Loneliness

Robert Weiss

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• Loneliness is among the most common distresses. In one survey, a quarter of Americans interviewed said that they had suffered from loneliness within t... Lees meer

Computers and the World of the Future

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• Writers including Vannevar Bush and Herbert A. Simon discuss the impact of the computer in its first twenty years.Writers discuss the extraordinary gr... Lees meer

Managing the Flow of Technology

Thomas J Allen

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• The original edition of this book summarized more than a decade of work on communications flow in science and engineering organizations, showing how h... Lees meer

Generation Digital

Kathryn C. (Director, American University) Montgomery

• Paperback | MIT Press
• The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture; as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own di... Lees meer

Qualitative Methods for Reasoning under Uncertainty

Simon (Brooklyn College/City University Ny) Parsons

• Paperback | MIT Press
• Using qualitative methods to deal with imperfect information. Lees meer

Cities and Complexity

Michael Batty

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• Mario Carpo provides a subtle and insightful discussion of the intellectual structures that guide architectural composition and the ways that these st... Lees meer

Industrialized Building Systems for Housing

• Paperback | MIT Press
• The increasing importance of industrialized building, as the demand for housing accelerates and outstrips the capacity of traditional construction met... Lees meer

Iterative Arrays of Logical Circuits

Frederick C. Hennie

• Paperback | MIT Press
• An exploration of the techniques for analyzing the behavior of one- and two-dimensional iterative networks formed of discrete, or logical elements, sh... Lees meer

Experience and Conceptual Activity

Johannes M Burgers

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• Burgers's purpose is to outline a system of thought in which notions or values can find a place along with the ideas of causal relationships that are ... Lees meer

Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes

Tadahiko Higuchi

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Ly... Lees meer

Cellular Biophysics, Volume 2

Thomas Fischer Weiss

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• Cellular Biophysics is a quantitatively oriented basic physiology text for senior undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering, biophysics, p... Lees meer

The Internet Imaginaire

Patrice (Professor of Sociology, Universite de Marne la Vallee)

• Hardcover | Engels | MIT Press
• The collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet: what led software designers, managers, employees, politicians, and individuals to dev... Lees meer

The Disappearance of Introspection

William E. (12 York Ave) Lyons

• Paperback | MIT Press
• William Lyons presents an original thesis on introspection as self-interpretation in terms of a culturally influenced model. Lees meer

Shifting Ground

Peter H. (University of California Davis) Lindert

• Paperback | MIT Press
• Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries-China and Indonesia-where anecdotal evidence has sug... Lees meer

Computational Finance 1999

• Paperback | MIT Press
• This book covers the techniques of data mining, knowledge discovery, genetic algorithms, neural networks, bootstrapping, machine learning, and Monte C... Lees meer

Listening

Stephen Handel

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• Listening combines broad coverage of acoustics, speech and music perception psychophysics, and auditory physiology with a coherent theoretical orienta... Lees meer

Imagine There's No Woman

Joan Copjec

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• A psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine sexuality. Jacques Laca... Lees meer

Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 1

Ken Binmore

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• Binmore argues that game theory provides a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. In Game Theory and the Social Contract , Ken Binmore arg... Lees meer

Percentage Baseball

Earnshaw Cook

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• How to play percentage baseball--and win! Irrefutable mathematical findings.As a result of a lunchtime conversation with Professor Wendell Garner conc... Lees meer

De Lingua Belief

Robert Fiengo, Robert (Professor, University of California, Davis) May

• Paperback | MIT Press
• An investigation into the beliefs speakers have about language-their de lingua beliefs-that examines the genesis of these beliefs and the central expl... Lees meer

Becoming a Brother

Morton J Mendelson

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• Becoming a Brother captures all the complexity and richness of a preschooler's responses to family change. Strictly speaking, four-year-old Simon beca... Lees meer

Prefiguring Cyberculture

• Hardcover | MIT Press
• Multidisciplinary explorations of the antecedents to cyberculture through examinations of key historical texts, from Plato to Arthur C. Clarke. Lees meer

Genetic Alchemy

Sheldon (Professor, Tufts University) Krimsky

• Paperback | MIT Press
• Genetic Alchemy summarizes and clarifies the background of policy and ethical issues, the debates engendered by uncertain risks to researchers and the... Lees meer

Watch What I Do

• Paperback | MIT Press
• Programming by Demonstration is a method that allows end users to create, customize, and extend programs by demonstrating what the program should do. Lees meer