Sociology: Recent submissions
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Design, when everybody designs: an introduction to design for social innovation
(MIT Press, 2015)In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these ... -
The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, Book 4: Reason in Art
(MIT Press, 2015)Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the ... -
Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Theory and Application
(MIT Press, 2015)Many important problems involve decision making under uncertainty -- that is, choosing actions based on often imperfect observations, with unknown outcomes. Designers of automated decision support systems must take into ... -
Systemic Risk, Crises, and Macroprudential Regulation
(MIT Press, 2015)The recent financial crisis has shattered all standard approaches to banking regulation. Regulators now recognize that banking regulation cannot be simply based on individual financial institutions' risks. Instead, systemic ... -
The container principle : how a box changes the way we think
(MIT Press, 2015)We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land, provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity, inspire ... -
How to Write a Thesis
(MIT Press, 2015)By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years ... -
The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts
(MIT Press, 2015)The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with ... -
The Deep Learning Revolution: Machine Intelligence Meets Human Intelligence
(MIT Press, 2018)How deep learning--from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants--is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy.The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, ... -
Architecting the Future Enterprise
(MIT Press, 2015)Every enterprise evolves continuously, driven by changing needs or new opportunities. Most often this happens gradually, with small adjustments to strategy, organization, processes, or infrastructure. But sometimes enterprises ... -
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design
(MIT Press, 2015)When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. Today's problems are a new breed -- open, complex, ... -
Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life
(MIT Press, 2016)What is at stake socially, culturally, politically, and economically when we routinely use technology to gather information about our bodies and environments? Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, ... -
Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained
(MIT Press, 2015)Many beginning students in philosophy of language find themselves grappling with dense and difficult texts not easily understood by someone new to the field. This book offers an introduction to philosophy of language by ... -
From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience
(MIT Press, 2016)Computational neuroscience is an approach to understanding the development and function of nervous systems at many different structural scales, including the biophysical, the circuit, and the systems levels. Methods include ... -
Turing’s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
(MIT Press, 2016)Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader. In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which ... -
Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences
(MIT Press, 2016)A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates ... -
The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges
(MIT Press, 2016)When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that the third pillar of the international economic superstructure was finally in place. And ... -
Case Studies in Neural Data Analysis: A Guide for the Practicing Neuroscientist
(MIT Press, 2016)As neural data becomes increasingly complex, neuroscientists now require skills in computer programming, statistics, and data analysis. This book teaches practical neural data analysis techniques by presenting example ... -
Changing minds changing tools : from learning theory to language acquisition to language change
(MIT Press, 2018)By the time you were just a year old, you had learned which sound distinctions matter and which do not. From the constant streams of acoustic and visual input, you had extracted a few acoustic forms and linked them to ... -
System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge
(MIT Press, 2016)The role that "system" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own "computational universe." A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer ... -
Productivity and Reuse in Language : A Theory of Linguistic Computation and Storage
(MIT Press, 2016)Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated property is made possible by a division of labour between a large inventory of stored items (e.g. affixes, ...
