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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
CONTENTS
architecture 5-6, 32-34, 41, 45, 53
art 2, 29-31, 35-41, 46, 51-52, 90
biography 26, 95
biology 75, 78, 83, 97
business 1, 17, 82
cognitive science 18, 60-61, 63, 75, 85, 91, 95, 97
computer science 61, 77, 79, 81-82, 88-89
cultural studies 45-47
current affairs 3-4, 8, 9, 13-14, 19, 22, 44
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digital humanities 89-90
economics 14-16, 48, 64-69, 68-69, 73
environment 3, 8-10, 54, 56, 59, 72-74
finance 15-16, 64, 66
game studies 55, 87
gender studies 20, 55
higher education 24-25, 56-57
history 7, 57, 65, 84
history of science 62, 78
history of technology 61-62
information science 82, 84
international security 70-71
linguistics 26, 63, 79-80, 94
music 37, 43
neuroscience 58-59, 75-77, 91, 94
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psychology 3, 12, 27, 92-93, 94
regional 23-25
science 11, 21, 59
science, technology, and society 57, 61, 63, 84-85
technology 11, 12, 19-20, 22, 32, 34, 39, 50, 90
urban planning, urban studies 53, 56
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architecture 5-6, 32-34, 41, 45, 53
art 2, 29-31, 35-41, 46, 51-52, 90
biography 26, 95
biology 75, 78, 83, 97
business 1, 17, 82
cognitive science 18, 60-61, 63, 75, 85, 91, 95, 97
computer science 61, 77, 79, 81-82, 88-89
cultural studies 45-47
current affairs 3-4, 8, 9, 13-14, 19, 22, 44
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digital humanities 89-90
economics 14-16, 48, 64-69, 68-69, 73
environment 3, 8-10, 54, 56, 59, 72-74
finance 15-16, 64, 66
game studies 55, 87
gender studies 20, 55
higher education 24-25, 56-57
history 7, 57, 65, 84
history of science 62, 78
history of technology 61-62
information science 82, 84
international security 70-71
linguistics 26, 63, 79-80, 94
music 37, 43
neuroscience 58-59, 75-77, 91, 94
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philosophy 18, 28, 49, 55, 92-93, 95-98
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Subway System by Paul Shaw.
politics, political science 2, 13, 26, 47-48, 54, 63, 67, 70-73 978-1-58435-080-4 978-0-262-55042-0
psychology 3, 12, 27, 92-93, 94
regional 23-25
science 11, 21, 59
science, technology, and society 57, 61, 63, 84-85
technology 11, 12, 19-20, 22, 32, 34, 39, 50, 90
urban planning, urban studies 53, 56
MIT Press Journals 99-101

Sales information 102-104
The Digital MIT Press 108
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Zone Books 42-43
Semiotext(e) 44-48
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business/leadership
REDESIGNING LEADERSHIP
John Maeda with Becky Bermont
When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president Lessons for a new generation of
of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to leaders on teamwork, meetings,
be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor — with conversations, free food,
a love of argument for argument’s sake and the freedom to experiment — into social media, apologizing,
and other topics.
the head of a hierarchical organization. The professor is free to speak his mind
against “the man.” The college president is “the man.” Maeda has had to teach
himself, through trial and error, about leadership. In Redesigning Leadership, he May
5 3/8 x 8, 104 pp.
shares his learning process.
Maeda, writing as an artist and designer, a technologist, and a professor, $20.00T/£14.95 cloth
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discusses intuition and risk-taking, “transparency,” and all the things that a
Simplicity: Design, Technology,
conversation can do that an email can’t. In his transition from MIT to RISD he
Business, Life series
finds that the most effective way to pull people together is not social networking
but free food. Leading a team? The best way for a leader to leverage the collective
power of a team is to reveal his or her own humanity. Also available in this series
Asked if he has stopped designing, Maeda replied (via Twitter) “I’m designing THE LAWS OF SIMPLICITY
how to talk about/with/for our #RISD community.” Maeda’s creative nature John Maeda
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critique, and learning as you go. With Redesigning Leadership, he uses his experi-
ence to reveal a new model of leadership for the next generation of leaders.
John Maeda is President of Rhode Island School of Design and former
Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab. In 2008 Esquire magazine
named Maeda one of the 75 most influential people of the twenty-first
century. He is the author of the bestselling The Laws of Simplicity
(MIT Press, 2006) and other books. Becky Bermont is Vice President of
Media + Partners at RISD and has partnered with Maeda since his time
at the Media Lab in efforts to bridge design, academia, and business.
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JOHN MAEDA ON LEADERSHIP

• Feedback makes the mind grow stronger.
• “For example” is an exemplary tool for
achieving clarity.
• The difference between a community and
an audience is where you choose to stand
on the stage.
• The tide can sometimes turn in your favor.
Rejoice when it happens.
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politics/art
AI WEIWEI’S BLOG
Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009
Ai Weiwei
Manifestos and immodest proposals edited and translated by Lee Ambrozy
from China’s most famous artist
and activist, culled from his In 2006, even though he could barely type, China’s most famous artist started
popular blog, shut down by blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of
Chinese authorities in 2009.
scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art
and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan
March earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the
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58 illus.
government’s “tofu-dregs engineering”), reminisced about Andy Warhol and
the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for “fraud”
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978-0-262-01521-9 by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection.
Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book
Writing Art series
offers a collection of Ai’s notorious online writings translated into English —
the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available
in any language.
The New York Times called Ai “a figure of Warholian celebrity.” He is a leading
figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but
in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator,
social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous
“Bird’s Nest” stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he
received a Chinese Contemporary Art “lifetime achievement
award” in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection
with his “citizen investigation” of earthquake casualties in 2009.
Ai Weiwei’s Blog documents Ai’s passion, his genius, his hubris,
his righteous anger, and his vision for China.
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957), artist, architect, activist, and outspoken social
critic, is one of the most famous and controversial figures in China
today. His work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Australia, and
the United States, in venues ranging from the Venice Biennale to
the Guangzhou Triennial. Lee Ambrozy is a translator and scholar
of Chinese art history.

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

The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
William R. Freudenburg and Robert Gramling
The story of how a chain
On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the of failures, missteps, and
Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of bad decisions led to America’s
oil from BP’s Macondo well. For months, oil gushed into the Gulf, spreading biggest environmental disaster.
death and destruction. Americans watched real-time video of the huge column
of oil and gas spewing from the obviously failed “blowout preventer.” The Available
evening news showed heart-rending images of pelicans, dolphins, and other 5 3/8 x 8, 272 pp.
Gulf wildlife covered in oil. What has been missing until now, though, is a book $18.95T/£14.95 cloth
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that tells the larger story of this disaster. In Blowout in the Gulf, energy experts
William Freudenburg and Robert Gramling explain both the disaster and the “Blowout in the Gulf is a
decisions that led up to it. They note that — both in the Gulf of Mexico and fast-paced, vivid account of the
elsewhere — we have been getting into increasingly dangerous waters over century-long rush to exploit that
recent decades, with some in the industry cutting corners and with most federal led to the BP disaster. As finite
regulators not even noticing. In the process, the actual owners of the oil — and remote oil and gas supplies
American taxpayers — have come to receive a lower fraction of the income dwindle, the risks, human and
from the oil than in almost any other nation on earth. enviromental, will only increase.
Freudenburg and Gramling argue that it is time for a new approach. BP’s As the age of oil approaches an
Oil Spill Response Plan was pure fantasy, claiming the company could handle end, the authors point us in other,
the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill every day, even though “cleaning up” sustainable, directions.”
an oil spill is essentially impossible. For the future, our emphasis needs to be — Bruce Babbitt, former
on true prevention, and our risk-management policies need to be based on governor of Arizona and
better understandings of humans as well as hardware. secretary of the Interior; board
Blowout in the Gulf weaves these failures, missteps, and bad decisions into of directors, Lincoln Institute
a fascinating narrative that explains why this oil spill was a disaster waiting of Land Policy
to happen — and how making better energy choices will help
prevent others like it.
William R. Freudenburg is Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies
at University of California, Santa Barbara. Robert Gramling is Professor
of Sociology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Freudenburg
and Gramling are the authors of Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions,
Politics, and the Battle over Offshore Drilling.
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current affairs/psychology/military
WHEN JOHNNY AND JANE COME MARCHING HOME

How All of Us Can Help Veterans
Paula J. Caplan
A psychologist’s impassioned call
to stop labeling our traumatized Traumatized veterans returning from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are often
war veterans as mentally ill and diagnosed as suffering from a psychological disorder and prescribed a regimen of
a guide to how every citizen psychotherapy and psychiatric drugs. But why, asks psychologist Paula J. Caplan
can help returning vets.
in this impassioned book, is it a mental illness to be devastated by war? What is
a mentally healthy response to death, destruction, and moral horror? In When
April Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Caplan argues that the standard treatment
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of therapy and drugs is often actually harmful. It adds to veterans’ burdens by
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making them believe wrongly that they have “gotten over it”; it isolates them
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behind the closed doors of the therapist’s office; and it makes them rely on often
harmful drugs. The numbers of traumatized veterans from past and present wars
who continue to suffer demonstrate the ineffectiveness of this approach.
Sending anguished veterans off to talk to therapists, writes Caplan, conveys
the message that the rest of us don’t want to listen — or that we don’t feel
qualified to listen. As a result, the truth about war is kept under wraps. Most
of us remain ignorant about what war is really like — and continue to allow our
governments to go to war without much protest. Caplan proposes an alternative:
that we welcome veterans back into our communities and listen to their stories,
one-on-one. (She provides guidelines for conducting these conversations.) This
would begin a long overdue national discussion about the realities of war, and it
would start the healing process for our returning veterans.
Paula J. Caplan, a clinical and research psychologist, is an Affiliate at
Harvard University’s DuBois Institute and a Fellow at the Women and
Public Policy Program in Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She
is the author of The Myth of Women’s Masochism, They Say You’re Crazy:
FINAL
How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal, and
eight other books. Her articles, essays, and op-eds have appeared in
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design/architecture
HELVETICA AND THE NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY SYSTEM

Paul Shaw
For years, the signs in the New York City subway system were a bewildering How New York City subway
hodgepodge of lettering styles, sizes, shapes, materials, colors, and messages. signage evolved from a
The original mosaics (dating from as early as 1904), displaying a variety of serif “visual mess” to a uniform
and sans serif letters and decorative elements, were supplemented by signs in system with Helvetica triumphant.
terracotta and cut stone. Over the years, enamel signs identifying stations and
warning riders not to spit, smoke, or cross the tracks were added to the mix. March
Efforts to untangle this visual mess began in the mid-1960s, when the city 11 x 9 1/2, 144 pp.
260 color illus.
transit authority hired the design firm Unimark International to create a clear
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and consistent sign system. We can see the results today in the white-on-black
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signs throughout the subway system, displaying station names, directions, and
instructions in crisp Helvetica. This book tells the story of how typographic
order triumphed over chaos.
The process didn’t go smoothly or quickly. At one point New York Times
architecture writer Paul Goldberger declared that the signs were so confusing
one almost wished that they weren’t there at all. Legend has it that Helvetica
came in and vanquished the competition. Paul Shaw shows that it didn’t happen
that way — that, in fact, for various reasons (expense,
the limitations of the transit authority sign shop), the
typeface overhaul of the 1960s began not with Helvetica
but with its forebear, Standard (aka Akzidenz Grotesk).
It wasn’t until the 1980s and 1990s that Helvetica
became ubiquitous. Shaw describes the slow typographic
changeover (supplementing his text with more than
250 images — photographs, sketches, type samples, and
documents). He places this signage evolution in the
context of the history of the New York City subway
system, of 1960s transportation signage, of Unimark
International, and of Helvetica itself.
Paul Shaw, an award-winning graphic designer, typographer,
and calligrapher in New York City, teaches at Parsons School
of Design and the School of Visual Arts. He is the coauthor
of Blackletter: Type and National Identity and writes about
letter design in the blog Blue Pencil.
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architecture/design
VOITURE MINIMUM
Le Corbusier and the Automobile
Antonio Amado
A colorful account of Le Corbusier’s
translated by Penelope Hierons and Barbara E. Duffus
love affair with the automobile, his
vision of the ideal vehicle, and his Le Corbusier, who famously called a house “a machine for living,” was fascinated
tireless promotion of a design that — even obsessed — by another kind of machine, the automobile. His writings
industry never embraced.
were strewn with references to autos: “If houses were built industrially, mass-
produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with surprising precision,”
March he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his “white phase” of the twenties
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180 color illus., and thirties, he insisted that his buildings be photographed with a modern auto-
205 black & white illus. mobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936,
$49.95T/£36.95 cloth entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition,
978-0-262-01536-3 submitting plans for “a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality,” the
Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier’s energetic promotion of his design to
several important automakers, the Voiture Minimum was never mass-produced.
This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier’s adventure
in automobile design.
Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail, linking it to
Le Corbusier’s architectural work, to Modernist utopian urban visions, and to
the automobile design projects of other architects
including Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright.
He provides abundant images, including many pages
of Le Corbusier’s sketches and plans for the Voiture
Minimum, and reprints Le Corbusier’s letters seek-
ing a manufacturer. Le Corbusier’s design is often
said to have been the inspiration for Volkswagen’s
enduringly popular Beetle; the architect himself
implied as much, claiming that his design for
the 1936 competition originated in 1928, before
the Beetle. Amado, after extensive examination of
archival and source materials, disproves this; the
influence may have gone the other way.
Although many critics considered the Voiture
Minimum a footnote in Le Corbusier’s career,
Le Corbusier did not. This book, lavishly illustrated
and exhaustively documented, restores Le Corbusier’s
automobile to the main text.
Antonio Amado Lorenzo, an architect, is Professor in the Department of Architectonic
Representation and Theory at the University of Corunna, Spain.

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design/history/space exploration
SPACESUIT
Fashioning Apollo
Nicholas de Monchaux
How the twenty-one-layer
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July Apollo spacesuit, made by
of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each Playtex, was a triumph of
with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses intimacy over engineering.
whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of that
spacesuit. It is a story of the Playtex Corporation’s triumph over the military- March
industrial complex — a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of 7 x 9, 368 pp.
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adaptation over cybernetics.
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military contractors and favored by NASA’s engineers. It was only when those
attempts failed — when traditional engineering firms could not integrate the
body into mission requirements — that Playtex, with its intimate expertise, got
the job.
In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer
spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the
suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among
other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior’s
New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK’s
carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage,
NASA’s Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style
engineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layer spacesuit,
de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us about
redundancy and interdependence and about the distinctions
between natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us to
know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set
of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario.
Nicholas de Monchaux is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the
College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.
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Times, the New York Times Magazine, Architectural Digest, and other
publications.
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current affairs/environment
THE END OF ENERGY

The Unmaking of America’s Environment,
Security, and Independence
Forty years of energy incompetence: Michael J. Graetz
villains, failures of leadership,
and missed opportunities. Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when
we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the
April pump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap. In The End of Energy, Michael
6 x 9, 400 pp. Graetz shows us that we have been living an energy delusion for forty years.
5 illus. Until the 1970s, we produced domestically all the oil we needed to run our
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth power plants, heat our homes, and fuel our cars. Since then, we have had to
978-0-262-01567-7 import most of the oil we use, much of it from the Middle East. And we rely on
an even dirtier fuel — coal — to produce half of our electricity. Graetz describes
more than forty years of energy policy incompetence — from the Nixon admin-
istration’s fumbled response to the OPEC oil embargo through the failure to
develop alternative energy sources to the current political standoff over “cap and
trade” — and argues that we must make better decisions for our energy future.
Rather than pushing policies that, over time, would produce the changes we
need, presidents have swung for the fences, wasting billions seeking a technologi-
cal “silver bullet” to solve all our problems. Congress has continually elevated nar-
row parochial interests over our national goals, directing huge subsidies and tax
breaks to favored constituents and contributors. And, despite thousands of pages
of energy legislation since the 1970s, Americans have never been asked to pay
a price that reflects the real cost of the energy they consume. Until we face the
facts about price, our energy incompetence will continue — and along with it
the unraveling of our environment, security, and independence.
Michael J. Graetz is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
and Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law at Columbia University.
His other books include Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over
Taxing Inherited Wealth.
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environment/nature
THE FATE OF GREENLAND

Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
Philip Conkling, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, and George Denton
Experts discuss how Greenland’s
photographs by Gary Comer
warming climate — seen in its
Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted melting ice sheets and retreating
only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland glaciers — could affect the
rest of the world.
is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost
1,000 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to west. But this stark
view of ice and snow is changing — and changing rapidly. Greenland’s ice sheet May
8 x 9, 240 pp.
is melting; the dazzling, photogenic display of icebergs breaking off Greenland’s 78 illus., color throughout
rapidly melting glaciers has become a tourist attraction. The Fate of Greenland
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documents Greenland’s warming with dramatic color photographs and investi- 978-0-262-01564-6
gates Greenland’s climate history for clues about what happens when climate
change is abrupt rather than gradual.
Geological evidence suggests that Greenland has already been affected by
two dramatic changes in climate: the Medieval Warm Period, when warm
temperatures in Northern Europe enabled Norse exploration and settlements
in Greenland; and the Little Ice Age that followed and apparently wiped
out the settlements. Greenland’s climate past and present could presage our
climate future. Abrupt climate change would be cataclysmic: the melting of
Greenland’s ice shelf would cause sea levels to rise twenty-four feet worldwide;
lower Manhattan would be underwater and Florida’s coastline would recede
to Orlando.
The planet appears to be in a period of acute climate instability, exacerbated
by carbon dioxide we pour into the atmosphere. As this book makes clear, it is
in all of our interests to pay attention to Greenland.
Philip Conkling is Founder and President of the Island Institute
in Maine. Richard Alley, a glaciologist, is Evan Pugh Professor of
Geosciences and Associate of the Earth and Environmental Systems
Institute at Penn State. Wallace Broecker, an oceanographer, is
Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University and a winner
of the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences. George Denton, a geologist,
is Professor of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Studies at the
University of Maine.
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environment/current affairs
AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT CARD

Are We Making the Grade?
Second Edition
An accessible overview of the most Harvey Blatt
important environmental issues
facing the United States, with Americans are concerned about the state of the environment, and yet polls
new and updated material. show that many have lost faith in both scientists’ and politicians’ ability to solve
environmental problems. In America’s Environmental Report Card, Harvey Blatt
April sorts through the deluge of conflicting information about the environment and
6 x 9, 376 pp. offers an accessible overview of the environmental issues that are most important
47 illus.
to Americans today.
$19.95T/£14.95 paper Blatt has thoroughly updated this second edition, revising and adding new
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material. He looks at water supplies and new concerns about water purity; the
dangers of floods (increased by widespread logging and abetted by glacial melt-
ing); infrastructure problems (in a new chapter devoted entirely to this subject);
the leaching of garbage buried in landfills; soil, contaminated crops, and organic
food; fossil fuels; alternative energy sources (in another new chapter); controversies
over nuclear energy; the increasing pace of climate change; and air pollution.
Along the way, he outlines ways to deal with these problems — workable and
reasonable solutions that map the course to a sustainable future. America can
lead the way to a better environment, Blatt argues. We are the richest nation in
the world, and we can afford it — in fact, we can’t afford not to.
Harvey Blatt is the author of America’s Food: What You Don’t Know About What You Eat
(MIT Press, 2008, 2011) and other books. He taught geology at the University of Houston
and the University of Oklahoma for many years and is now Professor of Geology at the
Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION

“A wonderful primer for the general reader. I’m not aware of any
book that provides such a useful overview of environmental science.”
— Jim Motavalli, editor, E/The Environmental Magazine
“Frank but hopeful, serious but readable, this is an excellent environ-
mental science primer.”
— Publishers Weekly
“A good overview for the novice environmentalist.”
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technology/science
THE TECHNO-HUMAN CONDITION

Braden R. Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz
In this latest version of humanity, we are equipped with a fully re-engineered A provocative analysis of what
immune system; the latest set of cultural assumptions about gender, ethnicity, it means to be human in an
and sexuality; and a suite of customized enhancements, including artificial joints, era of incomprehensible
neurochemical mood modulators, and performance-boosting hormones. In The technological complexity,
and change.
Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what
it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity.
They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, March
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progress, and certainty, even as we maintain a commitment to fundamental
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Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since the dawn
of prehistory, when tool-making and meat-eating co-evolved with brain
development and social complexity. What is different now is that we have
moved beyond external technological interventions to transform ourselves
from the inside out — even as we also remake the Earth system itself. Coping
with this new reality, say Allenby and Sarewitz, means liberating ourselves
from such categories as “human,” “technological,” and “natural” to embrace a
new techno-human relationship. Describing the terms of this relationship, and
exploring sociotechnical systems ranging from railroads to modern military
technology, Allenby and Sarewitz ultimately locate individual authenticity in the
quest for a new humility in the face of the rapidly disappearing moorings of the
Enlightenment.
Braden R. Allenby is Founding Director of the Center for Earth Systems
Engineering and Management, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and
Ethics, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona
State University. He is the author of Reconstructing Earth: Technology
and Environment in the Age of Humans. Daniel Sarewitz is Professor
of Science and Society at Arizona State University and the author
of Frontiers of Illusion.

psychology/technology/nature
TECHNOLOGICAL NATURE
Adaptation and the Future of Human Life
Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
Why it matters that our
relationship with nature is Our forebears may have had a close connection with the natural world, but
increasingly mediated and increasingly we experience technological nature. Children come of age watching
augmented by technology. nature programs on television. They inhabit virtual lands in digital games. And
they play with robotic animals, purchased at big box stores. Until a few years ago,
March hunters could “telehunt” — shoot and kill animals in Texas from a computer any-
6 x 9, 256 pp. where in the world via a Web interface. Does it matter that much of our experience
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with nature is mediated and augmented by technology? In Technological Nature,
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Peter Kahn argues that it does, and shows how it affects our well-being.
Kahn describes his investigations of children’s and adults’ experiences of
cutting-edge technological nature. He and his team installed “technological
Also available nature windows” (50-inch plasma screens showing high-definition broadcasts
THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP of real-time local nature views) inside offices on his university campus and
WITH NATURE assessed the physiological and psychological effects on viewers. He studied
Development and Culture
Peter H. Kahn, Jr. children’s and adults’ relationships with the robotic dog AIBO (including
$32.00S/£23.95 paper possible benefits for children with autism). And he studied online “telegardening”
2001, 978-0-262-61170-1 (a pastoral alternative to “telehunting”).
CHILDREN AND NATURE Kahn’s studies show that in terms of human well-being technological nature
Psychological, Sociocultural,
is better than no nature, but not as good as actual nature. We should develop
and Evolutionary Investigations
edited by Peter H. Kahn, Jr., and use technological nature as a bonus on life, not as its substitute, and
and Stephen R. Kellert re-envision what is beautiful and fulfilling and often wild in essence in our
2002, 978-0-262-61175-6
relationship with the natural world.
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Peter H. Kahn, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of
Psychology and Director of the Human Interaction with Nature and
Technological Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington.
He is the author of The Human Relationship with Nature: Development
and Culture (1999, 2001) and the coeditor of Children and Nature:
Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations (2002),
both published by the MIT Press.


current affairs/economics/political science
GOVERNMENT’S PLACE IN THE MARKET

Eliot Spitzer
As New York State Attorney General from 1998 to 2006, Eliot Spitzer success- In his first book, the former
fully pursued corporate crime, including stock price inflation, securities fraud, New York governor and current
and predatory lending practices. Drawing on those experiences, in this book CNN cohost offers a manifesto
Spitzer considers when and how the government should intervene in the workings on the economy and the
public interest.
of the market. The 2009 American bank bailout, he argues, was the wrong way:
it understandably turned government intervention into a flashpoint for public
disgust because it socialized risk, privatized benefit, and left standing institutions March
4 1/2 x 7, 96 pp.
too big to fail, incompetent regulators, and deficient corporate governance. That’s
unfortunate, because good regulatory policy, he claims, can make markets and $14.95T/£11.95 cloth
978-0-262-01570-7
firms work efficiently, equitably, and in service of fundamental public values.
A Boston Review Book
Spitzer lays out the right reasons for government intervention in the market:
to guarantee transparency, to overcome market failures, and to guard our core
values against the market’s unfair biases such as racism. With specific proposals
to serve those ends — from improving corporate governance to making firms
responsible for their own risky behavior — he offers a much-needed blueprint
for the proper role of government in the market. Finally, taking account of
regulatory changes since the crash of 2008, he suggests how to rebuild public
trust in government so real change is possible.
Responses to Spitzer by Sarah Binder, Andrew Gelman and John Sides,
Dean Baker, and Robert Johnson, raise issues of politics, ideology, and policy.
Eliot Spitzer served as the 54th Governor of New York from January 2007
until his resignation on March 17, 2008. In October 2010 he will launch
a talk show on CNN with conservative analyst Kathleen Parker.
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economics/finance
INSIDE THE FED

Monetary Policy and Its Management,
Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke
Revised Edition An insider’s account of the workings
of the Federal Reserve, thoroughly
Stephen H. Axilrod
updated to encompass the Fed’s
Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed’s action (and inaction) during the
Board of Governors for more than thirty years and after that in private markets recent financial meltdown.
and as a consultant on monetary policy. With Inside the Fed, he offers his unique
perspective on the inner workings of the Federal Reserve System during the March
last fifty years — writing about personalities as much as policy — based on 6 x 9, 240 pp.
2 illus.
his knowledge and observations of every Fed chairman since 1951. This new,
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post-financial meltdown edition offers his assessment of the Fed’s action (and
978-0-262-01562-2
inaction) during the crisis and expanded coverage of the Fed in the Bernanke era.
In this edition, Axilrod gives an account of the Fed’s dramatic, even mind-
bending, experiences in the great credit crisis of 2007–2009. He assesses the
full range of the Fed’s unusual and innovative actions during the crisis and the
beginnings of its aftermath. He questions whether the Fed used its monetary
and regulatory powers to full effect to minimize and contain the disruption
of the nation’s — and the world’s — financial stability. And, in an entirely
new chapter, he evaluates Bernanke’s performance through his full first term
(as well as the early part of his second) in light of his actions during the crisis.
In later chapters he also reevaluates the image, stature, and structure of the
Fed in the aftermath of the crisis and the new comprehensive financial
legislation subsequently enacted.
Great leadership in monetary policy, Axilrod says, is deter-
mined not by pure economic sophistication but by the ability to
push through political and social barriers to achieve a paradigm
shift in policy — and by the courage and bureaucratic moxie to
pull it off.
Stephen H. Axilrod worked from 1952 to 1986 at the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., rising
to Staff Director for Monetary and Financial Policy and Staff Director
and Secretary of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed’s main
monetary policy arm. Since 1986 he has worked in private markets
and as a consultant on monetary policy with foreign monetary
authorities.

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economics/finance
REFORMING U.S. FINANCIAL MARKETS

Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd–Frank
Randall S. Kroszner and Robert J. Shiller
Two top economists outline
edited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman
distinctive approaches to
post-crisis financial reform. Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since
the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption
March of credit flows, the loss of confidence in firms and credit market instruments, the
5 3/8 x 8, 160 pp. intervention by governments and central banks: all were extraordinary in scale
$19.95T/£14.95 cloth and scope. In this book, leading economists Randall Kroszner and Robert Shiller
978-0-262-01545-5 discuss what the United States should do to prevent another such financial
The Alvin Hansen Symposium on meltdown. Their discussion goes beyond the nuts and bolts of legislative and
Public Policy at Harvard University regulatory fixes to consider fundamental changes in our financial arrangements.
Kroszner and Shiller offer two distinctive approaches to financial reform, with
COMMENTATORS
Benjamin M. Friedman
Kroszner providing a systematic analysis of regulatory gaps and Shiller addressing
George G. Kaufman the broader concerns of democratizing and humanizing finance. Kroszner focuses
Robert C. Pozen on key areas for reform, including credit rating agencies and the mortgage
Hal S. Scott
securitization market. Shiller argues that reform must serve to make the full
power of financial theory work for everyone — bringing the technology of
Also available in this series
finance to bear on managing risk, for example — and should acknowledge
OFFSHORING OF AMERICAN JOBS
What Response from the reality of human nature. After brief discussions by four commentators,
U.S. Economic Policy? Kroszner and Shiller each offer a response to the other’s proposals, creating
Jagdish Bhagwati and Alan S. Blinder a fruitful dialogue between two major figures in the field.
edited and with
an introduction by Randall S. Kroszner is Norman R. Bobins
Benjamin M. Friedman Professor of Economics in the University
2009, 978-0-262-01332-1 of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He
$18.95T/£14.95 cloth served as a Governor of the Federal Reserve
System from March 2006 until January 2009.
Robert J. Shiller is Arthur M. Okun Professor
of Economics at Yale University. He is the
author of Irrational Exuberance, Animal Spirits:
How Human Psychology Drives the Economy
and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
(with George B. Akerlof), and other books.
Benjamin M. Friedman is William Joseph
Maier Professor of Political Economy at
Harvard University and the author of The
Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.
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business/management
OFFSHORING STRATEGIES
Evolving Captive Center Models
Ilan Oshri
The evolution of a rapidly
In today’s globalized economy, firms often consider offshoring when confronted growing mode of offshoring,
by rising costs and fierce competition. One mode of offshoring has continued captive centers: basic models,
to grow despite the current global economic turmoil: the captive center. Captive strategies, and case studies of
Fortune Global 250 firms.
centers are offshore subsidiaries or branch offices that provide the parent company
with services, usually in the form of back-office activities. In Offshoring Strategies,
Ilan Oshri examines the evolution of the captive center. He identifies basic captive March
5 3/8 x 8, 288 pp.
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250 firms, describes current captive center trends, and offers detailed individual
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available to firms that want to maximize the returns offered by captive centers.
Oshri outlines six models for captive centers that range from the basic wholly
owned branch office to hybrids and joint ventures and identifies evolutionary
paths along which the basic model develops. He analyzes firms’ strategies during
initial set-up, then tracks the changes as strategies evolve to meet different
business needs. The case studies, all based on the Fortune Global 250, include
the development of a basic captive unit into a complex hybrid structure; the
evolution of a captive center into a shared service center offering services to
other international firms; the divestment of a captive center to a private equity
firm; and the migration of a captive center to a location where costs were lower.
Ilan Oshri is Associate Professor of Strategy and Technology Management at Rotterdam
School of Management, Erasmus University. He is the coauthor of The Handbook of Global
Outsourcing and Offshoring and Outsourcing Global Services: Knowledge, Innovation and
Social Capital, and other books.

