Sociology: Recent submissions
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I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
(MIT Press, 2011)How the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today. -
The Wonder of Consciousness: Understanding the Mind through Philosophical Reflection
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Anaphora and Language Design
(MIT Press, 2011)Pronouns and anaphors (including reflexives such as himself and herself) may or must depend on antecedents for their interpretation. These dependencies are subject to conditions that prima facie show substantial crosslinguistic ... -
Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
(MIT Press, 2012)Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties ... -
Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us
(MIT Press, 2012)This book is about the role played by the Guardians of Finance—the major financial regulatory institutions—in aiding and abetting the global financial crisis. During the ten to fifteen years during which this crisis was ... -
Biological Learning and Control: How the Brain Builds Representations, Predicts Events, and Makes Decisions
(MIT Press, 2012)A novel theoretical framework that describes a possible rationale for the regularity in how we move, how we learn, and how our brain predicts events. In Biological Learning and Control, Reza Shadmehr and Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi ... -
The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
(MIT Press, 2012)Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive ... -
Subjective time : the philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of temporality
(MIT Press, 2014)Our awareness of time and temporal properties is a constant feature of conscious life. Subjective temporality structures and guides every aspect of behavior and cognition, distinguishing memory, perception, and anticipation. ...
