Sociology: Recent submissions
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Recursive Macroeconomic Theory
(MIT Press, 2012)Recursive methods offer a powerful approach for characterizing and solving complicated problems in dynamic macroeconomics. Recursive Macroeconomic Theory provides both an introduction to recursive methods and advanced ... -
The digital rights movement: the role of technology in subverting digital copyright
(MIT Press, 2012)The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely in response to the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. In The Digital Rights Movement, Hector Postigo shows that what ... -
Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger
(MIT Press, 2012)Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are two of the most important--and two of the most difficult--philosophers of the twentieth century, indelibly influencing the course of continental and analytic philosophy, ... -
Reference and Referring
(MIT Press, 2012)These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference and referring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay that casts current trends in reference and referring ... -
Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian
(MIT Press, 2012)Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, ... -
The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World
(MIT Press, 2012)Humans did not discover fire--they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new things--technologies, organizations, processes, systems, environments, ways of ... -
Memes in Digital Culture
(MIT Press, 2014)In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video--"Mitt ... -
Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design
(MIT Press, 2012)Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and ... -
Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain
(MIT Press, 2012)Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. We scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and information. We search for ... -
Mining the Biomedical Literature
(MIT Press, 2012)The introduction of high-throughput methods has transformed biology into a data-rich science. Knowledge about biological entities and processes has traditionally been acquired by thousands of scientists through decades of ... -
Human Information Interaction: An Ecological Approach to Information Behavior
(MIT Press, 2012)Human information interaction (HII) is an emerging area of study that investigates how people interact with information, its subfield human information behavior (HIB) is a flourishing, active discipline. Yet despite their ... -
Taken for Grantedness: The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society
(MIT Press, 2012)Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument ... -
The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics
(MIT Press, 2012)One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal question"--consideration of the moral status of nonhuman ... -
Neither physics nor chemistry : a history of quantum chemistry
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Discovering the Human Connectome
(MIT Press, 2012)Crucial to understanding how the brain works is connectivity, and the centerpiece of brain connectivity is the connectome, a comprehensive description of how neurons and brain regions are connected. The human brain is a ... -
The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
(MIT Press, 2012)The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach--which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy--has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts ... -
Keynes : useful economics for the world economy
(MIT Press, 2014)As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the economists Peter Temin and David Vines provide an ... -
The Future of the Curriculum: School Knowledge in the Digital Age
(MIT Press, 2013)An examination of curriculum innovations that are shaped by new ideas about digital media and learning. Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention ... -
Design structure matrix methods and applications
(MIT Press, 2012)This book derives from our passion to understand and improve the practice of developing complex systems. Over the past 20 years, we have come to appreciate the rich insights available to engineers and managers through the ... -
Documentary
(MIT Press, 2013)After a long period in eclipse, documentary has undergone a marked revival in recent art. This has been spurred by two phenomena: the exhibition of photographic and video work on political issues at Documenta and numerous ...
