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CONTENTS
architecture 2-3, 24-25, 49
art 10-13, 14-20, 36, 41-42, 49-50
bioethics 56-57
biology 57-58, 84-85
biography 32, 37, 72
business 6, 8, 52
cognitive science 6-7, 61, 89
cognitive neuroscience 62, 86, 89
computational biology 84
computing, computer science 32, 53-55, 67-68
cultural studies 10, 37-40, 48
current affairs 5, 34, 44, 48
economics 33, 48, 64-65, 94-95
environment 10, 78-83
fiction 35
game studies 4, 29-31, 51, 53
history of science 57, 73, 75-77
history of technology 72
linguistics 60-61, 92-94
music 13, 71
neuroscience 63, 87-88
new media 13, 50, 51, 71
philosophy, philosophy of mind 43, 45-47, 59-60, 89, 90-91
photography 2-3, 21-22
politics, political theory 38-39, 43, 48
political science 73, 77-82
popular culture 4, 29-31, 51
psychoanalysis 22-23
robotics 69
science 1, 9, 78
science, technology, and society 74-75
security studies 5, 77
technology 28, 52, 70, 73
technology and society 52
urban studies, urban planning 27, 79

Afterall Books 41-42

Semiotext(e) 35-40
Zone Books 43-46
 science/nature

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PLANTS

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
introduction and photography by Gordon L. Miller
Goethe’s influential text,
The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe’s first major attempt newly illustrated with stunning
to describe what he called in a letter to a friend “the truth about the how of color photographs.
the organism.” Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy,
Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf September
the germ of a plant’s metamorphosis — “the true Proteus who can hide or reveal 6 x 8, 136 pp.
himself in all vegetal forms” — from the root and stem leaves to the calyx and 60 color photographs, 3 color illus.,
21 black & white illus.
corolla, to pistil and stamens. With this short book — 123 numbered paragraphs,
$21.95T/£16.95 cloth
in the manner of the great botanist Linnaeus — Goethe aimed to tell the story
978-0-262-01309-3
of botanical forms in process, to present, in effect, a motion picture of the
metamorphosis of plants.
This edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants illustrates Goethe’s text (in an Also available
English translation by Douglas Miller) with a series of stunning and starkly THE THEORY OF COLOURS
beautiful color photographs as well as numerous line drawings. It is the most Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1970, 978-0-262-57021-3
completely and colorfully illustrated edition of Goethe’s book ever published. $31.00T/£22.95 paper
It demonstrates vividly Goethe’s ideas of transformation and
interdependence, as well as the systematic use of imagination in
scientific research — which influenced thinkers ranging from
Darwin to Thoreau and has much to teach us today about our
relationship with nature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a towering figure in
German literature, was the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther,
Faust, Italian Journey, The Theory of Colours (MIT Press edition, 1970),
and many other works. Gordon L. Miller teaches in the History
Department and is Director of the interdisciplinary Environmental
Studies Program at Seattle University.

Poppy

Photography by Gordon L. Miller.

From The Metamorphosis of Plants.

Coltsfoot 1
photography/architecture/psychiatry
Powerful photographs of the
grand exteriors and crumbling
interiors of America’s abandoned
state mental hospitals.
September
11 3/4 x 10 1/4, 216 pp.
111 color photographs
69 multi-tone black & white
photographs
61 black & white images
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01349-9
2 State Hospital Bolivar, Georgia
ASYLUM
Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
Photographs by Christopher Payne
with an essay by Oliver Sacks
For more than half the nation’s history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent
feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early
twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United
States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for
these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story
Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions
and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others
believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a
regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would
heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twen-
tieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic
drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care,
patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many
of these beautiful, massive buildings — and the patients
who lived in them — neglected and abandoned.
Architect and photographer Christopher Payne
spent six years documenting the decay of state mental
hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in
thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial
exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects
as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crum-
bling interiors — chairs stacked against walls with
peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored
toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of
suitcases, never packed for the trip home.
Accompanying Payne’s striking and powerful photographs is an essay by
Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental
hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne’s photographs and
to the lives once lived in these
places, “where one could be
both mad and safe.”
Christopher Payne is a photographer
and practicing architect in New York
City and the author of New York’s
Forgotten Substations: The Power
Behind the Subway. Oliver Sacks,
a neurologist, is the author of
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for
a Hat, Awakenings, Musicophilia,
and other books.
Patient suitcases in ward attic, Bolivar
 Danvers State Hospital, Massachusetts.

“Payne is a visual poet as well as an architect

by training, and he has spent years finding
and photographing these buildings — often
the pride of their local communities and a
powerful symbol of humane caring for those
less fortunate. His photographs are beautiful
images in their own right, and they also pay
tribute to a sort of public architecture that
no longer exists. They focus both on the
monumental and the mundane, the grand
facades and the peeling paint.”
— Oliver Sacks, Asylum

Ward, Kankakee State Hospital, Kankakee, Illinois

Terrell State Hospital, Terrell, Texas

Photographs by Christopher Payne. From Asylum.

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popular culture/game studies
How casual games like Guitar Hero,
Bejeweled, and those for Nintendo
Wii are expanding the audience
for video games.
November
6 x 9, 256 pp.
109 illus.
$24.95T/£18.95 cloth
978-0-262-01337-6
Also available
HALF-REAL
Video Games between Real Rules
and Fictional Worlds
Jesper Juul
2005, 978-0-262-10110-3
$36.00S/£26.95 cloth
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A CASUAL REVOLUTION
Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
Jesper Juul
The phenomenal popularity of the Nintendo Wii, Guitar Hero, and smaller
games like Bejeweled or Zuma, has turned the stereotype of the obsessed young
male gamer on its head. Players of these casual games are not required to possess
an intimate knowledge of video game history or to devote hours or days to play.
At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill
that is anything but casual. In A Casual Revolution, Jesper Juul describes this
as a reinvention of video games, and of our image of video game players, and
explores what this tells us about the players, the games, and their interaction.
With this reinvention of video games, the game industry reconnects with a
general audience. Many of today’s casual game players once enjoyed Pac-Man,
Tetris, and other early games, only to drop out when video games became more
specialized. For a long time, video games asked players to structure their lives
to fit the demands of a game; with casual games, it is the game that is designed
to fit into the lives of players. These flexible games make it possible for everyone
to be a video game player.
Juul shows that it is only by understanding what a game requires of players,
what players bring to a game, how the game industry works, and how video
games have developed historically that we can understand what makes video
games fun and why we choose to play (or not to play) them.
Jesper Juul is a video game lecturer and researcher at the
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab at MIT. He is the author
of Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional
Worlds (2005), published by the MIT Press.
 current affairs/security studies

RADICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND VIOLENT

The New Economics of Terrorism
Eli Berman
Applying fresh tools from economics
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? to explain puzzling behaviors of
Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious religious radicals: Muslim, Christian,
groups dedicated to piety and charity. Yet once they turned to violence, they and Jewish; violent and benign.

became horribly potent, executing campaigns of terrorism deadlier than those

of their secular rivals. October
In Radical, Religious, and Violent, Eli Berman approaches the question using 6 x 9, 280 pp.
38 illus.
the economics of organizations. He first dispels some myths: radical religious
$24.95T/£18.95 cloth
terrorists are not generally motivated by the promise of rewards in the afterlife 978-0-262-02640-6
(including the infamous seventy-two virgins) or even by religious ideas in gen-
eral. He argues that these terrorists (even suicide terrorists) are best understood
as rational altruists seeking to help their own communities.
Yet despite the vast pool of potential recruits — young altruists
who feel their communities are repressed or endangered —
there are less than a dozen highly lethal terrorist organizations
in the world capable of sustained and coordinated violence
that threatens governments and makes hundreds of millions
of civilians hesitate before boarding an airplane. What’s special
about these organizations, and why are most of their followers
religious radicals?
Drawing on parallel research on radical religious Jews,
Christians, and Muslims, Berman shows that the most lethal
terrorist groups have a common characteristic: their leaders
have found a way to control defection. Hezbollah, Hamas,
and the Taliban, for example, built loyalty and cohesion by
means of mutual aid, weeding out “free riders” and producing
a cadre of members they could rely on. The secret of their
deadly effectiveness lies in their resilience and cohesion
when incentives to defect are strong.
These insights suggest that provision of basic social services
by competent governments adds a critical, nonviolent compo-
nent to counterterrorism strategies. It undermines the violent
potential of radical religious organizations without disturbing
free religious practice, being drawn into theological debates
with Jihadists, or endangering civilians.
Eli Berman is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and
Research Director of International Security Studies at the University of California Institute
on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

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business/cognitive science
An expert explains how the
conventional wisdom about
decision making can get us into
trouble—and why experience can’t
be replaced by rules, procedures,
or analytical methods.
October
6 x 9, 336 pp.
30 illus.
$27.95T/£20.95 cloth
978-0-262-01339-0
A Bradford Book
Also available
SOURCES OF POWER
How People Make Decisions
Gary Klein
1999, 978-0-262-61146-6
$28.00T/£20.95 paper
WORKING MINDS
A Practitioner’s Guide to Cognitive
Task Analysis
Beth Crandall, Gary Klein, and
Robert R. Hoffman
2006, 978-0-262-53281-5
$26.95T/£19.95 paper
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STREETLIGHTS AND SHADOWS
Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
Gary Klein
In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try
to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we
rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important
decisions, we should follow certain guidelines — gather as much information
as possible, compare the options, pin down the goals before getting started.
But in practice we make some of our best decisions by adapting to circumstances
rather than blindly following procedures. In Streetlights and Shadows, Gary Klein
debunks the conventional wisdom about how to make decisions. He takes ten
commonly accepted claims about decision making and shows that they are
better suited for the laboratory than for life. The standard advice works well
when everything is clear, but the tough decisions involve shadowy conditions of
complexity and ambiguity. Gathering masses of information, for example, works
if the information is accurate and complete — but that doesn’t often happen in
the real world. (Think about the careful risk calculations that led to the downfall
of the Wall Street investment houses.)
Klein offers more realistic ideas about how to make decisions in real-life
settings. He provides many examples — ranging from airline pilots and weather
forecasters to sports announcers and Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s
Master and Commander novels — to make his point. All these decision makers
saw things that others didn’t. They used their expertise to pick up cues and to
discern patterns and trends. We can make better decisions, Klein tells us, if
we are prepared for complexity and ambiguity and if we will stop expecting
the data to tell us everything.
Gary Klein is a Senior Scientist at Applied
Research Associates. He is the author
of Sources of Power: How People Make
Decisions (1999) and the coauthor of
Working Minds: A Practitioner’s Guide to
Cognitive Task Analysis (2007), both
published by the MIT Press.
 cognitive science/artificial intelligence

CHESS METAPHORS
Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind
Diego Rasskin-Gutman
How the moves of thirty-two
translated by Deborah Klosky
chess pieces over sixty-four
When we play the ancient and noble game of chess, we grapple with ideas about squares can help us understand
honesty, deceitfulness, bravery, fear, aggression, beauty, and creativity, which echo the workings of the mind.

(or allow us to depart from) the attitudes we take in our daily lives. Chess is an
activity in which we deploy almost all our available cognitive resources; therefore, September
it makes an ideal laboratory for investigation into the workings of the mind. 6 x 9, 232 pp.
58 illus.
Indeed, research into artificial intelligence (AI) has used chess as a model for
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intelligent behavior since the 1950s. In Chess Metaphors, Diego Rasskin-Gutman
978-0-262-18267-6
explores fundamental questions about memory, thought, emotion, consciousness,
and other cognitive processes through the game of chess, using the moves of
thirty-two pieces over sixty-four squares to map the structural and functional Also available
organization of the brain. MODULARITY
Rasskin-Gutman focuses on the cognitive task of problem solving, exploring edited by Werner Callebaut and
Diego Rasskin-Gutman
it from the perspectives of both biology and AI. He examines concept after 2009, 978-0-262-51326-5
concept, move after move, delving into the varied mental mechanisms and the $29.00S/£21.95 paper
cognitive processes underlying the actions of playing chess. Bringing the game
of chess into a larger framework, he analyzes its collateral influences that spread
along the frontiers of games, art, and science. Finally, he investigates AI’s effort
to program a computer that could beat a flesh-and-blood grandmaster (and win
a world chess championship) and how the results fall short when compared to
the truly creative nature of the human mind.
Diego Rasskin-Gutman is Ramón y Cajal Research Associate and Head of
the Theoretical Biology Research Group at the Institute Cavanilles for
Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain. He
is the coeditor (with Werner Callebaut) of Modularity: Understanding
the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems (MIT Press,
2009).

“This book, in an accessible but profound way, approaches difficult

but essential questions about the function of two types of intelligence
destined to coexist as parent and child: human intelligence and
artificial intelligence.”
— Miguel Illescas Córdoba, International Chess Grand
Master, Director, Chess Education and Technology, Spain
“Diego Rasskin-Gutman has gracefully surveyed modern ideas about
artificial intelligence in a context of brain structure and function and
of contemporary views about cognitive science. This wide-ranging
book is unified by considering the game of chess, a rich source of
metaphors relating to human problem solving, and the domain of
the greatest victory for artificial intelligence.”
— Charles F. Stevens, Professor, The Salk Institute

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business/innovation
Two experts on the information
economy explore the true
economic value of technology
and innovation.
September
5 3/8 x 8, 128 pp.
$18.95T/£14.95 cloth
978-0-262-01366-6
Also available
UNDERSTANDING THE
DIGITAL ECONOMY
Data, Tools, and Research
edited by Erik Brynjolfsson and
Brian Kahin
2002, 978-0-262-52330-1
$30.00S/£22.95 paper
“If e-business had an oracle,
Erik Brynjolfsson would
be anointed.”
— Business Week
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WIRED FOR INNOVATION
How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy
Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders
Starting in 1995, productivity growth took off in the U.S. economy. In Wired for
Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information
technology directly or indirectly created the lion’s share of this productivity surge,
reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the turnaround in productivity
reflects the delayed effects of the massive investments in business processes
accompanying the large technology investments since the late 1990s. Companies
with the highest level of returns to their technology investment did more than
just buy technology: they invested in organizational capital to become digital
organizations.
Brynjolfsson and Saunders examine the real sources of value in the emerging
information economy, including intangible inputs and outputs that have defied
traditional metrics. For instance, intangible organizational capital is not directly
observable on a balance sheet but amounts to trillions of dollars of value.
Similarly, such nonmarket transactions of information goods as Google searches
are an increasingly large share of the economy yet virtually invisible in the
GDP statistics.
The authors, drawing on work done at MIT’s Sloan School of Management,
suggest alternatives that would better measure the value of technology in the
economy. They describe new methods that don’t treat technology as just
another type of ordinary capital investment but also measure complementary
investments — including training and consulting — and the value of product
quality, timeliness, variety, convenience, and new products.
Innovation continues through boom and bust; this
book provides a crucial guide for policymakers and
economists who need to understand how information
technology is transforming the economy and where
it will create value in the coming decade.
Erik Brynjolfsson is Schussel Family Professor at MIT’s Sloan
School of Management, and Director of the MIT Center for
Digital Business. He is the coeditor of Understanding the
Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research (MIT Press, 2002).
Adam Saunders is a PhD candidate in the Information
Technologies Group at the Sloan School.
 science/aviation

THE SIMPLE SCIENCE OF FLIGHT

From Insects to Jumbo Jets
revised and expanded edition
Henk Tennekes An investigation into how
machines and living creatures
From the smallest gnat to the largest aircraft, all things that fly obey the same fly, and of the similarities between
aerodynamic principles. In The Simple Science of Flight, Henk Tennekes investi- butterflies and Boeings, paper
airplanes and plovers.
gates just how machines and creatures fly: what size wings they need, how much
energy is required for their journeys, how they cross deserts and oceans, how
they take off, climb, and soar. Fascinated by the similarities between nature and October
7 x 9, 176 pp.
technology, Tennekes offers an introduction to flight that teaches by association. 87 illus.
Swans and Boeings differ in numerous ways, but they follow the same aerodynamic
$21.95T/£16.95 paper
principles. Biological evolution and its technical counterpart exhibit exciting 978-0-262-51313-5
parallels. What makes some airplanes successful and others misfits? Why does
the Boeing 747 endure but the Concorde now seem a fluke? Tennekes explains
the science of flight through comparisons, examples, equations, and anecdotes. Also available
The new edition of this popular book has been thoroughly revised and much A FIRST COURSE IN TURBULENCE
Henk Tennekes and J. L. Lumley
expanded. Highlights of the new material include a description of the incredible 1972, 978-0-262-20019-6
performance of bar-tailed godwits (7,000 miles nonstop from Alaska to New $62.00X/£45.95 cloth
Zealand), an analysis of the convergence of modern jetliners (from both Boeing
and Airbus), a discussion of the metabolization of
energy featuring Lance Armstrong, a novel treatment
of the aerodynamics of drag and trailing vortices, and
an emphasis throughout on evolution, in nature and
in engineering. Tennekes draws on new evidence on
bird migration, new wind-tunnel studies, and data
on new airliners. And his analysis of the relative
efficiency of planes, trains, and automobiles is newly
relevant. (On a cost-per-seat scale, a 747 is more
efficient than a passenger car.)
Henk Tennekes is Director of Research Emeritus at the Royal
Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Emeritus Professor of
Meteorology at Free University, Amsterdam, and Emeritus
Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State
University. He is the coauthor of A First Course in Turbulence
(MIT Press, 1972).

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environment/cultural studies/art

Writers and artists offer new
perspectives on water, with
writings and projects that touch
on subjects ranging from new
water infrastructures to the
bliss of bathing.
October
4 3/4 x 6 1/4, 320 pp.
200 color illus.
$15.95T/£11.95 cloth
978-0-262-01329-1
Alphabet City 14
Also available in this series
FUEL
edited by John Knechtel
2008, 978-0-262-11325-0
$15.95T/£11.95 cloth
Alphabet City 13
WATER
edited by John Knechtel
Water is the chemical matrix required for life, the molecular chain that connects
all organisms on the planet. But in the twenty-first century, water may replace oil
as the most prized of resources. Just as gas-guzzling SUVs use more than their
share of fuel, water-guzzling regions threaten the water supply for the rest of the
world. In Water, writers, scientists, architects, and artists consider the many
aspects of water, at levels from the microscopic to the global, touching on sub-
jects that range from new water infrastructures to ancient bathing rituals.
Water includes a chemist’s accounting of the true cost of water; photographs
taken inside a city’s secret waterways; an urban planner’s description of how
Toronto, New York, Hamburg, and Seoul have redesigned and rethought their
waterfront areas; a conceptual artist’s series of water bottles “branded” with
various modern credos; photographs of a water-damaged ledger from the 1905
Yukon gold rush; two architects’ rethinking of how to collect, divert, and trans-
port water from water-rich to water-poor regions; a philosopher’s invocation
of the spiritual lessons of water; and photographs of a disturbingly beautiful
flooded landscape.
John Knechtel is Director of
Alphabet City Media in Toronto.

FOOD
edited by John Knechtel
2007, 978-0-262-11309-0
$15.95T/£11.95 cloth
Alphabet City 12
TRASH
edited by John Knechtel
2006, 978-0-262-11301-4
$15.95T/£11.95 cloth
Alphabet City 11
SUSPECT
edited by John Knechtel
2005, 978-0-262-11290-1
$15.95T/£11.95 cloth
Alphabet City 10
SUBTITLES
edited by Atom Egoyan and
Ian Balfour
2004, 978-0-262-05078-4
$35.00T/£25.95 cloth
Alphabet City 9
Each volume of Alphabet City’s
pocketbook anthology series
gathers the work of a diverse
group of writers and artists to
investigate a single topic from
many angles.

Isaac Applebaum,
The Flood of ’97.

10 Carolyn Turner, Water Scores.

 art/education

ART SCHOOL
(Propositions for the 21st Century)
edited and with an introduction by Steven Henry Madoff
Leading international artists
The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the and art educators consider the
German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world — its challenges of art education
increasing professionalization, the pervasive power of the art market, and funda- in today’s dramatically
changed art world.
mental shifts in art-making itself in our post-Duchampian era — combined with
a revolution in information technology, raise fundamental questions about the
education of today’s artists. Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) brings October
6 x 9, 384 pp.
together more than thirty leading international artists and art educators to 29 illus.
reconsider the practices of art education in academic, practical, ethical, and
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
philosophical terms. 978-0-262-13493-4
The essays in the book range over continents, histories, traditions, experiments,
and fantasies of education. Accompanying the essays are conversations with
such prominent artist/educators as John Baldessari, Michael Craig-Martin,
Hans Haacke, and Marina Abramović, as well as questionnaire responses
from a dozen important artists — among them Mike Kelley,
Ann Hamilton, Guillermo Kuitca, and Shirin Neshat — about
their own experiences as students. A fascinating analysis of
the architecture of major historical art schools throughout the
world looks at the relationship of the principles of their designs
to the principles of the pedagogy practiced within their halls.
And throughout the volume, attention is paid to new initiatives
and proposals about what an art school can and should be in
the twenty-first century — and what it shouldn’t be. No other
book on the subject covers more of the questions concerning
art education today or offers more insight into the pressures,
challenges, risks, and opportunities for artists and art educators
in the years ahead.
Steven Henry Madoff, an award-winning writer, editor, and poet, has
written extensively on contemporary art for such publications as
Artforum, the New York Times, and Time magazine, and published
numerous monographs on leading artists. He is Senior Critic at Yale
University’s School of Art.

CONTRIBUTORS
Marina Abramović, Dennis Adams, John Baldessari, Ute Meta Bauer, Daniel Birnbaum, Saskia Bos,
Tania Bruguera, Luis Camnitzer, Michael Craig-Martin, Thierry de Duve, Clémentine Deliss, Charles Esche,
Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Hans Haacke, Ann Lauterbach, Ken Lum, Steven Henry Madoff, Brendan D. Moran,
Ernesto Pujol, Raqs Media Collective, Charles Renfro, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Michael Shanks, Robert Storr,
Anton Vidokle

QUESTIONNAIRES
Thomas Bayrle, Paul Chan, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Piero Golia, Ann Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Mike Kelley,
Guillermo Kuitca, Shirin Neshat, Paul Ramírez-Jonas, Dana Schutz, Brian Sholis, Fred Wilson

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art/education

TIM ROLLINS AND K.O.S.

A critical history and comprehensive
catalog of the celebrated and
controversial works created by
activist and artist Tim Rollins
and Kids of Survival.
November
12 x 9, 220 pp.
120 color illus.
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01355-0
Distributed for the Tang Teaching
Museum at Skidmore College
ESSAYS BY
Julie Ault
Susan Cahan
David Deitcher
Eleanor Heartney
Larry Rinder
James Romaine
Interview with the
artist by Ian Berry
EXHIBITION
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History
The Frances Young Tang Teaching
Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs
February 28–August 30, 2009
The Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
September 10–December 6, 2009
The Frye Art Museum, Seattle
January–April 2010
A History
edited by Ian Berry
In August 1981, artist and activist Tim Rollins was recruited by the principal of
Intermediate School 52 in the South Bronx to develop a curriculum that com-
bined art-making with lessons in reading and writing for students classified as “at
risk.” On the first day of school, Rollins told his students, “Today we are going to
make art, but we are also going to make history.” This book unfolds that history,
offering the first comprehensive catalog of work created collaboratively by Rollins
and several generations of students, now known as the “Kids of Survival”.
Rollins and his students developed a way of working that combined art-mak-
ing with reading literature and writing personal narratives: Rollins or a student
would read aloud from classic literary texts by such authors as Shakespeare and
Orwell while the rest of the class drew or wrote on the pages being read, con-
necting the stories to their own experiences.
Often, Rollins and his students (who later
named themselves “Kids of Survival” or
K.O.S.) cut out book pages and laid them on a
grid on canvas before undertaking their
graphic interventions. This process developed
into the group’s signature style, which they
applied to literary texts, musical scores, and
other printed matter. This book and the
accompanying major museum retrospective
document the history of the groundbreaking
practice of Tim Rollins and K.O.S., with full color images of paintings, draw-
ings, sculptures, and prints. These include a caricature of Jesse Helms with an
animal body drawn on the pages of Animal Farm; graffiti-like images painted in
acrylic on the pages of Frankenstein; a gleaming pattern of fantastical golden
horns on Kafka’s Amerika; and a series of red letter A’s on The Scarlet Letter.
Ian Berry is Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator at the Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

Top: Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Frankenstein (after Mary Shelley), 1981-84.
Acrylic on book pages mounted on linen, 9 x 12 feet.
Bottom: Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Amerika I (after Franz Kafka), 1984-1985.
Oil stick, acrylic, china marker on paper, 71 x 177 inches.
From Tim Rollins and K.O.S.

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 new media/music/art

CRACKED MEDIA
The Sound of Malfunction
Caleb Kelly
How the deliberate cracking and
From the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first, artists and musicians breaking of playback media has
manipulated, cracked, and broke audio media technologies to produce novel produced experimental music and
sounds and performances. Artists and musicians, including John Cage, Nam June sound by artists and musicians
ranging from Nam June Paik
Paik, Yasunao Tone, and Oval, pulled apart both playback devices (phonographs and Christian Marclay to
and compact disc players) and the recorded media (vinyl records and compact Yasunao Tone and Oval.
discs) to create an extended sound palette. In Cracked Media, Caleb Kelly
explores how the deliberate utilization of the normally undesirable (a crack, a September
break) has become the site of productive creation. Cracked media, Kelly writes, 6 3/4 x 6 3/4, 392 pp.
slides across disciplines, through music, sound, and noise. Cracked media 20 illus.
encompasses everything from Cage’s silences and indeterminacies, to Paik’s often $24.95T/£18.95 cloth
humorous tape works, to the cold and clean sounds of digital glitch in the work 978-0-262-01314-7
of Tone and Oval. Kelly offers a detailed historical account of these practices,
arguing that they can be read as precursors to contemporary new media.
Kelly looks at the nature of recording technology and the music industry in
relation to the crack and the break, and discusses the various manifestations of
noise, concluding that neither theories of recording nor theories of noise offer
an adequate framework for understanding cracked media. Connecting the
historical avant-garde to modern-day turntablism, and predigital destructive
techniques to the digital ticks, pops, and clicks of the glitch,
Kelly proposes new media theorizations of cracked media that
focus on materiality and the everyday.
Caleb Kelly is a lecturer at the Sydney College of Art, the University of
Sydney, Australia.

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art/museum studies

An anthology of writings and
projects by artists who developed
and extended the genre of
institutional critique.
October
7 x 9, 440 pp.
60 illus.
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01316-1
ARTISTS REPRESENTED
INCLUDE
Wieslaw Borowski, Daniel Buren,
Marcel Broodthaers,
Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel,
Hans Haacke, Robert Smithson,
John Knight, Graciela Carnevale,
Osvaldo Mateo Boglione,
Guerilla Art Action Group,
Art Workers’ Coalition,
Mierle Laderman Ukeles,
Michael Asher, Mel Ramsden,
Adrian Piper, The Guerrilla Girls,
Laibach, Silvia Kolbowski,
Andrea Fraser, Fred Wilson,
Mark Dion, Maria Eichhorn,
Critical Art Ensemble,
Bureau d’Études, WochenKlausur,
The Yes Men, Hito Steyerl,
Andreas Siekmann
INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
An Anthology of Artists’ Writings
edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson
“Institutional critique” is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own
housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art
itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new
urgency at the end of the 1960s, when — driven by the social upheaval of the
time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art — institutional
critique emerged as a genre. This anthology traces the development of institu-
tional critique as an artistic concern from the 1960s to the present by gathering
writings and representative art projects of artists from across Europe and
throughout the Americas who developed and extended the genre. The texts
and artworks included are notable for the range of perspectives and positions
they reflect and for their influence in pushing the boundaries of what is meant
by institutional critique.
Like Alberro and Stimson’s Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, this volume
will shed new light on its subject through its critical and historical framing.
Even readers already familiar with institutional critique will come away from
this book with a greater and often redirected understanding of its significance.
Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright ’51 Associate Professor of Art History at
Barnard College. He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2004).
Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. He is
the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (2006). Alberro and
Stimson are coeditors of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (2000), all published by
the MIT Press.

Also available
CONCEPTUAL ART
A Critical Anthology
edited by Alexander Alberro and
Blake Stimson
2000, 978-0-262-51117-9
$38.00T/£28.95 paper
CONCEPTUAL ART AND THE POLITICS
OF PUBLICITY
Alexander Alberro
2004, 978-0-262-51184-1
$23.95T/£17.95 paper
THE PIVOT OF THE WORLD
Photography and Its Nation
Blake Stimson
2006, 978-0-262-69333-2
$21.95T/£16.95 paper

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MEANING LIAM GILLICK

edited by Monika Szewczyk
with Stefan Kalmár, Dominic Molon, Beatrix Ruf, and
Nicolaus Schafhausen The first critical reader on
one of today’s most pivotal (and
Liam Gillick emerged as part of the generation of “Young British Artists” who perplexing) contemporary artists.
energized the British art scene in the 1980s and 1990s. He is now one of the
most influential (and perplexing) artists in all of contemporary art. Gillick’s
discursive mode of art practice — often associated with “relational aesthetics” —
complicates object production, embraces the exhibition as medium, and explores
September
the social role and function of art. His body of work includes variations on 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 250 pp.
“discussion platforms” (architectural structures that question or facilitate social 40 illus.
interaction), text sculptures, and published texts that reflect on the increasing $24.95T/£18.95 paper
gap between utopian idealism and the real world. Artist, writer, curator, and 978-0-262-51351-7
provocateur, Gillick explores how an artistic practice can be conducted and Distributed for Witte de With Center
represented, while at the same time questioning curatorial practice and the for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam),
conventions of applied design. Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein
München, and Museum of
This reader coincides with a year-long, multi-venue, mid-career retrospective Contemporary Art, Chicago.
that serves both as a continuous investigation into Gillick’s practice and an in-
depth study of his work to date. The book offers a range of critical perspectives
CONTRIBUTORS
on Gillick’s work. Among them: political scientist Chantall Mouffe develops Peio Aguirre, Johanna Burton,
her notion of radical democracy and antagonism; sociologist Maurizio Lazzarato Nikolaus Hirsch, John Kelsey,
(whose theorization of immaterial labor influenced Gillick) comments on the Maurizio Lazzarato, Maria Lind,
Sven Lütticken, Benoît Maire,
current economic crisis; philosopher and artist Benoît Maire links Gillick to Chantall Mouffe, Barbara Steiner,
continental philosophy; and Johanna Burton questions Gillick’s practice in the Marcus Verhagen
context of feminist critique.
Monika Szewczyk is a writer, editor, and curator based in Berlin and Rotterdam. She is EXHIBITION
Head of Publications at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and a Liam Gillick: Three Perspectives
contributing editor of A Prior magazine. and a Short Scenario
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
October 10, 2009-Janauary 10, 2010

Installation views/Scenario performance views of Liam Gillick,

Mirrored Image: A „Volvo“ bar, 2008, Kunstverein München
(as part of the four-part survey exhibition “Liam Gillick: Three
Perspectives and a Short Scenario, Work 1988–2008” also held
at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Zürich,
and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2008-2009) Courtesy
af the artist and Kunstverein München. Photos by Wilfried Petzi.

