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 CONTENTS
American history 28
architecture 11-12, 14-15, 48
art 4, 16-24, 36-37, 49
art history 8, 43-44
bioethics 52, 65, 73
biology, computational biology 71-72
business 56
cognitive science 51, 61-62, 68, 70-71
computer science 48, 52, 54
communication 61
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education 79
environment 9-10, 12, 32, 57, 80-85
game studies 25, 47, 63-65
gay studies 38
history 32, 58
history of science 43
history of technology 60
information science 53-54, 60
linguistics 50-51, 74-75
neuroscience 33, 51, 73
new media 24, 26, 49, 55, 64-66
philosophy 2, 27, 35, 41, 44-46, 51-52, 66, 68-70, 72-73
philosophy of mind 67
political science 9, 26-27, 59, 60, 84
psychology 34, 70
science, philosophy of science 5-6, 46-47, 74, 81
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science fiction 39
sociology 56
technology 7, 48, 55
technology and society 48
urban studies 82-83

Afterall Books 36-37

Semiotext(e) 38-41
Zone Books 42-43

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 economics/parenting

PARENTONOMICS
An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting
Joshua Gans
What every parent needs to know
Like any new parent, Joshua Gans felt joy mixed with anxiety upon the birth about negotiating, incentives,
of his first child. Who was this blanket-swaddled small person and what did outsourcing, and other strategies
she want? Unlike most parents, however, Gans is an economist, and he began to solve the economic management
problem that is parenting.
to apply the tools of his trade to raising his children. He saw his new life as one
big economic management problem — and if economics helped him think about
parenting, parenting illuminated certain economic principles. Parentonomics is March
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the entertaining, enlightening, and often hilarious fruit of his “research.”
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sister who is recruited to help toilet train her younger brother for a share in the
Not for sale in Australia
reward given for each successful visit to the bathroom, for example, could give or New Zealand
the trainee drinks of water to make the rewards more frequent. (Economics
later offered another, better toilet training solution: outsourcing. For their
third child, Gans and his wife put it in the hands of professionals — the day
care providers.)
Gans gives us the parentonomic view of
delivery (if the mother shares her pain by
yelling at the father, doesn’t it really create
more aggregate pain?), sleep (the screams of
a baby are like an offer: “I’ll stop screaming if
you give me attention”), food (a question of
marketing), travel (“the best thing you can say
about traveling with children is that they are
worse than baggage”), punishment (and threat
credibility), birthday party time management,
and more.
Parents: if you’re reading Parentonomics in
the presence of other people, you’ll be unable to
keep yourself from reading the funny parts out
loud. And if you’re reading it late at night and
wake a child with your laughter — well, you’ll
have some guidelines for negotiating a return
to bed.
Joshua Gans is the father of three and Chair of
Management at the Melbourne Business School,
University of Melbourne. He is the author of several
economics textbooks and the 2007 recipient of
Australia’s Young Economist award.

“Dr. Spock meets Freakonomics. Parenting will never be the same. Forget about
inflation and unemployment. Here Gans uses economics and game theory to tackle
really important topics, such as toilet training and fussy eaters. Parentonomics lays
bare what most sleep-deprived parents only dream about. Gans may not help you
become a better parent, but he will help you to stay one step ahead of your kids.”
— Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor at
Yale School of Management, coauthor of Co-Opetition

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philosophy/religion
A militant Marxist atheist and
a “Radical Orthodox” Christian
theologian square off on everything
from the meaning of theology and
Christ to the war machine of
corporate mafia.
April
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Short Circuits series,
edited by Slavoj Žižek
Also available in this series
THE PARALLAX VIEW
Slavoj Žižek
2009, 978-0-262-51268-8
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A VOICE AND NOTHING MORE
Mladen Dolar
2006, 978-0-262-54187-9
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THE PUPPET AND THE DWARF
The Perverse Core of Christianity
Slavoj Žižek
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THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST
Paradox or Dialectic?
Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank
edited by Creston Davis
“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 sometimes claims) a heterodox version of
Christian belief.”
— John Milbank
“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 than Milbank.”
— Slavoj Žižek
In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a militant atheist 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 is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics,
and ethics can stand. In The Monstrosity of Christ, Žižek and Milbank go head
to head for three rounds, employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance
their positions and press their respective advantages. By the closing bell, they
have not only proven themselves worthy adversaries, they have shown that
faith and reason are not simply and intractably opposed.
Žižek has long been interested in the emancipatory potential offered by
Christian theology. And Milbank, seeing global capitalism as the new century’s
greatest ethical challenge, has pushed his own ontology in more political and
materialist directions. Their debate in The Monstrosity of Christ concerns the
future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event —
God becoming human. For the first time since Žižek’s
turn toward theology, we have a true debate between
an atheist and a theologian about the very meaning
of theology, Christ, the Church, the Holy Ghost,
Universality, and the foundations of logic. The
result goes far beyond the popularized atheist/theist
point/counterpoint of recent books by Christopher
Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others.
Žižek begins, and Milbank answers, countering
dialectics with “paradox.” The debate centers on the
nature of and relation between paradox and parallax,
between analogy and dialectics, between transcendent
glory and liberation.
Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has
published over thirty books, including Looking Awry,
The Puppet and the Dwarf, and The Parallax View (these
three published by 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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 design

DESIGN MEETS DISABILITY

Graham Pullin
Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. How design for disabled people
This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the and mainstream design could
fashion industry. Why shouldn’t design sensibilities also be applied to hearing inspire, provoke, and radically
aids, prosthetic limbs, and communication aids? In return, disability can provoke change each other.

radical new directions in mainstream design. Charles and Ray Eames’s iconic
furniture was inspired by a molded plywood leg splint that they designed for April
injured and disabled servicemen. Designers today could be similarly inspired 5 3/8 x 8, 336 pp.
114 color illus.
by disability.
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ity can inspire each other. In the Eameses’ work there was a healthy tension
between cut-to-the-chase problem solving and more playful explorations. Pullin
offers examples of how design can meet disability today. Why, he asks, shouldn’t
hearing aids be as fashionable as eyewear? What new forms of braille signage
might proliferate if designers kept both sighted and visually impaired people in
mind? Can simple designs avoid the need for complicated accessibility features?
Can such emerging design methods as “experience prototyping” and “critical
design” complement clinical trials?
Pullin also presents a series of interviews with leading designers about specific
disability design projects, including stepstools for people with restricted growth,
prosthetic legs (and whether they can be both honest and beautifully designed),
and text-to-speech technology with tone of voice. When design meets disability,
the diversity of complementary, even contradictory, approaches can enrich
each field.
Graham Pullin is a lecturer in
Interactive Media Design at the
University of Dundee. He has
worked as a senior designer at
IDEO, one of the world’s leading
design consultancies, and at
the Bath Institute of Medical
Engineering, a prominent
rehabilitation engineering
center in the United Kingdom.
He has received international
design awards for design for
disability and for mainstream
products.

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art

OUT OF NOW
The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh
Adrian Heathfield and Tehching Hsieh
A visually stunning documentary
record and critical account In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s,
of Tehching Hsieh’s epic the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary
performance works. performance art works. Between September 1978 and July 1986, Hsieh realized
five separate one-year-long performance pieces in which he conformed to simple
March but highly restrictive rules throughout each entire year.
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140 black & white illus. confinement in a sealed cell to a year in which he punched a worker’s time clock
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in his studio every hour on the hour to a year spent living without shelter in
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Linda Montano and finally to a year of total abstention from all art activities
Development Agency and and influences. These works were unparalleled in terms of their use of physical
the MIT Press difficulty over extreme durations and in their absolute conception and enactment
of art and life as simultaneous processes. In 1986 Hsieh announced that he would
spend the next thirteen years making art but not showing it publicly. When this
“final” lifework — an immense act of self-affirmation and self-erasure — came
to a close at the turn of the Millennium, he tersely and enigmatically said that
during this time he had simply kept himself alive.
For many contemporary artists Hsieh is something of a cult
figure. After years of near-invisibility, Hsieh has now collaborated
with the British writer and curator Adrian Heathfield to create
this meticulous and visually arresting documentary record of a
contemporary artist’s work — in this case, the complete body
of Tehching Hsieh’s performance projects from 1978 to 2000.
Not only is this the first extensive critical account of these
unusual works, it is also the first to discuss their significance
for art history, visual and cultural studies, and the practice of
performance.
Adrian Heathfield is Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at
Roehampton University, London. He is the editor of Live: Art and
Performance, Small Acts, and Shattered Anatomies. Tehching Hsieh
is an artist based in New York City.

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Art/Life One Year Performance. 1983–1984,
poster. © 1984 Tehching Hsieh,
Linda Montano, New York.

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 science

WEDNESDAY IS INDIGO BLUE

Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., and David M. Eagleman, Ph.D.
How the extraordinary
afterword by Dmitri Nabokov
multisensory phenomenon of
A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense synesthesia has changed our
the letter “J” as shimmering magenta or the number “5” as emerald green, hear traditional view of the brain.

and taste her husband’s voice as buttery golden brown. Synesthetes rarely talk
about their peculiar sensory gift — believing either that everyone else senses the May
world exactly as they do, or that no one else does. Yet synesthesia occurs in one 6 x 9, 320 pp.
83 illus.
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what he meant because she, too, had synesthesia. Nabokov’s son Dmitri, who
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recounts this tale in the afterword to this book, is also a synesthete — further
THE HIDDEN SENSE
illustrating how synesthesia runs in families. Synesthesia in Art and Science
In Wednesday Is Indigo Blue, pioneering researcher Richard Cytowic and Cretien van Campen
distinguished neuroscientist David Eagleman explain the neuroscience and 2007, 978-0-262-22081-1
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genetics behind synesthesia’s multisensory experiences. Because synesthesia
contradicted existing theory, Cytowic spent twenty years persuading colleagues THE MAN WHO TASTED SHAPES
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Cytowic and Eagleman argue that perception is already multisensory, though A Union of the Senses
for most of us its multiple dimensions exist beyond the reach of consciousness. Second Edition
Richard E. Cytowic
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amazing differences in the way people see the world.
Richard E. Cytowic, M.D., founded Capitol Neurology, a
private clinic in Washington, D.C., and teaches at George
Washington University Medical Center. He is the author of
Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses and The Man Who Tasted
Shapes, both published by the MIT Press. David M. Eagleman,
Ph.D., is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine,
where he directs the Center for Synesthesia Research.

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science
A tour through a world too
small to see with a microscope:
air, ice, diamonds, aspirin,
fuel cells, and other structures
viewed and described in the
scale of nanometers.
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NANOSCALE
Visualizing an Invisible World
Kenneth S. Deffeyes and Stephen E. Deffeyes
The world is made up of structures too small to see with the naked eye, too small
to see even with an electron microscope. Einstein established the reality of atoms
and molecules in the early 1900s. How can we see a world measured in fractions
of nanometers? (Most atoms are less than one nanometer, less than one-billionth
of a meter, in diameter.) This beautiful and fascinating book gives us a tour of
the invisible nanoscale world. It offers many vivid color illustrations of atomic
structures, each accompanied by a short, engagingly written essay. The structures
advance from the simple (air, ice) to the complex (supercapacitator, rare earth
magnet). Each subject was chosen not in search of comprehensiveness but
because it illustrates how atomic structure creates a property (such as hardness,
color, or toxicity), or because it has a great story, or simply because it is beautiful.
Thus we learn how diamonds ride volcanoes to the earth’s surface (if they
came up more slowly, they’d be graphite, as in pencils); what form of carbon is
named after Buckminster Fuller; who won in the x-ray vs. mineralogy professor
smackdown; how a fuel cell works; when we use spinodal decomposition in our
daily lives (it involves hot water and a package of Jell-O), and much more.
The amazing color illustrations by Stephen
Deffeyes are based on data from x-ray diffraction (a
method used in crystallography). They are not just
pretty pictures but visualizations of scientific data
derived directly from those data. Together with
Kenneth Deffeyes’s witty commentary, they offer a
vivid demonstration of the diversity and beauty found
at the nanometer scale.
Kenneth S. Deffeyes is Professor of Geology Emeritus at
Princeton University. He is the author of Hubbert’s Peak and
Beyond Oil. Stephen E. Deffeyes is a freelance illustrator
and designer.
 technology/design

SIMULATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Sherry Turkle
with essays by William J. Clancey, Stefan Helmreich, Yanni A. Loukissas,
and Natasha Myers How the simulation and
visualization technologies so
Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have pervasive in science, engineering,
changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, and design have changed our
way of seeing the world.
Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and
finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkle’s
description of architecture students who no longer design with a pencil, of April
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Echoing architect Louis Kahn’s famous question, “What does a brick want?”,
Turkle asks, “What does simulation want?” Simulations want, even demand, Simplicity: Design, Technology,
Business, Life series,
immersion, and the benefits are clear. Architects create buildings unimaginable edited by John Maeda
before virtual design; scientists determine the structure of molecules by manipu-
lating them in virtual space; physicians practice anatomy on digitized humans.
But immersed in simulation, we are vulnerable. There are losses as well as gains. Also available in this series
Older scientists describe a younger generation as “drunk with code.” Young THE PLENITUDE
Creativity, Innovation,
scientists, engineers, and designers, full citizens of the virtual, scramble to and Making Stuff
capture their mentors’ tacit knowledge of buildings and bodies. From both sides Rich Gold
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Turkle’s examination of simulation over the past twenty years is followed THE LAWS OF SIMPLICITY
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and Founder and Director of the MIT THE INNER HISTORY OF DEVICES
Initiative on Technology and Self. A edited and with an introductory
psychoanalytically trained sociologist essay by Sherry Turkle
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Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary
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Screen: Identity in the Age of the Objects in Mind
Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics: edited and with an introductory
Jacques Lacan and Freud’s French essay by Sherry Turkle
Revolution. She is the editor of 2008, 978-0-262-20172-8
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THE SECOND SELF
Computers and the Human
Spirit
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Sherry Turkle
2005, 978-0-262-70111-2
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art history/history
The many meanings of
obelisks across nearly forty
centuries, from Ancient Egypt
(which invented them) to
twentieth-century America
(which put them in
Hollywood epics).
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OBELISK
A History
Brian A. Curran, Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long, and Benjamin Weiss
Nearly every empire worthy of the name — from ancient Rome to the United
States — has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial
space. Obelisks — giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred
objects — serve no practical purpose. For much of their history their inscriptions,
in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries
dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople,
and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York. New obelisks and even obelisk-
shaped buildings rose as well — the Washington Monument being a noted
example. Obelisks, everyone seems to sense, connote some very special sort of
power. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of
obelisks across nearly forty centuries — what they meant to the Egyptians, and
how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood
them through the years.
In each culture obelisks have taken on new meanings and associations.
To the Egyptians, the obelisk was the symbol of a pharaoh’s right to rule and
connection to the divine. In ancient Rome, obelisks were the embodiment of
Rome’s coming of age as an empire. To nineteenth-century New Yorkers, the
obelisk in Central Park stood for their country’s rejection of the trappings of
empire just as it was itself beginning to acquire imperial
power. To a twentieth-century reader of Freud, the obelisk
had anatomical and psychological connotations. And so on,
and so on.
The history of obelisks is a story of technical achievement,
imperial conquest, Christian piety and triumphalism, egotism,
scholarly brilliance, political hubris, bigoted nationalism, demo-
cratic self-assurance, Modernist austerity, and Hollywood
kitsch — in short, the story of Western civilization.
Brian A. Curran is Associate
Professor of Art History at the
Pennsylvania State University.
Anthony Grafton is Henry
Putnam University Professor
of History at Princeton
University. Pamela O. Long
is an independent historian.
Benjamin Weiss is Manager
of Adult Learning Resources
at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston.
Top: Cleopatra's Needle being raised in New York's
Central Park, from Henry H. Gorringe’s Egyptian
Obelisks (New York, 1882).
Laft: Obelisks at Karnak, photographed in the 1850s
by Francis Frith. (Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints
and Photograph Division, LC-ppmsca-04544).
 environment/political science/anthropology

CONSERVATION REFUGEES
The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation
and Native Peoples
Mark Dowie How native peoples — from the
Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai
Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been of eastern Africa — have been
established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation displaced from their lands in
the name of conservation.
organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by
indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for
generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation April
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movement and conservation organizations have a vital common goal — to
protect biological diversity — and could work effectively and powerfully
together to protect the planet and preserve biological diversity. Yet for more Also available
than a hundred years, these two forces have been at odds. The result: thousands AMERICAN FOUNDATIONS
of unmanageable protected areas and native peoples reduced to poaching and An Investigative History
Mark Dowie
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Dowie begins with the story of Yosemite National Park, which by the turn LOSING GROUND
of the twentieth century established a template for bitter encounters between American Environmentalism at the
native peoples and conservation. He then describes the experiences of other Close of the Twentieth Century
Mark Dowie
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discusses such issues as differing definitions of “nature” and “wilderness,” the
influence of the “BINGOs” (Big International NGOs, including the Worldwide
Fund for Nature, Conservation International, and
The Nature Conservancy), the need for Western
scientists to respect and honor traditional lifeways,
and the need for native peoples to blend their
traditional knowledge with the knowledge of
modern ecology. When conservationists and
native peoples acknowledge the interdependence
of biodiversity conservation and cultural survival,
Dowie writes, they can together create a new and
much more effective paradigm for conservation.
Award-winning journalist Mark Dowie is the author of
Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close
of the Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An
Investigative History (both published by the MIT Press),
and four other books.

“Dowie makes a compelling argument that a new people-

centered conservation is rising and needs to rise.”
— David Bray, Department of Environmental
Studies, Florida International University

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Utne, Nation, American Prospect, Harper’s, The Atlantic, New York Review of Books. 9
cultural studies/environment
How the sustainability
movement has been
co-opted: from ecobranding
by Wal-Mart to the “greening”
of the American military.
March
6 x 9, 224 pp.
2 illus.
$24.95T/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-01306-2
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HIJACKING SUSTAINABILITY
Adrian Parr
The idea of “sustainability” has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie
stars, it’s even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible
development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobranding strategies. In
Hijacking Sustainability, Adrian Parr describes how this has happened: how the
goals of an environmental movement came to be mediated by corporate interests,
government, and the military. Parr argues that the more popular sustainability
development becomes, the more it becomes commodified; the more mainstream
culture embraces the sustainability movement’s concern over global warming and
poverty, the more “sustainability culture” advances the profit-maximizing values
of corporate capitalism. And the more issues of sustainability are aligned with
those of national security, the more military values are conflated with the goals
of sustainable development.
Parr looks closely at five examples of the hijacking of sustainability: corporate
image-greening by such companies as British Petroleum (BP) and Wal-Mart;
Hollywood activism by Leonardo DiCaprio and other movie industry figures;
the autonomy of communal ecovillages vs. the mili-
tary-like security of gated communities; the greening
of the White House (and its de-greening: Ronald
Reagan famously removed solar panels installed by
Jimmy Carter); and the incongruous efforts to
achieve a “sustainable” Army. Parr then examines key
challenges to sustainability — waste disposal, disaster
relief and environmental refugees, slum development,
and poverty.
Sustainability, Parr says, has captured our imagi-
nation at a time when we are discouraged and
demoralized by a failed war and general governmen-
tal incompetence; it offers an alternative narrative of
the collective good — an idea now compromised and
endangered by corporate, military, and government
interests.
Adrian Parr is Visiting Associate Professor at the University
of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and
Planning. She is the author of Deleuze and Memorial Culture
and other books.
 architecture

ARCHITECTURE DEPENDS
Jeremy Till
“Less is more.” Polemics and reflections on how
— Mies van de Rohe to bridge the gap between what
architecture actually is and what
“Less is a bore.” architects want it to be.
— Robert Venturi
“Mess is the law.” March
6 x 9, 272 pp.
— Jeremy Till 22 illus.
$24.95T/£16.95 cloth
Architecture depends — on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the 978-0-262-01253-9
real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging,
sometimes pugnacious book, is dependent on things outside itself. Despite the
claims of architects to autonomy, purity, and control, architecture is buffeted by
uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the
architect’s best-laid plans — at every stage in the process, from design through
construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny
this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection.
With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers
a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to
bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what
architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory,
and raw opinion, Till’s writing is always accessible, moving freely
between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for
architecture itself.
The everyday world is a disordered mess, from which
architecture has retreated — and this retreat, says Till, is
deluded. Architecture must engage with the inescapable
reality of the world; in that engagement is the potential for
a reformulation of architectural practice. Contingency should
be understood as an opportunity rather than a threat. Elvis
Costello said that his songs have to work when played through
the cheapest transistor radio; for Till, architecture has to work
(socially, spatially) by coping with the flux and vagaries of
everyday life. Architecture, he proposes, must move from a
reliance on the impulsive imagination of the lone genius
to a confidence in the collaborative ethical imagination,
from clinging to notions of total control to an intentional
acceptance of letting go.
Jeremy Till is Dean of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster
and a partner at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. Their projects include the pioneering
9 Stock Orchard Street (The Strawbale House and Quilted Office), winner of multiple
awards. He represented Britain at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.

“A provocative declaration of war on utopia, powered by a fuel rich in social justice and
sharp humor. Architects, hide it from your clients and your students — it is an unusual
and explosive mixture that produces difficult questions like spores. With this book
Jeremy Till raises the starting price on all our discussions of architecture.”
— Paul Shepheard, author of What is Architecture? and Artificial Love

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architecture/environment

CAMPS
A Guide to 21st-Century Space
Charlie Hailey
The meaning and function of
camps, from Scout Jamborees What is a camp? In August 2005, television news showed viewers an estimated
and RV Clubs to FEMA trailers 20,000 Katrina evacuees camped out in the Superdome, Cindy Sheehan protesting
and GTMO. the Iraq War on President Bush’s doorstep in “Camp Casey,” Texas, and Israeli
and Palestinian young people at the Seeds of Peace Camp in Maine discussing
April the evacuation of settlement camps in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, off camera,
5 3/8 x 8, 536 pp. summer campers all over America packed up their gear, preparing to depart
163 illus.
Scout camps, computer camps, and sports camps, and millions of recreational
$29.95T/£19.95 paper
978-0-262-51287-9
vehicles owners were on the road, permanent itinerant campers. In Camps,
Charlie Hailey examines the space and idea of camp as a defining dimension
of 21st-century life.
The ubiquity and diversity of camps calls for a guidebook. This is what
Hailey offers, but it is no ordinary one. Not only does he establish a typology
of camps, but he also imbeds within his narrative a key to camp ideology. Thus
we see how camp spaces are informed by politics and transform the ways we
think about and make built environments. Hailey describes camps of diverse
regions, purposes, and forms, and navigates the inherent paradoxes of zones that
are neither temporary nor permanent. He looks first at camps of choice, includ-
ing summer camps, protest camps, drift camps (research stations on Arctic ice
floes), and LTVA (Long-Term Visitor Area) Camps, then at strategic camps
regulated by power — boot camps, GTMO (the detention
camp at Guantánamo Bay), immigrant camps, and others —
and finally at transient spaces of relief and assistance, among
them refugee camps, FEMA City, work camps, and Gypsy
camps. More than 150 diagrams, sketches, building and site
plans, photographs, political cartoons, video game screenshots,
aerial and satellite images, and maps illustrate camp space in
unprecedented complexity and variety.
Today camps are at the center of emerging questions of
identity, residency, safety, and mobility. Camp spaces register the
struggles, emergencies, and possibilities of global existence
as no other space does.
Charlie Hailey is Assistant Professor in the University of Florida’s School
of Architecture. He is the author of Campsite: Architectures of Duration
and Place.

Top right: 3.33. Poncho/Parachute Shade Shelter,

FM 21-76: U.S. Army Survival Manual.
Right: Rockey Vaccarella, Mock FEMA Trailer in
front of U.S. Capitol. (Steven Scaffidi and Ghost
Rider Pictures, All Rights Reserved).
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 design

THE GRID BOOK

Hannah B Higgins
Emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of everything from Ten grids that changed the world:
skyscrapers and office cubicles to paintings by Mondrian and a piece of computer the emergence and evolution of
code. And yet, as Hannah Higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative the most prominent visual
book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity; it is the most promi- structure in Western culture.

nent visual structure in Western culture. In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the
history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron March
city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger, the screen, moveable type, the 7 x 9, 312 pp.
62 illus.
manufactured box, and the net. Charting the evolution of each grid, from the
$24.95T/£16.95 paper
Paleolithic brick of ancient Mesopotamia through the virtual connections of
978-0-262-51240-4
the Internet, Higgins demonstrates that once a grid is invented, it may bend,
crumble, or shatter, but its organizing principle never disappears.
The appearance of each grid was a watershed event. Brick, tablet, and city
gridiron made possible sturdy housing, the standardization of language, and
urban development. Maps, musical notation, financial ledgers, and moveable
type promoted the organization of space, music, and time, international trade,
and mass literacy. The screen of perspective painting heralded the science of the
modern period, classical mechanics, and the screen arts, while the standardiza-
tion of space made possible by the manufactured box suggested the purified box
forms of industrial architecture and visual art. The net, the most ancient grid,
made its first appearance in Stone Age Finland; today, the loose but clearly
articulated networks of the World Wide Web suggest that we are in the middle
of an emergent grid that is reshaping the world, as grids do, in its image.
Hannah B Higgins is Associate Professor in the Department of Art
History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of
Fluxus Experience.

“The title of this book does not begin to describe how subversive
its intentions are. Higgins’s review of the deep history of the grid
rescues it from whatever claims modernism has made to its form and
function, and more precisely identifies the grid as a tool of human
cognition, which has happened to have a profound effect on our
visual culture throughout history.”
— Lorraine Wild, award-winning designer,
cofounder of Greybull Press

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architecture
Revealing the secret sources of
Le Corbusier’s architecture —
concealed by the architect
and undiscovered by scholars
until now.
March
8 3/4 x 11 1/4, 416 pp.
177 illus.
$44.95T/£28.95 cloth
978-0-262-02648-2
14
LE CORBUSIER AND THE OCCULT
J. K. Birksted
When Charl`es-Édouard Jeanneret reinvented himself as Le Corbusier in Paris,
he also carefully reinvented the first thirty years of his life by highlighting
some events and hiding others. As he explained in a letter: “Le Corbusier is a
pseudonym. Le Corbusier creates architecture recklessly. He pursues disinterested
ideas; he does not wish to compromise himself. . . . He is an entity free of the
burdens of carnality.”
Le Corbusier grew up in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a city
described by Karl Marx as “one unified watchmaking industry.” Among the
unifying social structures of La Chaux-de-Fonds was the Loge L’Amitié, the
Masonic lodge with its francophone moral, social, and philosophical ideas,
including the symbolic iconography of the right angle (rectitude) and the
compass (exactitude). Le Corbusier would later describe these as “my guide,
my choice” and as his “time-honored ideas, ingrained and deep-rooted in the
intellect, like entries from a catechism.”
Through exhaustive research that challenges long-held beliefs, J. K. Birksted’s
Le Corbusier and the Occult traces the structure of Le Corbusier’s brand of
modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in
hitherto undiscovered family and local archives. Le Corbusier and the Occult thus
answers the conundrum set by Reyner Banham (Birksted’s predecessor at the
Bartlett School of Architecture) who, fifty years
ago, wrote that Le Corbusier’s book Towards a
New Architecture “was to prove to be one of the
most influential, widely read and least understood
of all the architectural writings of the twentieth
century.”
J. K. Birksted teaches at the Bartlett School of
Architecture, University College London.
 architecture

BECOMING BUCKY FULLER

Loretta Lorance
Buckminster Fuller’s fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his A revisionist look at
visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his charismatic Buckminster Fuller’s early
personality provided the media with a good story — that of a genius who could career, making the case that
play the role of artist, scientist, and entrepreneur all at once. In Becoming Bucky Fuller’s most successful invention
was that of his own image.
Fuller, Loretta Lorance shows that Fuller’s career did not begin with the lofty
goals hailed by his admirers, and that, in fact, Fuller’s image as guru and prophet
was as carefully constructed as a geodesic dome. May
7 x 9, 304 pp.
Fuller (1895–1983) determined early on how the story of his life in the 7 color illus., 59 black & white illus.
1920s and 1930s should be portrayed. But, drawing on a close reading of
$29.95T/£19.95 cloth
Fuller’s personal papers (in particular, the multivolume scrapbook, Chronofile), 978-0-262-12302-0
Lorance looks at Fuller’s first independent project, the Dymaxion House, and
finds that what really happened differs from the authorized version. According
to Fuller himself and most secondary sources, after a series of personal crises in
the 1920s — including the death of his young daughter, thoughts of suicide,
and a “year of silence” during which he pondered his purpose in life — Fuller
resolved to devote himself to the betterment of society by offering the public
economical, efficient, modern manufactured housing. But the private papers tell
a different story; one of his initial motivations for designing the Dymaxion
House was simply to make money from its manufacture. When that didn’t
work, Fuller began to emphasize its possibilities
rather than its practicalities. By the mid-1930s,
Lorance shows, Fuller the public figure had gone
from being an entrepreneur with a product to
being a visionary with an idea. He had become
Bucky Fuller.
Loretta Lorance is an architectural historian. She teaches in
the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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art

