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9780262511063 03 02 0262511061 03 9780262511063 15 9780262511063 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP aaai American Association for Artificial Intelligence 01 MITP 1034 AAAI-99 01 1034 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511063 1 A01 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 01 eng 1024 COM004000 UYQM 06 11 03 17 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511063.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511063 AAAI Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990706 01 WORLD 01 10.9 in 02 8.5 in 03 2.3 in 08 5.2 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990706 6 01 02 The MIT Press S 100.00 USD 02 68.95 GBP Z 0 68.95 0 9780262511124 03 02 0262511126 03 9780262511124 15 9780262511124 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP aaai American Association for Artificial Intelligence 01 MITP 1035 AAAI-00 01 1035 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511124 1 A01 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 01 eng 1200 COM004000 UYQM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The annual AAAI National Conference provides a forum for information exchange and interaction among researchers from all disciplines of AI. Contributions include theoretical, experimental, and empirical results. Topics cover principles of cognition, perception, and action; the design, application, and evaluation of AI algorithms and systems; architectures and frameworks for classes of AI systems; and analyses of tasks and domains in which intelligent systems perform.Distributed for AAAI Press</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511124.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511124 AAAI Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20000731 01 WORLD 01 11 in 02 8.5 in 03 1.8 in 08 5.55 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20000731 7 01 02 The MIT Press S 100.00 USD 02 68.95 GBP Z 0 68.95 0 9780262511292 03 02 0262511290 03 9780262511292 15 9780262511292 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP aaai American Association for Artificial Intelligence 01 MITP 1036 AAAI-02 01 1036 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511292 1 A01 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 01 eng 1200 COM004000 UYQM 06 11 03 17 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511292.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511292 AAAI Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020830 01 WORLD 01 11 in 02 8.5 in 03 2 in 08 4.6900000000000004 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020830 8 01 02 The MIT Press S 100.00 USD 02 68.95 GBP Z 0 68.95 0 9780262511834 03 02 0262511835 03 9780262511834 15 9780262511834 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP aaai American Association for Artificial Intelligence 01 MITP 1037 AAAI 2004 01 1037 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511834 1 A01 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 01 eng 1104 COM004000 UYQM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The National Conference on Artificial Intelligence remains the bellwether for research in artificial intelligence. Leading AI researchers and practitioners as well as scientists and engineers in related fields present theoretical, experimental, and empirical results, covering a broad range of topics that include principles of cognition, perception, and action; the design, application, and evaluation of AI algorithms and systems; architectures and frameworks for classes of AI systems; and analyses of tasks and domains in which intelligent systems perform. The Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence conference highlights successful applications of AI technology; explores issues, methods, and lessons learned in the development and deployment of AI applications; and promotes an interchange of ideas between basic and applied AI. This volume presents the proceedings of the latest conferences, held in July, 2004.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Proceedings from the latest meeting of the leading AI conference; includes theoretical, experimental, and empirical work.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511834.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511834 AAAI Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040716 01 WORLD 01 11 in 02 8.5 in 03 2 in 08 5.5 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040716 7 01 02 The MIT Press S 85.00 USD 02 58.95 GBP Z 0 58.95 0 9780262011747 03 02 0262011743 03 9780262011747 15 9780262011747 03 BB 30 01 MITP ahspp Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy at Harvard University 01 MITP 6117 Should the United States Privatize Social Security? 01 6117 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011747 1 A01 Henry J. Aaron Aaron, Henry J. Henry J. Aaron Henry J. Aaron is Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair at the Brookings Institution. 2 A01 John B. Shoven Shoven, John B. John B. Shoven 3 B01 Benjamin M. Friedman Friedman, Benjamin M. Benjamin M. Friedman Benjamin M. Friedman is William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and the author of <I>The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth</I>. 4 A24 Benjamin M. Friedman Friedman, Benjamin M. Benjamin M. Friedman Benjamin M. Friedman is William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and the author of <I>The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth</I>. edited by Benjamin M. Friedman and introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman. Henry J. Aaron and John B. Shoven 01 eng 190 POL000000 JPR 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The two papers that make up the core of this book address what is perhaps the most fundamental question in the current debate over Social Security: whether to shift, in part or even entirely, from today's pay-as-you-go system to one that is not just funded but also privatized in the sense that individuals would retain control over the investment of their funds and, therefore, personally bear the associated risk. John Shoven argues yes, Henry Aaron no. Theoretical issues such as the likely effects on saving behavior and capital formation figure importantly in this discussion. But so do a broad array of practical considerations such as the expense of fund management and accounting, questions about how the public would regard the fairness of any new system, and the impact of recent developments in the federal budget and the U.S. stock market.The book also includes responses to both papers by four prominent economists--Robert J. Barro and David M. Cutler, of Harvard University; Alicia H. Munnell, of Boston College; and James Tobin, of Yale University--as well as Henry Aaron's and John Shoven's replies. The introductory remarks are by Benjamin M. Friedman.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Here's the deal. Spend a few hours with this book, and Aaron, Shovenand the others will bring you up-to-date on the most important socialpolicy debate now going in America. Not only that, you'll enjoy theread." <B>Alan S. Blinder </B>, Department of Economics, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011747.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011747 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990609 01 WORLD 01 8.1 in 02 5.5 in 03 .7 in 08 .75 lb 06 15 9780262266697 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990609 44 01 02 The MIT Press S 38.00 USD 02 26.95 GBP Z 0 26.95 0 9780262011914 03 02 0262011913 03 9780262011914 15 9780262011914 03 BB 30 01 MITP 6749 Tower and Office 01 6749 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011914 1 A01 Iñaki Ábalos Ábalos, Iñaki Iñaki Ábalos Madrid-based architect Iñaki Ábalos was, along with Juan Herreros, the recipient of Columbia University's Buell Book Fellowship. 2 A01 Juan Herreros Herreros, Juan Juan Herreros Madrid-based architect Juan Herreros was, along with Iñaki Ábalos, the recipient of Columbia University's Buell Book Fellowship. Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros 01 eng 400 155 illus. ARC001000 AMA 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In Tower and Office, Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war was the source of powerful new structural models and construction methods. The authors examine the ways these technologies have been inflected over the last half century by more subjective and integrated processes of spatial organization.In the first part of the book, Abalos and Herreros focus on the work of Le Corbusier, revealing the degree of complexity achieved in his interpretation of the modern skyscraper. In the second part, they look at the intersection of technical and cultural determinants in the design of high-rise structures since World War II. Among the issues they consider are the evolution of the load-bearing frame, the impact of high-tech systems on tall buildings, and the transparent building skin. In the third part, they address developments in office design and planning, tracing an evolution from the repetitive and homogeneous office skyscraper to the present-day mixed-use structure. Overall they demonstrate how the objective technical analysis associated with modernist architectural theory has given way in recent building practice to a variety of flexible, pragmatic, and environmental approaches. These, they suggest, have opened the way to new urban and architectural forms.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"An informed, informative, and well-documented analysis of the technical development of office buildings throughout the twentieth century, *Tower and Office* is a valuable resource for anyone thinking critically about architecture's status in today's world. From structural systems to skins to space planning to urbanism, the commercial skyscraper becomes an archive of knowledge in which alternative futures lay hidden, awaiting recognition."--Reinhold Martin, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, author of *The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space*</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011914.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011914 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20031107 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 8 in 03 .75 in 08 2.1800000000000002 lb 06 15 9780262511902 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20031107 16 01 02 The MIT Press X 55.00 USD 02 37.95 GBP Z 0 37.95 0 9780262511902 03 02 0262511908 03 9780262511902 15 9780262511902 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6749 Tower and Office 01 6749 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511902 1 A01 Iñaki Ábalos Ábalos, Iñaki Iñaki Ábalos Madrid-based architect Iñaki Ábalos was, along with Juan Herreros, the recipient of Columbia University's Buell Book Fellowship. Iñaki Abalos and Juan Herreros 01 eng 400 155 illus. ARC001000 AMA 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In Tower and Office, Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war was the source of powerful new structural models and construction methods. The authors examine the ways these technologies have been inflected over the last half century by more subjective and integrated processes of spatial organization.In the first part of the book, Abalos and Herreros focus on the work of Le Corbusier, revealing the degree of complexity achieved in his interpretation of the modern skyscraper. In the second part, they look at the intersection of technical and cultural determinants in the design of high-rise structures since World War II. Among the issues they consider are the evolution of the load-bearing frame, the impact of high-tech systems on tall buildings, and the transparent building skin. In the third part, they address developments in office design and planning, tracing an evolution from the repetitive and homogeneous office skyscraper to the present-day mixed-use structure. Overall they demonstrate how the objective technical analysis associated with modernist architectural theory has given way in recent building practice to a variety of flexible, pragmatic, and environmental approaches. These, they suggest, have opened the way to new urban and architectural forms.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"An informed, informative, and well-documented analysis of the technical development of office buildings throughout the twentieth century, *Tower and Office* is a valuable resource for anyone thinking critically about architecture's status in today's world. From structural systems to skins to space planning to urbanism, the commercial skyscraper becomes an archive of knowledge in which alternative futures lay hidden, awaiting recognition."--Reinhold Martin, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, author of *The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space*</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511902.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511902 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050923 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 8 in 03 .75 in 08 1.5 lb 06 15 9780262011914 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050923 16 01 02 The MIT Press T 37.00 USD 02 25.95 GBP Z 0 25.95 0 9780262011723 03 02 0262011727 03 9780262011723 15 9780262011723 03 BB 30 01 MITP itech Inside Technology 01 MITP 3873 Inventing the Internet 01 3873 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011723 1 A01 Janet Abbate Abbate, Janet Janet Abbate Janet Abbate is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of <I>Inventing the Internet</I> (MIT Press, 1999). www.womenincomputing.net Janet Abbate 01 eng 268 SCI034000 PDX 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users.The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"[M]ay be the finest extended work on Internethistory and development to date.... useful for anyone studyinginformation technology." Library Journal "Thoroughly wonderful." David Warsh, Boston Globe </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This sophisticated history is the best account so far published ofthe unpredictable and turbulent evolution of the Internet. With itsbroad international context, the book will be of value to makers andusers of the global communications network, as well as to science andtechnology policy makers." <B>Martin Campbell-Kelly </B>, Reader in Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011723.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011723 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990608 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .8 in 08 1.1000000000000001 lb 06 15 9780262511155 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990608 30 01 02 The MIT Press S 69.00 USD 02 47.95 GBP Z 0 47.95 0 9780262511155 03 02 0262511150 03 9780262511155 15 9780262511155 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP itech Inside Technology 01 MITP 3873 Inventing the Internet 01 3873 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511155 1 A01 Janet Abbate Abbate, Janet Janet Abbate Janet Abbate is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of <I>Inventing the Internet</I> (MIT Press, 1999). www.womenincomputing.net Janet Abbate 01 eng 268 SCI034000 PDX 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users.The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"[M]ay be the finest extended work on Internethistory and development to date.... useful for anyone studyinginformation technology." Library Journal "Thoroughly wonderful." David Warsh, Boston Globe </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This sophisticated history is the best account so far published ofthe unpredictable and turbulent evolution of the Internet. With itsbroad international context, the book will be of value to makers andusers of the global communications network, as well as to science andtechnology policy makers." <B>Martin Campbell-Kelly </B>, Reader in Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511155.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511155 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20000724 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .8 in 08 .85 lb 06 15 9780262011723 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20000724 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 28.00 USD 02 19.95 GBP Z 0 19.95 0 9780262511162 03 02 0262511169 03 9780262511162 15 9780262511162 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 3209 George Nelson 01 3209 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511162 1 A01 Stanley Abercrombie Abercrombie, Stanley Stanley Abercrombie 2 A23 Ettore Sottsass, Jr. Sottsass, Ettore, Jr. Ettore Sottsass Jr. foreword by Ettore Sottsass, Jr.. Stanley Abercrombie 01 eng 375 ART016000 AGB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>George Nelson (1908-1986) was a pioneering modernist who ranks with Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, and Eliot Noyes as one of America's outstanding designers. Nelson's office produced some of the twentieth century's canonical pieces of industrial design, many of which are still in production: the ball clock, the bubble lamp, the sling sofa. Nelson also made major contributions to the storage wall, the shopping mall, the multi-media presentation, and the open-plan office system. The author of this definitive biography was given access to Nelson's office archives and personal papers. He also interviewed more than 70 of Nelson's friends, colleagues, employees, and clients (including the late D. J. De Pree, former head of the Herman Miller Furniture Company and Nelson's chief patron) and obtained many previously unpublished images from corporate and private archives.The full range of Nelson's work is represented, from product and furniture design to packaging and graphics to large-scale projects such as the Fairchild house and the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow. Because Nelson was a serious and original thinker about design issues, Abercrombie quotes extensively from his published and unpublished writings, offering provocative new material to students of design theory and philosophy.The appendixes, compiled by Judith Nasatir, include a chronology of Nelson's work, a biographical chronology, and two bibliographies: one of writings by Nelson and the other of writings about him.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A should-buy book for designers of all stripes,patterns, and colors." Steven Skov Holt Design Book Review</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>The definitive biography of George Nelson, featuring the full range of his work, interviews, and previously unpublished images from Nelson's private archives.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511162.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511162 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20000825 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 7.75 in 03 1 in 08 2.3199999999999998 lb 06 15 9780262011426 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20000825 18 01 02 The MIT Press T 50.00 USD 02 34.95 GBP Z 0 34.95 0 9780262511964 04 02 0262511967 03 9780262511964 15 9780262511964 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2396 Digital Phoenix 01 2396 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511964 1 A01 Bruce Abramson Abramson, Bruce Bruce Abramson Bruce Abramson received a PhD in computer science from Columbia University and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He has held positions with the faculties of the University of Southern California and Carnegie Mellon. His consulting and legal practice, based in Washington, DC, focuses on issues related to the digital economy. Abramson is also the author of <I>The Informationist</I> blog, which chronicles "life during the transition from industrial age to information age." Bruce Abramson 01 eng 368 BUS090000 KJE 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>While we were waiting for the Internet to make us rich -- back when we thought all we had to do was to buy lottery tickets called dotcom shares -- we missed the real story of the information economy. That story, says Bruce Abramson in Digital Phoenix, took place at the intersection of technology, law, and economics. It unfolded through Microsoft's manipulation of software markets, through open source projects like Linux, and through the file-sharing adventures that Napster enabled. Linux and Napster in particular exploited newly enabled business models to make information sharing cheap and easy; both systems met strong opposition from entrenched interests intent on preserving their own profits. These scenarios set the stage for the future of the information economy, a future in which each new technology will threaten powerful incumbents -- who will, in turn, fight to retard this "dangerous new direction" of progress.Disentangling the technological, legal, and economic threads of the story, Abramson argues that the key to the entire information economy -- understanding the past and preparing for the future -- lies in our approach to intellectual property and idea markets. The critical challenge of the information age, he says, is to motivate the creation and dissemination of ideas. After discussing relevant issues in intellectual property and antitrust law, the economics of competition, and artificial intelligence and software engineering, Abramson tells the information economy's formative histories: the Microsoft antitrust trial, the open-source movement, and (in a chapter called "The Computer Ate My Industry") the advent of digital music. Finally, he looks toward the future, examining some ways that intellectual property reform could power economic growth and showing how the information economy will reshape the ways we think about business, employment, society, and public policy -- how the information economy, in fact, can make us all rich, as consumers and producers, if not as investors.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Abramson gives an intricate but lucid and engaging account of these controversies, illuminating the interplay of copyright and patent law, technology and marketing. He makes a case both for the government's role in policing abuses of intellectual property rights Microsoft, he believes, is indeed a monopolistand for a relaxed intellectual property regime that fosters competition and innovation." Publishers Weekly</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>Digital Phoenix</I> is a brilliant explanation of the law, economics, and technology behind the information technology revolution in my view, the best book on this topic on the market." Robert Litan, Vice President, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The Microsoft antitrust trial, the ascent of Linux, the rise and fall of Napster Abramson not only masterfully retells each of these foundational stories of the digital economy, he explains why they mattered, how they fit into the 'New Economy,' and what they portend for the next information technology boom. This is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand what makes our digital economy tick." Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A compelling explanation of the forces that produced the 1990s technology boom and bust." <I>Choice</I></P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>Digital Phoenix</I> is a brilliant explanation of the law, economics, and technology behind the information technology revolutionin my view, the best book on this topic on the market." <B>Robert Litan </B>, Vice President, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The Microsoft antitrust trial, the ascent of Linux, the rise and fall of NapsterAbramson not only masterfully retells each of these foundational stories of the digital economy, he explains why they mattered, how they fit into the 'New Economy,' and what they portend for the next information technology boom. This is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand what makes our digital economy tick." <B>Fred von Lohmann </B>, Electronic Frontier Foundation</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Stuart Biegel explores the dilemmas of present-day cyberspace with the confidence of a native Netizen, the sharp eye of an anthropologist, and the incisiveness of a lawyer. The result is a book that is true to the spirit of the Net without deifying it--a nuanced study that synthesizes the best understandings we have of when, where, and how to apply the elements of the contemporary regulatory toolbox to the global Internet."--Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, University of Oxford</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a timely and sophisticated study of how three multilateral development banks have dealt with demands to incorporate a serious environmental agenda into their lending strategies for Central and Eastern Europe. Gutner shows how each institution's shareholder commitment to a green agenda interacts with the overall development strategies of that institution to affect its ability to implement successful environmental projects in recipient countries. This is an important study of some of the challenges international institutions face in responding to increasingly diverse demands from their expanding constituencies."--Steven Weber, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, author of *The Success of Open Source*Please note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Communication Researchers and Policymaking* offers a rich and kaleidoscopic showcase of ways in which communications researchers can contribute to pressing telecommunications policy issues. In assembling this volume, Sandra Braman has sounded a call for the field to reinvigorate its goals and methods to suit a breathtaking set of cross-disciplinary challenges."--Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, University of Oxford</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Digital Phoenix* is a brilliant explanation of the law, economics, and computer science behind the information technology revolution -- in my view, the best book on this topic on the market. Even readers who think they know something about IT will learn from it. Those who are less well acquainted with the subject but want to learn will find it a thoroughly enjoyable reference that will tell them what they need to know. It will also go a long way toward enabling them to catch up to what the 'experts' think they know about the IT revolution."--Robert E. Litan, Vice President, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationPlease note: The first sentence may be excerpted for use in the catalogue.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The Microsoft antitrust trial, the ascent of Linux, the rise and fall of Napster -- Abramson not only masterfully retells each of these foundational stories of the digital economy, he explains why they mattered, how they fit into the 'New Economy,' and what they portend for the next information technology boom. This is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand what makes our digital economy tick."--Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Turow has beautifully sketched the rich history of customer categorization -- attempts both large and small to place consumers into boxes and then narrow their choices or fields of view accordingly. His analysis comes at a time when electronic commerce, both on- and offline, is poised to offer more boxes and do more with them. He offers valuable policy recommendations to help customers make sense of the corporate terrain they inhabit, and explains why 'privacy policy' won't solve most of these problems."--Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, University of Oxford</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511964.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511964 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060908 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.05 lb 06 15 9780262012171 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y MD 23 20060908 1 01 02 The MIT Press S 30.00 USD 02 20.95 GBP Z 0 20.95 0 9780262011785 03 02 0262011786 03 9780262011785 15 9780262011785 03 BB 30 01 MITP 1986 Computational Finance 1999 01 1986 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011785 1 B01 Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa Abu-Mostafa, Yaser S. Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa 2 B01 Blake LeBaron LeBaron, Blake Blake LeBaron Blake LeBaron is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 3 B01 Andrew W. Lo Lo, Andrew W. Andrew W. Lo http://www.argentumlux.org/ 4 B01 Andreas S. Weigend Weigend, Andreas S. Andreas S. Weigend edited by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Blake Lebaron, Andrew W. Lo, and Andreas S. Weigend 01 eng 733 BUS027000 KFFL 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Computational finance, an exciting new cross-disciplinary research area, draws extensively on the tools and techniques of computer science, statistics, information systems, and financial economics. This book covers the techniques of data mining, knowledge discovery, genetic algorithms, neural networks, bootstrapping, machine learning, and Monte Carlo simulation. These methods are applied to a wide range of problems in finance, including risk management, asset allocation, style analysis, dynamic trading and hedging, forecasting, and option pricing. The book is based on the sixth annual international conference Computational Finance 1999, held at New York University's Stern School of Business.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>This book covers the techniques of data mining, knowledge discovery, genetic algorithms, neural networks, bootstrapping, machine learning, and Monte Carlo simulation.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011785.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011785 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20000424 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6.9 in 03 1.4 in 08 2.7 lb 06 15 9780262511070 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20000424 12 01 02 The MIT Press S 120.00 USD 02 82.95 GBP Z 0 82.95 0 9780262511070 03 02 026251107X 03 9780262511070 15 9780262511070 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 1986 Computational Finance 1999 01 1986 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511070 1 B01 Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa Abu-Mostafa, Yaser S. Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa 2 B01 Blake LeBaron LeBaron, Blake Blake LeBaron Blake LeBaron is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 3 B01 Andrew W. Lo Lo, Andrew W. Andrew W. Lo http://www.argentumlux.org/ 4 B01 Andreas S. Weigend Weigend, Andreas S. Andreas S. Weigend edited by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Blake Lebaron, Andrew W. Lo, and Andreas S. Weigend 01 eng 733 BUS027000 KFFL 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Computational finance, an exciting new cross-disciplinary research area, draws extensively on the tools and techniques of computer science, statistics, information systems, and financial economics. This book covers the techniques of data mining, knowledge discovery, genetic algorithms, neural networks, bootstrapping, machine learning, and Monte Carlo simulation. These methods are applied to a wide range of problems in finance, including risk management, asset allocation, style analysis, dynamic trading and hedging, forecasting, and option pricing. The book is based on the sixth annual international conference Computational Finance 1999, held at New York University's Stern School of Business.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>This book covers the techniques of data mining, knowledge discovery, genetic algorithms, neural networks, bootstrapping, machine learning, and Monte Carlo simulation.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511070.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511070 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20000424 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6.9 in 03 1.4 in 08 2.4 lb 06 15 9780262011785 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20000424 14 01 02 The MIT Press S 55.00 USD 02 37.95 GBP Z 0 37.95 0 9780262012249 03 02 0262012243 03 9780262012249 15 9780262012249 03 BB 30 01 MITP wriart Writing Art 01 MITP 4064 Language to Cover a Page 01 4064 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012249 1 A01 Vito Acconci Acconci, Vito Vito Acconci Conceptual artist Vito Acconci is known for his work in performance and video art. 2 B01 Craig Dworkin Dworkin, Craig Craig Dworkin Craig Dworkin, Professor in the English Department at the University of Utah, is the author of <I> Reading the Illegible</I> and the editor of several collections, including most recently <I>Th</I>e Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound (with Marjorie Perloff) and <I>Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci</I> (MIT Press). edited by Craig Dworkin. Vito Acconci 01 eng 428 15 b&w illus. 01 15 ART016000 AGB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Pioneering conceptual artist Vito Acconci began his career as a poet. In the 1960s, before beginning his work in performance and video art, Acconci studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop and published poems in journals and chapbooks. Almost all of this work remains unknown; much of it appeared in the self-produced magazines of the Lower East Side's mimeo revolution, and many other pieces were never published. Language to Cover a Page collects these writings for the first time and not only shows Acconci to be an important experimental writer of the period, but demonstrates the continuity of his early writing with his later work in film, video, and performance.Language to Cover a Page documents a key moment in the unprecedented intersection of artists and poets in the late 1960s--as seen in the Dwan Gallery's series of "Language" shows (1967-1970) and in Acconci's own journal 0 to 9. Indeed, as Acconci moved from the poetry scene to the art world, his poetry became increasingly performative while his artwork was often structured and motivated by linguistic play.Acconci's early writing recalls the work of Samuel Beckett, the deadpan voice of the nouveau roman, and the jump cuts and fraught permutations of the nouvelle vague. Poems in Language to Cover a Page explore the materiality of language ("language as matter and not ideas," as Robert Smithson put it), the physical space of the page, and the physicality of source texts (phonebooks, thesauruses, dictionaries). Other poems take the space of the page as an analogue to performance space or implicate the poem in a network of activity (as in his "Dial-a-Poem" pieces). Readers will find Acconci's inventive and accomplished poetry as edgy and provocative as anything published today.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Before he became famous as video, performance, and multimedia artist, Vito Acconci considered himself to be a poet -- a designer, so to speak, of printed pages. His fascinating poetic experiments, most of them previously unpublished, take ordinary, colloquial language and apply both formal constraints and Wittgensteinian propositions to their articulation. Decades ahead of its time, the writing Craig Dworkin has lovingly assembled and edited for this collection uncannily anticipates our own verbivocovisual experiments: here 'delay' becomes revelation!"--Marjorie Perloff, author of *Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is not just another anthology of Surrealist writings.  Mary Ann Caws, one of the experts in the field, has put together a highly individual, deeply personal, and wonderfully idiosyncratic collection of writers and visual artists she takes to be 'surrealist,' from such classic figures as André Breton and Louis Aragon to artists usually classified otherwise, such as Kurt Schwitters, William Carlos Williams, and--yes--Rrose Sélavy, who has her very own section. Lavishly and superbly illustrated and wonderfully translated, Surrealist Poets and Painters forces us to rethink the movement and define it more broadly.  This is at once a scholarly collection and a work of art in its own right."--Marjorie Perloff, author of *Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary*Please note: The first "the" in the endorsement is italicized. Acute accents appear over the "e" in "Andre" and the "e" in "Selavy."</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This fascinating, meticulously documented study of Pound's two unpublished Radio Operas, *The Testament of Francois Villon* and *Cavalcanti*, casts a remarkably wide net. It chronicles Pound's relation to the new medium of radio from his Futurist and Vorticist experiments to the moment of his notorious Rome broadcasts, all the while considering the larger relationship between avant-garde intermedia and the new technologies."--Marjorie Perloff, author of *Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"How did the avant-garde of the New York Secession, the movement spearheaded by the brilliant photographer, editor, gallery director, and impresario Alfred Stieglitz, look to its own practitioners and their audiences? Jay Bochner's fascinating and lavishly illustrated documentary study casts its 'American lens' on key scenes when modernist poets and visual artists from Williams and Stein to O'Keefe and Stieglitz himself were changing our cultural and aesthetic landscape. The appraisal of the Stieglitz circlethat emerges is as surprising as it is absorbing. A great read!"--Marjorie Perloff, author of *Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary*Please note: The third sentence may be omitted for space reasons.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Poems and other texts from the 1960s by a pioneering conceptual artist that show a continuity with his subsequent work in performance and video art.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012249.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012249 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060303 01 WORLD 01 11 in 02 8.5 in 03 1.25 in 08 2.8 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060303 12 01 02 The MIT Press T 36.95 USD 02 25.95 GBP Z 0 25.95 0 9780262012225 03 02 0262012227 03 9780262012225 15 9780262012225 03 BB 30 01 MITP bcsia Belfer Center Studies in International Security 01 MITP 5711 Reassessing Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific 01 5711 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012225 1 B01 Amitav Acharya Acharya, Amitav Amitav Acharya Amitav Acharya is Deputy Director, Head of Research, and Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of <I>Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order</I> and other books. 2 B01 Evelyn Goh Goh, Evelyn Evelyn Goh Evelyn Goh is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the author of <I>Constructing the US Rapprochement with China, 1961-1974: From Red Menace to Tacit Ally</I>. edited by Amitav Acharya and Evelyn Goh 01 eng 304 POL011000 JPSN2 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Since the 1990s, Asia-Pacific countries have changed their approaches to security cooperation and regional order. The end of the Cold War, the resurgence of China, the Asian economic crisis, and the events of September 11, 2001, have all contributed to important changes in the Asia-Pacific security architecture. In addition to the traditional bilateral security arrangements based on the US "hub and spokes" alliance system, there has been an increase in multilateral efforts, including the ASEAN Regional Forum, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Shangri-la dialogue of defense ministers, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. But because of their varying membership, scope, and mandates, these new arrangements have suffered from a lack of coordination.This volume reassesses security cooperation in the region in light of such recent developments as the emergence of new roles for existing institutions, the rise of new institutions, challenges to existing norms of regional interaction, increasing formalization or legalization of regional institutions, the reconstruction of modes of security cooperation that were once seen as mutually exclusive, and the creation of ad hoc and informal security approaches. The book examines how successful these new arrangements have been, whether there is competition among them, and why some modes of security cooperation have proven more feasible than others.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Covering the topic with unparalleled style and depth, this book is a 'must read' for those determined to understand the cutting-edge theories and policy debates shaping Asian security politics. It will be a core resource for students, analysts, and policy-makers for years to come. It brings together the most formidable group of experts yet assembled to gauge how the region's alliances, institutions, and regimes work to advance Asia's regional security order." William Tow, Professor of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"There was a time in the late 1990s when many wondered whether Asia-Pacific institutions were too weak to survive economic crises and traditional security practices. Yet in this century older institutions are adapting, and brand new institutions proliferating. Is all this activity paving theway for the emergence of sub-regional security communities? Or is it mostly a cover for realpolitik-as-usual in the region? Amitav Acharya and Evelyn Goh have brought together some of the most knowledgeable and innovative experts on Asian institutions to examine these kinds of questions. Theoretically pluralistic and sensitive to history, the volume challenges many conventional wisdoms about the under-institutionalization of the Asia-Pacific." <B>Alastair Iain Johnston </B>, Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012225.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012225 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20070817 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9.25 in 02 6.25 in 03 .5 in 08 1.25 lb 06 15 9780262511896 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20070817 30 01 02 The MIT Press S 54.00 USD 02 37.95 GBP Z 0 37.95 0 9780262511896 03 02 0262511894 03 9780262511896 15 9780262511896 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP bcsia Belfer Center Studies in International Security 01 MITP 5711 Reassessing Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific 01 5711 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511896 1 B01 Amitav Acharya Acharya, Amitav Amitav Acharya Amitav Acharya is Deputy Director, Head of Research, and Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of <I>Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order</I> and other books. 2 B01 Evelyn Goh Goh, Evelyn Evelyn Goh Evelyn Goh is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the author of <I>Constructing the US Rapprochement with China, 1961-1974: From Red Menace to Tacit Ally</I>. edited by Amitav Acharya and Evelyn Goh 01 eng 304 POL011000 JPSN2 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Since the 1990s, Asia-Pacific countries have changed their approaches to security cooperation and regional order. The end of the Cold War, the resurgence of China, the Asian economic crisis, and the events of September 11, 2001, have all contributed to important changes in the Asia-Pacific security architecture. In addition to the traditional bilateral security arrangements based on the US "hub and spokes" alliance system, there has been an increase in multilateral efforts, including the ASEAN Regional Forum, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Shangri-la dialogue of defense ministers, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. But because of their varying membership, scope, and mandates, these new arrangements have suffered from a lack of coordination.This volume reassesses security cooperation in the region in light of such recent developments as the emergence of new roles for existing institutions, the rise of new institutions, challenges to existing norms of regional interaction, increasing formalization or legalization of regional institutions, the reconstruction of modes of security cooperation that were once seen as mutually exclusive, and the creation of ad hoc and informal security approaches. The book examines how successful these new arrangements have been, whether there is competition among them, and why some modes of security cooperation have proven more feasible than others.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Covering the topic with unparalleled style and depth, this book is a 'must read' for those determined to understand the cutting-edge theories and policy debates shaping Asian security politics. It will be a core resource for students, analysts, and policy-makers for years to come. It brings together the most formidable group of experts yet assembled to gauge how the region's alliances, institutions, and regimes work to advance Asia's regional security order." William Tow, Professor of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"There was a time in the late 1990s when many wondered whether Asia-Pacific institutions were too weak to survive economic crises and traditional security practices. Yet in this century older institutions are adapting, and brand new institutions proliferating. Is all this activity paving theway for the emergence of sub-regional security communities? Or is it mostly a cover for realpolitik-as-usual in the region? Amitav Acharya and Evelyn Goh have brought together some of the most knowledgeable and innovative experts on Asian institutions to examine these kinds of questions. Theoretically pluralistic and sensitive to history, the volume challenges many conventional wisdoms about the under-institutionalization of the Asia-Pacific." <B>Alastair Iain Johnston </B>, Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511896.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511896 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20070831 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9.25 in 02 6.25 in 03 .5 in 08 .95 lb 06 15 9780262012225 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20070831 40 01 02 The MIT Press S 27.00 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9780262011860 03 02 0262011867 03 9780262011860 15 9780262011860 03 BB 30 01 MITP 5105 Origins, Imitation, Conventions 01 5105 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011860 1 A01 James S. Ackerman Ackerman, James S. James S. Ackerman James S. Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University, is the author of books on Michelangelo's architecture, Palladio, and the villa. He is the winner of the Balzan Prize 2001 in the category of history of architecture, which includes town planning and landscape design presented by the International Balzan Foundation. James S. Ackerman 01 eng 342 160 illus. DES000000 AKB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman's earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his recent work reflects the poststructural critique of the presumption of progress that characterized Renaissance and modernist history and criticism. In this book he explores the tension between the authority of the past--which may act not only as a restraint but as a challenge and stimulus--and the potentially liberating gift of invention. He examines the ways in which artists and writers on art have related to ancestors and to established modes of representation, as well as to contemporary experiences.The "origins" studied here include the earliest art history and criticism; the beginnings of architectural drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches for churches, the first in the Renaissance to propose supporting domes on sculpted walls and piers; and the first architectural photographs. "Imitation" refers to artistic achievements that in part depended on the imitation of forms established in practices outside the fine arts, such as ancient Roman rhetoric and print media. "Conventions," like language, facilitate communication between the artist and viewer, but are both more universal (understood across cultures) and more fixed (resisting variation that might diminish their clarity). The three categories are closely linked throughout the book, as most acts of representation partake to some degree of all three.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011860.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011860 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020329 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1.25 in 08 2.0299999999999998 lb 06 15 9780262266765 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020329 16 01 02 The MIT Press T 55.00 USD 02 37.95 GBP Z 0 37.95 0 9780262011952 03 02 0262011956 03 9780262011952 15 9780262011952 03 BB 30 01 MITP 6106 Sharing Expertise 01 6106 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011952 1 B01 Mark S. Ackerman Ackerman, Mark S. Mark S. Ackerman Mark Ackerman is Associate Professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. 2 B01 Volkmar Pipek Pipek, Volkmar Volkmar Pipek Volkmar Pipek is an Assistant Professor with the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Siegen, Germany. 3 B01 Volker Wulf Wulf, Volker Volker Wulf Volker Wulf is Associate Professor at the University of Siegen, Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, and Head of the International Institute for Socio-Informatics, Bonn. edited by Mark Ackerman, Volkmar Pipek, and Volker Wulf 01 eng 438 43 illus. BUS041000 KJRS 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, providing, and filtering of explicit knowledge. The information in a repository has the advantage of being easily transferable and reusable. But it is not easy to use decontextualized information, and users often need access to human experts.This book describes a more recent approach to knowledge management, which the authors call "expertise sharing." Expertise sharing emphasizes the human aspects--cognitive, social, cultural, and organizational--of knowledge management, in addition to information storage and retrieval. Rather than focusing on the management level of an organization, expertise sharing focuses on the self-organized activities of the organization's members. The book addresses the concerns of both researchers and practitioners, describing current literature and research as well as offering information on implementing systems. It consists of three parts: an introduction to knowledge sharing in large organizations; empirical studies of expertise sharing in different types of settings; and detailed descriptions of computer systems that can route queries, assemble people and work, and augment naturally occurring social networks within organizations.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a terrific collection of up-to-date research and thinking on a very timely topic. Many, many managers are struggling to make sense of virtuality and the global diffusion of work teams. This volume will provide them with much-needed tools and approaches for understanding this new wave of workplace innovation and disruption."--Larry Prusak, Distinguished Scholar, Babson College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a fine and original collection focused on a key, emerging theme in knowledge management - how and why is expertise shared. The pieces are well balanced between technological and non-technological approaches and the work stands well on its own."--Larry Prusak, Distinguished Scholar, Babson College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Knowledge management has entered a new phase that focuses not just on building computer-based repositories, but on the more complex tasks of enabling the sharing of expertise. This collection of articles comes at precisely the right time. It unites theoretical research and practice perspectives to address the social, cognitive, and organizational aspects of this shift, as well as its technological implications."--Etienne Wenger, author of *Communities of Practice* and co-author of *Cultivating Communities of Practice*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Dominique Foray is to be congradulated for producing the first full-blown text on the economics of knowledge. This wide ranging, interesting, and valuable book will surely be the touchstone by which other studies are judged. Foray focuses hard on knowledge itself, not information or data, and by doing so has produced an original and much needed study."--Larry Prusak, Distinguished Scholar, Babson College</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>An overview of expertise sharing, an approach to knowledge management that emphasizes the human components of knowledge work in addition to information storage and retrieval.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011952.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011952 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20021206 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1.1499999999999999 in 08 1.61 lb 06 15 9780262254410 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20021206 22 01 02 The MIT Press S 55.00 USD 02 37.95 GBP Z 0 37.95 0 9780262012072 03 02 0262012073 03 9780262012072 15 9780262012072 03 BB 30 01 MITP 3686 Industrial Strength Design 01 3686 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012072 1 A01 Glenn Adamson Adamson, Glenn Glenn Adamson Glenn Adamson is curator at the Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee. 2 A15 David Gordon Gordon, David David Gordon preface by David Gordon. Glenn Adamson 01 eng 300 49 color illus., 218 b&w illus. 01 218 02 49 DES000000 AKB 10 BUS000000 12 KJVW 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World is a long overdue introduction to the work of visionary industrial designer Brooks Stevens (1911-1995). Believing that an industrial designer "should be a businessman, an engineer, and a stylist, in that order," Stevens created thousands of ingenious and beautiful designs for industrial and household products -- including a clothes dryer with a window in the front, a wide-mouthed peanut butter jar, and the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. ("There's nothing more aerodynamic than a wiener," he explained.) He invented a precursor to the SUV by turning a Jeep into a station wagon after World War II, and streamlined steam irons so that they resembled aircraft. It was Brooks Stevens who, in 1954, coined the phrase "planned obsolescence," defining it as "instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary." This concept has since been blamed for everything from toasters that stop working to today's throwaway culture, but Stevens was simply recognizing the intentionally ephemeral nature of a designer's work. Asked once to name his favorite design, he replied, "none, because every one would have to be restudied for the tastes of tomorrow."This book, which accompanies an exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum (the repository for Stevens's papers), includes 250 illustrations of designs by Stevens and his firm, many in color. Glenn Adamson, exhibition curator, contributes detailed studies of individual designs. John Heskett, Kristina Wilson, and Jody Clowes contribute interpretive essays. Also included are a description of the Brooks Stevens Archive and several key writings by Brooks Stevens.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Fascinating not only for its display of the products of Stevens's fertile mind but also for its drawing out of the implications his work had for social life." Nancy Tousley Calgary Herald</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A level of scholarship and editorial skill rare in design books from any source." <B>Martin Pawley </B> <I>The Architect's Journal</I></P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A level of scholarship and editorial skill rare in design books from any source." Martin Pawley The Architect's Journal</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...the story of a man, a time and the emergence of an idea&mdash;the 20th-century American concept of innovation." <B>Craig M. Vogel </B> <I>American Scientist</I></P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...the story of a man, a time and the emergence of an idea the 20th-century American concept of innovation." Craig M. Vogel American Scientist</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012072.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012072 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030620 01 WORLD 01 11 in 02 9.5 in 03 .75 in 08 3.28 lb 06 15 9780262511865 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030620 8 01 02 The MIT Press S 49.00 USD 02 33.95 GBP Z 0 33.95 0 9780262511865 03 02 026251186X 03 9780262511865 15 9780262511865 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 3686 Industrial Strength Design 01 3686 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511865 1 A01 Glenn Adamson Adamson, Glenn Glenn Adamson Glenn Adamson is curator at the Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee. 2 A15 David Gordon Gordon, David David Gordon preface by David Gordon. Glenn Adamson 01 eng 300 49 color illus., 218 b&w illus. 01 218 02 49 DES000000 AKB 10 BUS000000 12 KJVW 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World is a long overdue introduction to the work of visionary industrial designer Brooks Stevens (1911-1995). Believing that an industrial designer "should be a businessman, an engineer, and a stylist, in that order," Stevens created thousands of ingenious and beautiful designs for industrial and household products -- including a clothes dryer with a window in the front, a wide-mouthed peanut butter jar, and the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. ("There's nothing more aerodynamic than a wiener," he explained.) He invented a precursor to the SUV by turning a Jeep into a station wagon after World War II, and streamlined steam irons so that they resembled aircraft. It was Brooks Stevens who, in 1954, coined the phrase "planned obsolescence," defining it as "instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary." This concept has since been blamed for everything from toasters that stop working to today's throwaway culture, but Stevens was simply recognizing the intentionally ephemeral nature of a designer's work. Asked once to name his favorite design, he replied, "none, because every one would have to be restudied for the tastes of tomorrow."This book, which accompanies an exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum (the repository for Stevens's papers), includes 250 illustrations of designs by Stevens and his firm, many in color. Glenn Adamson, exhibition curator, contributes detailed studies of individual designs. John Heskett, Kristina Wilson, and Jody Clowes contribute interpretive essays. Also included are a description of the Brooks Stevens Archive and several key writings by Brooks Stevens.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Fascinating not only for its display of the products of Stevens's fertile mind but also for its drawing out of the implications his work had for social life." Nancy Tousley Calgary Herald</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A level of scholarship and editorial skill rare in design books from any source." <B>Martin Pawley </B> <I>The Architect's Journal</I></P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A level of scholarship and editorial skill rare in design books from any source." Martin Pawley The Architect's Journal</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...the story of a man, a time and the emergence of an idea&mdash;the 20th-century American concept of innovation." <B>Craig M. Vogel </B> <I>American Scientist</I></P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...the story of a man, a time and the emergence of an idea the 20th-century American concept of innovation." Craig M. Vogel American Scientist</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511865.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511865 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050114 01 WORLD 01 11 in 02 9.5 in 03 .75 in 08 2.7 lb 06 15 9780262012072 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050114 10 01 02 The MIT Press T 27.00 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9780262012010 03 02 0262012014 03 9780262012010 15 9780262012010 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2481 Dynamic Economics 01 2481 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012010 1 A01 Jerome Adda Adda, Jerome Jerome Adda Jérôme Adda is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at University College, London, and a Research Associate at the Institute of Fiscal Studies. 2 A01 Russell W. Cooper Cooper, Russell W. Russell W. Cooper Russell Cooper is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas, Austin. He was formerly affiliated with Boston University and was a Visiting Scholar in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Jerome Adda and Russell W. Cooper 01 eng 293 34 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This book is an effective, concise text for students and researchers that combines the tools of dynamic programming with numerical techniques and simulation-based econometric methods. Doing so, it bridges the traditional gap between theoretical and empirical research and offers an integrated framework for studying applied problems in macroeconomics and microeconomics.In part I the authors first review the formal theory of dynamic optimization; they then present the numerical tools and econometric techniques necessary to evaluate the theoretical models. In language accessible to a reader with a limited background in econometrics, they explain most of the methods used in applied dynamic research today, from the estimation of probability in a coin flip to a complicated nonlinear stochastic structural model. These econometric techniques provide the final link between the dynamic programming problem and data. Part II is devoted to the application of dynamic programming to specific areas of applied economics, including the study of business cycles, consumption, and investment behavior. In each instance the authors present the specific optimization problem as a dynamic programming problem, characterize the optimal policy functions, estimate the parameters, and use models for policy evaluation.The original contribution of Dynamic Economics: Quantitative Methods and Applications lies in the integrated approach to the empirical application of dynamic optimization programming models. This integration shows that empirical applications actually complement the underlying theory of optimization, while dynamic programming problems provide needed structure for estimation and policy evaluation.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Paarsch is the 'founding father' of the rapidly growing literature on structural econometric analysis of auctions, and Hong compliments Paarsch's skills in the economics, theory, and computation of solutions to auction models with his own strongexpertise in semiparametric econometric methods. The result is an excellent book that is on the 'must read' list for anyone who is interested in this literature, including the frontiers of current research in both parametric and semiparametric methods of inferences that can be applied to a wide range of auction institutions."--John Rust, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>Dynamic Economics</I> is the sort of book I wish I had written. It provides a very accessible and interesting introduction to the literature on economic models based on dynamic programming methods that have been developed in the last several decades. Unlike other recent work in this area, Adda and Cooper"s book discusses econometric methods for estimating the unknown parameters of these models as well as summarizing some of the most promising computational methods for solving them. The book provides a range of interesting examples and is written at a level that is accessible for people who are new to the subject, but it also contains many deep ideas that will be appreciated by people who spend their careers researching in this area. I learned a lot from this book and recommend it as a text for graduate classes (possibly even advanced undergraduate classes) on dynamic economic methods." John Rust, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Dynamic Economics* is the sort of book I wish I had written. It provides a very accessible and interesting introduction to the literature on economic models based on dynamic programming methods that have been developed in the last several decades. Unlike other recent work in this area, Adda and Cooper's book discusses econometric methods for estimating the unknown parameters of these models as well as summarizing some of the most promising computational methods for solving them. The book provides a range of interesting examples and is written at a level that is accessible for people who are new to the subject, but it also contains many deep ideas that will be appreciated by people who spend their careers researching in this area. I learned a lot from this book and recommend it as a text for graduate classes (possibly even advanced undergraduate classes) on dynamic economic methods."--John Rust, Professor of Economics, University of MarylandPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>An integrated approach to the empirical application of dynamic optimization programming models, for students and researchers. </P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012010.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012010 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030829 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .8 in 08 1.1499999999999999 lb 06 15 9780262266796 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030829 28 01 02 The MIT Press X 45.00 USD 02 31.95 GBP Z 0 31.95 0 9780262012300 03 02 0262012308 03 9780262012300 15 9780262012300 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6849 Undercover Surrealism 01 6849 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012300 1 B01 Dawn Ades Ades, Dawn Dawn Ades Dawn Ades is the author of a number of books on dada, surrealism, and related topics, including <I>Dada and Surrealism Reviewed</I>, <I>Photomontage</I>, and <I>Salvador Dalí</I>. She is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies at the University of Essex. 2 B01 Simon Baker Baker, Simon Simon Baker Simon Baker is Lecturer in Art History at The University of Nottingham and a member of the editorial group of the <I>Oxford Art Journal</I>. edited by Dawn Ades and Simon Baker 01 eng 272 180 color illus., 20 black & white illus. ART015110 ACXJ8 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In the Paris art world of the 1920s, Georges Bataille and his journal DOCUMENTS represented a dissident branch of surrealism. Bataille--poet, philosopher, writer, and self-styled "enemy within" surrealism--used DOCUMENTS to put art into violent confrontation with popular culture, ethnography, film, and archaeology. Undercover Surrealism, taking the visual richness of DOCUMENTS as its starting point, recovers the explosive and vital intellectual context of works by Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Giacometti, and others in 1920s Paris. Featuring 180 color images and translations of original texts from DOCUMENTS accompanied by essays and shorter descriptive texts, Undercover Surrealism recreates and recontextualizes Bataille's still unsettling approach to culture. Putting Picasso's Three Dancers back into its original context of sex, sacrifice, and violence, for example, then juxtaposing it with images of gang wars, tribal masks, voodoo ritual, Hollywood musicals, and jazz, makes the urgency and excitement of Bataille's radical ideas startlingly vivid to a twenty-first-century reader.Copublished by Hayward Gallery Publishing, London</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille's revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, and others against the canvas of their renegade times.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012300.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012300 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060804 03 GB 01 8.3 in 02 10.6 in 03 1 in 08 3.1 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060804 10 01 02 The MIT Press T 40.00 USD 9780262012270 03 02 0262012278 03 9780262012270 15 9780262012270 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2914 Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change 01 2914 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012270 1 B01 W. Neil Adger Adger, W. Neil W. Neil Adger W. Neil Adger leads the research effort on adaptation at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia. 2 B01 Jouni Paavola Paavola, Jouni Jouni Paavola Jouni Paavola is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment at the University of East Anglia. 3 B01 Saleemul Huq Huq, Saleemul Saleemul Huq Saleemul Huq is Director of the Climate Change Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. 4 B01 M. J. Mace Mace, M. J. M. J. Mace M. J. Mace is a staff lawyer at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development's Climate Change and Energy Programme. edited by W. Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq, and M. J. Mace 01 eng 312 17 illus. NAT011000 RNP 10 POL044000 12 RND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>As a global society, we need to take action not only to prevent the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change but also to adapt to the unavoidable effects of climate change already imposed on the world. Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change looks at the challenges of ensuring that policy responses to climate change do not place undue and unfair burdens on already vulnerable populations. All countries will be endangered by climate change risks from flood, drought, and other extreme weather events, but developing countries are more dependent on climate-sensitive livelihoods such as farming and fishing and hence are more vulnerable. Despite this, the concerns of developing countries are marginalized in climate policy decisions that exacerbate current vulnerabilities.Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change brings together scholars from political science, economics, law, human geography, and climate science to offer the first assessment of the social justice issues in adaptation to climate change. The book outlines the philosophical underpinnings of different types of justice in relation to climate change, present inequities, and future burdens, and it applies these to real world examples of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia, and Hungary. It argues that the key to adapting to climate change lies in recognizing the equity and justice issues inherent in its causes and in human responses to it.Contributors:W. Neil Adger, Paul Baer, Jon Barnett, Maria Bohn, Kirstin Dow, Saleemul Huq, Roger E. Kasperson, Mizan R. Khan, Janica Lane, Neil A. Leary, Robin Leichenko, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, M. J. Mace, Karen O'Brien, Jouni Paavola, Stephen H. Schneider, David S. G. Thomas, Chasca Twyman, Anna Vári</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Democracy's dilemma is how to leaven one-dimensional economic globalization with social and environmental imperatives. Paehlke makes an ambitious and compelling case, laced with his trademark optimism, for a democratic pincer movement from above and below, designed to recapture 'the earth' from 'the globe'. This is an essential contribution from one of our most original and imaginative environmental thinkers."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Political Nature is a significant contribution to the field. Not enough has been made elsewhere of the major traditions in political theory in the context of contemporary environmental politics, and this book goes a long way toward addressing that problem."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book provides a valuable overview of spatial cognition and its possible roles in abstract thought--a notoriously difficult issue, but an increasingly important one. Although its subject matter is primarily psychological, the book includes contributions from anthropology, linguistics and neuroscience. Spatial Schemas in Abstract Thought should attract the interest of a wide community of researchers."--Alan Garnham, Professor, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"If you thought that environmental philosophy had lost sight of environmental practice, think again. Anyone who has ever despaired at bringing activists and theorists into beneficial contact will find plenty of succor and sound advice in these pages."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A magnificent achievement which will be a key point of reference for years to come."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a brilliant book -- clear, direct, and scholarly as well as committed. The authors bring adaptation to the forefront of climate change debate. Who owes what to whom in this era of common yet differentiated responsibility? Fairness is critical to successful climate change policy, and this book shows us the way."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012270.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012270 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060428 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.25 lb 06 15 9780262511933 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060428 26 01 02 The MIT Press S 62.00 USD 02 42.95 GBP Z 0 42.95 0 9780262511933 03 02 0262511932 03 9780262511933 15 9780262511933 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2914 Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change 01 2914 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511933 1 B01 W. Neil Adger Adger, W. Neil W. Neil Adger W. Neil Adger leads the research effort on adaptation at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia. 2 B01 Jouni Paavola Paavola, Jouni Jouni Paavola Jouni Paavola is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment at the University of East Anglia. 3 B01 Saleemul Huq Huq, Saleemul Saleemul Huq Saleemul Huq is Director of the Climate Change Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. 4 B01 M. J. Mace Mace, M. J. M. J. Mace M. J. Mace is a staff lawyer at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development's Climate Change and Energy Programme. edited by W. Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq, and M. J. Mace 01 eng 312 17 illus. NAT011000 RNP 10 POL044000 12 RND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>As a global society, we need to take action not only to prevent the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change but also to adapt to the unavoidable effects of climate change already imposed on the world. Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change looks at the challenges of ensuring that policy responses to climate change do not place undue and unfair burdens on already vulnerable populations. All countries will be endangered by climate change risks from flood, drought, and other extreme weather events, but developing countries are more dependent on climate-sensitive livelihoods such as farming and fishing and hence are more vulnerable. Despite this, the concerns of developing countries are marginalized in climate policy decisions that exacerbate current vulnerabilities.Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change brings together scholars from political science, economics, law, human geography, and climate science to offer the first assessment of the social justice issues in adaptation to climate change. The book outlines the philosophical underpinnings of different types of justice in relation to climate change, present inequities, and future burdens, and it applies these to real world examples of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia, and Hungary. It argues that the key to adapting to climate change lies in recognizing the equity and justice issues inherent in its causes and in human responses to it.Contributors:W. Neil Adger, Paul Baer, Jon Barnett, Maria Bohn, Kirstin Dow, Saleemul Huq, Roger E. Kasperson, Mizan R. Khan, Janica Lane, Neil A. Leary, Robin Leichenko, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, M. J. Mace, Karen O'Brien, Jouni Paavola, Stephen H. Schneider, David S. G. Thomas, Chasca Twyman, Anna Vári</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Democracy's dilemma is how to leaven one-dimensional economic globalization with social and environmental imperatives. Paehlke makes an ambitious and compelling case, laced with his trademark optimism, for a democratic pincer movement from above and below, designed to recapture 'the earth' from 'the globe'. This is an essential contribution from one of our most original and imaginative environmental thinkers."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Political Nature is a significant contribution to the field. Not enough has been made elsewhere of the major traditions in political theory in the context of contemporary environmental politics, and this book goes a long way toward addressing that problem."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book provides a valuable overview of spatial cognition and its possible roles in abstract thought--a notoriously difficult issue, but an increasingly important one. Although its subject matter is primarily psychological, the book includes contributions from anthropology, linguistics and neuroscience. Spatial Schemas in Abstract Thought should attract the interest of a wide community of researchers."--Alan Garnham, Professor, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"If you thought that environmental philosophy had lost sight of environmental practice, think again. Anyone who has ever despaired at bringing activists and theorists into beneficial contact will find plenty of succor and sound advice in these pages."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A magnificent achievement which will be a key point of reference for years to come."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a brilliant book -- clear, direct, and scholarly as well as committed. The authors bring adaptation to the forefront of climate change debate. Who owes what to whom in this era of common yet differentiated responsibility? Fairness is critical to successful climate change policy, and this book shows us the way."--Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511933.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511933 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060421 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.05 lb 06 15 9780262012270 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060421 34 01 02 The MIT Press S 27.00 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9780262511940 03 02 0262511940 03 9780262511940 15 9780262511940 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 1543 Belief's Own Ethics 01 1543 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511940 1 A01 Jonathan E. Adler Adler, Jonathan E. Jonathan E. Adler Jonathan E. Adler is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, CUNY. Jonathan E. Adler 01 eng 373 PSY008000 JMTK 10 MED056000 12 MJND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is "What ought one to believe?" According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one's beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence. Conventional ways of defending and challenging evidentialism rely on the idea that what one ought to believe is a matter of what it is rational, prudent, ethical, or personally fulfilling to believe. Common to all these approaches is that they look outside of belief itself to determine what one ought to believe.In this book Jonathan Adler offers a strengthened version of evidentialism, arguing that the ethics of belief should be rooted in the concept of belief--that evidentialism is belief's own ethics. A key observation is that it is not merely that one ought not, but that one cannot, believe, for example, that the number of stars is even. The "cannot" represents a conceptual barrier, not just an inability. Therefore belief in defiance of one's evidence (or evidentialism) is impossible. Adler addresses such questions as irrational beliefs, reasonableness, control over beliefs, and whether justifying beliefs requires a foundation. Although he treats the ethics of belief as a central topic in epistemology, his ideas also bear on rationality, argument and pragmatics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and social cognitive psychology.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A beautiful book that is exceptionally learned and rich." Igor Douven Ars Disputandi</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Combining an agreeable learnedness with analytical rigor, Jonathan Adler has made an original and important contribution to the ethics-of-belief tradition in epistemology."--John Woods, Director, Abductive Systems Group, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"I found Adler's comparison of belief with assertion, and his more epistemological interest in the concept of belief, original and fascinating. The book was a real eye opener to me. Whereas W. K. Clifford famously said that one ought not to believe without evidence, Adler holds that strictly speaking it is not even possible to believe without evidence."--J. J. C. Smart, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this exciting and wide-ranging new book, Adler defends the position he calls 'strong evidentialism.' His inquiry weaves together many threads in a rich fabric that will be of great interest to those in informal logic and argumentation theory. Among the threads that caught my attention were a fascinating treatment of testimony, new light on the appeal to ignorance, and discussions of burden of proof and the meaning of reasonableness."--Ralph H. Johnson, University Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, Canada</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Drew Khlentzos' book is the best I've read on the realism-antirealism debate. Highly competent on the relevant mathematical logic and fair to his opponents, Khlentzos marshals new arguments and original proposals that will establish him as a truly world-class philosopher."--J. J. C. Smart, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511940.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511940 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060120 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.1499999999999999 lb 06 15 9780262011921 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060120 34 01 02 The MIT Press S 22.50 USD 02 15.95 GBP Z 0 15.95 0 9781890951177 03 02 189095117X 03 9781890951177 15 9781890951177 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 5787 Remnants of Auschwitz 01 5787 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781890951177 1 A01 Giorgio Agamben Agamben, Giorgio Giorgio Agamben Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. He is the author of <I>Profanations</I> (2007), <I>Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive</I> (2002), both published by Zone Books, and other books. 2 B06 Daniel Heller-Roazen Heller-Roazen, Daniel Daniel Heller-Roazen Daniel Heller-Roazen is Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of <I>Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language</I>, <I>The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation</I>, and <I>The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations</I>, all published by Zone Books. translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Giorgio Agamben 01 eng 02 ita 176 PHI000000 HPX 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony."In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna; in other words, the survivors bore witness to something it is impossible to bear witness to. As a consequence, commenting on survivors' testimony necessarily meant interrogating this lacuna or, more precisely, attempting to listen to it. Listening to something absent did not prove fruitless work for this author. Above all, it made it necessary to clear away almost all the doctrines that, since Auschwitz, have been advanced in the name of ethics."--Giorgio Agamben</P> Zone Books 30 00 <P>"Agamben's moving text on the Nazi death camps asks what happens to speech when the deracinated subject speaks. Although some say that Auschwitz makes witnessing impossible, Agamben shows how the one who speaks bears this impossibility within his own speech, bordering the human and the inhuman. Agamben probes for us the condition of speech at the limit of the human, evoking the horror and the near unspeakability of the inhuman as it witnesses in language its own undoing." Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley</P> Zone Books 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9781890951177.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781890951177 Zone Books 01 02 MIT Zone Books Zone Books Cambridge US 04 20020726 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 .7 lb 06 15 9781890951160 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020726 40 01 02 The MIT Press T 19.95 USD 02 13.95 GBP Z 0 13.95 0 9780262012027 03 02 0262012022 03 9780262012027 15 9780262012027 03 BB 30 01 MITP hisc History of Computing 01 MITP 3283 The Government Machine 01 3283 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012027 1 A01 Jon Agar Agar, Jon Jon Agar Jon Agar directed the UK National Archive for the History of Computing from 1994 to 2001. He is the author of <I>Science and Spectacle: The Work of Jodrell Bank in Postwar British Culture</I>, <I>Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer</I>, and <I>Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone</I>. Jon Agar 01 eng 576 52 illus. COM080000 UB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues that this transformation has been tied to the rise of "expert movements," groups whose authority has rested on their expertise. The deployment of machines was an attempt to gain control over state action -- a revolutionary move. Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant.Over the course of two centuries, government has become the major repository and user of information; the Civil Service itself can be seen as an information-processing entity. Agar argues that the changing capacities of government have depended on the implementation of new technologies, and that the adoption of new technologies has depended on a vision of government and a fundamental model of organization. Thus, to study the history of technology is to study the state, and vice versa.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this richly detailed and subtly argued study of British bureaucracy since the eighteenth century, Agar shows how mechanization, both discursive and material, gradually transformed the 'machinery of government' from a metaphor to a guiding force. Viewed in that longer historical perspective, the computer takes its place in a line of technologies inspired by a technocratic vision of public administration and designed to extend the informational resources on which it rests. In bringing out historically specific differences between the development of computing in Britain and the United States, Agar provides new ground for discussions of the social forces that have shaped computing and been shaped by it."--Michael S. Mahoney, Professor of History, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>The Government Machine</I> is a major contribution to our understanding of the history of computing. Agar deploys metaphor and analysis like a two-edged sword to cut through two centuries of British bureaucracy and calculation, revealing a striking view of why the computer came to play a central role in politics. I highly recommend this book to anyone who prefers history to hype and analysis to anecdote." Robert W. Seidel, History of Science & Technology Program, University of Minnesota</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*The Government Machine* is a major contribution to our understanding of the history of computing. Agar deploys metaphor and analysis like a two-edged sword to cut through two centuries of British bureaucracy and calculation, revealing a striking view of why the computer came to play a central role in politics. I highly recommend this book to anyone who prefers history to hype and analysis to anecdote."--Robert W. Seidel, History of Science & Technology Program, University of Minnesota</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>An examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine."</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012027.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012027 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030926 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1.25 in 08 1.99 lb 06 15 9780262266857 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030926 18 01 02 The MIT Press S 52.00 USD 02 35.95 GBP Z 0 35.95 0 9780262012133 03 02 0262012138 03 9780262012133 15 9780262012133 03 BB 30 01 MITP cesifos CESifo Seminar Series 01 MITP 4020 Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation 01 4020 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012133 1 B01 Jonas Agell Agell, Jonas Jonas Agell Jonas Agell is Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. He is coeditor of the CESifo volume <I>Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation</I> (MIT Press, 2004). 2 B01 Michael Keen Keen, Michael Michael Keen Michael Keen is Head of the Tax Policy Division in the International Monetary Fund's Fiscal Affairs Department in Washington. 3 B01 Alfons J. Weichenrieder Weichenrieder, Alfons J. Alfons J. Weichenrieder Alfons J. Weichenrieder is Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Frankfurt and Research Professor at Ifo Institute Munich. edited by Jonas Agell, Michael Keen, and Alfons J. Weichenrieder 01 eng 256 20 illus. BUS038000 KNXB3 10 POL013000 12 KNXB3 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The six studies collected in this CESifo volume analyze the sometimes unpredictable effects of public regulation on the labor market. Examining a wide range of policy interventions -- from subsidized employment to an increased tax on capital -- and using a variety of methodologies to analyze them, these contributions by leading scholars of the European labor market will advance the policy debate over regulation at a time of serious labor market problems in Europe and elsewhere.The first three chapters of Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation present empirical findings, comparing the effects of job training and subsidized employment on the Swedish labor market, analyzing the effect of extended unemployment benefits on unemployment duration for older Austrian workers, and examining poor labor market performance in Spain even after policy reforms. The following chapters take a more theoretical approach, applying the analytical tools of theory to policy issues. These three studies examine the general equilibrium repercussions of public support for both basic and higher education, develop an efficiency wage model to analyze mandated severance pay, and compare different kinds of redistribution to low-skill workers financed by an increased tax on capital.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>The effect of public regulation on the labor market: detailed analyses of a wide range of policy interventions.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012133.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012133 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20041022 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.05 lb 06 15 9780262307253 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20041022 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 35.00 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9780262012294 03 02 0262012294 03 9780262012294 15 9780262012294 03 BB 30 01 MITP cesifos CESifo Seminar Series 01 MITP 6537 Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance 01 6537 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012294 1 B01 Jonas Agell Agell, Jonas Jonas Agell Jonas Agell is Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. He is coeditor of the CESifo volume <I>Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation</I> (MIT Press, 2004). 2 B01 Peter Birch Sørensen Sørensen, Peter Birch Peter Birch Sørensen edited by Jonas Agell and Peter Birch Sørensen 01 eng 344 15 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>High unemployment in many European OECD countries has been attributed to factors ranging from rigid wages and low job mobility to an interaction of high taxes and generous social benefits that may discourage labor force participation and encourage the growth of an underground economy. This CESifo volume analyzes the effect of tax policy and, more generally, welfare state incentives, on the performance of the labor market. The contributors, all leading international economists, take both theoretical and empirical approaches; the book includes general overviews as well as in-depth analyses of specific policies.Some chapters take a broad perspective on taxation and labor markets, considering such topics as the effects of taxes in both the conventional model of a competitive labor market and a more realistic imperfect market, the observed work differentials between Europe and the United States, and the potential for progressive taxes and redistributive benefits to boost employment. Other chapters examine the effects of tax reforms, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the wage-increasing effects of progressive income taxes in a highly unionized labor market. Finally, the contributors analyze the effects of employment protection and tax penalties on the growth of the underground economy. The insights offered in these studies will be valuable to the policy analyst as well as to the academic theorist.Contributors:Jonas Agell, Dan Anderberg, Søren Arnberg, A. Lans Bovenberg, Nada Eissa, Anders Holm, Hilary Hoynes, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Ann-Sofie Kolm, Birthe Larsen, Stephen Nickell, Peter Birch Sørensen, Frederick van der Ploeg, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Torben Tranæs</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>The effect of tax policies and welfare state incentives on the performance of the labor market: theoretical and empirical analyses by leading European and American economists.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012294.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012294 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060818 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1.35 lb 06 15 9780262254458 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060818 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 42.00 USD 02 28.95 GBP Z 0 28.95 0 9780262012096 03 02 026201209X 03 9780262012096 15 9780262012096 03 BB 30 01 MITP bcsia Belfer Center Studies in International Security 01 MITP 6757 Track-II Diplomacy 01 6757 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012096 1 B01 Hussein Agha Agha, Hussein Hussein Agha Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College at Oxford University. 2 B01 Shai Feldman Feldman, Shai Shai Feldman Shai Feldman is Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. 3 B01 Ahmad Khalidi Khalidi, Ahmad Ahmad Khalidi Ahmad Khalidi is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College at Oxford University. 4 B01 Zeev Schiff Schiff, Zeev Zeev Schiff Zeev Schiff is defense editor of Ha'aretz newspaper. edited by Hussein Agha, Shai Feldman, Ahmad Khalidi, and Zeev Schiff 01 eng 224 POL011010 JPSD 10 POL012000 12 JPS 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Track-II talks in the Middle East -- unofficial discussions among Israeli and Arab scholars, journalists, and former government and military officials -- have been going on since soon after the 1967 Six Day War and have often paved the way for official negotiations. This book, a unique collaboration of Israeli and Palestinian authors, traces the history of these unofficial meetings, focusing on those that took place in the 1990s beginning just after the Gulf War. These talks were carried on without media coverage, and this book is the first sustained account of what took place. It is the inside story -- the authors themselves participated in some of these discussions and interviewed participants in others.After describing the background of early Arab-Israeli discussions, the authors present six case studies of Track-II talks in the 1990s: the 1992-1993 discussions in Norway that led to the Oslo accords; Palestinian-Israeli talks held in the early 1990s under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Israeli-Syrian meetings of 1992-1994; the 1994-1995 Stockholm talks convened by the Swedish government; talks held in 1995-1996 between Israeli settlers and representatives of the Palestinian Authority; and arms control and regional security discussions throughout the decade. Despite their different perspectives, the book's two Israeli and two Palestinian authors are able to reach shared conclusions about the effectiveness and consequences of Track-II talks. Track-II Diplomacy not only makes a valuable contribution to the historical record of Arab-Israeli diplomacy but also offers insights into the role of informal and non-official discussions in resolving conflicts.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Regardless of one's political outlook on the Middle East, Track-II diplomacy has emerged as an important instrument for all the parties to probe firsthand the true positions of the other sides. This book is essential reading for those seeking to understand the sources of much of the news -- behind-the-scenes diplomacy between Israel and the Arab world."--Dore Gold, former Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012096.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012096 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040109 01 WORLD 01 9.25 in 02 6.125 in 03 .5 in 08 1.2 lb 06 15 9780262511803 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040109 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 44.00 USD 02 30.95 GBP Z 0 30.95 0 9780262511803 03 02 0262511800 03 9780262511803 15 9780262511803 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP bcsia Belfer Center Studies in International Security 01 MITP 6757 Track-II Diplomacy 01 6757 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511803 1 B01 Hussein Agha Agha, Hussein Hussein Agha Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College at Oxford University. 2 B01 Shai Feldman Feldman, Shai Shai Feldman Shai Feldman is Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. 3 B01 Ahmad Khalidi Khalidi, Ahmad Ahmad Khalidi Ahmad Khalidi is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College at Oxford University. 4 B01 Zeev Schiff Schiff, Zeev Zeev Schiff Zeev Schiff is defense editor of Ha'aretz newspaper. edited by Hussein Agha, Shai Feldman, Ahmad Khalidi, and Zeev Schiff 01 eng 224 POL011010 JPSD 10 POL012000 12 JPS 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Track-II talks in the Middle East -- unofficial discussions among Israeli and Arab scholars, journalists, and former government and military officials -- have been going on since soon after the 1967 Six Day War and have often paved the way for official negotiations. This book, a unique collaboration of Israeli and Palestinian authors, traces the history of these unofficial meetings, focusing on those that took place in the 1990s beginning just after the Gulf War. These talks were carried on without media coverage, and this book is the first sustained account of what took place. It is the inside story -- the authors themselves participated in some of these discussions and interviewed participants in others.After describing the background of early Arab-Israeli discussions, the authors present six case studies of Track-II talks in the 1990s: the 1992-1993 discussions in Norway that led to the Oslo accords; Palestinian-Israeli talks held in the early 1990s under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Israeli-Syrian meetings of 1992-1994; the 1994-1995 Stockholm talks convened by the Swedish government; talks held in 1995-1996 between Israeli settlers and representatives of the Palestinian Authority; and arms control and regional security discussions throughout the decade. Despite their different perspectives, the book's two Israeli and two Palestinian authors are able to reach shared conclusions about the effectiveness and consequences of Track-II talks. Track-II Diplomacy not only makes a valuable contribution to the historical record of Arab-Israeli diplomacy but also offers insights into the role of informal and non-official discussions in resolving conflicts.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Regardless of one's political outlook on the Middle East, Track-II diplomacy has emerged as an important instrument for all the parties to probe firsthand the true positions of the other sides. This book is essential reading for those seeking to understand the sources of much of the news -- behind-the-scenes diplomacy between Israel and the Arab world."--Dore Gold, former Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511803.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511803 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040109 01 WORLD 01 9.25 in 02 6.125 in 03 .5 in 08 .91 lb 06 15 9780262012096 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040109 40 01 02 The MIT Press S 22.00 USD 02 15.95 GBP Z 0 15.95 0 9780262011990 03 02 0262011999 03 9780262011990 15 9780262011990 03 BB 30 01 MITP uie Urban and Industrial Environments 01 MITP 3980 Just Sustainabilities 01 3980 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011990 1 B01 Julian Agyeman Agyeman, Julian Julian Agyeman Julian Agyeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. 2 B01 Robert D. Bullard Bullard, Robert D. Robert D. Bullard Robert D. Bullard is Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. 3 B01 Bob Evans Evans, Bob Bob Evans Bob Evans is Professor and Director of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. edited by Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard, and Bob Evans 01 eng 367 SCI026000 RNQ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are the most marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises.Just Sustainabilities argues that social and environmental justice within and between nations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promote sustainable development. The book addresses many aspects of the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and environmental justice more generally. The topics discussed include anthropocentrism; biotechnology; bioprospecting; biocultural assimilation; deep and radical ecology; ecological debt; ecological democracy; ecological footprints; ecological modernization; feminism and gender; globalization; participatory research; place, identity, and legal rights; precaution; risk society; selective victimization; and valuation.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A thought-provoking argument links the chapters of this edited volume... Just Sustainabilities contains enough interesting material to make this a useful introduction to the issues, and a worthwhile addition to reading lists, particularly for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>" <I>Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World</I> does a remarkable job of presenting the theories and challenges that exist practically and philosophically with regard to environmental and social justice and sustainability." Nicole M. Smith Culture and Agriculture</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This book provides an integrated approach to the questions of sustainable development, environmental justice and equity." Oxfam</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The authors have undertaken the important task of linking research, activism, and discourses around environmental justice and sustainable development. This is a crucial project because of the real divisions that exist between proponents of each vision. The book is quite original and well researched, and the range of the case studies, literatures employed, and theoretical perspectives chosen is impressive."--David Naguib Pellow, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego, author of *Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Just Sustainabilities* is a significant work. This diverse and sophisticated compilation offers both documentation and trenchant analysis of the global links among environmental degradation, racial oppression, and economic exploitation. It's also a compelling road map for addressing them in a sustainable fashion."--Luke Cole, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Noxious New York* is a breath of fresh air in a world suffocating from pollution. Julie Sze has established herself as an authoritative voice on environmental justice movements. She uncovers two of the most ominous forces shaping all our lives today - and particularly the lives of the disenfranchised: the scourges of privatization and deregulation. Corporate power dominates our society from top to bottom, and the best hope for taking the planet back lies in the hands of activists like those featured in this outstanding book."--David Naguib Pellow, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego, author of *Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago*</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011990.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011990 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030228 01 US CA MX SV GT HN NI PA AR BO BR CL CO EC GY PY PE UY VE BZ CR GF SR 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1.59 lb 06 15 9780262511315 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030228 16 01 02 The MIT Press S 67.00 USD 9780262511315 03 02 0262511312 03 9780262511315 15 9780262511315 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP uie Urban and Industrial Environments 01 MITP 3980 Just Sustainabilities 01 3980 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511315 1 B01 Julian Agyeman Agyeman, Julian Julian Agyeman Julian Agyeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. 2 B01 Robert D. Bullard Bullard, Robert D. Robert D. Bullard Robert D. Bullard is Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. 3 B01 Bob Evans Evans, Bob Bob Evans Bob Evans is Professor and Director of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. edited by Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard, and Bob Evans 01 eng 367 SCI026000 RNQ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are the most marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises.Just Sustainabilities argues that social and environmental justice within and between nations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promote sustainable development. The book addresses many aspects of the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and environmental justice more generally. The topics discussed include anthropocentrism; biotechnology; bioprospecting; biocultural assimilation; deep and radical ecology; ecological debt; ecological democracy; ecological footprints; ecological modernization; feminism and gender; globalization; participatory research; place, identity, and legal rights; precaution; risk society; selective victimization; and valuation.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A thought-provoking argument links the chapters of this edited volume... Just Sustainabilities contains enough interesting material to make this a useful introduction to the issues, and a worthwhile addition to reading lists, particularly for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>" <I>Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World</I> does a remarkable job of presenting the theories and challenges that exist practically and philosophically with regard to environmental and social justice and sustainability." Nicole M. Smith Culture and Agriculture</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This book provides an integrated approach to the questions of sustainable development, environmental justice and equity." Oxfam</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The authors have undertaken the important task of linking research, activism, and discourses around environmental justice and sustainable development. This is a crucial project because of the real divisions that exist between proponents of each vision. The book is quite original and well researched, and the range of the case studies, literatures employed, and theoretical perspectives chosen is impressive."--David Naguib Pellow, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego, author of *Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Just Sustainabilities* is a significant work. This diverse and sophisticated compilation offers both documentation and trenchant analysis of the global links among environmental degradation, racial oppression, and economic exploitation. It's also a compelling road map for addressing them in a sustainable fashion."--Luke Cole, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Noxious New York* is a breath of fresh air in a world suffocating from pollution. Julie Sze has established herself as an authoritative voice on environmental justice movements. She uncovers two of the most ominous forces shaping all our lives today - and particularly the lives of the disenfranchised: the scourges of privatization and deregulation. Corporate power dominates our society from top to bottom, and the best hope for taking the planet back lies in the hands of activists like those featured in this outstanding book."--David Naguib Pellow, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego, author of *Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago*</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511315.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511315 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030228 01 US CA MX SV GT HN NI PA AR BO BR CL CO EC GY PY PE UY VE BZ CR GF SR 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1.3 lb 06 15 9780262011990 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030228 30 01 02 The MIT Press S 29.00 USD 9780262012126 03 02 026201212X 03 9780262012126 15 9780262012126 03 BB 30 01 MITP 1594 Binocular Rivalry 01 1594 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012126 1 B01 David Alais Alais, David David Alais David Alais is Australian Research Fellow at the Auditory Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Sydney. 2 B01 Randolph Blake Blake, Randolph Randolph Blake Randolph Blake is Centennial Professor of Psychology,a Fellow of the Kennedy Center for Integrative Development, and a member of the Venderbilt Vision Center, at Vanderbilt University. edited by David Alais and Randolph Blake 01 eng 392 101 illus., 6 in color MED057000 MJN 10 PSY008000 12 JMTK 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Researchers today in neuroscience and cognitive psychology increasingly turn their attention to binocular rivalry and other forms of perceptual ambiguity or bistability. The study of fluctuations in visual perception in the face of unchanging visual input offers a means for understanding the link between neural events and visual events, including visual awareness. Some neuroscientists believe that binocular rivalry reveals a fundamental aspect of human cognition and provides a way to isolate and study brain areas involved in attention and selection. The eighteen essays collected in Binocular Rivalry present the most recent theoretical and empirical work on this key topic by leading researchers in the field.After the opening chapter's overview of the major characteristics of binocular rivalry in their historical contexts, the contributors consider topics ranging from the basic phenomenon of perceptual ambiguity to brain models and neural networks. The essays illustrate the potential power of the study of perceptual ambiguity as a tool for learning about the neural concomitants of visual awareness, or, as they have been called, the "neural correlates of consciousness."</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Our two eyes normally work in harmony, but if they look at very different things the result is a curious alternation of perception called binocular rivalry. As with so many other perceptual illusions (such as apparent motion, constancy effects, and shape from shading), rivalry was regarded mainly as a curiosity in the past. In the last two decades, though, there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest, thanks to a handful of young researchers, including Randolph Blake. This collection presents a valuable cross section of ideas on the subject and is a refreshing antidote to the tedium of humdrum 'classical' psychophysics that until recently have dominated the field."--V.S. Ramachandran, Professor and Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Recent work on perceptual ambiguity and its implications for the correlation between neural events and perceptual experience.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In *From Molecule to Metaphor*, Jerome Feldman takes us on a fascinating tour through the mysteries of the human brain, revealing new and unexpected vistas. The ideas are deep, as should be expected from one of the pioneers in the field, but also lucidly presented for the nonspecialist reader."--V.S. Ramachandran, Professor and Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012126.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012126 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20041028 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1 in 08 1.75 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20041028 14 01 02 The MIT Press S 65.00 USD 02 44.95 GBP Z 0 44.95 0 9780262011969 03 02 0262011964 03 9780262011969 15 9780262011969 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2039 Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity 01 2039 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011969 1 A01 Alexander Alberro Alberro, Alexander Alexander Alberro Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of <I>Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2000),</I> and coeditor (with Blake Stimson) of <I>Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology</I> (2000), both published by the MIT Press. Alexander Alberro 01 eng 256 52 illus. ART000000 AG 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Conceptual art was one of the most influential art movements of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book Alexander Alberro traces its origins to the mid-1960s, when its principles were first articulated by the artists Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, and others. One of Alberro's central arguments is that the conceptual art movement was founded not just by the artists but also by the dealer Seth Siegelaub. Siegelaub promoted the artists, curated groundbreaking shows, organized symposia and publications, and in many ways set the stage for another kind of entrepreneur: the freelance curator. Alberro examines both Siegelaub's role in launching the careers of artists who were making "something from nothing" and his tactful business practices, particularly in marketing and advertising.Alberro draws on close readings of artworks produced by key conceptual artists in the mid- to late 1960s. He places the movement in the social context of the rebellion against existing cultural institutions, as well as the increased commercialization and globalization of the art world. The book ends with a discussion of one of Siegelaub's most material and least ephemeral contributions, the Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, which he wrote between 1969 and 1971. Designed to limit the inordinate control of collectors, galleries, and museums by increasing the artist's rights, the Agreement unwittingly codified the overlap between capitalism and the arts.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The same bracing honesty, sly wit, human insight, and formal brilliance that have made Yvonne Rainer among the most influential figures of her generation make *Feelings are Facts* an irresistible pleasure. The book is both a moving personal memoir and a fascinating cultural history; it reveals the complex relationship between the emotional life and creative work of a remarkable artist during a period of seismic shifts in American culture and society."--Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A valuable contribution to the literature on conceptual art." Michael Dashkin Library Journal</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Alberro does a surprisingly good job of putting into perspective and recording the Conceptual Art movement." Gina Vivinetto St. Petersburg Times</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This is in many ways a bold and suggestive book." Peter Osborne Artforum</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This scholarly text on a little-examined topic draws fascinating parallels between the art world and postindustrial capitalism and telecommunications." Gregg Sapp Library Journal</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Gammel successfully revivifies the life and work of this maverick feminist, who wrote evocative experimental poetry, constructed vibrant assemblage art, and enacted herself dramatically throughout the streets and salons of New York in the WWI period. She convincingly demonstrates the Baroness's impact as an original artist, poet, and performer of Dada. This book is a must for all scholars of literary modernism and the Dada movement, but is also terrifically entertaining to read."--Amelia Jones, Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is the most rigorous history of conceptual art in print, and an important addition to the literature on postwar art."--Pamela Lee, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity* offers a detailed account of the complex relationship between the official Conceptual Art movement in New York City and the concomitant social and economic pressures of burgeoning late capitalism. Through clear prose and precise arguments, Alberro traces the intricate links among the conceptual artists and the entrepreneurs who marketed their work, thoughtfully exploring the contradictions these relationships entailed. Most importantly, the book demystifies the movement by pointing to the paradoxical dependence of dematerialized *idea art* on the machinations of a voracious art market that made the works available for consumption while promoting them as resistant to the forces of institutionalization."--Amelia Jones, Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book brings thorough and original scholarship to a relatively neglected field. Alberro's work is presented with an impressive breadth of cultural, political and historical awareness. His command of wide-ranging sources is remarkable and his deployment of them revealing."--Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011969.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011969 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030214 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 0.6250 in 08 1.49 lb 06 15 9780262511841 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030214 24 01 02 The MIT Press X 45.00 USD 02 31.95 GBP Z 0 31.95 0 9780262511179 03 02 0262511177 03 9780262511179 15 9780262511179 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2040 Conceptual Art 01 2040 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511179 1 B01 Alexander Alberro Alberro, Alexander Alexander Alberro Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of <I>Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2000),</I> and coeditor (with Blake Stimson) of <I>Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology</I> (2000), both published by the MIT Press. 2 B01 Blake Stimson Stimson, Blake Blake Stimson Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of <I>The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (2004),</I> and coeditor (with Alexander Alberro) of <I>Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology</I> (2000), both published by the MIT Press. edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson 01 eng 624 DES000000 AKB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Compared to other avant-garde movements that emerged in the 1960s, conceptual art has received relatively little serious attention by art historians and critics of the past twenty-five years--in part because of the difficult, intellectual nature of the art. This lack of attention is particularly striking given the tremendous influence of conceptual art on the art of the last fifteen years, on critical discussion surrounding postmodernism, and on the use of theory by artists, curators, critics, and historians.This landmark anthology collects for the first time the key historical documents that helped give definition and purpose to the movement. It also contains more recent memoirs by participants, as well as critical histories of the period by some of today's leading artists and art historians. Many of the essays and artists' statements have been translated into English specifically for this volume. A good portion of the exchange between artists, critics, and theorists took place in difficult-to-find limited-edition catalogs, small journals, and private correspondence. These influential documents are gathered here for the first time, along with a number of previously unpublished essays and interviews.Contributors : Alexander Alberro, Art & Language, Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Gregory Battcock, Mel Bochner, Sigmund Bode, Georges Boudaille, Marcel Broodthaers, Benjamin Buchloh, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, Luis Camnitzer, John Chandler, Sarah Charlesworth, Michel Claura, Jean Clay, Michael Corris, Eduardo Costa, Thomas Crow, Hanne Darboven, Raúl Escari, Piero Gilardi, Dan Graham, Maria Teresa Gramuglio, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Roberto Jacoby, Mary Kelly, Joseph Kosuth, Max Kozloff, Christine Kozlov, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Lee Lozano, Kynaston McShine, Cildo Meireles, Catherine Millet, Olivier Mosset, John Murphy, Hélio Oiticica, Michel Parmentier, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, Mari Carmen Ramirez, Nicolas Rosa, Harold Rosenberg, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Jeanne Siegel, Seth Siegelaub, Terry Smith, Robert Smithson, Athena Tacha Spear, Blake Stimson, Niele Toroni, Mierle Ukeles, Jeff Wall, Rolf Wedewer, Ian Wilson.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is an extraordinary work of archeology inconceptual art, full of surprises. The book brings back to life anincredible array of discussions about rich cultural issues thatdeveloped in the West from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. A challenging'idea' book for our 'visual' times." Serge Guilbaut, Professor of Art History and Head,Department of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia </P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>This landmark anthology collects for the first time the key historical documents that helped give definition and purpose to the conceptual art movement.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511179.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511179 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20000825 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1.3 in 08 2.5 lb 06 15 9780262011730 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20000825 14 01 02 The MIT Press S 42.00 USD 02 28.95 GBP Z 0 28.95 0 9780262511841 03 02 0262511843 03 9780262511841 15 9780262511841 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2039 Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity 01 2039 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511841 1 A01 Alexander Alberro Alberro, Alexander Alexander Alberro Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of <I>Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2000),</I> and coeditor (with Blake Stimson) of <I>Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology</I> (2000), both published by the MIT Press. Alexander Alberro 01 eng 256 52 illus. ART000000 AG 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Conceptual art was one of the most influential art movements of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book Alexander Alberro traces its origins to the mid-1960s, when its principles were first articulated by the artists Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, and others. One of Alberro's central arguments is that the conceptual art movement was founded not just by the artists but also by the dealer Seth Siegelaub. Siegelaub promoted the artists, curated groundbreaking shows, organized symposia and publications, and in many ways set the stage for another kind of entrepreneur: the freelance curator. Alberro examines both Siegelaub's role in launching the careers of artists who were making "something from nothing" and his tactful business practices, particularly in marketing and advertising.Alberro draws on close readings of artworks produced by key conceptual artists in the mid- to late 1960s. He places the movement in the social context of the rebellion against existing cultural institutions, as well as the increased commercialization and globalization of the art world. The book ends with a discussion of one of Siegelaub's most material and least ephemeral contributions, the Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, which he wrote between 1969 and 1971. Designed to limit the inordinate control of collectors, galleries, and museums by increasing the artist's rights, the Agreement unwittingly codified the overlap between capitalism and the arts.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The same bracing honesty, sly wit, human insight, and formal brilliance that have made Yvonne Rainer among the most influential figures of her generation make *Feelings are Facts* an irresistible pleasure. The book is both a moving personal memoir and a fascinating cultural history; it reveals the complex relationship between the emotional life and creative work of a remarkable artist during a period of seismic shifts in American culture and society."--Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A valuable contribution to the literature on conceptual art." Michael Dashkin Library Journal</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Alberro does a surprisingly good job of putting into perspective and recording the Conceptual Art movement." Gina Vivinetto St. Petersburg Times</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This is in many ways a bold and suggestive book." Peter Osborne Artforum</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This scholarly text on a little-examined topic draws fascinating parallels between the art world and postindustrial capitalism and telecommunications." Gregg Sapp Library Journal</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Gammel successfully revivifies the life and work of this maverick feminist, who wrote evocative experimental poetry, constructed vibrant assemblage art, and enacted herself dramatically throughout the streets and salons of New York in the WWI period. She convincingly demonstrates the Baroness's impact as an original artist, poet, and performer of Dada. This book is a must for all scholars of literary modernism and the Dada movement, but is also terrifically entertaining to read."--Amelia Jones, Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is the most rigorous history of conceptual art in print, and an important addition to the literature on postwar art."--Pamela Lee, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity* offers a detailed account of the complex relationship between the official Conceptual Art movement in New York City and the concomitant social and economic pressures of burgeoning late capitalism. Through clear prose and precise arguments, Alberro traces the intricate links among the conceptual artists and the entrepreneurs who marketed their work, thoughtfully exploring the contradictions these relationships entailed. Most importantly, the book demystifies the movement by pointing to the paradoxical dependence of dematerialized *idea art* on the machinations of a voracious art market that made the works available for consumption while promoting them as resistant to the forces of institutionalization."--Amelia Jones, Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book brings thorough and original scholarship to a relatively neglected field. Alberro's work is presented with an impressive breadth of cultural, political and historical awareness. His command of wide-ranging sources is remarkable and his deployment of them revealing."--Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511841.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511841 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040917 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 0.6250 in 08 1.1000000000000001 lb 06 15 9780262011969 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040917 20 01 02 The MIT Press S 27.95 USD 02 19.95 GBP Z 0 19.95 0 9780262511957 03 02 0262511959 03 9780262511957 15 9780262511957 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 1381 Art After Conceptual Art 01 1381 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511957 1 B01 Alexander Alberro Alberro, Alexander Alexander Alberro Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of <I>Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2000),</I> and coeditor (with Blake Stimson) of <I>Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology</I> (2000), both published by the MIT Press. 2 B01 Sabeth Buchmann Buchmann, Sabeth Sabeth Buchmann Sabeth Buchmann, an art historian and critic, is Professor of Modern and Postmodern Art and Head of the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. edited by Alexander Alberro and Sabeth Buchman 01 eng 240 55 b&w illus. 01 55 ART008000 ACXJ5 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Art After Conceptual Art tracks the various legacies of conceptualist practice over the past three decades. This collection of essays by art historians from Europe and the Americas introduces and develops the idea that conceptual art generated several different, and even contradictory, forms of art practice. Some of these contested commonplace assumptions of what art is; others served to buttress those assumptions. The bulk of the volume features newly written and highly innovative essays challenging standard interpretations of the legacy of conceptualism and discussing the influence of conceptualism's varied practices on art since the 1970s. The essays explore topics as diverse as the interrelationships between conceptualism and institutional critique, neoexpressionist painting and conceptualist paradigms, conceptual art's often-ignored complicity with design and commodity culture, the specific forms of identity politics taken up by the reception of conceptual art, and conceptualism's North/South and East/West dynamics. A few texts that continue to be crucial for critical debates within the fields of conceptual and postconceptual art practice, history, and theory have been reprinted in order to convey the vibrant and ongoing discussion on the status of art after conceptual art. Taken together, the essays will inspire an exploration of the relationship between postconceptualist practices and the beginnings of contemporary art.Distributed for the Generali Foundation, Vienna</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"The pointed differences of opinion and radical departures from established theory considered here instead offer a fresh perspective on the implication of working in a conceptual mode in the global arena of the 21st century. This is an important prompt to a developing discussion." <I>Canadian Art</I></P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Well-known art historians from Europe and the Americas discuss the influence of conceptualism on art since the 1970s.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511957.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511957 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20061027 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6.5 in 03 .75 in 08 1.05 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20061027 32 01 02 The MIT Press T 31.95 USD 02 20.95 GBP Z 0 20.95 0 9780262511285 03 02 0262511282 03 9780262511285 15 9780262511285 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 3370 Hands on the Land 01 3370 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511285 1 A01 Jan Albers Albers, Jan Jan Albers Jan Albers received her doctorate in history from Yale University. She has taught at Yale, the University of Sussex, and Middlebury and St. Michael's Colleges in Vermont. Jan Albers 01 eng 320 HIS000000 WQN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In this book Jan Albers examines the history--natural, environmental, social, and ultimately human--of one of America's most cherished landscapes: Vermont.Albers shows how Vermont has come to stand for the ideal of unspoiled rural community, examining both the basis of the state's pastoral image and the equally real toll taken by the pressure of human hands on the land. She begins with the relatively light touch of Vermont's Native Americans, then shows how European settlers--armed with a conviction that their claim to the land was "a God-given right"--shaped the landscape both to meet economic needs and to satisfy philosophical beliefs. The often turbulent result: a conflict between practical requirements and romantic ideals that has persisted to this day.Making lively use of contemporary accounts, advertisements, maps, landscape paintings, and vintage photographs, Albers delves into the stories and personalities behind the development of a succession of Vermont landscapes. She observes the growth of communities from tiny settlements to picturesque villages to bustling cities; traces the development of agriculture, forestry, mining, industry, and the influence of burgeoning technology; and proceeds to the growth of environmental consciousness, aided by both private initiative and governmental regulation. She reveals how as community strengthens, so does responsible stewardship of the land.Albers shows that like any landscape, the Vermont landscape reflects the human decisions that have been made about it--and that the more a community understands about how such decisions have been made, the better will be its future decisions.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"The fascination of Hands on the Land lies in its beautifully orchestrated build-up to the Vermont of today." Tom Hotaling Architecture Boston</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Jan Alber's provocative book walks the reader through the fascinating geography and history of Vermont. Throughout, she artfully captures the events contributing to the shaping of the land, thus giving a history of the people and communities who have creatively lived and worked against the backdrop of one of the most remarkable and gently preserved landscapes in the world." <B>Thomas P. Salmon </B>, Governor of Vermont, 1973-1977, and President of the University of Vermont, 1991-1997</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Jan Albers has captured the essence of Vermont, showing us how inextricably linked are its land, its people, and its way of life. In chronicling the changes time has brought to Vermont's land and economy, Albers prompts us to look anew at how inevitably the decisions of today will determine the Vermont of tomorrow." <B>Jean Hocker </B>, President, The Land Trust Alliance</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Jan Albers's wry, sympathetic portraits of immigrants, farmers, entrepeneurs, scientists, politicians, and eccentrics combine with a remarkable sequence of illustrations to make Hands on the Land feel like a family album for Vermont. This is a book of illuminations and delights." <B>John Elder </B>, Middlebury College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The unique character and timeless appeal of Vermont are rooted largely in the look of the land itself. In Hands on the Land, Jan Albers offers a lively and insightful study of the geological factors, the social and economic trends, and&mdash;perhaps most compelling&mdash;the human dreams and schemes that have shaped the landscape and in the process made Vermont one of America's truly special places." <B>Richard Moe </B>, President, National Trust for Historic Preservation</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"What an exciting book! Jan Albers is eloquent and expert. This is an important work both for its historical perspectives and considerable foresight. Opening it, I'm invariably absorbed." <B>Edward Hoagland </B>, author of <I>Walking the Dead Diamond River</I> </P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511285.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511285 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020222 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 8.5 in 03 1 in 08 2.95 lb 06 15 9780262011754 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020222 10 01 02 The MIT Press T 23.95 USD 02 16.95 GBP Z 0 16.95 0 9780262012041 03 02 0262012049 03 9780262012041 15 9780262012041 03 BB 30 01 MITP 6159 The Size of Nations 01 6159 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012041 1 A01 Alberto Alesina Alesina, Alberto Alberto Alesina Alberto Alesina is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics at Harvard University. He is the coauthor (with Enrico Spolaore) of <I>The Size of Nations</I> (MIT Press, 2003). 2 A01 Enrico Spolaore Spolaore, Enrico Enrico Spolaore Enrico Spolaore is is Professor of Economics at Tufts University. Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore 01 eng 272 13 illus. BUS069000 KCY 10 POL000000 12 JPR 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the course of a river. Alesina and Spolaore consider a country's borders to be subject to the same analysis as any other man-made institution. In The Size of Nations, they argue that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity. In a large country, per capita costs may be low, but the heterogeneous preferences of a large population make it hard to deliver services and formulate policy. Smaller countries may find it easier to respond to citizen preferences in a democratic way.Alesina and Spolaore substantiate their analysis with simple analytical models that show how the patterns of globalization, international conflict, and democratization of the last two hundred years can explain patterns of state formation. Their aim is not only "normative" but also "positive" -- that is, not only to compute the optimal size of a state in theory but also to explain the phenomenon of country size in reality. They argue that the complexity of real world conditions does not preclude a systematic analysis, and that such an analysis, synthesizing economics, political science, and history, can help us understand real world events.