Process (1979)Thierry de Duve Dan Graham and the Critique of Artistic Autonomy (1983)William Kaizen Steps to an Ecology of Communication (2008)Jeff Wall Excerpt from “Dan Graham’s Kammerspiel” (1985)John Miller Now Even the Pigs’re Groovin’ (2001)Beatriz Colomina Double Exposure: Alteration to a Suburban House (2001)Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Excerpt from “Documenta 7: A Dictionary of Received Ideas” (1982)Alexander Alberro Specters of Utopia (1996)Alex Kitnick What’s Your Type? (2009)







art/music

A definitive guide to the rising status of sound in art, through

original critical writings and artists’ statements.

March5 3/4 x 8 1/4, 240 pp.

$24.95T paper978-0-262-51568-9

Documents of Contemporary Art series

Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery,London

Not for sale in the United Kingdom or Europe

Also available in this 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


SOUNDedited by Caleb Kelly

The “sonic turn” in recent art reflects a wider cultural awareness that sight nolonger dominates our perception or understanding of contemporary reality. The background buzz of myriad mechanically reproduced sounds increasinglymediates our lives. Tuning into this incessant auditory stimulus, some of ourmost influential artists have investigated the corporeal, cultural, and political resonance of sound.

In tandem with recent experimental music and technology, art has opened up to hitherto excluded dimensions of noise, silence, and the act of listening.Artists working with sound have engaged in new forms of aesthetic encounterwith the city and nature, the everyday and cultural otherness, technologicaleffects and psychological states.

New perspectives on sound have generated a wave of scholarship in musicol-ogy, cultural studies, and the social sciences. But the equally important rise ofsound in the arts since 1960 has so far been sparsely documented. This volumeis the first sourcebook to provide, through original critical writings and artists’statements, a genealogy of sonic pathways into the arts, philosophical reflectionson the meanings of noise and silence, dialogues between art and music, investi-gations of the role of listening and acoustic space, and a comprehensive surveyof sound works by international artists from the avant-garde era to the present.

Caleb Kelly is a New Zealand-born writer, curator, and producer in the fields of experimen-tal music, sound arts, and performance. A lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, Universityof Sydney, he is the author of Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction (MIT Press, 2009).

ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDEMarina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Maryanne

Amacher, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Kim Cascone, Michel Chion, Martin Creed, Paul DeMarinis, Bill Fontana, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham,

Ryoji Ikeda, Mike Kelley, Christina Kubisch, Mark Leckey, Bernhard Leitner, Alvin Lucier, Len Lye, Christian Marclay, Max Neuhaus,Carsten Nicolai, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Luigi Russolo,

Karin Sander, Mieko Shiomi, Michael Snow, Yasunao Tone, Bill Viola

WRITERS INCLUDEJacques Attali, Ralph T. Coe, Christoph Cox, Suzanne Delehanty, William Furlong, Liam Gillick, Paul Hegarty, Branden W. Joseph,

Douglas Kahn, Dan Lander, Micah Lexier, W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Nyman,Pierre Schaeffer, R. Murray Schafer, Michel Serres, David Toop, Paul Virilio







art

Essential writings that consider the diverse meanings of contemporary painting since its postconceptual revival.

March5 3/4 x 8 1/4, 240 pp.

$24.95T paper978-0-262-51567-2

Documents of Contemporary Art series

Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery,London

Not for sale in the United Kingdom or Europe

Also available in this seriesFAILUREedited by Lisa Le Feuvre2010, 978-0-262-51477-4$24.95T paper


PAINTINGedited by Terry R. Myers

The “death of painting” and its subsequent resurrection in transformed conditionsis a leitmotif of the modern era. Painting’s postconceptual resurgence at the startof the 1980s began a dramatic expansion of its field. If painting remains importanttoday, it is because its contradictions have been acknowledged as artists have radically diversified the components of its production and presentation.

This first anthology to focus on painting’s multiple discourses over the last three decades brings together key statements, dialogues, and debates thathave moved the conversation beyond the modern/postmodern dialectic whileredefining the conditions necessary for an artwork to be described as “painting.”The diversity of contemporary painting’s meanings and practices encompassesthe randomness and eclecticism associated with Web-based creation. Althoughfor many the presence of paint endures, others have argued for painting to beclassed not as a material but as a philosophical category.

Compiled by a leading critic of painting who actively participated in theseconversations while also teaching young artists in the studio classroom, this collection ranges widely, to reflect the diversity of ways in which painting continues to be investigated and evaluated in studios, exhibition spaces, and themarketplace of ideas. These writings, statements, and interviews reflect ongoingdebates and reignite questions for an as yet unimagined future of painting.

Terry R. Myers is a Chicago- and Los Angeles-based writer, educator, and independent curator. A regular contributor since 1988 to numerous international journals, including ArtReview, The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, and Modern Painters, he is the author of Mary Heilmann:Save the Last Dance for Me (Afterall Books, 2007). He is Associate Professor of Paintingand Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE Kai Althoff, Art & Language, Glenn Brown, Pavel Büchler, Vija Celmins,John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Olafur Eliasson, Bernard Frize,Katharina Grosse, Andreas Gursky, Peter Halley, Mary Heilmann, Gary Hume,Jutta Koether, Sherrie Levine, Paul McCarthy, Suzanne McClelland, Beatriz Milhazes, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Laura Owens, Lari Pittman, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Kay Rosen, Robert Ryman,David Salle, Chéri Samba, Jim Shaw, Jessica Stockholder, Philip Taaffe, Luc Tuymans, Lee Ufan, Jeff Wall, Christopher Wool, Lisa Yuskavage

WRITERS INCLUDE Svetlana Alpers, Daniel Birnbaum, Norman Bryson, Douglas Crimp, Gilles Deleuze, Sebastian Egenhofer, Hal Foster, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe,Isabelle Graw, David Joselit, Shirley Kaneda, Geeta Kapur, Thomas Lawson,Jonathan Lethem, Midori Matsui, Lane Relyea, Rene Ricard, Jerry Saltz,Mira Schor, Barry Schwabsky, Adrian Searle






A LITTLE-KNOWN STORY ABOUT A MOVEMENT, AMAGAZINE, AND THE COMPUTER’S ARRIVAL IN ARTNew Tendencies and Bit International, 1961–1973edited by Margit Rosenin collaboration with Peter Weibel, Darko Fritz, and Marija Gattin

This book documents a short but intense artistic experiment that took place inYugoslavia fifty years ago but has been influential far beyond that time and place:the “little-known story” of the advent of computers in art. It was through theactivities of the New Tendencies movement, begun in Zagreb in 1961, and itssupporting institution the Galerija suvremene umjetnosti that the “thinkingmachine” was adopted as an artistic tool and medium. Pursuing the idea of “artas visual research,” the New Tendencies movement proceeded along a path thatled from Concrete and Constructivist art, Op art, and Kinetic art to computer-generated graphics, film, and sculpture.

With their exhibitions and conferences and the 1968 launch of the multilin-gual, groundbreaking magazine Bit International, the New Tendencies trans-formed Zagreb — already one of the most vibrant artistic centers in Yugoslavia— into an international meeting place where artists, engineers, and scientistsfrom both sides of the Iron Curtain gathered around the then-new technology.For a brief moment in time, Zagreb was the epicenter of explorations of the aesthetic, scientific, and political potential of the computer.

This volume documents that exhilarating period. It includes new essays byJerko Denegri, Darko Fritz, Margit Rosen, and Peter Weibel; many texts thatwere first published in New Tendencies exhibition catalogs and Bit Internationalmagazine; and historic documents. More than 650 black-and-white and colorillustrations testify to the astonishing diversity of the exhibitedartworks and introduce the movement’s protagonists. Many of the historic photographs, translations, and documents arepublished here for the first time. Taken together, the imagesand texts offer the long overdue history of the New Tendenciesexperiment and its impact on the art of the twentieth century.

Margit Rosen is a Researcher and Curator for ZKM | Center for Art andMedia Technology.

art/technology


When Zagreb was the epicenter of explorations into the

aesthetic potential of the new “thinking machines.”

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Examining a work that marked the emergence of photography as an art made for the gallery wall instead of the printed page.

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MICHAEL SNOW Wavelength Elizabeth Legge2009, 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

art/photography

JEFF WALLPicture for WomenDavid Campany

Jeff Wall’s Picture for Women (1979) marks the transition of photography as anart form from the printed page to the gallery wall. Before this, photographs —from the orthodox photographic work of Walker Evans to the Conceptual photography of Dan Graham — seemed intended for the page even when hungin a gallery. In Picture for Women, a woman looks outward, as if at the viewer; acamera occupies the center of the photograph; the photographer stands on theright. Modeled on Manet’s famous painting Un bar aux Folies-Bergère, in which a barmaid seems to look directly out of the painting, observed by a man on theright, Picture for Women establishes its own art historical genealogy, claiming itsrightful position within the canon. Wall’s photograph is an ambitious attempt to relate the artistic and spectatorial demands of the late 1970s to a modernistpictorial art that had been too hastily rejected by Conceptualism.

In this illustrated study, David Campany offers an account of Wall’s movefrom a Conceptual approach to a reengagement with the idea of a singular (as opposed to serial) picture. He shows that Wall’s decision to present his work as a large-scale back-lit transparency, together with his commitment to a singular image, amounted to a radical departure. He contrasts Wall’s idea ofthe photograph as a tableau or “picture,” inherited from the history of painting,with the works of the “Pictures Generation” — including Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Jack Goldstein — and argues that Picture for Womenis inseparable from the modern fate of the picture in general.

David Campany is a writer, curator, editor,and Reader in Photography at the Universityof Westminster, London. His books includeArt and Photography, The Cinematic(MIT Press, copublished with WhitechapelGallery, 2007), Photography and Cinema,and Jeff Wall Speaks with David Campany.

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GORDON MATTA-CLARKConical IntersectBruce Jenkins

Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (1975) was a torqued, spiraling “cut” into two derelict seventeenth-century Paris buildings adjacent to the constructionsite of the controversial Centre Pompidou. With this landmark work of “anarchi-tecture,” Matta-Clark not only opened up these venerable residences to light and air, he also began a dialogue about the nature of urban development and the public role of art. Considered three and a half decades later, Conical Intersectreveals the multivalent nature of the artist’s practice and his prescient focus onsustainability and creative reuse of the built environment.

Conical Intersect and the two buildings were demolished as part of a large-scaleurban renovation of the historic market district of Les Halles; today we can knowthe work only from drawings, photographs, and a short Super 8 film. In thisillustrated study, Bruce Jenkins examines Matta-Clark’s “non-u-ment,” lookingclosely at the artist’s proposals, working process, various forms of documentation,and the dialogue begun by Matta-Clark’s decision to transform two abandonedbuildings “into an act of communication.”

Bruce Jenkins is Professor of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Instituteof Chicago. He is the editor of On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings ofHollis Frampton (MIT Press, 2009).


A landmark work by Gordon Matta-Clark, examined as an

“act of communication” about sustainability and the

public role of art.

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GENERAL IDEAImagevirus

Gregg Bordowitz2009, 978-1-84638-065-5

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DARA BIRNBAUMTechnology/Transformation:

Wonder WomanT. J. Demos

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CHRISTIAN MATERIALITYAn Essay on Religion in Late Medieval EuropeCaroline Walker Bynum

In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians inwestern Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects — amongthem paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharisticwafers — allegedly erupted into life by such activities as bleeding, weeping, and walking about. Challenging Christians both to seek ever more frequentencounters with miraculous matter and to turn to an inward piety that rejectedmaterial objects of devotion, such phenomena were by the fifteenth century atthe heart of religious practice and polemic. In Christian Materiality, CarolineWalker Bynum describes the miracles themselves, discusses the problems theypresented for both church authorities and the ordinary faithful, and probes thebasic scientific and religious assumptions about matter that lay behind them. She also analyzes the proliferation of religious art in the later Middle Ages and argues that it called attention to its materiality in sophisticated ways thatexplain both the animation of images and the hostility to them on the part oficonoclasts.

Seeing the Christian culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as aparadoxical affirmation of the glory and the threat of the natural world, Bynum’sstudy suggests a new understanding of the background to the sixteenth-centuryreformations, both Protestant and Catholic. Moving beyond cultural study of“the body” — a field she helped to establish — Bynum argues that Westernattitudes toward body and person must be placed in the context of changingconceptions of matter itself. Her study has broad theoretical implications, sug-gesting a new approach to the study of material culture and religious practice.

Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of Medieval European History, Institutefor Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and University Professor emeritaat Columbia University. She is the author of Fragmentation and Redemption:Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (Zone Books,1990, 1992) and Metamorphosis and Identity (Zone Books, 2001, 2005).

Late Medieval Christianity’sencounter with miraculous materialsviewed in the context of changingconceptions of matter itself.

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METAMORPHOSIS AND IDENTITYCaroline Walker Bynum2005, 978-1-890951-23-8$19.95T/£14.95 paper


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European history/religion

Master Bertram, Separation of Light from Darkness and Fall of the Rebel Angels,from the Grabow Altarpiece at St. PetriChurch, Hamburg, 1379–1383 (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY).







OPERATIC AFTERLIVESMichal Grover-Friedlander

In Operatic Afterlives, Michal Grover-Friedlander examines the implications ofopera’s founding myth — the story of Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus’s attemptto revive the dead Eurydice with the power of singing. Grover-Friedlanderexamines instances in which opera portrays an existence beyond death, a revivalof the dead, or a simultaneous presence of life and death. These portrayals — inoperas by Puccini and other composers and performances by Maria Callas — are made possible, she argues, by the unique treatment of voice in the operas inquestion: the occurrence of a breach in which singing itself takes on an afterlifein the face of the singer’s death. This may arise from the multiplication of singingvoices inhabiting the same body, from disembodied singing, from the merging of singing voices, from the disconnection of voice and character. The instancesdeveloped in the book take on added significance as they describe a reconfigura-tion of operatic singing itself.

Singing reigns over text, musical language, and dramatic characterization.The notion of the afterlife of singing reveals the singularity of the voice inopera, and how much it differs categorically from any other elaboration of thevoice. Grover-Friedlander’s examples reflect on the meanings of the operaticvoice as well as on our sense of its resonating, unending, and haunting presence.

Traditionally, opera kills its protagonists, but Grover-Friedlander argues that opera at times also represents the ways that the voice, singing, or songacquire their own forms of aliveness and indestructibility. Operatic Afterlivesshows the ultimate power that opera grants to singing: the reversal of death.

Michal Grover-Friedlander is Professor of Musicologyat Tel Aviv University and the author of VocalApparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera.


An examination of the ultimatepower opera grants to singing:

the reversal of death.

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The Yes Sayer by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, produced by the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, 2010, directed by Michal Grover-Friedlander (photo: Michal Shani).





THE WORDS AND THE LANDIsraeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist MythShlomo Sandtranslated by Ames Hodges

The idea of the Jewish nation was conceived before the organization of theZionist movement in the nineteenth century and continued long after the creationof the state of Israel. In The Words and the Land, post-Zionist Israeli historianShlomo Sand examines how both Jewish and Israeli intellectuals contributed tothis process. One by one, he identifies and calls into question the foundationmyths of the Israeli state, beginning with the myth of a people forcibly uprooted, a people-race that began to wander the world in search of a land of asylum. Thiswas a people that would define itself on a biological and “mythological-religious”basis, embodied in words that today feed Israeli political, literary, and historicalwriting: “exile,” “return,” and “ascent” (Alyah) to the land of its origins.

Since 1948, most intellectuals in Israel have continued to accept this ethno-national image and embrace an exclusive state identity to which only Jewishpeople can belong. The first challenges to this dominant idea didn’t appear inIsrael until the 1980s, in the innovative work of the post-Zionist historians, whowere bent on dismantling the nationalist historical myth and arguing for a statethat would belong equally to all its citizens. Analyzing how Israeli intellectualspositioned themselves during the Gulf War and in the new era of communica-tion technologies, Sand extends his analysis globally, looking at the status ofintellectuals in all societies.

Shlomo Sand teaches contemporary history at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of The Invention of the Jewish People, On the Nation and the Jewish People, and other books.

How the work of Israeli writerstoday reflects the foundation myths of a Jewish state.

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UTOPIETexts and Projects, 1967–1978edited by Craig Buckley and Jean-Louis Violeautranslated by Jean-Marie Clarkepreface by Sylvère Lotringer

“When the imagination reaches and oversteps the boundaries authorized by the institution of culture, we speak of poetry, of utopia . . . . When the event reaches andoversteps the boundaries authorized by judicial law and by the anomic rules, we speakof revolution.”

— René Lourau

The short-lived grouping of architects, sociologists, and urbanists known asUtopie, active in Paris from 1967 to 1978, was the product of several factors: the student protests for the reform of architectural education, the unprecedentedexpansion and replanning of the Parisian urban fabric carried out by the govern-ment of Charles de Gaulle, and the domestication of military and industrialtechnologies by an emerging consumer society. The group’s collaborative publica-tions included the work of Jean Aubert, Isabelle Auricoste, Jean Baudrillard,Catherine Cot, Charles Goldblum, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Henri Lefebvre, RenéLourau, Antoine Stinco, and Hubert Tonka. Offering a militant alternative toprofessional urban planning journals, these writers not only formulated a critiqueof the technocratic and administrative rule over a disabled and alienated urbansociety but also projected an ephemeral urban poetics.

With ties to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) incentral Paris and to the sociology department established by Henri Lefebvre atthe suburban campus of Nanterre, the group challenged postwar modernizationand urban planning and questioned the roles into which architects, sociologists,and urban planners had been cast. Utopie makes the group’sdiverse body of theoretical work accessible in English for thefirst time, offering translations of more than twenty key texts.Designed in a facsimile format that follows the innovativegraphic layouts of the journals, pamphlets, posters, and articlesproduced by Utopie, the volume not only provides the firstthorough overview of the group’s activities but also seeks tocapture Utopie’s linkage of architectural and urban theory to radical publication strategies.

Craig Buckley teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School ofArchitecture, Planning, and Preservation, where he is also the Director of Print Publications. His writing and criticism have appeared in GreyRoom, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and otherpublications. Jean-Louis Violeau is a sociologist and researcher at theArchitecture-Culture-Société laboratory of the Ecole d’architecture de Paris-Malaquais in Paris.

Key writings and projects from the group of architects,

sociologists, and urbanists known as Utopie.

April7 x 9, 264 pp.

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Writings from Utopie (1967–1978)

Jean Baudrillardtranslated by Stuart Kendall

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WHERE ART BELONGSChris Kraus

In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decadethat reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. Infour interlinked essays, Kraus expands the argument begun in her earlier bookVideo Green that “the art world is interesting only insofar as it reflects the largerworld outside it.” Moving from New York to Berlin to Los Angeles to thePueblo Nuevo barrio of Mexicali, Kraus addresses such subjects as the ubiquityof video, the legacy of the 1960s Amsterdam underground newspaper Suck, and the activities of the New York art collective Bernadette Corporation. Sheexamines the uses of boredom, poetry, privatized prisons, community art, corporate philanthropy, vertically integrated manufacturing, and discardedutopias, revealing the surprising persistence of microcultures within the matrix.

Chronicling the sometimes doomed but persistently heroic efforts of smallgroups of artists to reclaim public space and time, Where Art Belongs describesthe trend towards collectivity manifested in the visual art world during the pastdecade, and the small forms of resistance to digital disembodiment and thehegemony of the entertainment/media/culture industry. For all its faults, Krausargues, the art world remains the last frontier for the desire to live differently.

Chris Kraus is the author of Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness (2004) and the novelsAliens and Anorexia (2000), I Love Dick(new edition, 2006), and Torpor (2006), all published by Semiotext(e). The 2007recipient of the Frank Mather Award in ArtCriticism and a 2010 Warhol FoundationArts Writer’s grant, she has taught art writing in graduate programs at Universityof California, Irvine, European GraduateSchool, Art Center College, and Columbia College Chicago.


art/cultural studies

A prize-winning art critic arguesthat the art world is the last frontier for the desire to live differently.

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VIDEO GREENLos Angeles Art and theTriumph of NothingnessChris Kraus2004, 978-1-58435-022-4$14.95T/£11.95 paper

I LOVE DICKChris Kraus2006, 978-1-58435-034-7$14.95T/£11.95 paper

TORPORChris Kraus2006, 978-1-58435-027-9$14.95T/£11.95 paper









THIS IS NOT A PROGRAMTiqquntranslated by Joshua David Jordan

Historical conflict no longer opposes two massive molar heaps, two classes — theexploited and the exploiters, the dominant and dominated, managers and workers —between which, in each individual case, it would be possible to differentiate. The front line no longer cuts through the middle of society; it now runs through each one of us . . .

— from This Is Not a Program

Traditional lines of revolutionary struggle no longer hold. Rather, it is ubiquitouscybernetics, surveillance, and terror that create the illusion of difference withinhegemony. Configurations of dissent and the rhetoric of revolution are merelythe other face of capital, conforming identities to empty predicates, ensuring thateven “thieves,” “saboteurs,” and “terrorists” no longer exceed the totalizing spaceof Empire. This Is Not a Program offers two texts, both originally published inFrench by Tiqqun with Introduction to Civil War in 2001. In “This Is Not aProgram,” Tiqqun outlines a new path for resistance and struggle in the age ofEmpire, one that eschews the worn-out example of France’s May ’68 in favor of what they consider to be the still fruitful and contemporary insurrectionarymovements in Italy of the 1970s. “As a Science of Apparatuses” examines the way Empire has enforced on the subject a veritable metaphysics of isolation and pacification, “apparatuses” that include chairs, desks, computers; surveillance(security guards, cameras); disease (depression); crutch (cell phone, lover, sedative);and authority.

