Impossible Languages

Andrea Moro

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language. Can there be such a thing ... Lees meer

Bilingual Competence and Bilingual Proficiency in Child Development

Norbert Francis

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• A study of first and second language development in an indigenous community with implications for broader linguistic and cognitive issues. When two or... 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 Warcraft Civilization

William Sims Bainbridge

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• An exploration of the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft as a virtual prototype of the real human future. World of Warcraft is more th... Lees meer

The New Media Reader

Wardrip Noah

• Boek | Engels | The MIT Press
• A sourcebook of historical written texts, video documentation, and working programs that form the foundation of new media. This reader collects the te... Lees meer

Political Theory and Global Climate Change

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, crit... 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

Beyond Our Control?

Stuart Biegler

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• An examination of current and emerging issues in cyberlaw. This book provides a framework for thinking about the law and cyberspace, examining the ext... Lees meer

The Soar Cognitive Architecture

John E. Laird

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• The definitive presentation of Soar, one AI's most enduring architectures, offering comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new componen... 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

Mapping Boston

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• An informative--and beautiful--exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal ... Lees meer

Educating All Children

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary, secondary, or tertiary educatio... 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

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

Santiago Ramón Y Cajal

• Paperback | Engels | 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

Deposit Insurance Around the World

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• Drawing on an original cross-country dataset on deposit insurance systems, an assessment of the impact of deposit insurance on banking outcomes and th... 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

System Modeling in Cellular Biology

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• An introduction and overview of system modeling in biology that is accessible to researchers from different fields, including biology, computer scienc... Lees meer

Groundless Grounds

Lee Braver

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• An in-depth comparison of Wittgenstein and Heidegger shows how the views of both philosophers emerge from a fundamental attempt to dispense with the t... Lees meer

Actual Causality

Joseph Y. (Cornell University) Halpern

• Hardcover | The MIT Press
• A new approach for defining causality and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degrees of blame, and causal explanation. Lees meer

Reading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931-1941

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• Heidegger scholars consider the philosopher's recently published notebooks, including the issues of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism. For more tha... Lees meer

Bicycling Science, Fourth Edition

David Gordon Wilson, Theodor Schmidt

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• An updated edition of a classic: an indispensable companion for a new era in cycling. The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in tha... Lees meer

Heredity, Family, and Inequality

Michael Beenstock

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• An economist critiques nature versus nurture hypotheses from behavioral genetics, developmental psychology, sociology, and economics. Empirical litera... Lees meer

MX

Herbert Scoville

• Paperback | The MIT Press
• An analysis of the MX missile system and its flaws. Lees meer

Creative Destruction

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• Schumpeter's framework of creative destruction applied to the rapidly changing telecommunications and related Internet industries. More than fifty yea... Lees meer