Sociology: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience
(MIT Press, 2011)Cognitive neuroscience explores the relationship between our minds and our brains, most recently by drawing on brain imaging techniques to align neural mechanisms with psychological processes. In Mind and Brain, William ... -
Laws, Mind, and Free Will
(MIT Press, 2011)Steven Horst's Laws, Mind, and Free Will has both the clarity, scope, and scholarship needed for an excellent text and the original analysis appropriate to a significant contribution to the literature, especially on the ... -
Redesigning Leadership
(MIT Press, 2011)Lessons for a new generation of leaders on teamwork, meetings, conversations, free food, social media, apologizing, and other topics. -
The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
(MIT Press, 2011)Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved. -
101 Things to Learn in Art School
(MIT Press, 2011)What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking ... -
Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
(MIT Press, 2011)In Infectious Behavior, neurobiologist Paul Patterson examines the involvement of the immune system in autism, schizophrenia, and major depressive disorder. Although genetic approaches to these diseases have garnered the ... -
Qualitative research methods for the social sciences
(Pearson, 2017)Social research provides necessary support for innumer able professions, bolsters and directs policy decisions, fact-checks both wild and mundane claims about theworld, and helps us understand ourselves and others. But ...