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this superb and pathbreaking monograph, Alesina and Spolaore convincingly apply the tools of economics to show how economic and political forces influence the breakup and integration of nations in an evolving world. This is a new domain of analysis that will be of utmost importance in the twenty-first century."--Gérard Roland, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>The Size of Nations</I> exemplifies the best of political economy. It makes simple but incisive arguments about a large, complex, and multifaceted set of phenomena, and then tests these arguments using the best available techniques. The result is a breathtaking combination of analytic acuity and real world importance. The claim that the confluence of globalization, democratization, and the end of the cold war was the perfect incubator for the explosion of nation states in the 1990s is arrestingly powerful. <I>The Size of Nations</I> will long be admired and studied in the social sciences; it will also stimulate considerable debate and further research on its fascinating subject matter." Geoffrey Garrett, Vice Provost of the International Institute and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This book is a tour de force..." Leonard Dudley EH.NET</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This intriguing study by two political economists seeks to discover an economic logic behind the size of nations." Foreign Affairs</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is an extraordinary book that provides a rigorous, fun, and highly original view of what determines the number and size of countries. A must-read for all scholars in the fields of public economics, international economics and international relations" Jaume Ventura, CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is an extraordinary book that provides a rigourous, fun, and highly original view of what determines the number and size of countries. A must-read for all scholars in the fields of public economics, international economics and international relations"--Jaume Ventura, CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*The Size of Nations* exemplifies the best of political economy. It makes simple but incisive arguments about a large, complex and multifaceted set of phenomena, and then tests these arguments using the best available techniques. The result is a breathtaking combination of analytic acuity and real world importance. The claim that the confluence of globalization, democratization and the end of the cold war was the perfect incubator for the explosion of nation states in the 1990s is arrestingly powerful. The Size of Nations will long be admired and studied in the social sciences; it will also stimulate considerable debate and further research on its fascinating subject matter."--Geoffrey Garrett, Vice Provost of the International Institute and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los AngelesPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote in promotional pieces, but it should remain intact on the book jacket.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012041.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012041 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20031107 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.34 lb 06 15 9780262511872 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20031107 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 38.00 USD 02 26.95 GBP Z 0 26.95 0 9780262012140 03 02 0262012146 03 9780262012140 15 9780262012140 03 BB 30 01 MITP 3748 Institutional Reforms 01 3748 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012140 1 B01 Alberto Alesina Alesina, Alberto Alberto Alesina Alberto Alesina is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics at Harvard University. He is the coauthor (with Enrico Spolaore) of <I>The Size of Nations</I> (MIT Press, 2003). edited by Alberto Alesina 01 eng 420 39 illus. BUS092000 GTF 10 POL023000 12 KCP 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>These studies of Colombian economic, political, and social institutions offer not only theoretically grounded analyses but also practical recommendations for policy reform. Experts from the United States, Europe, and Colombia approach such problems as executive-legislative branch conflict, fragmented political parties, crime prevention, inefficient decentralization, and mistargeted social spending from a political economics perspective. Their findings provide an illuminating example of the way ideas from this relatively new area of research can be applied to real-world problems.Colombia suffers not only from institutional problems -- many of which may stem from its overly rigid 1991 constitution -- but also high rates of violent crime, endemic drug trafficking, guerrilla warfare, and political corruption; the authors do not shrink from these topics, but treat them for the most part from an institutional perspective. Following a useful overview of recent economic history in Colombia, three chapters examine political institutions, discussing separation of powers, Colombia's complicated electoral and political party system, and reform of the judicial system. The remaining chapters treat economic and social institutions, covering the fiscal imbalance of centralized taxing and decentralized spending, transparent and fiscally responsible budget processes, education reform, the provision of social services, and the advantages of an independent central bank. Each chapter includes specific policy proposals that are politically feasible and require minimal legislative action. The proposed solutions to Colombia's institutional problems also shed light on similar problems in other developing countries.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In <I>Institutional Reforms</I>, Alberto Alesina has asked many of the brightest minds working in the fields of political economics and institutions to train their sights on Colombia. The result is a thoughtful, provocative book that should be widely read by researchers and practitioners. Lessons learned in Colombia will carry broadly to many parts of the developing world." Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In *Institutional Reforms*, Alberto Alesina has asked many of the brightest minds working in the fields of political economics and institutions to train their sights on Colombia. The result is a thoughtful, provocative book that should be widely read by researchers and practitioners. Lessons learned in Colombia will carry broadly to many parts of the developing world."--Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012140.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012140 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050121 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.4 lb 06 15 9780262511827 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050121 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 75.00 USD 02 51.95 GBP Z 0 51.95 0 9780262511827 03 02 0262511827 03 9780262511827 15 9780262511827 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 3748 Institutional Reforms 01 3748 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511827 1 B01 Alberto Alesina Alesina, Alberto Alberto Alesina Alberto Alesina is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics at Harvard University. He is the coauthor (with Enrico Spolaore) of <I>The Size of Nations</I> (MIT Press, 2003). edited by Alberto Alesina 01 eng 420 39 illus. BUS092000 GTF 10 POL023000 12 KCP 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>These studies of Colombian economic, political, and social institutions offer not only theoretically grounded analyses but also practical recommendations for policy reform. Experts from the United States, Europe, and Colombia approach such problems as executive-legislative branch conflict, fragmented political parties, crime prevention, inefficient decentralization, and mistargeted social spending from a political economics perspective. Their findings provide an illuminating example of the way ideas from this relatively new area of research can be applied to real-world problems.Colombia suffers not only from institutional problems -- many of which may stem from its overly rigid 1991 constitution -- but also high rates of violent crime, endemic drug trafficking, guerrilla warfare, and political corruption; the authors do not shrink from these topics, but treat them for the most part from an institutional perspective. Following a useful overview of recent economic history in Colombia, three chapters examine political institutions, discussing separation of powers, Colombia's complicated electoral and political party system, and reform of the judicial system. The remaining chapters treat economic and social institutions, covering the fiscal imbalance of centralized taxing and decentralized spending, transparent and fiscally responsible budget processes, education reform, the provision of social services, and the advantages of an independent central bank. Each chapter includes specific policy proposals that are politically feasible and require minimal legislative action. The proposed solutions to Colombia's institutional problems also shed light on similar problems in other developing countries.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In <I>Institutional Reforms</I>, Alberto Alesina has asked many of the brightest minds working in the fields of political economics and institutions to train their sights on Colombia. The result is a thoughtful, provocative book that should be widely read by researchers and practitioners. Lessons learned in Colombia will carry broadly to many parts of the developing world." Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In *Institutional Reforms*, Alberto Alesina has asked many of the brightest minds working in the fields of political economics and institutions to train their sights on Colombia. The result is a thoughtful, provocative book that should be widely read by researchers and practitioners. Lessons learned in Colombia will carry broadly to many parts of the developing world."--Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511827.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511827 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050121 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.1499999999999999 lb 06 15 9780262012140 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050121 34 01 02 The MIT Press S 35.00 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9780262511872 03 02 0262511878 03 9780262511872 15 9780262511872 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6159 The Size of Nations 01 6159 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511872 1 A01 Alberto Alesina Alesina, Alberto Alberto Alesina Alberto Alesina is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics at Harvard University. He is the coauthor (with Enrico Spolaore) of <I>The Size of Nations</I> (MIT Press, 2003). 2 A01 Enrico Spolaore Spolaore, Enrico Enrico Spolaore Enrico Spolaore is is Professor of Economics at Tufts University. Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore 01 eng 272 13 illus. BUS069000 KCY 10 POL000000 12 JPR 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the course of a river. Alesina and Spolaore consider a country's borders to be subject to the same analysis as any other man-made institution. In The Size of Nations, they argue that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity. In a large country, per capita costs may be low, but the heterogeneous preferences of a large population make it hard to deliver services and formulate policy. Smaller countries may find it easier to respond to citizen preferences in a democratic way.Alesina and Spolaore substantiate their analysis with simple analytical models that show how the patterns of globalization, international conflict, and democratization of the last two hundred years can explain patterns of state formation. Their aim is not only "normative" but also "positive" -- that is, not only to compute the optimal size of a state in theory but also to explain the phenomenon of country size in reality. They argue that the complexity of real world conditions does not preclude a systematic analysis, and that such an analysis, synthesizing economics, political science, and history, can help us understand real world events.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this superb and pathbreaking monograph, Alesina and Spolaore convincingly apply the tools of economics to show how economic and political forces influence the breakup and integration of nations in an evolving world. This is a new domain of analysis that will be of utmost importance in the twenty-first century."--Gérard Roland, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>The Size of Nations</I> exemplifies the best of political economy. It makes simple but incisive arguments about a large, complex, and multifaceted set of phenomena, and then tests these arguments using the best available techniques. The result is a breathtaking combination of analytic acuity and real world importance. The claim that the confluence of globalization, democratization, and the end of the cold war was the perfect incubator for the explosion of nation states in the 1990s is arrestingly powerful. <I>The Size of Nations</I> will long be admired and studied in the social sciences; it will also stimulate considerable debate and further research on its fascinating subject matter." Geoffrey Garrett, Vice Provost of the International Institute and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This book is a tour de force..." Leonard Dudley EH.NET</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This intriguing study by two political economists seeks to discover an economic logic behind the size of nations." Foreign Affairs</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is an extraordinary book that provides a rigorous, fun, and highly original view of what determines the number and size of countries. A must-read for all scholars in the fields of public economics, international economics and international relations" Jaume Ventura, CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is an extraordinary book that provides a rigourous, fun, and highly original view of what determines the number and size of countries. A must-read for all scholars in the fields of public economics, international economics and international relations"--Jaume Ventura, CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*The Size of Nations* exemplifies the best of political economy. It makes simple but incisive arguments about a large, complex and multifaceted set of phenomena, and then tests these arguments using the best available techniques. The result is a breathtaking combination of analytic acuity and real world importance. The claim that the confluence of globalization, democratization and the end of the cold war was the perfect incubator for the explosion of nation states in the 1990s is arrestingly powerful. The Size of Nations will long be admired and studied in the social sciences; it will also stimulate considerable debate and further research on its fascinating subject matter."--Geoffrey Garrett, Vice Provost of the International Institute and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los AngelesPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote in promotional pieces, but it should remain intact on the book jacket.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511872.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511872 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050114 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 .85 lb 06 15 9780262012041 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050114 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 23.00 USD 02 15.95 GBP Z 0 15.95 0 9780262012324 03 02 0262012324 03 9780262012324 15 9780262012324 03 BB 30 01 MITP 3123 The Future of Europe 01 3123 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012324 1 A01 Alberto Alesina Alesina, Alberto Alberto Alesina Alberto Alesina is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics at Harvard University. He is the coauthor (with Enrico Spolaore) of <I>The Size of Nations</I> (MIT Press, 2003). 2 A01 Francesco Giavazzi Giavazzi, Francesco Francesco Giavazzi Francesco Giavazzi is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and Visiting Professor at MIT. He is the coauthor (with Alberto Giovannini) of <I>Limiting Exchange Rate Flexibility: The European Monetary System</I> (MIT Press, 1989). http://ww.igier.uni-bocconi.it/whos.php?nascondi=403&tbn=albero&id_doc=177 Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi 01 eng 200 8 illus. BUS069020 KCL 10 POL023000 12 KCP 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic and political decline is almost inevitable, economists Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi write in this provocative book. Without comprehensive reform, continental Western Europe's overprotected, overregulated economies will continue to slow--and its political influence will become negligible. This doesn't mean that Italy, Germany, France, and other now-prosperous countries will become poor; their standard of living will remain comfortable. But they will become largely irrelevant on the world scene. In The Future of Europe, Alesina and Giavazzi (themselves Europeans) outline the steps that Europe must take to prevent its economic and political eclipse.Europe, the authors say, has much to learn from the market liberalism of America. Europeans work less and vacation more than Americans; they value job stability and security above all. Americans, Alesina and Giavazzi argue, work harder and longer and are more willing to endure the ups and downs of a market economy. Europeans prize their welfare states; Americans abhor government spending. America is a melting pot; European countries--witness the November 2005 unrest in France--have trouble absorbing their immigrant populations. If Europe is to arrest its decline, Alesina and Giavazzi warn, it needs to adopt something closer to the American free-market model for dealing with these issues.Alesina and Giavazzi's prescriptions for how Europe should handle worker productivity, labor market regulation, globalization, support for higher education and technology research, fiscal policy, and its multiethnic societies are sure to stir controversy, as will their eye-opening view of the European Union and the euro. But their wake-up call will ring loud and clear for anyone concerned about the future of Europe and the global economy.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"As the new Congress begins work, it should peruse a recently published book, The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline, by two Italian economists, Harvard's Alberto Alesina and Bocconi University's Francesco Giavazzi. They explain what went wrong in Europe in particular in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain and how Europe can continue as a major economic power." Diana Furchtgott-Roth New York Sun</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This book could have been a diatribe, but is saved from that by the intelligence of the authors' arguments and policy recommendations. A must read for those interested in the European economy." P. K. Kresl Choice</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This landmark volume offers a lucid account of the first decade of economic transition by some key actors and first-hand observers. We follow their hopes, achievements, and disappointments, and come to understand better the immense challenge of transition."--Charles Wyplosz, Professor of Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Like all market-based economies, the transition countries are now subject to financial instability. This timely and important book uncovers the distinctive features of transition that give rise to financial crises in emerging market countries."--Charles Wyplosz, Professor of Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012324.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012324 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060908 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 0.5000 in 08 1 lb 06 15 9780262512046 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060908 26 01 02 The MIT Press T 26.95 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9780262012034 03 02 0262012030 03 9780262012034 15 9780262012034 03 BB 30 01 MITP uie Urban and Industrial Environments 01 MITP 6868 Uneasy Alchemy 01 6868 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012034 1 A01 Barbara L. Allen Allen, Barbara L. Barbara L. Allen Barbara L. Allen is Director of the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Center. Barbara L. Allen 01 eng 224 SCI026000 RNQ 10 MED078000 12 MBNH2 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Louisiana annually reports over eight tons of toxic waste for each citizen. Uneasy Alchemy examines the role of experts -- lawyers, economists, health professionals, and scientists -- in the struggles for environmental justice in the state's infamous Chemical Corridor or "Cancer Alley." This legendary toxic zone between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is home to about 125 oil and chemical plants; cancer and respiratory illness rates there are among the highest in the nation. The efforts of residents to ensure a healthy environment is one of the most important social justice movements of the post-civil rights era.Louisiana is an especially appropriate venue for the examination of race, class, and politics within an environmental justice framework because of the critical role the chemical industry has played in the economic development of the state, and the weak record of state agencies in controlling toxic chemicals and enforcing environmental regulations. But while Louisiana suffers from some of the worst chemical pollution in the nation, it has also been the site of important environmental victories. Using ethnographic analysis of interviews with citizens, activists, and experts, media accounts, policy reports, government documents, minutes of hearings, and company statements, Barbara Allen identifies the factors that contribute to successful environmental justice efforts. She finds that the most successful strategies involved temporary alliances between local citizens and expert-activists, across lines of race and class, and between local and national organizations. These alliances were not easy to achieve -- local citizens tend to mistrust outside experts and want fast action in response to health threats -- but once formed, these powerful combinations of local and expert knowledge were an important force for action and change.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A compelling analysis of one of this nation's legendary toxic zones. This book does a splendid job of examining the many voices, the myths, the science and its uncertainty, and does so within a theoretical framework that brings out much more than the original interview data reveal."--Sheldon Krimsky, Professor, Tufts University, and author of *Science in the Private Interest*</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012034.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012034 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030912 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 .98 lb 06 15 9780262511346 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030912 34 01 02 The MIT Press S 58.00 USD 02 39.95 GBP Z 0 39.95 0 9780262122535 03 02 0262122537 03 9780262122535 15 9780262122535 03 BB 30 01 MITP 4812 The Nature of the Farm 01 4812 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262122535 1 A01 Douglas W. Allen Allen, Douglas W. Douglas W. Allen Douglas W. Allen is Endowed University Professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University. 2 A01 Dean Lueck Lueck, Dean Dean Lueck Dean Lueck is Cardon Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. Douglas W. Allen and Dean Lueck 01 eng 266 9 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests the implications of those models against data sets from across North American agriculture, as well as against historical case studies such as eighteenth-century European land contracts and the late nineteenth-century Bonanza farms in the United States.The book is organized in three parts. Part I examines the classic question of what determines the optimal choice between fixed rent and cropshare arrangements, concluding that it is determined by a trade-off between incentives to overuse rented land and incentives to underreport shared output. Part II tests several predictions derived from a standard risk-sharing model of contracts and finds little evidence that risk sharing is important in contract choice. Part III extends the transaction costs analysis to broader organizational issues. It introduces seasonality and timeliness costs as forces influencing the gains from specialization and the costs of contracting, and finds that farm ownership and farm organization are routinely shaped by these forces.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The Nature of the Farm is a superb application of the theory of incentives to the organizational features of agriculture, including the still-popular practice of sharecropping. Allen and Lueck measure their theories of sharecropping against the evidence more carefully and in more detail than previous authors. In so doing, they demonstrate persuasively that contractual arrangements between farmers and landowners are explained not by the traditional theory of risk-sharing but purely by incentives and enforcement considerations. This is an important contribution to agricultural economics and to the economics of organizations."--Ralph A. Winter, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A coherent and largely persuasive case for... the transaction cost approach to farm organization over the principal-agent paradigm." Journal of Economics</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262122535.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262122535 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030103 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 .6 in 08 1.32 lb 06 15 9780262511858 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030103 20 01 02 The MIT Press S 44.00 USD 02 30.95 GBP Z 0 30.95 0 9780262511087 03 02 0262511088 03 9780262511087 15 9780262511087 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6290 Species of Mind 01 6290 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511087 1 A01 Colin Allen Allen, Colin Colin Allen Colin Allen is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the coauthor of <I>Nature's Purposes</I> (MIT Press, 1998), <I>Species of Mind</I> (MIT Press, 1997), and <I>The Cognitive Animal</I> (MIT Press, 2001). 2 A01 Marc Bekoff Bekoff, Marc Marc Bekoff Marc Bekoff is Professor of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Colin Allen and Marc Bekoff 01 eng 231 PHI000000 HPX 10 PHI000000 12 HPX 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Colin Allen (a philosopher) and Marc Bekoff (a cognitive ethologist) approach their work from a perspective that considers arguments about evolutionary continuity to be as applicable to the study of animal minds and brains as they are to comparative studies of kidneys, stomachs, and hearts. Cognitive ethologists study the comparative, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of the mental phenomena of animals. Philosophy can provide cognitive ethology with an analytical basis for attributing cognition to nonhuman animals and for studying it, and cognitive ethology can help philosophy to explain mentality in naturalistic terms by providing data on the evolution of cognition. This interdiscipinary approach reveals flaws in common objections to the view that animals have minds.The heart of the book is this reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. All theoretical discussion is carefully tied to case studies, particularly in the areas of antipredatory vigilance and social play, where there are many points of contact with philosophical discussions of intentionality and representation. Allen and Bekoff make specific suggestions about how to use philosophical theories of intentionality as starting points for empirical investigation of animal minds, and they stress the importance of studying animals other than nonhuman primates.</P> The MIT Press 01 00 <P>The authors of this book, a philosopher and a cognitive ethologist, approach their work from the perspective that many animals have minds and rich cognitive lives. They also believe that arguments about evolutionary continuity are as applicable to the study of animal minds and brains as they are to comparative studies of kidneys, stomachs, and hearts. Cognitive ethologists study the comparative, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of the mental phenomena of animals. Philosophy can provide cognitive ethology with an analytical basis for the attribution and assessment of cognition to nonhuman animals. Cognitive ethology can help philosophy to explain mentality in naturalistic terms by providing data on the evolution of cognition.The heart of the book is this reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. All theoretical discussion is carefully tied to case studies, particularly in the areas of antipredator vigilance and social play, where there are many points of contact with philosophical discussions of intentionality and representation. The authors make specific suggestions about how to use philosophical theories of intentionality as starting points for empirical investigation of animal minds. They also discuss cognitive ethology's relevance to questions of ethics, as our beliefs about the mental lives of animals strongly affect our attitudes toward their moral status.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>The heart of this book is the reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animalcognition.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"No one has ever contemplated what it is like to be a zucchini becausezucchini's lack minds. But we certainly have wondered what it is like tobe a predatory lion, or an echolocating bat or a brachiating monkey. Thatis because such animals presumably do have minds. But what kind of minds?Allen and Bekoff morph the disciplines of philosophy and ethology toprovide a lucid analysis of how animals think and what they think about.If you want a fun romp on the wild side of animal minds, read this book." <B>Marc Hauser </B>, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology andPsychology, Program in Neurosciences, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511087.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511087 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990726 01 WORLD 01 8.9 in 02 6 in 03 .6 in 08 .85 lb 06 15 9780262011631 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990726 48 01 02 The MIT Press S 27.00 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9780262511247 03 02 026251124X 03 9780262511247 15 9780262511247 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6563 Technologies of Power 01 6563 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511247 1 B01 Michael Thad Allen Allen, Michael Thad Michael Thad Allen Michael Thad Allen is Assistant Professor of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 2 B01 Gabrielle Hecht Hecht, Gabrielle Gabrielle Hecht Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of <I>The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II</I> and editor of <I>Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War</I>, both published by the MIT Press. edited by Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht 01 eng 361 SCI034000 PDX 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the changing meanings of modernity. They consider the relationship among the state, expertise, and authority; the construction of national identity; changes in the structure and distribution of labor; political ideology and industrial development; and political practices during the Cold War. The essays show how insight into the technological aspects of such broad processes can help synthesize material and cultural methods of inquiry and how reframing technology's past in broader historical terms can suggest new directions for science and technology studies.The essays were written in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes, whose spirit of inquiry they seek to continue.Contributors Janet Abbate, Michael Thad Allen, W. Bernard Carlson, Gabrielle Hecht, Erik P. Rau, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudenmaier, Edmund N. Todd, Hans Weinberger.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...[A] tribute to two fascinating people, and it also stands in its own right as a primer for its field...." Rob Parsons First Monday</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511247.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511247 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20010525 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6.25 in 03 .75 in 08 1.1000000000000001 lb 06 15 9780262011846 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20010525 36 01 02 The MIT Press S 32.00 USD 02 22.95 GBP Z 0 22.95 0 9780262511254 03 02 0262511258 03 9780262511254 15 9780262511254 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 1948 Comparing Financial Systems 01 1948 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511254 1 A01 Franklin Allen Allen, Franklin Franklin Allen Franklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 2 A01 Douglas Gale Gale, Douglas Douglas Gale Douglas Gale is Professor of Economics at New York University. Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale 01 eng 519 BUS027000 KFFL 10 BUS027000 12 KFFL 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Financial systems are crucial to the allocation of resources in a modern economy. They channel household savings to the corporate sector and allocate investment funds among firms; they allow intertemporal smoothing of consumption by households and expenditures by firms; and they enable households and firms to share risks. These functions are common to the financial systems of most developed economies. Yet the form of these financial systems varies widely. In the United States and the United Kingdom competitive markets dominate the financial landscape, whereas in France, Germany, and Japan banks have traditionally played the most important role.Why do different countries have such different financial systems? Is one system better than all the others? Do different systems merely represent alternative ways of satisfying similar needs? Is the current trend toward market-based systems desirable?Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale argue that the view that market-based systems are best is simplistic. A more nuanced approach is necessary. For example, financial markets may be bad for risk sharing; competition in banking may be inefficient; financial crises can be good as well as bad; and separation of ownership and control can be optimal. Financial institutions are not simply veils, disguising the allocation mechanism without affecting it, but are crucial to overcoming market imperfections. An optimal financial system relies on both financial markets and financial intermediaries.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This excellent book is a must-read for anyone interested in anin-depth understanding of how financial systems have evolved indifferent countries and how they affect resource allocation andeconomic development." Anjan Thakor, Edward J. Frey Professor of Banking and Finance, University of Michigan Business School</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This excellent book is a must-read for anyone interested in an in-depthunderstanding of how financial systems have evolved in different countriesand how they affect resource allocation and economic development." <B>Anjan Thakor </B>, Edward. J. Frey Professor of Banking and Finance,University of Michigan Business School</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>The authors argue that the view that market-based systems are best is simplistic; a more nuanced approach is necessary.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511254.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511254 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20010126 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 0.8750 in 08 1.55 lb 06 15 9780262011778 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20010126 24 01 02 The MIT Press S 48.00 USD 02 33.95 GBP Z 0 33.95 0 9780262511261 03 02 0262511266 03 9780262511261 15 9780262511261 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 4222 Logic Primer 01 4222 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511261 1 A01 Colin Allen Allen, Colin Colin Allen Colin Allen is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the coauthor of <I>Nature's Purposes</I> (MIT Press, 1998), <I>Species of Mind</I> (MIT Press, 1997), and <I>The Cognitive Animal</I> (MIT Press, 2001). 2 A01 Michael Hand Hand, Michael Michael Hand Michael Hand is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. Colin Allen and Michael Hand 2 second edition 01 eng 216 COM004000 UYQM 06 11 03 17 02 00 <P>Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Logic Primer is an excellent textbook: wonderfully concise, clear, and rich. I recommend it highly for introductory courses in formal logic. And the web-based software is state-of-the-art."--Torin Alter, Department of Philosophy, The University of Alabama</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"By far the smoothest running natural deduction system that I have seen in 28 years of teaching logic. The proof checker website and the low cost of the text make Logic Primer the first choice!"--Jonathan Gold, West Liberty State College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"I am very pleased to see that Logic Primer is coming out in a second edition. I have used the first edition to great effect in turning my classes into learning communities of careful readers. The new material on identity, and the revisions to previous material, are well motivated and will be helpful. The key virtue of the book, however, is its clear, direct, and intelligibly sequenced presentation of logic. I look forward to being able to continue to build my course around the structure provided by Logic Primer."--William S. Robinson, Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"What makes Logic Primer a uniquely valuable text is not that it contains everything you need for an introductory logic course (which, of course, it does), but that it contains nothing more. While providing students with a clear and comprehensive yet streamlined presentation of first-order logic, it allows instructors the freedom to tailor the structure and pace of the course to fit their own pedagogical goals. Moreover, the natural deduction system is elegant, intuitive, and free of various unnecessary procedures that, though common in other systems, tend to make derivations difficult for students to grasp."--Amy Kind, Department of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna CollegePlease note: Don't use; Amy Kind is thanked in the acknowledgments.</P> The MIT Press 01 00 <P>Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructor relationship. The key concepts are laid out in concise definitions and comments, with the expectation that the instructor will elaborate upon them. New to the second edition is the addition of material on the logic of identity in chapters 3 and 4. An innovative interactive Web site, consisting of a "Logic Daemon" and a "Quizmaster," encourages students to formulate their own proofs and links them to appropriate explanations in the book.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511261.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511261 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20010116 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 .5 in 08 .8 lb 06 15 9780262287487 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20010116 36 01 02 The MIT Press S 27.00 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9780262511346 03 02 0262511347 03 9780262511346 15 9780262511346 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP uie Urban and Industrial Environments 01 MITP 6868 Uneasy Alchemy 01 6868 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511346 1 A01 Barbara L. Allen Allen, Barbara L. Barbara L. Allen Barbara L. Allen is Director of the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Center. Barbara L. Allen 01 eng 224 SCI026000 RNQ 10 MED078000 12 MBNH2 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Louisiana annually reports over eight tons of toxic waste for each citizen. Uneasy Alchemy examines the role of experts -- lawyers, economists, health professionals, and scientists -- in the struggles for environmental justice in the state's infamous Chemical Corridor or "Cancer Alley." This legendary toxic zone between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is home to about 125 oil and chemical plants; cancer and respiratory illness rates there are among the highest in the nation. The efforts of residents to ensure a healthy environment is one of the most important social justice movements of the post-civil rights era.Louisiana is an especially appropriate venue for the examination of race, class, and politics within an environmental justice framework because of the critical role the chemical industry has played in the economic development of the state, and the weak record of state agencies in controlling toxic chemicals and enforcing environmental regulations. But while Louisiana suffers from some of the worst chemical pollution in the nation, it has also been the site of important environmental victories. Using ethnographic analysis of interviews with citizens, activists, and experts, media accounts, policy reports, government documents, minutes of hearings, and company statements, Barbara Allen identifies the factors that contribute to successful environmental justice efforts. She finds that the most successful strategies involved temporary alliances between local citizens and expert-activists, across lines of race and class, and between local and national organizations. These alliances were not easy to achieve -- local citizens tend to mistrust outside experts and want fast action in response to health threats -- but once formed, these powerful combinations of local and expert knowledge were an important force for action and change.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A compelling analysis of one of this nation's legendary toxic zones. This book does a splendid job of examining the many voices, the myths, the science and its uncertainty, and does so within a theoretical framework that brings out much more than the original interview data reveal."--Sheldon Krimsky, Professor, Tufts University, and author of *Science in the Private Interest*</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511346.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511346 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030912 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 .7 lb 06 15 9780262012034 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030912 56 01 02 The MIT Press S 25.00 USD 02 17.95 GBP Z 0 17.95 0 9780262511858 03 02 0262511851 03 9780262511858 15 9780262511858 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 4812 The Nature of the Farm 01 4812 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511858 1 A01 Douglas W. Allen Allen, Douglas W. Douglas W. Allen Douglas W. Allen is Endowed University Professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University. 2 A01 Dean Lueck Lueck, Dean Dean Lueck Dean Lueck is Cardon Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. Douglas W. Allen and Dean Lueck 01 eng 266 9 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests the implications of those models against data sets from across North American agriculture, as well as against historical case studies such as eighteenth-century European land contracts and the late nineteenth-century Bonanza farms in the United States.The book is organized in three parts. Part I examines the classic question of what determines the optimal choice between fixed rent and cropshare arrangements, concluding that it is determined by a trade-off between incentives to overuse rented land and incentives to underreport shared output. Part II tests several predictions derived from a standard risk-sharing model of contracts and finds little evidence that risk sharing is important in contract choice. Part III extends the transaction costs analysis to broader organizational issues. It introduces seasonality and timeliness costs as forces influencing the gains from specialization and the costs of contracting, and finds that farm ownership and farm organization are routinely shaped by these forces.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The Nature of the Farm is a superb application of the theory of incentives to the organizational features of agriculture, including the still-popular practice of sharecropping. Allen and Lueck measure their theories of sharecropping against the evidence more carefully and in more detail than previous authors. In so doing, they demonstrate persuasively that contractual arrangements between farmers and landowners are explained not by the traditional theory of risk-sharing but purely by incentives and enforcement considerations. This is an important contribution to agricultural economics and to the economics of organizations."--Ralph A. Winter, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A coherent and largely persuasive case for... the transaction cost approach to farm organization over the principal-agent paradigm." Journal of Economics</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511858.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511858 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040820 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 .6 in 08 .9 lb 06 15 9780262122535 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040820 18 01 02 The MIT Press S 22.00 USD 02 15.95 GBP Z 0 15.95 0 9780262012331 03 02 0262012332 03 9780262012331 15 9780262012331 03 BB 30 01 MITP leo Leonardo Book Series 01 MITP 4491 META/DATA 01 4491 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012331 1 A01 Mark Amerika Amerika, Mark Mark Amerika Mark Amerika, named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" in 2001, is an interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His works include the epic online narrative GRAMMATRON, selected for the 2000 Whitney Biennial; the sound art work PHON:E:ME, commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in Western Australia; and FILMTEXT 2.0, initially commissioned by Sony PlayStation 2 as part of a major retrospective at the ICA in London. He is the author of two novels, <I>The Kafka Chronicles</I> and <I>Sexual Blood</I>. In 1993 he became founder and publisher of Alt-X. Mark Amerika 01 eng 460 18 illus. ART046000 AFKV 10 COM071000 12 UGV 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This rich collection of writings by pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and network-infused language art. META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory, multitrack "digital sampling" of Amerika's writing from 1993 to 2005 that tells the early history of a net art world "gone wild" while simultaneously constructing a parallel poetics of net art that complements Amerika's own artistic practice.Unlike other new media artists who may create art to justify their theories, Amerika documents the emergence of new media art forms while he creates them. Presenting a multifaceted view of the digital art scene on subjects ranging from interactive storytelling to net art, live VJing, online curating, and Web publishing, Amerika gives us "Spontaneous Theories," "Distributed Fictions" (including his groundbreaking GRAMMATRON, the helpful "Insider's Guide to Avant-Garde Capitalism," and others), the more scholarly "Academic Remixes," "Net Dialogues" (peer-to-peer theoretical explorations with other artists and writers), and the digital salvos of "Amerika Online" (among them, "Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism on the Net," "The Private Life of a Network Publisher," and satirical thoughts on "Writing As Hactivism"). META/DATA also features a section of full-color images, including some of Amerika's most well-known and influential works.Provocative, digressive, nomadic, and fun to read, Amerika's texts call to mind the cadences of Gertrude Stein, the Beats, cyberpunk fiction, and even The Daily Show more than they do the usual new media theorizing. META/DATA maps the world of net culture with Amerika as guide and resident artist.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Elmer's study of profiling zeroes in on a key aspect of modern media spaces. He takes us beyond the study of texts and contexts to look at the forms of linkage and feedback that media regimes use to define and delimit the role of the consumer and the citizen. This is a great book for anybody trying to puzzle out how media, technology, power, and subjectivity function in the contemporary world."--McKenzie Wark, author of *Gamer Theory*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>Meta/Data</I> perfectly captures the essence and style of pioneering net artist and online fiction writer Mark Amerika. Featuring a mix of scholarly theory, personal narrative, and conversations with peers, the book provides both meta data on the artist"s multifaceted body of work and insightful commentary on digital poetics and culture. The personae Amerika has created for himselffrom "digital thoughtographer" to VJ as artist-researcherare reflected as different viewpoints in the book"s stories, theoretical essays, and dialogues, and make it a multilinear read that mirrors the diversity of digital culture." <B>Christiane Paul </B>, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Mark Amerika is at the cutting edge of developments in both art and technology. <I>META/DATA</I> is an indispensable guide to the promises and potentials of new mediaand also to the hype, irony, and disappointment that all too often surround them." <B>Steven Shaviro </B>, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*First Person* makes an invaluable contribution to the current discussion surrounding new media narratives, computer games, and the performative ties that bind them. The anthology brings together major players in the field who discuss their ideas in the appropriately open-ended format of statements and responses, all of which shed light on the aesthetic and social implications of our new experiences of stories."--Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Unit Operations* is a major milestone on the path to establishing a framework for analyzing videogames as important cultural artifacts of our time. Proposing a comparative approach to videogame criticism that is equally relevant for humanists and technologists, Ian Bogost weaves philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, film, media theory, informatics, software, and videogames into a narrative that reveals how these seemingly disparate fields relate to and inform each other. Unit operations -- discrete, programmatic units of meaning -- are used as the conceptual tool for unpacking complex relationships between different worlds: criticism and computation, genetics and complex adaptive systems, and narrative spaces from *Casablanca* and *Half-Life* to *Ulysses* and *Grand Theft Auto*."--Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Mark Amerika is at the cutting edge of developments in both art and technology. *META/DATA* is an indispensable guide to the promises and potentials of new media -- and also to the hype, irony, and disappointment that all too often surround them."--Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Meta/Data* perfectly captures the essence and style of pioneering net artist and online fiction writer Mark Amerika. Featuring a mix of scholarly theory, personal narrative, and conversations with peers, the book provides both meta data on the artist's multifaceted body of work and insightful commentary on digital poetics and culture. The personae Amerika has created for himself -- from 'digital thoughtographer' to VJ as artist-researcher -- are reflected as different viewpoints in the book's stories, theoretical essays, and dialogues, and make it a multilinear read that mirrors the diversity of digital culture."--Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Blending artist theory, personal memoir, satire, and fictional narratives, a noted net artist constructs a poetics of net art that parallels his practice.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012331.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012331 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20070420 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 0.7500 in 08 2 lb 06 15 9780262513142 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20070420 18 01 02 The MIT Press T 35.95 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9780262011945 03 02 0262011948 03 9780262011945 15 9780262011945 03 BB 30 01 MITP 1006 2D Object Detection and Recognition 01 1006 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011945 1 A01 Yali Amit Amit, Yali Yali Amit Yali Amit is Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Yali Amit 01 eng 324 99 illus. COM014000 UY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Two important subproblems of computer vision are the detection and recognition of 2D objects in gray-level images. This book discusses the construction and training of models, computational approaches to efficient implementation, and parallel implementations in biologically plausible neural network architectures. The approach is based on statistical modeling and estimation, with an emphasis on simplicity, transparency, and computational efficiency.The book describes a range of deformable template models, from coarse sparse models involving discrete, fast computations to more finely detailed models based on continuum formulations, involving intensive optimization. Each model is defined in terms of a subset of points on a reference grid (the template), a set of admissible instantiations of these points (deformations), and a statistical model for the data given a particular instantiation of the object present in the image. A recurring theme is a coarse to fine approach to the solution of vision problems. The book provides detailed descriptions of the algorithms used as well as the code, and the software and data sets are available on the Web.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Modeling the human ability to identify objects in images has proved to be a significant challenge. While computer vision researchers have largely concentrated on the geometric aspects of the problem such as recognition under varying poses, researchers in statistics and machine learning typically have treated the problem as one of classifying feature vectors. In this important book, Yali Amit presents a novel synthesis of these strands of research. His approach to recognition based on learned configurations of sparse features provides a rare combination of efficient algorithms based on a solid statistical foundation. Amit's thorough and well-documented experimentation with examples ranging from medical images to handwritten digits should set a standard for the field. Highly recommended."--Jitendra Malik, Department of Computer Science, University of California at BerkeleyPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The book develops a novel and elegant approach to the important problem of visual object recognition. The efficient and well motivated algorithms have fundamental theoretical as well as practical implications to the study of computer vision. The book will appeal to computer scientists as well as researchers modeling the functions of biological visual systems."--Shimon Ullman, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A guide to the computer detection and recognition of 2D objects in gray-level images.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011945.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011945 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020802 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1 in 08 1.51 lb 06 15 9780262267090 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020802 18 01 02 The MIT Press S 50.00 USD 02 34.95 GBP Z 0 34.95 0 9780262011983 03 02 0262011980 03 9780262011983 15 9780262011983 03 BB 30 01 MITP 1566 Beyond Late Development 01 1566 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011983 1 A01 Alice H. Amsden Amsden, Alice H. Alice H. Amsden Alice H. Amsden was Barton T. Weller Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2 A01 Wan-Wen Chu Chu, Wan-Wen Wan-Wen Chu Wan-wen Chu is Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Sun Yat-Sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy (ISSP), Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Alice H. Amsden and Wan-Wen Chu 01 eng 223 BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in mature high-tech industries and services.The profits that true innovators in these industries once enjoyed have already declined, but profit rates are still above average. The latecomer firm that succeeds in capturing these rents earns "second-mover" advantage. Amsden and Chu examine the successful second movers in electronics and modern services. The critical factors, they show, are the government policies and large-scale firms that drive skills, speed, and scale. R&D in Taiwan was usually undertaken in conjunction with government labs, which prepared the way for local production of the next hot, mature product. Speed in ramping up at the firm level depended on project execution capabilities and access to capital. Scale proved to be an absolute entry requirement in modern service sectors, and was crucial to win subcontracts from leading foreign firms and to secure key components from world-class suppliers in the electronics industry.The authors challenge current orthodoxy along two lines. First, they argue that government played an important role through interventions that went beyond the market model and overcame the limitations of networking. Interventions possibly promoted mature high-tech even more than mid-tech. Second, the entrepreneurs in Taiwan were nationally owned large-scale firms rather than multinational companies.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Amsden and Chu demonstrate in a scholarly and readable way how successful latecomers deviate from the prescriptions of the 'Washington consensus' in order to build high-tech industries and services. This is a pathbreaking book that points the way toward a new analysis and policy regime for catching up."--Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics and Finance, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2001)</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Out of a detailed case study of Taiwan, Amsden and Chu construct a complex, far-reaching argument about the role of business strategy and governmental policy in late development. Built on a firm foundation of economic and institutional theory and grounded in field interviews with business and bureaucratic actors, it is a strong antidote to neo-liberalism and the belief in economic development as a natural outcome of the free play of market forces. This is one of those rare books which speaks simultaneously to scholars and to practitioners." Michael J. Piore, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, MIT</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"American Economic Policy in the 1990s sets the standard for timely yet rigorous analysis of economic policy. The volume's breadth and quality will make it the comprehensive reference on the events of -- and lessons to be learned from -- the 1990s. As an economist and as a policymaker, I highly recommend it." -- Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics,former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and former ChiefEconomist of the World Bank--Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics and Finance, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2001)</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Beyond Late Development* successfully challenges long-held orthodoxies such as the domination of the Taiwanese economy by small firms, the necessity of foreign ownership in a globalized world, and the reduced role of governments in industrial upgrading. It is an original work of detailed empirical research."--Raphael Kaplinsky, Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Out of a detailed case study of Taiwan Amsden and Chu construct a complex, far-reaching argument about the role of business strategy and governmental policy in late development. Built on a firm foundation of economic and institutional theory and grounded in field interviews with business and bureaucratic actors, it is a strong antidote to neo-liberalism and the belief in economic development as a natural outcome of the free play of market forces. This is one of those rare books which speaks simultaneously to scholars and to practitioners."--Michael J. Piore, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, MIT</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A great place to learn how and why microfinance really works, and where it hits its limits. The book, written by two leading young economists, brims with new evidence and provides fresh perspectives on old debates. Clearly written and sharply argued, it revisits and transforms important ideas about poverty reduction, finance, and incentives. The authors describe what we know and what we need to know in order to move forward."--Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics and Finance, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2001)</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A study of how latecomers catch up in high-tech industries and modern services, based on an in-depth analysis of Taiwan's premier enterprises and government policies.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011983.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011983 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030425 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 .99 lb 06 15 9780262261388 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030425 38 01 02 The MIT Press X 35.00 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9780262511117 03 02 0262511118 03 9780262511117 15 9780262511117 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6520 Talking Nets 01 6520 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511117 1 B01 James A. Anderson Anderson, James A. James A. Anderson James A. Anderson is Professor in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. 2 B01 Edward Rosenfeld Rosenfeld, Edward Edward Rosenfeld Edward Rosenfeld is editor and publisher of the newsletter <I>Intelligence</I>. edited by James A. Anderson and Edward Rosenfeld 01 eng 448 MED057000 MJN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Since World War II, a group of scientists has been attempting to understand the human nervous system and to build computer systems that emulate the brain's abilities. Many of the early workers in this field of neural networks came from cybernetics; others came from neuroscience, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, psychology, even economics. In this collection of interviews, those who helped to shape the field share their childhood memories, their influences, how they became interested in neural networks, and what they see as its future.The subjects tell stories that have been told, referred to, whispered about, and imagined throughout the history of the field. Together, the interviews form a Rashomon-like web of reality. Some of the mythic people responsible for the foundations of modern brain theory and cybernetics, such as Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Frank Rosenblatt, appear prominently in the recollections. The interviewees agree about some things and disagree about more. Together, they tell the story of how science is actually done, including the false starts, and the Darwinian struggle for jobs, resources, and reputation. Although some of the interviews contain technical material, there is no actual mathematics in the book.Contributors : James A. Anderson, Michael Arbib, Gail Carpenter, Leon Cooper, Jack Cowan, Walter Freeman, Stephen Grossberg, Robert Hecht-Neilsen, Geoffrey Hinton, Teuvo Kohonen, Bart Kosko, Jerome Lettvin, Carver Mead, David Rumelhart, Terry Sejnowski, Paul Werbos, Bernard Widrow.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>Talking Nets</I> is a fascinating book.... Anyone with a serious&mdash;or even half-serious&mdash;interest in neural networks, or in the history of AI or cognitive science, should read <I>Talking Nets</I>."&mdash;<B>Margaret A. Boden </B>, <I>Times Literary Supplement</I></P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>" <I>Talking Nets</I> is a fascinating book.... Anyone with a serious -- or even half-serious -- interest in neural networks, or in the history of AI or cognitive science, should read <I>Talking Nets</I>." Margaret A. Boden Times Literary Supplement</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A fascinating compilation of discussions with many of the pioneers inneurocomputing. This book will certainly help fill in the motivationsand historical context surrounding many of the fundamentalbreakthroughs in the area." <B>James L. McClelland </B>, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>Talking Nets </I> is a fascinating book.... Anyone with a serious or even half-serious interest in neural networks, or in the history of AI or cognitive science, should read <I>Talking Nets </I>." <B>Margaret A. Boden </B>, <I>Times Literary Supplement </I></P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>" <I>Talking Nets </I> is a fascinating book.... Anyone with a serious -- or even half-serious -- interest in neural networks, or in the history of AI or cognitive science, should read <I>Talking Nets </I>." Margaret A. Boden Times Literary Supplement</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511117.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511117 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20000228 01 WORLD 01 9.9 in 02 7 in 03 1 in 08 2.0499999999999998 lb 06 15 9780262011679 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20000228 18 01 02 The MIT Press T 30.00 USD 02 20.95 GBP Z 0 20.95 0 9780262511308 03 02 0262511304 03 9780262511308 15 9780262511308 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 5250 Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century 01 5250 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511308 1 A01 Stanford Anderson Anderson, Stanford Stanford Anderson Stanford Anderson is Head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stanford Anderson 01 eng 443 ARC005000 AMX 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Most histories of twentieth-century architecture cite Peter Behrens' influence on three of his protégés--Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier--and mention the turbine factory and arc lamp he designed for the German electrical firm AEG. Now Behrens' full contribution to the history of twentieth-century architecture is finally told, in Stanford Anderson's indispensable guide to one of the great designers of our century.The author was first attracted to Behrens as one of the emblematic figures in the development of architectural modernism. Over the years, he has reflected critically on the growing body of Behrens scholarship that has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as on the views of such tastemakers as Philip Johnson, who rejected Behrens' AEG Turbine Factory, the signature icon of his early experiments in modernism, in favor of his later conservatively classical work. Anderson now assimilates decades of research into a definitive work that considers Behrens from the most nuanced perspective yet and that clarifies many problematic issues such as Behrens' endorsement of historical determinism and his work on Hitler's proposed monumental axis in Berlin.The book looks at the cultural and architectural context in which Behrens worked, his early career, and the relation of his own house in Darmstadt to his ideal of a society where life is formed as art. It also looks at his directorship of the School of Arts and Crafts in Düsseldorf, where he drew on the work of such brilliant historiographers of art and architecture as Alois Riegl and August Schmarsow. In his conclusion, Anderson considers Behrens' melancholy in the face of modern industrial society and his avoidance of a direct address of life, despite, or rather because of, his professed commitment to express life as art.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A first-rate study, unlikely to be surpassed." Choice</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Reveals a profound understanding of the social and cultural context in which Behrens operated and of the crucial issues of artistic theory in early twentieth-century Germany." Gabriele Bryant AA Files</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Reveals a profound understanding of...the crucial issues of artistic theory in early twentieth-century Germany." Gabriele Bryant AA Files</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Reveals a profound understanding...of the crucial issues of artistic theory in early twentieth-century Germany." Gabriele Bryant AA Files</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This clear and critical book... is a welcome addition to the still rather small literature on Behrens in English." E. Mumford </P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511308.