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art

SITUATION
edited by Claire Doherty
Key texts on the notion
Situation — a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and
of “situation” in art and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations — has become a
theory that consider site, key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s
place, and context, temporary and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current
interventions, remedial actions,
place-making, and public space. context of globalization. This anthology offers key writings on areas of art
practice and theory related to situation, including notions of the site specific,
the artist as ethnographer or fieldworker, the relation between action and public
October
6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp. space, the meaning of place and locality, and the crucial role of the curator in
recent situation specific art.
$24.95T paper
978-0-262-51305-0 In North America and Europe, the site-specific is often viewed in terms of
resistance to art’s commoditization, while elsewhere situation-specific practices
Documents of Contemporary Art series
have defied institutions of authority. The contributors discuss these recent
Copublished with Whitechapel
tendencies in the context of proliferating international biennial exhibitions,
Gallery, London
curatorial place-bound projects, and strategies by which artists increasingly
Not for sale in the
United Kingdom or Europe
unsettle the definition and legiti-
mation of situation-based art.
Clare Doherty is Senior Research Fellow
Also available in this series in Fine Art at the University of West
BEAUTY England, Bristol, where she established
edited by Dave Beech Situations (www.situations.org.uk), a
2009, 978-0-262-51238-1 research and international commission-
$24.95T paper ing program. She is Visiting Lecturer
in Curating at the Royal College of
APPROPRIATION Art, London, and and Curatorial Director
edited by David Evans of the One Day Sculpture series,
2009, 978-0-262-55070-3 New Zealand. She is the editor of
$24.95T paper Contemporary Art: From Studio
to Situation.
COLOUR
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

ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE

Vito Acconci, Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Artist Placement Group, Michael Asher, Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann,
Bik Van der Pol, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Janet Cardiff, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Adam Chodzko, Collective Actions,
Tacita Dean, Elmgreen & Dragset, Andrea Fraser, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Liam Gillick, Renée Green, Group Material, Douglas Huebler,
Bethan Huws, Pierre Huyghe, Robert Irwin, Emily Jacir, Ilya Kabakov, Leopold Kessler, Július Koller, Langlands & Bell, Ligna, Richard Long,
Gordon Matta-Clark, Graeme Miller, Jonathan Monk, Robert Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Walid Ra’ad, Raqs Media Collective, Paul Rooney,
Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Richard Serra, Situationist International, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Vivan Sundaram,
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Qiu Zhijie

WRITERS INCLUDE
Arjun Appaduri, Marc Augé, Wim Beeren, Josephine Berry Slater, Daniel Birnbaum, Ava Bromberg, Susan Buck-Morss, Michel de Certeau,
Douglas Crimp, Gilles Deleuze, T. J. Demos, Rosalyn Deutsche, Thierry de Duve, Charles Esche, Graeme Evans, Patricia Falguières,
Marina Fokidis, Hal Foster, Hou Hanrou, Brian Holmes, Mary Jane Jacob, Vasif Kortun, Miwon Kwon, Lu Jie, Doreen Massey,
James Meyer, Ivo Mesquita, Brian O’Doherty, Craig Owens, Irit Rogoff, Peter Weibel

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UTOPIAS
edited by Richard Noble
Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contra- Utopian strategies in contemporary
dictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgement that art seen in the context of the
its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted histories of utopian thinking
by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the and avant-garde art.

failed and build the new. Contemporary art reflects this general ambivalence.
The utopian impulse informs politically activist and relational art, practices that October
fuse elements of art, design, and architecture, and collaborative projects aspiring 6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp.

to progressive social or political change. Two other tendencies have emerged in $24.95T
978-0-262-64069-5
recent art: a looking backward to investigate the utopian elements of previous
eras, and the imaginative modeling of alternative worlds as intimations of possi- Documents of Contemporary Art series
bility. This anthology contextualizes these utopian currents in relation to political Copublished with
thought, viewing the utopian as a key term in the artistic lineage of modernity. Whitechapel Gallery, London
It illuminates how the exploration of utopian themes in art today contributes to Not for sale in the
our understanding of contemporary cultures, and the possibilities for shaping United Kingdom or Europe
their futures.
Richard Noble is a scholar of Also available in this series
contemporary art, critical theory, THE GOTHIC
and the interrelation of art and
edited by Gilda Williams
politics. He is a Lecturer in Fine Arts
2007, 978-0-262-73186-7
at Goldsmiths College, London.
$24.95T paper
THE CINEMATIC
edited by David Campany
2007, 978-0-262-53288-4
$24.95T paper
DESIGN AND ART
edited by Alex Coles
2007, 978-0-262-53289-1
$24.95T paper
PARTICIPATION
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

Joseph Beuys, Paul Chan, Guy Debord, Jeremy Deller, Liam Gillick, Antony Gormley,
Dan Graham, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Bodys Isek Kingelez,
Paul McCarthy, Constant A. Nieuwenheuys, Paul Noble, Nils Norman, Philippe Parreno,
Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Superflex, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Mark Titchner, Atelier van Lieshout,
Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol, Wochenklauser, Carey Young

WRITERS INCLUDE
Theodor Adorno, Jennifer Allen, Catherine Bernard, Ernst Bloch, Yve-Alain Bois,
Nicolas Bourriaud, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Alex Farquharson, Hal Foster, Michel Foucault,
Alison Green, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Hari Kunzru, Donald Kuspit, Dermis P. Leon,
Karl Marx, Jeremy Millar, Thomas More, William Morris, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist,
George Orwell, Jacques Rancière, Stephanie Rosenthal, Beatrix Ruf

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The first collection of essays
on Gerhard Richter, who has
been called “the greatest
modern painter.”
November
6 x 9, 200 pp.
44 illus.
$17.95T/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51312-8
$36.00S/£26.95 cloth
978-0-262-01351-2
October Files
Also available in this series
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
edited by Graham Bader
2009, 978-0-262-51231-2
$17.95T/£13.95 paper
CINDY SHERMAN
edited by Johanna Burton
2006, 978-0-262-52463-6
$16.95T/£12.95 paper
GERHARD RICHTER
edited by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
The contemporary painter Gerhard Richter (born in 1932) has been heralded
both as modernity’s last painter and as painting’s modern savior, seen to represent
both the end of painting and its resurrection. Richter works in a dizzying variety
of styles, from abstraction to a German cool pop that combines painterly technique
and appropriation; his work includes photo paintings, large abstract canvases,
and stained glass windows. This collection features writing by prominent critics,
including Hal Foster, Gertrud Koch, and Thomas Crow; an essay by Rachel
Haidu on Richter’s family pictures that is published here for the first time; and
an essay and two interviews with the artist by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Richter’s
“longtime sparring partner” (as the curator Robert Storr has called him).
These writings examine Richter’s work as a whole, from October 18, 1977,
his dreamlike series of paintings depicting the dead Baader-Meinhof gang, to
his abstract trio Abstract Paintings; from his unsettling portrait of “Uncle Rudi”
in Nazi garb to his late series of por-
traits of his wife and young child.
This addition to the October Files
series will be an essential handbook to
one of the most enigmatic figures in
contemporary art.
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is Andrew W. Mellon
Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University.
He is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and
Culture Industry: Essays on European and
American Art from 1955 to 1975 (MIT
Press, 2001) and an editor of October.

Gerhard Richter and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Interview (1986)

Gertrud Koch The Richter-Scale of Blur (1992)
Thomas Crow Hand-Made Photographs and Homeless Representation (1992)
Birgit Pelzer The Tragic Desire (1993)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Divided Memory and Post-Traditional Identity: Gerhard Richter’s Work of Mourning (1996)
Peter Osborne Abstract Images: Sign, Image, and Aesthetic in Gerhard Richter’s Painting (1998)
Hal Foster Semblance According to Gerhard Richter (2003)
Johannes Meinhardt Illusionism in Painting and the Punctum of Photography (2005)
Rachel Haidu Arrogant Texts: Gerhard Richter’s Family Pictures (2007)
Gerhard Richter and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Interview (2004)

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GABRIEL OROZCO
edited by Yve-Alain Bois
Gabriel Orozco’s work is sometimes considered uncategorizable; but his sculp- A collection of writings on a
ture, photography, drawing, collage, and installations are unified by their devotion conceptual and installation artist
to the antispectacular, to the everyday, and to the explorations of complexities who has been called “one of
that are not immediately obvious. Orozco (born in Mexico in 1962) pays meticu- the most important artists
of the decade.”
lous attention to what he calls the “liquidity of things” as seen in mundane and
evanescent objects and elements of everyday life — the momentary fog upon a
polished piano top, a deflated football, tins of cat food balanced on watermelons,
light through leaves, the screech of a tire, chess pieces on a chessboard. “People October
6 x 9, 240 pp.
forget that I want to disappoint,” he has said. “I use that word deliberately. I want 59 illus.
to disappoint the expectations of the one who waits to be amazed. When you
$18.95T/£14.95 paper
make a decision someone is going to be disappointed because they think they 978-0-262-51301-2
know you. It is only then that the poetic can happen.” $38.00S/£28.95 cloth
This collection of critical writings on Orozco includes two interviews with 978-0-262-01318-5
the artist and a lecture by him (this October Files
last published here for the first time in
English) as well as essays by such
prominent critics as Benjamin H. D.
Buchloh, Briony Fer, Molly Nesbit,
and the editor of the volume, Yve- Also available in this series
Alain Bois. It serves both as the sum- JAMES COLEMAN
mation of critical thinking on edited by George Baker
Orozco’s work up to now and as a 2003, 978-0-262-52341-7
$18.00T/£13.95 paper
starting point for future consideration.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Yve-Alain Bois is Professor of Art History edited by Branden Joseph
in the School of Historical Studies at 2002, 978-0-262-60049-1
the Institute for Advanced Studies in $17.00T/£12.95 paper
Princeton, New Jersey. An editor of
October, Bois is the author (with Rosalind
E. Krauss) of Formless: A User’s Guide
(Zone Books, 1997), Painting as Model
(MIT Press, 1991), and other books.

Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Refuse and Refuge (1993)

Jean Fisher The Sleep of Wakefulness: Gabriel Orozco (1993)
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Gabriel Orozco: The Sculpture of Everyday Life (1996)
Guy Brett Between Work and World: Gabriel Orozco (1993)
Molly Nesbit The Tempest (2000)
Gabriel Orozco Lecture (2001)
Gabriel Orozco In Conversation with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2004)
Briony Fer Spirograph: The Circular Ruins of Drawing (2004)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Cosmic Reifications: Gabriel Orozco’s Photographs (2004)
Gabriel Orozco and Briony Fer Crazy about Saturn: Interview (2006)
Yve-Alain Bois The Tree and the Knight (2009)

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art
The long-awaited publication
in English of the definitive
book on Paris Dada.
October
7 x 9, 640 pp.
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01303-1
Also available
I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER
Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
Francis Picabia
2007, 978-0-262-16243-2
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth
THE ARTWORK CAUGHT BY THE TAIL
Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris
George Baker
2007, 978-0-262-02618-5
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth
DADA EAST
The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire
Tom Sandqvist
2006, 978-0-262-19507-2
$45.00T/£33.95 cloth
WOMEN IN DADA
Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity
edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse
2001, 978-0-262-69260-1
$35.00T/£25.95 paper
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DADA IN PARIS
Michel Sanouillet
first English-language edition, revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet
editorial consultant, Michèle Humbert
translated by Sharmila Ganguly
Michel Sanouillet’s Dada in Paris, published in France in 1965, reintroduced
the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. Over
forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential
reference for anyone interested in Dada or the avant-garde. This first English-
language edition of Sanouillet’s definitive work (a translation of the expanded
2005 French edition) gives English-speaking readers their first direct access to
the author’s monumental history (based on years of research, including personal
involvement with most of the Dadaists still living at the time) and massive
compilation of previously unpublished correspondence, including more than
200 letters to and from such movement luminaries as Tristan Tzara,
André Breton, and Francis Picabia.
In the years after Dada’s relatively brief Paris flowering in the 1920s, its mem-
bers were often depicted as opportunistic youths, hedonistic jokers engrossed in
a monstrous solipsism. Sanouillet was the first to see them instead as the most
gifted and sensitive representatives of a generation, intent on finding a new way
of living, writing, and feeling. Dada in Paris offers a behind-the-scenes account
of the French avant-garde’s riotous adolescence, with the timeline that begins
with Tzara and Picabia stretching to include Breton, Philippe Soupault, Louis
Aragon, and Paul Éluard. Sanouillet describes the pre-Dada Parisian milieu,
the connection made with Zurich Dada, and Parisian Dada projects and their
reception. Finally, by 1923, Dada-according-to-Tzara gave way to Dada-accord-
ing-to-Breton — which a few months later, under tumultuous circumstances,
took on the new name of Surrealism. The longer-lasting, more conservative
Surrealism would overshadow Dada for decades to come.
Michel Sanouillet is a French art historian and
one of the leading scholars of the Dada move-
ment. He is Dean Emeritus of the University of
Nice, Professor Emeritus at the University of
Toronto, and founder and first president of the
International Association for the Study of Dada
and Surrealism.
 photography

PHOTOGRAPHY DEGREE ZERO

Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida
edited by Geoffrey Batchen
An essential guide to an essential
Roland Barthes’s 1980 book Camera Lucida is perhaps the most influential book, this first anthology on
book ever published on photography. The terms studium and punctum, coined Camera Lucida offers critical
by Barthes for two different ways of responding to photographs, are part of the perspectives on Barthes’s
influential text.
standard lexicon for discussions of photography; Barthes’s understanding of
photographic time and the relationship he forges between photography and
death have been invoked countless times in photographic discourse; and the October
7 1/2 x 9, 320 pp.
current interest in vernacular photographs and the ubiquity of subjective, even 5 illus.
novelistic, ways of writing about photography both owe something to Barthes.
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
Photography Degree Zero, the first anthology of writings on Camera Lucida, goes 978-0-262-01325-3
beyond the usual critical orthodoxies to offer a range of perspectives on Barthes’s
important book.
Photography Degree Zero (the title links Barthes’s first book, Writing Degree CONTRIBUTORS
Geoffrey Batchen, Victor Burgin,
Zero, to his last, Camera Lucida) includes essays written soon after Barthes’s Eduardo Cadava, Paolo Cortés-Rocca,
book appeared as well as more recent rereadings of it, some previously unpub- James Elkins, Michael Fried, Jane
lished. The contributors’ approaches range from psychoanalytical (in an essay Gallop, Gordon Hughes, Margaret
Iverson, Rosalind E. Krauss, Carol
drawing on the work of Lacan) to Buddhist (in an essay that compares the Mavor, Margaret Olin, Jay Prosser,
photographic flash to the mystic’s light of revelation); they include a history Shawn Michelle Smith
of Barthes’s writings on photography and an account of Camera Lucida and its
reception; two views of the book through the lens of race; and a provocative
Also available
essay by Michael Fried and two responses to it.
EACH WILD IDEA
The variety of perspectives included in Photography Degree Zero, and the Writing, Photography, History
focus on Camera Lucida in the context of photography rather than literature or Geoffrey Batchen
philosophy, serve to reopen a vital conversation on Barthes’s influential work. 2002, 978-0-262-52324-0
$26.00T/£19.95 paper
Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of
BURNING WITH DESIRE
the History of Photography and
The Conception of Photography
Contemporary Art at the City
University of New York Graduate Geoffrey Batchen
Center. He is the author of Burning 1999, 978-0-262-52259-5
with Desire: The Conceptions of $30.00T/£22.95 paper
Photography (1999) and Each Wild
Idea: Writing, Photography, History
(2002), both published by the
MIT Press.

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psychoanalysis/photography
A Lacanian approach to murder
scene investigation.
October
7 x 9, 256 pp.
79 black & white photographs
$24.95T/£18.95 cloth
978-0-262-01342-0
Short Circuits series,
edited by Slavoj Žižek
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LACAN AT THE SCENE
Henry Bond
foreword by Slavoj i ek
What if Jacques Lacan — the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst —
had worked as a police detective, applying his theories to solve crimes? This may
conjure up a mental film clip starring Peter Sellers in a trench coat, but in Lacan
at the Scene, Henry Bond makes a serious and provocative claim: that apparently
impenetrable events of murder and violent death can be more effectively unrav-
eled with Lacan’s theory of psychoanalysis than with elaborate, technologically
advanced forensic tools. Bond’s exposition on murder expands and develops a
resolutely i ekian appr oach. Seeking out radical and unexpected readings,
Bond unpacks his material utilizing Lacan’s neurosis-psychosis-perversion grid.
Bond places Lacan at the crime scene and builds his argument through a
series of archival crime scene photographs from the 1950s — the period when
Lacan was developing his influential theories. Bond takes us inside the perimeter
set by police tape and guides us into a series of explicit, even terrifying, murder
scenes. It is not the horror of the ravished and mutilated corpses that draws his
attention; instead, he interrogates seemingly minor details from the everyday,
isolating and rephotographing what at first seems insignificant: a single high-
heeled shoe on a kitchen table; carefully folded clothes placed
over a chair; a plate of chocolate biscuits on a dinner table;
lewd graffiti inscribed on a train carriage door; an arrangement
of workman’s tools in a forest clearing. From these mundane
details he carefully builds a robust and comprehensive manual
for Lacanian crime investigation that can stand beside the
FBI’s standard-issue Crime Classification Manual.
Henry Bond is a writer and photographer living in London.
 philosophy/psychoanalysis/cultural studies

INTERFACE FANTASY
A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
André Nusselder
Behind our computer screens
Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a we are all cyborgs: through
psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, fantasy we can understand our
André Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our involvement in virtual worlds.

relationship to computers and digital technology. Lacanian psychoanalysis con-

siders fantasy to be an indispensable “screen” for our interaction with the outside November
world; Nusselder argues that, at the mental level, computer screens and other 6 x 9, 176 pp.

human-computer interfaces incorporate this function of fantasy: they mediate $18.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51300-5
the real and the virtual.
Interface Fantasy illuminates our attachment to new media: why we love Short Circuits series,
edited by Slavoj Žižek
our devices; why we are fascinated by the images on their screens; and how it
is possible that virtual images can provide physical pleasure. Nusselder puts
such phenomena as avatars, role playing, cybersex, computer psychotherapy, Also available in this series
and Internet addiction in the context of established psychoanalytic theory. THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST
The virtual identities we assume in virtual worlds, exemplified best by avatars Paradox or Dialectic?
Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank
consisting of both realistic and symbolic self-representations, illustrate the three
2009, 978-0-262-01271-3
orders that Lacan uses to analyze human reality: the imaginary, the symbolic, $27.95T/£20.95 cloth
and the real. THE PARALLAX VIEW
Nusselder analyzes our most intimate involvement with information technol- Slavoj Žižek
ogy — the almost invisible, affective aspects of technology that have the greatest 2009, 978-0-262-51268-8
$14.95T/£11.95 paper
impact on our lives. Interface Fantasy lays the foundation for a new way of
thinking that acknowledges the pivotal role of the screen in the current world THE ODD ONE IN
On Comedy
of information. And it gives an intelligible overview of basic Lacanian principles Alenka Zupančič
(including fantasy, language, the virtual, the real, embodiment, and enjoyment) 2008, 978-0-262-74031-9
that shows their enormous relevance $19.95T/£14.95 paper
for understanding the current state of
media technology.
André Nusselder is a Dutch philosophical
writer and lecturer.

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architecture
Drawings, doodles, and ideograms
argue with ferocity and wit for
traditional urbanism and
architecture.
September
5 3/8 x 8, 248 pp.
207 illus.
$24.95T/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51293-0
Writing Architecture series
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DRAWING FOR ARCHITECTURE
Léon Krier
foreword by James Howard Kunstler
Architect Léon Krier’s doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in
images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these
clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment.
Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the
unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary
architecture. Thus he shows us a building bearing a suspicious resemblance to
Norman Foster’s famous London “gherkin” as an example of “priapus hubris”
(threatened by detumescence and “priapus nemesis”); he charts “Random
Uniformity” (“fake simplicity”) and “Uniform Randomness” (“fake complexity”);
he draws bloated “bulimic” and disproportionately scrawny “anorexic” columns
flanking a graceful “classical” one; and he compares “private virtue” (modernist
architects’ homes and offices) to “public vice” (modernist architects’ “creations”).
Krier wants these witty images to be tools for re-founding
traditional urbanism and architecture. He argues for mixed-use
cities, of “architectural speech” rather than “architectural stut-
ter,” and pointedly plots the man-vehicle-landneed ratio of
“sub-urban man” versus that of a city dweller. In an age of
energy crisis, he writes (and his drawings show), we “build in
the wrong places, in the wrong patterns, materials, densities,
and heights, and for the wrong number of dwellers”; a return to
traditional architectures and building and settlement techniques
can be the means of ecological reconstruction. Each of Krier’s
provocative and entertaining images is worth more than a
thousand words of theoretical abstraction.
Architect and urbanist Léon Krier has taught at the Architectural
Association, the Royal College of Arts, the University of Virginia, and
Princeton and Yale Universities and has been an architectural consult-
ant to the Prince of Wales since 1988. He is the recipient of numerous
prizes, including the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture and
Jefferson Memorial Gold Medal. He is the author of the award-winning
Architecture: Choice or Fate and other books.
“Krier’s is a humane and gentle vision of what a city might be, and
it deserves to be the more widely studied for its refusal to announce
itself — as modernism announced itself — as the voice of the
Zeitgeist. Krier’s urbanism is timeless common sense, transcribed into
drawings that leave no room for dissent.”
— Roger Scruton, writer and philosopher
“Krier’s ‘doodles’ collected here, with all their imagination, humor, and righteous indig-
nation, offer us the most hopeful visions of architecture and urbanism visible today.”
— Steven W. Semes, Academic Director, Rome Studies Program,
School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame
“The book should be a required reading for architects and urbanists, as it not only
teaches the power of drawing as polemic, but also provides a master class in the rela-
tionship of architecture to the city.”
— Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive,
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment
 architecture

ARCHITECTURE’S DESIRE
Reading the Late Avant-Garde
K. Michael Hays
Theorizes an architectural ethos of
While it is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left extreme self-reflection and finality
a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in from a Lacanian perspective.
architecture’s history, there has been no general theory of that ethos. Now, in
Architecture’s Desire, K. Michael Hays writes an account of the “late avant-garde” November
as an architecture systematically twisting back on itself, pondering its own histor- 5 3/8 x 8, 192 pp.
4 color illus., 34 black & white illus.
ical status, and deliberately exploring architecture’s representational possibilities
right up to their absolute limits. In close readings of the brooding, melancholy $19.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51302-9
silence of Aldo Rossi, the radically reductive “decompositions” and archaeologies
of Peter Eisenman, the carnivalesque excesses of John Hejduk, and the “cine- Writing Architecture series
grammatic” delirium of Bernard Tschumi, Hays narrates the story of architecture
confronting its own boundaries with objects of ever more reflexivity, difficulty,
Also available
and intransigence. ARCHITECTURE THEORY SINCE 1968
The late avant-garde is the last architecture with philosophical aspirations, an edited by K. Michael Hays
architecture that could think philosophical problems through architecture rather 2000, 978-0-262-58188-2
$46.00T/£34.95 paper
than merely illustrate them. It takes architecture as the object of its own reflec-
tion, which in turn produces an unrelenting desire. Using the tools of critical MODERNISM AND THE
POSTHUMANIST SUBJECT
theory together with the structure of Lacan’s triad imaginary-symbolic-real, The Architecture of Hannes Meyer
Hays constructs a theory of architectural desire that is historically specific and and Ludwig Hilberseimer
yet sets the terms and the challenges of all subsequent architectural practice, K. Michael Hays
1995, 978-0-262-58141-7
including today’s. $30.00T/£22.95 paper
K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at
Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In 2000 he was appointed
the first Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum for American Art.
He is the author, among other books, of Modernism and the
Posthumanist Subject (1995) and the editor of Architecture
Theory since 1968 (2000), both published by the MIT Press.

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psychology

WHY WE COOPERATE
Michael Tomasello
Understanding cooperation as a
with Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, and Elizabeth Spelke
distinctly human combination of Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she’s likely to pick it up for
innate and learned behavior.
you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues.
Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed,
October Tomasello shows that children are naturally — and uniquely — cooperative.
4 1/2 x 7, 208 pp.
Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth work together and share, but choose not to.
978-0-262-01359-8
As children grow, their almost reflexive desire to help — without expectation
A Boston Review Book of reward — becomes shaped by culture. They become more aware of being a
member of a group. Groups convey mutual expectations, and thus may either
encourage or discourage altruism and collaboration. Either way, cooperation
Also available in this series
GOD AND THE WELFARE STATE
emerges as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.
Lew Daly In Why We Cooperate, Tomasello’s studies of young children and great apes
2006, 978-0-262-04236-9 help identify the underlying psychological processes that very likely supported
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
humans’ earliest forms of complex collaboration and, ultimately, our unique
THE END OF THE WILD forms of cultural organization, from the evolution of tolerance and trust to
Stephen M. Meyer
2006, 978-0-262-13473-6
the creation of such group-level structures as cultural norms and institutions.
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth Scholars Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, and Elizabeth Spelke
MAKING AID WORK respond to Tomasello’s findings and explore the implications.
Abhijit Banerjee Michael Tomasello is Codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2007, 978-0-262-02615-4 in Leipzig, Germany. His books include The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, Constructing
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth a Language, and The Origins of Human Communication (MIT Press, 2008).
THE STORY OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Colin Dayan
2007, 978-0-262-04239-0
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
MOVIES AND THE MORAL ADVENTURE
OF LIFE
Alan A. Stone
2007, 978-0-262-19567-6
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE
CHANGE
Kerry Emanuel
2007, 978-0-262-05089-0
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth

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AFTER AMERICA’S MIDLIFE CRISIS

Michael Gecan
Michael Gecan, a longtime community organizer, offers in this book a disturbing A longtime community organizer
conclusion: the kinds of problems that began to afflict large cities in the 1970s outlines a way to reverse
have now spread to the suburbs and beyond. The institutional cornerstones of the fifty-year decline in social
American life have been on an extended decline for fifty years, and politics as mobility and economic progress.

usual won’t help us. No longer young, no longer without limitations or constraints,
the country is facing a midlife crisis. September
Drawing on personal experiences and the stories of communities in Illinois, 4 1/2 x 7, 144 pp.

New York, and other areas, Gecan draws a vivid picture of civic, political, and $14.95T/£11.95 cloth
978-0-262-01360-4
religious institutions in trouble, from suburban budget crises to failing public
schools. Gecan shows that the loss of social capital has followed closely upon A Boston Review Book
institutional failure. He looks in particular at the two main support systems of
social mobility and economic progress for the majority of working poor
Also available in this series
Americans in the first half of the last century — the Roman Catholic school
WHY NUCLEAR
system and the American public high school. As these institutions that gener- DISARMAMENT MATTERS
ated social progress have faded, those depending on social regression — prisons, Hans Blix
2008, 978-0-262-02644-4
jails, and detention centers — have thrived.
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
Can we reverse the trends? Gecan offers hope and a direction forward. He
THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY IN IRAN
calls on national and local leadership to shed old ways of thinking and face new Akbar Ganji
realities, which include not only the substantial costs of change, but also its 2008, 978-0-262-07295-3
considerable benefits. Only then will we enjoy the next rich phase of our local $14.95T/£11.95 cloth
and national life. RACE, INCARCERATION, AND
AMERICAN VALUES
Michael Gecan, a community organizer trained in part by Saul Alinsky, is affiliated with Glenn C. Loury
the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). He has worked in both Chicago and New York City with Pamela Karlan,
and is the author of Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action.
Tommie Shelby, Loı̈c Wacquant
2008, 978-0-262-12311-2
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
THE MEN IN MY LIFE
Vivian Gornick
2008, 978-0-262-07303-5
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
INVENTING AMERICAN HISTORY
William Hogeland
2009, 978-0-262-01288-1
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
AFRICA’S TURN?
Edward Miguel
2009, 978-0-262-01289-8
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth

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technology/education

ENGINEERING PLAY
A Cultural History of Children’s Software
Mizuko Ito
How the influential industry
that produced such popular Today, computers are part of kids’ everyday lives, used both for play and for
games as Oregon Trail and KidPix learning. We envy children’s natural affinity for computers, the ease with
emerged from experimental efforts which they click in and out of digital worlds. Thirty years ago, however, the
to use computers as tools in
child-centered learning. computer belonged almost exclusively to business, the military, and academia.
In Engineering Play, Mizuko Ito describes the transformation of the computer
from a tool associated with adults and work to one linked to children, learning,
October
6 x 9, 224 pp. and play. Ito gives an account of a pivotal period in the 1980s and 1990s, which
34 illus. saw the rise of a new category of consumer software designed specifically for ele-
$24.95T/£18.95 cloth mentary school–aged children. “Edutainment” software sought to blend various
978-0-262-01335-2 educational philosophies with interactive gaming and entertainment, and
The John D. and included such titles as Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, KidPix, and Where in the
Catherine T. MacArthur World is Carmen San Diego?
Foundation Series on Digital Media
Drawing from observations of kids’ play, interviews with software developers,
and Learning
and advertising and industry materials, Ito identifies three educational philoso-
phies and genres in children’s software that connect players in software produc-
Also available tion, distribution, and consumption: instruction, focused on transmission of
PERSONAL, PORTABLE, PEDESTRIAN academic content; exploration, tied to open-ended play; and construction,
Mobile Phones in Japanese Life aimed at empowering young users to create and manipulate digital media.
edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe
and Misa Matsuda The children’s software boom (and the bust that followed), says Ito, can be
2006, 978-0-262-59025-9 seen as a microcosm of the negotiations surrounding new technology, children,
$21.95T/£16.95 paper and education. The story she tells is both a testimonial to the transformative
power of innovation and a cautionary tale about its limitations.
Also available in this series Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropolo-
CIVIC LIFE ONLINE gist who studies new media use,
particularly among young people,
Learning How Digital Media
in Japan and the United States.
Can Engage Youth
She is the lead author of Hanging
edited by W. Lance Bennett Out, Messing Around, and Geeking
2008, 978-0-262-52482-7 Out: Kids Living and Learning with
$16.00S/£11.95 paper New Media (2009), and a coeditor
DIGITAL MEDIA, YOUTH, AND of Personal, Portable, Pedestrian:
CREDIBILITY Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
(2006), both published by the
edited by Miriam J. Metzger and
MIT Press.
Andrew J. Flanagin
2008, 978-0-262-56232-4
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
THE ECOLOGY OF GAMES
Connecting Youth, Games,
and Learning
edited by Katie Salen
2008, 978-0-262-69364-6
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
YOUTH, IDENTITY, AND
DIGITAL MEDIA
edited by David Buckingham
2008, 978-0-262-52483-4
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
LEARNING RACE AND ETHNICITY
Youth and Digital Media
edited by Anna Everett
2008, 978-0-262-55067-3
$16.00S/£11.95 paper

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 popular culture/game studies

CRITICAL PLAY
Radical Game Design
Mary Flanagan
An examination of subversive
For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But games — games designed
what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for political, aesthetic,
for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual and social critique.

thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play, artist and game designer
Mary Flanagan examines alternative games — games that challenge the accepted September
norms embedded within the gaming industry — and argues that games designed 7 x 9, 336 pp.
116 illus.
by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture.
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
Flanagan provides a lively historical context for critical play through 978-0-262-06268-8
twentieth-century art movements, connecting subversive game design to
subversive art: her examples of “playing house” include Dadaist puppet shows
and The Sims; her discussion of language play includes puns, palindromes, Also available
Yoko Ono’s Instruction Paintings, and Jenny Holzer’s messages in LED. RE:SKIN
Flanagan also looks at artists’ alternative computer-based games, examining edited by Mary Flanagan and
Austin Booth
projects from Persuasive Games and Gonazalo Frasca and other games created 2009, 978-0-262-51249-7
through the use of interventionist strategies in the design process. And she $21.00S/£15.95 paper
explores games for change, considering the way activist concerns — among RELOAD
them Darfur, worldwide poverty, and AIDS — can be incorporated into Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
edited by Mary Flanagan and
game design.
Austin Booth
Arguing that this kind of conscious practice — which now constitutes the 2002, 978-0-262-56150-1
avant-garde of the computer game medium — can inspire new working methods $32.00T/£23.95 paper
for designers, Flanagan offers a model for designing that will encourage the
subversion of popular gaming tropes through new styles of game making, and
proposes a theory of alternate game design that focuses on the reworking of
contemporary popular game practices.
Mary Flanagan, artist and game designer, is Founder and Director of
Tiltfactor Laboratory and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor
of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. She is the coeditor (with
Austin Booth) of Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture (2002),
and re:skin (2009), both published by the MIT Press.

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popular culture/game studies
The odyssey of a group of
“refugees” from a closed-down
online game and an exploration
of emergent fan cultures in
virtual worlds.
September
7 x 9, 336 pp.
67 illus.
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-16257-9
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COMMUNITIES OF PLAY
Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Celia Pearce and Artemesia
forewords by Tom Boellstorff and Bonnie A. Nardi
Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games;
they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing
games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, how-
ever, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within
online games and virtual worlds. Players in these networked worlds sometimes
develop a sense of community that transcends the game itself. In Communities of
Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures
in networked digital worlds — actions by players that do not coincide with the
intentions of the game’s designers.
Pearce looks in particular at the Uru Diaspora — a group of players whose
game, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, closed. These players (primarily baby boomers)
immigrated into other worlds, self-identifying as “refugees”; relocated in
There.com, they created a hybrid culture integrating aspects of their old world.
Ostracized at first, they became community leaders. Pearce analyzes the prop-
erties of virtual worlds and looks at the ways design affects emergent behavior.
She discusses the methodologies for studying online games, including a personal
account of the sometimes messy process of ethnography.
Pearce considers the “play turn” in culture and the advent of
a participatory global playground enabled by networked digital
games every bit as communal as the global village Marshall
McLuhan saw united by television. Countering the ludological
definition of play as unproductive and pointing to the long
history of pre-digital play practices, Pearce argues that play
can be a prelude to creativity.
Celia Pearce is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Institute
of Technology, where she is Director of the Experimental Game Lab and
the Emergent Game Group. She is the author of The Interactive Book:
A Guide to the Interactive Revolution. Artemesia is her coauthor and
avatar.
“[Celia Pearce’s] background as a games designer is evident in the
way she respectfully engages readers in clear, vivid prose structured
in an original and — can we say it? — entertaining way. From
its thoughtful analyses of play and community to its authoritative
contextualization of games and virtual worlds, this book repays
study on many levels. Enjoy!”
— from the foreword by Bonnie Nardi
 popular culture/game studies

EXPRESSIVE PROCESSING
Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
From the complex city-planning
What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external game SimCity to the virtual
appearance and audience experience of software enough — or should we look therapist Eliza: how computational
further? In Expressive Processing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that understanding processes open possibilities
for understanding and
what goes on beneath the surface, the computational processes that make digital creating digital media.
media function, is essential.
Wardrip-Fruin suggests that it is the authors and artists with knowledge of
September
these processes who will use the expressive potential of computation to define 7 x 9, 480 pp.
the future of fiction and games. He also explores how computational processes 29 illus.
themselves express meanings through distinctive designs, histories, and intellec- $34.95T/£25.95 cloth
tual kinships that may not be visible to audiences. 978-0-262-01343-7
Wardrip-Fruin looks at “expressive processing” by examining specific works Software Studies series
of digital media ranging from the simulated therapist Eliza and the first major
story-generation system Tale-Spin to the complex city-planning game SimCity.
Digital media, he contends, offer particularly intelligible examples of things we Also avaiable
need to understand about software in general; if we understand, for instance, THE NEW MEDIA READER
edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and
the capabilities and histories of artificial intelligence techniques in the context Nick Montfort
of a computer game, we can use that understanding to judge the use of similar 2003, 978-0-262-23227-2
techniques in such higher-stakes social contexts as surveillance. $52.00S/£38.95 cloth

Most books on digital media focus on what the machines of digital media FIRST PERSON
New Media as Story, Performance,
look like from the outside but ignore the computational machines that make
and Game
digital media possible. With this book, the first to approach computational edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat
processes from the perspective of media, games, and fiction, Wardrip-Fruin Harrigan
examines both the outside and the inside of digital media’s machines. 2006, 978-0-262-73175-1
$22.95T/£16.95 paper
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Assistant
SECOND PERSON
Professor in the Department of
Role-Playing and Story in
Computer Science at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. He is the Games and Playable Media
coeditor of four collections published edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah
by the MIT Press: with Nick Montfort, Wardrip-Fruin
The New Media Reader (2003); with 2007, 978-0-262-08356-0
Pat Harrigan, First Person: New Media $40.00S/£29.95 cloth
as Story, Performance, and Game
THIRD PERSON
(2003), Second Person: Role-Playing
and Story in Games and Playable Authoring and Exploring Vast
Media (2007), and Third Person: Narratives
Authoring and Exploring Vast edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah
Narratives (2009). Wardrip-Fruin
2009, 978-0-262-23263-0
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth

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biography/computing
The career of computer visionary
Grace Murray Hopper, whose
innovative work in programming
laid the foundations for the
user-friendliness of today’s
personal computers.
September
5 3/8 x 8, 408 pp.
24 illus.
$27.95T/£20.95 cloth
978-0-262-01310-9
Lemelson Center Studies in Invention
and Innovation series
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GRACE HOPPER AND THE INVENTION
OF THE INFORMATION AGE
Kurt W. Beyer
A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper
(1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered
walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds
herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed
in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems
but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of com-
puting, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming.
Throughout Hopper’s later years, the popular media told this simplified version
of her life story. In Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age,
Kurt Beyer goes beyond the screenplay-ready myth to reveal a more authentic
Hopper, a vibrant, complex, and intriguing woman whose career paralleled the
meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry.
Hopper made herself “one of the boys” in Howard Aiken’s wartime
Computation Laboratory at Harvard, then moved on to the Eckert and
Mauchly Computer Corporation. Both rebellious and collaborative, she
was influential in male-dominated military and business organizations at a
time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and
childbearing. Hopper’s greatest technical achievement was to
create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with
computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance
influenced all future programming and software design and laid
the foundation for the development of today’s user-friendly
personal computers.
Kurt W. Beyer, formerly Professor of Information Technology at the
United States Naval Academy, is President and CEO of Riptopia,
a digital media processing company in Mill Valley, California.
“It is a pleasure finally to read a biography of Grace Hopper that
does not simply list the clichéd myths about ‘Amazing Grace’ but
instead tells the story of her wonderful life and contributions to the
development of programming languages.”
— Michael R. Williams, Professor Emeritus,
Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
 economics

OFFSHORING OF AMERICAN JOBS

What Response from U.S. Economic Policy?
Jagdish Bhagwati and Alan S. Blinder
Two leading economists discuss
edited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman
a range of issues relating to
It is no surprise that many fearful American workers see the call center operator the “offshoring” of American
in Bangalore or the factory worker in Guangzhou as a threat to their jobs. The jobs, from free trade to
unemployment levels.
emergence of China and India (along with other, smaller developing countries)
as economic powers has doubled the supply of labor to the integrated world
economy. Economic theory suggests that such a dramatic increase in the supply September
5 3/8 x 8, 144 pp.
of labor without an accompanying increase in the supply of capital is likely to 1 illus.
exert downward pressure on wages for workers already in the integrated world
$18.95T/£14.95 cloth
economy, and wages for most workers in the United States have indeed stagnated 978-0-262-01332-1
or declined. In this book, leading economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Alan S. Blinder
Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public
offer their perspectives on how the outsourcing of labor and the shifting of jobs Policy at Harvard University
to lower-wage countries affect the U.S. economy and what, if any, policy responses
are required.
Bhagwati, in his colorful and pithy style, focuses on globalization and free Also available in this series
trade, while Blinder, erudite and witty, addresses the significance of labor market INEQUALITY IN AMERICA
What Role for
adjustment caused by trade. Bhagwati’s and Blinder’s contributions are followed Human Capital Policies?
by comments from economists Richard Freedman, Douglas A. Irwin, Lori G. James J. Heckman and
Kletzer, and Robert Z. Lawrence. Bhagwati and Blinder then respond separately Alan B. Krueger
edited and with an introduction by
to the issues raised. Benjamin Friedman, who edited this volume (and organized Benjamin M. Friedman
the symposium that inspired it), provides an introduction. 2005, 978-0-262-58260-5
$22.00S/£16.95 paper
Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University. He is the author of In
Defense of Globalization, The Wind of the Hundred Days (MIT Press, 2002), and other
books. Alan S. Blinder is G. S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public
Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of The Quiet Revolution: Central Banking
Goes Modern and other books. Benjamin M. Friedman is William Joseph Maier Professor
of Political Economy at Harvard University. His latest book is The Moral Consequences
of Economic Growth.

