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    • Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain: Probing Cognition 

      Fried, Itzhak (MIT Press, 2014)
      In the last decade, the synergistic interaction of neurosurgeons, engineers, and neuroscientists, combined with new technologies, has enabled scientists to study the awake, behaving human brain directly. These developments ...

    • Music and the Making of Modern Science 

      Pesic, Peter (MIT Press, 2014)
      In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception, for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, "liberal education" connected ...

    • Quantum Algorithms via Linear Algebra: A Primer 

      Lipton, Richard J.; Regan, Kenneth W. (MIT Press, 2014)
      This introduction to quantum algorithms is concise but comprehensive, covering many key algorithms. It is mathematically rigorous but requires minimal background and assumes no knowledge of quantum theory or quantum ...

    • Linkography: Unfolding the Design Process 

      Goldschmidt, Gabriela (MIT Press, 2014)
      This book presents linkography, a method for the notation and analysis of the design process. Developed by Gabriela Goldschmidt in an attempt to clarify designing, linkography documents how designers think, generate ideas, ...

    • Brain Structure and Its Origins: in Development and in Evolution of Behavior and the Mind 

      Schneider, Gerald E. (MIT Press, 2014)
      This introduction to the structure of the central nervous system demonstrates that the best way to learn how the brain is put together is to understand something about why. It explains why the brain is put together as it ...

    • Neuroscience: A Historical Introduction 

      Glickstein, Mitchell (MIT Press, 2014)
      This introduction to neuroscience is unique in its emphasis on how we know what we know about the structure and function of the nervous system. What are the observations and experiments that have taught us about the brain ...

    • Category Theory for the Sciences 

      Spivak, David I. (MIT Press, 2014)
      Category theory was invented in the 1940s to unify and synthesize different areas in mathematics, and it has proven remarkably successful in enabling powerful communication between disparate fields and subfields within ...

    • Investigating the psychological world : scientific method in the behavioral sciences 

      Haig, Brian D. (MIT Press, 2014)
      in relation to behavioral research methods. It follows John Dewey’s (1910) lead and suggests that we adopt an inquiry-oriented conception of education that accords an important place to scientific method. The narrow nature ...

    • The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience 

      Varela, Francisco J.; Thompson, Evan; Rosch, Eleanor (MIT Press, 2017)
      This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the "embodied cognition" approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices ...

    • Analyzing Neural Time Series Data: Theory and Practice 

      Cohen, Mike X. (MIT Press, 2014)
      This book offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of analyzing electrical brain signals. It explains the conceptual, mathematical, and implementational (via Matlab programming) aspects of time-, time-frequency- ...

    • Financial Modeling 

      Benninga, Simon (MIT Press, 2014)
      Financial Modeling is now the standard text for explaining the implementation of financial models in Excel. This long-awaited fourth edition maintains the "cookbook" features and Excel dependence that have made the previous ...

    • Fundamental Models in Financial Theory 

      Peleg, Doron (MIT Press, 2014)
      This book provides an innovative, integrated, and methodical approach to understanding complex financial models, integrating topics usually presented separately into a comprehensive whole. The book brings together financial ...

    • Logic in Games 

      Benthem, Johan van (MIT Press, 2014)
      This book draws on ideas from philosophical logic, computational logic, multi-agent systems, and game theory to offer a comprehensive account of logic and games viewed in two complementary ways. It examines the logic of ...

    • Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited 

      Coopmans, Catelijne (MIT Press, 2014)
      Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in scientific visualization among historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science and remains a ...

    • Why Are We Waiting?: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change 

      Stern, Nicholas (MIT Press, 2015)
      An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action. The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The ...

    • Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology 

      Bailey, Diane E.; Leonardi, Paul M. (MIT Press, 2015)
      Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and communication technologies ...

    • Modern Macroeconomics 

      Chugh, Sanjay K. (MIT Press, 2015)
      A textbook that approaches modern macroeconomics through its microeconomic foundations, with an emphasis on financial market connections and policy applications. The modern study and analysis of macroeconomics begins by ...

    • Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature 

      Vogel, Steven (MIT Press, 2015)
      Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? ...

    • What’s Left of Human Nature?: A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept 

      Kronfeldner, Maria (MIT Press, 2018)
      A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to ...

    • Investment Intelligence from Insider Trading 

      Seyhun, H. Nejat (MIT Press, 2015)
      The term insider trading refers to the stock transactions of the officers, directors, and large shareholders of a firm. Many investors believe that corporate insiders, informed about their firms' prospects, buy and sell ...