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511308 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020823 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 8 in 03 1 in 08 2.25 lb 06 15 9780262011761 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020823 12 01 02 The MIT Press T 47.00 USD 02 32.95 GBP Z 0 32.95 0 9780262012201 03 02 0262012200 03 9780262012201 15 9780262012201 03 BB 30 01 MITP 4454 Measuring the Restrictiveness of International Trade Policy 01 4454 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012201 1 A01 James E. Anderson Anderson, James E. James E. Anderson James E. Anderson is Neenan Professor of Economics at Boston College. 2 A01 J. Peter Neary Neary, J. Peter J. Peter Neary J. Peter Neary is Professor of Political Economy at University College Dublin. James E. Anderson and J. Peter Neary 01 eng 352 34 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>A country's stance on international trade is an important component of its economic welfare. Yet relatively little theoretical attention has been paid to developing accurate methods to assess trade policies, leaving practitioners and policy makers with ad hoc solutions that lack theoretical foundation. In this book, James Anderson and Peter Neary present a new approach to gauging trade restrictiveness. Extending the standard theory of index numbers that apply to prices, output, or productivity, Anderson and Neary develop index numbers that apply directly to policy variables. Their theoretical work builds on, and extends, the standard theory of policy reform in open economics; their empirical findings illustrate how the new indexes can be applied and show the resulting difference in the assessment of trade restrictiveness. Thus their book will be of interest to both theorists and practitioners.After giving a nontechnical introduction to the topic, which includes a discussion of the theoretical and practical failings of other methods of measurement, Anderson and Neary propose two new indexes, the welfare-equivalent uniform tariff and the import-volume-equivalent uniform tariff, and present the theoretical foundation for these methods. The empirical work that follows applies the new approach to a range of issues, including the trade restrictiveness of domestic distortions and the use of a computable general equilibrium model to calculate the proposed measures of trade restrictiveness.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The essays in this volume present some of the most recent thinking and evidence on the role of reciprocity in freeing trade. I recommend this book highly to anyone interested in this important and controversial subject."--Robert W. Staiger, Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin -- Madison</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Anderson and Neary have produced a work of originality and importance, tackling the difficult problem of measuring the restrictiveness of trade arising from multiple instruments. It should wind up on the reading lists of all serious courses on commercial policy."--Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Economics and Law, Columbia University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Anderson and Neary's theoretical analysis and empirical applications are invaluable for serious students of trade policy. We can expect their results to lay the foundation for the cross-country measurement of the distorting effects of tariffs and quotas."--Robert Feenstra, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this volume, two of the finest minds in international trade theory bring together in a single place and within a coherent framework the many contributions they have made in recent years to the theory of measuring trade restrictiveness, and they also move that discussion in new directions. This will be an essential resource for both theoretical and empirical work on trade policy."--Alan V. Deardorff, Department of Economics, University of Michigan</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Anderson and Neary have succeeded in making the measurement of trade-policy restrictiveness accessible and clear to a wide audience. In tackling this complex issue, they provide the technical apparatus and the intuition necessary to make both theory and applications comprehensible. This book will be an important reference for academics and trade-policy practitioners alike."--Robert W. Staiger, Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin -- Madison</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Proposing new theoretically sound indexes for measuring trade restrictiveness, with empirical results that show their application.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012201.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012201 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20051118 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1.35 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20051118 20 01 02 The MIT Press S 37.50 USD 02 25.95 GBP Z 0 25.95 0 9780262511919 03 02 0262511916 03 9780262511919 15 9780262511919 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6219 Software Engineering for Internet Applications 01 6219 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511919 1 A01 Eve Astrid Andersson Andersson, Eve Astrid Eve Astrid Andersson 2 A01 Philip Greenspun Greenspun, Philip Philip Greenspun Philip Greenspun, a software developer, author, teacher, pilot, and photographer, originated the Software Engineering for Internet Applications course at MIT. He is the author of <I>Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing</I>. 3 A01 Andrew Grumet Grumet, Andrew Andrew Grumet Andrew Grumet received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and builds Web applications as an independent software developer. Eve Astrid Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet 01 eng 409 COM014000 UY 10 COM051230 12 UMZ 01 17 03 18 01 00 <P>After completing this self-contained course on server-based Internet applications software, students who start with only the knowledge of how to write and debug a computer program will have learned how to build web-based applications on the scale of Amazon.com. Unlike the desktop applications that most students have already learned to build, server-based applications have multiple simultaneous users. This fact, coupled with the unreliability of networks, gives rise to the problems of concurrency and transactions, which students learn to manage by using the relational database system.After working their way to the end of the book, students will have the skills to take vague and ambitious specifications and turn them into a system design that can be built and launched in a few months. They will be able to test prototypes with end-users and refine the application design. They will understand how to meet the challenge of extreme business requirements with automatic code generation and the use of open-source toolkits where appropriate. Students will understand HTTP, HTML, SQL, mobile browsers, VoiceXML, data modeling, page flow and interaction design, server-side scripting, and usability analysis.The book, which originated as the text for an MIT course, is suitable for classroom use and will be a useful reference for software professionals developing multi-user Internet applications. It will also help managers evaluate such commercial software as Microsoft Sharepoint of Microsoft Content Management Server.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Filled with practical advice for elegant and effective websites."--Edward Tufte, author of *The Visual Display of Quantitative Information*</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A self-contained course on server-based Internet applications software that grew out of an MIT course.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511919.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511919 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060224 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 8 in 03 .75 in 08 1.65 lb 06 15 9780262255622 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060224 22 01 02 The MIT Press S 39.00 USD 02 26.95 GBP Z 0 26.95 0 9780262012065 03 02 0262012065 03 9780262012065 15 9780262012065 03 BB 30 01 MITP gea Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation 01 MITP 6788 Transnational Politics of the Environment 01 6788 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012065 1 A01 Liliana B. Andonova Andonova, Liliana B. Liliana B. Andonova Liliana B. Andonova is a Post-Doctoral Reasearch Associate Scholar at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. After February 2004, she will be Assistant Professor of International Relations and Environmental Politics in the Government Department and the Environmental Studies Program at Colby College. Liliana B. Andonova 01 eng 224 SCI026000 RNQ 10 POL028000 12 JPRB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In Transnational Politics of the Environment Liliana Andonova examines the effect of the Europen Union (EU) on the environmental policies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland. Compliance with EU environmental regulations is especially onerous for Central and Eastern European countries because of the costs involved and the legacy of pollution from communist-era industries. But Andonova argues that EU integration has a positive impact on environmental policies in these countries by exerting a strong influence on the environmental interests of regulated industries. With her empirical study of chemical safety and air pollution policies from 1990 to 2000, she shows that export-competitive industries such as the chemical industry that would benefit from economic integration have an incentive to adopt EU norms. By contrast, industries such as electric utilities that primarily serve the domestic market remain opposed to EU environmental standards and must be prodded by their own governments to implement environmental-protection measures. These differences in domestic interests greatly influence the course of reforms and the adoption of EU standards.Transnational Politics of the Environment challenges the current focus on intergovernmental cooperation between East and West by highlighting the roles of industries, transnational norms, and domestic institutions in promoting change in environmental regulation. It offers a generalizable framework for understanding the politics of environmental regulation in emerging market economies, and helps bridge the divide between the study of domestic and international environmental politics.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A remarkably well-stated presentation of complex environmental history and political relationships in three Eastern European countries, with good research, clear thinking, and equally clear exposition."--Eugene B. Skolnikoff, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, MIT</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is the first published analysis of the impacts of the process of enactment and application of EU environmental legislation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. On the basis of originally researched case histories it assesses the impacts of this process on industrial structures and costs and on the interplay of industrial, political, and advocacy group interests in the legislative process. It is highly recommended reading not only for academics and experts but for all those interested in the future development of EU environmental regulation and in the solution of global environmental issues." Tom Garvey, Member of the Board, Russian Regional Environmental Centre, Moscow, Formerly Deputy Director General for Environment, European Commission</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is the first published analysis of the impacts of the *process* of enactment and application of EU environmental legislation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. On the basis of originally researched case histories it assesses the impacts of this process on industrial structures and costs, and on the interplay of industrial, political, and advocacy group interests in the legislative process. It is highly recommended reading not only for academics and experts, but for all those interested in the future development of EU environmental regulation, and in the solution of global environmental issues."--Tom Garvey, Member of the Board, Russian Regional Environmental Centre, Moscow, Formerly Deputy Director General for Environment, European CommissionPlease note: The second sentence may be omitted for space reasons, if necessary.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A study of the effect of EU membership on Central and Eastern European environmental policy and the interplay of political incentives and industry behavior that determines policy </P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012065.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012065 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20031121 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 1.1200000000000001 lb 06 15 9780262511797 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20031121 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 60.00 USD 02 41.95 GBP Z 0 41.95 0 9780262511797 03 02 0262511797 03 9780262511797 15 9780262511797 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP gea Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation 01 MITP 6788 Transnational Politics of the Environment 01 6788 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511797 1 A01 Liliana B. Andonova Andonova, Liliana B. Liliana B. Andonova Liliana B. Andonova is a Post-Doctoral Reasearch Associate Scholar at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. After February 2004, she will be Assistant Professor of International Relations and Environmental Politics in the Government Department and the Environmental Studies Program at Colby College. Liliana B. Andonova 01 eng 224 SCI026000 RNQ 10 POL028000 12 JPRB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In Transnational Politics of the Environment Liliana Andonova examines the effect of the Europen Union (EU) on the environmental policies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland. Compliance with EU environmental regulations is especially onerous for Central and Eastern European countries because of the costs involved and the legacy of pollution from communist-era industries. But Andonova argues that EU integration has a positive impact on environmental policies in these countries by exerting a strong influence on the environmental interests of regulated industries. With her empirical study of chemical safety and air pollution policies from 1990 to 2000, she shows that export-competitive industries such as the chemical industry that would benefit from economic integration have an incentive to adopt EU norms. By contrast, industries such as electric utilities that primarily serve the domestic market remain opposed to EU environmental standards and must be prodded by their own governments to implement environmental-protection measures. These differences in domestic interests greatly influence the course of reforms and the adoption of EU standards.Transnational Politics of the Environment challenges the current focus on intergovernmental cooperation between East and West by highlighting the roles of industries, transnational norms, and domestic institutions in promoting change in environmental regulation. It offers a generalizable framework for understanding the politics of environmental regulation in emerging market economies, and helps bridge the divide between the study of domestic and international environmental politics.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A remarkably well-stated presentation of complex environmental history and political relationships in three Eastern European countries, with good research, clear thinking, and equally clear exposition."--Eugene B. Skolnikoff, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, MIT</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is the first published analysis of the impacts of the process of enactment and application of EU environmental legislation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. On the basis of originally researched case histories it assesses the impacts of this process on industrial structures and costs and on the interplay of industrial, political, and advocacy group interests in the legislative process. It is highly recommended reading not only for academics and experts but for all those interested in the future development of EU environmental regulation and in the solution of global environmental issues." Tom Garvey, Member of the Board, Russian Regional Environmental Centre, Moscow, Formerly Deputy Director General for Environment, European Commission</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is the first published analysis of the impacts of the *process* of enactment and application of EU environmental legislation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. On the basis of originally researched case histories it assesses the impacts of this process on industrial structures and costs, and on the interplay of industrial, political, and advocacy group interests in the legislative process. It is highly recommended reading not only for academics and experts, but for all those interested in the future development of EU environmental regulation, and in the solution of global environmental issues."--Tom Garvey, Member of the Board, Russian Regional Environmental Centre, Moscow, Formerly Deputy Director General for Environment, European CommissionPlease note: The second sentence may be omitted for space reasons, if necessary.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A study of the effect of EU membership on Central and Eastern European environmental policy and the interplay of political incentives and industry behavior that determines policy </P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511797.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511797 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20031121 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 .85 lb 06 15 9780262012065 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20031121 46 01 02 The MIT Press S 24.00 USD 02 16.95 GBP Z 0 16.95 0 9780262012157 03 02 0262012154 03 9780262012157 15 9780262012157 03 BB 30 01 MITP wriart Writing Art 01 MITP 2223 Cuts 01 2223 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012157 1 A01 Carl Andre Andre, Carl Carl Andre Carl Andre is a sculptor and poet. 2 B01 James Meyer Meyer, James James Meyer James Meyer is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University. He is the author of <I>Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties</I> and the editor of <I>The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003</I> by Gregg Bordowitz (MIT Press, 2004). edited by James Meyer. Carl Andre 01 eng 339 82 illus. ART016000 AGB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Just as Carl Andre's sculptures are "cuts" of elemental materials, his writings are condensed expressions, "cuts" of language that emphasize the part rather than the whole. Andre, a central figure in minimalism and one of the most influential sculptors of our time, does not produce the usual critical essay. He has said that he is "not a writer of prose," and the texts included in Cuts -- the most comprehensive collection of his writings yet published -- appear in a wide variety of forms that are pithy and poetic rather than prosaic. Some texts are statements, many of them fifty words or less, written for catalog entries and press releases. Others are Socratic dialogues, interwoven statements, or in the form of questionnaires and interviews. Still others are letters -- public and private, lengthy missives and postcards. Some are epigrams and maxims (for example, on Damian Hirst: I DON'T FEAR HIS SHARK. I FEAR HIS FORMALDEHYDE) and some are planar poems, words and letters arranged and rearranged into different patterns. They are organized alphabetically by subject, under such entries as "Art and Capitalism," "Childhood," "Entropy (After Smithson)," "Matter," "My Work," "Other Artists," and "Poetry," and they include Andre's reflections on Michelangelo and Duchamp, on Stein and Marx, and such contemporaries as Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, and Damien Hirst.Carl Andre's writing and its materiality -- its stress on the visual and tactile qualities of language -- takes its place beside his sculpture and its materiality, its revelation of "matter as matter rather than matter as symbol." Both assert the ethical and political primacy of matter in a culture that prizes the replica, the insubstantial, and the virtual. "I am not an idealist as an artist," says Andre. "I try to discover my visions in the conditions of the world. It's the conditions which are important."</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Andre's work, like his writing, is composed of separate pieces - cuts - reassembled in a playful and thoughtful way." Afterimage</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Such books are invaluable for the art historian, documenting ideas in gestation and formation, and for the general art reader in revealing something of the persona of the artist." Detroit Metro Times</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Statements, dialogue, letters, epigrams, and poems by sculptor Carl Andre, a central figure in minimalism.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012157.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012157 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050527 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 8 in 03 1 in 08 2.4 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050527 20 01 02 The MIT Press T 48.00 USD 02 33.95 GBP Z 0 33.95 0 9780262012256 03 02 0262012251 03 9780262012256 15 9780262012256 03 BB 30 01 MITP pse Politics, Science, and the Environment 01 MITP 7093 What's the Beef? 01 7093 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012256 1 B01 Christopher Ansell Ansell, Christopher Christopher Ansell Christopher Ansell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. 2 B01 David Vogel Vogel, David David Vogel David Vogel is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds the Solomon Lee Chair in Business Ethics. edited by Christopher Ansell and David Vogel 01 eng 400 2 illus. NAT011000 RNP 10 POL044000 12 RND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>A series of food-related crises--most notably mad cow disease in Britain, farmer protests in France against American hormone-treated beef, and the European Union's banning of genetically modified food--has turned the regulation of food safety in Europe into a crucible for issues of institutional trust, legitimacy, and effectiveness. What's the Beef? examines European food safety regulation at the national, European, and international levels as a case of "contested governance"--a syndrome of policymaking and political dispute in which not only policy outcomes but aso the fundamental legitimacy of existing institutional arrangements are challenged.The discussions of European food safety regulation in What's the Beef? open into consideration of broader issues, including the growing importance of multilevel regulation (and the possibility of disagreements among different levels of authority), the future of European integration, discontent over trade globalization, the politicization of risk assessment and regulatory science, the regulation of biotechnology, the shifting balance between public and private regulation, agricultural protectionism, and the "transatlantic divide." After addressing the historical, social, and economic context of European food safety regulation, the book examines national efforts at food safety reform in France, Britain, and Germany and such regional efforts as the creation of the European Food Authority. The book also looks at the international dimensions of European food safety regulation, discussing the conflicts between EU safety rules and World Trade Organization rulings that occur because EU rules are more risk averse ("precautionary") than those of its trading partners, including the United States.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Food issues are at the heart of ongoing policy debates between Europe and the United States, ranging from whether we should have further agricultural subsidies to whether we should grow and eat genetically modified foods. Yet to date there has been little academic analysis explaining why these debates are often left unresolved, often due to a lack of trust, the role of regulatory scandals, or the importance of food culture. This timely book addresses this gap, and hence is essential for anyone interested in US-European policy analysis."--Ragnar E. Lofstedt, Professor and Director, King's Centre for Risk Management, Kings College London</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012256.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012256 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060331 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.4 lb 06 15 9780262511926 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060331 24 01 02 The MIT Press S 67.00 USD 02 46.95 GBP Z 0 46.95 0 9780262511926 03 02 0262511924 03 9780262511926 15 9780262511926 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP pse Politics, Science, and the Environment 01 MITP 7093 What's the Beef? 01 7093 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511926 1 B01 Christopher Ansell Ansell, Christopher Christopher Ansell Christopher Ansell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. 2 B01 David Vogel Vogel, David David Vogel David Vogel is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds the Solomon Lee Chair in Business Ethics. edited by Christopher Ansell and David Vogel 01 eng 400 2 illus. NAT011000 RNP 10 POL044000 12 RND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>A series of food-related crises--most notably mad cow disease in Britain, farmer protests in France against American hormone-treated beef, and the European Union's banning of genetically modified food--has turned the regulation of food safety in Europe into a crucible for issues of institutional trust, legitimacy, and effectiveness. What's the Beef? examines European food safety regulation at the national, European, and international levels as a case of "contested governance"--a syndrome of policymaking and political dispute in which not only policy outcomes but aso the fundamental legitimacy of existing institutional arrangements are challenged.The discussions of European food safety regulation in What's the Beef? open into consideration of broader issues, including the growing importance of multilevel regulation (and the possibility of disagreements among different levels of authority), the future of European integration, discontent over trade globalization, the politicization of risk assessment and regulatory science, the regulation of biotechnology, the shifting balance between public and private regulation, agricultural protectionism, and the "transatlantic divide." After addressing the historical, social, and economic context of European food safety regulation, the book examines national efforts at food safety reform in France, Britain, and Germany and such regional efforts as the creation of the European Food Authority. The book also looks at the international dimensions of European food safety regulation, discussing the conflicts between EU safety rules and World Trade Organization rulings that occur because EU rules are more risk averse ("precautionary") than those of its trading partners, including the United States.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Food issues are at the heart of ongoing policy debates between Europe and the United States, ranging from whether we should have further agricultural subsidies to whether we should grow and eat genetically modified foods. Yet to date there has been little academic analysis explaining why these debates are often left unresolved, often due to a lack of trust, the role of regulatory scandals, or the importance of food culture. This timely book addresses this gap, and hence is essential for anyone interested in US-European policy analysis."--Ragnar E. Lofstedt, Professor and Director, King's Centre for Risk Management, Kings College London</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511926.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511926 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060324 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.1499999999999999 lb 06 15 9780262012256 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060324 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 28.00 USD 02 19.95 GBP Z 0 19.95 0 9780262011877 03 02 0262011875 03 9780262011877 15 9780262011877 03 BB 30 01 MITP cia Comparative Institutional Analysis 01 MITP 6747 Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis 01 6747 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011877 1 A01 Masahiko Aoki Aoki, Masahiko Masahiko Aoki Masahiko Aoki is Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Masahiko Aoki 01 eng 560 33 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Markets are one of the most salient institutions produced by humans, and economists have traditionally analyzed the workings of the market mechanism. Recently, however, economists and others have begun to appreciate the many institution-related events and phenomena that have a significant impact on economic performance. Examples include the demise of the communist states, the emergence of Silicon Valley and e-commerce, the European currency unification, and the East Asian financial crises.In this book Masahiko Aoki uses modern game theory to develop a conceptual and analytical framework for understanding issues related to economic institutions. The wide-ranging discussion considers how institutions evolve, why their overall arrangements are robust and diverse across economies, and why they do or do not change in response to environmental factors such as technological progress, global market integration, and demographic change.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Good economic theory mixes rigorous mathematical reasoning with intuitive motivations and stories, which can make the task of presenting or evaluating cutting-edge research a treacherous balancing act. In this one-of-a-kind essay, Thomson offers an armful of good advice and tricks of the trade to economists young and old, lest any of them forget that a bad container can spoil its contents."--Hervé Moulin, George Peterkin Professor of Economic Theory, Rice University, and Editor of Mathematical Social Sciences </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this book Professor Aoki does a remarkable job of animating recent developments in the theory of contracts and institutions. This theory is used to explain the form and structure of diverse institutions, ranging from the regulation of irrigation systems in Tokugawa Japan to the rise of Silicon Valley. This book is an astounding achievement that is sure to become a classic."--W. Bentley MacLeod, Professor of Economics and Law, University of Southern California</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book has an outstanding intellectual sweep, covering game theory and abstract economics on the one hand, and a wide diversity of anthropological examples and illustrations from the real world, on the other."--Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor, Cornell University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This volume presents the results of decades of imaginative research by Fields on the most critical set of issues in development today. Distribution and Development goes beyond examining the relationship between growth and distribution to include the burgeoning concern with poverty alleviation, as well as such innovative topics as income mobility and economic well-being. An excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students."--Gustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, Yale University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"If the new institutional economics is to realize its promise, it must go beyond the description, insights, and hypotheses so far developed and turn them into a systematic theoretical framework. Masahiko Aoki's Towards a Comparative Institutional Analysis takes us a long way in doing just that."--Douglass C. North, Department of Economics, University of Washington St. Louis</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A conceptual and analytical framework for understanding economic institutions and institutional change.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011877.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011877 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20011109 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1.25 in 08 2.14 lb 06 15 9780262267212 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20011109 16 01 02 The MIT Press X 73.00 USD 02 50.95 GBP Z 0 50.95 0 9780262012003 03 02 0262012006 03 9780262012003 15 9780262012003 03 BB 30 01 MITP lim Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 40 01 MITP 2790 Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar 01 2790 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012003 1 A01 Joseph Aoun Aoun, Joseph Joseph Aoun Joseph Aoun is President of Northeastern University. 2 A01 Yen-hui Audrey Li Li, Yen-hui Audrey Yen-hui Audrey Li Yen-hui Audrey Li is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. Joseph Aoun and Yen-Hui Audrey Li 01 eng 301 LAN009000 CFM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This book can be read on two levels: as a novel empirical study of wh- interrogatives and relative constructions in a variety of languages and as a theoretical investigation of chain formation in grammar.The book is divided into two parts. Part I investigates the distribution and interpretation of multiple wh- interrogative constructions, focusing on the workings of Superiority. Part II investigates the structure and derivation of relative constructions. The main languages discussed are Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, and English. The theoretical materials are in the generative grammar tradition.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book contains the most interesting and provocative syntax that I have seen in the last five years. It has all of the ingredients required for status as a classic. First, it contains new data of the core Lebanese Arabic (LA) constructions of resumption and relativization. Second, it provides sophisticated analyses of these data that, at the very least, will leave (other) theoreticians at loose ends for quite a while. The stunning analysis and discussion of superiority effects in LA resumptive pronoun constructions is alone worth the price of the book. Third, the book catalogues and provides accounts for very subtle cross linguistic variation as regards superiority and relativization. This is comparative syntax at its best; based on thorough and detailed analyses of novel data and informed to the highest degree by a sophisticated appreciation of current grammatical theory. Aoun and Li are considered to be two of the best syntacticians around. This wonderful book shows why."--Norbert Hornstein, Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College ParkPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012003.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012003 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030509 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .6 in 08 1.18 lb 06 15 9780262511322 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030509 30 01 02 The MIT Press S 75.00 USD 02 51.95 GBP Z 0 51.95 0 9780262511322 03 02 0262511320 03 9780262511322 15 9780262511322 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP lim Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 40 01 MITP 2790 Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar 01 2790 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511322 1 A01 Joseph Aoun Aoun, Joseph Joseph Aoun Joseph Aoun is President of Northeastern University. 2 A01 Yen-hui Audrey Li Li, Yen-hui Audrey Yen-hui Audrey Li Yen-hui Audrey Li is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. Joseph Aoun and Yen-Hui Audrey Li 01 eng 301 LAN009000 CFM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This book can be read on two levels: as a novel empirical study of wh- interrogatives and relative constructions in a variety of languages and as a theoretical investigation of chain formation in grammar.The book is divided into two parts. Part I investigates the distribution and interpretation of multiple wh- interrogative constructions, focusing on the workings of Superiority. Part II investigates the structure and derivation of relative constructions. The main languages discussed are Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, and English. The theoretical materials are in the generative grammar tradition.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book contains the most interesting and provocative syntax that I have seen in the last five years. It has all of the ingredients required for status as a classic. First, it contains new data of the core Lebanese Arabic (LA) constructions of resumption and relativization. Second, it provides sophisticated analyses of these data that, at the very least, will leave (other) theoreticians at loose ends for quite a while. The stunning analysis and discussion of superiority effects in LA resumptive pronoun constructions is alone worth the price of the book. Third, the book catalogues and provides accounts for very subtle cross linguistic variation as regards superiority and relativization. This is comparative syntax at its best; based on thorough and detailed analyses of novel data and informed to the highest degree by a sophisticated appreciation of current grammatical theory. Aoun and Li are considered to be two of the best syntacticians around. This wonderful book shows why."--Norbert Hornstein, Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College ParkPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511322.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511322 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030509 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .6 in 08 .92 lb 06 15 9780262012003 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030509 40 01 02 The MIT Press S 30.00 USD 02 20.95 GBP Z 0 20.95 0 9780262011976 03 02 0262011972 03 9780262011976 15 9780262011976 03 BB 30 01 MITP 3356 The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks 01 3356 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011976 1 B01 Michael A. Arbib Arbib, Michael A. Michael A. Arbib Michael A. Arbib is University Professor, Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience, and Psychology at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of many books, including <I>The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks</I> (MIT Press, second edition 2002). edited by Michael A. Arbib 2 second edition 01 eng 1308 1,000 illus. MED057000 MJN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Dramatically updating and extending the first edition, published in 1995, the second edition of The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks presents the enormous progress made in recent years in the many subfields related to the two great questions: How does the brain work? and, How can we build intelligent machines?Once again, the heart of the book is a set of almost 300 articles covering the whole spectrum of topics in brain theory and neural networks. The first two parts of the book, prepared by Michael Arbib, are designed to help readers orient themselves in this wealth of material. Part I provides general background on brain modeling and on both biological and artificial neural networks. Part II consists of "Road Maps" to help readers steer through articles in part III on specific topics of interest. The articles in part III are written so as to be accessible to readers of diverse backgrounds. They are cross-referenced and provide lists of pointers to Road Maps, background material, and related reading.The second edition greatly increases the coverage of models of fundamental neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, and neural network approaches to language. It contains 287 articles, compared to the 266 in the first edition. Articles on topics from the first edition have been updated by the original authors or written anew by new authors, and there are 106 articles on new topics.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This revised *Handbook of Brain Theory* provides useful new data and and updates key concepts in neuroscience. It will be an indispensable guide for exploring the essentials of brain science."--Masao Ito, RIKEN Brain Science InstitutePlease note: This quote is for promotional materials only, not for the book jacket.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A new, dramatically updated edition of the classic resource on the constantly evolving fields of brain theory and neural networks.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011976.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011976 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20021122 01 WORLD 01 11 in 02 8.5 in 03 2.25 in 08 6.45 lb 06 15 9780262267267 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20021122 4 01 02 The MIT Press S 205.00 USD 02 141.95 GBP Z 0 141.95 0 9780262511278 04 02 0262511274 03 9780262511278 15 9780262511278 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP dlep Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing 01 MITP 2389 Digital Libraries 01 2389 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511278 1 A01 William Y. Arms Arms, William Y. William Y. Arms William Y. Arms is Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. William Y. Arms 01 eng 304 LAN025000 GPJ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The emergence of the Internet and the wide availability of affordable computing equipment have created tremendous interest in digital libraries and electronic publishing. This book is the first to provide an integrated overview of the field, including a historical perspective, the state of the art, and current research.The term "digital libraries" covers the creation and distribution of all types of information over networks, ranging from converted historical materials to kinds of information that have no analogues in the physical world. In some ways digital libraries and traditional libraries are very different, yet in other ways they are remarkably similar. People still create information that has to be organized, stored, and distributed, and they still need to find and use information that others have created. An underlying theme of this book is that no aspect of digital libraries can be understood in isolation or without attention to the needs of the people who create and use information. Although the book covers a wide range of technical, economic, social, and organizational topics, the focus is on the actual working components of a digital library.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Bill Arms offers a comprehensive look at Digital Libraries from manyperspectives. He's right: we're just at the beginning of this story. Thebest is yet to come." Vint Cerf, Senior Vice President, Internet Architecture and Technology, MCI WorldCom</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511278.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511278 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20010727 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.1299999999999999 lb 06 15 9780262011808 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y MD 23 20010727 36 01 02 The MIT Press S 32.00 USD 02 22.95 GBP Z 0 22.95 0 9780262012263 03 02 026201226X 03 9780262012263 15 9780262012263 03 BB 30 01 MITP oct October Books 01 MITP 7151 Women Artists at the Millennium 01 7151 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012263 1 B01 Carol Armstrong Armstrong, Carol Carol Armstrong Carol Armstrong is Doris Stevens Professor of Women's Studies in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. She is the author of <I>Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875</I> (MIT Press, 1998). 2 B01 Catherine de Zegher de Zegher, Catherine Catherine de de Zegher Catherine de Zegher was Director of The Drawing Center in New York from 1999 to 2006. She is the editor of <I>Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine</I> (MIT Press, 1996). edited by Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher 01 eng 472 62 color illus., 124 b&w illus. 02 62 01 124 ART009000 ABA 10 SOC028000 12 JFSJ1 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>More than thirty years after the birth of the modern women's movement and the beginnings of feminist art-making and art history, the time is ripe to examine the legacies of those revolutions. In Women Artists at the Millennium, artists, art historians, and critics examine the differences that feminist art practice and critical theory have made in late twentieth-century art and the discourses surrounding it.In 1971, when Linda Nochlin published her essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" in a special issue of Art News, there were no women's studies, no feminist theory, no such thing as feminist art criticism; there was instead a focus on the mythic figure of the great (male) artist through history. Since then, the "woman artist" has not simply been assimilated into the canon of "greatness" but has expanded art-making into a multiplicity of practices with new parameters and perspectives. In Women Artists at the Millennium artists including Martha Rosler and Yvonne Rainer reflect upon their own varied practices and art historians discuss the innovative work of such figures as Louise Bourgeois, Lygia Clark, Mona Hatoum, and Carrie Mae Weems. And Linda Nochlin considers changes since her landmark essay and looks to the future, writing, "We will need all our wit and courage to make sure that women's voices are heard, their work seen and written about."Artist Pages ByEllen Gallagher, Ann Hamilton, Mary Kelly, Yvonne Rainer, Martha RoslerContributing WritersEmily Apter, Carol Armstrong, Catherine de Zegher, Maria DiBattista, Brigid Doherty, Briony Fer, Tamar Garb, Anne Higonnet, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Molly Nesbit, Mignon Nixon, Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Lisa Tickner, Anne Wagner</P> The MIT Press 04 00 <P>Portfolio, by Yvonne Rainer"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", by Linda NochlinRethinking the Artist in the Woman, the Woman in the Artist, and That Old Chestnut, the Gaze, by Griselda PollockMediating Generation, by Lisa TicknerResponding, by Molly NesbitPortfolio, by Martha RoslerDuchess of Nothing, by Ewa Lajer-BurcharthDrawing Drawing, by Briony FerThe Inside Is the Outside, by Catherine de ZegherResponding, by Brigid DohertyPortfolio, by Ann HamiltonHairlines, by Tamar Garb <I>The She-Fox</I>, by Mignon NixonDifference and Disfiguration, or Trockel as Mime, by Anne M. WagnerResponding, by Emily ApterPortfolio, by Mary KellyFrancesca Woodman, by Carol ArmstrongTaunting and Haunting, by Abigail Solomon-GodeauSally Mann, by Anne HigonnetResponding, by Maria diBattistaPortfolio, by Ellen Gallagher</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Artists, art historians, and critics look at the legacies of feminism and critical theory in the work of women artists, more than thirty years after the beginning of the modern women's movement and Linda Nochlin's landmark essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012263.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012263 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060825 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 0.8125 in 08 2.6 lb 06 15 9780262515948 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060825 8 01 02 The MIT Press T 42.00 USD 02 28.95 GBP Z 0 28.95 0 9780262012058 03 02 0262012057 03 9780262012058 15 9780262012058 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2570 Economics for an Imperfect World 01 2570 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012058 1 B01 Richard Arnott Arnott, Richard Richard Arnott Richard Arnott is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside. 1 B01 Bruce Greenwald Greenwald, Bruce Bruce Greenwald Bruce Greenwald is Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management in the Finance and Economics Division of Columbia Business School. 1 B01 Ravi Kanbur Kanbur, Ravi Ravi Kanbur Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. 1 B01 Barry Nalebuff Nalebuff, Barry Barry Nalebuff edited by Richard Arnott, Bruce Greenwald, Ravi Kanbur, and Barry Nalebuff 01 eng 616 42 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Throughout Joseph Stiglitz's long and distinguished career in economics, the focus has been on the real world, with all of its imperfections. His 2001 Nobel Prize recognized his pioneering research in imperfect information; his work in other areas, including macroeconomics, public economics, and development economics, has been just as influential. This volume, a collection of essays written to mark Stiglitz's sixtieth birthday, reflects the wide-ranging influence of "Stiglitzian" economics. The many distinguished contributors are his teachers, students, and coauthors; their participation testifies to the personal and professional impact of Joseph Stiglitz's contributions to contemporary economic thought.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Its size and scope make this remarkable volume a fitting tribute to Joe Stiglitz's remarkable career. Its astounding quality and breadth, and amazing list of authors, make it a feast for economic theorists."--Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Essays by leading economic thinkers reflecting the influence of 2001 Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz. </P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012058.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012058 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20031024 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1.5 in 08 2.38 lb 06 15 9780262267342 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20031024 14 01 02 The MIT Press S 63.00 USD 02 43.95 GBP Z 0 43.95 0 9780262012195 03 02 0262012197 03 9780262012195 15 9780262012195 03 BB 30 01 MITP cesifob CESifo Book Series 01 MITP 1196 Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion 01 1196 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012195 1 A01 Richard Arnott Arnott, Richard Richard Arnott Richard Arnott is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside. 2 A01 Tilmann Rave Rave, Tilmann Tilmann Rave Tilmann Rave is Researcher at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. 3 A01 Ronnie Schöb Schöb, Ronnie Ronnie Schöb Ronnie Schöb is Professor of Economics at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany. Richard Arnott, Tilmann Rave, and Ronnie Schöb 01 eng 256 16 illus. BUS044000 KCC 10 TRA001050 12 WGCB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In 2000, the average driver in US metropolitan areas endured 27 hours of traffic delays, a rise from 7 hours in 1980. In many other countries, traffic delays are considerably worse than in the United States, and in developing countries urban traffic congestion is increasing with alarming rapidity. For fifty years, economists have been advocating congestion pricing as the way to deal with urban traffic congestion; but today, even after some successes, congestion pricing is encountering considerable political resistance. The authors of Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion advocate active consideration of more microscopic policies that attack the problem at the scale at which actual policy decisions are made. Microscopic models, rather than macroscopic models that are too simplified and too aggregated, they argue, will lead to the analysis of a wider and more creative range of policies, at least some of which should work well and be politically acceptable.After developing the themes of the book, the authors illustrate them by examining some areas of urban transport policy that have been neglected by the macroscopic approach. These include downtown parking policy, the encouragement of bicycling, the staggering of work hours by dominant employers, and the use by medium-sized cities of a "multimode" ticket that charges cars entering the city center a toll equal to the transit fare. The reorientation of urban transport analysis that they advocate will by no means eliminate traffic delays but should speed up the adoption of a richer, more flexible, and ultimately more effective set of policies to alleviate urban traffic congestion.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The book's combined analysis of parking and traffic is an important theoretical breakthrough. The results show how properly priced on-street parking can greatly reduce traffic congestion and produce substantial public revenue. This 'double dividend' from charging the right price for parking is exceptionally promising for both transportation and fiscal policy."--Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Argues that urban transport economists should be less preoccupied with congestion pricing as the way of alleviating urban traffic congestion and should devote more of their attention to the study of policies that operate at a more microscopic scale&mdash;the scale at which urban transport policy decisions are made.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012195.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012195 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050819 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.1000000000000001 lb 06 15 9780262261456 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050819 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 40.00 USD 02 27.95 GBP Z 0 27.95 0 9780262011907 03 02 0262011905 03 9780262011907 15 9780262011907 03 BB 30 01 MITP 4382 Markets for Technology 01 4382 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011907 1 A01 Ashish Arora Arora, Ashish Ashish Arora Ashish Arora is Associate Professor in the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. 2 A01 Andrea Fosfuri Fosfuri, Andrea Andrea Fosfuri Andrea Fosfuri is Assistant Professor of Business at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. 3 A01 Alfonso Gambardella Gambardella, Alfonso Alfonso Gambardella Alfonso Gambardella is Professor at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri and Alfonso Gambardella 01 eng 350 14 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The past two decades have seen a gradual but noticeable change in the economic organization of innovative activity. Most firms used to integrate research and development with activities such as production, marketing, and distribution. Today firms are forming joint ventures, research and development alliances, licensing deals, and a variety of other outsourcing arrangements with universities, technology-based start-ups, and other established firms. In many industries, a division of innovative labor is emerging, with a substantial increase in the licensing of existing and prospective technologies. In short, technology and knowledge are becoming definable and tradable commodities.Although researchers have made significant advances in understanding the determinants and consequences of innovation, until recently they have paid little attention to how innovation functions as an economic process. This book examines the nature and workings of markets for intermediate technological inputs. It looks first at how industry structure, the nature of knowledge, and intellectual property rights facilitate the development of technology markets. It then examines the impacts of these markets on firm boundaries, the division of labor within the economy, industry structure, and economic growth. Finally, it examines the implications of this framework for public policy and corporate strategy. Combining theoretical perspectives from economics and management with empirical analysis, the book also draws on historical evidence and case studies to flesh out its research results.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Many governments today are striving to promote entrepreneurship and venture capital investment. Numerous failed experiments around the globe over the past three decades make clear that there are no easy recipes to accomplish these goals. This collection of essays provides a thoughtful look at these important issues, with a particularly welcome emphasis on the European experience."--Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School, coauthor of *The Venture Capital Cycle*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The fact that transactions in new technology are difficult to execute has long been recognized; but the barriers to these deals have seldom been studied. Drawing on a diverse array of disciplines, Markets for Technology takes a fascinating and thought-provoking look at this hitherto-neglected arena."--Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School, coauthor of *The Venture Capital Cycle*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Markets for Technology is an important step forward in an emerging new branch of economics. The authors write with analytical rigor and historical perspective, showing that markets for technology are surprisingly robust and growing--in certain sectors under certain conditions--with real consequences for economic change."--Gavin Wright, Coe Professor of American Economic History, Stanford UniversityPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"While there are a number of books on technology strategy and the economics of innovative activity, this work stakes out a distinct terrain. The authors consider the basic question of how markets for innovative outcomes operate, exploring issues such as the role of licensing, the implications of general-purpose technologies, and the nature of technical problem solving. Drawing on their own research contributions as well as those of other leading researchers, the authors provide both a powerful set of concepts with which to address these questions and a rich set of empirical findings to buttress and illustrate these arguments. The book will serve not only as a valuable text for students and academics, but as a useful touchstone for practitioners who confront these timely questions."--Dan Levinthal, Julian Aresty Professor of Economics and Management, The Wharton School of Business, University of PennsylvaniaPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a terrific book on many levels--most imoportantly theory, empirics, and strategy. The authors have done a wonderful job of bringing into focus the "market behind the market," the transactional setting in which information assets are traded. This book is the best evidence yet of the gains from studying these markets as a discrete phenomenon; it should serve as a catalyst for exploring new dimensions of such old issues as firm boundaries, specialization, and industry structure."--Robert Merges, Goodrich and Rosati Professor of Law and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, BerkeleyPlease note: This endorsement arrived too late to appear on the book jacket. Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011907.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011907 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20011207 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.41 lb 06 15 9780262511810 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20011207 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 43.00 USD 02 29.95 GBP Z 0 29.95 0 9780262511810 03 02 0262511819 03 9780262511810 15 9780262511810 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 4382 Markets for Technology 01 4382 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511810 1 A01 Ashish Arora Arora, Ashish Ashish Arora Ashish Arora is Associate Professor in the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. 2 A01 Andrea Fosfuri Fosfuri, Andrea Andrea Fosfuri Andrea Fosfuri is Assistant Professor of Business at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. 3 A01 Alfonso Gambardella Gambardella, Alfonso Alfonso Gambardella Alfonso Gambardella is Professor at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri, and Alfonso Gambardella 01 eng 350 14 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The past two decades have seen a gradual but noticeable change in the economic organization of innovative activity. Most firms used to integrate research and development with activities such as production, marketing, and distribution. Today firms are forming joint ventures, research and development alliances, licensing deals, and a variety of other outsourcing arrangements with universities, technology-based start-ups, and other established firms. In many industries, a division of innovative labor is emerging, with a substantial increase in the licensing of existing and prospective technologies. In short, technology and knowledge are becoming definable and tradable commodities.Although researchers have made significant advances in understanding the determinants and consequences of innovation, until recently they have paid little attention to how innovation functions as an economic process. This book examines the nature and workings of markets for intermediate technological inputs. It looks first at how industry structure, the nature of knowledge, and intellectual property rights facilitate the development of technology markets. It then examines the impacts of these markets on firm boundaries, the division of labor within the economy, industry structure, and economic growth. Finally, it examines the implications of this framework for public policy and corporate strategy. Combining theoretical perspectives from economics and management with empirical analysis, the book also draws on historical evidence and case studies to flesh out its research results.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Many governments today are striving to promote entrepreneurship and venture capital investment. Numerous failed experiments around the globe over the past three decades make clear that there are no easy recipes to accomplish these goals. This collection of essays provides a thoughtful look at these important issues, with a particularly welcome emphasis on the European experience."--Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School, coauthor of *The Venture Capital Cycle*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The fact that transactions in new technology are difficult to execute has long been recognized; but the barriers to these deals have seldom been studied. Drawing on a diverse array of disciplines, Markets for Technology takes a fascinating and thought-provoking look at this hitherto-neglected arena."--Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School, coauthor of *The Venture Capital Cycle*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Markets for Technology is an important step forward in an emerging new branch of economics. The authors write with analytical rigor and historical perspective, showing that markets for technology are surprisingly robust and growing--in certain sectors under certain conditions--with real consequences for economic change."--Gavin Wright, Coe Professor of American Economic History, Stanford UniversityPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"While there are a number of books on technology strategy and the economics of innovative activity, this work stakes out a distinct terrain. The authors consider the basic question of how markets for innovative outcomes operate, exploring issues such as the role of licensing, the implications of general-purpose technologies, and the nature of technical problem solving. Drawing on their own research contributions as well as those of other leading researchers, the authors provide both a powerful set of concepts with which to address these questions and a rich set of empirical findings to buttress and illustrate these arguments. The book will serve not only as a valuable text for students and academics, but as a useful touchstone for practitioners who confront these timely questions."--Dan Levinthal, Julian Aresty Professor of Economics and Management, The Wharton School of Business, University of PennsylvaniaPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a terrific book on many levels--most imoportantly theory, empirics, and strategy. The authors have done a wonderful job of bringing into focus the "market behind the market," the transactional setting in which information assets are traded. This book is the best evidence yet of the gains from studying these markets as a discrete phenomenon; it should serve as a catalyst for exploring new dimensions of such old issues as firm boundaries, specialization, and industry structure."--Robert Merges, Goodrich and Rosati Professor of Law and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, BerkeleyPlease note: This endorsement arrived too late to appear on the book jacket. Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511810.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511810 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040130 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 .97 lb 06 15 9780262011907 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040130 24 01 02 The MIT Press S 25.00 USD 02 17.95 GBP Z 0 17.95 0 9780262011716 03 02 0262011719 03 9780262011716 15 9780262011716 03 BB 30 01 MITP mun Munich Lectures in Economics 01 MITP 2551 The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State 01 2551 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011716 1 A01 Anthony B. Atkinson Atkinson, Anthony B. Anthony B. Atkinson http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/Economics/People/atkinson.htm Anthony B. Atkinson 01 eng 228 POL000000 JPR 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In recent years the welfare state has come under attack from economists, and in many OECD countries there have been calls for spending on the welfare state to be rolled back. Critics argue that the size of transfer programs is responsible for a decline in economic performance and that cuts in spending are a prerequisite for a return to the golden age of full employment and economic growth. A. B. Atkinson takes such criticisms seriously, placing them under empirical and analytical scrutiny.Atkinson brings a welcome sense of balance to the debate. He warns that many currently fashionable policy proposals to roll back the welfare state could have unintended negative side effects, based as they are on an oversimplified view of the workings of the economy and of how welfare arrangements affect economic incentives. He asks whether there are ways in which the welfare state plays a positive role in the modernization of the economy. He develops new models of the labor market and of the growth of the corporate economy, which provide insight into the role and consequences of unemployment insurance, and the implications of moves to private pension funds.Atkinson does not attempt to determine whether or not spending should be cut. Rather, his aim is to clarify the nature of the charges leveled against the welfare state, so that readers can make up their own minds.Copublished with the Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is altogether a far-reaching book with penetrating analysisand elegant and forceful reasoning." <B>Amartya Sen </B>, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, and Lamont University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011716.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011716 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990622 01 WORLD 01 8.1 in 02 5.6 in 03 .9 in 08 .85 lb 06 15 9780262267403 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990622 40 01 02 The MIT Press S 38.00 USD 02 26.95 GBP Z 0 26.95 0 9780262012089 03 02 0262012081 03 9780262012089 15 9780262012089 03 BB 30 01 MITP 4640 Models of a Man 01 4640 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012089 1 B01 Mie Augier Augier, Mie Mie Augier Mie Augier is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. 2 B01 James G. March March, James G. James G. March James G. March is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. edited by Mie Augier and James G. March 01 eng 592 20 illus. COM004000 UYQM 10 PSY000000 12 JM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Herbert Simon (1916-2001), in the course of a long and distinguished career in the social and behavioral sciences, made lasting contributions to many disciplines, including economics, psychology, computer science, and artificial intelligence. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his research into the decision-making process within economic organizations. His well-known book The Sciences of the Artificial addresses the implications of the decision-making and problem-solving processes for the social sciences.This book (the title is a variation on the title of Simon's autobiography, Models of My Life) is a collection of short essays, all original, by colleagues from many fields who felt Simon's influence and mourn his loss. Mixing reminiscence and analysis, the book represents "a small acknowledgment of a large debt."Each of the more than forty contributors was asked to write about the one work by Simon that he or she had found most influential. The editors then grouped the essays into four sections: "Modeling Man," "Organizations and Administration," "Modeling Systems," and "Minds and Machines." The contributors include such prominent figures as Kenneth Arrow, William Baumol, William Cooper, Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel Kahneman, David Klahr, Franco Modigliani, Paul Samuelson, and Vernon Smith. Although they consider topics as disparate as "Is Bounded Rationality Unboundedly Rational?" and "Personal Recollections from 15 Years of Monthly Meetings," each essay is a testament to the legacy of Herbert Simon -- to see the unity rather than the divergences among disciplines.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Essays that pay tribute to the wide-ranging influence of the late Herbert Simon, by friends and colleagues.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012089.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012089 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040326 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1.4 in 08 2.4 lb 06 15 9780262267441 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040326 16 01 02 The MIT Press S 47.00 USD 02 32.95 GBP Z 0 32.95 0 9780262012232 03 02 0262012235 03 9780262012232 15 9780262012232 03 BB 30 01 MITP 7224 Zen-Brain Reflections 01 7224 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012232 1 A01 James H. Austin Austin, James H. James H. Austin James H. Austin 01 eng 616 11 illus. MED057000 MJN 10 PHI003000 12 HPDF 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This sequel to the widely read Zen and the Brain continues James Austin's explorations into the key interrelationships between Zen Buddhism and brain research. In Zen-Brain Reflections, Austin, a clinical neurologist, researcher, and Zen practitioner, examines the evolving psychological processes and brain changes associated with the path of long-range meditative training. Austin draws not only on the latest neuroscience research and new neuroimaging studies but also on Zen literature and his personal experience with alternate states of consciousness.Zen-Brain Reflections takes up where the earlier book left off. It addresses such questions as: how do placebos and acupuncture change the brain? Can neuroimaging studies localize the sites where our notions of self arise? How can the latest brain imaging methods monitor meditators more effectively? How do long years of meditative training plus brief enlightened states produce pivotal transformations in the physiology of the brain? In many chapters testable hypotheses suggest ways to correlate normal brain functions and meditative training with the phenomena of extraordinary states of consciousness.After briefly introducing the topic of Zen and describing recent research into meditation, Austin reviews the latest studies on the amygdala, frontotemporal interactions, and paralimbic extensions of the limbic system. He then explores different states of consciousness, both the early superficial absorptions and the later, major "peak experiences." This discussion begins with the states called kensho and satori and includes a fresh analysis of their several different expressions of "oneness." He points beyond the still more advanced states toward that rare ongoing stage of enlightenment that is manifest as "sage wisdom."Finally, with reference to a delayed "moonlight" phase of kensho, Austin envisions novel links between migraines and metaphors, moonlight and mysticism. The Zen perspective on the self and consciousness is an ancient one. Readers will discover how relevant Zen is to the neurosciences, and how each field can illuminate the other.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A monumental melding of wisdom from Zen and other contemplative traditions with modern neuroscience. This extraordinary synthesis will serve as an important resource for many years to come. A must-read for any serious student of the emerging discipline of contemplative neuroscience."--Richard J. Davidson, William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin--MadisonPlease note: I thought I had circulated this some time ago, but heard from a few people that they never saw it. Apologies for the omission. It did arrive a few days too late to make the book jacket.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"While the Decade of the Brain has ended cognitive neuroscience continues to flourish. The understanding of how parallel distributed modular networks mediate behavior is gained both by studying patients with brain injury-related disorders and by imaging the normal brain during cognitive activity. This remarkable volume organizes and synthesizes data from both of these paradigms for a variety of cognitive domains and helps the readerto better understand brain-behavior relationships."--Kenneth M. Heilman, James E. Rooks Jr. Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of Florida College of MedicinePlease note: The first sentence may be omitted for space reasons.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Following his monumental masterpiece <I>Zen and the Brain</I>, James Austin here presents further reflections on the koan 'How do neural mechanisms create enlightened consciousness?' This superb sequel not only reviews the most recent relevant neuroscience research but also stands alone as a readable survey of mind-brain relationships underlying the spectrum of mental states. Austin's unique expertise as a neurologist and Zen practitioner, as well as an articulate writer, makes him the perfect guide to elucidate the profound interrelationships between consciousness, the brain, and the world." <B>Eberhard E. Fetz </B>, Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In <I>Zen and the Brain,</I> James Austin quoted Einstein's dictum that 'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.' Neurophysiological studies help us understand the biological bases of behavior, but attempting to understand experience is a heroic pursuit. In this sequel, <I>Zen-Brain Reflections</I>, Austin continues his quest of allowing us to better grasp how Zen practices influence and alter brain functions. His quest is not complete, but in this new book he reviews and synthesizes the substantial progress that has been made in understanding the biological basis of Zen experience, providing the reader with further enlightenment." <B>Kenneth M. Heilman </B>, James E. Rooks Jr. Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In *Zen and the Brain*, James Austin quoted Einstein's dictum that 'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.' Neurophysiological studies help us understand the biological bases of behavior, but attempting to understand experience is a heroic pursuit. In this sequel, *Zen-Brain Reflections*, Austin continues his quest of allowing us to better grasp how Zen practices influence and alter brain functions. His quest is not complete, but in this new book he reviews and synthesizes the substantial progress that has been made in understanding the biological basis of Zen experience, providing the reader with further enlightenment."--Kenneth M. Heilman, James E. Rooks Jr. Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Following his monumental masterpiece *Zen and the Brain*, James Austin here presents further reflections on the koan 'How do neural mechanisms create enlightened consciousness?' This superb sequel not only reviews the most recent relevant neuroscience research but also stands alone as a readable survey of mind-brain relationships underlying the spectrum of mental states. Austin's unique expertise as a neurologist and Zen practitioner, as well as an articulate writer, makes him the perfect guide to elucidate the profound interrelationships between consciousness, the brain, and the world."--Eberhard E. Fetz, Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A sequel to the popular Zen and the Brain further explores pivotal points of intersection in Zen Buddhism, neuroscience, and consciousness, arriving at a new synthesis of information from both neuroscience research and Zen studies.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012232.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012232 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060217 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1.2500 in 08 2.5499999999999998 lb 06 15 9780262254427 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060217 16 01 02 The MIT Press T 42.95 USD 02 29.95 GBP Z 0 29.95 0 9780262511094 03 02 0262511096 03 9780262511094 15 9780262511094 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 7223 Zen and the Brain 01 7223 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511094 1 A01 James H. Austin Austin, James H. James H. Austin James H. Austin 01 eng 872 MED057000 MJN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Winner of the Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize for 1998 Aldous Huxley called humankind's basic trend toward spiritual growth the "perennial philosophy." In the view of James Austin, the trend implies a "perennial psychophysiology"--because awakening, or enlightenment, occurs only when the human brain undergoes substantial changes. What are the peak experiences of enlightenment? How could these states profoundly enhance, and yet simplify, the workings of the brain? Zen and the Brain presents the latest evidence.In this book Zen Buddhism becomes the opening wedge for an extraordinarily wide-ranging exploration of consciousness. In order to understand which brain mechanisms produce Zen states, one needs some understanding of the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the brain. Austin, both a neurologist and a Zen practitioner, interweaves the most recent brain research with the personal narrative of his Zen experiences. The science is both inclusive and rigorous; the Zen sections are clear and evocative. Along the way, Austin examines such topics as similar states in other disciplines and religions, sleep and dreams, mental illness, consciousness-altering drugs, and the social consequences of the advanced stage of ongoing enlightenment.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a book written with passion and seriousness." <I>Psychoanalytic Books</I></P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this monumental work, the author marshals the evidence fromneuroscience to help clarify which brain mechanisms underlie the subjectivestates of Zen, and employs Zen to 'illuminate' how the brain 'works' invarious states of consciousness. By 'monumental' I refer not merely to thesize but to the breadth and depth of coverage of the book." <B>George Adelman </B>, Editor of <I>The Encyclopedia of Neuroscience</I></P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"... remarkable in its synthesis of the mystical point of view withthe scientific." <I>Bodhi Tree Book Review</I></P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A neuroscientist and Zen practitioner interweaves the latest research on the brain with his personal narrative of Zen.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511094.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511094 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990604 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 7 in 03 1.6 in 08 3.25 lb 06 15 9780262011648 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990604 10 01 02 The MIT Press T 41.95 USD 02 28.95 GBP Z 0 28.95 0 9780262511353 03 02 0262511355 03 9780262511353 15 9780262511353 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 1785 Chase, Chance, and Creativity 01 1785 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511353 1 A01 James H. Austin Austin, James H. James H. Austin James H. Austin 01 eng 13 illus. SEL009000 VSP 10 OCC036000 12 VXPH 10 SCI001000 12 PHDS 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This first book by the author of Zen and the Brain examines the role of chance in the creative process. James Austin tells a personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research; the conclusions he reaches shed light on the creative process in any field.Austin shows how, in his own investigations, unpredictable events shaped the outcome of his research and brought about novel results. He then goes beyond this story of serendipity to propose a new classification of the varieties of chance, drawing on his own research and examples from the history of science--including the famous accidents that led Fleming to the discovery of penicillin. Finally, he explores the nature of the creative process, considering not only the environmental and neurophysiological correlates of creativity but also the role of intuition in both scientific discoveries and spiritual quests. This updated MIT Press paperback edition includes a new introduction and recent material on medical research, creativity, and spirituality.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The brain is the organ of creativity, but the means by which the brain performs these glorious acts is still poorly understood. In Chase, Chance, and Creativity James Austin combines his own creative experience with an extensive knowledge of neuroscience, and starts us on the path to illumination." Kenneth Heilman, James E. Rooks Jr. Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A fascinating look at creativity from the inside." <B>George Adelman </B> <I>Library Journal</I></P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Anyone engaged in any kind of original work will find the book rewarding." <B>Anthony Storr </B> <I>Washington Post</I></P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511353.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511353 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030815 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 .84 lb 06 15 9780262250108 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030815 46 01 02 The MIT Press T 23.95 USD 02 16.95 GBP Z 0 16.95 0 9780262011815 03 02 0262011816 03 9780262011815 15 9780262011815 03 BB 30 01 MITP 4559 Mind in Everyday Life and Cognitive Science 01 4559 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011815 1 A01 Sunny Y. Auyang Auyang, Sunny Y. Sunny Y. Auyang Sunny Y. Auyang holds a Ph.D. in physics and has written many books on the philosophical significance of quantum field theory and on complex-system theories. Sunny Y. Auyang 01 eng 528 24 illus. PSY008000 JMTK 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Although cognitive science has obtained abundant data on neural and computational processes, it barely explains such ordinary experiences as recognizing faces, feeling pain, or remembering the past. In this book Sunny Auyang tackles what she calls "the large pictures of the human mind," exploring the relevance of cognitive science findings to everyday mental life. Auyang proposes a model of an "open mind emerging from the self-organization of infrastructures," which she opposes to prevalent models that treat mind as a disembodied brain or computer, subject to the control of external agents such as neuroscientists and programmers. Her model consists of three parts: (1) the open mind of our conscious life; (2) mind's infrastructure, the unconscious processes studied by cognitive science; and (3) emergence, the relation between the open mind and its infrastructure.At the heart of Auyang's model is the mind that opens to the world and makes it intelligible. A person with an open mind feels, thinks, recognizes, believes, doubts, anticipates, fears, speaks, and listens, and is aware of I, together with it and thou. Cognitive scientists refer to the "binding problem," the question of how myriad unconscious processes combine into the unity of consciousness. Auyang approaches the problem from the other end--by starting with everyday experience rather than with the mental infrastructure. In so doing, she shows both how analyses of experiences can help to advance cognitive science and how cognitive science can help us to understand ourselves as autonomous subjects.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"With courage and verve, and in a style accessible to general readers, Jablonka and Lamb lay out some of the exciting new pathways of Darwinian evolution that have been uncovered by contemporary research."--Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT, author of *Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors and Machines*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A brilliant and deeply original work. Auyang's argument for what would be required for an adequate theory of mind--i.e., for a coherent and self-consistent solution to the 'binding problem' that currently plagues cognitive science--is a tour de force. "--Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT, author of *Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors and Machines*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a scholarly book. Written in an accessible and direct style, it undertakes a comprehensive review of current theories of mind. Drawing on a wide range of examples rooted in common sense, Dr. Auyang provides a powerful argument for the view that the mind is an emergent property of complex physical entities--its infrastructures."--Mriganka Sur, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and Head, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A brilliant and deeply original work. Auyang's argument for whatwould be required for an adequate theory of mind&mdash;i.e., for a coherentand self-consistent solution to the 'binding problem' that currently plagues cognitive science&mdash;is a tour de force." <B>Evelyn Fox Keller </B>, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Sunny Auyang tackles what she calls "the large pictures of the human mind," exploring the relevance of cognitive science findings to everyday mental life. Auyang proposes a model of an "open mind emerging from the self-organization of infrastructures," which she opposes to prevalent models that treat mind as a disembodied brain or computer, subject to the control of external agents such as neuroscientists and programmers.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011815.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011815 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20010315 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1.5 in 08 2.2200000000000002 lb 06 15 9780262261357 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20010315 16 01 02 The MIT Press S 58.00 USD 02 39.95 GBP Z 0 39.95 0 9780262012218 03 02 0262012219 03 9780262012218 15 9780262012218 03 BB 30 01 MITP 5130 Pain 01 5130 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012218 1 B01 Murat Aydede Aydede, Murat Murat Aydede Murat Aydede is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, Gainesville. edited by Murat Aydede 01 eng 420 10 illus. PHI000000 HPX 10 SCI086000 12 PSA 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>What does feeling a sharp pain in one's hand have in common with seeing a red apple on the table? Some say not much, apart from the fact that they are both conscious experiences. To see an object is to perceive an extramental reality--in this case, a red apple. To feel a pain, by contrast, is to undergo a conscious experience that doesn't necessarily relate the subject to an objective reality. Perceptualists, however, dispute this. They say that both experiences are forms of perception of an objective reality. Feeling a pain in one's hand, according to this view, is perceiving an objective (physical) condition of one's hand. Who is closer to truth?Because of such metaphysical issues, the subjectivity of pains combined with their clinical urgency raises methodological problems for pain scientists. How can a subjective phenomenon be studied objectively? What is the role of the first-person method (e.g., introspection) in science? Some suggest that the subjectivity of pains (and of conscious experiences in general) is due to their metaphysical irreducibility to purely physical processes in the nervous system. Can this be true?The study of pain and its puzzles offers opportunities for understanding such larger issues as the place of consciousness in the natural order and the methodology of psychological research. In this book, leading philosophers and scientists offer a wide range of views on how to conceptualize and study pain. The essays include discussions of perceptual and representationalist accounts of pain; the affective-motivational dimension of pain; whether animals feel pain, and how this question can be investigated; how social pain relates to physical pain; whether first-person methods of gathering data can be integrated with standard third-person methods; and other methodological and theoretical issues in the science and philosophy of pain.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262012218.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012218 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20051202 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1 in 08 1.9 lb 06 15 9780262511889 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20051202 18 01 02 The MIT Press S 80.00 USD 02 55.95 GBP Z 0 55.95 0 9780262511889 03 02 0262511886 03 9780262511889 15 9780262511889 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 5130 Pain 01 5130 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511889 1 B01 Murat Aydede Aydede, Murat Murat Aydede Murat Aydede is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, Gainesville. edited by Murat Aydede 01 eng 420 10 illus. PHI000000 HPX 10 SCI086000 12 PSA 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>What does feeling a sharp pain in one's hand have in common with seeing a red apple on the table? Some say not much, apart from the fact that they are both conscious experiences. To see an object is to perceive an extramental reality--in this case, a red apple. To feel a pain, by contrast, is to undergo a conscious experience that doesn't necessarily relate the subject to an objective reality. Perceptualists, however, dispute this. They say that both experiences are forms of perception of an objective reality. Feeling a pain in one's hand, according to this view, is perceiving an objective (physical) condition of one's hand. Who is closer to truth?Because of such metaphysical issues, the subjectivity of pains combined with their clinical urgency raises methodological problems for pain scientists. How can a subjective phenomenon be studied objectively? What is the role of the first-person method (e.g., introspection) in science? Some suggest that the subjectivity of pains (and of conscious experiences in general) is due to their metaphysical irreducibility to purely physical processes in the nervous system. Can this be true?The study of pain and its puzzles offers opportunities for understanding such larger issues as the place of consciousness in the natural order and the methodology of psychological research. In this book, leading philosophers and scientists offer a wide range of views on how to conceptualize and study pain. The essays include discussions of perceptual and representationalist accounts of pain; the affective-motivational dimension of pain; whether animals feel pain, and how this question can be investigated; how social pain relates to physical pain; whether first-person methods of gathering data can be integrated with standard third-person methods; and other methodological and theoretical issues in the science and philosophy of pain.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511889.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511889 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20051223 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1 in 08 1.55 lb 06 15 9780262012218 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20051223 24 01 02 The MIT Press S 36.00 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9780262011938 03 02 026201193X 03 9780262011938 15 9780262011938 03 BB 30 01 MITP 4883 Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots 01 4883 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011938 1 B01 Joseph Ayers Ayers, Joseph Joseph Ayers Joseph Ayers is Director of the Marine Science Center and Associate Professor of Biology at Northeastern University. http://www.neurotechnology.neu.edu/ayers.html 2 B01 Joel L. Davis Davis, Joel L. Joel L. Davis Joel L. Davis is Program Officer, Cognitive, Neural, and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division, Office of Naval Research. 3 B01 Alan Rudolph Rudolph, Alan Alan Rudolph Alan Rudolph is Program Manager in the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. edited by Joseph Ayers, Joel L. Davis, and Alan Rudolph 01 eng 650 200 illus. MED057000 MJN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The goal of neurotechnology is to confer the performance advantages of animal systems on robotic machines. Biomimetic robots differ from traditional robots in that they are agile, relatively cheap, and able to deal with real-world environments. The engineering of these robots requires a thorough understanding of the biological systems on which they are based, at both the biomechanical and physiological levels.This book provides an in-depth overview of the field. The areas covered include myomorphic actuators, which mimic muscle action; neuromorphic sensors, which, like animal sensors, represent sensory modalities such as light, pressure, and motion in a labeled-line code; biomimetic controllers, based on the relatively simple control systems of invertebrate animals; and the autonomous behaviors that are based on an animal's selection of behaviors from a species-specific behavioral "library." The ultimate goal is to develop a truly autonomous robot, one able to navigate and interact with its environment solely on the basis of sensory feedback without prompting from a human operator.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>An overview of neurotechnology, the engineering of robots based on animals and animal behavior.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262011938.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262011938 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020802 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 7 in 03 1.8 in 08 2.95 lb 06 15 9780262267496 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020802 12 01 02 The MIT Press S 75.00 USD 02 51.95 GBP Z 0 51.95 0 9780262511339 03 02 0262511339 03 9780262511339 15 9780262511339 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2258 Death's Showcase 01 2258 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511339 1 A01 Ariella Azoulay Azoulay, Ariella Ariella Azoulay Ariella is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and the author of <I>Death's Showcase: the Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy</I> (MIT Press). Ariella Azoulay 01 eng 314 45 illus. DES000000 AKB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consists of a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography. The essays focus mainly on representations of violence and death in events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and on the visual presence of traumatic events in Israeli culture throughout the twentieth century. They show how images of these events both shape and aestheticize the viewer's experience of death.The book offers a new reading of the work of Walter Benjamin, particularly his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Engaging the disciplinary perspectives of philosophy, art history, cultural studies, and photographic theory, the book also draws upon the work of such writers as Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean-Luc Nancy.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"How the author could have come to understand the history of the interaction of computation and mathematics so thoroughly and accurately is utterly beyond me. Given the immense number of people involved in the research described, it is thoroughly amazing that someone has surveyed it all and put it together. And done it superbly."--Robert Boyer, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A book of both profound and theoretical weight and immediate social resonance." James Cunning Holland Afterimage</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Azoulay has an eye for seeking engaging artwork and combining theoretical tools." Doris Bittar Aljadid</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The various parts of this work add up to a most valuable, comprehensive statement about the changing relations between art, culture, and power in contemporary democracy."--Yaron Ezrahi, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this original and daring analysis of the politics of art, Azoulay shows how photography, the organization of public space, and the museum as an institution both conceal and reveal basic ideological commitments. Few accounts of the aftermath of the Holocaust or of Israel's recent strife-ridden history uncover as keenly as this work does the close ties to be found between political act and rhetorical representation."--Berel Lang, Professor of Humanities, Trinity College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Ariella Azoulay's Death's Showcase is critical discourse at its best: irreverent, politically charged, and yet scrupulously attentive to both specific artworks and the philosophical dimensions of the task of interpretation. We need to learn new ways of seeing, Azoulay insists in incisive analyses of contemporary art, photojournalism, philosophy, and interviews with military surveillance experts, because how we see our surroundings directly determines the politics of being--and the politics of non-being as well."--Ulrich Baer, Department of German, New York University, author of *Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Zoom forward, track back. Death's Showcase is a fascinating unfolding of these simultaneous operations, whereby photographic, televisual, and museological spaces create an unbridgeable, permanently mourned distance from some auratic object as they draw us closer to things. Ariella Azoulay's is an exciting new voice on the critical scene, politically savvy, artistically astute, and smart on the whole range of issues surrounding the display of death in modern culture." --Joan Copjec, author of *Imagine There's No Woman*Please note: "Smart" is italicized in the last sentence.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is an original and important book on a significant topic. Spectral Evidence is at once learned and critical, informative and imaginative, concrete in its own practice and theoretically sophisticated. It is clearly formulated even when addressing complex issues."--Berel Lang, Professor of Humanities, Trinity College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Is Oedipus Online?* refreshes the screen of psychoanalysis. Its wit consists not just in its humorous updating of Freudian vocabulary, but more significantly in its compelling argument that Freud's theorization of the inhuman core of humanity is as valid and useful in understanding today's dilemmas as it ever was. The dialogue it coaxes between Deleuze and Lacan is one of the book's many incentive bonuses."--Joan Copjec, author of *Imagine There's No Woman*</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262511339.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511339 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030228 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 .75 in 08 1.29 lb 06 15 9780262011822 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030228 32 01 02 The MIT Press T 24.00 USD 02 16.95 GBP Z 0 16.95 0 9780262024969 03 02 0262024969 03 9780262024969 15 9780262024969 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2792 Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness 01 2792 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024969 1 B01 Bernard J. Baars Baars, Bernard J. Bernard J. Baars Bernard J. Baars is Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego. 2 B01 William P. Banks Banks, William P. William P. Banks William P. Banks is Professor of Psychology at Pomona College and editor-in-chief of the journal <I>Consciousness and Cognition</I>. 3 B01 James B. Newman Newman, James B. James B. Newman The late James B. Newman was a member of the Department of Psychology at the Colorado Neurological Institute. edited by Bernard J. Baars, William P. Banks, and James B. Newman 01 eng 1206 MED057000 MJN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition. Yet only in recent decades has it become a major focus in the brain and behavioral sciences. Scientists now know that consciousness involves many levels of brain functioning, from brainstem to cortex. The almost seventy articles in this book reflect the breadth and depth of this burgeoning field. The many topics covered include consciousness in vision and inner speech, immediate memory and attention, waking, dreaming, coma, the effects of brain damage, fringe consciousness, hypnosis, and dissociation.Underlying all the selections are the questions, What difference does consciousness make? What are its properties? What role does it play in the nervous system? How do conscious brain functions differ from unconscious ones? The focus of the book is on scientific evidence and theory. The editors have also chosen introductory articles by leading scientists to allow a wide variety of new readers to gain insight into the field.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Baars, Banks, and Newman have assembled the most important scientific work on consciousness of the last few decades, from modern classics to ground-breaking research. There is hardly a pivotal work or central topic not represented in this comprehensive volume. Nobody now working on consciousness will want to be without this splendid collection, both for the work it contains and the balanced, thoughtful overview it affords."--David M. Rosenthal, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, City University of New York, Graduate CenterPlease note: Quote may not be shortened or changed.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book does not simply serve as an invaluable resource for researchers in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, emotion, personality psychology, motivation, perception, social psychology, and related fields--it also defines the new field of social neuroscience in the most effective way, by example. No library should be without this superb collection."--Stephen M. Kosslyn, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Noe and Thompson have assembled the most important modern philosophical classics on visual perception together with some recent cutting-edge philosophical and scientific work. The result is a model of what an anthology should be--at once a fine instructional text and a first-rate research and reference tool."--David M. Rosenthal, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, City University of New York, Graduate CenterPlease note: Note that there should be an umlaut over the e in Noe's name. Thanks.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The revised *Handbook* is an extraordinarily valuable resource for psychologists, neuroscientists, and all others interested in the ways that neuroimaging is illuminating the relation between mind and brain. An enormous amount of ground is covered in these articles, and they provide a systematic review and integration of the field. Students, teachers, and researchers in many fields have a lot to gain from the rich overview of theory and findings in these pages."--Stephen M. Kosslyn, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262024969.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024969 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030425 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1.75 in 08 4.07 lb 06 15 9780262523028 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030425 8 01 02 The MIT Press S 155.00 USD 02 106.95 GBP Z 0 106.95 0 9780262523028 03 02 0262523027 03 9780262523028 15 9780262523028 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2792 Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness 01 2792 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523028 1 B01 Bernard J. Baars Baars, Bernard J. Bernard J. Baars Bernard J. Baars is Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego. 2 B01 William P. Banks Banks, William P. William P. Banks William P. Banks is Professor of Psychology at Pomona College and editor-in-chief of the journal <I>Consciousness and Cognition</I>. 3 B01 James B. Newman Newman, James B. James B. Newman The late James B. Newman was a member of the Department of Psychology at the Colorado Neurological Institute. edited by Bernard J. Baars, William P. Banks, and James B. Newman 01 eng 1206 MED057000 MJN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition. Yet only in recent decades has it become a major focus in the brain and behavioral sciences. Scientists now know that consciousness involves many levels of brain functioning, from brainstem to cortex. The almost seventy articles in this book reflect the breadth and depth of this burgeoning field. The many topics covered include consciousness in vision and inner speech, immediate memory and attention, waking, dreaming, coma, the effects of brain damage, fringe consciousness, hypnosis, and dissociation.Underlying all the selections are the questions, What difference does consciousness make? What are its properties? What role does it play in the nervous system? How do conscious brain functions differ from unconscious ones? The focus of the book is on scientific evidence and theory. The editors have also chosen introductory articles by leading scientists to allow a wide variety of new readers to gain insight into the field.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Baars, Banks, and Newman have assembled the most important scientific work on consciousness of the last few decades, from modern classics to ground-breaking research. There is hardly a pivotal work or central topic not represented in this comprehensive volume. Nobody now working on consciousness will want to be without this splendid collection, both for the work it contains and the balanced, thoughtful overview it affords."--David M. Rosenthal, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, City University of New York, Graduate CenterPlease note: Quote may not be shortened or changed.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book does not simply serve as an invaluable resource for researchers in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, emotion, personality psychology, motivation, perception, social psychology, and related fields--it also defines the new field of social neuroscience in the most effective way, by example. No library should be without this superb collection."--Stephen M. Kosslyn, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Noe and Thompson have assembled the most important modern philosophical classics on visual perception together with some recent cutting-edge philosophical and scientific work. The result is a model of what an anthology should be--at once a fine instructional text and a first-rate research and reference tool."--David M. Rosenthal, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, City University of New York, Graduate CenterPlease note: Note that there should be an umlaut over the e in Noe's name. Thanks.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The revised *Handbook* is an extraordinarily valuable resource for psychologists, neuroscientists, and all others interested in the ways that neuroimaging is illuminating the relation between mind and brain. An enormous amount of ground is covered in these articles, and they provide a systematic review and integration of the field. Students, teachers, and researchers in many fields have a lot to gain from the rich overview of theory and findings in these pages."--Stephen M. Kosslyn, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523028.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523028 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030425 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1.75 in 08 3.62 lb 06 15 9780262024969 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030425 10 01 02 The MIT Press S 65.00 USD 02 44.95 GBP Z 0 44.95 0 9780262025874 03 02 0262025876 03 9780262025874 15 9780262025874 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2292 Deliberative Environmental Politics 01 2292 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025874 1 A01 Walter F. Baber Baber, Walter F. Walter F. Baber Walter F. Baber is Associate Professor in the Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration, California State University, Long Beach. Baber is the Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Environmental Policy at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin (Italy) for 2009. 2 A01 Robert V. Bartlett Bartlett, Robert V. Robert V. Bartlett Robert V. Bartlett is Gund Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont. Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett 01 eng 288 POL044000 RND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In Deliberative Environmental Politics, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett link political theory with the practice of environmental politics, arguing that the "deliberative turn" in democratic theory presents an opportunity to move beyond the policy stalemates of interest-group liberalism and offers a foundation for reconciling rationality, strong democracy, and demanding environmentalism. Deliberative democracy, which presumes that the essence of democracy is deliberation -- thoughtful and discursive public participation in decision making -- rather than voting, interest aggregation, or rights, has the potential to produce more environmentally sound policy decisions and a more ecologically rational form of environmental governance.Baber and Bartlett defend deliberative democracy's relevance to environmental politics in the twenty-first century against criticisms from other theorists. They critically examine three major models for deliberative democracy -- those of John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, and advocates of full liberalism such as Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson, and James Bohman -- and analyze the implications of each of these approaches for ecologically rational environmental politics as well as for institutions, citizens, experts, and social movements. In order to establish that democracy is ecologically sustainable and that environmental protection can (and must) become a norm of culture rather than a mere fact of government, they argue, new models of ecological deliberation and deliberative environmentalism are required.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Baber and Bartlett offer a wonderful appreciation of the subtleties of deliberative democracy and environmental politics."--Robert Paehlke, Trent University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The Grassroots of a Green Revolution uses an array of public opinion polling data to intelligently answer questions important to both analysts of environmental politics and concerned citizens. The book also includes an insightful assessment of the 2000 election."--Robert Paehlke, Trent University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025874.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025874 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050909 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 1.1000000000000001 lb 06 15 9780262524445 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050909 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 60.00 USD 02 41.95 GBP Z 0 41.95 0 9780262524445 03 02 0262524449 03 9780262524445 15 9780262524445 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2292 Deliberative Environmental Politics 01 2292 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524445 1 A01 Walter F. Baber Baber, Walter F. Walter F. Baber Walter F. Baber is Associate Professor in the Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration, California State University, Long Beach. Baber is the Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Environmental Policy at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin (Italy) for 2009. 2 A01 Robert V. Bartlett Bartlett, Robert V. Robert V. Bartlett Robert V. Bartlett is Gund Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont. Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett 01 eng 288 POL044000 RND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In Deliberative Environmental Politics, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett link political theory with the practice of environmental politics, arguing that the "deliberative turn" in democratic theory presents an opportunity to move beyond the policy stalemates of interest-group liberalism and offers a foundation for reconciling rationality, strong democracy, and demanding environmentalism. Deliberative democracy, which presumes that the essence of democracy is deliberation -- thoughtful and discursive public participation in decision making -- rather than voting, interest aggregation, or rights, has the potential to produce more environmentally sound policy decisions and a more ecologically rational form of environmental governance.Baber and Bartlett defend deliberative democracy's relevance to environmental politics in the twenty-first century against criticisms from other theorists. They critically examine three major models for deliberative democracy -- those of John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, and advocates of full liberalism such as Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson, and James Bohman -- and analyze the implications of each of these approaches for ecologically rational environmental politics as well as for institutions, citizens, experts, and social movements. In order to establish that democracy is ecologically sustainable and that environmental protection can (and must) become a norm of culture rather than a mere fact of government, they argue, new models of ecological deliberation and deliberative environmentalism are required.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Baber and Bartlett offer a wonderful appreciation of the subtleties of deliberative democracy and environmental politics."--Robert Paehlke, Trent University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The Grassroots of a Green Revolution uses an array of public opinion polling data to intelligently answer questions important to both analysts of environmental politics and concerned citizens. The book also includes an insightful assessment of the 2000 election."--Robert Paehlke, Trent University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524445.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524445 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050902 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 .9 lb 06 15 9780262025874 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050902 42 01 02 The MIT Press S 25.00 USD 02 17.95 GBP Z 0 17.95 0 9780262025911 03 02 0262025914 03 9780262025911 15 9780262025911 03 BB 30 01 MITP cmb Computational Molecular Biology 01 MITP 5064 Ontologies for Bioinformatics 01 5064 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025911 1 A01 Kenneth Baclawski Baclawski, Kenneth Kenneth Baclawski Kenneth Baclawski is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. 2 A01 Tianhua Niu Niu, Tianhua Tianhua Niu Tianhua Niu is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Kenneth Baclawski and Tianhua Niu 01 eng 440 70 illus. MED057000 MJN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Recent advances in biotechnology, spurred by the Human Genome Project, have resulted in the accumulation of vast amounts of new data. Ontologies -- computer-readable, precise formulations of concepts (and the relationship among them) in a given field -- are a critical framework for coping with the exponential growth of valuable biological data generated by high-output technologies. This book introduces the key concepts and applications of ontologies and ontology languages in bioinformatics and will be an essential guide for bioinformaticists, computer scientists, and life science researchers.The three parts of Ontologies for Bioinformatics ask, and answer, three pivotal questions: what ontologies are; how ontologies are used; and what ontologies could be (which focuses on how ontologies could be used for reasoning with uncertainty). The authors first introduce the notion of an ontology, from hierarchically organized ontologies to more general network organizations, and survey the best-known ontologies in biology and medicine. They show how to construct and use ontologies, classifying uses into three categories: querying, viewing, and transforming data to serve diverse purposes. Contrasting deductive, or Boolean, logic with inductive reasoning, they describe the goal of a synthesis that supports both styles of reasoning. They discuss Bayesian networks as a way of expressing uncertainty, describe data fusion, and propose that the World Wide Web can be extended to support reasoning with uncertainty. They call this inductive reasoning web the Bayesian web.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Given the current explosion of biological data in multiple dimensions, it is time to think systematically about strategies and techniques to not only store, but also integrate and represent them in knowledge-oriented ways. Ontology is the solution, and this book is an excellent effort to evaluate a number of alternative ontology-exchange languages, and to recommend them for use within the larger bioinformatics community."--Bo Yuan, Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Pharmacology, The Ohio State University</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Ontologies as a critical framework for the vast amounts of data in the postgenomic era: an introduction to the basic concepts and applications of ontologies and ontology languages for the life sciences.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025911.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025911 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050923 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1 in 08 2.1 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050923 18 01 02 The MIT Press S 45.00 USD 02 31.95 GBP Z 0 31.95 0 9780262024792 03 02 0262024799 03 9780262024792 15 9780262024792 03 BB 30 01 MITP 4117 Le Corbusier in America 01 4117 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024792 1 A01 Mardges Bacon Bacon, Mardges Mardges Bacon Mardges Bacon is Professor of Architecture and Matthews Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University. Mardges Bacon 01 eng 424 195 illus., 8 color ARC000000 AM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States in 1935 is generally considered a failure because it produced no commissions. The experience nevertheless had a profound effect on him, both personally and professionally. Sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Le Corbusier promoted his ideas through a lecture tour, exhibition, and press conferences, as well as in meetings with industrialists, housing reformers, New Deal technocrats, and editors. His lectures were watershed events that advanced the cause of European modernism. Yet he returned to France empty-handed and published a bittersweet account, Quand les cath餲ales é´¡ient blanches: voyage au pays des timides (When the Cathedrals Were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People), which faulted America for lacking the courage to adopt his ideas.In this first major study of Le Corbusier's American tour, Mardges Bacon reconstructs his encounter with America in all its fascinating detail. Through extensive archival research and interviews, she presents a critical history of the tour as well as a nuanced and intimate portrait of the architect. Drawing on the methods of microhistory, she also considers how small ordinary events affect larger biographical, architectural, and cultural developments.Bacon notes that Le Corbusier's dialogue with America was drafted within a spirited European discourse on am鲩canisme. She contends that the trip validated his concept of a "second machine age" that would unite standardized industrial methods with a new humanism. Le Corbusier's subsequent work, she suggests, reflected an "Americanization," evidenced by the introduction of tension structures and the textured skyscraper conceived as an integrated system with functions articulated. She also defines Le Corbusier's role in the debate over New York City high-rise public housing.Appearing here in print for the first time are color reproductions of the pastel drawings that illustrated Le Corbusier's American lectures.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Mardges Bacon's long-awaited study sheds light on one of the strangest love/hate relationships in Modern architecture: Le Corbusier's infatuation with an idealized America and the bitter delusion that followed. Thanks to previously overlooked archives, the events of Le Corbusier's famous 1935 trip to the United States are framed in a broad discussion of French Americanism. Bacon also reveals the fascinating parallel process through which Le Corbusier recycled themes and methods discovered in America and U. S. city builders absorbed his concepts."--Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Director, Institut français d'architecture, Paris</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A long-neglected, important topic in Le Corbusier scholarship has finally found its overdue treatment. Mardges Bacon has produced an indispensable, substantial chronicle of Le Corbusier's visit to the United States. With exceptional acumen and precision, she presents central aspects of his ambiguous relation to American culture and architecture and provides fascinating sidelights of his life."--Adolf Max Vogt, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book opens a new chapter in both Le Corbusier scholarship and American studies. While Le Corbusier's interest in America has been increasingly discussed by twentieth-century architectural historians, there has been no comprehensive study of his important voyage to America. Mardges Bacon's book admirably fills that gap."--Mary McLeod, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...[An]exhaustively researched and engagingly written study of a telling episode in 20th-century architectural transformations." Martin Filler New York Times Book Review</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"[T]he book's breadth of knowledge and attention to detail are faultless." Elain Harwood The Architects' Journal</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Mario Carpo's book combines erudition and wit in his path-breaking interpretation of the printed image's impact on architectural design. A renewed intellectual landscape of Renaissance architecture emerges, through an investigation of the way publishing technologies and strategies shape discourse and practical construction. We owe Carpo a well-deserved thanks for his fascinating account of the earliest, and not the least inspiring, encounter between architectural theory and the media."--Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Director, Institut français d'architecture, Paris</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...[An] exhaustively researched and engagingly written study of a telling episode in 20th-century architectural transformations." Martin Filler New York Times Book Review</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Volker Welter's book offers a fascinating journey into uncharted territory. The seminal figure of Patrick Geddes emerges from the extraordinary quantity of archival documents as a key thinker on the city and its history. Issues hitherto repressed in the history of modern urbanism, such as the impact of spirituality on town designs, are brought back to the center of attention."--Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Director, Institut français d'architecture, Paris</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Simon Sadler chronicles the encounter between fantastic technology and the built imagination orchestrated by Archigram during a unique decade. The rigorous historical knowledge offered by his book does nothing to lessen the excitement their designs still generate."--Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Director, Institut français d'architecture, Paris</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262024792.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024792 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20010817 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 9 in 03 1 in 08 3.41 lb 06 15 9780262523424 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20010817 10 01 02 The MIT Press S 80.00 USD 02 55.95 GBP Z 0 55.95 0 9780262523424 03 02 0262523426 03 9780262523424 15 9780262523424 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 4117 Le Corbusier in America 01 4117 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523424 1 A01 Mardges Bacon Bacon, Mardges Mardges Bacon Mardges Bacon is Professor of Architecture and Matthews Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University. Mardges Bacon 01 eng 424 195 illus., 8 color ARC000000 AM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States in 1935 is generally considered a failure because it produced no commissions. The experience nevertheless had a profound effect on him, both personally and professionally. Sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Le Corbusier promoted his ideas through a lecture tour, exhibition, and press conferences, as well as in meetings with industrialists, housing reformers, New Deal technocrats, and editors. His lectures were watershed events that advanced the cause of European modernism. Yet he returned to France empty-handed and published a bittersweet account, Quand les cath餲ales é´¡ient blanches: voyage au pays des timides (When the Cathedrals Were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People), which faulted America for lacking the courage to adopt his ideas.In this first major study of Le Corbusier's American tour, Mardges Bacon reconstructs his encounter with America in all its fascinating detail. Through extensive archival research and interviews, she presents a critical history of the tour as well as a nuanced and intimate portrait of the architect. Drawing on the methods of microhistory, she also considers how small ordinary events affect larger biographical, architectural, and cultural developments.Bacon notes that Le Corbusier's dialogue with America was drafted within a spirited European discourse on am鲩canisme. She contends that the trip validated his concept of a "second machine age" that would unite standardized industrial methods with a new humanism. Le Corbusier's subsequent work, she suggests, reflected an "Americanization," evidenced by the introduction of tension structures and the textured skyscraper conceived as an integrated system with functions articulated. She also defines Le Corbusier's role in the debate over New York City high-rise public housing.Appearing here in print for the first time are color reproductions of the pastel drawings that illustrated Le Corbusier's American lectures.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Mardges Bacon's long-awaited study sheds light on one of the strangest love/hate relationships in Modern architecture: Le Corbusier's infatuation with an idealized America and the bitter delusion that followed. Thanks to previously overlooked archives, the events of Le Corbusier's famous 1935 trip to the United States are framed in a broad discussion of French Americanism. Bacon also reveals the fascinating parallel process through which Le Corbusier recycled themes and methods discovered in America and U. S. city builders absorbed his concepts."--Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Director, Institut français d'architecture, Paris</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A long-neglected, important topic in Le Corbusier scholarship has finally found its overdue treatment. Mardges Bacon has produced an indispensable, substantial chronicle of Le Corbusier's visit to the United States. With exceptional acumen and precision, she presents central aspects of his ambiguous relation to American culture and architecture and provides fascinating sidelights of his life."--Adolf Max Vogt, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book opens a new chapter in both Le Corbusier scholarship and American studies. While Le Corbusier's interest in America has been increasingly discussed by twentieth-century architectural historians, there has been no comprehensive study of his important voyage to America. Mardges Bacon's book admirably fills that gap."--Mary McLeod, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...[An]exhaustively researched and engagingly written study of a telling episode in 20th-century architectural transformations." Martin Filler New York Times Book Review</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"[T]he book's breadth of knowledge and attention to detail are faultless." Elain Harwood The Architects' Journal</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Mario Carpo's book combines erudition and wit in his path-breaking interpretation of the printed image's impact on architectural design. A renewed intellectual landscape of Renaissance architecture emerges, through an investigation of the way publishing technologies and strategies shape discourse and practical construction. We owe Carpo a well-deserved thanks for his fascinating account of the earliest, and not the least inspiring, encounter between architectural theory and the media."--Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Director, Institut français d'architecture, Paris</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...[An] exhaustively researched and engagingly written study of a telling episode in 20th-century architectural transformations." Martin Filler New York Times Book Review</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Volker Welter's book offers a fascinating journey into uncharted territory. The seminal figure of Patrick Geddes emerges from the extraordinary quantity of archival documents as a key thinker on the city and its history. Issues hitherto repressed in the history of modern urbanism, such as the impact of spirituality on town designs, are brought back to the center of attention."--Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Director, Institut français d'architecture, Paris</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Simon Sadler chronicles the encounter between fantastic technology and the built imagination orchestrated by Archigram during a unique decade. The rigorous historical knowledge offered by his book does nothing to lessen the excitement their designs still generate."--Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Director, Institut français d'architecture, Paris</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523424.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523424 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030228 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 9 in 03 1 in 08 2.64 lb 06 15 9780262024792 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030228 10 01 02 The MIT Press T 32.00 USD 02 22.95 GBP Z 0 22.95 0 9780262522649 03 02 0262522640 03 9780262522649 15 9780262522649 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 1626 Body and the East 01 1626 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522649 1 A01 Zdenka Badovinac Badovinac, Zdenka Zdenka Badovinac Zdenka Badovinac 01 eng 192 DES000000 AKB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>with essays by Joseph Backstein, Iara Boubnova, Jurij Krpan, Ileana Pintilie, Kristine Stiles, Branka Stipancic, Igor Zabel, and others The earliest "body art" was created in Eastern Europe in the early 1960s. The term "body art" includes a wide range of practices in which the artist's own body is the bearer of social, political, metaphorical, and philosophical content. This book includes essays on eighty artists from fourteen countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, the former GDR, Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia. Introductory essays by Zdenka Badovinac and Kristine Stiles discuss the tradition of an art form that emerged during socialism in cultural centers such as Prague, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Warsaw, and Zagreb. In these places public actions, particularly on the street, were often banned--and artists arrested--by the police. Therefore many of the actions documented here took place in private apartments, with the artists performing at great personal risk. The art survived not only despite the absence of any art market, but also despite its marginalization by political regimes. The artists turned their marginalization to an advantage, creating art out of the contingencies and necessities of survival. The art represented here reminds us of the psychological and intellectual freedoms that artistic expression affords under politically repressive conditions.This bilingual (Slovenian/English) book was originally published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition of body art held last year at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. Some of the artists, such as Marina Abramovic and Komar & Melamid, are well known internationally. Others, such as Alexander Brener, Sanja Ivekovic, Laibach, Paul Neagu, and Marko Peljhan, are known to special audiences in the East and West.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262522649.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522649 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990802 01 WORLD 01 9.8 in 02 9.4 in 03 .8 in 08 1.55 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990802 16 01 02 The MIT Press T 27.95 USD 02 19.95 GBP Z 0 19.95 0 9780262025157 03 02 0262025159 03 9780262025157 15 9780262025157 03 BB 30 01 MITP 6293 Spectral Evidence 01 6293 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025157 1 A01 Ulrich Baer Baer, Ulrich Ulrich Baer Ulrich Baer is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University. Ulrich Baer 01 eng 218 31 illus. PHO005000 AJ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In this remarkable contribution to photographic criticism and psychoanalytic literature, Ulrich Baer traces the hitherto overlooked connection between the experience of trauma and the photographic image. Instead of treating trauma as a photographic "theme," Baer examines the striking parallel between those moments arrested mechanically by photography and those arrested experientially by the traumatized psyche -- moments that bypass normal cognition and memory. Taking as points of departure Charcot's images of hysteria and Freud's suggestion that the unconscious is structured like a camera, Baer shows how the invention of photography and the emergence of the modern category of "trauma" intersect. Drawing on recent work in the field of trauma studies, he shows how experiences that are inherently split between their occurrence and their remembrance might register in and as photographic images.In light of contemporary discussions of recovered memories and the limits of representing such catastrophes as the Holocaust, Baer examines photographs of artistic, medical, and historical subjects from the perspective of witnessing rather than merely viewing. He shows how historicist approaches to photography paradoxically overlook precisely those cataclysmic experiences that define our age. The photograph's apparent immunity to time is seen as a call for a future response--a response that is prompted by the ghostly afterlife of every photograph's subject. In a moving discussion of a rare collection of color slides taken by a Nazi official in the Lodz ghetto, Baer makes us aware that it is the viewer's responsibility to account for the spectral evidence embedded in every image.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Whether he's discussing the relationship between AIDS-activist video and Charles Ludlam's aesthetic of the ridiculous, applying Walter Benjamin's concept of messianic time to the experience of living with AIDS, or exploring the ethical position of film as witness, Gregg Bordowitz is at once passionately committed to socially engaged, theoretically informed art and searchingly honest about its difficulties. Representing a unique voice that refuses to separate the personal and the political, this is an indispensable collection for anyone interested in contemporary debates about cultural politics."--Rosalyn Deutsche, Barnard College, author of *Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics*Please note: "Ludlam" was misspelled in previous version.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Baer seeks to usurp our common understanding of the photograph with a richly informed and persuasive discourse." Robert Pepperell Leonardo</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Genuinely interesting, original, and well-written. The book's arguments will be especially relevant to scholars of the still-developing field of photo-history and criticism."--Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of Art History, City University of New York Graduate Center</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book introduces photography into the rapidly expanding arena of interdisciplinary debates about collective trauma, memory, and representation. Arguing that photography and traumatic events have a common structure, Baer pleads with great sensitivity for an ethical way of seeing--witnessing--that both respects and responds to the unknowable reality of trauma. A welcome contribution to an urgent discussion."