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current affairs/health care
Two leading physicians’
prescription for solving our
health care problems: organizing
the fragmented system that
delivers care.
October
6 x 9, 360 pp.
19 illus.
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01353-6
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CHAOS AND ORGANIZATION IN HEALTH CARE
Thomas H. Lee, M.D., and James J. Mongan, M.D.
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is
health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and
ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and
Organization in Health Care, two leading physicians offer an optimistic progno-
sis. In their frontline work as providers, Thomas Lee and James Mongan see the
inefficiency, the missed opportunities, and the occasional harm that can result
from the current system. The root cause of these problems, they argue, is chaos
in the delivery of care. If the problem is chaos, the solution is organization, and
in this timely and outspoken book, they offer a plan.
In many ways, this chaos is caused by something good: the dramatic progress
in medical science — the explosion of medical knowledge and the exponential
increase in treatment options. Imposed on a fragmented system of small prac-
tices and individual patients with multiple providers, progress results in chaos.
Lee and Mongan argue that attacking this chaos is even more important than
whether health care is managed by government or controlled by market forces.
Some providers are already tightly organized, adapting man-
agement principles from business and offering care that is by
many measures safer, better, and less costly. Lee and Mongan
propose multiple strategies that can be adopted nationwide,
including electronic medical records and information systems
for sharing knowledge; team-based care, with doctors and other
providers working together; and disease management programs
to coordinate care for the sickest patients.
Thomas H. Lee, M.D., is Network President, Partners Healthcare System,
Boston. He is the author of two books on cardiology and many articles,
op-ed columns, and book chapters. James J. Mongan, M.D., is President
and CEO of Partners Healthcare System.
 fiction

PACIFIC AGONY
Bruce Benderson
I gazed out my window on the sea of dark clouds as my shaking seat jiggled the image An acidic, satiric novel in the
into double vision; and I pictured the flat, geometrically divided western landscapes form of a travelogue of the
American northwest, complete
below, wondering why anyone still bothered to travel in this cookie-cutter country.
with annotations by an
What was the use of visiting identical reproductions of the same Wal-Mart or adding outraged local.
new encounters of equally streamlined mentality to the roster? As far as I was concerned,
everything had been shorn from the same cloth, woven for years in the drab bungalows
September
of suburban North America. 6 x 9, 160 pp.
— from Pacific Agony
$14.95T/£11.95 paper
978-1-58435-082-8
Depressed, cynical, and subversive, East Coaster Reginald Fortiphton has been
brought to Seattle by a West Coast publishing company that wants him to write Native Agents series
Distributed for Semiotext(e)
a guide to the American Northwest. His job is to travel, on their dime, from
Eugene, Oregon, to Vancouver, shining an admiring light on the region —
which the publishers feel has been neglected by the New York publishing Also available from Semiotext(e)
monopoly. Pacific Agony is his ironic attempt to fufill GOOD SEX ILLUSTRATED
his assignment. To ensure that the project goes as Tony Duvert
translated by Bruce Benderson
planned, the very respectable Narcissa Whitman 2007, 978-1-58435-043-9
Applegate — notable member of the Willamette- $14.95T/£11.95 paper
Columbia Historical Legion and the Daughters of the
Oregon Trail Historical Committee (and namesake
of a nineteenth century missionary who was famously
killed by Oregon’s Nez Percé Indians) — is asked
to annotate the manuscript. Her notes at the bottom
of the page become progressively more outraged as
the alienated Reginald’s mock travel narrative skewers the region
with merciless political observations — while he spirals into a
depressive mania.
This acidic, satirical novel hilariously eviscerates contempo-
rary American culture at the same time that it exposes some of
the darker motivations of American middle-class liberalism.
Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of
a memoir, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, winner of France’s
prestigious Prix de Flore in French translation. He is the translator
of Good Sex Illustrated (2007) by Tony Duvert for Semiotext(e).

PRAISE FOR BRUCE BENDERSON

“What astonishes and intrigues is Benderson’s way of recounting in
the sweetest possible voice things that are considered shocking.”
— Le Monde
“Benderson is a true heir of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and
Paul Bowles, the bohemian bourgeois.”
— Catherine Texier
“The power of Benderson’s work is that it speaks for people whose
voices are never heard, and it reminds us that every one of these
living shadows is a human being.”
— Boston Phoenix

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art/theater
An autobiographical trilogy
by a cultural icon of Downtown
New York.
October
7 x 10, 200 pp.
$19.95T/£14.95 cloth
978-1-58435-069-9
Native Agents series
Distributed for Semiotext(e)
Also available from Semiotext(e)
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ
A Definitive History of Five or Six
Years on the Lower East Side
edited by Giancarlo Ambrosino
interviews by Sylvère Lotringer
2006, 978-1-58435-035-4
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
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BAD REPUTATION
Performances, Essays, Interviews
Penny Arcade
introduction by Ken Bernard
A reform-school runaway at thirteen, a performer in the legendary New York
City Playhouse of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy
Warhol’s Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade (born Susana Ventura)
emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an
originator of what came to be called performance art. Arcade’s brand of high
camp and street-smart, punk-rock cabaret showmanship has been winning
over international audiences ever since. This autobiographical trilogy of plays
represents her at her best.
Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore! is Penny Arcade’s raucous, cutting-edge sex and
censorship show (which continues to be a commercial hit around the world),
featuring the daily life of a receptionist in a brothel, the upbringing and rearing
of a “faghag,” the evolution of the New York gay scene in the 1990s, and a par-
ticipatory “audience dance break.” The funny and heart-rending title work, Bad
Reputation, portrays a young teen runaway’s coming of age in a Catholic reform
school (run by nuns who are former fashion models) and her subsequent life on
the streets of 1960s New York. La Miseria, a rare depiction of working-class
Italian-Americans from a woman’s point of view that portrays the clash between
working-class morals and compassion during the 1980s AIDS epidemic,
rounds out the trilogy.
Bad Reputation is the first book by and on
Penny Arcade. The complete scripts are accom-
panied by a new interview with Penny Arcade
by Chris Kraus, a range of archival photographs
of the East Village scene and Arcade’s perform-
ances, an introduction by playwright Ken
Bernard, and contributions by Sarah Schulman,
Steve Zehentner, and Stephen Bottoms.
Penny Arcade is a performance artist and political
activist in New York City.
 cultural studies/gender studies/biography

THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF GRISÉLIDIS RÉAL

Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore
Jean-Luc Henning
Reflections of a “revolutionary
translated by Ariana Reines
whore” and champion of sexual
freedom and prostitutes’ rights.
They have to come back to us, because we know every detail of their orgasms, their little
caprices, their little weaknesses and strengths. We know all of them. I mean, where do
you expect them to go? They’ll be disappointed anywhere else. Except for with us, because September
6 x 9, 176 pp.
we know them like the back of our hand. As soon as they get in the door, it’s like we’d
made them ourselves. We know all the right things to say, all the gestures, there’re $14.95T/£11.95 paper
978-1-58435-078-1
no surprises.
— from The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal Native Agents series
Distributed for Semiotext(e)
The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal is the portrait of a true humanist who
made a career out of compassion. Hailed as a virtuoso writer and a “revolutionary
Also available from Semiotext(e):
whore,” Grisélidis Réal (1929–2005) chanced into prostitution at thirty-one after
PORNOCRACY
an upper-class upbringing in Switzerland. Serving clients from all walks of life, Catherine Breillat
Réal applied the anarcho-Marxist dictum “from each according to his abilities, to translated by Paul Buck and
each according to his needs” to her profession, charging sliding-scale fees deter- Catherine Petit
2008, 978-1-58435-047-7
mined by her client’s incomes and complexity of their sexual tastes. Réal went on $14.95T/£11.95 paper
to become a militant champion of sexual freedom and prostitutes’ rights. She has
described prostitution as “an art, and a humanist science,” noting that “the only
authentic prostitution is that mastered by great technical artists. . .who practice
this form of native craft with intelligence, respect, imagination, heart. . .”
This volume includes lengthy dialogues from 1979–1981 with
Réal conducted by journalist and author Jean-Luc Henning, in
which she eloquently discusses the theoretical implications of
sex-positive whoring and relates her experiences both inside
and outside the profession: from her lengthy love affair with
the “Berber” to such “psychological” and “special” clients as the
“moldy rhinoceros.” The “Little Black Book” that rounds out
this book is drawn from the logs in which Réal kept track of
her many clients, from “Pedro, hilarious fat Spaniard, devoted,
simple, honest, fat peasant face, 70F” to “Pierre 8 (from Basel),
blue eyes, fifties, slightly balding, cultivated, sweet-violent … licks
my finger after I remove it from his anus . . .100–400F.” It is
a journal that not only chronicles Réal’s working life, but offers
a clinically direct, investigative sociological analysis of the
sexual subcultures of her time.
Jean-Luc Henning is a Professor at the University of Cairo and a writer
for Libération, Paris.

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cultural studies/politics
A call to arms by a group of
French intellectuals that rejects
leftist reform and aligns itself
with younger, wilder forms
of resistance.
August
4 1/2 x 7, 136 pp.
$12.95T/£9.95 paper
978-1-58435-080-4
Intervention series
Distributed for Semiotext(e)
Also available from Semiotext(e)
REVOLT, SHE SAID
Julia Kristeva
2002, 978-1-58435-015-6
$11.95T/£8.95 paper
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THE COMING INSURRECTION
The Invisible Committee
Thirty years of “crisis,” mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want
us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis.
It’s not that there’s not enough work, it’s that there is too much of it.
— from The Coming Insurrection
The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves
of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible
Committee in the vein of Guy Debord — and with comparable elegance — it
has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who
recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately
described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing
contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic pre-
scription for an emergent war-machine capable of “spreading anarchy and live
communism.”
Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs
in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France
and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left
and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms
of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against
immigration control and the “war on terror.”
Hot-wired to the movement of ’77 in Italy, its preferred his-
torical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an
ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal
to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized life
forms. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the grow-
ing number of those — in France, in the United States, and
elsewhere — who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life
are separate realms.
The Invisible Committee is the collective pen-name for a small group
of French post-Situationist intellectuals and academics.
 cultural studies/political theory

THE SOUL AT WORK

From Alienation to Autonomy
Franco “Bifo” Berardi
An examination of new forms of
introduction by Jason Smith
alienation in our never-off,
translated by Francesca Cadel plugged-in culture — and a
We can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached clarion call for a “conspiracy
of estranged people.”
from any point in the world. Privacy and its possibilities are abolished. Attention
is under siege everywhere. Not silence but uninterrupted noise, not the red desert,
but a cognitive space overcharged with nervous incentives to act: this is the alienation November
6 x 9, 192 pp.
of our times. . . .
— from The Soul at Work $14.95T/£11.95 paper
978-1-58435-076-7
Capital has managed to overcome the dualism of body and soul by establishing Foreign Agents series
a workforce in which everything we mean by the Soul — language, creativity, Distributed for Semiotext(e)
affects — is mobilized for its own benefit. Industrial production put to work
bodies, muscles, and arms. Now, in the sphere of digital technology and cybercul-
ture, exploitation involves the mind, language, and emotions in order to generate
value — while our bodies disappear in front of our computer screens.
In this, his newest book, Franco “Bifo” Berardi — key member of the Italian
Autonomist movement and a close associate of Félix Guattari — addresses
these new forms of estrangement. In the philosophical landscape of the 1960s
and 1970s, the Hegelian concept of alienation was used to define the harnessing
of subjectivity. The estrangement of workers from their labor, the feeling of
alienation they experienced, and their refusal to submit to it became the bases
for a human community that remained autonomous from capital. But today
a new condition of alienation has taken root in which workers
commonly and voluntarily work overtime, the population is
tethered to cell phones and Blackberries, debt has become a
postmodern form of slavery, and antidepressants are commonly
used to meet the unending pressure of production. As a result,
the conditions for community have run aground and new
philosophical categories are needed. The Soul at Work is a
clarion call for a new collective effort to reclaim happiness.
The Soul at Work is Bifo’s long overdue introduction to
English-speaking readers. This Semiotext(e) edition is also
the book’s first appearance in any language.
Franco Berardi, aka “Bifo,” founder of the famous “Radio Alice” in
Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement,
is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches
Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan.

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cultural studies/politics/German history
A first-hand account of the Western
world on the threshold of a major
global mutation, bridging art and
intellect, culture and politics,
Europe and America.
October
7 x 10, 352 pp.
310 illus.
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-1-58435-079-8
Foreign Agents series
Distributed for Semiotext(e)
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AUTONOMIA
Post-Political Politics
edited by Sylvère Lotringer and
Christian Marazzi
2007, 978-1-58435-053-8
$24.95T/£18.95 cloth
GERMANIA
Heiner Müller
1990, 978-0-936756-63-9
$13.95T/£10.95 paper
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NEW EDITION
THE GERMAN ISSUE
edited and with an introduction by Sylvère Lotringer
I like to stand with one leg on each side of the wall. Maybe this is a schizophrenic
position, but none other seems to me real enough.
— Heiner Mueller, The German Issue
The German Issue (1982) was originally conceived as a follow-up to Semiotext(e)’s
Autonomia/Italy issue, published two years earlier. Although ideological terrorism
was still a major issue in Germany, what ultimately emerged from these pages
was an investigation of two outlaw cities, Berlin and New York, which embodied
all the tensions and contradictions of the world at the time. The German Issue
is the Tale of Two Cities, then, with each city separated from its own country
by an invisible wall of suspicion or even hatred. It is also the complex evocation
of the rebelling youth — squatters, punks, artists and radicals, theorists and
ex-terrorists — who gathered all their energy and creativity in order to outlive
a hostile environment.
Like a time capsule, The German Issue brings together all the major “issues”
that were being debated on both sides of the Atlantic — which eventually
found their abrupt resolution in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It
involved the most important voices of the period — from writers and filmmak-
ers to anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers: Joseph
Beuys, Michel Foucault, Christo, Christa Wolf, Walter Abish, Alexander Kluge,
Paul Virilio, Ulrilke Meinhof, William Burroughs, Jean Baudrillard, Hans
Magnus Enzenberger, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Heidegger,
André Gorz, Helke Sander. Opening with Christo’s “Wrapping
Up of Germany” and the celebrated dialogue between East
German dramaturge Heiner Müller and Sylvère Lotringer on
“Mauer” (the Wall) since published in many languages, The
German Issue offers a first-hand account of the Western world
on the threshold of a major global mutation. It also embodies
at its best Semiotext(e)’s tenacious effort to establish a creative
bridge between art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe
and America.
Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and
Baja California.
Christo, Project for Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, scale model, 1981.
Photo by Harry Shunk.
 AFTERALL BOOKS
art

MICHAEL SNOW
Wavelength
Elizabeth Legge
An illustrated study of
In 1966, at the height of minimal art in New York, artist Michael Snow chose Michael Snow’s “zoom film,”
not to make another object to be placed in a room but instead spent a year which has become a touchstone
planning a film of a room: Wavelength, a forty-five-minute more or less straight- for art and film studies.

line zoom from the near to the far wall of a loft space, accompanied by a rising
sine wave. October
In this illustrated study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of 6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp.
32 color illus.
virtuosically managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and color, and
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
recession into perspectival depth. At the same time, she points out, it is also 978-1-84638-056-3
austere: the loft space where the action unfolds could be the last clerical outpost
$35.00S/£19.95 cloth
of a defunct business. The zoom is punctuated by what Snow laconically called 978-1-84638-055-6
“4 human events”: a woman directs two men who carry in a bookcase and place
One Work series
it against the left wall of the room; two women come in and listen to the Distributed for Afterall Books
Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields” on the radio; a man briefly appears after protracted
crashing and glass-breaking noises, wheels around, and drops dead; a young
woman comes into the room and makes a frightened telephone call reporting Also available in this series
the dead man (“And he doesn’t look drunk, he looks dead.”). CHRIS MARKER
Wavelength won the grand prize for experimental film at Knokke-le-Zoute in La Jetée
Janet Harbord
1967, and it was crucial to critics’ efforts to establish a vocabulary for temporal
2009, 978-1-84638-048-8
art. It was a “wavelength” that could stand up to the French new wave, and it $16.00T/£9.95 paper
has functioned ever since as a touchstone for art and film studies, and as a blue ANDY WARHOL
screen in front of which a range of ideological and intellectual dramas have Blow Job
been played. Peter Gidal
2008, 978-1-84638-041-9
Elizabeth Legge is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of $16.00T/£9.95 paper
Toronto. She has written on Dada, Surrealism, and contemporary Canadian and British art
in Art History, Word and Image, and Representations. Michael Snow is a Canadian artist, FISCHLI AND WEISS
film-maker, and musician. The Way Things Go
Jeremy Millar
2007, 978-1-84638-035-8
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AFTERALL BOOKS
art

Does art have a sex? A study
of Sarah Lucas’s famous assemblage
of objects that suggest male and
female body parts.
September
6 x 8 1/2 112 pp.
32 color illus.
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
978-1-84638-054-9
$35.00S/£19.95 cloth
978-1-84638-053-2
One Work series
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Also available in this series:
HANNE DARBOVEN
Cultural History 1880-1983
Dan Adler
2009, 978-1-84638-050-1
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
ALIGHIERO E BOETTI
Mappa
Luca Cerizza
2008, 978-1-84638-027-3
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
YVONNE RAINER
The Mind is a Muscle
Catherine Wood
2007, 978-1-84638-037-2
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
SARAH LUCAS
Au Naturel
Amna Malik
Amna Malik opens her study of Sarah Lucas’s Au Naturel (1994) by asking
“Does art have a sex? And if so, what does it look like?” Au Naturel is an
assemblage of objects — a mattress, a bucket, a pair of melons, oranges and
a cucumber — that suggest male and female body parts. Through much of
Lucas’s work, and particularly through Au Naturel, Malik argues, we are placed
in a position of spectatorship that makes us see “sex” as so many dismembered
parts, with no apparent morality attached — no implication of guilt, shame, or
embarrassment. The sardonic and irreverent nature of Lucas’s observations,
moreover, violates certain assumptions about what kind of art women artists
make. This, Malik proposes, is the significance of Lucas’s work for a later genera-
tion of artists who are unburdened by the need to insist on questions of gender
and sexual politics as a necessary subject for the woman artist.
Lucas’s shift between high and low art and culture operates as a shift between
“high” aesthetic ideas about the art object as a metaphoric play of meaning and
its “low” associations with the materiality of the literal object and its allusions
to the genitals and sex. Au Naturel creates a series of associations that bring the
ideal into collision with a base materialism, emphasizing desire as a condition of
the meaning of the object.
Amna Malik is a Lecturer in Art History
and Theory at the Slade School of Fine
Art, London. Sarah Lucas’s work has been
included in the major surveys of new
British art in the 1990s, including
Sensation: Young British Artists from
the Saatchi Collection. Au Naturel,
made for and exhibited for the first
time in “Football Karaoke,” organized
by Georg Herold for Portikus, Frankfurt-
am-Main, Germany, 1994, is in Damien
Hirst’s “murderme” collection.

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 ZONE BOOKS

philosophy/critical theory

THE ENEMY OF ALL

Piracy and the Law of Nations
Daniel Heller-Roazen
The philosophical genealogy of
The pirate is the original enemy of humankind. As Cicero famously remarked, a remarkable antagonist: the pirate,
there are certain enemies with whom one may negotiate and with whom, the key to the contemporary
circumstances permitting, one may establish a truce. But there is also an enemy paradigm of the universal foe.

with whom treaties are in vain and war remains incessant. This is the pirate,
considered by ancient jurists to be “the enemy of all.” November
In this book, Daniel Heller-Roazen reconstructs the shifting place of the 6 x 9, 295 pp.

pirate in legal and political thought from the ancient to the medieval, modern, $28.95T/£21.95 cloth
978-1-890951-94-8
and contemporary periods presenting the philosophical genealogy of a remark-
able antagonist. Today, Heller-Roazen argues, the pirate furnishes the key to the Distributed for Zone Books
contemporary paradigm of the universal foe. This is a legal and political person
of exception, neither criminal nor enemy, who inhabits an extra-territorial
Also available from Zone Books
region. Against such a foe, states may wage extraordinary battles, policing poli-
THE INNER TOUCH
tics and justifying military measures in the name of welfare and security. Archaeology of a Sensation
Heller-Roazen defines piracy in the conjunction of four conditions: a region Daniel Heller-Roazen
2009, 978-1-890951-77-1
beyond territorial jurisdiction; agents who may not be identified with an estab-
$22.95T/£16.95 paper
lished state; the collapse of the distinction between criminal and political cate-
gories; and the transformation of the concept of war. The paradigm of piracy
remains in force today. Whenever we hear of regions outside the rule of law in
which acts of “indiscriminate aggression” have
been committed “against humanity,” we must
begin to recognize that these are acts of piracy.
Often considered part of the distant past, the
enemy of all is closer to us today than we may
think. Indeed, he may never have been closer.
Daniel Heller-Roazen is Professor of Comparative
Literature at Princeton University. He is the author
of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (2008)
and The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation
(2009), both published by Zone Books.

Still from Winsor McCay's 1918 animation

The Sinking of the Lusitania.

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ZONE BOOKS
Middle Eastern studies/current affairs
An analysis of Israeli power
in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories, with essays by
leading Palestinian and Israeli
scholars, a comprehensive
chronology, photographs,
and original documents.
December
6 x 9, 650 pp.
52 illus.
$38.95T/£28.95 cloth
978-1-890951-92-4
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CONTRIBUTORS
Caroline Abu-Sada, Gadi Algazi,
Ariella Azoulay, Orna Ben-Naftali,
Yael Berda, Hilla Dayan, Leila Farsakh,
Dani Filc, Michal Givoni, Neve Gordon,
Aeyal M. Gross, Sari Hanafi,
Ariel Handel, Keren Michaeli,
Adi Ophir, Ronen Shamir,
Yehuda Shenhav, Eyal Weizman
Also available from Zone Books
THE CIVIL CONTRACT OF
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ariella Azoulay
2008, 978-1-890951-88-7
$36.95T/£27.95 cloth
THE ORDER OF EVILS
Adi Ophir
2005, 978-1-890951-51-1
$38.95T/£28.95 cloth
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THE POWER OF INCLUSIVE EXCLUSION
Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
edited by Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni, and Sari Hanafi
On the eve of its fifth decade, the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories
can no longer be considered a temporary aberration. Israel’s control over
Palestinian life, society, space and land has become firmly entrenched while
acquiring more sophisticated and enduring forms.
The Power of Inclusive Exclusion analyzes the Israeli occupation as a rational-
ized system of political rule. With essays by leading Palestinian and Israeli
scholars, a comprehensive chronology, photographs, and original documents,
this groundbreaking book calls into question prevalent views of the occupation
as a skewed form of brutal colonization, a type of Jewish apartheid, or an
inevitable response to terrorism. The writers address the fundamental and
contemporary dimensions of the occupation regime — its unpredictable
bureaucratic apparatus, the fragmentation of space and regulation of movement,
the intricate tapestry of law and regulations, the discriminatory control over
economic flows and the calculated use of military violence.
The Power of Inclusive Exclusion uncovers the structural logic that sustains
and reproduces the occupation regime. In a time when military occupations are
emerging globally, political disasters abound, and protracted control over groups
of noncitizens has been normalized, The Power of Inclusive Exclusion provides a
new set of categories crucial to our understanding of emergency regimes and
identifies what is at stake for an informed and timely opposition.
Adi Ophir is Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at the Cohn Institute for the
History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of
The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (Zone Books, 2005) and other books.
Michal Givoni is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
at Tel Aviv University. Sari Hanafi is Associate Professor Sociology at American University
of Beirut. and is the author of The Emergence of A Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors,
International Organizations and Local NGOs.
Selections from www.activestills.org. Active Stills is an online
collective of activist photography from Israel and Palestine.
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philosophy

THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS

On Method
Giorgio Agamben
translated by Luca di Santo The search to create a science of
signatures that exceeds the
The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben’s sustained reflection on method. attempts of semiology and
To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archaeological vigilance: a persistent hermeneutics to determine pure
form of thinking in order to to expose, examine, and elaborate what is obscure, and unmarked signs.

unanalyzed, even unsaid, in an author’s thought. To be archaeologically vigilant,

then, is to return to, even invent, a method attuned to a “world supported by a December
thick weave of resemblances and sympathies, analogies and correspondences.” 6 x 9, 150 pp.

Collecting a wide range of authors and topics in a slim but richly argued volume, $24.95T/£18.95 cloth
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Agamben enacts the search to create a science of signatures that exceeds the
attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to determine the pure and unmarked Distributed for Zone Books
signs that signify univocally, neutrally, and eternally.
Three conceptual figures organize Agamben’s argument and the advent of
his new method: the paradigm, the signature, and archaeology. Each chapter
is devoted to an investigation of one of these concepts Agamben carefully con- Also available from Zone Books
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concepts he isolates. The Signature of All Things reveals once again why REMNANTS OF AUSCHWITZ
Agamben is one of the most innovative thinkers writing today. The Witness and the Archive
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. He is the author 2002, 978-1-890951-17-7
of Profanations (2007), Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (2002) both $18.95T/£14.95 paper
published by Zone Books and other books.

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philosophy
An original, elegant, and
far-reaching philosophical
inquiry into what it means
to feel alive.
September
6 x 9, 386 pp.
$22.95T/£16.95
978-1-890951-77-1
Distributed for Zone Books
cloth 2007
978-1-890951-76-4
Also available from Zone Books
ECHOLALIAS
On the Forgetting of Language
Daniel Heller-Roazen
2008, 978-1-890951-50-4
$21.95T/£16.95 paper
THE ENEMY OF ALL
Daniel Heller-Roazen
2009, 978-1-890951-94-8
$28.95T/£21.95 cloth
Winner of the
Aldo and Jeanne
Scaglione Prize
for Comparative
Literary Studies
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THE INNER TOUCH
Archaeology of a Sensation
Daniel Heller-Roazen
The Inner Touch presents the archaeology of a single sense: the sense of being
sentient. Aristotle was perhaps the first to define this faculty when in his treatise
On the Soul he identified a sensory power, irreducible to the five senses, by which
animals perceive that they are perceiving: the simple “sense,” as he wrote, “that we
are seeing and hearing.” After him, thinkers returned, time and again, to define
and redefine this curious sensation. The classical Greek and Roman philosophers
as well as the medieval Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin thinkers who followed them
all investigated a power they called “the common sense,” which one ancient
author likened to “a kind of inner touch, by which we are able to grasp our-
selves.” Their many findings were not lost with the waning of the Middle Ages.
From Montaigne and Francis Bacon to Locke, Leibniz, and Rousseau, from
nineteenth-century psychiatry and neurology to Proust and Walter Benjamin,
the writers and thinkers of the modern period have turned knowingly and
unknowing to the terms of older traditions in exploring the perception that
every sensitive being possesses of its life.
The Inner Touch reconstructs and reconsiders the history of this perception.
In twenty-five concise chapters that move freely among ancient, medieval,
and modern cultures, Daniel Heller-Roazen investigates a set of exemplary
phenomena that have played central roles in philosophical, literary, psychological,
and medical accounts of the nature of animal existence. Here sensation and
self-sensation, sleeping and waking, aesthetics and anesthetics, perception and
apperception, animal nature and human nature, consciousness and unconscious-
ness, all acquire a new meaning.
The Inner Touch proposes an original,
elegant, and far-reaching philosophical
inquiry into a problem that has never been
more pressing: what it means to feel that
one is alive.
Daniel Heller-Roazen is Professor of Comparative
Literature at Princeton University. He is the
author of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of
Language (2008) and Enemy of All: Piracy and
the Law of Nations (2009), both published by
Zone Books.
 NOW IN PAPER
film/philosophy

INGMAR BERGMAN, CINEMATIC PHILOSOPHER

Reflections on His Creativity
Irving Singer
The development of themes, motifs,
Known for their repeating motifs and signature tropes, the films of Ingmar and techniques in Bergman's films.
Bergman also contain extensive variation and development. In these reflections
on Bergman’s artistry and thought, Irving Singer discerns distinctive themes in October
Bergman’s filmmaking, from first intimations in the early work to consummate 5 3/8 x 8, 256 pp.
resolutions in the later movies. Singer demonstrates that while Bergman’s output $12.95T/£9.95 paper
was not philosophy on celluloid, it attains an expressive and purely aesthetic 978-0-262-51323-4
truthfulness that can be considered philosophical in a broader sense.
Through analysis of both narrative and filmic effects, Singer probes Bergman’s cloth 2007
978-0-262-19563-8
mythmaking and his reliance upon the magic inherent in his cinematic techniques.
Singer traces the evolution of Bergman's ideas about life and death, and about the
BACK IN PRINT
possibility of happiness and interpersonal love in films ranging from films that MEANING IN LIFE
revert to childhood memories (The Best Intentions, Fanny and Alexander, Sunday’s Irving Singer
Children) to such movies as Smiles of a Summer Night, Scenes from a Marriage, and with new prefaces by the author
Saraband, which draw upon Bergman’s mature experience and depict the troubled
relationships between men and women. Inspecting the panorama of Bergman’s MEANING IN LIFE
art, Singer shows how the endless search for human contact motivates the The Creation of Value
content of his films and reflects Bergman’s profound perspective on the world. “The distilled wisdom of one of
Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of Philosophy of Love: the finest minds of our time.”
A Partial Summing-Up (2009) and the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life as — W. Jackson Bate
well as two other books about film, Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique December
(2000) and Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir (2004) all published 6 x 9, 202 pp.
by The MIT Press, and many other books. $30.00S/£22.95 paper
978-0-262-51356-2
Shortlisted for the 2008 Kraszna-Krausz Award for the Best Moving Image Book

