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Storytelling and the sciences of mind
(MIT Press, 2013)With Storytelling and the Science of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas ... -
Relive : Media Art Histories
(MIT Press, 2013)In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of "new media" and at the same time write the histories of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the ... -
Neuroscience of creativity
(MIT Press, 2013)This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological fundamentals to systems neuroscience and ... -
Playing with sound : a theory of interacting with sound and music in video games
(MIT Press, 2013)In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player's perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game's sonic aspects -- which include not only music but also sound ... -
Hybrid culture : Japanese media arts in dialogue with the West
(MIT Press, 2013)This book grew out of Yvonne Spielmann's 2005--2006 and 2009 visits to Japan, where she explored the technological and aesthetic origins of Japanese new-media art--which was known for pioneering interactive and virtual ... -
Bicycle design : an illustrated history
(MIT Press, 2014)The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive ... -
Aesthetics of interaction in digital art
(MIT Press, 2013)Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In ... -
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care : An Interdisciplinary Reader
(MIT Press, 2013)This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonomy and compulsory treatment, privacy and confidentiality, and the definition ... -
A Constitution for All Times
(MIT Press, 2013)Pamela S. Karlan is a unique figure in American law. A professor at Stanford Law School and former counsel for the NAACP, she has argued seven cases at the Supreme Court and worked on dozens more as a clerk for Justice ... -
Your Everyday Art World
(MIT Press, 2013)Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure ... -
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
(MIT Press, 2013)Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what ... -
Functional Differential Geometry
(MIT Press, 2013)Physics is naturally expressed in mathematical language. Students new to the subject must simultaneously learn an idiomatic mathematical language and the content that is expressed in that language. It is as if they were ... -
Hallucination : philosophy and psychology
(MIT Press, 2013)Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, perception, and our knowledge of the world. In recent years, neuroimaging techniques and ... -
Social perception : detection and interpretation of animacy, agency, and intention
(MIT Press, 2013)Rutherford and Kuhlmeier present current research in the interdisciplinary field of social perception, including the perception of biological motion, the perception of animacy, attributions of intentionality, and the ... -
Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View
(MIT Press, 2013)Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik ... -
Inside and Outside Liquidity
(MIT Press, 2013)Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and to what extent can the state and international financial markets make ... -
Artificial cognitive systems : a primer
(MIT Press, 2014)This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to the emerging field of artificial cognitive systems. Cognition, both natural and artificial, is about anticipating the need for action and developing the capacity ... -
The New Visual Neurosciences
(MIT Press, 2013)Visual science is the model system for neuroscience, its findings relevant to all other areas. This essential reference to contemporary visual neuroscience covers the extraordinary range of the field today, from molecules ... -
Operations Forensics: Business Performance Analysis Using Operations Measures and Tools
(MIT Press, 2013)Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm’s operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and ... -
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
(MIT Press, 2013)We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. ...