Tiqqun’s critique of the biopolitical subject and omnipresentEmpire is all the more urgent as we become inured to the per-manent state of exception that is the War on Terror and to other,no less intimate forms of pacification. But all is not lost. In itsunrelenting production of the Same, Empire itself creates theconditions necessary for the insurrection to come.

Tiqqun is a French collective of authors and activists formed in 1999.The group published two volumes of an eponymous journal in 1999 and 2001 (in which the collective author “The Invisible Committee”first appeared). Tiqqun is the author of Introduction to Civil War(Semiotext(e), 2010).

An urgent critique of the biopolitical subject and

omnipresent Empire.

March4 1/2 x 7, 200 pp.

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INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL WARTiqqun

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political science/cultural studies







An updated edition of a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis from a postfordist perspective.

March4 1/2 x 7, 152 pp.

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CAPITAL AND LANGUAGEFrom the New Economy to the War EconomyChristian Marazzi2008, 978-1-58435-067-5$14.95T/£11.95 paper


THE VIOLENCE OF FINANCIAL CAPITALISMNew EditionChristian Marazzitranslated by Kristina Lebedeva and Jason Francis Mc Gimsey

The 2010 English-language edition of Christian Marazzi’s The Violence ofFinancial Capitalism made a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisisavailable to an expanded readership. This new edition has been updated to reflectrecent events, up to and including the G20 summit in July 2010 and the broadconsensus to reduce government spending that emerged from it. Marazzi, a leading figure in the European postfordist movement, argues that the processesof financialization are not simply irregularities between the traditional categoriesof wages, rent, and profit, but rather a new type of accumulation adapted to the processes of social and cognitive production today. The financial crisis, hecontends, is a fundamental component of contemporary accumulation and not a classic lack of economic growth.

Marazzi shows that individual debt and the management of financial mar-kets are actually techniques for governing the transformations of immateriallabor, general intellect, and social cooperation. The financial crisis has radicallyundermined the very concept of unilateral and multilateral economico-politicalhegemony, and Marazzi discusses efforts toward a new geomonetary order thathave emerged around the globe in response. Offering a radically new under-standing of the current stage of international economics as well as crucial post-Marxist guidance for confronting capitalism in its newest form, The Violence ofFinancial Capitalism is a valuable addition to the contemporary arsenal of post-fordist thought. This edition includes the glossary of the esoteric neolanguage

of financial capitalism — “Wordsin Crisis,” from “AAA” to “toxicasset” — written for the firstEnglish-language edition, andoffers a new afterword by Marazzi.

Christian Marazzi is Professor andDirector of Socio-Economic Research atthe Scuola Universitaria Professionaledella Svizzera Italiana. He is the authorof Capital and Language: From the NewEconomy to the War Economy(Semiotext(e), 2008).

“At last, a fresh interpretation of theglobal economic crisis that vehementlydeparts from traditional academiccanons in order to assert a new kind of economic and political thought.”

— Antonio Negri

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THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRISTParadox or Dialectic?Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank edited by Creston Davis

“What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchantedChristianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what hesometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief.”

— John Milbank

“To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty ofheterodoxy, ultimately of a regression to paganism: in my atheism, I am more Christianthan Milbank.”

— Slavoj Žižek

In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who represents the critical-materialiststance against religion’s illusions; in the other corner, “radical orthodox” theologianJohn Milbank, an influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. InThe Monstrosity of Christ, Žižek and Milbank go head to head for three rounds,employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance their positions and presstheir respective advantages. By the closing bell, they have proven themselves worthy adversaries — and have also shown that faith and reason are not simplyand intractably opposed.

Žižek has long been interested in the emancipatory potential offered byChristian theology. And Milbank, seeing global capitalism as the new century’sgreatest ethical challenge, has pushed his own ontology in more political and

materialist directions. Their debate in The Monstrosity of Christconcerns nothing less than the future of religion, secularity, andpolitical hope in light of a monsterful event — God becominghuman. The result goes far beyond the popularized atheist/theist point/counterpoint of books by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others.

Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published overthirty books, including Looking Awry (1991, 1992), The Puppet and theDwarf (2003), and The Parallax View (2006, 2009), from the MIT Press.John Milbank is an influential Christian theologian and the author ofTheology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and other books.Creston Davis, who conceived of this encounter, studied under bothŽižek and Milbank.

A militant Marxist atheist and a“Radical Orthodox” Christian theologian square off.

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“A dazzling dialogue, not for the faint-hearted.”— Marcus Pound, Theology

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WOMEN ARTISTS ATTHE MILLENNIUMedited by Carol Armstrongand Catherine de Zegher

In 1971, when Linda Nochlinpublished her essay “Why HaveThere Been No Great WomenArtists?” in a special issue of Art News, there were no women’sstudies, no feminist theory, no such thing as feminist artcriticism; there was instead a focus on the mythic figureof the great (male) artist through history. Since then,the “woman artist” has not simply been assimilated intothe canon of “greatness” but has expanded art-makinginto a multiplicity of practices with new parameters andperspectives. In Women Artists at the Millennium artistsincluding Martha Rosler and Yvonne Rainer reflectupon their own varied practices and art historians dis-cuss the innovative work of such figures as LouiseBourgeois, Lygia Clark, Mona Hatoum, and CarrieMae Weems. And Linda Nochlin considers changessince her landmark essay and looks to the future, writ-ing, “We will need all our wit and courage to make sure that women’s voices are heard, their work seen and written about.”

Carol Armstrong is Doris Stevens Professor of Women’s Studies in the Department of Art and Archaeology at PrincetonUniversity. She is the author of Scenes in a Library: Readingthe Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 (MIT Press, 1998).Catherine de Zegher was Director of The Drawing Center inNew York from 1999 to 2006. She is the editor of Inside theVisible: An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth Century Art in, of,and from the Feminine (MIT Press, 1996).

“An important reassessment of the legacies of feminist arthistory and critical theory by women whose critiques of aheterosexual, white-male-dominated canon have themselvesbecome canonical.”

— Amy Mechowski, Signs

April — 7 x 9, 472 pp. — 62 color illus., 124 black & white illus.

$24.95T/£18.95 paper978-0-262-51594-8

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BEING WATCHEDYvonne Rainer and the 1960sCarrie Lambert-Beatty

In her dance and performances of the 1960s, YvonneRainer famously transformed the performing body —stripped it of special techniques and star status, tradedits costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, andasked it to haul mattresses or recite texts rather than leapor spin. Without discounting these innovations, Carrie

Lambert-Beatty argues in BeingWatched that the crucial site ofRainer’s interventions in the1960s was less the body of the performer than the eye of the viewer — or rather, the body as offered to the eye. Rainer’s art, Lambert-Beatty writes, isstructured by a peculiar tension

between the body and its display. In a spectacle-soaked era, moreover — when images

of war played nightly on the television news — Rainer’swork engaged the habits of viewing formed in mass-media America, linking avant-garde art and the widerculture of the 1960s. Rainer is significant, arguesLambert-Beatty, not only as a choreographer but as a sculptor of spectatorship.

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

“Essential reading for anyone with an interest in Yvonne Rainer and the dynamic relationship betweenadvanced performance and the visual arts during the1960s and 1970s.”

— Roger Copeland, author of Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance

April — 7 x 9, 384 pp. — 83 illus.

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• Winner, 2009 de la Torra Bueno Prize in Dance Literature,awarded by the Society of Dance History Scholars

• Honorable Mention, Music and the Performing Arts category,2008 PROSE Awards presented by the Professional/ScholarlyPublishing Division of the Association of American Publishers






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“THE BEAUTIFULLANGUAGE OF MY CENTURY”Reinventing the Languageof Contestation in PostwarFrance, 1945-1968Tom McDonough

In postwar France, the aestheticsof appropriation and collage gavecultural form to a struggle over meaning. A new waveof avant-garde experimentation used — or stole, plagia-rized, and expropriated — elements from advertising,journalism, literature, art, and other sources of commondiscourse (the ironically named “beautiful language” of this book’s title, itself an appropriation from GuyDebord’s collaged Mémoires). Redeployed, often in startling or pointed juxtapositions, these elements tookon newly oppositional meanings. A famous photographtaken inside the occupied Sorbonne in May 1968, forexample, shows a massive academic painting altered by a clever cartoonish speech bubble that transformsthe painting into a parody of itself and memorializes an event very different from the one captured by theoriginal artist. “The Beautiful Language of My Century”describes the various forms of critical culture that cul-minated in the events of May 1968, and investigates the ways those forms have come down to us today.

Tom McDonough is Associate Professor in the Art HistoryDepartment, Binghamton University, and an editor at GreyRoom. He is the editor of Guy Debord and the SituationistInternational (MIT Press, 2002).

“McDonough provides a series of engaging lessons for anyscholar, student, or individual interested in the relationamong art, politics, and various practices of critical culture,the promises they make as well as the failures that ensue.”

— Kaira M. Cabañas, Art Journal

“If you really want to get your hands dirty, put away yourHoward Zinn and let McDonough show you what a realrevolution is and in the process illuminate your historicalunderstanding.”

— Erik Lopez, Slug Magazine

April — 7 x 9, 288 pp. — 50 illus.

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SUBJECT TO DISPLAYReframing Race in Contemporary Installation ArtJennifer A. González

Over the past two decades, artists James Luna, FredWilson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Pepón Osorio, and RenéeGreen have had a profound impact on the meaning and practice of installation art in the United States. In Subject to Display, Jennifer González offers the

first sustained analysis of theircontribution, linking the historyand legacy of race discourse toinnovations in contemporary art.Race, writes González, is a socialdiscourse that has a visual history.The collection and display ofbodies, images, and artifacts in museums and elsewhere is a primary means by which a nation tells the story of its past

and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present.All five of the American installation artists

González considers have explored the practice of putting human subjects and their cultures on display by staging elaborate dioramas or site-specific interven-tions in galleries and museums; in doing so, they havecreated powerful social commentary of the politics ofspace and the power of display in settings that mimicthe very spaces they critique.

Jennifer A. González is Associate Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz. Her essays and reviews have appearedin Frieze, World Art, Diacritics, Art Journal, and Bomb.

“With brilliance and grace, Gonzalez reveals the performa-tive force of installations that restage in order to subvert thevisual, material, and institutional practices that sustainrace discourse.”

— Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author ofDestination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage

April — 6 1/4 x 10, 320 pp. — 122 color illus.

$17.95T/£13.95 paper978-0-262-51602-0

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JAPAN-NESS INARCHITECTUREArata Isozakitranslated by Sabu Kohsoforeword by Toshiko Mori

Japanese architect Arata Isozakisees buildings not as dead objectsbut as events that encompass thesocial and historical context —not to be defined forever by their“everlasting materiality” but as texts to be interpretedand reread continually. In Japan-ness in Architecture heidentifies what is essentially Japanese in architecturefrom the seventh to the twentieth century. Isozaki analyzes the struggles of modern Japanese architects,including himself, to create something uniquely Japaneseout of modernity. He then circles back in history tofind what he calls Japan-ness in the seventh-century Ise shrine, the twelfth-century reconstruction of theTodai-ji Temple, and the seventeenth-century KatsuraImperial Villa.

Isozaki finds that what others consider to be the Japanese aesthetic is often the opposite of thatessential Japan-ness born in moments of historic self-definition; the purified stylization — what Isozakicalls “Japanesquization” — lacks the energy of culturaltransformation and reflects an island retrenchment in response to the pressure of other cultures.

Combining historical survey, critical analysis, theoretical reflection, and autobiographical account,these essays, written over a period of twenty years,demonstrate Isozaki’s standing as one of the world’sleading architects and preeminent architectural thinkers.

Arata Isozaki is a leading Japanese architect. His worksinclude the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, theOlympic Stadium in Barcelona, the Volksbank Center amPotsdamer Platz in Berlin, the Team Disney Building inOrlando, and the Tokyo University of Art and Design.

“Iconoclastic and erudite, opinionated and insightful, wilyand contrarian.”

— Dana Buntrock, Department of Architecture,University of California, Berkeley

April — 6 x 9, 376 pp. — 54 illus.

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IMAGINING MITDesigning a Campus for the Twenty-First CenturyWilliam J. Mitchell

In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by thehigh-tech boom of the 1990s and driven by a pent-updemand for new space, MIT’s ambitious rebuilding pro-duced five major works of architecture: Kevin Roche’s

Zesiger Sports andFitness Center, StevenHoll’s Simmons Hall,Frank Gehry’s StataCenter, Charles Correa’sBrain and CognitiveScience Complex, and

Fumihiko Maki’s Media Lab extension. In ImaginingMIT, William Mitchell offers a critical, behind-the-scenes view of MIT’s new buildings and the complexprocesses that produced them. The story is not simplyone of commissions, projects, CAD, and hardhats; it isabout all the forces that come into play — includingmoney, politics, institutional dynamics, and ideology —when a major university campus is imagined, designed,and built. Lavishly illustrated with color images through-out, Imagining MIT shows both the opportunities andthe obstacles facing architectural production and citybuilding at the dawn of a new millennium.

The late William J. Mitchell was the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr.,Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, Directorof the Smart Cities research group at MIT’s Media Lab, and theauthor of many books, including The World’s Greatest Architect(MIT Press, 2008).

“William J. Mitchell writes with wit and insight. He is theideal guide to the architecture of the MIT campus.”

— Cesar Pelli, architect

“This insider’s account of the MIT campus is wise, witty,trenchant, and teacherly.”

— Diana Chapman Walsh, former President, Wellesley College

April — 11 x 7 1/2 152 pp. — 220 illus., color throughout

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

We don’t think much about how food gets to our tables, orwhat had to happen to fill oursupermarket’s produce sectionwith perfectly round red toma-toes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don’t realize that the meat in onefast-food hamburger may come from many differentcattle raised in several different countries. In fact, mostof us have a fairly abstract understanding of what hap-pens on a farm. In America’s Food, Harvey Blatt gives usthe specifics. He tells us, for example, that a third of thefruits and vegetables grown are discarded for purely aes-thetic reasons; that the artificial fertilizers used to enrichour depleted soil contain poisonous heavy metals; thatchickens who stand all day on wire in cages choose feedwith pain-killing drugs over feed without them; andthat the average American eats his or her body weightin food additives each year.

After taking us on a tour of the American food system — not only the basic food groups but soil, grain farming, organic food, genetically modified food, food processing, and diet — Blatt reminds usthat we aren’t powerless. Once we know the facts about food in America, we can change things by the choices we make as consumers, as voters, and asethical human beings.

Harvey Blatt is the author of America’s Environmental ReportCard: Are We Making the Grade? (second edition, MIT Press,2011).

“This highly readable book will almost certainly cause youto change how and what you eat.”

— John Ikerd, author of Sustainable Capitalism

“An excellent primer on the food we eat today.”— Brian Halweil, Worldwatch Institute

April — 7 x 9, 352 pp. — 25 illus.

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CONSERVATION REFUGEESThe Hundred-Year Conflict between GlobalConservation and Native Peoples Mark Dowie

Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide,largely at the urging of five international conservationorganizations. About half of these areas were occupiedor regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who

had been living sustainably ontheir land for generations weredisplaced in the interests of conservation. In ConservationRefugees, Mark Dowie tells this story.

This is a “good guy vs. goodguy” story, Dowie writes; theindigenous peoples’ movementand conservation organizationshave a vital common goal — to

protect species and ecosystem diversity — and couldwork effectively and powerfully together to protect the planet and preserve biological diversity. Yet formore than a hundred years, these two forces have been at odds.

Dowie describes the experiences of groups rangingfrom Native Americans in Yosemite to the Ogiek andMaasai of eastern Africa. When conservationists andnative peoples acknowledge the interdependence ofbiodiversity conservation and cultural survival, heargues, they can together create a new and much more effective paradigm for conservation.

Award-winning journalist Mark Dowie is the author of LosingGround: American Environmentalism at the Close of theTwentieth Century, American Foundations: An InvestigativeHistory (both published by the MIT Press), and four other books.

“Dowie’s book advances the critical work of developing anew, more encompassing vision of nature, which makes itone of the most important contributions to conservation inmany years.”

—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food

April — 6 x 9, 376 pp.

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PHILOSOPHY OF LOVEA Partial Summing-UpIrving Singer

In 1984, philosopher IrvingSinger published the first volumeof what would become a classicand much acclaimed trilogy, The Nature of Love. In this newbook, he maps the trajectory of his thinking on love.

It is a “partial” summing-up of a lifework: partialbecause it expresses the author’s still unfolding views,and because love — like any subject of that magnitude— resists a neatly comprehensive, all-inclusive formu-lation. Adopting an informal, even conversational,tone, Singer discusses, among other topics, the historyof romantic love, the Platonic ideal, courtly and nine-teenth-century Romantic love; the nature of passion;the concept of merging (and his critique of it); ideasabout love in Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey,Santayana, Sartre, and other writers; and love in rela-tion to democracy, existentialism, creativity, and thepossible future of scientific investigation.

Singer’s writing on love embodies what he haslearned as a contemporary philosopher, studying otherauthors in the field and “trying to get a little further.”This book continues his trailblazing explorations.

Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the authorof the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life, nowbeing reissued by the MIT Press with new prefaces by theauthor, and many other books.

“This is an account of a life devoted to the idea of love andthe love of ideas.”

— Leslie Armour, Library Journal

“I found the style of the book charming — rather like listen-ing to a fireside chat from a wise master with fascinatingthings to say as he reflects upon his life-long thoughts.”

— Robert Scott Stewart, Philosophy Review

April — 5 3/8 x 8, 144 pp.

$8.95T/£6.95 paper978-0-262-51617-4

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

More than ten years after the groundbreaking FromBarbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted the ways genderstereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate digital game play, the number of women andgirl gamers has risen considerably. Despite this, genderdisparities remain in gaming. Women may be warriors

in World of Warcraft, but they arealso scantily clad “booth babes”whose sex appeal is used to promote games at trade shows.Player-generated content has revolutionized gaming, but fewgames marketed to girls allow“modding” (game modificationsmade by players). Gender equity,

the contributors to Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombatargue, requires more than increasing the overall numbersof female players.

Yasmin B. Kafai is Professor of the Learning Sciences at theGraduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.Carrie Heeter is Professor of Serious Game Design in theDepartment of Telecommunication, Information Studies, andMedia, and Creative Director for Virtual University Design andTechnology at Michigan State University. Jill Denner is SeniorResearch Scientist at ETR Associates, a nonprofit agency in California. Jennifer Y. Sun is President and a founder ofNumedeon, Inc., the company that launched Whyville.net, aneducational virtual world targeted at children ages 8 to 14.

“A much needed wake-up call to an industry that seemsdetermined to shoehorn girl gamers into an ever shrinking,highly neglected demographic.”

— Latoya Peterson, Women’s Review of Books

April — 7 x 9, 400 pp. — 36 color illus., 42 black & white illus.

$14.95T/£11.95 paper978-0-262-51606-8

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NEW YORK FOR SALECommunity PlanningConfronts Global Real EstateTom Angotti foreword by Peter Marcuse

Remarkably, grassroots-basedcommunity planning flourishes in New York City — the self-proclaimed “real estate capital of the world” — with at leastseventy community plans for different neighborhoodsthroughout the city. Most of these were developed dur-ing fierce struggles against gentrification, displacement,and environmental hazards, and most got little or nosupport from government.

In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community planning in New York City:how activists moved beyond simple protests and beganto formulate community plans to protect neighbor-hoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects,gentrification, and environmental hazards.

Angotti, both observer of and longtime participantin New York community planning, focuses on the closerelationships among community planning, politicalstrategy, and control over land. He proposes strategiesfor progressive, inclusive community planning not onlyfor New York City but for anywhere that neighbor-hoods want to protect themselves and their land.

Tom Angotti is Director of the Hunter College Center forCommunity Planning and Development and Professor of UrbanAffairs and Planning at Hunter College, City University of NewYork. He is the author of Metropolis 2000: Planning, Poverty,and Politics, the coeditor of Progressive Planning Magazine,and a columnist for the online journal Gotham Gazette.

“ New York for Sale is the book that progressive plannershave been waiting for.”

— Leonie Sandercock, Professor in Urban Planningand Social Policy, University of British Columbia

April — 6 x 9, 328 pp. — 17 illus.

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Urban and Industrial Environments series

ROMANCE IN THE IVORY TOWERThe Rights and Liberty of ConsciencePaul R. Abramson

Allen Ginsberg once declared that “the best teaching isdone in bed,” but most university administrators wouldpresumably disagree. Many universities prohibit roman-tic relationships between faculty members and students,and professors who transgress are usually out of a job.In Romance in the Ivory Tower, Paul Abramson takesaim at university policies that forbid relationships

between faculty members andstudents. He argues provocativelythat the issue of faculty-studentromances transcends the seem-ingly trivial matter of who sleepswith whom and engages our fun-damental constitutional rights.

Abramson suggests that theNinth Amendment (whichstates that the Constitution’s

enumeration of certain rights should not be construedto deny others) protects the “right to romance.” And,more provocatively, he argues that the “right to romance”is a fundamental right of conscience — as are freedomof speech and freedom of religion.

Campus romances happen. The important questionis not whether they should be encouraged or prohib-ited but whether the choice to engage in such a rela-tionship should be protected or precluded.

Paul R. Abramson is Professor of Psychology at UCLA. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Sarah: A Sexual Biography, With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature ofHuman Sexuality (with Steve Pinkerton), and Sexual Rights inAmerica: The Ninth Amendment and the Pursuit of Happiness(with Steve Pinkerton and Mark Huppin).

“This is a brilliant, creative, and convincing argument aboutthe basis for sexual rights in America. . . . A groundbreakingcontribution.”

— Ralph Bolton, Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College

April — 5 3/8 x 8, 184 pp.