MEANING IN LIFE
“Irving Singer’s book is well The Pursuit of Love
grounded, clearly thought out, “A book that deserves to be as
and lucidly written. Though widely read as Erich Fromm’s
the author is a professor of The Art of Living.”
philosophy, it is neither academic — Kathryn Hughes,
nor esoteric, but plain-spoken and Literary Review, London
informative. The work of a man December
6 x 9, 216 pp.
who has long lived with and $30.00S/£22.95 paper
often written about film, this 978-0-262-51357-9
concise volume on Bergman says
more than many another long- MEANING IN LIFE
winded and less stimulating one.” The Harmony of Nature and Spirit
— John Simon, Critic “A gold mine for those who
“A book that is not only wish to better understand the
informative but also insightful intellectual foundations
and illuminating.” of the good life.”
— Robert E. Lauder, — Marvin Kohl, The New
Commonweal School for Social Research
December
6 x 9, 250 pp.
$30.00S/£22.95 paper
978-0-262-51358-6
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politics/cultural studies
THE CHOMSKY EFFECT
A Radical Works Beyond the
Ivory Tower
Robert F. Barsky
Noam Chomsky has been praised
by the likes of Bono and Hugo
Chávez and attacked by the
likes of Tom Wolfe and Alan
Dershowitz. Groundbreaking
linguist and outspoken political
dissenter — voted “most important public intellectual in
the world today” in a 2005 magazine poll — Chomsky
inspires fanatical devotion and fierce vituperation.
In The Chomsky Effect, Chomsky biographer Robert
Barsky examines his subject’s positions on a number of
highly charged issues — Chomsky’s signature issues,
including Vietnam, Israel, East Timor, and his work
in linguistics — that illustrate “the Chomsky effect.”
Chomsky, writes Barsky, is an inspiration and a cat-
alyst. Not just an analyst or advocate, he encourages
people to become engaged — to be “dangerous” and
challenge power and privilege. The actions and reac-
tions of Chomsky supporters and detractors and the
attending contentiousness can be thought of as “the
Chomsky effect.” Barsky charts anti-Chomsky senti-
ments, Chomsky’s popular appeal, and offers in-depth
analyses of controversies surrounding Chomsky’s roles
in the “Faurisson Affair” and the “Pol Pot Affair.”
Finally, Barsky considers the role of the public intellec-
tual in order to assess why Noam Chomsky has come
to mean so much to so many — and what he may
mean to generations to come.
Robert F. Barsky is Professor of English, Comparative Literature,
French, and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the
author of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (MIT Press, 1997).
“This book should be read by anyone interested in the exist-
ing or potential role for public intellectuals in American
society and in politics, particularly.”
— Richard C. Collins, Virginia Quarterly Review
October — 6 x 9, 400 pp. — 11 illus.
$15.95T/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51316-6
cloth 2007
978-0-262-02624-6
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economics/current affairs
ESCAPE FROM EMPIRE
The Developing World's Journey through
Heaven and Hell
Alice H. Amsden
The American government has been both miracle
worker and villain in the developing world. From the
end of World War II until the 1980s, poor countries,
including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed
a modicum of economic growth, thanks in part to
flexible American policies. Then during the Reagan
era, American policy changed.
The definition of laissez-faire
shifted from “Do it your way”
to an imperial “Do it our way.”
A beneficent and politically
savvy empire was followed by a
dictatorial, ideology-driven one.
Growth in the developing world
slowed, income inequalities
skyrocketed, and financial
crises raged. Only East
Asian economies resisted the strict prescriptions
of Washington and continued to boom. Why?
What will the next American empire learn from
the failure of the last? In Escape from Empire, Alice
Amsden argues provocatively that the more freedom a
developing country has to determine its own policies,
the faster its economy will grow. America’s recent
inflexibility — as it has single-mindedly imposed the
same rules, laws, and institutions on all developing
economies under its influence — has been the back-
drop to the rise of two new giants, China and India,
who have built economic power in their own way.
Alice H. Amsden is Barton L. Weller Professor of Political
Economy at MIT.
“A valuable contribution to the appraisal of international
development disappointments, not least because of the
meticulous analysis of American economic foreign policy in
the twentieth century.”
— Patrick Shea, Political Studies Review
October — 6 x 9, 208 pp. — 9 illus.
$14.95T/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51315-9
cloth 2007
978-0-262-01234-8

architecture/acoustics
SPACES SPEAK,
ARE YOU LISTENING?
Experiencing Aural
Architecture
Barry Blesser and
Linda-Ruth Salter
We experience spaces not only
by seeing but also by listening.
We can navigate a room in the
dark, and “hear” the emptiness of a house without
furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall
depends on whether we sit in the front row or under
the balcony. The unique acoustics of religious spaces
acquire symbolic meaning. Social relationships are
strongly influenced by the way that space changes
sound. In Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?, Barry Blesser
and Linda-Ruth Salter examine auditory spatial
awareness: experiencing space by attentive listening.
Every environment has an aural architecture.
Integrating contributions from a wide range of
disciplines — including architecture, music, acoustics,
evolution, anthropology, cognitive psychology, audio
engineering, and many others — Spaces Speak, Are You
Listening? establishes the concepts and language of
aural architecture. These concepts provide an interdis-
ciplinary guide for anyone interested in gaining a better
understanding of how space enhances our well-being.
Aural architecture is not the exclusive domain of spe-
cialists. Accidentally or intentionally, we all function
as aural architects.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007
As a former Professor at MIT and a founder of digital audio,
Barry Blesser has spent the last 40 years working at the junc-
tion of audio, acoustics, perception, and cognitive psychology.
Linda-Ruth Salter, PhD, is an independent scholar who has
spent the last 25 years focusing on the interdisciplinary
relationship of art, space, culture, and technology.
“ Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? is book that would
round out the collection of musician, engineer, architect,
musical historian, or philosopher.”
— Colin Novak, International Journal
of Acoustics and Vibration
October — 7 x 9, 456 pp. — 20 illus.
$21.95T/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51317-3
cloth 2006
978-0-262-02605-5
NOW IN PAPER
art
ART AS EXISTENCE
The Artist’s Monograph and Its Project
Gabriele Guercio
The narrative of the artist’s life and work is one of the
oldest models in the Western literature of the visual
arts. In Art as Existence, Gabriele Guercio investigates
the metamorphosis of the artist’s monograph, tracing
its formal and conceptual trajectories from Vasari’s
sixteenth-century Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and
Architects (which provided the
model and source for the genre)
through its apogee in the nine-
teenth century and decline in the
twentieth. He looks at the legacy
of the life-and-work model and
considers its prospects in an
intellectual universe of decon-
structionism, psychoanalysis,
feminism, and postcolonialism.
The hidden project of the artist’s monograph,
Guercio claims, comes from a utopian impulse; by
commuting biography into art and art into biography,
the life-and-work model equates art and existence,
construing otherwise distinct works of an artist as
chapters of a life story. Guercio calls for a contempo-
rary reconsideration of the life-and-work model, argu-
ing that the ultimate legacy of the artist’s monograph
does not lie in its established modes of writing but in
its greater project and in the intimate portrait that we
gain of the nature of creativity.
Gabriele Guercio is an independent writer living in Milan and
New York. Editor of Art after Philosophy and After by Joseph
Kosuth (MIT Press, 1991) and De Dominicis. Raccolta di scritti
sull’opera e l’artista, he has written on modern and contempo-
rary art as well as the history of art theory.
“An impressively wide-ranging analysis of the monograph
from its Renaissance antecedents to the present.”
— Ann Compton, The Art Book
“Independent, passionate, and unexpected.”
— Christopher S. Wood, Artforum
October — 7 x 9, 392 pp. — 52 illus.
$27.95T/£20.95 paper
978-0-262-51320-3
cloth 2006
978-0-262-07268-7
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art/new media
SIGNS OF LIFE
Bio Art and Beyond
edited by Eduardo Kac
Bio art is a new art form that has
emerged from the cultural impact
and increasing accessibility of
contemporary biotechnology.
Signs of Life is one of the first
books to focus exclusively on art that uses biotechnology
as its medium, defining and discussing the theoretical
and historical implications of bio art and offering
examples of work by prominent artists.
Bio art manipulates the processes of life; in its most
radical form, it invents or transforms living organisms.
It is not representational; bio art is in vivo. (A celebrated
example is Eduardo Kac’s own GFP Bunny, centered
on “Alba," the transgenic fluorescent green rabbit.)
The creations of bio art become a part of evolution
and, provided they are capable of reproduction, can
last as long as life exists on earth. Thus, bio art raises
unprecedented questions about the future of life, evolu-
tion, society, and art. The contributors to Signs of Life
articulate the critical theory of bio art and document
its fundamental works.
CONTRIBUTORS Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey,
Lori B. Andrews, Bernard Andrieu, Brandon Ballengée, Louis Bec,
Oliver A. I. Botar, Oran Catts and Ionat Zurr, Joe Davis,
Richard Doyle, Alexander Fleming, Vilém Flusser, Ronald J. Gedrim,
George Gessert, Natalie Jeremijenko, Eduardo Kac, David Kremers,
Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, Dominique Lestel,
Marta de Menezes, Yves Michaud, Gunalan Nadarajan,
Dorothy Nelkin, Paul Perry, Marc Quinn, Barbara Maria Stafford,
Eugene Thacker, Regina Trindade, Paul Vanouse, Cary Wolfe,
Adam Zaretsky
Eduardo Kac is an internationally celebrated artist who has
received critical acclaim for net and bio works including
Genesis, GFP Bunny, and Move 36. His work has been widely
exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the Museum
of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in
Rio de Janeiro, among others.
October — 7 x 9, 432 pp. — 89 illus.
$18.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51321-0
cloth 2006
978-0-262-11293-2
A Leonardo Book
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art/new media
META/DATA
A Digital Poetics
Mark Amerika
This rich collection of writings by pioneering digital
artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal
memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical
reportage, scholarly history, and network-infused lan-
guage art. META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory,
multitrack “digital sampling” of Amerika’s writing from
1993 to 2005. It tells the early
history of a net art world “gone
wild,” while simultaneously
constructing a parallel poetics
of net art that complements
Amerika’s own artistic practice.
Amerika documents the
emergence of new media art
forms while he creates them.
META/DATA presents a multifaceted view of the
digital art scene on subjects ranging from interactive
storytelling to net art, live VJing, online curating,
and Web publishing.
Provocative, digressive, nomadic, and fun to read,
Amerika’s texts call to mind the cadences of Gertrude
Stein, the Beats, cyberpunk fiction, and even The
Daily Show more than they do the usual new media
theorizing. META/DATA maps the world of net
culture with Amerika as guide and resident artist.
Mark Amerika, named a “Time Magazine 100 Innovator” in
2001, is an interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor
in the Department of Art and Art History at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. His works include the celebrated
epic online narrative GRAMMATRON, selected for the 2000
Whitney Biennial.
“Mark Amerika is a hacker. He hacks language, image,
sound, identities, cultures. He plays space, time, and tech
like a saxophone. He plays out, way out sometimes, but he
will always beckon you to join him. His writings are like
invitations to a happening party you don’t know you are
already at. It’s dense, it’s hard, but it flows, and it’s fun.
What more could you want?”
— McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory
October — 7 x 9, 460 pp. — 18 illus.
$18.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51314-2
cloth 2007
978-0-262-01233-1
A Leonardo Book

popular culture/game studies
THE SECOND LIFE HERALD
The Virtual Tabloid that
Witnessed the Dawn
of the Metaverse
Peter Ludlow and
Mark Wallace
When a virtual journalist for a
virtual newspaper reporting on
the digital world of an online
game lands on the real-world
front page of the New York
Times, it just might signal the
dawn of a new era. Virtual journalist Peter Ludlow
was banned from The Sims Online for being a bit too
good at his job — for reporting in his virtual tabloid
the Alphaville Herald on the cyber-brothels, crimes,
and strong-arm tactics that had become rife in the
game. Seeking a new virtual home, Ludlow moved the
Herald to another virtual world — the powerful online
environment of Second Life — just as it was about to
explode onto the international mediascape and usher
in the next iteration of the Internet.
In The Second Life Herald, Ludlow and his colleague
Mark Wallace take us behind the scenes of the Herald
as they report on the emergence of a fascinating universe
of virtual spaces that will become the next generation
of the World Wide Web: a 3-D environment that
provides richer, more expressive interactions than the
Web we know today.
Peter Ludlow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Toronto, is the author or editor of a number of books on
both philosophy and cyberspace. Mark Wallace is the editor
of leading metaverse blog 3pointD.com, and a coauthor of
Second Life: The Official Guide.
• A Library Journal Top Sci-Tech Book of 2007
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008
• Winner, Media and Cultural Studies category, 2007,
Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards
“Anyone with even the slightest curiosity about online
virtual communities will find it engrossing.”
— Publishers Weekly
“A lively and worthwhile insight into the development of
this alternative universe.”
— Eric Sinrod, New Scientist
October — 6 x 9, 312 pp. — 21 illus.
$15.95T/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51322-7
cloth 2007
978-0-262-12294-8
NOW IN PAPER
new media/poetry
NEW MEDIA POETICS
Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories
edited by Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss
New media poetry — poetry composed, disseminated,
and read on computers — exists in various configura-
tions, from electronic documents that can be navigated
and/or rearranged by their “users” to kinetic, visual, and
sound materials through online journals and archives
like UbuWeb, PennSound, and the Electronic Poetry
Center. Unlike mainstream print poetry, which assumes
a bounded, coherent, and self-conscious speaker, new
media poetry assumes a synergy between human beings
and intelligent machines. The
essays and artist statements in
this volume explore this synergy’s
continuities and breaks with past
poetic practices, and its profound
implications for the future.
By adding new media poetry
to the study of hypertext narra-
tive, interactive fiction, com-
puter games, and other digital art forms, New Media
Poetics extends our understanding of the computer as
an expressive medium, showcases works that are visu-
ally arresting, aurally charged, and dynamic, and traces
the lineage of new media poetry through print and
sound poetics, procedural writing, gestural abstraction
and conceptual art, and activist communities formed
by emergent poetics.
Adalaide Morris is John C. Gerber Professor of English at the
University of Iowa, where Thomas Swiss is Professor of English
and Rhetoric of Inquiry.
“A fine introduction to the topic, while the questions it raises
make it a necessary text for advanced scholars as well.”
— Sandy Baldwin, American Book Review
October — 7 x 9, 440 pp. — 92 illus.
$19.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51338-8
cloth 2006
978-0-262-13463-7
A Leonardo Book
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NOW IN PAPER
technology and society/political science
MOBILE COMMUNICATION
AND SOCIETY
A Global Perspective
Manuel Castells,
Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol,
Jack Linchuan Qiu, and
Araba Sey
Wireless networks are the fastest
growing communications tech-
nology in history. Are mobile
phones expressions of identity,
fashionable gadgets, tools for life — or all of the above?
Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the
possibility of multimodal communication from any-
where to anywhere at any time affects everyday life at
home, at work, and at school, and raises broader con-
cerns about politics and culture both global and local.
This sweeping book — moving easily in its analysis
from the United States to China, from Europe to Latin
America and Africa — answers the key questions about
our transformation into a mobile network society.
Manuel Castells is Professor of Communication and the Wallis
Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society
at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Southern California. He is the author of, among other books,
the three-volume work The Information Age: Economy, Society,
and Culture. Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol is a Researcher at
the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Open University of
Catalonia, and a Lecturer in Econometrics at the Faculty of
Economic Sciences, University of Barcelona. Jack Linchuan
Qiu is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and
Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
andthe author of Working-Class Network Society (MIT Press,
2009). Araba Sey is a Research Associate with the Center for
Information and Society at the University of Washington.
“The book should be required reading for researchers in all
aspects of communications and information and students in
sociology, media studies, geography, and politics.”
— Scott Lash, Times Higher Education Supplement
October — 6 x 9, 352 pp. — 10 illus.
$15.95T/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51318-0
cloth 2006
978-0-262-03355-8
Information Revolution and Global Politics series
52
technology/business/law
WIRED SHUT
Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Tarleton Gillespie
While the public and the media have been distracted by
warnings about the evils of “piracy” and lawsuits by the
recording and film industries, the enforcement of copy-
right law in the digital world has quietly shifted from
regulating copying to regulating the design of technol-
ogy. Lawmakers and commercial interests are pursuing
what might be called a technical fix: instead of specifying
what can and cannot be done legally with a copyrighted
work, this new approach calls for
the strategic use of encryption
technologies to build standards
of copyright directly into digital
devices so that some uses are
possible and others rendered
impossible. In Wired Shut,
Tarleton Gillespie examines this
shift to “technical copy protection”
and its profound political, eco-
nomic, and cultural implications.
Tarleton Gillespie is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Communication at Cornell University, with affiliations in the
Department of Science and Technology Studies and the
Information Science program. He is also a Fellow with the
Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
“A sophisticated accounting of several key developments and
the ways in which these developments have impacted our
ability to use digital cultural products.”
— Debra Halbert, Law and Politics Book Review
“Wired Shut is an important book, essential for those who
care about the future of digital technologies and informa-
tion flows.”
— Pamela Samuelson,
University of California, Berkeley
“ Wired Shut is instantly one of the most important books
about copyright and technology available.”
— Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of
The Anarchist in the Library
October — 6 x 9, 400 pp.
$15.95T/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51319-7
cloth 2007
978-0-262-07282-3

communications policy/computer science
CHANGE OF STATE
Information, Policy,
and Power
Sandra Braman
As the informational state
replaces the bureaucratic welfare
state, control over information
creation, processing, flows, and
use has become the most effec-
tive form of power. In this book,
Sandra Braman examines the theoretical and practical
ramifications of this “change of state.” She looks at the
ways in which governments are deliberate, explicit, and
consistent in their use of information policy to exercise
power, exploring not only such familiar topics as intel-
lectual property rights and privacy but also areas in
which policy is highly effective but little understood.
Such lesser-known issues include hybrid citizenship,
the use of “functionally equivalent borders” internally
to allow exceptions to U.S. law, research funding,
census methods, and network interconnection. Trends
in information policy, argues Braman, both manifest
and trigger change in the nature of governance itself.
Change of State introduces information policy on two
levels, coupling discussions of specific contemporary
problems with more abstract analysis drawing on social
theory and empirical research as well as law. Most
important, the book provides a way of understanding
how information policy brings about the fundamental
social changes that come with the transformation to
the informational state.
Sandra Braman is Professor in the Department of
Communication, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
She is the editor of Communication Researchers and
Policy-Making (MIT Press, 2003).
“Valuable insight into the way the U.S. state (particularly
under the administration of George W. Bush) has developed
its information policies.”
— Lee Salter, Global Media and Communication
“An important reconceptualization of the policy landscape,
putting communications and information policy at the
center of power and control.”
— Pat Aufderheide, Professor and Director,
Center for Social Media, School of
Communication, American University
September — 6 x 9, 576 pp.
$20.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51324-1
cloth 2006
978-0-262-02597-3
NOW IN PAPER
game studies
CHEATING
Gaining Advantage in Videogames
Mia Consalvo
The widely varying experiences of players of digital
games challenge the notions that there is only one cor-
rect way to play a game. Some players routinely use
cheat codes, consult strategy guides, or buy and sell in-
game accounts, while others consider any or all of these
practices off limits. Meanwhile, the game industry
works to constrain certain readings or activities and
promote certain ways of playing. In Cheating, Mia
Consalvo investigates how play-
ers choose to play games and
what happens when they can’t
always play the way they’d like.
Consalvo provides a cultural
history of cheating in
videogames, looking at how the
packaging and selling of such
cheat-enablers as cheat books,
GameSharks, and mod chips created a cheat industry.
She investigates how players themselves define cheat-
ing and how their playing choices can be understood,
with particular attention to online cheating. Finally,
she examines the growth of the peripheral game indus-
tries that produce information about games rather than
actual games. Digital games are spaces for play and
experimentation; the way we use and think about digi-
tal games, Consalvo argues, is crucially important and
reflects ethical choices in gameplay and elsewhere.
Mia Consalvo is Associate Professor of Telecommunications at
Ohio University.
“An intriguing look at one of the most maligned aspects of
gameplay, Cheating explores the act of subverting game
rules from a range of perspectives and finds, surprisingly,
not villains and spoilsports, but players of all types engaged
in a complex negotiation of personal, cultural, and indus-
trial exchange."
— Tracy Fullerton, Codirector, Electronic Arts Game
Innovation Lab, University of Southern California
School of Cinematic Arts
September — 7 x 9 x, 240 pp. — 1 illus.
$18.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51328-9
cloth 2007
978-0-262-03365-7
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NOW IN PAPER
human-computer interaction
ACTING WITH TECHNOLOGY
Activity Theory and
Interaction Design
Victor Kaptelinin and
Bonnie A. Nardi
Activity theory holds that the
human mind is the product of
our interaction with people
and artifacts in the context of
everyday activity. Acting with
Technology makes the case for
activity theory as a basis for understanding our relation-
ship with technology. Victor Kaptelinin and Bonnie
Nardi describe activity theory’s principles, history, rela-
tionship to other theoretical approaches, and application
to the analysis and design of technologies. The book
provides the first systematic entry-level introduction to
the major principles of activity theory. It describes the
accumulating body of work in interaction design
informed by activity theory, drawing on work from an
international community of scholars and designers.
Kaptelinin and Nardi examine the notion of the object
of activity, describe its use in an empirical study, and dis-
cuss key debates in the development of activity theory.
Finally, they outline current and future issues in activity
theory, providing a comparative analysis of the theory
and its leading theoretical competitors within interaction
design: distributed cognition, actor-network theory, and
phenomenologically inspired approaches.
Victor Kaptelinin is Professor in the Department of Informatics
at Umeå University, Sweden and coeditor of Beyond the Desktop
Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments (MIT
Press, 2007). Bonnie A. Nardi is Associate Professor in the
School of Information and Computer Science at the University
of California, Irvine. She is the author of A Small Matter of
Programming (1993), and coauthor of Information Ecologies:
Using Technology with Heart (1999), both published by the
MIT Press.
“With elegance and clarity, Acting with Technology
outlines a theoretical perspective that helps interaction
design meet its future.”
— Sampsa Hyysalo, Center for Activity Theory and
Developmental Work Research, University of Helsinki
September — 6 x 9, 352 pp. — 17 illus.
$18.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51331-9
cloth 2006
978-0-262-11298-7
Acting with Technology series
54
computer science
ALIGNING MODERN BUSINESS
PROCESSES AND LEGACY SYSTEMS
A Component-Based Perspective
Willem-Jan van den Heuvel
foreword by Michael L. Brodie
Distributed business component computing — the
assembling of business components into electronic busi-
ness processes, which interact via the Internet — caters
to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible,
relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate
new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate
with other enterprise systems. Companies with unwieldy,
large, and heterogeneous inher-
ited information systems —
known as legacy systems — find
it extremely difficult to align
their old systems with novel
business processes. Legacy sys-
tems are not only tightly inter-
twined with existing business
processes and procedures but also
have a brittle architecture after years of ad hoc fixes and
offer limited openness to other systems. In this book,
Willem-Jan van den Heuvel provides a methodological
framework that offers pragmatic techniques for aligning
component-based business processes and legacy systems.
Van den Heuvel’s methodology is based on three
building blocks: reverse engineering, which allows legacy
systems to be componentized; forward engineering,
which derives a set of business components from require-
ments of the new business processes; and alignment
of new business processes and componentized legacy
systems. Aligning Modern Business Processes and Legacy
Systems offers theoretically grounded practical methodol-
ogy that has been explored and tested in a variety of
experiments as well as some real-world projects.
Willem-Jan van den Heuvel is Associate Professor in the
Department of Computer Science at Tilburg University.
“A strategic introduction to business component design that
is essential reading for CIOs, system architects, designers,
and developers working with distributed systems and legacy
components. Highly recommended.”
— Jeff Sutherland, Chief Technology Officer,
PatientKeeper, Inc.
September — 7 x 9, 240 pp. — 64 illus.
$18.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51346-3
cloth 2006
978-0-262-22079-8
Cooperative Information Systems series

computer science/operations research
ONLINE STOCHASTIC
COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION
Pascal Van Hentenryck and
Russell Bent
Online decision making under
uncertainty and time constraints
represents one of the most chal-
lenging problems for robust
intelligent agents. In an increas-
ingly dynamic, interconnected,
and real-time world, intelligent systems must adapt
dynamically to uncertainties, update existing plans to
accommodate new requests and events, and produce
high-quality decisions under severe time constraints.
Such online decision-making applications are becoming
increasingly common. Ambulance dispatching and
emergency city-evacuation routing, for example, are
inherently online decision-making problems; other
applications include packet scheduling for Internet
communications and reservation systems. This book
presents a novel framework, online stochastic combina-
torial optimization, to address this challenge.
The book presents several online stochastic
algorithms implementing the framework, provides
performance guarantees, and demonstrates a variety
of applications. The authors discuss how to relax some
of the assumptions in using historical sampling and
machine learning and analyze different underlying
algorithmic problems before addressing the frame-
work’s possible limitations and suggesting directions
for future research.
Pascal Van Hentenryck is Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at Brown University. He is author or
editor of Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming
(1995), The OPL Optimization Programming Language (1999),
Constraint-Based Local Search (2005), all published by the
MIT Press. Russell Bent is a PhD graduate of Brown University,
where he worked on online optimization. He is on the
technical staff of Los Alamos National Laboratories.
September — 8 x 9, 248 pp.— 75 illus.
$18.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51347-0
cloth 2006
978-0-262-22080-4
NOW IN PAPER
computer science/optimization
CONSTRAINT-BASED LOCAL SEARCH
Pascal Van Hentenryck and Laurent Michel
The ubiquity of combinatorial optimization problems
in our society is illustrated by the novel application
areas for optimization technology, which range from
supply chain management to sports tournament sched-
uling. Over the last two decades, constraint program-
ming has emerged as a fundamental methodology to
solve a variety of combinatorial problems, and rich
constraint programming languages have been developed
for expressing and combining
constraints and specifying search
procedures at a high level of
abstraction. Local search
approaches to combinatorial
optimization are able to isolate
optimal or near-optimal solutions
within reasonable time con-
straints. This book introduces a method for solving
combinatorial optimization problems that combines
constraint programming and local search, using con-
straints to describe and control local search, and a
programming language, COMET, that supports
both modeling and search abstractions in the spirit
of constraint programming.
Pascal Van Hentenryck is Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at Brown University. He is author or editor
of Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming (1995),
The OPL Optimization Programming Language (1999), and
Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization (2006), all
published by the MIT Press. Laurent Michel is Associate
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at the University of Connecticut.
“ Constraint-Based Local Search presents a powerful
new programming language paradigm for combinatorial
optimization, uniting the power of local search with the
declarativeness of constraint programming. This book
will become an important reference for students and
practitioners of combinatorial optimization.”
— Andrew J. Davenport,
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
September — 8 x 9, 448 pp. — 102 illus.
$22.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51348-7
cloth 2005
978-0-262-22077-4
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NOW IN PAPER
information science
JOURNEY TO DATA QUALITY
Yang W. Lee, Leo L. Pipino,
James D. Funk, and
Richard Y. Wang
All organizations today confront
data quality problems, both sys-
temic and structural. Neither ad
hoc approaches nor fixes at the
systems level — installing the
latest software or developing an
expensive data warehouse —
solve the basic problem of bad
data quality practices. Journey to Data Quality offers a
roadmap that can be used by practitioners, executives,
and students for planning and implementing a viable
data and information quality management program.
This practical guide, based on rigorous research and
informed by real-world examples, describes the chal-
lenges of data management and provides the principles,
strategies, tools, and techniques necessary to meet them.
Yang W. Lee is Associate Professor at the Information,
Operations, and Analysis Group in the College of Business
Administration at Northeastern University. Leo L. Pipino is
Professor Emeritus of Management Information Systems at the
University of Massachusetts, Lowell. James D. Funk is Founder
and Chief Information Architect at Beyond Accuracy, LLC.
Richard Y. Wang is Director of the MIT Information Quality
Program (MITIQ), Codirector of the Total Data Quality
Management Program at MIT (MIT TDQM), and University
Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where
the first master’s degree program in Information Quality has
been established.
“These researchers have been at the forefront of understand-
ing the impact and implication of the quality of data on
organizations. These issues will continue to grow in impor-
tance as nontraditional forms of data are collected.”
— Veda C. Storey, Tull Professor of Computer
Information Systems, Georgia State University
September — 6 x 9, 240 pp. — 41 illus.
$18.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51335-7
cloth 2006
978-0-262-12287-0
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bioethics/law
MAKING MEDICAL DECISIONS
FOR THE PROFOUNDLY
MENTALLY DISABLED
Norman L. Cantor
In this book, Norman Cantor analyzes the legal and
moral status of people with profound mental disabilities
— those with extreme cognitive impairments that pre-
vent their exercise of medical self-determination. He
proposes a legal and moral framework for surrogate
medical decision making on their behalf. The issues
Cantor explores will be of interest to professionals in
law, medicine, psychology, philosophy, and ethics, as
well as to parents, guardians, and
health care providers who face
perplexing issues in the context
of surrogate medical decision
making.
The profoundly mentally dis-
abled are thought by some moral
philosophers to lack the mini-
mum cognitive ability for per-
sonhood. Countering this
position, Cantor advances both theoretical and practi-
cal arguments for according them full legal and moral
status. He also argues that the concept of intrinsic
human dignity should have an integral role in shaping
the bounds of surrogate decision making. Thus, he
claims, while profoundly mentally disabled persons are
not entitled to make their own medical decisions,
respect for intrinsic human dignity dictates their right
to have a conscientious surrogate make medical deci-
sions on their behalf.
Norman L. Cantor is Professor of Law and Justice Nathan
Jacobs Scholar at Rutgers University School of Law.
“When was the last time you opened a book and realized
that what you were reading could actually help you to
improve the lives of persons to whom you owe special care?
Norman Cantor, a professor of law at Rutgers University,
has written such a book.”
— Patricia Backlar, New England Journal of Medicine
September — 6 x 9, 320 pp.
$18.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51327-2
cloth 2005
978-0-262-03331-2
Basic Bioethics series

bioethics/psychiatry
HEALING PSYCHIATRY
Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide
David H. Brendel
foreword by T. M. Luhrmann
Psychiatry today is torn by
opposing sensibilities. Is it pri-
marily a science of brain func-
tioning or primarily an art of
understanding the human mind
in its social and cultural context?
Competing conceptions of men-
tal illness as amenable to scien-
tific explanation or as deeply complex and beyond the
reach of empirical study have left the field conceptually
divided between science and humanism. In Healing
Psychiatry, David Brendel takes a novel approach to this
stubborn problem. Drawing on the classical American
pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce, William James,
and John Dewey, as well as contemporary work of prag-
matic bioethicists, Brendel proposes a “clinical pragma-
tism” that synthesizes scientific and humanistic
approaches to mental health care. Psychiatry, he argues,
must integrate scientific and humanistic models by
emphasizing the practical, pluralistic, participatory, and
provisional aspects of clinical diagnosis and treatment.
David H. Brendel is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at
Harvard Medical School, Deputy Editor of the Harvard Review
of Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Psychiatry
Residency Program at Massachusetts General and McLean
hospitals.
“The approach throughout is thoughtful, well-reasoned,
and persuasive. Psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and all
mental health professionals will find it informative and
challenging.”
— W.W. Meissner, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
“Any mental health worker would do well to read this book
and take note of its main theme — patients come before
theory.”
— Ian D. Jakobi, Journal of Mental Health
September — 6 x 9, 200 pp.
$14.00S/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51325-8
cloth 2006
978-0-262-02594-2
Basic Bioethics series
NOW IN PAPER
evolution/history of science/biology
FROM EMBRYOLOGY TO EVO-DEVO
A History of Developmental Evolution
edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and
Jane Maienschein
Although we now know that ontogeny (individual
development) does not actually recapitulate phylogeny
(evolutionary transformation), contrary to Ernst
Haeckel’s famous dictum, the relationship between
embryological development and evolution remains
the subject of intense scientific interest. In the 1990s a
new field, evolutionary developmental biology (or Evo-
Devo), was hailed as the synthesis of developmental
and evolutionary biology. In From Embryology to Evo-
Devo, historians, philosophers,
sociologists, and biologists offer
diverse perspectives on the his-
tory of efforts to understand
the links between development
and evolution.
After examining events in the
history of early twentieth-century
embryology and developmental
genetics, the contributors explore
additional topics ranging from the history of compara-
tive embryology in America to a philosophical-historical
analysis of different research styles. Finally, three major
figures in theoretical biology — Brian Hall, Gerd Müller,
and Günter Wagner — reflect on the past and future of
Evo-Devo, particularly on the interdisciplinary nature
of the field. The sum is an exciting interdisciplinary
exploration of developmental evolution.
Manfred D. Laubichler is Professor in the School of Life
Sciences at Arizona State University. Jane Maienschein is
Regents’ Professor and Parents Association Professor in the
School of Life Sciences and Director of the Center of Biology
and Society at Arizona State University.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007
“The essays represent a broad range of approaches and
analyses from scholars working in perhaps the most exciting
area of research in the history and philosophy of biology.”
— Mark E. Borrello, Journal of the History of Biology
September — 6 x 9, 584 pp. — 63 illus.
$29.00S/£21.95 paper
978-0-262-51334-0
cloth 2007
978-0-262-12283-2
Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology
57
NOW IN PAPER
evolution/biology/complex systems evolution/philosophy/biology

