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    • The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, Book 3: Reason in Religion 

      Santayana, George (MIT Press, 2014)
      Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the ...

    • The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity 

      Mahajan, Sanjoy (MIT Press, 2014)
      In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly disparate pieces of information ...

    • Investigating the Psychological World Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sciences 

      Haig, Brian D. (MIT Press, 2014)
      This book considers scientific method in the behavioral sciences, with particular reference to psychology. Psychologists learn about research methods and use them to conduct their research, but their training teaches them ...

    • Evolution in Four Dimensions, Revised Edition 

      Jablonka, Eva; Lamb, Marion J. (MIT Press, 2014)
      This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, ...

    • Lives of the laureates : twenty-three Nobel economists 

      Macpherson, David A.; Spencer, Roger W. (MIT Press, 2014)
      Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by twenty-three Nobel Prize laureates in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights ...

    • Post-crisis Fiscal Policy 

      Cottarelli, Carlo; Gerson, Philip; Senhadji, Abdelhak (MIT Press, 2014)
      Fiscal policy makers have faced an extraordinarily challenging environment over the last few years. At the outset of the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first time advocated a fiscal ...

    • Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data 

      Day, Ronald E. (MIT Press, 2014)
      In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist ...

    • State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance 

      Duit, Andreas (MIT Press, 2014)
      Many recent studies on environmental governance focus on either the micro-level (the local and the individual) or the macro-level (the global) while neglecting governance at the nation-state level. State environmental ...

    • Understanding beliefs 

      Nilsson, Nils J. (MIT Press, 2014)
      Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs ...

    • The marketplace of attention : how audiences take shape in a digital age 

      Webster, James G. (MIT Press, 2014)
      Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, ...

    • The interdisciplinary science of consumption 

      Preston, Stephanie D. (MIT Press, 2014)
      Our drive to consume -- our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes -- evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive. But the psychological and neural processes that originally evolved to guide mammals toward ...

    • The innovator's hypothesis : how cheap experiments are worth more than good ideas 

      Schrage, Michael (MIT Press, 2014)
      What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. The Innovator's Hypothesis ...

    • The conscious mind 

      Torey, Zoltan (MIT Press, 2014)
      How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? ...

    • I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior 

      Bentley, Alex; Earls, Mark; O'Brien, Michael J. (MIT Press, 2011)
      Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to the authors of I'll Have What She's Having, shapes--and explains--most of our choices. We're not just blindly driven by hard-wired instincts to hunt ...

    • Blind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment 

      Cattaneo, Zaira; Vecchi, Tomaso (MIT Press, 2011)
      This book is about the effects that blindness and, more generally, different types of visual defi cit exert on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. There are a number of critical questions that ...

    • The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes 

      Flinn, Christopher J. (MIT Press, 2011)
      In The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes, Christopher Flinn argues that in assessing the effects of the minimum wage (in the United States and elsewhere), a behavioral framework is invaluable for guiding empirical ...

    • Design Things 

      Binder, Thomas (MIT Press, 2011)
      Design Things offers an innovative view of design thinking and design practice, envisioning ways to combine creative design with a participatory approach encompassing aesthetic and democratic practices and values. The ...

    • Collaborative Resilience: Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity 

      Goldstein, Bruce Evan (MIT Press, 2011)
      Crisis--whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence--can offer opportunities for collaboration, consensus building, and transformative social change. Communities often ...

    • Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control 

      Mars, Rogier B. (MIT Press, 2011)
      This volume offers a range of perspectives on a simple problem: How does the brain choose efficiently and adaptively among options to ensure coherent, goal-directed behavior? The contributors, from fields as varied as ...

    • Perception beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes 

      Albertazzi, Liliana (MIT Press, 2011)
      A truly novel contribution to the problem of perception and vision...This excellent and demanding book opens up the door to a deeply informed attitude in cognitive science...By putting together such a rich collection of ...