$9.95T/£7.95 paper978-0-262-51592-4

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urban studies/environment law/higher eduction

• Winner, 2009 Paul Davidoff Award, given by the Association ofCollegiate Schools of Planning

• Co-winner, 2010 International Planning History Society BookPrize










OFF-TRACK PROFSNontenured Teachers inHigher Education John G. Cross and Edie N. Goldenberg

Much attention has been paid to the increasing proportion of non-tenure-track faculty —adjuncts, lecturers, and others —in American higher education.Critics charge that universities exploit “contingent faculty” and graduate students, engaging in a type ofbait and switch to attract applicants (advertising institu-tional standing based on distinguished faculty who seldom teach undergraduates), and as a result provideundergraduates with an inadequate educational experi-ence. This book, by two experienced academic adminis-trators, investigates the expanding role of part-time and non-tenure-track instructors in ten elite researchuniversities and the consequences for the quality of theeducational experience, the functioning of the university,and the excellence of the academic environment.

They describe hiring trends and what drives them,and explain why they matter if we want to improveundergraduate education, support collegiality on cam-pus, trust in academic governance, prevent the erosionof tenure, and preserve America’s global leadership inhigher education.

John G. Cross is Senior Vice President for Administration andFinance at Bloomfield College. Edie N. Goldenberg is Professorof Political Science and Public Policy at the University ofMichigan and Director of the University’s Michigan inWashington Program.

“Amid the growing literature of research about adjuncts, thisbook is different in some key ways that are likely to makesome of it controversial, and may also make it influential.”

— Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed

“Well worth reading.”— Philo A. Hutcheson, Academe

March — 6 x 9, 208 pp. — 8 illus.

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COLD WAR KITCHENAmericanization, Technology, and European Usersedited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann

Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev’s famous“kitchen debate” in 1958 involved more than the virtuesof American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchevrecognized the political symbolism of the modernkitchen; the kind of technological innovation repre-sented in this everyday context spoke to the political

system that produced it. Thekitchen connects the “big” poli-tics of politicians and statesmento the “small” politics of usersand interest groups. In essaysillustrated by striking periodphotographs, Cold War Kitchenlooks at the kitchen as materialobject and symbol, considering

the politics and the practices of one of the most famoustechnological icons of the mid-twentieth century.

Defining the kitchen as a complex technologicalartifact as important as computers, cars, and nuclearmissiles, the book examines the ways in which a rangeof social actors in Europe shaped the kitchen as bothideological construct and material practice. Theseactors — from manufacturers and modernist architectsto housing reformers and feminists — constructed and domesticated the technological innovations of the postwar kitchen.

Ruth Oldenziel is Professor of American and EuropeanTechnology at the Technical University of Eindhoven and Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Karin Zachmann is Professor of History of Technology at theCentral Institute for the History of Technology, TechnicalUniversity Munich.

“Scholarly and provocative, these essays illuminate the linksbetween the atomic politics of the Nixon-Khrushchev yearsand the humbler battles fought in Europe and Americaover the shaping of modern kitchens.”

— Joe Corn, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Department of History, Stanford University

March — 7 x 9, 432 pp. — 44 illus.

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BAYESIAN BRAINProbabilistic Approaches to Neural Codingedited by Kenji Doya, Shin Ishii, Alexandre Pouget,and Rajesh P. N. Rao

A Bayesian approach can contribute to an understanding of the brain on multiple levels, by giving normative predictions about how an ideal sensory system should combine prior knowledge andobservation, by providing mechanistic interpretation of the dynamic functioning of the brain circuit, and bysuggesting optimal ways of deciphering experimentaldata. Bayesian Brain brings together contributions fromboth experimental and theoretical neuroscientists thatexamine the brain mechanisms of perception, decisionmaking, and motor control according to the concepts of Bayesian estimation.

After an overview of the mathematical concepts thatare basic to understanding the approaches discussed,contributors consider how Bayesian concepts can beused for interpretation of such neurobiological data asneural spikes and functional brain imaging; the model-ing of sensory processing, including the neural coding ofinformation about the outside world; and dynamicprocesses for proper behaviors, including the mathemat-ics of the speed and accuracy of perceptual decisions andneural models of belief propagation.

Kenji Doya is Principal Investigator in the Neural ComputationUnit in the Initial Research Project at the Okinawa Instituteof Science and Technology, Japan. Shin Ishii is Professor inthe Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute ofScience and Technology, Japan. Alexandre Pouget is AssociateProfessor in the Brain and Cognitive Science Department atthe University of Rochester and Head of the Laboratory ofComputational Cognitive Neuroscience. Rajesh P. N. Rao isAssociate Professor in the Department of Computer Scienceand Engineering, a Faculty Member of the Neurobiology and Behavior Program at the University of Washington, andcoeditor of Probabilistic Models of the Brain (MIT Press, 2002).

March — 7 x 9, 344 pp. — 10 color illus., 92 black & white illus.

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UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE AS A COMMONSFrom Theory to Practiceedited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom

Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented accessto information through the Internet but at the sametime is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licens-ing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Looking at

knowledge as a commons — as a shared resource — allows us to understand both its limitlesspossibilities and what threatensit. In Understanding Knowledge as a Commons, experts from arange of disciplines discuss theknowledge commons in the digi-tal era — how to conceptualize it,protect it, and build it.

Contributors consider the concept of the commonshistorically and offer an analytical framework forunderstanding knowledge as a shared social-ecologicalsystem. The essays clarify critical issues that arise withinthese new types of commons, and offer guideposts forfuture theory and practice.

Charlotte Hess is Associate Dean for Research, Collections, andScholarly Communication at the Syracuse University Library.Elinor Ostrom, the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economics, is ArthurF. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Senior Research Directorof the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis atIndiana University, and Founding Director of the Center for theStudy of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University.

“On the whole this book provides an excellent introductionto the theory and practice of knowledge commons. . . . Thewriting is uniformly lucid. The book deserves to be readwidely, especially by academics and librarians.”

— Subbiah Arunachalam, Current Science

March — 6 x 9, 384 pp. — 8 illus.

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SUSTAINABILITY OR COLLAPSE?An Integrated History andFuture of People on Earthedited by Robert Costanza,Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen

Human history, as written tradi-tionally, leaves out the importantecological and climate context ofhistorical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disci-plines develop an integrated human and environmentalhistory over millennial, centennial, and decadal timescales and make projections for the future. The contrib-utors focus on the human-environment interactionsthat have shaped historical forces since ancient timesand discuss such key methodological issues as dataquality. Topics highlighted include the political ecologyof the Mayans; the effect of climate on the RomanEmpire; and and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth.

Robert Costanza is Professor and Director of the Center forSustainable Processes and Practices and University Professorof Sustainability at Portland State University and Editor-in-Chief of Solutions. Lisa J. Graumlich is Dean of the College ofthe Environment at the University of Washington. Will Steffenis Executive Director of the Climate Change Institute at TheAustralian National University.

“The authors are asking important, hard questions, and theiranswers to these questions are nearly always provocative.”

— James Feldman, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

March — 6 x 9, 520 pp. — 47 illus.

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THE SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE OF EMPATHYedited by Jean Decety and William Ickes

In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed intoa vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. The socialneuroscience approach to the subject is premised on theidea that studying empathy at multiple levels (biological,cognitive, and social) will lead to a more comprehensiveunderstanding of how other people’s thoughts and feel-ings can affect our own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

In these cutting-edge contribu-tions, leading advocates of themultilevel approach view empa-thy from the perspectives ofsocial, cognitive, developmental,and clinical psychology and cog-nitive/affective neuroscience.

Chapters include a criticalexamination of the various

definitions of the empathy construct; surveys of majorresearch traditions based on these differing views(including empathy as emotional contagion, as the projection of one’s own thoughts and feelings, and as a fundamental aspect of social development); clinicaland applied perspectives, including psychotherapy andthe study of empathy for other people’s pain; variousneuroscience perspectives; and discussions of empathy’sevolutionary and neuroanatomical histories, with a special focus on neuroanatomical continuities and differences across the phylogenetic spectrum.

Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology andPsychiatry at the University of Chicago, where he heads theSocial Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. William Ickes isDistinguished Professor of Psychology at the University ofTexas, Arlington.

“This is an admirable work that cannot be too highly recommended.”

— Gustav Jahoda, Metapsychology

March — 7 x 9, 272 pp. — 7 illus.

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THINGS AND PLACESHow the Mind Connects with the WorldZenon W. Pylyshyn

In Things and Places, ZenonPylyshyn argues that the processof incrementally constructingperceptual representations, solving the binding problem(determining which properties go together), and, more generally, grounding perceptualrepresentations in experience arise from the nonconcep-tual capacity to pick out and keep track of a small num-ber of sensory individuals. He proposes a mechanism inearly vision that allows us to select a limited number ofsensory objects, to reidentify each of them under certainconditions as the same individual seen before, and tokeep track of their enduring individuality despite radicalchanges in their properties — all without the machin-ery of concepts, identity, and tenses. This mechanism,which he calls FINSTs (for “Fingers of Instantiation”),is responsible for our capacity to individuate and trackseveral independently moving sensory objects — anability that we exercise every waking minute, and onethat can be understood as fundamental to the way wesee and understand the world and to our sense of space.

Zenon W. Pylyshyn is Board of Governors Professor of CognitiveScience at Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. He is theauthor of Seeing and Visualizing: It’s Not What You Think(MIT Press, 2003).

“Pylyshyn is a singular figure in cognitive science — anextraordinary psychologist who is profoundly dedicated tounderstanding and responding to philosophical concerns.Things and Places belongs in the bookcase of anyone whobelieves that uncracking philosophical puzzles about themind requires a hefty dose of empirical study.”

— Lawrence Shapiro, Mind

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A HISTORY OF MODERNEXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGYFrom James and Wundt to Cognitive ScienceGeorge Mandler

Modern psychology began with the adoption of experi-mental methods at the end of the nineteenth century:Wilhelm Wundt established the first formal laboratoryin 1879; universities created independent chairs in psy-chology shortly thereafter; and William James publishedthe landmark work Principles of Psychology in 1890. In

A History of Modern ExperimentalPsychology, George Mandlertraces the evolution of modernexperimental and theoretical psy-chology from these beginnings to the “cognitive revolution” of the late twentieth century.Throughout, he emphasizes the social and cultural context,showing how different theoretical

developments reflect the characteristics and values ofthe society in which they occurred. Thus, Gestalt psy-chology can be seen to mirror the changes in visual andintellectual culture at the turn of the century, behavior-ism to embody the parochial and puritanical concernsof early twentieth-century America, and contemporarycognitive psychology as a product of the postwar revo-lution in information and communication.

George Mandler is Distinguished Professor of Psychology atthe University of California, San Diego, and Visiting Professorat University College London. He is the author of Mind andEmotion, Mind and Body: Psychology of Emotion and Stress,Human Nature Explored, Interesting Times: An Encounter withthe Twentieth Century, and other books.

“A tour de force. . . . Any clinician who takes the time toabsorb this volume’s offerings will be amply rewarded.”

— The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

“A brilliant and superbly crafted work that places the historyof psychology within the social and political culture in whichit occurred.”

— Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus,University of California

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SYSTEMS, EXPERTS,AND COMPUTERSThe Systems Approach in Management andEngineering, World War IIand Afteredited by Agatha C. Hughesand Thomas P. Hughes

After World War II, a systemsapproach to solving complexproblems and managing complex systems came intovogue among engineers, scientists, and managers, fostered in part by the diffusion of digital computingpower. Enthusiasm for the approach peaked during the Johnson administration, when it was applied toeverything from military command and control systemsto poverty in American cities. Although its failure inthe social sphere, coupled with increasing skepticismabout the role of technology and “experts” in Americansociety, led to a retrenchment, systems methods are stillpart of modern managerial practice.

This groundbreaking book charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players — including RAND, MITRE,Ramo-Wooldridge (later TRW), and the InternationalInstitute of Applied Systems Analysis — and examinesapplications in a wide variety of military, government,civil, and engineering settings. The book is internationalin scope, describing the spread of systems thinking inFrance and Sweden. The story it tells helps to explainengineering thought and managerial practice duringthe last sixty years.

The late Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes edited andwrote a number of works in the history of technology. She was an editor, teacher, and artist. He is Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology of Science at the University ofPennsylvania and Visiting Professor at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, Stanford University, and the RoyalInstitute of Technology in Stockholm.

“This excellent collection explores the emergence of systemsengineering during the conflicts of the Second World Warand the Cold War.”

— Jon Agar, BJHS

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FIGHTING TRAFFICThe Dawn of the Motor Age in the American CityPeter D. Norton

Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streetswere diverse and included children at play and pedestri-ans at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily motorthoroughfares where children did not belong and wherepedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” In FightingTraffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate

automobiles, the American cityrequired not only a physicalchange but also a social one:before the city could be recon-structed for the sake of motorists,its streets had to be sociallyreconstructed as places wheremotorists belonged. It was not anevolution, he writes, but a bloodyand sometimes violent revolution.

Norton describes how street users struggled todefine and redefine what streets were for. He considersthe perspectives of all users — pedestrians, police (whohad to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtownbusinesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as theproblem, not the solution), and automobile promoters.He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned inmoral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtownbusinesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile,legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking “freedom” — a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States.

Peter D. Norton is Assistant Professor in the Department ofScience, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia.

“One of the most important monographs focusing on the placeof the automobile in American society within a historicalcontext to appear in recent times.”

— John A. Heitmann, Isis

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ISLAMIC SCIENCE AND THE MAKING OF THE EUROPEANRENAISSANCEGeorge Saliba

The Islamic scientific traditionhas been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilizationand in general histories of science,with most authors tracing itsbeginnings to the appropriation of ideas from otherancient civilizations — the Greeks in particular. In thisthought-provoking and original book, George Salibaargues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, thefoundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid wellbefore Greek sources were formally translated intoArabic in the ninth century.

Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamicscience, then discusses their shortcomings and proposesan alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a templatefor understanding the progress of science in Islamiccivilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality ofIslamic scientific thought. He details the innovations(including new mathematical tools) made by theIslamic astronomers from the thirteenth to the six-teenth century, and offers evidence that Copernicuscould have known of and drawn on their work. Ratherthan viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science fromthe often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion,Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.

George Saliba is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle East and Asian Studies at ColumbiaUniversity. He is the author or editor of six other books inArabic and English.

“Saliba’s wide-ranging book on Islamic astronomy is a fascinating, revisionist account of a science that blossomedin a golden age under the Baghdadi caliphs before fadinginto obscurity.”— Owen Gingerich, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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POWER STRUGGLESScientific Authority and the Creation ofPractical Electricity Before EdisonMichael Brian Schiffer

In 1882, Thomas Edison and his Edison Electric LightCompany unveiled the first large-scale electrical systemin the world to light a stretch of offices in a city. Thiswas a monumental achievement, but it was not thebeginning of the electrical age. The first electric genera-tors were built in the 1830s, the earliest commercial

lighting systems before 1860, andthe first commercial applicationof generator-powered lights (inlighthouses) in the early 1860s.In Power Struggles, Michael BrianSchiffer examines some of theearlier efforts (some successfuland some unsuccessful) thatpaved the way for Edison.

Schiffer presents a series of fascinating case studiesof pre-Edison electrical technologies, including Volta’s electrochemical battery, Thomas Davenport’selectric motor, the first mechanical generators, Morse’stelegraph, the Atlantic cable, and the lighting of thedome of the U.S. Capitol. These emerging electricaltechnologies formed the foundation of the modernindustrial world. Schiffer shows how and why theybecame commercial products in the context of anevolving corporate capitalism in which conflictingjudgments of practicality sometimes turned into power struggles.

Michael Brian Schiffer is Fred A. Riecker DistinguishedProfessor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona andResearch Associate at the Lemelson Center, National Museumof American History, Smithsonian Institution. He is the authorof six previous books on technology.

“The book is an important contribution to the history ofelectrical science and offers a lucid account of the process ofinvention, practical or otherwise.”

— Peter Shulman, Isis

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ACTING IN ANUNCERTAIN WORLDAn Essay on Technical Democracy Michel Callon, Yannick Barthe,and Pierre Lascoumestranslated by Graham Burchell

Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, geneticallymodified organisms, asbestos,tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towersarise almost daily as rapid scientific and technologicaladvances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseenconcerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain Worldargue that political institutions must be expanded andimproved to manage these controversies, to transformthem into productive conversations, and to bring about “technical democracy.” They show how “hybridforums” — in which experts, non-experts, ordinary citizens, and politicians come together — reveal thelimits of traditional delegative democracies, in whichdecisions are made by quasi-professional politicians, and techno-scientific information is the domain of specialists in laboratories. The division between professionals and laypeople, the authors claim, is simply outmoded.

The authors describe a “dialogic” democracy thatenriches traditional representative democracy. To inventnew procedures for consultation and representation,they suggest, is to contribute to an endless process that is necessary for the ongoing democratization of democracy.

Michel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) ofActor Network Theory, is a Professor at the École des mines de Paris and a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l’innovation there. Yannick Barthe is a researcher at CNRS(Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and a memberof the Centre de sociologie de l’innovation. Pierre Lascoumesis Director of Research at CNRS.

“This book is a path-breaking contribution to the study ofdemocracy.”

— Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University

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THE HARMONIC MINDFrom Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic GrammarVolume I: Cognitive ArchitectureVolume II: Linguistic and Philosophical ImplicationsPaul Smolensky and Géraldine Legendre

Despite their apparently divergent accounts of highercognition, cognitive theories based on neural computa-tion and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one another. To substantiate this con-

troversial claim, this landmarkwork develops in depth a cogni-tive architecture based in neuralcomputation but supporting formally explicit higher-levelsymbolic descriptions, includingnew grammar formalisms.

Detailed studies in bothphonology and syntax provide

arguments that these grammatical theories and theirneural network realizations enable deeper explanationsof early acquisition, processing difficulty, cross-linguis-tic typology, and the possibility of genomically encod-ing universal principles of grammar. Foundationalquestions concerning the explanatory status of symbolsfor central problems such as the unbounded productivityof higher cognition are also given proper treatment.

Paul Smolensky and Géraldine Legendre are Professors ofCognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. Smolensky isthe author (with Bruce Tesar) of Learnability in OptimalityTheory (MIT Press, 2000). Legendre is the coeditor (with Jane Grimshaw and Sten Vikner) of Optimality-TheoreticSyntax (MIT Press, 2001).

“ The Harmonic Mind presents a unique synthetic visionof cognitive science, one that everyone interested in cogni-tion, language, mind, and brain will want to know andunderstand.”

— James L. McClelland, Stanford University

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INSIDE AND OUTSIDE LIQUIDITYBengt Holmström and Jean Tirole

Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When andto what extent can the state and international financial markets make up for ashortage of liquid assets, allowing agents to save and share risk more effectively?These questions are at the center of all financial crises, including the currentglobal one.

In Inside and Outside Liquidity, leading economists Bengt Holmström andJean Tirole offer an original, unified perspective on these questions drawing oninsights from modern corporate finance. In a slight, but important departurefrom the standard theory of finance, they show how imperfect pledgeability ofcorporate income leads to a demand for as well as a shortage of liquidity withinteresting implications for the pricing of assets, investment decisions, and liq-uidity management. The government has an active role to play in improvingrisk-sharing between consumers with limited commitment power and firmsdealing with the high costs of potential liquidity shortages. In this perspective,private risk sharing is always imperfect and may lead to financial crises that canbe alleviated through government interventions. In an epilogue, Holmström andTirole show how their theory can be used to understand some aspects of therecent financial crisis.

Bengt Holmström is Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT, where he was Head of the Economics Department from 2003 to2006. Jean Tirole is Scientific Director of IDEI (Institut d’EconomieIndustrielle), Chairman of the Board of TSE (Toulouse School ofEconomics), and Annual Visiting Professor of Economics at MIT.

Two leading economists develop a theory explaining the demand for and supply of liquid assets.

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TRADE AND POVERTYWhen the Third World Fell BehindJeffrey G. Williamson

Today’s wide economic gap between the postindustrialcountries of the West and the poorer countries of thethird world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world eco-nomic order — two hundred years in the making —

was already characterized by avast difference in per capitaincome between rich and poorcountries and by the fact thatpoor countries exported com-

modities (agricultural or mineral products) while richcountries exported manufactured products. In Tradeand Poverty, leading economic historian Jeffrey G.Williamson traces the great divergence between thethird world and the West to this nexus of trade, com-modity specialization, and poverty.

The world rapidly became global between the earlynineteenth century and World War I, and the globaltrade boom occurred simultaneously with rising eco-nomic divergence between industrial and nonindustrialcountries. Analyzing the role of specialization, dein-dustrialization, and commodity price volatility witheconometrics and case studies of India, OttomanTurkey, and Mexico, Williamson demonstrates why theclose correlation between trade and poverty emerged.Globalization and the great divergence were causallyrelated, and thus the rise of globalization over the pasttwo centuries helps account for the income gapbetween rich and poor countries today.

Jeffrey G. Williamson is Laird Bell Professor of EconomicsEmeritus at Harvard and Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He isthe author of Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 (MIT Press, 2006).

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THE COLLECTED SCIENTIFIC PAPERSOF PAUL SAMUELSONVolumes 6 and 7Paul A. Samuelsonedited by Janice Murray

“It is a measure of Professor Samuelson’s preeminencethat the sheer scale of his work should be so much taken

for granted,” a reviewer for the Economist once observed,marking both Paul Samuelson’sinfluence and his astonishingprolificacy. These two volumes

gather the Nobel Laureate’s final writings. Samuelson declined suggestions that he write an

autobiography. Yet the texts in these volumes (selectedby Samuelson with the help of his longtime assistant,Janice Murray) have a somewhat autobiographical cast,with tributes to friends and colleagues and speechesand interviews of both personal and historic interest.Volume 6 offers essays on classical economics; neoclas-sical, Marxian, and Sraffian economics; modernmacroeconomics; welfare and efficiency economics; andeconomic and scientific theories. Volume 7 covers sto-chastic theory; modern economic policy; biographicalessays; and autobiographical writings.

