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    • Engineering Economy 

      Sullivan, William G.; Wicks, Elin M.; Koelling, C. Patrick (Pearson, 2015)
      Engineering Economy is intended for use in undergraduate introductory courses in Engineering Economics. Used by engineering students worldwide, this best-selling text provides a sound understanding of the principles, basic ...

    • Linear Algebra and Its Applications 

      Lay, David C.; Lay, Steven R.; McDonald, Judi J. (Pearson, 2016)
      With traditional linear algebra texts, the course is relatively easy for students during the early stages as material is presented in a familiar, concrete setting. However, when abstract concepts are introduced, students ...

    • The Language of Thought: A New Philosophical Direction 

      Schneider, Susan (MIT Press, 2011)
      Susan Schneider's The Language of Thought: A New Philosophical Direction does precisely what its title claims: it provides a new orientation for the language of thought and the related computational theory of mind. Schneider ...

    • Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior 

      Gluck, Mark A.; Mercado, Eduardo; Myers, Catherine E. (Worth Publishers, 2016)
      With its modular organization, consistent chapter structure, and contemporary perspective, this groundbreaking survey is ideal for courses on learning and memory, and is easily adaptable to courses that focus on either ...

    • The Continuing Evolution of Europe 

      Buettner, Thiess; Ochel, Wolfgang (MIT Press, 2011)
      The European Union began with efforts in the Cold War era to foster economic integration among a few Western European countries. Today's EU constitutes an upper tier of government that affects almost every level of ...

    • The Ethical Treatment of Depression: Autonomy Through Psychotherapy 

      Biegler, Paul (MIT Press, 2011)
      This book is long overdue. Biegler gives a compelling analysis of the impact depression has on autonomous decision making -- a factor which, he argues, has important implications for its treatment. Given how many people ...

    • The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson’s Disease 

      McNamara, Patrick (MIT Press, 2011)
      Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer most visibly with such motor deficits as tremor and rigidity and less obviously with a range of nonmotor symptoms, including autonomic dysfunction, mood disorders, and cognitive ...

    • Getting It Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy 

      Barnett, William A.; Serletis, Apostolos (MIT Press, 2011)
      Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone from Wall Street firms to individual homeowners. It has been widely argued that the crisis and recession were caused by ...

    • Ingenious Genes: How Gene Regulation Networks Evolve to Control Development 

      Sansom, Roger (MIT Press, 2011)
      Each of us is a collection of more than ten trillion cells, busy performing tasks crucial to our continued existence. Gene regulation networks, consisting of a subset of genes called transcription factors, control cellular ...

    • Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking 

      Cox, Michael T.; Raja, Anita (MIT Press, 2011)
      The capacity to think about our own thinking may lie at the heart of what it means to be both human and intelligent. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated these matters for many years. Researchers in ...

    • The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change 

      Conkling, Philip W. (MIT Press, 2011)
      This volume hopes to capture the intense excitement of the past decade of research that continues to improve our scientific understanding of what Greenland’s ice cap, glaciers, and seas are telling us about how climate ...

    • Competitive Strategy: Options and Games 

      Chevalier-Roignant, Benoit; Trigeorgis, Lenos (MIT Press, 2011)
      Corporate managers who face both strategic uncertainty and market uncertainty confront a classic trade-off between commitment and flexibility. They can stake a claim by making a large capital investment today, influencing ...

    • Lectures on Urban Economics 

      Brueckner, Jan K. (MIT Press, 2011)
      Lectures on Urban Economics offers a rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics. To make the book accessible to a broad range of readers, the analysis is diagrammatic rather than mathematical. ...

    • Concepts and Fuzzy Logic 

      Belohlavek, Radim; Klir, George J. (MIT Press, 2011)
      The classical view of concepts in psychology was challenged in the 1970s when experimental evidence showed that concept categories are graded and thus cannot be represented adequately by classical sets. The possibility of ...

    • The Connectives 

      Humberstone, Lloyd (MIT Press, 2011)
      In The Connectives, Lloyd Humberstone examines the semantics and pragmatics of natural language sentence connectives (and, or, if, not), giving special attention to their formal behavior according to proposed logical systems ...

    • Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement 

      Ottinger, Gwen; Cohen, Benjamin R.; Fortun, Kim (MIT Press, 2011)
      Over the course of nearly thirty years, the environmental justice movement has changed the politics of environmental activism and influenced environmental policy. In the process, it has turned the attention of environmental ...

    • Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life 

      Kahn, Peter H. (MIT Press, 2011)
      Understanding our interactions with 'technological nature' is one of the most pressing concerns of this century. Peter Kahn's outstanding and insightful book delivers the first comprehensive treatment of this critical ...

    • Information and the Modern Corporation 

      Cortada, James W. (MIT Press, 2011)
      While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing ...

    • Perplexities of Consciousness 

      Schwitzgebel, Eric (MIT Press, 2011)
      Do you dream in color? If you answer Yes,how can you be sure? Before you recount your vivid memory of a dream featuringall the colors of the rainbow, consider that in the 1950s, researchers foundthat most people reported ...

    • Standards: Recipes for Reality 

      Busch, Lawrence (MIT Press, 2011)
      Standards are the means by which we construct realities. There are established standards for professional accreditation, the environment, consumer products, animal welfare, the acceptable stress for highway bridges, ...