MODULARITY BIOLOGICAL EMERGENCES

Understanding the Evolution by Natural Experiment
Development and Evolution Robert G. B. Reid
of Natural Complex Systems
Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the funda-
edited by Werner Callebaut
and Diego Rasskin-Gutman mental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how
foreword by Herbert A. Simon selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient expla-
nation of evolution often go unanswered by today’s
Modularity — the attempt to
neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of
understand systems as integra-
the evolutionary paradigm will encourage creationists
tions of partially independent and
and proponents of intelligent design.
interacting units — is today a dominant theme in
In Biological Emergences,
the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer sci-
Robert Reid argues that natural
ence. The concept goes back at least implicitly to the
selection is not the cause of evo-
Scientific (or Copernican) Revolution, and can be
lution. He writes that the causes
found behind later theories of phrenology, physiology,
of variations, which he refers to
and genetics; moreover, art, engineering, and mathe-
as natural experiments, are inde-
matics rely on modular design principles. This collec-
pendent of natural selection;
tion broadens the scientific discussion of modularity by
indeed, he suggests, natural
bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines,
selection may get in the way
including artificial life, cognitive science, economics,
of evolution. Reid proposes an alternative theory to
evolutionary computation, developmental and evolu-
explain how emergent novelties are generated and
tionary biology, linguistics, mathematics, morphology,
under what conditions they can overcome the resist-
paleontology, physics, theoretical chemistry, philosophy,
ance of natural selection. He suggests that what causes
and the arts.
innovative variation causes evolution, and that these
The contributors debate and compare the uses of
phenomena are environmental as well as organismal.
modularity, discussing the different disciplinary con-
texts of “modular thinking” in general or of more spe- The late Robert G. B. Reid was Emeritus Professor of Biology
at the University of Victoria, British Columbia and the author
cialized concepts; what modules are, why and how of Evolutionary Theory: The Unfinished Synthesis.
they develop and evolve, and the implication for the
research agenda in the disciplines involved; and how to “The author’s strong opinions about evolutionary processes
bring about useful cross-disciplinary knowledge trans- are refreshing and thought provoking, his rigorous criticism
fer on the topic. of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution reminds us of the
necessity to explicitly recognize the theory’s assumptions, and
Werner Callebaut is Scientific Manager of the Konrad Lorenz
Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna, and his excellent command of the literature is a sobering and
Professor of Philosophy at Limburg University, Belgium. timely reminder that many new theories are often well for-
Diego Rasskin-Gutman is Ramón y Cajal Research Associate gotten ideas of the past with a rich and fascinating history.”
and Head of the Theoretical Biology Research Group at the
Institute Cavanilles for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, — Alexander V. Badyaev, Acta Biotheoretica
University of Valencia, Spain.
September — 7 x 9, 536 pp.
“The volume is a great read; the content of each chapter
$20.00S/£14.95 paper
provides definitions, examples, and analysis so that the 978-0-262-51340-1
implications of ‘modular thinking’ are profound.”
— Marvalee H. Wake, Quarterly Review of Biology cloth 2007
978-0-262-18257-7
September — 7 x 9, 472 pp. — 81 illus. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
$29.00S/£21.95 paper
978-0-262-51326-5

cloth 2005
978-0-262-03326-8
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philosophy
RELATIVISM AND THE FOUNDATIONS
OF PHILOSOPHY
Steven D. Hales
The grand and sweeping claims
of many relativists might seem
to amount to the argument that
everything is relative — except
the thesis of relativism. In this
book, Steven Hales defends
relativism, but in a more circum-
scribed form that applies specifi-
cally to philosophical propositions. His claim is that
philosophical propositions are relatively true — true in
some perspectives and false in others. Hales defends
this argument first by examining rational intuition as
the method by which philosophers come to have the
beliefs they do. Analytic rationalism, he claims, has a
foundational reliance on rational intuition as a method
of acquiring basic beliefs. He then argues that there are
other methods that people use to gain beliefs about
philosophical topics that are strikingly analogous to
rational intuition and examines two of these: Christian
revelation and the ritual use of hallucinogens. Hales
argues that rational intuition is not epistemically supe-
rior to either of these alternative methods.
Hales’s somewhat disturbing conclusion — that
intuition-driven philosophy does produce knowledge,
but not absolute knowledge — is sure to inspire debate
among philosophers.
Steven D. Hales is Professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg
University.
“This interesting book is chock full of arguments on a wide
range of important topics in logic, epistemology, the philoso-
phy of science, metaphysics, and metaphilosophy. . . . The
arguments are invariably provocative and are presented
with admirable clarity and verve.”
— Andrew D. Cling,
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
“Hales has written an original and stimulating book whose
conclusions will challenge deep-seated orthodoxies and pro-
voke strong reactions.”
— Maria Baghramian, School of Philosophy,
University College Dublin
September — 6 x 9, 232 pp.
$19.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51330-2
cloth 2006
978-0-262-08353-9
NOW IN PAPER
philosophy
AUSTERE REALISM
Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology
Terence E. Horgan and Matjaž Potrč
The authors of Austere Realism describe and defend a
provocative ontological-cum-semantic position, assert-
ing that the right ontology is minimal or austere, in
that it excludes numerous commonsense posits, and
that statements employing such posits are nonetheless
true, when truth is understood to be semantic correct-
ness under contextually operative semantic standards.
Terence Horgan and Matjaž Potrč argue that austere
realism emerges naturally from consideration of the
deep problems within the naive
commonsense approach to truth
and ontology. They offer an
account of truth that confronts
these deep internal problems and
is independently plausible: con-
textual semantics, which asserts
that truth is semantically correct
affirmability. Under contextual
semantics, much ordinary and
scientific thought and discourse is true because its truth
is indirect correspondence to the world.
Horgan and Potrč advance a specific austere ontol-
ogy they call “blobjectivism” — the view that the right
ontology includes only one concrete particular, the
entire cosmos (“the blobject”), which, although it has
enormous local spatiotemporal variability, does not
have any proper parts.
Austere Realism will generate lively debate among
scholars in metaphysics, ontology, and philosophy.
Terence E. Horgan is Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Arizona. Matjaž Potrč is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Ljubljana.
“Though Horgan and Potrč’s ontological conclusions are
radical, their reasoning is impeccable and comes with a good
dose of reflection on the best way of choosing an ontology.
This book is an important contribution to the growing
literature in metametaphysics.”
— Josh Parsons, Philosophy Department,
Otago University
September — 6 x 9, 232 pp. — 1 illus.
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51333-3
cloth 2008
978-0-262-08376-8
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NOW IN PAPER
philosophy/linguistics
DE LINGUA BELIEF
Robert Fiengo and Robert May
Speakers, in their everyday con-
versations, use language to talk
about language. They may won-
der about what words mean, to
whom a name refers, whether a
sentence is true. They may worry
whether they have been clear, or
correctly expressed what they
meant to say. That speakers can make such inquiries
implies a degree of access to the complex array of
knowledge and skills underlying our ability to speak,
and though this access is incomplete, we nevertheless
can form on this basis beliefs about linguistic matters of
considerable subtlety, about ourselves and others. It is
beliefs of this sort — de lingua beliefs — that Robert
Fiengo and Robert May explore in this book.
Fiengo and May focus on the beliefs speakers have
about the semantic values of linguistic expressions,
exploring the genesis of these beliefs and the explana-
tory roles they play in how speakers use and under-
stand language. Their key insight is that the content of
beliefs about semantic values can be taken as part of
what we say by our utterances. This has direct conse-
quences, examined in detail by Fiengo and May, for
explaining the informativeness of identity statements
and the possibilities for substitution in attributions of
propositional attitudes, cases in which speakers’ beliefs
about coreference play a central role.
Robert Fiengo is Professor of Linguistics at Queens College
and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Robert May is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at
the University of California, Davis. Fiengo and May are the
authors of Indices and Identity (MIT Press, 1994).
“This superb book takes on some of the hardest and longest-
standing problems in the philosophy of language.”
— Michael Glanzberg, Department of Philosophy,
University of California, Davis
September — 6 x 9, 192 pp.
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51329-6
cloth 2006
978-0-262-06257-2
A Bradford Book
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philosophy/linguistics
VERITAS
The Correspondence Theory and Its Critics
Gerald Vision
In Veritas, Gerald Vision defends the correspondence
theory of truth — the theory that truth has a direct
relationship to reality — against recent attacks, and
critically examines its most influential alternatives. The
correspondence theory, if successful, explains one way in
which we are cognitively connected to the world; thus,
it is claimed, truth — while relevant to semantics, epis-
temology, and other studies —
also has significant metaphysical
consequences. Although the cor-
respondence theory is widely held
today, Vision points to an emerg-
ing orthodoxy in philosophy that
claims that truth as such carries
no significant weight in philo-
sophical explanations. He devotes
much of the book to a criticism
of that outlook and to a less
vulnerable formulation of the correspondence theory.
Vision defends the correspondence theory by both
presenting evidence for correspondence and examining
the claims made by such alternative theories as defla-
tionism, minimalism, and pluralism. The techniques of
the argument are thoroughly analytic, but the problem
confronted is broadly humanistic. The question exam-
ined — how we, as thinking beings, are connected to
and manage to cope in a world that was not designed
for our comfort or convenience — is more likely to be
raised by continentalists, but is approached here with
the tools of clarity and precision more highly prized in
analytic philosophy. The book provides a rigorous but
largely nontechnical treatment of the topic that will be
of interest not only to readers familiar with philosophy
but also to those with a background in literary theory
and linguistics.
Gerald Vision is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University.
“This book is essential reading for those interested in current
philosophical debates about truth. Vision lays down the
gauntlet against deflationism.”
— Terence E. Horgan, University of Arizona
September — 6 x 9, 320 pp. — 2 illus.
$19.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51349-4
cloth 2004
978-0-262-22070-5
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linguistics/cognitive science
THE COMPUTATIONAL NATURE OF
LANGUAGE LEARNING
AND EVOLUTION
Partha Niyogi
The nature of the interplay
between language learning and
the evolution of a language over
generational time is subtle. We
can observe the learning of lan-
guage by children and marvel at
the phenomenon of language acquisition; the evolution
of a language, however, is not so directly experienced.
Language learning by children is robust and reliable,
but it cann ot be perfect or languages would never
change — and English, for example, would not have
evolved from the language of the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicles. In this book Partha Niyogi introduces a
framework for analyzing the precise nature of the rela-
tionship between learning by the individual and evolu-
tion of the population. Niyogi investigates the roles of
natural selection, communicative efficiency, and learn-
ing in the origin and evolution of language — in par-
ticular, whether natural selection is necessary for the
emergence of shared languages.
Over the years, historical linguists have postulated
several accounts of documented language change.
Additionally, biologists have postulated accounts of
the evolution of communication systems in the animal
world. This book creates a mathematical and compu-
tational framework within which to embed those
accounts, offering a research tool to aid analysis in an
area in which data is often sparse and speculation
often plentiful.
Partha Niyogi is Professor of Computer Science and Statistics
at the University of Chicago.
“A thoughtful and original analysis of important problems
in the history, evolution, and acquisition of language.”
— Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology,
Harvard University, author of The Blank Slate
September — 7 x 9, 504 pp. — 54 illus.
$22.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51339-5
cloth 2006
978-0-262-14094-2
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NOW IN PAPER
cognitive science
DISORDERS OF VOLITION
edited by Natalie Sebanz and Wolfgang Prinz
Science tries to understand human action from two
perspectives, the cognitive and the volitional. The
volitional approach, in contrast to the more dominant
“outside-in” studies of cognition, looks at actions from
the inside out, examining how actions are formed and
informed by internal conditions. In Disorders of Volition,
scholars from a range of disciplines seek to advance our
understanding of the processes supporting voluntary
action by addressing conditions in which the will is
impaired. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists,
and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies
from both theoretical and
empirical perspectives, offering
a conceptual overview and dis-
cussing specific neurological
and psychiatric conditions as
disorders of volition.
After presenting different
conceptual frameworks that
identify agency, decision mak-
ing, and goal pursuit as central components of volition,
the book examines how impairments in these and
other aspects of volition manifest themselves in
schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage,
and substance abuse.
CONTRIBUTORS George Ainslie, Tim Bayne, Antoine Bechara,
Paul W. Burgess, Anna-Lisa Cohen, Daniel Dennett,
Stéphanie Dubal, Philippe Fossati, Chris Frith, Sam J. Gilbert,
Peter Gollwitzer, Jordan Grafman, Patrick Haggard, Jay G. Hull,
Marc Jeannerod, Roland Jouvent, Frank Krueger, Neil Levy,
Peter F. Liddle, Kristen L. Mackiewicz, Thomas Metzinger,
Jack B. Nitschke, Jiro Okuda, Adrian M. Owen, Chris Parry,
Wolfgang Prinz, Joëlle Proust, Michael A. Sayette,
Werner X. Schneider, Natalie Sebanz, Jon S. Simons,
Laurie B. Slone, Sean A. Spence
Natalie Sebanz is Associate Professor at Donders Institute for
Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour at Radboud University
Nijmegan, the Netherlands. Wolfgang Prinz is Director
of the Cognition and Action Research Unit at Max Planck
Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig.
September — 7 x 9, 504 pp. — 53 illus., 8-page color insert
$26.00S/£19.95 paper
978-0-262-51342-5
cloth 2006
978-0-262-19540-9
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NOW IN PAPER
cognitive neuroscience
INNER PRESENCE
Consciousness as a
Biological Phenomenon
Antti Revonsuo
The question of consciousness
is perhaps the most significant
problem still unsolved by science.
In Inner Presence, Antti Revonsuo
proposes a novel approach to the
study of consciousness that integrates findings from
philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience into
a coherent theoretical framework. Arguing that any
fruitful scientific approach to the problem must con-
sider both the subjective psychological reality of con-
sciousness and the objective neurobiological reality,
Revonsuo proposes that the best strategy for discover-
ing the connection between these two realities is one
of “biological realism,” using tools of the empirical
biological sciences. This approach, which he calls the
“biological research program,” provides a theoretical
and philosophical foundation that contemporary study
of consciousness lacks.
Antti Revonsuo is Professor of Cognitive Neurocience in the
School of Humanities and Informatics at the University of
Skövde, Sweden, and Professor of Psychology at the Center for
Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Turku, Finland.
“Revonsuo steers an important and interesting path through
a variety of theoretical and methodological considerations
from different domains and does so with a clarity that
makes such considerations interdisciplinarily accessible.”
— Arnon Cahen, Quarterly Review of Biology
“By integrating the philosophy, psychology, and biology of
consciousness, and by including dreaming consciousness
within its purview, Inner Presence distinguishes itself
from other fine books on the subject.”
— David Kahn, Department of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School
September — 7 x 9, 504 pp. — 30 illus.
$28.00S/£20.95 paper
978-0-262-51341-8
cloth 2005
978-0-262-18249-2
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cognitive neuroscience
METHODS IN MIND
edited by Carl Senior, Tamara Russell, and
Michael S. Gazzaniga
The evolution of cognitive neuroscience has been
spurred by the development of increasingly sophisti-
cated investigative techniques to study human cogni-
tion. In Methods in Mind, experts examine the wide
variety of tools available to cognitive neuroscientists,
paying particular attention to the ways in which differ-
ent methods can be integrated
to strengthen empirical findings
and how innovative uses for
established techniques can be
developed. The book will be a
uniquely valuable resource for the
researcher seeking to expand his
or her repertoire of investigative
techniques.
Each chapter explores a different approach. These
include transcranial magnetic stimulation, cognitive
neuropsychiatry, lesion studies in nonhuman primates,
computational modeling, psychophysiology, single
neurons and primate behavior, grid computing, eye
movements, fMRI, electroencephalography, imaging
genetics, magnetoencephalography, neuropharmacol-
ogy, and neuroendocrinology. Chapters highlight such
cross-method innovations as the use of the fMRI
signal to constrain magnetoencephalography and the
successful integration of neuroimaging and genetic
analysis. Computational approaches depend on
increased computing power, and one chapter describes
the use of distributed or grid computing to analyze
massive datasets in cyberspace.
Carl Senior is University Lecturer in Psychology and a member
of the Neurosciences Research Institute at Aston University,
Birmingham, U.K. Tamara Russell is Royal Society and
Neurosciences Institute for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders
Visiting Fellow at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science,
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Michael S. Gazzaniga
is Professor of Psychology and Director for the SAGE Center
for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. He is editor-in-chief of The Cognitive Neurosciences
(fourth edition, MIT Press, 2009).
September — 7 x 9, 400 pp. — 18 color illus.,
62 black & white illus.
$29.00S/£21.95 paper
978-0-262-51343-2
cloth 2006
978-0-262-19541-6
Cognitive Neuroscience series

neuroscience
EXPLORING THE
THALAMUS AND ITS
ROLE IN CORTICAL
FUNCTION
Second Edition
S. Murray Sherman and
R. W. Guillery
The thalamus plays a critical
role in perceptual processing, but
many questions remain about what thalamic activities
contribute to sensory and motor functions. In this
book, two pioneers in research on the thalamus examine
the close two-way relationships between the thalamus
and cerebral cortex and look at the distinctive functions
of the links between the thalamus and the rest of
the brain. Countering the dominant “corticocentric”
approach to understanding the cerebral cortex — which
does not recognize that all neocortical areas receive
important inputs from the thalamus and send outputs
to lower motor centers — S. Murray Sherman and
R. W. Guillery argue for a reappraisal of the way we
think about the cortex and its interactions with the
rest of the brain.
This second edition further develops the distinc-
tions among the functional categories critical to
understanding thalamic functions, with expanded
emphasis throughout the book on the role of the thal-
amus in cortical function. An important new chapter
suggests a structural basis for linking perception and
action, supplying supporting evidence for a link often
overlooked in current views of perceptual processing.
S. Murray Sherman is Maurice Goldblatt Professor and Chairman
of the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Chicago.
R. W. Guillery is Emeritus Professor in the Department of
Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
and at the University of Oxford and a fellow of University
College London.
“This volume serves as an excellent gateway into understand-
ing the form and function of the thalamus as gatekeeper.”
— Warren M. Grill, Quarterly Review of Biology
September — 7 x 9, 512 pp. — 101 illus.
$34.00S/£25.95 paper
978-0-262-51344-9
cloth 2005
978-0-262-19532-4
NOW IN PAPER
vision science/neuroscience
LAWS OF SEEING
Wolfgang Metzger
translated by Lothar Spillman
This classic 1936 work in vision science, written by
a leading figure in Germany’s Gestalt movement in
psychology and appearing in English for the first time,
addresses topics that remain of major interest to vision
researchers today. Wolfgang Metzger’s main argument,
drawn from Gestalt theory, is that the objects we
perceive in visual experience
are not the objects themselves
but perceptual effigies of those
objects constructed by our brain
according to natural rules.
Gestalt concepts are currently
being increasingly integrated
into mainstream neuroscience by
researchers proposing network
processing beyond the classical
receptive field. Metzger’s discus-
sion of such topics as ambiguous figures, hidden forms,
camouflage, shadows and depth, and three-dimensional
representations in paintings will interest anyone work-
ing in the field of vision and perception, including
psychologists, biologists, neurophysiologists, and
researchers in computational vision — and artists,
designers, and philosophers.
Wolfgang Metzger (1899–1979) was a central figure in the
Gestalt movement within psychology in Germany. Lothar
Spillman was Professor and Researcher at the Brain Research
Unit in Freiburg, Germany, before his retirement. He is
the coeditor of Visual Perception: The Neurophysiological
Foundations and Sensory Experience, Adaptation, and
Perception.
“An excellent book, with a wealth of inspiring demonstra-
tions and insights. The translators must be thanked for
making it available to the English-speaking world.”
— Arni Kristjánson, Perception
“This is a classic work in the Gestalt tradition of visual
perception, and many of the issues Metzger touched upon
continue to be major themes in current research. The trans-
lation is very well done.”
— Pawan Sinha, Department of
Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
September — 6 x 9, 232 pp. — 194 illus.
$25.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51336-4
cloth 2006
978-0-262-13467-5
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NOW IN PAPER
economics/finance
MONETARY POLICY
STRATEGY
Frederic S. Mishkin
This book by a leading authority
on monetary policy offers a
unique view of the subject from
the perspectives of both scholar
and practitioner. Frederic Mishkin
is not only an academic expert in the field but also has
been a high-level policymaker. He is especially well
positioned to discuss the changes in the conduct of
monetary policy in recent years, in particular the turn to
inflation targeting. Monetary Policy Strategy describes
his work over the last ten years, offering published
papers, new introductory material, and a summing up,
“Everything You Wanted to Know about Monetary
Policy Strategy, But Were Afraid to Ask,” which reflects
on what we have learned about monetary policy over
the last thirty years.
Frederic S. Mishkin is the Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking
and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business,
Columbia University (on leave), a research associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research (on leave), and after
finishing this book was appointed a member of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is the author of
many books.
“This is the book to read if you want to understand where
monetary policy is heading, and why.”
— Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel
“A splendid tour of the field for anyone seeking either a
review or an introduction. And having these papers
collected in one volume, to consult as the need arises, is a
boon for up-to-date specialists as well.”
— Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier
Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
September — 7 x 9, 560 pp.— 104 illus.
$25.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51337-1
cloth 2007
978-0-262-13482-8
64
economics/finance/business
FINANCING INNOVATION
IN THE UNITED STATES,
1870 TO THE PRESENT
edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and
Kenneth L. Sokoloff
foreword by William Janeway
Although technological change is vital for economic
growth, the interaction of finance and technological
innovation is rarely studied. This pioneering volume
examines the ways in which innovation is funded in the
United States. In case studies and
theoretical discussions, leading
economists and economic histo-
rians analyze how inventors and
technologically creative entrepre-
neurs have raised funds for their
projects at different stages of
U.S. economic development,
beginning with the post–Civil
War period of the Second
Industrial Revolution. Their
discussions point to intriguing insights about how
the nature of the technology may influence its
financing and, conversely, how the availability of
funds influences technological advances.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Professor in the Departments of
Economics and History at the University of California,
Los Angeles. The late Kenneth L. Sokoloff was Professor of
Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and
Vice President of the Economic History Association. William
Janeway is Vice Chairman of Warburg Pincus and a member of
the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council.
“A marvelous exploration of the central strength of capital-
ism: its unique ability to foster successful innovation over
the long term. Read this book if you want to understand
how Americans have financed innovation and promoted
growth over the past two centuries.”
— Louis Galambos, Professor of Economic and
Business History, Johns Hopkins University
September — 6 x 9, 520 pp. —56 illus.
$24.00S/£17.95 paper
978-0-262-51332-6
cloth 2007
978-0-262-12289-4
 NOW IN PAPER
economics economics

GLOBALIZATION AND THE POOR CONFRONTING INCOME

PERIPHERY BEFORE 1950 INEQUALITY IN JAPAN
Jeffrey G. Williamson A Comparative Analysis of Causes,
Consequences, and Reform
In Globalization and the Poor
Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey
Toshiaki Tachibanaki
Williamson examines globaliza- Contrary to general belief, and to Japan’s own self-
tion through the lens of both the image, inequality of income and wealth distribution in
economist and the historian, Japan has grown in the past two decades. In this well-
analyzing its economic impact written and accessible book, Toshiaki Tachibanaki ana-
on industrially lagging poor lyzes the movement toward more income inequality in
countries in the nineteenth Japan and offers policy recommendations to counter the
and early twentieth centuries. trend. Tachibanaki, Japan’s leading expert on income
Williamson argues that industrialization in the core distribution, draws on new statistical data covering
countries of northwest Europe and their overseas wealth, inheritance, farm and
settlements, combined with a worldwide revolution business holdings, salary, and
in transportation, created an antiglobal backlash in other relevant factors, to demon-
the periphery, the poorer countries of eastern and strate that Japan can no longer
southern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and be thought of as a “90 percent
Latin America. middle-class society.”
The book, updated and
Jeffrey G. Williamson is Laird Bell Professor of Economics at
Harvard University. He is the coauthor (with Kevin O’Rourke) substantially expanded from
of Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Tachibanaki’s 1998 Japanese
Century Atlantic Economy (MIT Press, 1999) and (with
Timothy J. Hatton) Global Migration and the World Economy bestseller, discusses the history
(MIT Press, 2005). and the causes of Japan’s increasing income inequality
and analyzes the effect on wealth distribution of inter-
“This highly original volume by a leading economic histo-
generational transfer. Employing cross-national com-
rian provides an excellent analysis of global trends and the
parisons to the United States and Europe throughout,
impact of globalization on the periphery until 1950. The
Confronting Income Inequality in Japan examines the
questions it raises can provide an attractive research agenda
contrast between equality of opportunity and equality
in years to come.”
of outcome, evaluates equality of opportunity in terms
— Sevket Pamuk, EH.Net
of education and occupation, analyzes the relationship
“A pathbreaking book that is essential reading for students between income distribution and income growth, dis-
of world economic history.” cusses the role of hierarchical positions in organizations,
— Alan M. Taylor, Professor of Economics and and considers the differences between welfare states
Chancellor’s Fellow, University of California, Davis and nonwelfare states.
Toshiaki Tachibanaki is Professor of Economics at Kyoto
September — 5 3/8 x 8, 208 pp. — 19 illus.
University and Director of the Millennium Project on Aging
$15.00S/£11.95 paper at the Economic Planning Agency in Japan.
978-0-262-51350-0
“The book is a significant contribution to the literature on
cloth 2006 the Japanese economy. There is no other book-length,
978-0-262-23250-0 English-language treatment of inequality in Japan.”
Ohlin Lectures series — Dale W. Jorgenson, Samuel W Morris
University Professor, Harvard University

September — 6 x 9, 248 pp. — 11 illus.

$16.00S/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51345-6

cloth 2005
978-0-262-20158-2
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PROFESSIONAL
computer science
A new edition of the essential
text and professional reference,
with substantial new material
on such topics as vEB trees,
dynamic programming, and
edge-base flow.
September
8 x 9, 1332 pp.
$87.00S/£64.95 cloth
978-0-262-03384-8
$64.00S/£39.95 ISE
978-0-262-53305-8
International Student Edition not
available in the USA or Canada
66
INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson,
Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein
Third Edition
Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of
material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and
comprehensiveness. The book covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet
makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is
relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of study. The algorithms are
described in English and in a pseudocode designed to be readable by anyone
who has done a little programming. The explanations have been kept elementary
without sacrificing depth of coverage or mathematical rigor.
The first edition became a widely used text in universities worldwide as
well as the standard reference for professionals. The second edition featured
new chapters on the role of algorithms, probabilistic analysis and randomized
algorithms, and linear programming. The third edition has been revised and
updated throughout. It includes two completely new chapters, on van Emde
Boas trees and multithreaded algorithms, substantial additions to the chapter
on recurrence (now called “Divide-and-Conquer”), and an appendix on matrices.
It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms
and a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks. Many
new exercises and problems have been added for this edition.
As of the third edition, this textbook is published
exclusively by the MIT Press.
Thomas Cormen is Professor of Computer Science
at Dartmouth College. Charles Leiserson is Professor
of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT.
Ronald L. Rivest is Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
Clifford Stein is Professor of Industrial Engineering
and Operations Research at Columbia University.

computer science
METAMODELING FOR
METHOD ENGINEERING
edited by Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Matthias Jarke,
and John Mylopoulos
This text is a guide to the foundations of method engi-
neering, a developing field concerned with the defini-
tion of techniques for designing software systems. The
approach is based on metamodeling, the construction of
a model about a collection of other models. The book
applies the metamodeling approach in five case studies,
each describing a solution to a problem in a specific
domain. Suitable for classroom use, the book is also
useful as a reference for practitioners.
The book first presents the theoretical basis of
metamodeling for method engineering, discussing
information modeling, the potential of metamodeling
for software systems development, and the introduc-
tion of the metamodeling tool ConceptBase. The
second, and larger, portion of the book reports on
applications of the metamodeling approach to method
engineering. These detailed case studies range from
telecommunication service specification, hypermedia
design, and data warehousing to cooperative require-
ments engineering, chemical device modeling, and
design of new abstraction principles of modeling lan-
guages. Although these chapters can stand alone as
case studies, they also relate to the earlier theoretical
chapters. The metamodeling approach described in
the book is based on the Telos metamodeling language
implemented by the ConceptBase system. An accom-
panying CD-ROM contains the ConceptBase system
and a large collection of Telos metamodels discussed
in the text. The CD-ROM enables readers to start
directly with method engineering, from small method
chunks up to complete method definitions. The com-
plete definition of Ed Yourdon’s structured analysis
method is included as an instructional example.
Manfred Jeusfeld is Assistant Professor of Information
Systems and Management, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Matthias Jarke is Executive Director of the Fraunhofer
Institute of Applied IT, Bonn, Germany. John Mylopoulos
Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Toronto and Distinguished Professor in the
Department of Information Engineering and Computer
Science at the University of Trento.
August — 7 x 9, 424 pp. — 154 illus.
$55.00S/£40.95 cloth
978-0-262-10108-0
Cooperative Information Systems series
PROFESSIONAL
computer science
THE SCHEME
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
Fourth Edition
R. Kent Dybvig
Scheme is a general-purpose programming language,
descended from Algol and Lisp, widely used in com-
puting education and research and a broad range of
industrial applications. This thoroughly updated edition
of The Scheme Programming Language provides an
introduction to Scheme and a definitive reference for
standard Scheme, presented in a clear and concise man-
ner. Written for professionals and students with some
prior programming experience, it begins by leading the
programmer gently through the basics of Scheme and
continues with an introduction to some of the more
advanced features of the language.
The fourth edition has been substantially revised
and expanded to bring the content up to date with
the current Scheme standard, the Revised6 Report
on Scheme. All parts of the book were updated and
three new chapters were added, covering the language’s
new library, exception handling, and record-definition
features.
The book offers three chapters of introductory
material with numerous examples, eight chapters of
reference material, and one chapter of extended exam-
ples and additional exercises. All of the examples can
be entered directly from the keyboard into an interac-
tive Scheme session. Answers to many of the exercises,
a complete formal syntax of Scheme, and a summary
of forms and procedures are provided in appendixes.
The Scheme Programming Language is the only book
available that serves both as an introductory text in a
variety of courses and as an essential reference for
Scheme programmers.
R. Kent Dybvig is Professor of Computer Science at Indiana
University and principal developer of Chez Scheme.
September — 7 x 9, 512 pp. — 12 illus.
$42.00S/£31.95 paper
978-0-262-51298-5
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PROFESSIONAL
computer science
SEMANTICS ENGINEERING
WITH PLT REDEX
Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, and
Matthew Flatt
This text is the first comprehensive presentation of
reduction semantics in one volume; it also introduces
the first reliable and easy-to-use tool set for such forms
of semantics. Software engineers have long known that
automatic tool support is critical for rapid prototyping
and modeling, and this book is addressed to the working
semantics engineer (graduate student or professional
language designer). The book comes with a prototyping
tool suite to develop, explore, test, debug, and publish
semantic models of programming languages. With PLT
Redex, semanticists can formulate models as grammars
and reduction models on their computers with the ease
of paper and pencil.
The text first presents a framework for the formu-
lation of language models, focusing on equational
calculi and abstract machines, then introduces PLT
Redex, a suite of software tools for expressing these
models as PLT Redex models. Finally, experts describe
a range of models formulated in Redex.
PLT Redex comes with the PLT Scheme imple-
mentation, available free at http://www.plt-scheme.org.
Readers can download the software and experiment
with Redex as they work their way through the book.
Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, and Matthew Flatt
are the authors (with Shiram Krishnamurthi) of How to Design
Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing,
also published by the MIT Press. Felleisen is Trustee Professor
of Computer Science at Northeastern University and the co-
author (with Daniel Friedman) of The Little Schemer and three
other “Little” books published by the MIT Press. Findler is
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern
University. Flatt is Associate Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Utah.
August — 7 x 9, 528 pp. — 36 illus.
$45.00X/£33.95 cloth
978-0-262-06275-6
68
computer science/machine learning
PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS
Principles and Techniques
Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman
Most tasks require a person or an automated system to
reason — to reach conclusions based on available infor-
mation. The framework of probabilistic graphical mod-
els, presented in this book, provides a general approach
for this task. The approach is model-based, allowing
interpretable models to be constructed and then
manipulated by reasoning algorithms. These models
can also be learned automatically from data, allowing
the approach to be used in cases where manually
constructing a model is difficult or even impossible.
Because uncertainty is an inescapable aspect of most
real-world applications, the book focuses on probabilis-
tic models, which make the uncertainty explicit and
provide models that are more faithful to reality.
Probabilistic Graphical Models discusses a variety
of models, spanning Bayesian networks, undirected
Markov networks, discrete and continuous models, and
extensions to deal with dynamical systems and rela-
tional data. For each class of models, the text describes
the three fundamental cornerstones: representation,
inference, and learning, presenting both basic concepts
and advanced techniques. Finally, the book considers
the use of the proposed framework for causal reasoning
and decision making under uncertainty.
The main text in each chapter provides the detailed
technical development of the key ideas. Most chapters
also include boxes with additional material: skill boxes,
which describe techniques; case study boxes, which dis-
cuss empirical cases related to the approach described
in the text, including applications in computer vision,
robotics, natural language understanding, and compu-
tational biology; and concept boxes, which present
significant concepts drawn from the material in the
chapter. Instructors (and readers) can group chapters in
various combinations, from core topics to more techni-
cally advanced material, to suit their particular needs.
Daphne Koller is Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at Stanford University. Nir Friedman is Professor in
the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at
Hebrew University.
November — 8 x 9, 1208 pp. — 399 illus.
$95.00X/£70.95 cloth
978-0-262-01319-2
Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series