BEAUTY
edited by Dave Beech
Key texts on beauty and its
Beauty has emerged as one of the most hotly contested subjects in current
revival in contemporary art. discussions on art and culture. After more than half a century of suspicion and
interrogation, beauty’s resurgence in visual practice and discourse since the late
April
1980s has engaged some of the most influential artists and writers on art.
6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp. From the avant-garde to the conceptual era, anti-aesthetic strategies have
$24.95T paper
resisted beauty because of its perceived complicity with dominant systems and
978-0-262-51238-1 ideologies. Thus politicized and opened to critique, beauty, invoked in relation
Documents of Contemporary Art to contemporary art, no longer sustains a singular or universal meaning but is
series always contentious.
Copublished with Whitechapel Spanning a range of positions on beauty — both for and against — this
Art Gallery, London anthology assembles the key texts on the controversy and situates the debate
Not for sale in the over the revival of beauty in the broader context of the history of ideas and
United Kingdom or Europe artistic practice.
Dave Beech is a London-based
British artist, a regular contributor
Also available in this series to Art Monthly, and coauthor of
COLOUR The Philistine Conspiracy.
edited by David Batchelor
2008, 978-0-262-52481-0
$24.95T paper
THE EVERYDAY
edited by Stephen Johnstone
2008, 978-0-262-60074-3
$24.95T paper
THE ARTIST’S JOKE
edited by Jennifer Higgie
2007, 978-0-262-58274-2
$24.95T paper
THE GOTHIC
edited by Gilda Williams
2007, 978-0-262-73186-7
$24.95T paper

ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE

Vito Acconci, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gustave Courbet, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas,
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Gary Hume, Asger Jorn, Alex Katz,
Willem de Kooning, Joseph Kosuth, Paul McCarthy, Édouard Manet, Robert Mapplethorpe, Agnes Martin,
Robert Morris, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko,
Robert Smithson, Nancy Spero, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, Andy Warhol

WRITERS INCLUDE
Theodor Adorno, Alexander Alberro, Rasheed Araeen, Art & Language, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
T. J. Clark, Mark Cousins, Arthur C. Danto, Jacques Derrida, Thierry de Duve, Fredric Jameson,
Christoph Grunenberg, Dave Hickey, Suzanne Perling Hudson, Caroline A. Jones, John Roberts,
Elaine Scarry, Wendy Steiner, Paul Wood

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APPROPRIATION
edited by David Evans
Scavenging, replicating, or remixing, many influential artists today reinvent a Important documents and appraisals
legacy of “stealing” images and forms from other makers. Among the diverse, of appropriation art, from
often contestatory strategies included under the heading “appropriation” are the Duchamp’s readymades to feminist
readymade, détournement, pastiche, rephotography, recombination, simulation and postcolonial critique.

and parody.
Although appropriation is often associated with the 1980s practice of such April
artists as Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman, 6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp.

as well as the critical discourse of postmodernism and the simulacral theory $24.95T paper
978-0-262-55070-3
of Jean Baudrillard, appropriation’s significance for art is not limited by that
cultural and political moment. Documents of Contemporary Art
series
In an expanded art-historical frame, this book recontextualizes avant-garde
photomontage, the Duchampian readymade, and the Pop image among such Copublished with Whitechapel
Art Gallery, London
alternative precursors as Francis Picabia, Bertolt Brecht, Guy Debord,
Akasegawa Genpei, Dan Graham, Not for sale in the
United Kingdom or Europe
Cildo Meireles, and Martha Rosler.
In the recent work of many artists,
including Mike Kelley, Glenn Ligon, Also available in this series
Pierre Huyghe, and Alexandra Mir, THE CINEMATIC
among others, appropriation is central edited by David Campany
2007, 978-0-262-53288-4
to their critique of the contemporary $24.95T paper
world and vision for alternative futures.
DESIGN AND ART
David Evans is the author of the catalogue edited by Alex Coles
raisonné John Heartfield: AIZ/VI 1930-38 2007, 978-0-262-53289-1
and a Research Fellow in Photography at $24.95T paper
the Arts Institute, Bournemouth, England.
He has published numerous articles in such PARTICIPATION
journals as Afterimage, Eye, and Source. edited by Claire Bishop
2006, 978-0-262-52464-3
$24.95T paper
THE ARCHIVE
edited by
Charles Merewether
2006, 978-0-262-63338-3
$24.95T paper

ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE

Akasegawa Genpei, Santiago Álvarez, Art Workers Coalition, Ross Bleckner, Marcel Broodthaers,
Victor Burgin, Maurizio Cattelan, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Johan Grimonprez,
Peter Halley, Hank Herron, Pierre Huyghe, Mike Kelley, Idris Khan, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine,
Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Alexandra Mir, Keith Piper, Richard Prince, Jorma Puranen,
Cindy Sherman, John Stezaker, Retort, Martha Rosler, Philip Taaffe

WRITERS INCLUDE
Malek Alloula, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Nicolas Bourriaud, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Johanna Burton, Douglas Crimp, Thomas Crow, Guy Debord, Georges Didi-Huberman, Marcel Duchamp,
Okwui Enwezor, Jean-Luc Godard, Isabelle Graw, Boris Groys, Raoul Hausmann, Sven Lütticken,
Cildo Meireles, Kobena Mercer, Slobodan Mijuskovic, Laura Mulvey, Jo Spence, Elisabeth Sussman,
Lisa Tickner, Reiko Tomii, Andy Warhol

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art
The most comprehensive collection
on Lichtenstein, including several
hard-to-find and previously
unpublished pieces.
March
6 x 9, 216 pp.
43 illus.
$17.95T/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51231-2
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01258-4
October Files series
Also available in this series
CINDY SHERMAN
edited by Johanna Burton
2006, 978-0-262-52463-6
$16.95T/£10.95 paper
JAMES COLEMAN
edited by George Baker
2003, 978-0-262-52341-7
$18.00T/£11.95 paper
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ROY LICHTENSTEIN
edited by Graham Bader
Roy Lichtenstein’s popular appeal — and his influence on pop culture, seen
in everything from greeting cards to sitcoms — at times overshadows his
importance to contemporary art. Yet, examined on its own terms, Lichtenstein’s
comics-inspired, deadpan artwork remains as truly unsettling to art-world
orthodoxies today as when it first gained wide attention in the early 1960s.
Lichtenstein (1923–1997), a central figure in Pop, consistently savaged the rules
of painting — while remaining committed to the most traditional procedures
and goals of the medium. (He once said, “The things that I have apparently
parodied I actually admire and I really don’t know what the implication of
that is.”) This book offers the most comprehensive collection of writings on
Lichtenstein’s work to appear in thirty-five years, with early reviews, artist inter-
views and statements (some never before published), and recent reassessments.
The book includes Donald Judd’s reviews of Lichtenstein’s three solo Pop
shows in the early 1960s, an essay on the artist’s 1969 Guggenheim retrospective,
interviews that touch on topics ranging from the New York art world to Monet
and Matisse, the transcript of a 1995 slide presentation in which Lichtenstein
surveyed three decades of his work, and an in-depth study of Lichtenstein’s first
Pop painting, Look Mickey (1961). The texts explore Lichtenstein’s career across
the boundaries of medium and period, excavating early critical discussions and
surveying more recent reexaminations of his artistic practice. The collection will
be an indispensable resource for those
interested in Lichtenstein, Pop Art,
and American culture of the 1960s.
Graham Bader is Assistant Professor of Art
History at Rice University.
CONTRIBUTORS
Graham Bader
Yve-Alain Bois
John Coplans
David Deitcher
Hal Foster
John Jones
Donald Judd
Max Kozloff
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
Roy Lichtenstein
Michael Lobel
 art

ROBERT RYMAN
Used Paint
Suzanne P. Hudson
This first book-length study of
In this first book-length study of Robert Ryman, Suzanne Hudson traces the Robert Ryman argues that his work
artist’s production from his first paintings in the early 1950s, many of which have is a continuous experiment in the
never been exhibited or reproduced, to his recent gallery shows. Ryman’s largely possibilities of painting.

white-on-white paintings represent his careful working over of painting’s

conventions at their most radically reduced. Through close readings of the work, April
Hudson casts Ryman as a painter for whom painting was conducted as a contin- 7 x 9, 328 pp.
112 illus., color throughout
uous personal investigation. Ryman’s method — an act of “learning by doing” —
$39.95T/£25.95 cloth
as well as his conception of painting as “used paint” sets him apart from second- 978-0-262-01280-5
generation abstract expressionists, minimalists, or conceptualists.
An October Book
Ryman (born in 1930) is a self-taught artist who began to paint in earnest
while working as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the
1950s. Hudson argues that Ryman’s approach to painting developed from
quotidian contact with the story of modern painting as assembled by MoMA
director and curator Alfred Barr and rendered widely accessible by director of
the education department Victor D’Amico and colleagues. Ryman’s introduction
to artistic practice within the (white) walls of MoMA, Hudson contends, was
shaped by an institutional ethos of experiential learning. (Others who worked
at the MoMA during these years include Lucy Lippard, who married Ryman
in 1961; Dan Flavin, another guard; and Sol LeWitt, a desk assistant.)
Hudson’s chapters — “Primer,” “Paint,” “Support,”
“Edge,” and “Wall,” named after the most basic
elements of the artist’s work — eloquently explore
Ryman’s ongoing experiment in what makes a
painting a painting. Ryman’s work, she writes, tests
the medium’s material and conceptual possibilities.
It signals neither the end of painting nor guarantees
its continued longevity but keeps the prospect of
painting an open question, answerable only through
the production of new paintings.
Suzanne P. Hudson is Assistant Professor of Modern
and Contemporary Art at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.

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ON THE CAMERA ARTS AND CONSECUTIVE MATTERS

The Writings of Hollis Frampton
Hollis Frampton
The collected writings of artist
edited with an introduction by Bruce Jenkins
and filmmaker Hollis Frampton,
including all the essays from As Hollis Frampton’s photographs and celebrated experimental films were test-
the long-unavailable Circles ing the boundaries of “the camera arts” in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative
of Confusion along with rare
additional material.
and highly literate writings were attempting to establish an intellectually resonant
form of discourse for these critically underexplored fields. It was a time when
artists working in diverse disciplines were beginning to pick up cameras and
April
7 x 9, 360 pp.
produce films and videotapes, well before these practices were understood or
18 color illus., 16 black & white illus. embraced by institutions of contemporary art. This collection of Frampton’s
$39.95T/£25.95 cloth writings presents his critical essays (many written for Artforum and October)
978-0-262-06276-3 along with additional material, including lectures, correspondence, interviews,
Writing Art series and production notes and scripts. It replaces — and supersedes — the long-
unavailable Circles of Confusion, published in 1983.
Frampton ranged widely over the visual arts in his writing, and the texts in
Also available this collection display his unique approaches to photography, film, and video,
HOLLIS FRAMPTON as well as the plastic and literary arts. They include critically acclaimed essays
(nostalgia)
Rachel Moore on Edward Weston and Eadweard Muybridge as well as appraisals of contem-
2006, 978-1-846380-01-3 porary photographers; the influential essay, “For a Metahistory of Film,” along
$16.00T/£9.95 paper with scripts, textual material, and scores for his films; writings on video that
Distributed for Afterall Books
constitute a prehistory of the digital arts; a dialogue with Carl Andre (his friend
and former Phillips Andover classmate) from the early 1960s; and two inventive,
almost unclassifiable pieces that are reminiscent of Borges, Joyce, and Beckett.
Hollis Frampton (1936–1984) was a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Among his best-known
works are (nostalgia), Zorns Lemma, and the unfinished series Magellan. He was one of
the founders of the Digital Arts Laboratory in the innovative Center for Media Study at
SUNY Buffalo. Bruce Jenkins is Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Film,
Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

“At long last, a near complete collection of Hollis Frampton’s

idiosyncratic, scholarly, recondite, funny writings, which might
justly be called ‘Offbeat Ways to Think About Everything.’
A cursory look at a few essay titles — ‘Time, Space, Causality,’
‘The Invention Without a Future,’ ‘Segments of Eternity,’
‘Inconclusions’ — reveals the astonishing breadth and brilliance
of a mentor to many. This book is an invaluable resource for
artists, pedagogues, autodidacts, and anyone who enjoys being
intellectually provoked.”
—Yvonne Rainer, author of Feelings are Facts

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THE MUSEOLOGICAL UNCONSCIOUS

Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia
Victor Tupitsyn
The history of contemporary art
introduction by Susan Buck-Morss and Victor Tupitsyn
in Russia, from socialist realism
In The Museological Unconscious, Victor Tupitsyn views the history of Russian to the post-Soviet alternative
contemporary art through a distinctly Russian lens, a “communal optic” that art scene.

registers the influence of such characteristically Russian phenomena as commu-

nal living, communal perception, and communal speech practices. This way of May
looking at the subject allows him to gather together a range of artists and art 8 x 9, 344 pp.
90 illus.
movements — from socialist realism to its “dangerous supplement,” sots art, and
$34.95T/£22.95 cloth
from alternative photography to feminism — as if they were tenants in a large
978-0-262-20173-5
Moscow apartment.
Describing the notion of “communal optics,” Tupitsyn argues that socialist
realism does not work without communal perception — which, as he notes,
does not easily fit into crates when paintings travel out of Russia for exhibition
in Kassel or New York. Russia, he writes, went through an immense “optical
restructuring” in the 1930s, in which viewers of art were “communalized.” This
restructuring (and the effect it had on Soviet cultural mentality) is the leitmotif
that runs through the book, as Tupitsyn discusses such topics as the history of
alternative Russian art, the communal conceptualism
of the 1970s and 1980s (epitomized by Ilya Kabakov
and Andrei Monastyrsky), the iconoclastic sots
art movement (the best known practitioners of which
are the artistic team of Komar and Melamid), the
different art worlds of Moscow and St. Petersburg
(the “aesthetics of transparency” versus the “aesthetics
of a blind spot”), the “creative violence” of the
telesniks, and the relationship among different
generations of “nonconformists.” Russian artists,
critics, and art historians, having lived for decades in
a society that ignored or suppressed avant-garde art,
have compensated, Tupitsyn claims, by developing a
“museological unconscious” — the “museification”
of the inner world and the collective psyche.
Victor Tupitsyn is a critic and theorist living in New York City
and Paris. He is on the advisory board of Third Text, London.

“Tupitsyn trains a fascinated gaze upon every aspect of Russian visual culture since
the disintegration of the Soviet empire. He knows the individuals and the cultural
institutions better than us all, and gives us, at last, an authoritative account of the
inversions and paradoxes of a still largely baffling culture. The East and the West in
Europe have never seemed so far apart — or so close.”
— Brandon Taylor, Professor of History of Art and Design,
Faculty of Arts, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

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art
An old genre is given a new look,
as portraits and self-portraits
of Marcel Duchamp invent and
cover up as much as they reveal
and portray.
April
9 x 12, 308 pp.
105 color illus., 49 black & white illus.
$49.95T/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01300-0
Distributed for the National Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
EXHIBITION
National Portrait Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution
March 27, 2009–August 2, 2009
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INVENTING MARCEL DUCHAMP
The Dynamics of Portraiture
edited by Anne Collins Goodyear and James W. McManus
foreword by Martin E. Sullivan
One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp
(1887–1968) was a master of self-invention who carefully regulated the image
he projected through self-portraiture and through his collaboration with those
who portrayed him. During his long career, Duchamp recast accepted modes for
assembling and describing identity, indelibly altering the terrain of portraiture.
This groundbreaking book (which accompanies a major exhibition at the
Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery) demonstrates the ways in
which Duchamp willfully manipulated the techniques of portraiture both to
secure his reputation as an iconoclast and to establish himself as a major figure
in the art world.
Although scholars have explored Duchamp’s use of aliases, little attention
has been paid to how this work played into, and against, existing portrait
conventions. Nor has any study yet compared these explicitly self-constructed
projects with the large body of portraits of Duchamp by others. Inventing Marcel
Duchamp showcases approximately one hundred never-before-assembled portraits
and self-portraits of Duchamp. The (broadly defined) self-portraits and self-
representations include the famous autobiographical suitcase Boîte-en-valise and
Self-Portrait in Profile, a torn silhouette that became very influential for future
generations of artists. The portraits by other artists include works by Duchamp’s
early collaborators Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Francis Picabia, Beatrice Wood,
and Florine Stettheimer, as well as portraits by more recent generations of
artists, including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Sturtevant, Brian O’Doherty,
Yasumasa Morimura, David Hammons, and Douglas Gordon.
Since the mid-twentieth century, as abstraction assumed a position of
dominance in fine art, portraiture has been often derided as an art form; the
images and essays in Inventing Marcel Duchamp counter this, and invite us to
rethink the role of portraiture in modern and contemporary art.
Anne Collins Goodyear is Assistant Curator of Prints and
Drawings at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, in Washington, D.C. James W. McManus is
Professor of Art History at California State University, Chico.
Marcel Duchamp, Arnold Newman (1918–2006). Gelatin silver print,
35.3 cm x 27.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.), 1942. National Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Arnold Newman.
 art

DAN GRAHAM
Beyond
edited by Bennett Simpson and Chrissie Iles
The first comprehensive survey of a
foreword by Jeremy Strick
pioneering artist, encompassing
Dan Graham is one of the most significant figures to emerge from the 1960s photographs, film and video,
moment of Conceptual art, with a practice that pioneered a range of art forms, architectural models, pavilion
installations, conceptual projects
modes, and ideas that are now fundamental to contemporary art. The thrust of for magazine pages, drawings
his practice has always pointed beyond: beyond the art object, beyond the studio, and prints, and writings.
beyond the medium, beyond the gallery, beyond the self. Beyond all these cate-
gories and into the realm of the social, the public, the democratic, the mass April
produced, the architectural, the anarchic, the humorous. Graham’s early work, 9 1/4 x 12 1/4, 384 pp.
Homes for America — a series of snapshots of suburban New Jersey tract housing 150 color illus.,
100 black & white illus.
accompanied by short parodic texts, made as a page layout for Arts magazine —
announced a critical art grounded in the everyday, and it merged the artist’s $44.95T/£28.95 paper
978-1-933751-12-2
interest in cultural commentary with art’s most advanced visual modes. His 1984
“video-essay” Rock My Religion traced a continuum of separatism and collective Distributed for the
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ecstasy from the American religious sect the Shakers to hard-core punk music. Los Angeles
This volume, which accompanies
a major retrospective organized by
the Museum of Contemporary Also available
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Selected Writings by
comprehensive survey of Graham’s Dan Graham on His Art
work. The book’s design evokes Dan Graham
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Graham’s important conceptual
work from the 1960s in that
medium. Generously illustrated EXHIBITION
in color and black and white, Dan Museum of Contemporary Art,
Graham: Beyond features eight Los Angeles
February 15–March 25, 2009
new essays, two new interviews
with the artist, a section of reprints Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York City
of Graham’s own writing, and an June 25–October 2009
animated manga-style “life of Dan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Graham” narrative. It examines November 2009–February 2010
Graham’s entire body of work,
which includes designs for maga-
zine pages, drawing, photographs,
film and video, and architectural
models and pavilions. ESSAYS
• Chrissie Iles on Graham’s performance work
Bennett Simpson is Assistant Curator
• Bennett Simpson on Graham’s interest and works in rock music
at the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles. Chrissie Iles is the Anne • Beatriz Colomina on Graham’s architectural pavilions
and Joel Ehrandranz Curator at the • Rhea Anastas on Graham’s early formation and short-lived operation of the John Daniels
Whitney Museum of American Art. Gallery
• Mark von Schlegell on Graham’s interest in science fiction
• Mark Francis on Graham’s Public Space/Two Audiences (1976)
• Alexandra Midal on Graham’s conceptual works for magazine pages and magazine design
• Philippe Vergne on Graham’s puppet opera Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty (2004)
• Kim Gordon interview with Graham on their collaborations and music
• Rodney Graham interview with Graham on jokes and humor in art

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art/new media

SYNTHETIC TIMES
Media Art China
edited by Fan Di’an and Zhang Ga
Innovative and groundbreaking
works by new media artists We live in a world that operates on bits and bytes. Reality has become synthetic,
from nearly thirty countries a convergence of the material and the immaterial. The synthetic power of new
reflect what it means to be media art — integrative, interdisciplinary, interactive — expresses the blurred
human on the threshold of
human-machine symbiosis. boundary between the physical and the digital. Synthetic Times collects new media
art created since 2001 by artists and art collectives from nearly thirty countries.
These innovative and groundbreaking works investigate how we perceive reality
March
9 x 11, 358 pp. and what it means to be human on the threshold of human-machine symbiosis.
200 color illus. The artworks in Synthetic Times (which accompanies a milestone exhibition
$44.95T/£28.95 paper at the National Art Museum in China, an Olympics Cultural Project) explore a
978-0-262-51226-8 trajectory of uncanny visions ranging from the desire to transcend the corporal
Copublished with the National to the construction of synthetic worlds; from telematic dreaming to transgenic
Art Museum of China hybrids; from whimsical apparatuses to the deadpan gaze of magnetic fields.
Not for sale in China They reveal the tension between man and
machine, between the animated and the
inert, rekindling a discourse about rela-
ESSAYS tionships between nature and culture, the
Jordan Crandall
Oliver Grau
perceived and the imagined. Essays by
Erkii Huhtamo leading new media theorists accompany
Caroline A. Jones the artworks, and an appendix documents
Friedrich Kittler
Arthur Kroker
additional programs held in conjunction
Mike Stubbs with the exhibition.
Peter Weibel
Zhang Ga Fan Di’an is Director of the National Art Museum
of China. Zhang Ga is a media artist and inde-
pendent curator. He is the artistic director and
curator of the exhibition this book accompanies.

Top: Transmute Collective, Intimate Transactions.

Australia, 2005, interactive telematic installation.
Left: Magdalena Pederlin, Name is an Anagram.
Croatia, 2006. Audio/Visual installation.

ARTISTS
1000 Cell Phones Team, AL and AL, Blendid, Jean-Michel Bruyère, Rejane Cantoni, Aristarkh Chernyshev,
Convergeo + Media and Design Lab, Luvc Courchesne, Du Zhenjun, etoy, exonemo, f18 institute, Paula Gaetano Adi,
Usman Haque, Edwin van der Heide, Kurt Hentschläger, Mateusz Herczka, Christoph Hillebrand, Daniel Palacios Jiménez,
Kichul Kim, Knowbotic Research, Daniela Kutschat Hanns, Paul Lincoln, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Chico MacMurtrie,
Eva and Franco Mattes, Anthony McCall, Henrik Menné, Miao Xiaochun, Yves Netzhammer, Marnix de Nijs,
Magdalena Pederin, David Rokeby, Mariana Rondon, Bengt Sjölén, Adam Somlai-Fischer, Stelarc, Sissel Tolaas,
Transmute Collective, Tsai Wen-Ying, VERDENSTEATRET, Marek Walczak, Martin Wattenberg, Herwig Weiser,
Wu Juehui, Xu Bing, Xu Zhongmin

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 game studies

RACING THE BEAM

The Atari Video Computer System
Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost
A study of the relationship
The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so between platform and creative
completely that “Atari” became the generic term for a video game console. The expression in the Atari VCS.
Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges.
Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which estab- March
lished new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a 6 x 9, 184 pp.
22 illus.
detailed and accessible study of this influential video game console from both
computational and cultural perspectives. $22.95T/£14.95 cloth
978-0-262-01257-7
Studies of digital media have rarely investigated platforms — the systems
underlying computing. This book (the first in the series of Platform Studies) Platform Studies series
does so, developing a critical approach that examines the relationship between
platforms and creative expression. Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost discuss the
Also available
Atari VCS itself and examine in detail six game cartridges: Combat, Adventure, UNIT OPERATIONS
Pac-Man, Yars’ Revenge, Pitfall!, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. They An Approach to
describe the technical constraints and affordances of the system and track Videogame Criticism
Ian Bogost
developments in programming, gameplay, interface, and aesthetics. Adventure, 2008, 978-0-262-52487-2
for example, was the first game to represent a virtual space larger than the screen $18.00S/£11.95 paper
(anticipating the boundless virtual spaces of such later games as World of Warcraft PERSUASIVE GAMES
and Grand Theft Auto), by allowing the player to walk off one side into another The Expressive Power
space; and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was an early instance of interaction of Videogames
Ian Bogost
between media properties and video games. 2007, 978-0-262-02614-7
Montfort and Bogost show that the Atari VCS — often considered merely a $37.00S/£21.95 cloth
retro fetish object — is an essential part of the history of video games. TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES
Nick Montfort is Assistant Professor of An Approach to
Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Interactive Fiction
Twisty Little Passages: A New Approach Nick Montfort
to Interactive Fiction and the coeditor of 2005, 978-0-262-63318-5
The New Media Reader, both published $18.95T/£12.95 paper
by the MIT Press. Ian Bogost is Assistant
THE NEW MEDIA READER
Professor in the School of Literature,
Communication, and Culture, at Georgia edited by
Institute of Technology and Founding Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Partner, Persuasive Games LLC. He is and Nick Montfort
the author of Persuasive Games: The 2003, 978-0-262-23227-2
Expressive Power of Videogame Criticism $52.00S/£33.95 cloth
and Unit Operations: An Approach to
Videogame Criticism, both published
by the MIT Press. PLATFORM STUDIES SERIES
The books in the Platform
Studies series, edited by
“Modern game designers should read Nick Montfort and
this book for the same reason that Ian Bogost, investigate
modern generals study the military computing systems and how
they enable, constrain,
campaigns of Alexander and Caesar: shape, and support creative
the technology is completely different work. The books are
but the principles are the same.” technically rigorous while
also exploring the cultural
— Chris Crawford, former head of and social contexts in which
Atari’s Games Research Group, these platforms exist.
and cofounder of Storytron

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new media/politics

Government media-making, from
official websites to whistleblowers’
e-mail, and its sometimes
unintended consequences.
May
7 x 9, 416 pp.
71 illus.
$29.95T/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-12304-4
VIRTUALPOLITIK
An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time
of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes
Elizabeth Losh
Today government agencies not only have official Web sites but also sponsor
moderated chats, blogs, digital video clips, online tutorials, videogames, and
virtual tours of national landmarks. Sophisticated online marketing campaigns
target citizens with messages from the government — even as officials make
news with digital gaffes involving embarrassing e-mails, instant messages, and
videos. In Virtualpolitik, Elizabeth Losh closely examines the government’s
digital rhetoric in such cases and its dual role as mediamaker and regulator.
Looking beyond the usual focus on interfaces, operations, and procedures,
Losh analyzes the ideologies revealed in government’s digital discourse, its
anxieties about new online practices, and what happens when officially
sanctioned material is parodied, remixed, or recontextualized by users.
Losh reports on a video game that panicked the House Intelligence
Committee, pedagogic and therapeutic digital products aimed at American
soldiers, government Web sites in the weeks and months following 9/11,
PowerPoint presentations by government officials and gadflies, e-mail as a
channel for whistleblowing, digital satire of surveillance practices, national
digital libraries, and computer-based training for health professionals.
Losh concludes that the government’s “virtualpolitik” — its digital realpolitik
aimed at preserving its own power — is focused on regulation, casting as
criminal such common online activities as file sharing, video-game play, and
social networking. This policy approach,
she warns, indefinitely postpones building
effective institutions for electronic gover-
nance, ignores constituents’ need to shape
electronic identities to suit their personal
politics, and misses an opportunity to
learn how citizens can have meaningful
interaction with the virtual manifestations
of the state.
Elizabeth Losh is Writing Director of the
Humanities Core Course at the University of
California, Irvine, where she teaches courses
on digital rhetoric and public communication.

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 political science/philosophy

BEYOND RED AND BLUE

How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates
Peter S. Wenz
Why Americans do not divide
On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics neatly into red and blue or right
is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Canada. But in fact, writes and left but form coalitions
Peter Wenz in Beyond Red and Blue, Americans do not divide neatly into two across party lines on hot-button
issues ranging from immigration
ideological camps of red/blue, Republican/Democrat, right/left. If they did, what to same-sex marriage.
could explain Republicans who oppose the Patriot Act and support gay marriage,
or liberals and conservatives who agree over genetic engineering? In real life, as
March
Wenz shows, different ideologies can converge on certain issues; people from the 6 x 9, 376 pp.
right and left can support the same policy for different reasons. Thus, for example,
$27.95T/£18.95 cloth
libertarian-leaning Republicans can oppose the Patriot Act’s encroachment on 978-0-262-01295-9
personal freedom and social conservatives can support gay marriage on the
grounds that it strengthens the institution of marriage; liberals might oppose
genetic engineering on environmental grounds, conservatives on religious grounds.
Wenz maps out twelve political philosophies — ranging from theocracy and
free-market conservatism to feminism and cosmopolitanism — on which
Americans draw when taking political positions. He then turns his focus to
some of America’s most controversial issues and, through in-depth discussions
of fourteen of them, shows how ideologically diverse coalitions can emerge.
These hot-button issues include extending life by artificial means (as in the
Terry Schiavo case); the war on drugs; the war on terrorism;
affirmative action; abortion; same-sex marriage; healthcare;
immigration; and globalization.
Awareness of these twelve political philosophies, Wenz
argues, can help activists enlist allies, citizens better understand
politics and elections, and all of us define our own political
identities.
Peter S. Wenz is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Illinois at Springfield and University Scholar of the University of
Illinois. He is the author of Environmental Justice, Nature’s Keeper,
Political Philosophies in Moral Conflict, and other books.