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CAPTIVE CENTER MODELS

Basic captive center: wholly owned subsidiary or branch office
Shared captive center: also services outside clients
Hybrid captive center: outsources operations to outside local vendor
Divested captive center: sold by parent firm
Terminated captive center: closed down by parent firm
Migrated captive center: moved to another location

philosophy/cognitive science
INSIDE JOKES
Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr.
An evolutionary and cognitive
account of the addictive mind Some things are funny — jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side,
candy that is humor. Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed — but why? Why does humor exist
in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing
May anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew
6 x 9, 344 pp. Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that
978-0-262-01582-0 arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking.
Mother Nature — aka natural selection — cannot just order the brain to find
and fix all our time-pressured mis-leaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the
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brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has
SWEET DREAMS
Philosophical Obstacles to been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become
a Science of Consciousness addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.
Daniel C. Dennett
Hurley, Dennett, and Adams describe the evolutionary reasons for humor
2006, 978-0-262-54191-6
$17.95T/£13.95 paper and for laughter. They examine why humor is pleasurable and desirable, often
sharable, surprising, playful, nonsensical, and insightful. They give an “inside,”
mechanistic account of the cognitive and emotional apparatus that provides
the humor experience, and use it to explain the wide variety of things that are
found to be humorous. They also provide a preliminary sketch
of an emotional and computational model of humor, arguing
(Star Trek’s Data to the contrary) that any truly intelligent
computational agent could not be engineered without humor.
Matthew M. Hurley is researching emotions and creativity under Douglas
R. Hofstadter at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at
Indiana University. Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin
B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author
of Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
(MIT Press, 2005, 2006) and other books. Reginald B. Adams, Jr., is
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Penn State University.


current affairs/technology
THE SECRET WAR BETWEEN

DOWNLOADING AND UPLOADING
Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
As we hurtle into the twenty-first
Peter Lunenfeld century, will we be passive
The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century’s culture downloaders of content or
active uploaders of meaning?
machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of production, the means
of distribution, and the site of reception. We haven’t quite achieved the flying
cars and robot butlers of futurist fantasies, but we do have a machine that can March
5 3/8 x 8, 144 pp.
function as a typewriter and a printing press, a paintbrush and a gallery, a piano
and a radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier. But, warns Lunenfeld, we should $21.95T/£16.95 cloth
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temper our celebration with caution; we are engaged in a secret war between
downloading and uploading — between passive consumption and active creation
— and the outcome will shape our collective futures. Also available
THE DIGITAL DIALECTIC
In The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading, Lunenfeld makes his
New Essays on New Media
case for using digital technologies to shift us from a consumption to a production edited by Peter Lunenfeld
model. He describes television as the “the high fructose corn syrup of the 2000, 978-0-262-62137-3
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imagination” and worries that it can cause “cultural diabetes”; prescribes mindful
downloading, meaningful uploading, and “info-triage” as cures; and offers tips
SNAP TO GRID
for crafting “bespoke futures” in what he terms the era of “Web n.0” (intercon- A User’s Guide to Digital Arts,
nectivity to the nth power). He also offers a stand-alone genealogy of digital Media, and Cultures
visionaries, distilling a history of the culture machine that runs from the Peter Lunenfeld
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Patriarchs (Vannevar Bush’s WWII generation) to the Hustlers (Bill Gates $22.00T/£16.95 paper
and Steve Jobs) to the Searchers (Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google fame).
USER
After half a century of television-conditioned consumption/downloading, InfoTechnoDemo
Lunenfeld tells us, we now find ourselves with a vast new infrastructure for Peter Lunenfeld
uploading. We simply need to find the will to make the best of it. 2005, 978-0-262-62198-4
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Peter Lunenfeld is a Professor in the Design Media Arts Department at
UCLA. He is the author of Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts,
Media, and Cultures (2000, 2001) and User: InfoTechnoDemo (2005),
and the editor of The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media
(1999, 2000) all published by the MIT Press.

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technology/gender studies
DIGITAL DEAD END

Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
Virginia Eubanks
The realities of the high-tech global
economy for women and families The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted
in the United States. through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access,
high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic
March downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead
6 x 9, 288 pp. End, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of
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magical thinking: a technological utopia will come about simply because we
$27.95T/£20.95 cloth want it to. This vision of the miraculous power of high-tech development is
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driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of the
information age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class
women and families.
Describing her attempts to create technology training programs with a
community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA, Eubanks shows
that information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means of
oppression. High-tech jobs for women in the YWCA community are data
entry positions that pay $7 an hour. At work, their supervisors monitor every
keystroke. The state offers limited social service benefits in exchange for
high-tech monitoring and surveillance of their lives, families, and communities.
Despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy,
optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks and the
women in the YWCA community collaborated to make tech-
nology serve social justice. Eubanks describes a new approach
to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering “technology
for people,” popular technology, which entails shifting the focus
from teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technological
citizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering
social movement.
Virginia Eubanks is the cofounder of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP),
a grassroots anti-poverty and welfare rights organization, and teaches
in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany,
SUNY. She edited the cyberfeminist ‘zine Brillo and was active in the
community technology center movements in the San Francisco Bay Area
and Troy, NY.
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science/film
LAB COATS IN HOLLYWOOD

Science, Scientists, and Cinema
David A. Kirby
How science consultants
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, is perhaps the most make movie science plausible,
scientifically accurate film ever produced. The film presented such a plausible, in films ranging from 2001:
realistic vision of space flight that many moon hoax proponents believe that A Space Odyssey to Finding Nemo.
Kubrick staged the 1969 moon landing using the same studios and techniques.
Kubrick’s scientific verisimilitude in 2001 came courtesy of his science consult- March
ants — including two former NASA scientists — and the more than sixty-five 6 x 9, 280 pp.
75 illus.
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Kubrick, films ranging from A Beautiful Mind and Contact to Finding Nemo
and The Hulk have achieved some degree of scientific credibility because of
science consultants. In Lab Coats in Hollywood, David Kirby examines the
interaction of science and cinema: how science consultants make movie science
plausible, how filmmakers negotiate scientific accuracy within production
constraints, and how movies affect popular perceptions of science.
Of course, accurate science is only important to filmmakers if they believe
it generates entertainment value. Scientific expertise, Kirby points out, is most
valuable to filmmakers as a tool to help them utilize their own creative expertise.
Drawing on interviews and archival material, Kirby examines such science
consulting tasks as fact checking, shaping visual iconography,
advising actors, enhancing plausibility, creating dramatic
situations, and placing science in its cultural contexts. Kirby
finds that cinema can influence science as well: Depictions
of science in popular films can promote research agendas,
stimulate technological development, contribute to scientific
controversies, and even stir citizens into political action.
David A. Kirby is Lecturer in Science Communication Studies at the
Centre for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the
University of Manchester, England.
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current affairs/technology
SURVEILLANCE OR SECURITY?
The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies
Susan Landau
How, in the name of greater
security, our current electronic Digital communications are the lifeblood of modern society. We “meet up”
surveillance policies are creating online, tweet our reactions millions of times a day, connect through social
major security risks. networking rather than in person. Large portions of business and commerce
have moved to the Web, and much of our critical infrastructure, including the
April electric power grid, is controlled online. This reliance on information systems
6 x 9, 360 pp. leaves us highly exposed and vulnerable to cyberattack. Despite this, U.S. law
9 illus.
enforcement and national security policy remain firmly focused on wiretapping
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and surveillance. But, as cybersecurity expert Susan Landau argues in Surveillance
or Security?, the old surveillance paradigms do not easily fit the new technologies.
By embedding eavesdropping mechanisms into communication technology
Also available itself, we are building tools that could be turned against us.
PRIVACY ON THE LINE Such attacks have already happened. Law-enforcement wiretapping capabili-
The Politics of Wiretapping ties built into the Greek Vodafone network were subverted and used to listen
and Encryption
Updated and Expanded Edition in to communications at the highest levels of the Greek government; a system
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau built for wiretapping Internet-based communications was shown to have serious
2010, 978-0-262-51400-2 flaws that would allow a similar subversion. Landau argues that in embarking on
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an unprecedented effort to build surveillance capabilities deeply into communi-
cations infrastructure, the U.S. government is opting for short-term security and
creating dangerous long-term risks.
Landau describes what makes communications security
hard, warrantless wiretapping and the role of electronic surveil-
lance in the war on terror, the economic threats posed by elec-
tronic spying, and the risks created by embedding wiretapping
into communications networks. How can we get communica-
tions security right? Landau offers a set of principles to govern
wiretap policy that will allow us to protect our national security
as well as our freedom.
Susan Landau is the coauthor (with Whitfield Diffie) of Privacy on the
Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (MIT Press, updated
and expanded edition, 2007, 2010).

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humor/regional
NIGHTWORK
A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT
Updated Edition
Institute Historian T. F. Peterson A lively introduction to MIT hacks,
from the police car on the
with a new essay by Eric Bender Great Dome to the abduction
An MIT “hack” is an ingenious, benign, and anonymous prank or practical joke, of the Caltech cannon.
often requiring engineering or scientific expertise and often pulled off under
cover of darkness — instances of campus mischief sometimes coinciding with March
April Fool’s Day, final exams, or commencement. (It should not be confused with 8 x 9, 224 pp.
77 color illus.,
the sometimes nonbenign phenomenon of computer hacking.) Noteworthy MIT 65 black & white illus.
hacks over the years include the legendary Harvard-Yale Football Game Hack
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(when a weather balloon emblazoned “MIT” popped out of the ground near the 978-0-262-51584-9
50-yard line), the campus police car found perched on the Great Dome, the
apparent disappearance of the Institute president’s office, and a faux cathedral
(complete with stained glass windows, organ, and wedding ceremony) in a lobby.
Hacks are by their nature ephemeral, although they live on in the memory of
both perpetrators and spectators. Nightwork, drawing on the MIT Museum’s
unique collection of hack-related photographs and other materials, describes
and documents the best of MIT’s hacks and hacking culture.
This generously illustrated updated edition has added coverage of such recent
hacks as the cross-country abduction of rival Caltech’s cannon (a prank requiring
months of planning, intricate choreography, and last-minute improvisation), a
fire truck on the Dome that marked the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and numerous
pokes at the celebrated Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, and even a working
solar-powered Red Line subway car on the Great Dome.
Hacks have been said to express the essence of MIT, providing, as alumnus
André DeHon observes, “an opportunity to demonstrate creativity and know-how
in mastering the physical world.” What better way to mark the 150th anniversary
of MIT’s founding than to commemorate its native ingenuity with this new
edition of Nightwork?
Institute Historian T. F. Peterson continues to delight in the appearance
of each new hack. Peterson is grateful to Eric Bender, science writer
and former editor of MIT’s Technologyreview.com, who contributed
the new essay “Hacking in the New Millennium” to this edition.

higher education/regional
A WIDENING SPHERE
Evolving Cultures at MIT
Philip N. Alexander
How MIT’s first nine presidents
helped transform the Institute MIT was founded in 1861 as a polytechnic institute in Boston’s Back Bay, over-
from a small technical school shadowed by its neighbor across the Charles River, Harvard University. Harvard
into a major research university. offered a classical education to young men of America’s ruling class; the early
MIT trained men (and a few women) from all parts of society as engineers for
March the nation’s burgeoning industries. Over the years, MIT expanded its mission
6 x 9, 432 pp. and ventured into other fields — pure science, social science, the humanities —
45 illus.
and established itself in Cambridge as Harvard’s enduring rival. In A Widening
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Sphere, Philip Alexander traces MIT’s evolution from polytechnic to major
research institution through the lives of its first nine presidents, exploring
how the ideas, outlook, approach, and personality of each shaped the school’s
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MIND AND HAND Alexander describes, among other things, the political skill and entrepreneur-
The Birth of MIT ial spirit of founder and first president, William Rogers; institutional growing
Julius A. Stratton and
Loretta H. Mannix pains under John Runkle; Francis Walker’s campaign to broaden the curriculum,
2005, 978-0-262-19524-9 especially in the social sciences, and to recruit first-rate faculty; James Crafts,
$60.00S/£44.95 cloth whose heart lay in research, not administration; Henry Pritchett’s thwarted
effort to merge with Harvard (after which he decamped to the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching); Richard Maclaurin’s successful
strategy to move the institute to Cambridge, after considering other sites
(including a golf club in Brighton); the brilliant, progressive
Ernest Nichols, who succumbed to chronic illness and barely
held office; Samuel Stratton’s push towards a global perspective;
and Karl Compton’s vision for a new kind of Institute —
a university polarized around science and technology.
Through these interlocking yet independent portraits,
Alexander reveals the inner workings of a complex and
dynamic community of innovators.
Philip N. Alexander is a Research Associate in the Program in Writing
and Humanistic Studies at MIT.

higher education/memoir/regional
MENS ET MANIA
The MIT Nobody Knows
Samuel Jay Keyser
A memoir of MIT life, from
foreword by Lawrence S. Bacow
being Noam Chomsky’s
When Jay Keyser arrived at MIT in 1977 to head the Department of Linguistics boss to negotiating with
and Philosophy, he writes, he “felt like a fish that had been introduced to water student protesters.
for the first time.” At MIT, a colleague grabbed him by the lapels to discuss dark
matter; Noam Chomsky called him “boss” (double SOB spelled backward?); and April
engaging in conflict resolution made him feel like “a marriage counselor trying 5 3/8 x 8, 264 pp.
to reconcile a union between a Jehovah’s witness and a vampire.” In Mens et $24.95T/£18.95 cloth
978-0-262-01594-3
Mania, Keyser recounts his academic and administrative adventures during a
career of more than thirty years.
Keyser describes the administrative side of his MIT life, not only as depart-
ment head but also as Associate Provost and Special Assistant to the Chancellor.
Keyser had to run a department (“budgets were like horoscopes”) and negotiate
student grievances — from the legality of showing Deep Throat in a dormitory
to the uproar caused by the arrests of students for anti-apartheid demonstrations.
Keyser also describes a visiting Japanese delegation horrified by the disrepair of
the Linguistics offices (Chomsky tells them “Our motto is: Physically shabby.
Intellectually first class.”); convincing a student not to jump off the roof of the
Green Building; and recent attempts to look at MIT through a corporate lens.
And he explains the special faculty-student bond at MIT: the
faculty sees the students as themselves thirty years earlier.
Keyser observes that MIT is hard to get into and even
harder to leave, for faculty as well as for students. Writing
about retirement, Keyser quotes the song Groucho Marx sang
in Animal Crackers as he was leaving a party — “Hello, I must
be going.” Students famously say “Tech is hell.” Keyser says,
“It’s been a helluva party.”
This entertaining and thought-provoking memoir will make
readers glad that Keyser hasn’t quite left.
Samuel Jay Keyser is Professor Emeritus in MIT’s Department of
Linguistics and Philosophy and Special Assistant to the Chancellor.
Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy from 1977
to 1998, he also held the positions of Director of the Center for
Cognitive Science and Associate Provost.

biography/linguistics/politics
ZELLIG HARRIS
From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism
Robert F. Barsky
The intersecting worlds of Zellig
Harris, Noam Chomsky’s intellectual In 1995, Robert Barsky met with Noam Chomsky to discuss his work-in-progress,
and political mentor. Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (MIT Press, 1997). Chomsky told Barsky that
he should focus his attention instead on midcentury linguist and activist Zellig
April Harris, who was, Chomsky modestly insisted, more interesting than Chomsky
6 x 9, 328 pp. himself. Intrigued, Barsky began to research Harris (1909–1992) and discovered
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth the story of a major figure in American intellectual life “sitting in a corner in the
978-0-262-01526-4 middle of the room” — part of crucial twentieth-century conversations about
language, technology, labor, politics, and Zionism. The intersecting worlds of
Harris’s intellectual and political activities were populated by such figures as
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Louis Brandeis, Albert Einstein, Franz Boas, Nathan Glazer, and Chomsky.
NOAM CHOMSKY
A Life of Dissent Barsky describes Harris’s work in language studies, and his pioneering ideas
Robert F. Barsky about discourse analysis, structural linguistics, and information representation.
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He also discusses Harris’s part in the pre-1948 Zionist movement — when
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many Jews on the Left envisioned a socialist Palestine that would be a haven
THE CHOMSKY EFFECT
A Radical Works Beyond
not only for persecuted Jews but also for disenfranchised Arabs and anyone
the Ivory Tower seeking a sanctuary against oppression — and recounts Harris’s debates on the
Robert F. Barsky subject with Brandeis, Einstein, and a large group of students involved with
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a Zionist organization called Avukah. And Barsky describes Harris’s views on
capitalism, worker-owner relations, and worker self-management, the legacy of
which can be found in some of his students’ writings, notably those of Seymour
Melman. Barsky shows how Harris, as mentor, teacher, and
colleague, powerfully influenced figures who came to dominate
the twentieth century’s political discussion — thinkers as
different as Noam Chomsky and Nathan Glazer.
Robert F. Barsky is Professor of English, French, European, and Jewish
Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Noam Chomsky:
A Life of Dissent (1997, 1998) and The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works
Beyond the Ivory Tower (2007, 2009), both published by the MIT Press.

Bookforum, Utne Reader

memoir/psychology
DREAM LIFE
An Experimental Memoir
J. Allan Hobson
A pioneer in sleep and dream
J. Allan Hobson’s scientific experimentation began in childhod, with a soot-filled science surveys his life and work
investigation into the capacity of a chimney to admit Santa Claus. (He discovered through the lens of dreaming
that even with the damper open the chimney was far too narrow.) Hobson’s and consciousness.
life as an experimentalist has continued through a pioneering career devoted

to aligning psychology and biology and to investigating the relationship of March
dreaming and consciousness. In Dream Life, Hobson conducts an experimental 6 x 9, 304 pp.
30 illus.
investigation into his life and work.
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conception (in October of 1932), birth, and babyhood, offering a theory about
“protoconsciousness” in fetuses and infants. He recounts his youthful zeal for
scientific discovery, his early sexual experimentation, and his education. He Also available
describes taking on the entrenched Freudians at Harvard Medical School in THE DREAM DRUGSTORE
the 1950s, as a maverick psychiatrist who wanted to replace psychoanalysis Chemically Altered States
of Consciousness
with biological science. He describes his further studies, his marriages and J. Allan Hobson
love affairs, his travels, and what he learned about the brain from his whiplash- 2001, 978-0-262-58220-9
induced amnesia after a 1963 automobile accident and from his “brain death” $24.00T/£17.95 paper
after a stroke in 2001. Through it all, Hobson uses his life as the ultimate case
study for his theory that REM sleep provides a test pattern that allows the brain
to develop “offline.” Dreams — most intense in REM sleep, when the brain is
active — need no Freudian-style decoding, he says. Dreaming is a glorious
mental state, to be enjoyed and studied for what it tells us about consciousness.
J. Allan Hobson is Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical
School. He is the author of The Dreaming Brain: How the Brain Creates
Both the Sense and the Nonsense of Dreams, Dreaming as Delirium: How
the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind (MIT Press, 1999), The Dream Drugstore:
Chemically Altered States of Consciousness (MIT Press, 1999, 2001),
and other books.

Bookforum, Utne Reader

philosophy
PERPLEXITIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Eric Schwitzgebel
A philosopher argues that
Do you dream in color? If you answer Yes, how can you be sure? Before you
we know little about our recount your vivid memory of a dream featuring all the colors of the rainbow,
own inner lives. consider that in the 1950s, researchers found that most people reported dream-
ing in black and white. In the 1960s — when most movies were in color and
March more people had color television sets — the vast majority of reported dreams
6 x 9, 240 pp. contained color. The most likely explanation for this, according to philosopher
6 illus.
Eric Schwitzgebel, is not that exposure to black-and-white media made people
$27.95T/£20.95 cloth misremember their dreams. It is that we simply don’t know whether or not we
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dream in color. In Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel examines various
A Bradford Book aspects of inner life — dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective
phenomena — and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious
experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing
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DESCRIBING INNER EXPERIENCE?
emotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.
Proponent Meets Skeptic Western philosophical tradition is nearly unanimous on the accuracy of our
Russell T. Hurlburt and Eric knowledge or current conscious experience. Schwitzgebel is skeptical. Drawing
Schwitzgebel
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broadly from historical and recent philosophy and psychology to examine such
$36.00S/£26.95 cloth topics as visual perspective, human echolocation (about which he is doubtful),
and the unreliability of introspection even about emotional states (do we really
enjoy Christmas? a family dinner?), he finds us singularly inept in our judgments
about conscious experience.
Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,
Riverside, is the coauthor (with Russell T. Hurlburt) of Describing Inner
Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic (MIT Press, 2007).

art
ARTISTS’ MAGAZINES
An Alternative Space for Art
Gwen Allen
How artists’ magazines, in all
Magazine publishing is an exercise in ephemerality and transience; each issue their ephemerality, materiality, and
goes out in the world only to be rendered obsolete by the next. To publish a temporary intensity, challenged
magazine is to enter into a heightened relationship with the present moment. mainstream art criticism
and the gallery system.
During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artistic
practice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerialized
practices of conceptual art. Artists created works expressly for these mass-produced, March
7 1/2 x 10, 376 pp.
hand-editioned pages, using the ephemerality and the materiality of the magazine 125 color illus.
to challenge the conventions of both artistic medium and gallery. In Artists’
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Magazines, Gwen Allen looks at the most important of these magazines in 978-0-262-01519-6
their heyday (the 1960s to the 1980s) and compiles a comprehensive, illustrated
directory of hundreds of others. MAGAZINES EXAMINED
Among the magazines Allen examines are Aspen (1965–1971), a multimedia Aspen, 1965–1971
magazine in a box — issues included Super-8 films, flexi-disc records, critical 0 to 9, 1967–1969
writings, artists’ postage stamps, and collectible chapbooks; 0 to 9 (1967–1969), Avalanche, 1970–1976
a mimeographed poetry magazine founded by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Art-Rite, 1973–1978
Meyer; FILE (1972–1989), founded by the Canadian collective General Idea, FILE, 1972–1989
its cover design a sly parody of Life magazine; and Interfunktionen (1968–1975), Real Life, 1979–1994
founded to protest the conservative curatorial strategies of Documenta. These Interfunktionen, 1968–1975
and the other magazines Allen examines expressed their differences from main-
stream media in both form and content: they cast their homemade, DIY quality
against the slickness of an Artforum, and they created work that defied the
formalist orthodoxy of the day. (A work by John Baldessari from the late
1960s shows a photograph of Artforum, captioned “THIS IS
NOT TO BE LOOKED AT.”) Artists’ Magazines, featuring
abundant color illustrations of magazine covers and content,
offers an essential guide to a little-explored medium.
Gwen Allen is Assistant Professor of Art History at San Francisco State
University. Her writings have appeared in such publications as Artforum,
Art Journal, and Umbrella.

art
TOTAL MODERNITY AND THE AVANT-GARDE

IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINESE ART
Gao Minglu
A groundbreaking book that
describes a distinctively Chinese To the extent that Chinese contemporary art has become a global phenomenon,
avant-gardism and a modernity it is largely through the groundbreaking exhibitions curated by Minglu Gao:
that unifies art, politics, and
“China/Avant-Garde” (Beijing, 1989), “Inside Out: New Chinese Art” (Asia
social life.
Society, New York, 1998), and “The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese
Art” (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2005) among them. As the first Chinese
April
writer to articulate a distinctively Chinese avant-gardism and modernity —
8 1/2 x 11, 408 pp.
150 color illus., one not defined by Western chronology or formalism — Gao Minglu is largely
173 black & white illus. responsible for the visibility of Chinese art in the global art scene today.
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth Contemporary Chinese artists tend to navigate between extremes, either
978-0-262-01494-6 embracing or rejecting a rich classical tradition. Indeed, for Chinese artists, the
term “modernity” refers not to a new epoch or aesthetic but to a new nation —
modernity inextricably connects politics to art. It is this notion of “total moder-
nity” that forms the foundation of the Chinese avant-garde aesthetic, and of
this book.
Gao examines the many ways Chinese artists engaged with this intrinsic
total modernity, including the ’85 Movement, Political Pop, Cynical Realism,
Apartment Art, Maximalism, and “The Museum Age,” encompassing the
emergence of local art museums and organizations as well as such major events
as the Shanghai Biennial. He describes the inner logic of the Chinese context
while locating the art within the framework of a worldwide avant-garde. He
vividly describes the Chinese avant-garde’s embrace of a modernity as one
that unifies politics, aesthetics, and social life, blurring the
boundaries between abstraction, conception, and representation.
Lavishly illustrated with color images throughout, this
book will be a touchstone for all considerations of Chinese
contemporary art.
Gao Minglu, a leading authority on Chinese art, teaches at the
University of Pittsburgh. After leaving China in 1991, he became a
leading researcher, writer, and authority on twentieth-century East
Asian art.

art
CONTEMPORARY ART IN ASIA

A Critical Reader
edited by Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio
This foundational anthology maps
In 2008, Asian artists stormed the citadel of the New York art world when the emergence of a dynamic
two major museums presented retrospectives of Asian contemporary artists: new global phenomenon:
Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Museum and Takashi Murakami at the contemporary Asian art.
Brooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, a painting by Zeng Fanzhi sold

for $9.5 million, setting a new world auction record for Chinese contemporary March
art. The Western art world is still coming to grips with the fact: it is all about 7 x 9, 448 pp.
16 color illus.,
Asia now. This book is the first anthology of critical writings to map the shift 38 black & white illus.
in both the nature and the reception of Asian art over the past twenty years. $29.95T/£22.95 paper
Offering texts by leading figures in the field (mostly Asian), and including more 978-0-262-51623-5
than fifty illustrations in color and black and white, it covers developments in
East Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), South Asia (including India and
Pakistan), and Southeast Asia (including Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand).
Together, the twenty-three texts posit a historical and pan-Asian response to
the question, “What is Asian contemporary art?” Considering such topics as
Asian modernism (“productive mistranslation” of the European original), Asian
cubism, and the curating, collecting, and criticism of Asian contemporary art,
this book promises to be a foundational reference for many years to come.
Melissa Chiu is Museum Director and Vice President of Global Art
Programs at the Asia Society in New York. Benjamin Genocchio is a
former art critic for the New York Times and is currently Editor-in-Chief
of Art + Auction and Modern Painters magazine.

architecture/design/technology
SENTIENT CITY
Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture,
and the Future of Urban Space
Alternative ideas for a “smart” city, edited by Mark Shepard
from a park bench that enforces
time limits by ejecting the sitter Our cities are “smart” and getting smarter as information processing capability
to “electronically assisted” plants is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us
that encourage conservation.
object to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of city
traffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favorite
March espresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk past a Starbucks.
6 3/4 x 9 1/2, 200 pp.
80 color illus.
Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that can remember,
20 black & white illus. correlate, and anticipate. Five teams of architects, artists, and technologists
$24.95T/£18.95 paper imagine a variety of future interactions that take place as computing leaves the
978-0-262-51586-3 desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the city.
Copublished with the Architectural “Too Smart City” employs city furniture as enforcers: a bench ejects a sitter
League of New York who sits too long, a sign displays the latest legal codes and warns passersby
against transgression, and a trashcan throws back the wrong kind of trash.
ESSAYS BY “Amphibious Architecture” uses underwater sensors and lights to create a
Keller Easterling, Matthew Fuller, human-fish-environment feedback loop; “Natural Fuse” uses a network of
Anne Galloway, Dan Hill, Omar Khan,
Saskia Sassen, Trebor Scholz, “electronically assisted” plants to encourage energy conservation; “Trash Track”
Hadas Steiner, Kazys Varnelis, follows smart-tagged garbage on its journey through the city’s waste-management
Martijn de Waal, Mimi Zeiger system; and “Breakout” uses wireless technology and portable infrastructure to
make the entire city a collaborative workplace.
These projects are described, documented, and illustrated by 100 images,
most in color. Essays by prominent thinkers put the idea of the sentient city in
theoretical context.
Mark Shepard is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Media Study at
the University at Buffalo, University of New York, and an editor of the
Situated Technologies pamphlet series, published by the Architecture
League of New York.

architecture
THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ABSOLUTE ARCHITECTURE

Pier Vittorio Aureli
In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that Architectural form reconsidered
a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, in light of a unitary conception
cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute not of architecture and the city.
in the conventional sense of “pure,” but to denote something that is resolutely
itself after being separated from its other. In the pursuit of the possibility of an March
absolute architecture, the other is the space of the city, its extensive organization, 5 3/8 x 8, 232 pp.
58 illus.
and its government. Politics is agonism through separation and confrontation;
the very condition of architectural form is to separate and be separated. Through $24.95T/£18.95 paper
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its act of separation and being separated, architecture reveals at once the essence
of the city and the essence of itself as political form: the city as the composition Writing Architecture series
of (separate) parts.
Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced
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through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at ARCHITECTURE’S DESIRE
large: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, and Reading the Late Avant-Garde
Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressed K. Michael Hays
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elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms. Their projects for the
DRAWING FOR
city do not take the form of an overall plan but are expressed as an “archipelago” ARCHITECTURE
of site-specific interventions. Léon Krier
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Pier Vittorio Aureli, an architect and educator, teaches at the Berlage Institute in $24.95T/£18.95 paper
Rotterdam and the Technical University of Delft. He is the author of The Project of
Autonomy and other books.

