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Neither physics nor chemistry : a history of quantum chemistry
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Discovering the Human Connectome
(MIT Press, 2012)Crucial to understanding how the brain works is connectivity, and the centerpiece of brain connectivity is the connectome, a comprehensive description of how neurons and brain regions are connected. The human brain is a ... -
The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
(MIT Press, 2012)The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach--which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy--has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts ... -
Keynes : useful economics for the world economy
(MIT Press, 2014)As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the economists Peter Temin and David Vines provide an ... -
The Future of the Curriculum: School Knowledge in the Digital Age
(MIT Press, 2013)An examination of curriculum innovations that are shaped by new ideas about digital media and learning. Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention ... -
Design structure matrix methods and applications
(MIT Press, 2012)This book derives from our passion to understand and improve the practice of developing complex systems. Over the past 20 years, we have come to appreciate the rich insights available to engineers and managers through the ... -
Documentary
(MIT Press, 2013)After a long period in eclipse, documentary has undergone a marked revival in recent art. This has been spurred by two phenomena: the exhibition of photographic and video work on political issues at Documenta and numerous ... -
Matter and Consciousness
(MIT Press, 2013)In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed ... -
From X-Rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology
(MIT Press, 2013)An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels. Engineering has been an essential ... -
Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion
(MIT Press, 2013)Over the past few decades, a growing body of research has emerged from a variety of disciplines to highlight the importance of cultural evolution in understanding human behavior. Wider application of these insights, however, ... -
Deliberating American Monetary Policy: A Textual Analysis
(MIT Press, 2013)A systematic analysis of Federal Reserve and congressional deliberations on monetary policy, drawing on textual analysis software and in-depth interviews with participants. American monetary policy is formulated by the ... -
Critical Issues in Taxation and Development
(MIT Press, 2013)Many developing countries find it difficult to raise the revenue required to provide such basic public services as education, health care, and infrastructure. Complicating the policy challenges of taxation in developing ... -
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
(MIT Press, 2013)Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population ... -
Intermediate public economics
(MIT Press, 2013)Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy -- economic efficiency and the distribution of income and wealth. This comprehensive text on public economics covers the core topics ... -
Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind
(MIT Press, 2014)One of the first goals of the pioneers of AI was to create a program that could play chess. The idea, somewhat naïve, or at least, simplistic, was that if chess is considered an entirely mental activity, the emulation of ... -
Making in America: From Innovation to Market
(MIT Press, 2013)America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation, ... -
Mindshaping: A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition
(MIT Press, 2013)In this novel account of distinctively human social cognition, Tadeusz Zawidzki argues that the key distinction between human and nonhuman social cognition consists in our complex, diverse, and flexible capacities to shape ... -
Cooperation and Its Evolution
(MIT Press, 2013)This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that ... -
Word and object
(MIT Press, 2013)Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith ... -
The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, Book 2: Reason in Society
(MIT Press, 2013)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 ...