“ Beyond Red and Blue tackles tough issues from euthanasia to

torture to global trade. Don’t expect Wenz to button up every
chapter with sound-bite certainty. His conclusions may make
you cheer or curse, but they are sure to make you think.”
— Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois

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American history
A historian’s call to make the
celebration of America’s past
more honest.
April
4 1/2 x 7, 216 pp.
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
978-0-262-01288-1
A Boston Review Book
PRAISE FOR WILLIAM HOGELAND
“For William Hogeland, thinking
about history is an act of moral
inquiry and high citizenship.
A searching and original voice.”
— Rick Perlstein,
author of Nixonland
“Hogeland writes like a novelist,
reports like a newsman (he is
one), and makes [the] historic
judgments of a man who has
done his homework.”
— Blue Ridge Business Journal
Also available in this series
GOD AND THE WELFARE STATE
Lew Daly
2006, 978-0-262-04236-9
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
THE END OF THE WILD
Stephen M. Meyer
2006, 978-0-262-13473-6
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
MAKING AID WORK
Abhijit Banerjee
2007, 978-0-262-02615-4
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
THE STORY OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Colin Dayan
2007, 978-0-262-04239-0
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
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INVENTING AMERICAN HISTORY
William Hogeland
American public history — in magazines and books, television documentaries,
and museums — tends to celebrate its subject at all costs, even to the point of
denial and distortion. This does us a great disservice, argues William Hogeland
in Inventing American History. Looking at details glossed over in three examples
of public history — the Alexander Hamilton revival, tributes to Pete Seeger and
William F. Buckley, and the Constitution Center in Philadelphia — Hogeland
considers what we lose when history is written to conform to political aims.
Questioning the resurrection, by both neocons and the left, of Alexander
Hamilton as the founder of the American financial system — if not of the
American dream itself — Hogeland delves deeply into Hamilton’s brutal treat-
ment of working-class entrepreneurs. And debunking recent hagiographies of
Pete Seeger and William F. Buckley, Hogeland deftly parses Seeger’s embrace
of communism and Buckley’s unreconstructed views on race.
Hogeland then turns his attention to the U.S. Constitution Center in
Philadelphia (the location of Barack Obama’s speech on race), comparing its
one-note celebration of the document to the National Park Service tours of
nearby Independence Hall. The Park Service tours don’t advance any particular
point of view, but by being almost purely informative with a kind of hands-on
detail, they make the past come to life, available for both celebration and criti-
cism. We should be able to respect the Constitution without being forced to our
knees before it, Hogeland argues; we can handle the truth about the Framers’
intense politicking and
compromises. Only when
we can ground our public
history in the gritty events
of the day, embracing
its contradictions and
difficulties, will we be
able to learn from it.
William Hogeland is author of
The Whisky Rebellion: George
Washington, Alexander Hamilton,
and the Frontier Rebels Who
Challenged America’s Newfound
Sovereignty. He lives in New
York City.
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 current affairs/economics

AFRICA’S TURN?
Edward Miguel
foreword by William R. Easterly
Signs of hope in sub-Saharan
By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced Africa: modest but steady
twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While “economic miracles” economic growth and the
in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa spread of democracy.
seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict and mass destitution, and
ranked lowest in the world in just about every economic and social indicator. April
Working in Busia, a small Kenyan border town, economist Edward Miguel 4 1/2 x 7, 144 pp.
began to notice something different starting in 1997: modest but steady eco- $14.95T/£9.95 cloth
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hopeful economic trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa and suggests that we
may be seeing a turnaround. He bases his hopes on a range of recent changes:
CONTRIBUTORS
democracy is finally taking root in many countries; China’s successes have fueled Olu Ajakaiye, Ken Banks,
large-scale investment in Africa; and rising commodity prices have helped as Robert Bates, Paul Collier,
well. Miguel warns, though, that the growth is fragile. Violence and climate Rachel Glennerster, Rosamond Naylor,
Smita Singh, David N. Weil, and
change could derail it quickly, and he argues for specific international assistance Jeremy M. Weinstein
when drought and civil strife loom.
Responding to Miguel, nine experts gauge his optimism. Some question the
progress of democracy in Africa or are more skeptical about China’s constructive Also available in this series
MOVIES AND THE MORAL
impact, while others think that Miguel has underestimated the threats repre-
ADVENTURE OF LIFE
sented by climate change and population growth. But most agree that some- Alan A. Stone
thing new is happening, and that policy innovations in health, education, 2007, 978-0-262-19567-6
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agriculture, and government
accountability are the key to WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT
CLIMATE CHANGE
Africa’s future. Kerry Emanuel
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Gangsters: Corruption, Violence,
WHY NUCLEAR
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of California, Berkeley. THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY IN IRAN
Akbar Ganji
2008, 978-0-262-07295-3
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RACE, INCARCERATION, AND
AMERICAN VALUES
Glenn C. Loury
with Pamela Karlan, Tommie Shelby,
Loic Wacquant
2008, 978-0-262-12311-2
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THE MEN IN MY LIFE
Vivian Gornick
2008, 978-0-262-07303-5
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economics

INSIDE THE FED

The ultimate Federal Reserve
insider offers insights into the
inner workings of the Fed over
the past fifty years.
March
6 x 9, 216 pp.
1 illus.
$24.95T/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-01249-2
Monetary Policy and Its Management,
Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke
Stephen H. Axilrod
Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed’s
Board of Governors for over thirty years and after that in private markets and as
a consultant on monetary policy. With Inside the Fed, he offers his unique per-
spective on the inner workings of the Federal Reserve System over the last fifty
years — writing about personalities as much as policy — based on his knowledge
and observations of every Fed Chairman since 1951.
Axilrod’s discussion focuses on how the personalities of the various chairmen
affected their capacity for leadership. He describes, for example, Arthur Burns’s
response to political pressure from the Nixon White House, and Paul Volcker’s
radical shift to an anti-inflationary policy at the end of the 1970s — a transition
in which Axilrod himself played a crucial role. As for the Greenspan years,
Axilrod points to the unintended effects of the Fed’s newfound “garrulousness”
(the plethora of announcements and hints about policy intentions) — one of
which was the Fed’s loss of credibility in the aftermath of the chairman’s 1996
comment about “irrational exuberance.” And Axilrod incisively outlines the
problems — including the subprime mess — inherited from Greenspan by the
current chairman, Ben Bernanke. Great leadership in monetary policy, Axilrod
says, is determined 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.

“An intimate account of the Fed’s depressing decline in the

Seventies and dramatic comeback in the Volcker years
when the central bank triumphed over the biggest threat
to the U.S. economy since the Great Depression. Now that
the old enemy, stagflation, is stirring once more, the les-
sons Stephen Axilrod draws from past battles couldn't be
timelier.”
— Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
“No one seriously interested in American monetary policy
in the post-World War II era can ignore what Axilrod
recounts here.”
— Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier
Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University

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 economics

LIVES OF THE LAUREATES

Twenty-three Nobel Economists
Fifth Edition
edited by William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch Autobiographical accounts by
twenty-three Nobel laureates
Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic give a picture of the richness
thought as told through autobiographical essays by twenty-three winners of of contemporary economic
thought and insights into
the Nobel Prize in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights the creative process.
into major economic ideas of our time but also shed light on the processes of
intellectual discovery and creativity. This fifth edition adds five recent Nobel
March
laureates to its list of contributors: Vernon L. Smith (2002), Clive W. J. Granger 6 x 9, 456 pp.
(2003), Edward C. Prescott (2004), Thomas C. Schelling (2005) and Edmund 23 illus.
S. Phelps (2006). Also included is the editors’ revised afterword, “Lessons from $29.95T/£19.95 cloth
the Laureates.” 978-0-262-01276-8
Lives of the Laureates grows out of a continuing lecture series at Trinity
University in San Antonio, which invites Nobelists from American universities
to describe their evolution as economists in personal as well as technical terms. CONTRIBUTORS
Kenneth J. Arrow
Each laureate achieves the goal of clarity without sacrificing inherently difficult Gary S. Becker
content: Kenneth Arrow makes grasping the essentials of his “impossibility James M. Buchanan
theorem” painless; Lawrence Klein clearly presents what goes into econometric Ronald H. Coase
Milton Friedman
“model building”; George Stigler masterfully describes his “information theory”; Clive W. J. Granger
and so on. John C. Harsanyi
These lectures demonstrate the richness James J. Heckman
Lawrence R. Klein
and diversity of contemporary economic W. Arthur Lewis
thought. The reader will find that paths Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
cross in unexpected ways — that disparate Franco Modigliani
Douglass C. North
thinkers were often influenced by the same Edmund S. Phelps
teachers — and that luck as well as hard Edward C. Prescott
work plays a role in the process of scientific Paul A. Samuelson
Thomas C. Schelling
discovery. Myron S. Scholes
William Breit is E. M. Stevens Distinguished William F. Sharpe
Professor Emeritus at Trinity University, San Vernon L. Smith
Antonio. Barry T. Hirsch is W. J. Usery Chair Robert M. Solow
of the American Workplace at Georgia State George J. Stigler
University. James Tobin

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history/environment/regional
The history of Fresh Pond
Reservation — onetime summer
retreat for wealthy Bostonians,
center of the nineteenth-century
ice industry, and stomping grounds
for Harvard students — told through
photographs, maps and plans,
and stories.
April
11 x 7 1/2, 192 pp.
137 illus.
$29.95T/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-19591-1
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FRESH POND
The History of a Cambridge Landscape
Jill Sinclair
Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” Certainly it is a landscape
that has been changed by its various uses over the years and one to which
Cantabridgeans and Bostonians have felt an intense attachment. Henry James
returned to it in his sixties, looking for “some echo of the dreams of youth,”
feeling keenly “the pleasure of memory”; a Harvard student of the 1850s fondly
remembered skating parties and the chance of “flirtation with some fair-ankled
beauty of breezy Boston”; modern residents argue fiercely over dogs being
allowed to run free at the reservation and whether soccer or nature is a more
valuable experience for Cambridge schoolchildren. In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair
tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs,
drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond’s geological,
historical, and political ecology.
Fresh Pond has been a Native American hunting and fishing ground; the
site of an eighteenth-century hotel offering bowling, food and wine, and
impromptu performances by Harvard men; a summer retreat for wealthy
Bostonians; a training ground for trench warfare; a location for picnics and
festivals for workers and sporting activities for all. The parkland features an
Olmsted design, albeit an imperfectly realized one. The pond itself — a natural
lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago — was a center
of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about
another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water.
Sinclair’s celebration of a local landscape also alerts us to broader issues —
shifts in public attitudes toward nature (is it brutal wilderness or in need of
protection?) and water (precious commodity or
limitless flow?) — that resonate as we remake our
relationship to the landscape.
Jill Sinclair is a landscape historian, writer, and lecturer
now living in Paris.
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 neuroscience/Buddhism

SELFLESS INSIGHT
Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness
James H. Austin
Attention, self-consciousness,
When neurology researcher James Austin began Zen training, he found that insight, wisdom, emotional
his medical education was inadequate. During the past three decades, he has maturity: how Zen teachings
been at the cutting edge of both Zen and neuroscience, constantly discovering can illuminate the way our
brains function and vice-versa.
new examples of how these two large fields each illuminate the other. Now, in
Selfless Insight, Austin arrives at a fresh synthesis, one that invokes the latest
brain research to explain the basis for meditative states and clarifies what Zen March
7 x 9, 352 pp.
awakening implies for our understanding of consciousness. 18 illus. in color and black & white
Austin, author of the widely read Zen and the Brain, reminds us why Zen
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meditation is not only mindfully attentive but evolves to become increasingly 978-0-262-01259-1
selfless and intuitive. Meditators are gradually learning how to replace over-
emotionality with calm, clear objective comprehension.
In this new book, Austin discusses how meditation trains our attention, Also available
reprogramming it toward subtle forms of awareness that are more openly mind- ZEN-BRAIN REFLECTIONS
Reviewing Recent Developments in
ful. He explains how our maladaptive notions of self are rooted in interactive Meditation and States of
brain functions. And he describes how, after the extraordinary, deep states of Consciousness
kensho-satori strike off the roots of the self, a flash of transforming insight- James H. Austin
2006, 978-0-262-01223-2
wisdom leads toward ways of living more harmoniously and selflessly. $39.95T/£25.95 cloth
Selfless Insight is the capstone to Austin’s journey both as a creative neurosci-
CHASE, CHANCE, AND CREATIVITY
entist and as a Zen practitioner. His quest has spanned an era of unprecedented The Lucky Art of Novelty
progress in brain research and has helped define the exciting new field of con- James H. Austin
templative neuroscience. 2003, 978-0-262-51135-3
$21.95T/£14.95 paper
James H. Austin, clinical neurolo-
ZEN AND THE BRAIN
gist, researcher, and Zen practi-
Toward an Understanding of
tioner, is Professor Emeritus of
Neurology at the University of Meditation and Consciousness
Colorado Health Sciences Center James H. Austin
and Clinical Professor of Neurology 1999, 978-0-262-51109-4
at the University of Missouri $38.00T/£25.95 paper
(Columbia) School of Medicine.
He is the author of Zen and
the Brain, Chase, Chance, and
Creativity, and Zen-Brain
Reflections, all published
by the MIT Press.

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science/psychology
Sorting out the scientific facts
from the unsupported hype about
emotional intelligence.
April
6 x 9, 456 pp.
44 illus.
$29.95T/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-01260-7
Also available
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Science and Myth
Gerald Matthews, Moshe Zeidner,
and Richard D. Roberts
2004, 978-0-262-63296-6
$35.000S/£22.95 paper
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WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationships,
and Our Mental Health
Moshe Zeidner, Gerald Matthews, and Richard D. Roberts
Emotional intelligence (or EI) — the ability to perceive, regulate, and communi-
cate emotions, to understand emotions in ourselves and others — has been the
subject of best-selling books, magazine cover stories, and countless media men-
tions. It has been touted as a solution for problems ranging from relationship
issues to the inadequacies of local schools. But the media hype has far outpaced
the scientific research on emotional intelligence. In What We Know about
Emotional Intelligence, three experts who are actively involved in research into
EI offer a state-of-the-art account of EI in theory and practice. They tell us what
we know about EI based not on anecdote or wishful thinking but on science.
EI promises a new means for achieving success and personal happiness.
Coaches and consultants offer EI training and administer EQ tests — despite
the lack of any agreement on how to measure EI, the usefulness of testing for
EI, and even how to define EI. What We Know about Emotional Intelligence
looks at current knowledge about EI with the goal of translating it into practical
recommendations in work, school, social, and psychological contexts. The
authors discuss what is (and what isn’t) EI, why the concept has such appeal
today, how EI develops, and the usefulness of EI in the real world — in school
curricula, the workplace, and treating psychological dysfunction.
Moshe Zeidner is Professor of Educational Psychology and
Human Development at the University of Haifa. Gerald
Matthews is Professor of Psychology at the University of
Cincinnati. Richard D. Roberts is Principal Research Scientist
at the Center for New Constructs, Educational Testing
Service. They are the coauthors of Emotional Intelligence:
Science and Myth, published by the MIT Press.
 philosophy

PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE
A Partial Summing-Up
Irving Singer
The author of the classic
In 1984, Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a philosophical treatment of love
classic and much acclaimed trilogy on love. Trained as an analytical philosopher, reflects on the trajectory, over
Singer first approached his subject with the tools of current philosophical decades, of his thoughts on
love and other topics.
methodology. Dissatisfied by the initial results (finding the chapters he had
written “just dreary and unproductive of anything”), he turned to the history
of ideas in philosophy and the arts for inspiration. He discovered an immensity March
5 3/8 x 8, 144 pp.
of speculation and artistic practice that reached wholly beyond the parameters
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he had been trained to consider truly philosophical. In his three-volume work
978-0-262-19574-4
The Nature of Love, Singer tried to make sense of this historical progression
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background. In this new book, he maps the trajectory of his thinking on love.
BACK IN PRINT
It is a “partial” summing-up of a lifework: partial because it expresses the
author’s still unfolding views, because it is a recapitulation of many published THE NATURE OF LOVE
pages, because love — like any subject of that magnitude — resists a neatly Irving Singer
comprehensive, all-inclusive formulation. Adopting an informal, even conversa- “Majestic.”
tional, tone, Singer discusses, among other topics, the history of romantic love, — New York Times
the Platonic ideal, courtly and nineteenth-century Romantic love; the nature Book Review
of passion; the concept of merging (and his critique of it); ideas about love in
Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey, Santayana, Sartre, and other writers; “Monumental.”
and love in relation to democracy, existentialism, creativity, and the possible — Boston Globe
future of scientific investigation. “Wise and magisterial.”
Singer’s writing on love embodies — Times Literary
what he has learned as a contemporary Supplement
philosopher, studying other authors
“One of the major
in the field and “trying to get a little
works of philosophy
further.” This book continues his
in our century.”
trailblazing explorations.
— Noûs
Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy
at MIT. He is the author of the trilogies
THE NATURE OF LOVE
The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life
as well as Reality Transformed: Film as Plato to Luther
Meaning and Technique, Three Philosophical March, 6 x 9, 410 pp.
Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir, and $36.00S/£23.95 paper
Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher, 978-0-262-51272-5
all published by the MIT Press, as well The Irving Singer Library
as many other books.
THE NATURE OF LOVE
Courtly and Romantic
March, 6 x 9, 528 pp.
$36.00S/£23.95 paper
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The Modern World
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AFTERALL BOOKS
film/photography art

CHRIS MARKER HANNE DARBOVEN

La Jetée Cultural History 1880-1983
Janet Harbord Dan Adler
Chris Marker’s legendary Hanne Darboven’s Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural
“ciné-roman” (“film novel”) History 1880-1983) (1980-1983) is an overwhelming
La Jetée is considered one of and encyclopedic installation consisting of 1,590 works
the greatest and most influ- on paper and 19 sculptural objects. The work weaves
ential experimental films of together cultural, social, and historical references with
all time. This short film — autobiographical documents, postcards, pinups of film
a postapocalyptic story and rock stars, documentary references to the first
composed almost entirely of and second world wars, geometric diagrams for textile
black-and-white still photographs — has been praised weaving, a sampling of New
by cultural theorists and Netflix subscribers alike. In York doorways, illustrated
this illustrated study of La Jetée, Janet Harbord focuses covers from news magazines,
in part on the film’s treatment of time — its shifts the contents of an exhibition
from a prewar past to a projected future and a further catalogue devoted to postwar
future of the future (each with its own signature images European and American art,
and sound) — arguing that in this way it addresses the a kitschy literary calendar,
nature of consciousness and the simultaneity of time- and extracts from some of
frames that we inhabit. Harbord moves easily from Darboven’s earlier works.
a close reading of the film to discussions of broader The panels are sequenced
cultural issues, lucidly piecing together the enigma and grouped, with the
that is La Jetée. groups then juxtaposed in
Janet Harbord is the author of The Evolution of Film and Film arrangements that often seem little more than chance
Cultures. She is Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Media at associations.
Goldsmiths College, London. Chris Marker (born in 1921) is In his illustrated walk through Darboven’s massive
one of French cinema’s most influential artists.
work, Dan Adler explores its visual and aesthetic com-
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6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp. projects undertaken by European artists in the 1960s —
32 illus. including Gerhard Richter’s ongoing Atlas. The work
$16.00T/£9.95 paper is now permanently installed at Dia: Beacon.
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exhibited her work in the Documenta exhibitions 5, 6, and 7
One Work series and in the 40th Venice Biennale.
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fiction/gay studies
An autobiographical coming-of-age
novel by the “only gay man”
in Morocco.
March
6 x 9, 152 pp.
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
978-1-58435-070-5
Native Agents series
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GOOD SEX ILLUSTRATED
Tony Duvert
2007, 978-1-58435-043-9
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
THE PASSIONATE MISTAKES
AND INTRICATE CORRUPTION
OF ONE GIRL IN AMERICA
Michelle Tea
2007, 978-1-58435-052-1
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
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SALVATION ARMY
Abdellah Taïa
translated by Frank Stock
An autobiographical novel by turn naïve and cunning, funny and moving, this
most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Taïa is a major addition to
the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora.
Salvation Army is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Taïa’s life with
complete disclosure — from a childhood bound by family order and latent
(homo)sexual tensions in the poor city of Salé, through an adolescence in
Tangier charged by the young writer’s attraction to his eldest brother, to a
disappointing arrival in the Western world to study in Geneva in adulthood.
In so doing, Salvation Army manages to burn through the author’s first-person
singularity to embody the complex mélange of fear and desire projected by
Arabs on Western culture.
Recently hailed by his native country’s press as “the first Moroccan to have
the courage to publicly assert his difference,” Taïa, through his calmly transgres-
sive work, has “outed” himself as “the only gay man” in a country whose theo-
cratic law still declares homosexuality a crime. The persistence of prejudices on
all sides of the Mediterranean and Atlantic makes the translation of Taïa’s work
both a literary and political event. The arrival of Salvation Army (published in
French in 2006) in English will be welcomed by an American audience already
familiar with a growing cadre of talented Arab writers working in French
(including Muhammad Dib, Assia Djebar, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Abdelkebir
Khatibi, and Kātib Yāsı̄n).
Abdellah Taïa (b. 1973) is the first openly gay
autobiographical writer published in Morocco.
Though Moroccan, he has lived in Paris for the
last eight years. He is the author of Mon Maroc
and Le rouge du tarbouche, both translated
into Dutch and Spanish. He also appeared in
Rémi Lange’s 2004 film Tarik el Hob (released
in English as The Road to Love).
“Abdellah Taïa is a brilliant young Moroccan
living in France. In this novel, appropriately,
he talks about his first contacts with Europeans.
We learn about the traditional Moroccan
family, about Swiss sex tourists, about the
Salvation Army in Geneva, about the first
burgeoning of desire in a young Arab, about
family love and carnal love. Taïa has a
captivating way of taking us into his
confidence and telling us essential truths.”
— Edmund White
Author photo: Denis Dailleux
 science fiction

MERCURY STATION
Mark Von Schlegell
Published by Semiotext(e) in 2005, Mark Von Schlegell’s debut novel Venusia It’s 2150, and Eddie Ryan is a
was hailed in the sci-fi and literary worlds as a “breathtaking excursion” and prisoner on Mercury, ruled by the
“heady kaleidoscopic trip,” establishing him as an important practitioner of qompURE MERKUR: compelling
vanguard science fiction. Mercury Station, the second book in Von Schlegell’s future-history sci-fi by the
author of Venusia.
System Series, continues the journey into a dystopian literary future.
It is 2150. Eddard J. Ryan was born in a laboratory off Luna City, an orphan
raised by the Black Rose Army, a radical post-Earth Irish revolutionary move- March
6 x 9, 328 pp.
ment. But his first bombing went wrong and he’s been stuck in a borstal on
Mercury for decades. System Space has collapsed and most of human civilization $17.95T/£11.95 paper
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with it, but Eddie Ryan and his fellow prisoners continue to suffer the remote-
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qompURE MERKUR, programmed to treat them as adolescents.
Yet things could be worse. With little human supervision, the qompURE can
be fooled. There’s food and whiskey, and best of Also available from Semiotext(e)
all, the girl of Eddie Ryan’s dreams, his long-time VENUSIA
friend and comrade Koré McAllister, is in the Mark Von Schlegel
2005, 978-1-58435-026-2
same prison. When his old boss, rich and $14.95T/£9.95 paper
eccentric chrononaut Count Reginald Skaw
BABYLON BABIES
shows up in orbit with an entire interstation Maurice G. Dantec
cruiser at his disposal, there’s even the possibility 2005, 978-1-58435-023-1
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of escape . . . . back in time.
Like Venusia, Mercury Station tells a
compelling story, drawn through PRAISE FOR VENUSIA
a labyrinth of future-history “[An] absurdist blending of
sci-fi, medieval hard fantasy, fantasy and cutting-edge SF
and cascading samplings of high that never fails to entertain
and low culture. The book is a and proclaims Von Schlegell
brilliant literary assault against to be a promising new
the singularity of self and its voice in the genre(s).”
imprisonment in Einsteinian — Booklist
spacetime.
“A psychedelic sampling of
In addition to science fiction,
Mark Von Schlegell writes art high and low literature that
criticism, and his work has marks the best of the genre.”
appeared around the world in
such magazines as Parkett, Flash
— Maxim
Art, and Spex, and in art books
and catalogs from institutions “A breathtaking pulse of radi-
including the Whitney Museum, calism in a field that is all too
LAMOCA, and Palais Tokyo. often overly conservative.”
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cultural studies/European history
Terrorism as the matrix of modern
and postmodern war, from Ypres
to Auschwitz, from the bombing
of Dresden to the attack on the
World Trade Center.
March
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$14.95T/£9.95 paper
978-1-58435-072-9
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IN THE SHADOW OF
THE SILENT MAJORITIES
Jean Baudrillard
2007, 978-1-58435-038-5
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TERROR FROM THE AIR
Peter Sloterdijk
translated by Amy Patton
According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and
place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in Northern France. That day, the German army
used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as
described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the
adversary’s vital function first. Using poison gas signaled the passage from
classical war to terrorism. This terror from the air inaugurated an era in which
the main idea was no longer to target the enemy’s body, but their environment.
From then on, what would be attacked in wartime as well as in peacetime would
be the very conditions necessary for life.
This kind of terrorism became the matrix of modern and postmodern war,
from World War I’s toxic gas to the Nazi Zyklon B used in Auschwitz, from the
bombing of Dresden to the attack on the World Trade Center. Sloterdijk goes
on to describe the offensive of modern aesthetics, aesthetic terrorism from
Surrealism to Malevich — an “atmo-terrorism” in the arts that parallels the
assault on environment that had originated in warfare.
Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the
best known and widely read German
intellectuals writing today. His 1983
publication of Critique of Cynical Reason
(published in English in 1988) became the
best-selling German book of philosophy
since World War II. He became president
of the State Academy of Design at the
Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe
in 2001. He has been cohost of a
discussion program, Der Philosophische
Quartett (Philosophical Quartet) on
German television since 2002.
 cultural studies/philosophy

NEW EDITION
SOFT SUBVERSIONS
Texts and Interviews 1977–1985
A new, expanded, and reorganized
Félix Guattari edition of a collection of texts that
edited by Sylvère Lotringer present a fuller scope to Guattari’s
introduction by Charles J. Stivale thinking from 1977 to 1985.

This new edition of Soft Subversions expands, reorganizes, and develops the origi-
nal 1996 publication, offering a carefully organized arrangement of essays, inter- April
views, and short texts that present a fuller scope to Guattari’s thinking from 1977 6 x 9, 288 pp.

to 1985. This period encompasses what Guattari himself called the “Winter $17.95T/£11.95 paper
978-1-58435-073-6
Years” of the early 1980s — the ascent of the Right, the spread of environmental
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and future, and the establishment of a postmodernist ideology that offered solu-
tions toward adaptation rather than change — a period with discernible echoes
twenty years later. Also available from Semiotext(e)
Following Semiotext(e)’s release last season of the new, expanded edition of CHAOSOPHY
Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972–1977, this book makes Guattari’s central Félix Guattari
2008, 978-1-58435-060-6
ideas and concepts fully available in the format that had been best suited to
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Guattari’s temperament: the guerrilla-styled intervention of the short essay and
MOLECULAR REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL
interactive dialogue. This edition includes such previously unpublished, substan- Félix Guattari and Suely Rolnik
tive texts as “Institutional Intervention” and “About Schools,” along with new 2008, 978-1-58435-051-4
translations of “War, Crisis, or Life” and “The Nuclear State,” interviews and $17.95T/£11.95 paper
essays on a range of topics including adolescence and Italy, dream analysis and THE ANTI-OEDIPUS PAPERS
schizo-analysis, Marcel Proust and Jimmy Carter, as well as invaluable autobio- Félix Guattari
2006, 978-1-58435-031-6
graphical documents such as “I Am an Idea-Thief ” and “So What.” $17.95T/£11.95 paper
Félix Guattari (1930–1992), post-’68
French psychoanalyst and philosopher,
is the author of Anti-Oedipus (with Gilles
Deleuze), and a number of books published
by Semiotext(e), including The Anti-Oedipus
Papers and Molecular Revolution in Brazil
(with Suely Rolnik).

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cultural studies

NEW EDITION
THE AESTHETICS OF DISAPPEARANCE
Paul Virilio
Virilio introduces his understanding
introduction by Jonathan Crary
of “picnolepsy” — the epileptic
state of consciousness produced Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a
by speed. “juncture” in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics
of perception — a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the “vision
May machine.” If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural — and still
6 x 9, 128 pp. consummate — theorist of “dromology” (the theory of speed and the society
$14.95T/£9.95 paper it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of
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“picnolepsy” — the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather,
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glitches, and speed bumps lacing through and defining it. Speed and Politics
defined the society of speed; The Aesthetics of Disappearance defines what it feels
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PURE WAR “I always write with images,” Virilio has claimed, and this statement is
Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer nowhere better illustrated than with The Aesthetics of Disappearance. Moving
2008, 978-1-58435-059-0
from the movie theater to the freeway, and from Craig Breedlove’s attainment
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of terrifying speed in a rocket-power car to the immobility of Howard Hughes
SPEED AND POLITICS
Paul Virilio
in his dark room atop the Desert Inn, Virilio himself jump cuts from such
2007, 978-1-58435-040-8 disparate reference points as Fred Astaire, Franz Liszt, and Adolf Loos
$14.95T/£9.95 paper to Dostoyevsky, Paul Morand, and Aldous Huxley. In its extension of the
THE ACCIDENT OF ART “aesthetics of disappearance” to war, film, and politics, this book paved the
Sylvère Lotringer and Paul Virilio way to Virilio’s follow-up: the celebrated study, War and Cinema.
2005, 978-1-58435-020-0
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This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Crary, one of the lead-
ing theorists of modern visual culture.
Paul Virilio has published twenty-five books, including
Pure War (1988) (his first in English) and The Accident
of Art (2005), both written with Sylvère Lotringer, as well
as Speed and Politics and Lost Dimension, all published
by Semiotext(e).

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 ZONE BOOKS/NOW IN PAPER

art history/history of science

THE CLAUDE GLASS

Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art
Arnaud Maillet
A study of a largely forgotten
translated by Jeff Fort
optical device and its relation to
In this first full-length study of a largely forgotten optical device from the notions of opacity, transparency,
eighteenth century, Arnaud Maillet reconfigures our historical understanding and imagination.

of visual experience and meaning in relation to notions of opacity, transparency,

and imagination. Many are familiar with the Claude glass as a small black convex April
mirror used by artists and spectators of landscape to reflect a view and make 6 x 9, 295 pp.
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tonal values and areas of light and shade visible. In a groundbreaking account,
$21.95T/£14.95 paper
Maillet goes well beyond this particular function of the glass and situates it
978-1-890951-48-1
within a richer archaeology of Western thought, exploring the uncertainties
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us from the magical and occult background of the “black mirror,” through a full
evaluation of its importance in the age of the picturesque, to its persistence in a cloth 2004
range of technological and representational practices, including 978-1-890951-47-4
photography, film, and contemporary art. The Claude Glass is a
lasting contribution to the history of Western visual culture.
Arnaud Maillet is an art historian who received his doctorate at the
University of Paris I. The Claude Glass is his first book.