software/autonomous agents
THE ART OF AGENT-ORIENTED
MODELING
Leon S. Sterling and Kuldar Taveter
Today, when computing is pervasive and deployed over
a range of devices by a multiplicity of users, we need to
develop computer software to interact with both the
ever-increasing complexity of the technical world and
the growing fluidity of social organizations. The Art of
Agent-Oriented Modeling presents a new conceptual
model for developing software systems that are open,
intelligent, and adaptive. It describes an approach
for modeling complex systems that consist of people,
devices, and software agents in a changing environment
(sometimes known as distributed sociotechnical systems).
The authors take an agent-oriented view, as opposed to
the more common object-oriented approach. Thinking
in terms of agents (which they define as the human and
man-made components of a system), they argue, can
change the way people think of software and the tasks
it can perform.
The book offers an integrated and coherent set of
concepts and models, presenting the models at three
levels of abstraction corresponding to a motivation
layer (where the purpose, goals, and requirements
of the system are described), a design layer, and an
implementation layer. It compares platforms by imple-
menting the same models in four different languages;
compares methodologies by using a common example;
includes extensive case studies; and offers exercises
suitable for either class use or independent study.
Leon S. Sterling is Director of eResearch and Chair of Software
Innovation and Engineering at the University of Melbourne.
He is the coauthor of The Art of Prolog (second edition, MIT
Press, 1994) and the editor of The Practice of Prolog (MIT
Press, 1990). Kuldar Taveter is Professor and Chair of Software
Engineering in the Department of Informatics at Tallinn
University of Technology, Estonia.
August — 7 x 9, 408 pp. — 141 illus.
$38.00S/£28.95 cloth
978-0-262-01311-6
Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series
PROFESSIONAL
robotics
ROBOTICS
Science and Systems IV
edited by Oliver Brock, Jeff Trinkle, and
Fabio Ramos
Robotics: Science and Systems IV spans a wide spectrum
of robotics, bringing together researchers working on
the foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and
analysis of robotics systems. This volume presents the
proceedings of the fourth annual Robotics: Science
and Systems conference, held in 2008 at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The papers
presented cover a range of topics, including computer
vision, mapping, terrain identification, distributed sys-
tems, localization, manipulation, collision avoidance,
multibody dynamics, obstacle detection, microrobotic
systems, pursuit-evasion, grasping and manipulation,
tracking, spatial kinematics, machine learning, and sen-
sor networks as well as such applications as autonomous
driving and design of manipulators for use in functional-
MRI. The conference and its proceedings reflect not
only the tremendous growth of robotics as a discipline
but also the desire in the robotics community for a
flagship event at which the best of the research in the
field can be presented.
Oliver Brock is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Jeff Trinkle is Professor
in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. Fabio Ramos is ARC Research Fellow
at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University
of Sydney.
August — 8 1/2 x 11, 336 pp. — 359 illus.
$75.00S/£55.95 paper
978-0-262-51309-8
Also available
ROBOTICS
Science and Systems I
edited by Sebastian Thrun,
Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Stefan Schaal
2005, 978-0-262-70114-3
$75.00S/£55.95 paper
ROBOTICS
Science and Systems II
edited by Gaurav S. Sukhatme,
Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox
2007, 978-0-262-69348-6
$75.00S/£55.95 paper
ROBOTICS
Science and Systems III
edited by Wolfram Burgard,
Oliver Brock, and Cyrill Stachniss
2008, 978-0-262-52484-1
$75.00S/£55.95 paper
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PROFESSIONAL
technology/children
An examination of young people’s
everyday new media practices —
including video-game playing,
text-messaging, digital media
production, and social media use.
November
6 x 9, 432 pp.
10 illus.
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01336-9
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation Series on Digital Media
and Learning
Now available in the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING INSTITUTIONS IN A DIGITAL AGE
Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg
with the assistance of Zoë Marie Jones
2009, 978-0-262-51359-3
$14.00S/£10.95 paper
LIVING AND LEARNING WITH NEW MEDIA
Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
Mizuko Ito, Heather Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd,
Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C. J. Pascoe, and
Laura Robinson
with Sonja Baumer, Rachel Cody,
Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martínez,
Dan Perkel, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp
2009, 978-0-262-51365-4
$14.00S/£10.95 paper
70
HANGING OUT, MESSING AROUND, AND GEEKING OUT
Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Mizuko Ito
Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody,
Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange,
Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martínez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel,
Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, Lisa Tripp
with contributions by Judd Antin, Megan Finn, Arthur Law,
Annie Manion, Sarai Mitnick, David Schlossberg, Sarita Yardi
Conventional wisdom about young people’s use of digital technology often equates
generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly
plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there
is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youth's social
and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking
Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation
into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings
— at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. By focus-
ing on media practices in the everyday contexts of family and peer
interaction, the book views the relationship of youth and new media
not simply in terms of technology trends but situated within the
broader structural conditions of childhood and the negotiations with
adults that frame the experience of youth in the United States.
Integrating twenty-three different case studies — which include
Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music-sharing, and
online romantic breakups — in a unique collaborative authorship
style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for
its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics
with conceptual analysis.
This book was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital
Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of
California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.
YOUNG PEOPLE, ETHICS, AND THE NEW DIGITAL MEDIA
A Synthesis from the Good Play Project
Carrie James
with Katie Davis, Andrea Flores, John M. Francis, Lindsay
Pettingill, Margaret Rundle, and Howard Gardner
2009, 978-0-262-51363-0
$14.00S/£10.95 paper
CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGES OF PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
Media Education for the 21st Century
Henry Jenkins
with Ravi Purushotma, Margaret Weigel, Katie Clinton, and
Alice J. Robison
2009, 978-0-262-51362-3
$14.00S/£10.95 paper
THE CIVIC POTENTIAL OF VIDEO GAMES
Joseph Kahne, Ellen Middaugh, and Chris Evans
2009, 978-0-262-51360-9
$14.00S/£10.95 paper

new media/music
SONIC WARFARE
Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
Steve Goodman
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a
threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread — to pro-
duce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the
“psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman
Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch
Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or “sound
bombs”) over the Gaza strip, and high frequency rat
repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same
time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies
in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new
ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare,
Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force
and how they affect populations.
Most theoretical discussions of sound and music cul-
tures in relationship to power, Goodman argues, have
a missing dimension: the politics of frequency. Goodman
supplies this by drawing a speculative diagram of sonic
forces, investigating the deployment of sound systems
in the modulation of affect. Traversing philosophy,
science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps
a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing
police and military research into acoustic means of
crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic
branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound
art and music culture.
Goodman concludes with speculations on the not
yet heard — the concept of unsound, which relates to
both the peripheries of auditory perception and the
unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within
audible bandwidths.
Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture at the School of
Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East
London, a member of the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research
Unit), the founder of the record label Hyperdub. He produces
bass-driven electronic music under the name kode9 and is also
a member of the sound art collective Audint.
December — 7 x 9, 240 pp. — 1 illus.
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01347-5
Technologies of Lived Abstraction series
PROFESSIONAL
information science
HUMAN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Julian Warner
Information retrieval in the age of Internet search
engines has become part of ordinary discourse and
everyday practice: “Google” is a verb in common usage.
Thus far, more attention has been given to practical
understanding of information retrieval than to a full
theoretical account. In Human Information Retrieval,
Julian Warner offers a comprehensive overview of
information retrieval, synthesizing theories from
different disciplines (information and computer science,
librarianship and indexing, and information society dis-
course) and incorporating such disparate systems as
WorldCat and Google into a single, robust theoretical
framework. There is a need for such a theoretical
treatment, he argues, one that reveals the structure
and underlying patterns of this complex field while
remaining congruent with everyday practice.
Warner presents a labor theoretic approach to infor-
mation retrieval, building on his previously formulated
distinction between semantic and syntactic mental
labor, arguing that the description and search labor
of information retrieval can be understood as both
semantic and syntactic in character. Warner’s informa-
tion science approach is rooted in the humanities and
the social sciences but informed by an understanding
of information technology and information theory.
The chapters offer a progressive exposition of the
topic, with illustrative examples to explain the concepts
presented. Neither narrowly practical nor largely specu-
lative, Human Information Retrieval meets the contem-
porary need for a broader treatment of information
and information systems.
Julian Warner is on the faculty of the Queen’s School of
Management at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of
Humanizing Information Technology, Information, Knowledge,
Text, and From Writing to Computers.
November — 6 x 9, 200 pp. — 19 illus.
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01344-4
History and Foundations of Information Science series
71
PROFESSIONAL
history of technology/business history/biography
The technological breakthroughs
and entrepreneurial adventures
of Frank J. Sprague during the
transformative years of the early
electrical industry.
November
5 3/8 x 8, 304 pp.
22 illus.
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-04256-7
72
ENGINEERING INVENTION
Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry
Frederick Dalzell
foreword by W. Bernard Carlson
afterword by John Sprague
Over the course of a little less than twenty years, inventor Frank J. Sprague
(1857–1934) achieved an astonishing series of technological breakthroughs —
from pioneering work in self-governing motors to developing the first full-scale
operational electric railway system — all while commercializing his inventions
and promoting them (and himself as their inventor) to financial backers and the
public. In Engineering Invention, Frederick Dalzell tells Sprague’s story, setting
it against the backdrop of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of tech-
nology. In a burst of innovation during these years, Sprague and his contempo-
raries — Thomas Edison, Nicolas Tesla, Elmer Sperry, George Westinghouse, and
others — transformed the technologies of electricity and reshaped modern life.
After working briefly for Edison, Sprague started the Sprague Electric
Railway and Motor Company; designed and built an electric railroad system
for Richmond, Virginia; sold his company to Edison and went into the field of
electric elevators; almost accidentally discovered a multiple-control system that
could equip electric train systems for mass transit; started a third company to
commercialize this; then sold this company to Edison and retired (temporarily).
Throughout his career, Dalzell tells us, Sprague framed technology as invention,
cast himself as hero, and staged his technologies as dramas. He toiled against
the odds, scraped together resources to found companies,
bet those companies on technical feats — and pulled it off,
multiple times.
The idea of the “heroic inventor” is not, of course, the only
way to frame the history of technology. Nevertheless, as Dalzell
shows, Sprague, Edison, and others crafted the role consciously
and actively, using it to generate vital impetus behind the
process of innovation.
Frederick Dalzell received his PhD in the History of American
Civilization from Harvard University and has been a researcher at
Harvard Business School. He is the coauthor of Changing Fortunes:
Remaking the Industrial Corporation and Driving Change: The UPS
Approach to Business.

technology/political science
PROTOCOL POLITICS
The Globalization of Internet Governance
Laura DeNardis
The Internet has reached a critical point. The world is
running out of Internet addresses. There is a finite sup-
ply of approximately 4.3 billion Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses — the unique binary numbers required for
every exchange of information over the Internet —
within the Internet’s prevailing technical architecture
(IPv4). In the 1990s the Internet standards community
identified the potential depletion of these addresses as
a crucial design concern and selected a new protocol
(IPv6) that would expand the number of Internet
addresses exponentially — to 340 undecillion addresses.
Despite a decade of predictions about imminent global
conversion, IPv6 adoption has barely begun. IPv6 is
not backward compatible with IPv4, and the ultimate
success of IPv6 depends on a critical mass of IPv6
deployment, even among users who don’t need it, or
on technical workarounds that could in turn create a
new set of concerns.
Protocol Politics examines what’s at stake politically,
economically, and technically in the selection and
adoption of a new Internet protocol. Laura DeNardis’s
key insight is that protocols are political. IPv6 serves
as a case study for how protocols more generally are
intertwined with socioeconomic and political order.
IPv6 intersects with provocative topics including
Internet civil liberties, U.S. military objectives, global-
ization, institutional power struggles, and the promise
of global democratic freedoms. DeNardis offers recom-
mendations for Internet standards governance based
not only on technical concerns but on principles of
openness and transparency and examines the global
implications of looming Internet address scarcity versus
the slow deployment of the new protocol designed to
solve this problem.
Laura DeNardis is Executive Director of the Yale Information
Society Project, a Lecturer at Yale Law School, and the
coauthor of Information Technology in Theory.
September — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 16 illus.
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-04257-4
Information Revolution and Global Politics series
PROFESSIONAL
history of science/history of medicine
HEALTH AND MEDICINE ON DISPLAY
International Expositions in the United States,
1876-1904
Julie K. Brown
International expositions, with their massive assembling
of exhibits and audiences, were the media events of
their time. In transmitting a new culture of visibility
that merged information, entertainment, and com-
merce, they provided a unique opportunity for the pub-
lic to become aware of various social and technological
advances. With Health and Medicine on Display, Julie
Brown offers the first book-length examination of how
international expositions, through their exhibits and
infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in
applied health and medical practice. Brown investigates
not only how exhibits translated health and medical
information into visual form but also how exposition
sites in urban settings (an exposition was “a city within
a city” sometimes in conflict with municipal authorities)
provided emergency medical treatment, access to safe
water, and protection against infectious diseases.
Brown looks at four expositions held in
Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo, and St. Louis between
1876 and 1904, spanning the Gilded Age and the early
reform years of the Progressive Era. She describes the
1904 St. Louis exposition in particular detail, looking
closely at the sites and services as well as selected
exhibits (including a working model playground, live
X-ray demonstrations, and a rescue film by the U.S.
Navy). Many carefully researched illustrations, most
never before published (with supplementary images
available on the MIT Press Web site), vividly demon-
strate the role that these exhibitions played in framing
and shaping health issues for their audiences.
Julie K. Brown, an independent scholar, is currently a
Research Associate in the Department of Medicine, Science,
and Society at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum
of American History. She is the author of Making Culture
Visible: The Public Display of Photography at Fairs, Expositions,
and Exhibitions in the United States, 1847-1900 and
Contesting Images: Photography and the World’s Columbian
Exposition.
September — 7 x 9, 336 pp. — 56 illus.
$45.00S/£33.95 cloth
978-0-262-02657-4
73
PROFESSIONAL
science, technology, and society/public policy
THE PARADOX OF
SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITY
The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies
Wiebe E. Bijker, Roland Bal, and Ruud Hendriks
Today, scientific advice is asked for (and given) on
questions ranging from stem-cell research to genetically
modified food. And yet it often seems that the more
urgently scientific advice is solicited, the more vigor-
ously scientific authority is questioned by policymakers,
stakeholders, and citizens. This book examines a para-
dox: how scientific advice can be influential in society
even when the status of science and scientists seems
to be at a low ebb. The authors do this by means of an
ethnographic study of the creation of scientific author-
ity at one of the key sites for the interaction of science,
policy, and society: the scientific advisory committee.
The Paradox of Scientific Authority offers a detailed
analysis of the inner workings of the influential Health
Council of the Netherlands (the equivalent of the
National Academy of Science in the United States),
examining its societal role as well as its internal func-
tioning, and using the findings to build a theory of
scientific advising. The question of scientific authority
has political as well as scholarly relevance. Democratic
political institutions, largely developed in the nine-
teenth century, lack the institutional means to address
the twenty-first century’s pervasively scientific and
technological culture; and science and technology
studies (STS) grapples with the central question of
how to understand the authority of science while
recognizing its socially constructed nature.
Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor of Technology and Society at
the University of Maastricht. He is the author of Bicycles,
Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change
(MIT Press, 1997) and other books. Roland Bal is Professor in
and Founding Chair of the Department of Healthcare Governance
of the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Rotterdam.
Ruud Hendriks is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Maastricht.
September — 6 x 9, 232 pp. — 1 illus.
$32.00S/£23.95 cloth
978-0-262-02658-1
Inside Technology series
74
history of science/science, technology, & society
VELVET REVOLUTION
AT THE SYNCHROTRON
Biology, Physics, and Change in Science
Park Doing
After World War II, particle physics became a domi-
nant research discipline in American academia. At
many universities, alumni of the Manhattan Project
and of Los Alamos were granted resources to start
(or strengthen) programs of high-energy physics built
around the promise of a new and more powerful parti-
cle accelerator, the synchrotron. The synchrotron was
also a source of very intense X-rays, useful for research
in solid states physics and in biology. As synchrotron
X-ray science grew, the experimental practice of protein
crystallography (used to determine the atomic structures
of proteins and viruses), garnered funding, prestige, and
acclaim. In Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron, Park
Doing examines the change in scientific practice at a
synchrotron laboratory as biology rose to dominance
over physics. He draws on his own observations and
experiences at the Cornell University synchrotron, and
considers the implications of that change for the status
of scientific claims.
Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron is one of the few
recent works in the sociology of science that engages
specific scientific and technical claims through partici-
pant observation — recorded evocatively and engag-
ingly — to address issues in the philosophy of science.
Doing argues that bureaucratic change in science is nei-
ther “top-down” nor “bottom-up” but rather performed
in and realized through recursively related forums of
technical assertion and resistance. He considers the
relationship of this change to the content of science,
and the implications of this relationship for the project
of laboratory studies begun in the late 1970s.
Park Doing is a Lecturer in the Bovay Program in History and
Ethics of Engineering at Cornell University. Portions of this
book in manuscript form received the Nicholas Mullin Prize
from the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the
Hacker-Mullins Prize from the Science, Knowledge, and
Technology Division of the American Sociological Association.
August — 5 3/8 x 8, 176 pp. — 20 illus.
$28.00S/£20.95 cloth
978-0-262-04255-0
Inside Technology series

science, technology, and society/history
THE RADIANCE OF FRANCE
Nuclear Power and National Identity
after World War II
Gabrielle Hecht
with a new foreword by Michel Callon and a new
afterword by the author
In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a
distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial
world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically
embraced large technological projects in general and
nuclear power in particular. The Radiance of France
asks how it happened that technological prowess
and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means
“radiation” in French) became synonymous in France
as nowhere else.
To answer this question, Gabrielle Hecht has forged
an innovative combination of technology studies and
cultural and political history in a book that, as Michel
Callon writes in the new foreword to this edition,
“not only sheds new light on the role of technology in
the construction of national identities” but is also “a
seminal contribution to the history of contemporary
France.” Proposing the concept of technopolitical regime
as a way to analyze the social, political, cultural, and
technological dynamics among engineering elites,
unionized workers, and rural communities Hecht
shows how the history of France’s first generation of
nuclear reactors is also a history of the multiple mean-
ings of nationalism, from the postwar period (and
France’s desire for post-Vichy redemption) to 1969
and the adoption of a “Frenchified” American design.
This paperback edition of Hecht’s groundbreaking
book includes both Callon’s foreword and an afterword
by the author in which she brings the story up to date,
and reflects on such recent developments as the 2007
French presidential election, the promotion of nuclear
power as the solution to climate change, and France’s
aggressive exporting of nuclear technology.
• Winner of the 2001 Edelstein Prize, presented by Society
for the History of Technology (SHOT)
• Winner of the 1999 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the
American Historical Association
Gabrielle Hecht is Associate Professor in the Department of
History at the University of Michigan.
September — 6 x 9, 496 pp.
$25.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-58281-0
Inside Technology series
PROFESSIONAL
history of science/mathematics
ISAAC NEWTON ON MATHEMATICAL
CERTAINTY AND METHOD
Niccolò Guicciardini
Historians of mathematics have devoted considerable
attention to Isaac Newton’s work on algebra, series,
fluxions, quadratures, and geometry. In Isaac Newton
on Mathematical Certainty and Method, Niccolò
Guicciardini examines a critical aspect of Newton’s
work that has not been tightly connected to Newton’s
actual practice: his philosophy of mathematics.
Newton aimed to inject certainty into natural phi-
losophy by deploying mathematical reasoning (titling
his main work The Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy most probably to highlight a stark contrast
to Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy). To that end
he paid concerted attention to method, particularly in
relation to the issue of certainty, participating in con-
temporary debates on the subject and elaborating his
own answers. Guicciardini shows how Newton care-
fully positioned himself against two giants in the
“common” and “new” analysis, Descartes and Leibniz.
Although his work was in many ways disconnected
from the traditions of Greek geometry, Newton por-
trayed himself as antiquity's legitimate heir, thereby
distancing himself from the moderns.
Guicciardini reconstructs Newton’s own method by
extracting it from his concrete practice and not solely
by examining his broader statements about such mat-
ters. He examines the full range of Newton’s works,
from his early treatises on series and fluxions to the
late writings, which were produced in direct opposition
to Leibniz. The complex interactions between Newton’s
understanding of method and his mathematical
work then reveal themselves through Guicciardini’s
careful analysis of selected examples. Isaac Newton on
Mathematical Certainty and Method uncovers what
mathematics was for Newton, and what being a
mathematician meant to him.
Niccolò Guicciardini is Professor of the History of Science at
the University of Bergamo, Italy. He is the author of The
Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700-1800 and
Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton’s Mathematical
Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736.
October — 7 x 9, 448 pp. — 96 illus.
$55.00S/£40.95 cloth
978-0-262-01317-8
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and
Technology
75
PROFESSIONAL
Renaissance history/history of science
The first publication and translation
into English of a manuscript by
a fifteenth-century Venetian
seaman, including treatises
on shipbuilding, mathematics,
astrology, and calendrical
computation.
THE BOOK OF
MICHAEL OF RHODES, VOL. 1
edited by David McGee
September
8 x 10, 534 pp.
color throughout
$65.00S/£48.95 cloth
978-0-262-13503-0
THE BOOK OF
MICHAEL OF RHODES, VOL. 2
edited by Alan M. Stahl
transcription by Franco Rossi and
translated by Alan M. Stahl
September
8 x 10, 732 pp.
$75.00S/£55.95 cloth
978-0-262-19590-4
THE BOOK OF
MICHAEL OF RHODES, VOL. 3
edited by Pamela O. Long
September
8 x 10, 384 pp.
86 illus.
$45.00S/£33.95 cloth
978-0-262-12308-2
76
THE BOOK OF MICHAEL OF RHODES
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript
edited by Pamela O. Long, David McGee, and Alan M. Stahl
Volume 1: Facsimile
edited by David McGee
Volume 2: Transcription and Translation
edited by Alan M. Stahl
transcription by Franco Rossi
translation by Alan M. Stahl
Volume 3: Studies
edited by Pamela O. Long
In the fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote and illus-
trated a text describing his experiences in the Venetian merchant and military
fleets. He included a treatise on commercial mathematics and treatments of con-
temporary shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical systems, and astrological
ideas. This manuscript, “lost,” or at least in unknown hands for over 400 years,
has never been published or translated in its entirety until now.
Volume 1 is a facsimile of the manuscript, reproduced in full color. The text
is written out by hand and beautifully illustrated (probably at least in part by
Michael himself ), featuring color diagrams and illustrations of naval architec-
ture, original drawings of astrological signs, calendrical charts, and a coat of
arms Michael devised for himself.
Volume 2 contains a transcription of the handwritten text in
the medieval Venetian dialect of Italian and, on facing pages, its
translation into modern English. Michael’s book includes the
first extant treatise on naval architecture, a 200-page treatise on
mathematics in the tradition of medieval and Renaissance aba-
cus manuscripts, texts on navigation including portolans (sailing
directions), and Michael’s autobiographical service record —
unique for Venice in this period and noteworthy for being the
personal record of a man of non-noble status and foreign birth.
In volume 3, nine experts, including the editors, discuss
the manuscript, its historical context, and its scholarly impor-
tance. Their essays examine the Venetian maritime world
of the fifteenth century, Michael’s life, the discovery of the
manuscript, the mathematics in the book, the use of illustra-
tion, the navigational directions, Michael’s knowledge of
shipbuilding in the Venetian context, and the manuscript’s
extensive calendrical material.
Pamela O. Long is an independent historian who has published widely
in medieval and Renaissance history of science and technology. David
McGee, formerly Research Associate and Head of Secondary Acquisitions
at the Dibner Institute’s Burndy Library, is an independent scholar,
working recently with the Canadian Science and Technology Museum.
Alan M. Stahl is a medieval historian specializing in Venice and is
Curator of Numismatics at Princeton University. McGee, Stahl, and
Long are codirectors of the Michael of Rhodes project.
For more information on the Michael of Rhodes project, go to
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/michaelofrhodes

history of science/political science
A NUCLEAR WINTER’S TALE
Science and Politics in the 1980s
Lawrence Badash
The nuclear winter phenomenon burst upon the pub-
lic’s consciousness in 1983. Added to the horror of a
nuclear war’s immediate effects was the fear that the
smoke from fires ignited by the explosions would block
the sun, creating an extended “winter” that might kill
more people worldwide than the initial nuclear strikes.
In A Nuclear Winter’s Tale, Lawrence Badash maps the
rise and fall of the science of nuclear winter, examining
research activity, the popularization of the concept,
and the Reagan-era politics that combined to influence
policy and public opinion.
Badash traces the several sciences (including studies
of volcanic eruptions, ozone depletion, and dinosaur
extinction) that merged to allow computer modeling
of nuclear winter and its development as a scientific
specialty. He places this in the political context of the
Reagan years, discussing congressional interest, media
attention, the administration’s plans for a research pro-
gram, and the Defense Department’s claims that the
arms buildup underway would prevent nuclear war,
and thus nuclear winter.
Lawrence Badash is Professor Emeritus of History of Science
at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author
of Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin and Scientists and the
Development of Nuclear Weapons: From Fission to the Limited
Test Ban Treaty.
“Badash has written an exciting account of the 1980s’ deep
concern about nuclear winter in the scientific and political
world. This book is an interesting story of the complex web
of characters and motives.”
— Warren M. Washington, Senior Scientist and
Head, Climate Change Research Section, Climate
and Global Dynamics Division, National Center
for Atmospheric Research
September — 7 x 9, 424 pp.
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01272-0
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science
and Technology
PROFESSIONAL
security studies
WMD TERRORISM
Science and Policy Choices
edited by Stephen M. Maurer
Terrorism by means of weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) has been studied for decades — since the
Cold War and fears of secret agents with suitcase-sized
atomic bombs. Although WMD research has acceler-
ated since September 11, 2001, much of this scholar-
ship is hard to find, forcing nonspecialists to fall back
on gut instinct and Beltway clichés. This book provides
the first full-l ength, up-to-date, comprehensive review
of what scientists and scholars know about WMD ter-
rorism and America’s options for confronting it. It also
identifies multiple instances in which the conventional
wisdom is incomplete or misleading.
WMD Terrorism provides multidisciplinary perspec-
tives on such topics as terrorist incentives for acquiring
WMD; nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical
weapons technologies and genetically engineered
weapons; sensor technologies; mathematical methods
for analyzing terrorist threats and allocating defense
resources; the role of domestic U.S. politics in shaping
defense investments; port and airport defense; response
and recovery technologies for WMD-contaminated
sites; R&D incentives for bioweapon vaccines and
other homeland security technologies; psychological
treatment of WMD survivors; and international initia-
tives to limit WMD proliferation and fight terrorism.
CONTRIBUTORS Gary Ackerman, Jeffrey M. Bale,
Deborah Yarsike Ball, Eugene Bardach, Jason Christopher,
C. Norman Coleman, Lois M. Davis, Thomas Edmunds,
Peter Gordon, Blas Pérez Henríquez, Dwight Jaffee, Robert Kirvel,
Simon Labov, Stephen M. Maurer, James E. Moore II,
Michael Nacht, Michael O’Hare, Qisheng Pan, Ji Young Park,
Ellen Raber, Harry W. Richardson, Jeanne S. Ringel,
Thomas Russell, George W. Rutherford, Christine Hartmann
Siantar, Tom Slezak, Page U. Stoutland, Tammy Taylor,
Michael Thompson, Richard Wheeler
Stephen M. Maurer is Adjunct Associate Professor of Law and
Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
“Authoritative and analytical yet accessible to the non-
specialist.”
— Jonathan B. Tucker, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, James
Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
September — 7 x 9, 616 pp. — 30 illus.
$38.00S/£28.95 paper
978-0-262-51285-5
$76.00S/£56.95 cloth
978-0-262-01298-0
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PROFESSIONAL
political science/science
SCIENCE IN DEMOCRACY
Expertise, Institutions, and Representation
Mark B. Brown
Political controversies over scientific issues ranging from
global warming to biotechnology demonstrate how
closely politics today is intertwined with science. The
traditional view of the relationship between science and
politics — in which politics provides the money and
science provides the knowledge — seems increasingly
untenable and outdated. In Science in Democracy, Mark
Brown draws on the history of political thought, science
studies, and democratic theory for insights into how to
democratize science without undermining its potential
contribution to society.
Brown enlists such canonical and contemporary
thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Dewey,
and Latour to conceptualize a more effective and legit-
imate role for science in democracy. After outlining the
origins of the liberal-rationalist dichotomy between
politics and science, showing how it parallels a similar
dichotomy between direct democracy and representa-
tive government, Brown develops an alternate perspec-
tive based on the mutual shaping of participation and
representation in both science and politics. He illus-
trates his argument with examples from different types
of advisory bodies, including bioethics councils and
various lay forums. Different institutional venues,
he shows, mediate different elements of democratic
representation. If we understand democracy as an insti-
tutionally differentiated system of collective representa-
tion that articulates and transforms both lay knowledge
and technical expertise, Brown argues, then the best
way to respond to politicized science is to democratize
it. Simply put, this book shows how scientific and
political representation can improve democracy.
Mark B. Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of
Government at California State University, Sacramento.
“This is more than a good book; it is the book anyone
will have to read to be literate in the topic of science and
democracy.”
— Frank Laird, Josef Korbel School of
International Studies, University of Denver
October — 6 x 9, 368 pp.
$28.00S/£20.95 paper
978-0-262-51304-3
$56.00S/£41.95 cloth
978-0-262-01324-6
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environment/political science
SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
The Politics of Objective Advice
Ann Campbell Keller
Scientists often bring issues to the policy agenda, trans-
lating scientific questions into everyday language and
political terms. When Roger Revelle characterized
Earth as a spaceship in testimony to Congress in
1957, his evocative language framed the issue of our
planet’s climate vulnerability in a way that technical
discourse could not. In this book, Ann Campbell Keller
examines the influence of scientists on environmental
policymaking and makes the novel argument that sci-
entists’ adherence to the role of neutral advisor varies
over the course of the policymaking process.
Keller divides the policy process into three stages —
agenda setting, legislation, and implementation —
and compares scientists’ influence on acid rain and
climate change policy at these different stages over
the course of several decades. She finds that scientists
face more pressure to uphold the ideal of objectivity
as policymaking processes advance and become more
formalized, and thus are more likely to engage in
advocacy and persuasion in the earlier, less formal,
agenda-setting stage of the process. In the later, more
structured legislative and implementation phases,
scientists — working hard to give the appearance
of neutral expertise — cede the role of persuader
to others.
Keller draws on theoretical work in political science
and science studies and on empirical evidence from
scientific reports, news coverage, congressional hearings,
and interviews. Focusing on comparable cases and
considering scientists’ participation in them over time,
she offers unique insights into how the context of
decision making affects scientists’ policy influence and
emphasizes the multiple pathways by which scientific
meaning is constructed in public settings.
Ann Campbell Keller is Assistant Professor of Health Policy
and Management in the School of Public Health at the
University of California, Berkeley.
August — 6 x 9, 304 pp.
$26.00S/£19.95 paper
978-0-262-51296-1
$52.00S/£38.95 cloth
978-0-262-01312-3
Politics, Science, and the Environment series

