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architecture 23, 30, 95-96 art 6, 24-33, 72-73, 93-95, 97 bioethics 84-85 business 2, 22, 90, 99 cognition, brain, and behavior 52-55 computer science and intelligent systems 73-79 cultural studies 3, 40-43, 94, 96 current affairs 15, 89, 91 design 19, 71-72 economics and finance 20,-21, 67-71, 98, 102103 environment 10-11, 16-17, 18 80-84, 89 food 86-87 game studies 91 linguistics 56-58 literature, literary criticism 4, 8, 39 neuroscience 44-48, 99 new media 7, 91, 97, 100 philosophy 36-37, 40, 48-52, 100, 101 political science, politics 9, 16, 15, 36-37, 66 science 4-5, 13, 17 science, technology, and society 59-65, 92, 93

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memoir/psychoanalysis

DOING PSYCHOANALYSIS IN TEHRAN

Gohar Homayounpour
foreword by Abbas Kiarostami Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain. Twenty years after leaving her country, Homayounpour, an Iranian, Western-trained psychoanalyst, returns to Tehran to establish a psychoanalytic practice. When an American colleague exclaims, I do not think that Iranians can free-associate! Homayounpour responds that in her opinion Iranians do nothing but. Iranian culture, she says, revolves around stories. Why wouldnt Freuds methods work, given Iranians need to talk? Thus begins a fascinating narrative of interlocking stories that resembles more than a littlea psychoanalytic session. Homayounpour recounts the pleasure and pain of returning to her motherland, her passion for the work of Milan Kundera, her complex relationship with Kunderas Iranian translator (her father), and her own and other Iranians anxieties of influence and disobedience. Woven throughout the narrative are glimpses of her sometimes frustrating, always candid, sessions with patients. Ms. N, a famous artist, dreams of abandonment and sits in the analysts chair rather than on the analysands couch; a young chador-clad woman expresses shame because she has lost her virginity; an eloquently suicidal young man cannot kill himself. As a psychoanalyst, Homayounpour knows that behind every story told is another story that remains untold. Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran connects the stories, spoken and unspoken, that ordinary Iranians tell about their lives before their hour is up.
Gohar Homayounpour is a practicing psychoanalyst in Tehran. She trains and supervises the psychoanalysts of the Freudian Group of Tehran and is Professor of Psychology at Shahid Besheti University Tehran. Abbas Kiorastami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker. His most recent film is Certified Copy, starring Juliette Binoche. A Western-trained psychoanalyst returns to her homeland and tells stories of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain.

September 5 x 7, 160 pp. $19.95T/13.95 cloth 978-0-262-01792-3

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business/management

LOGISTICS CLUSTERS
How logistics clusters can create jobs while providing companies with competitive advantage.

Delivering Value and Driving Growth Yossi Sheffi

Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of the worlds maritime containers and half the worlds annual supply of crude oil? Which jobs can replace lost manufacturing jobs in advanced economies? Some of the answers to these questions are rooted in the phenomenon of logistics clustersgeographically concentrated sets of logistics-related business activities. In this book, supply chain management expert Yossi Sheffi explains why Memphis, Singapore, Chicago, Rotterdam, Los Angeles, and scores of other locations have been successful in developing such clusters while others have not. Sheffi outlines the characteristic positive feedback loop of logistics clusters development and what differentiates them from other industrial clusters; how logistics clusters add value by generating other industrial activities; why firms should locate their distribution and value-added activities in logistics clusters; and the proper role of government support, in the form of investment, regulation, and trade policy. Sheffi also argues for the most important advantage offered by logistics clusters in todays recession-plagued economy: jobs, many of them open to low-skilled workers, that are concentrated locally and not offshorable. These logistics clusters offer what is rare in todays economy: authentic success stories. For this reason, numerous regional and central governments as well as scores of real estate developers are investing in the development of such clusters.
Yossi Sheffi is Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. He has worked with leading manufacturers and logistics service providers around the world on supply chain issues and is an active entrepreneur, having founded or cofounded five companies since 1987. He is the author of The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage (MIT Press) and Urban Transportation Networks.

October 6 x 9, 304 pp. $29.95T/20.95 cloth 978-0-262-01845-6

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cultural studies/history of sexuality

THE INVENTION OF HETEROSEXUAL CULTURE

Louis-Georges Tin
Heterosexuality is celebratedin film and television, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cardsand at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, as Louis-Georges Tin shows in The Invention of Heterosexual Culture, in premodern Europe heterosexuality was perceived as an alternative culture. The practice of heterosexuality may have been standard, but the symbolic primacy of the heterosexual couple was not. Tin maps the emergence of heterosexual culture in Western Europe and the significant resistance to it from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Tin writes that before the phenomenon of courtly love in the early twelfth century, the man-woman pairing had not been deemed a subject worthy of more than passing interest. As heterosexuality became a recurrent theme in art and literature, the nobility came to view it as a disruption of the feudal chivalric ethos of virility and male bonding. If feudal lords objected to the hetero in heterosexuality and what they saw as the associated dangers of weakness and effeminacy, the church took issue with the sexuality, which threatened the Christian ethos of renunciation and divine love. Finally, the medical profession cast heterosexuality as pathology, warning of an epidemic of lovesickness. Noting that the discourse of heterosexuality does not belong to heterosexuals alone, Tin offers a groundbreaking history that reasserts the cultural identity of heterosexuality.
Louis-Georges Tin, born in Martinique and now living in Paris, lectures in the arts faculty at the University of Orlans. He is the editor of The Dictionary of Homophobia, the founder of the Paris-based IDAHO Committee, which coordinates International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, and cofounder and spokesman for the Representative Council of Black Associations (CRAN). The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession.

September 6 x 9, 208 pp. $21.95T/15.95 cloth 978-0-262-01770-1

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science/literature

BORGES AND MEMORY

A scientists exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.

Encounters with the Human Brain Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

translated by Juan Pablo Fernndez Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found a fantastically precise interpretation of his research findings in a story written by the great Argentinian fabulist Jorge Luis Borges fifty years earlier. Quian Quiroga studies the workings of the brainin particular how memory worksone of the most complex and elusive mysteries of science. He and his fellow neuroscientists have at their disposal sophisticated imaging equipment and access to information not available just twenty years ago. And yet Borges seemed to have imagined the gist of Quian Quirogas discoveries decades before he made them. The title character of Borgess Funes the Memorious remembers everything in excruciatingly particular detail but is unable to grasp abstract ideas. Quian Quiroga found neurons in the human brain that respond to abstract concepts but ignore particular details, and, spurred by the way Borges imagined the consequences of remembering every detail but being incapable of abstraction, he began a search for the origins of Funes. Borgess widow, Mara Kodama, gave him access to her husbands personal library, and Borgess books led Quian Quiroga to reread earlier thinkers in philosophy and psychology. He found that just as Borges had perhaps dreamed the results of Quian Quirogas discoveries, other thinkersWilliam James, Gustav Spiller, John Stuart Millhad perhaps also dreamed a story like Funes. With Borges and Memory, Quian Quiroga has given us a fascinating and accessible story about the workings of the brain that the great creator of Funes would appreciate.
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, a native of Argentina, is Professor and Director of the Bioengineering Research Centre at the University of Leicester.

October 5 3/8 x 8, 224 pp. 34 illus. $24.95T/17.95 cloth 978-0-262-01821-0

He had effortlessly learned English, French, Portuguese, Latin. I suspect, however, that he was not very capable of thinking. To think is to forget differences, to generalize, to abstract. In Funess crowded world there was nothing but almost immediate details. from Funes the Memorious by Jorge Luis Borges

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science/medicine

UNDERSTANDING PAIN
Exploring the Perception of Pain Fernando Cervero
If you touch something hot, it hurts. You snatch your hand away from the hot thing immediately. Obviously. But what is really happening, biologicallyand emotionally? In Understanding Pain, Fernando Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. You touch something hot and your brain triggers a reflex action that causes you to withdraw your hand, protecting you from injury. That kind of pain, Cervero explains, is actually good for us; it acts as an alarm that warns us of danger and keeps us away from harm. But, Cervero tells us, not all pain is good for you. There is another kind of pain that is more like a curse: chronic pain that is not related to injury. This is the kind of pain that fills pain clinics and makes life miserable. Cervero describes current research into the mysteries of chronic pain and efforts to develop more effective treatments. Cervero reminds us that pain is the most common reason for people to seek medical attention, but that it remains a biological enigma. It is protective, but not always. Its effects are not only sensory but also emotional. There is no way to measure it objectively, no test that comes back positive for pain; the only way a medical professional can gauge pain is by listening to the patients description of it. The idea of pain as a test of character or a punishment to be borne is changing; prevention and treatment of pain are increasingly important to researchers, clinicians, and patients. Cerveros account brings us closer to understanding the meaning of pain.
Fernando Cervero, President of the International Association for the Study of Pain as of August 2012, is Professor of Anesthesia at McGill University, where he is the Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain. An expert explores the nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad.

September 6 x 9, 192 pp. 7 illus. $24.95T/17.95 cloth 978-0-262-01804-3

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art

OH, CANADA
The most comprehensive survey of Canadian contemporary art yet published: a new kind of travel guide with art as the main attraction.

Contemporary Art from North North America edited by Denise Markonish

The fact that Canada has a vibrant contemporary art scene is no secret to Canadians, but in other parts of the world, including the United States, this is not as recognized as it deserves to be. This wide-ranging, comprehensive survey of contemporary Canadian art, showcasing the work of artists from all across the country, will change that. These artists include those who have risen to international prominenceMichael Snow, Garry Neill Kennedy, and Marcel Dzama, among othersas well as many artists who have yet to be discovered outside Canada. Oh, Canada (and the exhibition it accompanies at MASS MoCA) surveys nearly every province and territory, grouping artists by region, offering a new kind of travel guide with art as the main attraction. The result is not art that defines itself by national identity but rather some remarkable contemporary art that happens to be Canadian. Each sectionfrom British Columbia and the Yukon to the Prairies and North, Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada and the Ex-Patsincludes a text on the art of the region, interviews between artists, and examples of their work. Oh, Canada also includes a detailed exploration of todays Canadian art scene by the editor and whimsical shorter pieces in a variety of forms (travelogues, poems, even fiction) by other writers, among them Douglas Coupland and Jane Urquhart. An appendix offers two lists of Canadians you didnt know were Canadianone compiled by an American and the other by a Canadian. Oh, Canada is an unprecedented, near-encyclopedic guide to Canadian contemporary art, and to Canada itself.
Denise Markonish is a curator at MASS MoCA. Her curatorial projects at MASS MoCA include the 2008 exhibition Badlands, for which she edited the accompanying catalog Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape, published by the MIT Press.

September 8 3/4 x 10, 400 pp. 300 illus., color throughout $50.00T/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01835-7 Copublished with MASS MoCA

EXHIBITION
MASS MoCA May 27, 2012April 1, 2013

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ARTISTS INCLUDE
Daniel Barrow, Rebecca Belmore, Shary Boyle, Eric Cameron, Douglas Coupland, Ruth Cuthand, Michel De Broin, Marcel Dzama, Brendan Fernandes, Michael Fernandes, Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob, David Hoffos, Sarah Anne Johnson, Garry Neill Kennedy, Wanda Koop, Micah Lexier, Kelly Mark, Luanne Martineau, Rita McKeough, Kent Monkman, Graeme Patterson, Annie Pootoogook, Ned Pratt, Michael Snow, Charles Stankievech, Hans Wendt, Janet Werner, John Wil

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new media/digital humanities

DIGITAL_HUMANITIES
Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp
Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, What is digital humanities?, it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiryincluding geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Included are chapters on the basics, on emerging methods and genres, and on the social life of the digital humanities, along with case studies, provocations, and advisories. These persuasively crafted interventions offer a descriptive toolkit for anyone involved in the design, production, oversight, and review of digital projects. The authors argue that the digital humanities offers a revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship.
Anne Burdick is Department Chair of Graduate Media Design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and design editor of electronicbookreview.com. Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies at UCLA in the Department of Information Studies and a book artist and visual poet. Peter Lunenfeld is Professor of Design Media Arts at UCLA and the author of User: InfoTechnoDemo, Snap to Grid: A Users Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures, and The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine, all published by the MIT Press. Todd Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at UCLA, where he also chairs the program in Digital Humanities. Jeffrey Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard, where he is Professor of Romance Literatures, teaches at the Graduate School of Design, and serves as faculty codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. A visionary report on the revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century.

October 7 x 9, 176 pp. $24.95T/17.95 cloth 978-0-262-01847-0

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science/space exploration

WORKING ON MARS
What its like to explore Mars from Earth: How the Mars rovers provide scientists with a virtual experience of being on Mars.

Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers William J. Clancey
Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning in 2004, however, a team of geologists and other planetary scientists did field science in a dark room in Pasadena, exploring Mars from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) by means of the remotely operated Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). Clustered around monitors, living on Mars time, painstakingly plotting each movement of the rovers and their tools, sensors, and cameras, these scientists reported that they felt as if they were on Mars themselves, doing field science. The MER had created a virtual experience of being on Mars. In this book, William Clancey examines how the MER has changed the nature of planetary field science. NASA cast the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as robotic geologists, and ascribed machine initiative (Spirit collected additional imagery . . .) to remotely controlled actions. Clancey argues that the actual explorers were not the rovers but the scientists, who imaginatively projected themselves into the body of the machine to conduct the first overland expedition of another planet. The scientists have since left the darkened room and work from different home bases, but the rover-enabled exploration of Mars continues. Drawing on his extensive observations of scientists in the field and at the JPL, Clancey investigates how the design of the rover mission enables field science on Mars, explaining how the scientists and rover engineers manipulate the vehicle and why the programmable tools and analytic instruments work so well for them. He shows how the scientists felt not as if they were issuing commands to a machine but rather as if they were working on the red planet, riding together in the rover on a voyage of discovery.
William J. Clancey is Chief Scientist at the Human-Centered Computing Division in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.

September 7 x 9, 328 pp. 25 color illus., 24 black & white illus. $29.95T/20.95 cloth 978-0-262-01775-6

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politics

TAKE BACK THE CENTER

Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda Peter S. Wenz
Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on education, the construction of a vast network of interstate highways, healthcare for senior citizens, and environmental protection. These projects were paid for by a steeply progressive tax code, with a top tax rate at one point during the Republican Eisenhower administration of 91 percent. Today, a similar agenda of government action (and progressive taxation) would be portrayed as dangerously left wing. At the same time, radically anti-government and anti-tax opinions (with no evidence to support them) are considered part of the mainstream. In Take Back the Center, Peter Wenz makes the case for a sane, reality-based politics that reclaims the center for progressive policies. The key, he argues, is taxing the wealthy at higher rates. The tax rate for the wealthiest Americans has declined from the mid-twentieth-century high of 91 percent to a twenty-first-century low of 36 percenteven as social programs are gutted and the gap betweeen rich and poor widens dramatically. Ever since Ronald Reagan famously declared that government was the problem and not the solution, conservatives have had an all-purpose answer to any question: smaller government and lower taxes. Wenz offers an impassioned counterargument. He explains the justice of raising the top tax rates significantly, making a case for less income inequality (and countering societys worship of the wealthy), and he offers suggestions for how to spend the increased tax revenues: K12 education, tuition relief, transportation and energy infrastructure, and universal health care. Armed with Wenzs evidence-driven arguments, progressives can position themselves where they belong: in the mainstream of American politics and at the center of American political conversations, helping their country address a precipitous decline in equality and quality of life.
Peter S. Wenz is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Springfield and University Scholar at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates (MIT Press) and other books. Reality-based arguments against right-wing fantasies: the case for reducing income inequality, rebuilding our infrastructure, investing in education, and putting people back to work.

September 5 3/8 x 8, 280 pp. $27.95T/19.95 cloth 978-0-262-01788-6

Also available BEYOND RED AND BLUE How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates Peter S. Wenz 2012, 978-0-262-51756-0 $13.95T/9.95 paper

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environment/public health

THE SILENT EPIDEMIC

Why our dependence on coal-produced energy is bad for our health: a physician maps the connections of burning coal to death and disease.

Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health Alan H. Lockwood, M.D.

We will not find exposure to burning coal listed as the cause of death on a single death certificate, but tens of thousands of deaths from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes, and other illnesses are clearly linked to coal-derived pollution. As politicians and advertising campaigns extol the virtues of clean coal, the dirty secret is that coal kills. In The Silent Epidemic, Alan Lockwood, a physician, describes and documents the adverse health effects of burning coal. Lockwoods comprehensive treatment examines every aspect of coal, from its complex chemical makeup to details of mining, transporting, burning, and disposaleach of which generates significant health concerns. He describes coal pollutions effects on the respiratory, cardiovascular, and nervous systems, and how these problems will only get worse; explains the impact of global warming on coal-related health problems; and discusses possible policy approaches to combat coal pollution. Coal fueled the industrial revolution and has become a major source of energy in virtually every country. In the United States, almost half of the energy used to generate electricity comes from burning coal. Relatively few people are aware of the health threats posed by coal-derived pollutants, and those who are aware lack the political clout of the coal industry. Lockwoods straightforward description of coal as a health hazard is especially timely, given the barrage of marketing efforts to promote coal as part of energy independence. His message is clear and urgent: Coal-fired plants make people sick and die, particularly children and those with chronic illnesses, and they cost society huge amounts of money desperately needed for other purposes.
Alan H. Lockwood, M.D., is Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the lead author of a Physicians for Social Responsibility report on coals adverse health effects.

September 6 x 9, 248 pp. 22 illus. $24.95T/17.95 cloth 978-0-262-01789-3

Dr. Lockwoods prose is measured. His tone is dispassionate. And his prognosis is chilling. This book is MUST reading for environmental scientists and health professionals. It should also be on the bookshelves of energy policy makers, power company executives, urban planners, elected officials and concerned citizens. Dr. Lockwoods diagnosis affects us all. Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., Dean for Global Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

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cycling/environment/planning

CITY CYCLING
edited by John Pucher and Ralph Buehler
Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling offers a guide to this urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustainable urban transportation available to everyone. It reports on cycling trends and policies in cities in North America, Europe, and Australia, and offers information on such topics as cycling safety, cycling infrastructure provisions including bikeways and bike parking, the wide range of bike designs and bike equipment, integration of cycling with public transportation, and promoting cycling for women and children. City Cycling emphasizes that bicycling should not be limited to those who are highly trained, extremely fit, and daring enough to battle traffic on busy roads. The chapters describe ways to make city cycling feasible, convenient, and safe for commutes to work and school, shopping trips, visits, and other daily transportation needs. The book also offers detailed examinations and illustrations of cycling conditions in different urban environments: small cities (including Davis, California, and Delft, the Netherlands), large cities (including Sydney, Chicago, Toronto, and Berlin), and megacities (London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo). These chapters offer a closer look at how cities both with and without historical cycling cultures have developed cycling programs over time. The book makes clear that successful promotion of city cycling depends on coordinating infrastructure, programs, and government policies.
John Pucher is Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at the Bloustein School of Planning and Policy at Rutgers University. He is the coauthor of The Urban Transport Crisis in Europe and North America and The Urban Transportation System: Politics and Policy Innovation (MIT Press). Ralph Buehler is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. A guide to todays urban cycling renaissance, with information on safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike sharing, and other topics.

November 6 x 9, 368 pp. 62 illus. $27.95T/19.95 paper 978-0-262-51781-2 Urban and Industrial Environments series

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This book could be a change agent for bicycling and the infrastructure. It can be hoped that nationally elected officials will read it and pass legislation favorable to bicycling. Anne Lusk, Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health

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INFORMATION AND THE MODERN CORPORATION
James W. Cortada
A guide to information as the transformative tool of modern business.
2011, 978-0-262-51641-9 $11.95T/9.95 paper

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY

John Palfrey
How a flexible and creative approach to intellectual property can help an organization accomplish goals ranging from building market share to expanding an industry.
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Peter Suber
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isnt) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.
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COMPUTING
A Concise History Paul E. Ceruzzi
A compact and accessible history, from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and the Internet.
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science

WAVES
Fredric Raichlen
Sitting on the beach on a sunny summer day, we enjoy the steady advance and retreat of the waves. In the water, enthusiastic waders jump and shriek with pleasure when a wave hits them. But where do these waves come from? How are they formed and why do they break on the shore? In Waves, Fredric Raichlen traces the evolution of waves, from their generation in the deep ocean to their effects on the coast. He explains, in a way that is readily understandable to nonscientists, both the science of waves themselves and the technology that can be used to protect us against their more extreme forms, including hurricanes and tsunamis. After offering a basic definition of waves and explaining the mechanics of wind-wave generation, Raichlen describes how waves travel, how they shoal (rise), how they break, and how they transform in other ways. He goes on to describe, among other things, the complicated sun-Earth-moon combinations that create astronomical tides (the high and low tides that occur daily and predictably); the effects of waves on the beach, including rip currents and beach erosion, and on harbors and shipping; and the building of breakwaters to protect harbors and bays. He discusses hurricanes, storm surges, and hurricane-generated waves. He offers a brief history of tsunamis, including Sumatras in 2004 and Japans in 2011, and explains the mechanisms that generate them (including earthquakes, landslides, and volcanoes). Waves can be little ripples that lap peacefully at the shore or monstrous tsunamis that destroy everything in their paths. Describing the science underlying this astonishing variety, Waves offers a different kind of beach reading.
Fredric Raichlen, an expert on coastal engineering and wave mechanics, is Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus at Caltech. A guide to ocean waves traces their evolution from wind-wave generation to coastal effects.

November 5 x 7, 248 pp. 25 illus. $11.95T/9.95 paper 978-0-262-51823-9 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

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medicine/ethics

THIEVES OF VIRTUE
An argument against the lifeboat ethic of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring.

When Bioethics Stole Medicine Tom Koch

Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances in medicine. It blossomed as a response to the perceived doctor-knowsbest paternalism of the traditional medical ethic and today plays a critical role in health policies and treatment decisions. Bioethics claimed to offer a set of generally applicable, universally accepted guidelines that would simplify complex situations. In Thieves of Virtue, Tom Koch argues that bioethics has failed to deliver on its promises. Instead, he argues, bioethics has promoted a view of medicine as a commodity whose delivery is predicated not on care but on economic efficiency. Koch questions the founding myths of bioethics by which moral philosophers became practical ethicists who served as adjudicators of medical practice and planning. High philosophy, he argues, does not provide a guide to the practical dilemmas that arise at the bedside of sick patients. Nobody, he writes, carries Kant to a clinical consult. At the heart of bioethics, Koch writes, is a lifeboat ethic that assumes scarcity of medical resources is a natural condition rather than the result of prior economic, political, and social choices. The idea of natural scarcity requiring ethical triage signaled a shift in ethical emphasis from patient care and the physicians responsibility for it to neoliberal accountancies and the promotion of research as the preeminent good. The solution to the failure of bioethics is not a new set of simplistic principles. Koch points the way to a transformed medical ethics that is humanist, responsible, and defensible.
Tom Koch, a bioethicist and gerontology consultant in Toronto, is the author of Mirrored Lives: Aging Children and Aging Parents; Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine; Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground; and other books.

September 6 x 9, 328 pp. 29 illus. $29.95T/20.95 cloth 978-0-262-01798-5 Basic Bioethics series

An original, well-researched, and provocative book, Thieves of Virtue offers a fundamental and probing critique of the core premises undergirding contemporary bioethical theory in its several forms. . . . The results of Kochs investigation suggest that the roots of bioethics are deeply problematic and require thorough reassessment. Walter Wright, Professor of Philosophy, Clark University

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OCCUPY THE FUTURE

edited by David Grusky, Doug McAdam, Rob Reich, and Debra Satz
The Occupy Wall Street movement has ignited new questions about the relationship between democracy and equality in the United States. Are we also entering a moment in history in which the disjuncture between our principles and our institutions is cast into especially sharp relief? Do new developments most notably the rise of extreme inequalityoffer new threats to the realization of our most cherished principles? Can we build an open, democratic, and successful movement to realize our ideals? Occupy the Future offers informed and opinionated essays that address these questions. The writersincluding Nobel Laureate in Economics Kenneth Arrow and bestselling authors Paul and Anne Ehrlichlay out what our countrys principles are, whether were living up to them, and what can be done to bring our institutions into better alignment with them.
David Grusky is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality, and coeditor of Pathways Magazine. Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology and Director of Urban Studies at Stanford University. Rob Reich is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and author of Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education. Debra Satz is Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and author, most recently, of Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets. How the Occupy movement has challenged the gap between American principles and American practiceand how we can realize our most cherished ideals.

September 4 1/2 x 7, 192 pp. 12 illus. $14.95T/10.95 cloth 978-0-262-01840-1 A Boston Review Book

CONTRIBUTORS
Kenneth J. Arrow, Don Barr, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Prudence Carter, Shelley Correll, Anne Ehrlich, Paul Ehrlich, Michele Elam, David Laitin, David Palumbo-Lio, Sean Reardon, Gary Segura, Cristobal Young

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SHOPPING FOR GOOD

Dara ORourke
Where public policy fails, can consumer choices lead the way to more ethical and sustainable production practices?

September 4 1/2 x 7, 128 pp. $14.95T/10.95 cloth 978-0-262-01841-8 A Boston Review Book

Buy local, buy green, buy organic, fair tradehow effective has the ethical consumption movement been in changing market behavior? Can consumers create fair and sustainable supply chains by shopping selectively? Dara ORourke, the activist-scholar who first broke the news about Nikes sweatshops in the 1990s, considers the promise of ethical consumptionthe idea that individuals, voting with their wallets, can promote better labor conditions and environmental outcomes globally. Governments have proven unable to hold companies responsible for labor and environmental practices. Consumers who say they want to support ethical companies often lack the knowledge and resources to do so consistently. But with the right tools, they may be able to succeed where governments have failed. Responding to ORourkes argument, eight expertsJuliet Schor, Richard Locke, Scott Nova, Lisa Ann Richey, Margaret Levi, Andrew Szasz, Scott Hartley, and Auret van Herdeenconsider the connections between personal concerns and consumer activism, challenge the value of entrusting regulation to consumer efforts, and draw attention to difficulties posed by global supply chains.
Dara ORourke is Associate Professor of Environmental and Labor Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and cofounder and Chairman of GoodGuide, Inc., a database for safe, healthy, green, and ethical products based on scientific ratings. He is author of Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam (MIT Press) and coauthor of Can We Put an End to Sweatshops?

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environment/science

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

Second Edition

Kerry Emanuel
The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmospheremost dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific consensus. In this new edition of his authoritative book, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuela political conservativeoutlines the basic science of global warming and how the current consensus has emerged. He also covers two major developments that have occurred since the first edition: the most recent round of updated projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate simulations, and the so-called climategate incident that heralded the subsequent collapse of popular and political support in the United States for dealing with climate change.
Kerry Emanuel is Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science at MIT. He is the author of Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes and Atmospheric Convection. In May 2006 he was named one of Time magazines Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World. A Republican, he has made it clear that he disagrees with his party on climate change. A renowned climatologistand political conservativeassesses current scientific understanding of climate change and sounds a call to action.

September 4 1/2 x 7, 128 pp. $14.95T/10.95 cloth 978-0-262-01843-2 A Boston Review Book

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION

Emanuels words are measured and authoritative. His book should help reduce the huge gap between what is understood by the scientific community and what is known by the people who need to know, the public and policy makers. James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies A worthwhile read for scientists and nonscientists alike. Environment

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THE MATING LIVES OF BIRDS

James Parry
A lavishly illustrated account of bird courtship and its spectacular displays of plumage and song.

September 8 1/2 x 10 1/2, 160 pp. 140 color illus. $29.95T cloth 978-0-262-01831-9 For sale in North America only

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Birdsong may seem to us to be the purest expression of joy, but in fact when a male bird bursts into melodious song, he is warning off other males and advertising his availability to females. He may also engage in spectacular displays of plumage, dance-like movements, or even acrobatics (tree-based or aerial)all as part of courtship. The female, meanwhile, assesses his vocalization, plumage, and territory before accepting him as a mate. The Mating Lives of Birds offers an engaging and lavishly illustrated account of this most captivating phenomenon in the natural world: bird courtship and display. It explains how birds reproduction strategies have evolved, and describes bird monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, promiscuity, and communal living arrangements. It shows us dancing cranes, somersaulting hummingbirds, drumming ducks, and the outrageously extravagant plumage of birds of paradise. It describes group territorial displays, jousting males, and phalarope role reversal (with the female sporting brighter plumage)not to mention elaborate nest decoration and the presentation of food offerings. The books fascinating account of the mating behavior of bird species from around the world is illustrated by 140 vividly detailed color images. Birdwatchers will find The Mating Lives of Birds to be an essential addition to their libraries.
James Parry is an ornithologist, tour leader, and the author of The Desert, Global Safari, Rainforest Safari, and Living Landscapes: Heathland. He lives near Swaffham in Norfolk, UK.

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Photographs from The Mating Lives of Birds.

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fashion/design

THE COLOR REVOLUTION

Regina Lee Blaszczyk
When the fashion industry declares that lime green is the new black, or instructs us to think pink!, it is not the result of a backroom deal forged by a secretive cabal of fashion journalists, designers, manufacturers, and the editor of Vogue. It is the latest development of a color revolution that has been unfolding for more than a century. In this book, the award-winning historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk traces the relationship of color and commerce, from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design, describing the often unrecognized role of the color profession in consumer culture. Blaszczyk examines the evolution of the color profession from 1850 to 1970, telling the stories of innovators who managed the color cornucopia that modern artificial dyes and pigments made possible. These color stylists, color forecasters, and color engineers helped corporations understand the art of illusion and the psychology of color. Blaszczyk describes the strategic burst of color that took place in the 1920s, when General Motors introduced a bright blue sedan to compete with Fords all-black Model T and when housewares became available in a range of brilliant hues. She explains the process of color forecastingnot a conspiracy to manipulate hapless consumers but a careful reading of cultural trends and consumer taste. And she shows how color information flowed from the fashion houses of Paris to textile mills in New Jersey. Today professional colorists are part of design management teams at such global corporations as Hilton, Disney, and Toyota. The Color Revolution tells the history of how colorists help industry capture the hearts and dollars of consumers.
Regina Lee Blaszczyk is Visiting Scholar in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and an associate editor at the Journal of Design History. Her seven books include Imagining Consumers, Producing Fashion, and American Consumer Society, 18652005. A history of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design.