Black Mirror, from Ernest Hareux, Cours complet de

peinture a l'huile (Paris: H. Laurens, n.d.).

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philosophy/art history

THE CRADLE OF HUMANITY

Prehistoric Art and Culture
Georges Bataille
A radically interdisciplinary
edited and introduced by Stuart Kendall
inquiry into the origins of human
consciousness, community, translated by Michelle Kendall and Stuart Kendall
and potential. The Cradle of Humanity collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning
thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and
April philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux
6 x 9, 224 pp. in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history — with new machines of
15 illus.
death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille’s reflections on the possible origins
$19.95T/£12.95 paper of humanity coincide with the intensified threat of its possible extinction.
978-1-890951-56-6
For Bataille, prehistory is universal history; it is the history of a human
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community before its fall into separation, into nations and races. The art of
prehistory offers the earliest traces of nascent yet fully human consciousness —
cloth 2005
978-1-890951-55-9 of consciousness not yet fully separated from natural flora and fauna, or from
the energetic forces of the universe. A play of identities, the art of prehistory is
the art of a consciousness struggling against itself, of a human spirit struggling
against brute animal physicality. Prehistory is the cradle of humanity, the birth
of tragedy.
Bataille reaches beyond disciplinary specializations to imagine a moment
when thought was universal. Bataille’s work provides a model for interdisciplinary
inquiry in our own day, a universal imagination and thought for our own poten-
tial community. The Cradle of Humanity speaks to
philosophers and historians of thought, to anthropol-
ogists interested in the history of their discipline and
in new methodologies, to theologians and religious
comparatists interested in the origins and nature of
man’s encounter with the sacred, and to art historians
and aestheticians grappling with the place of prehis-
tory in the canons of art.
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) was a French writer, essayist,
and philosopher whose works include The Story of the Eye,
The Blue of Noon, The Accursed Share, and Theory of Religion.

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philosophy/cultural studies

THE PARALLAX VIEW

Slavoj Žižek
The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek’s most substantial theoretical work to appear Žižek's magnum opus — his
in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. A parallax can most substantial theoretical
be defined as the apparent displacement of an object caused by a change in work in many years.
observational position. Žižek is interested in the “parallax gap” separating
two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an April
“impossible short circuit” of levels that can never meet. From this consideration 6 x 9, 448 pp.
of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. $14.95T/£9.95 paper
The Parallax View not only expands Žižek’s Lacanian-Hegelian approach 978-0-262-51268-8
to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the
cloth 2006
systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire
978-0-262-24051-2
work. Philosophical and theological analysis and detailed readings of literature,
Short Circuits series,
cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes. This is edited by Slavoj Žižek
Žižek at the height of his powers, both as a writer and a thinker.
Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and
cultural critic. He has published more Also available in this series
than thirty books, including Looking THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST
Awry, The Puppet and the Dwarf, and Paradox or Dialectic?
The Monstrosity of Christ (coauthored Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank
with John Milbank), all three published
edited by Creston Davis
by the MIT Press.
2009, 978-0-262-01271-3
$27.95T/£18.95 cloth
A VOICE AND NOTHING MORE
Mladen Dolar
2006, 978-0-262-54187-9
$20.95T/£13.95 paper
THE PUPPET AND THE DWARF
The Perverse Core of
Christianity
Slavoj Žižek
2003, 978-0-262-74025-8
$18.95T/£12.95 paper
THE SHORTEST SHADOW
Nietzsche's Philosophy of
the Two
Alenka Zupanc̄ic̄
2003, 978-0-262-74026-5
$18.95T/£12.95 paper

“This challenging book takes us on a roller coaster ride whose every loop is a Möbius strip.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Žižek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it. . . Žižek
is that rare breed of writer — one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to
understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style.”
— Terry Eagleton, Artforum
“No one demonstrates the continued philosophical vitality of Marxism better than Slavoj Žižek.”
— Tikkun

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philosophy
THE REALLY
HARD PROBLEM
Meaning in a Material World
Owen Flanagan
If consciousness is “the hard
problem” in mind science —
explaining how the amazing
private world of consciousness
emerges from neuronal activity
— then “the really hard prob-
lem,” Owen Flanagan writes in this provocative book,
is explaining how meaning is possible in the material
world. How can we make sense of the magic and
mystery of life naturalistically, without an appeal to the
supernatural? How do we say truthful and enchanting
things about being human if we accept the fact that we
are finite material beings living in a material world, or,
in Flanagan’s words, short-lived pieces of organized
muscle and tissue?
Flanagan’s answer is both naturalistic and enchant-
ing. We all wish to live in a meaningful way, to live a
life that really matters, to flourish, to achieve eudaimo-
nia — to be a “happy spirit.”
Flanagan draws on philosophy and science, as well
as on transformative mindfulness and self-cultivation
practices that come from such nontheistic spiritual tra-
ditions as Buddhism, Confucianism, Aristotelianism,
and Stoicism. He gathers from these disciplines knowl-
edge that will help us to understand how to contribute
to the accumulation of good effects — how to live a
meaningful life.
Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at
Duke University. He is the author of Consciousness Reconsidered
(MIT Press), The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and
How to Reconcile Them, and other books.
“The book sparkles with thought and a likeable humour.”
— Steven Poole, The Guardian
“Owen Flanagan explores the questions that matter most
to us — life’s magic, mystery, and meaning — in the most
engaging, even entertaining, style.”
— Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence
April — 6 x 9 304 pp. — 1 illus.
$15.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51248-0
cloth 2007
978-0-262-06264-0
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philosophy/science
DARK AGES
The Case for a Science of Human Behavior
Lee McIntyre
During the Dark Ages, the progress of Western civi-
lization virtually stopped. The knowledge gained by
the scholars of the classical age was lost; for nearly 600
years, life was governed by superstitions and fears fueled
by ignorance. In this outspoken and forthright book,
Lee McIntyre argues that today we are in a new Dark
Age — that we are as ignorant of the causes of human
behavior as people centuries ago were of the causes
of such natural phenomena as
disease, famine, and eclipses.
We are no further along in our
understanding of what causes
war, crime, and poverty — and
how to end them — than our
ancestors. We need, McIntyre
says, another scientific revolution;
we need the courage to apply a
more rigorous methodology to
human behavior, to go where the
empirical evidence leads us — even if it threatens our
cherished religious or political beliefs about human
autonomy, race, class, and gender.
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy
and History of Science at Boston University. He is the author
of Laws and Explanation in the Social Sciences: Defending a
Science of Human Behavior.
“McIntyre has written a beautiful and timely ode to scien-
tific rationality."
— Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith
and Letter to a Christian Nation
“It takes a lot of nerve to insist that a scientific understand-
ing of human behavior should guide our approach to social
problems. Lee McIntyre has that nerve, and makes a clear
case for the value of value-free science. This book will
make waves.”
— Daniel M. Wegner, Professor of Psychology,
Harvard University, and author of
The Illusion of Conscious Will
April — 5 3/ 8 x 8, 176 pp.
$13.95T/£8.95 paper
978-0-262-51254-1
cloth 2006
978-0-262-13469-9

science/biography
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN AND THE
STORY OF TELOMERES
Deciphering the Ends of DNA
Catherine Brady
Molecular biologist Elizabeth
Blackburn — one of Time maga-
zine’s 100 “People Who Shape
Our World” in 2007 — made
headlines in 2004 when she was
dismissed from the President’s
Council on Bioethics after
objecting to the council’s call for a moratorium on
stem cell research and protesting the suppression of
relevant scientific evidence in its final report. But it is
Blackburn’s groundbreaking work on telomeric DNA,
which launched the field of telomere research, that
will have the more profound and long-lasting effect
on science and society. In this compelling biography,
Catherine Brady tells the story of Elizabeth Blackburn’s
life and work and the emergence of a new field of sci-
entific research on the specialized ends of chromosomes
and the telomerase enzyme that extends them.
In Brady’s hands, Blackburn’s story reveals much
about the tension between pure and applied science,
the politicking that makes research science such a
competitive field, and the resourceful opportunism that
characterizes the best scientific thinking.
Catherine Brady is Assistant Professor in the MFA in Writing
Program at the University of San Francisco. She is the author
of two collections of short stories, The End of the Class War
and Curled in the Bed of Love (a winner of the 2002 Flannery
O’Connor Award for Short Fiction).
“An inspiring account of a real-life heroine, and a lesson in
how to conduct Nobel-quality research.”
— Nancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc.
Professor of Biology, MIT
“Although Blackburn is certainly not an average woman
scientist, there are many features of her journey that others
who are interested in medical science — women and men
alike — will connect with.”
— Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D.,
New England Journal of Medicine
April — 6 x 9, 408 pp. — 23 illus.
$15.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51245-9
cloth 2007
978-0-262-02622-2
NOW IN PAPER
game studies
PLAY BETWEEN WORLDS
Exploring Online Game Culture
T. L. Taylor
In Play Between Worlds, T. L. Taylor examines multi-
player gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the
gaps — as players slip in and out of complex social
networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor
questions the common assumption that playing
computer games is an isolating and alienating activity
indulged in by solitary teenage boys. Massively multi-
player online games (MMOGs), in which thousands
of players participate in a virtual game world in real
time, are in fact actively designed
for sociability. Games like the
popular EverQuest, she argues,
are fundamentally social spaces.
Taylor’s detailed look at
EverQuest offers a snapshot of
multiplayer culture. Drawing
on her own experience as an
EverQuest player (as a female
Gnome Necromancer) —
including her attendance at an
EverQuest Fan Faire, with its blurring of online and
offline life — and extensive research, Taylor not only
shows us something about games but raises broader
cultural issues.
T. L. Taylor is Associate Professor in the Department of
Digital Aesthetics and Communication at the IT University
of Copenhagen.
“A fascinating peek into the formal and social architecture
that undergirds and shapes the cultural phenomena that is
EverQuest.”
— Jane C. Park, New Media and Society
“T. L. Taylor's book takes the reader on a full-immersion
tour of a virtual world. . . . A must-read for anyone inter-
ested in the ways in which this fascinating medium has
developed and will continue to grow.”
— Raph Koster, Chief Creative Officer,
Sony Online Entertainment
April — 6 x 9, 208 pp. — 13 illus.
$15.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51262-6
cloth 2006
978-0-262-20163-6
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NOW IN PAPER
current affairs/technology and society
GENERATION DIGITAL
Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in
the Age of the Internet
Kathryn C. Montgomery
Children and teens today
have integrated digital culture
seamlessly into their lives. For
most, using the Internet, playing
videogames, downloading music
onto an iPod, or multitasking
with a cell phone is no more
complicated than setting the
toaster oven to “bake” or turning on the TV. In
Generation Digital, media expert and activist Kathryn
Montgomery examines the ways in which the new
media landscape is changing the nature of childhood
and adolescence and analyzes recent
political debates that have shaped both policy and
practice in digital culture.
Montgomery charts a confluence of historical trends
that made children and teens a particularly valuable
target market during the early commercialization of
the Internet and describes the consumer-group advo-
cacy campaign that led to a law to protect children’s
privacy on the Internet. Montgomery recounts — as
a participant and as a media scholar — the highly
publicized battles over indecency and pornography
on the Internet. And she shows how digital marketing
taps into teenagers’ developmental needs and how
three public service campaigns — about sexuality,
smoking, and political involvement — borrowed
their techniques from commercial digital marketers.
Kathryn C. Montgomery is Professor in the Public Communication
Division, School of Communication, at American University,
where she directs the Project on Youth, Media, and Democracy.
She is the author of Target: Prime Time: Advocacy Groups and
the Struggle over Entertainment Television.
“Montgomery — a media scholar, activist, and mother —
brings an encyclopedic and well-organized body of evidence
to bear on a debate that has been confused by moral panics,
uninformed analyses, and ideological agendas.”
— Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual
Community and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
April — 6 x 9, 368 pp.
$15.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51256-5
cloth 2007
978-0-262-13478-1
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computer science/technology
THE ACCESS PRINCIPLE
The Case for Open Access
to Research and Scholarship
John Willinsky
Questions about access to scholarship go back farther
than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and
electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the
past — from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the
early public libraries of nineteenth-century America —
stood as arguments for increasing access. In The Access
Principle, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in
this ongoing story — online open access publishing by
scholarly journals — and makes a case for open access
as a public good.
A commitment to scholarly work, writes Willinsky,
carries with it a responsibility to circulate that work
as widely as possible: this is the
access principle. In the digital
age, that responsibility includes
exploring new publishing tech-
nologies and economic models
to improve access to scholarly
work. The right to know and the
right to be known are inextrica-
bly mixed. Open access, argues
Willinsky, can benefit both a
researcher-author working at the
best-equipped lab at a leading research university and a
teacher struggling to find resources in an impoverished
high school.
John Willinsky is Kholsa Family Professor of Education at
Stanford University. He is the author of Empire of Words:
The Reign of the OED and a developer of Open Journals
Systems software.
“ The Access Principle is a brilliant book, meticulously
researched and richly documented.”
— Gene Glass and Sherman Dorn, TC Record
• Winner of the 2006 Distinguished Book Award sponsored by
the international journal Computers and Cognition
• Winner of the Blackwell Scholarship Award presented by the
American Library Association
April — 6 x 9, 312 pp.
$16.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51266-4
cloth 2005
978-0-262-23242-5
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new media/art
THE VIRTUAL
WINDOW
From Alberti to Microsoft
Anne Friedberg
As we spend more and more
of our time staring at the screens
of movies, televisions, computers,
and handheld devices —
“windows” full of moving
images, texts, and icons — how the world is framed has
become as important as what is in the frame. In The
Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg examines the window
as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an
opening to the dematerialized reality we see on the
screen.
In De pictura (1435), Leon Battista Alberti famously
instructed painters to consider the frame of the painting
as an open window. Taking Alberti’s metaphor as her
starting point, Friedberg tracks shifts in the perspectival
paradigm as she gives us histories of the architectural
window, developments in glass and transparency, and
the emerging apparatuses of photography, cinema, tele-
vision, and digital imaging. On the computer screen
where multiple “windows” coexist and overlap, perspec-
tive may have met its end. The Virtual Window pro-
poses a new logic of visuality, framed and virtual: an
architecture not only of space but of time.
Anne Friedberg is Professor of Critical Studies at the School
of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California. She is
the author of Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern.
Honorable Mention, 2008 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award
presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
“This is an enthralling account of the theory and practice of
using windows and screens as a visual metaphor.”
— Philip Calvert, The Electronic Library
“Friedberg brilliantly demonstrates that the virtual window
has been the most successful single tool for mimesis, command,
and control in the history of Western civilization.”
— Mario Carpo, École d'Architecture
de Paris-La Villette
April — 7 x 9, 376 pp. — 83 illus.
$17.95T/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51250-3
cloth 2006
978-0-262-06252-7
NOW IN PAPER
economics
CAN GERMANY BE SAVED?
The Malaise of the World’s First Welfare State
Hans-Werner Sinn
What has happened to the German economic miracle?
Rebuilding from the rubble and ruin of two world wars,
Germany in the second half of the twentieth century
recaptured its economic strength. High-quality German-
made products ranging from precision tools to automo-
biles again conquered world markets, and the country
experienced stratospheric growth and virtually full
employment. Germany (or West Germany, until 1989)
returned to its position as the
economic powerhouse of Europe
and became the world’s third-
largest economy after the United
States and Japan. But in recent
years growth has slowed, unem-
ployment has soared, and the
economic unification of eastern
and western Germany has been
mishandled. Europe’s largest
economy is now outperformed by many of its European
neighbors in per capita terms. In Can Germany Be
Saved? Hans-Werner Sinn, one of Germany’s leading
economists, takes a candid look at his country’s
economic problems (many of which he traces to an
increasingly intractable conflict between Germany’s
welfare state and the forces of globalization) and
proposes welfare- and tax-reform measures aimed at
returning Germany to its former vigor and vitality.
Hans-Werner Sinn is Professor of Economics and Public
Finance at the University of Munich. He is President of the
Ifo Institute for Economic Research and Director of the Center
for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. He is a
coauthor of Jumpstart: The Economic Unification of Germany
(MIT Press, 1994).
Winner of the 2003 Financial Times Deutschland Award for the
best economics book dealing with reforms.
“Sinn’s creative vision of a stronger, viable German economy
is illuminating, not just for his country but for the many
developed nations that confront similar dilemmas.”
— Alan J. Auerbach, Director, Robert D. Burch
Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance,
University of California, Berkeley
April — 6 x 9, 360 pp. — 50 illus.
$21.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51260-2
cloth 2007
978-0-262-19558-4
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economics
THE NATURAL SURVIVAL OF WORK
Job Creation and
Job Destruction in a
Growing Economy
Pierre Cahuc and
André Zylberberg
translated by William McCuaig
Every working day in the United
States, 90,000 jobs disappear —
and an equal number are created.
This discovery has radically
altered the way economists think
about how labor markets work. Without this necessary
phenomenon of “creative destruction,” our economies
would experience much lower growth. Unemployment
is a natural consequence of a vigorous economy — in
fact, it is indispensable to it. In The Natural Survival
of Work, labor economists Pierre Cahuc and André
Zylberberg consider how to manage the unemployment
that results from the desirable churning of the economy,
drawing on recent economic research and citing exam-
ples from France, the United States, the United
Kingdom, and elsewhere.
Pierre Cahuc is Professor of Economics at the University
of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Professor at the École
Polytechnique, and Research Fellow at EUREQua, CREST,
CEPR, and IZA. André Zylberberg is Research Director at
CNRS, Professor of Economics at the École Polytechnique,
and Research Fellow at EUREQua-University of Paris 1,
Panthéon-Sorbonne. Cahuc and Zylberberg are the authors
of Labor Economics (MIT Press, 2004). The French edition
of The Natural Survival of Work won the 2004 European
Economics Book Award.
“The book is short, nontechnical, and creatively written
for the economist, but also accessible to the general reader,
demonstrating a more evidence-based long-term approach
to the subject of unemployment.”
— Mary Beth Sutter Childs, The Business Economist
“Going beyond the usual clichés, and reviewing the large
body of evidence on the effects of unemployment insurance,
employment protection, and the minimum wage, Cahuc
and Zylberberg tell us how to and how not to do it. Read
this book and you will learn.”
— Olivier Blanchard, Professor of Economics, MIT
March — 6 x 9, 184 pp. — 5 illus.
$15.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51246-6
cloth 2006
978-0-262-03357-2
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linguistics
THE PRISM OF GRAMMAR
How Child Language Illuminates Humanism
Tom Roeper
foreword by Samuel Jay Keyser
Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an
inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of
light, grammar divides a stream of sound, linking
diverse strings of information to different domains
of mind — memory, vision, emotions, intentions. In
The Prism of Grammar, Tom Roeper brings the abstract
principles behind modern grammar to life by explor-
ing the astonishing intricacies of child language. Adult
expressions provide endless
puzzles for the child to solve.
The individual child’s solutions
(“Don’t uncomfortable the cat”
is one example) may amuse
adults but they also reveal the
complexity of language and the
challenges of mastering it.
Roeper offers numerous and
novel “explorations” that elicit how the child confronts
“recursion” — the heartbeat of grammar. Each chapter
on acquisition begins with a commonsense look at how
structures work — moving from the simple to the
complex — and then turns to the literary and human
dimensions of grammar.
Tom Roeper is Professor of Linguistics at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
“For three decades, Tom Roeper has been one of the most
acute observers of semantic and grammatical subtleties in
children’s speech, and one of the most creative thinkers on
how to connect linguistic theory with language acquisition
research. It is nice to have his insights collected into a book,
which will be a source of ideas for years to come.”
— Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought
“Lucid and engaging, The Prism of Grammar leads the
reader from striking observations and experiments with
children that anyone can carry out to subtle and intricate
issues that concern every parent — in fact, anyone seeking
to understand who we are and what we should be.”
— Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT
March — 7 x 9, 376 pp. — 50 illus.
$18.95T/£12.95 paper
978-0-262-51258-9
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978-0-262-18252-2

cognitive science/philosophy/linguistics
LANGUAGE, CONSCIOUSNESS,
CULTURE
Essays on Mental Structure
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff ’s Language,
Consciousness, Culture represents
a breakthrough in developing
an integrated theory of human
cognition. It will be of interest
to a broad spectrum of cognitive
scientists. Jackendoff argues that
linguistics has become isolated from the other cognitive
sciences at least partly because of the syntax-based
architecture assumed by mainstream generative gram-
mar. He proposes an alternative parallel architecture
for the language faculty that permits a greater internal
integration of the components of language and connects
far more naturally to such larger issues in cognitive
neuroscience as language processing, the connection
of language to vision, and the evolution of language.
Language, Consciousness, Culture extends Jackendoff ’s
pioneering theory of conceptual semantics to two of
the most important domains of human thought:
social cognition and theory of mind. The breadth of
the approach will foster cross-disciplinary conversation;
the vision is to develop a richer understanding of
human nature.
Ray Jackendoff is Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy and
Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts
University. He is the author of many books, including
The Architecture of the Language Faculty (MIT Press, 1997).
“I wish that other linguists, both generative and cognitive,
had [Jackendoff ’s] scope and intellectual ambition.”
— George Lakoff, American Scientist
“I recommend [these essays] to anyone interested in how the
mind works.”
— Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought
March — 6 x 9, 432 pp. — 21 illus.
$19.00S/£12.95 paper
978-0-262-51253-4
cloth 2007
978-0-262-10119-6
Jean Nicod Lectures
A Bradford Book
Not for sale in France
NOW IN PAPER
philosophy of mind/neuroscience
NEUROPHILOSOPHY OF FREE WILL
From Libertarian Illusions to a
Concept of Natural Autonomy
Henrik Walter
translated by Cynthia Klohr
Neuroscientists routinely investigate such classical
philosophical topics as consciousness, thought, lan-
guage, meaning, aesthetics, and death. According to
Henrik Walter, philosophers should in turn embrace
the wealth of research findings and ideas provided
by neuroscience. In this book Walter applies the
methodology of neurophilosophy
to one of philosophy’s central
challenges, the notion of free
will. Neurophilosophical conclu-
sions are based on, and consistent
with, scientific knowledge about
the brain and its functioning.
Walter’s answer to the ques-
tion of free will is: It depends.
According to Walter, freedom
of will is an illusion if we mean
by it that under identical conditions we would be able
to do or decide otherwise, while simultaneously acting
only for reasons and being the true originators of
our actions. In place of this scientifically untenable
strong version of free will, Walter offers what he calls
natural autonomy — self-determination unaided by
supernatural powers that could exist even in an entirely
determined universe. Although natural autonomy can
support neither our traditional concept of guilt nor
certain cherished illusions about ourselves, it does
not imply the abandonment of all concepts of
responsibility. For we are not mere marionettes,
with no influence over our thoughts or actions.
Henrik Walter is a psychiatrist, neurologist, and philosopher.
He is a research scientist and chief consultant psychiatrist in
the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ulm.
“This book serves as an excellent source book of neurobiolog-
ical and naturalistic foundations for philosophical arguments
for a differentiated and modified thesis of what was called
‘free will.’”
— Professor Hans Lenk, University of Karlsruhe
March — 6 x 9, 408 pp. — 7 illus.
$27.00S/£17.95 paper
978-0-262-51265-7
cloth 2001
978-0-262-23214-2
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philosophy/cognitive science
RATIONALITY AND LOGIC
Robert Hanna
In Rationality and Logic,
Robert Hanna argues that logic
is intrinsically psychological
and that human psychology
is intrinsically logical. He
claims that logic is cognitively
constructed by rational animals
(including humans) and that
rational animals are essentially
logical animals. In order to do
so, he defends the broadly Kantian thesis that all (and
only) rational animals possess an innate cognitive “logic
faculty.” Hanna’s claims challenge the conventional
philosophical wisdom that sees logic as a fully formal
or “topic-neutral” science irreconcilably separate from
the species- or individual-specific focus of empirical
psychology.
Logic and psychology went their separate ways after
attacks by Frege and Husserl on logical psychologism
— the explanatory reduction of logic to empirical
psychology. Hanna argues, however, that — despite
the fact that logical psychologism is false — there is an
essential link between logic and psychology. Hanna’s
proposed “logical cognitivism” has two important
consequences: the recognition by logically oriented
philosophers that psychologists are their colleagues in
the metadiscipline of cognitive science; and radical
changes in cognitive science itself. Cognitive science,
Hanna argues, is not at bottom a natural science; it
is both an objective or truth-oriented science and a
normative human science, as is logic itself.
Robert Hanna is Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Kant and the
Foundations of Analytical Philosophy.
“This stimulating and wide-ranging book will be of interest
to philosophers of logic and also to cognitive psychologists.”
— Professor Jane Heal, University of Cambridge
March — 6 x 9, 344 pp.
$18.00S/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51251-0
cloth 2006
978-0-262-08349-2
52
cognitive neuroscience
DOES CONSCIOUSNESS
CAUSE BEHAVIOR?
edited by Susan Pockett, William P. Banks,
and Shaun Gallagher
Our intuition tells us that we, our conscious selves,
cause our own voluntary acts. Yet scientists have long
questioned this; Thomas Huxley, for example, in
1874 compared mental events to a steam whistle that
contributes nothing to the work of a locomotive. New
experimental evidence (most notable, work by Benjamin
Libet and Daniel Wegner) has brought the causal status
of human behavior back to the forefront of intellectual
discussion. This multidisciplinary
collection advances the debate,
approaching the question from
a variety of perspectives.
The contributors begin by
examining recent research in
neuroscience that suggests that
consciousness does not cause
behavior, offering the outline
of an empirically based model that shows how the
brain causes behavior and where consciousness might
fit in. Other contributors address the philosophical
presuppositions that may have informed the empirical
studies, raising questions about what can be legitimately
concluded about the existence of free will from Libet’s
and Wegner’s experimental results. Others examine
how recent psychological and neuroscientific research
might affect legal, social, and moral judgments of
responsibility and blame — in situations including
a provocative Clockwork Orange-like scenario of
behavior correction.
Susan Pockett is Visiting Scientist in the Physics Department
at the University of Auckland. William P. Banks is Professor
of Psychology at Pomona College and editor-in-chief of the
journal Consciousness and Cognition. Shaun Gallagher is
Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the
University of Central Florida and coeditor of the journal
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
“Overall, this is an excellent volume that brings together
an impressive cast of commentators on the key question for
consciousness studies: does the c word actually do anything.”
— Jonjoe McFadden, Journal of Consciousness Studies
March — 7 x 9, 376 pp. — 14 illus.
$26.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51257-2
cloth 2006
978-0-262-16237-1