urban planning/health/environment
TOWARD THE HEALTHY CITY
People, Places, and the Politics
of Urban Planning
Jason Corburn
In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential
segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnum-
ber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds,
and more money is spent on prisons than schools, resi-
dents also suffer disproportionately from disease and
premature death. Recognizing that city environments
and the planning processes that shape them are power-
ful determinants of population health, urban planners
today are beginning to take on the added challenge of
revitalizing neglected urban neighborhoods in ways that
improve health and promote greater equity. In Toward
the Healthy City, Jason Corburn argues that city plan-
ning must return to its roots in public health and social
justice. The first book to provide a detailed account
of how city planning and public health practices can
reconnect to address health disparities, Toward the
Healthy City offers a new decision-making framework
called “healthy city planning” that reframes traditional
planning and development issues and offers a new
scientific evidence base for participatory action,
coalition building, and ongoing monitoring.
To show healthy city planning in action, Corburn
examines collaborations between government agencies
and community coalitions in the San Francisco Bay
area, including efforts to link environmental justice,
residents’ chronic illnesses, housing and real estate
development projects, and planning processes with
public health. Initiatives like these, Corburn points
out, go well beyond recent attempts by urban planners
to promote public health by changing the design of
cities to encourage physical activity. Corburn argues
for a broader conception of healthy urban governance
that addresses the root causes of health inequities.
Jason Corburn is Assistant Professor in the Department of
City and Regional Planning at the University of California,
Berkeley. He is the author of Street Science: Community
Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice (MIT Press,
2005), winner of the 2007 Paul Davidoff Award, given by
the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
October — 6 x 9, 288 pp. — 10 illlus.
$24.00S/£17.95 paper
978-0-262-51307-4
$48.00S/£35.95 cloth
978-0-262-01331-4
Urban and Industrial Environments series
PROFESSIONAL
environment/political science
GOVERNING THE TAP
Special District Governance and
the New Local Politics of Water
Megan Mullin
More than ever, Americans rely on independent special
districts to provide public services. The special district
— which can be as small as a low-budget mosquito
abatement district or as vast as the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey — has become the most
common form of local governance in the United States.
In Governing the Tap, Megan Mullin examines the
consequences of specialization and the fragmentation
of policymaking authority through the lens of local
drinking-water policy.
Directly comparing specific conservation, land use,
and contracting policies enacted by different forms of
local government, Mullin investigates the capacity of
special districts to engage in responsive and collabora-
tive decision making that promotes sustainable use of
water resources. She concludes that the effect of spe-
cialization is conditional on the structure of institutions
and the severity of the policy problem, with specializa-
tion offering the most benefit on policy problems that
are least severe.
Mullin presents a political theory of specialized
governance that is relevant to any of the variety of
functions special districts perform. Governing the Tap
offers not only the first study of how the new decen-
tralized politics of water is taking shape in American
communities, but also new and important findings
about the influence of institutional structures on local
policymaking.
Megan Mullin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at
Temple University, with a secondary appointment in Geography
and Urban Studies.
“This is a really great book. It is one of the best books on
governance and water that I have ever read.”
— Mark Lubell, Department of Political Science,
University of California, Davis
September — 6 x 9, 280 pp. — 7 illus.
$22.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51297-8
$44.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-01313-0
American and Comparative Environmental Policy series
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PROFESSIONAL
political science/public policy
VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS
A Club Theory Perspective
edited by Matthew Potoski and Aseem Prakash
The recent growth of voluntary programs has attracted
the attention of policymakers, nongovernmental organi-
zations, and scholars. Thousands of firms around the
world participate in these programs, in which members
agree to undertake socially beneficial actions that go
beyond the requirements of government regulations,
such as following labor codes in the apparel industry,
adhering to international accounting standards, and
adopting internal environmental management systems.
This book analyzes the efficacy of a variety of voluntary
programs using a club theory, political-economy
framework. It examines how programs’ design influences
their effectiveness as policy tools. It finds that voluntary
programs have achieved uneven success because of their
varying standards and enforcement procedures.
The club theory framework views voluntary pro-
grams as institutions that create incentives for firms
to incur the costs of taking progressive action beyond
what is required by law in exchange for benefits that
nonmembers do not enjoy (such as enhanced standing
with stakeholders). Voluntary Programs develops this
theoretical framework and applies it to voluntary pro-
grams sponsored by industry associations, governments,
and nongovernmental organizations, organized around
policy issues such as “blood diamonds,” shipping,
sweatshops, and the environment. The wide diversity
of cases — across sectors, sponsoring organizations,
and objectives — provides valuable applications of the
club framework, generates new insights for future
research, and offers practical guidance for designing
effective programs.
CONTRIBUTORS David P. Baron, Tim Bartley, Tim Büthe,
Cary Coglianese, Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Daniel W. Drezner,
Daniel Fiorino, Mary Kay Gugerty, Virginia Haufler,
Matthew J. Kotchen, Mimi Lu, Jennifer Nash, Matthew Potoski,
Aseem Prakash, Klaas van ‘t Veld
Matthew Potoski is Associate Professor of Political Science at
Iowa State University. Aseem Prakash is Professor of Political
Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. Potoski and
Prakash are coauthors of The Voluntary Environmentalists:
Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental
Regulations.
November — 6 x 9, 368 pp.
$28.00S/£20.95 paper
978-0-262-66204-8
$56.00S/£41.95 cloth
978-0-262-16250-0
80
environment/political science
CHANGING CLIMATES IN NORTH
AMERICAN POLITICS
Institutions, Policymaking, and
Multilevel Governance
edited by Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer
North American policy responses to global climate
change are complex and sometimes contradictory and
reach across multiple levels of government. For exam-
ple, the U.S. federal government rejected the Kyoto
Protocol and mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG)
restrictions, but California developed some of the
world’s most comprehensive climate change law and
regulation; Canada’s federal government ratified the
Kyoto Protocol, but Canadian GHG emissions
increased even faster than those of the United States;
and Mexico’s state-owned oil company addressed cli-
mate change issues in the 1990s, in stark contrast to
leading U.S. and Canadian energy firms. This book is
the first to examine and compare political action for cli-
mate change across North America, at levels ranging
from continental to municipal, in locations ranging
from Mexico to Toronto to Portland, Maine.
Changing Climates in North American Politics investi-
gates new or emerging institutions, policies, and prac-
tices in North American climate governance; the roles
played by public, private, and civil society actors; the
diffusion of policy across different jurisdictions; and
the effectiveness of multilevel North American climate
change governance. It finds that although national cli-
mate policies vary widely, the complexities and diver-
gences are even greater at the subnational level. Policy
initiatives are developed separately in states, provinces,
cities, large corporations, NAFTA bodies, universities,
NGOs, and private firms, and this lack of coordination
limits the effectiveness of multilevel climate change
governance. In North America, unlike much of
Europe, climate change governance has been largely
bottom-up rather than top-down.
Henrik Selin is Assistant Professor in the Department of
International Relations at Boston University. Stacy D.
VanDeveer is Associate Professor in the Department of
Political Science at the University of New Hampshire.
September — 7 x 9, 352 pp. — 2 illus.
$26.00S/£19.95 paper
978-0-262-51286-2
$52.00S/£38.95 cloth
978-0-262-01299-7
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environment
GAIA IN TURMOIL
Climate Change, Biodepletion,
and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis
edited by Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker
foreword by Bill McKibben
Gaian theory, which holds that Earth’s physical and
biological processes are inextricably bound to form a
self-regulating system, is more relevant than ever in
light of increasing concerns about global climate
change. The Gaian paradigm of Earth as a living sys-
tem, first articulated by James Lovelock and Lynn
Margulis in the 1970s, has inspired a burgeoning body
of researchers working across disciplines that range
from physics and biology to philosophy and politics.
Gaia in Turmoil reflects this disciplinary richness and
intellectual diversity, with contributions (including
essays by both Lovelock and Margulis) that approach
the topic from a wide variety of perspectives, discussing
not only Gaian science but also global environmental
problems and Gaian ethics and education.
Contributors focus first on the science of Gaia, con-
sidering such topics as the workings of the biosphere,
the planet’s water supply, and evolution; then discuss
Gaian perspectives on global environmental change,
including biodiversity destruction and global warming;
and finally explore the influence of Gaia on environ-
mental policy, ethics, politics, technology, economics,
and education.
Gaia in Turmoil breaks new ground by focusing on
global ecological problems from the perspectives of
Gaian science and knowledge, focusing especially on
the challenges of climate change and biodiversity
destruction.
CONTRIBUTORS David Abram, Donald Aitken, Connie Barlow,
J. Baird Callicott, Bruce Clarke, Eileen Crist, Tim Foresman,
Stephan Harding, Barbara Harwood, Tim Lenton, Eugene Linden,
Karen Litfin, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Bill McKibben,
Martin Ogle, H. Bruce Rinker, Mitchell Thomashow, Tyler Volk,
Hywel Williams
Eileen Crist is Associate Professor in the Department of Science
and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech, the author of
Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and the Animal Mind,
and the coeditor of Scientists Debate Gaia (MIT Press, 2004).
H. Bruce Rinker is Director of the Pinellas Country, Florida,
Environmental Lands Division and the coeditor of
Forest Canopies.
November — 6 x 9, 352 pp.
$27.00S/£19.95 paper
978-0-262-51352-4
$54.00S/£39.95 cloth
978-0-262-03375-6
PROFESSIONAL
environment/political science
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
AND HUMAN SECURITY
edited by Richard A. Matthew, Jon Barnett,
Bryan McDonald, and Karen L. O’Brien
foreword by Geoffrey D. Dabelko
In recent years, scholars in international relations and
other fields have begun to conceive of security more
broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of
national security toward the idea of human security,
which emphasizes the individual and human well-
being. Viewing global environmental change through
the lens of human security connects such problems as
melting ice caps and carbon emissions to poverty, vul-
nerability, equity, and conflict. This book examines the
complex social, health, and economic consequences of
environmental change across the globe.
In chapters that are both academically rigorous and
policy relevant, the book discusses the connections of
global environmental change to urban poverty, natural
disasters (with a case study of Hurricane Katrina), vio-
lent conflict (with a study of the decade-long Nepalese
civil war), population, gender, and development. The
book makes clear the inadequacy of traditional under-
standings of security and shows how global environ-
mental change is raising new, unavoidable questions of
human insecurity, conflict, cooperation, and sustainable
development.
CONTRIBUTORS W. Neil Adger, Jennifer Bailey, Jon Barnett,
Victoria Basolo, Hans Georg Bohle, Mike Brklacich, May Chazan,
Chris Cocklin, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Indra de Soysa,
Heather Goldsworthy, Betsy Hartmann, Robin M. Leichenko,
Laura Little, Alexander López, Richard A. Matthew,
Bryan McDonald, Eric Neumayer, Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah,
Karen L. O'Brien, Marvin S. Soroos, Bishnu Raj Upreti
Richard A. Matthew is Associate Professor of International and
Environmental Politics in the Schools of Social Ecology and
Social Science at the University of California, Irvine. Jon
Barnett is Reader and Australian Research Council Fellow in
the Department of Resource Management and Geography at
the University of Melbourne. Bryan McDonald is Assistant
Director of the Center for Unconventional Security at the
University of California, Irvine. Karen L. O’Brien is Professor
in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at
the University of Oslo.
December — 6 x 9, 328 pp. — 3 illus.
$25.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51308-1
$50.00S/£37.95 cloth
978-0-262-01340-6
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PROFESSIONAL
environment/political science
MANAGERS OF GLOBAL CHANGE
The Influence of International
Environmental Bureaucracies
edited by Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner
International bureaucracies — highly visible, far-reach-
ing actors of global governance in areas that range from
finance to the environment — are often derided as
ineffective, inefficient, and unresponsive. Yet despite
their prominence in many debates on world politics,
little scholarly attention has been given to their actual
influence in recent years. Managers of Global Change fills
this gap, offering conceptual analysis and case studies
of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies
in the area of environmental governance — one of the
most institutionally dynamic areas of world politics.
The book seeks to resolve a puzzling disparity:
although most international bureaucracies resemble
each other in terms of their institutional and legal
settings (their mandate, the countries to which they
report, their general function), the roles they play and
their actual influence vary greatly. The chapters investi-
gate the type and degree of influence that international
environmental bureaucracies exert and whether exter-
nal or internal factors account for variations. After a
discussion of theoretical context, research design, and
empirical methodology, the book presents nine in-
depth case studies of bureaucracies ranging from the
environment department of the World Bank to the
United Nations’ climate and desertification secretariats.
Managers of Global Change points the way to a bet-
ter understanding of the role of international bureau-
cracies, which could improve the legitimacy of global
decision making and resolve policy debates about the
reform of the United Nations and other bodies.
CONTRIBUTORS Lydia Andler, Steffen Bauer, Steffen Behrle,
Frank Biermann, Per-Olof Busch, Sabine Campe, Klaus Dingwerth,
Torsten Grothmann, Robert Marschinski, Bernd Siebenhüner,
Mireia Tarradell
Frank Biermann is Professor of Political Science and
Environmental Policy Sciences and Head of the Department of
Environmental Policy Analysis at the Institute for Environmental
Studies, Free University, Amsterdam. Bernd Siebenhüner is
Professor of Ecological Economics and Head of the GELENA
research group on social learning and sustainability at the
Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany.
September — 6 x 9, 376 pp.
$28.00S/£20.95 paper
978-0-262-51236-7
$56.00S/£41.95 cloth
978-0-262-01274-4
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environment/sociology
HUMAN FOOTPRINTS ON
THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
Threats to Sustainability
edited by Eugene A. Rosa, Andreas Diekmann,
Thomas Dietz, and Carlo C. Jaeger
The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens
the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policy-
makers, and other close observers know that any under-
standing of the causes of global environmental change
is a function of understanding its human dimension —
the range of human choices and actions that affect the
environment. This book offers a state-of-the-art assess-
ment of research on the human dimensions of global
environmental change, describing how global threats
to sustainability have come about, providing an inter-
pretive framework for understanding environmental
change, reviewing recent work in the social and ecologi-
cal sciences, and discussing which paths for future
advances in our knowledge may prove most promising.
The chapters, by prominent North American and
European authors, offer perspectives on population,
consumption, land cover and use, institutional actions,
and culture. They discuss such topics as risk, the new
Structural Human Ecology approach to analyzing
anthropogenic drivers of global environmental change,
recent progress in understanding land use change,
international environmental regimes, the concept of
the commons, and the comparative vulnerability of
societies around the world.
CONTRIBUTORS Ulrich Beck, Thomas Dietz, Carlo C. Jaeger,
Svein Jentoft, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson,
Bonnie J. McCay, Emilio F. Moran, Eugene A. Rosa, B. L. Turner II,
Richard York, Oran R. Young
Eugene A. Rosa is Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of
Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Thomas S.
Foley Institute of Public Policy at Washington State University.
Andreas Diekmann is Chair of Sociology in the Department of
Humanities and Social and Political Science at Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich. Thomas Dietz is Professor
of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Science and
Policy Program at Michigan State University. Carlo C. Jaeger
is Head of the Social Systems Department at the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
December — 6 x 9, 328 pp. — 1 illus.
$27.00S/£19.95 paper
978-0-262-51299-2
$54.00S/£39.95 cloth
978-0-262-01315-4

environment
LINKAGES OF SUSTAINABILITY
edited by Thomas Graedel and Ester van der Voet
Humanity faces immense hurdles as it struggles to
define the path toward a sustainable future. The multi-
ple components of sustainability, all of which demand
attention, make understanding the very concept of sus-
tainability itself a challenge. Information about whether
global agriculture can be made sustainable, for example,
or calculations of the global need for water, are useless
unless we understand how these issues connect to each
other and to other components of sustainability. In this
book, experts engage in an extended dialogue concern-
ing these linkages, arguing for a comprehensive view of
sustainability. They emphasize the constraints imposed
by the relationships among the components — for
example, how the need for clean, easily accessible water
intersects with the need for the energy required to pro-
vide it — and distinguish those constraints that may
pose severe limitations on humanity’s future from those
of less concern. The book also highlights areas for
future research and debate.
Linkages of Sustainability urges a transformation in
the way we view sustainability — a transformation that
is necessary if we are to plan responsibly for a more
sustainable world.
Thomas Graedel is Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial
Ecology, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of
Geology and Geophysics, and Director of the Center for
Industrial Ecology at Yale University. He is the author of
Streamlined Life-Cycle Assessment and lead author or
coauthor of a number of other books. Ester van der Voet is
Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology in the Institute for
Environmental Sciences at the University of Leiden. She is
the coeditor of Heavy Metals: A Problem Solved?
November — 6 x 9, 430 pp. — 55 color illus.
$40.00S/£29.950 cloth
978-0-262-01358-1
Strüngmann Forum Reports
PROFESSIONAL
environment/law
GLOBAL DEMOCRACY AND
SUSTAINABLE JURISPRUDENCE
Deliberative Environmental Law
Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett
In Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence,
Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the necessary
characteristics of a meaningful global jurisprudence, a
jurisprudence that would underpin international envi-
ronmental law. Arguing that theories of political delib-
eration offer useful insights into the current “democratic
deficit” in international law, and using this insight as a
way to approach the problem of global environmental
protection, they offer both a theoretical foundation and
a realistic deliberative mechanism for creating effective
transnational common law for the environment. Their
argument links elements not typically associated:
abstract democratic theory and a practical form of
deliberative democracy; the legitimacy-imparting value
of deliberative democracy and the possibility of legislat-
ing through adjudication; common law jurisprudence
and the development of transnational environmental
law; and conceptual thinking that draws on Deweyan
pragmatism, Rawlsian contractarianism, Habermasian
critical theory, and the full liberalism of Bohman,
Gutmann, and Thompson.
Baber and Bartlett offer a democratic method for
creating, interpreting, and implementing international
environmental norms that involves citizens and
bypasses states — an innovation that can be replicated
and deployed across a range of policy areas.
Walter F. Baber is Associate Professor in the Graduate Center
for Public Policy and Administration in the College of Health
and Human Services at California State University, Long Beach.
Robert V. Bartlett is Gund Professor of Liberal Arts in the
Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont.
“This work is highly original and makes a contribution to
the fields of global environmental governance, deliberative
democracy, and international environmental law. Debates
in this area have become somewhat repetitive recently, and
this book will sound a striking new note and generate an
animated debate, with strong positions on both sides.”
— Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne,
author of The Green State: Rethinking
Democracy and Sovereignty
August — 6 x 9, 248 pp.
$22.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51291-6
$44.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-01302-4
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computational biology
COMBINATORICS OF GENOME
REARRANGEMENTS
Guillaume Fertin, Anthony Labarre, Irena Rusu,
Eric Tannier, and Stéphane Vialette
From one cell to another, from one individual to
another, and from one species to another, the content of
DNA molecules is often similar. The organization of
these molecules, however, differs dramatically, and the
mutations that affect this organization are known as
genome rearrangements. Combinatorial methods are used
to reconstruct putative rearrangement scenarios in order
to explain the evolutionary history of a set of species,
often formalizing the evolutionary events that can
explain the multiple combinations of observed genomes
as combinatorial optimization problems. This book
offers the first comprehensive survey of this rapidly
expanding application of combinatorial optimization.
It can be used as a reference for experienced researchers
or as an introductory text for a broader audience.
Genome rearrangement problems have proved so
interesting from a combinatorial point of view that the
field now belongs as much to mathematics as to biol-
ogy. This book takes a mathematically oriented
approach, but provides biological background when
necessary. It presents a series of models, beginning with
the simplest (which is progressively extended by drop-
ping restrictions), each constructing a genome
rearrangement problem. The book also discusses an
important generalization of the basic problem known as
the median problem, surveys attempts to reconstruct the
relationships between genomes with phylogenetic trees,
and offers a collection of summaries and appendixes
with useful additional information.
Guillaume Fertin is Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Nantes. Anthony Labarre received a PhD in
Mathematics and Computer Science from the Université libre de
Bruxelles. Irena Rusu is Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Nantes. Eric Tannier is a Researcher at the INRIA,
in the Laboratory of Biometrics and Evolutionary Biology of the
University of Lyon. Stéphane Vialette is a Researcher in the
Gaspard-Monge Institute of Electronics and Computer Science
at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.
August — 7 x 9, 312 pp. — 44 illus.
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-06282-4
Computational Molecular Biology series
84
biology/engineering
CONTROL THEORY AND
SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
edited by Pablo A. Iglesias and Brian P. Ingalls
Issues of regulation and control are central to the study
of biological and biochemical systems. Thus it is not
surprising that the tools of feedback control theory —
engineering techniques developed to design and analyze
self-regulating systems — have proven useful in the
study of these biological mechanisms. Such interdiscipli-
nary work requires knowledge of the results, tools and
techniques of another discipline, as well as an under-
standing of the culture of an unfamiliar research com-
munity. This volume attempts to bridge the gap between
disciplines by presenting applications of systems and
control theory to cell biology that range from surveys of
established material to descriptions of new developments
in the field.
The first chapter offers a primer on concepts from
dynamical systems and control theory, which allows
the life scientist with no background in control theory
to understand the concepts presented in the rest of
the book. Following the introduction of ordinary
differential equation-based modeling in the first chap-
ter, the second and third chapters discuss alternative
modeling frameworks. The remaining chapters sample
a variety of applications, considering such topics as
quantitative measures of dynamic behavior, modularity,
stoichiometry, robust control techniques, and network
identification.
CONTRIBUTORS David Angeli, Declan G. Bates, Eric Bullinger,
Peter S. Chang, Domitilla Del Vecchio, Francis J. Doyle III,
Hana El-Samad, Dirk Fey, Rolf Findeisen, Simone Frey,
Jorge Gonçalves, Pablo A. Iglesias, Brian P. Ingalls,
Elling W. Jacobsen, Mustafa Khammash, Jongrae Kim,
Eric Klavins, Eric C. Kwei, Thomas Millat, Jason E. Shoemaker,
Eduardo D. Sontag, Stephanie R. Taylor, David Thorsley,
Camilla Trané, Sean Warnick, Olaf Wolkenhauer
Pablo A. Iglesias is Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and
Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Brian P.
Ingalls is Associate Professor in the Departments of Applied
Mathematics, Biology, and Chemical Engineering at the
University of Waterloo.
November — 7 x 9, 384 pp. — 138 illus.
$45.00S/£33.95 cloth
978-0-262-01334-5

anthropology/biology
INNOVATION IN CULTURAL SYSTEMS
Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
edited by Michael J. O’Brien and
Stephen J. Shennan
In recent years an interest in applying the principles of
evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social
sciences. Archaeologists and anthropologists reconsid-
ered the role of innovation in particular, and have
moved toward characterizing innovation in cultural sys-
tems not only as a product but also as an evolutionary
process. This distinction was familiar to biology but
new to the social sciences; cultural evolutionists from
the nineteenth to the twentieth century had tended
to see innovation as a preprogrammed change that
occurred when a cultural group “needed” to overcome
environmental problems. In this volume, leading
researchers from a variety of disciplines — including
anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, philos-
ophy, and psychology — offer their perspectives on
cultural innovation. The book provides not only a
range of views but also an integrated account, with the
chapters offering an orderly progression of thought.
The contributors consider innovation in biological
terms, discussing epistemology, animal studies, system-
atics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolv-
ability, and evo-devo; they discuss modern insights into
innovation, including simulation, the random-copying
model, diffusion, and demographic analysis; and they
offer case studies of innovation from archaeological
and ethnographic records, examining developmental,
behavioral, and social patterns.
CONTRIBUTORS André Ariew, R. Alexander Bentley,
Werner Callebaut, Joseph Henrich, Anne Kandler, Kevin N. Laland,
Daniel O. Larson, Alex Mesoudi, Michael J. O’Brien, Craig T. Palmer,
Adam Powell, Simon M. Reader, Valentine Roux, Chet Savage,
Michael Brian Schiffer, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Stephen J. Shennan,
James Steele, Mark G. Thomas, Todd L. VanPool
Michael J. O’Brien is Dean of the College of Arts and Science,
Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Museum of
Anthropology at the University of Missouri. Stephen J. Shennan
is Professor of Theoretical Archaeology and Director of the
Institute of Archaeology at University College London.
December — 7 x 9, 288 pp. — 45 illus.
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01333-8
Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
PROFESSIONAL
biology
BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL ANALYSIS
Methods and Applications
Fabian J. Theis and Anke Meyer-Bäse
Biomedical signal analysis has become one of the most
important visualization and interpretation methods in
biology and medicine. Many new and powerful instru-
ments for detecting, storing, transmitting, analyzing,
and displaying images have been developed in recent
years, allowing scientists and physicians to obtain quan-
titative measurements to support scientific hypotheses
and medical diagnoses. This book offers an overview
of a range of proven and new methods, discussing both
theoretical and practical aspects of biomedical signal
analysis and interpretation.
After an introduction to the topic and a survey of
several processing and imaging techniques, the book
describes a broad range of methods, including continu-
ous and discrete Fourier transforms, independent com-
ponent analysis (ICA), dependent component analysis,
neural networks, and fuzzy logic methods. The book
then discusses applications of these theoretical tools to
practical problems in everyday biosignal processing,
considering such subjects as exploratory data analysis
and low-frequency connectivity analysis in fMRI, MRI
signal processing including lesion detection in breast
MRI, dynamic cerebral contrast-enhanced perfusion
MRI, skin lesion classification, and microscopic slice
image processing and automatic labeling.
Biomedical Signal Analysis can be used as a text or
professional reference. Part I, on methods, forms a
self-contained text, with exercises and other learning
aids, for upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level
students. Researchers or graduate students in systems
biology, genomic signal processing, and computer-
assisted radiology will find both parts I and II (on
applications) a valuable handbook.
Fabian J. Theis is head of the Computational Modeling in
Biology Group at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems
Biology, German Research Center for Environmental Health,
Neuherberg, Germany. Anke Meyer-Bäse is Associate Professor
in the Department of Scientific Computing at Florida State
University. She is the author of Pattern Recognition in
Medical Imaging.
September — 7 x 9, 420 pp.
9 color illus., 173 black & white illus.
$60.00S/£44.95 cloth
978-0-262-01328-4
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PROFESSIONAL
cognitive neuroscience

THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES

Fourth Edition
edited by Michael S. Gazzaniga
The fourth edition of the work
that defines the field of cognitive Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the
neuroscience, offering completely developing field of cognitive neuroscience. The fourth edition of The Cognitive
new material. Neurosciences continues to chart new directions in the study of the biologic
underpinnings of complex cognition — the relationship between the structural
October and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological
8 1/2 x 10 7/8, 1376 pp. reality of the mind. The material in this edition is entirely new, with all
437 illus., 32-page color insert
chapters written specifically for it.
$175.00S/£129.95 cloth Since the publication of the third edition, the field of cognitive neuroscience
978-0-262-01341-3
has made rapid and dramatic advances; fundamental stances are changing and
new ideas are emerging. This edition reflects the vibrancy of the field, with
CONTENTS research in development and evolution that finds a dynamic growth pattern
Evolution and Development
Pasko Rakic and Leo M. Chalupa,
becoming specific and fixed, and research in plasticity that sees the neuronal
editors systems always changing; exciting new empirical evidence on attention that
Plasticity also verifies many central tenets of longstanding theories; work that shows the
Helen Neville and Mriganka Sur, boundaries of the motor system pushed further into cognition; memory research
editors
that, paradoxically, provides insight into how humans imagine future events;
Attention
Steven Luck and George R. Mangun, pioneering theoretical and methodological work in vision; new findings on
editors how genes and experience shape the language faculty; new ideas about how
Sensation and Perception the emotional brain develops and operates; and research on consciousness that
J. Anthony Movshon and ranges from a novel mechanism for how the brain generates the baseline activity
B. A. Wandell, editors
necessary to sustain conscious experience to a bold theoretical attempt to make
Motor
Scott T. Grafton and Emilio Bizzi, the problem of qualia more tractable.
editors
Michael S. Gazzaniga is Professor of Psychology and Director for the SAGE Center for
Memory the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, he is the
Daniel L. Schacter, editor Director of the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, President of the Cognitive
Language Neuroscience Institute, and a member of the President’s Council on Bioethetics.
Alfonso Caramazza, editor
Emotion and Social Neuroscience
Todd F. Heatherton and
Joseph E. LeDoux, editors
Higher Cognitive Functions
Liz Phelps, editor
Consciousness
Christof Koch, editor
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neuroscience
A HOLE IN THE HEAD
More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Charles G. Gross
Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the
history of his field since his days as an undergraduate.
A Hole in the Head is the second collection of essays in
which he illuminates the study of the brain with fasci-
nating episodes from the past. This volume’s tales range
from the history of trepanation (drilling a hole in the
skull) to neurosurgery as painted by Hieronymus Bosch
to the discovery that bats navigate using echolocation.
The emphasis is on blind alleys and errors as well
as triumphs and discoveries, with ancient practices
connected to recent developments and controversies.
Trepanation, for example, originated in Paleolithic
societies and is now promoted on a variety of Web
sites as a means of “enhancing” consciousness.
Gross first reaches back into the beginnings of neu-
roscience, discussing such topics as debates over the
role of the brain (as opposed to the heart) in cognition
and the relationship of vision to ideas about the “evil
eye.” He then takes up the interaction of art and neu-
roscience, exploring, among other things, Rembrandt’s
“Anatomy Lesson” paintings — one of which prefig-
ured the poses in a famous photograph of the dead
Che Guevara. Finally, Gross examines discoveries by
scientists whose work was scorned in their own time
but proven correct in later eras, including Claude
Bernard’s argument for the importance of the con-
stancy of the internal environment and Joseph
Altman’s pioneering (and ignored) discovery of adult
neurogenesis.
Charles G. Gross, a neuroscientist specializing in vision and
the functions of the cerebral cortex, is Professor of Psychology
at Princeton University. He is the author of Vision, Brain,
Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience (MIT Press,
1998).
November — 7 x 9, 336 pp. — 59 illus.
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01338-3
PROFESSIONAL
neuroscience
DENDRITIC SPINES
Rafael Yuste
Most neurons in the brain are covered by dendritic
spines, small protrusions that arise from dendrites,
covering them like leaves on a tree. But a hundred and
twenty years after spines were first described by Ramón
y Cajal, their function is still unclear. Dozens of differ-
ent functions have been proposed, from Cajal’s idea that
they enhance neuronal interconnectivity to hypotheses
that spines serve as plasticity machines, neuroprotective
devices, or even digital logic elements. In Dendritic
Spines, leading neurobiologist Rafael Yuste attempts to
solve the “spine problem,” searching for the fundamen-
tal function of spines. He does this by examining many
aspects of spine biology that have fascinated him over
the years, including their structure, development, motil-
ity, plasticity, biophysical properties, and calcium com-
partmentalization.
Yuste argues that we may never understand how
the brain works without understanding the specific
function of spines. In this book, he offers a synthesis
of the information that has been gathered on spines
(much of which comes from his own studies of the
mammalian cortex), linking their function with the
computational logic of the neuronal circuits that use
them. He argues that once viewed from the circuit per-
spective, all the pieces of the spine puzzle fit together
nicely into a single, overarching function. Yuste con-
nects these two topics, integrating current knowledge
of spines with that of key features of the circuits in
which they operate. He concludes with a speculative
chapter on the computational function of spines,
searching for the ultimate logic of their existence
in the brain and offering a proposal that is sure to
stimulate discussions and drive future research.
Rafael Yuste is Professor in the Department of Biological
Sciences at Columbia University, where he is HHMI Investigator
and Codirector of the Kavli Institute for Brain Circuits.
October — 7 x 9, 264 pp. — 12 color illus., 82 black & white illus.
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01350-5
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PROFESSIONAL
neuroscience
COMPUTATIONAL MODELING
METHODS FOR NEUROSCIENTISTS
edited by Erik De Schutter
This book offers an introduction to current methods
in computational modeling in neuroscience. The book
describes realistic modeling methods at levels of com-
plexity ranging from molecular interactions to large
neural networks. A “how to” book rather than an
analytical account, it focuses on the presentation of
methodological approaches, including the selection of
the appropriate method and its potential pitfalls. It is
intended for experimental neuroscientists and graduate
students who have little formal training in mathemati-
cal methods, but it will also be useful for scientists with
theoretical backgrounds who want to start using data-
driven modeling methods. The mathematics needed
are kept to an introductory level; the first chapter
explains the mathematical methods the reader needs
to master to understand the rest of the book.
The chapters are written by scientists who have
successfully integrated data-driven modeling with
experimental work, so all of the material is accessible
to experimentalists. The chapters offer comprehensive
coverage with little overlap and extensive cross-refer-
ences, moving from basic building blocks to more
complex applications.
CONTRIBUTORS Pablo Achard, Haroon Anwar, Upinder S. Bhalla,
Michiel Berends, Nicolas Brunel, Ronald L. Calabrese,
Brenda Claiborne, Hugo Cornelis, Erik De Schutter, Alain Destexhe,
Bard Ermentrout, Kristen Harris, Sean Hill, John R. Huguenard,
William R. Holmes, Gwen Jacobs, Gwendal LeMasson,
Henry Markram, Reinoud Maex, Astrid A. Prinz, Imad Riachi,
John Rinzel, Arnd Roth, Felix Schürmann, Werner Van Geit,
Mark C. W. van Rossum, Stefan Wils
Erik De Schutter is Principal Investigator and Head of the
Computational Neuroscience Unit at the Okinawa Institute of
Science and Technology, Japan, and Head of the Theoretical
Neurobiology Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical
Sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
November — 7 x 9, 432 pp. — 85 illus.
$50.00S/£37.95 cloth
978-0-262-01327-7
Computational Neuroscience series
88
neuroscience
BRAIN SIGNAL ANALYSIS
Advances in Neuroelectric and
Neuromagnetic Methods
edited by Todd C. Handy
Cognitive electrophysiology concerns the study of the
brain’s electrical and magnetic responses to both exter-
nal and internal events. These can be measured using
electroencephalograms (EEGs) or magnetoencephalo-
grams (MEGs). With the advent of functional mag-
netic resonance imaging (fMRI), another method of
tracking brain signals, the tools and techniques of ERP,
EEG and MEG data acquisition and analysis have
been developing at a similarly rapid pace, and this book
offers an overview of key recent advances in cognitive
electrophysiology.
The chapters highlight the increasing overlap in
EEG and MEG analytic techniques, describing several
methods applicable to both; they discuss recent devel-
opments, including reverse correlation methods in
visual-evoked potentials and a new approach to topo-
graphic mapping in high-density electrode montage;
and they relate the latest thinking on design aspects of
EEG/MEG studies, discussing how to optimize the
signal-to-noise ratio as well as statistical developments
for maximizing power and accuracy in data analysis
using repeated-measure ANOVAS.
CONTRIBUTORS Denis Brunet, Douglas Cheyne, Marzia De Lucia,
Sam M. Doesburg, John J. Foxe, Karl J. Friston, Marta I. Garrido,
Sara L. Gonzalez Andino, Rolando Grave de Peralta Menendez,
Jessica J. Green, Todd C. Handy, Anthony T. Herdman,
Stefan J. Kiebel, Edmund C. Lalor, Theodor Landis,
Teresa Y. L. Liu Ambrose, John. J. McDonald, Christoph M. Michel,
Marla J. S. Mickleborough, Micah M. Murray, Lindsay S. Nagamatsu,
Barak A. Pearlmutter, Durk Talsma, Gregor Thut,
Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Lawrence M. Ward
Todd C. Handy is Associate Professor in the Psychology
Department at the University of British Columbia, where
he runs the Neuroimaging Lab. He is the editor of Event-
Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook (MIT Press, 2004).
September — 7 x 9, 264 pp. — 12 color illus.,
56 black & white illus.
$55.00S/£40.95 cloth
978-0-262-01308-6