--Rosalyn Deutsche, Barnard College, author of *Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Georges Didi-Huberman's *Invention of Hysteria* is an almost legendary text, so influential has it been on cultural criticism, and this even before its very welcome translation into English. Written in a style that is at once literary and philosophical, Didi-Huberman brilliantly demonstrates how a study of hysteria in the nineteenth century continues to have profound relevance for anyone interested in questions of culture and its embodiment -- that is, questions concerning the workings of power. The author's erudite combination of visual and textual research and provocative analysis has produced a book that will be equally crucial to scholars of medicine, feminism, psychoanalysis, literature, photography, art history, the body, or postmodern theory, to name only a few of the fields it touches on. But it's also simply a great read, an artful rendition of history that reminds us of the extent to which the 'weird science' of the nineteenth century still haunts our thinking to this day."--Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of Art History, City University of New York Graduate CenterPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025157.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025157 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020816 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 0.5000 in 08 1.5 lb 06 15 9780262524476 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020816 22 01 02 The MIT Press S 35.00 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9780262524476 03 02 0262524473 03 9780262524476 15 9780262524476 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6293 Spectral Evidence 01 6293 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524476 1 A01 Ulrich Baer Baer, Ulrich Ulrich Baer Ulrich Baer is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University. Ulrich Baer 01 eng 218 31 illus. PHO005000 AJ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In this remarkable contribution to photographic criticism and psychoanalytic literature, Ulrich Baer traces the hitherto overlooked connection between the experience of trauma and the photographic image. Instead of treating trauma as a photographic "theme," Baer examines the striking parallel between those moments arrested mechanically by photography and those arrested experientially by the traumatized psyche -- moments that bypass normal cognition and memory. Taking as points of departure Charcot's images of hysteria and Freud's suggestion that the unconscious is structured like a camera, Baer shows how the invention of photography and the emergence of the modern category of "trauma" intersect. Drawing on recent work in the field of trauma studies, he shows how experiences that are inherently split between their occurrence and their remembrance might register in and as photographic images.In light of contemporary discussions of recovered memories and the limits of representing such catastrophes as the Holocaust, Baer examines photographs of artistic, medical, and historical subjects from the perspective of witnessing rather than merely viewing. He shows how historicist approaches to photography paradoxically overlook precisely those cataclysmic experiences that define our age. The photograph's apparent immunity to time is seen as a call for a future response--a response that is prompted by the ghostly afterlife of every photograph's subject. In a moving discussion of a rare collection of color slides taken by a Nazi official in the Lodz ghetto, Baer makes us aware that it is the viewer's responsibility to account for the spectral evidence embedded in every image.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Whether he's discussing the relationship between AIDS-activist video and Charles Ludlam's aesthetic of the ridiculous, applying Walter Benjamin's concept of messianic time to the experience of living with AIDS, or exploring the ethical position of film as witness, Gregg Bordowitz is at once passionately committed to socially engaged, theoretically informed art and searchingly honest about its difficulties. Representing a unique voice that refuses to separate the personal and the political, this is an indispensable collection for anyone interested in contemporary debates about cultural politics."--Rosalyn Deutsche, Barnard College, author of *Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics*Please note: "Ludlam" was misspelled in previous version.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Baer seeks to usurp our common understanding of the photograph with a richly informed and persuasive discourse." Robert Pepperell Leonardo</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Genuinely interesting, original, and well-written. The book's arguments will be especially relevant to scholars of the still-developing field of photo-history and criticism."--Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of Art History, City University of New York Graduate Center</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This book introduces photography into the rapidly expanding arena of interdisciplinary debates about collective trauma, memory, and representation. Arguing that photography and traumatic events have a common structure, Baer pleads with great sensitivity for an ethical way of seeing--witnessing--that both respects and responds to the unknowable reality of trauma. A welcome contribution to an urgent discussion."--Rosalyn Deutsche, Barnard College, author of *Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Georges Didi-Huberman's *Invention of Hysteria* is an almost legendary text, so influential has it been on cultural criticism, and this even before its very welcome translation into English. Written in a style that is at once literary and philosophical, Didi-Huberman brilliantly demonstrates how a study of hysteria in the nineteenth century continues to have profound relevance for anyone interested in questions of culture and its embodiment -- that is, questions concerning the workings of power. The author's erudite combination of visual and textual research and provocative analysis has produced a book that will be equally crucial to scholars of medicine, feminism, psychoanalysis, literature, photography, art history, the body, or postmodern theory, to name only a few of the fields it touches on. But it's also simply a great read, an artful rendition of history that reminds us of the extent to which the 'weird science' of the nineteenth century still haunts our thinking to this day."--Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of Art History, City University of New York Graduate CenterPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524476.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524476 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050923 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 0.5000 in 08 .95 lb 06 15 9780262025157 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050923 36 01 02 The MIT Press T 22.95 USD 02 15.95 GBP Z 0 15.95 0 9780262025294 03 02 0262025299 03 9780262025294 15 9780262025294 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2592 The Economics of the World Trading System 01 2592 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025294 1 A01 Kyle Bagwell Bagwell, Kyle Kyle Bagwell Kyle Bagwell is Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 2 A01 Robert W. Staiger Staiger, Robert W. Robert W. Staiger Kyle Bagwell and Robert W Staiger 01 eng 238 13 illus. BUS069020 KCL 10 BUS027000 12 KFFL 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The WTO sets rules of conduct for the international trade of goods and services and for intellectual property rights, provides a forum for multinational negotiations to resolve trade problems, and has a formal mechanism for dispute settlement. It is the primary institution working, through rule-based bargaining, at freeing trade.In this book, Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger provide an economic analysis and justification for the purpose and design of the GATT/WTO. They summarize their own research, discuss the major features of the GATT agreement, and survey the literature on trade agreements. Their focus on the terms-of-trade externality is particularly original and ties the book together. Topics include the theory of trade agreements, the origin and design of the GATT and the WTO, the principles of reciprocity, the most favored nation principle, terms-of-trade theory, enforcement, preferential trade agreements, labor and environmental standards, competition policy, and agricultural export subsidies.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"An excellent book...it deserves to be widely read." M. C. Kemp Journal of Economics</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This excellent book develops an elegant and powerful rationale for international trade agreements: to resolve terms of trade externalities. This insight explains many of the features of GATT and the WTO and allows us to understand many of the issues on today's trade agenda. Even if you think there is more to the WTO than just the terms of trade, this is a fundamentalcontribution ­ a 'must-read' for all serious trade scholars."--L. Alan Winters, Professor of Economics, University of Sussex</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Bagwell and Staiger have developed an elegant theoretical framework for understanding the reality of multilateral trade agreements. This book is a key source for anyone interested in GATT and the WTO, not only economists but also political scientists and international law scholars."--Giovanni Maggi, Department of Economics, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"We are fortunate that economists of the caliber of Bagwell and Staiger have been drawn to work on the trading system. By applying analytical rigor to the key features of the GATT/WTO system, the authors offer us refreshing and useful insights into what lies behind the design of trading rules. They also point out key areas where we need more research. This is a valuable book."--Patrick Low, Director of Development and Economic Research, World Trade Organization</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025294.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025294 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20021108 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 0.4375 in 08 1.05 lb 06 15 9780262524346 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20021108 34 01 02 The MIT Press X 35.00 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9780262524346 03 02 0262524341 03 9780262524346 15 9780262524346 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2592 The Economics of the World Trading System 01 2592 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524346 1 A01 Kyle Bagwell Bagwell, Kyle Kyle Bagwell Kyle Bagwell is Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 2 A01 Robert W. Staiger Staiger, Robert W. Robert W. Staiger Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger 01 eng 238 13 illus. BUS069020 KCL 10 BUS027000 12 KFFL 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The WTO sets rules of conduct for the international trade of goods and services and for intellectual property rights, provides a forum for multinational negotiations to resolve trade problems, and has a formal mechanism for dispute settlement. It is the primary institution working, through rule-based bargaining, at freeing trade.In this book, Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger provide an economic analysis and justification for the purpose and design of the GATT/WTO. They summarize their own research, discuss the major features of the GATT agreement, and survey the literature on trade agreements. Their focus on the terms-of-trade externality is particularly original and ties the book together. Topics include the theory of trade agreements, the origin and design of the GATT and the WTO, the principles of reciprocity, the most favored nation principle, terms-of-trade theory, enforcement, preferential trade agreements, labor and environmental standards, competition policy, and agricultural export subsidies.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"An excellent book...it deserves to be widely read." M. C. Kemp Journal of Economics</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This excellent book develops an elegant and powerful rationale for international trade agreements: to resolve terms of trade externalities. This insight explains many of the features of GATT and the WTO and allows us to understand many of the issues on today's trade agenda. Even if you think there is more to the WTO than just the terms of trade, this is a fundamentalcontribution ­ a 'must-read' for all serious trade scholars."--L. Alan Winters, Professor of Economics, University of Sussex</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Bagwell and Staiger have developed an elegant theoretical framework for understanding the reality of multilateral trade agreements. This book is a key source for anyone interested in GATT and the WTO, not only economists but also political scientists and international law scholars."--Giovanni Maggi, Department of Economics, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"We are fortunate that economists of the caliber of Bagwell and Staiger have been drawn to work on the trading system. By applying analytical rigor to the key features of the GATT/WTO system, the authors offer us refreshing and useful insights into what lies behind the design of trading rules. They also point out key areas where we need more research. This is a valuable book."--Patrick Low, Director of Development and Economic Research, World Trade Organization</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524346.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524346 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040820 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 0.4375 in 08 .75 lb 06 15 9780262025294 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040820 34 01 02 The MIT Press S 24.00 USD 02 16.95 GBP Z 0 16.95 0 9780262025348 03 02 0262025345 03 9780262025348 15 9780262025348 03 BB 30 01 MITP 6570 Technology and the New Economy 01 6570 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025348 1 A01 Chong-En Bai Bai, Chong-En Chong-En Bai Chong-En Bai is Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Hong Kong. 2 A01 Chi-Wa Yuen Yuen, Chi-Wa Chi-Wa Yuen Chi-Wa Yuen is Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Hong Kong. Chong-En Bai and Chi-Wa Yuen 01 eng 312 23 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>One of the most important forces driving economic performance in the United States and other countries during the 1990s was the rise of information technology. The new technology has had such a significant impact on the economy that "the new economy" emerged as a popular term in both the media and academia.This book, written in an accessible style, examines basic questions about the effects of information technology on various aspects of the economy. The topics include the relationship between innovation and the stock market value of the innovating firm; competition policy; demand factors as determinants of growth; institutional aspects of the innovation process; and the effectiveness of monetary policy in stabilizing the economy.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"After a decade of debate, there is now a consensus among economists on the central role of information technology as driver of economic growth in today's economy. But, as the papers in this volume illustrate, the real key to productivity growth is not the technology itself, but rather the corporate and governmental institutions that the technology enables and requires. Bai and Yuen have assembled a group of the world's top scholars to grapple with these issues, and the result is essential reading for any serious student of technological change and growth."--Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel Professor,  Sloan School of Management, MIT, and editor of *Understanding the Digital Economy* (MIT Press, 2000)</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"For nearly 30 years, Dale Jorgenson has been a towering figure in the fields of econometrics and the economics of technical change. This volume is essential for any serious student and has the added benefit of being a delight to read. I particularly enjoyed Dale's analysis of the information technology revolution which is growing both in its pace of progress and its impact on the economy."--Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel Professor,  Sloan School of Management, MIT, and editor of *Understanding the Digital Economy* (MIT Press, 2000)</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Essays on the effects of information technology on the economy.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025348.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025348 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030103 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1 lb 06 15 9780262267557 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030103 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 35.00 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9780262523486 04 02 0262523485 03 9780262523486 15 9780262523486 03 BB 30 01 MITP 6961 Veil 01 6961 1 B01 David A. Bailey Bailey, David A. David A. Bailey David A. Bailey is an artist, writer, and curator. He is Co-director of the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive in London. 2 B01 Gilane Tawadros Tawadros, Gilane Gilane Tawadros Gilane Tawadros is the founding director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA). edited by David A. Bailey and Gilane Tawadros 01 eng 191 75 illus., 35 in color DES000000 AKB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>No single item of clothing has had greater influence on Western images of Middle Eastern and North African women than the veil. The fascination of Western writers, artists, and photographers with the veil reflects the voyeuristic nature of our interest in what is strange and "other."Veil, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, explores the representation of the veil in contemporary visual arts. Providing a context for the commissioned essays are a number of classical historical texts crossing religions, cultures, genders, and ages -- from Greek myths to articles published in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Some of the contemporary artists and scholars write autobiographically about the meaning of the veil in their lives. Others take a more political approach, discussing, for example, how the events of September 11 changed the use and reception of veil imagery throughout the world. Still others take a historical approach, examining how nineteenth-century technological developments in travel and photography led to photographic depictions of both the veiled and unveiled body in relation to landscape. A number of essays look at the art historical precedents for the current interest in artwork addressing the veil, while others examine how codes of modesty and gender segregation have affected the making and viewing of films in postrevolutionary Iran.The essays are by Jananne Al-Ani, David A. Bailey, Alison Donnell, Ghazel, Salah Hassan, Reina Lewis, Hamid Naficy, Zineb Sedira, and Gilane Tawadros. The artists represented include Faisal Abdu'Allah, Kourosh Adim, Ghada Amer, Jananne Al-Ani, Farah Bajull, Samta Benyahia, Gaë´¡n de Cl鲡mbault, Marc Garanger, Shadafarin Ghadirian, Group AES, Emily Jacir, Ramesh Kalkur, Shirin Neshat, Harold Offeh, Gillo Pontecorvo, Zineb Sedira, Mitra Tabrizian, and Elin Strand.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"Veil speaks to artists and art historians as well as anthropologists and historians." Sarah Rogers Art Journal</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Essays and artworks exploring the representation and meaning of the veil in contemporary visual culture.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523486.jpg The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 07 20030408 03 AL AD AT BY BA BG HR CY CZ DK EE FI FR DE GR HU IS IE IT LV LI LT LU MK MT MD MC NL NO PL PT RO RU SM CS RS SK SI ES SE CH TR UA VA YU BE AZ GE 01 8.75 in 02 8.75 in 03 .65 in 08 1.49 lb 20120615 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y 20121212 OP 40 20030408 30 01 02 The MIT Press T 32.00 USD 02 22.95 GBP Z 0 22.95 0 9780262025690 03 02 0262025698 03 9780262025690 15 9780262025690 03 BB 30 01 MITP bbe Basic Bioethics 01 MITP 3915 Is Human Nature Obsolete? 01 3915 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025690 1 B01 Harold W. Baillie Baillie, Harold W. Harold W. Baillie Harold W. Baillie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. 2 B01 Timothy K. Casey Casey, Timothy K. Timothy K. Casey Timothy K. Casey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey 01 eng 440 1 illus. MED050000 MBDC 10 PHI005000 12 HPQ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advances in biotechnology. Its perspective is philosophical and interdisciplinary rather than technical; the focus is on questions of fundamental ontological importance rather than the specifics of medical or scientific practice.The authors -- all distinguished scholars in their fields -- take on questions about technology's goals and values that are often ignored or sidelined in the face of rapid scientific advances and the highly specialized nature of technical knowledge. The essays included represent a rich variety of thought, ranging from finely nuanced philosophical and theological arguments to historical studies and cultural commentaries. Several explore the historical background of today's biotechnology: Timothy Casey traces such developments as the emergence of cybernetic humanity from Cartesian dualism, and Diane Paul presents the history of "positive" versus coerced eugenics. Jean Bethke Elshtain discusses cloning as a "messianic project" to perfect the body and exclude natural diversity -- giving as an example the elimination of Down Syndrome as an acceptable human type -- while Harold Baillie calls for an examination of the metaphysical roots of personhood. Robert Proctor finds no evidence in paleontology for any "essence of humanity," and Tom Shannon argues against materialist reductionism. Addressing social concerns, Lisa Sowle Cahill finds the possibility of a political solution to the problems raised by genetic engineering in Catholic teachings on social justice, and Langdon Winner looks critically at the "scientific enthusiasts of a posthuman future." Taken as a whole, the book provides a humanistic overview of a subject too often considered only in its technological aspect.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Modifying ourselves through molecular biology is a humanitarian utopia to some, an imminent nightmare to others. But to all, the prospect should be a challenge because it touches on so many basic and unresolved questions. This excellent, probing collection of papers -- spanning philosophy, history, social science, and theology -- will be welcomed by professionals and lay readers alike."--Edward Tenner, author of *Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences* and *Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The conversation about what we want&mdash;literally&mdash;to make of ourselves is probably the most important conversation human beings will ever have. This carefully considered book is a fine entry into that dialogue, and it comes not a moment too soon." Bill McKibben, author of <I>Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age</I></P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"It is fascinating to listen in behind the scenes as philosophers try to figure out new ways to be relevant in the debate over the environment. I hope these nascent efforts expand -- the recalibration of the rightful human role in the natural world is one of the great practical challenges of the new century, and philosophers could and should play an important role."--Bill McKibben, author of *Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The conversation about what we want -- literally -- to make of ourselves is probably the most important conversation human beings will ever have. This carefully considered book is a fine entry into that dialogue, and it comes not a moment too soon."--Bill McKibben, author of *Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age*</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025690.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025690 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20041008 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1.55 lb 06 15 9780262524285 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20041008 22 01 02 The MIT Press S 67.00 USD 02 46.95 GBP Z 0 46.95 0 9780262524285 03 02 0262524287 03 9780262524285 15 9780262524285 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP bbe Basic Bioethics 01 MITP 3915 Is Human Nature Obsolete? 01 3915 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524285 1 B01 Harold W. Baillie Baillie, Harold W. Harold W. Baillie Harold W. Baillie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. 2 B01 Timothy K. Casey Casey, Timothy K. Timothy K. Casey Timothy K. Casey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey 01 eng 440 1 illus. MED050000 MBDC 10 PHI005000 12 HPQ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advances in biotechnology. Its perspective is philosophical and interdisciplinary rather than technical; the focus is on questions of fundamental ontological importance rather than the specifics of medical or scientific practice.The authors -- all distinguished scholars in their fields -- take on questions about technology's goals and values that are often ignored or sidelined in the face of rapid scientific advances and the highly specialized nature of technical knowledge. The essays included represent a rich variety of thought, ranging from finely nuanced philosophical and theological arguments to historical studies and cultural commentaries. Several explore the historical background of today's biotechnology: Timothy Casey traces such developments as the emergence of cybernetic humanity from Cartesian dualism, and Diane Paul presents the history of "positive" versus coerced eugenics. Jean Bethke Elshtain discusses cloning as a "messianic project" to perfect the body and exclude natural diversity -- giving as an example the elimination of Down Syndrome as an acceptable human type -- while Harold Baillie calls for an examination of the metaphysical roots of personhood. Robert Proctor finds no evidence in paleontology for any "essence of humanity," and Tom Shannon argues against materialist reductionism. Addressing social concerns, Lisa Sowle Cahill finds the possibility of a political solution to the problems raised by genetic engineering in Catholic teachings on social justice, and Langdon Winner looks critically at the "scientific enthusiasts of a posthuman future." Taken as a whole, the book provides a humanistic overview of a subject too often considered only in its technological aspect.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Modifying ourselves through molecular biology is a humanitarian utopia to some, an imminent nightmare to others. But to all, the prospect should be a challenge because it touches on so many basic and unresolved questions. This excellent, probing collection of papers -- spanning philosophy, history, social science, and theology -- will be welcomed by professionals and lay readers alike."--Edward Tenner, author of *Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences* and *Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The conversation about what we want&mdash;literally&mdash;to make of ourselves is probably the most important conversation human beings will ever have. This carefully considered book is a fine entry into that dialogue, and it comes not a moment too soon." Bill McKibben, author of <I>Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age</I></P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"It is fascinating to listen in behind the scenes as philosophers try to figure out new ways to be relevant in the debate over the environment. I hope these nascent efforts expand -- the recalibration of the rightful human role in the natural world is one of the great practical challenges of the new century, and philosophers could and should play an important role."--Bill McKibben, author of *Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The conversation about what we want -- literally -- to make of ourselves is probably the most important conversation human beings will ever have. This carefully considered book is a fine entry into that dialogue, and it comes not a moment too soon."--Bill McKibben, author of *Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age*</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524285.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524285 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20041008 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1.3 lb 06 15 9780262025690 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20041008 24 01 02 The MIT Press S 29.00 USD 02 19.95 GBP Z 0 19.95 0 9780262523431 03 02 0262523434 03 9780262523431 15 9780262523431 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6274 The Space of Appearance 01 6274 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523431 1 A01 George Baird Baird, George George Baird George Baird is Partner in Baird/Sampson Architects in Toronto and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. George Baird 01 eng 409 149 illus. ARC000000 AM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>What is architecture's place in the world? Combining history, theory, and polemic, George Baird probes into the conceptual lineage and current expressions of postmodernism and the critique of postmodern architecture over the past four decades, revealing the general failure of these theories to develop an architecture that is politically engaged and affirmative of the public sphere.Hannah Arendt's imperative of worldliness plays a pivotal role in Baird's reading of what has come to be called architecture's belief system. It is not enough, he argues, to reject the totalizing models of publicness that have been typical both of modernism and of many of its postmodern successors. Rather, he insists, it is necessary to construct a "space of appearance" that is large and diverse enough to make places for all of us. Baird stakes out clearly and sharply the recent history of ideas that bear on the field, recovering influences and ideas that have been omitted from standard histories of modernism and building an understanding of our present dilemmas that is constructive and critically informed.The period from 1960 to the present has seen the collapse of the conditions that shored up modern architecture, as conventionally understood, and has also seen modernism succeeded by a whole series of tentative alternatives, none of which has successfully achieved the decisive legitimization modernism once held. After an extended introduction that situates architecture's current dilemmas within the broader currents of cultural theory, The Space of Appearance focuses on specific historical episodes or developments.Each chapter outlines a different controversy or series of controversies, or depicts the gradual and insidious erosion of certain firmly held beliefs. Each chapter is also structured around a conceptual account of issues that have evolved in the trajectory of contemporary cultural theory since the key interventions of Arendt in the 1950s.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A well-crafted, Hegelian fugue connecting three crucial epochs in modern architecture where the architectural is immersed in the political." Robert-Jan van Pelt Canadian Architect</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Baird's argument is compelling. Perhaps a harbinger of things to come, it removes us from the irony and pessimism of postmodernism and reevalutes the hope and social commitment that the modernists never abandoned. Out of the depths of a very silent landscape, Baird rallies us to the call!" M. Christine Boyer, Professor, School of Architecture, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523431.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523431 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030228 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 8 in 03 .75 in 08 2.17 lb 06 15 9780262023788 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030228 18 01 02 The MIT Press T 32.00 USD 02 22.95 GBP Z 0 22.95 0 9780262025416 03 02 0262025418 03 9780262025416 15 9780262025416 03 BB 30 01 MITP octf October Files 5 01 MITP 3945 James Coleman 01 3945 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025416 1 B01 George Baker Baker, George George Baker George Baker is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an editor at <I>October</I> magazine and October Books. He is the editor of <I>James Coleman</I> (MIT Press) and a frequent contributor to <I>Artforum.</I> edited by George Baker 01 eng 256 53 b&w illus. 01 53 ART016000 AGB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>James Coleman has emerged in recent years as one of the most important artists of visual postmodernism. His work has transformed critical debates about the status of the image in contemporary culture and influenced an entire generation of younger artists in ways that have not yet been fully acknowledged. Until recently, Coleman has enjoyed relatively little critical attention--in part because of his refusal to comment on his projects or to allow his work to be reconstructed outside of the context of its exhibition.The illustrated essays in this book span the entirety of Coleman's career to date, from his early postminimal and conceptual experiments with memory and perception, through his work in film, video, and narrative in the 1980s, to his current ongoing series of slide projections with voice-over that he calls simply "projected images." Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the debates induced by Coleman's work, the essays discuss issues of subjectivity and identity, nationalism, postcolonialism, memory, spectacle culture, digitalization, and new media. The contributors are Raymond Bellour, Benjamin Buchloh, Lynne Cooke, Jean Fisher, Luke Gibbons, Rosalind Krauss, Anne Rorimer, and Kaja Silverman. Written by curators, critics, and scholars and spanning the fields of art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and film theory, the essays attest to the interdisciplinary challenge of Coleman's work.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025416.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025416 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20031024 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 1.1100000000000001 lb 06 15 9780262523417 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20031024 34 01 02 The MIT Press S 42.00 USD 02 28.95 GBP Z 0 28.95 0 9780262523417 03 02 0262523418 03 9780262523417 15 9780262523417 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP octf October Files 5 01 MITP 3945 James Coleman 01 3945 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523417 1 B01 George Baker Baker, George George Baker George Baker is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an editor at <I>October</I> magazine and October Books. He is the editor of <I>James Coleman</I> (MIT Press) and a frequent contributor to <I>Artforum.</I> edited by George Baker 01 eng 256 53 b&w illus. 01 53 ART016000 AGB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>James Coleman has emerged in recent years as one of the most important artists of visual postmodernism. His work has transformed critical debates about the status of the image in contemporary culture and influenced an entire generation of younger artists in ways that have not yet been fully acknowledged. Until recently, Coleman has enjoyed relatively little critical attention--in part because of his refusal to comment on his projects or to allow his work to be reconstructed outside of the context of its exhibition.The illustrated essays in this book span the entirety of Coleman's career to date, from his early postminimal and conceptual experiments with memory and perception, through his work in film, video, and narrative in the 1980s, to his current ongoing series of slide projections with voice-over that he calls simply "projected images." Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the debates induced by Coleman's work, the essays discuss issues of subjectivity and identity, nationalism, postcolonialism, memory, spectacle culture, digitalization, and new media. The contributors are Raymond Bellour, Benjamin Buchloh, Lynne Cooke, Jean Fisher, Luke Gibbons, Rosalind Krauss, Anne Rorimer, and Kaja Silverman. Written by curators, critics, and scholars and spanning the fields of art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and film theory, the essays attest to the interdisciplinary challenge of Coleman's work.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523417.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523417 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20031010 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 .83 lb 06 15 9780262025416 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20031010 46 01 02 The MIT Press T 18.00 USD 02 12.95 GBP Z 0 12.95 0 9780262025959 03 02 0262025957 03 9780262025959 15 9780262025959 03 BB 30 01 MITP 4206 Living Standards and the Wealth of Nations 01 4206 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025959 1 B01 Leszek Balcerowicz Balcerowicz, Leszek Leszek Balcerowicz Leszek Balcerowicz is President of the National Bank of Poland. As Finance Minister in the first post-transition Polish government, he was largely responsible for the successful transformation of the Polish economy. 2 B01 Stanley Fischer Fischer, Stanley Stanley Fischer 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 <I>IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis: The International Financial System, Stabilization, and Development </I>(MIT Press, 2004). edited by Leszek Balcerowicz and Stanley Fischer 01 eng 432 91 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The question of convergence, or under what conditions the per capita income levels of developing countries can catch up to those found in advanced economies, is critical for understanding economic growth and development. Convergence has happened in many countries and appears to be taking place now in China and India--yet in general per capita income levels in the poorer countries do not converge towards those of richer countries as uniformly as the analytical models predict. Living Standards and the Wealth of Nations, which grew out of a 2003 conference on convergence hosted by the National Bank of Poland, offers detailed theoretical and empirical examinations of what makes for successful convergence.After general discussions of the theoretical requirements for "rapid catch up" and the possible link between democracy and growth, the book presents global case studies of both non-EU and EU countries, including a provocative comparison of growth in the transition economies of the CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) nations and the 12 non-Baltic states of the former Soviet Union. It then considers nominal as opposed to real convergence in the European Monetary Union. Taken together, the chapters present a consistent argument that reliance on market forces within an open economy in a stable macroeconomic environment, with assured property rights, is the key to rapid economic growth.Contributors:Anders Åslund, Leszek Balcerowicz, Manuel Balmaseda, Iain Begg, John Bradley, Vittorio Corbo L., Stanley Fischer, Leonardo Hernández T., Philip E. Keefer, Olle Krantz, Abel Moreira Mateus, Thomas O'Connell, Stephen L. Parente, Edward C. Prescott, Jacek Rostowski, Isaac Sabethai, Miguel Sebastián, Diarmaid Smyth, Athanasios Vamvakidis, José Maria Viñals, Wing Thye Woo, Nikolai Zoubanov</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A group of prominent international economists consider what makes for successful convergence&mdash;what policies and economic conditions help poor countries catch up to the living standards of rich countries.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025959.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025959 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060407 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1.2 in 08 1.6 lb 06 15 9780262254670 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060407 20 01 02 The MIT Press S 50.00 USD 02 34.95 GBP Z 0 34.95 0 9780262025065 03 02 026202506X 03 9780262025065 15 9780262025065 03 BB 30 01 MITP acml Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series 01 MITP 1601 Bioinformatics 01 1601 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025065 1 A01 Pierre Baldi Baldi, Pierre Pierre Baldi Pierre Baldi is Professor of Information and Computer Science and of Biological Chemistry (College of Medicine) and Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of California, Irvine. 2 A01 Søren Brunak Brunak, Søren Søren Brunak Søren Brunak is Professor and Director of the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark. Pierre Baldi and Soren Brunak 2 second edition 01 eng 476 72 illus. COM014000 UY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>An unprecedented wealth of data is being generated by genome sequencing projects and other experimental efforts to determine the structure and function of biological molecules. The demands and opportunities for interpreting these data are expanding rapidly. Bioinformatics is the development and application of computer methods for management, analysis, interpretation, and prediction, as well as for the design of experiments. Machine learning approaches (e.g., neural networks, hidden Markov models, and belief networks) are ideally suited for areas where there is a lot of data but little theory, which is the situation in molecular biology. The goal in machine learning is to extract useful information from a body of data by building good probabilistic models--and to automate the process as much as possible.In this book Pierre Baldi and Søren Brunak present the key machine learning approaches and apply them to the computational problems encountered in the analysis of biological data. The book is aimed both at biologists and biochemists who need to understand new data-driven algorithms and at those with a primary background in physics, mathematics, statistics, or computer science who need to know more about applications in molecular biology.This new second edition contains expanded coverage of probabilistic graphical models and of the applications of neural networks, as well as a new chapter on microarrays and gene expression. The entire text has been extensively revised.</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This is a very good book, written with a high level of erudition and insight." Gustavo A. Stolovitzky Physics Today</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>A guide to machine learning approaches and their application to the analysis of biological data.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025065.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025065 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20010720 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1.25 in 08 2 lb 06 15 9780262255707 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20010720 18 01 02 The MIT Press S 65.00 USD 02 44.95 GBP Z 0 44.95 0 9780262523349 03 02 0262523345 03 9780262523349 15 9780262523349 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6107 The Shattered Self 01 6107 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523349 1 A01 Pierre Baldi Baldi, Pierre Pierre Baldi Pierre Baldi is Professor of Information and Computer Science and of Biological Chemistry (College of Medicine) and Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of California, Irvine. Pierre Baldi 01 eng 259 13 illus. MED050000 MBDC 10 SCI029000 12 TCBG 10 SCI049000 12 PSD 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Throughout history, we have selected and manipulated the genomes of plants, animals, and even ourselves. Until now, however, such control could be exerted only at the level of the entire organism. Scientific and technological advances now allow us to manipulate genomes directly at the level of single genes and their constituents, with a speed and precision that far exceed what natural evolution has been able to achieve over the past 3.5 billion years. These advances open new possibilities for medicine, biotechnology, and society as a whole. We already have in vitro fertilization and animal cloning; in the future human cloning and the exploitation of embryonic stem cells, among other capabilities, may be routine. At the same time, we are developing machines that will surpass the human brain in raw computing power and building an interconnected world of information-processing devices that makes science fiction pale in comparison. In this book Baldi explores what it is about these phenomena that makes us so uneasy--the shattering of the human self as we know it.Through evolution our brains have been wired to provide us with an inner sense of self, a feeling that each of us is a unique individual delimited by precise boundaries. We have also been wired to reproduce ourselves in a certain way. Baldi argues that this self-centered view of the world is scientifically wrong. Its past success lies in its being an adequate model during our evolutionary bootstrapping: a world without molecular biotechnology, human cloning, and the Internet. Eventually we must come to terms with the fact that genomes, computations, and mind are fluid, continuous entities, in both space and time. The boundary between the self and the world has begun to blur and ultimately may evaporate entirely. Baldi offers not predictions but an open-eyed exploration of our current state of knowledge and the possibilities that lie ahead.</P> The MIT Press 01 00 <P>Scientific and technological advances now allow us to manipulate genomes directly at the level of single genes and their constituents, with a speed and precision that far exceed what natural evolution has been able to achieve over the past 3.5 billion years. We already have in vitro fertilization and animal cloning; in the future human cloning and the exploitation of embryonic stem cells, among other capabilities, may be routine. At the same time, we are developing machines that will surpass the human brain in raw computing power and building an interconnected world of information-processing devices.In this book Pierre Baldi explores what it is about these phenomena that makes us so uneasy--the shattering of the human self as we know it. Eventually we must come to terms with the fact that genomes, computations, and mind are fluid, continuous entities, in both space and time. The boundary between the self and the world has begun to dissolve and ultimately may evaporate entirely. Baldi offers not predictions but an informed exploration of our current state of knowledge and the possibilities that lie ahead.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Pierre Baldi has confronted head-on some of the most startling and provocative possibilities that science and our insatiable quest for knowledge may unleash. Here is a concerned scientist who realizes that the explosion of information that science has inititated is transforming our view of our very selves and who we think we are."--James M. Sikela, Department of Pharmacology and Human Medical Genetics Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Post-genomic biology is just starting to transform the world, but the changes will come faster and affect humanity more profoundly than any previous technology. The Shattered Self provides an illuminating look at many of the issues we will have to confront soon, whether we are ready or not."--Larry Hunter, Director, Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Provocative and at times rebellious, Pierre Baldi's book touches on controversial and painfully intriguing questions that face us people of the third millennium, who are capable of creating electronic brain superpower as well as programming the genetic development of a human being."--Mark Borodovsky, Professor, Schools of Biology and Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This book is a provocative stimulating read." Science Books & Films</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"What we will become remains intriguing and ominous, making this probing book a valuable contribution to thinking about our future." Steven R. Quartz American Scientist</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523349.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523349 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020823 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 .92 lb 06 15 9780262025027 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020823 36 01 02 The MIT Press T 18.00 USD 02 12.95 GBP Z 0 12.95 0 9780262024662 03 02 0262024667 03 9780262024662 15 9780262024662 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2333 Design Rules Volume 1 01 2333 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024662 1 A01 Carliss Y. Baldwin Baldwin, Carliss Y. Carliss Y. Baldwin http://www.people.hbs.edu/cbaldwin/ 2 A01 Kim B. Clark Clark, Kim B. Kim B. Clark Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark 01 eng 483 BUS041000 KJRS 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>We live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are discovering news ways of structuring work, of bringing buyers and sellers together, and of creating and using market information. Although our fast-moving economy often seems to be outside of our influence or control, human beings create the things that create the market forces. Devices, software programs, production processes, contracts, firms, and markets are all the fruit of purposeful action: they are designed.Using the computer industry as an example, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark develop a powerful theory of design and industrial evolution. They argue that the industry has experienced previously unimaginable levels of innovation and growth because it embraced the concept of modularity, building complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. Modularity freed designers to experiment with different approaches, as long as they obeyed the established design rules. Drawing upon the literatures of industrial organization, real options, and computer architecture, the authors provide insight into the forces of change that drive today's economy.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262024662.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024662 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20000302 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 8.1 in 03 1.4 in 08 2.4 lb 06 15 9780262267649 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20000302 12 01 02 The MIT Press X 66.00 USD 02 45.95 GBP Z 0 45.95 0 9780262522588 03 02 0262522586 03 9780262522588 15 9780262522588 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP cad Complex Adaptive Systems 01 MITP 3855 An Introduction to Natural Computation 01 3855 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522588 1 A01 Dana H. Ballard Ballard, Dana H. Dana H. Ballard Dana H. Ballard is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dana/ Dana Ballard 01 eng 336 PSY008000 JMTK 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>It is now clear that the brain is unlikely to be understood without recourse to computational theories. The theme of An Introduction to Natural Computation is that ideas from diverse areas such as neuroscience, information theory, and optimization theory have recently been extended in ways that make them useful for describing the brains programs. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the computational material that forms the underpinnings of the currently evolving set of brain models. It stresses the broad spectrum of learning models--ranging from neural network learning through reinforcement learning to genetic learning--and situates the various models in their appropriate neural context.To write about models of the brain before the brain is fully understood is a delicate matter. Very detailed models of the neural circuitry risk losing track of the task the brain is trying to solve. At the other extreme, models that represent cognitive constructs can be so abstract that they lose all relationship to neurobiology. An Introduction to Natural Computation takes the middle ground and stresses the computational task while staying near the neurobiology.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the computational material that forms the underpinnings of the currently evolving set of brain models.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262522588.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522588 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990122 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 7 in 03 .8 in 08 1.55 lb 06 15 9780262024204 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990122 26 01 02 The MIT Press S 40.00 USD 02 27.95 GBP Z 0 27.95 0 9780262026154 03 02 0262026155 03 9780262026154 15 9780262026154 03 BB 30 01 MITP brb Boston Review Books 01 MITP 4316 Making Aid Work 01 4316 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026154 1 A01 Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee Banerjee, Abhijit Vinayak Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation Professor of Economics in the department of economics at MIT, a director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, and a past president of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). 2 A02 Alice H. Amsden Amsden, Alice H. Alice H. Amsden Alice H. Amsden was Barton T. Weller Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 3 A02 Robert H. Bates Bates, Robert H. Robert H. Bates 4 A02 Jagdish N. Bhagwati Bhagwati, Jagdish N. Jagdish N. Bhagwati Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and External Advisor to the Director General, World Trade Organization and Senior Fellow for International Economics with the Council on Foreign Relations. He was named Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2003. 5 A02 Angus Deaton Deaton, Angus Angus Deaton 6 A02 Nicholas Stern Stern, Nicholas Nicholas Stern Nicholas Stern is Head of the Government Economic Service and Second Permanent Secretary to the Treasury of the United Kingdom. He served as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank from July 2000 to October 2003, and before that held academic positions at institutions including the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and MIT. with Alice H. Amsden, Robert H. Bates, Jagdish Bhagwati, Angus Deaton, and Nicholas Stern. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee 01 eng 186 BUS068000 KCM 10 BUS069020 12 KCL 10 SOC042000 12 GTF 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. The large and pressing practical question is how best to address that challenge. Although millions of dollars flow to poor countries, the results are often disappointing.In Making Aid Work, Abhijit Banerjee--an "aid optimist"--argues that aid has much to contribute, but the lack of analysis about which programs really work causes considerable waste and inefficiency, which in turn fuels unwarranted pessimism about the role of aid in fostering economic development.Banerjee challenges aid donors to do better. Building on the model used to evaluate new drugs before they come on the market, he argues that donors should assess programs with field experiments using randomized trials. In fact, he writes, given the number of such experiments already undertaken, current levels of development assistance could focus entirely on programs with proven records of success in experimental conditions.Responding to his challenge, leaders in the field--including Nicholas Stern, Raymond Offenheiser, Alice Amsden, Ruth Levine, Angus Deaton, and others--question whether randomized trials are the most appropriate way to evaluate success for all programs. They raise broader questions as well, about the importance of aid for economic development and about the kinds of interventions (micro or macro, political or economic) that will lead to real improvements in the lives of poor people around the world. With one in every six people now living in extreme poverty, getting it right is crucial.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262026154.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026154 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20070323 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 7 in 02 4.5 in 03 .6 in 08 .55000000000000004 lb 06 15 9780262260398 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20070323 36 01 02 The MIT Press T 14.95 USD 02 10.95 GBP Z 0 10.95 0 9780262024846 03 02 0262024845 03 9780262024846 15 9780262024846 03 BB 30 01 MITP 5681 Readings in Development Economics Volume 1 01 5681 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024846 1 A01 Pranab Bardhan Bardhan, Pranab Pranab Bardhan Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of <I>Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation</I> (MIT Press, 2004) and coeditor (with Christopher Udry) of <I>Readings in Development Microeconomics, Volumes I and II</I> (MIT Press, 2000). 2 A01 Christopher Udry Udry, Christopher Christopher Udry Pranab Bardhan and Christopher Udry 01 eng 379 BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>These two volumes of readings attempt to bring some degree of structure to a relatively diffuse field. Because of the sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier of the field, rather than as a comprehensive overview.Volume I: Micro-Theory focuses on theoretical work. Topics covered include sharecropping as a principle-agent problem, fragmented duopolies, credit market imperfections, poverty traps, peer monitoring in credit cooperatives, coordination failures, human capital accumulation as an engine of growth, and environmental issues in development.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Volume I of this two-volume set focuses on theoretical work.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262024846.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024846 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20001106 01 WORLD 01 8.9 in 02 5.9 in 03 .9 in 08 1.65 lb 06 15 9780262522823 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20001106 24 01 02 The MIT Press S 90.00 USD 02 62.95 GBP Z 0 62.95 0 9780262024853 03 02 0262024853 03 9780262024853 15 9780262024853 03 BB 30 01 MITP 5681 Readings in Development Economics Volume 2 01 5681 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024853 1 A01 Pranab Bardhan Bardhan, Pranab Pranab Bardhan Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of <I>Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation</I> (MIT Press, 2004) and coeditor (with Christopher Udry) of <I>Readings in Development Microeconomics, Volumes I and II</I> (MIT Press, 2000). 2 A01 Christopher Udry Udry, Christopher Christopher Udry Pranab Bardhan and Christopher Udry 01 eng 449 BUS092000 GTF 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>These two volumes of readings attempt to bring some degree of structure to a relatively diffuse field. Because of the sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier of the field, rather than as a comprehensive overview.Volume II: Empirical Microeconomics focuses on empirical work. Topics covered include the relationship between wages and health, the role of human capital and demographic change, the internal structure of households, information imperfections in factor markets, the permanent income hypothesis, the possibility of Pareto-efficient allocation of risk in villages, and the relationship between property rights and investment decisions.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262024853.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024853 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20001106 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1.87 lb 06 15 9780262522830 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20001106 20 01 02 The MIT Press S 95.00 USD 02 65.95 GBP Z 0 65.95 0 9780262025737 03 02 0262025736 03 9780262025737 15 9780262025737 03 BB 30 01 MITP 5944 Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation 01 5944 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025737 1 A01 Pranab Bardhan Bardhan, Pranab Pranab Bardhan Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of <I>Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation</I> (MIT Press, 2004) and coeditor (with Christopher Udry) of <I>Readings in Development Microeconomics, Volumes I and II</I> (MIT Press, 2000). Pranab Bardhan 01 eng 328 2 illus. BUS092000 GTF 10 POL023000 12 KCP 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This wide-ranging review of some of the major issues in development economics focuses on the role of economic and political institutions. Drawing on the latest findings in institutional economics and political economy, Pranab Bardhan, a leader in the field of development economics, offers a relatively nontechnical discussion of current thinking on these issues from the viewpoint of poor countries, synthesizing recent research and reflecting on where we stand today.The institutional framework of an economy defines and constrains the opportunities of individuals, determines the business climate, and shapes the incentives and organizations for collective action on the part of communities; Pranab Bardhan finds the institutional framework to be relatively weak in many poor countries. Institutional failures, weak accountability mechanisms, and missed opportunities for cooperative problem-solving become the themes of the book, with the role of distributive conflicts in the persistence of dysfunctional institutions a common thread.Special issues taken up include the institutions for securing property rights and resolving coordination failures; the structural basis of power; commitment devices and political accountability; the complex relationship between democracy and poverty (with examples from India, where both have been durable); decentralization and devolution of power; persistence of corruption; ethnic conflicts; and impediments to collective action. Formal models are largely avoided, except in two chapters where Bardhan briefly introduces new models to elucidate currently under-researched areas. Other chapters review existing models, emphasizing the essential ideas rather than the formal details. Thus the book will be valuable not only for economists but also for social scientists and policymakers.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"If world poverty were simply an economic problem, we would be closer to a solution by now. But underdevelopment is a web of economic, political, institutional, ethnic, and class-related connections with persistent historical roots. In this simultaneously broad and sharp book, Pranab Bardhan tries to bring some analytical order into this important arena, and anyone who wants to understand the problem and the possibilities of policy will profit from reading it."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987)</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"William Easterly knows his way not only around economics but also around the developing world. He has written a hard-nosed book about the hardest problem of all: how to get the poorest countries on a path of sustained growth."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987)</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"I remember a cartoon in which a personnel manager says to a prospective employee: 'We offer no security. But then we expect no loyalty.' The authors think that this is more sad than funny. They ask important questions about how the labor market could make room for both security and loyalty for today's mobile workers and fast-changing firms. And they offer innovative answers."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987)</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025737.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025737 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20041105 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.25 lb 06 15 9780262524292 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20041105 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 62.00 USD 02 42.95 GBP Z 0 42.95 0 9780262522823 03 02 0262522829 03 9780262522823 15 9780262522823 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 5681 Readings in Development Economics Volume 1 01 5681 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522823 1 A01 Pranab Bardhan Bardhan, Pranab Pranab Bardhan Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of <I>Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation</I> (MIT Press, 2004) and coeditor (with Christopher Udry) of <I>Readings in Development Microeconomics, Volumes I and II</I> (MIT Press, 2000). 2 A01 Christopher Udry Udry, Christopher Christopher Udry Pranab Bardhan and Christopher Udry 01 eng 379 BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>These two volumes of readings attempt to bring some degree of structure to a relatively diffuse field. Because of the sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier of the field, rather than as a comprehensive overview.Volume I: Micro-Theory focuses on theoretical work. Topics covered include sharecropping as a principle-agent problem, fragmented duopolies, credit market imperfections, poverty traps, peer monitoring in credit cooperatives, coordination failures, human capital accumulation as an engine of growth, and environmental issues in development.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Volume I of this two-volume set focuses on theoretical work.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262522823.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522823 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20001106 01 WORLD 01 8.9 in 02 5.9 in 03 .9 in 08 1.2 lb 06 15 9780262024846 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20001106 26 01 02 The MIT Press S 35.00 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9780262522830 03 02 0262522837 03 9780262522830 15 9780262522830 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 5681 Readings in Development Economics Volume 2 01 5681 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522830 1 A01 Pranab Bardhan Bardhan, Pranab Pranab Bardhan Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of <I>Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation</I> (MIT Press, 2004) and coeditor (with Christopher Udry) of <I>Readings in Development Microeconomics, Volumes I and II</I> (MIT Press, 2000). 2 A01 Christopher Udry Udry, Christopher Christopher Udry Pranab Bardhan and Christopher Udry 01 eng 449 BUS092000 GTF 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>These two volumes of readings attempt to bring some degree of structure to a relatively diffuse field. Because of the sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier of the field, rather than as a comprehensive overview.Volume II: Empirical Microeconomics focuses on empirical work. Topics covered include the relationship between wages and health, the role of human capital and demographic change, the internal structure of households, information imperfections in factor markets, the permanent income hypothesis, the possibility of Pareto-efficient allocation of risk in villages, and the relationship between property rights and investment decisions.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262522830.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522830 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20001106 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1.58 lb 06 15 9780262024853 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20001106 22 01 02 The MIT Press S 37.00 USD 02 25.95 GBP Z 0 25.95 0 9780262524292 03 02 0262524295 03 9780262524292 15 9780262524292 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 5944 Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation 01 5944 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524292 1 A01 Pranab Bardhan Bardhan, Pranab Pranab Bardhan Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of <I>Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation</I> (MIT Press, 2004) and coeditor (with Christopher Udry) of <I>Readings in Development Microeconomics, Volumes I and II</I> (MIT Press, 2000). Pranab Bardhan 01 eng 328 2 illus. BUS092000 GTF 10 POL023000 12 KCP 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This wide-ranging review of some of the major issues in development economics focuses on the role of economic and political institutions. Drawing on the latest findings in institutional economics and political economy, Pranab Bardhan, a leader in the field of development economics, offers a relatively nontechnical discussion of current thinking on these issues from the viewpoint of poor countries, synthesizing recent research and reflecting on where we stand today.The institutional framework of an economy defines and constrains the opportunities of individuals, determines the business climate, and shapes the incentives and organizations for collective action on the part of communities; Pranab Bardhan finds the institutional framework to be relatively weak in many poor countries. Institutional failures, weak accountability mechanisms, and missed opportunities for cooperative problem-solving become the themes of the book, with the role of distributive conflicts in the persistence of dysfunctional institutions a common thread.Special issues taken up include the institutions for securing property rights and resolving coordination failures; the structural basis of power; commitment devices and political accountability; the complex relationship between democracy and poverty (with examples from India, where both have been durable); decentralization and devolution of power; persistence of corruption; ethnic conflicts; and impediments to collective action. Formal models are largely avoided, except in two chapters where Bardhan briefly introduces new models to elucidate currently under-researched areas. Other chapters review existing models, emphasizing the essential ideas rather than the formal details. Thus the book will be valuable not only for economists but also for social scientists and policymakers.