bioethics/medical ethics
GENETICS AND LIFE INSURANCE
Medical Underwriting and Social Policy
edited by Mark A. Rothstein
Insurance companies routinely
use an individual’s medical his-
tory and family medical history
in determining eligibility for
life insurance; this is part of the
process of medical underwriting.
Insurers have also long used
genetic information, often
derived from family history, in
underwriting. But rapid advances in gene identification
and genetic testing are changing the way we look at
genetic information. Should the results of genetic
testing (which might identify a predisposition toward
disease not related to medical history) be available to
life insurance medical underwriters? Few if any life
insurers currently require genetic testing, but there
are no laws or regulations prohibiting its use. Genetics
and Life Insurance examines the complex economic,
legal, and social issues surrounding the use of genetic
information in life insurance underwriting.
Mark A. Rothstein is Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine
and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and
Law in the School of Medicine at the University of Louisville.
“This book is a handy and informative reference for anyone
who is considering the issues related to genetic discrimina-
tion in life insurance.”
— Annie Mould, New England Journal of Medicine
“This excellent collection of essays demonstrates why the
relationship between genes and life insurance is an impor-
tant one, both as a practical matter for many individuals
and as a lesson in fashioning public policy.”
— Maxwell J. Mehlman,
Journal of the American Medical Association
March — 6 x 9, 312 pp. — 14 illus.
$18.00S/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51259-6
cloth 2004
978-0-262-18236-2
Basic Bioethics series
NOW IN PAPER
information science
THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION
OF INFORMATION ORGANIZATION
Elaine Svenonius
Instant electronic access to digital information is the
single most distinguishing attribute of the information
age. The elaborate retrieval mechanisms that support
such access are a product of technology. But technology
is not enough. The effectiveness of a system for access-
ing information is a direct function of the intelligence
put into organizing it. Just as the practical field of engi-
neering has theoretical physics as its underlying base,
the design of systems for organizing information rests
on an intellectual foundation. The subject of this book
is the systematized body of
knowledge that constitutes
this foundation.
Integrating the disparate dis-
ciplines of descriptive cataloging,
subject cataloging, indexing, and
classification, the book adopts a
conceptual framework that views
the process of organizing infor-
mation as the use of a special
language of description called a bibliographic language.
After an analytic discussion of the intellectual founda-
tion of information organization, the book moves from
generalities to particulars, presenting an overview of
three bibliographic languages: work languages, docu-
ment languages, and subject languages.
Elaine Svenonius is Professor Emeritus of Library Information
Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
“ The Intellectual Foundations of Information
Organization is a dense, intellectually rigorous, and
well-written book. . . . A major contribution to the field
of cataloging.”
— Journal of the Association for History and Computing
“This book provides sound guidance to future developers of
search engines and retrieval systems. The work is original,
building on the foundations of information science and
librarianship of the past 150 years.”
— Barbara B. Tillett, Director,
ILS Program, Library of Congress
March — 6 x 9, 280 pp.
$24.00S/£15.95 paper
978-0-262-51261-9
cloth 2000
978-0-262-19433-4
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NOW IN PAPER
computer science/human-computer interaction
PARTICIPATORY IT DESIGN
Designing for Business and Workplace Realities
Keld Bødker, Finn Kensing, and Jesper Simonsen
The goal of participatory IT
design is to set sensible, general,
and workable guidelines for the
introduction of new information
technology systems into an
organization. Reflecting the latest
systems-development research,
this book encourages a business-
oriented and socially sensitive
approach that takes into consider-
ation the specific organizational context as well as first-
hand knowledge of users’ work practices and allows all
stakeholders — users, management, and staff — to par-
ticipate in the process. Participatory IT Design is a guide
to the theory and practice of this process that can be
used as a reference work by IT professionals and as a
textbook for classes in information technology at intro-
ductory through advanced levels. Drawing on the work
of a ten-year research program in which the authors
worked with Danish and American companies, the book
offers a framework for carrying out IT design projects as
well as case studies that stand as examples of the process.
The method presented in Participatory IT Design
— known as the MUST method, after a Danish
acronym for theories and methods of initial analysis
and design activities — was developed and tested in
thirteen industrial design projects for companies and
organizations that included an American airline, a
multinational pharmaceutical company, a national
broadcasting corporation, a multinational software
house, and American and Danish universities.
Keld Bødker and Jesper Simonsen are Associate Professors
of Computer Science at Roskilde University, Denmark. Finn
Kensing is Associate Professor at The IT University of
Copenhagen, Denmark.
“This book provides an excellent argument and a repertoire
of well-tested methods for an early design phase in IT systems
development.”
— Thomas Binder, Center for Design Research,
School of Architecture, Copenhagen
March — 7 x 9, 360 pp.
$26.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51244-2
cloth 2004
978-0-262-02568-3
54
information science/Internet/geography
GEOREFERENCING
The Geographic Associations of Information
Linda L. Hill
Georeferencing — relating information to geographic
location — has been incorporated into today’s informa-
tion systems in various ways. We use online services
to map our route from one place to another; science,
business, and government increasingly use geographic
information systems (GIS) to hold and analyze data.
Most georeferenced information searches using today’s
information systems are done by text query. But text
searches for placenames fall short — when, for exam-
ple, a place is known by several names (or by none).
In addition, text searches don’t cover all sources of
geographic data; maps are tradi-
tionally accessed only through
special indexes, filing systems,
and agency contacts; data from
remote sensing images or aerial
photography is indexed by
geospatial location (mathematical
coordinates such as longitude and
latitude). In this book, Linda Hill
describes the advantages of integrating placename-based
and geospatial referencing, introducing an approach
to “unified georeferencing” that uses placename and
geospatial referencing interchangeably across all types
of information storage and retrieval systems.
Linda L. Hill is a Specialist, Department of Geography,
University of California, Santa Barbara (retired).
“Should be on the shelf of every humanist scholar who creates
or manages databases, and every information professional
who deals with digital resources for the humanities.”
— Stuart E. Dunn, Literary and
Linguistic Computing Advance Access
“The book provides a very useful primer for those beginning
to design courses in the subject and is likely to become a classic
in its field.”
— T. D. Wilson, Information Research
March — 7 x 9, 280 pp. — 74 illus.
$18.00S/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51252-7
cloth 2006
978-0-262-08354-6
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new media/cultural studies
RE:SKIN
edited by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth
In re:skin, scholars, essayists
and short story writers offer
their perspectives on skin —
as boundary and surface, as
metaphor and physical reality.
The twenty-first century and
its attendant technology call
for a new investigation of the
intersection of body, skin, and
technology. These cutting-edge writings address themes
of skin and bodily transformation in an era in which we
are able not only to modify our own skins — by plastic
surgery, tattooing, skin graft art, and other methods —
but to cross skins, merging with other bodies or
colonizing multiple bodies.
The book’s agile crossings of disciplinary and genre
boundaries enact the very transformations they discuss.
A short story imagines a manufactured maternal inter-
face that allows a man to become pregnant, and a
scholar describes the evolution of “body criticism”; a
writer uses “faux science” to explore animal prints on
faux fur, and fictional lovers experience each other’s
sexual sensations through the slipping on and off
of skin-like bodysuits. Ubiquitous computational
interfaces are considered the “skin” of technology, and
questions of race and color are shown to play out in
digital art practice. The essays and narratives gathered
in re:skin claim that the new technologically mutable
body is neither purely liberating nor simply limiting;
instead, these pieces show us models, ways of living
in a technological culture.
Mary Flanagan is Associate Professor of Digital Art and Culture
and Director of Tiltfactor Lab at Hunter College. Austin Booth
is Director of Collections and Research Services at State
University of New York at Buffalo. Flanagan and Booth are
the coeditors of Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
(MIT Press, 2002).
March — 7 x 9, 376 pp. — 70 illus.
$21.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51249-7
cloth 2007
978-0-262-06260-2
NOW IN PAPER
engineering/technology
EVERYDAY ENGINEERING
An Ethnography of Design and Innovation
edited by Dominique Vinck
Everyday Engineering was written to help future
engineers understand what they will be doing in their
everyday working lives, enabling them do their work
more effectively and with a broader social vision. It will
also give sociologists deeper insights into the sociotech-
nical world of engineering. The book consists of ethno-
graphic studies in which the authors, all trained in both
engineering and sociology, go into the field as partici-
pant-observers. The sites and types of engineering
explored include mechanical
design in manufacturing indus-
tries, instrument design, software
debugging, environmental man-
agement within companies, and
the implementation of a system
for separating household waste.
The book first introduces
the complexity of technical prac-
tices, then enters the social and
cultural worlds of designers to
grasp their practices and motivations, and finally exam-
ines the role of writing practices and graphical repre-
sentation. The epilogue uses the case studies to raise a
series of questions about how objects can be taken into
account in sociological analyses of human organizations.
Dominique Vinck is Professor at Pierre Mendès-France
University and at the Polytechnic National Institute of
Grenoble. He is also a member of CRISTO, a research center
associated with CNRS that focuses on sociotechnical innovation
and industrial organizations.
“This collection presents multiple worlds of work in an
accessible way that nonetheless emphasizes their complexity
— a rarity in any academic writing, and especially difficult
to achieve in ethnographic studies.”
— Scott Taylor, Prometheus
“A necessary antidote to rationalistic and linear views of
design and innovation.”
— Arie Rip, Science and Technology Studies,
University of Twente
March — 6 x 9, 256 pp. — 28 illus.
$17.00S/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51264-0
cloth 2003
978-0-262-22065-1
Inside Technology series
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NOW IN PAPER
business/economics
THE U.S. BREWING INDUSTRY
Data and Economic Analysis
Victor J. Tremblay and
Carol Horton Tremblay
This definitive study uses theory,
history, and data to analyze the
evolution of the U.S. brewing
industry from a fragmented
market to an emerging oligopoly.
Drawing on a rich and extensive
data set and applying the theoret-
ical tools of industrial organization, game theory, and
management strategy, the authors provide new quanti-
tative and qualitative perspectives on an industry they
characterize as “a veritable market laboratory.” The U.S.
Brewing Industry illustrates many of the important
topics in industrial organization, economic policy, and
business strategy, including industry concentration,
technological change, brand proliferation, and mixed
pricing strategies.
Tremblay and Tremblay discuss basic demand and
cost conditions and industry concentration, the evolu-
tion of the leading mass-producing brewers, and the
emergence of both specialty brewers and imports. They
analyze product and brand proliferation, price, adver-
tising, merger, and other management strategies, and
examine the industry’s economic performance. Finally,
they discuss public policy, including anti-trust and
public health issues. The authors’ set of industry, firm,
and brand data for the period 1950–2002 — the most
comprehensive data set of economic variables available
for an oligopolistic industry — will be available to pur-
chasers of the book who send an e-mail request.
Victor J. Tremblay is Professor of Economics at Oregon State
University and editor of the “Industry Issues” section of the
Review of Industrial Organization. Carol Horton Tremblay is
Associate Professor of Economics at Oregon State University.
“An extremely useful book that business historians, industry
executives, and corporate analysts undoubtedly will consult,
while students of applied economics, business strategy,
and organization theory will find in it much to support
their work.”
— Terence R. Gourvish, Enterprise & Society
March — 6 x 9, 400 pp. — 51 illus.
$22.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51263-3
cloth 2005
978-0-262-20151-3
56
economic history/demography/sociology
LIFE UNDER PRESSURE
Mortality and Living Standards in
Europe and Asia, 1700–1900
Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell,
James Z. Lee, et al.
This highly original book pioneers a new approach to
the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using
techniques of event history analysis, the authors exam-
ine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in
Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic
response to social and economic pressures. In doing so
they challenge the accepted Eurocentric Malthusian
view of population processes
and demonstrate that population
behavior has not been as uniform
as previously thought — that it
has often been determined by
human agency, particularly social
structure and cultural practice.
Tommy Bengtsson is Professor of
Economic History and Demography,
Department of Economic History,
Lund University, Sweden. Cameron
Campbell is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University
of California, Los Angeles. James Z. Lee is Professor of History
at the University of Michigan and Senior Research Scientist at
the University of Michigan Population Studies Center.
“A major milestone in preindustrial population history.”
— J. P. McCoy, Choice
“The book is amazingly rich and fascinating and represents
a major advance in historical demography in data collection,
theory, and methods.”
— Ronald Lee and Richard H. Steckel,
Historical Methods
“Indispensable reading for historians, demographers, and
economists concerned with long-term trends at both micro
and macro levels.”
— Robert W. Fogel, 1993 Nobel Laureate
in Economic Sciences
Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book on Asia Award presented
by the Asian and Asian-American Studies Section of the
American Sociological Association
March — 6 x 9, 552 pp. — 29 illus.
$23.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51243-5
cloth 2004
978-0-262-02551-5
Eurasian Population and Family History series

environment/history
BARRY COMMONER AND THE
SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL
The Remaking of American
Environmentalism
Michael Egan
For over half a century, the
biologist Barry Commoner has
been one of the most prominent
and charismatic defenders of
the American environment,
appearing on the cover of
Time magazine in 1970 as the standard-bearer of
“the emerging science of survival.” In Barry Commoner
and the Science of Survival, Michael Egan examines
Commoner’s social and scientific activism and charts an
important shift in American environmental values since
World War II.
Throughout his career, Commoner believed that
scientists had a social responsibility, and that one of
their most important obligations was to provide citi-
zens with accessible scientific information so they
could be included in public debates that concerned
them. Egan shows how Commoner moved naturally
from calling attention to the hazards of nuclear fallout
to raising public awareness of the environmental dan-
gers posed by the petrochemical industry. He argues
that Commoner's belief in the importance of dissent,
the dissemination of scientific information, and the
need for citizen empowerment provided critical planks
in the remaking of American environmentalism.
Michael Egan is Assistant Professor of History at McMaster
University and Director of the Sustainable Future History
Project.
“Egan tells an absorbing tale about a remarkable man who
is insightful, persistent, iconoclastic, informed, and optimistic.”
— Sylvia N. Tesh, American Scientist
“Egan’s telling of the life, science, and politics of Barry
Commoner reminds us of a time when scientists could be
activists, and science and activism could coexist.”
— Morton Satin, Chemical Heritage
March — 6 x 9, 304 pp. — 13 illus.
$15.00S/£9.95 paper
978-0-262-51247-3
cloth 2007
978-0-262-05086-9
Urban and Industrial Environments series
NOW IN PAPER
environment/history
THE LANDSCAPE OF REFORM
Civic Pragmatism and Environmental
Thought in America
Ben A. Minteer
In The Landscape of Reform, Ben Minteer offers a fresh
and provocative reading of the intellectual foundations
of American environmentalism, focusing on the
work and legacy of four important conservation and
planning thinkers in the first half of the twentieth
century: Liberty Hyde Bailey, a forgotten figure in the
Progressive conservation movement; urban and regional
planning theorist Lewis Mumford; Benton MacKaye,
the forester and conservationist
who proposed the Appalachian
Trail in the 1920s; and Aldo
Leopold, author of the environ-
mentalist classic A Sand County
Almanac. Minteer argues that
these writers blazed a significant
“third way” in environmental
ethics and practice, a more
pragmatic approach that offers
a counterpoint to the anthro-
pocentrism-versus-ecocentrism, use-versus-preservation,
narratives that have long dominated discussions of the
development of American environmental thought.
Ben A. Minteer is Assistant Professor on the Human Dimensions
of Biology Faculty in the School of Life Sciences and Affiliated
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University.
He is the coeditor of Democracy and the Claims of Nature and
of Reconstructing Conservation: Finding Common Ground.
“This magnificent accomplishment in intellectual history
establishes the foundations of American environmental
thought in the crucial context of its wider social and
political goals.”
— Mark Sagoff, Institute for Philosophy and
Public Policy, University of Maryland
“Minteer has successfully excavated several thinkers who
deserve greater consideration by environmentalists. He has
also added his well-informed voice to the growing chorus
urging what he calls a ‘third way.’”
— John M. Meyer, Perspectives on Politics
March — 6 x 9, 280 pp. — 5 illus.
$15.00S/£9.95 paper
978-0-262-51255-8
cloth 2006
978-0-262-13461-3
57
PROFESSIONAL
science, technology, and society/history

COLD WAR KITCHEN

Americanization, Technology, and European Users
edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann
The kitchen as political symbol
and material reality in the cold Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev’s famous “kitchen debate” in 1958
war years. involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and
Khrushchev recognized the political symbolism of the modern kitchen; the
March kind of technological innovation represented in this everyday context spoke to
7 x 9, 424 pp. the political system that produced it. The kitchen connects the “big” politics
44 illus.
of politicians and statesmen to the “small” politics of users and interest groups.
$36.00S/£23.95 cloth Cold War Kitchen looks at the kitchen as material object and symbol, considering
978-0-262-15119-1
the politics and the practices of one of the most famous technological icons of
Inside Technology series the twentieth century.
Defining the kitchen as a complex technological artifact as important as
computers, cars, and nuclear missiles, the book examines the ways in which a
CONTRIBUTORS
Esra Akcan range of social actors in Europe shaped the kitchen as both ideological construct
Liesbeth Bervoets and material practice. These actors — from manufacturers and modernist
Cristina Carbone architects to housing reformers and feminists
Greg Castillo
Irene Cieraad — constructed and domesticated the techno-
Shane Hamilton logical innovations of the postwar kitchen.
Martina Hessler The home became a “mediation junction”
Matthew Hilton
Julian Holder in which women users and others felt free
Ruth Oldenziel to advise producers from the consumer’s
Kirsi Saarikangas point of view. In essays illustrated by striking
Susan E. Reid
Karin Zachmann period photographs, the contributors to
Cold War Kitchen consider such topics as
Soviet consumers’ ambivalent responses to
the American dream kitchen argued over
by Nixon and Khrushchev; the Frankfurter
Küche, a European modernist kitchen of the
interwar period (and its export to Turkey
when its designer fled the Nazis); and the
British state-subsidized kitchen design so
innovative that it was mistaken for a luxury
American product. The concluding essays
challenge the received wisdom of past
interpretations of the kitchen debate.
Ruth Oldenziel is Professor of American and European Technology at the Technical University
of Einhoven and Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Karin Zachmann is
Professor of History of Technology at the Central Institute for the History of Technology,
Technical University Munich.

“Oldenziel and Zachmann's volume expands our understanding of the technological

changes, gender politics, international consumer movements, and Americanization
imperatives underlying the famed Berlin kitchen debate but also of the Cold War itself.”
— Joe Corn, Senior Lecturer Emeritus,
Department of History, Stanford University

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science, technology, and society/political science
FAR-FETCHED FACTS
A Parable of Development Aid
Richard Rottenburg
translated by Allison Brown and Tom Lampert
In 1996, the sub-Saharan African country of Ruritania
launched a massive waterworks improvement project,
funded by the Normesian Development Bank, head-
quartered in Urbania, Normland, and with the guidance
of Shilling & Partner, a consulting firm in Mercatoria,
Normland. Far-Fetched Facts tells the story of this proj-
ect, as narrated by anthropologists Edward B. Drotlevski
and Samuel A. Martonosi. Their account of the
Ruritanian waterworks project views the problems
of development from a new perspective, focusing on
technologies of inscription in the interactions of devel-
opment bank, international experts, and local managers.
This development project is fictionalized, of course,
although based closely on author Richard Rottenburg’s
experiences working on and observing different devel-
opment projects in the 1990s. Rottenburg uses the case
of the Ruritanian waterworks project to examine issues
of standardization, database building, documentation,
calculation, and territory mapping. The techniques
and technologies of the representational practices of
documentation are crucial, Rottenburg argues, both
to day-to-day management of the project and to the
demonstration of the project’s legitimacy.
Five decades of development aid (or “development
cooperation,” as it is now sometimes known) have
yielded disappointing results. Rottenburg looks in
particular at the role of the development consultant
(often called upon to act as mediator between the
other actors) and at the interstitial spaces where
developmental cooperation actually occurs. He argues
that both critics and practitioners of development
often misconstrue the grounds of cooperation —
which, he claims, are moral, legal, and political
rather than techno-scientific or epistemological.
Richard Rottenburg is Chair of Anthropology at the Institute
for Anthropology and Philosophy at Martin-Luther University
and a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology, where he heads the Law, Organization, Science,
and Technology Research Group.
May — 6 x 9, 208 pp. — 13 illus.
$30.00S/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-18264-5
Inside Technology series
PROFESSIONAL
science, technology, and society/political science
ACTING IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD
An Essay on Technical Democracy
Michel Callon, Yannick Barthe,
and Pierre Lascoumes
translated by Graham Burchell
Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, geneti-
cally modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene ther-
apy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily
as rapid scientific and technological advances create
uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns.
The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World argue that
political institutions must be expanded and improved
to manage these controversies, to transform them into
productive conversations, and to bring about “technical
democracy.” They show how “hybrid forums” — in
which experts, non-experts, ordinary citizens, and
politicians come together — reveal the limits of
traditional delegative democracies, in which decisions
are made by quasi-professional politicians and techno-
scientific information is the domain of specialists in
laboratories. The division between professionals and
laypeople, the authors claim, is simply outmoded.
The authors argue that laboratory research should be
complemented by everyday experimentation pursued in
the real world. They explore a range of concrete exam-
ples of hybrid forums that have dealt with sociotechni-
cal controversies including a childhood leukemia cluster
in Woburn, Massachusetts, and mad cow disease in the
United Kingdom. To invent new procedures for consul-
tation and representation, they suggest, is to contribute
to an endless process that is necessary for the ongoing
democratization of democracy.
Michel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) of
Actor Network Theory, is Professor at the École des mines
de Paris and a Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de
l’innovation there. Yannick Barthe is a Researcher at CNRS
(Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and a member
of the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation. Pierre Lascoumes
is Director of Research at CNRS.
“This book will become a vital point of reference for activists
and scientists, citizens and critics. The arguments developed
here are of central importance for the democratic future of
modern science.”
— Simon Schaffer, Professor of History of Science,
University of Cambridge
February — 6 x 9, 304 pp. – 6 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-03382-4
Inside Technology series
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PROFESSIONAL
history of technology/business
COMMUNICATIONS UNDER THE SEAS
The Evolving Cable Network
and Its Implications
edited by Bernard Finn and Daqing Yang
By the end of the twentieth century, fiber-optic tech-
nology had made possible a worldwide communications
system of breathtaking speed and capacity. This amaz-
ing network is the latest evolution of communications
technologies that began with undersea telegraph cables
in the 1850s and continued with coaxial telephone
cables a hundred years later. Communications Under
the Seas traces the development of these technologies
and assesses their social, economic, and political effects.
If we cannot predict the ultimate consequences of
today’s wired world — its impact on economic markets,
free expression, and war and peace — or the outcome
of the conflict between wired and wireless technology,
we can examine how similar issues have been dealt with
in the past. The expert contributors to this volume do
just that, discussing technical developments in undersea
cables (and the development of competing radio and
satellite communications technology), management
of the cables by private and public interests, and the
impact on military and political activities.
Chapters cover such topics as the daring group of
nineteenth-century entrepreneurs who wove a network
of copper wires around the world (and then turned
conservative with success); the opening of the tele-
graphic network to general public use; the govern-
ment- and industry-forced merger of wireless and
cable companies in Britain; and the impact of the cable
network on diplomacy during the two world wars.
CONTRIBUTORS Jorma Ahvenainen, Robert Boyce, Bernard Finn,
Pascal Griset, Daniel R. Headrick, Jeff Hecht, Peter J. Hugill,
Kurt Jacobsen, David Paull Nickles, Jonathan Reed Winkler,
Daqing Yang
Bernard Finn is Curator Emeritus of Electrical Collections at
the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian
Institution. He is the author or editor of a number of books
and articles on electrical history, museums, and submarine
telegraphy. Daqing Yang is Associate Professor of History
and International Affairs at George Washington University.
His research interests and publications have dealt mainly
with Japanese and East Asian history, including the role of
communications technology in Japan's overseas expansion.
June — 6 x 9, 360 pp. — 7 illus.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01286-7
Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology
60
information science/political science/economics
TRANSFORMING GLOBAL
INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION MARKETS
The Political Economy of Innovation
Peter F. Cowhey, Jonathan D. Aronson, and
John E. Richards
with Donald Abelson
Innovation in information and communication tech-
nology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy.
How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and
policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT
policy have transformed competition and innovation.
For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution
in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping
competition) also transformed the information market.
Today, the diffusion of Internet, wireless, and broad-
band technology, growing modularity in the design of
technologies, distributed computing infrastructures, and
rapidly changing business models signal another shift.
This pathbreaking examination of ICT from a political
economy perspective argues that continued rapid inno-
vation and economic growth require new approaches in
global governance that will reconcile diverse interests
and enable competition to flourish.
The authors (two of whom were architects of inter-
national ICT policy reforms in the 1990s) discuss this
crucial turning point in both theoretical and practical
terms, analyzing changes in ICT markets, examining
three case studies, and considering principles and
norms for future global policies. Readers wishing to
explore certain topics in greater depth will find an
electronic version of the text, additional materials, and
“virtual” appendixes online.
Peter F. Cowhey, a former senior FCC official, is Dean of
the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
and Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and
Technology Policy at the University of California, San Diego.
Jonathan D. Aronson is Professor at the Annenberg School for
Communication and the School of International Relations at
the University of Southern California. John E. Richards is an
ICT industry executive and a Research Scholar at the School of
International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University
of California, San Diego. Donald Abelson, a former senior U.S.
Government trade and communication official, is the head of
Sudbury International, LLC.
March — 6 x 9, 368 pp. — 16 illus.
$34.00S/£21.95 cloth
978-0-262-01285-0
Information Revolution and Global Politics series

communication/Chinese history
WORKING-CLASS NETWORK SOCIETY
Communication Technology and the
Information Have-Less in Urban China
Jack Linchuan Qiu
foreword by Manuel Castells
The idea of the “digital divide,” the great social
division between information haves and have-nots,
has dominated policy debates and scholarly analysis
since the 1990s. In Working-Class Network Society,
Jack Linchuan Qiu describes a more complex social
and technological reality in a newly mobile, urbanizing
China. Qiu argues that as inexpensive Internet and
mobile phone services become available and are closely
integrated with the everyday work and life of low-
income communities, they provide a critical seedbed
for the emergence of a new working class of “network
labor” crucial to China’s economic boom. Between the
haves and have-nots, writes Qiu, are the information
“have-less”: migrants, laid-off workers, micro-entrepre-
neurs, retirees, youth, and others, increasingly connected
by cybercafés, prepaid service, and used mobile phones.
A process of class formation has begun that has impor-
tant implications for working-class network society in
China and beyond.
Qiu brings class back into the scholarly discussion,
not as a secondary factor but as an essential dimension
in our understanding of communication technology
as it is shaped in the vast, industrializing society of
China. Basing his analysis on his more than five years
of empirical research conducted in twenty cities, Qiu
examines technology and class, networked connectivity
and public policy, in the context of massive urban
reforms that affect the new working class dispropor-
tionately. The transformation of Chinese society, writes
Qiu, is emblematic of the new technosocial reality
emerging in much of the Global South.
Jack Linchuan Qiu is Assistant Professor at the School of
Journalism and Communication at Chinese University of
Hong Kong. He is a coauthor (with Manuel Castells, Mireia
Fernández-Ardèvol, and Araba Sey) of Mobile Communication
and Society: A Global Perspective (MIT Press, 2006).
March — 6 x 9, 320 pp. — 25 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-17006-2
Information Revolution and Global Politics series
PROFESSIONAL
computer science
AT YOUR SERVICE
Service-Oriented Computing
from an EU Perspective
edited by Elisabetta Di Nitto, Anne-Marie Sassen,
Paolo Traverso, and Arian Zwegers
Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures
(SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way
to support business-to-business interaction, and the
SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in
particular service-oriented computing (SOC) represent
a promising approach in the development of adaptive
distributed systems. With SOC, applications can open
themselves to services offered by third parties and
accessed through standard, well-defined interfaces.
The binding between the applications and the services
can be, in this context, extremely loose — enabling the
ad hoc creation of new services when the need arises.
This book offers an overview of some current research
in the field, presenting the results of eighteen research
projects funded by the European Community’s
Information Society Technologies Program (IST).
The projects, collaborations between industry and
academia, have produced practical, achievable results
that point the way to real-world applications and
future research.
The chapters address such issues as requirement
analysis, design, governance, interoperability, and
the dependability of systems made up of components
owned by third parties. The results are presented in the
context of two roadmaps for research, one developed
by European industry involved in software develop-
ment and the other by researchers working in the
service area. The contributors report first on the
“Infrastructure Layer,” then (in the bulk of the book)
on the “Service Integration Layer,” the “Semantic
Layer,” and finally on the issues that cut across the
different layers. The book concludes by looking at
ongoing research on both roadmaps.
Elisabetta Di Nitto is Associate Professor in the Department of
Electronics and Information at Milan Polytechnic. Anne-Marie
Sassen is Project Officer at the European Commission,
Directorate General for Information Society and Media,
Software and Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit.
Paolo Traverso is Head of Division at Center for Scientific and
Technological Research (ITC/IRST), Trento, Italy. Arian Zwegers
is a Project Officer at the European Commission, Directorate
General for Information Society and Media, Software and
Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit.
June — 7 x 9, 616 pp. — 167 illus.
$60.00S/£38.95 cloth
978-0-262-04253-6
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PROFESSIONAL
computer science/machine learning
LEARNING MACHINE TRANSLATION
edited by Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda,
Marc Dymetman, and George Foster
The Internet gives us access to a wealth of information
in languages we don’t understand. The investigation of
automated or semi-automated approaches to translation
has become a thriving research field with enormous
commercial potential. This volume investigates how
Machine Learning techniques can improve Statistical
Machine Translation, currently at the forefront of
research in the field.
The book looks first at enabling technologies —
technologies that solve problems that are not Machine
Translation proper but are linked closely to the devel-
opment of a Machine Translation system. These
include the acquisition of bilingual sentence-aligned
data from comparable corpora, automatic construction
of multilingual name dictionaries, and word alignment.
The book then presents new or improved statistical
Machine Translation techniques, including a discrimi-
native training framework for leveraging syntactic
information, the use of semi-supervised and kernel-
based learning methods, and the combination of
multiple Machine Translation outputs in order to
improve overall translation quality.
CONTRIBUTORS Srinivas Bangalore, Nicola Cancedda,
Josep M. Crego, Marc Dymetman, Jakob Elming, George Foster,
Jesús Giménez, Cyril Goutte, Nizar Habash, Gholamreza Haffari,
Patrick Haffner, Hitoshi Isahara, Stephan Kanthak,
Alexandre Klementiev, Gregor Leusch, Pierre Mahé, Lluís Màrquez,
Evgeny Matusov, I. Dan Melamed, Ion Muslea, Hermann Ney,
Bruno Pouliquen, Dan Roth, Anoop Sarkar, John Shawe-Taylor,
Ralf Steinberger, Joseph Turian, Nicola Ueffing, Masao Utiyama,
Zhuoran Wang, Benjamin Wellington, Kenji Yamada
Cyril Goutte and George Foster are researchers in the
Interactive Language Technologies Group at the Canadian
National Research Council’s Institute for Information
Technology. Nicola Cancedda and Marc Dymetman are
researchers in the Cross-Language Technologies Research
Group at the Xerox Research Centre Europe.
February — 8 x 10, 328 pp. — 55 illus.
$45.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-07297-7
Neural Information Processing series
62
computer science/machine learning
DATASET SHIFT IN
MACHINE LEARNING
edited by Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela,
Masashi Sugiyama, Anton Schwaighofer, and
Neil D. Lawrence
Dataset shift is a common problem in predictive mod-
eling that occurs when the joint distribution of inputs
and outputs differs between training and test stages.
Covariate shift, a particular case of dataset shift, occurs
when only the input distribution changes. Dataset shift
is present in most practical applications, for reasons
ranging from the bias introduced by experimental
design to the irreproducibility of the testing conditions
at training time. (An example is e-mail spam filtering,
which may fail to recognize spam that differs in form
from the spam the automatic filter has been built on.)
Despite this, and despite the attention given to the
apparently similar problems of semi-supervised learning
and active learning, dataset shift has received relatively
little attention in the machine learning community
until recently. This volume offers an overview of current
efforts to deal with dataset and covariate shift.
The chapters offer a mathematical and philosophi-
cal introduction to the problem, place dataset shift in
relationship to transfer learning, transduction, local
learning, active learning, and semi-supervised learning,
provide theoretical views of dataset and covariate shift
(including decision theoretic and Bayesian perspec-
tives), and present algorithms for covariate shift.
CONTRIBUTORS Shai Ben-David, Steffen Bickel, Karsten Borgwardt,
Michael Brückner, David Corfield, Amir Globerson, Arthur Gretton,
Lars Kai Hansen, Matthias Hein, Jiayuan Huang, Choon Hui Teo,
Takafumi Kanamori, Klaus-Robert Müller, Sam Roweis, Neil Rubens,
Tobias Scheffer, Marcel Schmittfull, Bernhard Schölkopf,
Hidetoshi Shimodaira, Alex Smola, Amos Storkey,
Masashi Sugiyama
Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela is a Researcher in the Online
Services and Advertising Group at Microsoft Research
Cambridge, U.K. Masashi Sugiyama is Associate Professor in
the Department of Computer Science at the Tokyo Institute
of Technology. Anton Schwaighofer is an Applied Researcher
in the Online Services and Advertising Group at Microsoft
Research, Cambridge, U.K. Neil D. Lawrence is Senior Research
Fellow and Member of the Machine Learning and Optimisation
Research Group in the School of Computer Science at the
University of Manchester.
February — 8 x 10, 248 pp.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-17005-5
Neural Information Processing series
 PROFESSIONAL
game studies

VIDEO GAME SPACES

Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds
Michael Nitsche
An exploration of how we
The move to 3D graphics represents a dramatic artistic and technical develop- see, use, and make sense of
ment in the history of video games that suggests an overall transformation of modern video gameworlds.
games as media. The experience of space has become a key element of how we
understand games and how we play them. In Video Game Spaces, Michael Nitsche March
investigates what this shift means for video game design and analysis. 6 x 9, 312 pp.
27 illus.
Navigable 3D spaces allow us to crawl, jump, fly, or even teleport through
fictional worlds that come to life in our imagination. We encounter these spaces $35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-14101-7
through a combination of perception and interaction. Drawing on concepts
from literary studies, architecture, and cinema, Nitsche argues that game spaces
can evoke narratives because the player is interpreting them in order to engage
with them. Consequently, Nitsche approaches game spaces not as pure visual
spectacles but as meaningful virtual locations. His argument investigates what
structures are at work in these locations, proceeds to an in-depth analysis of the
audiovisual presentation of gameworlds, and ultimately explores how we use and
comprehend their functionality.
Nitsche introduces five analytical layers — rule-based space, mediated space,
fictional space, play space, and social space — and uses them in the analyses of
games that range from early classics to recent titles. He revisits current topics in
game research, including narrative, rules, and play, from this new perspective.
Video Game Spaces provides a range of necessary arguments and tools for media
scholars, designers, and game researchers with an interest in 3D gameworlds and
the new challenges they pose.
Michael Nitsche is Assistant Professor at the School of Literature,
Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

“An important journey into video game spaces.”