architecture/technology
THE ALPHABET AND THE ALGORITHM

Mario Carpo
The rise and fall of identical
Digital technologies have changed architecture — the way it is taught, practiced,
copies: digital technologies managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a “paradigm shift” for
and form-making from architecture, which paradigm is shifting? In The Alphabet and the Algorithm,
mass customization to Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical
mass collaboration.
copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to the shaping of
architectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti’s invention
March of architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of
5 3/8 x 8, 184 pp.
13 illus. the architect’s design; and, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the mass
production of identical copies from mechanical master models, matrixes, imprints,
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978-0-262-51580-1 or molds.
The modern power of the identical, Carpo argues, came to an end with the
Writing Architecture series
rise of digital technologies. Everything digital is variable. In architecture, this
means the end of notational limitations, of mechanical standardization, and of
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ARCHITECTURE IN THE the paradigm of identicality, Carpo compares new forms of postindustrial digital
AGE OF PRINTING craftsmanship to hand-making and the cultures and technologies of variations
Orality, Writing, Typography,
and Printed Images in the that existed before the coming of machine-made, identical copies. Carpo
History of Architectural Theory reviews the unfolding of digitally based design and construction from the early
Mario Carpo 1990s to the present, and suggests a new agenda for architecture in an age of
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Mario Carpo is Associate Professor of Architectural History in the
École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Paris, Professor at the
Georgia Institute of Technology, and Vincent Scully Visiting Professor
in Architectural History at Yale University’s School of Architecture.
He is the author of Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing,
Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory
(MIT Press, 2001) and other books.

film/art
THE FILMING OF MODERN LIFE

European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s
Malcolm Turvey
The complex stance toward
In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting modernity taken by 1920s
with the medium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand avant-garde cinema,
Léger as well as filmmakers belonging to such avant-garde movements as Dada as exemplified by
five major films.
and surrealism made some of the most enduring and fascinating films in the
history of cinema. In The Filming of Modern Life, Malcolm Turvey examines
five films from the avant-garde canon and the complex, sometimes contradictory, March
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attitudes toward modernity they express: Rhythm 21 (Hans Richter, 1921), 88 illus.
Ballet mécanique (Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, 1924), Entr’acte
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(Francis Picabia and René Clair, 1924), Un chien andalou (Salvador Dalí and 978-0-262-01518-9
Luis Buñuel, 1929), and Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929). An October Book
All exemplify major trends within European avant-garde cinema of the time,
from abstract animation to “cinema pur.”
Turvey argues that these films share a concern with modernization and the
rapid, dislocating changes it was bringing about. He critically addresses major
theories of the avant-garde and its relation to modern life, including the claim
that film is “distracting” in the same way as a modern environment, and he
challenges the standard view of the avant-garde as implacably opposed to
bourgeois modernity. In fact, he writes, not only was there
considerable disagreement among avant-garde movements
about what aspects of modern life needed transformation,
but the positions of individual avant-garde artists toward
modernization were complex, even contradictory. All five
films that Turvey analyzes embrace and resist, in their own
ways, different aspects of modernity.
Although much has been written about each of these films,
The Filming of Modern Life is the first book to examine them
together, illuminating their shared concern with modernization
and its consequences.
Malcolm Turvey is Professor of Film History at Sarah Lawrence College
and an editor of October. He is the author of Doubting Vision: Film
and the Revelationist Tradition.

art
DAN GRAHAM
edited by Alex Kitnick
A collection of essays on a key
Since the 1960s, Dan Graham’s heterogeneous practice has touched on such
figure in postminimalist art, with disparate subjects as tract housing, the Shakers, punk music, and architectural
texts spanning thirty years. theory; he has made videos, architectural models, closed-circuit installations, and
glass pavilions. Graham, who came of age during the emergence of earth art,
March minimalism, and conceptualism, has situated his work on the borders between
6 x 9, 232 pp. these different strains of contemporary practice. Although varying widely in
28 illus.
subject and medium, Graham’s artwork and writings display a consistent interest
$19.95T/£14.95 paper in spectatorship, public-private relationships, and the constructed environment.
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Graham’s extensive writings on his own work (collected in Rock My Religion
$35.00S/£26.95 cloth and Two-Way Mirror Power, both published by the MIT Press) have made him,
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by default, the primary interpreter of his own art. This October Files volume
October Files series provides a counterweight, gathering
key texts by critics and theorists
that offer alternative accounts of
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TWO-WAY MIRROR POWER The essays span thirty years
Selected Writings by
Dan Graham on His Art and include hard-to-find texts
Dan Graham from exhibition catalogs and
edited by Alexander Alberro journals. The authors include such
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$25.00T/£18.95 paper distinguished theorists, critics, and
artists as Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
DAN GRAHAM
Beyond Beatriz Colomina, Thierry de Duve,
edited by Bennett Simpson and Jeff Wall.
and Chrissie Iles
2009, 978-1-933-75112-2 Alex Kitnick, a PhD candidate in the
$44.95T/£28.95 paper Department of Art and Architecture at
Princeton University, has taught at the
School of Visual Arts and Vassar College.
CONTENTS
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Moments of History in the Work of Dan Graham (1978)
Alexander Alberro Reductivism in Reverse (1994)
Birgit Pelzer Vision in Process (1979)
Thierry de Duve Dan Graham and the Critique of Artistic Autonomy (1983)
William Kaizen Steps to an Ecology of Communication (2008)
Jeff Wall Excerpt from “Dan Graham’s Kammerspiel” (1985)
John Miller Now Even the Pigs’re Groovin’ (2001)
Beatriz Colomina Double Exposure: Alteration to a Suburban House (2001)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Excerpt from “Documenta 7: A Dictionary of Received Ideas” (1982)
Alexander Alberro Specters of Utopia (1996)
Alex Kitnick What’s Your Type? (2009)

art/music
SOUND
edited by Caleb Kelly
The “sonic turn” in recent art reflects a wider cultural awareness that sight no A definitive guide to the rising
longer dominates our perception or understanding of contemporary reality. status of sound in art, through
The background buzz of myriad mechanically reproduced sounds increasingly original critical writings and
mediates our lives. Tuning into this incessant auditory stimulus, some of our artists’ statements.
most influential artists have investigated the corporeal, cultural, and political
resonance of sound. March
In tandem with recent experimental music and technology, art has opened 5 3/4 x 8 1/4, 240 pp.
up to hitherto excluded dimensions of noise, silence, and the act of listening. $24.95T paper
978-0-262-51568-9
Artists working with sound have engaged in new forms of aesthetic encounter
with the city and nature, the everyday and cultural otherness, technological Documents of Contemporary Art series
effects and psychological states. Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery,
New perspectives on sound have generated a wave of scholarship in musicol- London
ogy, cultural studies, and the social sciences. But the equally important rise of Not for sale in the
sound in the arts since 1960 has so far been sparsely documented. This volume United Kingdom or Europe
is the first sourcebook to provide, through original critical writings and artists’
statements, a genealogy of sonic pathways into the arts, philosophical reflections
on the meanings of noise and silence, dialogues between art and music, investi- THE SUBLIME
gations of the role of listening and acoustic space, and a comprehensive survey edited by Simon Morley
of sound works by international artists from the avant-garde era to the present. 2010, 978-0-262-51391-3
$24.95T paper
Caleb Kelly is a New Zealand-born writer, curator, and producer in the fields of experimen-
tal music, sound arts, and performance. A lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, University CHANCE
of Sydney, he is the author of Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction (MIT Press, 2009). edited by Margaret Iversen
2010, 978-0-262-51392-0
$24.95T paper
ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE

Marina Abramović, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Maryanne
Amacher, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Kim Cascone, Michel Chion,
Martin Creed, Paul DeMarinis, Bill Fontana, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham,
Ryoji Ikeda, Mike Kelley, Christina Kubisch, Mark Leckey,
Bernhard Leitner, Alvin Lucier, Len Lye, Christian Marclay, Max Neuhaus,
Carsten Nicolai, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Luigi Russolo,
Karin Sander, Mieko Shiomi, Michael Snow, Yasunao Tone, Bill Viola
WRITERS INCLUDE
Jacques Attali, Ralph T. Coe, Christoph Cox, Suzanne Delehanty,
William Furlong, Liam Gillick, Paul Hegarty, Branden W. Joseph,
Douglas Kahn, Dan Lander, Micah Lexier, W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Nyman,
Pierre Schaeffer, R. Murray Schafer, Michel Serres, David Toop, Paul Virilio

art
PAINTING
edited by Terry R. Myers
Essential writings that consider
The “death of painting” and its subsequent resurrection in transformed conditions
the diverse meanings of is a leitmotif of the modern era. Painting’s postconceptual resurgence at the start
contemporary painting since of the 1980s began a dramatic expansion of its field. If painting remains important
its postconceptual revival. today, it is because its contradictions have been acknowledged as artists have
radically diversified the components of its production and presentation.
March This first anthology to focus on painting’s multiple discourses over the
5 3/4 x 8 1/4, 240 pp. last three decades brings together key statements, dialogues, and debates that
$24.95T paper have moved the conversation beyond the modern/postmodern dialectic while
978-0-262-51567-2
redefining the conditions necessary for an artwork to be described as “painting.”
Documents of Contemporary Art series The diversity of contemporary painting’s meanings and practices encompasses
Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery, the randomness and eclecticism associated with Web-based creation. Although
London for many the presence of paint endures, others have argued for painting to be
Not for sale in the United Kingdom classed not as a material but as a philosophical category.
or Europe Compiled by a leading critic of painting who actively participated in these
conversations while also teaching young artists in the studio classroom, this
collection ranges widely, to reflect the diversity of ways in which painting
FAILURE
continues to be investigated and evaluated in studios, exhibition spaces, and the
edited by Lisa Le Feuvre marketplace of ideas. These writings, statements, and interviews reflect ongoing
2010, 978-0-262-51477-4 debates and reignite questions for an as yet unimagined future of painting.
$24.95T paper
Terry R. Myers is a Chicago- and Los Angeles-based writer, educator, and independent
curator. A regular contributor since 1988 to numerous international journals, including Art
Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, and Modern Painters, he is the author of Mary Heilmann:
Save the Last Dance for Me (Afterall Books, 2007). He is Associate Professor of Painting
and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE

Kai Althoff, Art & Language, Glenn Brown, Pavel Büchler, Vija Celmins,
John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Olafur Eliasson, Bernard Frize,
Katharina Grosse, Andreas Gursky, Peter Halley, Mary Heilmann, Gary Hume,
Jutta Koether, Sherrie Levine, Paul McCarthy, Suzanne McClelland,
Beatriz Milhazes, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Laura Owens,
Lari Pittman, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Kay Rosen, Robert Ryman,
David Salle, Chéri Samba, Jim Shaw, Jessica Stockholder, Philip Taaffe,
Luc Tuymans, Lee Ufan, Jeff Wall, Christopher Wool, Lisa Yuskavage
WRITERS INCLUDE
Svetlana Alpers, Daniel Birnbaum, Norman Bryson, Douglas Crimp,
Gilles Deleuze, Sebastian Egenhofer, Hal Foster, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe,
Isabelle Graw, David Joselit, Shirley Kaneda, Geeta Kapur, Thomas Lawson,
Jonathan Lethem, Midori Matsui, Lane Relyea, Rene Ricard, Jerry Saltz,
Mira Schor, Barry Schwabsky, Adrian Searle

art/technology
A LITTLE-KNOWN STORY ABOUT A MOVEMENT, A

MAGAZINE, AND THE COMPUTER’S ARRIVAL IN ART
New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961–1973
When Zagreb was the epicenter
edited by Margit Rosen of explorations into the
in collaboration with Peter Weibel, Darko Fritz, and Marija Gattin aesthetic potential of the
new “thinking machines.”
This book documents a short but intense artistic experiment that took place in
Yugoslavia fifty years ago but has been influential far beyond that time and place:
the “little-known story” of the advent of computers in art. It was through the March
9 x 10 1/2, 560 pp.
activities of the New Tendencies movement, begun in Zagreb in 1961, and its
310 color illus.,
supporting institution the Galerija suvremene umjetnosti that the “thinking 350 illus.
machine” was adopted as an artistic tool and medium. Pursuing the idea of “art $49.95T/£36.95 paper
as visual research,” the New Tendencies movement proceeded along a path that 978-0-262-51581-8
led from Concrete and Constructivist art, Op art, and Kinetic art to computer- Copublished with ZKM | Center for
generated graphics, film, and sculpture. Art and Media Technology
With their exhibitions and conferences and the 1968 launch of the multilin-
gual, groundbreaking magazine Bit International, the New Tendencies trans-
formed Zagreb — already one of the most vibrant artistic centers in Yugoslavia
— into an international meeting place where artists, engineers, and scientists
from both sides of the Iron Curtain gathered around the then-new technology.
For a brief moment in time, Zagreb was the epicenter of explorations of the
aesthetic, scientific, and political potential of the computer.
This volume documents that exhilarating period. It includes new essays by
Jerko Denegri, Darko Fritz, Margit Rosen, and Peter Weibel; many texts that
were first published in New Tendencies exhibition catalogs and Bit International
magazine; and historic documents. More than 650 black-and-white and color
illustrations testify to the astonishing diversity of the exhibited
artworks and introduce the movement’s protagonists. Many
of the historic photographs, translations, and documents are
published here for the first time. Taken together, the images
and texts offer the long overdue history of the New Tendencies
experiment and its impact on the art of the twentieth century.
Margit Rosen is a Researcher and Curator for ZKM | Center for Art and
Media Technology.

AFTERALL BOOKS
art/photography
JEFF WALL
Picture for Women
David Campany
Examining a work that marked
the emergence of photography Jeff Wall’s Picture for Women (1979) marks the transition of photography as an
as an art made for the gallery art form from the printed page to the gallery wall. Before this, photographs —
wall instead of the printed page. from the orthodox photographic work of Walker Evans to the Conceptual
photography of Dan Graham — seemed intended for the page even when hung
March in a gallery. In Picture for Women, a woman looks outward, as if at the viewer; a
6 x 8 1/2, 120 pp. camera occupies the center of the photograph; the photographer stands on the
30 color illus.
right. Modeled on Manet’s famous painting Un bar aux Folies-Bergère, in which
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
978-1-84638-071-6
a barmaid seems to look directly out of the painting, observed by a man on the
right, Picture for Women establishes its own art historical genealogy, claiming its
$35.00S/£19.95 cloth
978-1-84638-070-9
rightful position within the canon. Wall’s photograph is an ambitious attempt
to relate the artistic and spectatorial demands of the late 1970s to a modernist
One Work series
pictorial art that had been too hastily rejected by Conceptualism.
Distributed for Afterall Books In this illustrated study, David Campany offers an account of Wall’s move
from a Conceptual approach to a reengagement with the idea of a singular
(as opposed to serial) picture. He shows that Wall’s decision to present his
Also available in this series:
MARCEL DUCHAMP work as a large-scale back-lit transparency, together with his commitment to
Étant donnés a singular image, amounted to a radical departure. He contrasts Wall’s idea of
Julian Jason Haladyn the photograph as a tableau or “picture,” inherited from the history of painting,
2010, 978-1-84638-059-4
$16.00T/£9.95 paper with the works of the “Pictures Generation” — including Richard Prince,
Cindy Sherman, and Jack Goldstein — and argues that Picture for Women
RICHARD LONG
A Line Made by Walking is inseparable from the modern fate of the picture in general.
Dieter Roelstraete David Campany is a writer, curator, editor,
2010, 978-1-84638-058-7 and Reader in Photography at the University
$16.00T/£9.95 paper of Westminster, London. His books include
MICHAEL SNOW Art and Photography, The Cinematic
Wavelength (MIT Press, copublished with Whitechapel
Gallery, 2007), Photography and Cinema,
Elizabeth Legge
and Jeff Wall Speaks with David Campany.
2009, 978-1-84638-056-3
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
SARAH LUCAS
Au Naturel
Amna Malik
2009, 978-1-84638-054-9
$16.00T/£9.95 paper

AFTERALL BOOKS
art/architecture
GORDON MATTA-CLARK
Conical Intersect
Bruce Jenkins
A landmark work by Gordon
Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (1975) was a torqued, spiraling “cut” Matta-Clark, examined as an
into two derelict seventeenth-century Paris buildings adjacent to the construction “act of communication” about
site of the controversial Centre Pompidou. With this landmark work of “anarchi- sustainability and the
public role of art.
tecture,” Matta-Clark not only opened up these venerable residences to light
and air, he also began a dialogue about the nature of urban development and
the public role of art. Considered three and a half decades later, Conical Intersect March
6 x 8 1/2, 120 pp.
reveals the multivalent nature of the artist’s practice and his prescient focus on 30 illus. in color and black & white
sustainability and creative reuse of the built environment.
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Conical Intersect and the two buildings were demolished as part of a large-scale 978-1-84638-073-0
urban renovation of the historic market district of Les Halles; today we can know $35.00S/£19.95 cloth
the work only from drawings, photographs, and a short Super 8 film. In this 978-1-84638-072-3
illustrated study, Bruce Jenkins examines Matta-Clark’s “non-u-ment,” looking One Work series
closely at the artist’s proposals, working process, various forms of documentation,
Distributed for Afterall Books
and the dialogue begun by Matta-Clark’s decision to transform two abandoned
buildings “into an act of communication.”
Bruce Jenkins is Professor of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute Also available in this series:
of Chicago. He is the editor of On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of CHRIS MARKER
Hollis Frampton (MIT Press, 2009). La Jetée
Janet Harbord
2009, 978-1-84638-048-8
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
GENERAL IDEA
Imagevirus
Gregg Bordowitz
2009, 978-1-84638-065-5
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
DARA BIRNBAUM
Technology/Transformation:
Wonder Woman
T. J. Demos
2009, 978-1-84638-067-9
$16.00T/£9.95 paper

ZONE BOOKS
European history/religion
CHRISTIAN MATERIALITY
An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
Caroline Walker Bynum
Late Medieval Christianity’s
encounter with miraculous materials In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in
viewed in the context of changing western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects — among
conceptions of matter itself. them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic
wafers — allegedly erupted into life by such activities as bleeding, weeping,
June and walking about. Challenging Christians both to seek ever more frequent
6 x 9, 432 pp. encounters with miraculous matter and to turn to an inward piety that rejected
50 illus.
material objects of devotion, such phenomena were by the fifteenth century at
$32.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-1-935408-10-9
the heart of religious practice and polemic. In Christian Materiality, Caroline
Walker Bynum describes the miracles themselves, discusses the problems they
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presented for both church authorities and the ordinary faithful, and probes the
basic scientific and religious assumptions about matter that lay behind them.
Also available from Zone Books She also analyzes the proliferation of religious art in the later Middle Ages
FRAGMENTATION AND REDEMPTION and argues that it called attention to its materiality in sophisticated ways that
Essays on Gender and the explain both the animation of images and the hostility to them on the part of
Human Body in Medieval Religion
iconoclasts.
Caroline Walker Bynum
1992, 978-0-942299-62-5 Seeing the Christian culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as a
$26.95T/£19.95 paper paradoxical affirmation of the glory and the threat of the natural world, Bynum’s
METAMORPHOSIS AND IDENTITY study suggests a new understanding of the background to the sixteenth-century
Caroline Walker Bynum reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. Moving beyond cultural study of
2005, 978-1-890951-23-8
$19.95T/£14.95 paper
“the body” — a field she helped to establish — Bynum argues that Western
attitudes toward body and person must be placed in the context of changing
conceptions of matter itself. Her study has broad theoretical implications, sug-
gesting a new approach to the study of material culture and religious practice.
Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of Medieval European History, Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and University Professor emerita
at Columbia University. She is the author of Fragmentation and Redemption:
Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (Zone Books,
1990, 1992) and Metamorphosis and Identity (Zone Books, 2001, 2005).
Master Bertram, Separation of Light from Darkness and Fall of the Rebel Angels,
from the Grabow Altarpiece at St. PetriChurch, Hamburg, 1379–1383
(Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY).

ZONE BOOKS
music/opera
OPERATIC AFTERLIVES
Michal Grover-Friedlander
In Operatic Afterlives, Michal Grover-Friedlander examines the implications of An examination of the ultimate
opera’s founding myth — the story of Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus’s attempt power opera grants to singing:
to revive the dead Eurydice with the power of singing. Grover-Friedlander the reversal of death.
examines instances in which opera portrays an existence beyond death, a revival
of the dead, or a simultaneous presence of life and death. These portrayals — in February
operas by Puccini and other composers and performances by Maria Callas — 6 x 9, 272 pp.
25 musical examples, 8 illus.
are made possible, she argues, by the unique treatment of voice in the operas in
question: the occurrence of a breach in which singing itself takes on an afterlife $29.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-1-935408-06-2
in the face of the singer’s death. This may arise from the multiplication of singing
voices inhabiting the same body, from disembodied singing, from the merging Distributed for Zone Books
of singing voices, from the disconnection of voice and character. The instances
developed in the book take on added significance as they describe a reconfigura-
tion of operatic singing itself.
Singing reigns over text, musical language, and dramatic characterization.
The notion of the afterlife of singing reveals the singularity of the voice in
opera, and how much it differs categorically from any other elaboration of the
voice. Grover-Friedlander’s examples reflect on the meanings of the operatic
voice as well as on our sense of its resonating, unending, and haunting presence.
Traditionally, opera kills its protagonists, but Grover-Friedlander argues
that opera at times also represents the ways that the voice, singing, or song
acquire their own forms of aliveness and indestructibility. Operatic Afterlives
shows the ultimate power that opera grants to singing: the reversal of death.
Michal Grover-Friedlander is Professor of Musicology
at Tel Aviv University and the author of Vocal
Apparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera.
The Yes Sayer by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, produced by the
Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, 2010,
directed by Michal Grover-Friedlander (photo: Michal Shani).

current affairs/Jewish studies
THE WORDS AND THE LAND

Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth
Shlomo Sand
How the work of Israeli writers
translated by Ames Hodges
today reflects the foundation
myths of a Jewish state. The idea of the Jewish nation was conceived before the organization of the
Zionist movement in the nineteenth century and continued long after the creation
March of the state of Israel. In The Words and the Land, post-Zionist Israeli historian
6 x 9, 264 pp. Shlomo Sand examines how both Jewish and Israeli intellectuals contributed to
$16.95T/£12.95 paper this process. One by one, he identifies and calls into question the foundation
978-1-58435-096-5 myths of the Israeli state, beginning with the myth of a people forcibly uprooted,
Active Agents series a people-race that began to wander the world in search of a land of asylum. This
Distributed for Semiotext(e) was a people that would define itself on a biological and “mythological-religious”
basis, embodied in words that today feed Israeli political, literary, and historical
writing: “exile,” “return,” and “ascent” (Alyah) to the land of its origins.
Also available from Semiotext(e) Since 1948, most intellectuals in Israel have continued to accept this ethno-
REPORTING FROM RAMALLAH national image and embrace an exclusive state identity to which only Jewish
An Israeli Journalist in
an Occupied Land
people can belong. The first challenges to this dominant idea didn’t appear in
Amira Hass Israel until the 1980s, in the innovative work of the post-Zionist historians, who
edited and translated by were bent on dismantling the nationalist historical myth and arguing for a state
Rachel Leah Jones
2003, 978-1-58435-019-4
that would belong equally to all its citizens. Analyzing how Israeli intellectuals
$14.95T/£11.95 paper positioned themselves during the Gulf War and in the new era of communica-
tion technologies, Sand extends his analysis globally, looking at the status of
intellectuals in all societies.
Shlomo Sand teaches contemporary history at Tel-Aviv University.
He is the author of The Invention of the Jewish People, On the
Nation and the Jewish People, and other books.

architecture/cultural studies
UTOPIE
Texts and Projects, 1967–1978
edited by Craig Buckley and Jean-Louis Violeau
Key writings and projects
translated by Jean-Marie Clarke
from the group of architects,
preface by Sylvère Lotringer sociologists, and urbanists
known as Utopie.
“When the imagination reaches and oversteps the boundaries authorized by the
institution of culture, we speak of poetry, of utopia . . . . When the event reaches and
oversteps the boundaries authorized by judicial law and by the anomic rules, we speak April
7 x 9, 264 pp.
of revolution.” 250 illus.
— René Lourau
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978-1-58435-095-8
The short-lived grouping of architects, sociologists, and urbanists known as
Foreign Agents series
Utopie, active in Paris from 1967 to 1978, was the product of several factors:
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the student protests for the reform of architectural education, the unprecedented
expansion and replanning of the Parisian urban fabric carried out by the govern-
ment of Charles de Gaulle, and the domestication of military and industrial Also available from Semiotext(e)
technologies by an emerging consumer society. The group’s collaborative publica- UTOPIA DEFERRED
tions included the work of Jean Aubert, Isabelle Auricoste, Jean Baudrillard, Writings from Utopie
Catherine Cot, Charles Goldblum, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Henri Lefebvre, René (1967–1978)
Jean Baudrillard
Lourau, Antoine Stinco, and Hubert Tonka. Offering a militant alternative to translated by Stuart Kendall
professional urban planning journals, these writers not only formulated a critique 2006, 978-1-58435-033-0
of the technocratic and administrative rule over a disabled and alienated urban $17.95T/£13.95 paper
society but also projected an ephemeral urban poetics.