September 8 x 10, 368 pp. 121 color illus. $34.95T/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01777-0 Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series

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Detail from an advertisement for Monsanto Plastics, Fortune, 1939. From The Color Revolution.

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RUSSIA
An important Russian economist and politician takes a long view of economic history and Russias development.

A Long View Yegor Gaidar

translated by Antonina W. Bouis foreword by Anders slund It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government positionsas Minister of Finance and as Boris Yeltsins acting Prime Ministerin the early 1990s. In government, Gaidar shepherded Russia through its transition to a market economy after years of socialism. Once out of government, Gaidar turned again to his consideration of Russias economic history and long-term economic and political challenges. This book, revised and updated shortly before his death in 2009, is the result. Its transition complete, Russia is once again becoming part of the modern world. Gaidars account of long-term socioeconomic trends puts his country in historical context and outlines problems faced by Russia (and other developing economies) that more developed countries have already encountered: aging populations, migration, evolution of the system of social protection, changes in the armed forces, and balancing stability and flexibility in democratic institutions. Topics of discussion in this astonishingly erudite work range from the phenomenon of modern economic growth to agrarian societies to Russias development trajectory. The book features an epilogue written by Gaidar for this English-language edition. This is not a memoir, but, Gaidar points out, neither is it written from the position of a man who spent his entire life in a research institute. Gaidars long view is inevitably informed and enriched by his experience in government at a watershed moment in history.
Yegor Gaidar (19562009) was a Russian economist and politician and a key architect of economic reforms in Russias transition to a market economy.

October 7 x 9, 600 pp. 44 illus. $39.95T/27.95 cloth 978-0-262-01741-1

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economics/Africa studies

REFORMING THE UNREFORMABLE

Lessons from Nigeria Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly hopeless: thats how the international community viewed Nigeria in the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of economic and political changes and began to reform the unreformable. This book tells the story of how a dedicated and politically committed team of reformers set out to fix a series of broken institutions, and in the process repositioned Nigerias economy in ways that helped create a more diversified springboard for steadier long-term growth. The author, Harvard- and MIT-trained economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, currently Nigerias Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance and formerly Managing Director of the World Bank, was a crucial player in her countrys economic reforms. In Nigerias Debt Management Office and later as Minister of Finance, she spearheaded negotiations with the Paris Club of Creditors that led to the cancellation of sixty percent of Nigerias external debt. Reforming the Unreformable offers an insiders view of those debt negotiations; it also details the fight against corruption and the struggle to implement a series of macroeconomic and structural reforms. Nigerias efforts can be viewed as a laboratory for other countriesnot just resource-rich developing countries like Nigeria, but any country interested in reining in debt, managing volatility, saving for the future, or building credibility with debtors and investors. This story of development economics in action, written from the front lines of economic reform in Africa, offers a unique perspective on the complex and uncertain global economic environment.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is Nigerias Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance in Nigeria. From 2007 to 2011 she was Managing Director of the World Bank, overseeing activities in South Asia, Europe, Central Asia, and Africa. A report on development economics in action by a crucial player in Nigerias recent economic and political reforms.

October 6 x 9, 192 pp. 11 illus. $24.95T/17.95 cloth 978-0-262-01814-2

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business/education

THE MORE WE KNOW

The rise and fall of iCue: lessons about new media, old media, and education from an NBC-MIT joint venture into interactive learning.

NBC News, Educational Innovation, and Learning from Failure Eric Klopfer and Jason Haas
foreword by Henry Jenkins In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watching videos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching network news on television; they got most of their information online. So when NBC and MIT launched iCue, an interactive learning venture that combined social networking, online video, and gaming in one multimedia educational site, it was perfectly in tune with the times. iCue was a surefire way for NBC to reach younger viewers and for MIT to test innovative educational methods in the real world. But iCue was a failure: it never developed an audience and was canceled as if it were a sitcom with bad ratings. In The More We Know, Eric Klopfer and Jason Haas, both part of the MIT development team, describe the rise and fall of iCue and what it can teach us about new media, old media, education, and the challenges of innovating in educational media. Klopfer and Haas show that iCue was hampered by, among other things, an educational establishment focused on teaching to the test, television producers uncomfortable with participatory media, and confusion about the market. But this is not just a cautionary tale; sometimes more can be learned from an interesting failure than a string of successes. Todays educational technology visionaries (iPads for everyone!) might keep this lesson in mind.
Eric Klopfer is Associate Professor of Science Education at MIT, Director of MITs Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP), President of Learning Games Network, and author of Augmented Learning: Research and Design of Mobile Educational Games (MIT Press). Jason Haas is a game designer and a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab.

September 7 x 9, 200 pp. 46 illus. $27.95T/19.95 cloth 978-0-262-01794-7

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PERSPECTA 45
Agency The Yale Architectural Journal edited by Kurt Evans, Iben Falconer, and Ian Mills
Architecture has always been intimately intertwined with its social, political, and economic contexts; major events in world history have had correspondingly dramatic effects on the discipline. The Great Depression, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Hurricane Katrina, for example, were all catalysts for architectural response and resulted in a diversification of the architects portfolio. Yet far too often, architects simply react to changes in the world, rather than serving as agents of change themselves. This issue of Perspectathe oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in Americatakes a broader view, using the concept of agency to explore the future of architecture. The retreat from liability, the barricade of theory, and the silos of specialization have generated a field that is risk-averse and reactive, rather than bold and active. Instead of assuming that architects can only throw up their hands in despair, the editors of this issue of Perspecta invite them to roll up their sleeves and get to work. In Perspecta 45, prominent architects, scholars, and artists investigate how architects can become agents for change within their own discipline and in the world at large.
Kurt Evans, Iben Falconer, and Ian Mills are graduates of the Yale School of Architecture. A handbook of best practices, strategies, and speculation for architectures future.

September 9 x 12, 208 pp. 20 color illus., 71 black and white illus. $29.95T/20.95 paper 978-0-262-51788-1

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Thomas Auer, Lewis Baltz, Stefano Boeri, Kyle Brooks, Preston Scott Cohen, Darryl Collins, Keller Easterling, Peter Eisenman, Timur Galen, Rania Ghosn, William Greaves, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Bjarke Ingels, The Institute of Personality & Social Research, Vann Molyvann, Michael Osman, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Enrique Ramirez, Pierluigi Serraino, Andrew Shanken, Nader Tehrani, Urban Think Tank, Victor van der Chijs, Ines Weizman

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FORGETTING THE ART WORLD

Pamela M. Lee
The work of arts mattering and materialization in a globalized world, with close readings of works by Takahashi Murakami, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Hirschhorn, and others.

September 8 x 9, 248 pp. 6 color illus., 43 black & white illus. $29.95T/20.95 cloth 978-0-262-01773-2

Also available OBJECT TO BE DESTROYED The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark Pamela M. Lee 2001, 978-0-262-62156-4 $26.95T/18.95 paper CHRONOPHOBIA On Time in the Art of the 1960s Pamela M. Lee 2006, 978-0-262-62203-5 $24.95T/17.95 paper

It may be time to forget the art worldor at least to recognize that a certain historical notion of the art world is in eclipse. Today, the art world spins on its axis so quickly that its maps can no longer be read; its borders blur. In Forgetting the Art World, Pamela Lee connects the current state of this world to globalization and its attendant controversies. Contemporary art has responded to globalization with images of movement and migration, borders and multitudes, but Lee looks beyond iconography to view globalization as a world process. Rather than think about the global art world as a socioeconomic phenomenon, or in terms of the imagery it stages and sponsors, Lee considers the work of arts world as a medium through which globalization takes place. She argues that the work of art is itself both object and agent of globalization. Lee explores the ways that art actualizes, iterates, or enables the processes of globalization, offering close readings of works by artists who have come to prominence in the last two decades. She examines the just in time managerial ethos of Takahashi Murakami; the production of ethereal spaces in Andreas Gurskys images of contemporary markets and manufacture; the logic of immanent cause dramatized in Thomas Hirschhorns mixed-media displays; and the pseudo-collectivism in the contemporary practice of the Atlas Group, the Raqs Media Collective, and others. To speak of the work of arts world, Lee says, is to point to both the work of arts mattering and its materialization, to understand the activity performed by the object as utterly continuous with the world it at once inhabits and creates.
Pamela M. Lee is Professor of Art History at Stanford University and the author of Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s, both published by the MIT Press.

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THE CULTURE OF CURATING AND THE CURATING OF CULTURE(S)

Paul ONeill
Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis. The curator has gone from being a behind-the-scenes organizer and selector to a visible, centrally important cultural producer. In The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), Paul ONeill examines the emergence of independent curatorship and the discourse that helped to establish it. ONeill describes how, by the 1980s, curated group exhibitionslarge-scale, temporary projects with artworks cast as illustrative fragmentscame to be understood as the creative work of curator-auteurs. The proliferation of new biennials and other large international exhibitions in the 1990s created a cohort of high-profile, globally mobile curators, moving from Venice to Paris to Kassel. In the 1990s, curatorial and artistic practice converged, blurring the distinction between artist and curator. ONeill argues that this change in the understanding of curatorship was shaped by a curator-centered discourse that effectively advocatedand authorized the new independent curatorial practice. Drawing on the extensive curatorial literature and his own interviews with leading curators, critics, art historians, and artists, ONeill traces the development of the curator-as-artist model and the ways it has been contested. The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s) documents the many ways in which our perception of art has been transformed by curating and the discourses surrounding it.
Paul ONeill is a curator, artist, and writer who has curated or co-curated more than fifty projects. As author and editor, he has published widely in books, anthologies, journals, and art magazines. He lives in Bristol, UK. How curating has changed art and how art has changed curating: the emergence of independent curating.

September 7 x 9, 192 pp. 31 illus. $24.95T/17.95 cloth 978-0-262-01772-5

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MATERIALIZING SIX YEARS

Lucy R. Lippards famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book.

Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art edited by Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin
preface by Lucy R. Lippard essays by Vincent Bonin, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Catherine Morris Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or dematerialized. Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. Nearly forty years later, the Brooklyn Museum takes Lippards celebrated experiment in curated concatenation as a template, turning a book that resembled an exhibition into an exhibition materializing the ideas in her book. The artworks and essays featured in this publication recall the thrill that was tangible in Lippard's original documentation, reminding us that during the late sixties and early seventies all possible social and material parameters of art (making) were played with, worked over, inverted, reduced, expanded, and rejected. By tracing Lippards own activities in those years, the book also documents the early blurring of boundaries among critical, curatorial, and artistic practices. With more than 200 images of work by dozens of artists (printed in color throughout), this book brings Lippards curatorial experiment full circle.
Catherine Morris is Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Vincent Bonin is an independent curator living in Montreal. Julia Bryan-Wilson teaches modern and contemporary art at the University of California, Berkeley.

September 8 1/2 x 10, 304 pp. 184 color illus., 33 black & white illus. $45.00T/31.95 cloth 978-0-262-01816-6 Copublished with the Brooklyn Museum

EXHIBITION
Brooklyn Museum September 14, 2012February 3, 2013

ARTISTS INCLUDE
Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Alice Aycock, Jo Baer, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Jennifer Bartlett, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, George Brecht, Stanley Brouwn, Buren/Mosset/Parmentier/Toroni (BMPT), Hanne Darboven, Robert Fiore, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, The Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, The Rosario Group, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Seth Sieglaub, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson, Martha Wilson

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ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
New York Art Spaces, 19602010 edited by Lauren Rosati and Mary Anne Staniszewski
This groundbreaking bookpart exhibition catalogue, part cultural history chronicles alternative art spaces in New York City since the 1960s. Developed from an exhibition of the same name at Exit Art, Alternative Histories documents more than 130 alternative spaces, groups, and projects, and the significant contributions these organizations have made to the aesthetic and social fabric of New York City. Alternative art spaces offer sites for experimentation for artists to innovate, perform, and exhibit outside the commercial gallery-and-museum circuit. In New York City, the development of alternative spaces was almost synonymous with the rise of the contemporary art scene. Beginning in the 1960s and early 1970s, it was within a network of alternative sitesincluding 112 Greene Street, The Kitchen, P.S.1, FOOD, and many othersthat the work of young artists like Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, David Wojnarowicz, David Hammons, Adrian Piper, Martin Wong, Jimmie Durham, and dozens of other now familiar names first circulated. Through interviews, photographs, essays, and archival material, Alternative Histories tells the story of such famous sites and organizations as Judson Memorial Church, Anthology Film Archives, A.I.R. Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, Franklin Furnace, and Eyebeam, as well as many less well-known sites and organizations. Essays by the exhibition curators and scholars, and excerpts of interviews with alternative space founders and staff, provide cultural and historical context.
Lauren Rosati, a PhD student in Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, is Assistant Curator at Exit Art and co-curator at ((audience)), a non-profit sound art and experimental music organization. Mary Anne Staniszewski is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art (MIT Press), and has overseen a number of Exit Art projects. A groundbreaking history of pioneering alternative art venues in New York where artists experimented, exhibited, and performed outside the white cube and the commercial mainstream.

September 7 3/4 x 9 3/4, 400 pp. 175 illus., color throughout $40.00T/27.95 cloth 978-0-262-01796-1 Copublished with Exit Art

Also available MIXED USE, MANHATTAN Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present edited by Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp 2010, 978-0-262-01482-3 $49.95T/34.95 cloth

Demonstrators outside Artists Space during the opening of Witnesses Against Our Vanishing, November 16, 1989. Photo credit Thomas McGovern. Courtesy Artists Space.

SPACES DOCUMENTED INCLUDE

Millennium Film Workshop Creative Time Artists Space The Studio Museum in Harlem Taller Boricua ABC No Rio Storefront for Art and Architecture Exit Art A Gathering of Tribes Cuchifritos Orchard mitpress.mit.edu Fall 2012

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PARALLEL PRESENTS
The first book-length art historical examination of a major contemporary French artist.

The Art of Pierre Huyghe Amelia Barikin

Over the past two decades, French artist Pierre Huyghe has produced an extraordinary body of work in constant dialogue with temporality. Investigating the possibility of a hypothetical mode of timekeepingparallel presents Huyghe has researched the architecture of the incomplete, directed a puppet opera, founded a temporary school, established a pirate television station, staged celebrations, scripted scenarios, and journeyed to Antarctica in search of a mythological penguin. In this first book-length art historical examination of Huyghe and his work, Amelia Barikin traces the artists continual negotiation with the time codes of contemporary society. Offering detailed analyses of Huyghes works and drawing on extensive interviews with Huyghe and his associates, Barikin finds in Huyghes projects an alternate way of thinking about historya topological historicity that deprograms (or reprograms) temporal formats. Huyghe once said, It is through the montage, the way we combine and relate images, that we can create a representation of an event that is perhaps more precise than the event itself. Barikin offers pioneering analyses of Huyghes lesser-known early works as well as sustained readings of later, critically acclaimed projects, including No Ghost Just a Shell (2000), LExpdition scintillante (2002), and A Journey That Wasnt (2005). She emphasizes Huyghes concepts of freed time and the open present, in which anything might happen. Bringing together an eclectic array of subjects and charactersfrom moon walking to situationist practices, from Snow White to Gilles DeleuzeParallel Presents offers a highly original account of the driving forces behind Huyghes work.
Amelia Barikin, a curator, writer, and art historian, is Senior Research Associate in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.

October 7 x 9, 280 pp. 85 illus., color throughout $34.95T/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01780-0

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PATAPHYSICS
A Useless Guide Andrew Hugill
Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, pataphysicsthe science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptionshas proven to be one of the most durable. Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to understand, pataphysics nevertheless lies around the roots of Absurdism, Dada, futurism, surrealism, situationism, and other key cultural developments of the twentieth century. In this account of the evolution and influence of pataphysics, Andrew Hugill offers an informed exposition of a rich and difficult territory, staying aloft on a tightrope stretched between the twin dangers of oversimplifying a serious subject and taking a joke too seriously. Drawing on more than twenty-five years research, Hugill maps the pataphysical presence (partly conscious and acknowledged but largely unconscious and unacknowledged) in literature, theater, music, the visual arts, and the culture at large, and even detects pataphysical influence in the social sciences and the sciences. He offers many substantial excerpts (in English translation) from primary sources, intercalated with a thorough explication of key themes and events of pataphysical history. In a Jarryesque touch, he provides these in reverse chronological order, beginning with a survey of pataphysics in the digital age and working backward to Jarry and beyond. He looks specifically at the work of Jean Baudrillard, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, J. G. Ballard, Asger Jorn, Gilles Deleuze, Roger Shattuck, Jacques Prvert, Antonin Artaud, Ren Clair, the Marx Brothers, Joan Mir, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Flann OBrien, Raymond Roussel, Jean-Pierre Brisset, and many others.
Andrew Hugill is a Professor at De Montfort University, England. He is also a Commandeur Requis of the Ordre de la Grande Guidouille in the Collge de Pataphysique. The first complete account in English of the evolution of pataphysics from its French origins, with explications of key ideas and excerpts from primary sources, presented in reverse chronological order.

September 6 x 9, 296 pp. $24.95T/17.95 cloth 978-0-262-01779-4

Also available ALFRED JARRY A Pataphysical Life Alastair Brotchie 2011, 978-0-262-01619-3 $34.95T/24.95 cloth

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OBLIQUE DRAWING
A challenge to the hegemony of perspective: investigations into other forms of representation used by different cultures over the last two thousand years.

A History of Anti-Perspective Massimo Scolari

translated by Jenny Condie Palandri introduction by James S. Ackerman For more than half a century, Erwin Panofksys Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of central projection, or perspective, other equally important methods of representation have much to tell us. Parallel projection can be found on classical Greek vases, in Pompeiian frescoes, in Byzantine mosaics; it returned in works of the historical avant-garde, and remains the dominant form of representation in China. In Oblique Drawing, Massimo Scolari investigates anti-perspective visual representation over two thousand years, finding in the course of his investigation that visual and conceptual representations are manifestations of the ideological and philosophical orientations of different cultures. Images prove to be not just a form of art but a form of thought, a projection of a way of life. Scolaris generously illustrated studies show that illusionistic perspective is not the only, or even the best, representation of objects in history; parallel projection, for example, preserves in scale the actual measurements of objects it represents, avoiding the distortions of one-point perspective. Scolari analyzes the use of nonperspectival representations in pre-Renaissance images of machines and military hardware, architectural models and drawings, and illustrations of geometrical solids. He challenges Panofskys theory of Pompeiian perspective and explains the difficulties encountered by the Chinese when they viewed Jesuit missionaries perspectival religious images. Scolari vividly demonstrates the diversity of representational forms devised through the centuries, and shows how each one reveals something that is lacking in the others.
Massimo Scolari is a prominent architectural historian and an artist, writer, and teacher. Currently Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, he has taught at Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Cornell University, Cooper Union, Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Design, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies New York, Technische Universitt Wien, and other institutions.

September 6 x 9, 416 pp. 340 illus. $39.95T/27.95 cloth 978-0-262-01774-9 Writing Architecture series

Also available in this series THE ALPHABET AND THE ALGORITHM Mario Carpo 2011, 978-0-262-51580-1 $21.95T/15.95 paper THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ABSOLUTE ARCHITECTURE Pier Vittorio Aureli 2011, 978-0-262-51579-5 $24.95T/17.95 paper

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REALISM AFTER MODERNISM

The Rehumanization of Art and Literature Devin Fore
The human figure made a spectacular return in visual art and literature in the 1920s. Following modernisms withdrawal, nonobjective painting gave way to realistic depictions of the body and experimental literary techniques were abandoned for novels with powerfully individuated characters. But the celebrated return of the human in the interwar years was not as straightforward as it may seem. In Realism after Modernism, Devin Fore challenges the widely accepted view that this period represented a return to traditional realist representation and its humanist postulates. Interwar realism, he argues, did not reinstate its nineteenth-century predecessor but invoked realism as a strategy of mimicry that anticipates postmodernist pastiche. Through close readings of a series of works by German artists and writers of the period, Fore investigates five artistic devices that were central to interwar realism. He analyzes Bauhaus polymath Lszl Moholy-Nagys use of linear perspective; three industrial novels riven by the conflict between the temporality of capital and that of labor; Brechts socialist realist plays, which explore new dramaturgical principles for depicting a collective subject; a memoir by Carl Einstein that oscillates between recollection and self-erasure; and the idiom of physiognomy in the photomontages of John Heartfield. Fores readings reveal that each of these rehumanized works in fact calls into question the very categories of the human upon which realist figuration is based. Paradoxically, even as the human seemed to make a triumphal return in the culture of the interwar period, the definition of the human and the integrity of the body were becoming more tenuous than ever before. Interwar realism did not hearken back to earlier artistic modes but posited new and unfamiliar syntaxes of aesthetic encounter, revealing the emergence of a human subject quite unlike anything that had come before.
Devin Fore is Assistant Professor in the Department of German at Princeton University. The paradox at the heart of the return to realism in the interwar years, as seen in work by Moholy-Nagy, Brecht, and others.

September 7 x 9, 416 pp. 52 illus. $34.95T/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01771-8 An October Book

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DANCE
edited by Andr Lepecki
Dances galvanizing and transformative presence in art and theory over the last decade becomes part of a broader investigation of its dialogue with modernisms legacies.

September 5 3/8 x 8 1/4, 240 pp. $24.95T paper 978-0-262-51777-5 Documents of Contemporary Art series Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery, London in association with Sadler's Wells, London Not for sale in the UK or Europe

This collection surveys the choreographic turn in the artistic imagination from the 1950s onwards, and in doing so outlines the philosophies of movement instrumental to the development of experimental dance. By introducing and discussing the concepts of embodiment and corporeality, choreopolitics, and the notion of dance in an expanded field, Dance establishes the aesthetics and politics of dance as a major impetus in contemporary culture. It offers testimonies and writings by influential visual artists whose work has taken inspiration from dance and choreography. Dancebecause of its ephemerality, corporeality, precariousness, scoring, and performativityis arguably the art form that most clearly engages the politics of aesthetics in contemporary culture. Dances ephemerality suggests the possibility of an escape from the regimes of commodification and fetishization in the arts. Its corporeality can embody critiques of representation inscribed in bodies and subjects. Its precariousness underlines the fragility of contemporary states of being. Scoring links it with conceptual art, as language becomes the articulator for possible as well as impossible modes of action. Finally, because dance always establishes a contract, or promise, between its choreographic planning and its actualization in movement, it reveals an essential performativity in its aesthetic projecta central concern for both art and critical thought in our time.
Andr Lepecki is Associate Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He is the author of Exhausting Dance: Performance and Politics of Movement and a regular contributor to Performance Research, Drama Review, Artforum, Nouvelles de Danse, and other publications in Europe, Brazil, and the Middle East.

ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE

Marina Abramovi, Pina Bausch, Jrme Bel, Seydou Boro, Trisha Brown, Rosemary Butcher, John Cage, Boris Charmatz, Ananya Chatterjea, Merce Cunningham, Joo Fiadeiro, William Forsythe, Simone Forti, Bruno Freire, Anna Halprin, Deborah Hay, Tatsumi Hijikata, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Mette Ingvartsen, Joan Jonas, Akira Kasai, Pichet Klunchun, Ralph Lemon, Xavier LeRoy, Babette Mangolte, Vera Mantero, Mathilde Monnier, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Hlio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Steve Paxton, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, La Ribot, Lia Rodrigues, Tino Sehgal, Norbert Servos, Hooman Sharifi, Meg Stuart

WRITERS INCLUDE
Giorgio Agamben, Bruce Altshuler, Sally Banes, Nancy F. Becker, Nicholas Birns, Barbara Browning, Jonathan Burrows, Mary Connolly, Bojana Cvejic, Arlene Croce, Gilles Deleuze, Douglas Dunn, Peter Eleey, Tim Etchells, Susan Foster, Sondra Fraleigh, Mark Franko, Adrian Heathfield, Graley Herren, Andrew Hewitt, Bojana Kunst, Henri Lefebvre, Boyan Manchev, Jean-Luc Nancy, Halifu Osumare, Jeroen Peeters, Marten Spangberg, Luc Van den Dries, Myriam Van Imschoot, Pascale Weber

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MEMORY
edited by Ian Farr
This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and historiesthe relics of modernities pastbut toward the phenomena, in themselves, of haunting and the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association, repetition and reappearance, as well as forms of active forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s onward, ranging from reperformances such as Marina Abramovis Seven c Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed performance pieces by her contemporaries) to the inanimate trace of memory Robert Morris assigns to his free-form felt pieces, which forget in their present configurations their previous slides and falls. Contextualizing memorys role in visual theory and aesthetic politicsfrom Marcel Prousts optics to Bernard Stieglers analysis of memorys industrializationthis collection also surveys the diversity of situations and registers in which contemporary artists explore memory. Art that engages with memory embodied in material and spatial conditions is examined beside works that reflect upon memorys effects through time, and yet others that enlist the agency of remembrance or forgetting to work through aspects of the numerous pasts by which the present is always haunted.
Ian Farr is commissioning editor for Documents of Contemporary Art. He was formerly an editor of Phaidons Contemporary Artists and Themes & Movements series. Investigations into the wide array of artistic relationships to memory, repetition and reappearance, and forgetting, in artworks from the late 1940s to the present.

September 5 3/8 x 8 1/4, 240 pp. $24.95T paper 978-0-262-51776-8 Documents of Contemporary Art series Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery, London Not for sale in the UK or Europe

ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE

Marina Abramovi , Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Kutlu Ataman, c g Fiona Banner, Uta Barth, Tom Burr, Sophie Calle, Joseph Cornell, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Cheryl Dunye, Kota Ezawa, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Flix Gonzlez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Richard Hamilton, Sharon Hayes, Susan Hiller, Roni Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Amar Kanwar, William Kentridge, Idris Khan, Zoe Leonard, Iln Lieberman, Glenn Ligon, Elizabeth Manchester, Robert Morris, Rabih Mrou, Uriel Orlow, Walid Raad, Anri Sala, Fazal Sheikh, Lorna Simpson, Vivan Sundaram, Jane and Louise Wilson

WRITERS INCLUDE
Theodor Adorno, Gaston Bachelard, Daniel Birnbaum, Andr Breton, Victor Burgin, Johanna Burton, Hlne Cixous, Gilles Deleuze, Okwui Enwezor, Briony Fer, Hal Foster, Maurice Halbwachs, Margaret Iversen, Martin Jay, Siegfried Kracauer, Tom McDonough, Pierre Nora, Georges Perec, Peggy Phelan, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Marcel Proust, Paul Ricoeur, Lauren Sedofsky, Roger Shattuck, Michael Sheringham, Bernard Stiegler, Margaret Sundell, Jan Verwoert mitpress.mit.edu Fall 2012

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AFTERALL BOOKS

MICHAEL ASHER
An examination of a major 1992 installation by a pioneer of site-specific experimentation.

Kunsthalle Bern 1992 Anne Rorimer

Michael Asher (born in 1943), one of the foremost installation artists of the Conceptual art period, is a founder of site-specific practice. Considered a progenitor of institutional critique, he spearheaded the creation of artworks imbued with a self-conscious awareness of their dependence on the conditions of their exhibition context. In the work Kunsthalle Bern 1992, Asher removed the radiators from all the museums exhibition spaces and reassembled them in its entryway gallery. Metal pipes connected the relocated radiators to their original sockets; these tubular conduits, coursing in linear fashion along the Kunsthalles walls, kept the steam heat flowing and endowed the installation with directional lines of force. This displacement of givens offers a perfect example of site-specific practice, one that took the gallery space and the institution itself as its subject. In this detailed examination of Kunsthalle Bern 1992, Anne Rorimer considers the work in the context of Ashers ongoing desire to fuse art with the material, economic, and social conditions of institutional presentation. Rorimer analyzes Kunsthalle Bern 1992 in relation to the earlier innovations of such minimalist artists as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, and Dan Flavin as well as to such conceptualist contemporaries as Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, and Maria Nordman. She also considers the installation in the context of other works by Asher that have used non-art, functional elements, including walls, or that have investigated museological issues.
Anne Rorimer, an independent scholar and curator, is the author of New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality.

November 6 x 8 1/2, 120 pp. 32 color illus. $16.00T/9.95 paper 978-1-84638-093-8 $35.00S/19.95 cloth 978-1-84638-092-1 One Work series Distributed for Afterall Books

Also available in this series MARTHA ROSLER The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems Steve Edwards 2012, 978-1-84638-084-6 $16.00T/9.95 paper DAN GRAHAM Rock My Religion Kodwo Eshun 2012, 978-1-84638-086-0 $16.00T/9.95 paper

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YAYOI KUSAMA
Infinity Mirror RoomPhallis Field Jo Applin
Almost a half-century after Yayoi Kusama debuted her landmark installation Infinity Mirror RoomPhallis Field (1965) in New York, the work remains challenging and unclassifiable. Shifting between the Pop-like and the Surreal, the Minimal and the metaphorical, the figurative and the abstract, the psychotic and the erotic, with references to free love and psychedelia, it seemed to embody all that the 1960s was about, while at the same time denying the prevailing aesthetics of its time. The installation itself was a room lined with mirrored panels and carpeted with several hundred brightly polka-dotted soft fabric protrusions into which the visitor was completely absorbed. Kusama simply called it a sublime, miraculous field of phalluses. A precursor of performance-based feminist art practice, media pranksterism, and Occupy movements, Kusama (born in 1929) was once as well known as her admirersAndy Warhol, Donald Judd, and Joseph Cornell. In this first monograph on an epoch-defining work, Jo Applin looks at the installation in detail and places it in the context of subsequent art practice and theory as well as Kusamas own (as she called it) obsessional art. Applin also discusses Kusamas relationship to her contemporaries, particularly those working with environments, abstract-erotic sculpture, and mirrors, and those grappling with such issues as abstraction, eroticism, sexuality, and softness. The work of Lee Lozano, Claes Oldenburg, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse is seen anew when considered in relation to Yayoi Kusamas.
Jo Applin is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of York, England. A study of Kusamas era-defining work, a sublime, miraculous field of phalluses, against the background of abstraction, eroticism, sexuality, and softness.

November 6 x 8 1/2, 120 pp. 32 color illus. $16.00T/9.95 paper 978-1-84638-091-4 $35.00S/19.95 cloth 978-1-84638-090-7 One Work series Distributed for Afterall Books

Also available in this series JEFF KOONS One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank Michael Archer 2011, 978-1-84638-079-2 $16.00T/9.95 paper RICHARD HAMILTON Swingeing London 67 (f) Andrew Wilson 2011, 978-1-84638-077-8 $16.00T/9.95 paper

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THE UPRISING
A manifesto against the concepts of growth and debt, and a call for a reinvestment in the social body.