Revised appendixes accompany Samuelson andEtula’s “Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and ConfirmArguments of Mainstream Economists SupportingGlobalization” and a previously unpublished“Afterthought” has been added to Samuelson’sDictionary of American Biography text on JosephSchumpeter. Additionally, three contributions omittedfrom early volumes have been included. The acknowl-edgements sections list the strict chronological order of the papers.

Paul Samuelson (1915–2009) received the Nobel Prize inEconomics in 1970. He was Institute Professor, Emeritus;Professor of Economics, Emeritus; and Gordon Y Billard Fellowat MIT. His influential Economics: An Introductory Analysis isthe most widely used economics textbook ever published.

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MATHEMATICS FOR ECONOMICSThird EditionMichael Hoy, John Livernois, Chris McKenna, Ray Rees, and Thanasis Stengos

This text offers a comprehensive presentation of themathematics required to tackle problems in economicanalysis. To give a better understanding of the mathe-

matical concepts, the text follows the logic of the devel-opment of mathematics ratherthan that of an economicscourse. The only prerequisite

is high school algebra, but the book goes on to cover allthe mathematics needed for undergraduate economics.It is also a useful reference for graduate students. Aftera review of the fundamentals of sets, numbers, andfunctions, the book covers limits and continuity, the cal-culus of functions of one variable, linear algebra, multi-variate calculus, and dynamics. To develop the student’sproblem-solving skills, the book works through a largenumber of examples and economic applications.

This streamlined third edition offers an array ofnew and updated examples.

Michael Hoy is Professor in the Department of Economics atthe University of Guelph, Ontario. John Livernois is Professorand Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph. Chris McKenna is Professor in the Department ofEconomics at the University of Guelph. Thanasis Stengos isProfessor of Economics at the University of Guelph. Ray Reesis Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Center forEconomic Studies (CES), University of Munich.

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NEW DIRECTIONS IN FINANCIALSERVICES REGULATIONedited by Roger B. Porter, Robert R. Glauber, andThomas J. Healey

The financial crisis of 2008 raised crucial questionsregarding the effectiveness of the way the United Statesregulates financial markets. What caused the crisis?

What regulatory changes aremost needed and desirable?What regulatory structure willbest implement the desiredchanges? This volume addressesthose questions with contribu-

tions from an ideologically diverse group of scholars,policy makers, and practitioners, including Paul Volcker,John Taylor, Richard Posner, and Glenn Hubbard.

New Directions in Financial Services Regulation growsout of a conference hosted by the Mossavar-RahmaniCenter for Business and Government at Harvard’sKennedy School of Government in October 2009, andthe book reflects the dynamic give-and-take of theevent. Each chapter includes not only major papersand presentations but also a summary of the subse-quent discussion. The book achieves a balance of aca-demic and practitioner perspectives, with leaders offinancial firms and regulatory bodies offering insightsbased on their experiences in the financial crisis of theyear before.

Roger B. Porter is IBM Professor of Business and Governmentat Harvard University. Robert R. Glauber is Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a VisitingProfessor at Harvard Law School. Thomas J. Healey is Partnerat Healey Development LLC and Senior Fellow at the Centerfor Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy Schoolof Government.

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CONTRIBUTORS James Cox, Robert R. Glauber, Harvey J. Goldschmid, Thomas J. Healey, R. Glenn Hubbard,Howell E. Jackson, David A. Moss, David G. Nason, William Poole,Roger B. Porter, Richard A. Posner, Joel Seligman, Robert K. Steel,John B. Taylor, Paul A. Volcker, Richard Zeckhauser

Prominent policymakers,practitioners, and aca-demics discuss regula-tory reform in theaftermath of the finan-cial crisis of 2008.

A new edition of a comprehensive undergraduate mathematics text foreconomics students.

STUDENT SOLUTIONS MANUAL FOR MATHEMATICS FOR ECONOMICSThird EditionMichael Hoy, John Livernois, Chris McKenna, Ray Rees, and Thanasis Stengos

This e-book solutions manual contains the full solutions to odd-numbered problems in the main text.$30.00X/£22.95

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MAJORITY JUDGMENTMeasuring, Electing, and RankingMichel Balinski and Rida Laraki

In Majority Judgment, Michel Balinski and Rida Larakiargue that the traditional theory of social choice offersno acceptable solution to the problems of how to elect,to judge, or to rank. They find that the traditional

model — transforming the“preference lists” of individualsinto a “preference list” of soci-ety — is fundamentally flawedin both theory and practice.

Balinski and Laraki proposea more realistic model. It leads

to an entirely new theory and method — majorityjudgment — proven superior to all known methods. Itis at once meaningful, resists strategic manipulation,elicits honesty, and is not subject to the classical para-doxes encountered in practice, notably Condorcet’s andArrow’s. They offer theoretical, practical, and experi-mental evidence — from national elections to figureskating competitions — to support their arguments.

Drawing on insights from wine, sports, music, andother competitions, Balinski and Laraki argue that thequestion should not be how to transform many indi-vidual rankings into a single collective ranking, butrather, after defining a common language of grades tomeasure merit, how to transform the many individualevaluations of each competitor into a single collectiveevaluation of all competitors.

The crux of the matter is a new model in which thetraditional paradigm — to compare — is replaced by anew paradigm — to evaluate.

Michel Balinski is Directeur de Recherche de classe exception-nelle (Emeritus), C.N.R.S. and the Laboratoire d’Econométrie,Département d’Économie, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau,France. Rida Laraki is Chargé de Recherche de première classe,C.N.R.S., Laboratoire d’Econométrie, Professeur, Départementd’Économie, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, andChercheur Associé, Équipe Combinatoire et Optimisation,Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

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GAME THEORY AND THE HUMANITIESBridging Two WorldsSteven J. Brams

Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics,common in political science, and increasingly used inpsychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, theyoffer compelling explanations for competition in nature.

But game theory has been only sporadically applied to thehumanities; indeed, we almostnever associate mathematicalcalculations of strategic choicewith the worlds of literature,

history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Bramsshows, game theory can illuminate the rational choicesmade by characters in texts ranging from the Bible toJoseph Heller’s Catch-22 and can explicate strategicquestions in law, history, and philosophy.

Brams’s strategic exegesis of texts helps the readerrelate characters’ goals to their choices and the conse-quences of those choices. Much of his analysis is basedon the theory of moves (TOM), which is grounded ingame theory, and which he develops gradually andapplies systematically throughout. TOM illuminates thedynamics of player choices, including their mispercep-tions, deceptions, and uses of different kinds of power.

The reader gains not just new insights into theactions of certain literary and historical characters butalso a larger strategic perspective on the choices thatmake us human.

Steven J. Brams is Professor of Politics at New York University.He is the author of Biblical Games: Game Theory and theHebrew Bible (MIT Press, revised edition 2003), Mathematicsand Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-DivisionProcedures, and other books.

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How game theory canoffer insights into literary, historical, and philosophical textsranging from Macbeth toSupreme Court decisions.






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PERSPECTIVES ON THEPERFORMANCE OF THE CONTINENTAL ECONOMIESedited by Edmund S. Phelps and Hans-Werner Sinn

Economists disagree on what ails the economies ofcontinental western Europe, which are widely perceived

to be underperforming interms of productivity and othermetrics. Is it some deficiency intheir economic system — ineconomic institutions or cul-tural attitudes? Is it some effectof their welfare systems of

social insurance and assistance? Or are these systemshealthy enough but weighed down by adverse marketconditions? In this volume, leading economists test thevarious explanations for Europe’s economic underper-formance against real-world data.

The chapters, written from widely varying perspec-tives, demonstrate the shortcomings and strengths ofsome methods of economics as much as they do theshortcomings and strengths of some economies ofwestern continental Europe. Many offer policy recom-mendations, which range from developing institutionsthat promote entrepreneurship to using early educationto increase human capital.

Edmund S. Phelps is McVickar Professor of Political Economyat Columbia University and founder of Columbia’s Center onCapitalism and Society. He was the 2006 Nobel Laureate inEconomics. Hans-Werner Sinn is President of the Ifo Institutefor Economic Research and Professor of Economics and PublicFinance at the University of Munich, where he is also theDirector of the Center for Economic Studies. He is the authorof Can Germany Be Saved?: The Malaise of the World’s FirstWelfare State (MIT Press, 2007) and Casino Capitalism: How theFinancial Crisis Came About and What Needs to Be Done Now.

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FERTILITY AND PUBLIC POLICYHow to Reverse the Trend of Declining Birth Ratesedited by Noriyuki Takayama and Martin Werding

In 2050, world population growth is predicted to comealmost to a halt. Shortly thereafter it may well start toshrink. A major reason behind this shift is the fertility

decline that has taken place inmany developed countries. Inthis book, experts discuss theappropriateness and effective-ness of using public policy toinfluence fertility decisions.

Contributors discuss the general feasibility of publicinterventions in the area of fertility, analyze fertility patterns and policy design in such countries as Japan,South Korea, China, Sweden, and France, and offertheoretical analyses of parental fertility choices that pro-vide an overview of a broad array of child-related policyinstruments in a number of OECD and EU countries.

The chapters show that it is difficult to gauge theeffectiveness of such policy interventions as child-caresubsidies, support for women’s labor-force participa-tion, and tax incentives. Data are often incomplete,causal relations unproved, and the role of social normsand culture difficult to account for. Investigating rea-sons for the decline in fertility more closely will requirefurther study. This volume offers the latest work onthis increasingly important subject.

Noriyuki Takayama is Professor of Economics at the Instituteof Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. MartinWerding is Professor of Social Policy and Social Economy atRuhr-Universitaet Bochum and Research Professor at the IfoInstitute for Economic Research. He is the editor of StructuralUnemployment in Western Europe: Reasons and Remedies(2006) and coauthor of Children and Pensions (2007), both published by the MIT Press.


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CONTRIBUTORS Philippe Aghion, Amar Bhidé, Roman Frydman,Robert Gordon, James Heckman, Anders Hoffmann, Hian Teck Hoon,Bas Jacobs, Harold James, Omar Khan, Ioana Marinescu, Edmund S. Phelps, Andrzej Rapaczynski, Richard Robb, JeffreySachs, Robert Shiller, Hans-Werner Sinn, Gylfi Zoega

CONTRIBUTORS Gunnar Andersson, Reiko Aoki, Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz, Jonathan Bradshaw, Yoonyoung Cho,Alessandro Cigno, Tamotsu Kadoda, Yoko Konishi, Seiritsu Ogura,Xizhe Peng, Warren Sanderson, Noriyuki Takayama, Olivier Thévenon, Martin Werding

Experts discuss theappropriateness and effectiveness ofusing public policy to influence fertility decisions.

Leading economists consider the apparentunderperformance of the European economy,testing various explanations against data.






ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CROSS SECTION AND PANEL DATASecond EditionJeffrey M. Wooldridge

The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatmentof the analysis of two kinds of data structures used in contemporary econometricresearch, cross section data and panel data. The book covers both linear and non-linear models, including models with dynamics and/or individual heterogeneity.In addition to general estimation frameworks (particularly methods of momentsand maximum likelihood), specific linear and nonlinear methods are covered indetail, including probit and logit models, multinomial and ordered choice mod-els, Tobit models and two-part extensions, models for count data, various cen-sored and missing data schemes, causal (or treatment) effect estimation, andduration analysis. Control function and correlated random effects approaches areexpanded to allow estimation of complicated models in the presence of endo-geneity and heterogeneity.

This second edition has been substantially updated and revised. Improvementsinclude a broader class of models for missing data problems; more detailed treat-ment of cluster sampling problems, an important topic for empirical researchers;expanded discussion of “generalized instrumental variables” (GIV) estimation;new coverage of inverse probability weighting; a more complete framework forestimating treatment effects with assumptions concerning the intervention anddifferent data structures, including panel data, and a firmly established linkbetween econometric approaches to nonlinear panel data and the “generalizedestimating equation” literature popular in statistics and other fields. New atten-tion is given to explaining when particular econometric methods can be applied;the goal is not only to tell readers what does work, but why certain “obvious”procedures do not. The numerous included exercises, both theoretical and computer-based, allow the reader to extend methods covered in the text anddiscover new insights.

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge is UniversityDistinguished Professor of Economicsat Michigan State University and aFellow of the Econometric Society.

“I highly recommend this book forgraduate classes in econometrics. We have used it at MIT and thestudents find it extremely helpful.Wooldridge covers topics in a highlyreadable and insightful way.”

— Jerry Hausman, John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics, MIT

economics/econometrics

The second edition of a comprehensive, state-of-the-art

graduate level text on microeconometric methods,

substantially revised and updated.

Available8 x 9, 1,096 pp.

$90.00X/£49.95 cloth978-0-262-23258-6

SOLUTIONS MANUALAND SUPPLEMENTARY

MATERIALS FORECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS

OF CROSS SECTION AND PANEL DATA

Second EditionJeffrey M. Wooldridge

This manual contains advice for answers to odd-numberedproblems, new examples, and

supplementary materialsdesigned by the author, whichwork together to enhance the

benefits of the text. Users of the textbook will find

the manual a necessary adjunct to the book.

8 1/2 x 11, 280 pp.

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DEMOCRACY’S ARSENALCreating a Twenty-First-Century Defense IndustryJacques S. Gansler

New geopolitical realities — including terrorism, pandemics, rogue nuclearstates, resource conflicts, insurgencies, mass migration, economic collapse, andcyber attacks — have created a dramatically different national security environ-ment for America. Twentieth-century defense strategies, technologies, and indus-trial practices will not meet the security requirements of a post-9/11 world. InDemocracy’s Arsenal, Jacques Gansler describes the transformations needed ingovernment and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of nationaldefense. Drawing on his decades of experience in industry, government, and aca-demia, Gansler argues that the old model of ever-increasing defense expenditureson largely outmoded weapons systems must be replaced by a strategy that com-bines a healthy economy, effective international relations, and a strong (butaffordable) national security posture. The defense industry must remake itself tobecome responsive and relevant to the needs of twenty-first-century security.

Gansler discusses such topics as the globalization of defense business, consol-idation and greatly reduced competition in the defense industry, the blemishedperformance of the Defense Department and the dysfunctional behavior ofCongress, and the role of defense contractors and their employees in supporting

combat operations. He outlines clearly the changes that need tobe made in the industry and in Defense Department businesspractices. He concludes that we can meet the new challenges of national security — but only if we acknowledge that a totaltransformation is necessary, and we find leaders with the vision,the strategy, the set of actions, and the courage necessary toovercome the expected resistance to change.

Jacques S. Gansler is the author of the influential books The DefenseIndustry (1980), Affording Defense (1989), and Defense Conversion:Transforming the Arsenal of Democracy. (1998), all published by theMIT Press. He is currently Professor and Roger C. Lipitz Chair in PublicPolicy and Private Enterprise in the School of Public Policy and Directorof the Sloan Center Biotechnology Industry Center at the University ofMaryland; he was Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology,and Logistics from 1997 to 2001.

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An expert explains why the security needs of the twenty-firstcentury require a transformation of the defense industry of the twentieth century.

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OUR OWN WORST ENEMY?Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ExpertiseSharon K. Weiner

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, manyobservers feared that terrorists and rogue states wouldobtain weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or knowl-

edge about how to build themfrom the vast Soviet nuclear,biological, and chemicalweapons complex. The UnitedStates launched a major effortto prevent former SovietWMD experts, suddenly with-

out salaries, from peddling their secrets. In Our OwnWorst Enemy, Sharon Weiner chronicles the design,implementation, and evolution of four U.S. programsthat were central to this nonproliferation policy andassesses their successes and failures.

Weiner examines the parlous state of the formerSoviet nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons com-plex, the contentious domestic political debate withinthe United States, and most critically, the institutionalinterests and dynamics of the Defense, State, andEnergy departments, which were charged with pre-venting the spread of WMD expertise. She explainswhy — despite unprecedented cooperation betweenthe former Cold War adversaries — U.S. nonprolifera-tion programs did not succeed at redirecting or con-verting to civilian uses significant parts of the formerSoviet weapons complex. She shows how each of theU.S. government bureaucracies responsible for manag-ing vital nonproliferation policies let its own organiza-tional interests trump U.S. national security needs.

Sharon K. Weiner is Associate Professor in the School ofInternational Service at American University.

“This sobering account is essential reading for all thoseinterested in more effective programs to reduce proliferationthreats around the world, and for those interested in thenitty gritty of how national security agencies manage orfail to manage new and unfamiliar challenges.”

— Matthew Bunn, John F. Kennedy School ofGovernment, Harvard University,

author of Securing the Bomb

April — 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 360 pp.

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DO DEMOCRACIES WIN THEIR WARS?edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté Jr.,Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller

In recent years, a new wave of scholarship has arguedthat democracies have unique advantages that enablethem to compete vigorously in international politics.Challenging long-held beliefs — some of which go

back to Thucydides’ account ofthe clash between democraticAthens and authoritarianSparta — that democracy is aliability in the harsh world ofinternational affairs, many

scholars now claim that democracies win most of theirwars. Critics counter that democracy itself makes littledifference in war and that other factors, such as overallpower, determine whether a country tastes victory ordefeat. In some cases, such as the Vietnam War,democracy may even have contributed to defeat.

The book includes crucial contributions to the debateover democracy and military victory.

Michael E. Brown is Dean of the Elliott School of InternationalAffairs at George Washington University. Owen R. Coté Jr. isAssociate Director of the Security Studies Program at MIT.Sean M. Lynn-Jones is a Research Associate in the InternationalSecurity Program at the Belfer Center for Science andInternational Affairs at Harvard University and Editor of itsquarterly publication International Security. Steven E. Milleris Editor-in-Chief of International Security and Director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center.

“Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses, and indeedfor anyone who thinks seriously about the conduct of war.”

— John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago, author of Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about

Lying in International Politics

“The electric point/counterpoint on display here will keepstudents riveted as they learn what sharp-minded socialscience has to offer.”

— Jack Snyder, Columbia University, coauthor ofElecting to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War

April — 6 x 9, 336 pp.

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International Security Readers

CONTRIBUTORS Risa A. Brooks, Ajin Choi, Michael C. Desch,Alexander B. Downes, David A. Lake, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Dan Reiter, John M. Schuessler, Allan C. Stam

An examination of theeffectiveness of knowl-edge nonproliferationprograms implementedby the United Statesafter the fall of theSoviet Union.

Important contributionsfrom both sides of the debate over the relationship betweendemocracy and military victory.







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CHILDREN WITHOUT A STATEA Global Human Rights Challengeedited by Jacqueline Bhabhaforeword by Mary Robinson

Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of theworld, with a special need for the protections, rights,and services offered by states. And yet children are

particularly at risk from state-lessness. Thirty-six percent of all births in the world arenot registered, leaving more

than forty-eight million children under the age of five with no legal identity and no formal claim on any state. Millions of other children are born statelessor become undocumented as a result of migration.Children Without a State is the first book to examinehow statelessness affects children throughout the world,examining this largely unexplored problem from ahuman rights perspective.

The human rights repercussions range from dramaticabuses (detention and deportation) to social marginaliza-tion (lack of access to education and health care). Thebook provides a variety of examples, including chapterson Palestinian children in Israel, undocumented youngpeople seeking higher education in the United States,unaccompanied child migrants in Spain, Roma chil-dren in Italy, irregular internal child migrants in China,and children in mixed legal/illegal families in theUnited States.

Jacqueline Bhabha is Harvard University Adviser to the Provoston Human Rights Education, Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Lecturer atHarvard Law School, and Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’sKennedy School of Government. She is the coauthor of SeekingAsylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children andRefugee Protection.

March — 6 x 9, 408 pp. — 1 illus.

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BEYOND RESOURCE WARSScarcity, Environmental Degradation, and International Cooperationedited by Shlomi Dinar

Common wisdom holds that the earth’s dwindling nat-ural resources and increasing environmental degradationwill inevitably lead to inter-state conflict, and possibly

even set off “resource wars.”Many scholars and policymak-ers have considered the envi-ronmental roots of violentconflict and instability, but little attention has been paid to the idea that scarcity and

degradation may actually play a role in fostering inter-state cooperation. Beyond Resource Wars fills this gap,offering a different perspective on the links betweenenvironmental problems and inter-state conflict.Although the contributors do not deny that resourcescarcity and environmental degradation may becomesources of contention, they argue that these conditionsalso provide the impetus for cooperation, coordination,and negotiation between states. The book examinesaspects of environmental conflict and cooperation indetail, across a number of natural resources and issuesincluding oil, water, climate change, ocean pollution,and biodiversity conservation.

Shlomi Dinar is Associate Professor in the Department ofPolitics and International Relations at Florida InternationalUniversity. He is the author of International Water Treaties:Negotiation and Cooperation along Transboundary Rivers andcoauthor of Bridges over Water: Understanding TransboundaryWater Conflict, Negotiation, and Cooperation.

March — 6 x 9, 336 pp. — 2 illus.

$25.00S/£18.95 paper978-0-262-51558-0

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CONTRIBUTORS J. Samuel Barkin, Elizabeth R. DeSombre,Shlomi Dinar, Christopher J. Fettweis, Gabriela Kütting, Robert Mendelsohn, G. Kristin Rosendal, Miranda A. Schreurs,Deborah J. Shields, Šlavko V. Šolar

The first book to addresschildren’s statelessnessand lack of legal statusas a human rights issue.

An argument thatresource scarcity and environmentaldegradation can provide an impetus for cooperation among countries.