With ties to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in
central Paris and to the sociology department established by Henri Lefebvre at
the suburban campus of Nanterre, the group challenged postwar modernization
and urban planning and questioned the roles into which architects, sociologists,
and urban planners had been cast. Utopie makes the group’s
diverse body of theoretical work accessible in English for the
first time, offering translations of more than twenty key texts.
Designed in a facsimile format that follows the innovative
graphic layouts of the journals, pamphlets, posters, and articles
produced by Utopie, the volume not only provides the first
thorough overview of the group’s activities but also seeks to
capture Utopie’s linkage of architectural and urban theory
to radical publication strategies.
Craig Buckley teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where he is also the Director
of Print Publications. His writing and criticism have appeared in Grey
Room, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and other
publications. Jean-Louis Violeau is a sociologist and researcher at the
Architecture-Culture-Société laboratory of the Ecole d’architecture
de Paris-Malaquais in Paris.

art/cultural studies
WHERE ART BELONGS

Chris Kraus
A prize-winning art critic argues
In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade
that the art world is the last that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In
frontier for the desire to four interlinked essays, Kraus expands the argument begun in her earlier book
live differently. Video Green that “the art world is interesting only insofar as it reflects the larger
world outside it.” Moving from New York to Berlin to Los Angeles to the
March Pueblo Nuevo barrio of Mexicali, Kraus addresses such subjects as the ubiquity
4 1/2 x 7, 160 pp. of video, the legacy of the 1960s Amsterdam underground newspaper Suck,
$12.95T/£9.95 paper and the activities of the New York art collective Bernadette Corporation. She
978-1-58435-098-9
examines the uses of boredom, poetry, privatized prisons, community art,
Intervention Series corporate philanthropy, vertically integrated manufacturing, and discarded
Distributed for Semiotext(e) utopias, revealing the surprising persistence of microcultures within the matrix.
Chronicling the sometimes doomed but persistently heroic efforts of small
groups of artists to reclaim public space and time, Where Art Belongs describes
Also available from Semiotext(e) the trend towards collectivity manifested in the visual art world during the past
ALIENS AND ANOREXIA
Chris Kraus
decade, and the small forms of resistance to digital disembodiment and the
2000, 978-1-58435-001-9 hegemony of the entertainment/media/culture industry. For all its faults, Kraus
$12.95T/£9.95 paper argues, the art world remains the last frontier for the desire to live differently.
VIDEO GREEN Chris Kraus is the author of Video
Los Angeles Art and the Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph
Triumph of Nothingness of Nothingness (2004) and the novels
Chris Kraus Aliens and Anorexia (2000), I Love Dick
2004, 978-1-58435-022-4 (new edition, 2006), and Torpor (2006),
$14.95T/£11.95 paper all published by Semiotext(e). The 2007
recipient of the Frank Mather Award in Art
I LOVE DICK Criticism and a 2010 Warhol Foundation
Chris Kraus Arts Writer’s grant, she has taught art
2006, 978-1-58435-034-7 writing in graduate programs at University
$14.95T/£11.95 paper of California, Irvine, European Graduate
School, Art Center College, and Columbia
TORPOR
College Chicago.
Chris Kraus
2006, 978-1-58435-027-9
$14.95T/£11.95 paper

political science/cultural studies
THIS IS NOT A PROGRAM

Tiqqun
translated by Joshua David Jordan
An urgent critique of the
Historical conflict no longer opposes two massive molar heaps, two classes — the biopolitical subject and
omnipresent Empire.
exploited and the exploiters, the dominant and dominated, managers and workers —
between which, in each individual case, it would be possible to differentiate. The
front line no longer cuts through the middle of society; it now runs through each one March
4 1/2 x 7, 200 pp.
of us . . .
— from This Is Not a Program $13.95T/£10.95 paper
978-1-58435-097-2
Traditional lines of revolutionary struggle no longer hold. Rather, it is ubiquitous Intervention Series
cybernetics, surveillance, and terror that create the illusion of difference within Distributed for Semiotext(e)
hegemony. Configurations of dissent and the rhetoric of revolution are merely
the other face of capital, conforming identities to empty predicates, ensuring that
even “thieves,” “saboteurs,” and “terrorists” no longer exceed the totalizing space Also available from Semiotext(e)
THE COMING INSURRECTION
of Empire. This Is Not a Program offers two texts, both originally published in
The Invisible Committee
French by Tiqqun with Introduction to Civil War in 2001. In “This Is Not a 2009, 978-1-58435-080-4
Program,” Tiqqun outlines a new path for resistance and struggle in the age of $12.95T/£9.95 paper
Empire, one that eschews the worn-out example of France’s May ’68 in favor INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL WAR
of what they consider to be the still fruitful and contemporary insurrectionary Tiqqun
2010, 978-1-58435-086-6
movements in Italy of the 1970s. “As a Science of Apparatuses” examines the $12.95T/£9.95 paper
way Empire has enforced on the subject a veritable metaphysics of isolation
and pacification, “apparatuses” that include chairs, desks, computers; surveillance
(security guards, cameras); disease (depression); crutch (cell phone, lover, sedative);
and authority.
Tiqqun’s critique of the biopolitical subject and omnipresent
Empire is all the more urgent as we become inured to the per-
manent state of exception that is the War on Terror and to other,
no less intimate forms of pacification. But all is not lost. In its
unrelenting production of the Same, Empire itself creates the
conditions necessary for the insurrection to come.
Tiqqun is a French collective of authors and activists formed in 1999.
The group published two volumes of an eponymous journal in 1999
and 2001 (in which the collective author “The Invisible Committee”
first appeared). Tiqqun is the author of Introduction to Civil War
(Semiotext(e), 2010).

economics/political science
THE VIOLENCE OF FINANCIAL CAPITALISM

New Edition
Christian Marazzi
An updated edition of a translated by Kristina Lebedeva and Jason Francis Mc Gimsey
groundbreaking work on
the global financial crisis The 2010 English-language edition of Christian Marazzi’s The Violence of
from a postfordist perspective. Financial Capitalism made a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis
available to an expanded readership. This new edition has been updated to reflect
March recent events, up to and including the G20 summit in July 2010 and the broad
4 1/2 x 7, 152 pp. consensus to reduce government spending that emerged from it. Marazzi, a
$12.95T/£9.95 paper leading figure in the European postfordist movement, argues that the processes
978-1-58435-102-3 of financialization are not simply irregularities between the traditional categories
Intervention Series of wages, rent, and profit, but rather a new type of accumulation adapted to
Distributed for Semiotext(e) the processes of social and cognitive production today. The financial crisis, he
contends, is a fundamental component of contemporary accumulation and not
a classic lack of economic growth.
Also available from Semiotext(e) Marazzi shows that individual debt and the management of financial mar-
CRISIS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY kets are actually techniques for governing the transformations of immaterial
Financial Markets, Social Struggles,
and New Political Scenarios labor, general intellect, and social cooperation. The financial crisis has radically
edited by Andrea Fumagalli and undermined the very concept of unilateral and multilateral economico-political
Sandro Mezzadra hegemony, and Marazzi discusses efforts toward a new geomonetary order that
2010, 978-1-58435-087-3
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standing of the current stage of international economics as well as crucial post-
CAPITAL AND LANGUAGE
From the New Economy Marxist guidance for confronting capitalism in its newest form, The Violence of
to the War Economy Financial Capitalism is a valuable addition to the contemporary arsenal of post-
Christian Marazzi fordist thought. This edition includes the glossary of the esoteric neolanguage
2008, 978-1-58435-067-5
$14.95T/£11.95 paper of financial capitalism — “Words
in Crisis,” from “AAA” to “toxic
asset” — written for the first
English-language edition, and
offers a new afterword by Marazzi.
Christian Marazzi is Professor and
Director of Socio-Economic Research at
the Scuola Universitaria Professionale
della Svizzera Italiana. He is the author
of Capital and Language: From the New
Economy to the War Economy
(Semiotext(e), 2008).
“At last, a fresh interpretation of the

global economic crisis that vehemently
departs from traditional academic
canons in order to assert a new kind
of economic and political thought.”
— Antonio Negri

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philosophy/religion
THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST

Paradox or Dialectic?
Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank
A militant Marxist atheist and a
edited by Creston Davis
“Radical Orthodox” Christian
theologian square off.
“What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted
Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he
April sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief.”
6 x 9, 320 pp.
— John Milbank
$13.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51620-4 “To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty of
heterodoxy, ultimately of a regression to paganism: in my atheism, I am more Christian
cloth 2009 than Milbank.”
978-0-262-01271-3 — Slavoj Žižek
Short Circuits series,
edited by Slavoj Žižek In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who represents the critical-materialist
stance against religion’s illusions; in the other corner, “radical orthodox” theologian
John Milbank, an influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology
Also available in this series is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. In
THE PUPPET AND THE DWARF The Monstrosity of Christ, Žižek and Milbank go head to head for three rounds,
The Perverse Core of Christianity
Slavoj Žižek employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance their positions and press
2003, 978-0-262-74025-8 their respective advantages. By the closing bell, they have proven themselves
$19.95T/£14.95 paper worthy adversaries — and have also shown that faith and reason are not simply
and intractably opposed.
“A dazzling dialogue, not Žižek has long been interested in the emancipatory potential offered by
for the faint-hearted.” Christian theology. And Milbank, seeing global capitalism as the new century’s
— Marcus Pound, Theology greatest ethical challenge, has pushed his own ontology in more political and
materialist directions. Their debate in The Monstrosity of Christ
concerns nothing less than the future of religion, secularity, and
political hope in light of a monsterful event — God becoming
human. The result goes far beyond the popularized atheist/
theist point/counterpoint of books by Christopher Hitchens,
Richard Dawkins, and others.
Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published over
thirty books, including Looking Awry (1991, 1992), The Puppet and the
Dwarf (2003), and The Parallax View (2006, 2009), from the MIT Press.
John Milbank is an influential Christian theologian and the author of
Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and other books.
Creston Davis, who conceived of this encounter, studied under both
Žižek and Milbank.

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art/women’s studies dance/art
WOMEN ARTISTS AT BEING WATCHED

THE MILLENNIUM Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s
edited by Carol Armstrong Carrie Lambert-Beatty
and Catherine de Zegher In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne
In 1971, when Linda Nochlin Rainer famously transformed the performing body —
published her essay “Why Have stripped it of special techniques and star status, traded
There Been No Great Women its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, and
Artists?” in a special issue of asked it to haul mattresses or recite texts rather than leap
Art News, there were no women’s or spin. Without discounting these innovations, Carrie
studies, no feminist theory, no such thing as feminist art Lambert-Beatty argues in Being
criticism; there was instead a focus on the mythic figure Watched that the crucial site of
of the great (male) artist through history. Since then, Rainer’s interventions in the
the “woman artist” has not simply been assimilated into 1960s was less the body of
the canon of “greatness” but has expanded art-making the performer than the eye of
into a multiplicity of practices with new parameters and the viewer — or rather, the body
perspectives. In Women Artists at the Millennium artists as offered to the eye. Rainer’s
including Martha Rosler and Yvonne Rainer reflect art, Lambert-Beatty writes, is
upon their own varied practices and art historians dis- structured by a peculiar tension
cuss the innovative work of such figures as Louise between the body and its display.
Bourgeois, Lygia Clark, Mona Hatoum, and Carrie In a spectacle-soaked era, moreover — when images
Mae Weems. And Linda Nochlin considers changes of war played nightly on the television news — Rainer’s
since her landmark essay and looks to the future, writ- work engaged the habits of viewing formed in mass-
ing, “We will need all our wit and courage to make media America, linking avant-garde art and the wider
sure that women’s voices are heard, their work seen culture of the 1960s. Rainer is significant, argues
and written about.” Lambert-Beatty, not only as a choreographer but as
Carol Armstrong is Doris Stevens Professor of Women’s a sculptor of spectatorship.
Studies in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton
Carrie Lambert-Beatty is Assistant Professor in the Department
University. She is the author of Scenes in a Library: Reading
of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of
the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 (MIT Press, 1998).
Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
Catherine de Zegher was Director of The Drawing Center in
New York from 1999 to 2006. She is the editor of Inside the
Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth Century Art in, of, • Winner, 2009 de la Torra Bueno Prize in Dance Literature,
and from the Feminine (MIT Press, 1996). awarded by the Society of Dance History Scholars
• Honorable Mention, Music and the Performing Arts category,
“An important reassessment of the legacies of feminist art 2008 PROSE Awards presented by the Professional/Scholarly
Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
history and critical theory by women whose critiques of a
heterosexual, white-male-dominated canon have themselves
“Essential reading for anyone with an interest in
become canonical.”
Yvonne Rainer and the dynamic relationship between
— Amy Mechowski, Signs
advanced performance and the visual arts during the
April — 7 x 9, 472 pp. — 62 color illus., 124 black & white illus. 1960s and 1970s.”
$24.95T/£18.95 paper
— Roger Copeland, author of Merce Cunningham:
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art/cultural history art/race studies
“THE BEAUTIFUL SUBJECT TO DISPLAY

LANGUAGE OF Reframing Race in Contemporary
MY CENTURY” Installation Art
Reinventing the Language Jennifer A. González
of Contestation in Postwar Over the past two decades, artists James Luna, Fred
France, 1945-1968 Wilson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Pepón Osorio, and Renée
Tom McDonough Green have had a profound impact on the meaning
In postwar France, the aesthetics and practice of installation art in the United States.
of appropriation and collage gave In Subject to Display, Jennifer González offers the
cultural form to a struggle over meaning. A new wave first sustained analysis of their
of avant-garde experimentation used — or stole, plagia- contribution, linking the history
rized, and expropriated — elements from advertising, and legacy of race discourse to
journalism, literature, art, and other sources of common innovations in contemporary art.
discourse (the ironically named “beautiful language” Race, writes González, is a social
of this book’s title, itself an appropriation from Guy discourse that has a visual history.
Debord’s collaged Mémoires). Redeployed, often in The collection and display of
startling or pointed juxtapositions, these elements took bodies, images, and artifacts
on newly oppositional meanings. A famous photograph in museums and elsewhere is
taken inside the occupied Sorbonne in May 1968, for a primary means by which a
example, shows a massive academic painting altered nation tells the story of its past
by a clever cartoonish speech bubble that transforms and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present.
the painting into a parody of itself and memorializes All five of the American installation artists
an event very different from the one captured by the González considers have explored the practice of
original artist. “The Beautiful Language of My Century” putting human subjects and their cultures on display
describes the various forms of critical culture that cul- by staging elaborate dioramas or site-specific interven-
minated in the events of May 1968, and investigates tions in galleries and museums; in doing so, they have
the ways those forms have come down to us today. created powerful social commentary of the politics of
Tom McDonough is Associate Professor in the Art History
space and the power of display in settings that mimic
Department, Binghamton University, and an editor at Grey the very spaces they critique.
Room. He is the editor of Guy Debord and the Situationist
International (MIT Press, 2002). Jennifer A. González is Associate Professor in the History
of Art and Visual Culture Department at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. Her essays and reviews have appeared
“McDonough provides a series of engaging lessons for any in Frieze, World Art, Diacritics, Art Journal, and Bomb.
scholar, student, or individual interested in the relation
among art, politics, and various practices of critical culture, “With brilliance and grace, Gonzalez reveals the performa-
the promises they make as well as the failures that ensue.” tive force of installations that restage in order to subvert the
— Kaira M. Cabañas, Art Journal visual, material, and institutional practices that sustain
race discourse.”
“If you really want to get your hands dirty, put away your
— Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of
Howard Zinn and let McDonough show you what a real
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
revolution is and in the process illuminate your historical
understanding.” April — 6 1/4 x 10, 320 pp. — 122 color illus.
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architecture architecture/urban planning/regional
JAPAN-NESS IN IMAGINING MIT

ARCHITECTURE Designing a Campus for the
Arata Isozaki Twenty-First Century
translated by Sabu Kohso William J. Mitchell
foreword by Toshiko Mori In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki program that transformed its outdated, run-down
sees buildings not as dead objects campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the
but as events that encompass the high-tech boom of the 1990s and driven by a pent-up
social and historical context — demand for new space, MIT’s ambitious rebuilding pro-
not to be defined forever by their duced five major works of architecture: Kevin Roche’s
“everlasting materiality” but as texts to be interpreted Zesiger Sports and
and reread continually. In Japan-ness in Architecture he Fitness Center, Steven
identifies what is essentially Japanese in architecture Holl’s Simmons Hall,
from the seventh to the twentieth century. Isozaki Frank Gehry’s Stata
analyzes the struggles of modern Japanese architects, Center, Charles Correa’s
including himself, to create something uniquely Japanese Brain and Cognitive
out of modernity. He then circles back in history to Science Complex, and
find what he calls Japan-ness in the seventh-century Fumihiko Maki’s Media Lab extension. In Imagining
Ise shrine, the twelfth-century reconstruction of the MIT, William Mitchell offers a critical, behind-the-
Tōdai-ji Temple, and the seventeenth-century Katsura scenes view of MIT’s new buildings and the complex
Imperial Villa. processes that produced them. The story is not simply
Isozaki finds that what others consider to be one of commissions, projects, CAD, and hardhats; it is
the Japanese aesthetic is often the opposite of that about all the forces that come into play — including
essential Japan-ness born in moments of historic money, politics, institutional dynamics, and ideology —
self-definition; the purified stylization — what Isozaki when a major university campus is imagined, designed,
calls “Japanesquization” — lacks the energy of cultural and built. Lavishly illustrated with color images through-
transformation and reflects an island retrenchment out, Imagining MIT shows both the opportunities and
in response to the pressure of other cultures. the obstacles facing architectural production and city
Combining historical survey, critical analysis, building at the dawn of a new millennium.
theoretical reflection, and autobiographical account, The late William J. Mitchell was the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr.,
these essays, written over a period of twenty years, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, Director
of the Smart Cities research group at MIT’s Media Lab, and the
demonstrate Isozaki’s standing as one of the world’s author of many books, including The World’s Greatest Architect
leading architects and preeminent architectural thinkers. (MIT Press, 2008).
Arata Isozaki is a leading Japanese architect. His works

include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the
“William J. Mitchell writes with wit and insight. He is the
Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, the Volksbank Center am ideal guide to the architecture of the MIT campus.”
Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the Team Disney Building in — Cesar Pelli, architect
Orlando, and the Tokyo University of Art and Design.
“This insider’s account of the MIT campus is wise, witty,
“Iconoclastic and erudite, opinionated and insightful, wily trenchant, and teacherly.”
and contrarian.” — Diana Chapman Walsh,
— Dana Buntrock, Department of Architecture, former President, Wellesley College
University of California, Berkeley
April — 11 x 7 1/2 152 pp. — 220 illus., color throughout
April — 6 x 9, 376 pp. — 54 illus.
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978-0-262-51605-1
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food/environment environment/political science/anthropology
AMERICA’S FOOD CONSERVATION REFUGEES

What You Don’t Know The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global
About What You Eat Conservation and Native Peoples
Harvey Blatt Mark Dowie
We don’t think much about Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected
how food gets to our tables, or conservation areas have been established worldwide,
what had to happen to fill our largely at the urging of five international conservation
supermarket’s produce section organizations. About half of these areas were occupied
with perfectly round red toma- or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who
toes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully had been living sustainably on
marbled steak. We don’t realize that the meat in one their land for generations were
fast-food hamburger may come from many different displaced in the interests of
cattle raised in several different countries. In fact, most conservation. In Conservation
of us have a fairly abstract understanding of what hap- Refugees, Mark Dowie tells
pens on a farm. In America’s Food, Harvey Blatt gives us this story.
the specifics. He tells us, for example, that a third of the This is a “good guy vs. good
fruits and vegetables grown are discarded for purely aes- guy” story, Dowie writes; the
thetic reasons; that the artificial fertilizers used to enrich indigenous peoples’ movement
our depleted soil contain poisonous heavy metals; that and conservation organizations
chickens who stand all day on wire in cages choose feed have a vital common goal — to
with pain-killing drugs over feed without them; and protect species and ecosystem diversity — and could
that the average American eats his or her body weight work effectively and powerfully together to protect
in food additives each year. the planet and preserve biological diversity. Yet for
After taking us on a tour of the American food more than a hundred years, these two forces have
system — not only the basic food groups but soil, been at odds.
grain farming, organic food, genetically modified Dowie describes the experiences of groups ranging
food, food processing, and diet — Blatt reminds us from Native Americans in Yosemite to the Ogiek and
that we aren’t powerless. Once we know the facts Maasai of eastern Africa. When conservationists and
about food in America, we can change things by native peoples acknowledge the interdependence of
the choices we make as consumers, as voters, and as biodiversity conservation and cultural survival, he
ethical human beings. argues, they can together create a new and much
Harvey Blatt is the author of America’s Environmental Report more effective paradigm for conservation.
Card: Are We Making the Grade? (second edition, MIT Press, Award-winning journalist Mark Dowie is the author of Losing
2011). Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the
Choice, Outstanding Academic Title, 2009 Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An Investigative
History (both published by the MIT Press), and four other books.
“This highly readable book will almost certainly cause you
to change how and what you eat.” “Dowie’s book advances the critical work of developing a
— John Ikerd, author of Sustainable Capitalism new, more encompassing vision of nature, which makes it
one of the most important contributions to conservation in
“An excellent primer on the food we eat today.” many years.”
— Brian Halweil, Worldwatch Institute —Michael Pollan, author of
The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food
April — 7 x 9, 352 pp. — 25 illus. April — 6 x 9, 376 pp.
$18.95T/£14.95 paper $15.95T/£11.95 paper
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philosophy game studies/gender studies
PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE BEYOND BARBIE® AND

A Partial Summing-Up MORTAL KOMBAT
Irving Singer New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming
In 1984, philosopher Irving edited by Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill
Singer published the first volume Denner, and Jennifer Y. Sun
of what would become a classic More than ten years after the groundbreaking From
and much acclaimed trilogy, Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted the ways gender
The Nature of Love. In this new stereotyping and related social and economic issues
book, he maps the trajectory permeate digital game play, the number of women and
of his thinking on love. girl gamers has risen considerably. Despite this, gender
It is a “partial” summing-up of a lifework: partial disparities remain in gaming. Women may be warriors
because it expresses the author’s still unfolding views, in World of Warcraft, but they are
and because love — like any subject of that magnitude also scantily clad “booth babes”
— resists a neatly comprehensive, all-inclusive formu- whose sex appeal is used to
lation. Adopting an informal, even conversational, promote games at trade shows.
tone, Singer discusses, among other topics, the history Player-generated content has
of romantic love, the Platonic ideal, courtly and nine- revolutionized gaming, but few
teenth-century Romantic love; the nature of passion; games marketed to girls allow
the concept of merging (and his critique of it); ideas “modding” (game modifications
about love in Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey, made by players). Gender equity,
Santayana, Sartre, and other writers; and love in rela- the contributors to Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat
tion to democracy, existentialism, creativity, and the argue, requires more than increasing the overall numbers
possible future of scientific investigation. of female players.
Singer’s writing on love embodies what he has Yasmin B. Kafai is Professor of the Learning Sciences at the
learned as a contemporary philosopher, studying other Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Carrie Heeter is Professor of Serious Game Design in the
authors in the field and “trying to get a little further.” Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and
This book continues his trailblazing explorations. Media, and Creative Director for Virtual University Design and
Technology at Michigan State University. Jill Denner is Senior
Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the author Research Scientist at ETR Associates, a nonprofit agency
of the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life, now in California. Jennifer Y. Sun is President and a founder of
being reissued by the MIT Press with new prefaces by the Numedeon, Inc., the company that launched Whyville.net, an
author, and many other books. educational virtual world targeted at children ages 8 to 14.
“This is an account of a life devoted to the idea of love and “A much needed wake-up call to an industry that seems
the love of ideas.” determined to shoehorn girl gamers into an ever shrinking,
— Leslie Armour, Library Journal highly neglected demographic.”
“I found the style of the book charming — rather like listen- — Latoya Peterson, Women’s Review of Books
ing to a fireside chat from a wise master with fascinating
April — 7 x 9, 400 pp. — 36 color illus., 42 black & white illus.
things to say as he reflects upon his life-long thoughts.”
$14.95T/£11.95 paper
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April — 5 3/8 x 8, 144 pp.

cloth 2008
$8.95T/£6.95 paper 978-0-262-11319-9
978-0-262-51617-4
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urban studies/environment law/higher eduction
NEW YORK FOR SALE ROMANCE IN THE IVORY TOWER

Community Planning The Rights and Liberty of Conscience
Confronts Global Real Estate Paul R. Abramson
Tom Angotti
Allen Ginsberg once declared that “the best teaching is
foreword by Peter Marcuse
done in bed,” but most university administrators would
Remarkably, grassroots-based presumably disagree. Many universities prohibit roman-
community planning flourishes tic relationships between faculty members and students,
in New York City — the self- and professors who transgress are usually out of a job.
proclaimed “real estate capital In Romance in the Ivory Tower, Paul Abramson takes
of the world” — with at least aim at university policies that forbid relationships
seventy community plans for different neighborhoods between faculty members and
throughout the city. Most of these were developed dur- students. He argues provocatively
ing fierce struggles against gentrification, displacement, that the issue of faculty-student
and environmental hazards, and most got little or no romances transcends the seem-
support from government. ingly trivial matter of who sleeps
In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of with whom and engages our fun-
the stories of community planning in New York City: damental constitutional rights.
how activists moved beyond simple protests and began Abramson suggests that the
to formulate community plans to protect neighbor- Ninth Amendment (which
hoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects, states that the Constitution’s
gentrification, and environmental hazards. enumeration of certain rights should not be construed
Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant to deny others) protects the “right to romance.” And,
in New York community planning, focuses on the close more provocatively, he argues that the “right to romance”
relationships among community planning, political is a fundamental right of conscience — as are freedom
strategy, and control over land. He proposes strategies of speech and freedom of religion.
for progressive, inclusive community planning not only Campus romances happen. The important question
for New York City but for anywhere that neighbor- is not whether they should be encouraged or prohib-
hoods want to protect themselves and their land. ited but whether the choice to engage in such a rela-
Tom Angotti is Director of the Hunter College Center for tionship should be protected or precluded.
Community Planning and Development and Professor of Urban
Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, City University of New Paul R. Abramson is Professor of Psychology at UCLA. He
York. He is the author of Metropolis 2000: Planning, Poverty, is the author or coauthor of many books, including Sarah:
and Politics, the coeditor of Progressive Planning Magazine, A Sexual Biography, With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of
and a columnist for the online journal Gotham Gazette. Human Sexuality (with Steve Pinkerton), and Sexual Rights in
America: The Ninth Amendment and the Pursuit of Happiness
• Winner, 2009 Paul Davidoff Award, given by the Association of (with Steve Pinkerton and Mark Huppin).
Collegiate Schools of Planning
• Co-winner, 2010 International Planning History Society Book “This is a brilliant, creative, and convincing argument about
Prize the basis for sexual rights in America. . . . A groundbreaking
contribution.”
“ New York for Sale is the book that progressive planners — Ralph Bolton, Professor of Anthropology,
have been waiting for.” Pomona College
— Leonie Sandercock, Professor in Urban Planning
and Social Policy, University of British Columbia April — 5 3/8 x 8, 184 pp.
$9.95T/£7.95 paper
April — 6 x 9, 328 pp. — 17 illus. 978-0-262-51592-4
$12.95T/£9.95 paper
978-0-262-51593-1 cloth 2007
978-0-262-01237-9
cloth 2008
978-0-262-01247-8
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higher education science, technology, and society/history
OFF-TRACK PROFS COLD WAR KITCHEN

Nontenured Teachers in Americanization, Technology,
Higher Education and European Users
John G. Cross and edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann
Edie N. Goldenberg
Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev’s famous
Much attention has been paid “kitchen debate” in 1958 involved more than the virtues
to the increasing proportion of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchev
of non-tenure-track faculty — recognized the political symbolism of the modern
adjuncts, lecturers, and others — kitchen; the kind of technological innovation repre-
in American higher education. sented in this everyday context spoke to the political
Critics charge that universities exploit “contingent system that produced it. The
faculty” and graduate students, engaging in a type of kitchen connects the “big” poli-
bait and switch to attract applicants (advertising institu- tics of politicians and statesmen
tional standing based on distinguished faculty who to the “small” politics of users
seldom teach undergraduates), and as a result provide and interest groups. In essays
undergraduates with an inadequate educational experi- illustrated by striking period
ence. This book, by two experienced academic adminis- photographs, Cold War Kitchen
trators, investigates the expanding role of part-time looks at the kitchen as material
and non-tenure-track instructors in ten elite research object and symbol, considering
universities and the consequences for the quality of the the politics and the practices of one of the most famous
educational experience, the functioning of the university, technological icons of the mid-twentieth century.
and the excellence of the academic environment. Defining the kitchen as a complex technological
They describe hiring trends and what drives them, artifact as important as computers, cars, and nuclear
and explain why they matter if we want to improve missiles, the book examines the ways in which a range
undergraduate education, support collegiality on cam- of social actors in Europe shaped the kitchen as both
pus, trust in academic governance, prevent the erosion ideological construct and material practice. These
of tenure, and preserve America’s global leadership in actors — from manufacturers and modernist architects
higher education. to housing reformers and feminists — constructed
John G. Cross is Senior Vice President for Administration and and domesticated the technological innovations of
Finance at Bloomfield College. Edie N. Goldenberg is Professor the postwar kitchen.
of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of
Michigan and Director of the University’s Michigan in Ruth Oldenziel is Professor of American and European
Washington Program. Technology at the Technical University of Eindhoven
and Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
“Amid the growing literature of research about adjuncts, this Karin Zachmann is Professor of History of Technology at the
Central Institute for the History of Technology, Technical
book is different in some key ways that are likely to make University Munich.
some of it controversial, and may also make it influential.”
— Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed “Scholarly and provocative, these essays illuminate the links
between the atomic politics of the Nixon-Khrushchev years
“Well worth reading.” and the humbler battles fought in Europe and America
— Philo A. Hutcheson, Academe over the shaping of modern kitchens.”
March — 6 x 9, 208 pp. — 8 illus. — Joe Corn, Senior Lecturer Emeritus,
Department of History, Stanford University
$18.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51598-6
March — 7 x 9, 432 pp. — 44 illus.
cloth 2009 $18.00S/£13.95 paper

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978-0-262-15119-1
Inside Technology series

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neuroscience communications/scholarly publishing
BAYESIAN BRAIN UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE

Probabilistic Approaches AS A COMMONS
to Neural Coding From Theory to Practice
edited by Kenji Doya, edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom
Shin Ishii, Alexandre Pouget,
and Rajesh P. N. Rao Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access
to information through the Internet but at the same
A Bayesian approach can
time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through
contribute to an understanding
intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licens-
of the brain on multiple levels,
ing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Looking at
by giving normative predictions about how an ideal
knowledge as a commons — as
sensory system should combine prior knowledge and
a shared resource — allows us
observation, by providing mechanistic interpretation
to understand both its limitless
of the dynamic functioning of the brain circuit, and by
possibilities and what threatens
suggesting optimal ways of deciphering experimental
it. In Understanding Knowledge
data. Bayesian Brain brings together contributions from
as a Commons, experts from a
both experimental and theoretical neuroscientists that
range of disciplines discuss the
examine the brain mechanisms of perception, decision
knowledge commons in the digi-
making, and motor control according to the concepts
tal era — how to conceptualize it,
of Bayesian estimation.
protect it, and build it.
After an overview of the mathematical concepts that
Contributors consider the concept of the commons
are basic to understanding the approaches discussed,
historically and offer an analytical framework for
contributors consider how Bayesian concepts can be
understanding knowledge as a shared social-ecological
used for interpretation of such neurobiological data as
system. The essays clarify critical issues that arise within
neural spikes and functional brain imaging; the model-
these new types of commons, and offer guideposts for
ing of sensory processing, including the neural coding of
future theory and practice.
information about the outside world; and dynamic
processes for proper behaviors, including the mathemat- Charlotte Hess is Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and
Scholarly Communication at the Syracuse University Library.
ics of the speed and accuracy of perceptual decisions and Elinor Ostrom, the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economics, is Arthur
neural models of belief propagation. F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Senior Research Director
of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at
Kenji Doya is Principal Investigator in the Neural Computation Indiana University, and Founding Director of the Center for the
Unit in the Initial Research Project at the Okinawa Institute Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University.
of Science and Technology, Japan. Shin Ishii is Professor in
the Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of “On the whole this book provides an excellent introduction
Science and Technology, Japan. Alexandre Pouget is Associate
Professor in the Brain and Cognitive Science Department at to the theory and practice of knowledge commons. . . . The
the University of Rochester and Head of the Laboratory of writing is uniformly lucid. The book deserves to be read
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. Rajesh P. N. Rao is
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science
widely, especially by academics and librarians.”
and Engineering, a Faculty Member of the Neurobiology — Subbiah Arunachalam, Current Science
and Behavior Program at the University of Washington, and
coeditor of Probabilistic Models of the Brain (MIT Press, 2002). March — 6 x 9, 384 pp. — 8 illus.
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environment/science neuroscience
SUSTAINABILITY THE SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE

OR COLLAPSE? OF EMPATHY
An Integrated History and edited by Jean Decety and William Ickes
Future of People on Earth
In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into
edited by Robert Costanza, a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. The social
Lisa J. Graumlich, and
Will Steffen neuroscience approach to the subject is premised on the
idea that studying empathy at multiple levels (biological,
Human history, as written tradi- cognitive, and social) will lead to a more comprehensive
tionally, leaves out the important understanding of how other people’s thoughts and feel-
ecological and climate context of ings can affect our own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
historical events. But the capability to integrate the In these cutting-edge contribu-
history of human beings with the natural history of tions, leading advocates of the
the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human- multilevel approach view empa-
environmental systems are intimately linked in ways thy from the perspectives of
we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability social, cognitive, developmental,
or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disci- and clinical psychology and cog-
plines develop an integrated human and environmental nitive/affective neuroscience.
history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time Chapters include a critical
scales and make projections for the future. The contrib- examination of the various
utors focus on the human-environment interactions definitions of the empathy construct; surveys of major
that have shaped historical forces since ancient times research traditions based on these differing views
and discuss such key methodological issues as data (including empathy as emotional contagion, as the
quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology projection of one’s own thoughts and feelings, and as
of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman a fundamental aspect of social development); clinical
Empire; and and the accuracy of such past forecasts and applied perspectives, including psychotherapy and
as The Limits to Growth. the study of empathy for other people’s pain; various
Robert Costanza is Professor and Director of the Center for neuroscience perspectives; and discussions of empathy’s
Sustainable Processes and Practices and University Professor
of Sustainability at Portland State University and Editor-in-
evolutionary and neuroanatomical histories, with a
Chief of Solutions. Lisa J. Graumlich is Dean of the College of special focus on neuroanatomical continuities and
the Environment at the University of Washington. Will Steffen differences across the phylogenetic spectrum.
is Executive Director of the Climate Change Institute at The
Australian National University. Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and
Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, where he heads the
“The authors are asking important, hard questions, and their Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. William Ickes is
Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of
answers to these questions are nearly always provocative.” Texas, Arlington.
— James Feldman, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
“This is an admirable work that cannot be too highly
March — 6 x 9, 520 pp. — 47 illus. recommended.”
$22.00S/£16.95 paper — Gustav Jahoda, Metapsychology
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978-0-262-51599-3
Dahlem Workshop Reports
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978-0-262-01297-3
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cognitive science/philosophy cognitive science/history of psychology
THINGS AND PLACES A HISTORY OF MODERN

How the Mind Connects EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
with the World From James and Wundt to Cognitive Science
Zenon W. Pylyshyn George Mandler
In Things and Places, Zenon Modern psychology began with the adoption of experi-
Pylyshyn argues that the process mental methods at the end of the nineteenth century:
of incrementally constructing Wilhelm Wundt established the first formal laboratory
perceptual representations, in 1879; universities created independent chairs in psy-
solving the binding problem chology shortly thereafter; and William James published
(determining which properties the landmark work Principles of Psychology in 1890. In
go together), and, more generally, grounding perceptual A History of Modern Experimental
representations in experience arise from the nonconcep- Psychology, George Mandler
tual capacity to pick out and keep track of a small num- traces the evolution of modern
ber of sensory individuals. He proposes a mechanism in experimental and theoretical psy-
early vision that allows us to select a limited number of chology from these beginnings
sensory objects, to reidentify each of them under certain to the “cognitive revolution”
conditions as the same individual seen before, and to of the late twentieth century.
keep track of their enduring individuality despite radical Throughout, he emphasizes
changes in their properties — all without the machin- the social and cultural context,
ery of concepts, identity, and tenses. This mechanism, showing how different theoretical
which he calls FINSTs (for “Fingers of Instantiation”), developments reflect the characteristics and values of
is responsible for our capacity to individuate and track the society in which they occurred. Thus, Gestalt psy-
several independently moving sensory objects — an chology can be seen to mirror the changes in visual and
ability that we exercise every waking minute, and one intellectual culture at the turn of the century, behavior-
that can be understood as fundamental to the way we ism to embody the parochial and puritanical concerns
see and understand the world and to our sense of space. of early twentieth-century America, and contemporary
Zenon W. Pylyshyn is Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive cognitive psychology as a product of the postwar revo-
Science at Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. He is the lution in information and communication.
author of Seeing and Visualizing: It’s Not What You Think
(MIT Press, 2003). George Mandler is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at
the University of California, San Diego, and Visiting Professor
“Pylyshyn is a singular figure in cognitive science — an at University College London. He is the author of Mind and
Emotion, Mind and Body: Psychology of Emotion and Stress,
extraordinary psychologist who is profoundly dedicated to Human Nature Explored, Interesting Times: An Encounter with
understanding and responding to philosophical concerns. the Twentieth Century, and other books.
Things and Places belongs in the bookcase of anyone who
believes that uncracking philosophical puzzles about the “A tour de force. . . . Any clinician who takes the time to
mind requires a hefty dose of empirical study.” absorb this volume’s offerings will be amply rewarded.”
— Lawrence Shapiro, Mind — The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
“A brilliant and superbly crafted work that places the history
March — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 26 illus.
of psychology within the social and political culture in which
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— Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus,
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978-0-262-16245-6
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Jean Nicod Lectures
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computer science/history of science history of technology/science, technology, and society
SYSTEMS, EXPERTS, FIGHTING TRAFFIC

AND COMPUTERS The Dawn of the Motor Age
The Systems Approach in the American City
in Management and Peter D. Norton
Engineering, World War II Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets
and After
were diverse and included children at play and pedestri-
edited by Agatha C. Hughes
ans at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily motor
and Thomas P. Hughes
thoroughfares where children did not belong and where
After World War II, a systems pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” In Fighting
approach to solving complex Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate
problems and managing complex systems came into automobiles, the American city
vogue among engineers, scientists, and managers, required not only a physical
fostered in part by the diffusion of digital computing change but also a social one:
power. Enthusiasm for the approach peaked during before the city could be recon-
the Johnson administration, when it was applied to structed for the sake of motorists,
everything from military command and control systems its streets had to be socially
to poverty in American cities. Although its failure in reconstructed as places where
the social sphere, coupled with increasing skepticism motorists belonged. It was not an
about the role of technology and “experts” in American evolution, he writes, but a bloody
society, led to a retrenchment, systems methods are still and sometimes violent revolution.
part of modern managerial practice. Norton describes how street users struggled to
This groundbreaking book charts the origins define and redefine what streets were for. He considers
and spread of the systems movement. It describes the perspectives of all users — pedestrians, police (who
the major players — including RAND, MITRE, had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown
Ramo-Wooldridge (later TRW), and the International businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the
Institute of Applied Systems Analysis — and examines problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters.
applications in a wide variety of military, government, He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in
civil, and engineering settings. The book is international moral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtown
in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of
France and Sweden. The story it tells helps to explain “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile,
engineering thought and managerial practice during legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking
the last sixty years. “freedom” — a rhetorical stance of particular power
The late Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes edited and in the United States.
wrote a number of works in the history of technology. She
was an editor, teacher, and artist. He is Professor Emeritus Peter D. Norton is Assistant Professor in the Department of
of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia.
Pennsylvania and Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the Royal “One of the most important monographs focusing on the place
Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
of the automobile in American society within a historical
“This excellent collection explores the emergence of systems context to appear in recent times.”
engineering during the conflicts of the Second World War — John A. Heitmann, Isis
and the Cold War.”
March — 6 x 9, 408 pp. — 40 illus.
— Jon Agar, BJHS
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Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and
Technology
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history of science/Islamic studies history of technology/history of science
ISLAMIC SCIENCE POWER STRUGGLES

AND THE MAKING Scientific Authority and the Creation of
OF THE EUROPEAN Practical Electricity Before Edison
RENAISSANCE Michael Brian Schiffer
George Saliba In 1882, Thomas Edison and his Edison Electric Light
The Islamic scientific tradition Company unveiled the first large-scale electrical system
has been described many times in the world to light a stretch of offices in a city. This
in accounts of Islamic civilization was a monumental achievement, but it was not the
and in general histories of science, beginning of the electrical age. The first electric genera-
with most authors tracing its tors were built in the 1830s, the earliest commercial
beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other lighting systems before 1860, and
ancient civilizations — the Greeks in particular. In this the first commercial application
thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba of generator-powered lights (in
argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the lighthouses) in the early 1860s.
foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well In Power Struggles, Michael Brian
before Greek sources were formally translated into Schiffer examines some of the
Arabic in the ninth century. earlier efforts (some successful
Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic and some unsuccessful) that
science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes paved the way for Edison.
an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template Schiffer presents a series of fascinating case studies
for understanding the progress of science in Islamic of pre-Edison electrical technologies, including
civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Volta’s electrochemical battery, Thomas Davenport’s
Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations electric motor, the first mechanical generators, Morse’s
(including new mathematical tools) made by the telegraph, the Atlantic cable, and the lighting of the
Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to the six- dome of the U.S. Capitol. These emerging electrical
teenth century, and offers evidence that Copernicus technologies formed the foundation of the modern
could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather industrial world. Schiffer shows how and why they
than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from became commercial products in the context of an
the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, evolving corporate capitalism in which conflicting
Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself judgments of practicality sometimes turned into
and the complex social, economic, and intellectual power struggles.
conditions that made it possible. Michael Brian Schiffer is Fred A. Riecker Distinguished
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and
George Saliba is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Research Associate at the Lemelson Center, National Museum
the Department of Middle East and Asian Studies at Columbia of American History, Smithsonian Institution. He is the author
University. He is the author or editor of six other books in of six previous books on technology.
Arabic and English.
“The book is an important contribution to the history of
“Saliba’s wide-ranging book on Islamic astronomy is a electrical science and offers a lucid account of the process of
fascinating, revisionist account of a science that blossomed invention, practical or otherwise.”
in a golden age under the Baghdadi caliphs before fading — Peter Shulman, Isis
into obscurity.”
— Owen Gingerich, Journal of Interdisciplinary History March — 7 x 9, 432 pp. — 45 illus.
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978-0-262-19582-9
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978-0-262-19557-7
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science, technology, and society/political science cognitive science/linguistics
ACTING IN AN THE HARMONIC MIND

UNCERTAIN WORLD From Neural Computation to
An Essay on Optimality-Theoretic Grammar
Technical Democracy Volume I: Cognitive Architecture
Michel Callon, Yannick Barthe, Volume II: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications
and Pierre Lascoumes Paul Smolensky and Géraldine Legendre
translated by Graham Burchell Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher
Controversies over such issues cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computa-
as nuclear waste, genetically tion and those employing symbolic computation can
modified organisms, asbestos, in fact strengthen one another. To substantiate this con-
tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers troversial claim, this landmark
arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological work develops in depth a cogni-
advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen tive architecture based in neural
concerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World computation but supporting
argue that political institutions must be expanded and formally explicit higher-level
improved to manage these controversies, to transform symbolic descriptions, including
them into productive conversations, and to bring new grammar formalisms.
about “technical democracy.” They show how “hybrid Detailed studies in both
forums” — in which experts, non-experts, ordinary phonology and syntax provide
citizens, and politicians come together — reveal the arguments that these grammatical theories and their
limits of traditional delegative democracies, in which neural network realizations enable deeper explanations
decisions are made by quasi-professional politicians, of early acquisition, processing difficulty, cross-linguis-
and techno-scientific information is the domain tic typology, and the possibility of genomically encod-
of specialists in laboratories. The division between ing universal principles of grammar. Foundational
professionals and laypeople, the authors claim, is questions concerning the explanatory status of symbols
simply outmoded. for central problems such as the unbounded productivity
The authors describe a “dialogic” democracy that of higher cognition are also given proper treatment.
enriches traditional representative democracy. To invent Paul Smolensky and Géraldine Legendre are Professors of
new procedures for consultation and representation, Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. Smolensky is
the author (with Bruce Tesar) of Learnability in Optimality
they suggest, is to contribute to an endless process Theory (MIT Press, 2000). Legendre is the coeditor (with
that is necessary for the ongoing democratization Jane Grimshaw and Sten Vikner) of Optimality-Theoretic
of democracy. Syntax (MIT Press, 2001).
Michel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) of “ The Harmonic Mind presents a unique synthetic vision
Actor Network Theory, is a Professor at the École des mines
de Paris and a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de
of cognitive science, one that everyone interested in cogni-
l’innovation there. Yannick Barthe is a researcher at CNRS tion, language, mind, and brain will want to know and
(Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and a member understand.”
of the Centre de sociologie de l’innovation. Pierre Lascoumes
is Director of Research at CNRS. — James L. McClelland, Stanford University
“This book is a path-breaking contribution to the study of Volume I

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INSIDE AND OUTSIDE LIQUIDITY

Bengt Holmström and Jean Tirole
Two leading economists develop
Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold
a theory explaining the demand low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and
for and supply of liquid assets. to what extent can the state and international financial markets make up for a
shortage of liquid assets, allowing agents to save and share risk more effectively?
February These questions are at the center of all financial crises, including the current
6 x 9, 224 pp. global one.
21 illus.
In Inside and Outside Liquidity, leading economists Bengt Holmström and
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth Jean Tirole offer an original, unified perspective on these questions drawing on
978-0-262-01578-3
insights from modern corporate finance. In a slight, but important departure
from the standard theory of finance, they show how imperfect pledgeability of
corporate income leads to a demand for as well as a shortage of liquidity with
interesting implications for the pricing of assets, investment decisions, and liq-
uidity management. The government has an active role to play in improving
risk-sharing between consumers with limited commitment power and firms
dealing with the high costs of potential liquidity shortages. In this perspective,
private risk sharing is always imperfect and may lead to financial crises that can
be alleviated through government interventions. In an epilogue, Holmström and
Tirole show how their theory can be used to understand some aspects of the
recent financial crisis.
Bengt Holmström is Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at
MIT, where he was Head of the Economics Department from 2003 to
2006. Jean Tirole is Scientific Director of IDEI (Institut d’Economie
Industrielle), Chairman of the Board of TSE (Toulouse School of
Economics), and Annual Visiting Professor of Economics at MIT.

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TRADE AND POVERTY THE COLLECTED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

When the Third World Fell Behind OF PAUL SAMUELSON
Jeffrey G. Williamson Volumes 6 and 7
Today’s wide economic gap between the postindustrial Paul A. Samuelson
countries of the West and the poorer countries of the edited by Janice Murray
third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world eco- “It is a measure of Professor Samuelson’s preeminence
nomic order — two hundred years in the making — that the sheer scale of his work should be so much taken
How the rise of was already characterized by a The sixth and
for granted,” a reviewer for
globalization over the vast difference in per capita seventh volumes the Economist once observed,
past two centuries helps of Paul Samuelson’s marking both Paul Samuelson’s
explain the income gap
income between rich and poor
papers gather his influence and his astonishing
between rich and poor countries and by the fact that
final writings.
countries today. poor countries exported com- prolificacy. These two volumes
modities (agricultural or mineral products) while rich gather the Nobel Laureate’s final writings.
countries exported manufactured products. In Trade Samuelson declined suggestions that he write an
and Poverty, leading economic historian Jeffrey G. autobiography. Yet the texts in these volumes (selected
Williamson traces the great divergence between the by Samuelson with the help of his longtime assistant,
third world and the West to this nexus of trade, com- Janice Murray) have a somewhat autobiographical cast,
modity specialization, and poverty. with tributes to friends and colleagues and speeches
The world rapidly became global between the early and interviews of both personal and historic interest.
nineteenth century and World War I, and the global Volume 6 offers essays on classical economics; neoclas-
trade boom occurred simultaneously with rising eco- sical, Marxian, and Sraffian economics; modern
nomic divergence between industrial and nonindustrial macroeconomics; welfare and efficiency economics; and
countries. Analyzing the role of specialization, dein- economic and scientific theories. Volume 7 covers sto-
dustrialization, and commodity price volatility with chastic theory; modern economic policy; biographical
econometrics and case studies of India, Ottoman essays; and autobiographical writings.
Turkey, and Mexico, Williamson demonstrates why the Revised appendixes accompany Samuelson and
close correlation between trade and poverty emerged. Etula’s “Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm
Globalization and the great divergence were causally Arguments of Mainstream Economists Supporting
related, and thus the rise of globalization over the past Globalization” and a previously unpublished
two centuries helps account for the income gap “Afterthought” has been added to Samuelson’s
between rich and poor countries today. Dictionary of American Biography text on Joseph
Jeffrey G. Williamson is Laird Bell Professor of Economics
Schumpeter. Additionally, three contributions omitted
Emeritus at Harvard and Honorary Fellow in the Department from early volumes have been included. The acknowl-
of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is edgements sections list the strict chronological order
the author of Globalization and the Poor Periphery before
1950 (MIT Press, 2006). of the papers.
Paul Samuelson (1915–2009) received the Nobel Prize in
February — 6 x 9, 304 pp. — 30 illus. Economics in 1970. He was Institute Professor, Emeritus;
Professor of Economics, Emeritus; and Gordon Y Billard Fellow
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth at MIT. His influential Economics: An Introductory Analysis is
978-0-262-01515-8 the most widely used economics textbook ever published.
Volume 6
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$90.00S/£66.95 cloth
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Volume 7
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MATHEMATICS FOR ECONOMICS NEW DIRECTIONS IN FINANCIAL

Third Edition SERVICES REGULATION
Michael Hoy, John Livernois, Chris McKenna, edited by Roger B. Porter, Robert R. Glauber, and
Ray Rees, and Thanasis Stengos Thomas J. Healey
This text offers a comprehensive presentation of the The financial crisis of 2008 raised crucial questions
mathematics required to tackle problems in economic regarding the effectiveness of the way the United States
analysis. To give a better understanding of the mathe- regulates financial markets. What caused the crisis?
matical concepts, the text What regulatory changes are
A new edition of Prominent policymakers,
a comprehensive follows the logic of the devel- most needed and desirable?
practitioners, and aca-
undergraduate opment of mathematics rather demics discuss regula- What regulatory structure will
mathematics text for than that of an economics tory reform in the best implement the desired
economics students. aftermath of the finan-
course. The only prerequisite changes? This volume addresses
cial crisis of 2008.
is high school algebra, but the book goes on to cover all those questions with contribu-
the mathematics needed for undergraduate economics. tions from an ideologically diverse group of scholars,
It is also a useful reference for graduate students. After policy makers, and practitioners, including Paul Volcker,
a review of the fundamentals of sets, numbers, and John Taylor, Richard Posner, and Glenn Hubbard.
functions, the book covers limits and continuity, the cal- New Directions in Financial Services Regulation grows
culus of functions of one variable, linear algebra, multi- out of a conference hosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani
variate calculus, and dynamics. To develop the student’s Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s
problem-solving skills, the book works through a large Kennedy School of Government in October 2009, and
number of examples and economic applications. the book reflects the dynamic give-and-take of the
This streamlined third edition offers an array of event. Each chapter includes not only major papers
new and updated examples. and presentations but also a summary of the subse-
Michael Hoy is Professor in the Department of Economics at quent discussion. The book achieves a balance of aca-
the University of Guelph, Ontario. John Livernois is Professor demic and practitioner perspectives, with leaders of
and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University
of Guelph. Chris McKenna is Professor in the Department of financial firms and regulatory bodies offering insights
Economics at the University of Guelph. Thanasis Stengos is based on their experiences in the financial crisis of the
Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph. Ray Rees
is Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Center for
year before.
Economic Studies (CES), University of Munich.
CONTRIBUTORS James Cox, Robert R. Glauber,
Harvey J. Goldschmid, Thomas J. Healey, R. Glenn Hubbard,
Howell E. Jackson, David A. Moss, David G. Nason, William Poole,
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Roger B. Porter is IBM Professor of Business and Government
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at Harvard University. Robert R. Glauber is Adjunct Lecturer
978-0-262-51622-8 at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Visiting
International Student Edition not available in the USA or Canada. Professor at Harvard Law School. Thomas J. Healey is Partner
at Healey Development LLC and Senior Fellow at the Center
for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School
STUDENT SOLUTIONS MANUAL of Government.
FOR MATHEMATICS FOR ECONOMICS
Third Edition April — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 3 illus.
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Ray Rees, and Thanasis Stengos 978-0-262-01561-5
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MAJORITY JUDGMENT GAME THEORY AND THE HUMANITIES

Measuring, Electing, and Ranking Bridging Two Worlds
Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki Steven J. Brams
In Majority Judgment, Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics,
argue that the traditional theory of social choice offers common in political science, and increasingly used in
no acceptable solution to the problems of how to elect, psychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, they
to judge, or to rank. They find that the traditional offer compelling explanations for competition in nature.
An account of a new model — transforming the How game theory can But game theory has been
theory and method “preference lists” of individuals offer insights into only sporadically applied to the
of voting, judging into a “preference list” of soci- literary, historical, humanities; indeed, we almost
and ranking, majority and philosophical texts
ety — is fundamentally flawed never associate mathematical
judgment, shown to be ranging from Macbeth to
superior to all other in both theory and practice. Supreme Court decisions. calculations of strategic choice
known methods. Balinski and Laraki propose with the worlds of literature,
a more realistic model. It leads history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Brams
to an entirely new theory and method — majority shows, game theory can illuminate the rational choices
judgment — proven superior to all known methods. It made by characters in texts ranging from the Bible to
is at once meaningful, resists strategic manipulation, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and can explicate strategic
elicits honesty, and is not subject to the classical para- questions in law, history, and philosophy.
doxes encountered in practice, notably Condorcet’s and Brams’s strategic exegesis of texts helps the reader
Arrow’s. They offer theoretical, practical, and experi- relate characters’ goals to their choices and the conse-
mental evidence — from national elections to figure quences of those choices. Much of his analysis is based
skating competitions — to support their arguments. on the theory of moves (TOM), which is grounded in
Drawing on insights from wine, sports, music, and game theory, and which he develops gradually and
other competitions, Balinski and Laraki argue that the applies systematically throughout. TOM illuminates the
question should not be how to transform many indi- dynamics of player choices, including their mispercep-
vidual rankings into a single collective ranking, but tions, deceptions, and uses of different kinds of power.
rather, after defining a common language of grades to The reader gains not just new insights into the
measure merit, how to transform the many individual actions of certain literary and historical characters but
evaluations of each competitor into a single collective also a larger strategic perspective on the choices that
evaluation of all competitors. make us human.
The crux of the matter is a new model in which the Steven J. Brams is Professor of Politics at New York University.
traditional paradigm — to compare — is replaced by a He is the author of Biblical Games: Game Theory and the
new paradigm — to evaluate. Hebrew Bible (MIT Press, revised edition 2003), Mathematics
and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division
Michel Balinski is Directeur de Recherche de classe exception- Procedures, and other books.
nelle (Emeritus), C.N.R.S. and the Laboratoire d’Econométrie,
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PERSPECTIVES ON THE FERTILITY AND PUBLIC POLICY

PERFORMANCE OF THE How to Reverse the Trend of
CONTINENTAL ECONOMIES Declining Birth Rates
edited by Edmund S. Phelps and edited by Noriyuki Takayama and Martin Werding
Hans-Werner Sinn In 2050, world population growth is predicted to come
Economists disagree on what ails the economies of almost to a halt. Shortly thereafter it may well start to
continental western Europe, which are widely perceived shrink. A major reason behind this shift is the fertility
Leading economists to be underperforming in Experts discuss the
decline that has taken place in
consider the apparent terms of productivity and other appropriateness many developed countries. In
underperformance of metrics. Is it some deficiency in and effectiveness of this book, experts discuss the
the European economy, using public policy appropriateness and effective-
their economic system — in
testing various to influence fertility
explanations economic institutions or cul- decisions.
ness of using public policy to
against data. tural attitudes? Is it some effect influence fertility decisions.
of their welfare systems of Contributors discuss the general feasibility of public
social insurance and assistance? Or are these systems interventions in the area of fertility, analyze fertility
healthy enough but weighed down by adverse market patterns and policy design in such countries as Japan,
conditions? In this volume, leading economists test the South Korea, China, Sweden, and France, and offer
various explanations for Europe’s economic underper- theoretical analyses of parental fertility choices that pro-
formance against real-world data. vide an overview of a broad array of child-related policy
The chapters, written from widely varying perspec- instruments in a number of OECD and EU countries.
tives, demonstrate the shortcomings and strengths of The chapters show that it is difficult to gauge the
some methods of economics as much as they do the effectiveness of such policy interventions as child-care
shortcomings and strengths of some economies of subsidies, support for women’s labor-force participa-
western continental Europe. Many offer policy recom- tion, and tax incentives. Data are often incomplete,
mendations, which range from developing institutions causal relations unproved, and the role of social norms
that promote entrepreneurship to using early education and culture difficult to account for. Investigating rea-
to increase human capital. sons for the decline in fertility more closely will require
further study. This volume offers the latest work on
CONTRIBUTORS Philippe Aghion, Amar Bhidé, Roman Frydman, this increasingly important subject.
Robert Gordon, James Heckman, Anders Hoffmann, Hian Teck Hoon,
Bas Jacobs, Harold James, Omar Khan, Ioana Marinescu, CONTRIBUTORS Gunnar Andersson, Reiko Aoki,
Edmund S. Phelps, Andrzej Rapaczynski, Richard Robb, Jeffrey Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz, Jonathan Bradshaw, Yoonyoung Cho,
Sachs, Robert Shiller, Hans-Werner Sinn, Gylfi Zoega Alessandro Cigno, Tamotsu Kadoda, Yoko Konishi, Seiritsu Ogura,
Xizhe Peng, Warren Sanderson, Noriyuki Takayama,
Edmund S. Phelps is McVickar Professor of Political Economy Olivier Thévenon, Martin Werding
at Columbia University and founder of Columbia’s Center on
Capitalism and Society. He was the 2006 Nobel Laureate in
Economics. Hans-Werner Sinn is President of the Ifo Institute Noriyuki Takayama is Professor of Economics at the Institute
for Economic Research and Professor of Economics and Public of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Martin
Finance at the University of Munich, where he is also the Werding is Professor of Social Policy and Social Economy at
Director of the Center for Economic Studies. He is the author Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum and Research Professor at the Ifo
of Can Germany Be Saved?: The Malaise of the World’s First Institute for Economic Research. He is the editor of Structural
Welfare State (MIT Press, 2007) and Casino Capitalism: How the Unemployment in Western Europe: Reasons and Remedies
Financial Crisis Came About and What Needs to Be Done Now. (2006) and coauthor of Children and Pensions (2007),
both published by the MIT Press.
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ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CROSS SECTION

AND PANEL DATA
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DEMOCRACY’S ARSENAL
Creating a Twenty-First-Century Defense Industry
Jacques S. Gansler
An expert explains why the
security needs of the twenty-first New geopolitical realities — including terrorism, pandemics, rogue nuclear
century require a transformation states, resource conflicts, insurgencies, mass migration, economic collapse, and
of the defense industry of the cyber attacks — have created a dramatically different national security environ-
twentieth century.
ment for America. Twentieth-century defense strategies, technologies, and indus-
trial practices will not meet the security requirements of a post-9/11 world. In
June Democracy’s Arsenal, Jacques Gansler describes the transformations needed in
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International Security bines a healthy economy, effective international relations, and a strong (but
affordable) national security posture. The defense industry must remake itself to
become responsive and relevant to the needs of twenty-first-century security.
Gansler discusses such topics as the globalization of defense business, consol-
idation and greatly reduced competition in the defense industry, the blemished
performance of the Defense Department and the dysfunctional behavior of
Congress, and the role of defense contractors and their employees in supporting
combat operations. He outlines clearly the changes that need to
be made in the industry and in Defense Department business
practices. He concludes that we can meet the new challenges
of national security — but only if we acknowledge that a total
transformation is necessary, and we find leaders with the vision,
the strategy, the set of actions, and the courage necessary to
overcome the expected resistance to change.
Jacques S. Gansler is the author of the influential books The Defense
Industry (1980), Affording Defense (1989), and Defense Conversion:
Transforming the Arsenal of Democracy. (1998), all published by the
MIT Press. He is currently Professor and Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public
Policy and Private Enterprise in the School of Public Policy and Director
of the Sloan Center Biotechnology Industry Center at the University of
Maryland; he was Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology,
and Logistics from 1997 to 2001.

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OUR OWN WORST ENEMY? DO DEMOCRACIES WIN THEIR WARS?