On Poetry and Finance Franco Bifo Berardi

At the beginning of the second decade of the new century, as deregulated predatory capitalism is destroying the future of the planet and of social life, poetry is going to play a new game: the reactivation of the social body. from The Uprising The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for todays precarious times, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalism and the financial sphere have established over the globe. In his newest book, Franco Bifo Berardi argues that the notion of economic recovery is complete mythology. The coming years will inevitably see new surges of protest and violence, but the old models of resistance no longer apply. Society can either stick with the prescriptions and rescues that the economic and financial sectors have demanded at the expense of social happiness, culture, and the public good; or it can formulate an alternative. For Berardi, this alternative lies in understanding the current crisis as something more fundamental than an economic crisis: it is a crisis of the social imagination, and demands a new language by which to address it. This is a manifesto against the idea of growth, and against the concept of debt, the financial sectors two primary linguistic means of manipulating society. It is a call for exhaustion, and for resistance to the cult of energy on which todays economic free-floating market depends. To this end, Berardi introduces an unexpected linguistic political weaponpoetry: poetry as the insolvency of language, as the sensuous birth of meaning and desire, as that which cannot be reduced to information and exchanged like currency. If the protests now stirring about the world are to take shape and direction, then the revolution will be neither peaceful nor violentit will be linguistic, or will not be at all.
Franco Berardi, aka Bifo, founder of the famous Radio Alice in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan.

October 4 1/2 x 7, 160 pp. $13.95T/9.95 paper 978-1-58435-112-2 Intervention series Distributed for Semiotext(e)

Also available from Semiotext(e) THE COMING INSURRECTION The Invisible Committee 2009, 978-1-58435-080-4 $12.95T/9.95 paper THE SOUL AT WORK From Alienation to Autonomy Franco Bifo Berardi 2009, 978-1-58435-076-7 $14.95T/10.95 paper

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THE MAKING OF THE INDEBTED MAN

Maurizio Lazzarato
translated by Joshua David Jordan The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between workers and the unemployed, consumers and producers, working and non-working populations, between retirees and welfare recipients. They are all debtors, guilty and responsible in the eyes of capital, which has become the Great, the Universal, Creditor. from The Making of the Indebted Man Debtboth public debt and private debthas become a major concern of economic and political leaders. In The Making of the Indebted Man, Maurizio Lazzarato shows that, far from being a threat to the capitalist economy, debt lies at the very core of the neoliberal project. Through a reading of Karl Marxs lesser-known youthful writings on John Mill, and a rereading of writings by Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Flix Guattari, and Michel Foucault, Lazzarato demonstrates that debt is above all a political construction, and that the creditor/debtor relation is the fundamental social relation of Western societies. Debt cannot be reduced to a simple economic mechanism, for it is also a technique of public safety through which individual and collective subjectivities are governed and controlled. Its aim is to minimize the uncertainty of the time and behavior of the governed. We are forever sinking further into debt to the State, to private insurance, and, on a more general level, to corporations. To insure that we honor our debts, we are at once encouraged and compelled to become the entrepreneurs of our lives, of our human capital. In this way, our entire material, psychological, and affective horizon is upended and reconfigured. How do we extricate ourselves from this impossible situation? How do we escape the neoliberal condition of the indebted man? Lazzarato argues that we will have to recognize that there is no simple technical, economic, or financial solution. We must instead radically challenge the fundamental social relation structuring capitalism: the system of debt.
Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and philosopher living and working in Paris, where he studies immaterial labor, the breakdown of the wage system, and post-socialist movements. He is the author of Exprimentations politiques, soon to be available in translation from the MIT Press, and other books. A new and radical reexamination of todays neoliberalist new economy through the political lens of the debtor/creditor relation.

September 4 1/2 x 7, 144 pp. $13.95T/9.95 paper 978-1-58435-115-3 Intervention series Distributed for Semiotext(e)

Also available from Semiotext(e) THE VIOLENCE OF FINANCIAL CAPITALISM New Edition Christian Marazzi 2011, 978-1-58435-102-3 $12.95T/9.95 paper CRISIS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios edited by Andrea Fumagalli and Sandro Mezzadra 2010, 978-1-58435-087-3 $17.95T/12.95 paper

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SUMMER OF HATE
Chris Kraus
A novel about a romantic idyll threatened by the nightmarish and Byzantine American legal system.

October 6 x 9, 280 pp. $17.95T/12.95 paper 978-1-58435-113-9 Native Agents series Distributed for Semiotext(e)

In his journal, Paul liked to make lists: What he ordered from Commissary (shaving cream, toothpaste, deodorant, the transistor radio he had for a week before the guards took it away). The books he picked off the cart (The Bible, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Codependent No More). What phone calls he made and received; also, Bible Study certificates, letters and cards, his workout routines and his moods (Anxious, Nervous, Trusting in God, but mostly Depressed). Paul has a record of every push-up he did while he was in prison but he cannot remember shit about what happened before his arrest. from Summer of Hate Waking up from the chilling high of a near-death kinky sex game, Catt Dunlop travels to Albuquerque in 2005 to reinvest some windfall real-estate gains and reengage with something approximating real life. Aware that the critical discourse she has used to build her career as a visiting professor and art critic is really a cipher for something else, she hopes that buying and fixing slum buildings will bring her more closely in touch with American life than the essays she writes. In Albuquerque, she becomes romantically involved with Paul Garcia, a recently sober ex-con who has just served sixteen months in state prison for defrauding Halliburton Industries, his former employer, of less than $1,000. Almost forty years old, Paul is highly intelligent but has only been out of New Mexico twice. He has no information. With Catts help, he makes plans to attend UCLA, only to be arrested on a ten-year-old bench warrant en route. Caught in the nightmarish Byzantine world of the legal system, Catt and Pauls empathic attempts to save each others lives seems doomed to dissolve. Summer of Hate is a novel about flawed reciprocity and American justice, recording recent events through the prism of a beleaguered romance. As lucid and trenchant as ever, Kraus in her newest novel reminds us that the writer can be a first responder of sorts when power becomes invisible, or merely banal.
Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Torpor, as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs, all published by Semiotext(e). A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.

Also available from Semiotext(e) TORPOR Chris Kraus 2006, 978-1-58435-027-9 $14.95T/10.95 paper WHERE ART BELONGS Chris Kraus 2011, 978-1-58435-098-9 $12.95T/9.95 paper

Chris Kraus is one of our smartest and most original writers on art and culture. Holland Cotter, New York Times Renowned writer of such mind-bending books as I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, and Torpor, Chris Kraus cuts a new and insatiably clever line in Summer of Hate. In this explosive new work Kraus breaks down big themes like art writing, romance, and capitalism, all within a wildly expansive take on the thriller. Janine Armin, Joyland

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HEROINES
Kate Zambreno
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag orderpretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature. from Heroines On the last day of December 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called Frances Farmer Is My Sister, arising from her obsession with the female modernists and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her husband held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambrenos blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants about the fates of the modernist wives and mistresses. In her blog entries, Zambreno reclaimed the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald: writers and artists themselves who served as male writers muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. Over the course of two years, Frances Farmer Is My Sister helped create a community where todays toxic girls could devise a new feminist discourse, writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon. In Heroines, Zambreno extends the polemic begun on her blog into a dazzling, original work of literary scholarship. Combing theories that have dictated what literature should be and who is allowed to write itfrom T. S. Eliots New Criticism to the writings of such mid-century intellectuals as Elizabeth Hardwick and Mary McCarthy to the occasional girl-on-girl crime of the Second Wave of feminismshe traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles female experience to the realm of the minor, and diagnoses women for transgressing social bounds. ANXIETY: When she experiences it, its pathological, writes Zambreno. When he does, its existential. By advancing the Girl-as-Philosopher, Zambreno reinvents feminism for her generation while providing a model for a newly subjectivized criticism.
Kate Zambreno is the author of two novels, O Fallen Angel and Green Girl. She currently lives in a cottage in Carrboro, North Carolina, with her partner, John, and her puppy, Jean Genet. A manifesto for toxic girls that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.

November 6 x 9, 320 pp. $17.95T/12.95 paper 978-1-58435-114-6 Active Agents series Distributed for Semiotext(e)

Also available from Semiotext(e) THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ICELAND Travel Essays in Art Eileen Myles 2009, 978-1-58435-066-8 $17.95T/12.95 paper VIDEO GREEN Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness Chris Kraus 2004, 978-1-58435-022-4 $14.95T/10.95 paper

If you thought you knew a lot about the wives of modernism and the various forms of silencing they suffered, Kate Zambrenos Heroines will teach you more; if you didn't know much, your mouth will fall open in enraged amazement. Zambreno admirably transforms copious research and personal experience into vernacular knowledge, then heats up the brew into a justified rant about dynamics that may have shape-shifted over the past 100 years but have (sadly) not disappeared. Bravo." Maggie Nelson, author of Bluets and The Art of Cruelty

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THE ECSTASY OF COMMUNICATION

New Edition

Jean Baudrillard
Baudrillards essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition.

introduction by Jean Louis-Violeau translated by Bernard and Caroline Schtze The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. from The Ecstasy of Communication First published in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was Baudrillards summarization of his work for a postdoctoral degree at the Sorbonne: a dense, poetically crystalline essay that boiled down two decades of radical, provocative theory into an aphoristically eloquent swan song to twentieth-century alienation. Baudrillards quixotic effort to be recognized by the French intellectual establishment may have been doomed to failure, but this text immediately became a pinnacle to his work, a mid-career assessment that looked both forward and back. By carefully distilling the most radical elements of his previous books, Baudrillard constructed the skeleton key to all of the work that was to come in the second half of his career, and set the scene for what he termed the obscene: a world in which alienation has been succeeded by ceaseless communication and information. The Ecstasy of Communication is a decisive, compact description of what it means to be wired in our braver-than-brave new world, where sexuality has been superseded by pornography, knowledge by information, hysteria by schizophrenia, subject by object, and violence by terror. The Ecstasy of Communication is an anti-manifesto that confronted and dispensed with such influences as Marshall McLuhan, Guy Debord, and Georges Bataille. It is an essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of Baudrillards books. Twenty-five years after its original publication, it remains not only a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition, but also a dark mirror into which we have not yet dared to look.
Jean Baudrillard (19292007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur. Jean-Louis Violeau is a sociologist and researcher at the Architecture-Culture-Socit laboratory of the Ecole darchitecture de Paris-Malaquais in Paris. His most recent book is Les Architectes et Mai 68.

November 6 x 9, 128 pp. $14.95T/10.95 paper 978-1-58435-057-6 Foreign Agents series Distributed for Semiotext(e)

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LOST DIMENSION
New Edition

Paul Virilio
introduction by Jean Louis-Violeau translated by Daniel Moshenberg Where does the city without gates begin? Perhaps inside that fugitive anxiety, that shudder that seizes the minds of those who, just returning from a long vacation, contemplate the imminent encounter with mounds of unwanted mail or with a house thats been broken into and emptied of its contents. It begins with the urge to flee and escape for a second from an oppressive technological environment, to regain ones senses and ones sense of self. from Lost Dimension Originally written in French in 1983, Lost Dimension remains a cornerstone book in the work of Paul Virilio: the one most closely tied to his background as an urban planner and architect, and the one that most clearly anticipates the technologically wired urban space we live in today: a city of permanent transit and internalized borders, where time has overtaken space, and where telecommunications has replaced both our living and our working environments. We are living in the realm of the lost dimension, where the three-dimensional public square of our urban past has collapsed into the two-dimensional interface of the various screens that function as gateways to home, office, and public spaces, be they the flat-screen televisions on our walls, the computer screens on our desktops, or the smartphones in our pockets. In this multidisciplinary tapestry of contemporary physics, architecture, aesthetic theory, and sociology, Virilio describes the effects of todays hyperreality on our understanding of space. Having long since passed the opposition of city and country, and city and suburb, the speed-ridden city and space of today are an opposition between the nomadic and the sedentary: a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence.
Paul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including Speed and Politics, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, and The Accident of Art, all published by Semiotext(e). Jean-Louis Violeau is a sociologist and researcher at the Architecture-Culture-Socit laboratory of the Ecole darchitecture de Paris-Malaquais in Paris. His most recent book is Les Architectes et Mai 68. A vision of the city as a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence.

September 6 x 9, 152 pp. $15.95T/10.95 paper 978-1-58435-117-7 Foreign Agents series Distributed for Semiotext(e)

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ZONE BOOKS

THE DEMON OF WRITING

A history and theory of the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork.

Powers and Failures of Paperwork Ben Kafka

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds radical and reactionary, professional and amateurhave been complaining about bureaucracy. But what, exactly, are they complaining about? In The Demon of Writing, Ben Kafka offers a critical history and theory of one of the most ubiquitous, least understood forms of media: paperwork. States rely on records to tax and spend, protect and serve, discipline and punish. But time and again, this paperwork proves to be unreliable. Examining episodes that range from the story of a clerk who lost his job and then his mind in the French Revolution to an account of Roland Barthess brief stint as a university administrator, Kafka reveals the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork. Many of its complexities, he argues, have been obscured by the comic-paranoid style that characterizes much of our criticism of bureaucracy. Kafka proposes a new theory of what Karl Marx called the bureaucratic medium. Moving from Marx to Freud, he argues that this theory of paperwork must include both a theory of praxis and of parapraxis.
Ben Kafka is an Assistant Professor of Media History and Theory at New York University and a candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), a component society of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He works with adult and adolescent patients through the IPTAR Clinical Center and the NYC Free Clinic.

November 6 x 9, 208 pp. 9 illus. $28.95T/19.95 cloth 978-1-935408-26-0 Distributed for Zone Books

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SENSIBLE POLITICS
The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism edited by Meg McLagan and Yates McKee
Political acts are encoded in medial formspunch holes on a card, images on a live stream, tweets about events unfolding in real timethat have force, shaping people as subjects and forming the contours of what is sensible, legible, and visible. In doing so they define the terms of political possibility and create terrain for political acts. Sensible Politics considers the constitutive role played by aesthetic and performative techniques in the staging of claims by nongovernmental activists. Attending to political aesthetics means focusing not on a disembodied image that travels under the concept of art or visual culture, nor on a preformed domain of the political that seeks subsequent expression in media form. Instead it requires bringing the two realms together into the same analytic frame. A diverse group of contributors, from art historians, anthropologists, and political theorists to artists, filmmakers, and architects, considers the interaction of politics and the visual in such topics as the political consequences of a photograph taken by an Israeli soldier in a Palestinian house in Ramallah; AIDS activism; images of social suffering in Iran; the forensic architecture of claims to truth; and the Make Poverty History campaign. Transcending disciplines, they trace a broader image complex whereby politics is brought to visibility through the mediation of specific cultural forms that mix the legal and the visual, the hermeneutic and the technical, the political and the aesthetic. Their contributions offer critical insight into the practices of mediation whereby the political becomes manifest.
Meg McLagan is an independent filmmaker and scholar based in New York City. Yates McKee is an art critic based in New York City. The interaction of politics and the visual in the activities of nongovernmental activists.

November 6 x 9, 656 pp. 16 color illus., 130 black & white illus. $36.95T/25.95 cloth 978-1-935408-24-6 Distributed for Zone Books

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE
Negar Azimi, Ariella Azoulay, Amahl Bishara, Judith Butler, Eduardo Cadava, Jonathan Crary, Ann Cvetkovich, Faye Ginsburg, Sam Gregory, Zeynep Gursel, Roger Hallas, Andrew Herscher, Kirsten Johnson, Liza Johnson, Thomas Keenan, Laura Kurgan, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Jaleh Mansoor, Hugh Raffles, Felicity D. Scott, Kendall Thomas, Leshu Torchin, Eyal Weizman, Pamela Yates, Ben Young, Huma Yusuf, Charles Zerner

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DISCOVERING THE HUMAN CONNECTOME

Olaf Sporns
A pioneer in the field outlines new empirical and computational approaches to mapping the neural connections of the human brain.

October 7 x 9, 224 pp. 17 color plates, 55 black & white illus. $35.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01790-9

Also available NETWORKS OF THE BRAIN Olaf Sporns 2010, 978-0-262-01469-4 $40.00S/27.95 cloth

Crucial to understanding how the brain works is connectivity, and the centerpiece of brain connectivity is the connectome, a comprehensive description of how neurons and brain regions are connected. The human brain is a network of extraordinary complexitya network not by way of metaphor, but in a precise and mathematical sense: an intricate web of billions of neurons connected by trillions of synapses. How this network is connected is important for virtually all facets of the brains integrative function. In this book, Olaf Sporns surveys current efforts to chart these connectionsto map the human connectome. Sporns, a pioneer in the field who was the first to define and use the term connectome, argues that the nascent field of connectomics has already begun to influence the way many neuroscientists collect, analyze, and think about their data. Moreover, the idea of mapping the connections of the human brain in their entirety has captured the imaginations of researchers across several disciplines including human cognition, brain and mental disorders, and complex systems and networks. Sporns describes the biological and conceptual foundations of the connectome; the many research challenges it faces; the many cutting-edge empirical strategies, from electron microscopy to magnetic resonance imaging, deployed to map brain connectivity; the relationship between structure and function; and the wide array of network computational approaches to connectomics. Discovering the Human Connectome offers the first comprehensive overview of current empirical and computational approaches in this rapidly developing field.
Olaf Sporns is Provost Professor and Head of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. He is the author of Networks of the Brain (MIT Press).

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VISION AND BRAIN

How We Perceive the World James V. Stone
In this accessible and engaging introduction to modern vision science, James Stone uses visual illusions to explore how the brain sees the world. Understanding vision, Stone argues, is not simply a question of knowing which An engaging introduction neurons respond to particular visual features, but also requires to the science of vision that offers a coherent a computational theory of account of vision based vision. Stone draws together on general information results from David Marrs processing principles. computational framework, Barlows efficient coding hypothesis, Bayesian inference, Shannons information theory, and signal processing to construct a coherent account of vision that explains not only how the brain is fooled by particular visual illusions, but also why any biological or computer vision system should also be fooled by these illusions. This short text provides a coherent account of vision, and includes chapters on the eye and its evolution, how and why visual neurons from different species encode the retinal image in the same way, how information theory explains color aftereffects, how different visual cues provide depth information, how the imperfect visual information received by the eye and brain can be rescued by Bayesian inference, how different brain regions process visual information, and the bizarre perceptual consequences that result from damage to these brain regions. The tutorial style emphasizes key conceptual insights, rather than mathematical details, making the book accessible to the nonscientist and suitable for undergraduate or postgraduate study.
James V. Stone is a Reader in the Psychology Department of the University of Sheffield. He is coauthor (with John P. Frisby) of the widely used text Seeing: The Computational Approach to Biological Vision (second edition, MIT Press, 2010), and author of Independent Component Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction (MIT Press, 2004). September 6 x 9, 296 pp. 25 color illus., 12 black & white illus. $30.00S/20.95 paper 978-0-262-51773-7

BRAIN AND THE GAZE

On the Active Boundaries of Vision Jan Lauwereyns
How do we gain access to things as they are? Although we routinely take our self-made pictures to be veridical representations of reality, in actuality we choose (albeit unwittingly) or construct what we see. By movements of the eyes, the direction of A radically integrative account of visual percep- our gaze, we create meaning. tion, grounded in neuro- In Brain and the Gaze, Jan science but drawing on Lauwereyns offers a novel insights from philosophy reformulation of perception and psychology. and its neural underpinnings, focusing on the active nature of perception. In his investigation of active perception and its brain mechanisms, Lauwereyns offers the gaze as the principal paradigm for perception. In a radically integrative account, grounded in neuroscience but drawing on insights from philosophy and psychology, he discusses the dynamic and constrained nature of perception; the complex information processing at the level of the retina; the active nature of vision; the intensive nature of representations; the gaze of others as visual stimulus; and the intentionality of vision and consciousness. An engaging point of entry to the cognitive neuroscience of perception, written for neuroscientists but illuminated by insights from thinkers ranging from William James to Slavoj iek, Brain and the Gaze will give new impetus to research and theory in the field.
Jan Lauwereyns is Professor in the Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences at Kyushu University in Japan and Adjunct Research Associate in the School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. A scientist, poet, and essayist, he is the author of The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options (MIT Press, 2010) and other books. September 7 x 9, 312 pp. 49 illus. $40.00S/27.95 cloth 978-0-262-01791-6

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ON PERCEIVED MOTION AND FIGURAL ORGANIZATION

Max Wertheimer
edited by Lothar Spillmann with contributions by Michael Wertheimer, K. W. Watkins, Stephen Lehar, Robert Sekuler, Viktor Sarris, and Lothar Spillmann There are few articles in science that remain relevant over a span of 100 years; Max Wertheimers pioneering experimental studies on apparent motion and figural organization are notable exceptions. Wertheimers 1912 account of motion perception started a revolution and established the Gestalt school of psychology. It also paved the way for further investigations of apparent motion perception, including subsequent research by Oliver Braddick, Stuart Anstis, Vilaynur Ramachandran, and others. Wertheimers 1923 article on figural organization (known as the dot study for its numerous examples of dot patterns) helped define grouping as a principle of figure-ground perception. This book provides contemporary readers and researchers with Wertheimers two pivotal articles, newly translated into English and each accompanied by a synopsis, and two essays on apparent motion and figural organization that describe the long-term impact of Wertheimers work. The translation of the original German into readable English prose allows English-language readers for the first time to appreciate Wertheimers visionary ideas. The accompanying essays tie Wertheimers phenomenological descriptions to the underlying neuronal mechanisms, bridging the years between the articles first publication and modern research.
Two seminal articles by a founder of the Gestalt school of psychology, newly translated and accompanied by essays that connect his work to current research. Max Wertheimer (18801943) was the founder of Gestalt psychology. He taught at the universities of Berlin and Frankfurt and at the New School for Social Research in New York. Lothar Spillmann, for many years Professor in the Brain Research Unit at the University of Freiburg, is Visiting Professor at the Herder Foundation, Bonn, and the China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan. He edited Wolfgang Metgzers Laws of Seeing (MIT Press, 2005), another classic work from the Gestalt movement. August 6 x 9, 320 pp. 182 illus. $40.00S/27.95 cloth 978-0-262-01746-6

PRINCIPLES OF BRAIN DYNAMICS

Global State Interactions edited by Mikhail I. Rabinovich, Karl J. Friston, and Pablo Varona
The consideration of time or dynamics is fundamental for all aspects of mental activityperception, cognition, and emotionbecause the main feature of brain activity is the continuous change of the Experimental and underlying brain states even in theoretical approaches to global brain dynamics a constant environment. The that draw on the latest application of nonlinear dynamresearch in the field. ics to the study of brain activity began to flourish in the 1990s when combined with empirical observations from modern morphological and physiological observations. This book offers perspectives on brain dynamics that draw on the latest advances in research in the field. It includes contributions from both theoreticians and experimentalists, offering an eclectic treatment of fundamental issues. Topics addressed range from experimental and computational approaches to transient brain dynamics to the free-energy principle as a global brain theory. The book concludes with a short but rigorous guide to modern nonlinear dynamics and their application to neural dynamics.
CONTRIBUTORS Valentin S. Afraimovich, Maxim Bazhenov, Peter beim Graben, Christian Bick, Andreas Daffertshofer, Nathaniel D. Daw, Gustavo Deco, Karl J. Friston, Samuel J. Gershman, John-Dylan Haynes, Raoul Huys, Viktor K. Jirsa, Stefan J. Kiebel, Scott Makeig, Anthony R. McIntosh, Vinod Menon, Dionysios Perdikis, Ajay Pillai, Roland Potthast, Mikhail I. Rabinovich, Vasily A. Vakorin, Bernadette C. M. van Wijk, Pablo Varona, Marmaduke Woodman
Mikhail I. Rabinovich is Research Scientist at the BioCircuits Institute at the University of California, San Diego. Karl J. Friston is Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Scientific Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and Professor in the Institute of Neurology at University College London. Pablo Varona is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Universidad Autnoma de Madrid. August 7 x 9, 360 pp. 36 color plates, 94 black & white illus. $65.00S/44.95 cloth 978-0-262-01764-0 Computational Neuroscience series

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neuroscience/psychology/philosophy

THE ENCULTURED BRAIN

An Introduction to Neuroanthropology edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey
The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately small in relation to its adult size and open to cultural sculpting at multiple levels. Recognizing this, the new Basic concepts and field of neuroanthropology case studies from an emerging field that places the brain at the center of investigates human discussions about human nature capacities and patholoand culture. Anthropology gies at the intersection offers brain science more robust of brain and culture. accounts of enculturation to explain observable difference in brain function; neuroscience offers anthropology evidence of neuroplasticitys role in social and cultural dynamics. This book provides a foundational text for neuroanthropology, offering basic concepts and case studies at the intersection of brain and culture. After an overview of the field and background information on recent research in biology, a series of case studies demonstrate neuroanthropology in practice. Contributors first focus on capabilities and skills including memory in medical practice, skill acquisition in martial arts, and the role of humor in coping with breast cancer treatment and recoverythen report on problems and pathologies that range from posttraumatic stress disorder among veterans to smoking as a part of college social life.
CONTRIBUTORS Mauro C. Balieiro, Kathryn Bouskill, Rachel S. Brezis, Benjamin Campbell, Greg Downey, William W. Dressler, Erin P. Finley, Agustn Fuentes, M. Cameron Hay, Daniel H. Lende, Katherine C. MacKinnon, Katja Pettinen, Jos Ernesto dos Santos, Peter G. Stromberg
Daniel H. Lende is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Greg Downey is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney. In 2007 they created the popular Neuroanthropology blog (neuroanthropology.net), which is now part of the Public Library of Science (http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/). September 6 x 9, 432 pp. 9 illus. $45.00S/31.95 cloth 978-0-262-01778-7

INNER EXPERIENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE

Merging Both Perspectives Donald D. Price and James J. Barrell
The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights A proposal for merging a science of human with those of neuroscience, consciousness with psychology, and philosophy. neuroscience and In Inner Experience and psychology. Neuroscience, Donald Price and James Barrell show how a science of human experience can be developed through a strategy that integrates experiential paradigms with methods from the natural sciences. They argue that the accuracy and results of both psychology and neuroscience would benefit from an experiential perspective and methods. Price and Barrell describe phenomenologically based methods for scientific research on human experience, as well as their philosophical underpinnings, and relate these to empirical results associated with such phenomena as pain and suffering, emotions, and volition. They argue that the methods of psychophysics are critical for integrating experiential and natural sciences, describe how qualitative and quantitative methods can be merged, and then apply this approach to the phenomena of pain, placebo responses, and background states of consciousness. In the course of their argument, they draw on empirical results that include qualitative studies, quantitative studies, and neuroimaging studies. Finally, they propose that the integration of experiential and natural science can extend efforts to understand such difficult issues as free will and complex negative emotions including jealousy and greed.
Donald D. Price is Professor Emeritus, Division of Neuroscience, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Florida. James J. Barrell has been a professor and research psychologist at the universities of Florida and West Georgia. He is currently a consultant for application of experiential methods to psychology and neuroscience. September 6 x 9, 360 pp. 34 illus. $40.00S/27.95 cloth 978-0-262-01765-7 A Bradford Book

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PHILOSOPHY
new media/technology/philosophy

BIOMEDICAL CONSULTING AGREEMENTS

A Guide for Academics Edward Klees and H. Robert Horvitz
There can be a clash of cultures when academic scientists negotiate consulting agreements with biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies. Scientists, accustomed to the collegial atmosphere of An attorney and a scientist outline issues the laboratory and sometimes that arise in biomedical disdainful of legal paperwork, consulting agreements, might be less than diligent in including institutional reading the fine print. On the obligations, confidentiality, consulting fees, other hand, a companymotistock, and options. vated to protect discoveries and trade secretsmight write provisions that are favorable to its interests, leaving it to the scientist to raise objections or offer a counterproposal. The scientist, meanwhile, might believe that it would be impolite or antagonistic to raise questions about a companys agreement. This book offers an essential guide for academic scientists and physicians who are considering consulting work in the field of biomedicine. In it, the authorsan attorney and a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, both with extensive experience reviewing and negotiating consulting agreementsoutline key issues to consider before signing a consulting agreement. These issues range from the obviousintellectual property, confidentiality, and feesto those that might not spring immediately to mind, including indemnity, different classes of stock, and the relevance of insider trading and securities laws.
Edward Klees is General Counsel at the University of Virginia Investment Management Company and was formerly Associate General Counsel of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. H. Robert Horvitz, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, is Professor in the Department of Biology and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. October 6 x 9, 144 pp. 1 illus. $30.00S/20.95 paper 978-0-262-51793-5

LIFE AFTER NEW MEDIA

Mediation as a Vital Process Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska
In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objectscomputers, smart phones, iPods, Kindlesto an An argument for a examination of the interlocking shift in understanding new mediafrom a technical, social, and biological fascination with devices processes of mediation. Doing to an examination of so, they say, reveals that life the complex processes itself can be understood as of mediation. mediatedsubject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms. By Kember and Zylinskas account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities. Mediationall-encompassing and indivisiblebecomes for them a key trope for understanding our being in the technological world. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider the ethical necessity of making a cut to any media processes in order to contain them. Considering topics that range from media-enacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a new way of doing media studies that is simultaneously critical and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and practice.
Sarah Kember is Reader in New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author, most recently, of The Optical Effects of Lightning. Joanna Zylinska is Reader in New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Bioethics in the Age of New Media (MIT Press, 2009) and other books, and a fine-art photographer. October 7 x 9, 288 pp. 25 illus. $32.00S/22.95 cloth 978-0-262-01819-7

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GILBERT SIMONDON AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE TRANSINDIVIDUAL

Muriel Combes
translated with preface and afterword by Thomas LaMarre Gilbert Simondon (19241989), one of the most influential contemporary French philosophers, published only three works: Lindividu et sa gense physico-biologique (The individual and its physico-biological genesis, 1964) and Lindividuation psychique et collective (Psychic and collective individuation, 1989), both drawn from his doctoral thesis, and Du mode dexistence des objets techniques (On the mode of existence of technical objects, 1958). It is this last work that brought Simondon into the public eye; as a consequence, he has been considered a thinker of technics and cited often in pedagogical reports on teaching technology. Yet Simondon was a philosopher whose ambitions lay in an in-depth renewal of ontology as a process of individuationthat is, how individuals come into being, persist, and transform. In this accessible yet rigorous introduction to Simondons work, Muriel Combes helps to bridge the gap between Simondons account of technics and his philosophy of individuation. Some thinkers have found inspiration in Simondons philosophy of individuation, notably Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari. Combess account, first published in French in 1999, is one of the only studies of Simondon to appear in English. Combes breaks new ground, exploring an ethics and politics adequate to Simondons hypothesis of preindividual being, considering through the lens of transindividual philosophy what form a nonservile relation to technology might take today. Her book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Simondons work.
Muriel Combes, a philosopher, is the author of La vie inspare: Vie et sujet entre biopouvoir et politique. Thomas LaMarre is Professor of East Asian Studies and Art History and Communications at McGill University. An accessible yet rigorous introduction to the influential French philosopher Gilbert Simondons philosophy of individuation.