CONTRIBUTORS Christina O. Alfirev, Jacqueline Bhabha,Luca Bicocchi, Brad K. Blitz, Kirsten Di Martino, Bela Hovy,Jyothi Kanics, Linda K. Kerber, Stephen H. Legomsky, Mary Robinson, Elena Rozzi, Daniel Senovilla-Hernández, Simon Szreter, David B. Thronson, Caroline Vandenabeele







PATHS TO A GREEN WORLDThe Political Economy of the Global EnvironmentSecond Edition Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne

This comprehensive and accessible book fills the needfor a political economy view of global environmental

politics, focusing on the waysinternational economicprocesses affect environmentaloutcomes. It examines themain actors and forces shapingglobal environmental manage-

ment, particularly in the developing world. Movingbeyond the usual emphasis on international agreementsand institutions, it strives to capture not only academictheoretical debates but also views on politics, econom-ics, and the environment within the halls of global con-ferences, on the streets during antiglobalizationprotests, and in the boardrooms of international agen-cies, nongovernmental organizations, and industry asso-ciations.

The second edition of this popular text has beenthoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent events,including the food crisis of 2007-2008, the financialmeltdown of 2008, and the Copenhagen ClimateConference of 2009. Topics covered include the envi-ronmental implications of globalization; wealth,poverty, and consumption; global trade; transnationalcorporations; and multilateral and private finance.

Jennifer Clapp is CIGI Chair in Global EnvironmentalGovernance and Professor of Environmental Studies at theUniversity of Waterloo. She is the coeditor of Corporate Powerin Global Agrifood Governance (MIT Press, 2009) and coeditorof the journal Global Environmental Politics (MIT Press). PeterDauvergne is Professor of Political Science, Canada ResearchChair in Global Environmental Politics, and Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of BritishColumbia. He is the author of The Shadows of Consumption:Consequences for the Global Environment (MIT Press, 2008).

March — 6 x 9, 344 pp. — 30 illus.

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ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITIESBEYOND BORDERSLocal Perspectives on Global Injusticesedited by JoAnn Carmin and Julian Agyeman

Multinational corporations often exploit naturalresources or locate factories in poor countries far fromthe demand for the products and profits that result.

Developed countries also routinely dump hazardousmaterials and produce green-house gas emissions that havea disproportionate impact on developing countries. This book investigates how

these and other globalized practices exact high socialand environmental costs as poor, local communities are forced to cope with depleted resources, pollution,health problems, and social and cultural disruption.

Case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the PacificRim, and Latin America critically assess how diversetypes of global inequalities play out on local terrains.The result is a rich perspective not only on the waysindustries, governments, and consumption patterns canfurther entrench existing inequalities but also on howemerging networks and movements can foster institu-tional change and promote social equality and environ-mental justice.

JoAnn Carmin is Associate Professor of Environmental Policyand Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planningat MIT. Julian Agyeman is Associate Professor and Chair of theDepartment of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planningat Tufts University.

April — 6 x 9, 296 pp. — 1 illus.

$25.00S/£18.95 paper978-0-262-51587-0

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Case studies demonstratethe spatial disconnectbetween global consumption and production and itseffects on local environmental qualityand human rights.

CONTRIBUTORS Mary A. Ackley, Julian Agyeman, Saleem H. Ali, Alison Hope Alkon, Isabelle Anguelovski, Beth Schaefer Caniglia, JoAnn Carmin, Barbara Hicks, Tammy L. Lewis, David Naguib Pellow, Debra Roberts, Lisa A. Schweitzer, Max Stephenson Jr., Saskia Vermeylen, Gordon Walker, Patricia Widener

A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economicprocesses affect globalenvironmental outcomes.







COMING CLEANInformation Disclosure and Environmental PerformanceMichael E. Kraft, Mark Stephan, and Troy D. Abel

Coming Clean is the first book to investigate the processof information disclosure as a policy strategy for envi-ronmental protection. This process, which requires that

firms disclose informationabout their environmental performance, is part of anapproach to environmentalprotection that eschews theconventional command-and-control regulatory apparatus,

which sometimes leads government and industry tofocus on meeting only minimal standards. The authorsof Coming Clean examine the effectiveness of informa-tion disclosure in achieving actual improvements in corporate environmental performance by analyzing datafrom the federal government’s Toxics Release Inventory,or TRI, and drawing on an original set of survey datafrom corporations and federal, state, and local officials,among other sources.

The authors find that TRI — probably the best-known example of information disclosure — has had a substantial effect over time on the environmentalperformance of industry. But, drawing on case studiesfrom across the nation, they show that the improve-ment is not uniform: some facilities have been leaderswhile others have been laggards. The authors arguethat information disclosure has an important role toplay in environmental policy — but only as part of anintegrated set of policy tools that includes conventionalregulation.

Michael E. Kraft is Professor of Political Science and PublicPolicy and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of EnvironmentalStudies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He is theauthor of Environmental Policy and Politics. Mark Stephan isAssociate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington State University, Vancouver. Troy D. Abel isAssistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Departmentat the Huxley College of the Environment at WesternWashington University.

March — 6 x 9, 264 pp. — 1 illus.

$25.00S/£18.95 paper978-0-262-51557-3

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LIVING IN DENIALClimate Change, Emotions, and Everyday LifeKari Marie Norgaard

Global warming is the most significant environmentalissue of our time, yet public response in Western nationshas been meager. Why have so few taken any action?

In Living in Denial, sociologistKari Norgaard searches foranswers to this question, drawing on interviews andethnographic data from herstudy of “Bygdaby,” the fictional

name of an actual rural community in western Norway,during the unusually warm winter of 2001-2002.

Stories in local and national newspapers linked thewarm winter explicitly to global warming. Yet residentsdid not write letters to the editor, pressure politicians,or cut down on use of fossil fuels. Norgaard attributesthis lack of response to the phenomenon of sociallyorganized denial, by which information about climatescience is known in the abstract but disconnected frompolitical, social, and private life, and sees this asemblematic of how citizens of industrialized countriesare responding to global warming.

Norgaard finds that for the highly educated andpolitically savvy residents of Bygdaby, global warmingwas both common knowledge and unimaginable.Norgaard traces this denial through multiple levels,from emotions to cultural norms to political economy.Her report from Bygdaby, supplemented by compar-isons throughout the book to the United States, tells alarger story behind our paralysis in the face of today’salarming predictions from climate scientists.

Kari Marie Norgaard is Assistant Professor of Sociology andEnvironmental Studies at Whitman College, Walla Walla,Washington.

April — 6 x 9, 280 pp. — 11 illus.

$25.00S/£18.95 paper978-0-262-51585-6

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An investigation into the policy effects of requiring firms to disclose informationabout their environmental performance.

An analysis of why people with knowledgeabout climate changeoften fail to translatethat knowledge intoaction.








CHIMERAS AND CONSCIOUSNESSEvolution of the Sensory Selfedited by Lynn Margulis, Celeste A. Asikainen,and Wolfgang E. Krumbein

Chimeras and Consciousness begins the inquiry into theevolution of the collective sensitivities of life. Scientist-scholars from a range of fields — including biochem-

istry, cell biology, history ofscience, family therapy, genet-ics, microbial ecology, and primatology — trace the emergence and evolution

of consciousness. Complex behaviors and the socialimperatives of bacteria and other life forms during3,000 million years of Earth history gave rise to mammalian cognition. Awareness and sensation led to astounding activities; millions of species incessantlyinteracted to form our planet’s complex conscious sys-tem. Our planetmates, all of them conscious to somedegree, were joined only recently by us, the aggressivemodern humans.

Since early bacteria avoided, produced, and eventu-ally used oxygen, Earth’s sensory systems have expandedand complexified. Taken together, these provocativeessays, going far beyond science but undergirded by thefinest science, serve to put sensitive, sensible life in itscosmic context.

Lynn Margulis, an originator of cell symbiotic theory of cellevolution, is Distinguished University Professor in theDepartment of Geosciences at the University of Massachusettsat Amherst, where Celeste A. Asikainen, a geologist, is theadministrator of the Margulis Laboratory and a doctoral stu-dent. Wolfgang E. Krumbein, formerly at Oldenburg Universityin Germany, is counted among the founders of geomicrobiol-ogy and biogeochemistry, new scientific fields especially rele-vant to global climate and planetary biology.


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STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF FMRI DATAF. Gregory Ashby

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), whichallows researchers to observe neural activity in the humanbrain noninvasively, has revolutionized the scientific studyof the mind. An fMRI experiment produces massive

amounts of highly complexdata; researchers face signifi-cant challenges in analyzingthe data they collect. This

book offers an overview of the most widely used statistical methods of analyzing fMRI data. Every stepis covered, from preprocessing to advanced methods for assessing functional connectivity. The goal is not todescribe which buttons to push in the popular softwarepackages but to help readers understand the basicunderlying logic, the assumptions, the strengths andweaknesses, and the appropriateness of each method.

The book covers all of the important current topicsin fMRI data analysis, including the relation of thefMRI BOLD (blood oxygen-level dependent) responseto neural activation; basic analyses done in virtuallyevery fMRI article — preprocessing, constructing statistical parametrical maps using the general linearmodel, solving the multiple comparison problem, andgroup analyses; the most popular methods for assessingfunctional connectivity — coherence analysis andGranger causality; two widely used multivariateapproaches, principal components analysis and independent component analysis; and a brief survey of other current fMRI methods.

F. Gregory Ashby is Professor and Chair in the Department ofPsychology and former Director of the Brain Imaging Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

March — 7 x 9, 368 pp. — 67 illus.

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Scientists elucidate theastounding collectivesensory capacity of Earth and its evolutionthrough time.

An overview of statistical methods for analyzing data fromfMRI experiments.







neuroscience

A survey of the latest research, covering such topics as plasticity in the adult brain and the underlying mechanisms of plasticity.

May7 x 9, 432 pp.13 color plates, 77 black & white illus.

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Also availableTHE VISUAL NEUROSCIENCESedited by Leo M. Chalupa and John S. Werner2003, 978-0-262-03308-4$205.00S/£151.95 cloth

EYE, RETINA, AND VISUAL SYSTEM OF THE MOUSEedited by Leo M. Chalupa and Robert W. Williams2008, 978-0-262-03381-7$135.00S/£84.95 cloth

CEREBRAL PLASTICITYNew Perspectivesedited by Leo M. Chalupa, Nicoletta Berardi, Matteo Caleo, Lucia Galli-Resta, and Tommaso Pizzorusso

The notion that neurons in the living brain can change in response to experience— a phenomenon known as “plasticity” — has become a major conceptual issuein neuroscience research as well as a practical focus for the fields of neural reha-bilitation and neurodegenerative disease. Early work dealt with the plasticity ofthe developing brain and demonstrated the critical role played by sensory experi-ence in normal development. Two broader themes have emerged in recent stud-ies: the plasticity of the adult brain (one of the most rapidly developing areas ofcurrent research) and the search for the underlying mechanisms of plasticity —explanations for the cellular, molecular, and epigenetic factors controlling plastic-ity. Many scientists believe that achieving a fundamental understanding of whatunderlies neuronal plasticity could help us treat neurological disorders and evenimprove the learning capabilities of the human brain.

This volume offers contributions from leaders in the field that cover all threeapproaches to the study of cerebral plasticity. Chapters treat normal develop-ment and the influences of environmental manipulations; cerebral plasticity inadulthood; and underlying mechanisms of plasticity. Other chapters deal withplastic changes in neurological conditions and with the enhancement of plastic-ity as a strategy for brain repair.

Leo M. Chalupa is Vice President for Research and Professor of Pharmacology andPhysiology at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is the coeditor of two major reference works published by the MIT Press: The Visual Neurosciences (2003)and Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse (2008). Nicoletta Berardi, Matteo Caleo,Lucia Galli-Resta, and Tommaso Pizzorusso are members of the research staff at the CNRInstitute of Neuroscience, Pisa.


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NEURAL CONTROL ENGINEERINGThe Emerging Intersection between Control Theory and NeuroscienceSteven J. Schiff

Over the past sixty years, powerful methods of model-based control engineering have been responsible for suchdramatic advances in engineering systems as autolanding

aircraft, autonomous vehicles,and even weather forecasting.Over those same decades, ourmodels of the nervous systemhave evolved from single-cellmembranes to neuronal net-works to large-scale models of the human brain. Yet until

recently control theory was completely inapplicable to the types of nonlinear models being developed inneuroscience. The revolution in nonlinear control engineering in the late 1990s has made the intersectionof control theory and neuroscience possible. In NeuralControl Engineering, Steven Schiff seeks to bridge thetwo fields, examining the application of new methodsin nonlinear control engineering to neuroscience.

After presenting extensive material on formulatingcomputational neuroscience models in a control envi-ronment — including some fundamentals of the algo-rithms helpful in crossing the divide from intuition toeffective application — Schiff examines a range ofapplications, including brain-machine interfaces andneural simulation. He reports on research that he andhis colleagues have undertaken showing that nonlinearcontrol theory methods can be applied to models ofsingle cells, small neuronal networks, and large-scalenetworks in disease states of Parkinson’s disease andepilepsy.

The book will serve as an essential guide for scien-tists in either biology or engineering and for physicianswho wish to gain expertise in these areas.

Steven J. Schiff, a board-certified neurosurgeon, is BrushChair Professor of Engineering and Director of the Center for Neural Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

June — 7 x 9, 504 pp. — 31 color plates, 203 black & white illus.

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A COMPUTATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON VISUAL ATTENTIONJohn K. Tsotsos

Although William James declared in 1890, “Everyoneknows what attention is,” today there are many differentand sometimes opposing views on the subject. Thisfragmented theoretical landscape may be because most

of the theories and models ofattention offer explanations in natural language or in a pictorial manner rather thanproviding a quantitative and

unambiguous statement of the theory. They focus onthe manifestations of attention instead of its rationale.In this book, John Tsotsos develops a formal model ofvisual attention with the goal of providing a theoreticalexplanation for why humans (and animals) must havethe capacity to attend. He takes a unique approach tothe theory, using the full breadth of the language ofcomputation — rather than simply the language ofmathematics — as the formal means of description.The result, the Selective Tuning model of vision andattention, explains attentive behavior in humans andprovides a foundation for building computer systemsthat see with human-like characteristics. The overarch-ing conclusion is that human vision is based on a gen-eral purpose processor that can be dynamically tuned to the task and the scene viewed on a moment-by-moment basis.

The text is accompanied by more than 100 illustra-tions in black and white and color; additional colorillustrations and movies are available on the book’sWeb site.

John K. Tsotsos is Professor of Computer Science andEngineering, Distinguished Research Professor of VisionScience, Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision atYork University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada(FRSC).

May — 7 x 9, 328 pp. — 15 color plates, 102 black & white illus.

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How powerful new methods in nonlinearcontrol engineering can be applied to neuroscience, from fundamental model formulation to advancedmedical applications.

The derivation, exposition, and justification of theSelective Tuning modelof vision and attention.






TRANSFORMATIONS OF LAMARCKISMFrom Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biologyedited by Snait Gissis and Eva Jablonka

In 1809 — the year of Charles Darwin’s birth — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published Philosophie zoologique,the first comprehensive and systematic theory of biological evolution. The Lamarckian approach

emphasizes the generation of developmental variations;Darwinism stresses selection.Lamarck’s ideas were eventu-ally eclipsed by Darwinian

concepts, especially after the emergence of the ModernSynthesis in the twentieth century. The differentapproaches — which can be seen as complementaryrather than mutually exclusive — have important impli-cations for the kinds of questions biologists ask and forthe type of research they conduct. Lamarckism hasbeen evolving — or, in Lamarckian terminology, trans-forming — since Philosophie zoologique’s description ofbiological processes mediated by “subtle fluids.” Essaysin this book focus on new developments in biology that make Lamarck’s ideas relevant not only to modernempirical and theoretical research but also to problemsin the philosophy of biology.

Snait Gissis and Eva Jablonka are on the faculty of the CohnInstitute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideasat Tel Aviv University. Jablonka is the coauthor of Evolution inFour Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and SymbolicVariation in the History of Life (MIT Press, 2005).

April — 7 x 9, 448 pp. — 23 illus.

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THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS IN EVOLUTION REVISITEDedited by Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny

In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmárypublished their influential book The Major Transitionsin Evolution. The “transitions” that Maynard Smith and Szathmáry chose to describe all constituted major

changes in the kinds of organ-isms that existed but, mostimportant, these events alsotransformed the evolutionaryprocess itself. The evolution ofnew levels of biological organi-zation, such as chromosomes,

cells, multicelled organisms, and complex social groupsradically changed the kinds of individuals natural selec-tion could act upon. Many of these events also pro-duced revolutionary changes in the process ofinheritance, by expanding the range and fidelity oftransmission, establishing new inheritance channels,and developing more open-ended sources of variation.

Maynard Smith and Szathmáry had planned amajor revision of their work, but the death of MaynardSmith in 2004 prevented this. In this volume, promi-nent scholars (including Szathmáry himself ) recon-sider and extend the earlier book’s themes in light ofrecent developments in evolutionary biology. The con-tributors discuss different frameworks for understand-ing macroevolution, prokaryote evolution (the study ofwhich has been aided by developments in molecularbiology), and the complex evolution of multicellularity.

Brett Calcott is a postdoctoral researcher in the PhilosophyProgram in the Research School of the Social Sciences atAustralia National University and a founding member of ANU’sCentre for Macroevolution and Macroecology. Kim Sterelny isProfessor of Philosophy at both the ANU and Victoria Universityin Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author or editor of manybooks, including Language and Reality (second edition, MITPress, 1999), and the editor of the MIT Press series Life and Mind.

March — 7 x 9, 352 pp. — 36 illus.

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Drawing on recentadvances in evolutionarybiology, prominentscholars return to thequestion posed in apathbreaking book: howevolution itself evolved.

CONTRIBUTORS Natalie Q. Balaban, Ramray Bhat, Erez Braun,Marcello Buiatti, Tatjana Buklijas, Richard W. Burkhardt Jr., Pietro Corsi, Lior David, Raphael Falk, Moshe Feldman, Evelyn Fox Keller, Scott Gilbert, Simona Ginsburg, Snait B. Gissis,Sander Gliboff, Peter D. Gluckman, James Griesemer, Paul Griffiths,Mark A. Hanson, Luisa Hirschbein, Eva Jablonka, Marion Lamb,Ehud Lamm, Laurent Loison, Avraham A. Levy, Yigal Liverant,Arkady L. Markel, Everett Mendelsohn, Gabriel Motzkin, Stuart A. Newman, Amos Oppenheim, Sivan Pearl, Dov FrancisPor, Minoo Rassoulzadegan, Nils Rolls-Hansen, Jan Sapp, Ayelet Shavit, Sonia E. Sultan, Alfred I. Tauber, Lyudmila N. Trut,Charlotte Weissman, Adam Wilkins

A reappraisal ofLamarckism — its historical impact and contemporary significance.






MODELING BUSINESS PROCESSESA Petri Net-Oriented ApproachWil van der Aalst and Christian Stahl

This comprehensive introduction to modeling business-information systems focuses on business processes. Itdescribes and demonstrates the formal modeling ofprocesses in terms of Petri nets, using a well-established

theory for capturing and ana-lyzing models with concur-rency. The precise semantics ofthis formal method offers adistinct advantage for model-

ing processes over the industrial modeling languagesfound in other books on the subject. Moreover, the sim-plicity and expressiveness of the Petri nets conceptmake it an ideal language for explaining foundationalconcepts and constructing exercises.

After an overview of business information systems,the book introduces the modeling of processes in termsof classical Petri nets. This is then extended with data,time, and hierarchy to model all aspects of a process.Finally, the book explores analysis of Petri net modelsto detect design flaws and errors in the design process.The text, accessible to a broad audience of profession-als and students, keeps technicalities to a minimumand offers numerous examples to illustrate the conceptscovered. Exercises at different levels of difficulty makethe book ideal for independent study or classroom use.

Wil van der Aalst is Professor of Information Systems atEindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He isthe coauthor (with Kees van Hee) of Workflow Management:Models, Methods, and Systems (MIT Press, 2004). ChristianStahl is a postdoctural researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology.

May — 7 x 9, 376 pp. — 257 illus.

$45.00S/£33.95 cloth978-0-262-01538-7

Cooperative Information Systems series

PROVOCATIVE SYNTAXPhil Branigan

Chomsky showed that no description of natural lan-guage syntax would be adequate without some notionof movement operations in a syntactic derivation. Itnow seems likely that such movement transformationsare formally simple operations, in which a single phrase

is displaced from its originalposition within a phrasemarker, but after more thanfifty years of generative

theorizing, the mechanics of syntactic movement arestill murky and controversial. In Provocative Syntax,Phil Branigan examines the forces that drive syntacticmovement and offers a new synthetic model of thebasic movement operation by reassembling in a novelway isolated ideas that have been suggested elsewherein the literature. The unifying concept is the operationof provocation, which occurs in the course of feature valuation when certain probes seek a value for theirunvalued features by identifying a goal. Provocationforces the generation of a copy of the goal; the copyoriginates outside the original phrase marker and mustthen be introduced into it. In this approach, movementis not forced by the need for extra positions; extra posi-tions are generated because movement is taking place.

After presenting the central proposal and showingits implementation in the analyses of various familiarcases of syntactic movement, Branigan demonstratesthe effects of provocation in a variety of inversion constructions, examines interactions between head and phrasal provocation within the “left periphery” ofGermanic embedded clauses, and describes the detailsof chain formation and successive cyclic movement in a provocation model.

Phil Branigan is Associate Professor in the Department ofLinguistics at Memorial University in Newfoundland.


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An introduction to themodeling of businessinformation systems,with processes formallymodeled using Petri nets.

A new theory of syntactic movementwithin a Chomskyanframework.