Institutional Interests and the Proliferation edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté Jr.,
of Nuclear Weapons Expertise Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller
Sharon K. Weiner In recent years, a new wave of scholarship has argued
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many that democracies have unique advantages that enable
observers feared that terrorists and rogue states would them to compete vigorously in international politics.
obtain weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or knowl- Challenging long-held beliefs — some of which go
edge about how to build them back to Thucydides’ account of
An examination of the Important contributions
effectiveness of knowl- from the vast Soviet nuclear, from both sides of the clash between democratic
edge nonproliferation biological, and chemical the debate over the Athens and authoritarian
programs implemented weapons complex. The United relationship between Sparta — that democracy is a
by the United States democracy and
after the fall of the
States launched a major effort military victory.
liability in the harsh world of
Soviet Union. to prevent former Soviet international affairs, many
WMD experts, suddenly with- scholars now claim that democracies win most of their
out salaries, from peddling their secrets. In Our Own wars. Critics counter that democracy itself makes little
Worst Enemy, Sharon Weiner chronicles the design, difference in war and that other factors, such as overall
implementation, and evolution of four U.S. programs power, determine whether a country tastes victory or
that were central to this nonproliferation policy and defeat. In some cases, such as the Vietnam War,
assesses their successes and failures. democracy may even have contributed to defeat.
Weiner examines the parlous state of the former The book includes crucial contributions to the debate
Soviet nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons com- over democracy and military victory.
plex, the contentious domestic political debate within CONTRIBUTORS Risa A. Brooks, Ajin Choi, Michael C. Desch,
the United States, and most critically, the institutional Alexander B. Downes, David A. Lake, Sean M. Lynn-Jones,
interests and dynamics of the Defense, State, and Dan Reiter, John M. Schuessler, Allan C. Stam
Energy departments, which were charged with pre- Michael E. Brown is Dean of the Elliott School of International
venting the spread of WMD expertise. She explains Affairs at George Washington University. Owen R. Coté Jr. is
Associate Director of the Security Studies Program at MIT.
why — despite unprecedented cooperation between Sean M. Lynn-Jones is a Research Associate in the International
the former Cold War adversaries — U.S. nonprolifera- Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs at Harvard University and Editor of its
tion programs did not succeed at redirecting or con- quarterly publication International Security. Steven E. Miller
verting to civilian uses significant parts of the former is Editor-in-Chief of International Security and Director of
Soviet weapons complex. She shows how each of the the International Security Program at the Belfer Center.
U.S. government bureaucracies responsible for manag- “Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses, and indeed
ing vital nonproliferation policies let its own organiza- for anyone who thinks seriously about the conduct of war.”
tional interests trump U.S. national security needs. — John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago,
Sharon K. Weiner is Associate Professor in the School of author of Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about
International Service at American University.
Lying in International Politics
“This sobering account is essential reading for all those “The electric point/counterpoint on display here will keep
interested in more effective programs to reduce proliferation students riveted as they learn what sharp-minded social
threats around the world, and for those interested in the science has to offer.”
nitty gritty of how national security agencies manage or — Jack Snyder, Columbia University, coauthor of
fail to manage new and unfamiliar challenges.” Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War
— Matthew Bunn, John F. Kennedy School of
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CHILDREN WITHOUT A STATE BEYOND RESOURCE WARS

A Global Human Rights Challenge Scarcity, Environmental Degradation,
edited by Jacqueline Bhabha and International Cooperation
foreword by Mary Robinson edited by Shlomi Dinar
Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the Common wisdom holds that the earth’s dwindling nat-
world, with a special need for the protections, rights, ural resources and increasing environmental degradation
and services offered by states. And yet children are will inevitably lead to inter-state conflict, and possibly
The first book to address particularly at risk from state- An argument that
even set off “resource wars.”
children’s statelessness lessness. Thirty-six percent resource scarcity Many scholars and policymak-
and lack of legal status of all births in the world are and environmental ers have considered the envi-
as a human rights issue. degradation can ronmental roots of violent
not registered, leaving more
provide an impetus
than forty-eight million children under the age of for cooperation
conflict and instability, but
five with no legal identity and no formal claim on among countries. little attention has been paid
any state. Millions of other children are born stateless to the idea that scarcity and
or become undocumented as a result of migration. degradation may actually play a role in fostering inter-
Children Without a State is the first book to examine state cooperation. Beyond Resource Wars fills this gap,
how statelessness affects children throughout the world, offering a different perspective on the links between
examining this largely unexplored problem from a environmental problems and inter-state conflict.
human rights perspective. Although the contributors do not deny that resource
The human rights repercussions range from dramatic scarcity and environmental degradation may become
abuses (detention and deportation) to social marginaliza- sources of contention, they argue that these conditions
tion (lack of access to education and health care). The also provide the impetus for cooperation, coordination,
book provides a variety of examples, including chapters and negotiation between states. The book examines
on Palestinian children in Israel, undocumented young aspects of environmental conflict and cooperation in
people seeking higher education in the United States, detail, across a number of natural resources and issues
unaccompanied child migrants in Spain, Roma chil- including oil, water, climate change, ocean pollution,
dren in Italy, irregular internal child migrants in China, and biodiversity conservation.
and children in mixed legal/illegal families in the
CONTRIBUTORS J. Samuel Barkin, Elizabeth R. DeSombre,
United States. Shlomi Dinar, Christopher J. Fettweis, Gabriela Kütting,
Robert Mendelsohn, G. Kristin Rosendal, Miranda A. Schreurs,
CONTRIBUTORS Christina O. Alfirev, Jacqueline Bhabha, Deborah J. Shields, Šlavko V. Šolar
Luca Bicocchi, Brad K. Blitz, Kirsten Di Martino, Bela Hovy,
Jyothi Kanics, Linda K. Kerber, Stephen H. Legomsky, Shlomi Dinar is Associate Professor in the Department of
Mary Robinson, Elena Rozzi, Daniel Senovilla-Hernández, Politics and International Relations at Florida International
Simon Szreter, David B. Thronson, Caroline Vandenabeele University. He is the author of International Water Treaties:
Negotiation and Cooperation along Transboundary Rivers and
Jacqueline Bhabha is Harvard University Adviser to the Provost coauthor of Bridges over Water: Understanding Transboundary
on Human Rights Education, Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Lecturer at Water Conflict, Negotiation, and Cooperation.
Harvard Law School, and Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’s
Kennedy School of Government. She is the coauthor of Seeking
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PATHS TO A GREEN WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITIES

The Political Economy of BEYOND BORDERS
the Global Environment Local Perspectives on Global Injustices
Second Edition edited by JoAnn Carmin and Julian Agyeman
Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne
Multinational corporations often exploit natural
This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need resources or locate factories in poor countries far from
for a political economy view of global environmental the demand for the products and profits that result.
politics, focusing on the ways
A new edition of Case studies demonstrate Developed countries also
a book that takes international economic the spatial disconnect routinely dump hazardous
a comprehensive look processes affect environmental between global materials and produce green-
at the ways economic outcomes. It examines the consumption and
processes affect global production and its
house gas emissions that have
main actors and forces shaping a disproportionate impact
environmental outcomes. effects on local
global environmental manage- environmental quality on developing countries.
ment, particularly in the developing world. Moving and human rights. This book investigates how
beyond the usual emphasis on international agreements these and other globalized practices exact high social
and institutions, it strives to capture not only academic and environmental costs as poor, local communities
theoretical debates but also views on politics, econom- are forced to cope with depleted resources, pollution,
ics, and the environment within the halls of global con- health problems, and social and cultural disruption.
ferences, on the streets during antiglobalization Case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the Pacific
protests, and in the boardrooms of international agen- Rim, and Latin America critically assess how diverse
cies, nongovernmental organizations, and industry asso- types of global inequalities play out on local terrains.
ciations. The result is a rich perspective not only on the ways
The second edition of this popular text has been industries, governments, and consumption patterns can
thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent events, further entrench existing inequalities but also on how
including the food crisis of 2007-2008, the financial emerging networks and movements can foster institu-
meltdown of 2008, and the Copenhagen Climate tional change and promote social equality and environ-
Conference of 2009. Topics covered include the envi- mental justice.
ronmental implications of globalization; wealth,
poverty, and consumption; global trade; transnational CONTRIBUTORS Mary A. Ackley, Julian Agyeman,
Saleem H. Ali, Alison Hope Alkon, Isabelle Anguelovski,
corporations; and multilateral and private finance. Beth Schaefer Caniglia, JoAnn Carmin, Barbara Hicks,
Tammy L. Lewis, David Naguib Pellow, Debra Roberts,
Jennifer Clapp is CIGI Chair in Global Environmental
Lisa A. Schweitzer, Max Stephenson Jr., Saskia Vermeylen,
Governance and Professor of Environmental Studies at the
University of Waterloo. She is the coeditor of Corporate Power Gordon Walker, Patricia Widener
in Global Agrifood Governance (MIT Press, 2009) and coeditor
of the journal Global Environmental Politics (MIT Press). Peter JoAnn Carmin is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy
Dauvergne is Professor of Political Science, Canada Research and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Chair in Global Environmental Politics, and Director of the at MIT. Julian Agyeman is Associate Professor and Chair of the
Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Columbia. He is the author of The Shadows of Consumption: at Tufts University.
Consequences for the Global Environment (MIT Press, 2008).
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COMING CLEAN LIVING IN DENIAL

Information Disclosure and Climate Change, Emotions,
Environmental Performance and Everyday Life
Michael E. Kraft, Mark Stephan, and Troy D. Abel Kari Marie Norgaard
Coming Clean is the first book to investigate the process Global warming is the most significant environmental
of information disclosure as a policy strategy for envi- issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations
ronmental protection. This process, which requires that has been meager. Why have so few taken any action?
An investigation into
firms disclose information An analysis of why
In Living in Denial, sociologist
the policy effects about their environmental people with knowledge Kari Norgaard searches for
of requiring firms to performance, is part of an about climate change answers to this question,
disclose information approach to environmental often fail to translate drawing on interviews and
about their that knowledge into
environmental
protection that eschews the action.
ethnographic data from her
performance. conventional command-and- study of “Bygdaby,” the fictional
control regulatory apparatus, name of an actual rural community in western Norway,
which sometimes leads government and industry to during the unusually warm winter of 2001-2002.
focus on meeting only minimal standards. The authors Stories in local and national newspapers linked the
of Coming Clean examine the effectiveness of informa- warm winter explicitly to global warming. Yet residents
tion disclosure in achieving actual improvements in did not write letters to the editor, pressure politicians,
corporate environmental performance by analyzing data or cut down on use of fossil fuels. Norgaard attributes
from the federal government’s Toxics Release Inventory, this lack of response to the phenomenon of socially
or TRI, and drawing on an original set of survey data organized denial, by which information about climate
from corporations and federal, state, and local officials, science is known in the abstract but disconnected from
among other sources. political, social, and private life, and sees this as
The authors find that TRI — probably the best- emblematic of how citizens of industrialized countries
known example of information disclosure — has had are responding to global warming.
a substantial effect over time on the environmental Norgaard finds that for the highly educated and
performance of industry. But, drawing on case studies politically savvy residents of Bygdaby, global warming
from across the nation, they show that the improve- was both common knowledge and unimaginable.
ment is not uniform: some facilities have been leaders Norgaard traces this denial through multiple levels,
while others have been laggards. The authors argue from emotions to cultural norms to political economy.
that information disclosure has an important role to Her report from Bygdaby, supplemented by compar-
play in environmental policy — but only as part of an isons throughout the book to the United States, tells a
integrated set of policy tools that includes conventional larger story behind our paralysis in the face of today’s
regulation. alarming predictions from climate scientists.
Michael E. Kraft is Professor of Political Science and Public Kari Marie Norgaard is Assistant Professor of Sociology and
Policy and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Environmental Studies at Whitman College, Walla Walla,
Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He is the Washington.
author of Environmental Policy and Politics. Mark Stephan is
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science
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CHIMERAS AND CONSCIOUSNESS STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Evolution of the Sensory Self OF FMRI DATA
edited by Lynn Margulis, Celeste A. Asikainen, F. Gregory Ashby
and Wolfgang E. Krumbein
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which
Chimeras and Consciousness begins the inquiry into the allows researchers to observe neural activity in the human
evolution of the collective sensitivities of life. Scientist- brain noninvasively, has revolutionized the scientific study
scholars from a range of fields — including biochem- of the mind. An fMRI experiment produces massive
Scientists elucidate the
istry, cell biology, history of An overview of amounts of highly complex
astounding collective science, family therapy, genet- statistical methods data; researchers face signifi-
sensory capacity of ics, microbial ecology, and for analyzing data from cant challenges in analyzing
Earth and its evolution primatology — trace the fMRI experiments.
through time.
the data they collect. This
emergence and evolution book offers an overview of the most widely used
of consciousness. Complex behaviors and the social statistical methods of analyzing fMRI data. Every step
imperatives of bacteria and other life forms during is covered, from preprocessing to advanced methods
3,000 million years of Earth history gave rise to for assessing functional connectivity. The goal is not to
mammalian cognition. Awareness and sensation led describe which buttons to push in the popular software
to astounding activities; millions of species incessantly packages but to help readers understand the basic
interacted to form our planet’s complex conscious sys- underlying logic, the assumptions, the strengths and
tem. Our planetmates, all of them conscious to some weaknesses, and the appropriateness of each method.
degree, were joined only recently by us, the aggressive The book covers all of the important current topics
modern humans. in fMRI data analysis, including the relation of the
Since early bacteria avoided, produced, and eventu- fMRI BOLD (blood oxygen-level dependent) response
ally used oxygen, Earth’s sensory systems have expanded to neural activation; basic analyses done in virtually
and complexified. Taken together, these provocative every fMRI article — preprocessing, constructing
essays, going far beyond science but undergirded by the statistical parametrical maps using the general linear
finest science, serve to put sensitive, sensible life in its model, solving the multiple comparison problem, and
cosmic context. group analyses; the most popular methods for assessing
Lynn Margulis, an originator of cell symbiotic theory of cell functional connectivity — coherence analysis and
evolution, is Distinguished University Professor in the Granger causality; two widely used multivariate
Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, where Celeste A. Asikainen, a geologist, is the approaches, principal components analysis and
administrator of the Margulis Laboratory and a doctoral stu- independent component analysis; and a brief survey
dent. Wolfgang E. Krumbein, formerly at Oldenburg University
in Germany, is counted among the founders of geomicrobiol-
of other current fMRI methods.
ogy and biogeochemistry, new scientific fields especially rele- F. Gregory Ashby is Professor and Chair in the Department of
vant to global climate and planetary biology. Psychology and former Director of the Brain Imaging Center
at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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neuroscience
CEREBRAL PLASTICITY
New Perspectives
edited by Leo M. Chalupa, Nicoletta Berardi, Matteo Caleo,
A survey of the latest research, Lucia Galli-Resta, and Tommaso Pizzorusso
covering such topics as plasticity
in the adult brain and the The notion that neurons in the living brain can change in response to experience
underlying mechanisms — a phenomenon known as “plasticity” — has become a major conceptual issue
of plasticity.
in neuroscience research as well as a practical focus for the fields of neural reha-
bilitation and neurodegenerative disease. Early work dealt with the plasticity of
May the developing brain and demonstrated the critical role played by sensory experi-
7 x 9, 432 pp.
13 color plates, 77 black & white illus.
ence in normal development. Two broader themes have emerged in recent stud-
ies: the plasticity of the adult brain (one of the most rapidly developing areas of
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978-0-262-01523-3 current research) and the search for the underlying mechanisms of plasticity —
explanations for the cellular, molecular, and epigenetic factors controlling plastic-
ity. Many scientists believe that achieving a fundamental understanding of what
Also available underlies neuronal plasticity could help us treat neurological disorders and even
THE VISUAL NEUROSCIENCES improve the learning capabilities of the human brain.
edited by Leo M. Chalupa and
John S. Werner
This volume offers contributions from leaders in the field that cover all three
2003, 978-0-262-03308-4 approaches to the study of cerebral plasticity. Chapters treat normal develop-
$205.00S/£151.95 cloth ment and the influences of environmental manipulations; cerebral plasticity in
EYE, RETINA, AND VISUAL SYSTEM adulthood; and underlying mechanisms of plasticity. Other chapters deal with
OF THE MOUSE plastic changes in neurological conditions and with the enhancement of plastic-
edited by Leo M. Chalupa and
Robert W. Williams
ity as a strategy for brain repair.
2008, 978-0-262-03381-7 Leo M. Chalupa is Vice President for Research and Professor of Pharmacology and
$135.00S/£84.95 cloth Physiology at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is the coeditor
of two major reference works published by the MIT Press: The Visual Neurosciences (2003)
and Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse (2008). Nicoletta Berardi, Matteo Caleo,
Lucia Galli-Resta, and Tommaso Pizzorusso are members of the research staff at the CNR
Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa.

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neuroscience neuroscience/vision/computer science
NEURAL CONTROL ENGINEERING A COMPUTATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

The Emerging Intersection between ON VISUAL ATTENTION
Control Theory and Neuroscience John K. Tsotsos
Steven J. Schiff
Although William James declared in 1890, “Everyone
Over the past sixty years, powerful methods of model- knows what attention is,” today there are many different
based control engineering have been responsible for such and sometimes opposing views on the subject. This
dramatic advances in engineering systems as autolanding fragmented theoretical landscape may be because most
How powerful new
aircraft, autonomous vehicles, The derivation, of the theories and models of
methods in nonlinear and even weather forecasting. exposition, and attention offer explanations
control engineering Over those same decades, our justification of the in natural language or in a
can be applied to models of the nervous system Selective Tuning model
neuroscience, from of vision and attention.
pictorial manner rather than
fundamental model
have evolved from single-cell providing a quantitative and
formulation to advanced membranes to neuronal net- unambiguous statement of the theory. They focus on
medical applications. works to large-scale models the manifestations of attention instead of its rationale.
of the human brain. Yet until In this book, John Tsotsos develops a formal model of
recently control theory was completely inapplicable visual attention with the goal of providing a theoretical
to the types of nonlinear models being developed in explanation for why humans (and animals) must have
neuroscience. The revolution in nonlinear control the capacity to attend. He takes a unique approach to
engineering in the late 1990s has made the intersection the theory, using the full breadth of the language of
of control theory and neuroscience possible. In Neural computation — rather than simply the language of
Control Engineering, Steven Schiff seeks to bridge the mathematics — as the formal means of description.
two fields, examining the application of new methods The result, the Selective Tuning model of vision and
in nonlinear control engineering to neuroscience. attention, explains attentive behavior in humans and
After presenting extensive material on formulating provides a foundation for building computer systems
computational neuroscience models in a control envi- that see with human-like characteristics. The overarch-
ronment — including some fundamentals of the algo- ing conclusion is that human vision is based on a gen-
rithms helpful in crossing the divide from intuition to eral purpose processor that can be dynamically tuned
effective application — Schiff examines a range of to the task and the scene viewed on a moment-by-
applications, including brain-machine interfaces and moment basis.
neural simulation. He reports on research that he and The text is accompanied by more than 100 illustra-
his colleagues have undertaken showing that nonlinear tions in black and white and color; additional color
control theory methods can be applied to models of illustrations and movies are available on the book’s
single cells, small neuronal networks, and large-scale Web site.
networks in disease states of Parkinson’s disease and
John K. Tsotsos is Professor of Computer Science and
epilepsy. Engineering, Distinguished Research Professor of Vision
The book will serve as an essential guide for scien- Science, Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision at
York University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
tists in either biology or engineering and for physicians (FRSC).
who wish to gain expertise in these areas.
Steven J. Schiff, a board-certified neurosurgeon, is Brush May — 7 x 9, 328 pp. — 15 color plates, 102 black & white illus.
Chair Professor of Engineering and Director of the Center $40.00S/£29.95 cloth
for Neural Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.
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Computational Neuroscience series

PROFESSIONAL
history of science/evolution evolution/biology
TRANSFORMATIONS OF LAMARCKISM THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS

From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology IN EVOLUTION REVISITED
edited by Snait Gissis and Eva Jablonka edited by Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny
In 1809 — the year of Charles Darwin’s birth — In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published Philosophie zoologique, published their influential book The Major Transitions
the first comprehensive and systematic theory of in Evolution. The “transitions” that Maynard Smith
biological evolution. The Lamarckian approach and Szathmáry chose to describe all constituted major
A reappraisal of emphasizes the generation Drawing on recent changes in the kinds of organ-
Lamarckism — its of developmental variations; advances in evolutionary isms that existed but, most
historical impact Darwinism stresses selection. biology, prominent important, these events also
and contemporary scholars return to the
Lamarck’s ideas were eventu- transformed the evolutionary
significance. question posed in a
ally eclipsed by Darwinian pathbreaking book: how process itself. The evolution of
concepts, especially after the emergence of the Modern evolution itself evolved. new levels of biological organi-
Synthesis in the twentieth century. The different zation, such as chromosomes,
approaches — which can be seen as complementary cells, multicelled organisms, and complex social groups
rather than mutually exclusive — have important impli- radically changed the kinds of individuals natural selec-
cations for the kinds of questions biologists ask and for tion could act upon. Many of these events also pro-
the type of research they conduct. Lamarckism has duced revolutionary changes in the process of
been evolving — or, in Lamarckian terminology, trans- inheritance, by expanding the range and fidelity of
forming — since Philosophie zoologique’s description of transmission, establishing new inheritance channels,
biological processes mediated by “subtle fluids.” Essays and developing more open-ended sources of variation.
in this book focus on new developments in biology Maynard Smith and Szathmáry had planned a
that make Lamarck’s ideas relevant not only to modern major revision of their work, but the death of Maynard
empirical and theoretical research but also to problems Smith in 2004 prevented this. In this volume, promi-
in the philosophy of biology. nent scholars (including Szathmáry himself ) recon-
CONTRIBUTORS Natalie Q. Balaban, Ramray Bhat, Erez Braun, sider and extend the earlier book’s themes in light of
Marcello Buiatti, Tatjana Buklijas, Richard W. Burkhardt Jr., recent developments in evolutionary biology. The con-
Pietro Corsi, Lior David, Raphael Falk, Moshe Feldman, tributors discuss different frameworks for understand-
Evelyn Fox Keller, Scott Gilbert, Simona Ginsburg, Snait B. Gissis,
Sander Gliboff, Peter D. Gluckman, James Griesemer, Paul Griffiths,
ing macroevolution, prokaryote evolution (the study of
Mark A. Hanson, Luisa Hirschbein, Eva Jablonka, Marion Lamb, which has been aided by developments in molecular
Ehud Lamm, Laurent Loison, Avraham A. Levy, Yigal Liverant, biology), and the complex evolution of multicellularity.
Arkady L. Markel, Everett Mendelsohn, Gabriel Motzkin,
Stuart A. Newman, Amos Oppenheim, Sivan Pearl, Dov Francis Brett Calcott is a postdoctoral researcher in the Philosophy
Por, Minoo Rassoulzadegan, Nils Rolls-Hansen, Jan Sapp, Program in the Research School of the Social Sciences at
Ayelet Shavit, Sonia E. Sultan, Alfred I. Tauber, Lyudmila N. Trut, Australia National University and a founding member of ANU’s
Charlotte Weissman, Adam Wilkins Centre for Macroevolution and Macroecology. Kim Sterelny is
Professor of Philosophy at both the ANU and Victoria University
in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author or editor of many
Snait Gissis and Eva Jablonka are on the faculty of the Cohn
books, including Language and Reality (second edition, MIT
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Press, 1999), and the editor of the MIT Press series Life
at Tel Aviv University. Jablonka is the coauthor of Evolution in
and Mind.
Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic
Variation in the History of Life (MIT Press, 2005).
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978-0-262-01514-1 Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology

PROFESSIONAL
computer science/information systems linguistics
MODELING BUSINESS PROCESSES PROVOCATIVE SYNTAX

A Petri Net-Oriented Approach Phil Branigan
Wil van der Aalst and Christian Stahl Chomsky showed that no description of natural lan-
This comprehensive introduction to modeling business- guage syntax would be adequate without some notion
information systems focuses on business processes. It of movement operations in a syntactic derivation. It
describes and demonstrates the formal modeling of now seems likely that such movement transformations
processes in terms of Petri nets, using a well-established are formally simple operations, in which a single phrase
An introduction to the theory for capturing and ana- A new theory of is displaced from its original
modeling of business lyzing models with concur- syntactic movement position within a phrase
information systems, rency. The precise semantics of within a Chomskyan marker, but after more than
with processes formally framework.
this formal method offers a fifty years of generative
modeled using Petri nets.
distinct advantage for model- theorizing, the mechanics of syntactic movement are
ing processes over the industrial modeling languages still murky and controversial. In Provocative Syntax,
found in other books on the subject. Moreover, the sim- Phil Branigan examines the forces that drive syntactic
plicity and expressiveness of the Petri nets concept movement and offers a new synthetic model of the
make it an ideal language for explaining foundational basic movement operation by reassembling in a novel
concepts and constructing exercises. way isolated ideas that have been suggested elsewhere
After an overview of business information systems, in the literature. The unifying concept is the operation
the book introduces the modeling of processes in terms of provocation, which occurs in the course of feature
of classical Petri nets. This is then extended with data, valuation when certain probes seek a value for their
time, and hierarchy to model all aspects of a process. unvalued features by identifying a goal. Provocation
Finally, the book explores analysis of Petri net models forces the generation of a copy of the goal; the copy
to detect design flaws and errors in the design process. originates outside the original phrase marker and must
The text, accessible to a broad audience of profession- then be introduced into it. In this approach, movement
als and students, keeps technicalities to a minimum is not forced by the need for extra positions; extra posi-
and offers numerous examples to illustrate the concepts tions are generated because movement is taking place.
covered. Exercises at different levels of difficulty make After presenting the central proposal and showing
the book ideal for independent study or classroom use. its implementation in the analyses of various familiar
Wil van der Aalst is Professor of Information Systems at
cases of syntactic movement, Branigan demonstrates
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He is the effects of provocation in a variety of inversion
the coauthor (with Kees van Hee) of Workflow Management: constructions, examines interactions between head
Models, Methods, and Systems (MIT Press, 2004). Christian
Stahl is a postdoctural researcher at Eindhoven University and phrasal provocation within the “left periphery” of
of Technology. Germanic embedded clauses, and describes the details
of chain formation and successive cyclic movement in
May — 7 x 9, 376 pp. — 257 illus.
a provocation model.
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Phil Branigan is Associate Professor in the Department of
978-0-262-01538-7
Linguistics at Memorial University in Newfoundland.
Cooperative Information Systems series
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Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 61

PROFESSIONAL
linguistics linguistics
EDGE-BASED CLAUSAL SYNTAX ANAPHORA AND LANGUAGE DESIGN

A Study of (Mostly) English Object Structure Eric J. Reuland
Paul M. Postal Pronouns and anaphors (including reflexives such as
In Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Paul Postal rejects the himself and herself ) may or must depend on antecedents
notion that an English phrase of the form [V + DP] for their interpretation. These dependencies are subject
invariably involves a grammatical relation properly to conditions that prima facie show substantial crosslin-
characterized as a direct object. He argues instead that guistic variation. In this monograph, Eric Reuland
An argument that at least three distinct relations A study on anaphoric presents a theory of how these
there are three kinds occur in such a structure. The dependencies that anaphoric dependencies are
of English grammatical different syntactic properties of derives the conditions represented in natural language
objects, each with on anaphora in natural
these three kinds of objects are in a way that does justice to
different syntactic language from the
properties. shown by how they behave in design properties of the variation one finds across
passives, middles, -able forms, the language system. languages. He explains the
tough movement, wh-movement, Heavy NP Shift, conditions of these dependen-
Ride Node Raising, re-prefixation, and many other cies in terms of elementary properties of the computa-
tests. This proposal renders Postal’s position sharply tional system of natural language. He shows that the
different from that of Chomsky, who defined a direct encoding of anaphoric dependencies makes use of
object structurally as [NP, VP], and with the traditional components of the language system that all reflect dif-
linguistics text’s definition of the direct object as the ferent cognitive capacities; thus the empirical research
DP sister of V. he reports on offers insights into the design of the
According to Postal’s framework, sentence structures language system.
are complex graph structures built on nodes (vertices) Reuland’s account reduces the conditions on binding
and edges (arcs). The node that heads a particular edge to independent properties of the grammar, none of
represents a constituent that bears the grammatical which is specific to binding. He offers a principled
relation named by the edge label to its tail node. This account of the roles of the lexicon, syntax, semantics,
approach allows two DPs that have very different and the discourse component in the encoding of
grammatical properties to occupy what looks like iden- anaphoric dependencies; a window into the overall
tical structural positions. organization of the grammar and the roles of linguistic
The contrasting behaviors of direct objects, which at and extralinguistic factors; a new typology of anaphoric
first seem anomalous — even grammatically chaotic — expressions; a view of crosslinguistic variation (examin-
emerge in Postal’s account as nonanomalous, as symp- ing facts in a range of languages, from English, Dutch,
toms of hitherto ungrasped structural regularity. Frisian, German, and Scandinavian languages to Fijian,
Paul M. Postal is Adjunct/Research Professor in the
Georgian, and Malayalam) that shows unity in diversity.
Department of Linguistics at New York University. He is the Eric J. Reuland is Faculty Professor of Language and Cognition
author of On Raising: An Inquiry into One Rule of English at Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Netherlands.
Grammar and Its Theoretical Implications (1974) and Three
Investigations of Extraction (1999), and the coeditor of
Parasitic Gaps (2000), all published by the MIT Press. February — 6 x 9, 440 pp.
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PROFESSIONAL
computer science robotics
QUANTUM COMPUTING INTRODUCTION TO