— Jesper Juul, Researcher, Singapore-MIT Game Lab,
and author of Half-Real

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new media/technology/history
IDENTITY GAMES
Globalization and the Transformation
of Media Cultures in the New Europe
Anikó Imre
Eastern Europe’s historically unprecedented and accel-
erated transition from late communism to late capital-
ism, coupled with media globalization, set in motion a
scramble for cultural identity and a struggle over access
to and control over media technologies. In Identity
Games, Anikó Imre examines the corporate transforma-
tion of the postcommunist media landscape in Eastern
Europe. Avoiding both uncritical techno-euphoria and
nostalgic projections of a simpler, better media world
under communism, Imre argues that the demise of
Soviet-style regimes and the transition of postcommu-
nist nation-states to transnational capitalism has crucial
implications for understanding the relationships among
nationalism, media globalization, and identity.
Imre analyzes situations in which anxieties arise
about the encroachment of global entertainment media
and its new technologies on national culture, examin-
ing the rich aesthetic hybrids that have grown from the
transitional postcommunist terrain. She investigates
the gaps and continuities between the last communist
and first post-communist generations in education,
tourism, and children’s media culture, the racial and
class politics of music entertainment (including Roma
Rap and Idol television talent shows), and mediated
reconfigurations of gender and sexuality (including
playful lesbian media activism and masculinity in
“carnivalistic” post-Yugoslav film).
Throughout, Imre uses the concepts of play and
games as metaphorical and theoretical tools to explain
the process of cultural change — inspired in part by the
increasing “ludification” of the global media environ-
ment and the emerging engagement with play across
scholarly disciplines. In the vision that Imre offers,
political and cultural participation are seen as games
whose rules are permanently open to negotiation.
Anikó Imre is Assistant Professor in the Critical Studies
Division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University
of Southern California.
June — 6 x 9, 280 pp. — 24 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-09045-2
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game studies
THIRD PERSON
Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives
edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
The ever-expanding capacities of computing offer new
narrative possibilities for virtual worlds. Yet vast narra-
tives — featuring an ongoing and intricately developed
storyline, many characters, and multiple settings — did
not originate with, and are not limited to, Massively
Multiplayer Online Games. Thomas Mann’s Joseph
and His Brothers, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings,
Marvel’s Spiderman, and the complex stories of such
television shows as Dr. Who, The Sopranos, and Lost
all present vast fictional worlds.
Third Person explores strategies of vast narrative
across a variety of media, including video games,
television, literature, comic books, tabletop games, and
digital art. The contributors — media and television
scholars, novelists, comic creators, game designers,
and others — investigate such issues as continuity,
canonicity, interactivity, fan fiction, technological
innovation, and cross-media phenomena.
Chapters examine a range of topics, including
storytelling in a multiplayer environment; narrative
techniques for a 3,000,000-page novel; continuity
(or the impossibility of it) in Doctor Who; managing
multiple intertwined narratives in superhero comics;
the spatial experience of the Final Fantasy role-playing
games; World of Warcraft adventure texts created by
designers and fans; and the serial storytelling of
The Wire.
Taken together, the multidisciplinary conversations
in Third Person, along with Harrigan and Wardrip-
Fruin’s earlier collections First Person and Second
Person, offer essential insights into how fictions are
constructed and maintained in very different forms of
media at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Pat Harrigan is a freelance writer and author of the novel
Lost Clusters. Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Assistant Professor in the
Computer Science Department at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, and author of Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions,
Computer Games, and Software Studies, forthcoming from the
MIT Press. Harrigan and Wardrip-Fruin are also the coeditors
of First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game
(2004) and Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games
and Playable Media (2007), both published by the MIT Press.
May — 8 x 9, 472 pp. — 160 illus.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
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game studies/ethics
THE ETHICS OF COMPUTER GAMES
Miguel Sicart
Despite the emergence of computer games as a domi-
nant cultural industry (and the accompanying emer-
gence of computer games as the subject of scholarly
research), we know little or nothing about the ethics
of computer games. Considerations of the morality
of computer games seldom go beyond intermittent
portrayals of them in the mass media as training devices
for teenage serial killers. In this first scholarly explo-
ration of the subject, Miguel Sicart addresses broader
issues about the ethics of games, the ethics of playing
the games, and the ethical responsibilities of game
designers. He argues that computer games are ethical
objects, that computer game players are ethical agents,
and that the ethics of computer games should be seen
as a complex network of responsibilities and moral
duties. Players should not be considered passive amoral
creatures; they reflect, relate, and create with ethical
minds. The games they play are ethical systems, with
rules that create gameworlds with values at play.
Drawing on concepts from philosophy and game
studies, Sicart proposes a framework for analyzing the
ethics of computer games as both designed objects and
player experiences. After presenting his core theoretical
arguments and offering a general theory for under-
standing computer game ethics, Sicart offers case stud-
ies examining single-player games (using Bioshock as
an example), multiplayer games (illustrated by Defcon),
and online gameworlds (illustrated by World of Warcraft)
from an ethical perspective. He explores issues raised
by unethical content in computer games and its possi-
ble effect on players and offers a synthesis of design
theory and ethics that could be used as both analytical
tool and inspiration in the creation of ethical gameplay.
Miguel Sicart is Assistant Professor at the Center for Computer
Game Research, IT University Copenhagen.
May — 6 x 9, 280 pp. — 20 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01265-2
PROFESSIONAL
new media/bioethics
BIOETHICS IN THE AGE
OF NEW MEDIA
Joanna Zylinska
Bioethical dilemmas — including those over genetic
screening, compulsory vaccination, and abortion — have
been the subject of ongoing debates in the media, among
the public, and in professional and academic communi-
ties. But the paramount bioethical issue in an age of
digital technology and new media, Joanna Zylinska
argues, is the transformation of the very notion of life.
In this provocative book, Zylinska examines many of
the ethical challenges that technology poses to the
allegedly sacrosanct idea of the human. In doing so,
she goes beyond the traditional understanding of
bioethics as a matter for moral philosophy and medicine
to propose a new “ethics of life” rooted in the relation-
ship between the human and the nonhuman (both
animals and machines) that new technology prompts
us to develop.
After a detailed discussion of the classical theoreti-
cal perspectives on bioethics, Zylinska describes three
cases of “bioethics in action,” through which the con-
cepts of “the human,” “animal,” and “life” are being
redefined: the reconfiguration of bodily identity by
plastic surgery in a TV makeover show; the reduction
of the body to two-dimensional genetic code; and the
use of biological material in such examples of “bioart”
as Eduardo Kac’s infamous fluorescent green bunny.
Zylinska addresses ethics from the interdisciplinary
perspective of media and cultural studies, drawing on
the writings of thinkers from Agamben and Foucault
to Haraway and Hayles. Taking theoretical inspiration
in particular from the philosophy of alterity as developed
by Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Bernard
Stiegler, Zylinska makes the case for a new nonsystemic,
nonhierarchical bioethics that encompasses the kinship
of humans, animals, and machines.
Joanna Zylinska is Reader in New Media and Communications
at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of
On Spiders, Cyborgs, and Being Scared: The Feminine and
the Sublime and The Ethics of Cultural Studies.
April — 6 x 9, 240 pp.
$30.00S/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-24056-7
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new media/philosophy
RELATIONSCAPES
Movement, Art, Philosophy
Erin Manning
With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philos-
ophy of movement challenging the idea that movement
is simple displacement in space, knowable only in terms
of the actual, the movement already taken. Exploring
the relation between sensation and thought through the
prisms of dance, cinema, art, and new media, Manning
argues for the intensity of movement. From this idea of
intensity — the incipiency at the heart of movement —
Manning develops the concept of preacceleration,
which makes palpable how movement creates relational
intervals out of which displacements take form.
Discussing her theory of incipient movement in
terms of dance and relational movement, Manning
describes choreographic practices that work to develop
with a body in movement rather than simply stabiliz-
ing that body into patterns of displacement. She
examines the movement-images of Leni Reifenstahl,
Étienne-Jules Marey, and Norman McLaren (drawing
on Bergson’s idea of duration), and explores the dot-
paintings of contemporary Australian Aboriginal artists.
Turning to language, Manning proposes a theory of
prearticulation claiming that language’s affective force
depends on a concept of thought in motion.
Relationscapes is a radically empirical book, working
directly out of examples and delving into the complex-
ity of relations these examples suggest. It takes a
“Whiteheadian perspective,” recognizing Whitehead’s
importance and his influence on process philosophers
of the late twentieth century — Deleuze and Guattari
in particular. Relationscapes is truly a transdisciplinary
book, not aiming to cover the ground of a particular
discipline but making clear how the specificity of a
particular inquiry can alter key questions that emerge
in the interstices between disciplines. It will be of
special interest to scholars in new media, philosophy,
dance studies, film theory, and art history.
Erin Manning is Assistant Professor in Studio Art and Cinema
at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of
Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty and Ephemeral
Territories: Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada.
March — 7 x 9, 272 pp. — 73 illus.
$30.00S/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-13490-3
Technologies of Lived Abstraction series
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new media/philosophy
WITHOUT CRITERIA
Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics
Steven Shaviro
In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and
explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in
which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of
Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of
Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought?
Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than
nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is
always something new?” In a world where everything
from popular music to DNA is being sampled and
recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead’s question
is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro’s
experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially
the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that
hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger.
Shaviro does this largely by reading Whitehead
in conjunction with Gilles Deleuze, finding important
resonances and affinities between them, suggesting
both a Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a
Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze. In working
through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze,
Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain
aspects of Kant’s thought pave the way for the
philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both
Whitehead and Deleuze.
Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly
grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in
Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of
issues that are of concern to contemporary art and
media practices (especially developments in digital film
and video), and to controversies in cultural theory
(including questions about commodity fetishism and
about immanence and transcendence). Moreover, in his
rereading of Whitehead (and in deliberate contrast to
the “ethical turn” in much recent theoretical discourse),
Shaviro opens the possibility of a critical aesthetics of
contemporary culture.
Steven Shaviro is DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State
University. He is the author of Passion and Excess: Blanchot,
Bataille, and Literary Theory and The Cinematic Body.
May — 6 x 9, 192 pp.
$28.00S/£18.95 cloth
978-0-262-19576-8
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philosophy of mind
CONSCIOUSNESS REVISITED
Materialism without Phenomenal Concepts
Michael Tye
We are material beings in a material world, but we are
also beings who have experiences and feelings. How
can these subjective states be just a matter of matter?
Philosophical materialists have formulated what is
sometimes called “the phenomenal concept strategy”
(which holds that we possess a range of special concepts
for classifying the subjective aspects of our experiences)
to defend materialism. In Consciousness Revisited,
philosopher Michael Tye, until now a proponent of
the approach, argues that the phenomenal concept
strategy is mistaken.
A rejection of phenomenal concepts leaves the
materialist with the task of finding some other strategy
for defending materialism. Tye points to four major
puzzles of consciousness that arise: How is it possible
for Mary, in the famous thought experiment, to make a
discovery when she leaves her black-and-white room?
In what does the explanatory gap consist and how
can it be bridged? How can the hard problem of
consciousness be solved? How are zombies possible?
Tye presents solutions to these puzzles, including the
nature of perceptual content, the conditions necessary
for consciousness of a given object, the proper under-
standing of change blindness, the nature of phenome-
nal character and our awareness of it, whether we have
privileged access to our own experiences, and, if we do,
in what such access consists.
Michael Tye is Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Ten Problems of
Consciousness (1995), Consciousness, Color, and Content
(2000), and Consciousness and Persons (2003), all published
by the MIT Press.
“This marvelously informed, powerfully argued book is
Michael Tye’s latest contribution to the task of finding
a naturalistic understanding of consciousness. It is an
agenda setter."
— Frank Jackson, Department of Philosophy,
Princeton University
March — 6 x 9, 256 pp. — 17 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01273-7
Representation and Mind series
PROFESSIONAL
philosophy of mind
THE CRUCIBLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain
Zoltan Torey
foreword by Daniel C. Dennett
In The Crucible of Consciousness, Zoltan Torey offers
a theory of the mind and its central role in evolution.
He traces the evolutionary breakthrough that rendered
the brain accessible to itself and shows how the mind-
boosted brain works. He identifies what it is that sepa-
rates the human’s self-reflective consciousness from
mere animal awareness, and he maps its neural and lin-
guistic underpinnings. And he argues, controversially,
that the neural technicalities of reflective awareness
can be neither algorithmic nor spiritual — neither a
computer nor a ghost in the machine.
The human mind is unique; it is not only the epi-
center of our knowledge but also the outer limit of our
intellectual reach. Not to solve the riddle of the self-
aware mind, writes Torey, goes against the evolutionary
thrust that created it. Torey proposes a model that brings
into a single focus all the elements that make up the
puzzle: how the brain works, its functional components
and their interactions; how language evolved and how
syntax evolved out of the semantic substrate by way of
neural transactions; and why the mind-endowed brain
deceives itself with entelechy-type impressions.
Torey first traces the language-linked emergence
of the mind, the subsystem of the brain that enables
it to be aware of itself. He then explores this system:
how consciousness works, why it is not transparent to
introspection, and what sense it makes in the context
of evolution.
The “consciousness revolution” and the integrative
focus of neuroscience have made it possible to make
concrete formerly mysterious ideas about the human
mind. Torey’s model of the mind is the logical outcome
of this, highlighting a coherent and meaningful role for
a reflectively aware humanity.
Zoltan Torey is a clinical psychologist and an independent
scholar.
May — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 2 illus.
$34.00S/£21.95 paper
978-0-262-51284-8
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cognitive science/philosophy
COMPUTATION, COGNITION,
AND PYLYSHYN
edited by Don Dedrick and Lana Trick
Classical cognitive science has found itself in something of a
pickle; a pickle that’s so deep (if I may mix a metaphor) that
most of its practitioners haven’t so much as noticed that they
are in it. What’s so good about Pylyshyn — in particular
what’s so good about Pylyshyn’s recent work — is that maybe,
just possibly maybe, it shows us the way out of the pickle
that we’re in.
— from the introduction by Jerry Fodor
Zenon Pylyshyn is a towering figure in cognitive sci-
ence; his book Computation and Cognition (MIT Press,
1984) is a foundational presentation of the relationship
between cognition and computation. His recent work
on vision and its preconceptual mechanism has been
influential and controversial. In this book, leading cog-
nitive scientists address major topics in Pylyshyn’s work
and discuss his contributions to the cognitive sciences.
Contributors discuss vision, considering such topics
as multiple-object tracking, action, molecular and cel-
lular cognition, and inhibition of return; and founda-
tional issues, including connectionism, modularity, the
evolution of the perception of number, computation,
cognitive architecture, location, and visual sensory
representations of objects.
CONTRIBUTORS John Bickle, Darlene A. Brodeur, Andy Brook,
Austen Clark, Michael R. W. Dawson, Jerry Fodor, Mel Goodale,
Stevan Harnad, Heather Hollinsworth, Lisa N. Jefferies, Brian Keane,
Zenon W. Pylyshyn, Charles Reiss, Brian J. Scholl, Lana Trick,
Claudia Uller, Marla Wolf, Richard D. Wright
Don Dedrick is Associate Professor in the Department of
Philosophy (cross-appointed to Psychology, Neuroscience,
and Applied Cognitive Science) at the University of Guelph,
Ontario. Lana Trick is Associate Professor of Psychology at
the University of Guelph.
July — 6 x 9, 360 pp. — 44 illus.
$36.00S/£23.95 paper
978-0-262-51242-8
$70.00S/£45.95 cloth
978-0-262-01284-3
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philosophy
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND
PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISM
edited by David Braddon-Mitchell and Robert Nola
Many philosophical naturalists eschew analysis in favor
of discovering metaphysical truths from the a posteriori,
contending that analysis does not lead to philosophical
insight. A countercurrent to this approach seeks to
reconcile a certain account of conceptual analysis with
philosophical naturalism; prominent and influential
proponents of this methodology include the late David
Lewis, Frank Jackson, Michael Smith, Philip Pettit,
and David Armstrong. Naturalistic analysis (sometimes
known as “the Canberra Plan” because many of its pro-
ponents have been associated with Australian National
University in Canberra) is a tool for locating in the sci-
entifically given world objects and properties we quan-
tify over in everyday discourse.
This collection gathers work from a range of
prominent philosophers who are working within this
tradition, offering important new work as well as
critical evaluations of the methodology. Its centerpiece
is an important posthumous paper by David Lewis,
“Ramseyan Humility,” published here for the first time.
The contributors first address issues of philosophy of
mind, semantics, and the new methodology’s a priori
character, then turn to matters of metaphysics, and
finally consider problems regarding normativity.
Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism is
one of the first efforts to apply this approach to
such a wide range of philosophical issues.
CONTRIBUTORS David Braddon-Mitchell, Mark Colyvan,
Frank Jackson, Justine Kingsbury, Fred Kroon, David Lewis,
Dustin Locke, Kelby Mason, Jonathan McKeown-Green,
Peter Menzies, Robert Nola, Daniel Nolan, Philip Pettit,
Huw Price, Denis Robinson, Steve Stich, Daniel Stoljar
David Braddon-Mitchell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at
the University of Sydney and the author (with Frank Jackson)
of The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition. Robert Nola is
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland and
the author of Rescuing Reason.
February — 6 x 9, 384 pp.
$38.00S/£24.95 paper
978-0-262-51228-2
$75.00S/£48.95 cloth
978-0-262-01256-0

philosophy
DISJUNCTIVISM
Contemporary Readings
edited by Alex Byrne and Heather Logue
A central debate in contemporary philosophy of per-
ception concerns the disjunctive theory of perceptual
experience. Until the 1960s, philosophers of perception
generally assumed that a veridical perception (a percep-
tual experience that presents the world as it really is)
and a subjectively similar hallucination must have sig-
nificant mental commonalities. Disjunctivists challenge
this assumption, contending that the veridical percep-
tion and the corresponding hallucination share no
mental core. Suppose that while you are looking at
a lemon, God suddenly removes it, while keeping
your brain activity constant. Although you notice no
change, disjunctivists argue that the preremoval and
postremoval experiences are radically different.
Disjunctivism has gained prominent supporters in
recent years, as well as attracting much criticism. This
reader collects for the first time in one volume classic
texts that define and react to disjunctivism. These
include an excerpt from a book by the late J. M. Hinton,
who was the first to propose an explicitly disjunctivist
position, and papers stating a number of important
objections.
CONTRIBUTORS Alex Byrne, Jonathan Dancy, J. M. Hinton,
Mark Johnston, Harold Langsam, Heather Logue, M. G. F. Martin,
John McDowell, Alan Millar, Howard Robinson, A. D. Smith,
Paul Snowdon
Alex Byrne is Professor of Philosophy at MIT and the coeditor
of Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith
Jarvis Thomson (2001) and Readings on Color, volumes 1 and
2 (1997), all published by the MIT Press. Heather Logue is a
graduate student in Philosophy at MIT.
“Disjunctivism is probably the single most important idea
in philosophy of perception, epistemology, and theory of ref-
erence today. This collection gives you all you need to know
to make up your own mind. It takes you from the seminal
papers with which the discussion began to the contemporary
state of the art. The issues are complex, far-reaching, and
often argued with much passion. I don't know a better place
to begin than with the cool, lucid overview provided by the
editors, itself a masterly essay. An indispensable collection.”
— John Campbell, University of California, Berkeley
February — 6 x 9, 368 pp.
$36.00S/£23.95 paper
978-0-262-52490-2
$70.00S/£45.95 cloth
978-0-262-02655-0
MIT Readers in Contemporary Philosophy
PROFESSIONAL
philosophy
THE TIME OF OUR LIVES
A Critical History of Temporality
David Couzens Hoy
The project of all philosophy may be to gain reconcilia-
tion with time, even if not every philosopher has dealt
with time expressly. A confrontation with the passing of
time and with human finitude runs through the history
of philosophy as an ultimate concern. In this genealogy
of the concept of temporality, David Hoy examines the
emergence in a post-Kantian continental philosophy of
a focus on the lived experience of the “time of our lives”
rather than on the time of the universe. The purpose
is to see how phenomenological and poststructuralist
philosophers have tried to locate the source of tempo-
rality, how they have analyzed time’s passing, and how
they have depicted our relation to time once it has
been — in a Proustian sense — regained.
Hoy engages with competing theoretical tactics for
reconciling us to our fleeting temporality. After dis-
cussing Kant’s interpretation of time and Heidegger’s
productive misreading of Kant, Hoy examines the
work of Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty,
and Nietzsche, for theories of the present; draws fur-
ther lessons from Gadamer, Sartre, Bourdieu, Foucault,
and Bergson about the past; and analyzes in addition
philosophers Deleuze, Žižek, and Derrida on the poli-
tics of the future. Then Hoy considers four existential
strategies for coping with the apparent flow of tempo-
rality, including Proust’s passive and Walter Benjamin’s
active reconciliation through memory, Žižek’s critique
of poststructuralist politics, Foucault’s confrontation
with the temporality of power, and Deleuze’s account
of Aion and Chronos. The study concludes by explor-
ing whether a dual temporalization could be what
constitutes the singular “time of our lives.”
David Couzens Hoy is Professor of Philosophy and
Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Critical Resistance:
From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique (MIT Press, 2004).
April — 5 3/8 x 8, 328 pp.
$34.00S/£21.95 cloth
978-0-262-01304-8
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PROFESSIONAL
psychology/cognitive science
PSYCHOLOGY
Pythagoras to Present
John C. Malone
Certain ideas have preoccupied thinkers since ancient
times: the nature of mind, the sources of knowledge
and belief, the nature of the self, ethics and the best way
to lead our lives, the question of free will. In this book,
John Malone examines these ideas in the writings of
thinkers from antiquity to the present day and argues
for their importance not just as precursors of modern
views but as ideas that are frequently better than current
ones. We can get good advice, he writes, from the writ-
ings of the best thinkers of the past. Pythagoras, Thales,
Plato, Protagoras, Aristotle, Diogenes, and Epictetus all
offer tried and tested ideas on how we should lead our
lives and on the treatment of psychopathology — as do
Berkeley, Hume, John Stuart Mill, Johann Friedrich
Herbart, Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Sigmund
Freud, and B. F. Skinner.
Malone begins with the naturalistic and mystical
strains of early Greek thought, moves on to Platonism
and the world of Forms (and considers parallels
between the thought of Plato and Freud), and dis-
cusses “Ancient Self-Help Therapies” (including
Epicureanism). He investigates the psychological
insights of Enlightenment thinkers including Francis
Bacon and Galileo, Locke’s and Kant’s theories of
experience, and Darwin’s evolutionary thinking. He
charts the rise of modern psychology and the begin-
ning of “biological psychology.” He examines the work
of Wundt, Titchener, Freud, Peirce, and James, among
others, and describes the ideas of behaviorism, Gestalt
psychology, and cognitive science.
Malone’s history offers both breadth and depth, an
engaging style and rigorous scholarship, demonstrating
vividly the relevance of the great historical psychologi-
cal thinkers.
John C. Malone is Professor of Psychology at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
June — 6 x 9, 568 pp. — 46 illus.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01296-6
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philosophy/psychology
PREDICATIVE MINDS
The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking
Radu J. Bogdan
The predicative mind singles out and represents an
item in order to attribute to it a property, a relation,
an action, an evaluation; it thinks, and says, of a house
that it is big, of a car that it is to the left of the house,
of a cat that it is about to jump, of a hypothesis that
it is plausible. The capacity to predicate appears to be
neither innate nor learned, yet it is universal among
humans. Puzzling in evolutionary, developmental, and
philosophical terms, the mental competence for predi-
cation still awaits a coherent and plausible explanation.
In this exploration of the predicative roots of human
thinking, Radu Bogdan takes up the challenge.
Bogdan argues that predication is not only an out-
come of development but also a by-product of uniquely
human features of development, many of them social
in nature and unrelated to representation, cognition,
and thinking. Humans develop predicative minds for
disparate reasons, which bear initially on physiological
coregulation, affective and manipulative communica-
tion, and the socially shared acquisition of words.
Once developed, the competence for predication in
turn redesigns human thinking and communication.
Predication is at the heart of conscious, deliberate,
explicit, and language-based human thinking, and it is
the fuel of higher mental activities. Understanding the
uniqueness and representational power of the human
mind, Bogdan contends, requires an explanation of
why and how predication came to be.
Radu J. Bogdan is Professor in the Departments of Philosophy
and Psychology and Director of the Center for Mind, Language
and Culture at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is the
author of Minding Minds (2000) and Interpreting Minds (1997),
both published by the MIT Press.
March — 6 x 9, 184 pp. — 3 illus.
$25.00S/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-02636-9