EDGE-BASED CLAUSAL SYNTAXA Study of (Mostly) English Object StructurePaul M. Postal

In Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Paul Postal rejects thenotion that an English phrase of the form [V + DP]invariably involves a grammatical relation properlycharacterized as a direct object. He argues instead that

at least three distinct relationsoccur in such a structure. Thedifferent syntactic properties ofthese three kinds of objects areshown by how they behave inpassives, middles, -able forms,

tough movement, wh-movement, Heavy NP Shift,Ride Node Raising, re-prefixation, and many othertests. This proposal renders Postal’s position sharply different from that of Chomsky, who defined a directobject structurally as [NP, VP], and with the traditionallinguistics text’s definition of the direct object as theDP sister of V.

According to Postal’s framework, sentence structuresare complex graph structures built on nodes (vertices)and edges (arcs). The node that heads a particular edgerepresents a constituent that bears the grammaticalrelation named by the edge label to its tail node. Thisapproach allows two DPs that have very differentgrammatical properties to occupy what looks like iden-tical structural positions.

The contrasting behaviors of direct objects, which atfirst seem anomalous — even grammatically chaotic —emerge in Postal’s account as nonanomalous, as symp-toms of hitherto ungrasped structural regularity.

Paul M. Postal is Adjunct/Research Professor in theDepartment of Linguistics at New York University. He is theauthor of On Raising: An Inquiry into One Rule of EnglishGrammar and Its Theoretical Implications (1974) and ThreeInvestigations of Extraction (1999), and the coeditor ofParasitic Gaps (2000), all published by the MIT Press.


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ANAPHORA AND LANGUAGE DESIGNEric J. Reuland

Pronouns and anaphors (including reflexives such ashimself and herself ) may or must depend on antecedentsfor their interpretation. These dependencies are subjectto conditions that prima facie show substantial crosslin-guistic variation. In this monograph, Eric Reuland

presents a theory of how theseanaphoric dependencies arerepresented in natural languagein a way that does justice tothe variation one finds acrosslanguages. He explains theconditions of these dependen-

cies in terms of elementary properties of the computa-tional system of natural language. He shows that theencoding of anaphoric dependencies makes use of components of the language system that all reflect dif-ferent cognitive capacities; thus the empirical researchhe reports on offers insights into the design of the language system.

Reuland’s account reduces the conditions on bindingto independent properties of the grammar, none ofwhich is specific to binding. He offers a principledaccount of the roles of the lexicon, syntax, semantics,and the discourse component in the encoding ofanaphoric dependencies; a window into the overallorganization of the grammar and the roles of linguisticand extralinguistic factors; a new typology of anaphoricexpressions; a view of crosslinguistic variation (examin-ing facts in a range of languages, from English, Dutch,Frisian, German, and Scandinavian languages to Fijian,Georgian, and Malayalam) that shows unity in diversity.

Eric J. Reuland is Faculty Professor of Language and Cognitionat Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Netherlands.

February — 6 x 9, 440 pp.

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An argument that there are three kinds of English grammaticalobjects, each with different syntactic properties.

A study on anaphoricdependencies thatderives the conditionson anaphora in naturallanguage from thedesign properties of the language system.








QUANTUM COMPUTINGA Gentle Introduction Eleanor Rieffel and Wolfgang Polak

The combination of two of the twentieth century’smost influential and revolutionary scientific theories,information theory and quantum mechanics, gave riseto a radically new view of computing and information.

Quantum information process-ing explores the implications ofusing quantum mechanicsinstead of classical mechanicsto model information and itsprocessing. Quantum comput-ing is not about changing the

physical substrate on which computation is done fromclassical to quantum but about changing the notion ofcomputation itself, at the most basic level. The funda-mental unit of computation is no longer the bit but thequantum bit or qubit. This comprehensive introductionto the field offers a thorough exposition of quantumcomputing and the underlying concepts of quantumphysics, explaining all the relevant mathematics andoffering numerous examples. With its careful develop-ment of concepts and thorough explanations, the bookmakes quantum computing accessible to students andprofessionals in mathematics, computer science, andengineering. A reader with no prior knowledge ofquantum physics (but with sufficient knowledge of lin-ear algebra) will be able to gain a fluent understandingby working through the book.

Eleanor Rieffel is Senior Research Scientist at FX Palo AltoLaboratory. Wolfgang Polak is a computer science consultant.

April — 7 x 9, 384 pp. — 79 illus.

$45.00S/£33.95 cloth978-0-262-01506-6

Scientific and Engineering Computation series

INTRODUCTION TO AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTSSecond EditionRoland Siegwart, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, and Davide Scaramuzza

Mobile robots range from the Mars Pathfinder mission’steleoperated Sojourner to the cleaning robots in the

Paris Metro. This text offersstudents and other interestedreaders an introduction to thefundamentals of mobile robot-ics, spanning the mechanical,motor, sensory, perceptual, andcognitive layers the field com-

prises. The text focuses on mobility itself, offering anoverview of the mechanisms that allow a mobile robotto move through a real world environment to performits tasks, including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It synthesizes material from suchfields as kinematics, control theory, signal analysis, com-puter vision, information theory, artificial intelligence,and probability theory.

This second edition has been revised and updatedthroughout, with 130 pages of new material on suchtopics as locomotion, perception, localization, and planning and navigation. Problem sets have been addedat the end of each chapter. Bringing together all aspectsof mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction toAutonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook or a working tool for beginning practitioners.

Roland Siegwart is Professor of Autonomous Systems andDirector of the Center for Product Design at the Institute ofRobotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zürich. Illah R. Nourbakhshis Professor of Robotics and Director of the CREATE Lab in theRobotics Institute, School of Computer Science, at CarnegieMellon University. Davide Scaramuzza is Senior Researcher atthe Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich, where he is also a lecturer and leader of the European project sFly.

March — 7 x 9, 472 pp. — 252 illus.

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A thorough exposition ofquantum computing andthe underlying conceptsof quantum physics, with explanations of therelevant mathematicsand numerous examples.

The second edition of a comprehensiveintroduction to allaspects of mobile robotics, from algorithms to mechanisms.






METAREASONINGThinking about Thinkingedited by Michael T. Cox and Anita Rajaforeword by Eric Horvitz

The capacity to think about our own thinking may lieat the heart of what it means to be both human andintelligent. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have

investigated these matters formany years. Researchers inartificial intelligence have gone further, attempting toimplement actual machines

that mimic, simulate, and perhaps even replicate thiscapacity, called metareasoning. In this volume, leadingauthorities offer a variety of perspectives — drawn fromphilosophy, cognitive psychology, and computer science— on reasoning about the reasoning process.

The book offers a simple model of reasoning about reason as a framework for its discussions. Takentogether, the chapters offer an integrated narrative onmetareasoning themes from both artificial intelligenceand cognitive science perspectives.

Michael T. Cox is Program Manager at DARPA (DefenseAdvanced Research Projects Agency). Anita Raja is AssociateProfessor in the Department of Software and InformationSystems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

March — 7 x 9, 352 pp. — 61 illus.

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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN THEORY AND PRACTICESecond EditionKimiz Dalkirforeword by Jay Liebowitz

The ability to manage knowledge has become increas-ingly important in today’s knowledge economy.

Knowledge is considered avaluable commodity, embed-ded in products and in thetacit knowledge of highlymobile individual employees.Knowledge management

(KM) represents a deliberate and systematic approachto cultivating and sharing an organization’s knowledgebase. It is a highly multidisciplinary field that encom-passes both information technology and intellectualcapital. This textbook and professional reference offers acomprehensive overview of the field of KM, providingboth a substantive theoretical grounding and a prag-matic approach to applying key concepts. Drawing onideas, tools, and techniques from such disciplines associology, cognitive science, organizational behavior,and information science, the text describes KM theoryand practice at the individual, community, and organi-zational levels. It offers illuminating case studies andvignettes from companies including IBM, Xerox,British Telecommunications, JP Morgan Chase, andNokia. This second edition has been updated andrevised throughout.

Kimiz Dalkir is Associate Professor in McGill University’sGraduate School of Information and Library Studies. A practitioner in the field for seventeen years, she hasadvised more than twenty companies on the design, development, and evaluation of knowledge-based systems.

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION

“It’s not often we will recommend a textbook to our busybusiness executive readers, but this new work on the theoryand practice of knowledge management (KM) is one wherewe will make an exception.”

— Harvard Business School Working Knowledge

March — 7 x 9, 504 pp. — 74 illus.

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Experts report on the latest artificial intelligence researchconcerning reasoningabout reasoning itself.

A comprehensive textand reference providesboth substantive theoretical groundingand pragmatic advice onapplying key concepts.

CONTRIBUTORS George Alexander, Michael L. Anderson, Josep Lluís Arcos, Brett J. Borghetti, Vincent Conitzer, Michael T. Cox, Susan L. Epstein, Scott Fults, Melinda Gervasio,Yolanda Gil, Maria Gini, Ashok K. Goel, Andrew S. Gordon, Justin Hart, Jerry R. Hobbs, Eric Horvitz, Joshua Jones, Darsana Josyula, Catriona M. Kennedy, Jihie Kim, Michael Krainin,Robert Laddaga, David B. Leake, Victor R. Lesser, Fabrizio Morbini,Oguz Mülâyim, David Musliner, Karen Myers, Tim Oates, Don Perlis,Smiljana Petrovic, Anita Raja, Paul Robertson, Zachary B. Rubinstein,Brian Scassellati, Matthew D. Schmill, Lenhart Schubert, Hamid Shahri, Aaron Sloman, Stephen F. Smith, Shomir Wilson,Dean Wright, Shlomo Zilberstein, Terry L. Zimmerman






NAKED GENESReinventing the Human in the Molecular AgeHelga Nowotny and Giuseppe Testatranslated by Mitch Cohen

The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet themore we learn about our own biology, the less we are able to fit this knowledgeinto an integrated whole. Life is divided into new sub-units and reassembled intonew forms: from genes to clones, from embryonic stages to the building-blocksof synthetic biology. Extracted from their scientific and social contexts, these newentities become not only visible but indeed “naked”: ready to assume an essentialstatus of their own and take on multiple values and meanings as they pass fromlabs to courts, from patent offices to parliaments and back. In Naked Genes, leading science scholar Helga Nowotny and molecular biologist Giuseppe Testaexamine the interaction between these dramatic advances in the life sciences andequally dramatic political reconfigurations of our societies. They bring wit andfreshness of perspective to ongoing debates over topics ranging from assistedreproduction and personalized medicine to genetic sports doping, revealing bothsurprising continuities and radical discontinuities between the latest advances inthe life sciences and long-standing human traditions. The task of institutions inthe molecular age, they argue, is to make a pluralistic society possible by carving a legitimate free space that allows experimentation with new forms of biologicallife as well as with new forms of social life.

Helga Nowotny is President of the European Research Council andProfessor Emerita of ETH Zurich, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board,University of Vienna, and author of Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in aFragile Future (MIT Press, 2008, 2010) and other books. Giuseppe Testaheads the Laboratory of Stem Cell Epigenetics at the European Institutefor Oncology (IEO) in Milan and is the cofounder of the interdisciplinaryPhD program FOLSATEC (Foundations of the Life Sciences and TheirEthical Consequences) in Milan.

biology

The interaction between new forms of biological life and new forms of social life in

modern democracies.

March5 3/8 x 8, 160 pp.

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Also availableINSATIABLE CURIOSITY

Innovation in a Fragile FutureHelga Nowotny

translated by Mitch Cohen2010, 978-0-262-51510-8

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THE ATLAS OF NEW LIBRARIANSHIPR. David Lankes

Libraries have existed for millennia, but today thelibrary field is searching for solid footing in an increas-ingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) informationenvironment. What is librarianship when it is unmooredfrom cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In

The Atlas of New Librarianship,R. David Lankes offers a guideto this new landscape for practitioners. He describes anew librarianship based not

on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning;and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improvesociety through facilitating knowledge creation in theircommunities.

The vision for a new librarianship must go beyondfinding library-related uses for information technologyand the Internet; it must provide a durable foundationfor the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and librarypractice using the fundamental concept that knowledgeis created though conversation. New librarians approachtheir work as facilitators of conversation; they seek toenrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversationsof their communities.

To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankesoffers a map, a visual representation of the field thatcan guide explorations of it; more than 140Agreements, statements about librarianship that rangefrom relevant theories to examples of practice; andThreads, arrangements of Agreements to explain keyideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundationsand skills and values. Agreement Supplements at theend of the book offer expanded discussions. Althoughit touches on theory as well as practice, the Atlas ismeant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, plat-form for social networking, and call to action.

R. David Lankes is Associate Professor in Syracuse University’sSchool of Information Studies and Director of the Library andInformation Science Program there.

April — 10 x 10, 448 pp. — 243 ilus.

$55.00S/£40.95 cloth978-0-262-01509-7

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ENTANGLED GEOGRAPHIESEmpire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold Waredited by Gabrielle Hecht

The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow butalso in the social and political arenas of geographically

far-flung countries emergingfrom colonial rule. Moreover,Cold War tensions were mani-fest not only in global politicaldisputes but also in strugglesover technology. Technological

systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shapecountries politically, economically, socially, and culturally.Entangled Geographies explores how Cold War politics,imperialism, and postcolonial nation building becameentangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today’s globalized world.

The essays address such topics as the islands andatolls taken over for military and technological pur-poses by the supposedly non-imperial United States,apartheid-era South Africa’s efforts to achieve interna-tional legitimacy as a nuclear nation, internationaltechnical assistance and Cold War politics, the Saudiirrigation system that spurred a Shi’i rebellion, and themomentary technopolitics of emergency as practicedby Médecins sans Frontières.

The contributors to Entangled Geographies offerinsights from the anthropology and history of develop-ment, from diplomatic history, and from science andtechnology studies. The book represents a unique synthesis of these three disciplines, achieving new perspectives on the global Cold War.

Gabrielle Hecht is Associate Professor of History at theUniversity of Michigan and the author of The Radiance ofFrance: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II(updated edition, MIT Press, 2009).

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CONTRIBUTORS Itty Abraham, Lars Denicke, Gabrielle Hecht,Toby C. Jones, Martha Lampland, Clapperton Mavhunga, Donna C. Mehos, Suzanne Moon, Ruth Oldenziel, Peter Redfield,Sonja D. Schmid

Investigations into how technologiesbecame peculiar forms of politics in an expanded geographyof the Cold War.

An essential guide to alibrarianship based noton books and artifactsbut on knowledge andlearning.






HANDLING DIGITAL BRAINSA Laboratory Study of Multimodal SemioticInteractions in the Age of Computers Morana Alac

The results of fMRI brain scanning require extensiveanalysis in the laboratory. In Handling Digital Brains,Morana Alac shows that fMRI researchers do not sit

passively staring at computerscreens but actively involvetheir bodies in laboratory prac-tice. Discussing fMRI visualswith colleagues, scientists ani-mate the scans with gestures,

and talk as they work with computers. Alac argues that to understand how digital scientific visuals take onmeaning we must consider their dynamic coordinationwith gesture, speech, and working hands. These multi-modal actions, she suggests, are an essential componentof digital scientific visuals.

A semiotician trained in cognitive science, Alacgrounds her discussion in concepts from Peirce’s semiotics and her methodology in ethnography and multimodal conversation analysis. Basing herobservations on videotaped records of activity in threefMRI research labs, Alac describes scientists’ manualengagement with digital visuals of the human brain.Doing so, she turns her attention to the issue of practical thinking. Alac argues that although fMRItechnology directs scientists to consider human think-ing in terms of an individual brain, scientific practicesin the fMRI lab demonstrate thinking that engages the whole lived body and the world in which the body is situated. The turn toward the digital does notbring with it abstraction but a manual and embodiedengagement. The practical and multimodal engagementwith digital brains in the laboratory challenges certainassumptions behind fMRI technology; it suggests our hands are essential to learning and the making ofmeaning.

Morana Alac is Assistant Professor in the Department ofCommunication and Program in Science Studies at theUniversity of California, San Diego.

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EVERYDAY INFORMATIONThe Evolution of Information Seeking in Americaedited by William Aspray and Barbara M. Hayes

All day, every day, Americans seek information. Weresearch major purchases. We check news and sports.We visit government Web sites for public information

and turn to friends for adviceabout our everyday lives.Although the Internet influ-ences our information-seekingbehavior, we gather informa-tion from many sources: familyand friends, television and

radio, books and magazines, experts and communityleaders. Patterns of information seeking have evolvedthroughout American history and are shaped by a num-ber of forces, including war, modern media, the state ofthe economy, and government regulation. This bookexamines the evolution of information seeking in nineareas of everyday American life.

Chapters offer an information perspective on carbuying, from the days of the Model T to the present;philanthropic and charitable activities; airline travel andthe complex layers of information available to passen-gers; genealogy, from the family Bible to Ancestry.com;sports statistics, as well as fantasy sports leagues andtheir fans’ obsession with them; the multimedia uni-verse of gourmet cooking; governmental and publiclyavailable information; reading, sharing, and creatingcomics; and text messaging among young people as away to exchange information and manage relation-ships. Taken together, these case studies provide a fas-cinating window on the importance of information inthe past century of American life.

William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of InformationTechnologies at the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin. Barbara M. Hayes is the Associate Dean forAdministration and Planning at Indiana University School of Informatics at Indiana University–Purdue UniversityIndianapolis. Hayes and Aspray are coeditors of HealthInformatics: A Patient-Centered Approach to Diabetes(MIT Press, 2010).

February — 6 x 9, 352 pp. — 1 illus

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An analysis of how fMRI researchers activelyinvolve their bodies —with hand movements in particular — in laboratory practice.

An intimate, everydayperspective on information-seekingbehavior, reaching intothe social context ofAmerican history andAmerican homes.







INTERFACES ON TRIAL 2.0Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katohforeword by Ed Black

We live in an interoperable world. Computer hardwareand software products from different manufacturers canexchange data within local networks and around theworld using the Internet. The competition enabled by

this compatibility betweendevices has led to fast-pacedinnovation and prices lowenough to allow ordinary usersto command extraordinarycomputing capacity.

In Interfaces on Trial 2.0, Jonathan Band andMasanobu Katoh investigate an often overlooked factor in the development of today’s interoperableworld: the evolution of copyright law. Because softwareis copyrightable, copyright law determines the rules forcompetition in the information technology industry.This book — a follow-up to Band and Katoh’s successful 1995 book Interfaces on Trial — examinesthe debates surrounding the use of copyright law toprevent competition and interoperability in the globalsoftware industry in the last fifteen years.

Band and Katoh are longtime advocates for interop-erable devices but present a reasoned view of contentiousissues related to interoperability issues in the UnitedStates, the European Union, and the Pacific Rim and recent legal developments affecting the future of interoperability, including those related to opensource-software and software patents.

Jonathan Band is an attorney who has written more than 100 articles on intellectual property and the Internet. He isan Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center.Masanobu Katoh is the former head of the Law and IntellectualProperty Unit of Fujitsu Limited, a global information technology company based in Japan.

March — 6 x 9, 248 pp. — 1 illus.

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The Information Society series

DIGITALLY ENABLED SOCIAL CHANGEActivism in the Internet AgeJennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport

Much attention has been paid in recent years to theemergence of “Internet activism,” but scholars and pundits disagree over whether online political activity is different in kind from more traditional forms of

activism. Does the global reachand blazing speed of theInternet affect the essentialcharacter or dynamics ofonline political protest? In Digitally Enabled SocialChange, Jennifer Earl and

Katrina Kimport examine key characteristics of Webactivism and investigate their impacts on organizingand participation.

Earl and Kimport argue that the Web offers twokey affordances relevant to activism: sharply reducedcosts for creating, organizing, and participating inprotest; and the decreased need for activists to be phys-ically present together in order to act together. A rallycan be organized and demonstrators recruited entirelyonline, without the cost of printing and mailing; anactivist can create an online petition in minutes andgather e-signatures from coast to coast using only herlaptop. Drawing on evidence from samples of onlinepetitions, boycotts, and letter-writing and e-mailingcampaigns, Earl and Kimport show that the morethese affordances are leveraged, the more transforma-tive the changes to organizing and participating inprotest; the less these affordances are leveraged, themore superficial the changes. The transformativenature of these changes, Earl and Kimport suggest,demonstrate the need to revisit long-standing theoreti-cal assumptions about social movements.

Jennifer Earl is Associate Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara. Katrina Kimport is aResearch Sociologist with ANSIRH, part of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California,San Francisco.

March — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 7 illus.

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Acting with Technology series

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The debate over the use of copyright law to prevent competitionand interoperability inthe global softwareindustry.

An investigation intohow specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in politicaland social protest.






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IN-GAMEImmersion to Incorporation Gordon Calleja

Digital games offer a vast range of engaging experi-ences, from the serene exploration of beautifully ren-dered landscapes to the deeply cognitive challengespresented by strategic simulations to the adrenaline

rush of competitive team-basedshoot-outs. Digital gamesenable experiences that areconsiderably different from a reader’s engagement with

literature or a moviegoer’s experience of a movie. In In-Game, Gordon Calleja examines what exactly it isthat makes digital games so uniquely involving andoffers a new, more precise, and game-specific formula-tion of this involvement.

One of the most commonly yet vaguely deployedconcepts in the industry and academia alike is immer-sion — a player’s sensation of inhabiting the space represented onscreen. Overuse of this term has dimin-ished its analytical value and confused its meaning,both in analysis and design. Rather than conceiving of immersion as a single experience, Calleja views it asblending different experiential phenomena afforded byinvolving gameplay. He proposes a framework (basedon qualitative research) to describe these phenomena:the player involvement model. The intensified andinternalized experiential blend can culminate in incor-poration — a concept that Calleja proposes as an alter-native to the problematic immersion. Incorporation, heargues, is a more accurate metaphor, providing a robustfoundation for future research and design.

Gordon Calleja is Assistant Professor and Head of the Centerof Computer Games Research at the IT University ofCopenhagen.