November 6 x 9, 168 pp. $27.00S/18.95 cloth 978-0-262-01818-0 Technologies of Lived Abstraction series

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PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION
edited by Briankle G. Chang and Garnet C. Butchart
To philosophize is to communicate philosophically. From its inception, philosophy has communicated forcefully. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle talk a lot, and talk ardently. Because philosophy and communication have belonged together from the beginningand because philosophy comes into Classical, modern, its own and solidifies its stance and contemporary philosophical writings through communicationit is that address the logical that we subject commufundamental concepts nication to philosophical invesof communication. tigation. This collection of key works of classical, modern, and contemporary philosophers brings communication back into philosophys orbit. It is the first anthology to gather in a single volume foundational works that address the core questions, concepts, and problems of communication in philosophical terms. The editors have chosen thirty-two selections from the work of Plato, Leibniz, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Lacan, Derrida, Sloterdijk, and others. They have organized these texts thematically, rather than historically, in seven sections: consciousness; intersubjective understanding; language; writing and context; difference and subjectivity; gift and exchange; and communicability and community. Taken together, these texts not only lay the foundation for establishing communication as a distinct philosophical topic but also provide an outline of what philosophy of communication might look like.
SELECTIONS FROM Giorgio Agamben, Karl-Otto Apel, Walter Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Georg Wilhelm Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Jacques Lacan, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Franois Lyotard, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Luc Marion, Karl Marx, Jean-Luc Nancy, Plato, Alfred Schutz, Peter Sloterdijk, Michel Serres, Joseph Vogel, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Briankle G. Chang is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange. Garnet C. Butchart is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida, Tampa. September 7 x 9, 688 pp. $65.00S/44.95 paper 978-0-262-51697-6

DO APES READ MINDS?

Toward a New Folk Psychology Kristin Andrews
By adulthood, most of us have become experts in human behavior, able to make sense of the myriad behaviors we find in environments ranging from the family home to the local mall and beyond. In philosophy of mind, An argument that as folk our understanding of others has been largely explained in psychologists humans (and perhaps other terms of knowing others beliefs animals) dont so much and desires; describing others read minds as see one another as persons with behavior in these terms is the core of what is known as folk traits, emotions, and social relations. psychology. In Do Apes Read Minds? Kristin Andrews challenges this view of folk psychology, arguing that we dont consider others beliefs and desires when predicting most quotidian behavior, and that our explanations in these terms are often inaccurate or unhelpful. Rather than mindreading, or understanding others as receptacles for propositional attitudes, Andrews claims that folk psychologists see others first as whole persons with traits, emotions, and social relations. Drawing on research in developmental psychology, social psychology, and animal cognition, Andrews argues for a pluralistic folk psychology that employs different kinds of practices (including prediction, explanation, and justification) and different kinds of cognitive tools (including personality trait attribution, stereotype activation, inductive reasoning about past behavior, and generalization from self ) that are involved in our folk psychological practices. According to this understanding of folk psychologywhich does not require the sophisticated cognitive machinery of second-order metacognition associated with having a theory of mindanimals (including the other great apes) may be folk psychologists, too.
Kristin Andrews is Associate Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto. August 6 x 9, 312 pp. $38.00S/26.95 cloth 978-0-262-01755-8

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THE MACHINE QUESTION

Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics David J. Gunkel
One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the animal questionconsideration of the moral status of nonhuman animals. In this An investigation into the assignment of moral book, David Gunkel takes up responsibilities and the machine question: whether rights to intelligent and and to what extent intelligent autonomous machines and autonomous machines of our own making. of our own making can be considered to have legitimate moral responsibilities and any legitimate claim to moral consideration. The machine question poses a fundamental challenge to moral thinking, questioning the traditional philosophical conceptualization of technology as a tool or instrument to be used by human agents. Gunkel begins by addressing the question of machine moral agency: whether a machine might be considered a legitimate moral agent that could be held responsible for decisions and actions. He then approaches the machine question from the other side, considering whether a machine might be a moral patient due legitimate moral consideration. Finally, Gunkel considers some recent innovations in moral philosophy and critical theory that complicate the machine question, deconstructing the binary agentpatient opposition itself. Technological advances may prompt us to wonder if the science fiction of computers and robots whose actions affect their human companions (think of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey) could become science fact. Gunkels argument promises to influence future considerations of ethics, ourselves, and the other entities who inhabit this world.
David J. Gunkel is Presidential Teaching Professor and Professor of Communication Technology at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Hacking Cyberspace and Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology. August 6 x 9, 272 pp. 1 illus. $35.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01743-5

REFERENCE AND REFERRING

edited by William P. Kabasenche, Michael ORourke, and Matthew H. Slater
These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference and referring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay that casts current trends in reference and referring in terms of an ongoing dialogue Original essays on between Fregean and Russellian reference and referring approaches, the book addresses by leading scholars that combine breadth specific topics, balancing breadth of coverage with of coverage with thematic unity. thematic unity. The contributors, all leading or emerging scholars, address trenchant neo-Fregean challenges to the direct reference position; consider what positive claims can be made about the mechanism of reference; address the role of a theory of reference within broader theoretical context; and investigate other kinds of linguistic expressions used in referring activities that may themselves be referring expressions. The topical unity and accessibility of the essays, the stage-setting introductory essay, and the comprehensive index combine to make Reference and Referring, along with the other books in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, appropriate for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.
CONTRIBUTORS Barbara Abbott, Jody Azzouni, David Braun,
Antonio Capuano, Chad Carmichael, Geoff Georgi, Stavroula Glezakos, Mark Hinchliff, Laurence R. Horn, Robin Jeshion, Genoveva Marti, Jessica Pepp, Ori Simchen, Scott Soames, Joshua Spencer, Kenneth A. Taylor, Chris Tillman William P. Kabasenche is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University. Michael ORourke is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Idaho. Matthew H. Slater is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Bucknell University. Kabasenche, ORourke, and Slater are coeditors of the previous volume in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, The Environment: Philosophy, Science, and Ethics (MIT Press, 2012). January 6 x 9, 432 pp. 1 illus. $50.00S/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01830-2 Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series

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VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY
Contemporary Readings edited by John Greco and John Turri
Virtue epistemology is a diverse and flourishing field, one of the most exciting developments in epistemology to emerge over the last three decades. Virtue epistemology begins with the premise that epistemology is a normative A collection of essential discipline and, accordingly, a central task of epistemology is to readings that chart the development of a diverse explain the sort of normativity and flourishing field. that knowledge, justified belief, and the like involve. A second premise is that a focus on the intellectual virtues (individual intellectual excellences) is essential to carrying out this central task. This collection offers some of the most influential and agenda-setting work at the heart of virtue epistemologys research program. Taken together, they will equip the reader to enter the ongoing discussion and debate in the field. The selections range from seminal contributions by Ernest Sosa, who introduced the notion of intellectual virtue into the contemporary literature, to a study of epistemic justice that draws on To Kill a Mockingbird and The Talented Mr. Ripley. The readings include overviews of the field that also serve to advance the discussion; investigations of the nature of knowledge; reflections on the value of knowledge; examinations of credit and luck; and explorations of future directions for research.
CONTRIBUTORS Jason Baehr, Heather Battaly, Berit Brogaard,
Miranda Fricker, John Greco, Stephen Grimm, Jonathan Kvanvig, Jennifer Lackey, Duncan Pritchard, Wayne Riggs, Ernest Sosa, John Turri, Linda Zagzebski John Greco is Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair in Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. John Turri is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. September 6 x 9, 424 pp. $45.00S/31.95 paper 978-0-262-51780-5 $90.00S/62.95 cloth 978-0-262-01787-9 MIT Readers in Contemporary Philosophy

GROUNDING SOCIAL SCIENCES IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

edited by Ron Sun
Research in the cognitive sciences has advanced significantly in recent decades. Computational cognitive modeling has profoundly changed the ways in which we understand cognition. Empirical research has progressed as well, offering new insights Exploration of a new into many psychological pheintegrative intellectual enterprise: the cognitive nomena. This book investigates social sciences. the possibility of exploiting the successes of the cognitive sciences to establish a better foundation for the social sciences, including the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science. The result may be a new, powerful, integrative intellectual enterprise: the cognitive social sciences. The book treats a range of topics selected to capture issues that arise across the social sciences, covering computational, empirical, and theoretical approaches. The chapters, by leading scholars in both the cognitive and the social sciences, explore the relationship between cognition and society, including such issues as methodologies of studying cultural differences; the psychological basis of politics (for instance, the role of emotion and the psychology of moral choices); cognitive dimensions of religion; cognitive approaches to economics; metatheoretical questions on the possibility of the unification of social and cognitive sciences. Combining depth and breadth, the book encourages fruitful interdisciplinary interaction across many fields.
CONTRIBUTORS Scott Atran, Peter Bull, Erin Cassese,
Ofer Feldman, Stanley Feldman, Leonie Huddy, Herbert Gintis, Joseph W. Kable, John J. McArdle, Mathew D. McCubbins, Kristen Renwick Monroe, Ilkka Pyysiinen, Don Ross, Norbert O. Ross, Bradd Shore, Ron Sun, Paul Thagard, Mark Turner, Harvey Whitehouse, Robert J. Willis Ron Sun is Professor of Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and President of International Neural Networks Society. September 6 x 9, 472 pp. 11 illus. $50.00S/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01754-1

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THE FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY

Marc A. Abramiuk
In The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology, Marc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basis for the study of the mind in the past, arguing that archaeology and the cognitive sciences have much to offer one another. Abramiuk draws on relevant topics from philosophy, biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, and archaeology to establish theoretically founded and empirically substantiated principles of a discipline that integrates different approaches to mind-related archaeological research. Abramiuk discusses the two ways that archaeologists have traditionally viewed the human mind: as a universal or as a relative interface with the environment. He argues that neither view by itself can satisfactorily serve as a basis for gleaning insight into all aspects of the mind in the past and, therefore, the mind is more appropriately studied using multiple approaches. He explains the rationale for using these approaches in mind-related archaeological research, reviewing the literature in both cognitive psychology and cognitive anthropology on human memory, perception, and reasoning. Drawing on archaeological and genetic evidence, Abramiuk investigates the evolution of the mind through the Upper Paleolithic erawhen the ancient mind became functionally comparable to the modern human mind. Finally, Abramiuk offers a model for the establishment of a discipline dealing with the study of the mind in the past that integrates all the approaches discussed.
Marc A. Abramiuk is an archaeologist who has worked in a variety of capacities, from Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology to cultural advisor and field research manager for the Department of the Army. An empirically supported proposal for synthesizing multiple approaches to the study of the mind in the past.

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THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE

Revised and Expanded Edition

SIGNALS AND BOUNDARIES

Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems John H. Holland
Complex adaptive systems (cas), including ecosystems, governments, biological cells, and markets, are characterized by intricate hierarchical arrangements of boundaries and signals. In ecosystems, for example, niches act as semi-permeable boundaries, and An overarching framesmells and visual patterns serve work for comparing and steering complex as signals; governments have adaptive systems is departmental hierarchies with developed through memoranda acting as signals; understanding the and so it is with other cas. mechanisms that generate their Despite a wealth of data and intricate signal/ descriptions concerning differboundary hierarchies. ent cas, there remain many unanswered questions about steering these systems. In Signals and Boundaries, John Holland argues that understanding the origin of the intricate signal/border hierarchies of these systems is the key to answering such questions. He develops an overarching framework for comparing and steering cas through the mechanisms that generate their signal/boundary hierarchies. Holland lays out a path for developing the framework that emphasizes agents, niches, theory, and mathematical models. He discusses, among other topics, theory construction; signal-processing agents; networks as representations of signal/boundary interaction; adaptation; recombination and reproduction; the use of tagged urn models (adapted from elementary probability theory) to represent boundary hierarchies; finitely generated systems as a way to tie the models examined into a single framework; the framework itself, illustrated by a simple finitely generated version of the development of a multi-celled organism; and Markov processes.
John H. Holland is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan; he is also Trustee and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity and other books. August 5 3/8 x 8, 320 pp. 27 illus. $40.00S/27.95 cloth 978-0-262-01783-1

Lev S. Vygotsky
edited and with a new foreword by Alex Kozulin Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotskys Thought and Language has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Its 1962 English transA new edition of a lation must certainly be considfoundational work of ered one of the most important cognitive science that outlines a theory of and influential books ever pubthe development of lished by the MIT Press. In this specifically human higher mental functions. highly original exploration of human mental development, Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internalized verbal thought. In 1986, the MIT Press published a new edition of the original translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar, edited by Vygotsky scholar Alex Kozulin, that restored the works complete text and added materials to help readers better understand Vygotskys thought. Kozulin also contributed an introductory essay that offered new insight into Vygotskys life, intellectual milieu, and research methods. This expanded edition offers Vygotskys text, Kozulins essay, a subject index, and a new foreword by Kozulin that maps the ever-growing influence of Vygotskys ideas.
Lev S. Vygotsky (18961934) studied at Moscow University. He began his systematic work in psychology at the age of 28, and within a few years formulated his theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions. He died of tuberculosis in 1934. Thought and Language was published posthumously that same year. Alex Kozulin began his investigation of Vygotskys theory at the Moscow Institute of Psychology and continued it in Boston and then Jerusalem. He is the author of Psychology in Utopia: Toward a Social History of Soviet Psychology (MIT Press, 1984), Vygotskys Psychology: A Biography of Ideas, and a coeditor of Vygotskys Educational Theory in Cultural Context. August 5 3/8 x 8, 392 pp. $40.00S/27.95 paper 978-0-262-51771-3

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COGNITIVE SEARCH
Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain edited by Peter M. Todd, Thomas T. Hills, and Trevor W. Robbins
Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. We scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and An exploration of the evolution, function, and information. We search for items mechanisms of search in visual scenes, for historical for resources in the facts, and for the best deals on mind and in the world. Internet sites; we search for new friends to add to our social networks, and for solutions to novel problems. What we find is always governed by how we search and by the structure of the environment. This book explores how we search for resources in our minds and in the world. The authors examine the evolution and adaptive functions of search; the neural underpinnings of goal-searching mechanisms across species; psychological models of search in memory, decision making, and visual scenes; and applications of search behavior in highly complex environments such as the Internet. As the range of information, social contacts, and goods continues to expand, how well we are able to search and successfully find what we seek becomes increasingly important. At the same time, search offers cross-disciplinary insights to the scientific study of human cognition and its evolution. Combining perspectives from researchers across numerous domains, this book furthers our understanding of the relationship between search and the human mind.
Peter M. Todd is Professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and Psychology at Indiana University. Thomas T. Hills is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Warwick. Trevor W. Robbins is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Chair of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where he is also Director of the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. September 6 x 9, 416 pp. 11 color illus., 24 black & white illus. $45.00S/31.95 cloth 978-0-262-01809-8 Strngmann Forum Reports

EVOLUTION AND THE MECHANISMS OF DECISION MAKING

edited by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens
How do we make decisions? Conventional decision theory tells us only which behavioral choices we ought to make if we follow certain axioms. In real life, however, our choices are governed by A multidisciplinary examination of cognitive cognitive mechanisms shaped mechanisms, shaped over evolutionary time through over evolutionary the process of natural selection. time through natural Evolution has created strong selection, that govern biases in how and when we decision making. process information, and it is these evolved cognitive building blocksfrom signal detection and memory to individual and social learningthat provide the foundation for our choices. An evolutionary perspective thus sheds necessary light on the nature of how we and other animals make decisions. This volumewith contributors from a broad range of disciplines, including evolutionary biology, psychology, economics, anthropology, neuroscience, and computer scienceoffers a multidisciplinary examination of what evolution can tell us about our and other animals mechanisms of decision making. Human children, for example, differ from chimpanzees in their tendency to over-imitate others and copy obviously useless actions; this divergence from our primate relatives sets up imitation as one of the important mechanisms underlying human decision making. The volume also considers why and when decision mechanisms are robust, why they vary across individuals and situations, and how social life affects our decisions.
Peter Hammerstein is a Founding Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University, Berlin, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Jeffrey R. Stevens is Assistant Professor of Psychology and a faculty member of the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior at the University of NebraskaLincoln. October 6 x 9, 488 pp. 7 color illus., 9 black & white illus. $50.00S/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01808-1 Strngmann Forum Reports

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LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND REALITY

Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
second edition
Writings by a pioneering linguist, including his famous work on the Hopi language, general reflections on language and meaning, and the Yale Report.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

edited by John B. Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson, and Penny Lee introduction by John B. Carroll foreword by Stephen C. Levinson The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (18971941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages we speak. The writings collected in this volume include important papers on the Maya, Hopi, and Shawnee languages, as well as more general reflections on language and meaning. Whorf s ideas about the relation of language and thought have always appealed to a wide audience, but their reception in expert circles has alternated between dismissal and applause. Recently the language sciences have headed in directions that give Whorf s thinking a renewed relevance. Hence this new edition of Whorf s classic work is especially timely. The second edition includes all the writings from the first edition as well as John Carrolls original introduction, a new foreword by Stephen Levinson of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics that puts Whorf s work in historical and contemporary context, and new indexes. In addition, this edition offers Whorf s Yale Report, an important work from Whorf s mature oeuvre.
Benjamin Lee Whorf, originally trained as a chemical engineer, began his work in linguistics in the 1920s and became well known for his studies of the Hopi language. He studied with the famous linguist Edward Sapir at Yale University, formulating with him the SapirWhorf Hypothesis of linguistic relativity.

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PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION

A carefully planned and skillfully edited presentation of Whorf s philosophy of language. International Journal of American Linguistics

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NATIVE LISTENING
Language Experience and the Recognition of Spoken Words Anne Cutler
Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that listening to speech is a An argument that process of native listening the way we listen to speech is shaped by because so much of it is exquisour experience with itely tailored to the requirements our native language. of the native language. Her cross-linguistic study (drawing on experimental work in languages that range from English and Dutch to Chinese and Japanese) documents what is universal and what is language specific in the way we listen to spoken language. Cutler describes the formidable range of mental tasks we carry out, all at once, with astonishing speed and accuracy, when we listen. These include evaluating probabilities arising from the structure of the native vocabulary, tracking information to locate the boundaries between words, paying attention to the way the words are pronounced, and assessing not only the sounds of speech but prosodic information that spans sequences of sounds. She describes infant speech perception, the consequences of language-specific specialization for listening to other languages, the flexibility and adaptability of listening (to our native languages), and how languagespecificity and universality fit together in our language processing system. Drawing on her four decades of work as a psycholinguist, Cutler documents the recent growth in our knowledge about how spoken-word recognition works and the role of language structure in this process. Her book is a significant contribution to a vibrant and rapidly developing field.
Anne Cutler is Director of the Language Comprehension Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Professor, MARCS Auditory Laboratories at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. September 7 x 9, 560 pp. 85 illus. $50.00S/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01756-5

UNIVERSALS IN COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY

Suppletion, Superlatives, and the Structure of Words Jonathan David Bobaljik
This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of An argument and one stem by a phonologically account of linguistic universals in the unrelated stem, as in goodmorphology of better-best) there emerge strikcomparison, combining ingly robust patterns, virtually empirical breadth and exceptionless generalizations theoretical rigor. across languages. Jonathan David Bobaljik describes the systematicity in suppletion, and argues that at least five generalizations are solid contenders for the status of linguistic universals. The major topics discussed include suppletion, comparative and superlative formation, deadjectival verbs, and lexical decomposition. Bobaljiks primary focus is on morphological theory, but his argument also aims to integrate evidence from a variety of subfields into a coherent whole. In the course of his analysis, Bobaljik argues that the assumptions needed bear on choices among theoretical frameworks and that the framework of Distributed Morphology has the right architecture to support the account. In addition to the theoretical implications of the generalizations, Bobaljik suggests that the striking patterns of regularity in what otherwise appears to be the most irregular of linguistic domains provide compelling evidence for Universal Grammar. The book strikes a unique balance between empirical breadth and theoretical detail. The phenomenon that is the main focus of the argument, suppletion in adjectival gradation, is rare enough that Bobaljik is able to present an essentially comprehensive description of the facts; at the same time, it is common enough to offer sufficient variation to explore the question of universals over a significant dataset of more than three hundred languages.
Jonathan David Bobaljik is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. September 6 x 9, 328 pp. $38.00S/26.95 cloth 978-0-262-01759-6 Current Studies in Linguistics

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SENSORIMOTOR COGNITION AND NATURAL LANGUAGE SYNTAX

Alistair Knott
How is the information we gather from the world through our sensory and motor apparatus converted into language? It is obvious that there is an interface between language and sensorimotor cognition because we can talk about what we see and do. A proposal that the In this book, Alistair Knott syntax of a sentence reporting a direct argues that this interface is more sensorimotor experience direct than commonly assumed. closely reflects the He proposes that the syntax of a sensorimotor processes involved in the concrete sentencea sentence experience. that reports a direct sensorimotor experienceclosely reflects the sensorimotor processes involved in the experience. In fact, he argues, the syntax of the sentence can be interpreted as a description of these sensorimotor processes. Knott focuses on a simple concrete episode: a man grabbing a cup. He presents detailed models of the sensorimotor processes involved in experiencing this episode (drawing on research in psychology and neuroscience) and of the syntactic structure of the transitive sentence reporting the episode (drawing on Chomskyan Minimalist syntactic theory). He proposes that these two independently motivated models are closely linked that the logical form of the sentence can be given a detailed sensorimotor characterization and that, more generally, many of the syntactic principles understood in Minimalism as encoding innate linguistic knowledge are actually sensorimotor in origin. Knotts sensorimotor reinterpretation of Chomsky opens the way for a psychological account of sentence processing that is compatible with a Chomskyan account of syntactic universals, suggesting a way to reconcile Chomskys theory of syntax with the empiricist models of language often viewed as Mimimalisms competitors.
Alistair Knott is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand. October 7 x 9, 416 pp. 66 illus. $45.00S/31.95 cloth 978-0-262-01776-3

INDEFINITE OBJECTS
Scrambling, Choice Functions, and Differential Marking Luis Lpez
In Indefinite Objects, Luis Lpez presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches map structural A novel view of the configurations to semantic syntax-semantics interface that analyzes interpretations directly; Lpez the behavior of links configuration to a mode indefinite objects. of semantic composition, with the latter yielding the interpretation. The polyvalent behavior of indefinites has long been explored by linguists who have been interested in their syntax, semantics, and case morphology, and Lpezs contribution can be seen as a synthesis of findings from several traditions. He argues, first, that scrambled indefinite objects are composed by means of Function Application preceded by Choice Function while objects in situ are composed by means of Restrict. This difference yields the different interpretive possibilities of indefinite objects. Lpezs more nuanced approach to the syntax-semantics interface turns out to be rich in empirical consequences. Second, he proposes that short scrambling also yields Differential Marking, provided that context conditions are fulfilled, while in situ objects remain unmarked. Thus, Lpez contributes to the extensive literature on Differential Object Marking by showing that syntactic configuration is a crucial factor. Lpez substantiates this approach with data from Spanish, Hindi-Urdu, Persian (Farsi), Kiswahili, Romanian, and German.
Luis Lpez is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. October 6 x 9, 192 pp. $30.00S/20.95 paper 978-0-262-51785-0 $60.00S/41.95 cloth 978-0-262-01803-6 Linguistic Inquiry Monographs series

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Internet studies/law

THE DIGITAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright Hector Postigo
The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely in response to the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. In The Digital Rights Movement, Hector Postigo shows that what began as an assertion of consumer rights to digital content has become something broader: a movement concerned not just with consumers and gadgets but with cultural ownership. Increasingly stringent laws and technological measures are more than incoveniences; they lock up access to our cultural commons. Postigo describes the legislative history of the DMCA and how policy blind spots produced a law at odds with existing and emerging consumer practices. Yet the DMCA established a political and legal rationale brought to bear on digital media, the Internet, and other new technologies. Drawing on social movement theory and science and technology studies, Postigo presents case studies of resistance to increased control over digital media, describing a host of tactics that range from hacking to lobbying. Postigo discusses the movements new, user-centered conception of fair use that seeks to legitimize noncommercial personal and creative uses such as copying legitimately purchased content and remixing music and video tracks. He introduces the concept of technological resistancewhen hackers and users design and deploy technologies that allow access to digital content despite technological protection mechanismsas the flip side to the technological enforcement represented by digital copy protection and a crucial tactic for the movement.
Hector Postigo is Associate Professor in the Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media in the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University. The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.

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TECHNOLOGIES OF CHOICE?
ICTs, Development, and the Capabilities Approach Dorothea Kleine
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) especially the Internet and the mobile phonehave changed the lives of people all over the world. These changes affect not just the affluA new framework ent populations of income-rich for assessing the role of information and com- countries but also disadvantaged munication technologies people in both global North and in development that South, who may use free Internet draws on Amartya Sens access in telecenters and public capabilities approach. libraries, chat in cybercafes with distant family members, and receive information by text message or email on their mobile phones. Drawing on Amartya Sens capabilities approach to development which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development Dorothea Kleine in Technologies of Choice? examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual framework, the Choice Framework, that can be used to analyze the role of technologies in development processes. She applies the Choice Framework to a case study of microentrepreneurs in a rural community in Chile. Kleine combines ethnographic research at the local level with interviews with national policy makers, to contrast the high ambitions of Chiles pioneering ICT policies with the countrys complex social and economic realities. She examines three key policies of Chiles groundbreaking Agenda Digital: public access, digital literacy, and an online procurement system. The policy lesson we can learn from Chiles experience, Kleine concludes, is the necessity of measuring ICT policies against a peoplecentered understanding of development that has individual and collective choice at its heart.
Dorothea Kleine is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Director of the Masters Programme in Practising Sustainable Development at Royal Holloway, University of London. November 6 x 9, 264 pp. 34 illus. $34.00S/23.95 cloth 978-0-262-01820-3 The Information Society series

ENGINEERS FOR CHANGE

Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America Matthew Wisnioski
In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their An account of conflicts fellow engineers to embrace within engineering in the 1960s that helped a more humane vision of techshape our dominant con- nology. In Engineers for Change, temporary understanding Matthew Wisnioski offers an of technological change account of this conflict within as the driver of history. engineering, linking it to deepseated assumptions about technology and American life. The postwar period in America saw a near-utopian belief in technologys beneficence. Beginning in the mid1960s, however, societyinfluenced by the antitechnology writings of such thinkers as Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumfordbegan to view technology in a more negative light. Engineers themselves were seen as conformist organization men propping up the military-industrial complex. A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technologys critics. These dissidents were criticized in turn by conservatives who regarded them as countercultural Luddites. And yet, as Wisnioski shows, the radical minority spurred the professional elite to promote a new understanding of technology as a rapidly accelerating force that our institutions are ill-equipped to handle. The negative consequences of technology spring from its very natureand not from engineerings failures. Sociotechnologists were recruited to help society adjust to its technology. Wisnioski argues that in responding to the challenges posed by critics within their profession, engineers in the 1960s helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
Matthew Wisnioski is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech. November 6 x 9, 296 pp. 27 illus. $35.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01826-5 Engineering Studies series

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history of computing/gender studies digital scholarship/science, technology, and society

RECODING GENDER
Womens Changing Participation in Computing Janet Abbate
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male computer geek seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that The untold history of women were a significant preswomen and computing: how pioneering women ence in the early decades of succeeded in a field computing in both the United shaped by gender biases. States and Britain. Indeed, programming in postwar years was considered womans work (perhaps in contrast to the more manly task of building the computers themselves). In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she offers a valuable historical perspective on todays concerns over womens underrepresentation in the field. Abbate describes the experiences of women who worked with the earliest electronic digital computers: Colossus, the wartime codebreaking computer at Bletchley Park outside London, and the American ENIAC, developed to calculate ballistics. She examines postwar methods for recruiting programmers, and the 1960s redefinition of programming as the more masculine software engineering. She describes the social and business innovations of two early software entrepreneurs, Elsie Shutt and Stephanie Shirley; and she examines the career paths of women in academic computer science. Abbates account of the bold and creative strategies of women who loved computing work, excelled at it, and forged successful careers will provide inspiration for those working to change gendered computing culture.
Janet Abbate is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999). October 6 x 9, 240 pp. 16 illus. $30.00S/20.95 cloth 978-0-262-01806-7 History of Computing series

VIRTUAL KNOWLEDGE
Experimenting in the Humanities and the Social Sciences edited by Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt
Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarly knowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transAn examination of formation is connected to the emerging forms of knowledge creation use of digital technologies and using Web-based the virtualization of knowledge. technologies, analyzed from an interdisciplinary In this book, scholars from a perspective. range of disciplines consider just what, if anything, is new when knowledge is produced in new ways. Does knowledge itself change when the tools of knowledge acquisition, representation, and distribution become digital? Issues of knowledge creation and dissemination go beyond the development and use of new computational tools. The book, which draws on work from the Virtual Knowledge Studio, brings together research on scientific practice, infrastructure, and technology. Focusing on issues of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors discuss who can be considered legitimate knowledge creators, the value of invisible labor, the role of data visualization in policy making, the visualization of uncertainty, the conceptualization of openness in scholarly communication, data floods in the social sciences, and how expectations about future research shape research practices. The contributors combine an appreciation of the transformative power of the virtual with a commitment to empirical study.
CONTRIBUTORS Smiljana Antonijevi , Anne Beaulieu, c
Victor Bekkers, Stefan Dormans, Bas van Heur, Charles van den Heuvel, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Jan Kok, Matthijs Kouw, Clement Levallois, Rebecca Moody, Sarah de Rijcke, Andrea Scharnhorst, Stephanie Steinmetz, Clifford Tatum, Paul Wouters, Sally Wyatt Paul Wouters is Professor of Scientometrics and Director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. Anne Beaulieu is Project Manager of the Groningen Energy and Sustainability Programme. Andrea Scharnhorst is Senior Research Fellow in the e-Humanities Group at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sally Wyatt is Program Leader of the e-Humanities Group at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. November 6 x 9, 288 pp. 15 illus. $24.00S/16.95 paper 978-0-262-51791-1 $48.00S/33.95 cloth 978-0-262-01839-5 mitpress.mit.edu Fall 2012

