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    • Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data 

      Day, Ronald E. (MIT Press, 2014)
      In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist ...

    • State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance 

      Duit, Andreas (MIT Press, 2014)
      Many recent studies on environmental governance focus on either the micro-level (the local and the individual) or the macro-level (the global) while neglecting governance at the nation-state level. State environmental ...

    • Understanding beliefs 

      Nilsson, Nils J. (MIT Press, 2014)
      Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs ...

    • The marketplace of attention : how audiences take shape in a digital age 

      Webster, James G. (MIT Press, 2014)
      Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, ...

    • The interdisciplinary science of consumption 

      Preston, Stephanie D. (MIT Press, 2014)
      Our drive to consume -- our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes -- evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive. But the psychological and neural processes that originally evolved to guide mammals toward ...

    • The innovator's hypothesis : how cheap experiments are worth more than good ideas 

      Schrage, Michael (MIT Press, 2014)
      What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. The Innovator's Hypothesis ...

    • The conscious mind 

      Torey, Zoltan (MIT Press, 2014)
      How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? ...

    • I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior 

      Bentley, Alex; Earls, Mark; O'Brien, Michael J. (MIT Press, 2011)
      Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to the authors of I'll Have What She's Having, shapes--and explains--most of our choices. We're not just blindly driven by hard-wired instincts to hunt ...

    • Blind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment 

      Cattaneo, Zaira; Vecchi, Tomaso (MIT Press, 2011)
      This book is about the effects that blindness and, more generally, different types of visual defi cit exert on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. There are a number of critical questions that ...

    • The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes 

      Flinn, Christopher J. (MIT Press, 2011)
      In The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes, Christopher Flinn argues that in assessing the effects of the minimum wage (in the United States and elsewhere), a behavioral framework is invaluable for guiding empirical ...

    • Design Things 

      Binder, Thomas (MIT Press, 2011)
      Design Things offers an innovative view of design thinking and design practice, envisioning ways to combine creative design with a participatory approach encompassing aesthetic and democratic practices and values. The ...

    • Collaborative Resilience: Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity 

      Goldstein, Bruce Evan (MIT Press, 2011)
      Crisis--whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence--can offer opportunities for collaboration, consensus building, and transformative social change. Communities often ...

    • Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control 

      Mars, Rogier B. (MIT Press, 2011)
      This volume offers a range of perspectives on a simple problem: How does the brain choose efficiently and adaptively among options to ensure coherent, goal-directed behavior? The contributors, from fields as varied as ...

    • Perception beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes 

      Albertazzi, Liliana (MIT Press, 2011)
      A truly novel contribution to the problem of perception and vision...This excellent and demanding book opens up the door to a deeply informed attitude in cognitive science...By putting together such a rich collection of ...

    • Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress. Diseases and Economic Development 

      McGuire, Robert A.; Coelho, Philip R.P. (MIT Press, 2011)
      In Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress, Robert McGuire and Philip Coelho integrate biological and economic perspectives into an explanation of the historical development of humanity and the economy, paying particular attention ...

    • Unemployment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policies: A New Keynesian Perspective 

      Galí, Jordi (MIT Press, 2011)
      The past fifteen years have witnessed the rise of the New Keynesian model as a framework of reference for the analysis of fluctuations and stabilization policies. That framework, which combines the rigor and internal ...

    • The cognitive neurosciences 

      Gazzaniga, Michael S.; Mangun, George Ronald (MIT Press, 2014)
      Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. The fifth edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences continues to chart new directions in the study of the ...

    • Meaningful Games: Exploring Language with Game Theory 

      Clark, Robin (MIT Press, 2011)
      In Meaningful Games, Robin Clark explains in an accessible manner the usefulness of game theory in thinking about a wide range of issues in linguistics. Clark argues that we use grammar strategically to signal our intended ...

    • The Wonder of Consciousness: Understanding the Mind through Philosophical Reflection 

      Langsam, Harold (MIT Press, 2011)
      Consciousness is a wonderful thing. But if we are fully to appreciate the wonder of consciousness, we need to articulate what it is about consciousness that makes it such an interesting and important phenomenon to us. In ...

    • Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind 

      Williamson, Jeffrey G. (MIT Press, 2011)
      How the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.