A Gentle Introduction AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS
Eleanor Rieffel and Wolfgang Polak Second Edition
The combination of two of the twentieth century’s Roland Siegwart, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, and
Davide Scaramuzza
most influential and revolutionary scientific theories,
information theory and quantum mechanics, gave rise Mobile robots range from the Mars Pathfinder mission’s
to a radically new view of computing and information. teleoperated Sojourner to the cleaning robots in the
Paris Metro. This text offers
A thorough exposition of Quantum information process- The second edition
quantum computing and ing explores the implications of of a comprehensive students and other interested
the underlying concepts using quantum mechanics introduction to all readers an introduction to the
of quantum physics, aspects of mobile fundamentals of mobile robot-
instead of classical mechanics
with explanations of the robotics, from
relevant mathematics to model information and its algorithms to
ics, spanning the mechanical,
and numerous examples. processing. Quantum comput- mechanisms. motor, sensory, perceptual, and
ing is not about changing the cognitive layers the field com-
physical substrate on which computation is done from prises. The text focuses on mobility itself, offering an
classical to quantum but about changing the notion of overview of the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot
computation itself, at the most basic level. The funda- to move through a real world environment to perform
mental unit of computation is no longer the bit but the its tasks, including locomotion, sensing, localization,
quantum bit or qubit. This comprehensive introduction and motion planning. It synthesizes material from such
to the field offers a thorough exposition of quantum fields as kinematics, control theory, signal analysis, com-
computing and the underlying concepts of quantum puter vision, information theory, artificial intelligence,
physics, explaining all the relevant mathematics and and probability theory.
offering numerous examples. With its careful develop- This second edition has been revised and updated
ment of concepts and thorough explanations, the book throughout, with 130 pages of new material on such
makes quantum computing accessible to students and topics as locomotion, perception, localization, and
professionals in mathematics, computer science, and planning and navigation. Problem sets have been added
engineering. A reader with no prior knowledge of at the end of each chapter. Bringing together all aspects
quantum physics (but with sufficient knowledge of lin- of mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction to
ear algebra) will be able to gain a fluent understanding Autonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook or
by working through the book. a working tool for beginning practitioners.
Eleanor Rieffel is Senior Research Scientist at FX Palo Alto Roland Siegwart is Professor of Autonomous Systems and
Laboratory. Wolfgang Polak is a computer science consultant. Director of the Center for Product Design at the Institute of
Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zürich. Illah R. Nourbakhsh
is Professor of Robotics and Director of the CREATE Lab in the
April — 7 x 9, 384 pp. — 79 illus. Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, at Carnegie
Mellon University. Davide Scaramuzza is Senior Researcher at
$45.00S/£33.95 cloth
the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich, where he is also
978-0-262-01506-6
a lecturer and leader of the European project sFly.
Scientific and Engineering Computation series
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PROFESSIONAL
computer science/artificial intelligence business/information science
METAREASONING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Thinking about Thinking IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
edited by Michael T. Cox and Anita Raja Second Edition
foreword by Eric Horvitz Kimiz Dalkir
The capacity to think about our own thinking may lie foreword by Jay Liebowitz
at the heart of what it means to be both human and The ability to manage knowledge has become increas-
intelligent. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have ingly important in today’s knowledge economy.
Experts report on investigated these matters for A comprehensive text
Knowledge is considered a
the latest artificial many years. Researchers in and reference provides valuable commodity, embed-
intelligence research artificial intelligence have both substantive ded in products and in the
concerning reasoning theoretical grounding tacit knowledge of highly
gone further, attempting to
about reasoning itself. and pragmatic advice on
implement actual machines applying key concepts. mobile individual employees.
that mimic, simulate, and perhaps even replicate this Knowledge management
capacity, called metareasoning. In this volume, leading (KM) represents a deliberate and systematic approach
authorities offer a variety of perspectives — drawn from to cultivating and sharing an organization’s knowledge
philosophy, cognitive psychology, and computer science base. It is a highly multidisciplinary field that encom-
— on reasoning about the reasoning process. passes both information technology and intellectual
The book offers a simple model of reasoning capital. This textbook and professional reference offers a
about reason as a framework for its discussions. Taken comprehensive overview of the field of KM, providing
together, the chapters offer an integrated narrative on both a substantive theoretical grounding and a prag-
metareasoning themes from both artificial intelligence matic approach to applying key concepts. Drawing on
and cognitive science perspectives. ideas, tools, and techniques from such disciplines as
sociology, cognitive science, organizational behavior,
CONTRIBUTORS George Alexander, Michael L. Anderson,
Josep Lluís Arcos, Brett J. Borghetti, Vincent Conitzer, and information science, the text describes KM theory
Michael T. Cox, Susan L. Epstein, Scott Fults, Melinda Gervasio, and practice at the individual, community, and organi-
Yolanda Gil, Maria Gini, Ashok K. Goel, Andrew S. Gordon, zational levels. It offers illuminating case studies and
Justin Hart, Jerry R. Hobbs, Eric Horvitz, Joshua Jones,
Darsana Josyula, Catriona M. Kennedy, Jihie Kim, Michael Krainin, vignettes from companies including IBM, Xerox,
Robert Laddaga, David B. Leake, Victor R. Lesser, Fabrizio Morbini, British Telecommunications, JP Morgan Chase, and
Oğuz Mülâyim, David Musliner, Karen Myers, Tim Oates, Don Perlis, Nokia. This second edition has been updated and
Smiljana Petrovic, Anita Raja, Paul Robertson, Zachary B. Rubinstein,
Brian Scassellati, Matthew D. Schmill, Lenhart Schubert, revised throughout.
Hamid Shahri, Aaron Sloman, Stephen F. Smith, Shomir Wilson,
Kimiz Dalkir is Associate Professor in McGill University’s
Dean Wright, Shlomo Zilberstein, Terry L. Zimmerman
Graduate School of Information and Library Studies.
A practitioner in the field for seventeen years, she has
Michael T. Cox is Program Manager at DARPA (Defense advised more than twenty companies on the design,
Advanced Research Projects Agency). Anita Raja is Associate development, and evaluation of knowledge-based systems.
Professor in the Department of Software and Information
Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION
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we will make an exception.”
— Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
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PROFESSIONAL
biology
NAKED GENES
Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age
Helga Nowotny and Giuseppe Testa
The interaction between new
translated by Mitch Cohen
forms of biological life and
The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet the new forms of social life in
more we learn about our own biology, the less we are able to fit this knowledge modern democracies.
into an integrated whole. Life is divided into new sub-units and reassembled into
new forms: from genes to clones, from embryonic stages to the building-blocks March
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status of their own and take on multiple values and meanings as they pass from
labs to courts, from patent offices to parliaments and back. In Naked Genes,
leading science scholar Helga Nowotny and molecular biologist Giuseppe Testa Also available
examine the interaction between these dramatic advances in the life sciences and INSATIABLE CURIOSITY
equally dramatic political reconfigurations of our societies. They bring wit and Innovation in a Fragile Future
freshness of perspective to ongoing debates over topics ranging from assisted Helga Nowotny
translated by Mitch Cohen
reproduction and personalized medicine to genetic sports doping, revealing both 2010, 978-0-262-51510-8
surprising continuities and radical discontinuities between the latest advances in $15.00S/£11.95 paper
the life sciences and long-standing human traditions. The task of institutions in
the molecular age, they argue, is to make a pluralistic society possible by carving
a legitimate free space that allows experimentation with new forms of biological
life as well as with new forms of social life.
Helga Nowotny is President of the European Research Council and
Professor Emerita of ETH Zurich, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board,
University of Vienna, and author of Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a
Fragile Future (MIT Press, 2008, 2010) and other books. Giuseppe Testa
heads the Laboratory of Stem Cell Epigenetics at the European Institute
for Oncology (IEO) in Milan and is the cofounder of the interdisciplinary
PhD program FOLSATEC (Foundations of the Life Sciences and Their
Ethical Consequences) in Milan.

PROFESSIONAL
information science science, technology, and society/history
THE ATLAS OF NEW LIBRARIANSHIP ENTANGLED GEOGRAPHIES

R. David Lankes Empire and Technopolitics
in the Global Cold War
Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the
library field is searching for solid footing in an increas-
edited by Gabrielle Hecht
ingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers.
environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but
from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In also in the social and political arenas of geographically
An essential guide to a The Atlas of New Librarianship, Investigations into
far-flung countries emerging
librarianship based not R. David Lankes offers a guide how technologies from colonial rule. Moreover,
on books and artifacts to this new landscape for became peculiar Cold War tensions were mani-
but on knowledge and forms of politics in fest not only in global political
practitioners. He describes a
learning. an expanded geography
new librarianship based not of the Cold War.
disputes but also in struggles
on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; over technology. Technological
and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape
society through facilitating knowledge creation in their countries politically, economically, socially, and culturally.
communities. Entangled Geographies explores how Cold War politics,
The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became
finding library-related uses for information technology entangled in technologies and considers the legacies
and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation of those entanglements for today’s globalized world.
for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library The essays address such topics as the islands and
practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge atolls taken over for military and technological pur-
is created though conversation. New librarians approach poses by the supposedly non-imperial United States,
their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to apartheid-era South Africa’s efforts to achieve interna-
enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations tional legitimacy as a nuclear nation, international
of their communities. technical assistance and Cold War politics, the Saudi
To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes irrigation system that spurred a Shi’i rebellion, and the
offers a map, a visual representation of the field that momentary technopolitics of emergency as practiced
can guide explorations of it; more than 140 by Médecins sans Frontières.
Agreements, statements about librarianship that range The contributors to Entangled Geographies offer
from relevant theories to examples of practice; and insights from the anthropology and history of develop-
Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ment, from diplomatic history, and from science and
ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations technology studies. The book represents a unique
and skills and values. Agreement Supplements at the synthesis of these three disciplines, achieving new
end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although perspectives on the global Cold War.
it touches on theory as well as practice, the Atlas is
meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, plat- CONTRIBUTORS Itty Abraham, Lars Denicke, Gabrielle Hecht,
Toby C. Jones, Martha Lampland, Clapperton Mavhunga,
form for social networking, and call to action. Donna C. Mehos, Suzanne Moon, Ruth Oldenziel, Peter Redfield,
R. David Lankes is Associate Professor in Syracuse University’s Sonja D. Schmid
School of Information Studies and Director of the Library and
Information Science Program there. Gabrielle Hecht is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Michigan and the author of The Radiance of
France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II
April — 10 x 10, 448 pp. — 243 ilus. (updated edition, MIT Press, 2009).
$55.00S/£40.95 cloth
978-0-262-01509-7 March — 6 x 9, 360 pp. — 11 illus.
Copublished with the Association of College and Research Libraries $30.00S/£22.95 paper
978-0-262-51578-8
Inside Technology series

PROFESSIONAL
science, technology, and society/cognitive science Information technology
HANDLING DIGITAL BRAINS EVERYDAY INFORMATION

A Laboratory Study of Multimodal Semiotic The Evolution of Information Seeking
Interactions in the Age of Computers in America
Morana Alac̆ edited by William Aspray and Barbara M. Hayes
The results of fMRI brain scanning require extensive All day, every day, Americans seek information. We
analysis in the laboratory. In Handling Digital Brains, research major purchases. We check news and sports.
Morana Alac̆ shows that fMRI researchers do not sit We visit government Web sites for public information
An analysis of how
passively staring at computer An intimate, everyday
and turn to friends for advice
fMRI researchers actively screens but actively involve perspective on about our everyday lives.
involve their bodies — their bodies in laboratory prac- information-seeking Although the Internet influ-
with hand movements tice. Discussing fMRI visuals behavior, reaching into ences our information-seeking
in particular — in the social context of
laboratory practice.
with colleagues, scientists ani- American history and
behavior, we gather informa-
mate the scans with gestures, American homes. tion from many sources: family
and talk as they work with computers. Alac̆ argues and friends, television and
that to understand how digital scientific visuals take on radio, books and magazines, experts and community
meaning we must consider their dynamic coordination leaders. Patterns of information seeking have evolved
with gesture, speech, and working hands. These multi- throughout American history and are shaped by a num-
modal actions, she suggests, are an essential component ber of forces, including war, modern media, the state of
of digital scientific visuals. the economy, and government regulation. This book
A semiotician trained in cognitive science, Alac̆ examines the evolution of information seeking in nine
grounds her discussion in concepts from Peirce’s areas of everyday American life.
semiotics and her methodology in ethnography Chapters offer an information perspective on car
and multimodal conversation analysis. Basing her buying, from the days of the Model T to the present;
observations on videotaped records of activity in three philanthropic and charitable activities; airline travel and
fMRI research labs, Alac̆ describes scientists’ manual the complex layers of information available to passen-
engagement with digital visuals of the human brain. gers; genealogy, from the family Bible to Ancestry.com;
Doing so, she turns her attention to the issue of sports statistics, as well as fantasy sports leagues and
practical thinking. Alac̆ argues that although fMRI their fans’ obsession with them; the multimedia uni-
technology directs scientists to consider human think- verse of gourmet cooking; governmental and publicly
ing in terms of an individual brain, scientific practices available information; reading, sharing, and creating
in the fMRI lab demonstrate thinking that engages comics; and text messaging among young people as a
the whole lived body and the world in which the way to exchange information and manage relation-
body is situated. The turn toward the digital does not ships. Taken together, these case studies provide a fas-
bring with it abstraction but a manual and embodied cinating window on the importance of information in
engagement. The practical and multimodal engagement the past century of American life.
with digital brains in the laboratory challenges certain William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information
assumptions behind fMRI technology; it suggests Technologies at the School of Information, University of
our hands are essential to learning and the making of Texas at Austin. Barbara M. Hayes is the Associate Dean for
Administration and Planning at Indiana University School
meaning. of Informatics at Indiana University–Purdue University
Indianapolis. Hayes and Aspray are coeditors of Health
Morana Alac̆ is Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics: A Patient-Centered Approach to Diabetes
Communication and Program in Science Studies at the (MIT Press, 2010).
University of California, San Diego.
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PROFESSIONAL
law/technology policy Internet studies/sociology
INTERFACES ON TRIAL 2.0 DIGITALLY ENABLED SOCIAL CHANGE

Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh Activism in the Internet Age
foreword by Ed Black Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport
We live in an interoperable world. Computer hardware Much attention has been paid in recent years to the
and software products from different manufacturers can emergence of “Internet activism,” but scholars and
exchange data within local networks and around the pundits disagree over whether online political activity
world using the Internet. The competition enabled by is different in kind from more traditional forms of
The debate over the
this compatibility between An investigation into activism. Does the global reach
use of copyright law devices has led to fast-paced how specific Web and blazing speed of the
to prevent competition innovation and prices low technologies can Internet affect the essential
and interoperability in enough to allow ordinary users change the dynamics
character or dynamics of
the global software of organizing and
industry. to command extraordinary participating in political online political protest?
computing capacity. and social protest. In Digitally Enabled Social
In Interfaces on Trial 2.0, Jonathan Band and Change, Jennifer Earl and
Masanobu Katoh investigate an often overlooked Katrina Kimport examine key characteristics of Web
factor in the development of today’s interoperable activism and investigate their impacts on organizing
world: the evolution of copyright law. Because software and participation.
is copyrightable, copyright law determines the rules for Earl and Kimport argue that the Web offers two
competition in the information technology industry. key affordances relevant to activism: sharply reduced
This book — a follow-up to Band and Katoh’s costs for creating, organizing, and participating in
successful 1995 book Interfaces on Trial — examines protest; and the decreased need for activists to be phys-
the debates surrounding the use of copyright law to ically present together in order to act together. A rally
prevent competition and interoperability in the global can be organized and demonstrators recruited entirely
software industry in the last fifteen years. online, without the cost of printing and mailing; an
Band and Katoh are longtime advocates for interop- activist can create an online petition in minutes and
erable devices but present a reasoned view of contentious gather e-signatures from coast to coast using only her
issues related to interoperability issues in the United laptop. Drawing on evidence from samples of online
States, the European Union, and the Pacific Rim petitions, boycotts, and letter-writing and e-mailing
and recent legal developments affecting the future campaigns, Earl and Kimport show that the more
of interoperability, including those related to open these affordances are leveraged, the more transforma-
source-software and software patents. tive the changes to organizing and participating in
Jonathan Band is an attorney who has written more than protest; the less these affordances are leveraged, the
100 articles on intellectual property and the Internet. He is more superficial the changes. The transformative
an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center.
Masanobu Katoh is the former head of the Law and Intellectual
nature of these changes, Earl and Kimport suggest,
Property Unit of Fujitsu Limited, a global information demonstrate the need to revisit long-standing theoreti-
technology company based in Japan. cal assumptions about social movements.
March — 6 x 9, 248 pp. — 1 illus. Jennifer Earl is Associate Professor of Sociology at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. Katrina Kimport is a
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth Research Sociologist with ANSIRH, part of the Bixby Center
978-0-262-01500-4 for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California,
San Francisco.
The Information Society series
March — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 7 illus.
$32.00S/£23.95 cloth
978-0-262-01510-3
Acting with Technology series

PROFESSIONAL
game studies game studies/cinema studies
IN-GAME THE MACHINIMA READER

Immersion to Incorporation edited by Henry Lowood and Michael Nitsche
Gordon Calleja Over the last decade, machinima — the use of computer
Digital games offer a vast range of engaging experi- game engines to create movies — has emerged as a
ences, from the serene exploration of beautifully ren- vibrant area in digital culture. Machinima as a filmmak-
dered landscapes to the deeply cognitive challenges ing tool grew from the bottom up, driven by enthusiasts
presented by strategic simulations to the adrenaline who taught themselves to deploy technologies from
An investigation of what rush of competitive team-based The first critical computer games to create
makes digital games shoot-outs. Digital games overview of an emerging animated films quickly and
engaging to players and enable experiences that are field, with contributions cheaply. The Machinima Reader
a reexamination of the from both scholars and
considerably different from is the first critical overview of
concept of immersion. artist-practitioners.
a reader’s engagement with this rapidly developing field.
literature or a moviegoer’s experience of a movie. In The contributors include both academics and artist-
In-Game, Gordon Calleja examines what exactly it is practitioners. They explore machinima from multiple
that makes digital games so uniquely involving and perspectives, ranging from technical aspects of machin-
offers a new, more precise, and game-specific formula- ima, from real-time production to machinima as a per-
tion of this involvement. formative and cinematic medium, while paying close
One of the most commonly yet vaguely deployed attention to the legal, cultural, and pedagogical con-
concepts in the industry and academia alike is immer- texts for machinima.
sion — a player’s sensation of inhabiting the space This is the first book to chart the emergence of
represented onscreen. Overuse of this term has dimin- machinima as a game-based cultural production that
ished its analytical value and confused its meaning, spans technologies and media, forming new communi-
both in analysis and design. Rather than conceiving ties of practice on its way to a history, an aesthetic, and
of immersion as a single experience, Calleja views it as a market.
blending different experiential phenomena afforded by
CONTRIBUTORS Jeffrey Bardzell, Matteo Bittanti,
involving gameplay. He proposes a framework (based David Cameron, John Carroll, Erik Champion, Ricard Gras,
on qualitative research) to describe these phenomena: Robert Terry Jones, Matt Kelland, Friedrich Kirschner, Peter Krapp,
the player involvement model. The intensified and Danny Kringiel, Henry Lowood, Lev Manovich, Ali Mazalek,
Michael Nitsche, Matthew Payne, Michael Pigott, Dan Pinchbeck,
internalized experiential blend can culminate in incor- Katie Salen, Gareth Schott, Bevin Yeatman
poration — a concept that Calleja proposes as an alter-
native to the problematic immersion. Incorporation, he Henry Lowood is Curator for History of Science and Technology
Collections and Film and Media Collections in the Stanford
argues, is a more accurate metaphor, providing a robust University Libraries. Michael Nitsche is Associate Professor
foundation for future research and design. in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at
the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of
Gordon Calleja is Assistant Professor and Head of the Center Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds
of Computer Games Research at the IT University of (MIT Press, 2009).
Copenhagen.
May — 8 x 9, 352 pp. — 40 illus.

April — 6 x 9, 232 pp. — 30 illus.
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth 978-0-262-01533-2
978-0-262-01546-2

PROFESSIONAL
computer science
DIVINING A DIGITAL FUTURE

Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing
Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell
A sociotechnical investigation of
ubiquitous computing as a research Ubiquitous computing (or “ubicomp”) is the label for a third wave of computing
enterprise and as a lived reality. technologies. Following the eras of the mainframe computer and the desktop
PC, ubicomp is characterized by small and powerful computing devices that
April are worn, carried, or embedded in the world around us. The ubicomp research
6 x 9, 272 pp. agenda originated at Xerox PARC in the late 1980s; these days, some form
4 illus.
of that vision is a reality for the millions of users of Internet-enabled phones,
$32.00S/£23.95 cloth GPS devices, wireless networks, and “smart” domestic appliances. In Divining
978-0-262-01555-4
a Digital Future, computer scientist Paul Dourish and cultural anthropologist
Genevieve Bell explore the vision that has driven the ubiquitous computing
Also available research program and the contemporary practices that have emerged — both
WHERE THE ACTION IS the motivating mythology and the everyday messiness of lived experience.
The Foundations of Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the authors’ collaboration, the book
Embodied Interaction
takes seriously the need to understand ubicomp not only technically but also
Paul Dourish
2004, 978-0-262-54178-7 culturally, socially, politically, and economically. Dourish and Bell map the ter-
$23.00S/£17.95 paper rain of contemporary ubiquitous computing, in the research community and in
daily life; explore dominant narratives in ubiquitous computing around such
topics as infrastructure, mobility, privacy, and domesticity; and suggest directions
for future investigation, particularly with respect to methodology and conceptual
foundations.
Paul Dourish is Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of
Information and Computer Sciences with courtesy appointments in
Computer Science and Anthropology at the University of California,
Irvine. He is the author of Where the Action Is: The Foundations of
Embodied Interaction (MIT Press, 2001, 2004). Genevieve Bell is an
Intel Fellow and the Director of Intel’s first user-focused research
and development lab, Interactions and Experiences Research.

PROFESSIONAL
digital humanities computer science/computer music
PROGRAMMED VISIONS THE SUPERCOLLIDER BOOK

Software and Memory edited by Scott Wilson,
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun David Cottle, and Nick Collins
foreword by James McCartney
New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and
renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, SuperCollider is the most important domain-specific
from the dot-com bust to the next big things — mobile audio programming language of the last decade, with
mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed potential applications that include real-time interaction,
installations, electroacoustic
A theoretical examination Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong The essential reference
of the surprising Chun argues that these cycles to SuperCollider, a pieces, generative music, and
emergence of software result in part from the ways in powerful, flexible, audiovisuals. The SuperCollider
as a guiding metaphor open-source, cross- Book is the essential reference
which new media encapsulates
for our neoliberal world. platform audio
a logic of programmability. to this powerful and flexible
programming language.
New media proliferates “programmed visions,” which language, offering students and
seek to shape and predict — even embody — a future professionals a collection of tutorials, essays, and projects.
based on past data. These programmed visions have SuperCollider, first developed by James McCartney,
also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors is an accessible blend of Smalltalk, C, and further
for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability. ideas from a number of programming languages. Free,
Chun argues that the clarity offered by software as open-source, cross-platform, and with a diverse and
metaphor should make us pause, because software also supportive developer community, it is often the first
engenders a profound sense of ignorance: who knows programming language sound artists and computer
what lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind the musicians learn. The SuperCollider Book is the long-
objects we click and manipulate? The less we know, the awaited guide to the design, syntax, and use of the
more we are shown. This paradox, Chun argues, does SuperCollider language. The first chapters offer an
not diminish new media’s power, but rather grounds introduction to the basics, including a friendly tutorial
computing’s appeal. Its combination of what can be for absolute beginners, providing the reader with skills
seen and not seen, known (knowable) and not known that can serve as a foundation for further learning.
— its separation of interface from algorithm and soft- Later chapters cover more advanced topics and partic-
ware from hardware — makes it a powerful metaphor ular topics in computer music, including programming,
for everything we believe is invisible yet generates visi- sonification, spatialization, microsound, GUIs,
ble, logical effects, from genetics to the invisible hand machine listening, alternative tunings, and non-real-
of the market, from ideology to culture. time synthesis; practical applications and philosophical
insights from the composer’s and artist’s perspectives;
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, who has studied both systems design
and English literature, is Professor of Modern Culture and and “under the hood,” developer’s-eye views of
Media at Brown University. She is the author of Control and SuperCollider’s inner workings.
Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT
Press, 2006, 2008). Scott Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University
of Birmingham, England. David Cottle is Lecturer Associate
Professor at the School of Music, University of Utah. Nick
April — 7 x 9, 248 pp. — 27 illus. Collins is Lecturer in Music Informatics at the University
$32.00S/£23.95 cloth of Sussex.
978-0-262-01542-4
April — 8 x 9, 784 pp. — 420 illus.
Software Studies series
$45.00S/£33.95 cloth
978-0-262-23269-2

PROFESSIONAL
art/technology digital humanities
SYNTHETICS CODE/SPACE
Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, Software and Everyday Life
1956–1975 Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge
Stephen Jones
After little more than half a century since its initial
New technologies continually arise, offering repeated development, computer code is extensively and inti-
opportunities to artists in search of the technologically mately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives.
novel. Stephen Jones calls this phenomenon the “rolling From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air
A critical and compre-
new,” and in Synthetics he An analysis of the ways traffic control system that
hensive account of the describes how artists in that software creates new guides our plane in for a
emergence of electronic Australia used new technolo- spatialities in everyday landing, software is shaping
arts in Australia. gies in their art, from the early life, from supermarket
our world: it creates new ways
checkout lines to airline
days of digital computing in the 1950s to a landmark flight paths. of undertaking tasks, speeds
exhibition in 1975. Jones looks at not only the artists up and automates existing
and the artworks they produced but also at the evolu- practices, transforms social and economic relations, and
tion of computing technologies and video displays as offers new forms of cultural activity, personal empower-
these new forms of media developed into tools that ment, and modes of play. In Code/Space, Rob Kitchin
artists could use. He also examines the collaborations and Martin Dodge examine software from a spatial
that sprang up between artists and the technologists perspective, analyzing the dyadic relationship of soft-
who taught them how to use these new devices. The ware and space. The production of space, they argue,
process, he finds, was reciprocal: the offerings of the is increasingly dependent on code, and code is written
engineer could inspire the artist as much as the needs to produce space.
of the artist could inspire the engineer. Kitchin and Dodge develop a set of conceptual
Jones discusses the constraints imposed by the tools for identifying and understanding the interrela-
limitations of new technologies as they developed tionship of software, space, and everyday life, and
and shows that different types of output and display illustrate their arguments with rich empirical material.
technologies made for the production of very different And, finally, they issue a manifesto, calling for critical
kinds of images. By 1975, the art and technology scholarship into the production and workings of code
movement in Australia reached something of a rather than simply the technologies it enables — a new
watershed. The work itself became established as kind of social science focused on explaining the social,
an art form just as funding dwindled and a popular economic, and spatial contours of software.
and supportive left-wing government left office. And
Rob Kitchin is Professor of Human Geography and Director
yet, Jones writes, the early electronic artists laid the of the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis at
foundation for today’s burgeoning culture of new the National University of Maynooth, Ireland. Martin Dodge
is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of
media art in Australia. Manchester’s School of Environment and Development. Kitchin
and Dodge are the authors of Mapping Cyberspace and Atlas
Stephen Jones is an Australian video artist and electronic
of Cyberspace.
engineer.
March — 7 x 9, 296 pp. — 69 illus.

March — 7 x 9, 408 pp. — 108 illus.
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978-0-262-04248-2
978-0-262-01496-0
Software Studies series
A Leonardo Book

PROFESSIONAL
education/technology neuroscience/cognitive science
QUEST TO LEARN PERCEPTION BEYOND INFERENCE

Developing the School for Digital Kids The Information Content of Visual Processes
Katie Salen, Robert Torres, Loretta Wolozin, edited by Liliana Albertazzi, Gert J. van Tonder,
Rebecca Rufo-Tepper, and Arana Shapiro and Dhanraj Vishwanath
Quest to Learn, an innovative school for grades 6 to This book brings together a multidisciplinary group of
12 in New York City, grew out of the idea that gaming authors who offer proposals for a clearer and more
and game design offer a promising new paradigm for coherent effort to understand the information content
The design for Quest
curriculum and learning. This Proposing a new
of perception. Their arguments
to Learn, an innovative research and development paradigm for perceptual arise from a dissatisfaction
school in New York City document outlines the learning science that goes beyond with the current research para-
that offers a “game-like” framework for the school, standard information digms for studying the mind.
approach to learning. theory and digital
making the original design computation.
These traditional approaches,
available to others in the field. based on standard information
Katie Salen, Executive Director of Design at Quest to Learn, is theory and digital computation, now seem unsuited for
Professor of Design and Technology at Parsons the New School dealing with the levels of complexity inherent in under-
for Design. She is the coauthor of Rules of Play: Game Design standing the full scope of mental processes.
Fundamentals (2003) and coeditor of The Game Design Reader:
A Rules of Play Anthology (2005), both published by the The contributors counter the widely held assump-
MIT Press. tion of “perception as inference” — the idea that pre-
ception is a process of reconstructing or recognizing
January — 5 3/8 x 8, 164 pp. — 5 illus.
objective information already constituted in the exter-
$14.00S/£10.95 paper nal environment. Instead, they propose the opposite:
978-0-262-51565-8
that perception involves the creation of information,
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on that the mind intentionally perceives, actively generat-
Digital Media and Learning
ing a meaningful reality.
education/technology CONTRIBUTORS Liliana Albertazzi, Ohad Ben-Shahar,
Ernest Edmonds, Timothy L. Hubbard, Amy Ione,
DIGITAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY Jan J. Koenderink, Ilana Kovács, Rainer Mausfeld, Baingio Pinna,
Shinsuke Shimojo, Gert J. van Tonder, Dhanraj Vishwanath,
IN AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS, Stephen W. Zucker
LIBRARIES, AND MUSEUMS
Becky Herr-Stephenson, Diana Rhoten, Liliana Albertazzi is Associate Professor in the Faculty of
Cognitive Science at Trento University, Italy. Gert J. van Tonder
Dan Perkel, and Christo Sims is Professor of Vision Research and Adjunct Professor at the
with contributions from Anne Balsamo, Laboratory of Visual Psychology, Department of Architecture
Maura Klosterman, and Susana Smith Bautista and Design, at Kyoto Institute of Technology. Dhanraj Vishwanath
is RCUK (Research Councils UK) Academic Fellow in the School
An investigation of how The authors of this report of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
three kinds of youth
review a range of programs
organizations have
and then use the idea of “media March — 7 x 9, 440 pp. — 4 color illus., 130 black & white illus.
integrated digital
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play) in these “intermediary spaces for learning.”

Becky Herr-Stephenson is a postdoctoral researcher at the
University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
Diana Rhoten is leader of the MacArthur Foundation–funded
Learning Networks project in New York City. Dan Perkel and
Christo Sims are PhD candidates at the School of Information
at the University of California, Berkeley.
January — 5 3/8 x 8, 96 pp.

$14.00S/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51576-4
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on
Digital Media and Learning
PROFESSIONAL
philosophy/psychology
YUCK!
The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust
Daniel Kelly
An exploration of the character and
evolution of disgust and the role People can be disgusted by the concrete and by the abstract — by an object they
this emotion plays in our social find physically repellent or by an ideology or value system they find morally
and moral lives. abhorrent. Different things will disgust different people, depending on individual
sensibilities or cultural backgrounds. In Yuck!, Daniel Kelly investigates the char-
July acter and evolution of disgust, with an emphasis on understanding the role this
6 x 9, 208 pp. emotion has come to play in our social and moral lives.
5 illus.
Disgust has recently been riding a swell of scholarly attention, especially
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01558-5
from those in the cognitive sciences and those in the humanities in the midst of
the “affective turn.” Kelly surveys the empirical literature and experimental
Life and Mind series
results relevant to disgust and proposes a cognitive model that can accommo-
date what we now know about it. He offers a new account of the evolution of
disgust that builds on the model and argues that expressions of disgust are part
of a sophisticated but largely automatic signaling system that humans use to
transmit information about what to avoid in the local environment. Drawing on
gene culture coevolutionary theory, Kelly argues that disgust was co-opted to
play certain roles in our moral psychology. He shows that many of the puzzling
features of moral repugnance tinged with disgust are by-prod-
ucts of the imperfect fit between a cognitive system that
evolved to protect against poisons and parasites and the social
and moral issues on which it has been brought to bear. Kelly’s
account of this emotion provides a powerful argument against
invoking disgust in the service of moral justification.
Daniel Kelly is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at
Purdue University.