cognitive science
ON THE ORIGINS OF
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
The Mechanization of Mind
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
The conceptual history of cognitive science remains for
the most part unwritten. In this groundbreaking book,
Jean-Pierre Dupuy — one of the principal architects
of cognitive science in France — provides an important
chapter: the legacy of cybernetics. Contrary to popular
belief, Dupuy argues, cybernetics represented not the
anthropomorphization of the machine but the mecha-
nization of the human. The founding fathers of cyber-
netics — some of the greatest minds of the twentieth
century, including John von Neumann, Norbert
Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Walter Pitts —
intended to construct a materialist and mechanistic
science of mental behavior that would make it possible
at last to resolve the ancient philosophical problem of
mind and matter. The importance of cybernetics to
cognitive science, Dupuy argues, lies not in its daring
conception of the human mind in terms of the func-
tioning of a machine but in the way the strengths and
weaknesses of the cybernetics approach can illuminate
controversies that rage today — between cognitivists
and connectionists, eliminative materialists and
Wittgensteinians, functionalists and anti-reductionists.
Dupuy brings to life the intellectual excitement that
attended the birth of cognitive science sixty years ago.
He separates the promise of cybernetic ideas from
the disappointment that followed as cybernetics was
rejected and consigned to intellectual oblivion. The
mechanization of the mind has reemerged today as
an all-encompassing paradigm in the convergence of
nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology,
and cognitive science. The tensions, contradictions,
paradoxes, and confusions Dupuy discerns in cybernetics
offer a cautionary tale for future developments in
cognitive science.
Philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy holds professorships at
École Polytechnique, Paris, and Stanford University. At
École Polytechnique he founded and directed the Applied
Epistemological Research Center (CREA).
March — 6 x 9, 224 pp.
$25.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51239-8
PROFESSIONAL
cognitive science/biology
COGNITIVE BIOLOGY
Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives
on Mind, Brain, and Behavior
edited by Luca Tommasi, Mary A. Peterson, and
Lynn Nadel
In the past few decades, sources of inspiration in the
multidisciplinary field of cognitive science have widened.
In addition to ongoing vital work in cognitive and
affective neuroscience, important new work is being
conducted at the intersection of psychology and the
biological sciences in general. This volume offers an
overview of the cross-disciplinary integration of evolu-
tionary and developmental approaches to cognition
in light of these exciting new contributions from the
life sciences.
This research has explored many cognitive abilities
in a wide range of organisms and developmental stages,
and results have revealed the nature and origin of many
instances of the cognitive life of organisms. Each sec-
tion of Cognitive Biology deals with a key domain of
cognition: spatial cognition; the relationships among
attention, perception, and learning; representations of
numbers and economic values; and social cognition.
Contributors discuss each topic from the perspectives
of psychology and neuroscience, brain theory and
modeling, evolutionary theory, ecology, genetics,
and developmental science.
CONTRIBUTORS Chris M. Bird, Elizabeth M. Brannon,
Neil Burgess, Jessica F. Cantlon, Stanislas Dehaene,
Christian F. Doeller, Reuven Dukas, Rochel Gelman,
Alexander Gerganov, Paul W. Glimcher, Robert L. Goldstone,
Edward M. Hubbard, Lucia F. Jacobs, Mark H. Johnson,
Annette Karmiloff-Smith, David Landy, Lynn Nadel,
Nora S. Newcombe, Daniel Osorio, Mary A. Peterson,
Manuela Piazza, Philippe Pinel, Michael L. Platt, Kristin R. Ratliff,
Michael E. Roberts, Wendy S. Shallcross, Stephen V. Shepherd,
Sylvain Sirois, Luca Tommasi, Alessandro Treves,
Alexandra Twyman, Giorgio Vallortigara
Luca Tommasi is Associate Professor in the Department of
Biomedical Science at the University of Chieti and a Fellow
of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition
Research. Mary A. Peterson is Professor in the Cognition and
Neural Systems Program in the Department of Psychology and
Research Social Scientist in the Cognitive Science Program at
the University of Arizona. Lynn Nadel is Regents’ Professor in
the Cognition and Neural Systems Program, Department of
Psychology, at the University of Arizona.
July — 7 x 9, 384 pp. — 80 illus.
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-01293-5
Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
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philosophy/biology
FUNCTIONS IN BIOLOGICAL
AND ARTIFICIAL WORLDS
Comparative Philosophical Perspectives
edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes
The notion of function is an integral part of thinking in
both biology and technology; biological organisms and
technical artifacts are both ascribed functionality. Yet
the concept of function is notoriously obscure (with
problematic issues regarding the normative and the
descriptive nature of functions, for example) and
demands philosophical clarification. So too the rela-
tionship between biological organisms and technical
artifacts: although entities of one kind are often
described in terms of the other — as in the machine
analogy for biological organism or the evolutionary
account of technological development — the parallels
between the two break down at certain points. This vol-
ume takes on both issues and examines the relationship
between organisms and artifacts from the perspective of
functionality.
Believing that the concept of function is the root of
an accurate understanding of biological organisms,
technical artifacts, and the relation between the two,
the contributors take an integrative approach, offering
philosophical analyses that embrace both biological
and technical fields of function ascription. They aim at
a better understanding not only of the concept of func-
tion but also of the similarities and differences between
organisms and artifacts as they relate to functionality.
Their ontological, epistemological, and phenomenolog-
ical comparisons will clarify problems that are central to
the philosophies of both biology and technology.
CONTRIBUTORS Paul Sheldon Davies, Maarten Franssen,
Wybo Houkes, Yoshinobu Kitamura, Peter Kroes, Ulrich Krohs,
Tim Lewens, Andrew Light, Françoise Longy, Peter McLaughlin,
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Mark Perlman, Beth Preston, Giacomo Romano,
Marzia Soavi, Pieter E. Vermaas
Ulrich Krohs teaches philosophy at the University of Hamburg
and is a member at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution
and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria. Peter Kroes is
Professor in the Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of
Technology, the Netherlands.
March — 7 x 9, 312 pp. — 12 illus.
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-11321-2
Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
72
biology/computational biology
THE PROCESSES OF LIFE
An Introduction to Molecular Biology
Lawrence E. Hunter
Recent research in molecular biology has produced a
remarkably detailed understanding of how living things
operate. Becoming conversant with the intricacies of
molecular biology and its extensive technical vocabulary,
can be a challenge, though, as introductory materials
often seem more like a barrier than an invitation to the
study of life. This text offers a concise and accessible
introduction to molecular biology, requiring no previous
background in science, aimed at students and profes-
sionals in fields ranging from engineering to journalism
— anyone who wants to get a foothold in this rapidly
expanding field. It will be particularly useful for com-
puter scientists exploring computational biology.
A reader who has mastered the information in The
Processes of Life is ready to move on to more complex
material in almost any area of contemporary biology.
The Processes of Life covers the basics in all aspects
of molecular biology, from biochemistry and evolution
to molecular medicine and biotechnology. After intro-
ducing the culture of biology and the diversity of living
things throughout history, the book describes evolution;
“just enough chemistry”; universal processes of life and
the underlying molecular structures; details of how
proteins and nucleic acids carry out the processes of
life; structures and processes in eukaryotes; the com-
plexities of multicellular organisms; the anatomy and
physiology of animals; fundamentals of human disease
and its treatment; contemporary biotechnology, includ-
ing genetic engineering; and bioethics and the implica-
tions for society of molecular biology’s discoveries.
Lawrence E. Hunter, a founder of the International Society
for Computational Biology, is Director of the Computational
Bioscience Program and of the Center for Computational
Pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
March — 7 x 9, 320 pp. — 47 color illus., 12 black & white illus.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01305-5

neuroscience
THE SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE
OF EMPATHY
edited by Jean Decety and William Ickes
In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into
a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. The social
neuroscience approach to the subject is premised on the
idea that studying empathy at multiple levels (biological,
cognitive, and social) will lead to a more comprehensive
understanding of how other people’s thoughts and feel-
ings can affect our own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
In these cutting-edge contributions, leading advocates
of the multilevel approach view empathy from the per-
spectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical
psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience.
Chapters include a critical examination of the
various definitions of the empathy construct; surveys
of major research traditions based on these differing
views (including empathy as emotional contagion, as
the projection of one’s own thoughts and feelings, and
as a fundamental aspect of social development); clinical
and applied perspectives, including psychotherapy and
the study of empathy for other people’s pain; various
neuroscience perspectives; and discussions of empathy’s
evolutionary and neuroanatomical histories, with a
special focus on neuroanatomical continuities and
differences across the phylogenetic spectrum.
The new discipline of social neuroscience bridges
disciplines and levels of analysis. In this volume, the
contributors’ state-of-the-art investigations of empathy
from a social neuroscience perspective vividly illustrate
the potential benefits of such cross-disciplinary
integration.
CONTRIBUTORS C. Daniel Batson, James Blair, Karina Blair,
Jerold D. Bozarth, Ann Buysse, Susan F. Butler, Michael Carlin,
C. Sue Carter, Kenneth D. Craig, Mirella Dapretto, Jean Decety,
Mathias Dekeyser, Ap Dijksterhuis, Robert Elliott, Natalie D. Eggum,
Nancy Eisenberg, Norma Deitch Feshbach, Seymour Feshbach,
Liesbet Goubert, Leslie S. Greenberg, Elaine Hatfield, James Harris,
William Ickes, Claus Lamm, Yen-Chi Le, Mia Leijssen, Raymond S.
Nickerson, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, Stephen W. Porges, Richard L.
Rapson, Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory, Rick B. van Baaren,
Matthijs L. van Leeuwen, Andries van der Leij, Jeanne C. Watson
Jean Decety is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the
University of Chicago, where he heads the Social Cognitive
Neuroscience Laboratory. William Ickes is Distinguished
Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas, Arlington.
April — 7 x 9, 264 pp. — 7 illus.
$45.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01297-3
Social Neuroscience series
PROFESSIONAL
bioethics/philosophy
THE ETHICS OF PROTOCELLS
Moral and Social Implications of
Creating Life in the Laboratory
edited by Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke
Teams of scientists around the world are racing to
create protocells — microscopic, self-organizing entities
that spontaneously assemble from simple organic and
inorganic materials. The creation of fully autonomous
protocells — a technology that can, for all intents and
purposes, be considered literally alive — is only a mat-
ter of time. This book examines the pressing social and
ethical issues raised by the creation of life in the labora-
tory. Protocells might offer great medical and social
benefits and vast new economic opportunities, but they
also pose potential risks and threaten cultural and moral
norms against tampering with nature and “playing God.”
The Ethics of Protocells offers a variety of perspectives on
these concerns.
After a brief survey of current protocell research
(including the much-publicized “top-down” strategy of
J. Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith, for which they
have received multimillion dollar financing from the
U.S. Department of Energy), the chapters treat risk,
uncertainty, and precaution; lessons from recent history
and related technologies; and ethics in a future society
with protocells. The discussions range from new con-
siderations of the precautionary principle and the role
of professional ethicists to explorations of what can be
learned from society’s experience with other biotech-
nologies and the open-source software movement.
CONTRIBUTORS Mark A. Bedau, Gaymon Bennett,
Giovanni Boniolo, Carl Cranor, Bill Durodié, Mickey Gjerris,
Brigitte Hantsche-Tangen, Christine Hauskeller, Andrew Hessel,
Brian Johnson, George Khushf, Emily C. Parke, Alain Pottage,
Paul Rabinow, Per Sandin, Joachim Schummer, Mark Triant,
Laurie Zoloth
Mark A. Bedau is Professor of Humanities at Reed College in
Portland, Oregon. He is the coeditor of Emergence: Contemporary
Readings in Science and Philosophy and Protocells: Bridging
Nonliving and Living Matter, both published by the MIT Press
in 2008. Emily C. Parke is Business Manager at ProtoLife Srl.
May — 7 x 9, 392 pp.
$28.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51269-5
$55.00S/£35.95 cloth
978-0-262-01262-1
Basic Bioethics series
73
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philosophy of science
COGENT SCIENCE IN CONTEXT
The Science Wars, Argumentation
Theory, and Habermas
William Rehg
Recent years have seen a series of intense, increasingly
acrimonious debates over the status and legitimacy of
the natural sciences. These “science wars” take place in
the public arena — with current battles over evolution
and global warming — and in academia, where
assumptions about scientific “objectivity” have been
called into question. Given these hostilities, what makes
a scientific claim merit our consideration? In Cogent
Science in Context, William Rehg examines what makes
scientific arguments cogent — that is, strong and
convincing — and how we should assess that cogency.
Drawing on the tools of argumentation theory, Rehg
proposes a multidimensional, context-sensitive
framework both for understanding the cogency of
scientific arguments and for conducting cooperative
interdisciplinary assessments of the cogency of actual
scientific arguments.
Rehg first shows how argumentation theory, with
methods for evaluating arguments that draw on disci-
plines ranging from logic to rhetoric, can provide an
interdisciplinary lens through which to view the issues
in the academic science wars. He then closely examines
Jürgen Habermas’s argumentation theory and its impli-
cations for understanding cogency, applying it to a
case from high-energy physics. A series of problems,
however, beset Habermas’s approach. In response,
Rehg outlines his own “critical contextualist” approach,
which uses argumentation-theory categories in a
new and more context-sensitive way inspired by
ethnography of science. Critical contextualism not
only responds to the academic debates but also has
relevance for the study of debates in the public arena,
as Rehg demonstrates with a case study of National
Academy of Sciences panels appointed to study the
possible links between diet and health.
William Rehg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint
Louis University. He is the translator of Jürgen Habermas’s
Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory
of Law and Democracy (1996) and the coeditor of Deliberative
Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics and Pluralism (1997)
and The Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory
(2001), all published by the MIT Press.
February — 6 x 9, 360 pp. — 4 illus.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-18271-3
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linguistics
CONTEMPORARY VIEWS
ON ARCHITECTURE AND
REPRESENTATIONS IN PHONOLOGY
edited by Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns
The essays in this volume address foundational questions
in phonology that cut across different schools of thought
within the discipline. The theme of modularity runs
through them all, however, and these essays demonstrate
the benefits of the modular approach to phonology,
either investigating interactions among distinct modules
or developing specific aspects of representation within
a particular module. Although the contributors take
divergent views on a range of issues, they agree on the
importance of representations and questions of modu-
larity in phonology. Their essays address the status of
phonological features, syllable theory, metrical structure,
the architecture of the phonological component, and
interaction among components of phonology.
In the early 1990s the rise of Optimality Theory —
which suggested that pure computation would solve
the problems of representations and modularity —
eclipsed the centrality of these issues for phonology.
This book is unique in offering a coherent view of
phonology that is not Optimality Theory based. The
essays in this book, all by distinguished phonologists,
demonstrate that computation and representation are
inherently linked; they do not deny Optimality Theory,
but attempt to move the field of phonology beyond it.
CONTRIBUTORS Juliette Blevins, Charles E. Cairns,
Andrea Calabrese, G. Nick Clements, B. Elan Dresher, Morris Halle,
Harry van der Hulst, William J. Idsardi, Ellen Kaisse,
Andrew Nevins, Thomas C. Purnell, Eric Raimy, Keren Rice,
Charles Reiss, Bert Vaux, Aaron Wolfe
Eric Raimy is Assistant Professor of English Language
and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Charles E. Cairns is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at
Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
April — 7 x 9, 424 pp.
$45.00S/£29.95 paper
978-0-262-68172-8
$90.00S/£58.95 cloth
978-0-262-18270-6
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linguistics
WHERE DOES BINDING
THEORY APPLY?
David Lebeaux
This concise but wide-ranging monograph examines
where the conditions of binding theory apply and in
doing so considers the nature of phrase structure (in
particular how case and theta roles apply) and the
nature of the lexical/functional split.
David Lebeaux begins with a revised formulation of
binding theory. He reexamines Chomsky’s conjecture
that all conditions apply at the interfaces, in particular
LF (or Logical Form), and argues instead that all
negative conditions, in particular Condition C, apply
continuously throughout the derivation.
Lebeaux draws a distinction between positive and
negative conditions, which have different privileges
of occurrence according to the architecture of the
grammar. Negative conditions, he finds, apply
homogeneously throughout the derivation; positive
conditions apply solely at LF. A hole in Condition C
then forces a reconsideration of the whole architecture
of the grammar. He finds that case and theta represen-
tations are split apart and are only fused at later points
in the derivation, after movement has applied.
Lebeaux’s exploration of the relationship between
case and theta theory reveals a relationship of greater
subtlety and importance than is generally assumed.
His arguments should interest syntacticians and those
curious about the foundations of grammar.
David Lebeaux is an independent researcher who specializes
in syntax and the syntactic elements of language acquisition.
He has held positions at Princeton University, the NEC
Research Institute, and the University of Maryland, among
other institutions, and is the author of Language Acquisition
and the Form of the Grammar.
April — 6 x 9, 128 pp.
$25.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51271-8
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-01290-4
Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 50
PROFESSIONAL
linguistics
LOCALITY IN MINIMALIST SYNTAX
Thomas S. Stroik
In this highly original reanalysis of minimalist syntax,
Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties
for human language. Taking as his starting point
Chomsky’s minimalist assumption that the syntactic
component of a language generates representations
for sentences that are interpreted at perceptual and
conceptual interfaces, Stroik investigates how these
representations can be generated most parsimoniously.
Countering the prevailing analyses of minimalist
syntax, he argues that the computational properties
of human language consist only of strictly local Merge
operations that lack both look-back and look-forward
properties. All grammatical operations reduce to a sin-
gle sort of locally defined feature-checking operation,
and all grammatical properties are the cumulative
effects of local grammatical operations.
As Stroik demonstrates, reducing syntactic operations
to local operations with a single property — merging
lexical material into syntactic derivations — not only
radically increases the computational efficiency of the
syntactic component, but it also optimally simplifies
the design of the computational system. Locality in
Minimalist Syntax explains a range of syntactic phe-
nomena that have long resisted previous generative
theories, including that-trace effects, superiority effects,
and the interpretations available for multiple-wh con-
structions. It also introduces the Survive Principle, an
important new concept for syntactic analysis, and pro-
vides something considered impossible in minimalist
syntax: a locality account of displacement phenomena.
Thomas S. Stroik is Professor of English and Associate Dean
of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
He is the author of Syntactic Controversies; Minimalism, Scope,
and VP Structure; Path Theory and Argument Structure; and
The Pragmatics of Metaphor.
April — 6 x 9, 168 pp.
$32.00S/£20.95 paper
978-0-262-51276-3
$64.00S/£41.95 cloth
978-0-262-01292-8
Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 51
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PROFESSIONAL
economics
A comprehensive, rigorous, and
up-to-date introduction to growth
economics that presents all the
major growth paradigms and shows
how they can be used to analyze
the growth process and growth
policy design.
March
7 x 9, 512 pp.
58 illus.
$65.00S/£36.95 cloth
978-0-262-01263-8
Also available
ENDOGENOUS GROWTH THEORY
Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt
1997, 978-0-262-01166-2
$82.00S/£53.95 cloth
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THE ECONOMICS OF GROWTH
Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt
This comprehensive introduction to economic growth presents the main facts
and puzzles about growth, proposes simple methods and models needed to
explain these facts, acquaints the reader with the most recent theoretical and
empirical developments, and provides tools with which to analyze policy design.
The treatment of growth theory is fully accessible to students with a background
no more advanced than elementary calculus and probability theory; the reader
need not master all the subtleties of dynamic programming and stochastic
processes to learn what is essential about such issues as cross-country convergence,
the effects of financial development on growth, and the consequences of global-
ization. The book, which grew out of courses taught by the authors at Harvard
and Brown universities, can be used both by advanced undergraduate and
graduate students, and as a reference for professional economists in government
or international financial organizations.
The Economics of Growth first presents the main growth paradigms: the
neoclassical model, the AK model, Romer’s product variety model, and the
Schumpeterian model. The text then builds on the main paradigms to shed
light on the dynamic process of growth and development, discussing such
topics as club convergence, directed technical change, the transition from
Malthusian stagnation to sustained growth, general purpose technologies, and
the recent debate over institutions versus human capital as the primary factor
in cross-country income differences. Finally, the book focuses on growth
policies — analyzing the effects of liberalizing market competition and entry,
education policy, trade liberalization, environmental and resource constraints,
and stabilization policy — and the methodology of growth policy design.
All chapters include literature reviews and problem sets. An appendix covers
basic concepts of econometrics.
Philippe Aghion is Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard
University. Peter Howitt is Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences at
Brown University. Aghion and Howitt are the authors of Endogenous
Growth Theory (MIT Press).
“Aghion and Howitt have produced a very important and thought-
ful book which presents questions, models, and answers in a clear
and constructive manner. They show how good theory can and
should influence both understanding and policy. It will shape the
way in which economists think about growth for years ahead.”
— Nicholas Stern, Lord Stern of Brentford,
and IG Patel Professor of Economics and
Government, London School of Economics
“This text is both a clear and concise survey of several approaches in
the study of economic growth and an excellent introduction to the
authors’ impressive extensions of the Schumpeterian approach to
market innovation and innovation policy.”
— Edmund S. Phelps, Director, Center on
Capitalism and Society, Columbia University, and
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics

computational economics
ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
Theory and Computation
John Stachurski
This text provides an introduction to the modern the-
ory of economic dynamics, with emphasis on mathe-
matical and computational techniques for modeling
dynamic systems. Written to be both rigorous and
engaging, the book shows how sound understanding of
the underlying theory leads to effective algorithms for
solving real world problems. The material makes exten-
sive use of programming examples to illustrate ideas.
These programs help bring to life the abstract concepts
in the text. Background in computing and analysis is
offered for readers without programming experience
or upper-level mathematics.
Topics covered in detail include nonlinear dynamic
systems, finite-state Markov chains, stochastic dynamic
programming, stochastic stability and computation of
equilibria. The models are predominantly nonlinear,
and the emphasis is on studying nonlinear systems
in their original form, rather than by means of rudi-
mentary approximation methods such as linearization.
Much of the material is new to economics and
improves on existing techniques. For graduate students
and those already working in the field, Economic
Dynamics will serve as an essential resource.
John Stachurski is Associate Professor at the Kyoto Institute
of Economic Research. He is a winner of the IJET Lionel
McKenzie Prize, awarded to young authors who have made
outstanding contributions to economic theory. His research
is published in such leading journals as Econometrica, the
Journal of Economic Theory and the Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control.
April — 6 x 9, 400 pp.
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-01277-5
PROFESSIONAL
economics
THE EQUILIBRIUM MANIFOLD
Postmodern Developments in the Theory
of General Economic Equilibrium
Yves Balasko
In The Equilibrium Manifold, noted economic scholar
and major contributor to the theory of general equilib-
rium Yves Balasko argues that, contrary to what many
textbooks want readers to believe, the study of the gen-
eral equilibrium model did not end with the existence
and welfare theorems of the 1950s. These develop-
ments, which characterize the modern phase of the
theory of general equilibrium, led to what Balasko calls
the postmodern phase, marked by the reintroduction
of differentiability assumptions and the application of
the methods of differential topology to the study of
the equilibrium equation. Balasko’s rigorous study
demonstrates the central role played by the equilibrium
manifold in understanding the properties of the Arrow-
Debreu model and its extensions. Balasko argues that
the tools of differential topology articulated around
the concept of equilibrium manifold offer powerful
methods for studying economically important issues,
from existence and uniqueness to business cycles and
economic fluctuations.
After an examination of the theory of general
equilibrium’s evolution in the hundred years between
Walras and Arrow-Debreu, Balasko discusses the
properties of the equilibrium manifold and the natural
projection. He highlights the important role of the set
of no-trade equilibria, the structure of which is applied
to the global structure of the equilibrium manifold.
He also develops a geometric approach to the study of
the equilibrium manifold. Special effort has been made
at reducing the mathematical technicalities without
compromising rigor.
The Equilibrium Manifold makes clear the ways in
which the postmodern developments of the Arrow-
Debreu model improve our understanding of modern
market economies.
Yves Balasko is Professor of Economics at the University of
York. He is the author of Foundations of the Theory of General
Equilibrium and numerous articles on the theory of general
equilibrium.
May — 6 x 9, 264 pp. — 17 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-02654-3
Arne Ryde Memorial Lecture Series
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PROFESSIONAL
economics
GUNS AND BUTTER
The Economic Causes and
Consequences of Conflict
edited by Gregory D. Hess
Guns and Butter examines the causes and consequences
of war from a political economy perspective, taking as
its premise that a consideration of the incentives and
constraints faced by individuals and groups is para-
mount in understanding conflict decision making. The
chapter authors — leading economists and political
scientists — believe that this perspective offers deeper
insights into war and peace choices than the standard
state-centric approach; and their contributions offer
both theoretical and empirical support for the political
economy perspective on conflict.
Several broad themes cut across the chapters: war as
an equilibrium phenomenon rather than an exogenous
process; how the interaction of politics, economics,
and institutions affects the frequency and severity of
conflicts; the cost of fighting; and the often innovative
character of conflict. Topics addressed include theoreti-
cal aspects of the ways in which domestic politics
affects the decision to go to war; globalization and its
effect on the net supply of terrorism; open markets
and the likelihood of war and domestic insecurity; the
costs of going to war in Iraq as compared to the costs
of containment; the economic effects of the Rwandan
genocide at a household level; and the evolving indus-
trial organization of terrorist groups.
CONTRIBUTORS Brock Blomberg, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Steven J. Davis, Michelle R. Garfinkel,
Edward Glaeser, Gregory D. Hess, Kai Konrad, Kevin M. Murphy,
Peter Rosendorff, Stephen Sheppard, Stergios Skaperdas,
Constantinos Syropoulos, Robert H. Topel, Marijke Verpoorten
Gregory D. Hess is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean
of Faculty and the Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics
and Taxation at the Robert Day School of Economics and
Finance at Claremont McKenna College.
June — 6 x 9, 344 pp. — 21 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01281-2
CESifo Seminar series
78
economics/European history
ECONOMIC PROSPERITY RECAPTURED
The Finnish Path from Crisis to Rapid Growth
Seppo Honkapohja, Erkki A. Koskela,
Willi Leibfritz, and Roope Uusitalo
Many countries have experienced major economic
changes since the mid-1980s as a result of the deregula-
tion and liberalization of national financial systems —
two key aspects of globalization — with some experi-
encing boom and bust in rapid succession. The small
Northern European country of Finland has been hailed
as a success story for achieving renewed economic
growth and prosperity after a financial crisis and deep
depression in the early 1990s. Economic Prosperity
Recaptured offers a detailed analysis of the rapid swings
in Finland’s recent economic development, from initial
overheating in the late 1980s through deep crisis in the
early 1990s to recovery and growth since the mid-1990s.
Finland’s complex road to recovery offers excellent
examples of both unsuccessful and successful policy
responses to changing circumstances. The authors
examine the three relatively distinct periods of Finland’s
recent experience, analyzing the adequacy of the
macroeconomic policy response in each case. They
assess the real economic effects of financial constraints
and look for evidence of the “credit channel” of the
monetary system. Finland’s rapid economic growth
since the mid-1990s is largely the result of its structural
transformation into a high-tech economy; Nokia is
the most famous example of this information and
communication technology success. Elaborating on
Finland’s ICT revolution, the authors demonstrate
that well-designed economic policies contributed to
Finland’s economic turnaround.
Seppo Honkapohja is Professor of International Macroeconomics
at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Board
of the Bank of Finland. Erkki A. Koskela is Professor of Public
Economics at the University of Helsinki and Academy Professor
of Economics at the Academy of Finland. Willi Leibfritz worked
with the OECD from 2001 to 2007, retiring as Head of Division
in the Economics Department. Roope Uusitalo is Research
Director at Finland’s Government Institute for Economic
Research (VATT).
May — 6 x 9, 168 pp. — 57 figures
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01269-0
CESifo Book series

economics/political science/Latin American studies
POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND
POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA
edited by Stephan Klasen and
Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann
High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent
poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a
central economic policy challenge for Latin American
policymakers. At the same time, dramatically improved
methods and data allow researchers to analyze these
problems and how they are affected by economic policy.
In this book, experts on Latin American economic
affairs use these new approaches to examine the
dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America
and the ability of policy to address them.
Contributors first analyze the historical evolution of
inequality in Latin America, examining such topics as
the origins of inequality in colonial land distribution,
the impact of educational opportunities on earnings
inequality in Brazil, and racial discrimination in
Brazil’s labor market. Contributors then use sophisti-
cated panel data techniques to analyze the regional
dynamics of poverty and inequality in Peru and Brazil,
considering whether there are spatial poverty traps and,
if so, what determines such traps. Finally, contributors
use innovative impact evaluation and modeling tech-
niques to examine specific policy issues: devaluation
and dollarization in Bolivia, the Oportunidades condi-
tional cash transfer program in rural Mexico, and the
distributional effect of Brazil’s tax-benefit system.
CONTRIBUTORS Rozane Bezerra de Siquiera, Jere R. Behrman,
Denis Cogneau, Philippe De Vreyer, Ewout Frankema,
Jérémie Gignoux, Javier Herrera, Herwig Immervoll, Stephan
Klasen, Phillippe G. Leite, Horacio Levy, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps,
José Ricardo Nogueira, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann,
Cathal O’Donoghue, Susan W. Parker, Rainer Schweickert,
Gilles Spielvogel, Rainer Thiele, Petra E. Todd, Manfred Wiebelt
Stephan Klasen is Professor of Developmental Economics
at the University of Göttingen, where he also heads the
Ibero-American Institute for Economic Research. Felicitas
Nowak-Lehmann is a Senior Researcher at the Ibero-American
Institute for Economic Research.
February — 6 x 9, 336 pp. — 31 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-11324-3
CESifo Seminar series
PROFESSIONAL
education
OFF-TRACK PROFS
Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education
John G. Cross and Edie N. Goldenberg
Much attention has been paid to the increasing propor-
tion of non-tenure-track faculty — adjuncts, lecturers,
and others — in American higher education. Critics
charge that universities exploit “contingent faculty” and
graduate students, engaging in a type of bait and switch
to attract applicants (advertising institutional standing
based on distinguished faculty who seldom teach
undergraduates), and as a result provide undergraduates
with an inadequate educational experience. This book,
by two experienced academic administrators, investigates
the expanding role of part-time and non-tenure- track
instructors in ten elite research universities and the
consequences of this trend for the quality of the educa-
tional experience, the functioning of the university, and
the excellence of the academic environment.
The authors discover, to their surprise, that the
existing data on the workforce in higher education is
ambiguous (different institutions use different terms
for non-tenure-track instructors; some even omit them
from faculty data reports), making comparisons suspect.
Many academic administrators are unaware of the
tenured/nontenured breakdown of their own faculties
and the hiring practices of their own universities.
The authors look closely at the teaching workforce at
Berkeley, Illinois, Michigan, Virginia, Washington,
Cornell, Duke, MIT, Northwestern, and Washington
University, believing that these outstanding universities
provide a strong test case of resistance to pressures on
the traditional tenure system. They describe hiring
trends and what drives them, explain why they matter
if we want to improve undergraduate education, sup-
port collegiality on campus, trust in academic gover-
nance, prevent the erosion of tenure, and preserve
America’s global leadership in higher education.
John G. Cross is Senior Vice President for Administration and
Finance at Bloomfield College. Edie N. Goldenberg is Professor
of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of
Michigan and Director of the University’s Michigan in
Washington Program.
June — 6 x 9, 192 pp. — 8 illus.
$30.00S/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-01291-1
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PROFESSIONAL
economics/environment
ECONOMICS OF FOREST RESOURCES
Gregory Amacher, Markku Ollikainen, and
Erkki A. Koskela
The field of forest economics has expanded rapidly in
the last two decades, and yet there exists no up-to-date
textbook for advanced undergraduate-graduate level use
or rigorous reference work for professionals. Economics
of Forest Resources fills these gaps, offering a compre-
hensive technical survey of the field with special
attention to recent developments regarding policy
instrument choice and uncertainty. It covers all areas in
which mathematical models have been used to explain
forest owner and user incentives and government
behavior, introducing the reader to the rigor needed to
think through the consequences of policy instruments.
Technically difficult concepts are presented with a uni-
fied and progressive approach; an appendix outlines the
basic concepts from calculus needed to understand the
models and results developed.
The book first presents the historical and classic
models that every student or researcher in forest eco-
nomics must know, including Faustman and Hartman
approaches, public goods, spatial interdependence, two
period life-cycle models, and overlapping generations
problems. It then discusses topics including policy
instrument choice, deforestation, biodiversity conserva-
tion, and age-class based forest modeling. Finally, it
surveys such advanced topics as uncertainty in two
period models, catastrophic risk, stochastic control
problems, deterministic optimal control, and stochastic
and deterministic dynamic programming approaches.
Boxes with empirical content illustrating applications
of the theoretical material appear throughout. Each
chapter is self-contained, allowing the reader, student,
or instructor to use the text according to individual
needs.
Gregory Amacher is Julian N. Cheatham Professor of Forest
and Natural Resource Economics and Professor of Natural
Resource Economics at Virginia Tech. Markku Ollikainen is
Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the
University of Helsinki. Erkki A. Koskela is Professor of Public
Economics at the University of Helsinki and Academy Professor
of Economics at the Academy of Finland.
May — 7 x 9, 448 pp. — 23 illus.
$60.00S/£38.95 cloth
978-0-262-01248-5
80
economics/environment
AT WAR WITH THE WEATHER
Managing Large-Scale Risks in
a New Era of Catastrophes
Howard C. Kunreuther and
Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
with Neil A. Doherty, Martin F. Grace,
Robert W. Klein, and Mark V. Pauly
The United States and other nations are facing large-
scale risks at an accelerating rhythm. In 2005, three
major hurricanes — Katrina, Rita, and Wilma — made
landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast within a six-week
period. The damage caused by these storms led to
insurance reimbursements and federal disaster relief of
more than $180 billion — a record sum. Today we are
more vulnerable to catastrophic losses because of the
increasing concentration of population and activities in
high-risk coastal regions of the country. The question is
not whether but when, and how frequently, future
catastrophes will strike, and the extent of damages they
will cause. Who should pay the costs associated with
catastrophic losses suffered by homeowners in hazard-
prone areas?
In At War with the Weather, Howard Kunreuther
and Erwann Michel-Kerjan with their colleagues
deliver a groundbreaking analysis of how we currently
mitigate, insure against, and finance recovery from
natural disasters in the United States. They offer
innovative, long-term solutions for reducing losses
and providing financial support for disaster victims
that define a coherent strategy to assure sustainable
recovery from future large-scale disasters. The amount
of data collected and analyzed and innovations pro-
posed make this the most comprehensive book written
on these critical issues in the past thirty years.
Howard C. Kunreuther is Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Decision
Sciences and Public Policy at the Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, and Codirector of the Wharton Risk Management
and Decision Processes Center. He is Co-Chair of the World
Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Innovation
and Leadership in Reducing Risks from Natural Disasters.
Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan is Managing Director of the Wharton
Risk Management and Decision Processes Center and teaches
in the Wharton School MBA program. He is Chairman of the
OECD’s Secretary-General High Level Advisory Board on
Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes.
June — 8 x 9, 448 pp. — 82 illus.
$55.00S/£35.95 cloth
978-0-262-01282-9