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EVIL MEDIA
Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey
Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century selfA philosophical manual improvement manuals, and of media power for the network age. pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to explore and understand the abstract infrastructure of the present day. From search engines to flirting strategies, from the value of institutional stupidity to the malicious minutiae of databases, this book shows how the devil is in the details. The title takes the imperative Dont be evil and asks, what would be done any differently in contemporary computational and networked media were that maxim reversed. Media here are about much more and much less than symbols, stories, information, or communication: media do things. They incite and provoke, twist and bend, leak and manage. In a series of provocative stratagems designed to be used, Evil Media sets its reader an ethical challenge: either remain a transparent intermediary in the networks and chains of communicative power or become oneself an active, transformative medium.
Matthew Fuller is David Gee Reader in Digital Media at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software and Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (MIT Press, 2005) and editor of Software Studies: A Lexicon (MIT Press, 2008). Andrew Goffey is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, and Communications at Middlesex University. September 7 x 9, 232 pp. $34.00S/23.95 cloth 978-0-262-01785-5

TAKEN FOR GRANTEDNESS

The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society Rich Ling
Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family dont answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile An examination of how phone is an instrument of a the mobile phone has become part of the more intimate social sphere. fabric of societyas did The mobile phone provides a such earlier technologies taken-for-granted link to the as the clock and the car. people to whom we are closest; when we are without it, social and domestic disarray may result. In just a few years, the mobile phone has become central to the functioning of society. In this book, Rich Ling explores the process by which the mobile phone has become embedded in society, comparing it to earlier technologies that changed the character of our social interaction and, along the way, became taken for granted. Ling, drawing on research, interviews, and quantitative material, shows how the mobile phone (and the clock and the automobile before it) can be regarded as a social mediation technology, with a critical mass of users, a supporting ideology, changes in the social ecology, and a web of mutual expectations regarding use. By examining the similarities and synergies among these three technologies, Ling sheds a more general light on how technical systems become embedded in society and how they support social interaction within the closest sphere of friends and family.
Rich Ling is Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Senior Research Scientist at the Telenor Research Institute near Oslo, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan. He is the author of New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion (MIT Press, 2008). October 6 x 9, 272 pp. 7 illus. $34.00S/23.95 cloth 978-0-262-01813-5

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CAR CRASHES WITHOUT CARS

Lessons about Simulation Technology and Organizational Change from Automotive Design Paul M. Leonardi
Every workday we wrestle with cumbersome and unintuitive technologies. Our response is usually Thats just the way it is. Even technology designers and workplace managers believe that certain A novel theory of technological changes are organizational and technological change, inevitable and that they will illustrated by an account bring specific, unavoidable of the development organizational changes. In this and implementation book, Paul Leonardi offers a of a computer-based simulation technology. new conceptual framework for understanding why technologies and organizations change as they do and why people think those changes had to occur as they did. He argues that technologies and the organizations in which they are developed and used are not separate entities; rather, they are made up of the same building blocks: social agency and material agency. Over time, social agency and material agency become imbricatedgradually interlockedin ways that produce some changes we call technological and others we call organizational. Drawing on a detailed field study of engineers at a U.S. auto company, Leonardi shows that as the engineers developed and used a new computer-based simulation technology for automotive design, they chose to change how their work was organized, which then brought new changes to the technology. Each imbrication of the social and the material obscured the actors' previous choices, making the resulting technological and organizational structures appear as if they were inevitable. Leonardi suggests that treating organizing as a process of sociomaterial imbrication allows us to recognize and act on the flexibility of information technologies and to create more effective work organizations.
Paul M. Leonardi is the Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Assistant Professor of Design in the Departments of Communication Studies and Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. September 6 x 9, 352 pp. 30 illus. $35.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01784-8 Acting with Technology series

CODING PLACES
Software Practice in a South American City Yuri Takhteyev
Software development would seem to be a quintessential example of todays Internet-enabled knowledge work a global profession not bound by the constraints of geography. In Coding Places, Yuri Takhteyev looks at the work of software developers An examination of who inhabit two contexts: a software practice in Brazil that reveals both geographical areain this case, the globalization and greater Rio de Janeiroand a the localization of world of practice, a global software development. system of activities linked by shared meanings and joint practice. The work of the Brazilian developers, Takhteyev discovers, reveals a paradox of the world of software: it is both diffuse and sharply centralized. The world of software revolves around a handful of placesin particular, the San Francisco Bay areathat exercise substantial control over both the material and cultural elements of software production. Takhteyev shows how in this context Brazilian software developers work to find their place in the world of software and to bring its benefits to their city. Takhteyevs study closely examines Lua, an open source programming language developed in Rio but used in such internationally popular products as World of Warcraft and Angry Birds. He shows that Lua had to be separated from its local origins on the periphery in order to achieve success abroad. The developers, Portuguese speakers, used English in much of their work on Lua. By bringing to light the work that peripheral practitioners must do to give software its seeming universality, Takhteyev offers a revealing perspective on the not-so-flat world of globalization.
Yuri Takhteyev is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Information and the Institute of Communication, Culture, and Information Technology at the University of Toronto. Takhteyev, who grew up in the Soviet Union, worked in Silicon Valley before he went to Brazil to study the software industry there. October 6 x 9, 256 pp. 5 illus. $34.00S/23.95 cloth 978-0-262-01807-4 Acting with Technology series

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A SINGLE SKY
How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy David P. D. Munns
For more than three thousand years, the science of astronomy depended on visible light. In just the last sixty years, radio technology has fundamentally altered how astronomers see the universe. How radio astronomers Combining the wartime innochallenged national borders, disciplinary vation of radar and the estabboundaries, and the lished standards of traditional constraints of vision to optical telescopes, the radio create an international telescope offered humanity a scientific community. new vision of the universe. In A Single Sky, the historian David Munns explains how the idea of the radio telescope emerged from a new scientific community uniting the power of radio with the international aspirations of the discipline of astronomy. The radio astronomers challenged Cold War era rivalries by forging a united scientific community looking at a single sky. Munns tells the interconnecting stories of Australian, British, Dutch, and American radio astronomers, all seeking to learn how to see the universe by means of radio. Jointly, this international array of radio astronomers built a new community style of science opposing the glamour of nuclear physics. A Single Sky describes a communitarian style of science, a culture of interdisciplinary and international integration and cooperation, and counters the notion that recent science has been driven by competition. Collaboration, or what a prominent radio astronomer called a blending of radio invention and astronomical insight, produced a science as revolutionary as Galileos first observations with a telescope. Working together, the community of radio astronomers revealed the structure of the galaxy.
David P. D. Munns is Assistant Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. November 7 x 9, 256 pp. 12 illus. $34.00S/23.95 cloth 978-0-262-01833-3

THE PSYCHOPHYSICAL EAR

Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds 18401910 Alexandra Hui
In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical ensembles began to make their way to European An examination of how cities and classical music introthe scientific study of sound sensation became duced new compositional trends. increasingly intertwined At the same time, leading with musical aesthetics physicists, physiologists, and in nineteenth-century psychologists were preoccupied Germany and Austria. with understanding the sensory perception of sound from a psychophysical perspective, seeking a direct and measurable relationship between physical stimulation and physical sensation. These scientists incorporated specific sounds into their experimentsthe musical sounds listened to by upper middle class, liberal Germans and Austrians. In The Psychophysical Ear, Alexandra Hui examines this formative historical moment, when the worlds of natural science and music coalesced around the psychophysics of sound sensation, and new musical aesthetics were interwoven with new conceptions of sound and hearing. Hui, a historian and a classically trained musician, describes the network of scientists, musicians, music critics, musicologists, and composers involved in this redefinition of listening. She identifies a source of tension for the psychophysicists: the seeming irreconcilability between the idealist, universalizing goals of their science and the increasingly undeniable historical and cultural contingency of musical aesthetics. The convergence of the respective projects of the psychophysical study of sound sensation and the aesthetics of music was, however, fleeting. By the beginning of the twentieth century, with the professionalization of such fields as experimental psychology and ethnomusicology and the proliferation of new and different kinds of music, the aesthetic dimension of psychophysics began to disappear.
Alexandra Hui is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Mississippi State University. December 6 x 9, 256 pp. 24 illus. $34.00S/23.95 cloth 978-0-262-01838-8 Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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THE TECHNOLOGY OF NONVIOLENCE

Social Media and Violence Prevention Joseph G. Bock
foreword by John Paul Lederach Tunisian and Egyptian protestors famously made use of social media to rally supporters and disseminate information as the Arab Spring began to unfold in 2010. Less well known, but with just as much potential to bring about social change, are ongoing local efforts to use social media and other forms of technology to prevent deadly outbreaks of violence. In The Technology of Nonviolence, Joseph Bock describes and documents technology-enhanced efforts to stop violence before it happens in Africa, Asia, and the United States. Once peacekeeping was the purview of international observers, but today local citizens take violence prevention into their own hands. These local approaches often involve technologyincluding the use of digital mapping, crowdsourcing, and mathematical pattern recognition to identify likely locations of violencebut, as Bock shows, technological advances are of little value unless they are used by a trained cadre of community organizers. After covering general concepts in violence prevention and describing technological approaches to tracking conflict and cooperation, Bock offers five case studies that range from low-tech interventions to prevent ethnic and religious violence in Ahmedebad, India, to an anti-gang initiative in Chicago that uses Second Life to train its violence interrupters. There is solid evidence of success, Bock concludes, but there is much to be discovered, developed, and, most important, implemented.
Joseph G. Bock is Director of Global Health Training and Teaching Professor in the Eck Institute for Global Health and University-wide Liaison with Catholic Relief Services at the University of Notre Dame. He has more than a decade of experience in humanitarian relief and development. How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka.

August 6 x 9, 304 pp. 12 illus. $32.00S/22.95 cloth 978-0-262-01762-6

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CYBERPOLITICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Nazli Choucri
Cyberspace is widely acknowledged as a fundamental fact of daily life in todays world. Until recently, its political impact was thought to be a matter of low politicsbackground conditions and routine processes and decisions. Now, however, An examination of experts have begun to recognize the ways cyberspace is changing both the theory its effect on high politics and the practice of national security, core instituinternational relations. tions, and critical decision processes. In this book, Nazli Choucri investigates the implications of this new cyberpolitical reality for international relations theory, policy, and practice. The ubiquity, fluidity, and anonymity of cyberspace have already challenged such concepts as leverage and influence, national security and diplomacy, and borders and boundaries in the traditionally state-centric arena of international relations. Choucri grapples with fundamental questions of how we can take explicit account of cyberspace in the analysis of world politics and how we can integrate the traditional international system with its cyber venues. After establishing the theoretical and empirical terrain, Choucri examines modes of cyber conflict and cyber cooperation in international relations; the potential for the gradual convergence of cyberspace and sustainability, in both substantive and policy terms; and the emergent synergy of cyberspace and international efforts toward sustainable development. Choucris discussion is theoretically driven and empirically grounded, drawing on recent data and analyzing the dynamics of cyberpolitics at individual, state, international, and global levels.
Nazli Choucri is Professor of Political Science at MIT, and Associate Director of MITs Technology and Development Program, and Director of GSSD (Global System for Sustainable Development). She is the author or editor of many books, including Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses (MIT Press, 1993) and Mapping Sustainability: Knowledge e-Networking and the Value Chain. September 6 x 9, 312 pp. 19 illus. $27.00S/18.95 paper 978-0-262-51769-0 $54.00S/37.95 cloth 978-0-262-01763-3

LIBERATING KOSOVO
Coercive Diplomacy and U.S. Intervention David L. Phillips
foreword by Nicholas Burns Kosovo, after its incorporation into the Serbian Republic of Yugoslavia, became increasingly restive during the 1990s as Yugoslavia plunged into internal war and Kosovos ethnic Albanian A compelling account residents (Kosovars) sought of the diplomatic and military actions that led autonomy. In March 1999, to Kosovos independence NATO forces began airstrikes and their implications against targets in Kosovo and for future U.S. and Serbia in an effort to protect UN interventions. Kosovars against persecution. The bombing campaign ended in June 1999, and Kosovo was placed under transitional UN administration while negotiations on its status ensued. Kosovo eventually declared independence in 2008. Despite internal political tension and economic problems, the new nation has been recognized by many other countries and most of its inhabitants welcome its separation from Serbia. In Liberating Kosovo, David Phillips offers a compelling account of the negotiations and military actions that culminated in Kosovos independence. Drawing on his own participation in the diplomatic process and interviews with leading participants, Phillips chronicles Slobodan Milosevics rise to power, the sufferings of the Kosovars, and the events that led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia. He analyzes how NATO, the United Nations, and the United States employed diplomacy, aerial bombing, and peacekeeping forces to set in motion the process that led to independence for Kosovo. He also offers important insights into a critical issue in contemporary international politics: how and when the United States, other nations, and NGOs should act to prevent ethnic cleansing and severe human-rights abuses.
David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights at Columbia Universitys Institute for the Study of Human Rights and a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy Schools Project on the Future of Diplomacy. September 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 256 pp. $27.00S/18.95 cloth 978-0-262-01844-9 Belfer Center Studies in International Security

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BANKING THE WORLD

Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion edited by Robert Cull, Asl Demirg-Kunt, and Jonathan Morduch
About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the worlds adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast unbanked population, we need to consider not only such product innovations as microfinance and mobile banking but also issues of data accuracy, impact assessment, risk mitigation, technology adaptation, financial literacy, and local context. In Banking the World, experts take up these topics, reporting on new research that will guide both policy makers and scholars in a broader push to extend financial markets. The contributors consider such topics as the complexity of surveying people about their use of financial services; evidence of the impact of financial services on income; the occasional negative effects of financial services on poor households, including disincentives to work and overindebtedness; and tools for improving access such as nontraditional credit scores, financial incentives for banking, and identification technologies that can dramatically reduce loan default rates
Robert Cull is a Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the World Banks Development Research Group. Asl Demirg-Kunt is Director of Development Policy in the World Banks Development Economics Vice Presidency and Chief Economist of the Financial and Private Sector Development Network (FPD). Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York Universitys Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is the coauthor of The Economics of Microfinance (MIT Press) and Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day. Experts report on the latest research on extending access to financial services to the 2.5 billion adults around the world who lack it.

January 6 x 9, 504 pp. 46 illus. $45.00S/31.95 cloth 978-0-262-01842-5

Also available THE ECONOMICS OF MICROFINANCE Second Edition Beatriz Armendriz and Jonathan Morduch 2010, 978-0-262-51398-2 $37.00S/25.95 paper

CONTRIBUTORS
Thorsten Beck, Miriam Bruhn, Alberto Chaia, Stijn Claessens, Shawn Cole, Daryl Collins, Robert Cull, Aparna Dalal, Asl Demirg-Kunt, Erik Feijen, Xavier Gin, Tony Goland, Jessica Goldberg, Maria Jose Gonzalez, Anni Heikkil, Patrick Honohan, Panu Kalmi, Dean Karlan, Katie Kibuuka, Michael King, Leora F. Klapper, Robert Lensink, Inessa Love, Jonathan Morduch, Sendhil Mullainathan, Georgios A. Panos, Omar Robles, Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen, Thomas Sampson, Shalini Sankaranarayanan, Robert Schiff, Kinnon Scott, Peter Sheerin, Erwin Tiongson, Nguyen Viet Cuong, Marrit van den Berg, Dean Yang, Bilal Zia

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CONTENDING ECONOMIC THEORIES

Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian Richard D. Wolff and Stephen A. Resnick
Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. The authors identify each theorys starting point, its goals A systematic comparison and foci, and its internal logic. They connect their comparative of the three major economic theories, showing theory analysis to the larger how they differ and why policy issues that divide the these differences matter rival camps of theorists around in shaping economic such central issues as the role theory and practice. government should play in the economy and the class structure of production, stressing the different analytical, policy, and social decisions that flow from each theorys conceptualization of economics. The authors, building on their earlier book Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical, offer an expanded treatment of Keynesian economics and a comprehensive introduction to Marxian economics, including its class analysis of society. Beyond providing a systematic explanation of the logic and structure of standard neoclassical theory, they analyze recent extensions and developments of that theory around such topics as market imperfections and behavioral economics. They also explain why economic reasoning has varied among these three approaches throughout the twentieth century, and why this variation continues todayas neoclassical views give way to new Keynesian approaches in the wake of the economic collapse of 2008.
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School, New York. Stephen A. Resnick is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wolff and Resnick are the authors of Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical. September 6 x 9, 408 pp. 27 illus. $35.00S/24.95 paper 978-0-262-51783-6 $70.00S/48.95 cloth 978-0-262-01800-5

THE EVOLVING ROLE OF CHINA IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

edited by Yin-Wong Cheung and Jakob de Haan
China is now the worlds second largest economy and may soon overtake the United States as the worlds largest. Despite its adoption of some free-market principles, China considers itself a socialist-market economy, suggesting that the government Experts analyze four still plays a major role in the factors in Chinas economic growth: countrys economic developexchange rate policy, ment. This book offers a syssavings and investments, monetary policy, and for- tematic analysis of four factors eign direct investments. in Chinas rapid economic growth: exchange rate policy, savings and investment, monetary policy and capital controls, and foreign direct investment (FDI). Contributors offer fresh perspectives on the undervaluation of the renminbi, the dollar peg, and Chinas macroeconomic relationships with the rest of the world. They review factors shaping Chinas saving dynamics and analyze the growth of the private sector despite limited access to external finance. They examine the monetary policy independence of the Peoples Bank of China, offshore markets for Chinas currency, and the effectiveness of Chinas capital controls. Finally, they consider Chinese FDI in terms of Chinas growing demand for energy and raw materials, exploring the factors that drive Chinas FDI in the conventional oil-producing countries and in Africa.
CONTRIBUTORS Jinzhao Chen, Yin-Wong Cheung,
Menzie David Chinn, Jakob de Haan, Galina Hale, Dong He, Juann H. Hung, Yueqing Jia, Cheryl Long, Guonan Ma, Robert N. McCauley, Rong Qian, Xingwang Qian, J. James Reade, Gunther Schnabl, Tara M. Sinclair, Lukas Vogel, Ulrich Volz, Wang Yi, Shu Yu Yin-Wong Cheung is Chair Professor of International Economics at the City University of Hong Kong and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Jakob de Haan is Head of Research at De Nederlandsche Bank and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Groningen. December 6 x 9, 448 pp. 123 illus. $40.00S/27.95 cloth 978-0-262-01823-4 CESifo Seminar series

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FINANCIAL INNOVATION
Too Much or Too Little? edited by Michael Haliassos
In assigning blame for the recent economic crisis, many have pointed to the proliferation of new, complex financial productsmortgage securitization in particular as being at the heart of the meltdown. The prominent economists from academia, Prominent economists policy institutions, and financial consider the role of financial innovation practice who contribute to this in economic crises. book, however, take a more nuanced view of financial innovation. They argue that it was not too much innovation but too little innovation and the lack of balance between debt-related products and asset-related productsthat lies behind the crisis. Prevention of future financial crises, then, will be aided by a regulatory and legal framework that fosters the informed use of financial innovation and its positive effects on the economy rather than quashing it entirely. The book, which includes two contributions from Robert Shiller as well as a discussion of Shillers MacroMarkets tool, considers the key ingredients of financial innovation from both academia and industry; the positive potential but also the risks of financial innovation and the influence of producers on consumers; rationality- and behavioral-based viewpoints on the causes of the recent crisis; the link between the cycle of financial innovation and financial crisis; and how future innovation-linked crises might be avoided.
CONTRIBUTORS Josef Ackermann, Nicholas C. Barberis, John Y. Campbell, Karl E. Case, Robin Greenwood, Michael Haliassos, Otmar Issing, Alexander A. Popov, Robert J. Shiller, Andrei Shleifer, Frank R. Smets, Susan J. Smith, Maria Vassalou, Luis M. Viceira
Michael Haliassos is Professor and Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt, Director of the Center for Financial Studies there, and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is a coeditor of Household Portfolios (MIT Press, 2001) and Stockholding in Europe. January 6 x 9, 272 pp. 35 illus. $35.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01829-6

THE GREAT RECESSION

Lessons for Central Bankers edited by Jacob Braude, Zvi Eckstein, Stanley Fischer, and Karnit Flug
The recent financial crisis shook not only the global economy but also conventional wisdom about economic policy. After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, policy makers Experts assess the role reversed course and acted on of central banks in responding to the recent an unprecedented scale. The financial crisis and in policy response was remarkable preventing future crises. both for its magnitude and for the variety of measures undertaken. This book examines both the major role central banks played in the crisis and the role they might play in preventing or preparing for future crises. The contributors focus on monetary policy, the new area of macroprudential policy, and issues of exchange rates, capital flows, and banking and financial markets. They look at the experiences of both developed and emerging economies, considering why some, including Israel and Australia, suffered only mild effects while othersIreland for exampleplunged into severe financial crisis.
CONTRIBUTORS Enrique Alberola, Harun Alp, Sigbjrn Atle Berg,
Jacob Braude, Frank Browne, Carlos Capistrn, Kyuil Chung, Gabriel Cuadra, Zvi Eckstein, yvind Eitrheim, Selim Elekda , g Stanley Fischer, Karnit Flug, Jonathan Kearns, Robert Kelly, Seungwon Kim, Jonathan D. Ostry, Huw Pill, Manuel Ramos-Francia, Helene Schuberth, Frank Smets, Claudio Soto, Carlos Trucharte, Juan Luis Vega Jacob Braude works in the Bank of Israel Research Department. Zvi Eckstein is Dean of the School of Economics in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel from 2006 to 2011. Stanley Fischer is Governor of the Bank of Israel. First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001, Fischer is the author of IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis: The International Financial System, Stabilization, and Development (MIT Press, 2004). Karnit Flug is Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel and formerly Director of the Bank of Israel Research Department. January 6 x 9, 376 pp. 156 illus. $35.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01834-0

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ECONOMY IN SOCIETY
Essays in Honor of Michael J. Piore edited by Paul Osterman
In Economy in Society, five prominent social scientists honor Michael J. Piore in original essays that explore key topics in Piores work and make significant independent contributions in their own right. Piore is distinctive for his original research that Prominent economists explores the interaction of discuss internal labor markets, the dynamics social, political, and economic of immigration, labor considerations in the labor marmarket regulation, and ket and in the economic develother key topics in the work of Michael J. Piore. opment of nations and regions. The essays in this volume reflect this rigorous interdisciplinary approach to important social and economic questions. M. Diane Burtons essay extends our understanding of internal labor markets by considering the influence of surrounding firms; Natasha Iskander builds on Piores theory of immigration with a study of Mexican construction workers in two cities; Suzanne Berger highlights insights from Piores work on technology and industrial development; Andrew Schrank takes up the theme of regulatory discretion; and Charles Sabel discusses theories of public bureaucracy.
CONTRIBUTORS Suzanne Berger, M. Diane Burton,
Natasha Iskander, Charles Sabel, Andrew Schrank Paul Osterman is Nanyang Technological University Professor of Human Resources and Management at MITs Sloan School of Management. He is coauthor (with Thomas A. Kochan, Richard M. Locke, and Michael J. Piore) of Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market (MIT Press, 2001). November 6 x 9, 176 pp. 2 illus. $30.00S/20.95 cloth 978-0-262-01824-1

IMMIGRATION AND LABOR MARKET MOBILITY IN ISRAEL, 19902009

Sarit Cohen Goldner, Zvi Eckstein, and Yoram Weiss
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, Soviet Jews emigrated in large numbers to Israel. Over the next ten years, Israel absorbed approximately 900,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union, an influx that equaled about twenty percent of A study of the labor the Israeli population. Most of market integration of highly skilled Soviet these new immigrants of workimmigrants to Israel ing age were college-educated that formulates dynamic and highly skilled. Once in models of job search and human capital Israel, they were eligible for a investment. generous package of benefits, including housing subsidies, Hebrew language training, and vocational education. This episode provides a natural experiment for testing the consequences of a large immigration inflow of skilled workers. This book provides a detailed analysis of the gradual process of occupational upgrading of immigrants and the associated rise in their wages. Based on their analysis, the authors conclude that even a very large and unanticipated wave of immigration can be integrated within the local labor market without any significant long-term adverse economic effect on natives. The small effect on wages and employment of natives is explained by the capital inflows into Israel and the gradual entry of immigrants into high-skill jobs as they invest in local human capital. An important contribution of the book to the immigration literature is the formulation and estimation of stochastic dynamic models that combine job search with investment in human capital and the analysis of alternative government policies within this framework.
Sarit Cohen Goldner is Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Bar-Ilan University. Zvi Eckstein is Professor of Labor Economics at Tel-Aviv University and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel. Yoram Weiss is Professor of Economics at Tel-Aviv University. September 6 x 9, 328 pp. 56 illus. $40.00S/27.95 cloth 978-0-262-01767-1

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THE DESIGN WAY

Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World
Second Edition

Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman

Humans did not discover firethey designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new thingstechnologies, organizations, processes, systems, environments, ways of thinkingwe engage in design. With this expansive view of design as their premise, in The Design Way, Harold Nelson and Erik Stolterman make the case for design as its own culture of inquiry and action. They offer not a recipe for design practice or theorizing but a formulation of design cultures fundamental core of ideas. These ideas which form the design wayare applicable to an infinite variety of design domains, from such traditional fields as architecture and graphic design to such nontraditional design areas as organizational, educational, interaction, and health care design. Nelson and Stolterman present design culture in terms of foundations (first principles), fundamentals (core concepts), and metaphysics, and then discuss these issues from both learners and practitioners perspectives. The text of this second edition is accompanied by new detailed images, schemas that visualize, conceptualize, and structure the authors understanding of design inquiry. This text itself has been revised and expanded throughout, in part in response to reader feedback.
Harold G. Nelson was 20092010 Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design at Carnegie Mellon University and is currently Senior Instructor in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School and President of Advanced Design Institute. Erik Stolterman is Professor of Informatics and Department Chair in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington.

A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and outlines a design-driven way to approach the world.

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PLANNING IDEAS THAT MATTER

Livability, Territoriality, Governance, and Reflective Practice edited by Bishwapriya Sanyal, Lawrence J. Vale, and Christina D. Rosan
Over the past hundred years of urbanization and suburbanization, four key themes have shaped urban and regional planning in both theory Leading theorists and and practice: livability, territoripractitioners trace the ality, governance, and reflective evolution of key ideas in urban and regional professional practice. Planning planning over the last Ideas That Matter charts the hundred years. trajectories of these powerful planning ideas in an increasingly interconnected world. The contributors, leading theorists and practitioners, discuss livability in terms of such issues as urban density, land use, and the relationship between the built environment and natural systems; examine levels of territorial organization, drawing on literature on regionalism, metropolitanism, and territorial competition; describe the ways planning connects to policy making and implementation in a variety of political contexts; and consider how planners conceive of their work and learn from practice. The focus is less on techniques and programs than on the underlying concepts that have animated professional discourse over the years. The book is recommended for classroom use, as a reference for scholars and practitioners, and as a history of planning for those interested in the development of the field.
CONTRIBUTORS Timothy Beatley, Neil Brenner, Raphael Fischler, Robert Fishman, Merilee Grindle, Gary Hack, Patsy Healey, Mohammad A. Qadeer, Christina D. Rosan, Lynne B. Sagalyn, Bishwapriya Sanyal, Michael B. Teitz, June Manning Thomas, Lawrence J. Vale, David Wachsmuth, Peter M. Ward, Robert D. Yaro
Bishwapriya Sanyal is Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning at MIT. Lawrence J. Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT. Christina D. Rosan is Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. September 6 x 9, 408 pp. 34 illus. $27.00S/18.95 paper 978-0-262-51768-3 $54.00S/37.95 cloth 978-0-262-01760-2

HYBRID CULTURES
Japanese Media Arts in Dialogue with the West Yvonne Spielmann
This book grew out of Yvonne Spielmanns 20052006 and 2009 visits to Japan, where she explored the technological and aesthetic origins of Japanese new-media art which was known for pioneering An exploration of the interactive and virtual media tensions between East and West and digital applications in the 1990s. and analog in Japanese Spielmann discovered an essennew-media art. tial hybridity in Japans media culture: an internal hybridity, a mixture of digital-analog connections together with a non-Western development of modernity separate from but not immune to Western media aesthetics; and external hybridity, produced by the international, transcultural travel of aesthetic concepts. Spielmann describes the innovative technology context in Japan, in which developers, engineers, and artists collaborate, and traces the Japanese fondness for precision and functionality to the poetics of unobtrusiveness and detail. She examines work by artists including Masaki Fujihata, whose art is both formally and thematically hybrid; Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa, who build special devices for a new sense of human-machine interaction; Toshio Iwai, who connects traditional media forms with computing; and Tatsuo Miyajima, who anchors his LED artwork in Buddhist philosophy. Spielmann views hybridity as a positive aesthetic valueperhaps the defining aesthetic of a global culture. Hybridity offers a conceptual approach for considering the ambivalent linkages of contradictory elements; its dynamic and fluid characteristics are neither conclusive nor categorical but are meant to stimulate fusions.
Yvonne Spielmann is Research Professor and Chair of New Media in the School of Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland. She lives in Glasgow and Berlin. She is the author of Video: The Reflexive Medium (MIT Press, 2007), which won the Lewis Mumford award in 2009. December 6 x 9, 368 pp. 89 illus. $38.00S/26.95 cloth 978-0-262-01837-1 A Leonardo Book

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THROUGHOUT
Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing edited by Ulrik Ekman
foreword by Matthew Fuller Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital Leading media scholars television, video, home computconsider the social and ers, movies, and high-resolution cultural changes that come with the contemadvertising displays. Technology porary development of has become at once larger and ubiquitous computing. smaller, mobile and ambient. In Throughout, leading writers on new mediaincluding Jay David Bolter, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, and Lev Manovichtake on the crucial challenges that ubiquitous and pervasive computing pose for cultural theory and criticism. The thirty-four contributing researchers consider the visual sense and sensations of living with a ubicomp culture; electronic sounds from the uncanny to the unremarkable; the effects of ubicomp on communication, including mobility, transmateriality, and infinite availability; general trends and concrete specificities of interaction designs; the affectivity in ubicomp experiences, including performances; context awareness; and claims on the real in the use of such terms as augmented reality and mixed reality.
CONTRIBUTORS Inke Arns, Joseph Auner, Gernot Bhme, Jay David Bolter, Michael Bull, Tom Cohen, Ske Dinkla, Ulrik Ekman, Kathryn Farley, Arild Fetveit, Anne Galloway, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Mark B. N. Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, Larissa Hjorth, John Johnston, Susan Kozel, Timothy Lenoir, Blair MacIntyre, Lev Manovich, Malcolm McCullough, Michael Nitsche, Dietmar Offenhuber, Christiane Paul, Simon Penny, Mette Sandbye, Torben Sangild, Ulrik Schmidt, Roberto Simanowski, Bernard Stiegler, Kristin Veel, Bo Kampmann Walther, Jacob Wamberg, Bernadette Wegenstein, Mitchell Whitelaw
Ulrik Ekman is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is the organizer of the research network The Culture of Ubiquitous Information. October 7 x 9, 648 pp. 81 illus. $50.00S/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01750-3

BUILDING MOBILE EXPERIENCES

Frank Bentley and Edward Barrett
The mobile device is changing the ways we interact with each other and with the world. The mobile experience is distinct from the desktop or laptop experience; mobile apps require a significantly different design philosophy as well as design methods that reflect the unique experience of computing in the world. This Methods for new book presents an approach to mobile experiences, from concept creation designing mobile media that to prototyping to takes advantage of the Internetcommercialization. connected, context-aware, and media-sharing capabilities of mobile devices. It introduces tools that can be used at every stage of building a mobile application, from concept creation to commercialization, as well as real-world examples from industry and academia. The methods outlined apply user-centered design processes to mobile devices in a way that makes these methods relevant to the mobile experiencewhich involves the use of systems in the complex spatial and social world rather than at a desk. The book shows how each project begins with generative research into the practices and desires of a diverse set of potential users, which grounds research and design in the real world. It then describes methods for rapid prototyping, usability evaluation, field testing, and scaling up solutions in order to bring a product to market. Building Mobile Experiences grew out of an MIT course in communicating with mobile technology; it is appropriate for classroom use and as a reference for mobile app designers.
Frank Bentley is a Principal Staff Research Scientist in the Applied Research Center at Motorola. Edward Barrett is Senior Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. Bentley and Barrett teach the MIT course Communicating with Mobile Technology. September 7 x 9, 160 pp. 18 illus. $30.00S/20.95 cloth 978-0-262-01793-0

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ON COMPUTING
A proposal that computing is not merely a form of engineering but a scientific domain on a par with the physical, life, and social sciences.

