Sociology: Recent submissions
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Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care : An Interdisciplinary Reader
(MIT Press, 2013)This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonomy and compulsory treatment, privacy and confidentiality, and the definition ... -
A Constitution for All Times
(MIT Press, 2013)Pamela S. Karlan is a unique figure in American law. A professor at Stanford Law School and former counsel for the NAACP, she has argued seven cases at the Supreme Court and worked on dozens more as a clerk for Justice ... -
Your Everyday Art World
(MIT Press, 2013)Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure ... -
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
(MIT Press, 2013)Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what ... -
Functional Differential Geometry
(MIT Press, 2013)Physics is naturally expressed in mathematical language. Students new to the subject must simultaneously learn an idiomatic mathematical language and the content that is expressed in that language. It is as if they were ... -
Hallucination : philosophy and psychology
(MIT Press, 2013)Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, perception, and our knowledge of the world. In recent years, neuroimaging techniques and ... -
Social perception : detection and interpretation of animacy, agency, and intention
(MIT Press, 2013)Rutherford and Kuhlmeier present current research in the interdisciplinary field of social perception, including the perception of biological motion, the perception of animacy, attributions of intentionality, and the ... -
Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View
(MIT Press, 2013)Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik ... -
Inside and Outside Liquidity
(MIT Press, 2013)Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and to what extent can the state and international financial markets make ... -
Artificial cognitive systems : a primer
(MIT Press, 2014)This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to the emerging field of artificial cognitive systems. Cognition, both natural and artificial, is about anticipating the need for action and developing the capacity ... -
The New Visual Neurosciences
(MIT Press, 2013)Visual science is the model system for neuroscience, its findings relevant to all other areas. This essential reference to contemporary visual neuroscience covers the extraordinary range of the field today, from molecules ... -
Operations Forensics: Business Performance Analysis Using Operations Measures and Tools
(MIT Press, 2013)Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm’s operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and ... -
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
(MIT Press, 2013)We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. ... -
Subjunctive Conditionals: A Linguistic Analysis
(MIT Press, 2013)In this book, Michela Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions ... -
Visual Psychophysics: From Laboratory to Theory
(MIT Press, 2013)Vision is one of the most active areas in biomedical research, and visual psychophysical techniques are a foundational methodology for this research enterprise. Visual psychophysics, which studies the relationship between ... -
Mathematical Modeling in Systems Biology: An Introduction
(MIT Press, 2013)Systems techniques are integral to current research in molecular cell biology, and system-level investigations are often accompanied by mathematical models. These models serve as working hypotheses: they help us to understand ... -
Harvesting the biosphere : what we have taken from nature
(MIT Press, 2013)The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, ... -
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure
(MIT Press, 2013)Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published ... -
How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
(MIT Press, 2013)An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed, rather than brain-bound, "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions ... -
Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond
(MIT Press, 2013)In the 1930s a series of seminal works published by Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church, and others established the theoretical basis for computability. This work, advancing precise characterizations of effective, ...
