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Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts
(MIT Press, 2018)The principles of quantum physics―and the strange phenomena they describe―are represented most precisely in highly abstract algebraic equations. Why, then, did these mathematically driven concepts compel founders of the ... -
The Heart of the Brain: The Hypothalamus and Its Hormones
(MIT Press, 2018)How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain--the hypothalamus--govern our physiology and behavior. As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how much of what we do is really governed ... -
Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time
(MIT Press, 2018)What altered states of consciousness--the dissolution of feelings of time and self--can tell us about the mystery of consciousness. During extraordinary moments of consciousness--shock, meditative states and sudden mystical ... -
Natural Language Processing
(MIT Press, 2018)Natural language processing is the set of methods for making human language accessible to computers. In the past decade, natural language processing has become embedded in our daily lives: automatic machine translation is ... -
Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities
(MIT Press, 2018)We spend much of our lives in transit to and from work. Although we might dismiss our daily commute as a wearying slog, we rarely stop to think about the significance of these daily journeys. In Transit Life, David Bissell ... -
Balancing Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To)
(MIT Press, 2018)An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. The demands and stresses on companies only grow as ... -
Lectures on Microeconomics: The Big Questions Approach
(MIT Press, 2018)You are fortunate to be holding this book, or any book. You are alive. What are the chances? If the world were poorer or less populous today, you might not have been born. Or, if born elsewhere or in an earlier epoch, you ... -
Carbon Capture
(MIT Press, 2018)A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway. The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), and these CO2 emissions are a major ... -
A mark of the mental : in defense of informational teleosemantics
(MIT Press, 2018)How do thoughts get to be about the world, how do they refer to their contents? This work tackles the most tractable part of this ancient problem by offering a theory of original intentionality for (nonconceptual) ... -
Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear
(MIT Press, 2018)Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear.In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time ... -
AP Statistics, 2014-2015 Edition
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)Presents a study plan for the AP statistics examination, discussings study skills and strategies and providing a review of the core concepts and two practice exams with answers and explanations. Features a 5-step plan to ... -
Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
(MIT Press, 2018)Examining the new ecosystems of access that are emerging in middle- and low-income countries as opportunities for higher education expand but funding for materials shrinks. Even as middle- and low-income countries expand ... -
Translating Happiness : A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being
(MIT Press, 2018)How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being -- from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch -- can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. -
Being Ecological
(MIT Press, 2018)Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. ... -
Globalizing Innovation: State Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies
(MIT Press, 2018)The impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies. In the past, multinational firms have looked to developing countries as sources of raw materials, markets, or ... -
The Targeting System of Language
(MIT Press, 2018)In this book, Leonard Talmy proposes that a single linguistic/cognitive system, targeting, underlies two domains of linguistic reference, those termed anaphora (for a referent that is an element of the current discourse) ... -
Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity
(MIT Press, 2018)An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework. In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. ... -
Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media
(MIT Press, 2019)Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily ... -
Financial Accounting
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Have you experienced those moments in your course when students became fully engaged? When the “Aha!” revelations are bursting like fireworks? David Spiceland, Wayne Thomas, and Don Herrmann have developed a unique textbook ... -
Organizational Behaviour, Third CDN Edition
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Organizational behaviour (often abbreviated as OB) is a field of study that investigates how individuals, groups, and structure affect and are affected by behaviour within organizations. Behaviour refers to what people do ...