cognitive neuroscience
THE GENETICS OF
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
edited by Terry E. Goldberg and
Daniel R. Weinberger
It has long been known that aspects of behavior run in
families; studies show that characteristics related to cog-
nition, temperament, and all major psychiatric disorders
are heritable. This volume offers a primer on under-
standing the genetic mechanisms of such inherited
traits. It proposes a set of tools — a conceptual basis —
for critically evaluating recent studies and offers a sur-
vey of results from the latest research in the emerging
fields of cognitive genetics and imaging genetics. The
chapters emphasize fundamental issues regarding the
design of experiments, the use of bioinformatic tools,
the integration of data from different levels of analysis,
and the validity of findings, arguing that associations
between genes and cognitive processes must be
replicable and placed in a neurobiological context
for validation.
The Genetics of Cognitive Neuroscience aims to give
the reader a working understanding of the influence of
specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regula-
tion, personality, and central nervous system disorders.
With its emphasis on general methodological points, it
will remain a valuable resource in a fast-evolving field.
CONTRIBUTORS Kristin L. Bigos, Katherine E. Burdick,
Jingshan Chen, Aiden Corvin, Jeffrey L. Cummings, Ian J. Deary,
Gary Donahoe, Eco J. C. de Geus, Jin Fan, Erika E. Forbes,
John Fossella, Terry E. Goldberg, Ahmad R. Hariri, Lucas Kempf,
Anil K. Malhotra, Venkata S. Mattay, Lauren M. McGrath.
Kristin K. Nicodemus, Francesco Papaleo, Bruce F. Pennington,
Michael I. Posner, Danielle Posthuma, John M. Ringman,
Shelley D. Smith, Daniel R. Weinberger, Fengyu Zhang
Terry E. Goldberg is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director
of Neurocognitive Research at the Zucker Hillside Hospital’s
Psychiatry Research Division and the Litwin Zucker Alzheimer’s
Research Center at the Long Island Medical Center in Manhasset,
New York. Daniel R. Weinberger is Chief of the Clinical Brain
Disorders Branch and Director of the Genes, Cognition, and
Psychosis Program at the National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH) of the National Institutes of Heath (NIH) in
Bethesda, Maryland.
October — 7 x 9, 280 pp. — 13 illus.
$55.00S/£40.95 cloth
978-0-262-01307-9
Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology series
PROFESSIONAL
cognitive science/philosophy
MENTAL REALITY
Galen Strawson
Second Edition, with a new appendix
In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson argues that much
contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy
of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental
phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as
publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the
nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the phe-
nomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes
an alternative position, “naturalized Cartesianism,”
which couples the materialist view that mind is entirely
natural and wholly physical with a fully realist account
of the nature of conscious experience. Naturalized
Cartesianism is an adductive (as opposed to reductive)
form of materialism. Adductive materialists claim that
the physical is something more than we ordinarily con-
ceive it to be, given that many of the wholly physical
goings on in the brain constitute — literally are —
conscious experiences as we ordinarily conceive them.
Since naturalized Cartesianism downgrades the
place of reference to nonmental and publicly observ-
able phenomena in an adequate account of mental
phenomena, Strawson considers in detail the question
of what part such reference still has to play. He argues
that it is a mistake to think that all behavioral phe-
nomena are publicly observable phenomena.
This revised and expanded edition of Mental Reality
includes a new appendix, which thoroughly revises the
account of intentionality given in chapter 7.
Galen Strawson taught philosophy at the University of Oxford
for twenty years before moving to the University of Reading
in 2001. He was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the
City University of New York Graduate Center from 2004-2007.
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION
“Perhaps the most detailed and convincing refutation of
behaviorism given yet in philosophy.”
— Times Literary Supplement
“Strawson’s inquiry explores a remarkable range of hard
questions with care and insight.”
— Noam Chomsky,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
November — 6 x 9, 400 pp.
$32.00S/£23.95 paper
978-0-262-51310-4
Representation and Mind series
A Bradford Book
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PROFESSIONAL
philosophy of mind
RADICAL EMBODIED
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Anthony Chemero
While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the
status of mental representations in cognitive science,
cognitive scientists have been quietly engaged in study-
ing perception, action, and cognition without explaining
them in terms of mental representation. In this book,
Anthony Chemero describes this nonrepresentational
approach (which he terms radical embodied cognitive
science), puts it in historical and conceptual context,
and applies it to traditional problems in the philosophy
of mind.
Radical embodied cognitive science is a direct
descendant of the American naturalist psychology of
William James and John Dewey, and follows them in
viewing perception and cognition to be understandable
only in terms of action in the environment. Chemero
argues that cognition should be described in terms
of agent-environment dynamics rather than in terms
of computation and representation. After outlining
this orientation to cognition, Chemero proposes a
methodology: dynamical systems theory, which would
explain things dynamically and without reference to
representation. He also advances a background theory:
Gibsonian ecological psychology, “shored up” and
clarified. Chemero then looks at some traditional
philosophical problems (reductionism, epistemological
skepticism, metaphysical realism, consciousness)
through the lens of radical embodied cognitive science
and concludes that the comparative ease with which it
resolves these problems, combined with its empirical
promise, makes this approach to cognitive science a
rewarding one.
“Jerry Fodor is my favorite philosopher,” Chemero
writes in his preface, adding, “I think that Jerry Fodor
is wrong about nearly everything.” With this book,
Chemero explains nonrepresentational, dynamical, eco-
logical cognitive science as clearly and as rigorously as
Jerry Fodor explained computational cognitive science
in his classic work The Language of Thought.
Anthony Chemero is Associate Professor in the Scientific
and Philosophical Studies of Mind Program at Franklin and
Marshall College.
October — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 19 illus.
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01322-2
A Bradford Book
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philosophy of mind
COGNITION AND PERCEPTION
How Do Psychology and Neural Science
Inform Philosophy?
Athanassios Raftopoulos
In Cognition and Perception, Athanassios Raftopoulos
discusses the cognitive penetrability of perception and
claims that there is a part of visual processes (which he
calls “perception”) that results in representational states
with nonconceptual content; that is, a part that retrieves
information from visual scenes in conceptually unmedi-
ated, “bottom-up,” theory-neutral ways. Raftopoulos
applies this insight to problems in philosophy of sci-
ence, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, and exam-
ines how we access the external world through our
perception as well as what we can know of that world.
To show that there is a theory-neutral part of exis-
tence, Raftopoulos turns to cognitive science and
argues that there is substantial scientific evidence. He
then claims that perception induces representational
states with nonconceptual content and examines the
nature of the nonconceptual content. The nonconcep-
tual information retrieved, he argues, does not allow
the identification or recognition of an object but only
its individuation as a discrete persistent object with
certain spatiotemporal properties and other features.
Object individuation, however, suffices to determine
the referents of perceptual demonstratives. Raftopoulos
defends his account in the context of current discus-
sions on the issue of the theory-ladenness of percep-
tion (namely the Fodor-Churchland debate), and then
discusses the repercussions of his thesis for problems in
the philosophy of science. Finally, Raftopoulos claims
that there is a minimal form of realism that is defensi-
ble. This minimal realism holds that objects, their
spatiotemporal properties, and such features as shape,
orientation, and motion are real, mind-independent
properties in the world.
Athanassios Raftopoulos is Associate Professor of Epistemology
and Cognitive Science in the Department of Psychology at the
University of Cyprus.
August — 6 x 9, 448 pp. — 2 illus.
$45.00S/£33.95 cloth
978-0-262-01321-5
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philosophy
FREE WILL AS AN OPEN
SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM
Mark Balaguer
In this largely antimetaphysical treatment of free will
and determinism, Mark Balaguer argues that the philo-
sophical problem of free will boils down to an open sci-
entific question about the causal histories of certain
kinds of neural events. In the course of his argument,
Balaguer provides a naturalistic defense of the libertar-
ian view of free will.
Balaguer claims that the compatibilism debate (the
question of whether free will is compatible with deter-
minism) is essentially irrelevant to metaphysical ques-
tions about the nature of human freedom, most
notably “Do humans have free will?” The questions
“What is free will?” and “Which kinds of freedom
are required for moral responsibility?” are likewise
argued to be irrelevant to substantive questions about
the metaphysics of human free will. The metaphysical
component of the problem of free will, Balaguer argues,
essentially boils down to the question of whether
humans possess libertarian free will. Furthermore, he
argues that, contrary to the traditional wisdom, the lib-
ertarian question reduces to a question about indeter-
minacy — in particular, to a straightforward empirical
question about whether certain neural events in our
heads are causally undetermined in a certain specific
way; in other words, Balaguer argues that the right kind
of indeterminacy would bring with it all of the other
requirements for libertarian free will. Finally, he argues
that because there is no good evidence as to whether or
not the relevant neural events are undetermined in the
way that’s required, the question of whether human
beings possess libertarian free will is a wide open
empirical question.
Mark Balaguer is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. He is
the author of Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics.
December — 6 x 9, 208 pp.
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01354-3
A Bradford Book
PROFESSIONAL
philosophy
TYPES AND TOKENS
On Abstract Objects
Linda Wetzel
There is a widely recognized but infrequently discussed
distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of
the world (tokens) and the types of which they are
instances. Words come in both types and tokens —
for example, there is only one word type ‘the’ but
there are numerous tokens of it on this page — as do
symphonies, bears, chess games, and many other types
of things. In this book, Linda Wetzel examines the
distinction between types and tokens and argues that
types exist (as abstract objects, since they lack a unique
spatiotemporal location).
Wetzel demonstrates the ubiquity of references to
(and quantifications over) types in science and ordinary
language; types have to be reckoned with, and cannot
simply be swept under the rug. Wetzel argues that
there are such things as types by undermining the
epistemological arguments against abstract objects and
offering extended original arguments demonstrating
the failure of nominalistic attempts to paraphrase away
such references to (and quantifications over) types. She
then focuses on the relation between types and their
tokens, especially for words, showing for the first time
that there is nothing that all tokens of a type need
have in common other than being tokens of that type.
Finally, she considers an often-overlooked problem
for realism having to do with types occurring in other
types (such as words in a sentence) and proposes an
important and original solution, extending her discus-
sion from words and expressions to other types that
structurally involve other types (flags and stars and
stripes; molecules and atoms; sonatas and notes).
Linda Wetzel is Associate Professor in the Department of
Philosophy at Georgetown University.
September — 6 x 9, 192 pp.
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01301-7
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PROFESSIONAL
linguistics
BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
AND ORIGIN OF SYNTAX
edited by Derek Bickerton and Eörs Szathmáry
Syntax is arguably the most human-specific aspect of
language. Despite the proto-linguistic capacities of
some animals, syntax appears to be the last major evolu-
tionary transition in humans that has some genetic
basis. Yet what are the elements to a scenario that can
explain such a transition? In this book, experts from lin-
guistics, neurology and neurobiology, cognitive psychol-
ogy, ecology and evolutionary biology, and computer
modeling address this question.
Unlike most previous work on the evolution of
language, Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax
follows through on a growing consensus among
researchers that language can be profitably separated
into a number of related and interacting but largely
autonomous functions, each of which may have a dis-
tinguishable evolutionary history and neurological base.
The contributors argue that syntax is such a function.
The book describes the current state of research
on syntax in different fields, with special emphasis on
areas in which the findings of particular disciplines
might shed light on problems faced by other disci-
plines. It defines areas where consensus has been
established with regard to the nature, infrastructure,
and evolution of the syntax of natural languages;
summarizes and evaluates contrasting approaches
in areas that remain controversial; and suggests lines
for future research to resolve at least some of these
disputed issues.
Derek Bickerton is Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at the
University of Hawaii. He is the coauthor (with William Calvin)
of Lingua ex Machina (MIT Press, 2000) and the author of
Language and Species and other books. Eörs Szathmáry is
Permanent Fellow at Collegium Budapest, Research Fellow
at the Parmenides Foundation, Munich, and Professor of
Biology at Eötvös University, Budapest. He is the coauthor
(with John Maynard Smith) of The Origins of Life.
October — 6 x 9, 430 pp.
20 color illus., 40 black & white illus.
$45.00S/£33.95 cloth
978-0-262-01356-7
Strüngmann Forum Reports
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linguistics
HYPOTHESIS A/HYPOTHESIS B
Linguistic Explorations in Honor of
David M. Perlmutter
edited by Donna B. Gerdts, John C. Moore, and
Maria Polinsky
Anyone who has studied linguistics in the last half-cen-
tury has been affected by the work of David Perlmutter.
One of the era’s most versatile linguists, he is perhaps
best known as the founder (with Paul Postal) of
Relational Grammar, but he has also made contribu-
tions to areas ranging from theoretical morphology to
sign language phonology. Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B (the
title evokes Perlmutter’s characteristic style of linguistic
argumentation) offers twenty-three essays by
Perlmutter’s colleagues and former students.
Many of the contributions deal with the study of
the world’s languages (including Indo-European lan-
guages, sign language, and languages of the Americas),
reflecting the influence of Perlmutter’s cross-linguistic
research and meticulous analysis of empirical data.
Other topics include grammatical relations and their
mapping; unaccusatives, impersonals, and the like;
complex verbs, complex clauses, and Wh-construc-
tions; and the nature of sign language. Perlmutter,
currently Professor Emeritus at the University of
California, San Diego, and still actively engaged in
the field, opens the volume with the illuminating and
entertaining essay, “My Path in Linguistics.”
CONTRIBUTORS Judith Aissen, Mark Aronoff, Leonard H. Babby,
Nicoleta Bateman, J. Albert Bickford, Sandra Chung,
William D. Davies, Stanley Dubinsky, Katarzyna Dziwirek,
Patrick Farrell, Donald G. Frantz, Donna B. Gerdts, Alice C. Harris,
Brian D. Joseph, Géraldine Legendre, Philip S. LeSourd,
Joan Maling, Stephen A. Marlett, Diane Lillo-Martin,
James McCloskey, Richard P. Meier, Irit Meir, John C. Moore,
Carol A. Padden, Maria Polinsky, Eduardo P. Raposo,
Richard A. Rhodes, Wendy Sandler, Paul Smolensky, Annie Zaenen
Donna B. Gerdts is Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser
University. John C. Moore is Professor and Chair in the
Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San
Diego. Maria Polinsky is Professor of Linguistics at Harvard
University.
January — 7 x 9, 528 pp. — 33 illus.
$35.00S/£25.95 paper
978-0-262-63356-7
$70.00S/£51.95 cloth
978-0-262-13487-3
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linguistics
THE LOCATIVE SYNTAX
OF EXPERIENCERS
Idan Landau
Experiencers — grammatical participants that undergo
a certain psychological change or are in such a state —
are grammatically special. As objects ( John scared
Mary; loud music annoys me), experiencers display two
peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across different
languages: their syntax is often typical of oblique argu-
ments and their semantic scope is typical of subjects.
In The Locative Syntax of Experiencers, Idan Landau
investigates this puzzling correlation and argues that
experiencers are syntactically coded as (mental) loca-
tions. Drawing on results from a range of languages
and theoretical frameworks, Landau examines the
far-reaching repercussions of this simple claim.
Landau shows that all experiencer objects are gram-
maticalized as locative phrases, introduced by a
dative/locative preposition. “Bare” experiencer objects
are in fact oblique, too, the preposition being null. This
preposition accounts for the oblique psych(ological)
properties, attested in case alternations, cliticization,
resumption, restrictions on passive formation, and so
on. As locatives, object experiencers may undergo loca-
tive inversion, giving rise to the common phenomenon
of quirky experiencers. When covert, this inversion
endows object experiencers with wide scope, attested in
control, binding, and wh-quantifier interactions.
Landau’s synthesis thus provides a novel solution to
some of the oldest puzzles in the generative study of
psychological verbs.
The Locative Syntax of Experiencers offers the most
comprehensive description of the syntax of psychologi-
cal verbs to date, documenting their special properties
in more than twenty languages. Its basic theoretical
claim is readily translatable into alternative frame-
works. Existing accounts of psychological verbs either
consider very few languages or fail to incorporate other
theoretical frameworks; this study takes a broader per-
spective, informed by findings of four decades of
research.
Idan Landau is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ben-
Gurion University.
November — 6 x 9, 176 pp.
$26.00S/£19.95 paper
978-0-262-51306-7
$52.00S/£38.95 cloth
978-0-262-01330-7
Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 53
PROFESSIONAL
linguistics
DISTRIBUTED REDUPLICATION
John Frampton
A convincing account of reduplicative phenomena has
been a longstanding problem for rule-based theories
of morphophonology. Many scholars believe that
derivational phonology is incapable in principle of
analyzing reduplication. In Distributed Reduplication,
John Frampton demonstrates the adequacy of rule-based
theories by providing a general account within that
framework and illustrating his proposal with extensive
examples of widely varying reduplicatation schemes
from many languages. His analysis is based on new
proposals about the structure of autosegmental
representations.
Although Frampton offers many new ideas about
the computations that are put to use in reduplicative
phonology, some fairly radical, his intent is conserva-
tive: to provide evidence that the model of the phono-
logical computation developed by Chomsky and Halle
in 1968 is fundamentally correct — that surface forms
are produced by the successive modification of under-
lying forms. Frampton’s theory accounts for the surface
properties of reduplicative morphemes by operations
that are distributed at various points in the mor-
phophonology rather than by a single operation
applied at a single point. Lexical insertion, prosodic
adjustment, and copying can each make a contribution
to the output at different points in the computation
of surface form.
Frampton discusses particular reduplicative processes
in many languages as he develops his general theory.
The final chapter provides an extensive sequence of
detailed case studies. Appendixes offer additional mate-
rial on the No Crossing Constraint, the autosegmental
structure of reduplicative representations, linearization,
and concatenative versus nonconcatenative morphology.
This volume will play a major role in the main debate
of current phonological research: what is the nature
of the phonological computation?
John Frampton is Associate Professor of Mathematics at
Northeastern University. He has published widely on
linguistics and mathematics.
September — 6 x 9, 220 pp.
$32.00S/£23.95 paper
978-0-262-51353-1
$64.00S/£47.95 cloth
978-0-262-01326-0
Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 52
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PROFESSIONAL
linguistics
WHY AGREE? WHY MOVE?
Unifying Agreement-based and Discourse
Configurational Languages
Shigeru Miyagawa
An unusual property of human language is the exis-
tence of movement operations. Modern syntactic the-
ory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why
movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru
Miyagawa combines this question with another, that of
the occurrence of agreement systems. Using data from a
wide range of languages, he argues that movement and
agreement work in tandem to achieve a specific goal: to
imbue natural language with enormous expressive
power. Without movement and agreement, he con-
tends, human language would be merely a shadow of
itself, with severe limitation on what can be expressed.
Miyagawa investigates a variety of languages, includ-
ing English, Japanese, Bantu languages, Romance
languages, Finnish, and Chinese. He finds that every
language manifests some kind of agreement, some in
the form of the familiar person/number/gender system
and others in the form of what Katalin É. Kiss calls
“discourse configurational” features such as topic and
focus. A key proposal of his argument is that the com-
putational system in syntax deals with the wide range
of agreement types uniformly — as if there were just
one system — and an integral part of this computation
turns out to be movement. Why Agree? Why Move? is
unique in proposing a unified system for movement
and agreement across language groups that are vastly
diverse — Bantu languages, East Asian languages,
Indo-European languages, and others.
Shigeru Miyagawa is Professor of Linguistics and Kochi-
Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at MIT.
He is the author of Structure and Case Marking in Japanese
and the coeditor of Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics.
Dcember — 6 x 9, 200 pp.
$25.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51355-5
$50.00S/£37.95 cloth
978-0-262-01361-1
Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 54
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economics
CHIPS AND CHANGE
How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor
Industry
Clair Brown and Greg Linden
For decades the semiconductor industry has been a
driver of global economic growth and social change.
Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to
most electronic devices, have transformed computing,
communications, entertainment, and industry. In Chips
and Change, Clair Brown and Greg Linden trace the
industry over more than twenty years through eight
technical and competitive crises that forced it to adapt
in order to continue its exponential rate of improved
chip performance. The industry’s changes have in turn
shifted the basis on which firms hold or gain global
competitive advantage.
These eight interrelated crises do not have tidy
beginnings and ends. Most, in fact, are still ongoing,
often in altered form. The U.S. semiconductor indus-
try’s fear that it would be overtaken by Japan in the
1980s, for example, foreshadows current concerns over
the new global competitors China and India. The
intersecting crises of rising costs for both design and
manufacturing are compounded by consumer pressure
for lower prices. Other crises discussed in the book
include the industry’s steady march toward the limits
of physics, the fierce competition that keeps its profits
modest even as development costs soar, and the global
search for engineering talent.
Other high-tech industries face crises of their own,
and the semiconductor industry has much to teach
about how industries are transformed in response to
such powerful forces as technological change, shifting
product markets, and globalization. Chips and Change
also offers insights into how chip firms have developed,
defended, and, in some cases, lost global competitive
advantage.
Clair Brown is Professor of Economics and Director, Center for
Work, Technology, and Society (CWTS) at the University of
California, Berkeley. Her recent research has focused on high-
tech workers, firm employment systems and performance, and
wage dynamics. Greg Linden is a Senior Researcher at CWTS
and a consultant specializing in the economics of the global
electronics industry.
September — 6 x 9, 256 pp. — 22 illus.
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01346-8

economics
EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES
IN THE MODERN ERA
Michael W. Klein and Jay C. Shambaugh
The exchange rate is sometimes called the most impor-
tant price in a highly globalized world. A country’s
choice between government-managed fixed rates
and market-determined floating rates has significant
implications for monetary policy, trade, and macroeco-
nomic outcomes, and is the subject of both academic
and policy debate. In this book, two leading economists
examine the operation and consequences of exchange
rate regimes in an era of increasing international
interdependence.
Michael Klein and Jay Shambaugh focus on the
evolution of exchange rate regimes since 1973, identify-
ing the period following the Bretton Woods Agreement
(which itself followed the pre-World War I gold stan-
dard era) as “the modern era” in international exchange
rate regimes. The modern era is marked by a wide
variety of experiences with exchange rate regimes,
both across and within countries, providing a rich body
of data for studying the economic effects of these
exchange rate regimes. Klein and Shambaugh offer a
comprehensive, integrated treatment of the period.
The book draws on and synthesizes data from the
recent wave of empirical research on this topic, and
includes new findings that challenge preconceived
notions about exchange rate regimes and their effects.
Michael W. Klein is Professor of International Economics
at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. He is the coauthor of
Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition
and the author of Mathematical Models for Economics.
Jay C. Shambaugh is Associate Professor of Economics at
Dartmouth College. Both have research affiliations with
the National Bureau of Economic Research.
January — 6 x 9, 264 pp. — 10 illus.
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01365-9
PROFESSIONAL
economics
UNDERSTANDING INFLATION
AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR
MONETARY POLICY
A Phillips Curve Retrospective
edited by Jeff Fuhrer, Jane Sneddon Little,
Yolanda K. Kodrzycki, and Giovanni P. Olivei
foreword by Paul A. Samuelson
In 1958, economist A. W. Phillips published an article
describing what he observed to be the inverse relation-
ship between inflation and unemployment; subsequently,
the “Phillips curve” became a central concept in macro-
economic analysis and policymaking. But today’s
Phillips curve is not the same as the original one from
fifty years ago; the economy, our understanding of price
setting behavior, the determinants of inflation, and the
role of monetary policy have evolved significantly since
then. In this book, some of the top economists working
today reexamine the theoretical and empirical validity
of the Phillips curve in its more recent specifications.
The contributors consider such questions as what
economists have learned about price and wage setting
and inflation expectations that would improve the way
we use and formulate the Phillips curve, what the
Phillips curve approach can teach us about inflation
dynamics, and how these lessons can be applied to
improving the conduct of monetary policy.
CONTRIBUTORS Lawrence Ball, Ben Bernanke, Oliver Blanchard,
V. V. Chari, William T. Dickens, Stanley Fischer, Jeff Fuhrer,
Jordi Gali, Michael T. Kiley, Robert G. King, Donald L. Kohn,
Yolanda K. Kodrzycki, Jane Sneddon Little, Bartisz Maćkowiak,
N. Gregory Mankiw, Virgiliu Midrigan, Giovanni P. Olivei,
Athanasios Orphanides, Adrian R. Pagan, Christopher A. Pissarides,
Lucrezia Reichlin, Paul A. Samuelson, Christopher A. Sims,
Frank R. Smets, Robert M. Solow, Jürgen Stark, James H. Stock,
Lars E. O. Svensson, John B. Taylor, Mark W. Watson
Jeff Fuhrer, Jane Little, Yolanda Kodrzycki, and Giovanni Olivei
are economists in the Research Department at the Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston.
September — 6 x 9, 450 pp.
$45.00S/£33.95 cloth
978-0-262-01363-5
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INDEX
Acting with Technology, Kaptelinin 54
After America's Midlife Crisis, Gecan 27
Agamben, The Signature of All Things 45
Alberro, Institutional Critique 14
Aligning Modern Business Processes and
Legacy Systems, van den Heuvel 54
Amerika, META/DATA 50
Amsden, Escape from Empire 48
Arcade, Bad Reputation 36
Architecture's Desire, Hays 25
Art as Existence, Guercio 49
Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling, Sterling 69
Art School, Madoff 11
Asylum, Payne 2
Austere Realism, Horgan 59
Baber, Global Democracy and Sustainable
Jurisprudence 83
Bad Reputation, Arcade 36
Badash, A Nuclear Winter's Tale 77
Balaguer, Free Will as an Open Scientific
Problem 91
Barsky, The Chomsky Effect 48
Batchen, Photography Degree Zero 21
Benderson, Pacific Agony 35
Berardi, The Soul at Work 39
Berman, Radical, Religious, and Violent 5
Berry, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. 12
Beyer, Grace Hopper and the Invention of
the Information Age 32
Bhagwati, Offshoring of American Jobs 33
Bickerton, Biological Foundations and
Origin of Syntax 92
Biermann, Managers of Global Change 82
Bijker, The Paradox of Scientific Authority
74
Biological Emergences, Reid 58
Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax,
Bickerton 92
Biomedical Signal Analysis, Theis 85
Blesser, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?
49
Bois, Gabriel Orozco 19
Bond, Lacan at the Scene 22
Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 1:
Facsimile, McGee 76
Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 2:
Transcription and Translation, Stahl 76
Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 3:
Studies, Long 76
Brain Signal Analysis, Handy 88
Braman, Change of State 53
Brendel, Healing Psychiatry 57
Brock, Robotics 69
Brown, Chips and Change 94
Brown, Health and Medicine on Display 73
Brown, Science in Democracy 78
Brynjolfsson, Wired for Innovation 8
Buchloh, Gerhard Richter 18
Callebaut, Modularity 58
Cantor, Making Medical Decisions for the
Profoundly Mentally Disabled 56
102
Castells, Mobile Communication and Society
52
Casual Revolution, Juul 4
Change of State, Braman 53
Changing Climates in North American
Politics, Selin 80
Chaos and Organization in Health Care, Lee
34
Cheating, Consalvo 53
Chemero, Radical Embodied Cognitive
Science 90
Chess Metaphors, Rasskin-Gutman 7
Chips and Change, Brown 94
Chomsky Effect, Barsky 48
Cognition and Perception, Raftopoulos 90
Cognitive Neurosciences, fourth edition,
Gazzaniga 86
Combinatorics of Genome Rearrangements,
Fertin 84
Coming Insurrection, The Invisible
Committee 38
Communities of Play, Pearce 30
Computational Modeling Methods for
Neuroscientists, De Schutter 88
Computational Nature of Language Learning
and Evolution, Niyogi 61
Confronting Income Inequality in Japan,
Tachibanaki 65
Consalvo, Cheating 53
Constraint-Based Local Search,
Van Hentenryck 55
Control Theory and Systems Biology, Iglesias
84
Corburn, Toward the Healthy City 79
Cormen, Introduction to Algorithms,
third edition 66
Cracked Media, Kelly 13
Crist, Gaia in Turmoil 81
Critical Play, Flanagan 29
Dada in Paris, Sanouillet 20
Dalzell, Engineering Invention 72
De Lingua Belief, Fiengo 60
De Schutter, Computational Modeling
Methods for Neuroscientists 88
DeNardis, Protocol Politics 73
Dendritic Spines, Yuste 87
Disorders of Volition, Sebanz 61
Distributed Reduplication, Frampton 93
Doherty, Situation 16
Doing, Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron
74
Drawing for Architecture, Krier 24
Dybvig, The Scheme Programming Language,
fourth edition 67
Enemy of All, Heller-Roazen 43
Engineering Invention, Dalzell 72
Engineering Play, Ito 28
Escape from Empire, Amsden 48
Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era,
Klein 95
Exploring the Thalamus and Its Role in
Cortical Function, second edition,
Sherman 63
Expressive Processing, Wardrip-Fruin 31
Felleisen, Semantics Engineering with PLT
Redex 68
Fertin, Combinatorics of Genome
Rearrangements 84
Fiengo, De Lingua Belief 60
Financing Innovation in the United States,
1870 to Present, Lamoreaux 64
Flanagan, Critical Play 29
Frampton, Distributed Reduplication 93
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem,
Balaguer 91
From Embryology to Evo-Devo, Laubichler
57
Fuhrer, Understanding Inflation and the
Implications for Monetary Policy 95
Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital
Age, Davidson
Gabriel Orozco, Bois 19
Gaia in Turmoil, Crist 81
Gazzaniga, The Cognitive Neurosciences,
fourth edition 86
Gecan, After America's Midlife Crisis 27
Genetics of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Goldberg 89
Gerdts, Hypothesis A / Hypothesis B 92
Gerhard Richter, Buchloh 18
German Issue, new edition, Lotringer 40
Gillespie, Wired Shut 52
Global Democracy and Sustainable
Jurisprudence, Baber 83
Global Environmental Change and Human
Security, Matthew 81
Globalization and the Poor Periphery before
1950, Williamson 65
Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants 1
Goldberg, The Genetics of Cognitive
Neuroscience 89
Goodman, Sonic Warfare 71
Governing the Tap, Mullin 79
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the
Information Age, Beyer 32
Graedel, Linkages of Sustainability 83
Gross, A Hole in the Head 87
Guercio, Art as Existence 49
Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical
Certainty and Method 75
Hales, Relativism and the Foundations of
Philosophy 59
Handy, Brain Signal Analysis 88
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking
Out, Ito 70
Hays, Architecture's Desire 25
Healing Psychiatry, Brendel 57
Health and Medicine on Display, Brown 73
Hecht, The Radiance of France 75
Heller-Roazen, The Enemy of All 43
Heller-Roazen, The Inner Touch 46
Henning, The Little Black Book of Grisélidis
Réal 37
Hole in the Head, Gross 87
Horgan, Austere Realism 59
Human Footprints on the Global
Environment, Rosa 82
Human Information Retrieval, Warner 71

Hypothesis A / Hypothesis B, Gerdts 92
Iglesias, Control Theory and Systems
Biology 84
Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher,
Singer 47
Inner Presence, Revonsuo 62
Inner Touch, Heller-Roazen 46
Innovation in Cultural Systems, O’Brien 85
Institutional Critique, Alberro 14
Interface Fantasy, Nusselder 23
Introduction to Algorithms, third edition,
Cormen 66
The Invisible Committee, The Coming
Insurrection 38
Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and
Method, Guicciardini 75
Ito, Engineering Play 28
Ito, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and
Geeking Out 70
Jeusfeld, Metamodeling for Method
Engineering 67
Journey to Data Quality, Lee 56
Juul, A Casual Revolution 4
Kac, Signs of Life 50
Kaptelinin, Acting with Technology 54
Keller, Science in Environmental Policy 78
Kelly, Cracked Media 13
Klein, Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern
Era 95
Klein, Streetlights and Shadows 6
Knechtel, Water 10
Koller, Probabilistic Graphical Models 68
Krier, Drawing for Architecture 24
Lacan at the Scene, Bond 22
Lamoreaux, Financing Innovation in the
United States, 1870 to Present 64
Landau, The Locative Syntax of Experiencers
93
Laubichler, From Embryology to Evo-Devo
57
Laws of Seeing, Metzger 63
Lee, Chaos and Organization in Health Care
34
Lee, Journey to Data Quality 56
Legge, Michael Snow 41
Linkages of Sustainability, Graedel 83
Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal, Henning
37
Locative Syntax of Experiencers, Landau
93
Long, The Book of Michael of Rhodes,
Volume 3: Studies 76
Lotringer, The German Issue, new edition
40
Ludlow, The Second Life Herald 51
Madoff, Art School 11
Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly
Mentally Disabled, Cantor 56
Malik, Sarah Lucas 42
Managers of Global Change, Biermann 82
Matthew, Global Environmental Change and
Human Security 81
Maurer, WMD Terrorism 77
McGee, The Book of Michael of Rhodes,
Volume 1: Facsimile 76
Meaning in Life, Volumes 1-3, Singer 47
Meaning Liam Gillick, Szewczyk 15
Mental Reality, second edition, Strawson
89
META/DATA, Amerika 50
Metamodeling for Method Engineering,
Jeusfeld 67
Metamorphosis of Plants, Goethe 1
Methods in Mind, Senior 62
Metzger, Laws of Seeing 63
Michael Snow, Legge 41
Mishkin, Monetary Policy Strategy 64
Miyagawa, Why Agree? Why Move? 94
Mobile Communication and Society, Castells
52
Modularity, Callebaut 58
Monetary Policy Strategy, Mishkin 64
Morris, New Media Poetics 51
Mullin, Governing the Tap 79
New Media Poetics, Morris 51
Niyogi, The Computational Nature of
Language Learning and Evolution 61
Noble, Utopias 17
Nuclear Winter's Tale, Badash 77
Nusselder, Interface Fantasy 23
O'Brien, Innovation in Cultural Systems 85
Offshoring of American Jobs, Bhagwati 33
Online Stochastic Combinatorial
Optimization, Van Hentenryck 55
Ophir, The Power of Inclusive Exclusion 44
Pacific Agony, Benderson 35
Paradox of Scientific Authority, Bijker 74
Payne, Asylum 2
Pearce, Communities of Play 30
Photography Degree Zero, Batchen 21
Potoski, Voluntary Programs 80
Power of Inclusive Exclusion, Ophir 44
Probabilistic Graphical Models, Koller 68
Protocol Politics, DeNardis 73
Radiance of France, Hecht 75
Radical Embodied Cognitive Science,
Chemero 90
Radical, Religious, and Violent, Berman 5
Raftopoulos, Cognition and Perception 90
Rasskin-Gutman, Chess Metaphors 7
Reid, Biological Emergences 58
Relativism and the Foundations of
Philosophy, Hales 59
Revonsuo, Inner Presence 62
Robotics, Brock 69
Rosa, Human Footprints on the Global
Environment 82
Sanouillet, Dada in Paris 20
Sarah Lucas, Malik 42
Scheme Programming Language, fourth
edition, Dybvig 67
Science in Democracy, Brown 78
Science in Environmental Policy, Keller 78
Sebanz, Disorders of Volition 61
Second Life Herald, Ludlow 51
INDEX
Selin, Changing Climates in North American
Politics 80
Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex,
Felleisen 68
Senior, Methods in Mind 62
Sherman, Exploring the Thalamus and
Its Role in Cortical Function,
second edition 63
Signature of All Things, Agamben 45
Signs of Life, Kac 50
Simple Science of Flight, revised and
expanded edition, Tennekes 9
Singer, Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic
Philosopher 47
Singer, Meaning in Life, Volumes 1-3 47
Situation, Doherty 16
Sonic Warfare, Goodman 71
Soul at Work, Berardi 39
Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?, Blesser
49
Stahl, The Book of Michael of Rhodes,
Volume 2: Transcription and Translation
76
Sterling, The Art of Agent-Oriented
Modeling 69
Strawson, Mental Reality, second edition 89
Streetlights and Shadows, Klein 6
Szewczyk, Meaning Liam Gillick 15
Tachibanaki, Confronting Income Inequality
in Japan 65
Tennekes, The Simple Science of Flight,
revised and expanded edition 9
Theis, Biomedical Signal Analysis 85
Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Berry 12
Tomasello, Why We Cooperate 26
Toward the Healthy City, Corburn 79
Types and Tokens, Wetzel 91
Understanding Inflation and the
Implications for Monetary Policy,
Fuhrer 95
Utopias, Noble 17
van den Heuvel, Aligning Modern Business
Processes and Legacy Systems 54
Van Hentenryck, Constraint-Based Local
Search 55
Van Hentenryck, Online Stochastic
Combinatorial Optimization 55
Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron,
Doing 74
Veritas, Vision 60
Vision, Veritas 60
Voluntary Programs, Potoski 80
Wardrip-Fruin, Expressive Processing 31
Warner, Human Information Retrieval 71
Water, Knechtel 10
Wetzel, Types and Tokens 91
Why Agree? Why Move?, Miyagawa 94
Why We Cooperate, Tomasello 26
Williamson, Globalization and the Poor
Periphery before 1950 65
Wired for Innovation, Brynjolfsson 8
Wired Shut, Gillespie 52
WMD Terrorism, Maurer 77
Yuste, Dendritic Spines 87
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