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The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson’s Disease
(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
(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 ... -
Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking
(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 ... -
Ingenious Genes: How Gene Regulation Networks Evolve to Control Development
(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 ... -
The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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, ... -
The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture
(MIT Press, 2011)This book proposes to reconsider architectural form in light of a unitary interpretation of architecture and the city. This unitary interpretation is put forward via the paradox of a unilateral synthesis: a unitary ... -
Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
(MIT Press, 2011)Events are always passing, to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In Semblance ... -
Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics
(MIT Press, 2011)This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it ... -
How We Remember: Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory
(MIT Press, 2011)Episodic memory proves essential for daily function, allowing us to remember where we parked the car, what time we walked the dog, or what a friend said earlier. In How We Remember, Michael Hasselmo draws on recent ... -
Industrial Policy for National Champions
(MIT Press, 2011)Governments around the world are deeply divided about the proper role of industrial policy, with some politicians arguing for hands-off governance and others supporting government intervention to promote "national champions"-- ... -
Everyday Information: The Evolution of Information Seeking in America
(MIT Press, 2011)To paraphrase Moli?re, for more than a century we have been engaged in information-seeking behavior without knowing it. From the moment we tumble out of bed our day is a perpetual cycle of information acquisition and ...