environment/science
CLOUDS IN THE PERTURBED
CLIMATE SYSTEM
Their Relationship to Energy Balance,
Atmospheric Dynamics, and Precipitation
edited by Jost Heintzenberg and
Robert J. Charlson
More than half the globe is covered by visible clouds.
Clouds control major parts of the Earth’s energy balance,
influencing both incoming shortwave solar radiation
and outgoing longwave thermal radiation. Latent
heating and cooling related to cloud processes modify
atmospheric circulation, and, by modulating sea surface
temperatures, clouds affect the oceanic circulation.
Clouds are also an essential component of the global
water cycle, on which all terrestrial life depends. Yet
clouds constitute the most poorly quantified, least
understood, and most puzzling aspect of atmospheric
science, and thus the largest source of uncertainty in
the prediction of climate change. Because clouds are
influenced by climate change, and because complex,
unidentified feedback systems are involved, science is
faced with many unanswered questions.
This volume begins by identifying and describing
the baffling nature of clouds. It explores the boundaries
of current knowledge on the spatial/temporal variabil-
ity of clouds and cloud-related aerosols as well as the
factors that control clouds, and examines the extent
and nature of anthropogenic perturbations. Particular
emphasis is given to the connections of clouds to cli-
mate through radiation, dynamics, precipitation, and
chemistry, and to the difficulties in understanding the
obvious but elusive fact that clouds must be affected by
climate change. Utilizing the insights of this unique
gathering of experts, the book offers recommendations
to improve the current state of knowledge and direct
future research in fields ranging from chemistry and
theoretical physics to climate modeling and remote
satellite sensing.
Jost Heintzenberg is Professor and Chair in Physics of the
Atmosphere at the University of Leipzig and Director of the
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig. Robert J.
Charlson is Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences and
Chemistry at the University of Washington.
March — 6 x 9, 576 pp. — 40 color illus., 71 black & white illus.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01287-4
Strüngmann Forum Reports
PROFESSIONAL
environment/transportation
TRANSPORTATION IN A
CLIMATE-CONSTRAINED WORLD
Andreas Schäfer, John B. Heywood,
Henry D. Jacoby, and Ian A. Waitz
In the nineteenth century, horse transportation con-
sumed vast amounts of land for hay production, and the
intense traffic and ankle-deep manure created miserable
living conditions in urban centers. The introduction of
the horseless carriage solved many of these problems
but has created others. Today another revolution in
transportation seems overdue. Transportation consumes
two-thirds of the world’s petroleum and has become
the largest contributor to global environmental change.
Most of this increase in scale can be attributed to the
strong desire for personal mobility that comes with
economic growth.
In Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World,
the authors present the first integrated assessment of
the factors affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
from passenger transportation. They examine such
topics as past and future travel demand; the influence
of personal and business choices on passenger travel’s
climate impact; technologies and alternative fuels that
may become available to mitigate GHG emissions
from passenger transport; and policies that would
promote a more sustainable transportation system.
And most important, taking into account all of these
options, they consider how to achieve a sustainable
transportation system in the next thirty to fifty years.
Andreas Schäfer is Director of the Martin Center for Architectural
and Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Research
Affiliate at MIT. John B. Heywood is Sun Jae Professor of
Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering and Director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory
at MIT. Henry D. Jacoby is Codirector of the MIT Joint Program
on the Science and Policy of Global Change and Professor of
Management in the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Ian A. Waitz is Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department
Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, at MIT.
May — 6 x 9, 384 pp. — 30 illus.
$27.00S/£17.95 paper
978-0-262-51234-3
$54.00S/£34.95 cloth
978-0-262-01267-6
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urban studies/urban planning
SIDEWALKS
Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and
Renia Ehrenfeucht
Urban sidewalks, critical but undervalued public spaces,
have been sites for political demonstrations and urban
greening, promenades for the wealthy and the well-
dressed, and shelterless shelters for the homeless. On
sidewalks, decade after decade, urbanites have social-
ized, paraded and played, sold their wares, and observed
city life. These uses often overlap and conflict, and
urban residents and planners try to include some and
exclude others. In this first book-length analysis of the
sidewalk as a distinct public space, Anastasia
Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht examine the
evolution of the American urban sidewalk and trace
conflicts that have arisen over its competing uses. They
discuss the characteristics of sidewalks as small urban
public spaces, and such related issues as the ambiguous
boundaries of their “public” status, contestation around
specific uses, control and regulations, and the implica-
tions for First Amendment speech and assembly rights.
Drawing on historical and contemporary examples
as well as case study research and archival data from
five cities — Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Miami,
and Seattle — the authors focus on how the functions
and meanings of street activities have shifted and have
been negotiated through controls and interventions.
They consider sidewalk uses that include the display of
individual and group identities (in ethnic and pride
parades, for example), the everyday politics of sidewalk
access, and larger political actions (including Seattle’s
1999 antiglobalization protests), and examine the com-
plex regulatory frameworks that manage street and
sidewalk life. The role of urban sidewalks in the early
twenty-first century depends, the authors conclude, on
what we want from sidewalk life and how we balance
competing interests.
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Professor and Chair of UCLA’s
Department of Urban Planning. She is the coauthor of Urban
Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form. Renia Ehrenfeucht
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and
Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans.
May — 7 x 9, 336 pp. — 35 illus.
$28.00S/£18.95 cloth
978-0-262-12307-5
Urban and Industrial Environments series
82
urban studies/environment
BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNITIES
Sustainability and Justice in the
Next American Metropolis
edited by M. Paloma Pavel
foreword by Carl Anthony
The emerging metropolitan regional-equity movement
promotes innovative policies to ensure that all
communities in a metropolitan region share resources
and opportunities equally. Too often, low-income
communities and communities of color bear a
disproportionate burden of pollution and lack access
to basic infrastructure and job opportunities. The
metropolitan regional-equity movement — sometimes
referred to as a new civil rights movement — works
for solutions to these problems that take into account
entire metropolitan regions: the inner-city core, the
suburbs, and exurban areas. This book describes
current efforts to create sustainable communities
with attention to the “triple bottom line” — economy,
environment, and equity — and argues that these three
interests are mutually reinforcing.
After placing the movement in its historical, racial,
and class context, Breakthrough Communities offers case
studies in which activists’ accounts alternate with policy
analyses. These describe efforts in Detroit, New York
City, San Francisco, Atlanta, Camden, Chicago, Los
Angeles, and other metropolitan areas to address such
problems as vacant property, brownfields, affordable
housing, accessible transportation, community food
security, and the aftermath of Katrina and September
11. The volume concludes by considering future direc-
tions for the movement, including global linkages
devoted to such issues as climate change.
M. Paloma Pavel is Founder and President of Earth House
Center in Oakland, California, which is dedicated to building
multiracial leadership. She is a psychologist and international
educator and the coauthor of Random Kindness and Senseless
Acts of Beauty.
June — 6 x 9, 456 pp. — 6 illus.
$28.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51235-0
$54.00S/£34.95 cloth
978-0-262-01268-3
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urban studies/environment
LOCALIST MOVEMENTS
IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
Sustainability, Justice, and Urban
Development in the United States
David J. Hess
The internationalization of economies and other
changes that accompany globalization have brought
about a paradoxical reemergence of the local. A signifi-
cant but largely unstudied aspect of new local-global
relationships is the growth of “localist movements,”
efforts to reclaim economic and political sovereignty for
metropolitan and other subnational regions. In Localist
Movements in a Global Economy, David Hess offers an
overview of localism in the United States and assesses
its potential to address pressing global problems of
social justice and environmental sustainability.
Since the 1990s, more than 100 local business
organizations have formed in the United States, and
there are growing efforts to build local ownership in
the retail, food, energy, transportation, and media
industries. In this first social science study of localism,
Hess adopts an interdisciplinary approach that com-
bines theoretical reflection, empirical research, and pol-
icy analysis. His perspective is not that of the uncritical
localist advocate; he draws on his new empirical
research to assess the extent to which localist policies
can address sustainability and justice issues.
After a theoretical discussion of sustainability, the
global corporate economy, and economic development,
Hess looks at four specific forms of localism: “buy
local” campaigns; urban agriculture; local ownership
of electricity and transportation; and alternative and
community media. Hess examines “global localism” —
transnational local-to-local supply chains — and other
economic policies and financial instruments that would
create an alternative economic structure. Localism is
not a panacea for globalization, he concludes, but a
crucial ingredient in projects to build more democratic,
just, and sustainable politics.
David J. Hess is Professor of Science and Technology Studies
and Director of the Program in Ecological Economics, Values,
and Policy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the
author of Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry
(MIT Press, 2007) and many other books.
May — 6 x 9, 312 pp. — 1 illus.
$25.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51232-9
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-01264-5
Urban and Industrial Environments series
PROFESSIONAL
environment/geography/sociology
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
AND SUSTAINABILITY IN
THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
edited by Julian Agyeman and
Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
The legacy of environmental catastrophe in the states
of the former Soviet Union includes desertification,
pollution, and the toxic aftermath of industrial acci-
dents, the most notorious of which was the Chernobyl
disaster of 1986. This book examines the development
of environmental activism in Russia and the former
Soviet republics in response to these problems and
its effect on policy and planning. It also shows that
because of increasing economic, ethnic, and social
inequality in the former Soviet states, debates over
environmental justice are beginning to come to the fore.
The book explores the varying environmental, social,
political, and economic circumstances of these countries
— which range from the Western-style democracies of
the Baltic states to the totalitarian regimes of Central
Asia — and how they affect ecological, environmental,
and public health.
Among the topics covered are environmentalism in
Russia (including the progressive nature of its laws on
environmental protection, which are undermined by
overburdened and underpaid law enforcement); the
effect of oil wealth on Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan; the
role of nationalism in Latvian environmentalism; the
struggle of Russia’s indigenous peoples for environ-
mental justice; public participation in Estonia’s envi-
ronmental movement; and lack of access to natural
capital in Tajikistan. Environmental Justice and
Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union makes clear
that although fragile transition economies, varying
degrees of democratization, and a focus on national
security can stymie progress toward “just sustainabil-
ity,” the diverse states of the former Soviet Union are
making some progress toward “green” and environmen-
tal justice issues separately.
Julian Agyeman is Associate Professor and Chair of the
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
at Tufts University. He is the coeditor of Just Sustainabilities
(MIT Press, 2003). Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger is Assistant
Professor of International Development, Community and
Environment at Clark University.
June — 6 x 9, 320 pp. — 18 illus.
$25.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51233-6
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-01266-9
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PROFESSIONAL
environment/agricultural science/political science
CORPORATE POWER IN GLOBAL
AGRIFOOD GOVERNANCE
edited by Jennifer Clapp and Doris Fuchs
In today’s globally integrated food system, events in one
part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging
effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid
global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations
(TNCs) have been central to the development of this
global food system, dominating production, interna-
tional trade, processing, distribution, and retail sectors.
Moreover, these global corporations play a key role in
the establishment of rules and regulations by which
they themselves are governed. This book examines how
TNCs exercise power over global food and agriculture
governance and what the consequences are for the sus-
tainability of the global food system.
The book defines three aspects of this corporate
power: instrumental power, or direct influence; struc-
tural power, or the broader influence corporations have
over setting agendas and rules; and discursive, or com-
municative and persuasive, power. The book begins by
examining the nature of corporate power in cases rang-
ing from “green” food certification in Southeast Asia
and corporate influence on U.S. food aid policy to gov-
ernance in the seed industry and international food
safety standards. Chapters examine such issues as pro-
motion of corporate-defined “environmental sustain-
ability” and “food security,” biotechnology firms and
intellectual property rights, and consumer resistance to
GMOs and other cases of contestation in agrobiology.
In a final chapter, the editors raise the crucial question
of how to achieve participation, transparency, and
accountability in food governance.
CONTRIBUTORS Maarten Arentsen, Jennifer Clapp,
Robert Falkner, Doris Fuchs, Agni Kalfagianni, Peter Newell,
Steffanie Scott, Susan Sell, Elizabeth Smythe, Peter Vandergeest,
Marc Williams, Mary Young
Jennifer Clapp is CIGI Chair in International Governance
and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University
of Waterloo. She is the coauthor of Paths to a Green World
(MIT Press, 2005). Doris Fuchs is Professor of International
Relations and Development at the University of Münster.
June — 6 x 9, 312 pp. — 5 illus.
$24.00S/£15.95 paper
978-0-262-51237-4
$48.00S/£30.95 cloth
978-0-262-01275-1
Food, Health, and the Environment series
84
environment/public policy
STRUCTURING AN ENERGY
TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION
Charles Weiss and William B. Bonvillian
America is addicted to fossil fuels, and the environ-
mental and geopolitical costs are mounting. A federal
program — on the scale of the Manhattan Project or
the Apollo Program — to stimulate innovation in
energy policy seems essential. In Structuring an Energy
Technology Revolution, Charles Weiss and William
Bonvillian make the case for just such a program. Their
proposal backs measures to stimulate private investment
in new technology, including a cap-and-trade system
or carbon tax, but augments these with a revamped
energy innovation system. It would encourage a broad
range of innovations that would give policymakers a
variety of technological options over the long imple-
mentation period and at the huge scale required.
Weiss and Bonvillian propose a new integrated
policy framework for advancing energy technology
and outline a four-step approach for encouraging
energy innovations: assessment of how new technology
will be launched, focusing on obstacles that may be
encountered in the marketplace; development of tech-
nology-neutral policies and incentives, putting new
technology pathways into practice to bridge the tradi-
tional “valley of death” between research and late-stage
development; identification of gaps in the existing
system of institutional support for energy innovation;
and the establishment of private and public interven-
tions to fill these gaps. This approach aims for a level
playing field so that technologies can compete with
one another on their merits.
Strong leadership and public support will be needed
to resist the pressure of entrenched interests against
putting new technology pathways into practice. This
book will help start the process.
Charles Weiss is Distinguished Professor of Science,
Technology, and International Affairs at Georgetown
University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. He was
Science and Technology Adviser to the World Bank from
1971 to 1986. William B. Bonvillian is Director of the
MIT Washington Office and a former senior adviser in the
U.S. Senate.
April — 5 3/8 x 8, 280 pp.
$24.00S/£15.95 cloth
978-0-262-01294-2

environment/public policy
TOWARD SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Transition and Transformations in
Environmental Policy
Second Edition
edited by Daniel A. Mazmanian and
Michael E. Kraft
This analysis of U.S. environmental policy offers a con-
ceptual framework that serves as a valuable roadmap to
the array of laws, programs, and approaches developed
over the last four decades. Combining case studies and
theoretical discussion, the book views environmental
policy in the context of three epochs: the rise of com-
mand-and-control federal regulation in the 1970s, the
period of efficiency-based reform efforts that followed,
and the more recent trend toward sustainable develop-
ment and integrated approaches at local and regional
levels. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the
new approaches and places these experiments within
the larger framework of an emerging trend toward
community sustainability.
Toward Sustainable Communities assesses environ-
mental policy successes and failures at the subnational,
regional, and state levels and offers eight case studies
of policy arenas in which transformations have been
occurring — from air and water pollution control and
state and local climate change policy to open space
preservation, urban growth, and regional ecosystem
management. It discusses the various meanings of
sustainability and whether the concept can serve as a
foundation for a new era of environmental policy. The
second edition has been substantially updated, with
five new chapters (including the chapter on climate
change) and all other chapters revised and shortened.
It is suitable as a primary or secondary text for envi-
ronmental policy courses and as a resource for scholars
and policymakers.
Daniel A. Mazmanian is Bedrosian Chair in Governance and
Director of the John Bedrosian Center on Governance and the
Public Enterprise at the University of Southern California.
Michael E. Kraft is Professor of Political Science and Herbert
Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies at the
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.
May — 6 x 9, 352 pp. — 4 illus.
$25.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51229-9
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-13492-7
American and Comparative Environmental Policy series
PROFESSIONAL
international security/public health
CONTAGION AND CHAOS
Disease, Ecology, and National Security
in the Era of Globalization
Andrew T. Price-Smith
Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have
pointed to the connections between disease and civil
society. Political scientists have investigated the rela-
tionship of public health to governance, introducing the
concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos,
Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive
examination yet of disease through the lens of national
security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier
book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that
epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power
of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its
internal politics and its relationships with other states.
He contends that the danger of an infectious pathogen
to national security depends on lethality, transmissabil-
ity, fear, and economic damage. Moreover, warfare and
ecological change contribute to the spread of disease
and act as “disease amplifiers.”
Price-Smith presents a series of case studies to illus-
trate his argument: the Spanish influenza pandemic of
1918-19 (about which he advances the controversial
claim that the epidemic contributed to the defeat of
Germany and Austria); HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan
Africa (he contrasts the worst-case scenario of
Zimbabwe with the more stable Botswana); bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (also known as mad
cow disease); and the SARS contagion of 2002-03.
Emerging infectious disease continues to present
a threat to national and international security,
Price-Smith argues, and globalization and ecological
change only accelerate the danger.
Andrew T. Price-Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Political Science and Director of the Project on Energy,
Environment, and Global Security at The Colorado College.
He is the author of The Health of Nations: Infectious Disease,
Environmental Change, and Their Effects on National Security
and Development (MIT Press, 2002) and is the editor of Plagues
and Politics: Infectious Disease and International Policy.
February — 6 x 9, 296 pp. — 12 illus.
$24.00S/£15.95 paper
978-0-262-66203-1
$48.00S/£30.95 cloth
978-0-262-16248-7
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Access Principle, Willinsky 48 Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn, Dedrick 68

Acting in an Uncertain World, Callon 59 Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism, Braddon-Mitchell
Adler, Hanne Darboven 36 68

Aesthetics of Disappearance, new edition, Virilio 42 Consciousness Revisited, Tye 67

Africa's Turn?, Miguel 29 Conservation Refugees, Dowie 9

Aghion, The Economics of Growth 76 Contagion and Chaos, Price-Smith 85

Agyeman, Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in
Soviet Union 83 Phonology, Raimy 74

Amacher, Economics of Forest Resources 80 Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance, Clapp 84

Appropriation, Evans 17 Cowhey, Transforming Global Information and Communication

Markets 60
Architecture Depends, Till 11
Cradle of Humanity, Bataille 44
At War with the Weather, Kunreuther 80
Cross, Off-Track Profs 79
At Your Service, Di Nitto 61
Crucible of Consciousness, Torey 67
Austin, Selfless Insight 33
Curran, Obelisk 8
Axilrod, Inside the Fed 30
Cytowic, Wednesday Is Indigo Blue 5
Bader, Roy Lichtenstein 18
Dan Graham, Simpson 23
Balasko, The Equilibrium Manifold 77
Dark Ages, McIntyre 46
Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival, Egan 57
Dataset Shift in Machine Learning, Quiñonero-Candela 62
Bataille, The Cradle of Humanity 44
Decety, The Social Neuroscience of Empathy 73
Beauty, Beech 16
Dedrick, Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn 68
Becoming Bucky Fuller, Lorance 15
Deffeyes, Nanoscale 6
Bedau, The Ethics of Protocells 73
Design Meets Disability, Pullin 3
Beech, Beauty 16
Di Nitto, At Your Service 61
Bengtsson, Life under Pressure, 56
Di'an, Synthetic Times 24
Beyond Red and Blue, Wenz 27
Disjunctivism, Byrne 69
Bioethics in the Age of New Media, Zylinska 65
Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, Pockett 52
Birksted, Le Corbusier and the Occult 14
Dowie, Conservation Refugees 9
Bodker, Participatory IT Design 54
Dupuy, On the Origins of Cognitive Science 71
Bogdan, Predicative Minds 70
Economic Dynamics, Stachurski 77
Braddon-Mitchell, Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism
68 Economic Prosperity Recaptured, Honkapohja 78

Brady, Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres 47 Economics of Forest Resources, Amacher 80

Breakthrough Communities, Pavel 82 Economics of Growth, Aghion 76

Breit, Lives of the Laureates, fifth edition 31 Egan, Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival 57

Byrne, Disjunctivism 69 Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres, Brady 47

Cahuc, The Natural Survival of Work 50 Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet
Union, Agyeman 83
Callon, Acting in an Uncertain World 59
Equilibrium Manifold, Balasko 77
Camps, Hailey 12
Ethics of Computer Games, Sicart 65
Can Germany Be Saved?, Sinn 49
Ethics of Protocells, Bedau 73
Chris Marker, Harbord 36
Evans, Appropriation 17
Clapp, Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance 84
Everyday Engineering, Vinck 55
Claude Glass, Maillet 43
Far-Fetched Facts, Rottenburg 59
Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System, Heintzenberg 81
Finn, Communications Under the Seas 60
Cogent Science in Context, Rehg 74
Flanagan, re:skin 55
Cognitive Biology, Tommasi 71
Flanagan, The Really Hard Problem 46
Cold War Kitchen, Oldenziel 58
Frampton, On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters 20
Communications Under the Seas, Finn 60
Fresh Pond, Sinclair 32

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Friedberg, The Virtual Window 49 Lorance, Becoming Bucky Fuller 15

Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds, Krohs 72 Losh, Virtualpolitik 26
Gans, Parentonomics 1 Loukaitou-Sideris, Sidewalks 82
Generation Digital, Montgomery 48 Maillet, The Claude Glass 43
Genetics and Life Insurance, Rothstein 53 Malone, Psychology 70
Georeferencing, Hill 54 Manning, Relationscapes 66
Goodyear, Inventing Marcel Duchamp 22 Mazmanian, Toward Sustainable Communities, second edition 85
Goutte, Learning Machine Translation 62 McIntyre, Dark Ages 46
The Grid Book, Higgins 13 Mercury Station, Von Schlegell 39
Guattari, Soft Subversions, new edition 41 Miguel, Africa's Turn? 29
Guns and Butter, Hess 78 Minteer, The Landscape of Reform 57
Hailey, Camps 12 Monstrosity of Christ, Žižek 2
Hanna, Rationality and Logic 52 Montfort, Racing the Beam 25
Hanne Darboven, Adler 36 Montgomery, Generation Digital 48
Harbord, Chris Marker 36 Museological Unconscious, Tupitsyn 21
Harrigan, Third Person 64 Nanoscale, Deffeyes 6
Heathfield, Out of Now 4 Natural Survival of Work, Cahuc 50
Heintzenberg, Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System 81 Nature of Love, Volume 1, Singer 35
Hess, Guns and Butter 78 Nature of Love, Volume 2, Singer 35
Hess, Localist Movements in a Global Economy 83 Nature of Love, Volume 3, Singer 35
Higgins, The Grid Book 13 Neurophilosophy of Free Will, Walter 51
Hijacking Sustainability, Parr 10 Nitsche, Video Game Spaces 63
Hill, Georeferencing 54 Obelisk, Curran 8
Hogeland, Inventing American History 28 Off-Track Profs, Cross 79
Honkapohja, Economic Prosperity Recaptured 78 Oldenziel, Cold War Kitchen 58
Hoy, The Time of Our Lives 69 On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters, Frampton 20
Hudson, Robert Ryman 19 On the Origins of Cognitive Science, Dupuy 71
Hunter, The Processes of Life 72 Out of Now, Heathfield 4
Identity Games, Imre 64 Parallax View, Žižek 45
Imre, Identity Games 64 Parentonomics, Gans 1
Inside the Fed, Axilrod 30 Parr, Hijacking Sustainability 10
Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, Svenonius 53 Participatory IT Design, Bødker 54
Inventing American History, Hogeland 28 Pavel, Breakthrough Communities 82
Inventing Marcel Duchamp, Goodyear 22 Philosophy of Love, Singer 35
Jackendoff, Language, Consciousness, Culture 51 Play Between Worlds, Taylor 47
Klasen, Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America 79 Pockett, Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? 52
Krohs, Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds 72 Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, Klasen 79
Kunreuther, At War with the Weather 80 Predicative Minds, Bogdan 70
Landscape of Reform, Minteer 57 Price-Smith, Contagion and Chaos 85
Language, Consciousness, Culture, Jackendoff 51 Prism of Grammar, Roeper 50
Le Corbusier and the Occult, Birksted 14 Processes of Life, Hunter 72
Learning Machine Translation, Goutte 62 Psychology, Malone 70
Lebeaux, Where Does Binding Theory Apply? 75 Pullin, Design Meets Disability 3
Life under Pressure, Bengtsson 56 Qiu, Working-Class Network Society 61
Lives of the Laureates, fifth edition, Breit 31 Quiñonero-Candela, Dataset Shift in Machine Learning 62
Localist Movements in a Global Economy, Hess 83 Racing the Beam, Montfort 25
Locality in Minimalist Syntax, Stroik 75

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Raimy, Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Tremblay, The US Brewing Industry 56
Phonology 74 Tupitsyn, The Museological Unconscious 21
Rationality and Logic, Hanna 52 Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents 7
re:skin, Flanagan 55 Tye, Consciousness Revisited 67
Really Hard Problem, Flanagan 46 US Brewing Industry, Tremblay 56
Rehg, Cogent Science in Context 74 Video Game Spaces, Nitsche 63
Relationscapes, Manning 66 Vinck, Everyday Engineering 55
Robert Ryman, Hudson 19 Virilio, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, new edition 42
Roeper, The Prism of Grammar 50 Virtual Window, Friedberg 49
Rothstein, Genetics and Life Insurance 53 Virtualpolitik, Losh 26
Rottenburg, Far-Fetched Facts 59 von Schlegell, Mercury Station 39
Roy Lichtenstein, Bader 18 Walter, Neurophilosophy of Free Will 51
Salvation Army, Taïa 38 Wednesday Is Indigo Blue, Cytowic 5
Schäfer, Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World 81 Weiss, Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution 84
Selfless Insight, Austin 33 Wenz, Beyond Red and Blue 27
Shaviro, Without Criteria 66 What We Know about Emotional Intelligence, Zeidner 34
Sicart, The Ethics of Computer Games 65 Where Does Binding Theory Apply?, Lebeaux 75
Sidewalks, Loukaitou-Sideris 82 Willinsky, The Access Principle 48
Simpson, Dan Graham 23 Without Criteria, Shaviro 66
Simulation and Its Discontents, Turkle 7 Working-Class Network Society, Qiu 61
Sinclair, Fresh Pond 32 Zeidner, What We Know about Emotional Intelligence 34
Singer, Philosophy of Love 35 Žižek, The Monstrosity of Christ 2
Singer, The Nature of Love, Volume 1 35 Žižek, The Parallax View 45
Singer, The Nature of Love, Volume 2 35 Zylinska, Bioethics in the Age of New Media 65
Singer, The Nature of Love, Volume 3 35
Sinn, Can Germany Be Saved? 49
Sloterdijk, Terror from the Air 40
Social Neuroscience of Empathy, Decety 73
Soft Subversions, new edition, Guattari 41
Stachurski, Economic Dynamics 77
Stroik, Locality in Minimalist Syntax 75
Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution, Weiss 84
Svenonius, The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
53
Synthetic Times, Di'an 24
Taïa, Salvation Army 38
Taylor, Play Between Worlds 47
Terror from the Air, Sloterdijk 40
Third Person, Harrigan 64
Till, Architecture Depends 11
Time of Our Lives, Hoy 69
Tommasi, Cognitive Biology 71
Torey, The Crucible of Consciousness 67
Toward Sustainable Communities, second edition, Mazmanian 85
Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets,
Cowhey 60
Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World, Schäfer 81

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