The Fourth Great Scientific Domain Paul S. Rosenbloom

Computing isnt simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that is highly multidisciplinary yet maintains a unique core of its own. In On Computing, Rosenbloom proposes that computing is a great scientific domain on a par with the physical, life, and social sciences. Rosenbloom introduces a relational approach for understanding computing, conceptualizing it in terms of forms of interaction and implementation, to reveal the hidden structures and connections among its disciplines. He argues for the continuing vitality of computing, surveying the leading edge in computings combination with other domains, from biocomputing and brain-computer interfaces to crowdsourcing and virtual humans to robots and the intermingling of the real and the virtual. He explores forms of higher order coherence, or macrostructures, over complex computing topics and organizations, such as computings role in the pursuit of science and the structure of academic computing. Finally, he examines the very notion of a great scientific domain in philosophical terms, honing his argument that computing should be considered the fourth great scientific domain. Rosenblooms proposal may prove to be controversial, but the intent is to initiate a long overdue conversation about the nature and future of a field in search of its soul. Rosenbloom, a key architect of the founding of University of Southern Californias Institute for Creative Technologies and former Deputy Director of USCs Information Sciences Institute, offers a broader perspective on what computing is and what it can become.
Paul S. Rosenbloom is Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California and Project Leader at USCs Institute for Creative Technologies.

December 6 x 9, 312 pp. 67 illus. $35.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01832-6

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A SEMANTIC WEB PRIMER

Third Edition

MACHINE LEARNING
A Probabilistic Perspective Kevin P. Murphy
Todays Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods of data analysis. Machine learning provides these, developing methods that can automatically detect patterns in data and then use the uncovered patterns to predict future data. A comprehensive introduction to machine This textbook offers a comprelearning that uses hensive and self-contained probabilistic models introduction to the field of and inference as a machine learning, a unified, unifying approach. probabilistic approach. The coverage combines breadth and depth, offering necessary background material on such topics as probability, optimization, and linear algebra as well as discussion of recent developments in the field, including conditional random fields, L1 regularization, and deep learning. The book is written in an informal, accessible style, complete with pseudo-code for the most important algorithms. All topics are copiously illustrated with color images and worked examples drawn from such application domains as biology, text processing, computer vision, and robotics. Rather than providing a cookbook of different heuristic methods, the book stresses a principled model-based approach, often using the language of graphical models to specify models in a concise and intuitive way. Almost all the models described have been implemented in a MATLAB software packagePMTK (probabilistic modeling toolkit)that is freely available online. The book is suitable for upper-level undergraduates with an introductory-level college math background and beginning graduate students.
Kevin P. Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia. September 8 x 9, 896 pp. 325 color illus., 196 black & white illus. $90.00X/48.95 cloth 978-0-262-01802-9 Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series

Grigoris Antoniou, Paul Groth, Frank van Harmelen, and Rinke Hoekstra
The development of the Semantic Web, with machinereadable content, has the potential to revolutionize the World Wide Web and its uses. A Semantic Web Primer provides an introduction and A new edition of the guide to this continuously widely used guide to the key ideas, languages, evolving field, describing its and technologies of the key ideas, languages, and techSemantic Web. nologies. Suitable for use as a textbook or for independent study by professionals, it concentrates on undergraduate-level fundamental concepts and techniques that will enable readers to proceed with building applications on their own and includes exercises, project descriptions, and annotated references to relevant online materials. The third edition of this widely used text has been thoroughly updated, with significant new material that reflects a rapidly developing field. Treatment of the different languages (OWL2, rules) expands the coverage of RDF and OWL, defining the data model independently of XML and including coverage of N3/Turtle and RDFa. A chapter is devoted to OWL2, the new W3C standard. This edition also features additional coverage of the query language SPARQL, the rule language RIF and the possibility of interaction between rules and ontology languages and applications. The chapter on Semantic Web applications reflects the rapid developments of the past few years. A new chapter offers ideas for term projects. Additional material, including updates on the technological trends and research directions, can be found at http://www.semanticwebprimer.org.
Grigoris Antoniou is Professor at the Institute for Computer Science, FORTH (Foundation for Research and TechnologyHellas), Heraklion, Greece. Paul Groth is Assistant Professor, Frank van Harmelen is Professor, and Rinke Hoekstra is a postdoctoral researcher in the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group of the Department of Computer Science at the VU University Amsterdam. September 8 x 9, 296 pp. 27 illus. $50.00S/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01828-9 Cooperative Information Systems series

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FOUNDATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING

Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, and Ameet Talwalker
This graduate-level textbook introduces fundamental concepts and methods in machine learning. It describes several important modern algorithms, provides the theoretical underpinnings of these Fundamental topics algorithms, and illustrates key in machine learning are presented along aspects for their application. The with theoretical and authors aim to present novel conceptual tools for theoretical tools and concepts the discussion and while giving concise proofs even proof of algorithms. for relatively advanced topics. Foundations of Machine Learning fills the need for a general textbook that also offers theoretical details and an emphasis on proofs. Certain topics that are often treated with insufficient attention are discussed in more detail here; for example, entire chapters are devoted to regression, multi-class classification, and ranking. The first three chapters lay the theoretical foundation for what follows, but each remaining chapter is mostly self-contained. The appendix offers a concise probability review, a short introduction to convex optimization, tools for concentration bounds, and several basic properties of matrices and norms used in the book. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in machine learning, statistics, and related areas; it can be used either as a textbook or as a reference text for a research seminar.
Mehryar Mohri is Professor of Computer Science at New York Universitys Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a Research Consultant at Google Research. Afshin Rostamizadeh is a Research Scientist at Google Research. Ameet Talwalker is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. September 7 x 9, 456 pp. 55 color illus., 40 black & white illus. $70.00S/48.95 cloth 978-0-262-01825-8 Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series

FOUNDATIONS OF 3D COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Steven J. Gortler
Computer graphics technology is an amazing success story. Today, all of our PCs are capable of producing high-quality computer-generated images, mostly in the form of video games and virtual-life environments; every summer blockbuster movie An introduction to the includes jaw-dropping combasic concepts of 3D computer graphics puter generated special effects. that offers a careful This book explains the fundamathematical exposition mental concepts of 3D comwithin a modern computer graphics puter graphics. It introduces the application programming basic algorithmic technology interface. needed to produce 3D computer graphics, and covers such topics as understanding and manipulating 3D geometric transformations, camera transformations, the image-rendering process, and materials and texture mapping. It also touches on advanced topics including color representations, light simulation, dealing with geometric representations, and producing animated computer graphics. The book takes special care to develop an original exposition that is accessible and concise but also offers a clear explanation of the more difficult and subtle mathematical issues. The topics are organized around a modern shader-based version of OpenGL, a widely used computer graphics application programming interface that provides a real-time rasterization-based rendering environment. Each chapter concludes with exercises. The book is suitable for a rigorous one-semester introductory course in computer graphics for upper-level undergraduates or as a professional reference. Readers should be moderately competent programmers and have had some experience with linear algebra. After mastering the material presented, they will be on the path to expertise in an exciting and challenging field.
Steven J. Gortler is Robert I. Goldman Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. September 7 x 9, 296 pp. 151 illus., color throughout $50.00S/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01735-0

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ROBOTICS
Science and Systems VII edited by Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Nicholas Roy, and Pieter Abbeel
Robotics: Science and Systems VII spans a wide spectrum of robotics, bringing together researchers working on the algorithmic or mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analyPapers from a flagship sis of robotics systems. This volconference reflect the latest developments ume presents the proceedings in the field, including of the seventh annual Robotics: work in such rapidly Science and Systems conference, advancing areas as human-robot interaction held in 2011 at the University and formal methods. of Southern California. The papers presented cover a wide range of topics in robotics, spanning mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics and control, human-robot interaction and human-centered systems, distributed systems, mobile systems and mobility, manipulation, field robotics, medical robotics, biological robotics, robot perception, and estimation and learning in robotic systems. The conference and its proceedings reflect not only the tremendous growth of robotics as a discipline but also the desire in the robotics community for a flagship event at which the best of the research in the field can be presented.
Hugh Durrant-Whyte is CEO of NICTA (National ICT Australia Ltd). Nicholas Roy is Associate Professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Pieter Abbeel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. August 8 1/2 x 11, 384 pp. 371 illus. $75.00S/51.95 paper 978-0-262-51779-9

MINING THE BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE

Hagit Shatkay and Mark Craven
The introduction of high-throughput methods has transformed biology into a data-rich science. Knowledge about biological entities and processes has traditionally been acquired by thousands of scientists through decades A concise introduction to of experimentation and analysis. fundamental methods for The current abundance of biofinding and extracting medical data is accompanied relevant information by the creation and quick disfrom the ever-increasing semination of new information. amounts of biomedical text available. Much of this information and knowledge, however, is represented only in text formin the biomedical literature, lab notebooks, Web pages, and other sources. Researchers need to find relevant information in the vast amounts of text has created a surge of interest in automated text-analysis. In this book, Hagit Shatkay and Mark Craven offer a concise and accessible introduction to key ideas in biomedical text mining. The chapters cover such topics as the relevant sources of biomedical text; text-analysis methods in natural language processing; the tasks of information extraction, information retrieval, and text categorization; and methods for empirically assessing text-mining systems. Finally, the authors describe several applications that recognize entities in text and link them to other entities and data resources, support the curation of structured databases, and make use of text to enable further prediction and discovery.
Hagit Shatkay is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Head of the Computational Biomedicine Lab at the University of Delaware. Mark Craven is Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin. September 7 x 9, 152 pp. 16 illus. $35.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01769-5 Computational Molecular Biology series

Also available ROBOTICS Science and Systems VI edited by Yoky Matsuoka, Hugh Durrant-Whyte, and Jos Neira 2011, 978-0-262-51681-5 $80.00S/55.95 paper

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digital humanities/cultural studies design/human-computer interaction

SPEAKING CODE
Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression text by Geoff Cox
code by Alex McLean foreword by Franco Bifo Berardi Speaking Code begins by invoking the Hello World convention used by programmers when learning a new language, helping to establish The aesthetic and political implications of the interplay of text and code working with code as that runs through the book. procedure, expression, Interweaving the voice of critiand action. cal writing from the humanities with the tradition of computing and software development, in Speaking Code Geoff Cox formulates an argument that aims to undermine the distinctions between criticism and practice and to emphasize the aesthetic and political implications of software studies. Not reducible to its functional aspects, program code mirrors the instability inherent in the relationship of speech to language; it is only interpretable in the context of its distribution and network of operations. Code is understood as both script and performance, Cox argues, and is in this sense like spoken language always ready for action. Speaking Code examines the expressive and performative aspects of programming; alternatives to mainstream development, from performances of the live-coding scene to the organizational forms of peer production; the democratic promise of social media and their actual role in suppressing political expression; and the markets emptying out of possibilities for free expression in the public realm. Cox defends language against its invasion by economics, arguing that speech continues to underscore the human condition, however paradoxical this may seem in an era of pervasive computing.
Geoff Cox is Researcher in Digital Aesthetics as part of the Digital Urban Living Center at Aarhus University, Denmark. November 7 x 9, 168 pp. 21 illus. $30.00S/20.95 cloth 978-0-262-01836-4 Software Studies series

INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION
Insight through Inquiry Bill Ferster
foreword by Ben Shneiderman Interactive visualization is emerging as a vibrant new form of communication, providing compelling presentations that allow viewers to interact directly with information in order to construct A guide to fundamental their own understandings of it. issues in designing interactive visualizaBuilding on a long tradition tions, exploring ideas of print-based information visuof inquiry, design, alization, interactive visualizastructured data, tion utilizes the technological and usability. capabilities of computers, the Internet, and computer graphics to marshal multifaceted information in the service of making a point visually. This book offers an introduction to the field, presenting a framework for exploring historical, theoretical, and practical issues. It is not a how-to book tied to specific and soon-to-be-outdated software tools, but a guide to the concepts that are central to building interactive visualization projects whatever their ultimate form. The framework the book presents (known as the ASSERT model, developed by the author), allows the reader to explore the process of interactive visualization in terms of choosing good questions to ask; finding appropriate data for answering them; structuring that information; exploring and analyzing the data; representing the data visually; and telling a story using the data. Interactive visualization draws on many disciplines to inform the final representation, and the book reflects this, covering basic principles of inquiry, data structuring, information design, statistics, cognitive theory, usability, working with spreadsheets, the Internet, and storytelling.
Bill Ferster is on the faculty of the University of Virginia with a joint appointment to the Center for Technology and Teacher Education at the Curry School of Education and at the Science, Humanities, and Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI) at the College of Arts and Sciences. November 7 x 9, 288 pp. 161 illus., color throughout $42.00S/28.95 cloth 978-0-262-01815-9

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Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter
This book takes a single line of codethe extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the titleand uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a textin the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sourcesthat yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.
Nick Montfort is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT and the coauthor of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press). Patsy Baudoin is the MIT Libraries liaison to the MIT Media Lab. John Bell is Assistant Professor of Innovative Communication Design at the University of Maine. Ian Bogost is Professor of Digital Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames: Journalism at Play (MIT Press). Jeremy Douglass is a postdoctoral researcher in software studies at the University of California, San Diego, in affiliation with Calit2. Mark C. Marino is Associate Professor (Teaching) and directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCS) Lab at the University of Southern California. Michael Mateas is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Casey Reas is Professor of Design Media Arts at UCLA and coauthor of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (MIT Press). Mark Sample is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University. Noah Vawter is a sound artist. A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.

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Also available in this series EXPRESSIVE PROCESSING Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies Noah Wardrip-Fruin 2012, 978-0-262-51753-9 $18.95T/13.95 paper PROGRAMMED VISIONS Software and Memory Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 2011, 978-0-262-01542-4 $32.00S/22.95 cloth CODE/SPACE Software and Everyday Life Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge 2011, 978-0-262-04248-2 $35.00S/24.95 cloth

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environment/political science

OPEN FOR BUSINESS

A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.

Conservatives Opposition to Environmental Regulation Judith A. Layzer

Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists scenario of a fragile earth in need of protection, mobilized grassroots opposition, and mounted creative legal challenges to environmental laws. But what has been the impact of all this activity on policy? In this book, Judith Layzer offers a detailed and systematic analysis of conservatives prolonged campaign to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection. Examining conservatives influence from the Nixon era to the Obama administration, Layzer describes a set of increasingly sophisticated tactics including the depiction of environmentalists as extremist elitists, a growing reliance on right-wing think tanks and media outlets, the cultivation of sympathetic litigators and judges, and the use of environmentally friendly language to describe potentially harmful activities. She argues that although conservatives have failed to repeal or revamp any of the nations environmental statutes, they have influenced the implementation of those laws in ways that increase the risks we face, prevented or delayed action on newly recognized problems, and altered the way Americans think about environmental problems and their solutions. Layzers analysis sheds light not only on the politics of environmental protection but also, more generally, on the interaction between ideas and institutions in the development of policy.
Judith A. Layzer is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is the author of Natural Experiments: Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment (MIT Press) and The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy.

November 6 x 9, 496 pp. 2 illus. $35.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01827-2 American and Comparative Environmental Policy series

Also available NATURAL EXPERIMENTS Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment Judith A. Layzer 2008, 978-0-262-62214-1 $29.00S/19.95 paper

Open for Business is well researched, well written, and well documented, and it fills an important gap in the history of modern environmental policy by tracing the rise and tactics of the self-described conservative opposition to the central regulatory elements of federal environmental policy. It is a significant contribution to the environmental policy literature, for teachers and students as well as research scholars. Richard N. L. Andrews, Professor of Environmental Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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INTEGRATING CLIMATE, ENERGY, AND AIR POLLUTION POLICIES

Gary Bryner with Robert J. Duffy
The idea of the interconnectedness of nature is at the heart of environmental science. By contrast, American policy making and governance are characterized by fragmentation. Separation of powers, divergent ideologies, and geographical separation all How policies aimed work against a unified environat addressing climate change, air pollution, mental policy. Nowhere does and energy use can be this mismatch between problem effectively integrated. and solution pose a greater challenge than in climate change policy, which has implications for energy use, air quality, and such related areas as agriculture and land use. This book stresses the importance of environmental policy integration at all levels of government. It shows that effectively integrated climate, energy, and air pollution policy would ensure that tradeoffs are clear, that policies are designed to maximize and coordinate beneficial effects, and that implementation takes into account the wide range of related issues. The authors focus on four major climate-change policy issues: burning coal to generate electricity, increasing the efficiency and use of alternative energy, reducing emissions from transportation, and understanding agricultures role in both generating and sequestering greenhouse gases. Going beyond specific policy concerns, the book provides a framework, based on the idea of policy integration, for assessing future climate-change policy choices.
Gary Bryner was Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, Director of the Natural Resources Law Center, and Research Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law until his death in 2010. His books include Global Warming: A Reference Handbook and Blue Skies, Green Politics. Robert J. Duffy is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University and the author of The Green Agenda in American Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-First Century. September 6 x 9, 240 pp. 21 illus. $23.00S/15.95 paper 978-0-262-51787-4 $46.00S/31.95 cloth 978-0-262-01812-8

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Choosing among Options
Second Edition

Jefferson W. Tester, Elisabeth M. Drake, Michael J. Driscoll, Michael W. Golay, and William A. Peters
Human survival depends on a continuing supply of energy, but the need for everThe second edition of increasing amounts of it poses a widely used textbook a dilemma: How can we find that explores energy resource options and energy sources that are sustaintechnologies with a view able and ways to convert and toward achieving sustainutilize energy that are more ability on local, national, efficient? This widely used textand global scales. book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as others who have an interest in exploring energy resource options and technologies with a view toward achieving sustainability on local, national, and global scales. It clearly presents the trade-offs and uncertainties inherent in evaluating and choosing sound energy portfolios and provides a framework for assessing policy solutions. The second edition reviews the main energy sources of today and tomorrow, from fossil fuels and nuclear power to biomass, hydropower, and solar energy; treats energy carriers and energy storage, transmission, and distribution; addresses end-use patterns in the transportation, industrial, and building sectors; and considers synergistic complex systems. This new edition also offers a new chapter on the complex interactions among energy, water, and land use; expanded coverage of renewable energy; and new color illustrations. Sustainable Energy addresses the challenges of making responsible energy choices for a more sustainable future.
Jefferson W. Tester is Croll Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems at Cornell University. Elisabeth M. Drake is Emeritus Researcher at the MIT Energy Initiative. Michael J. Driscoll is Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. Michael W. Golay is Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. William A. Peters is Executive Director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT. October 7 x 9, 1,112 pp. 18 color illus., 326 black & white illus. $90.00S/51.95 cloth 978-0-262-01747-3

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GOOD GREEN JOBS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY

Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States David J. Hess
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy is the first book to explore the broad implications of the convergence of industrial and environnmental An examination of policy in the United States. the politics of green jobs that foresees a Under the banner of green potential ideological jobs, clean energy industries shift away from and labor, environmental, and neoliberalism toward antipoverty organizations have developmentalism. forged blue-green alliances and achieved some policy victories, most notably at the state and local levels. In this book, David Hess explores the politics of green energy and green jobs, linking the prospect of a green transition to tectonic shifts in the global economy. He argues that the relative decline in U.S. economic power sets the stage for an ideological shift, away from neoliberalism and toward developmentalism, an ideology characterized by a more defensive posture with respect to trade and a more active industrial policy. After describing federal green energy initiatives in the first two years of the Obama administration, Hess turns his attention to the state and local levels, examining demand-side and supply-side support for green industry and local small business. He analyzes the successes and failures of green coalitions and the partisan patterns of support for green energy reform. This new piecemeal green industrial policy, Hess argues, signals a fundamental challenge to anti-interventionist beliefs about the relationship between the government and the economy.
David J. Hess is Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States (2009), and Alternate Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalization (2007), both published by the MIT Press. October 6 x 9, 304 pp. 1 illus. $30.00S/20.95 cloth 978-0-262-01822-7 Urban and Industrial Environments series

HISTORIES OF THE DUSTHEAP

Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice edited by Stephanie Foote and Elizabeth Mazzolini
Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Our responsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibility toward the systems that make those objects. Histories of the Dustheap An examination of how uses garbage, waste, and refuse garbage reveals the relationships between to investigate the relationships the global and the local, between various systems the economic and the the local and the global, the ecological, and the economic and the ecological, historical and the contemporary. the historical and the contemporaryand shows how this most democratic reality produces identities, social relations, and policies. The contributors first consider garbage in subjective terms, examining toxic autobiography by residents of Love Canal, the intersection of public health and womens rights, and enviroblogging. They explore the importance of place, with studies of post-Katrina soil contamination in New Orleans, e-waste disposal in Bloomington, Indiana, and garbage on Mount Everest. And finally, they look at cultural contradictions as objects hover between waste and desirability, examining Milwaukees efforts to sell its sludge as fertilizer, the plastics industrys attempt to wrap plastic bottles and bags in the mantle of freedom of choice, and the idea of obsolescence in the animated film The Brave Little Toaster. Histories of the Dustheap offers a range of perspectives on a variety of incarnations of garbage, inviting the reader to consider garbage in a way that goes beyond the common buy green discourse that empowers individuals while limiting environmental activism to consumerist practices.
Stephanie Foote is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Womens Studies at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and the author of Regional Fictions. Elizabeth Mazzolini is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech. October 6 x 9, 296 pp. 1 illus. $25.00S/17.95 paper 978-0-262-51782-9 $50.00S/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01799-2 Urban and Industrial Environments series

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ECOPSYCHOLOGY
Science, Totems, and the Technological Species edited by Peter H. Kahn, Jr., and Patricia H. Hasbach
We need nature for our physical and psychological well-being. Our actions reflect this when we turn to beloved pets for companionship, vacation in spots of natural splendor, or spend An ecopsychology that hours working in the garden. integrates our totemic selvesour kinship Yet we are also a technological with a more than species and have been since we human worldwith our fashioned tools out of stone. technological selves. Thus one of this centurys central challenges is to embrace our kinship with a more-than-human worldour totemic self and integrate that kinship with our scientific culture and technological selves. This book takes on that challenge and proposes a reenvisioned ecopsychology. Contributors consider such topics as the innate tendency for people to bond with local place; a meaningful nature language; the epidemiological evidence for the health benefits of nature interaction; the theory and practice of ecotherapy; Gaia theory; ecovillages; the neuroscience of perceiving natural beauty; and sacred geography. Taken together, the essays offer a vision for human flourishing and for a more grounded and realistic environmental psychology.
CONTRIBUTORS Glenn Albrecht, Wade Davis, Andy Fisher, Howard Frumkin, Patricia H. Hasbach, Yannick Joye, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Lynn Margulis, Lisa Nathan, Jolina H. Ruckert, Scott D. Sampson, Bruce Scofield, Laura Sewall
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington. His most recent book is Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life (MIT Press, 2011). Patricia H. Hasbach is a licensed clinical psychotherapist in private practice in Eugene, Oregon, and an adjunct faculty member at Lewis and Clark College and Antioch University Seattle. September 6 x 9, 344 pp. 3 illus. $27.00S/18.95 paper 978-0-262-51778-2 $54.00S/37.95 cloth 978-0-262-01786-2

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE RECONSIDERED

edited by Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg
The notion of global governance is widely studied in academia and increasingly relevant to politics and policy making. Yet many of its fundamental elements remain unclear in both theory and practice. This book An examination of three offers a fresh perspective by analyzing global governance in major trends in global governance, exemplified terms of three major trends, as by developments in exemplified by developments in transnational environglobal sustainability governance: mental rule-setting. the emergence of nonstate actors; new mechanisms of transnational cooperation; and increasingly segmented and overlapping layers of authority. The book, which is the synthesis of a ten-year Global Governance Project carried out by thirteen leading European research institutions, first examines new nonstate actors, focusing on international bureaucracies, global corporations, and transnational networks of scientists; then investigates novel mechanisms of global governance, particularly transnational environmental regimes, public-private partnerships, and market-based arrangements; and, finally, looks at fragmentation of authority, both vertically among supranational, international, national, and subnational layers, and horizontally among different parallel rule-making systems. The implications, potential, and realities of global environmental governance are defining questions for our generation. This book distills key insights from the past and outlines the most important research challenges for the future.
Frank Biermann is Professor of Political Science and of Environmental Policy at VU University Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Earth System Governance at Lund University, Sweden. Philipp Pattberg is Associate Professor of Transnational Governance in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University. September 6 x 9, 320 pp. $25.00S/17.95 paper 978-0-262-51770-6 $50.00S/34.95 cloth 978-0-262-01766-4 Earth System Governance series

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BIOETHICS
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DISAGGREGATING INTERNATIONAL REGIMES

A New Approach to Evaluation and Comparison Olav Schram Stokke
Evaluating the effectiveness of international regimes presents challenges that are both general and specific. What are the best methodologies for assessment within A methodology for eval- a governance area and do they uating and comparing enable comparison across areas? the effectiveness of In this book, Olav Schram international regimes is Stokke connects the general developed and applied to the specific, developing new to a successful example of such a regime. tools for assessing international regime effectiveness and then applying them to a particular case, governance of the Barents Sea fisheries. Stokkes innovative disaggregate methodology makes cross-comparison possible by breaking down the problem and the relevant empirical evidence. Stokke employs fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, and his approach is disaggregate in three ways: it separates the specific governance problem into its cognitional, regulatory, and behavioral components; it splits into three the counterfactual analysis of what the outcome would have been if the regime had not existed; and it decomposes the empirical evidence to maximize the number of observations. By applying this methodology to a regional resource regime known as one of the worlds most successful, Stokke bridges the gap between the intensive case study analyses that have dominated the field and increasingly ambitious efforts to devise quantitative methods for examining the causal impacts of regimes. Stokkes analysis sheds light on the implementation and the interaction of international institutions, with policy implications of regime design and operation.
Olav Schram Stokke is Senior Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway. He is coeditor of Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental Change (MIT Press, 2011) and International Cooperation and Arctic Governance and editor of Governing High Seas Fisheries: The Interplay of Global and Regional Regimes. September 6 x 9, 352 pp. 29 illus. $27.00S/18.95 paper 978-0-262-51784-3 $54.00S/37.95 cloth 978-0-262-01801-2 Earth System Governance series

IN SEARCH OF THE GOOD

A Life in Bioethics Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan helped invent the field of bioethics more than forty years ago when he decided to use his training in philosophy to grapple with ethical problems in biology and medicine. Disenchanted with academic philosophy because of its One of the founding analytical bent and distance fathers of bioethics describes the developfrom the concerns of real life, ment of the field and Callahan found the ethical his thinking on some issues raised by the rapid of the crucial issues of medical advances of the our time. 1960swhich included the birth control pill, heart transplants, and new capacities to keep very sick people aliveto be philosophical questions with immediate real-world relevance. In this memoir, Callahan describes his part in the founding of bioethics and traces his thinking on critical issues including embryonic stem cell research, market-driven health care, and medical rationing. He identifies the major challenges facing bioethics today and ruminates on its future. Callahan writes about founding the Hastings Center the first bioethics research institutionwith the author and psychiatrist Willard Gaylin in 1969, and recounts the challenges of running a think tank while keeping up a prolific flow of influential books and articles. Editor of the famous liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal in the 1960s, Callahan describes his now-secular approach to issues of illness and mortality. He questions the idea of endless medical progress and interventionist end-of-life care that seems to blur the boundaries between living and dying. The most important challenge for bioethics now, he argues, is to help rethink the very goals of medicine.
Daniel Callahan is Research Scholar and President Emeritus of the Hastings Center. He is the author or editor of many books.