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THE MACHINIMA READERedited by Henry Lowood and Michael Nitsche

Over the last decade, machinima — the use of computergame engines to create movies — has emerged as avibrant area in digital culture. Machinima as a filmmak-ing tool grew from the bottom up, driven by enthusiastswho taught themselves to deploy technologies from

computer games to create animated films quickly andcheaply. The Machinima Readeris the first critical overview ofthis rapidly developing field.

The contributors include both academics and artist-practitioners. They explore machinima from multipleperspectives, ranging from technical aspects of machin-ima, from real-time production to machinima as a per-formative and cinematic medium, while paying closeattention to the legal, cultural, and pedagogical con-texts for machinima.

This is the first book to chart the emergence ofmachinima as a game-based cultural production thatspans technologies and media, forming new communi-ties of practice on its way to a history, an aesthetic, anda market.

Henry Lowood is Curator for History of Science and TechnologyCollections and Film and Media Collections in the StanfordUniversity Libraries. Michael Nitsche is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds(MIT Press, 2009).

May — 8 x 9, 352 pp. — 40 illus.

$40.00S/£29.95 cloth978-0-262-01533-2

CONTRIBUTORS Jeffrey Bardzell, Matteo Bittanti, David Cameron, John Carroll, Erik Champion, Ricard Gras, Robert Terry Jones, Matt Kelland, Friedrich Kirschner, Peter Krapp,Danny Kringiel, Henry Lowood, Lev Manovich, Ali Mazalek,Michael Nitsche, Matthew Payne, Michael Pigott, Dan Pinchbeck,Katie Salen, Gareth Schott, Bevin Yeatman

The first criticaloverview of an emergingfield, with contributionsfrom both scholars andartist-practitioners.

An investigation of whatmakes digital gamesengaging to players anda reexamination of theconcept of immersion.






computer science

A sociotechnical investigation ofubiquitous computing as a researchenterprise and as a lived reality.


$32.00S/£23.95 cloth978-0-262-01555-4

Also availableWHERE THE ACTION ISThe Foundations of Embodied InteractionPaul Dourish2004, 978-0-262-54178-7$23.00S/£17.95 paper

DIVINING A DIGITAL FUTUREMess and Mythology in Ubiquitous ComputingPaul Dourish and Genevieve Bell

Ubiquitous computing (or “ubicomp”) is the label for a third wave of computingtechnologies. Following the eras of the mainframe computer and the desktopPC, ubicomp is characterized by small and powerful computing devices that are worn, carried, or embedded in the world around us. The ubicomp researchagenda originated at Xerox PARC in the late 1980s; these days, some form of that vision is a reality for the millions of users of Internet-enabled phones,GPS devices, wireless networks, and “smart” domestic appliances. In Divining a Digital Future, computer scientist Paul Dourish and cultural anthropologistGenevieve Bell explore the vision that has driven the ubiquitous computingresearch program and the contemporary practices that have emerged — both the motivating mythology and the everyday messiness of lived experience.

Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the authors’ collaboration, the booktakes seriously the need to understand ubicomp not only technically but alsoculturally, socially, politically, and economically. Dourish and Bell map the ter-rain of contemporary ubiquitous computing, in the research community and indaily life; explore dominant narratives in ubiquitous computing around suchtopics as infrastructure, mobility, privacy, and domesticity; and suggest directionsfor future investigation, particularly with respect to methodology and conceptualfoundations.

Paul Dourish is Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School ofInformation and Computer Sciences with courtesy appointments inComputer Science and Anthropology at the University of California,Irvine. He is the author of Where the Action Is: The Foundations ofEmbodied Interaction (MIT Press, 2001, 2004). Genevieve Bell is anIntel Fellow and the Director of Intel’s first user-focused research and development lab, Interactions and Experiences Research.


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PROGRAMMED VISIONSSoftware and MemoryWendy Hui Kyong Chun

New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence andrenewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K,from the dot-com bust to the next big things — mobilemobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed

Visions, Wendy Hui KyongChun argues that these cyclesresult in part from the ways inwhich new media encapsulatesa logic of programmability.

New media proliferates “programmed visions,” whichseek to shape and predict — even embody — a futurebased on past data. These programmed visions havealso made computers, based on metaphor, metaphorsfor metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability.

Chun argues that the clarity offered by software asmetaphor should make us pause, because software alsoengenders a profound sense of ignorance: who knowswhat lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind theobjects we click and manipulate? The less we know, themore we are shown. This paradox, Chun argues, doesnot diminish new media’s power, but rather groundscomputing’s appeal. Its combination of what can beseen and not seen, known (knowable) and not known— its separation of interface from algorithm and soft-ware from hardware — makes it a powerful metaphorfor everything we believe is invisible yet generates visi-ble, logical effects, from genetics to the invisible handof the market, from ideology to culture.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, who has studied both systems designand English literature, is Professor of Modern Culture andMedia at Brown University. She is the author of Control andFreedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MITPress, 2006, 2008).

April — 7 x 9, 248 pp. — 27 illus.

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Software Studies series

THE SUPERCOLLIDER BOOKedited by Scott Wilson, David Cottle, and Nick Collinsforeword by James McCartney

SuperCollider is the most important domain-specificaudio programming language of the last decade, withpotential applications that include real-time interaction,

installations, electroacousticpieces, generative music, andaudiovisuals. The SuperColliderBook is the essential referenceto this powerful and flexiblelanguage, offering students and

professionals a collection of tutorials, essays, and projects. SuperCollider, first developed by James McCartney,

is an accessible blend of Smalltalk, C, and further ideas from a number of programming languages. Free,open-source, cross-platform, and with a diverse andsupportive developer community, it is often the firstprogramming language sound artists and computermusicians learn. The SuperCollider Book is the long-awaited guide to the design, syntax, and use of theSuperCollider language. The first chapters offer anintroduction to the basics, including a friendly tutorialfor absolute beginners, providing the reader with skillsthat can serve as a foundation for further learning.Later chapters cover more advanced topics and partic-ular topics in computer music, including programming,sonification, spatialization, microsound, GUIs,machine listening, alternative tunings, and non-real-time synthesis; practical applications and philosophicalinsights from the composer’s and artist’s perspectives;and “under the hood,” developer’s-eye views ofSuperCollider’s inner workings.

Scott Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Birmingham, England. David Cottle is Lecturer AssociateProfessor at the School of Music, University of Utah. NickCollins is Lecturer in Music Informatics at the University of Sussex.

April — 8 x 9, 784 pp. — 420 illus.

$45.00S/£33.95 cloth978-0-262-23269-2

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A theoretical examinationof the surprising emergence of softwareas a guiding metaphorfor our neoliberal world.

The essential referenceto SuperCollider, a powerful, flexible, open-source, cross-platform audio programming language.






SYNTHETICSAspects of Art and Technology in Australia,1956–1975Stephen Jones

New technologies continually arise, offering repeatedopportunities to artists in search of the technologicallynovel. Stephen Jones calls this phenomenon the “rolling

new,” and in Synthetics hedescribes how artists inAustralia used new technolo-gies in their art, from the early

days of digital computing in the 1950s to a landmarkexhibition in 1975. Jones looks at not only the artistsand the artworks they produced but also at the evolu-tion of computing technologies and video displays asthese new forms of media developed into tools thatartists could use. He also examines the collaborationsthat sprang up between artists and the technologistswho taught them how to use these new devices. Theprocess, he finds, was reciprocal: the offerings of theengineer could inspire the artist as much as the needs of the artist could inspire the engineer.

Jones discusses the constraints imposed by the limitations of new technologies as they developed and shows that different types of output and displaytechnologies made for the production of very differentkinds of images. By 1975, the art and technologymovement in Australia reached something of a watershed. The work itself became established as an art form just as funding dwindled and a popularand supportive left-wing government left office. Andyet, Jones writes, the early electronic artists laid thefoundation for today’s burgeoning culture of newmedia art in Australia.

Stephen Jones is an Australian video artist and electronicengineer.

March — 7 x 9, 408 pp. — 108 illus.

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A Leonardo Book

CODE/SPACESoftware and Everyday LifeRob Kitchin and Martin Dodge

After little more than half a century since its initialdevelopment, computer code is extensively and inti-mately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives.From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air

traffic control system thatguides our plane in for a landing, software is shapingour world: it creates new waysof undertaking tasks, speeds up and automates existing

practices, transforms social and economic relations, andoffers new forms of cultural activity, personal empower-ment, and modes of play. In Code/Space, Rob Kitchinand Martin Dodge examine software from a spatialperspective, analyzing the dyadic relationship of soft-ware and space. The production of space, they argue, is increasingly dependent on code, and code is writtento produce space.

Kitchin and Dodge develop a set of conceptualtools for identifying and understanding the interrela-tionship of software, space, and everyday life, and illustrate their arguments with rich empirical material.And, finally, they issue a manifesto, calling for criticalscholarship into the production and workings of coderather than simply the technologies it enables — a newkind of social science focused on explaining the social,economic, and spatial contours of software.

Rob Kitchin is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis atthe National University of Maynooth, Ireland. Martin Dodge is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University ofManchester’s School of Environment and Development. Kitchinand Dodge are the authors of Mapping Cyberspace and Atlas of Cyberspace.

March — 7 x 9, 296 pp. — 69 illus.

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A critical and compre-hensive account of theemergence of electronicarts in Australia.

An analysis of the waysthat software creates newspatialities in everydaylife, from supermarketcheckout lines to airlineflight paths.






QUEST TO LEARNDeveloping the School for Digital KidsKatie Salen, Robert Torres, Loretta Wolozin,Rebecca Rufo-Tepper, and Arana Shapiro

Quest to Learn, an innovative school for grades 6 to 12 in New York City, grew out of the idea that gamingand game design offer a promising new paradigm for

curriculum and learning. Thisresearch and development document outlines the learningframework for the school, making the original design

available to others in the field.

Katie Salen, Executive Director of Design at Quest to Learn, isProfessor of Design and Technology at Parsons the New Schoolfor Design. She is the coauthor of Rules of Play: Game DesignFundamentals (2003) and coeditor of The Game Design Reader:A Rules of Play Anthology (2005), both published by the MIT Press.

January — 5 3/8 x 8, 164 pp. — 5 illus.

$14.00S/£10.95 paper978-0-262-51565-8

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

education/technology

DIGITAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGYIN AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS,LIBRARIES, AND MUSEUMSBecky Herr-Stephenson, Diana Rhoten, Dan Perkel, and Christo Simswith contributions from Anne Balsamo, Maura Klosterman, and Susana Smith Bautista

The authors of this reportreview a range of programs and then use the idea of “mediaecologies” to investigate the rolethat digital media play (or could

play) in these “intermediary spaces for learning.”

Becky Herr-Stephenson is a postdoctoral researcher at theUniversity of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).Diana Rhoten is leader of the MacArthur Foundation–fundedLearning Networks project in New York City. Dan Perkel andChristo Sims are PhD candidates at the School of Informationat the University of California, Berkeley.

January — 5 3/8 x 8, 96 pp.

$14.00S/£10.95 paper978-0-262-51576-4

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

PERCEPTION BEYOND INFERENCE The Information Content of Visual Processesedited by Liliana Albertazzi, Gert J. van Tonder,and Dhanraj Vishwanath

This book brings together a multidisciplinary group ofauthors who offer proposals for a clearer and morecoherent effort to understand the information content

of perception. Their argumentsarise from a dissatisfactionwith the current research para-digms for studying the mind.These traditional approaches,based on standard information

theory and digital computation, now seem unsuited fordealing with the levels of complexity inherent in under-standing the full scope of mental processes.

The contributors counter the widely held assump-tion of “perception as inference” — the idea that pre-ception is a process of reconstructing or recognizingobjective information already constituted in the exter-nal environment. Instead, they propose the opposite:that perception involves the creation of information,that the mind intentionally perceives, actively generat-ing a meaningful reality.

Liliana Albertazzi is Associate Professor in the Faculty ofCognitive Science at Trento University, Italy. Gert J. van Tonderis Professor of Vision Research and Adjunct Professor at theLaboratory of Visual Psychology, Department of Architectureand Design, at Kyoto Institute of Technology. Dhanraj Vishwanathis RCUK (Research Councils UK) Academic Fellow in the Schoolof Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.


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The design for Quest to Learn, an innovativeschool in New York Citythat offers a “game-like”approach to learning.

An investigation of howthree kinds of youthorganizations have integrated digital practices into their programs.

Proposing a new paradigm for perceptualscience that goes beyondstandard informationtheory and digital computation.

CONTRIBUTORS Liliana Albertazzi, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Ernest Edmonds, Timothy L. Hubbard, Amy Ione, Jan J. Koenderink, Ilana Kovács, Rainer Mausfeld, Baingio Pinna,Shinsuke Shimojo, Gert J. van Tonder, Dhanraj Vishwanath,Stephen W. Zucker








YUCK!The Nature and Moral Significance of DisgustDaniel Kelly

People can be disgusted by the concrete and by the abstract — by an object theyfind physically repellent or by an ideology or value system they find morallyabhorrent. Different things will disgust different people, depending on individualsensibilities or cultural backgrounds. In Yuck!, Daniel Kelly investigates the char-acter and evolution of disgust, with an emphasis on understanding the role thisemotion has come to play in our social and moral lives.

Disgust has recently been riding a swell of scholarly attention, especiallyfrom those in the cognitive sciences and those in the humanities in the midst ofthe “affective turn.” Kelly surveys the empirical literature and experimentalresults relevant to disgust and proposes a cognitive model that can accommo-date what we now know about it. He offers a new account of the evolution ofdisgust that builds on the model and argues that expressions of disgust are partof a sophisticated but largely automatic signaling system that humans use totransmit information about what to avoid in the local environment. Drawing ongene culture coevolutionary theory, Kelly argues that disgust was co-opted toplay certain roles in our moral psychology. He shows that many of the puzzling

features of moral repugnance tinged with disgust are by-prod-ucts of the imperfect fit between a cognitive system thatevolved to protect against poisons and parasites and the socialand moral issues on which it has been brought to bear. Kelly’saccount of this emotion provides a powerful argument againstinvoking disgust in the service of moral justification.

Daniel Kelly is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy atPurdue University.

An exploration of the character andevolution of disgust and the rolethis emotion plays in our social and moral lives.

July6 x 9, 208 pp.5 illus.

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THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF DEPRESSIONAutonomy through PsychotherapyPaul Biegler

One in six people worldwide will experience depressionover the course of a lifetime. Many who seek reliefthrough the healthcare system are treated with antide-

pressant medication; in theUnited States, nearly 170 million prescriptions for antidepressants were written in 2005, resulting in more than $12 billion in sales. Andyet despite the dominance of

antidepressants in the marketplace and the consultingroom, another treatment for depression has provenequally effective: psychotherapy — in particular, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Antidepressants can lift mood independent of a person’s understandingof symptoms or stressors. By contrast, CBT teachespatients skills for dealing with distressing feelings, negative thoughts, and causal stressors. In The EthicalTreatment of Depression, Paul Biegler argues that theinsights patients gain from the therapeutic process promote autonomy. He shows that depression is a disorder in which autonomy is routinely and extensivelyundermined and that physicians have a moral obligationto promote the autonomy of depressed patients. Heconcludes that medical practitioners have an ethicalimperative to prescribe psychotherapy — CBT in particular — for depression.

To make his case, Biegler draws on a wide philo-sophical literature relevant to autonomy and the emotions and makes a comprehensive survey of thelatest research findings from the psychological sciences.Forcefully argued, densely researched, and engaginglywritten, the book issues a challenge to physicians whobelieve their duty of care to depressed patients is dis-charged by merely writing prescriptions for antidepres-sants.

Paul Biegler is Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowin Philosophy at the School of Philosophical, Historical, andInternational Studies, Monash University.

April — 6 x 9, 224 pp. — 1 illus.

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Philosophical Psychopathology series

ADDICTION AND RESPONSIBILITYedited by Jeffrey Poland and George Graham

Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict’s hap-piness and health but also the welfare and well-being ofothers. It represents a loss of self-control and a varietyof other cognitive impairments and behavioral deficits.An addict may say, “I couldn’t help myself.” But ques-

tions arise: are we responsiblefor our addictions? And whatresponsibilities do others haveto help us? This volume offersa range of perspectives onaddiction and responsibility

and how the two are bound together. Distinguishedcontributors — from theorists to clinicians, from neuro-scientists and psychologists to philosophers and legalscholars — discuss these questions in essays using avariety of conceptual and investigative tools.

Some contributors offer models of addiction-relatedphenomena, including theories of incentive sensitization,ego-depletion, and pathological affect; others addresssuch traditional philosophical questions as free will andagency, mind-body, and other minds. Two essays, writ-ten by scholars who were themselves addicts, attemptto integrate first-person phenomenological accountswith the third-person perspective of the sciences.

Jeffrey Poland teaches in the Department of History,Philosophy, and Social Science at Rhode Island School ofDesign and in the Science and Society Program at BrownUniversity. George Graham is Professor of Philosophy andNeuroscience at Georgia State University.

June — 6 x 9, 328 pp. — 9 illus.

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A philosopher arguesthere is an ethicalimperative to providepsychotherapy todepressed patientsbecause the insightsgained from it promoteautonomy.

The intertwining of addiction and responsibility in personal, philosophical,legal, research, and clinical contexts.

CONTRIBUTORS George Ainslie, Sheila M. Alessi, Kent C. Berridge, Louis C. Charland, Owen Flanagan, Richard Garrett, George Graham, Neil Levy, Stephen J. Morse,Nancy M. Petry, Jeffrey Poland, Nancy Nyquist Potter, Carla J. Rash, Terry E. Robinson, Gideon Yaffe






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BLIND VISIONThe Neuroscience of Visual ImpairmentZaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi

Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxi-cal. And yet, if we conceive of “seeing” as the ability to generate internal mental representations that maycontain visual details, the idea of blind vision becomes a

concept subject to investigation.In this book, Zaira Cattaneoand Tomaso Vecchi examinethe effects of blindness andother types of visual deficit on

the development and functioning of the human cogni-tive system. Drawing on behavioral and neurophysio-logical data, Cattaneo and Vecchi analyze research onmental imagery, spatial cognition, and compensatorymechanisms at the sensorial, cognitive, and cortical levels in individuals with complete or profound visualimpairment. They find that our brain does not need our eyes to “see.”

Cattaneo and Vecchi address critical questions ofbroad importance: the relationship of visual perceptionto imagery and working memory and the extent towhich mental imagery depends on normal vision; thefunctional and neural relationships between vision and the other senses; the specific aspects of the visualexperience that are crucial to cognitive development orspecific cognitive mechanisms; and the extraordinaryplasticity of the brain — as illustrated by the way that,in the blind, the visual cortex may be reorganized tosupport other perceptual or cognitive funtions. In theabsence of vision, the other senses work as functionalsubstitutes and are often improved.

Zaira Cattaneo is a Research Scientist at the University ofMilano-Bicocca. Tomaso Vecchi is Professor of ExperimentalPsychology and Dean of the School of Psychology at theUniversity of Pavia, Italy.


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THE PROCESSING AND ACQUISITION OF REFERENCEedited by Edward A. Gibson and Neal J. Pearlmutter

This volume brings together contributions by prominentresearchers in the fields of language processing and language acquisition on topics of common interest:

how people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend such referentialexpressions, and how childrenacquire the ability to refer andto understand reference.

The contributors first discuss issues related to children’s acquisition and processing of reference, thenconsider evidence of adults’ processing of reference fromeye-tracking methods (the visual-world paradigm) andfrom corpora and reading experiments. The chaptersdiscuss such topics as how children resolve ambiguity,children’s difficulty in understanding coreference, using eye movements to physical objects to measurethe accessibility of different referents, the uses of probabilistic and pragmatic information in languagecomprehension; antecedent accessibility and salience in reference, and neuropsychological data from theevent-related potential (ERP) recording literature.

Edward A. Gibson is Professor of Cognitive Science in MIT’sDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Neal J. Pearlmutteris Associate Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University.

April — 6 x 9, 456 pp. — 46 illus.

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CONTRIBUTORS Jennifer Arnold, Sergey Avrutin, Sergio Baauw, Craig G. Chambers, Youngon Choi, H. Wind Cowles,Stephen Crain, Joke de Lange, Jodi D. Edwards, Simon Garrod,Alan Garnham, Daniel Grodner, Andrea Gualmini, P. Hagoort, Elsi Kaiser, Luisa Meroni, Eleni Miltsakaki, Linda M. Moxey, Julien Musolino, Anna Papafragou, Tanya Reinhart, Esther Ruigendijk, Anthony J. Sanford, Julie Sedivy, Michael K. Tanenhaus, John Trueswell, Nada Vasic, Ken Wexler,Shalom Zuckerman

Experts discuss issuesrelated to the acquistionand processing of reference by childrenand the processing ofreference by adults.

An investigation of theeffects of blindness andother types of visualdeficit on cognitive abilities.






LAWS, MIND, AND FREE WILLSteven Horst

In Laws, Mind, and Free Will, Steven Horst addressesthe apparent dissonance between the picture of the natural world that arises from the sciences and ourunderstanding of ourselves as agents who think and act. If the mind and the world are entirely governed

by natural laws, there seems to be no room left for free willto operate. Moreover, althoughthe laws of physical science areclear and verifiable, the sciencesof the mind seem to yield only

rough generalizations rather than universal laws ofnature. Horst argues that these two familiar problemsin philosophy — the apparent tension between free willand natural law and the absence of “strict” laws in thesciences of the mind — are artifacts of a particularphilosophical thesis about the nature of laws: that lawsmake claims about how objects actually behave. Horstargues against this Empiricist orthodoxy and proposesan alternative account of laws — an account rooted in acognitivist approach to philosophy of science.

Horst’s alternative account, which he calls “cognitivePluralism,” vindicates the truth of psychological lawsand resolves the tension between human freedom andthe sciences.

