Sociology: Recent submissions
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Introductory Statistics
(Pearson, 2017)Introductory Statistics presents the fundamentals of statistics, featuring data production and data analysis. Data exploration is emphasized as an integral prelude to statistical inference. This edition of Introductory ... -
Financial accounting and reporting
(Pearson, 2017)This market leading text provides comprehensive coverage of financial accounting and reporting to enable you to discuss and apply IFRS compliant financial statements. With the balance of theoretical principles and practical ... -
Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds
(MIT Press, 2011)This imaginative and innovative book should appeal not only to those with an interest in the individual cases, stories, and plays, but also to philosophers, historians, theologians, literary critics, and some specialists ... -
Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold Wa
(MIT Press, 2011)The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, ... -
The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology
(MIT Press, 2012)The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately small in relation to its adult size and open to cultural sculpting at multiple ... -
Waves
(MIT Press, 2012)Sitting on the beach on a sunny summer day, we enjoy the steady advance and retreat of the waves. In the water, enthusiastic waders jump and shriek with pleasure when a wave hits them. But where do these waves come from? ... -
Oblique drawing : a history of anti-perspective
(MIT Press, 2012)For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of central projection, or perspective, other equally important methods of ... -
The Color Revolution
(MIT Press, 2012)When the fashion industry declares that lime green is the new black, or instructs us to "think pink!," it is not the result of a backroom deal forged by a secretive cabal of fashion journalists, designers, manufacturers, ... -
Brain and the gaze : on the active boundaries of vision
(MIT Press, 2012)How do we gain access to things as they are? Although we routinely take our self-made pictures to be veridical representations of reality, in actuality we choose (albeit unwittingly) or construct what we see. By movements ... -
Vision and Brain: How We Perceive the World
(MIT Press, 2012)In this accessible and engaging introduction to modern vision science, James Stone uses visual illusions to explore how the brain sees the world. Understanding vision, Stone argues, is not simply a question of knowing which ... -
Principles of Brain Dynamics: Global State Interactions
(MIT Press, 2012)The consideration of time or dynamics is fundamental for all aspects of mental activity -- perception, cognition, and emotion -- because the main feature of brain activity is the continuous change of the underlying brain ... -
Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making
(MIT Press, 2012)How do we make decisions? Conventional decision theory tells us only which behavioral choices we ought to make if we follow certain axioms. In real life, however, our choices are governed by cognitive mechanisms shaped ... -
From Optimal Tax Theory to Tax Policy: Retrospective and Prospective Views
(MIT Press, 2012)Many things inform a country's choice of tax system, including political considerations, public opinion, bureaucratic complexities, and ideas drawn from theoretical analysis. In this book, Robin Boadway examines the role ... -
The craft of economics : lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin framework
(MIT Press, 2012)In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher--Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should ... -
Perspectives on Dodd-Frank and finance
(MIT Press, 2014)The Dodd--Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed by Congress in 2010 largely in response to the financial crisis, created the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Consumer Financial Protection ... -
In the wake of crisis
(MIT Press, 2012)In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic ... -
Innovation, dual use, and security : managing the risks of emerging biological and chemical technologies
(MIT Press, 2012)Recent advances in disciplines such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and neuropharmacology entail a ''dual-use dilemma'' because they promise benefits for human health and welfare yet pose the risk of misuse for hostile ... -
Reliability in Cognitive Neuroscience: A Meta-Meta-Analysis
(MIT Press, 2012)Cognitive neuroscientists increasingly claim that brain images generated by new brain imaging technologies reflect, correlate, or represent cognitive processes. In this book, William Uttal warns against these claims, arguing ... -
Joint Attention: New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience
(MIT Press, 2012)Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention -- the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature -- has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what ... -
Inner Experience and Neuroscience: Merging Both Perspectives
(MIT Press, 2012)The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, ...