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"If world poverty were simply an economic problem, we would be closer to a solution by now. But underdevelopment is a web of economic, political, institutional, ethnic, and class-related connections with persistent historical roots. In this simultaneously broad and sharp book, Pranab Bardhan tries to bring some analytical order into this important arena, and anyone who wants to understand the problem and the possibilities of policy will profit from reading it."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987)</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"William Easterly knows his way not only around economics but also around the developing world. He has written a hard-nosed book about the hardest problem of all: how to get the poorest countries on a path of sustained growth."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987)</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"I remember a cartoon in which a personnel manager says to a prospective employee: 'We offer no security. But then we expect no loyalty.' The authors think that this is more sad than funny. They ask important questions about how the labor market could make room for both security and loyalty for today's mobile workers and fast-changing firms. And they offer innovative answers."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987)</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524292.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524292 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20041105 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1 lb 06 15 9780262025737 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20041105 40 01 02 The MIT Press S 27.00 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9780262026000 03 02 0262026007 03 9780262026000 15 9780262026000 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2264 Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries 01 2264 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026000 1 B01 Pranab Bardhan Bardhan, Pranab Pranab Bardhan Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of <I>Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation</I> (MIT Press, 2004) and coeditor (with Christopher Udry) of <I>Readings in Development Microeconomics, Volumes I and II</I> (MIT Press, 2000). 2 B01 Dilip Mookherjee Mookherjee, Dilip Dilip Mookherjee Dilip Mookherjee is Professor of Economics at Boston University. He is the author most recently of <I>The Crisis in Government Accountability: Governance Reforms and Indian Economic Performance</I>. edited by Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee 01 eng 394 18 illus. POL023000 KCP 10 SOC042000 12 GTF 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries examine this institutional transformation from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, offering detailed case studies of decentralization in eight countries: Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda.Some of these countries witnessed an unprecedented "big bang" shift toward comprehensive political and economic decentralization: Bolivia in 1995 and Indonesia after the fall of Suharto in 1998. Brazil and India decentralized in an uneven and more gradual manner. In some other countries (such as Pakistan) devolution represented an instrument for consolidation of power of a nondemocratic national government. In China local governments were granted much economic but little political power. South Africa made the transition from the undemocratic decentralization of apartheid to decentralization under a democratic constitution. The studies provide a comparative perspective on the political and economic context within which decentralization took place, and how this shaped its design and possible impact.Contributors:Omar Azfar, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Pranab Bardhan, Shubham Chaudhuri, Ali Cheema, Jean-Paul Faguet, Bert Hofman, Kai Kaiser, Philip E. Keefer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Justin Yifu Lin, Mingxing Liu, Jeffrey Livingston, Patrick Meagher, Dilip Mookherjee, Ambar Narayan, Adnan Qadir, Ran Tao, Tara Vishwanath, Martin Wittenberg</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Although Bardhan and Mookherjee are economists, they understand that decentralization is fundamentally a political and socialtransformation. Their volume begins to challenge artificial disciplinary boundaries that have long impeded better conceptual and empirical analysis of decentralization in developing countries."--Paul Smoke, Associate Professor and Director of International Programs, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This book is an excellent addition to the literature on decentralisation...readers will find the book both interesting and easy reading because of its clear and informative presentation." Abdurohman Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262026000.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026000 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060623 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.4 lb 06 15 9780262524544 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060623 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 80.00 USD 02 55.95 GBP Z 0 55.95 0 9780262524544 03 02 0262524546 03 9780262524544 15 9780262524544 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2264 Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries 01 2264 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524544 1 B01 Pranab Bardhan Bardhan, Pranab Pranab Bardhan Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of <I>Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation</I> (MIT Press, 2004) and coeditor (with Christopher Udry) of <I>Readings in Development Microeconomics, Volumes I and II</I> (MIT Press, 2000). 2 B01 Dilip Mookherjee Mookherjee, Dilip Dilip Mookherjee Dilip Mookherjee is Professor of Economics at Boston University. He is the author most recently of <I>The Crisis in Government Accountability: Governance Reforms and Indian Economic Performance</I>. edited by Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee 01 eng 394 18 illus. POL023000 KCP 10 SOC042000 12 GTF 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries examine this institutional transformation from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, offering detailed case studies of decentralization in eight countries: Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda.Some of these countries witnessed an unprecedented "big bang" shift toward comprehensive political and economic decentralization: Bolivia in 1995 and Indonesia after the fall of Suharto in 1998. Brazil and India decentralized in an uneven and more gradual manner. In some other countries (such as Pakistan) devolution represented an instrument for consolidation of power of a nondemocratic national government. In China local governments were granted much economic but little political power. South Africa made the transition from the undemocratic decentralization of apartheid to decentralization under a democratic constitution. The studies provide a comparative perspective on the political and economic context within which decentralization took place, and how this shaped its design and possible impact.Contributors:Omar Azfar, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Pranab Bardhan, Shubham Chaudhuri, Ali Cheema, Jean-Paul Faguet, Bert Hofman, Kai Kaiser, Philip E. Keefer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Justin Yifu Lin, Mingxing Liu, Jeffrey Livingston, Patrick Meagher, Dilip Mookherjee, Ambar Narayan, Adnan Qadir, Ran Tao, Tara Vishwanath, Martin Wittenberg</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Although Bardhan and Mookherjee are economists, they understand that decentralization is fundamentally a political and socialtransformation. Their volume begins to challenge artificial disciplinary boundaries that have long impeded better conceptual and empirical analysis of decentralization in developing countries."--Paul Smoke, Associate Professor and Director of International Programs, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"This book is an excellent addition to the literature on decentralisation...readers will find the book both interesting and easy reading because of its clear and informative presentation." Abdurohman Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524544.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524544 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060616 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.1499999999999999 lb 06 15 9780262026000 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060616 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 38.00 USD 02 26.95 GBP Z 0 26.95 0 9780262524223 03 02 0262524228 03 9780262524223 15 9780262524223 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP uie Urban and Industrial Environments 01 MITP 6465 Sustainability on Campus 01 6465 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524223 1 B01 Peggy F. Barlett Barlett, Peggy F. Peggy F. Barlett Peggy F. Barlett is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. She received a BA in anthropology from Grinnell College (1969) and the PhD in anthropology at Columbia University (1975). A cultural anthropologist specializing in agricultural systems and sustainable development, she carried out fieldwork in economic anthropology in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and rural Georgia (USA). Earlier work focused on farmer decision making, rural social change, and industrial agriculture. She has published <I>Agricultural Choice and Change: Decision Making in a Costa Rican Community</I> (1982, Rutgers University Press), <I>American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis</I> (1993, University of North Carolina Press) and is editor of <I>Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development</I> (1980, Academic Press).Recently, interests in the challenge of sustainability in urban Atlanta have given her an opportunity to return to early training in applied anthropology and to combine it with interests in political economy, group dynamics, and personal development. Part of a growing movement toward sustainability at Emory, she has focused on expanding awareness of environmental issues through curriculum development (the Piedmont Project), campus policies, and connections to place. She also has interests in local food systems and a local Watershed Alliance. She is the coeditor (with Geoffrey Chase) of <I>Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change</I> (MIT Press, 2004). http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ANTHROPOLOGY/FACULTY/ANTPFB/index.html 2 B01 Geoffrey W. Chase Chase, Geoffrey W. Geoffrey W. Chase Geoffrey W. Chase attended Ohio Wesleyan University, receiving the BA in English in 1971. He also holds an MAT from Miami University (Ohio) and the AM in English from Boston College. He is currently the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at San Diego State University.After receiving his PhD in American literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, he taught for 11 years in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University of Ohio. He joined Northern Arizona University in 1992 as the Director of English Composition. At NAU, he revamped the composition curriculum to give it an environmental focus and became a leader of the Ponderosa Project, a faculty development project aimed at helping faculty from throughout the university integrate issues of environmental sustainability into their courses. This ongoing project has resulted in the revision of more than 100 courses at NAU, and played a key role in the development of a new liberal studies program for the university. The Ponderosa Project has also served as a faculty development model that has been instituted at other college and universities including Northern Kentucky and Emory.While at Northern Arizona University, Chase also served as English Department Chair, Dean of Liberal Studies, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies, and he implemented a new liberal studies program. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar in Turku, Finland, and his chief interest is in sustainability and undergraduate curricula. Chase joined San Diego State University in January 2002, as the Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Studies. edited by Peggy F. Barlett and Geoffrey W. Chase 01 eng 337 4 b&w illus. 01 4 EDU015000 JNMN 10 SCI026000 12 RNQ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspiration, motivation, and practical advice. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and a student, from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent experiences, these stories also map the growing strength of a national movement toward environmental responsibility on campus.Environmental awareness on college and university campuses began with the celebratory consciousness-raising of Earth Day, 1970. Since then environmental action on campus has been both global (in research and policy formation) and local (in efforts to make specific environmental improvements on campuses). The stories in this book show that achieving environmental sustainability is not a matter of applying the formulas of risk management or engineering technology but part of what the editors call "the messy reality of participatory engagement in cultural transformation."In Sustainability on Campus campus leaders recount inspiring stories of strategies that moved eighteen colleges and universities toward a more sustainable future. This book is for faculty, students, administrators, staff, and community partners, whether hesitant or committed, knowledgeable or newcomer. Scholars and activists have recognized the crucial role that higher education can play in the sustainability effort, and each chapter in the book is full of ideas about how to get started, revitalize efforts, and overcome roadblocks. Human and at times joyful, these stories illustrate many forms of leadership, in new courses and faculty development, green buildings and administrative policies, student programs, residential life, and collaborations with local communities.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Anyone who wishes to stem global warming in ways sensitive to the practical realities of running schools and businesses -- or who simply wishes to be an effective leader in any walk of life -- will want to read this terrific contribution to the field of higher education stewardship."--Julian Keniry, Director, Campus and Community Leadership, National Wildlife Federation, author of *Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century*</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"[A] must-read... take notes, and be amazed at the number of ways to achieve campus sustainability." Steve Lachman Environment</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P> This is a hopeful book, and I found every story within it to be a gem. The editors and authors have done a great service through their work over the years and by sharing their stories in this unusually compelling book. Instead of preachy admonitions, these aremoving personal testimonials with broader community significance. Julian Keniry, Director of Youth and Campus Ecology, National Wildlife Federation, author of <I>Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century</I></P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524223.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524223 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040402 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .8 in 08 1.05 lb 06 15 9780262025607 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040402 20 01 02 The MIT Press T 26.95 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9780262524438 04 02 0262524430 03 9780262524438 15 9780262524438 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP uie Urban and Industrial Environments 01 MITP 6902 Urban Place 01 6902 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524438 1 B01 Peggy F. Barlett Barlett, Peggy F. Peggy F. Barlett Peggy F. Barlett is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. She received a BA in anthropology from Grinnell College (1969) and the PhD in anthropology at Columbia University (1975). A cultural anthropologist specializing in agricultural systems and sustainable development, she carried out fieldwork in economic anthropology in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and rural Georgia (USA). Earlier work focused on farmer decision making, rural social change, and industrial agriculture. She has published <I>Agricultural Choice and Change: Decision Making in a Costa Rican Community</I> (1982, Rutgers University Press), <I>American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis</I> (1993, University of North Carolina Press) and is editor of <I>Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development</I> (1980, Academic Press).Recently, interests in the challenge of sustainability in urban Atlanta have given her an opportunity to return to early training in applied anthropology and to combine it with interests in political economy, group dynamics, and personal development. Part of a growing movement toward sustainability at Emory, she has focused on expanding awareness of environmental issues through curriculum development (the Piedmont Project), campus policies, and connections to place. She also has interests in local food systems and a local Watershed Alliance. She is the coeditor (with Geoffrey Chase) of <I>Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change</I> (MIT Press, 2004). http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ANTHROPOLOGY/FACULTY/ANTPFB/index.html 2 A23 Roderick Frazier Nash Nash, Roderick Frazier Roderick Frazier Nash foreword by Roderick Frazier Nash. edited by Peggy F. Barlett 01 eng 336 25 illus. POL044000 RND 10 POL002000 12 RPC 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Amidst city concrete and suburban sprawl, Americans are discovering new ways to reconnect with the natural world. From community gardens in New York's Lower East Side to homeless shelters in California, the search for a more sustainable future has led grassroots groups to a profound reconnection to place and to the natural world.Studies of the health consequences of renewing a connection with nature support the urgency of providing green surroundings as cities expand and the majority of the earth's population lives in urban areas. Medical research results, from groups as diverse as healthy volunteers, surgery patients, and heart attack survivors, suggest that contact with nature may improve health and well-being. Engagement with nearby natural places also provides restoration from mental fatigue and support for more resilient and cooperative behavior. Aspects of stronger community life are fostered by access to nature, suggesting that there are significant social as well as physical and psychological benefits from connection with the natural world.This volume brings together research from anthropology, sociology, public health, psychology, and landscape architecture to highlight how awareness of locale and a meaningful renewal of attachment with the earth are connected to delight in learning about nature as well as to civic action and new forms of community. Community garden coalitions, organic market advocates, and greenspace preservationists resist the power of global forces, enacting visions of a different future. Their creative efforts tell a story of a constructive and dynamic middle ground between private plots and public action, between human health and ecosystem health, between individual attachment and urban sustainability.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Essential reading for anyone interested in creating healthier human habitats in the concrete jungles of our cities and asphalt barrens of suburbia, *Urban Place* deserves a spot on the shelf next to *Biophilia*. This optimistic compendium of new thinking in a wide range of academic disciplines argues the necessity of building more place attachment, ecological restoration, local food awareness, and green space into our increasingly displaced, indoor digital culture."--Francesca Lyman, environmental journalist and author of *The Greenhouse Trap* and *Inside the Dzanga-Sangha Rain Forest*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is a hopeful and inspiring contribution to the understanding of global conservation. With careful and detailed analysis, Steinberg demonstrates that concern for the natural environment can take root in poor countries as easily as in the rich, and for the same economic and psychological reasons."--Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"It's all about connections, and Mitchell Thomashow shows us how to connect the global and local, both intellectually and practically. Bringing the Biosphere Home is must reading for people wanting to build a coherent world that honors place and planet."--David W. Orr, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A rich and complex reflection regarding the subtle dependence of human subjectivity on the more-than-human natural world, and the strange ease with which we turn away from that world in its devastation. Drawing upon diverse materials--including human ecology, psychoanalysis, poetry, aesthetics--Shierry Nicholsen has fashioned a warm meditation on our chilling capacity for oblivion."--David Abram, author of *The Spell of the Sensuous*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The issue of excessive, careless, and ignorant consumption has been conspicuously absent in all the talk about sustainability. No longer! These essays break new conceptual ground and clarify the dynamics of consumption with intellectual honesty and political boldness. The authors aim to transform consumption from mindless and destructive to mindful and regenerative. This is a vitally important book!"--David W. Orr, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"For far too long we've understood the city as the very antithesis of animate nature. If humankind is to survive the calamitous century now upon us, it will be in large part because of a new rapprochement between our urban centers and the elemental earth. This fine book illuminates some of the necessary steps toward such a vital reconciliation. David Abram, author of <I>The Spell of the Sensuous</I></P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>Urban Place</I> is the story of an exciting revolution in the way we design, build, and live in urban settings, driven by the recognition that human health and that of nature are one and indivisible. Peggy Barlett and her colleagues are describing nothing less than the renaissance of a humane and decent civilization and the outlines of a sustainable urban world." David W. Orr, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Sound philosophy requires a solid understanding of the nature and origin of mind, which in turn depends on the best neuroscience available. Patricia Churchland, with verve and exactitude, has taken a large step toward establishing that link."--Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Nature by Design* is a wonderful book -- an eloquent, wise, and useful guide to the potentials and ambiguities of ecological restoration. By connecting nature, community, memory, and intention so artfully, Eric Higgs has redefined the field."--David W. Orr, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"For far too long we have understood the urban world as the very antithesis of animate nature. If humankind is to survive the calamitous century now upon us, we'll need to rediscover our cities not as merely human constructs but as earthly places informed and permeated by the more-than-human terrains that really sustain them. This fine book illustrates some key steps toward such a vital renewal."--David Abram, author of *The Spell of the Sensuous*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Peggy Bartlett has assembled and led an impressive team of researchers to reexamine how our urban selves are finding new ways to connect with nature, how we are both reclaiming and recreating meanings in these connections, and the personal and social benefits of such reconnection."--Jac Smit, President, Urban Agriculture Network</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Urban Place* is the story of an exciting revolution in the way we design, build, and live in urban settings, driven by the recognition that human health and that of nature are one and indivisible. Peggy Barlett and her colleagues are describing nothing less than the renaissance of a humane and decent civilization and the outlines of a sustainable urban world."--David W. Orr, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524438.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524438 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050826 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.05 lb 06 15 9780262025867 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y MD 23 20050826 30 01 02 The MIT Press S 27.00 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9780262025966 03 02 0262025965 03 9780262025966 15 9780262025966 03 BB 30 01 MITP bbe Basic Bioethics 01 MITP 1143 Against Bioethics 01 1143 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025966 1 A01 Jonathan Baron Baron, Jonathan Jonathan Baron Jonathan Baron 01 eng 248 6 illus. MED050000 MBDC 10 MED078000 12 MBNH2 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Governments, health professionals, patients, research institutions, and research subjects look to bioethicists for guidance in making important decisions about medical treatment and research. And yet, argues Jonathan Baron in Against Bioethics, applied bioethics lacks the authority of a coherent guiding theory and is based largely on intuitive judgments. Baron proposes an alternative, arguing that bioethics could have a coherent theory based on utilitarianism and decision analysis. Utilitarianism holds that the best option is the one that does the most expected good. Decision analysis provides a way of thinking about the risks and trade-offs of specific options. Like economics, utilitarian decision analysis makes predictions of expected good in complex situations, using data when possible, and focusing human judgment on the issues relevant to consequences. With such a guiding theory, bioethics would never yield decisions that clearly go against the expected good of those involved, as some do now.Baron discusses issues in bioethics that can be illuminated by such analysis, including "enhancements" to nature in the form of genetics, drugs, and mind control; reproduction; death and end-of-life issues, including advance directives, euthanasia, and organ donation; coercion and consent; conflict of interest and the reform of internal review boards; and drug research. Although Baron opposes current practice in bioethics, he argues that by combining utilitarianism and decision analysis, bioethics can achieve its aims of providing authoritative guidance in resolving thorny medical and ethical issues.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Baron's diagnosis is correct: much is lacking in how bioethics has been translated into policy and practice. His proposed therapy, greater reliance on utilitarianism and decision theory, may not be a complete answer, but it moves the field in the right direction. Baron's critique, and his proposed solutions, deserve a wide readership."--Barbara A. Koenig, Professor of Medicine, Mayo College of Medicine</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>Against Bioethics</I> is a well-written, lucid, nontechnical exposition of how utilitarianism and its technical cousin, decision analysis, can be applied to a variety of bioethical problems including assisted suicide, informed consent, and the justifications for "going against nature" (a particularly intriguing chapter on genetic engineering and stem cell research). For the most part, the book avoids the computational complexities that have limited the audience for a decision-analytic view of these problems. Instead, it focuses on the philosophical principles at stake and works out their implications for action. Its critique of specific solutions recommended by applied bioethicists deserves serious consideration." <B>Arthur Elstein </B>, Professor Emeritus of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, past president, Society for Medical Decision Making </P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Against Bioethics* is a well-written, lucid, nontechnical exposition of how utilitarianism and its technical cousin, decision analysis, can be applied to a variety of bioethical problems including assisted suicide, informed consent, and the justifications for 'going against nature' (a particularly intriguing chapter on genetic engineering and stem cell research). For the most part, the book avoids the computational complexities that have limited the audience for a decision-analytic view of these problems. Instead, it focuses on the philosophical principles at stake and works out their implications for action. Its critique of specific solutions recommended by applied bioethicists deserves serious consideration."--Arthur Elstein, Professor Emeritus of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, past president, Society for Medical Decision Making</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Argues that applied bioethics should embrace utilitarian decision analysis, thus avoiding recommendations expected to do more harm than good. </P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025966.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025966 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060217 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 0.4375 in 08 1.05 lb 06 15 9780262524780 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060217 36 01 02 The MIT Press S 31.00 USD 02 21.95 GBP Z 0 21.95 0 9780262524568 04 02 0262524562 03 9780262524568 15 9780262524568 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 5434 Prenatal Testosterone in Mind 01 5434 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524568 1 A01 Simon Baron-Cohen Baron-Cohen, Simon Simon Baron-Cohen Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor in Developmental Psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, is the author of <I>Mindblindness</I> (MIT Press, 1997) and <I>The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Mind</I>. 2 A01 Svetlana Lutchmaya Lutchmaya, Svetlana Svetlana Lutchmaya Svetlana Lutchmaya received her Ph.D. in 2001 from the the University of Cambridge. 3 A01 Rebecca Knickmeyer Knickmeyer, Rebecca Rebecca Knickmeyer Rebecca Knickmeyer is a doctoral candidate at the Autism Research Centre. Simon Baron-Cohen, Svetlana Lutchmaya, and Rebecca Knickmeyer 01 eng 144 6 illus. MED056000 MJND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>This pioneering study looks at the effects of prenatal testosterone on postnatal development and behavior. Hormonal effects on behavior have long been studied in animals; the unique contribution of this book is to suggest a connection between human fetal hormones and later behavior. It details for the first time testosterone's effect on social and language development, opening a new avenue of research for cognitive neuroscience.The authors look at samples of amniotic fluid taken during amniocentesis at 16 weeks' gestation, and relate the fetal level of testosterone (which is present in fetuses of both sexes, although in different quantities) to behavior at ages 1, 2, and 4 years. They argue that the amniotic fluid provides a window into the child's past -- a chemical record of that child's time in the womb -- that allows informed prediction about the child's future brain, mind, and behavior. This is not the retrospective speculation of psychoanalysis, they point out, but an opportunity to study development prospectively and trace developmental precursors and causes of later cognition.The study suggests that prenatal levels of testosterone affect a range of later behaviors in children, from the inclination to make eye contact with others to the size of the vocabulary. It also suggests that prenatal testosterone level may be related to the development of typically "masculine" and "feminine" behaviors. The study's ongoing research explores whether fetal testosterone has any link with the risk of developing autism. Connecting endocrinology and psychology, the authors propose that there is a biological component to behaviors often thought to be produced by the social environment.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A thoughtful and original analysis of important problems in the history, evolution, and acquisition of language."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A lively collection on a new and exciting approach to human reasoning."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A lucid presentation of a fascinating and ingenious new body of research." <B>Steven Pinker </B>, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of <I>The Blank Slate</I>, <I>How the Mind Works</I>, and <I>Words and Rules</I></P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser helped rejuvenate the study of argument structure in linguistics, and this important new treatise shows off the insight and elegance of their analyses. It is essential reading for anyone interested in argument structure and the lexicon, and a fitting memorial for the late Ken Hale, one of the twentieth century's most beloved linguists."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A lucid presentation of a fascinating and ingenious new body of research."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought*</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Sex differences are one thing, individual differences are another. The emerging success of using variations in the human genome to explain individuality can blind us to the contributions that later phenotypical events make. By relating individual differences in testosterone levels during fetal life with childhood behavior, Baron-Cohen and his colleagues provide a challenging and well-argued concept of the early power of this hormone to shape our future selves: helping to make us what we are, but sometimes -- as in autism -- with devastating consequences. Combine what this book tells you about testosterone at the dawn our lives with what we know of its later power, and you have a molecule which has truly shaped human history."--Joe Herbert, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*The Cognitive Neurosciences III* is a magnificent accomplishment. It covers topics from ions to consciousness, from reflexes to social psychology. It is authoritative and encyclopedic, but also lively and unafraid of controversy. Michael Gazzaniga, The MIT Press, and the community of cognitive neuroscientists are to be congratulated for assembling this landmark of twentieth-century science and thrilling preview of what we will learn in the twenty-first."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought*Please note: This endorsement is identical to Pinker's endorsement for the second edition of the book (with the title changed, of course). He has approved our use of it for the new edition.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524568.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524568 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060120 01 WORLD 01 8 in 02 5.375 in 03 .5 in 08 .4 lb 06 15 9780262025638 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y MD 23 20060120 56 01 02 The MIT Press S 17.00 USD 02 11.95 GBP Z 0 11.95 0 9780262025003 03 02 0262025000 03 9780262025003 15 9780262025003 03 BB 30 01 MITP dc Digital Communication 01 MITP 4594 The MIT Guide to Teaching Web Site Design 01 4594 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025003 1 A01 Edward Barrett Barrett, Edward Edward Barrett Edward Barrett is Senior Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. 2 A01 Deborah A. Levinson Levinson, Deborah A. Deborah A. Levinson Deborah A. Levinson, agraduate of the MIT Program in Writing and HumanisticStudies, is a design lead at Art Technology Group,Inc. 3 A01 Suzana Lisanti Lisanti, Suzana Suzana Lisanti Suzana Lisanti is Director of Web PublishingServices at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. Edward Barrett, Deborah A. Levinson, and Suzana Lisanti 01 eng 123 36 illus. COM014000 UY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Most books on Web design focus on the appearance of the finished product and pay little attention to the ideas and processes involved in intelligent interactive design. This book is based on the premise that the principles that have defined good communication design in the past apply equally well to the Web. The basic process is one of defining the purpose, audience, and style appropriate to one's objectives. Another premise is that effective Web site design is an inherently collaborative process requiring not only technical skills but more traditional written and oral communication skills. Hence, this book stresses a social, process-oriented approach both to design and to classroom instruction.The book covers all aspects of teaching Web design, from optimal class size and classroom configuration to peer review of completed projects. It is written in an accessible style and uses many examples from the Web design course taught by the authors at MIT.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This Guide demystifies web site design by integrating numerous universal practices derived from traditional educational and managerial domains. In the conceptualization, planning and implementation stages, various considerations and recommendations emerge from the authors' collective experience in this enterprise: the need to take into account constraints imposed by the physical dimensions of the classroom; the utility of simple face-to-face meetings among students; the importance of clear objectives, well-defined collaborative roles, and knowledge of the intended audience; and effective strategies such as the use of focus groups. Underpinning an eminently pragmatic orientation that encompasses technical aspects of web architecture, graphic design, multimedia, and interactivity and illustrates topics through case studies, is a coherent and entirely convincing philosophy based on the centrality of writing and the applicability of universal rhetorical principles."--Douglas Morgenstern, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, MITPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>An accessible presentation of all aspects of teaching Web design based on the premise that the principles of good communication design in the past apply equally well to the Web.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025003.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025003 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20010413 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .25 in 08 .68 lb 06 15 9780262267755 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20010413 52 01 02 The MIT Press S 25.00 USD 02 17.95 GBP Z 0 17.95 0 9780262025539 03 02 0262025531 03 9780262025539 15 9780262025539 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2546 Economic Growth 01 2546 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025539 1 A01 Robert J. Barro Barro, Robert J. Robert J. Barro 2 A01 Xavier I. Sala-i-Martin Sala-i-Martin, Xavier I. Xavier I. Sala-i-Martin Robert J. Barro and Xavier I. Sala-i-Martin 2 second edition 01 eng 672 BUS069000 KCY 01 17 03 18 01 00 <P>This graduate level text on economic growth surveys neoclassical and more recent growth theories, stressing their empirical implications and the relation of theory to data and evidence. The authors have undertaken a major revision for the long-awaited second edition of this widely used text, the first modern textbook devoted to growth theory. The book has been expanded in many areas and incorporates the latest research.After an introductory discussion of economic growth, the book examines neoclassical growth theories, from Solow-Swan in the 1950s and Cass-Koopmans in the 1960s to more recent refinements; this is followed by a discussion of extensions to the model, with expanded treatment in this edition of heterogenity of households. The book then turns to endogenous growth theory, discussing, among other topics, models of endogenous technological progress (with an expanded discussion in this edition of the role of outside competition in the growth process), technological diffusion, and an endogenous determination of labor supply and population. The authors then explain the essentials of growth accounting and apply this framework to endogenous growth models. The final chapters cover empirical analysis of regions and empirical evidence on economic growth for a broad panel of countries from 1960 to 2000. The updated treatment of cross-country growth regressions for this edition uses the new Summers-Heston data set on world income distribution compiled through 2000.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Barro and Sala-i-Martin have done a superb job of synthesizing much of the existing theoretical and empirical research on the mechanisms and determinants of economic growth and convergence. Though it incorporates much new material, this updated version is fully accessible to a third year undergraduate student, while remaining of invaluable use to any research scholar seriously interested in growth and development economics."--Philippe Aghion, Department of Economics, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Barro and Sala-i-Martin provide an outstanding and comprehensive treatment of growth theory and empirics&mdash;an instant classic! I learn something new every time I pull my copy from the shelf." <B>Charles I. Jones </B>, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Laurence Kotlikoff is the world's leading authority on savings behavior: its causes and its consequences for public policy. These essays are a worthy successor and extension to his What Determines Savings? Anyone who wants to stay current on research in public finance will want to read the recent contributions collected here."--Robert E. Lucas, Jr., John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1995)Please note: "What Determines Savings?" is in italics.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer have produced the first serious theory of barter in emerging market economies. Using the methodology and techniques of modern contract theory, they show how barter trade can mitigate contractual enforcement problems in relationships involving moral hazard in technology trade and debt repayments. They also provide an illuminating analysis of barter in transition economies where firms are both highly credit-constrained and operating in a non-competitive environment with a small number of suppliers and customers. This book will become a classical reference in the fields of transition, international trade and international finance, and also for all students and researchers interested in economic development and institutions."--Philippe Aghion, Department of Economics, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Lionel McKenzie's new monograph is a pleasure to read. Only a major contributor to economic theory could teach general equilibrium theory with such clarity and authority. The book is gracefully written and rigorous, and does an elegant job of situating competitive equilibrium theory in the economic and mathematical traditions from which it evolved."--Robert E. Lucas, Jr., John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1995)</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Barro and Sala-i-Martin provide an outstanding and comprehensive treatment of growth theory and empirics -- an instant classic! I learn something new every time I pull my copy from the shelf."--Charles I. Jones, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>The long-awaited second edition of an important textbook on economic growth&mdash;a major revision incorporating the most recent work on the subject.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Contract Theory* is certainly the most important textbook on the frontiers of microeconomics since Tirole's celebrated *Theory of Industrial Organization*. Bolton and Dewatripont have done a marvelous job of providing an exhaustive account of the field, using only very simple and self-contained models and relying on a whole battery of economic applications. All this contributes to making the book not only the unavoidable teaching and research reference on contract theory, but also a unique tribute to economics at its best."--Philippe Aghion, Department of Economics, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025539.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025539 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20031010 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1.2 in 08 2.4500000000000002 lb 06 15 9780262267793 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20031010 14 01 02 The MIT Press X 90.00 USD 02 48.95 GBP Z 0 48.95 0 9780262524155 03 02 0262524155 03 9780262524155 15 9780262524155 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 4973 Nothing is Sacred 01 4973 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524155 1 A01 Robert J. Barro Barro, Robert J. Robert J. Barro Robert J. Barro 01 eng 201 1 illus. BUS069000 KCY 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Since the 1970s, Robert Barro's academic research has significantly influenced macroeconomic theory. For more than a decade, his writing has also enlivened the pages of publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. In Nothing Is Sacred, Barro applies his well-honed free market arguments to a remarkably diverse range of issues. These include global problems such as growth and debt, as well as social issues such as the predictive value of SAT scores, drug legalization, the economics of beauty, and the relationship between abortion rights and crime reduction.The book opens with a series of essays on famous economists, past and present, and other prominent figures whose work has economic implications, including Joe DiMaggio and Bono. In the book's second part, Barro discusses the economics of social issues. In the third part, he considers democracy, growth, and international policy, and in the final part he examines fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the macroeconomy. Throughout, he shows that even the most widely held beliefs are not sacred truths but are open to analysis.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Nothing is Sacred is a stimulating, wide-ranging, and sometimes witty book by a first-rate economist. Some readers may not agree with as much of his analysis as I do, but they will undoubtedly be inclined by Barro's work to think more carefully about economic issues."--Gary Becker, University Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago, and 1992 Nobel Laureate in Economics</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524155.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524155 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030811 01 WORLD 01 8 in 02 5.375 in 03 .7 in 08 .55000000000000004 lb 06 15 9780262025263 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030811 36 01 02 The MIT Press T 19.95 USD 02 13.95 GBP Z 0 13.95 0 9780262025812 03 02 0262025817 03 9780262025812 15 9780262025812 03 BB 30 01 MITP 6333 The State and the Global Ecological Crisis 01 6333 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025812 1 B01 John Barry Barry, John John Barry 2 B01 Robyn Eckersley Eckersley, Robyn Robyn Eckersley Robyn Eckersley is Reader/Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of <I>The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty</I> (MIT Press, 2004). edited by John Barry and Robyn Eckersley 01 eng 333 POL044000 RND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Countering the current view of many environmental activists that sovereign nations cannot provide effective environmental governance, The State and the Global Ecological Crisis offers analyses and case studies that explore the prospects for "reinstating the state" as a facilitator of progressive environmental change rather than a contributor to environmental destruction. The authors recognize that, despite the new pressures of global economic competition and rapid technological change, the state remains the preeminent institution with the capacity and authority to secure environmental protection. The book explores the possibilities for the "greening" of the state, domestically and internationally, looking at states both as individual governments and in multilateral or regional regimes. It examines cases in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Philippines and analyzes the broader theoretical implications.The first part of the book focuses on domestic environmental governance, with both single and comparative case studies that range from the potential emergence of an "ecological state" paralleling the development of the welfare state to the theory and practice of environmental justice in the United States. The book's second part addresses the role of the state in transnational environmental governance and looks at topics including environmental rights in the European Union, hybrid forms of governance involving both state and nonstate actors, and an alternative foundation for global environmental governance. Each chapter not only offers a critical analysis of current developments but also identifies new initiatives and opportunities that may accelerate environmental progress.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Barry and Eckersley provide an invaluable and timely corrective to the many jeremiads declaring the erosion or collapse of the state in the face of ceaseless globalization. Not content with reviewing and repeating the call to 'bring the state back in', the editors and contributors to this fine volume express the added enthusiasm of developing a critical green theory of the state. This is a much needed and much deferred ambition to which '*The State And The Global Ecological Crisis* represents a powerful, coherent, and lucid original contribution."--Julian Saurin, Department of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is an impressive, provocative, and interesting collection of essays. It should be of particluar interest to political scientists and students of science studies and should also appeal to policy analysts, policymakers, and participants in the Conferences of the Parties." --Ronnie Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Eckersley's book will be a significant contribution for those in several subfields of politics -- theory, comparative, international -- for those concerned about green politics, and for those who work on theories of the state. It is especially significant that she offers critical assessments of both the realist perspective on the environmental crisis and the limits of the greening of the liberal democractic state."--Ronnie Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa CruzPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025812.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025812 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050527 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .6 in 08 1.25 lb 06 15 9780262524353 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050527 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 67.00 USD 02 46.95 GBP Z 0 46.95 0 9780262524353 03 02 026252435X 03 9780262524353 15 9780262524353 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 6333 The State and the Global Ecological Crisis 01 6333 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524353 1 B01 John Barry Barry, John John Barry 2 B01 Robyn Eckersley Eckersley, Robyn Robyn Eckersley Robyn Eckersley is Reader/Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of <I>The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty</I> (MIT Press, 2004). edited by John Barry and Robyn Eckersley 01 eng 333 POL044000 RND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Countering the current view of many environmental activists that sovereign nations cannot provide effective environmental governance, The State and the Global Ecological Crisis offers analyses and case studies that explore the prospects for "reinstating the state" as a facilitator of progressive environmental change rather than a contributor to environmental destruction. The authors recognize that, despite the new pressures of global economic competition and rapid technological change, the state remains the preeminent institution with the capacity and authority to secure environmental protection. The book explores the possibilities for the "greening" of the state, domestically and internationally, looking at states both as individual governments and in multilateral or regional regimes. It examines cases in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Philippines and analyzes the broader theoretical implications.The first part of the book focuses on domestic environmental governance, with both single and comparative case studies that range from the potential emergence of an "ecological state" paralleling the development of the welfare state to the theory and practice of environmental justice in the United States. The book's second part addresses the role of the state in transnational environmental governance and looks at topics including environmental rights in the European Union, hybrid forms of governance involving both state and nonstate actors, and an alternative foundation for global environmental governance. Each chapter not only offers a critical analysis of current developments but also identifies new initiatives and opportunities that may accelerate environmental progress.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Barry and Eckersley provide an invaluable and timely corrective to the many jeremiads declaring the erosion or collapse of the state in the face of ceaseless globalization. Not content with reviewing and repeating the call to 'bring the state back in', the editors and contributors to this fine volume express the added enthusiasm of developing a critical green theory of the state. This is a much needed and much deferred ambition to which '*The State And The Global Ecological Crisis* represents a powerful, coherent, and lucid original contribution."--Julian Saurin, Department of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is an impressive, provocative, and interesting collection of essays. It should be of particluar interest to political scientists and students of science studies and should also appeal to policy analysts, policymakers, and participants in the Conferences of the Parties." --Ronnie Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Eckersley's book will be a significant contribution for those in several subfields of politics -- theory, comparative, international -- for those concerned about green politics, and for those who work on theories of the state. It is especially significant that she offers critical assessments of both the realist perspective on the environmental crisis and the limits of the greening of the liberal democractic state."--Ronnie Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa CruzPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524353.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524353 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050527 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .6 in 08 1.05 lb 06 15 9780262025812 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050527 32 01 02 The MIT Press S 28.00 USD 02 19.95 GBP Z 0 19.95 0 9780262025560 03 02 0262025566 03 9780262025560 15 9780262025560 03 BB 30 01 MITP 3665 India's Emerging Economy 01 3665 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025560 1 B01 Kaushik Basu Basu, Kaushik Kaushik Basu Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and holds a chair at Cornell University. edited by Kaushik Basu 01 eng 328 17 illus. BUS068000 KCM 10 BUS069020 12 KCL 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>India's economy over the last decade looks in many ways like a success story; after a major economic crisis in 1991, followed by bold reform measures, the economy has experienced a rapid economic growth rate, more foreign investment, and a boom in the information technology sector. Yet many in the country still suffer from crushing poverty, and social and political unrest remains a problem. These essays by leading academics, policymakers, and industrialists -- including one by Amartya Sen, the 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on poverty and inequality -- examine the facts of India's recent economic successes and their social and cultural context.India's rate of economic growth after the 1991 reforms were instituted reached a remarkable 7 percent for three consecutive years, from 1994 to 1997. Several contributors to India's Emerging Economy ask what this means for the nation as a whole. In his essay "Democracy and Secularism in India," Amartya Sen argues that economic progress is not the only way to measure a nation's performance. Other essays examine the actual effect India's economic growth has had on reducing poverty and recommend policies to empower the poor. Essays also address such issues as globalization and the vulnerabilities and opportunities it creates, India's experience with monetary and fiscal reform, the rapid growth of the information technology sector (including a case study of India's software industry), and India's grassroots economy.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This assessment of reforms in the Indian economy is notable not just for the unusually impressive collection of top academics, entrepreneurs, bureaucrats and NGO representatives whose views are assembled here. The section on the IT sector provides insights on the most dynamic part of the economy. At the same time, it includes broader issues concerning the social and political fabric within which the Indian economy functions, such as inequality, allocation of public goods, social norms, the informal economy, democracy, and governance."--Dilip Mookherjee, Professor of Economics, Boston University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>India"s Emerging Economy</I> is a valuable collection of articles on India"s economic performance in the 1990s. This is essential reading for the development scholar; indeed, I would recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary India." Debraj Ray, Julius Silver Professor of Economics, New York University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*India's Emerging Economy* is a valuable collection of articles on India's economic performance in the 1990s. This is essential reading for the development scholar; indeed, I would recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary India."--Debraj Ray, Julius Silver Professor of Economics, New York University</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Essays by leading academics, policymakers, and industrialists examine India's economic success in the late 1990s.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025560.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025560 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20040227 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.28 lb 06 15 9780262267885 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20040227 24 01 02 The MIT Press S 45.00 USD 02 31.95 GBP Z 0 31.95 0 9780262523448 03 02 0262523442 03 9780262523448 15 9780262523448 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 1258 Analytical Development Economics 01 1258 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523448 1 A01 Kaushik Basu Basu, Kaushik Kaushik Basu Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and holds a chair at Cornell University. Kaushik Basu 01 eng 386 41 illus. BUS092000 GTF 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Virtually all industrialized nations have annual per capita incomes greater than $15,000; meanwhile, over three billion people, more than half the worlds population, live in countries with per capita incomes of less than $700. Development economics studies the economies of such countries and the problems they face, including poverty, chronic underemployment, low wages, rampant inflation, and oppressive international debt. In the past two decades, the international debt crisis, the rise of endogenous growth theory, and the tremendous success of some Asian economies have generated renewed interest in development economics, and the field has grown and changed dramatically.Although Analytical Development Economics deals with theoretical development economics, it is closely grounded in reality. The author draws on a wide range of evidence, including some gathered by himself in the village of Nawadih in the state of Bihar, India, where--in huts and fields, and in front of the village tea stall--he talked with landlords, tenants, moneylenders, and landless laborers. The author presents theoretical results in such a way that those doing empirical work can go out and test the theories.The book is a revision of Basu's The Less Developed Economy: A Critique of Contemporary Theory (Blackwell, 1984). The new edition, which has several new chapters and sections, incorporates recent theoretical advances in its comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the subject. It is intended primarily as a textbook for a one-semester graduate course, but will also be of interest to researchers in economic development and to policymakers.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"An admirable combination of introductory helpfulness and state-of-the-art coverage. And fun to read!" Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The appearance of a revised version of Basu's splendid book is greatly to be welcomed, particularly by those who believe that the economics of underdevelopment should not imply the underdevelopment of economics. This volume provides excellent material for a theoretically oriented course in development economics at an advanced undergraduate or graduate level." Christopher Scott, London School of Economics and Political Science</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523448.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523448 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030124 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .8 in 08 1.1499999999999999 lb 06 15 9780262024235 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030124 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 36.00 USD 02 24.95 GBP Z 0 24.95 0 9781890951559 03 02 1890951552 03 9781890951559 15 9781890951559 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2166 The Cradle of Humanity 01 2166 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781890951559 1 A01 Georges Bataille Bataille, Georges Georges Bataille Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French writer, essayist, and philosopher whose works include <I>The Story of the Eye</I>, <I>The Blue of Noon</I>, <I>The Accursed Share</I>, and <I>Theory of Religion</I>. 2 B01 Stuart Kendall Kendall, Stuart Stuart Kendall 3 A24 Stuart Kendall Kendall, Stuart Stuart Kendall 4 B06 Michelle Kendall Kendall, Michelle Michelle Kendall 5 B06 Stuart Kendall Kendall, Stuart Stuart Kendall translated by Michelle Kendall and Stuart Kendall. introduction by Stuart Kendall. edited by Stuart Kendall. Georges Bataille 01 eng 02 fre 210 15 illus. PHI000000 HPX 10 ART015100 12 ACXD7 06 11 03 17 02 00 <P>A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential.</P> Zone Books 01 00 <P>The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history -- with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille's reflections on the possible origins of humanity coincide with the intensified threat of its possible extinction.For Bataille, prehistory is universal history; it is the history of a human community prior to its fall into separation, into nations and races. The art of prehistory offers the earliest traces of nascent yet fully human consciousness -- of consciousness not yet fully separated from natural flora and fauna, or from the energetic forces of the universe. A play of identities, the art of prehistory is the art of a consciousness struggling against itself, of a human spirit struggling against brute animal physicality. Prehistory is the cradle of humanity, the birth of tragedy.Bataille reaches beyond disciplinary specializations to imagine a moment when thought was universal. Bataille's work provides a model for interdisciplinary inquiry in our own day, a universal imagination and thought for our own potential community. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture speaks to philosophers and historians of thought, to anthropologists interested in the history of their discipline and in new methodologies, to theologians and religious comparatists interested in the origins and nature of man's encounter with the sacred, and to art historians and aestheticians grappling with the place of prehistory in the canons of art.</P> Zone Books 08 00 <P>"it's terrific as a kind of poetics of prehistory" Publisher's Weekly Online</P> Zone Books 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9781890951559.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781890951559 Zone Books 01 02 MIT Zone Books Zone Books Cambridge US 04 20050624 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .6 in 08 1.05 lb 06 15 9781890951566 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050624 28 01 02 The MIT Press T 36.95 USD 02 25.95 GBP Z 0 25.95 0 9780262522595 03 02 0262522594 03 9780262522595 15 9780262522595 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 1689 Burning with Desire 01 1689 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522595 1 A01 Geoffrey Batchen Batchen, Geoffrey Geoffrey Batchen Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of <I>Burning with Desire: The Conceptions of Photography</I> (1999) and <I>Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History</I> (2002), both published by the MIT Press. Geoffrey Batchen 01 eng 285 PHO000000 AJ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. Recent accounts of photography's identity tend to divide between the postmodern view that all identity is determined by context and a formalist effort to define the fundamental characteristics of photography as a medium. Batchen critiques both approaches by way of a detailed discussion of photography's conception in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He examines the output of the various nominees for "first photographer," then incorporates this information into a mode of historical criticism informed by the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. The result is a way of thinking about photography that persuasively accords with the mediums undeniable conceptual, political, and historical complexity.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Given its ambitious and groundbreaking scope, <I>Burning withDesire</I> is bound to become the touchstone for any furtherconsideration of the topic of photography's invention." <B>Douglas R. Nickel </B>, Assistant Curator of Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262522595.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522595 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990315 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7.5 in 03 .7 in 08 1.3 lb 06 15 9780262024273 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990315 28 01 02 The MIT Press T 34.00 USD 02 23.95 GBP Z 0 23.95 0 9780262523240 03 02 0262523248 03 9780262523240 15 9780262523240 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 2507 Each Wild Idea 01 2507 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523240 1 A01 Geoffrey Batchen Batchen, Geoffrey Geoffrey Batchen Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of <I>Burning with Desire: The Conceptions of Photography</I> (1999) and <I>Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History</I> (2002), both published by the MIT Press. Geoffrey Batchen 01 eng 248 27 illus. PHO000000 AJ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of Australian photography.The essays all focus on a consideration of specific photographs -- from a humble combination of baby photos and bronzed booties to a masterwork by Alfred Stieglitz. Although Batchen views each photograph within the context of broader social and political forces, he also engages its own distinctive formal attributes. In short, he sees photography as something that is simultaneously material and cultural. In an effort to evoke the lived experience of history, he frequently relies on sheer description as the mode of analysis, insisting that we look right at -- rather than beyond -- the photograph being discussed. A constant theme throughout the book is the question of photography's past, present, and future identity.