Sociology: Recent submissions
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Health Economics
(MIT Press, 2012)A textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to explain in economic terms how health care institutions and markets function. This book introduces students to the growing research field of health ... -
Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
(MIT Press, 2014)The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that "growth" is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural ... -
Why Architects Still Draw
(MIT Press, 2014)Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant ... -
Governing through goals : sustainable development goals as governance innovation
(MIT Press, 2017)In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier ... -
Scene Vision: Making Sense of What We See
(MIT Press, 2014)For many years, researchers have studied visual recognition with objects—single, clean, clear, and isolated objects, presented to subjects at the center of the screen. In our real environment, however, objects do not appear ... -
Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
(MIT Press, 2014)The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. ... -
Economic Dynamics in Discrete Time
(MIT Press, 2014)This book offers a unified, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of analytical and numerical tools for solving dynamic economic problems. The focus is on introducing recursive methods -- an important part of every ... -
Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain: Probing Cognition
(MIT Press, 2014)In the last decade, the synergistic interaction of neurosurgeons, engineers, and neuroscientists, combined with new technologies, has enabled scientists to study the awake, behaving human brain directly. These developments ... -
Music and the Making of Modern Science
(MIT Press, 2014)In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception, for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, "liberal education" connected ... -
Quantum Algorithms via Linear Algebra: A Primer
(MIT Press, 2014)This introduction to quantum algorithms is concise but comprehensive, covering many key algorithms. It is mathematically rigorous but requires minimal background and assumes no knowledge of quantum theory or quantum ... -
Linkography: Unfolding the Design Process
(MIT Press, 2014)This book presents linkography, a method for the notation and analysis of the design process. Developed by Gabriela Goldschmidt in an attempt to clarify designing, linkography documents how designers think, generate ideas, ... -
Brain Structure and Its Origins: in Development and in Evolution of Behavior and the Mind
(MIT Press, 2014)This introduction to the structure of the central nervous system demonstrates that the best way to learn how the brain is put together is to understand something about why. It explains why the brain is put together as it ... -
Neuroscience: A Historical Introduction
(MIT Press, 2014)This introduction to neuroscience is unique in its emphasis on how we know what we know about the structure and function of the nervous system. What are the observations and experiments that have taught us about the brain ... -
Category Theory for the Sciences
(MIT Press, 2014)Category theory was invented in the 1940s to unify and synthesize different areas in mathematics, and it has proven remarkably successful in enabling powerful communication between disparate fields and subfields within ... -
Investigating the psychological world : scientific method in the behavioral sciences
(MIT Press, 2014)in relation to behavioral research methods. It follows John Dewey’s (1910) lead and suggests that we adopt an inquiry-oriented conception of education that accords an important place to scientific method. The narrow nature ... -
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
(MIT Press, 2017)This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the "embodied cognition" approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices ... -
Analyzing Neural Time Series Data: Theory and Practice
(MIT Press, 2014)This book offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of analyzing electrical brain signals. It explains the conceptual, mathematical, and implementational (via Matlab programming) aspects of time-, time-frequency- ... -
Financial Modeling
(MIT Press, 2014)Financial Modeling is now the standard text for explaining the implementation of financial models in Excel. This long-awaited fourth edition maintains the "cookbook" features and Excel dependence that have made the previous ... -
Fundamental Models in Financial Theory
(MIT Press, 2014)This book provides an innovative, integrated, and methodical approach to understanding complex financial models, integrating topics usually presented separately into a comprehensive whole. The book brings together financial ... -
Logic in Games
(MIT Press, 2014)This book draws on ideas from philosophical logic, computational logic, multi-agent systems, and game theory to offer a comprehensive account of logic and games viewed in two complementary ways. It examines the logic of ...