A very enjoyable read, charming, funny, insightful, selfeffacing, and honest. Daniel Callahans serious but informal style of writing is extremely engagingeven page-turning. Eric Meslin, Director, Center for Bioethics, Indiana University
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ETHICS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND CHOICES ABOUT CHILDREN

Timothy F. Murphy
Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their childs sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their childs sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the A critical review of the moral implications of this debate over the stillhypothetical possibility still-hypothetical possibility for of prenatal intervention several decades. Some commenby parents to select the tators fear that any scientific sexual orientation of their children. efforts to understand the origins of homosexuality could mean the end of gay and lesbian people, if parents shy away from having homosexual children. Others defend parents rights to choose the traits of their children in general and see no reason to treat sexual orientation differently. In this book, Timothy Murphy traces the controversy over prenatal selection of sexual orientation, offering a critical review of the literature and presenting his own argument in favor of parents reproductive liberty. Arguing against commentators who want to restrict the scientific study of sexual orientation or technologies that emerge from that study, Murphy proposes a defense of parents right to choose. This, he argues, is the only view that helps protect children from hurtful family environments, that is consistent with the increasing powers of prenatal interventions, and that respects human futures as something other than accidents of the genetic lottery.
Timothy F. Murphy is Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He is the author of Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics (MIT Press, 2004), Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, and other books.

HUMAN DIGNITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND RESPONSIBILITY

The New Language of Global Ethics and Biolaw Yechiel Michael Barilan
Human dignity has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. And yet human dignity is a termlike love, hope, and justicethat is A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and intuitively grasped but never theorization of human clearly defined. Some ethicists dignity and rights, and bioethicists dismiss it; other brought to bear on thinkers point to its use in the current issues in bioethics and biolaw. service of particular ideologies. In this book, Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed, nonideological, and thorough conceptual clarification of human dignity and human rights, relating these ideas to current issues in ethics, law, and bioethics. Combining social history, history of ideas, moral theology, applied ethics, and political theory, Barilan tells the story of human dignity as a background moral ethos to human rights. He offers a hermeneutics of the formative texts on Imago Dei; provides a philosophical explication of the value of human dignity and of vulnerability; presents a comprehensive theory of human rights from a natural, humanist perspective; explores issues of moral status; and examines the value of responsibility as a link between virtue ethics and human dignity and rights. Barilan accompanies his theoretical claim with numerous practical illustrations, linking his theory to such issues in bioethics as end-of-life care, cloning, abortion, torture, treatment of the mentally incapacitated, the right to health care, the human organ market, disability and notions of difference, and privacy, highlighting many relevant legal aspects in constitutional and humanitarian law.
Yechiel Michael Barilan is a practicing physician, specialist in internal medicine, and Associate Professor of Medical Education in the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. October 6 x 9, 360 pp. 11 illus. $36.00S/24.95 cloth 978-0-262-01797-8 Basic Bioethics series

Defends an unpopular position among progressive bioethicists not from a homophobic, conservative perspective that seeks to preserve heteronormativity and hetero-dominance, but from a gay-affirming, homophilic stance. Autumn Fiester, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
September 6 x 9, 192 pp. $27.00S/18.95 cloth 978-0-262-01805-0 Basic Bioethics series

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CALIFORNIA CUISINE AND JUST FOOD

Sally K. Fairfax, Louise Nelson Dyble, Greig Tor Guthey, Lauren Gwin, Monica Moore, and Jennifer Sokolove
An account of the shift in focus to access and fairness among San Francisco Bay Area alternative food activists and advocates.

foreword by Marion Nestle Can a celebrity chef find common ground with an urban community organizer? Can a maker of organic cheese and a farm worker share an agenda for improving Americas food? In the San Francisco Bay area, unexpected alliances signal the widening concerns of diverse alternative food proponents. What began as niche preoccupations with parks, the environment, food aesthetics, and taste has become a broader and more integrated effort to achieve food democracy: agricultural sustainability, access for all to good food, fairness for workers and producers, and public health. This book maps that evolution in northern California. The authors show that progress toward food democracy in the Bay area has been significant: innovators have built on familiar yet quite radical understandings of regional cuisine to generate new, broadly shared expectations about food quality, and activists have targeted the problems that the conventional food system creates. But they caution that despite the Bay Areas favorable climate, progressive politics, and food culture, many challenges remain.
Sally K. Fairfax is Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Louise Nelson Dyble is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. Greig Tor Guthey is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Planning at California State University, San Marcos. Lauren Gwin is Research Associate in the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics at Oregon State University and cofounder and coordinator of the Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network. Monica Moore cofounded the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International and its U.S.-based regional center PAN North America. Jennifer Sokolove is Program Director at the Compton Foundation in San Franscisco.

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A wonderfully rich narrative that skillfully weaves together history, theory, participant observation and rigorous analysis. The book provides significant socioeconomic, ecological, and cultural insights into food sovereignty, food security, food justice, science-society relations, statecivil society relations, and organizational co-evolution among diverse movements seeking high-quality food, environmental health, and social change. Keith Pezzoli, Urban Studies and Planning Program, University of California, San Diego

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JAPANS DIETARY TRANSITION AND ITS IMPACTS

Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi
In a little more than a century, the Japanese diet has undergone a dramatic transformation. In 1900, a plantbased, near-subsistence diet was prevalent, with virtually no consumption of animal protein. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, Japans An examination of consumption of meat, fish, and the transformation of the Japanese diet dairy had increased markedly from subsistence to (although it remained below abundance and an that of high-income Western assessment of the consequences for countries). This dietary transihealth, longevity, tion was a key aspect of the and the environment. modernization that made Japan the worlds second largest economic power by the end of the twentieth century, and it has helped Japan achieve an enviable demographic primacy, with the worlds highest life expectancy and a population that is generally healthier (and thinner) than that of other modern affluent countries. In this book, Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi examine Japans gradual but profound dietary change and investigate its consequences for health, longevity, and the environment. Smil and Kobayashi point out that the gains in the quality of Japans diet have exacted a price in terms of land use changes, water requirements, and marine resource depletion. The books systematic analysis of these diverse consequences offers the most detailed account of Japans dietary transition available in English.
Vaclav Smil was Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba until 2010. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines (MIT Press, 2010). In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. Kazuhiko Kobayashi is Professor at the Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo. September 6 x 9, 248 pp. 21 illus. $29.00S/19.95 cloth 978-0-262-01782-4 Food, Health, and the Environment series

SEEDS, SCIENCE, AND STRUGGLE

The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops Abby Kinchy
Genetic engineering has a wide range of cultural, economic, and ethical implications, yet it has become almost an article of faith that regulatory decisions about biotechnology be based only on evidence of specific quantifiable risks; to consider An examination of how advocates for alternative anything else is said to politiagriculture confront cize regulation. In this study of science-based social protest against genetically regulation of genetically engineered food, Abby Kinchy engineered crops. turns the conventional argument on its head. Rather than consider politicization of the regulatory system, she takes a close look at the scientization of public debate about the contamination of crops resulting from pollen drift and seed mixing. Advocates of alternative agriculture confront the scientization of this debate by calling on international experts, carrying out their own research, questioning regulatory science in court, building alternative markets, and demanding that their governments consider the social and economic impacts of the new technologies. Kinchy focuses on social conflicts over canola in Canada and maize in Mexico, drawing out their linkages to the global food system and international environmental governance. The book ultimately demonstrates the shortcomings of dominant models of scientific risk governance, which marginalize alternative visions of rural livelihoods and sustainable food production.
Abby Kinchy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and coeditor of Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause. August 6 x 9, 240 pp. $22.00S/15.95 paper 978-0-262-51774-4 $44.00S/30.95 cloth 978-0-262-01781-7 Food, Health, and the Environment series

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

Moments of Decision edited by David Kaiser

How did MIT become MIT? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology marked the 150th anniversary of its founding in 2011. Over the years, MIT has lived by its motto, Mens et Manus (Mind and Hand), dedicating itself to the pursuit of knowledge and its application to real-world problems. MIT has produced leading scholars in fields ranging from aeronautics to economics, invented entire academic disciplines, and transformed ideas into market-ready devices. This book examines a series of turning points, crucial decisions that helped define MIT. Chapters describe the educational vision and fund-raising acumen of founder William Barton Rogers; MITs relationship with Harvardits rival, doppelgnger, and, for a brief moment, degree-conferring partner; the battle between pure science and industrial sponsorship in the early twentieth century; MITs rapid expansion during World War II because of defense work and military training courses; the conflict between Cold War gadgetry and the humanities; protests over defense contracts at the height of the Vietnam War; the uproar in the local community over the perceived riskiness of recombinant DNA research; and the measures taken to reverse years of institutionalized discrimination against women scientists.
David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Department Head of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (MIT Press).

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Also available A WIDENING SPHERE Evolving Cultures at MIT Philip N. Alexander 2011, 978-0-262-01563-9 $29.95T/20.95 cloth

CONTRIBUTORS
Lotte Bailyn, Deborah Douglas, John Durant, Susan Hockfield, Nancy Hopkins, David Kaiser, Christophe Lcuyer, Stuart W. Leslie, Bruce Sinclair, Merritt Roe Smith

Becoming MIT casts new light on how, through technology, industry, and fundamental science, this institution became the powerhouse it is today. But the book does far moreit unflinchingly looks at MITs direct confrontation with issues of science and war, science and public policy, and gender inequity in the halls of the Institute itself. A remarkable study of an astonishing university. Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics, Harvard University

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current affairs/science/environment environment/politics

GLOBAL CATASTROPHES AND TRENDS

The Next Fifty Years Vaclav Smil
Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a fatal discontinuity, a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent, gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental, economic, and political shifts that unfold over time. In this provocative book, scientist Vaclav Smil takes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at the catastrophes and trends the next fifty years may bring. Smil first looks at rare but cataclysmic events, both natural and human-produced, then at trends of global importance, including the transition from fossil fuels to other energy sources and growing economic and social inequality. He also considers environmental changein some ways an amalgam of sudden discontinuities and gradual changeand assesses the often misunderstood complexities of global warming. Global Catastrophes and Trends does not come down on the side of either doom-and-gloom scenarios or techno-euphoria. Instead, Smil argues that understanding change will help us reverse negative trends and minimize the risk of catastrophe.
Vaclav Smil was Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba until 2011 and is the author of many books, including Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines (MIT Press, 2010). In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008

SACRIFICE ZONES
The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States Steve Lerner
foreword by Phil Brown Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach a point at which they say Enough is enough. After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-related health problems, they start to take action organizing, speaking up, documenting the effects of pollution on their neighborhoods. In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. And he argues that residents need additional regulatory protections. Sacrifice Zones goes beyond the disheartening statistics and gives us the voices of the residents themselves, offering compelling portraits of accidental activists who have become grassroots leaders in the struggle for environmental justice.
Steve Lerner is the author of Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Todays Environmental Problems (1998) and Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisianas Chemical Corridor (2006), both published by the MIT Press. Lillian Smith Book Award Winner, 2011

Smil is a global scientific treasure. Robert W. Kates, Environment Magazine A tempered and practical look at the trends driving change in the 21st century. Science News
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This book will break your heart. . . . One might want this book to be easy to ignore, but instead, its unforgettable. And devastating. Colleen Mondor, Booklist The infuriating, shocking, and inspiring story of 12 unlikely environmental activists. . . . An inspiring story of everyday people who, pushed too far, push back. Washington Post DC Express
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THE INNOVATORS WAY

Essential Practices for Successful Innovation Peter J. Denning and Robert Dunham
foreword by John Seely Brown Innovation is the ruling buzzword in business today. Technology companies invest billions in developing new gadgets; business leaders see innovation as the key to a competitive edge; policymakers craft regulations to foster a climate of innovation. And yet businesses report a success rate of only four percent for innovation initiatives. Can we significantly increase our odds of success? In The Innovators Way, innovation experts Peter Denning and Robert Dunham reply with an emphatic yes. Innovation, they write, is not simply an invention, a policy, or a process to be managed. It is a personal skill that can be learned, developed through practice, and extended into organizations. Denning and Dunham identify and describe eight personal practices that all successful innovators perform: sensing, envisioning, offering, adopting, sustaining, executing, leading, and embodying. Together, these practices can boost a fledgling innovator to success. Denning and Dunham chart the path to innovation mastery, from individual practices to teams and social networks.
Peter J. Denning is Distinguished Professor, Chair of the Computer Science Department, and Director of the Cebrowski Institute for Information Innovation and Superiority at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Robert Dunham founded the Institute for Generative Leadership and the consulting company Enterprise Performance. Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

THE WARCRAFT CIVILIZATION

Social Science in a Virtual World William Sims Bainbridge
World of Warcraft is more than a game. There is no ultimate goal, no winning hand, no princess to be rescued. WoW is an immersive virtual world in which characters must cope in a dangerous environment, assume identities, struggle to understand and communicate, learn to use technology, and compete for dwindling resources. Beyond the fantasy and science fiction details, as many have noted, its not entirely unlike todays world. In The Warcraft Civilization, sociologist William Sims Bainbridge goes further, arguing that WoW can be seen not only as an allegory of today but also as a virtual prototype of tomorrow, of a real human future in which tribe-like groups will engage in combat over declining natural resources, build temporary alliances on the basis of mutual self-interest, and seek a set of values that transcend the need for war. What makes WoW an especially good place to look for insights about Western civilization, Bainbridge says, is that it bridges past and future. It is founded on Western cultural tradition, yet aimed toward the virtual worlds we could create in times to come.
William Sims Bainbridge is a prolific and influential sociologist who has worked in both academia and government, currently as Director of the Human-Centered Computing program at the National Science Foundation. He has published three other books about gameworlds: Online Multiplayer Games, The Virtual Future: Science-Fiction Gameworlds, and eGods: Fantasy Versus Faith.

The book is very much a hands-on guide. Its frame is innovation, but, on a deeper level, it is concerned with effective leadership, specifically how people create and sustain change in groups. Nancy F. Koehn, The New York Times
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Bainbridge provides the best analysis to date of the way WoW and similar new media forms, with their millions and millions of users, are reshaping central aspects of our culture: groups, religion, economy, education, and more. Edward Castronova, author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
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NEWSGAMES
Journalism at Play Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer
Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written and edited as they are for print; video and audio features are produced as they would be for television and radio. The authors of Newsgames propose a new way of doing good journalism: videogames. Videogames are native to computers rather than a digitized form of prior media. Games simulate how things work by constructing interactive models; journalism as game involves more than just revisiting old forms of news production. Wired magazines game Cutthroat Capitalism, for example, explains the economics of Somali piracy by putting the player in command of a pirate ship, offering choices for hostage negotiation strategies. Videogames do not offer a panacea for the ills of contemporary news organizations. But if the industry embraces them as a viable method of doing journalismnot just an occasional treat for online readers newsgames can make a valuable contribution.
Ian Bogost is Professor of Digital Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. He is the author of Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (MIT Press, 2007) and other books. Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer are doctoral students in digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

GOOD FAITH COLLABORATION

The Culture of Wikipedia Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.
foreword by Lawrence Lessig Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a communitya community of Wikipedians who are expected to assume good faith when interacting with one another. In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative culture. Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, universal encyclopedia; its early twentiethcentury ancestors include Paul Otlets Universal Repository and H. G. Wellss proposal for a World Brain. Both these projects, like Wikipedia, were fuelled by new technology which at the time included index cards and microfilm. What distinguishes Wikipedia from these and other more recent ventures is Wikipedias good-faith collaborative culture, as seen not only in the writing and editing of articles but also in their discussion pages and edit histories. Keeping an open perspective on both knowledge claims and other contributors, Reagle argues, creates an extraordinary collaborative potential. Wikipedias style of collaborative production has been imitated, analyzed, and satirized. Despite the social unease over its implications for individual autonomy, institutional authority, and the character (and quality) of cultural products, Wikipedias good-faith collaborative culture has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia.
Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Well-researched and intriguing. Michael Humphrey, Forbes A new generation of news junkies has stopped reading the news and started playing it. Newsgames will be their rulebook. Fred Turner, Stanford University
October 6 x 9 pp., 248 pp. 45 illus. $16.95T/11.95 paper 978-0-262-51807-9 cloth 2010 978-0-262-01487-8

A pleasure to read. Good Faith Collaboration is an important contribution to understanding the collaborative culture of media production and the open content community. Lee Humphreys, Journal of Communication
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DIGITAL DEAD END

Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age Virginia Eubanks
The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through 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 economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead End, 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 is driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of the information age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class women and families. For them, information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means of oppression. Bur despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy, optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks worked with a community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA. Eubanks describes a new approach to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering technology for people, popular technology, which entails shifting the focus from teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technological citizenship, 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 is Associate Professor in the Department of Womens Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.

TEXTURE
Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload Richard H. R. Harper
Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that theres not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. Its too much, we cry (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see what Shaquille ONeal has to say on Twitter. In Texture, Richard Harper asks why we seek out new ways of communicating even as we complain about communication overload. Harper describes the mistaken assumptions of developers that more is always better and argues that users prefer simpler technologies that allow them to create social bonds. Communication is not just the exchange of information. There is a texture to our communicative practices, manifest in the different means we choose to communicate (quick or slow, permanent or ephemeral).
Richard H. R. Harper, currently Principal Researcher in SocioDigital Systems at Microsoft Research, has explored user-focused technical innovation in academic, corporate, and small company settings. He is the coauthor (with Abigail J. Sellen) of The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press, 2001). Association of Internet Researchers Book of the Year, 2011

In Digital Dead End, Virginia Eubanks offers a trenchant feminist critique of the deployment of digital technology in American society. Leslie Regan Shade, Journal of Information Policy
October 6 x 9, 288 pp. 27 illus. $15.95T/10.95 paper 978-0-262-51813-0 cloth 2011 978-0-262-01498-4

Texture is a highly textured thought piece on why the how and who of new media communication are more important than the how. Ronald Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Chair in Mass Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara Throughout, the book throws up the kind of nuanced observations that seem at first surprising and then just right. Steven Poole, The Guardian
October 5 3/8 x 8, 320 pp. 1 illus. $17.95T/12.95 paper 978-0-262-51814-7 cloth 2010 978-0-262-08374-4

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HELMHOLTZ
From Enlightenment to Neuroscience Michel Meulders
translated and edited by Laurence Garey Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of most remarkable figures of nineteenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz (18211894) made significant contributions to the study of vision and perception and was also influential in the painting, music, and literature of the time; one of his major works analyzed tone in music. This book, the first in English to describe Helmholtzs life and work in detail, describes his scientific studies, analyzes them in the context of the science and philosophy of the periodin particular the German Naturphilosophie and gauges his influence on todays neuroscience. Helmholtz, trained by Johannes Mller, one of the best physiologists of his time, used a resolutely materialistic and empirical scientific method in his research. His work, eclipsed at the beginning of the twentieth century by new ideas in neurophysiology, has recently been rediscovered. We can now recognize in Helmholtzs methodswhich were based on his belief in the interconnectedness of physiology and psychologythe origins of neuroscience.
Michel Meulders is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience and Honorary Prorector of the Catholic University of Louvain, where he also was Dean of the Medical School from 1974 to 1979. Laurence Garey, a neuroscientist and anatomist, is the translator of Michel Jouvets The Paradox of Sleep (1999) and The Castle of Dreams (2008), both published by the MIT Press.

DADA IN PARIS
Michel Sanouillet
first English-language edition, revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet translated by Sharmila Ganguly Michel Sanouillets Dada in Paris, published in France in 1965, reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. More than forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early-twentieth century avant-garde. This first English-language edition of Sanouillets definitive work (a translation of the expanded 2005 French edition) gives English-speaking readers their first direct access to the authors monumental history (based on years of research, including personal involvement with most of the Dadaists still living at the time) and massive compilation of previously unpublished correspondence, including more than 200 letters to and from such movement luminaries as Tristan Tzara, Andr Breton, and Francis Picabia. Dada in Paris offers a behind-the-scenes account of the French avant-gardes riotous adolescence.
Michel Sanouillet is a French art historian and one of the leading scholars of the Dada movement. He is Dean Emeritus of the University of Nice, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, and founder and first president of the International Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism.

Michel Meulders has made an important contribution to the relatively sparse literature on this imposing figure in the scientific landscape of the 19th century. Andrew J. Oxenham, The Journal of Clinical Investigation
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Tzara famously declared that Dada is not modern; Michel Sanouillets history of its most fruitful and tumultuous years is, for its part, timeless. Mark Polizzotti, author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andr Breton Sanouillets Dada in Paris is rigorous history while managing to be simultaneously voluptuous like a bath and thrilling like a tabloid. Andrei Codrescu, author of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
October 7 x 9, 720 pp. $29.95T/20.95 paper 978-0-262-51821-5 cloth 2009 978-0-262-01303-1

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PUSH COMES TO SHOVE

The new celebration of womens aggression in contemporary culture, from Kill Bill and Prime Suspect to Murder Girls.

New Images of Aggressive Women Maud Lavin

In the past, more often than not, aggressive women have been rebuked, told to keep a lid on, turn the other cheek, get over it. Repression more than aggression was seen as womans domain. But recently theres been a noticeable cultural shift. With growing frequency, womens aggression is now celebrated in contemporary culturein movies and TV, online ventures, and art. In Push Comes to Shove, Maud Lavin examines these new images of aggressive women and how they affect womens lives. Aggression, says Lavin, need not entail causing harm to another; we can think of it as the use of force to create changefruitful, destructive, or both. And over the past twenty years, contemporary culture has shown women seizing this power. Lavin chooses provocative examples to explore the complexity of aggression, including the surfer girls in Blue Crush, Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, the homicidal women in Kill Bill, and artist Marlene McCartys mural-sized Murder Girls. Women need aggression and need to use it consciously, Lavin writes. With Push Comes to Shove, she explores the crucial questions of how to manifest aggression, how to represent it, and how to keep open a cultural space for it.
Maud Lavin is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design (MIT Press).

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Also available CLEAN NEW WORLD Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design Maud Lavin 2002, 978-0-262-62170-0 $20.00T/13.95 paper

Ultimately, Push Comes to Shove is inspiring! Readers should not be surprised if they find themselves wanting to intervene in a Vanessa Beecroft performance or sign up for boxing lessons. Heather Saunders, ARLIS NA A uniquely useful book, one that provides a dynamic framework that could encompass explorations of an even wider range of womens aggression. . . . Heres hoping that Lavins work pushes more critics and writers to undertake those explorations. Tammy Oler, Bitch Magazine Push Comes to Shove adds a new layer to a growing field of feminist scholarship dedicated to praising women who misbehave . . . . Lavins analysis and resulting conclusions are elegantly simple, speaking to the potentional of affirming representations to fuel social, cultural, and personal growth. Aviva Dove-Veibahn, Artjournal

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THE EXILES OF MARCEL DUCHAMP

T. J. Demos
Marcel Duchamp was a famous expatriate, a wanderer, living and working in Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires and escaping from each in turn. But exile, argues T. J. Demos in this innovative reading, is more than a fact in Duchamps biography. Exilein the artists own words, a spirit of expatriationinfuses Duchamps entire artistic practice. Duchamps readymade constructions, his installations for surrealist exhibitions in Paris and New York, and his portable museum (the suggestively named La bote-envalise), Demos writes, all manifest, define, and exploit the terms of exile in multiple ways. Created while the artist was living variously in New York, Buenos Aires, and occupied France during the global catastrophes of war and fascism, these works express the anguish of displacement and celebrate the freedom of geopolitical homelessness. The portable museum, a suitcase containing miniature reproductions of Duchamps works, for example, represented a complex meditationboth critical and joyfulon modern arts tendency toward itinerancy, whereas Duchamps 1942 installation design entangling a New York gallery in a mile of string announced the dislocated status that many exiled surrealists wished to forget. Duchamps exile, writes Demos, defines a new ethics of independent life in the modern age of nationalism and advanced capitalism, offering a precursor to our own globalized world of nomadic subjects and dispersed experience.
T. J. Demos is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College London.

TOPOLOGIES
The Urban Utopia in France, 19601970 Larry Busbea
Amid the cultural and political ferment of 1960s France, a group of avant-garde architects, artists, writers, theorists, and critics known as spatial urbanists envisioned a series of urban utopiasphantom cities of a possible future. The utopian spatial city most often took the form of a massive grid or mesh suspended above the ground, all of its parts (and inhabitants) circulating in a smooth, synchronous rhythm, its streets and buildings constituting a gigantic work of plastic art or interactive machine. In this first study of the French avant-garde tendency known as spatial urbanism, Larry Busbea analyzes projects by artists and architects (including the most famous spatial practitioner, Yona Friedman) and explores texts (many of which have never before been translated from the French) by Michel Ragon, the influential founder of the Groupe International dArchitecture Prospective (GIAP), Victor Vasarely, and others. Even at its most fanciful, Busbea argues, the French urban utopia provided an image for social transformations that were only beginning to be described by cultural theorists and sociologists.
Shortlisted for the 2008 Bruno Zevi Award presented by International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) Larry Busbea is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Arizona.

Superb. . . . the first book-length study of a time and place when technologically innovative design proposals flourished on architects drawing boards but languished in the corridors of power. Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books One of the most convincing accounts to date of the visionary projects of the 1960s in France. Anthony Vidler, The Architects Newspaper
October 8 x 9, 240 pp. 137 illus. $19.95T/13.95 paper 978-0-262-51810-9 cloth 2007 978-0-262-02611-6

A valuable addition to the Duchamp bibliography, exploring as it does an essential and hitherto overlooked aspect of Duchamps praxis. Richard Dyer, Art Review
October 5 3/8 x 8, 320 pp. 52 illus. $16.95T/11.95 paper 978-0-262-51811-6 cloth 2007 978-0-262-04237-6

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NURTURING DREAMS
Collected Essays on Architecture and the City Fumihiko Maki
edited by Mark Mulligan foreword by Eduard Sekler Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by postBauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession for decades. This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism and Makis own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architectural and urban history. Makis treatment of his two overarching themes the contemporary city and modernist architecture demonstrates strong (and sometimes unexpected) linkages between urban theory and architectural practice. Images and commentary on three of Makis own works demonstrate the connection between his writing and his designs. Moving through the successive waves of modernism, postmodernism, neomodernism, and other isms, these essays reflect how several generations of architectural thought and expression have been resolved within one career.
Fumihiko Maki is one of Japans most prolific and distinguished architects, in practice since the 1960s. His works include projects in Japan, North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He received the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993. His current works include the World Trade Center Tower 4 in New York City.

LACAN AT THE SCENE

Henry Bond
foreword by Slavoj iek What if Jacques Lacanthe brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalysthad worked as a police detective, applying his theories to solve crimes? This may conjure up a mental film clip starring Peter Sellers in a trench coat, but in Lacan at the Scene, Henry Bond makes a serious and provocative claim: that apparently impenetrable events of violent death can be more effectively unraveled with Lacans theory of psychoanalysis than with elaborate, technologically advanced forensic tools. Bonds exposition on murder expands and develops a resolutely iekian approach. Seeking out radical and unexpected readings, Bond unpacks his material utilizing Lacans neurosis-psychosis-perversion grid. Bond places Lacan at the crime scene and builds his argument through a series of archival crime scene photographs from the 1950sthe period when Lacan was developing his influential theories. It is not the horror of the ravished and mutilated corpses that draws his attention; instead, he interrogates seemingly minor details from the everyday, isolating and rephotographing what at first seems insignificant: a single high-heeled shoe on a kitchen table, for example, or carefully folded clothes placed over a chair. From these mundane details he carefully builds a robust and comprehensive manual for Lacanian crime investigation that can stand beside the FBIs standard-issue Crime Classification Manual.
Henry Bond is a writer and photographer living in London.

Makis elegant essays blend intellectual autobiography, a distinguished insiders view of the development of postwar Japanese architecture, and insightful theorizing on architectural and urban form. William J. Mitchell, author of World's Greatest Architect
October 7 3/4 x 8 3/4, 292 pp. 100 illus. $15.95T/10.95 paper 978-0-262-51818-5 cloth 2008 978-0-262-13500-9

Bond rethinks psychoanalysis and the history of photography from within and without creatively and simultaneously. Daniel Hourigan, Metapsychology Bond leads us to terrain we might prefer not to visit, but those scandalized by his images might recall that ordinary mass culture feeds on them. Victor Burgin, writer and artist
October 7 x 9, 256 pp. 79 illus. $15.95T/10.95 paper 978-0-262-51808-6 cloth 2009 978-0-262-01342-0 Short Circuits series, edited by Slavoj iek

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CURATING CONSCIOUSNESS
Mysticism and the Modern Museum Marcia Brennan
Artists have often taken rational, material existence as a starting point for engagement with metaphysics and mysticism, but no book until now has traced a similar strategy on the part of curators. In Curating Consciousness, Marcia Brennan focuses on one of the transformational figures of twentieth-century curatorial culture, and the main protagonist of this (until now) unacknowledged curatorial practice. James Johnson Sweeney (19001986) was hired by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., to be the Director of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in 1935. He went on to become the Director of the Guggenheim Museum in the 1950s and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in the 1960s. Throughout his career, Sweeney provocatively engaged motifs of mysticism in order to cast the modern museum as a secular temple of art. Brennan describes how these motifs informed Sweeneys curatorial and textual engagements with specific artists and projects, including works by Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Burri, Pierre Soulages, Jean Tinguely, and Eduardo Chillida.
Marcia Brennan is Associate Professor of Art History at Rice University. She is the author of Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics (2001) and Modernisms Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction (2004), both published by the MIT Press.

SONIC WARFARE
Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear Steve Goodman
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dreadto produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the psychoacoustic correction aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or sound bombs) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force and how they affect populations. Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture. Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heardthe concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths.
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), and the founder of the record label Hyperdub.