PROFESSIONAL
psychology/bioethics philosophy/psychology
THE ETHICAL TREATMENT ADDICTION AND RESPONSIBILITY

OF DEPRESSION edited by Jeffrey Poland and George Graham
Autonomy through Psychotherapy Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict’s hap-
Paul Biegler piness and health but also the welfare and well-being of
One in six people worldwide will experience depression others. It represents a loss of self-control and a variety
over the course of a lifetime. Many who seek relief of other cognitive impairments and behavioral deficits.
through the healthcare system are treated with antide- An addict may say, “I couldn’t help myself.” But ques-
A philosopher argues pressant medication; in the The intertwining tions arise: are we responsible
there is an ethical United States, nearly 170 of addiction and for our addictions? And what
imperative to provide million prescriptions for responsibility in responsibilities do others have
psychotherapy to personal, philosophical,
antidepressants were written to help us? This volume offers
depressed patients legal, research, and
because the insights in 2005, resulting in more clinical contexts. a range of perspectives on
gained from it promote than $12 billion in sales. And addiction and responsibility
autonomy. yet despite the dominance of and how the two are bound together. Distinguished
antidepressants in the marketplace and the consulting contributors — from theorists to clinicians, from neuro-
room, another treatment for depression has proven scientists and psychologists to philosophers and legal
equally effective: psychotherapy — in particular, scholars — discuss these questions in essays using a
cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Antidepressants variety of conceptual and investigative tools.
can lift mood independent of a person’s understanding Some contributors offer models of addiction-related
of symptoms or stressors. By contrast, CBT teaches phenomena, including theories of incentive sensitization,
patients skills for dealing with distressing feelings, ego-depletion, and pathological affect; others address
negative thoughts, and causal stressors. In The Ethical such traditional philosophical questions as free will and
Treatment of Depression, Paul Biegler argues that the agency, mind-body, and other minds. Two essays, writ-
insights patients gain from the therapeutic process ten by scholars who were themselves addicts, attempt
promote autonomy. He shows that depression is a to integrate first-person phenomenological accounts
disorder in which autonomy is routinely and extensively with the third-person perspective of the sciences.
undermined and that physicians have a moral obligation CONTRIBUTORS George Ainslie, Sheila M. Alessi,
to promote the autonomy of depressed patients. He Kent C. Berridge, Louis C. Charland, Owen Flanagan,
concludes that medical practitioners have an ethical Richard Garrett, George Graham, Neil Levy, Stephen J. Morse,
Nancy M. Petry, Jeffrey Poland, Nancy Nyquist Potter,
imperative to prescribe psychotherapy — CBT in Carla J. Rash, Terry E. Robinson, Gideon Yaffe
particular — for depression.
To make his case, Biegler draws on a wide philo- Jeffrey Poland teaches in the Department of History,
sophical literature relevant to autonomy and the Philosophy, and Social Science at Rhode Island School of
Design and in the Science and Society Program at Brown
emotions and makes a comprehensive survey of the University. George Graham is Professor of Philosophy and
latest research findings from the psychological sciences. Neuroscience at Georgia State University.
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BLIND VISION THE PROCESSING AND

The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment ACQUISITION OF REFERENCE
Zaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi edited by Edward A. Gibson and
Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxi- Neal J. Pearlmutter
cal. And yet, if we conceive of “seeing” as the ability This volume brings together contributions by prominent
to generate internal mental representations that may researchers in the fields of language processing and
contain visual details, the idea of blind vision becomes a language acquisition on topics of common interest:
An investigation of the concept subject to investigation. Experts discuss issues
how people refer to objects
effects of blindness and In this book, Zaira Cattaneo related to the acquistion in the world, how people
other types of visual and Tomaso Vecchi examine and processing of comprehend such referential
deficit on cognitive reference by children expressions, and how children
the effects of blindness and
abilities. and the processing of
other types of visual deficit on reference by adults. acquire the ability to refer and
the development and functioning of the human cogni- to understand reference.
tive system. Drawing on behavioral and neurophysio- The contributors first discuss issues related to
logical data, Cattaneo and Vecchi analyze research on children’s acquisition and processing of reference, then
mental imagery, spatial cognition, and compensatory consider evidence of adults’ processing of reference from
mechanisms at the sensorial, cognitive, and cortical eye-tracking methods (the visual-world paradigm) and
levels in individuals with complete or profound visual from corpora and reading experiments. The chapters
impairment. They find that our brain does not need discuss such topics as how children resolve ambiguity,
our eyes to “see.” children’s difficulty in understanding coreference,
Cattaneo and Vecchi address critical questions of using eye movements to physical objects to measure
broad importance: the relationship of visual perception the accessibility of different referents, the uses of
to imagery and working memory and the extent to probabilistic and pragmatic information in language
which mental imagery depends on normal vision; the comprehension; antecedent accessibility and salience
functional and neural relationships between vision in reference, and neuropsychological data from the
and the other senses; the specific aspects of the visual event-related potential (ERP) recording literature.
experience that are crucial to cognitive development or
CONTRIBUTORS Jennifer Arnold, Sergey Avrutin,
specific cognitive mechanisms; and the extraordinary Sergio Baauw, Craig G. Chambers, Youngon Choi, H. Wind Cowles,
plasticity of the brain — as illustrated by the way that, Stephen Crain, Joke de Lange, Jodi D. Edwards, Simon Garrod,
in the blind, the visual cortex may be reorganized to Alan Garnham, Daniel Grodner, Andrea Gualmini, P. Hagoort,
Elsi Kaiser, Luisa Meroni, Eleni Miltsakaki, Linda M. Moxey,
support other perceptual or cognitive funtions. In the Julien Musolino, Anna Papafragou, Tanya Reinhart,
absence of vision, the other senses work as functional Esther Ruigendijk, Anthony J. Sanford, Julie Sedivy,
substitutes and are often improved. Michael K. Tanenhaus, John Trueswell, Nada Vasic, Ken Wexler,
Shalom Zuckerman
Zaira Cattaneo is a Research Scientist at the University of
Milano-Bicocca. Tomaso Vecchi is Professor of Experimental Edward A. Gibson is Professor of Cognitive Science in MIT’s
Psychology and Dean of the School of Psychology at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Neal J. Pearlmutter
University of Pavia, Italy. is Associate Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University.
March — 7 x 9, 288 pp. — 4 color illus., 22 black & white illus. April — 6 x 9, 456 pp. — 46 illus.
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LAWS, MIND, AND FREE WILL WITTGENSTEIN IN EXILE

Steven Horst James C. Klagge
In Laws, Mind, and Free Will, Steven Horst addresses Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
the apparent dissonance between the picture of the (1922) and Philosophical Investigations (1953) are
natural world that arises from the sciences and our among the most influential philosophical books of the
understanding of ourselves as agents who think and twentieth century, and also among the most perplexing.
act. If the mind and the world are entirely governed Wittgenstein warned again and again that he was not
An account of scientific by natural laws, there seems A new way of looking and would not be understood.
laws that vindicates the to be no room left for free will at Wittgenstein: as an Moreover, Wittgenstein’s work
status of psychological to operate. Moreover, although exile from an earlier seems to have little relevance
laws and shows natural cultural era.
the laws of physical science are to the way philosophy is done
laws to be compatible
with free will. clear and verifiable, the sciences today. In Wittgenstein in Exile, James Klagge proposes
of the mind seem to yield only a new way of looking at Wittgenstein — as an exile —
rough generalizations rather than universal laws of that helps make sense of this. Wittgenstein’s exile was
nature. Horst argues that these two familiar problems not, despite his wanderings from Vienna to Cambridge
in philosophy — the apparent tension between free will to Norway to Ireland, strictly geographical; rather,
and natural law and the absence of “strict” laws in the Klagge argues, Wittgenstein was never at home in the
sciences of the mind — are artifacts of a particular twentieth century. He was in exile from an earlier era
philosophical thesis about the nature of laws: that laws — Oswald Spengler’s culture of the early nineteenth
make claims about how objects actually behave. Horst century.
argues against this Empiricist orthodoxy and proposes Klagge draws on the full range of evidence, including
an alternative account of laws — an account rooted in a Wittgenstein’s published work, the complete Nachlaß,
cognitivist approach to philosophy of science. correspondence, lectures, and conversations. He places
Horst’s alternative account, which he calls “cognitive Wittgenstein’s work in a broad context, along a trajectory
Pluralism,” vindicates the truth of psychological laws of thought that includes Job, Goethe, and Dostoyevsky.
and resolves the tension between human freedom and Yet Klagge also writes from an analytic philosophical
the sciences. perspective, discussing such topics as essentialism, pri-
Steven Horst is Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan vate experience, relativism, causation, and eliminativism.
University. He is the author of Symbols, Computation, and Once we see Wittgenstein’s exile, Klagge argues, we
Intentionality: A Critique of Computational Theory of Mind and will gain a better appreciation of the difficulty of
Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist
Philosophy of Science. understanding Wittgenstein and his work.
James C. Klagge is Professor and Chair of Philosophy
March — 6 x 9, 288 pp. — 60 illus. at Virginia Tech. He is the coeditor of two collections of
Wittgenstein’s writings, Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951
$36.00S/£26.95 cloth and Public and Private Occasions, and the editor of
978-0-262-01525-7 Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy.
Life and Mind series
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REMARKS ON THE FOUNDATIONS
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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DIALOGUES WITH DAVIDSON THE PLACE OF LANDSCAPE

Acting, Interpreting, Understanding Concepts, Contexts, Studies
edited by Jeff Malpas edited by Jeff Malpas
foreword by Dagfinn Føllesdal This volume explores the conceptual “topography” of
The work of the philosopher Donald Davidson landscape: It examines the character of landscape as
(1917–2003) is not only wide ranging in its influence itself a mode of place as well as the modes of place
and vision, but also in the breadth of issues that it that appear in relation to landscape.
Leading scholars discuss encompasses. Davidson’s work Interdisciplinary The essays examine land-
Donald Davidson’s work includes seminal contributions perspectives on scape as it appears within a
in relation to a wide to philosophy of language and landscape, from the variety of contexts, from geog-
range of contemporary philosophical to the
mind, to philosophy of action, raphy through photography
philosophical issues geographical, with
and approaches. and to epistemology and an emphasis on the and garden history to theol-
metaphysics. overarching concept ogy; and more specific studies
In Dialogues with Davidson, leading scholars engage of place. look at the forms of landscape
with Davidson’s work as it connects not only with in medieval landscape painting, film and television,
aspects of current analytic thinking but also with a and in relation to national identity.
wider set of perspectives, including those of hermeneu- The essays demonstrate that the study of landscape
tics, phenomenology, the history of philosophy, femi- cannot be restricted to any one genre, cannot be taken
nist epistemology, and contemporary social theory. as the exclusive province of any one discipline, and
They link Davidson’s work to other thinkers, including cannot be exhausted by any single form of analysis.
Collingwood, Kant, Derrida, Heidegger, and Gadamer. What the place of landscape now evokes is itself a
The essays demonstrate the continuing significance wide-ranging terrain encompassing issues concerning
of Davidson’s philosophy, not only in terms of the the nature of place, of human being in place, and of
philosophical relevance of the ideas he advanced, but the structures that shape such being and are shaped
also in the further connections and insights those ideas by it.
engender.
CONTRIBUTORS Andrew Benjamin, John J. Bradley, Isis Brook,
CONTRIBUTORS Lee Braver, Gordon G. Brittan, Jr., Katie Campbell, Edward S. Casey, Bernard Debarbieux,
Sharyn Clough, Giuseppina D’Oro, Robert Dostal, Christoph Durt, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, J. Nicholas Entrikin, Nigel Everett,
Jonathan Ellis, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Barbara Fultner, Ross Gibson, Wesley A. Kort, Jeff Malpas, Michael Rosenthal,
David Couzens Hoy, Jeff Malpas, Richard N. Manning, Theodore R. Schatzki, Philip Sheldrake, Reinhard Steiner
Giancarlo Marchetti, Mark Okrent, Gerhard Preyer, Bjørn Ramberg,
Richard Rorty, Louise Röska-Hardy, Frederick Stoutland, Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy and ARC Australian
Stephen Turner, David Vessey, Samuel C. Wheeler III Professorial Fellow at the University of Tasmania. He is the
author of Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topology and
Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy and ARC Australian Heidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World (MIT Press, 2007)
Professorial Fellow at the University of Tasmania. He is the and the editor of Dialogues with Davidson: Acting,
author of Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topology and Interpreting, Understanding (MIT Press, 2011).
Heidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World (MIT Press, 2007)
and the editor of The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, June — 6 x 9, 376 pp. — 17 illus.
Studies (MIT Press, 2011).
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978-0-262-01552-3
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978-0-262-01556-1

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THE LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT INFORMATION AND LIVING SYSTEMS

A New Philosophical Direction Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
Susan Schneider edited by George Terzis and Robert Arp
The Language of Thought (LOT) approach to the Information shapes biological organization in funda-
nature of mind has been highly influential in cognitive mental ways and at every organizational level. Because
science and the philosophy of mind; and yet, as Susan organisms use information — including DNA codes,
Schneider argues, its philosophical foundations are gene expression, and chemical signaling — to construct,
A philosophical weak. In this philosophical The informational maintain, repair, and replicate
refashioning of the refashioning of LOT and the nature of biological themselves, it would seem only
Language of Thought related Computational Theory organization, at levels natural to use information-
approach and the related from the genetic and
of Mind (CTM), Schneider related ideas in our attempts to
computational theory epigenetic to the
of mind. offers a different framework cognitive and linguistic. understand the general nature
than has been developed by of living systems, the causality
LOT and CTM’s main architect, Jerry Fodor: one that by which they operate, the difference between living
seeks integration with neuroscience, repudiates Fodor’s and inanimate matter, and the emergence, in some
pessimism about the capacity of cognitive science to biological species, of cognition, emotion, and language.
explain cognition, embraces pragmatism, and advances And yet philosophers and scientists have been slow
a different approach to the nature of concepts, mental to do so. This volume fills that gap. Information and
symbols, and modes of presentation. Living Systems offers a collection of original chapters in
According to the LOT approach, conceptual which scientists and philosophers discuss the informa-
thought is determined by the manipulation of mental tional nature of biological organization at levels ranging
symbols according to algorithms. Schneider tackles from the genetic and to the cognitive and linguistic.
three key problems that have plagued the LOT The chapters examine not only familiar information-
approach for decades: the computational nature of related ideas intrinsic to the biological sciences but
the central system (the system responsible for higher also broader information-theoretic perspectives used
cognitive function); the nature of symbols; and Frege to interpret their significance, thus demonstrating
cases. To address these problems, Schneider develops the deeply interdisciplinary nature of the volume’s
a computational theory that is based on the Global bioinformational theme.
Workspace approach; develops a theory of symbols,
“the algorithmic view”; and brings her theory of sym- CONTRIBUTORS Robert Arp, David Attewell, Roland Baddeley,
Cedric Boeckx, Luciano Boi, Nicolas J. Bullot, Sarah B. Burger,
bols to bear on LOT’s account of the causation of María Cerezo, Yaşar Demirel, Charbel El-Hani, Claus Emmeche,
thought and behavior. Schneider shows that LOT Aurelio José Figueredo, Paul R. Gladden, Benoit Hardy-Vallés,
W. Jake Jacobs, Kalevi Kull, Natalia López-Moratalla, Alfredo Marcos,
must make peace with both computationalism and
Alvaro Moreno, Sally G. Olderbak, Rebecca A. Pyles, João Queiroz,
pragmatism; indeed, the new conception of symbols Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Niall Shanks, George Terzis, Juan Uriagereka,
renders LOT a pragmatist theory. And LOT must Benjamin Vincent
turn its focus to cognitive and computational neuro- George Terzis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint
science for its naturalism to succeed. Louis University. His articles have appeared in such prominent
journals as American Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal
Susan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, a faculty of Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, and Philosophical
member in the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science and Studies. Robert Arp is an ontologist and philosopher living in
the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and a member of the McLean, Virginia. He is the author of Scenario Visualization:
Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving (MIT Press,
Pennsylvania. Her previous books include The Blackwell 2008).
Companion to Consciousness (with Max Velmans).
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MODES OF CREATIVITY
Philosophical Perspectives
Irving Singer
Philosophical reflections on
appendix by Moreland Perkins
creativity in science, humanities,
and human experience as a whole. In this philosophical exploration of creativity, Irving Singer describes the many
different types of creativity and their varied manifestations within and across
March all the arts and sciences. Singer’s approach is pluralistic rather than abstract or
6 x 9, 320 pp. dogmatic. His reflections amplify recent discoveries in cognitive science and neu-
$36.00S/£26.95 cloth robiology by aligning them with the aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological
978-0-262-01492-2 framework of experience and behavior that characterizes the human quest for
meaning.
Creativity has long fascinated Singer, and in Modes of Creativity he carries
forward investigations begun in earlier works. Marshaling a wealth of examples
and anecdotes ranging from antiquity to the present, about persons as diverse as
Einstein and Sherlock Holmes, Singer describes the interactions of the creative
and the imaginative, the inventive, the novel, and the original. He maintains
that our preoccupation with creativity devolves from biological, psychological,
and social bases of our material being; that creativity is not limited to any single
aspect of human existence but rather inheres not only in art and the aesthetic
but also in science, technology, moral practice, as well as ordinary daily experience.
Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of
the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life as well as Reality
Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique (1998); Three Philosophical
Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir (2004); Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic
Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity (2007); Cinematic Mythmaking:
Philosophy in Film (2008); Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up
(2009); and Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas
(2010), all published by the MIT Press, and many other books.
“The writing in this book is classic Singer: gracefully urbane,

informed, insightful, and easily at home with the whole western
tradition in philosophy. His book is oriented in a genuinely open
way to anyone interested in the subject of imagination and creativity.
Readers will welcome its wholesome sunlit sanity amid the fogs and
miasmas of postmodernism.”
— Thomas Alexander, Department of Philosophy,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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INDEX
Aalst, Modeling Business Processes 79 Chalupa, Cerebral Plasticity 76

Abramson, Romance in the Ivory Tower 56 Children Without a State, Bhabha 72
Acting in an Uncertain World, Callon 63 Chimeras and Consciousness, Margulis 75
Addiction and Responsibility, Poland 93 Chiu, Contemporary Art in Asia 31
Ai Weiwei’s Blog, Ai 2 Christian Materiality, Bynum 42
Ai, Ai Weiwei’s Blog 2 Chun, Programmed Visions 89
Alać, Handling Digital Brains 85 Clapp, Paths to a Green World, second edition 73
Albertazzi, Perception beyond Inference 91 Code/Space, Kitchin 90
Alexander, A Widening Sphere 24 Cold War Kitchen, Oldenziel 57
Allen, Artists’ Magazines 29 Collected Scientific Papers of Paul Samuelson, Volumes 6 and 7
Allenby, The Techno-Human Condition 11 Samuelson 65
Alphabet and the Algorithm, Carpo 34 Coming Clean, Kraft 74
Amado, Voiture Minimum 6 Computational Perspective on Visual Attention, Tsotsos 77
America’s Environmental Report Card, second edition, Blatt 10 Conkling, The Fate of Greenland 9
America’s Food, Blatt 54 Conservation Refugees, Dowie 54
Anaphora and Language Design, Reuland 80 Contemporary Art in Asia, Chiu 31
Angotti, New York for Sale 56 Costanza, Sustainability or Collapse? 59
Armstrong, Women Artists at the Millennium 51 Cox, Metareasoning 82
Artists’ Magazines, Allen 29 Cross, Off-Track Profs 57
Ashby, Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data 75 Dalkir, Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice,
second edition 82
Aspray, Everyday Information 85
Dan Graham, Kitnick 36
Atlas of New Librarianship, Lankes 84
de Monchaux, Spacesuit 7
Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture 33
Decety, The Social Neuroscience of Empathy 59
Axilrod, Inside the Fed, revised edition 15
Democracy’s Arsenal, Gansler 70
Balinski, Majority Judgment 67
Dialogues with Davidson, Malpas 96
Band, Interfaces on Trial 2.0 86
Digital Dead End, Eubanks 20
Barsky, Zellig Harris 26
Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries,
Bayesian Brain, Doya 58 and Museums, Herr-Stephenson 91
Being Watched, Lambert-Beatty 51 Digitally Enabled Social Change, Earl 86
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat, Kafai 55 Dinar, Beyond Resource Wars 72
Beyond Resource Wars, Dinar 72 Divining a Digital Future, Dourish 88
Bhabha, Children Without a State 72 Do Democracies Win Their Wars?, Brown 71
Biegler, The Ethical Treatment of Depression 93 Dourish, Divining a Digital Future 88
Blatt, America’s Environmental Report Card, second edition 10 Dowie, Conservation Refugees 54
Blatt, America’s Food 54 Doya, Bayesian Brain 58
Blind Vision, Cattaneo 94 Dream Life, Hobson 27
Blowout in the Gulf, Freudenburg 3 Earl, Digitally Enabled Social Change 86
Brams, Game Theory and the Humanities 67 Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data,
Branigan, Provocative Syntax 79 second edition, Wooldridge 69
Brown, Do Democracies Win Their Wars? 71 Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Postal 80
Buckley, Utopie 45 End of Energy, Graetz 8
Bynum, Christian Materiality 42 Entangled Geographies, Hecht 84
Calcott, The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited 78 Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders, Carmin 73
Calleja, In-Game 87 Ethical Treatment of Depression, Biegler 93
Callon, Acting in an Uncertain World 63 Eubanks, Digital Dead End 20
Campany, Jeff Wall 40 Everyday Information, Aspray 85
Caplan, When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home 4 Fate of Greenland, Conkling 9
Carmin, Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders 73 Fertility and Public Policy, Takayama 68
Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm 34 Fighting Traffic, Norton 61
Cattaneo, Blind Vision 94 Filming of Modern Life, Turvey 35
Cerebral Plasticity, Chalupa 76

INDEX
Freudenburg, Blowout in the Gulf 3 Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice, second edition,
Game Theory and the Humanities, Brams 67 Dalkir 82
Gansler, Democracy’s Arsenal 70 Kraft, Coming Clean 74
Gao, Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Kraus, Where Art Belongs 46
Chinese Art 30 Kroszner, Reforming U.S. Financial Markets 16
Gibson, The Processing and Acquisition of Reference 94 Lab Coats in Hollywood, Kirby 21
Gissis, Transformations of Lamarckism 78 Lambert-Beatty, Being Watched 51
González, Subject to Display 52 Landau, Surveillance or Security? 22
Gordon Matta-Clark, Jenkins 41 Language of Thought, Schneider 97
Government’s Place in the Market, Spitzer 14 Lankes, The Atlas of New Librarianship 84
Graetz, The End of Energy 8 Laws, Mind, and Free Will, Horst 95
Grover-Friedlander, Operatic Afterlives 43 Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the
Handling Digital Brains, Alac̆ 85 Computer’s Arrival in Art, Rosen 39
Harmonic Mind, Volumes 1 and 2, Smolensky 63 Living in Denial, Norgaard 74
Hecht, Entangled Geographies 84 Lowood, The Machinima Reader 87
Helvetica and the New York City Subway System, Shaw 5 Lunenfeld, The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading
19
Herr-Stephenson, Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool
Programs, Libraries, and Museums 91 Machinima Reader, Lowood 87
Hess, Understanding Knowledge as a Commons 58 Maeda, Redesigning Leadership 1
History of Modern Experimental Psychology, Mandler 60 Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, Calcott 78
Hobson, Dream Life 27 Majority Judgment, Balinski 67
Holmstrom, Inside and Outside Liquidity 64 Malpas, Dialogues with Davidson 96
Horst, Laws, Mind, and Free Will 95 Malpas, The Place of Landscape 96
Hoy, Mathematics for Economics, third edition 66 Mandler, A History of Modern Experimental Psychology 60
Hoy, Student Solutions Manual for Mathematics for Economics, Marazzi, The Violence of Financial Capitalism, new edition 48
third edition 66 Margulis, Chimeras and Consciousness 75
Hughes, Systems, Experts, and Computers 61 Mathematics for Economics, third edition, Hoy 66
Hurley, Inside Jokes 18 McDonough, “The Beautiful Language of My Century” 52
Imagining MIT, Mitchell 53 Mens et Mania, Keyser 25
In-Game, Calleja 87 Metareasoning, Cox 82
Information and Living Systems, Terzis 97 Mitchell, Imagining MIT 53
Inside and Outside Liquidity, Holmstrom 64 Modeling Business Processes, Aalst 79
Inside Jokes, Hurley 18 Modes of Creativity, Singer 98
Inside the Fed, revised edition, Axilrod 15 Monstrosity of Christ, Žižek 49
Interfaces on Trial 2.0, Band 86 Myers, Painting 38
Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, second edition, Naked Genes, Nowotny 83
Siegwart 81 Neural Control Engineering, Schiff 77
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, New Directions in Financial Services Regulation, Porter 66
Saliba 62
New York for Sale, Angotti 56
Isozaki, Japan-ness in Architecture 53
Nightwork, updated edition, Peterson 23
Japan-ness in Architecture, Isozaki 53
Norgaard, Living in Denial 74
Jeff Wall, Campany 40
Norton, Fighting Traffic 61
Jenkins, Gordon Matta-Clark 41
Nowotny, Naked Genes 83
Jones, Synthetics 90
Off-Track Profs, Cross 57
Kafai, Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat 55
Offshoring Strategies, Oshri 17
Kahn, Technological Nature 12
Oldenziel, Cold War Kitchen 57
Kelly, Sound 37
Operatic Afterlives, Grover-Friedlander 43
Kelly, Yuck! 92
Oshri, Offshoring Strategies 17
Keyser, Mens et Mania 25
Our Own Worst Enemy?, Weiner 71
Kirby, Lab Coats in Hollywood 21
Painting, Myers 38
Kitchin, Code/Space 90
Paths to a Green World, second edition, Clapp 73
Kitnick, Dan Graham 36
Klagge, Wittgenstein in Exile 95

INDEX
Perception beyond Inference, Albertazzi 91 Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data, Ashby 75

Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel 28 Student Solutions Manual for Mathematics for Economics,
Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, third edition, Hoy 66
Phelps 68 Subject to Display, González 52
Peterson, Nightwork, updated edition 23 SuperCollider Book, Wilson 89
Phelps, Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Surveillance or Security?, Landau 22
Economies 68 Sustainability or Collapse?, Costanza 59
Philosophy of Love, Singer 55 Synthetics, Jones 90
Place of Landscape, Malpas 96 Systems, Experts, and Computers, Hughes 61
Poland, Addiction and Responsibility 93 Takayama, Fertility and Public Policy 68
Porter, New Directions in Financial Services Regulation 66 Techno-Human Condition, Allenby 11
Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Aureli 33 Technological Nature, Kahn 12
Postal, Edge-Based Clausal Syntax 80 Terzis, Information and Living Systems 97
Power Struggles, Schiffer 62 “The Beautiful Language of My Century,” McDonough 52
Processing and Acquisition of Reference, Gibson 94 Things and Places, Pylyshyn 60
Programmed Visions, Chun 89 This is Not a Program, Tiqqun 47
Provocative Syntax, Branigan 79 Tiqqun, This is Not a Program 47
Pylyshyn, Things and Places 60 Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese
Quantum Computing, Rieffel 81 Art, Gao 30
Quest to Learn, Salen 91 Trade and Poverty, Williamson 65
Redesigning Leadership, Maeda 1 Transformations of Lamarckism, Gissis 78
Reforming U.S. Financial Markets, Kroszner 16 Tsotsos, A Computational Perspective on Visual Attention 77
Reuland, Anaphora and Language Design 80 Turvey, The Filming of Modern Life 35
Rieffel, Quantum Computing 81 Understanding Knowledge as a Commons, Hess 58
Romance in the Ivory Tower, Abramson 56 Utopie, Buckley 45
Rosen, A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and Violence of Financial Capitalism, new edition, Marazzi 48
the Computer’s Arrival in Art 39 Voiture Minimum, Amado 6
Salen, Quest to Learn 91 Weiner, Our Own Worst Enemy? 71
Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Caplan 4
Renaissance 62
Where Art Belongs, Kraus 46
Samuelson, The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul Samuelson,
Volumes 6 and 7 65 Widening Sphere, Alexander 24
Sand, The Words and the Land 44 Williamson, Trade and Poverty 65
Schiff, Neural Control Engineering 77 Wilson, The SuperCollider Book 89
Schiffer, Power Struggles 62 Wittgenstein in Exile, Klagge 95
Schneider, The Language of Thought 97 Women Artists at the Millennium, Armstrong 51
Schwitzgebel, Perplexities of Consciousness 28 Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data,
second edition 69
Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading, Lunenfeld 19
Wooldridge, Solutions Manual and Supplementary Materials
Sentient City, Shepard 32 for Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data,
Shaw, Helvetica and the New York City Subway System 5 second edition 69
Shepard, Sentient City 32 Words and the Land, Sand 44
Siegwart, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, Yuck!, Kelly 92
second edition 81 Zellig Harris, Barsky 26
Singer, Modes of Creativity 98 Žižek, The Monstrosity of Christ 49
Singer, Philosophy of Love 55
Smolensky, The Harmonic Mind, Volumes 1 and 2 63
Social Neuroscience of Empathy, Decety 59
Solutions Manual and Supplementary Materials for Econometric
Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, second edition,
Wooldridge 69
Sound, Kelly 37
Spacesuit, de Monchaux 7
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