Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

Alexander (Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History and

• Paperback | The MIT Press
• An examination of the origins and legacy of the conceptual art movement. Lees meer

The Architectural Uncanny

Anthony Vidler

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unh... Lees meer

Presidents and the Press

Joseph C. Spear

• Paperback | The MIT Press
• Drawing on a long career as an investigative journalist, Joe Spear tells the chilling story of how the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations... Lees meer

The Last Extinction

• Hardcover | The MIT Press
• today there is a new and more widespread awareness of what some consider to be the great tragedy of our time - organisms which took many thousands or ... Lees meer

Painting Gender, Constructing Theory

Marcia Brennan

• Paperback | The MIT Press
• How critical conceptions of gender and sexuality helped to advance the artistic careers of the Alfred Stieglitz Circle and influenced American formali... Lees meer

Industrial Transformation

• Paperback | The MIT Press
• A comparative analysis of environmental policy innovations in the United States and Europe that use voluntary, collaborative, and information-based ap... Lees meer

Made in Japan

Japan Commission on Industrial Performance

• Hardcover | The MIT Press
• For three years, seventeen university researchers worked with representatives of thirty-four corporations to analyze the present state of Japanese man... Lees meer

Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy

• Hardcover | The MIT Press
• Leading scholars in rational choice analysis present the public choice, new institutionalist, and new political economy perspectives on the political ... Lees meer

The Price of Linguistic Productivity

Charles Yang

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages. All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and... Lees meer

Prehension

Colin McGinn

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language. "McGinn is an i... Lees meer

Fair Division and Collective Welfare

Herve Moulin

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition ... Lees meer

Event-Cities 2

Bernard Tschumi

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• The sequel to Bernard Tschumi's best-selling Event-Cities, documenting his recent architectural projects and updating his thoughts on architectures an... Lees meer

Understanding Pain

Fernando Cervero

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• An expert explores the nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad. If you touch something hot, it hurts. You snatch y... Lees meer

Think Tank Aesthetics

Pamela M Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre of ... Lees meer

New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates

Y Cajal Santiago Ramon

• Paperback | The MIT Press
• This clear, direct, and accurate translation provides an excellent introduction to Cajal's work, making accessible for the first time the ideas that l... Lees meer

Dream City

Conrad Kickert

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• Tracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of downtown Detroit. Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an astonishing rebirth. Its sid... Lees meer

Trade and Poverty

Jeffrey G Williamson

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• How the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today. Today's wide economic ga... Lees meer

Hamlet on the Holodeck

Janet H. (Graduate Program in Digital Media, Georgia Institute o

• Paperback | The MIT Press
• Here, Murray shows how the computer is reshaping the stories we live by and discusses the properties and pleasures of digital environments and connect... Lees meer

An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Image Processing

Steven L Tanimoto

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• Basic principles of image processing and programming explained without college-level mathematics. This book explores image processing from several per... Lees meer

A Course in Semantics

Daniel Altshuler, Terence Parsons, Roger Schwarzschild

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• An introductory text in linguistic semantics, uniquely balancing empirical coverage and formalism with development of intuition and methodology. This ... Lees meer

Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science

Harrison Hall, Hubert L Dreyfus

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• As this book makes clear, current use of data structures such as frames, scripts, and stereotypes in psychology, artificial intelligence, and all the ... Lees meer

Discovering the Human Connectome

Olaf Sporns

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• A pioneer in the field outlines new empirical and computational approaches to mapping the neural connections of the human brain. Crucial to understand... Lees meer

Space in Mind

• Hardcover | The MIT Press
• Leading researchers offer a range of disciplinary perspectives on the implications of spatial thinking and reasoning for education and learning. Lees meer

The SuperCollider Book

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• The essential reference to SuperCollider, a powerful, flexible, open-source, cross-platform audio programming language. SuperCollider is one of the mo... Lees meer