Makes a case for an art history that can discern the color behind the color, the light behind the light. Alexander Nemerov, Department of the History of Art, Yale University This book is proof that the best art history is simply careful and astute inquiry. Paul Staiti, Alumnae Foundation Professor of Fine Arts, Mount Holyoke College
October 7 x 9, 304 pp. 8 color plates, 60 black & white illus. $17.95T/12.95 paper 978-0-262-51809-3 cloth 2010 978-0-262-01378-9

A comprehensive and provocative read, establishing the foundations for a fresh branch of sonic exploration. Record Collector
September 7 x 9, 296 pp. 1 illus. $21.00S/14.95 paper 978-0-262-51795-9 cloth 2009 978-0-262-01347-5 Technologies of Lived Abstraction series

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NETWORKED PUBLICS
edited by Kazys Varnelis
Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts created by these technologies have transformed our relationships to (and definitions of ) place, culture, politics, and infrastructure. Four chapterseach by an interdisciplinary team of scholars using collaborative softwareprovide a synoptic overview along with illustrative case studies. The chapter on place describes how digital networks enable us to be present in physical and networked places simultaneouslyoften at the expense of nondigital commitments. The chapter on culture explores the growth and impact of amateur-produced and remixed content online. The chapter on politics examines the new networked modes of bottom-up political expression and mobilization. And finally, the chapter on infrastructure notes the tension between openness and control in the flow of information, as seen in the current controversy over net neutrality. Online content including a research blog and lecture videos may be found at www.networkedpublics.org.
CONTRIBUTORS Walter Baer, Franois Bar, Anne Friedberg,
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Mizuko Ito, Mark E. Kann, Merlyna Lim, Fernando Ordonez, Todd Richmond, Adrienne Russell, Marc Tuters, Kazys Varnelis Kazys Varnelis is Director of the Network Architecture Lab, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, and Member of the Founding Faculty at the School of Architecture, University of Limerick. September 7 x 9, 192 pp. 1 illus. $18.00S/12.95 paper 978-0-262-51792-8 cloth 2008 978-0-262-22085-9

INTERNET ARCHITECTURE AND INNOVATION

Barbara van Schewick
Todayfollowing housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemploymentthe Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internets remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internets architecture a consequence of technical choices regarding the Internets inner structure that were made early in its history. The Internets original architecture was based on four design principles: modularity, layering, and two versions of the celebrated but often misunderstood end-to-end arguments. But today, the Internets architecture is changing in ways that deviate from the Internets original design principles, removing the features that have fostered innovation and threatening the Internets ability to spur economic growth, to improve democratic discourse, and to provide a decentralized environment for social and cultural interaction in which anyone can participate. If no one intervenes, network providers interests will drive networks further away from the original design principles. If the Internets value for society is to be preserved, van Schewick argues, policy makers will have to intervene and protect the features that were at the core of the Internets success.
Barbara van Schewick is Associate Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, Director of Stanford Law Schools Center for Internet and Society, and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering in Stanford University's Department of Electrical Engineering.

This isnt a flash-in-the-pan piece. This book will be an evergreen in a wide range of academic and policy contexts. Lawrence Lessig, author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
September 6 x 9, 592 pp. 29 illus. $28.00S/19.95 paper 978-0-262-51804-8 cloth 2010 978-0-262-01397-0

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AUDITORY NEUROSCIENCE
Making Sense of Sound Jan Schnupp, Israel Nelken, and Andrew King
Every time we listento speech, to music, to footsteps approaching or retreatingour auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processes that unfold within the source of the sound itself, in the air, in our ears, and, most of all, in our brains. Hearing is an everyday miracle that, despite its staggering complexity, seems effortless. This book offers an integrated account of hearing in terms of the neural processes that take place in different parts of the auditory system. Because hearing results from the interplay of so many physical, biological, and psychological processes, the book pulls together the different aspects of hearingincluding acoustics, the mathematics of signal processing, the physiology of the ear and central auditory pathways, psychoacoustics, speech, and music into a coherent whole.
Jan Schnupp is Professor of Neuroscience and Codirector of the Auditory Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics at Oxford University and a Fellow of St. Peters College. Israel Nelken is Professor in the Department of Neurobiology in the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences and a member of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Andrew King is Professor of Neurophysiology, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, and Codirector of the Auditory Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Merton College.

THE COMPUTER BOYS TAKE OVER

Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise Nathan L. Ensmenger
Like all great social and technological developments, the computer revolution of the twentieth century didnt just happen. Peoplenot impersonal processesmade it happen. In The Computer Boys Take Over, Nathan Ensmenger describes the emergence of the technical specialistscomputer programmers, systems analysts, and data processing managers who helped transform the electronic digital computer from a scientific curiosity into the most powerful and ubiquitous technology of the modern era. They did so not as inventors from the traditional mold, but as the developers of the software (broadly defined to include programs, procedures, and practices) that integrated the novel technology of electronic computing into existing social, political, and technological networks. As mediators between the technical system (the computer) and its social environment (existing structures and practices), these specialists became a focus for opposition to the use of new information technologies. To many of their contemporaries, it seemed the computer boys were taking over, not just in the corporate setting, but also in government, politics, and society in general.
Nathan L. Ensmenger is Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.

A valuable guide for the novice and the expert alike. Shihab Shamma, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
September 7 x 9, 368 pp. 117 illus. $30.00S/20.95 paper 978-0-262-51802-4 cloth 2010 978-0-262-11318-2

Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of computing. Joseph November, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing A compelling account of the complex social and technical circumstances that effected early computer programming practices. Jonathan Clemens, Oxford Journal
September 6 x 9, 336 pp. 16 illus. $18.00S/12.95 paper 978-0-262-51796-6 cloth 2010 978-0-262-05093-7 History of Computing series

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WITHOUT CRITERIA
Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics Steven Shaviro
In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, Why is there something, rather than nothing? Whitehead asks, How is it that there is always something new? In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whiteheads question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviros experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kants thought pave the way for the philosophical constructivism embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.
Steven Shaviro is DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and Literary Theory and The Cinematic Body.

RELATIONSCAPES
Movement, Art, Philosophy Erin Manning
With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea that movement is simple displacement in space, knowable only in terms of the actual. Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement. From this idea of intensity the incipiency at the heart of movementManning develops the concept of preacceleration, which makes palpable how movement creates relational intervals out of which displacements take form. Discussing her theory of incipient movement in terms of dance and relational movement, Manning describes choreographic practices that work to develop with a body in movement rather than simply stabilizing that body into patterns of displacement. She examines the movement-images of Leni Riefenstahl, tienne-Jules Marey, and Norman McLaren (drawing on Bergsons idea of duration), and explores the dot-paintings of contemporary Australian Aboriginal artists. Turning to language, Manning proposes a theory of prearticulation claiming that languages affective force depends on a concept of thought in motion. Relationscapes takes a Whiteheadian perspective, recognizing Whiteheads importance and his influence on process philosophers of the late twentieth century Deleuze and Guattari in particular. It will be of special interest to scholars in new media, philosophy, dance studies, film theory, and art history.
Erin Manning holds a University Research Chair in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal.

This is an immensely rewarding book. Andrew Vincent, The European Legacy In this work of great poise and deep insight Steven Shaviro draws a new and important diagram of the relations between the philosophies of Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze. James Williams, University of Dundee
September 7 x 9, 192 pp. $16.00S/11.95 paper 978-0-262-51797-3 cloth 2009 978-0-262-19576-8 Technologies of Lived Abstraction series

Relationscapes weaves together many disciplines in order to arrive at a highly complex and original understanding of the relation between thinking and feeling. Beth Hinderliter, Theory and Event
September 7 x 9, 280 pp. 73 illus. $18.00S/12.95 paper 978-0-262-51800-0 cloth 2009 978-0-262-13490-3 Technologies of Lived Abstraction series

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THE EXTENDED MIND

edited by Richard Menary
Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? In their famous 1998 paper The Extended Mind, philosophers Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers posed this question and answered it provocatively: cognitive processes aint all in the head. The environment has an active role in driving cognition; cognition is sometimes made up of neural, bodily, and environmental processes. Their argument excited a vigorous debate among philosophers, both supporters and detractors. This volume brings together for the first time the best responses to Clark and Chalmerss bold proposal. These responses, together with the original paper by Clark and Chalmers, offer a valuable overview of the latest research on the extended mind thesis. The contributors first discuss (and answer) objections raised to Clark and Chalmerss thesis. Clark himself responds to critics in an essay that uses the movie Mementos amnesia-aiding notes and tattoos to illustrate the workings of the extended mind. Contributors then consider the different directions in which the extended mind project might be taken, including the need for an approach that focuses on cognitive activity and practice.
CONTRIBUTORS Fred Adams, Ken Aizawa, David J. Chalmers, Andy Clark, Stephen Cowley, Susan Hurley, James Ladyman, Richard Menary, John Preston, Don Ross, Mark Rowlands, Robert D. Rupert, David Spurrett, John Sutton, Michael Wheeler, Robert A. Wilson
Richard Menary is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of Cognitive Integration and other books.

FOLK PSYCHOLOGICAL NARRATIVES

The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons Daniel D. Hutto
Established wisdom in cognitive science holds that the everyday folk psychological abilities of humansour capacity to understand intentional actions performed for reasonsare inherited from our evolutionary forebears. In Folk Psychological Narratives, Daniel Hutto challenges this view (held in somewhat different forms by the two dominant approaches, theory theory and simulation theory) and argues for the sociocultural basis of this familiar ability. He makes a detailed case for the idea that the way we make sense of intentional actions essentially involves the construction of narratives about particular persons. Moreover he argues that children acquire this practical skill only by being exposed to and engaging in a distinctive kind of narrative practice. Hutto calls this developmental proposal the narrative practice hypothesis (NPH). Its core claim is that direct encounters with stories about persons who act for reasons (that is, folk psychological narratives) supply children with both the basic structure of folk psychology and the norm-governed possibilities for wielding it in practice. In making a strong case for the as yet underexamined idea that our understanding of reasons may be socioculturally grounded, Hutto not only advances and explicates the claims of the NPH, but he also challenges certain widely held assumptions. In this way, Folk Psychological Narratives both clears conceptual space around the dominant approaches for an alternative and offers a groundbreaking proposal.
Daniel D. Hutto is Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire.

The perfect external resource for those aiming to extend their thinking on these important topics and to take this fertile debate further. Daniel D. Hutto, Analysis
September 6 x 9, 392 pp. 2 illus. $20.00S/13.95 paper 978-0-262-51801-7 cloth 2010 978-0-262-01403-8 Life and Mind series

The book is a stimulating and engaging read, and the debate about human social cognition should forever be transformed in its wake. Neil C. Manson, Philosophical Investigations
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RATIONAL CHOICE
Itzhak Gilboa
This book offers a rigorous, concise, and nontechnical introduction to some of the fundamental insights of rational choice theory. It draws on formal theories of microeconomics, decision making, games, and social choice, and on ideas developed in philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Itzhak Gilboa argues that economic theory has provided a set of powerful models and broad insights that have changed the way we think about everyday life. He focuses on basic insights of the rational choice paradigmthe general conceptualization rather than a particular theorythat survive recent (and well-justified) critiques of economic theorys various failures. Gilboa explains the main concepts in language accessible to the nonspecialist, offering a nonmathematical guide to some of the main ideas developed in economic theory in the second half of the twentieth century. Chapters cover feasibility and desirability, utility maximization, constrained optimization, expected utility, probability and statistics, aggregation of preferences, games and equilibria, free markets, and rationality and emotions. Online appendixes offer additional material, including a survey of relevant mathematical concepts.
Itzhak Gilboa is Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC (cole des Hautes tudes Commerciales), Paris, and Professor of Economics at Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University. He is the coauthor (with David Schmeidler) of Theory of Case-Based Decisions and the author of Theory of Decision under Uncertainty.

GAME THEORY AND THE HUMANITIES

Bridging Two Worlds Steven J. Brams
Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, they offer compelling explanations for competition in nature. But game theory has been only sporadically applied to the humanities; indeed, we almost never associate mathematical calculations of strategic choice with the worlds of literature, history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Brams shows, game theory can illuminate the rational choices made by characters in texts ranging from the Bible to Joseph Hellers Catch-22 and can explicate strategic questions in law, history, and philosophy. Much of Bramss analysis is based on the theory of moves (TOM), which is grounded in game theory, and which he develops gradually and applies systematically throughout. TOM illuminates the dynamics of player choices, including their misperceptions, deceptions, and uses of different kinds of power. Brams examines such topics as the outcome and payoff matrix of Pascals wager on the existence of God; the strategic games played by presidents and Supreme Court justices; and how information was slowly uncovered in the game played by Hamlet and Claudius. The reader gains not just new insights into the actions of certain literary and historical characters but also a larger strategic perspective on the choices that make us human.
Steven J. Brams is Professor of Politics at New York University. He is the author of Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible (revised edition 2002, MIT Press) and other books.

Gilboas Rational Choice is a clear, comprehensive, and clever introduction to economic theory. Amanda Friedenberg, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Highly recommended! Drew Fudenberg, Department of Economics, Harvard University
September 6 x 9, 176 pp. 7 illus. $20.00S/13.95 paper 978-0-262-51805-5 cloth 2010 978-0-262-01400-7

An elegant overview of how game theory can deepen our appreciation of literatureand of how literature can enrich our understanding of game theory. Philip Tetlock, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
September 6 x 9, 336 pp. 35 illus. $18.00S/12.95 paper 978-0-262-51825-3 cloth 2011 978-0-262-01522-6

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THE THEORY OF MONEY AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Volume 3

EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES IN THE MODERN ERA

Michael W. Klein and Jay C. Shambaugh
The exchange rate is sometimes called the most important price in a highly globalized world. A countrys choice of its exchange rate regime, between governmentmanaged fixed rates and market-determined floating rates has significant implications for monetary policy, trade, and macroeconomic outcomes, and is the subject of both academic and policy debate. In this book, two leading economists examine the operation and consequences of exchange rate regimes in an era of increasing international interdependence. Michael Klein and Jay Shambaugh focus on the evolution of exchange rate regimes in the modern era, the period since 1973, which followed the Bretton Woods era of 194572 and the pre-World War I gold standard era. Klein and Shambaugh offer a comprehensive, integrated treatment of the characteristics of exchange rate regimes and their effects. The book draws on and synthesizes data from the recent wave of empirical research on this topic, and includes new findings that challenge preconceived notions.
Michael W. Klein is Professor of International Economics at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He served as Chief Economist in the Office of International Affairs of the U.S. Treasury from 2010 to 2011. Jay C. Shambaugh is a Visiting Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and was the Senior Economist for International Economics and then Chief Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2011.

Martin Shubik
This is the third and last volume of Martin Shubiks exposition of his vision of mathematical institutional economicsa term he coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop a processoriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro- and macroeconomics, using strategic market games and other game-theoretic methods. There is as yet no general dynamic counterpart to the elegant and mathematically well-developed static theory of general equilibrium. Shubiks paradigm serves as an intermediate step between general equilibrium and full dynamics. General equilibrium provides valuable insights on relationships in a closed, friction-free economic structure. Shubik aims to open up this limited structure to the rich environment of sociopolitical economy without dispensing with conceptual continuity. Volume 3 considers the specific roles of financial institutions and government, aiming to provide the link between the abstract study of invariant economic and financial functions and the ever-changing institutions that provide these functions. The concept of minimal financial institutions is stressed as a means to connect function with form in a parsimonious manner.
Martin Shubik is Seymour Knox Professor of Mathematical Institutional Economics (Emeritus) at Yale Universitys Cowles Foundation and School of Management.

The book is a tour de force in political economy and recommended for anyone who is searching for a micro-based theory of macro and monetary phenomena. Andrew Schotter, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Experimental Social Science, New York University
September 6 x 9, 680 pp. 22 illus. $28.00S/19.95 paper 978-0-262-51803-1 cloth 2010 978-0-262-01320-8

Anyone wishing to understand the modern international monetary system will profit greatly from reading Klein and Shambaughs unique synthesis. Maurice Obstfeld, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
September 6 x 9, 266 pp. 10 illus. $25.00S/17.95 paper 978-0-262-51799-7 cloth 2009 978-0-262-01365-9

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The Bafflers have, in their writing styles, the buoyancy of Mencken, but in substance, theyre in the tradition of the old-time muckrakers, those who challenged the power pillars of our society. Ive a hunch that Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and I. F. Stone would have approved. Studs Terkel I can think of no other American journal of opinionleftist, new age, Ultra, postmodern, Jacobin, conservative, monarchist, evangelical, legitimist, neogothicthat could credibly describe its essays as salvos. Lewis Lapham Pungent . . . . Youd have to look back at the fights between New York intellectuals in the fifties to find the sort of verbal firepower unleashed here. The Nation Cranky cultural criticism . . . . wickedly funny. Publishers Weekly Only slightly larger than Readers Digest but with the weight of a hand grenade. The New Yorker The smartest and most exciting magazine in America. The Toronto Star Reminds you how good the sharp edge of an essay can feel. Time Out New York The Baffler has played a leading role in keeping contemporary culture honest. Utne Reader

The Baffler is back and better than ever!

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ARTMARGINS
Sven Spieker, editor
ARTMargins fosters awareness and conversation about contemporary art in an expanded field of practices that engage current global socio-political transformations. Within the fabric of a present moment characterized by different, and often incompatible, temporalities and agendas, the journal locates transnational commonalities and trajectories that connect, or divide, different regions of the world.
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Founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ddalus draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose fellows are among the nations most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Each issue addresses a theme with authoritative essays on topics of current interest in the arts and sciences.
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Tara McPherson and Ellen Seiter, editors
The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) is a groundbreaking online-only journal that provides an international forum for scholars, researchers and practitioners to explore the relationship between emerging forms of media and learning, in a variety of forms and settings. IJLM offers scholarly articles, editorials, case studies, and an active online network. Published in partnership with the Monterey Institute for Technology in Education and with support from the MacArthur Foundation.
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Roger F. Malina, executive editor Nicolas Collins, LMJ editor-in-chief
Leonardo is the leading international journal in the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music. The companion annual journal, Leonardo Music Journal (including CD), features the latest in music, multimedia art, sound science, and technology.
Six times per year, ISSN 0024-094X February/April/June/August/October/December 112 pp. per issue 8 1/2 x 11, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/leon

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Bonnie Marranca, editor
PAJ is admired internationally for its independent critical thought and cutting-edge explorations of performance, video, drama, dance, installations, media, film, and music. Known for integrating theatre and the visual arts, PAJ celebrated 100 issues in January with the specially-themed issue Performance New York.
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Douglas Keislar, editor
For computer enthusiasts, musicians, composers, scientists, and engineers, this is the essential resource for contemporary electronic music and computer-generated sound. An annual music disc accompanies the last issue of each volume.
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THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY

Linda Smith Rhoads, editor
For more than 80 years, The New England Quarterly has published the best that has been written on New Englands cultural, political, and social history. Contributions cover a range of time periods, from before European colonization to the present, and any subject germane to New Englands history.
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Bruce Brown, Richard Buchanan, Dennis P. Doordan, and Victor Margolin, editors
The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular themes, such as science and technology studies, design research, and design criticism.
Quarterly, ISSN 0747-9360 Winter/Spring/Summer/Autumn 112 pp. per issue 7 x 10, illustrated http://mitpressjournals.org/di

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Marla C. Berns, Steven Nelson, Allen F. Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts, Gemma Rodrigues, and Doran H. Ross, editors
African Arts is devoted to the study and discussion of traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, readers have enjoyed high-quality visual depictions, cutting-edge explorations of theory and practice, and critical dialogue.
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Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. Publishing some of the most interesting and original work within these disciplines, Grey Room has positioned itself at the forefront of the most current aesthetic and critical debates.
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Original, innovative, and provocative, October presents the best and most current criticism about the contemporary arts, including film, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, music, and literature.
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The Review of Economics and Statistics is a distinguished general journal of applied (especially quantitative) economics. Edited at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, The Review has published some of the most important articles in empirical economics and topical symposia.
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Abbate, Recoding Gender 61 Abramiuk, The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology 53 Alternative Histories, Rosati 27 Andrews, Do Apes Read Minds? 50 Antoniou, A Semantic Web Primer, third edition 75 Applin, Yayoi Kusama 35 Auditory Neuroscience, Schnupp 99 Bainbridge, The Warcraft Civilization 90 Banking the World, Cull 67 Barikin, Parallel Presents 28 Barilan, Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility 85 Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication, new edition 40 Becoming MIT, Kaiser 88 Bentley, Building Mobile Experiences 73 Berardi, The Uprising 36 Biermann, Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered 83 Biomedical Consulting Agreements, Klees 48 Blaszczyk, The Color Revolution 19 Bobaljik, Universals in Comparative Morphology 57 Bock, The Technology of Nonviolence 65 Bogost, Newsgames 91 Bond, Lacan at the Scene 96 Borges and Memory, Quian Quiroga 4 Brain and the Gaze, Lauwereyns 45 Brams, Game Theory and the Humanities 102 Braude, The Great Recession 69 Brennan, Curating Consciousness 97 Bryner, Integrating Climate, Energy, and Air Pollution Policies 81 Building Mobile Experiences, Bentley 73 Busbea, Topologies 95 California Cuisine and Just Food, Fairfax 86 Callahan, In Search of the Good 84 Car Crashes without Cars, Leonardi 63 Cervero, Understanding Pain 5 Chang, Philosophy of Communication 50 Cheung, The Evolving Role of China in the Global Economy 68 Choucri, Cyberpolitics in International Relations 66 City Cycling, Pucher 11 Clancey, Working on Mars 8 Coding Places, Takhteyev 63 Cognitive Search, Todd 55 Cohen Goldner, Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 19902009 70 Color Revolution, Blaszczyk 19 Combes, Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual 49 Computer Boys Take Over, Ensmenger 99 Contending Economic Theories, Wolff 68 Cox, Speaking Code 78 Cull, Banking the World 67 Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), O'Neill 25 Curating Consciousness, Brennan 97 Cutler, Native Listening 57 Cyberpolitics in International Relations, Choucri 66 Dada in Paris, Sanouillet 93 Dance, Lepecki 32 Demon of Writing, Kafka 42 Demos, The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp 95 Denning, The Innovators Way 90 Design Way, second edition, Nelson 71 Digital Dead End, Eubanks 92 Digital Humanities, Lunenfeld 7 Digital Rights Movement, Postigo 59 Disaggregating International Regimes, Stokke 84 Discovering the Human Connectome, Sporns 44 Do Apes Read Minds?, Andrews 50 Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran, Homayounpour 1 Durrant-Whyte, Robotics 77 Economy in Society, Osterman 70 Ecopsychology, Kahn 83 Ecstasy of Communication, new edition, Baudrillard 40 Ekman, Throughout 73 Emanuel, What We Know About Climate Change, second edition 17 Encultured Brain, Lende 47 Engineers for Change, Wisnioski 60 Ensmenger, The Computer Boys Take Over 99 Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children, Murphy 85 Eubanks, Digital Dead End 92 Evans, Perspecta 45 23 Evil Media, Fuller 62 Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making, Hammerstein 55 Evolving Role of China in the Global Economy, Cheung 68 Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era, Klein 103 Exiles of Marcel Duchamp, Demos 95 Extended Mind, Menary 101 Fairfax, California Cuisine and Just Food 86 Farr, Memory 33 Ferster, Interactive Visualization 78 Financial Innovation, Haliassos 69 Folk Psychological Narratives, Hutto 101 Foote, Histories of the Dustheap 82 Fore, Realism after Modernism 31 Forgetting the Art World, Lee 24 Foundations of 3D Computer Graphics, Gortler 76 Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology, Abramiuk 53 Foundations of Machine Learning, Mohri 76 Fuller, Evil Media 62 Gaidar, Russia 20 Game Theory and the Humanities, Brams 102 Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual, Combes 49 Gilboa, Rational Choice 102 mitpress.mit.edu Fall 2012

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Global Catastrophes and Trends, Smil 89 Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered, Biermann 83 Good Faith Collaboration, Reagle 91 Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy, Hess 82 Goodman, Sonic Warfare 97 Gortler, Foundations of 3D Computer Graphics 76 Great Recession, Braude 69 Greco, Virtue Epistemology 52 Grounding Social Sciences in Cognitive Sciences, Sun 52 Grusky, Occupy the Future 15 Gunkel, The Machine Question 51 Haliassos, Financial Innovation 69 Hammerstein, Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making 55 Harper, Texture 92 Helmholtz, Meulders 93 Heroines, Zambreno 39 Hess, Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy 82 Histories of the Dustheap, Foote 82 Holland, Signals and Boundaries 54 Homayounpour, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran 1 Hugill, 'Pataphysics 29 Hui, The Psychophysical Ear 64 Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility, Barilan 85 Hutto, Folk Psychological Narratives 101 Hybrid Cultures, Spielmann 72 Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 19902009, Cohen Goldner 70 In Search of the Good, Callahan 84 Indefinite Objects, Lpez 58 Inner Experience and Neuroscience, Price 47 Innovators Way, Denning 90 Integrating Climate, Energy, and Air Pollution Policies, Bryner 81 Interactive Visualization, Ferster 78 Internet Architecture and Innovation, van Schewick 98 Invention of Heterosexual Culture, Tin 3 Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts, Smil 87 Kabasenche, Reference and Referring 51 Kafka, The Demon of Writing 42 Kahn, Ecopsychology 83 Kaiser, Becoming MIT 88 Kember, Life after New Media 48 Kinchy, Seeds, Science, and Struggle 87 Klees, Biomedical Consulting Agreements 48 Klein, Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era 103 Kleine, Technologies of Choice? 60 Klopfer, The More We Know 22 Knott, Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax 58 Koch, Thieves of Virtue 14 Kraus, Summer of Hate 38 Lacan at the Scene, Bond 96 Language, Thought, and Reality, second edition, Whorf 56 Lauwereyns, Brain and the Gaze 45 Lavin, Push Comes to Shove 94 Layzer, Open for Business 80 Lazzarato, The Making of the Indebted Man 37 Lee, Forgetting the Art World 24 Lende, The Encultured Brain 47 Leonardi, Car Crashes without Cars 63 Lepecki, Dance 32 Lerner, Sacrifice Zones 89 Liberating Kosovo, Phillips 66 Life after New Media, Kember 48 Ling, Taken for Grantedness 62 Lockwood, The Silent Epidemic 10 Logistics Clusters, Sheffi 2 Lpez, Indefinite Objects 58 Lost Dimension, new edition, Virilio 41 Lunenfeld, Digital Humanities 7 Machine Learning, Murphy 75 Machine Question, Gunkel 51 Maki, Nurturing Dreams 96 Making of the Indebted Man, Lazzarato 37 Manning, Relationscapes 100 Markonish, Oh, Canada 6 Materializing Six Years, Morris 26 Mating Lives of Birds, Parry 18 McLagan, Sensible Politics 43 Memory, Farr 33 Menary, The Extended Mind 101 Meulders, Helmholtz 93 Michael Asher, Rorimer 34 Mining the Biomedical Literature, Shatkay 77 Mohri, Foundations of Machine Learning 76 Montfort, 10 PRINT CHR$(205+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 79 Morris, Materializing Six Years 26 Munns, A Single Sky 64 Murphy, Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children 85 Murphy, Machine Learning 75 Native Listening, Cutler 57 Nelson, The Design Way, second edition 71 Networked Publics, Varnelis 98 Newsgames, Bogost 91 Nurturing Dreams, Maki 96 O'Neill, The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s) 25 ORourke, Shopping for Good 16 Oblique Drawing, Scolari 30 Occupy the Future, Grusky 15 Oh, Canada, Markonish 6 Okonjo-Iweala, Reforming the Unreformable 21

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On Computing, Rosenbloom 74 On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization, Wertheimer 46 Open for Business, Layzer 80 Osterman, Economy in Society 70 Parallel Presents, Barikin 28 Parry, The Mating Lives of Birds 18 Pataphysics, Hugill 29 Perspecta 45, Evans 23 Phillips, Liberating Kosovo 66 Philosophy of Communication, Chang 50 Planning Ideas That Matter, Sanyal 72 Postigo, The Digital Rights Movement 59 Price, Inner Experience and Neuroscience 47 Principles of Brain Dynamics, Rabinovich 46 Psychophysical Ear, Hui 64 Pucher, City Cycling 11 Push Comes to Shove, Lavin 94 Quian Quiroga, Borges and Memory 4 Rabinovich, Principles of Brain Dynamics 46 Raichlen, Waves 13 Rational Choice, Gilboa 102 Reagle, Good Faith Collaboration 91 Realism after Modernism, Fore 31 Recoding Gender, Abbate 61 Reference and Referring, Kabasenche 51 Reforming the Unreformable, Okonjo-Iweala 21 Relationscapes, Manning 100 Robotics, Durrant-Whyte 77 Rorimer, Michael Asher 34 Rosati, Alternative Histories 27 Rosenbloom, On Computing 74 Russia, Gaidar 20 Sacrifice Zones, Lerner 89 Sanouillet, Dada in Paris 93 Sanyal, Planning Ideas That Matter 72 Schnupp, Auditory Neuroscience 99 Scolari, Oblique Drawing 30 Seeds, Science, and Struggle, Kinchy 87 Semantic Web Primer, third edition, Antoniou 75 Sensible Politics, McLagan 43 Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax, Knott 58 Shatkay, Mining the Biomedical Literature 77 Shaviro, Without Criteria 100 Sheffi, Logistics Clusters 2 Shopping for Good, ORourke 16 Shubik, The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions, Volume 3 103 Signals and Boundaries, Holland 54 Silent Epidemic, Lockwood 10 Single Sky, Munns 64 Smil, Global Catastrophes and Trends 89 Smil, Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts 87 Sonic Warfare, Goodman 97 Speaking Code, Cox 78 Spielmann, Hybrid Cultures 72 Sporns, Discovering the Human Connectome 44 Stokke, Disaggregating International Regimes 84 Stone, Vision and Brain 45 Summer of Hate, Kraus 38 Sun, Grounding Social Sciences in Cognitive Sciences 52 Sustainable Energy, second edition, Tester 81 Take Back the Center, Wenz 9 Taken for Grantedness, Ling 62 Takhteyev, Coding Places 63 Technologies of Choice?, Kleine 60 Technology of Nonviolence, Bock 65 10 PRINT CHR$(205+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, Montfort 79 Tester, Sustainable Energy, second edition 81 Texture, Harper 92 The More We Know, Klopfer 22 Theory of Money and Financial Institutions, Volume 3, Shubik 103 Thieves of Virtue, Koch 14 Thought and Language, revised and expanded edition, Vygotsky 54 Throughout, Ekman 73 Tin, The Invention of Heterosexual Culture 3 Todd, Cognitive Search 55 Topologies, Busbea 95 Understanding Pain, Cervero 5 Universals in Comparative Morphology, Bobaljik 57 Uprising, Berardi 36 van Schewick, Internet Architecture and Innovation 98 Varnelis, Networked Publics 98 Virilio, Lost Dimension, new edition 41 Virtual Knowledge, Wouters 61 Virtue Epistemology, Greco 52 Vision and Brain, Stone 45 Vygotsky, Thought and Language, revised and expanded edition 54 Warcraft Civilization, Bainbridge 90 Waves, Raichlen 13 Wenz, Take Back the Center 9 Wertheimer, On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization 46 What We Know About Climate Change, second edition, Emanuel 17 Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality, second edition 56 Wisnioski, Engineers for Change 60 Without Criteria, Shaviro 100 Wolff, Contending Economic Theories 68 Working on Mars, Clancey 8 Wouters, Virtual Knowledge 61 Yayoi Kusama, Applin 35 Zambreno, Heroines 39

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