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523240.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523240 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020222 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 8 in 03 .5 in 08 1.1599999999999999 lb 06 15 9780262024860 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020222 32 01 02 The MIT Press T 26.95 USD 02 18.95 GBP Z 0 18.95 0 9781584350286 03 02 1584350288 03 9781584350286 15 9781584350286 03 BC B102 30 01 SEMIO semio/fa Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents 01 MITP 2087 The Conspiracy of Art 01 2087 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350286 1 A01 Jean Baudrillard Baudrillard, Jean Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard (1929--2007) 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. 2 B01 Sylvère Lotringer Lotringer, Sylvère Sylvère Lotringer Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja, California. He is the author of <I>Overexposed: Perverting Perversions</I> (Semiotext(e), 2007). 3 B06 Ames Hodges Hodges, Ames Ames Hodges translated by Ames Hodges. edited by Sylvère Lotringer. Jean Baudrillard 01 eng 02 fre 232 ART037000 AB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The images from Abu Ghraib are as murderous for America as those of the World Trade Center in flames. The whole West is contained in the burst of sadistic laughter of the American soldiers, as it is behind the construction of the Israeli wall. This is where the truth of these images lies. Truth, but not veracity. As virtual as the war itself, their specific violence adds to the specific violence of the war.In The Conspiracy of Art, Baudrillard questions the privilege attached to art by its practitioners. Art has lost all desire for illusion: feeding back endlessly into itself, it has turned its own vanishment into an art unto itself. Far from lamenting the "end of art," Baudrillard celebrates art's new function within the process of insider-trading. Spiraling from aesthetic nullity to commercial frenzy, art has become transaesthetic, like society as a whole.Conceived and edited by life-long Baudrillard collaborator Sylvère Lotringer, The Conspiracy of Art presents Baudrillard's writings on art in a complicitous dance with politics, economics, and media. Culminating with "War Porn," a scathing analysis of the spectacular images from Abu Ghraib prison as a new genre of reality TV, the book folds back on itself to question the very nature of radical thought.</P> Semiotext(e) 08 00 <P>"[Baudrillard] proves himself to be as much of a thoughtful iconoclast as ever." Canadian Art</P> Semiotext(e) 02 00 <P>Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV.</P> Semiotext(e) 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9781584350286.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350286 Semiotext(e) 01 02 MIT Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) Cambridge US 04 20050819 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 .85 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050819 30 01 02 The MIT Press T 15.95 USD 02 10.95 GBP Z 0 10.95 0 9781584350330 03 02 1584350334 03 9781584350330 15 9781584350330 03 BC B102 30 01 SEMIO semio/fa Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents 01 MITP 6938 Utopia Deferred 01 6938 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350330 1 A01 Jean Baudrillard Baudrillard, Jean Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard (1929--2007) 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. 2 B06 Stuart Kendall Kendall, Stuart Stuart Kendall translated by Stuart Kendall. Jean Baudrillard 01 eng 02 fre 300 2 b&w illus. 01 2 SOC041000 JF 10 ARC001000 12 AMA 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in the Pyrenees. The eponymous journal edited by Hubert Tonka brought together sociologists Jean Baudrillard, René Lourau, and Catherine Cot, architects Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco, and landscape architect Isabelle Auricoste. Over the next decade, both in theory and in practice, the group articulated a radical ultra-leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life. Utopia Deferred collects all of the essays Jean Baudrillard published in Utopie as well as recent interviews with Jean Baudrillard and Hubert Tonka.Utopie served as a workshop for Baudrillard's thought. Many of the essays he first published in Utopie were seminal for some of his most shockingly original books: For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, The Mirror of Production, Simulations, Symbolic Exchange and Death, and In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities. But Utopie was also a topical journal and a political one; the topics of these essays are often torn from the headlines of the tumultuous decade following the uprisings of May 1968.</P> Semiotext(e) 02 00 <P>Seminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life.</P> Semiotext(e) 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9781584350330.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350330 Semiotext(e) 01 02 MIT Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) Cambridge US 04 20060825 2007 Semiotext(e) 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 1 in 08 1.1000000000000001 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060825 24 01 02 The MIT Press T 17.95 USD 02 12.95 GBP Z 0 12.95 0 9781584350385 03 02 1584350385 03 9781584350385 15 9781584350385 03 BC B102 30 01 SEMIO semio/fa Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents 01 MITP 3644 In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities 01 3644 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350385 1 A01 Jean Baudrillard Baudrillard, Jean Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard (1929--2007) 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. 2 A24 Sylvère Lotringer Lotringer, Sylvère Sylvère Lotringer Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja, California. He is the author of <I>Overexposed: Perverting Perversions</I> (Semiotext(e), 2007). 3 A24 Hedi El Kholti El Kholti, Hedi Hedi El Kholti Michèle Bernstein was a founding member of the Situationist International, the first wife of its most significant member, Guy Debord, In the words of her second husband, the British ex-Situationist Ralph Rumney, she was "the most Situationist of all." www.semiotexte.com 5 A24 Chris Kraus Kraus, Chris Chris Kraus Chris Kraus is the author of the novels <I>Aliens and Anorexia</I>, <I> I Love Dick</I>, and <I>Torpor</I>, as well as <I> Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness</I> and <I> Where Art Belongs</I>, all published by Semiotext(e). A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles. 5 B06 Paul Foss Foss, Paul Paul Foss 6 B06 John Johnston Johnston, John John Johnston John Johnston is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author of <I>Carnival of Repetition</I> and <I>Information Multiplicity.</I> 7 B06 Paul Patton Patton, Paul Paul Patton 8 B06 Stuart Kendall Kendall, Stuart Stuart Kendall translated by Paul Foss, John Johnston, Paul Patton, and Stuart Kendall. introduction by Sylvère Lotringer, Hedi El Kholti, and Chris Kraus. Jean Baudrillard new edition 01 eng 02 fre 136 PHI019000 HPS 10 SOC041000 12 JF 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Published one year after Forget Foucault, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1978) may be the most important sociopolitical manifesto of the twentieth century: it calls for nothing less than the end of both sociology and politics. Disenfranchised revolutionaries (the Red Brigades, the Baader-Meinhof Gang) hoped to reach the masses directly through spectacular actions, but their message merely played into the hands of the media and the state. In a media society meaning has no meaning anymore; communication merely communicates itself. Jean Baudrillard uses this last outburst of ideological terrorism in Europe to showcase the end of the "Social." Once invoked by Marx as the motor of history, the masses no longer have sociological reality. In the electronic media society, all the masses can do--and all they will do--is enjoy the spectacle. In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities takes to its ultimate conclusion the "end of ideologies" experienced in Europe after the Soviet invasion of Hungary and the death of revolutionary illusions after May 1968. Ideological terrorism doesn't represent anything anymore, writes Baudrillard, not even itself. It is just the last hysterical reaction to discredited political illusions.</P> Semiotext(e) 02 00 <P>Baudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations.</P> Semiotext(e) 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9781584350385.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350385 Semiotext(e) 01 02 MIT Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) Cambridge US 04 20070627 2007 Semiotext(e) 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .375 in 08 .5 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20070627 50 01 02 The MIT Press T 14.95 USD 02 10.95 GBP Z 0 10.95 0 9781584350415 03 02 1584350415 03 9781584350415 15 9781584350415 03 BC B102 30 01 SEMIO semio/fa Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents 01 MITP 3005 Forget Foucault 01 3005 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350415 1 A01 Jean Baudrillard Baudrillard, Jean Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard (1929--2007) 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. 2 A24 Sylvère Lotringer Lotringer, Sylvère Sylvère Lotringer Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja, California. He is the author of <I>Overexposed: Perverting Perversions</I> (Semiotext(e), 2007). 3 B06 Phil Beitchman Beitchman, Phil Phil Beitchman 4 B06 Nicole Dufresne Dufresne, Nicole Nicole Dufresne 5 B06 Lee Hildreth Hildreth, Lee Lee Hildreth 6 B06 Mark Polizzotti Polizzotti, Mark Mark Polizzotti translated by Phil Beitchman, Nicole Dufresne, Lee Hildreth, and Mark Polizzotti. introduction by Sylvère Lotringer. Jean Baudrillard new edition 01 eng 02 fre 128 PHI000000 HPX 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History of Sexuality--and of his entire oeuvre--and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who believed that desire could be revolutionary. In Baudrillard's eyes, desire and power were interchangeable, so desire had no place in Foucault's work. There is no better introduction to Baudrillard's polemical approach to culture than these pages, in which Baudrillard dares Foucault to meet the challenge of his own thought. This Semiotext(e) edition of Forget Foucault is accompanied by a dialogue with Sylvère Lotringer, "Forget Baudrillard," a reevaluation by Baudrillard of his lesser-known early works as a post-Marxian thinker. Lotringer presses Baudrillard to explain how he arrived at his infamous extrapolationist theories from his roots in the nineteenth and early twentieth century social and anthropological works of Karl Marx, Marcel Mauss, and Emil Durkheim.</P> Semiotext(e) 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9781584350415.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350415 Semiotext(e) 01 02 MIT Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) Cambridge US 04 20070511 2007 Semiotext(e) 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .5 in 08 .45 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20070511 56 01 02 The MIT Press T 14.95 USD 02 10.95 GBP Z 0 10.95 0 9780262024600 03 02 0262024608 03 9780262024600 15 9780262024600 03 BB 30 01 MITP 1124 Advances in Synaptic Plasticity 01 1124 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024600 1 B01 Michel Baudry Baudry, Michel Michel Baudry Michel Baudry is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Southern California. 2 B01 Joel L. Davis Davis, Joel L. Joel L. Davis Joel L. Davis is Program Officer, Cognitive, Neural, and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division, Office of Naval Research. 3 B01 Richard F. Thompson Thompson, Richard F. Richard F. Thompson Richard F. Thompson is Director of the Neuroscience Program and Keck Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California. edited by Michel Baudry, Joel L. Davis, and Richard F. Thompson 01 eng 351 MED057000 MJN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Many neurons exhibit plasticity; that is, they can change structurally or functionally, often in a lasting way. Plasticity is evident in such diverse phenomena as learning and memory, brain development, drug tolerance, sprouting of axon terminals after a brain lesion, and various cellular forms of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity such as long-term potentiation and long-term depression. This book, a follow-up to the editors' Synaptic Plasticity (MIT Press, 1993), reports on the most recent trends in the field. The levels of analysis range from molecular to cellular and network, the unifying theme being the nature of the relationships between synaptic plasticity and information processing and storage.Contributors : Yael Amitai, Michel Baudry, Theodore W. Berger, Pierre-Alain Buchs, A. K. Butler, Franck A. Chaillan, Gilbert A. Chauvet, Marie-Françoise Chesselet, Barry W. Connors, Taraneh Ghaffari, Jay R. Gibson, Ziv Gil, Michel Khrestchatisky, Dietmar Kuhl, Carole E. Landisman, Gilles Laurent, Jim-Shih Liaw, David J. Linden, Katrina MacLeod, Henry Markram, W. V. Morehouse, Dominique Muller, J. A. Napieralski, Santiago Rivera, François S. Roman, Bernard Soumireu-Mourat, Oswald Steward, Mark Stopfer, F. G. Szele, Richard F. Thompson, Nicolas Toni, Bernard Truchet, Misha Tsodyks, K. Uryu, Ascher Uziel, Christopher S. Wallace, Yun Wang, Michael Wehr, Paul F. Worley, Xiaping Xie.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>This book, afollow-up to the editors' Synaptic Plasticity (MIT Press,1993), reports on the most recent trends in the field. The levels ofanalysis range from molecular to cellular and network, the unifyingtheme being the nature of the relationships between synapticplasticity and information processing and storage.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262024600.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024600 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19991025 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 7 in 03 1.1 in 08 2.15 lb 06 15 9780262267908 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19991025 20 01 02 The MIT Press S 75.00 USD 02 51.95 GBP Z 0 51.95 0 9780262025485 03 02 0262025485 03 9780262025485 15 9780262025485 03 BB 30 01 MITP 7087 What Is Thought? 01 7087 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025485 1 A01 Eric B. Baum Baum, Eric B. Eric B. Baum Eric B. Baum has held positions at the University of California at Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, Princeton, and the NEC Research Institute. He is currently developing algorithms based on Machine Learning and Bayesian Reasoning to found a hedge fund. Eric B. Baum 01 eng 492 34 illus. PSY008000 JMTK 10 MED056000 12 MJND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What Is Life? argued ten years before the discovery of DNA that life must be explainable at a fundamental level by physics and chemistry, Baum contends that the present-day inability of computer science to explain thought and meaning is no reason to doubt there can be such an explanation. Baum argues that the complexity of mind is the outcome of evolution, which has built thought processes that act unlike the standard algorithms of computer science and that to understand the mind we need to understand these thought processes and the evolutionary process that produced them in computational terms.Baum proposes that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying structure of the world. He argues further that the mind is essentially programmed by DNA. We learn more rapidly than computer scientists have so far been able to explain because the DNA code has programmed the mind to deal only with meaningful possibilities. Thus the mind understands by exploiting semantics, or meaning, for the purposes of computation; constraints are built in so that although there are myriad possibilities, only a few make sense. Evolution discovered corresponding subroutines or shortcuts to speed up its processes and to construct creatures whose survival depends on making the right choice quickly. Baum argues that the structure and nature of thought, meaning, sensation, and consciousness therefore arise naturally from the evolution of programs that exploit the compact structure of the world.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"There is no problem more important, or more daunting, than discovering the structure and processes behind human thought. *What is Thought?* is an important step towards finding the answer. A concise summary of the progress and pitfalls to date gives the reader the context necessary to appreciate Baum's important insights into the nature of cognition."--Nathan Myhrvold, Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures, and former Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A major work. Berger offers an elegant examination of issues that have been in controversy for the last forty years and that have been and are being discussed by the best philosophers of language. But where others have tended to offer piecemeal solutions, Berger offers a unified account based on a small set of principles."--Gilbert Harman, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A book that is admirable as much for its candor as its ambition.... If <I>What is Thought?</I> can inspire a new generation of computer scientists to inquire anew about the nature of thought, it will be a valuable contribution indeed." Gary Marcus Science</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Eric Baum's book is a remarkable achievement. He presents a novel thesis&mdash;that the mind is a program whose components are semantically meaningful modules&mdash;and explores it with a rich array of evidence drawn from a variety of fields. Baum's argument depends on much of the intellectual core of computer science, and as a result the book can also serve as a short course in computer science for non-specialists. To top it off, <I>What Is Thought?</I> is beautifully written and will be at least as clear and accessible to the intelligent lay public as <I>Scientific American</I>." <B>David Waltz </B>, Director, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...[Should] engage general readers who wish to enjoy a clear, understandable description of many advanced principles of computer science." Igor Aleksander Nature</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Eric Baum's book is a remarkable achievement. He presents a novel thesis -- that the mind is a program whose components are semantically meaningful modules -- and explores it with a rich array of evidence drawn from a variety of fields. Baum's argument depends on much of the intellectual core of computer science, and as a result the book can also serve as a short course in computer science for non-specialists. To top it off, *What is Thought?* is beautifully written and will be at least as clear and accessible to the intelligent lay public as *Scientific American*."--David Waltz, Director, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In his enjoyable and informative book *The Evolution of Morality*, Richard Joyce distinguishes between explaining how natural selection might explain socially useful behavior in animals and what more is needed to explain morality, with its thoughts about right or wrong, in human beings. Contrary to what others have said, Joyce argues plausibly that, to the extent that our moral concepts and opinions are the results of natural selection, there is no rational basis for these concepts and opinions."--Gilbert Harman, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025485.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025485 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20031219 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1 in 08 2.0499999999999998 lb 06 15 9780262524575 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20031219 12 01 02 The MIT Press S 47.00 USD 02 32.95 GBP Z 0 32.95 0 9780262524575 03 02 0262524570 03 9780262524575 15 9780262524575 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 7087 What Is Thought? 01 7087 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524575 1 A01 Eric B. Baum Baum, Eric B. Eric B. Baum Eric B. Baum has held positions at the University of California at Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, Princeton, and the NEC Research Institute. He is currently developing algorithms based on Machine Learning and Bayesian Reasoning to found a hedge fund. Eric B. Baum 01 eng 492 34 illus. PSY008000 JMTK 10 MED056000 12 MJND 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What Is Life? argued ten years before the discovery of DNA that life must be explainable at a fundamental level by physics and chemistry, Baum contends that the present-day inability of computer science to explain thought and meaning is no reason to doubt there can be such an explanation. Baum argues that the complexity of mind is the outcome of evolution, which has built thought processes that act unlike the standard algorithms of computer science and that to understand the mind we need to understand these thought processes and the evolutionary process that produced them in computational terms.Baum proposes that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying structure of the world. He argues further that the mind is essentially programmed by DNA. We learn more rapidly than computer scientists have so far been able to explain because the DNA code has programmed the mind to deal only with meaningful possibilities. Thus the mind understands by exploiting semantics, or meaning, for the purposes of computation; constraints are built in so that although there are myriad possibilities, only a few make sense. Evolution discovered corresponding subroutines or shortcuts to speed up its processes and to construct creatures whose survival depends on making the right choice quickly. Baum argues that the structure and nature of thought, meaning, sensation, and consciousness therefore arise naturally from the evolution of programs that exploit the compact structure of the world.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"There is no problem more important, or more daunting, than discovering the structure and processes behind human thought. *What is Thought?* is an important step towards finding the answer. A concise summary of the progress and pitfalls to date gives the reader the context necessary to appreciate Baum's important insights into the nature of cognition."--Nathan Myhrvold, Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures, and former Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"A major work. Berger offers an elegant examination of issues that have been in controversy for the last forty years and that have been and are being discussed by the best philosophers of language. But where others have tended to offer piecemeal solutions, Berger offers a unified account based on a small set of principles."--Gilbert Harman, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"A book that is admirable as much for its candor as its ambition.... If <I>What is Thought?</I> can inspire a new generation of computer scientists to inquire anew about the nature of thought, it will be a valuable contribution indeed." Gary Marcus Science</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Eric Baum's book is a remarkable achievement. He presents a novel thesis&mdash;that the mind is a program whose components are semantically meaningful modules&mdash;and explores it with a rich array of evidence drawn from a variety of fields. Baum's argument depends on much of the intellectual core of computer science, and as a result the book can also serve as a short course in computer science for non-specialists. To top it off, <I>What Is Thought?</I> is beautifully written and will be at least as clear and accessible to the intelligent lay public as <I>Scientific American</I>." <B>David Waltz </B>, Director, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...[Should] engage general readers who wish to enjoy a clear, understandable description of many advanced principles of computer science." Igor Aleksander Nature</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Eric Baum's book is a remarkable achievement. He presents a novel thesis -- that the mind is a program whose components are semantically meaningful modules -- and explores it with a rich array of evidence drawn from a variety of fields. Baum's argument depends on much of the intellectual core of computer science, and as a result the book can also serve as a short course in computer science for non-specialists. To top it off, *What is Thought?* is beautifully written and will be at least as clear and accessible to the intelligent lay public as *Scientific American*."--David Waltz, Director, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In his enjoyable and informative book *The Evolution of Morality*, Richard Joyce distinguishes between explaining how natural selection might explain socially useful behavior in animals and what more is needed to explain morality, with its thoughts about right or wrong, in human beings. Contrary to what others have said, Joyce argues plausibly that, to the extent that our moral concepts and opinions are the results of natural selection, there is no rational basis for these concepts and opinions."--Gilbert Harman, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524575.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524575 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060120 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1 in 08 1.7 lb 06 15 9780262025485 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060120 20 01 02 The MIT Press S 26.00 USD 02 17.95 GBP Z 0 17.95 0 9780262026093 03 02 0262026090 03 9780262026093 15 9780262026093 03 BB 30 01 MITP 6449 Super Vision 01 6449 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026093 1 B01 Nicholas Baume Baume, Nicholas Nicholas Baume Nicholas Baume is Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and the curator of the ICA's Anish Kapoor exhibition. He is the editor of <I>Super Vision</I> (MIT Press, 2006). edited by Nicholas Baume 01 eng 176 90 color illus. ART015110 ACXJ8 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>New technology enables super vision--both superhuman visual powers and actual supervision by surveillance. In Super Vision, which accompanies the inaugural exhibit at the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, a broad selection of important works in a variety of media expresses both the ecstatic and the threatening aspects of vision and reveals visual experience as a source of both pleasure and fear.These works reflect the digital era's profound shift in the nature of visuality itself--as computer graphics and imaging, digitization, and virtuality have transformed both the nature of representation and our relationship to it. Among the leading contemporary artists exploring the changing nature of contemporary visual experience in Super Vision are Bridget Riley, Anish Kapoor, and Gabriel Orozco, with works that bend, twist, and dissolve space, leaving us unsure of the boundaries between inside and outside, surface and depth, self and others. Other works by artists including Jeff Koons, Julie Mehretu, and Andreas Gursky, express aspects of virtuality--some explicitly, some more subtly--and explore the changes in the way we see and understand two-dimensional images. Vision in the twenty-first century is potentially everywhere, all the time; there is no way to escape it. Works by Sigmar Polke, Yoko Ono, Tony Oursler, Thomas Ruff, and others respond in complex ways to this disembodied and penetrating quality of vision. The many full-color images in Super Vision are accompanied by essays by exhibition curator Nicholas Baume, art historian David Joselit, and media theorist McKenzie Wark.Copublished with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Leading contemporary artists, including Bridget Riley, Jeff Koons, Mona Hatoum, Andreas Gursky, and Yoko Ono, explore the ecstatic and the threatening aspects of contemporary visual experience.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262026093.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026093 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20061006 01 WORLD 01 11 in 02 8.5 in 03 .75 in 08 2.25 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20061006 16 01 02 The MIT Press T 34.95 USD 02 23.95 GBP Z 0 23.95 0 9780262024563 03 02 026202456X 03 9780262024563 15 9780262024563 03 BB 30 01 MITP itech Inside Technology 01 MITP 4068 The Languages of Edison's Light 01 4068 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024563 1 A01 Charles Bazerman Bazerman, Charles Charles Bazerman Charles Bazerman is Chair and Professor in the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Charles Bazerman 01 eng 434 TEC052000 PDR 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Technology is business, and dealing with the media, the public, financiers, and government agencies can be as important to an invention's success as effective product development. To understand how rhetoric works in technology, one cannot do better than to start with the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb.Charles Bazerman tells the story of the emergence of electric light as one of symbols and communication. He examines how Edison and his colleagues represented light and power to themselves and to others as the technology was transformed from an idea to a daily fact of life. He looks at the rhetoric used to create meaning and value for the emergent technology in the laboratory, in patent offices and courts, in financial markets, and in boardrooms, city halls, newspapers, and the consumer marketplace. Along the way he describes the social and communicative arrangements that shaped and transformed the world in which Edison acted. He portrays Edison, both the individual and the corporation, as a self-conscious social actor whose rhetorical groundwork was crucial to the technology's material realization and success.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262024563.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262024563 Winner in the category of History of Science & Technology, 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 19990831 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.85 lb 06 15 9780262523264 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 19990831 18 01 02 The MIT Press S 75.00 USD 02 51.95 GBP Z 0 51.95 0 9780262523264 03 02 0262523264 03 9780262523264 15 9780262523264 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP itech Inside Technology 01 MITP 4068 The Languages of Edison's Light 01 4068 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523264 1 A01 Charles Bazerman Bazerman, Charles Charles Bazerman Charles Bazerman is Chair and Professor in the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Charles Bazerman 01 eng 434 TEC052000 PDR 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Technology is business, and dealing with the media, the public, financiers, and government agencies can be as important to an invention's success as effective product development. To understand how rhetoric works in technology, one cannot do better than to start with the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb.Charles Bazerman tells the story of the emergence of electric light as one of symbols and communication. He examines how Edison and his colleagues represented light and power to themselves and to others as the technology was transformed from an idea to a daily fact of life. He looks at the rhetoric used to create meaning and value for the emergent technology in the laboratory, in patent offices and courts, in financial markets, and in boardrooms, city halls, newspapers, and the consumer marketplace. Along the way he describes the social and communicative arrangements that shaped and transformed the world in which Edison acted. He portrays Edison, both the individual and the corporation, as a self-conscious social actor whose rhetorical groundwork was crucial to the technology's material realization and success.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523264.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523264 Winner in the category of History of Science & Technology, 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020125 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.29 lb 06 15 9780262024563 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020125 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 32.00 USD 02 22.95 GBP Z 0 22.95 0 9780262025935 03 02 0262025930 03 9780262025935 15 9780262025935 03 BB 30 01 MITP 5269 The Philosophy of Mind 01 5269 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025935 1 B01 Brian Beakley Beakley, Brian Brian Beakley Brian Beakley is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Illinois University. He is the translator of <I>Phenomenology</I> by Jean-François Lyotard. 2 B01 Peter Ludlow Ludlow, Peter Peter Ludlow Peter Ludlow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, is the author of <I>Semantics, Tense, and Time: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language</I> (MIT Press, 1999), among other books, and the editor of <I>Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias</I> (MIT Press, 2001) and <I>High Noon on the Electronic Frontier</I> (MIT Press, 1996). edited by Brian Beakley and Peter Ludlow 2 second edition 01 eng 1080 45 illus. PHI015000 HPM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The Philosophy of Mind remains the only sourcebook of primary readings offering in-depth coverage of both historical works and contemporary controversies in philosophy of mind. This second edition provides expanded treatment of classical as well as current topics, with many additional readings and a new section on mental content. The writers included range from Aristotle, Descartes, and William James to such leading contemporary thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Paul and Patricia Churchland, and Jaegwon Kim. The 83 selections provide a thorough survey of five areas of enduring controversy: the mind-body problem, mental causation, mental content, innatism and modularity, and associationism and connectionism. Each section includes an introductory overview of the topic by the editors as well as suggestions for further reading.The selections added for the second edition serve both to enhance historical coverage and to update contemporary issues, especially in areas of current empirical research such as connectionism and innatism. Changes to historical coverage include a wider array of readings on classic positions as well as neglected precursors to views often considered recent innovations. The section on the mind-body problem in particular has been greatly expanded, including numerous selections on consciousness and phenomenal qualities (qualia). The book is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy and the history of psychology and will be useful both as a reference for researchers and a self-contained survey for the general reader.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025935.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025935 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060414 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 7 in 03 1.5 in 08 3.95 lb 06 15 9780262524513 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060414 8 01 02 The MIT Press S 125.00 USD 02 86.95 GBP Z 0 86.95 0 9780262524513 03 02 0262524511 03 9780262524513 15 9780262524513 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 5269 The Philosophy of Mind 01 5269 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524513 1 B01 Brian Beakley Beakley, Brian Brian Beakley Brian Beakley is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Illinois University. He is the translator of <I>Phenomenology</I> by Jean-François Lyotard. 2 B01 Peter Ludlow Ludlow, Peter Peter Ludlow Peter Ludlow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, is the author of <I>Semantics, Tense, and Time: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language</I> (MIT Press, 1999), among other books, and the editor of <I>Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias</I> (MIT Press, 2001) and <I>High Noon on the Electronic Frontier</I> (MIT Press, 1996). edited by Brian Beakley and Peter Ludlow 2 second edition 01 eng 1080 45 illus. PHI015000 HPM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The Philosophy of Mind remains the only sourcebook of primary readings offering in-depth coverage of both historical works and contemporary controversies in philosophy of mind. This second edition provides expanded treatment of classical as well as current topics, with many additional readings and a new section on mental content. The writers included range from Aristotle, Descartes, and William James to such leading contemporary thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Paul and Patricia Churchland, and Jaegwon Kim. The 83 selections provide a thorough survey of five areas of enduring controversy: the mind-body problem, mental causation, mental content, innatism and modularity, and associationism and connectionism. Each section includes an introductory overview of the topic by the editors as well as suggestions for further reading.The selections added for the second edition serve both to enhance historical coverage and to update contemporary issues, especially in areas of current empirical research such as connectionism and innatism. Changes to historical coverage include a wider array of readings on classic positions as well as neglected precursors to views often considered recent innovations. The section on the mind-body problem in particular has been greatly expanded, including numerous selections on consciousness and phenomenal qualities (qualia). The book is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy and the history of psychology and will be useful both as a reference for researchers and a self-contained survey for the general reader.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262524513.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524513 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060414 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 7 in 03 1.5 in 08 3.6 lb 06 15 9780262025935 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060414 10 01 02 The MIT Press S 52.00 USD 02 35.95 GBP Z 0 35.95 0 9780262025126 03 02 0262025124 03 9780262025126 15 9780262025126 03 BB 30 01 MITP uie Urban and Industrial Environments 01 MITP 6125 Silent Spill 01 6125 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025126 1 A01 Thomas D. Beamish Beamish, Thomas D. Thomas D. Beamish Thomas D. Beamish is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Thomas D. Beamish 01 eng 232 SCI026000 RNQ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill--even though the latter is most likely the nation's largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in the field where it originated, to visiting regulators, and to locals who frequented the beach, the Guadalupe spill became troubling only when those involved could no longer view the sight and smell of petroleum as normal. This book recounts how this change in perception finally took place after nearly four decades and what form the response took.Taking a sociological perspective, Thomas Beamish examines the organizational culture of the Unocal Corporation (whose oil fields produced the leakage), the interorganizational response of regulatory agencies, and local interpretations of the event. He applies notions of social organization, social stability, and social inertia to the kind of environmental degradation represented by the Guadalupe spill. More important, he uses the Guadalupe Dunes case as the basis for a broader study of environmental "blind spots." He argues that many of our most pressing pollution problems go unacknowledged because they do not cause large-scale social disruption or dramatic visible destruction of the sort that triggers responses. Finally, he develops a model of social accommodation that helps explain why human systems seem inclined to do nothing as trouble mounts.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Breaks new ground in exploring the ways in which meaning and power mask the accumulation of environmental hazards."--Loren Lutzenhiser, Professor, Department of Sociology, Washington State University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this fascinating work we see giant oil's corporate configuration, and the regulatory bureaucratic blinders, merge in a ponderous, slow and silent disaster, an organizational dance that is a harbinger of a 'new species of trouble.'"--Charles Perrow, Professor of Sociology, Yale University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Beamish has managed to learn far more from an accident than have most researchers in recent decades. In this insightful work, he shows us that, in the aptly named 'Silent Spill,' truth about power leaked out along with the diluent. Thanks to his insights, this book has a great deal to tell us--not only about what sociology can bring to the study of accidents, but also about what the study of accidents can bring to sociology."--William R. Freudenburg, Professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin--MadisonPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is one of the most thoughtful and best-written works ever produced on environmental justice and injustice."--William R. Freudenburg, Professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin--Madison</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025126.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025126 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020201 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 1.07 lb 06 15 9780262523202 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020201 28 01 02 The MIT Press S 60.00 USD 02 41.95 GBP Z 0 41.95 0 9780262523202 03 02 0262523205 03 9780262523202 15 9780262523202 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP uie Urban and Industrial Environments 01 MITP 6125 Silent Spill 01 6125 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523202 1 A01 Thomas D. Beamish Beamish, Thomas D. Thomas D. Beamish Thomas D. Beamish is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Thomas D. Beamish 01 eng 232 SCI026000 RNQ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill--even though the latter is most likely the nation's largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in the field where it originated, to visiting regulators, and to locals who frequented the beach, the Guadalupe spill became troubling only when those involved could no longer view the sight and smell of petroleum as normal. This book recounts how this change in perception finally took place after nearly four decades and what form the response took.Taking a sociological perspective, Thomas Beamish examines the organizational culture of the Unocal Corporation (whose oil fields produced the leakage), the interorganizational response of regulatory agencies, and local interpretations of the event. He applies notions of social organization, social stability, and social inertia to the kind of environmental degradation represented by the Guadalupe spill. More important, he uses the Guadalupe Dunes case as the basis for a broader study of environmental "blind spots." He argues that many of our most pressing pollution problems go unacknowledged because they do not cause large-scale social disruption or dramatic visible destruction of the sort that triggers responses. Finally, he develops a model of social accommodation that helps explain why human systems seem inclined to do nothing as trouble mounts.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Breaks new ground in exploring the ways in which meaning and power mask the accumulation of environmental hazards."--Loren Lutzenhiser, Professor, Department of Sociology, Washington State University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"In this fascinating work we see giant oil's corporate configuration, and the regulatory bureaucratic blinders, merge in a ponderous, slow and silent disaster, an organizational dance that is a harbinger of a 'new species of trouble.'"--Charles Perrow, Professor of Sociology, Yale University</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Beamish has managed to learn far more from an accident than have most researchers in recent decades. In this insightful work, he shows us that, in the aptly named 'Silent Spill,' truth about power leaked out along with the diluent. Thanks to his insights, this book has a great deal to tell us--not only about what sociology can bring to the study of accidents, but also about what the study of accidents can bring to sociology."--William R. Freudenburg, Professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin--MadisonPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"This is one of the most thoughtful and best-written works ever produced on environmental justice and injustice."--William R. Freudenburg, Professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin--Madison</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523202.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523202 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020201 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 6 in 03 .75 in 08 .85 lb 06 15 9780262025126 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020201 44 01 02 The MIT Press S 23.00 USD 02 15.95 GBP Z 0 15.95 0 9780262025072 03 02 0262025078 03 9780262025072 15 9780262025072 03 BB 30 01 MITP 3679 Industrial Landscapes 01 3679 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025072 1 A01 Bernd Becher Becher, Bernd Bernd Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher have collaborated since 1959. Founders of the internationally acclaimed Becher class at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, they have received numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the 1990 Venice Biennale and the 2002 Erasmus Award. Bernd Becher retired as Professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art in 1999. 2 A01 Hilla Becher Becher, Hilla Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher 01 eng 270 180 duotones 13 180 PHO000000 AJ 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation and conceptual art, is in line with the aesthetics of such early-twentieth-century masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and August Sander.Industrial Landscapes introduces a new aspect to the Bechers' photography, one that will surprise connoisseurs of their work. Whereas their previously published works concentrated on isolated industrial objects, they now show huge industrial sites amid their natural surroundings. They move away from the objective, severe image to present slightly more narrative, interpretive images of the industrial environment as a whole. Although the photographs in Industrial Landscapes were taken over the past forty years, they are published here for the first time.The industrial structures shown include a wide range of coal mines, iron ore mines, steel mills, power stations with cooling towers, lime kilns, grain elevators, and so on. They represent industrial regions in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States (Alabama, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania).</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"...[a] beautifully presented showcase...highly recommended." Douglas Smith Library Journal</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher of industrial structures amid their natural surroundings.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025072.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025072 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20021025 03 FR DE CH BE AT 01 9.5 in 02 12 in 03 1.2 in 08 4.55 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20021025 9 01 02 The MIT Press T 90.00 USD 02 62.95 GBP Z 0 62.95 0 9780262025980 03 02 0262025981 03 9780262025980 15 9780262025980 03 BB 30 01 MITP 2135 Cooling Towers 01 2135 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025980 1 A01 Bernd Becher Becher, Bernd Bernd Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher have collaborated since 1959. Founders of the internationally acclaimed Becher class at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, they have received numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the 1990 Venice Biennale and the 2002 Erasmus Award. Bernd Becher retired as Professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art in 1999. 2 A01 Hilla Becher Becher, Hilla Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher 01 eng 248 236 duotones 13 236 PHO011000 AJB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Bernd and Hilla Becher's photography can be considered conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation. Their work can be linked to the Neue Sachlichkeit movement of the 1920s and to such masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, August Sander, and Albert Renger-Patzsch. Their photographs documenting the architecture of industrial structures, taken over the course of forty years, make up the most important body of work to be found in independent objective photography. This volume adds cooling towers to a list of photographic projects that includes book-length studies of water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, mineheads, and frame houses.Since the end of the nineteenth century, cooling towers have formed a striking part of electricity and steel works. The first cooling towers were wood-clad structures at coal mines; more recent examples are the steel or concrete constructions seen at nuclear power stations. The simplicity of these forms and their hermetically sealed external skins create an impressive, monumental effect. The Bechers have been photographing cooling towers since the 1960s. This volume contains 236 photographs of cooling towers--in all their different shapes and structural forms--from Belgium, England, France, Germany, Holland, and the United States, and includes a short text by the Bechers.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Another volume in the Bechers' lifelong project of documenting the architecture of industrial structures.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025980.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025980 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20060310 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 03 FR DE CH BE AT 01 11.4 in 02 10.6 in 03 1 in 08 4.5 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20060310 7 01 02 The MIT Press T 78.00 USD 02 53.95 GBP Z 0 53.95 0 9780262026062 03 02 0262026066 03 9780262026062 15 9780262026062 03 BB 30 01 MITP 3287 Grain Elevators 01 3287 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026062 1 A01 Bernd Becher Becher, Bernd Bernd Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher have collaborated since 1959. Founders of the internationally acclaimed Becher class at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, they have received numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the 1990 Venice Biennale and the 2002 Erasmus Award. Bernd Becher retired as Professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art in 1999. 2 A01 Hilla Becher Becher, Hilla Hilla Becher Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher 01 eng 216 200 duotones 13 200 PHO011000 AJB 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Bernd and Hilla Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes the most important project in objective and conceptual photography today. With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame houses, and cooling towers.Grain elevators are towering structures in the flat, vast landscape of the world's granaries. Providing a fast and efficient method of loading and unloading grain to keep pace with the industrial production methods of the nineteenth century, they made possible a tremendous increase in the trafficking and processing of grain. Scooping, pouring, and spitting, they both illustrated and inspired Le Corbusier's idea of buildings as functioning machines. Monumental, essential, and visually arresting, grain elevators belong as much to the American imagination and landscape as to the European. The photographs of grain elevators in this volume were taken in Germany, Belgium, France, and America. But the specificity of time and place is erased in these photographs; the monolithic structures evoke the agricultural prosperity of a vanished era and the vacancy that replaces it today.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>These photographs of grain elevators in America, Germany, Belgium, and France are a major addition to the Bechers' ongoing documentation of the vanishing buildings that once defined the industrial landscape of Europe and America. </P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262026062.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026062 The MIT Press 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20061201 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 03 FR DE CH AT NL LI 01 11.4 in 02 8.9 in 03 1 in 08 4.7 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20061201 5 01 02 The MIT Press T 78.00 USD 02 53.95 GBP Z 0 53.95 0 9780262025508 03 02 0262025507 03 9780262025508 15 9780262025508 03 BB 30 01 MITP 1117 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15 01 1117 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025508 1 B01 Suzanna Becker Becker, Suzanna Suzanna Becker Suzanna Becker is Associate Professor of Psychology and an Associate Member of the Department of Computing and Software at McMaster University. 2 B01 Sebastian Thrun Thrun, Sebastian Sebastian Thrun Sebastian Thrun is Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford AI Lab. 3 B01 Klaus Obermayer Obermayer, Klaus Klaus Obermayer Klaus Obermayer is Professor of Computer Science and head of the Neural Information Processing Group at the Technical University of Berlin. edited by Suzanna Becker, Sebastian Thrun, and Klaus Obermayer 01 eng 1728 COM044000 UYQN 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The annual Neural Information Processing (NIPS) meeting is the flagship conference on neural computation. The conference draws a diverse group of attendees--physicists, neuroscientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists--and the presentations are interdisciplinary, with contributions in algorithms, learning theory, cognitive science, neuroscience, vision, speech and signal processing, reinforcement learning and control, implementations, and applications. Only about thirty percent of the papers submitted are accepted for presentation at NIPS, so the quality is exceptionally high. This volume contains all the papers presented at the 2002 conference.</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>Proceedings of the 2002 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025508.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025508 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20030926 01 WORLD 01 10 in 02 7 in 03 3 in 08 5.37 lb 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20030926 6 01 02 The MIT Press S 100.00 USD 02 68.95 GBP Z 0 68.95 0 9780262522908 03 02 026252290X 03 9780262522908 15 9780262522908 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP cad Complex Adaptive Systems 01 MITP 1422 Artificial Life VII 01 1422 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522908 1 B01 Mark A. Bedau Bedau, Mark A. Mark A. Bedau Mark A. Bedau is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College, Adjunct Professor of Systems Science at Portland State University, and Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Press journal <I>Artificial Life</I>. 2 B01 John S. McCaskill McCaskill, John S. John S. McCaskill http://www.biomip.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/team/john_mccaskill.html 3 B01 Norman H. Packard Packard, Norman H. Norman H. Packard Norman H. Packard is cofounder and CEO of ProtoLife Srl and an External Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. 4 B01 Steen Rasmussen Rasmussen, Steen Steen Rasmussen http://www.ees.lanl.gov/staff/steen/ edited by Mark A. Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen 01 eng 500 COM004000 UYQM 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules -- for example, how the simple interactions between ants and their environment lead to complex trail-following behavior. An understanding of such relationships in particular systems can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet.Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262522908.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522908 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20000801 01 WORLD 01 11 in 02 8.5 in 03 1.1000000000000001 in 08 2.75 lb 06 15 9780262291071 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20000801 10 01 02 The MIT Press S 90.00 USD 02 62.95 GBP Z 0 62.95 0 9780262025782 03 02 0262025787 03 9780262025782 15 9780262025782 03 BB 30 01 MITP iraa Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series 01 MITP 1486 Autonomous Robots 01 1486 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025782 1 A01 George A. Bekey Bekey, George A. George A. Bekey George A. Bekey is Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at University of Southern California and Distinguished Professor of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University. http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~bekey/ George A. Bekey 01 eng 560 302illus. TEC037000 TJFM1 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>Autonomous robots are intelligent machines capable of performing tasks in the world by themselves, without explicit human control. Examples range from autonomous helicopters to Roomba, the robot vacuum cleaner. In this book, George Bekey offers an introduction to the science and practice of autonomous robots that can be used both in the classroom and as a reference for industry professionals. He surveys the hardware implementations of more than 300 current systems, reviews some of their application areas, and examines the underlying technology, including control, architectures, learning, manipulation, grasping, navigation, and mapping. Living systems can be considered the prototypes of autonomous systems, and Bekey explores the biological inspiration that forms the basis of many recent developments in robotics. He also discusses robot control issues and the design of control architectures.After an overview of the field that introduces some of its fundamental concepts, the book presents background material on hardware, control (from both biological and engineering perspectives), software architecture, and robot intelligence. It then examines a broad range of implementations and applications, including locomotion (wheeled, legged, flying, swimming, and crawling robots), manipulation (both arms and hands), localization, navigation, and mapping. The many case studies and specific applications include robots built for research, industry, and the military, among them underwater robotic vehicles, walking machines with four, six, and eight legs, and the famous humanoid robots Cog, Kismet, ASIMO,"and QRIO. The book concludes with reflections on the future of robotics -- the potential benefits as well as the possible dangers that may arise from large numbers of increasingly intelligent and autonomous robots.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"George Bekey has quietly been a moving force behind much of autonomous robotics research for the last 20 years. Now he has drawn upon his extensive store of knowledge to produce a startlingly complete account of the major questions, progress, and future directions for this increasingly economically important area of research. No one else could have produced such a tour de force with such authority."--Rodney Brooks, Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT</P> The MIT Press 08 00 <P>"... an additional milestone in the history of synthetic studies, with a special focus on the recent attempts by robotics scientists.... this book should be ideal for the students of robotics research, and the researchers in neighboring disciplines, including computer science, artificial life and intelligence, biology, psychology, and neuroscience." <B>Fumiya Iida </B> <I>Artificial Life</I></P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>" <I>Autonomous Robots</I> is a comprehensive overview of the subject by one of the fathers of robotics. It covers both the underlying theory and methods, ranging from mechanical design over architectures, control, and perception to current applications. Remarkably complete in its coverage, the book is an excellent introduction to the field and also a solid reference on recent research." Henrik I. Christensen, Centre for Autonomous Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"Remote presence will be one of the next big applications of the Internet. Goldberg and Siegwart are pioneers in the technology of letting us be where we are not. In the book, they document the birth of this new reality of which they were prime movers."--Rodney Brooks, Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"*Autonomous Robots* is a comprehensive overview of the subject by one of the fathers of robotics. It covers both the underlying theory and methods, ranging from mechanical design over architectures, control, and perception to current applications. Remarkably complete in its coverage, the book is an excellent introduction to the field and also a solid reference on recent research."--Henrik I. Christensen, Centre for Autonomous Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</P> The MIT Press 02 00 <P>An introduction to the science and practice of autonomous robots that reviews over 300 current systems and examines the underlying technology.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025782.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025782 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20050520 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1.5 in 08 2.75 lb 06 15 9780262292474 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20050520 10 01 02 The MIT Press S 60.00 USD 02 41.95 GBP Z 0 41.95 0 9780262025140 03 02 0262025140 03 9780262025140 15 9780262025140 03 BB 30 01 MITP 1871 The Cognitive Animal 01 1871 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025140 1 B01 Marc Bekoff Bekoff, Marc Marc Bekoff Marc Bekoff is Professor of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 2 B01 Colin Allen Allen, Colin Colin Allen Colin Allen is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the coauthor of <I>Nature's Purposes</I> (MIT Press, 1998), <I>Species of Mind</I> (MIT Press, 1997), and <I>The Cognitive Animal</I> (MIT Press, 2001). 3 B01 Gordon M. Burghardt Burghardt, Gordon M. Gordon M. Burghardt Gordon Burghardt is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Psychology and in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. He is a coeditor of <I>The Cognitive Animal</I> (MIT Press, 2002), past president of the Animal Behavior Society, and editor of the <I>Journal of Comparative Psychology</I>. edited by Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon M. Burghardt 01 eng 504 PSY008000 JMTK 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors include cognitive ethologists, behavioral ecologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, behaviorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists and modelers, field biologists, and others. The diversity of approaches is both philosophical and methodological, with contributors demonstrating various degrees of acceptance or disdain for such terms as "consciousness" and varying degrees of concern for laboratory experimentation versus naturalistic research. In addition to primates, particularly the nonhuman great apes, the animals discussed include antelopes, bees, dogs, dolphins, earthworms, fish, hyenas, parrots, prairie dogs, rats, ravens, sea lions, snakes, spiders, and squirrels.The topics include (but are not limited to) definitions of cognition, the role of anecdotes in the study of animal cognition, anthropomorphism, attention, perception, learning, memory, thinking, consciousness, intentionality, communication, planning, play, aggression, dominance, predation, recognition, assessment of self and others, social knowledge, empathy, conflict resolution, reproduction, parent-young interactions and caregiving, ecology, evolution, kin selection, and neuroethology.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The Cognitive Animal is the most complete and up-to-date collection of available information on the study of animal cognitive abilities. It covers numerous species and areas of research and is written in a way that makes the information accessible to readers who are not specialists in the cognitive sciences. The book also makes clear that a great deal more research needs to be done in this field, and it presents a challenging future agenda. The more we understand about the cognitive skills of the amazing animals with whom we share our planet, the greater will be our respect for them."--Jane Goodall, author of The Chimpanzees of Gombe and The Ten TrustsPlease note: I've changed the wording slightly as well as the book titles associated with Jane Goodall. Thank you.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262025140.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262025140 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press Cambridge US 04 20020719 01 WORLD 01 9 in 02 7 in 03 1 in 08 2.39 lb 06 15 9780262523226 6318126 The MIT Press 1-800-405-1619 or 1-401-658-4226 1-800-406-9145 or 1-401-658-4193 mitpress-orders@mit.edu or mitpress-orders-inq@mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu 01 02 Y IP 20 20020719 12 01 02 The MIT Press S 105.00 USD 02 72.95 GBP Z 0 72.95 0 9780262523226 03 02 0262523221 03 9780262523226 15 9780262523226 03 BC B102 30 01 MITP 1871 The Cognitive Animal 01 1871 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523226 1 B01 Marc Bekoff Bekoff, Marc Marc Bekoff Marc Bekoff is Professor of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 2 B01 Colin Allen Allen, Colin Colin Allen Colin Allen is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the coauthor of <I>Nature's Purposes</I> (MIT Press, 1998), <I>Species of Mind</I> (MIT Press, 1997), and <I>The Cognitive Animal</I> (MIT Press, 2001). 3 B01 Gordon M. Burghardt Burghardt, Gordon M. Gordon M. Burghardt Gordon Burghardt is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Psychology and in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. He is a coeditor of <I>The Cognitive Animal</I> (MIT Press, 2002), past president of the Animal Behavior Society, and editor of the <I>Journal of Comparative Psychology</I>. edited by Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon M. Burghardt 01 eng 504 PSY008000 JMTK 06 11 03 17 01 00 <P>The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors include cognitive ethologists, behavioral ecologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, behaviorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists and modelers, field biologists, and others. The diversity of approaches is both philosophical and methodological, with contributors demonstrating various degrees of acceptance or disdain for such terms as "consciousness" and varying degrees of concern for laboratory experimentation versus naturalistic research. In addition to primates, particularly the nonhuman great apes, the animals discussed include antelopes, bees, dogs, dolphins, earthworms, fish, hyenas, parrots, prairie dogs, rats, ravens, sea lions, snakes, spiders, and squirrels.The topics include (but are not limited to) definitions of cognition, the role of anecdotes in the study of animal cognition, anthropomorphism, attention, perception, learning, memory, thinking, consciousness, intentionality, communication, planning, play, aggression, dominance, predation, recognition, assessment of self and others, social knowledge, empathy, conflict resolution, reproduction, parent-young interactions and caregiving, ecology, evolution, kin selection, and neuroethology.</P> The MIT Press 30 00 <P>"The Cognitive Animal is the most complete and up-to-date collection of available information on the study of animal cognitive abilities. It covers numerous species and areas of research and is written in a way that makes the information accessible to readers who are not specialists in the cognitive sciences. The book also makes clear that a great deal more research needs to be done in this field, and it presents a challenging future agenda. The more we understand about the cognitive skills of the amazing animals with whom we share our planet, the greater will be our respect for them."--Jane Goodall, author of The Chimpanzees of Gombe and The Ten TrustsPlease note: I've changed the wording slightly as well as the book titles associated with Jane Goodall. Thank you.</P> The MIT Press 04 03 72 01 http://mitpress.mit.edu/covers/9780262523226.jpg http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262523226 A Bradford Book 01 02 MIT The MIT Press The MIT Press