Steven Horst is Professor of Philosophy at WesleyanUniversity. He is the author of Symbols, Computation, andIntentionality: A Critique of Computational Theory of Mind andBeyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-ReductionistPhilosophy of Science.

March — 6 x 9, 288 pp. — 60 illus.

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WITTGENSTEIN IN EXILEJames C. Klagge

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus(1922) and Philosophical Investigations (1953) areamong the most influential philosophical books of thetwentieth century, and also among the most perplexing.Wittgenstein warned again and again that he was not

and would not be understood.Moreover, Wittgenstein’s workseems to have little relevanceto the way philosophy is done

today. In Wittgenstein in Exile, James Klagge proposes a new way of looking at Wittgenstein — as an exile —that helps make sense of this. Wittgenstein’s exile wasnot, despite his wanderings from Vienna to Cambridgeto Norway to Ireland, strictly geographical; rather,Klagge argues, Wittgenstein was never at home in thetwentieth century. He was in exile from an earlier era— Oswald Spengler’s culture of the early nineteenthcentury.

Klagge draws on the full range of evidence, includingWittgenstein’s published work, the complete Nachlaß,correspondence, lectures, and conversations. He placesWittgenstein’s work in a broad context, along a trajectoryof thought that includes Job, Goethe, and Dostoyevsky.Yet Klagge also writes from an analytic philosophicalperspective, discussing such topics as essentialism, pri-vate experience, relativism, causation, and eliminativism.Once we see Wittgenstein’s exile, Klagge argues, wewill gain a better appreciation of the difficulty ofunderstanding Wittgenstein and his work.

James C. Klagge is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Virginia Tech. He is the coeditor of two collections ofWittgenstein’s writings, Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951and Public and Private Occasions, and the editor ofWittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy.


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An account of scientificlaws that vindicates thestatus of psychologicallaws and shows naturallaws to be compatiblewith free will.

A new way of looking at Wittgenstein: as anexile from an earlier cultural era.






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DIALOGUES WITH DAVIDSONActing, Interpreting, Understandingedited by Jeff Malpasforeword by Dagfinn Føllesdal

The work of the philosopher Donald Davidson(1917–2003) is not only wide ranging in its influenceand vision, but also in the breadth of issues that it

encompasses. Davidson’s workincludes seminal contributionsto philosophy of language andmind, to philosophy of action,and to epistemology and metaphysics.

In Dialogues with Davidson, leading scholars engagewith Davidson’s work as it connects not only withaspects of current analytic thinking but also with awider set of perspectives, including those of hermeneu-tics, phenomenology, the history of philosophy, femi-nist epistemology, and contemporary social theory.They link Davidson’s work to other thinkers, includingCollingwood, Kant, Derrida, Heidegger, and Gadamer.

The essays demonstrate the continuing significanceof Davidson’s philosophy, not only in terms of thephilosophical relevance of the ideas he advanced, butalso in the further connections and insights those ideasengender.

Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy and ARC AustralianProfessorial Fellow at the University of Tasmania. He is theauthor of Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topology andHeidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World (MIT Press, 2007)and the editor of The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts,Studies (MIT Press, 2011).

July — 6 x 9, 504 pp.

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THE PLACE OF LANDSCAPEConcepts, Contexts, Studiesedited by Jeff Malpas

This volume explores the conceptual “topography” oflandscape: It examines the character of landscape asitself a mode of place as well as the modes of place that appear in relation to landscape.

The essays examine land-scape as it appears within avariety of contexts, from geog-raphy through photographyand garden history to theol-ogy; and more specific studieslook at the forms of landscape

in medieval landscape painting, film and television, and in relation to national identity.

The essays demonstrate that the study of landscapecannot be restricted to any one genre, cannot be takenas the exclusive province of any one discipline, andcannot be exhausted by any single form of analysis.What the place of landscape now evokes is itself awide-ranging terrain encompassing issues concerningthe nature of place, of human being in place, and ofthe structures that shape such being and are shaped by it.

Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy and ARC AustralianProfessorial Fellow at the University of Tasmania. He is theauthor of Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topology andHeidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World (MIT Press, 2007)and the editor of Dialogues with Davidson: Acting,Interpreting, Understanding (MIT Press, 2011).

June — 6 x 9, 376 pp. — 17 illus.

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CONTRIBUTORS Lee Braver, Gordon G. Brittan, Jr., Sharyn Clough, Giuseppina D’Oro, Robert Dostal, Christoph Durt,Jonathan Ellis, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Barbara Fultner, David Couzens Hoy, Jeff Malpas, Richard N. Manning, Giancarlo Marchetti, Mark Okrent, Gerhard Preyer, Bjørn Ramberg,Richard Rorty, Louise Röska-Hardy, Frederick Stoutland, Stephen Turner, David Vessey, Samuel C. Wheeler III

CONTRIBUTORS Andrew Benjamin, John J. Bradley, Isis Brook,Katie Campbell, Edward S. Casey, Bernard Debarbieux, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, J. Nicholas Entrikin, Nigel Everett,Ross Gibson, Wesley A. Kort, Jeff Malpas, Michael Rosenthal,Theodore R. Schatzki, Philip Sheldrake, Reinhard Steiner

Leading scholars discussDonald Davidson’s workin relation to a widerange of contemporaryphilosophical issues and approaches.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from thephilosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on theoverarching concept of place.






THE LANGUAGE OF THOUGHTA New Philosophical DirectionSusan Schneider

The Language of Thought (LOT) approach to thenature of mind has been highly influential in cognitivescience and the philosophy of mind; and yet, as SusanSchneider argues, its philosophical foundations are

weak. In this philosophicalrefashioning of LOT and therelated Computational Theoryof Mind (CTM), Schneideroffers a different frameworkthan has been developed by

LOT and CTM’s main architect, Jerry Fodor: one thatseeks integration with neuroscience, repudiates Fodor’spessimism about the capacity of cognitive science toexplain cognition, embraces pragmatism, and advancesa different approach to the nature of concepts, mentalsymbols, and modes of presentation.

According to the LOT approach, conceptualthought is determined by the manipulation of mentalsymbols according to algorithms. Schneider tacklesthree key problems that have plagued the LOTapproach for decades: the computational nature of the central system (the system responsible for highercognitive function); the nature of symbols; and Fregecases. To address these problems, Schneider develops a computational theory that is based on the GlobalWorkspace approach; develops a theory of symbols,“the algorithmic view”; and brings her theory of sym-bols to bear on LOT’s account of the causation ofthought and behavior. Schneider shows that LOTmust make peace with both computationalism andpragmatism; indeed, the new conception of symbolsrenders LOT a pragmatist theory. And LOT mustturn its focus to cognitive and computational neuro-science for its naturalism to succeed.

Susan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, a facultymember in the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science andthe Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and a member of theCenter for Neuroscience and Society at the University ofPennsylvania. Her previous books include The BlackwellCompanion to Consciousness (with Max Velmans).

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INFORMATION AND LIVING SYSTEMSPhilosophical and Scientific Perspectivesedited by George Terzis and Robert Arp

Information shapes biological organization in funda-mental ways and at every organizational level. Becauseorganisms use information — including DNA codes,gene expression, and chemical signaling — to construct,

maintain, repair, and replicatethemselves, it would seem onlynatural to use information-related ideas in our attempts tounderstand the general natureof living systems, the causality

by which they operate, the difference between livingand inanimate matter, and the emergence, in some biological species, of cognition, emotion, and language.And yet philosophers and scientists have been slow to do so. This volume fills that gap. Information andLiving Systems offers a collection of original chapters inwhich scientists and philosophers discuss the informa-tional nature of biological organization at levels rangingfrom the genetic and to the cognitive and linguistic.

The chapters examine not only familiar information-related ideas intrinsic to the biological sciences but also broader information-theoretic perspectives used to interpret their significance, thus demonstrating the deeply interdisciplinary nature of the volume’sbioinformational theme.

George Terzis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SaintLouis University. His articles have appeared in such prominentjournals as American Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journalof Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, and PhilosophicalStudies. Robert Arp is an ontologist and philosopher living inMcLean, Virginia. He is the author of Scenario Visualization:An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving (MIT Press,2008).

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A philosophical refashioning of theLanguage of Thoughtapproach and the relatedcomputational theory of mind.

The informational nature of biologicalorganization, at levelsfrom the genetic andepigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic.

CONTRIBUTORS Robert Arp, David Attewell, Roland Baddeley,Cedric Boeckx, Luciano Boi, Nicolas J. Bullot, Sarah B. Burger,María Cerezo, Yasar Demirel, Charbel El-Hani, Claus Emmeche,Aurelio José Figueredo, Paul R. Gladden, Benoit Hardy-Vallés, W. Jake Jacobs, Kalevi Kull, Natalia López-Moratalla, Alfredo Marcos,Alvaro Moreno, Sally G. Olderbak, Rebecca A. Pyles, João Queiroz,Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Niall Shanks, George Terzis, Juan Uriagereka,Benjamin Vincent






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MODES OF CREATIVITYPhilosophical PerspectivesIrving Singerappendix by Moreland Perkins

In this philosophical exploration of creativity, Irving Singer describes the manydifferent types of creativity and their varied manifestations within and across all the arts and sciences. Singer’s approach is pluralistic rather than abstract ordogmatic. His reflections amplify recent discoveries in cognitive science and neu-robiology by aligning them with the aesthetic, affective, and phenomenologicalframework of experience and behavior that characterizes the human quest formeaning.

Creativity has long fascinated Singer, and in Modes of Creativity he carriesforward investigations begun in earlier works. Marshaling a wealth of examplesand anecdotes ranging from antiquity to the present, about persons as diverse asEinstein and Sherlock Holmes, Singer describes the interactions of the creativeand the imaginative, the inventive, the novel, and the original. He maintainsthat our preoccupation with creativity devolves from biological, psychological,and social bases of our material being; that creativity is not limited to any singleaspect of human existence but rather inheres not only in art and the aestheticbut also in science, technology, moral practice, as well as ordinary daily experience.

Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life as well as RealityTransformed: Film as Meaning and Technique (1998); Three PhilosophicalFilmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir (2004); Ingmar Bergman, CinematicPhilosopher: Reflections on His Creativity (2007); Cinematic Mythmaking:Philosophy in Film (2008); Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up(2009); and Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas(2010), all published by the MIT Press, and many other books.

“The writing in this book is classic Singer: gracefully urbane,informed, insightful, and easily at home with the whole western tradition in philosophy. His book is oriented in a genuinely openway to anyone interested in the subject of imagination and creativity.Readers will welcome its wholesome sunlit sanity amid the fogs andmiasmas of postmodernism.”

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Aalst, Modeling Business Processes 79

Abramson, Romance in the Ivory Tower 56

Acting in an Uncertain World, Callon 63

Addiction and Responsibility, Poland 93

Ai Weiwei’s Blog, Ai 2

Ai, Ai Weiwei’s Blog 2

Alac, Handling Digital Brains 85

Albertazzi, Perception beyond Inference 91

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Allenby, The Techno-Human Condition 11

Alphabet and the Algorithm, Carpo 34

Amado, Voiture Minimum 6

America’s Environmental Report Card, second edition, Blatt 10

America’s Food, Blatt 54

Anaphora and Language Design, Reuland 80

Angotti, New York for Sale 56

Armstrong, Women Artists at the Millennium 51

Artists’ Magazines, Allen 29

Ashby, Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data 75

Aspray, Everyday Information 85

Atlas of New Librarianship, Lankes 84

Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture 33

Axilrod, Inside the Fed, revised edition 15

Balinski, Majority Judgment 67

Band, Interfaces on Trial 2.0 86

Barsky, Zellig Harris 26

Bayesian Brain, Doya 58

Being Watched, Lambert-Beatty 51

Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat, Kafai 55

Beyond Resource Wars, Dinar 72

Bhabha, Children Without a State 72

Biegler, The Ethical Treatment of Depression 93

Blatt, America’s Environmental Report Card, second edition 10

Blatt, America’s Food 54

Blind Vision, Cattaneo 94

Blowout in the Gulf, Freudenburg 3

Brams, Game Theory and the Humanities 67

Branigan, Provocative Syntax 79

Brown, Do Democracies Win Their Wars? 71

Buckley, Utopie 45

Bynum, Christian Materiality 42

Calcott, The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited 78

Calleja, In-Game 87

Callon, Acting in an Uncertain World 63

Campany, Jeff Wall 40

Caplan, When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home 4

Carmin, Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders 73

Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm 34

Cattaneo, Blind Vision 94

Cerebral Plasticity, Chalupa 76

Chalupa, Cerebral Plasticity 76

Children Without a State, Bhabha 72

Chimeras and Consciousness, Margulis 75

Chiu, Contemporary Art in Asia 31

Christian Materiality, Bynum 42

Chun, Programmed Visions 89

Clapp, Paths to a Green World, second edition 73

Code/Space, Kitchin 90

Cold War Kitchen, Oldenziel 57

Collected Scientific Papers of Paul Samuelson, Volumes 6 and 7 Samuelson 65

Coming Clean, Kraft 74

Computational Perspective on Visual Attention, Tsotsos 77

Conkling, The Fate of Greenland 9

Conservation Refugees, Dowie 54

Contemporary Art in Asia, Chiu 31

Costanza, Sustainability or Collapse? 59

Cox, Metareasoning 82

Cross, Off-Track Profs 57

Dalkir, Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice, second edition 82

Dan Graham, Kitnick 36

de Monchaux, Spacesuit 7

Decety, The Social Neuroscience of Empathy 59

Democracy’s Arsenal, Gansler 70

Dialogues with Davidson, Malpas 96

Digital Dead End, Eubanks 20

Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries, and Museums, Herr-Stephenson 91

Digitally Enabled Social Change, Earl 86

Dinar, Beyond Resource Wars 72

Divining a Digital Future, Dourish 88

Do Democracies Win Their Wars?, Brown 71

Dourish, Divining a Digital Future 88

Dowie, Conservation Refugees 54

Doya, Bayesian Brain 58

Dream Life, Hobson 27

Earl, Digitally Enabled Social Change 86

Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, second edition, Wooldridge 69

Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Postal 80

End of Energy, Graetz 8

Entangled Geographies, Hecht 84

Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders, Carmin 73

Ethical Treatment of Depression, Biegler 93

Eubanks, Digital Dead End 20

Everyday Information, Aspray 85

Fate of Greenland, Conkling 9

Fertility and Public Policy, Takayama 68

Fighting Traffic, Norton 61

Filming of Modern Life, Turvey 35

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Freudenburg, Blowout in the Gulf 3

Game Theory and the Humanities, Brams 67

Gansler, Democracy’s Arsenal 70

Gao, Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art 30

Gibson, The Processing and Acquisition of Reference 94

Gissis, Transformations of Lamarckism 78

González, Subject to Display 52

Gordon Matta-Clark, Jenkins 41

Government’s Place in the Market, Spitzer 14

Graetz, The End of Energy 8

Grover-Friedlander, Operatic Afterlives 43

Handling Digital Brains, Alac 85

Harmonic Mind, Volumes 1 and 2, Smolensky 63

Hecht, Entangled Geographies 84

Helvetica and the New York City Subway System, Shaw 5

Herr-Stephenson, Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries, and Museums 91

Hess, Understanding Knowledge as a Commons 58

History of Modern Experimental Psychology, Mandler 60

Hobson, Dream Life 27

Holmstrom, Inside and Outside Liquidity 64

Horst, Laws, Mind, and Free Will 95

Hoy, Mathematics for Economics, third edition 66

Hoy, Student Solutions Manual for Mathematics for Economics, third edition 66

Hughes, Systems, Experts, and Computers 61

Hurley, Inside Jokes 18

Imagining MIT, Mitchell 53

In-Game, Calleja 87

Information and Living Systems, Terzis 97

Inside and Outside Liquidity, Holmstrom 64

Inside Jokes, Hurley 18

Inside the Fed, revised edition, Axilrod 15

Interfaces on Trial 2.0, Band 86

Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, second edition, Siegwart 81

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, Saliba 62

Isozaki, Japan-ness in Architecture 53

Japan-ness in Architecture, Isozaki 53

Jeff Wall, Campany 40

Jenkins, Gordon Matta-Clark 41

Jones, Synthetics 90

Kafai, Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat 55

Kahn, Technological Nature 12

Kelly, Sound 37

Kelly, Yuck! 92

Keyser, Mens et Mania 25

Kirby, Lab Coats in Hollywood 21

Kitchin, Code/Space 90

Kitnick, Dan Graham 36

Klagge, Wittgenstein in Exile 95

Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice, second edition, Dalkir 82

Kraft, Coming Clean 74

Kraus, Where Art Belongs 46

Kroszner, Reforming U.S. Financial Markets 16

Lab Coats in Hollywood, Kirby 21

Lambert-Beatty, Being Watched 51

Landau, Surveillance or Security? 22

Language of Thought, Schneider 97

Lankes, The Atlas of New Librarianship 84

Laws, Mind, and Free Will, Horst 95

Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art, Rosen 39

Living in Denial, Norgaard 74

Lowood, The Machinima Reader 87

Lunenfeld, The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading 19

Machinima Reader, Lowood 87

Maeda, Redesigning Leadership 1

Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, Calcott 78

Majority Judgment, Balinski 67

Malpas, Dialogues with Davidson 96

Malpas, The Place of Landscape 96

Mandler, A History of Modern Experimental Psychology 60

Marazzi, The Violence of Financial Capitalism, new edition 48

Margulis, Chimeras and Consciousness 75

Mathematics for Economics, third edition, Hoy 66

McDonough, “The Beautiful Language of My Century” 52

Mens et Mania, Keyser 25

Metareasoning, Cox 82

Mitchell, Imagining MIT 53

Modeling Business Processes, Aalst 79

Modes of Creativity, Singer 98

Monstrosity of Christ, Žižek 49

Myers, Painting 38

Naked Genes, Nowotny 83

Neural Control Engineering, Schiff 77

New Directions in Financial Services Regulation, Porter 66

New York for Sale, Angotti 56

Nightwork, updated edition, Peterson 23

Norgaard, Living in Denial 74

Norton, Fighting Traffic 61

Nowotny, Naked Genes 83

Off-Track Profs, Cross 57

Offshoring Strategies, Oshri 17

Oldenziel, Cold War Kitchen 57

Operatic Afterlives, Grover-Friedlander 43

Oshri, Offshoring Strategies 17

Our Own Worst Enemy?, Weiner 71

Painting, Myers 38

Paths to a Green World, second edition, Clapp 73

INDEX



Perception beyond Inference, Albertazzi 91

Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel 28

Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, Phelps 68

Peterson, Nightwork, updated edition 23

Phelps, Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies 68

Philosophy of Love, Singer 55

Place of Landscape, Malpas 96

Poland, Addiction and Responsibility 93

Porter, New Directions in Financial Services Regulation 66

Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Aureli 33

Postal, Edge-Based Clausal Syntax 80

Power Struggles, Schiffer 62

Processing and Acquisition of Reference, Gibson 94

Programmed Visions, Chun 89

Provocative Syntax, Branigan 79

Pylyshyn, Things and Places 60

Quantum Computing, Rieffel 81

Quest to Learn, Salen 91

Redesigning Leadership, Maeda 1

Reforming U.S. Financial Markets, Kroszner 16

Reuland, Anaphora and Language Design 80

Rieffel, Quantum Computing 81

Romance in the Ivory Tower, Abramson 56

Rosen, A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art 39

Salen, Quest to Learn 91

Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the EuropeanRenaissance 62

Samuelson, The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul Samuelson, Volumes 6 and 7 65

Sand, The Words and the Land 44

Schiff, Neural Control Engineering 77

Schiffer, Power Struggles 62

Schneider, The Language of Thought 97

Schwitzgebel, Perplexities of Consciousness 28

Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading, Lunenfeld 19

Sentient City, Shepard 32

Shaw, Helvetica and the New York City Subway System 5

Shepard, Sentient City 32

Siegwart, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, second edition 81

Singer, Modes of Creativity 98

Singer, Philosophy of Love 55

Smolensky, The Harmonic Mind, Volumes 1 and 2 63

Social Neuroscience of Empathy, Decety 59

Solutions Manual and Supplementary Materials for Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, second edition, Wooldridge 69

Sound, Kelly 37

Spacesuit, de Monchaux 7

Spitzer, Government’s Place in the Market 14

Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data, Ashby 75

Student Solutions Manual for Mathematics for Economics, third edition, Hoy 66

Subject to Display, González 52

SuperCollider Book, Wilson 89

Surveillance or Security?, Landau 22

Sustainability or Collapse?, Costanza 59

Synthetics, Jones 90

Systems, Experts, and Computers, Hughes 61

Takayama, Fertility and Public Policy 68

Techno-Human Condition, Allenby 11

Technological Nature, Kahn 12

Terzis, Information and Living Systems 97

“The Beautiful Language of My Century,” McDonough 52

Things and Places, Pylyshyn 60

This is Not a Program, Tiqqun 47

Tiqqun, This is Not a Program 47

Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art, Gao 30

Trade and Poverty, Williamson 65

Transformations of Lamarckism, Gissis 78

Tsotsos, A Computational Perspective on Visual Attention 77

Turvey, The Filming of Modern Life 35

Understanding Knowledge as a Commons, Hess 58

Utopie, Buckley 45

Violence of Financial Capitalism, new edition, Marazzi 48

Voiture Minimum, Amado 6

Weiner, Our Own Worst Enemy? 71

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Caplan 4

Where Art Belongs, Kraus 46

Widening Sphere, Alexander 24

Williamson, Trade and Poverty 65

Wilson, The SuperCollider Book 89

Wittgenstein in Exile, Klagge 95

Women Artists at the Millennium, Armstrong 51

Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data,second edition 69

Wooldridge, Solutions Manual and Supplementary Materials for Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, second edition 69

Words and the Land, Sand 44

Yuck!, Kelly 92

Zellig Harris, Barsky 26

Žižek, The Monstrosity of Christ 49

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