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CONTENTS
architecture 3, 13-17
art 3-12, 18, 44
bioethics 66
biology, evolutionary biology 66-67
business 2, 41
cognitive science 2, 53, 70-71
cognitive neuroscience 69
computer science 29, 46-47, 56, 75-77
current affairs 25, 26
cultural studies 3, 9, 11, 34, 36-38, 39
economics 31, 38, 42-43, 50-52, 77-82
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environment 1, 11, 26-29, 41-42, 52, 62-64
evolutionary psychology 71
fiction 23, 37
film, film studies 32, 45
game studies 19, 74
gender studies 19, 24, 35, 47
history 42, 47
history of computing 48
history of science 48, 59
history of technology 46, 49, 58
international affairs 63, 65
linguistics 71
nature 30, 52
neuroscience 68-69
new media 18, 44-47
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politics, political science 25, 27, 42, 48, 50, 55-56, 62, 64-65
race studies 20, 81
science 1, 26, 52
science, technology, and society 48-50, 57, 60, 61
technology 21-22, 45, 56, 60, 75
urban studies 22, 29, 49, 61, 65
vision 68
Semiotext(e) 36-40
Zone Books 33-35
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 science/environment

CO2 RISING
The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge
Tyler Volk
An introduction to the global
The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. carbon cycle and the human-caused
Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering disturbances to it that are at the
the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth’s natural cooling heart of global warming
and climate change.
process. Melting Arctic ice and mountain glaciers are just the first relatively mild
symptoms of what will result from this disruption of the planetary energy balance.
In CO2 Rising, scientist Tyler Volk explains the process at the heart of global October
5 3/8 x 8, 264 pp.
warming and climate change: the global carbon cycle. Vividly and concisely, 38 illus.
Volk describes what happens when CO2 is released by the combustion of fossil
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fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), letting loose carbon atoms once trapped deep 978-0-262-22083-5
underground into the interwoven web of air, water, and soil.
To demonstrate how the carbon cycle works, Volk traces the paths that carbon
atoms take during their global circuits. Showing us the carbon cycle from a carbon Also available
atom’s viewpoint, he follows one carbon atom into a leaf of barley and then into GAIA’S BODY
Toward a Physiology
an alcohol molecule in a glass of beer, through the human bloodstream, and of the Earth
then back into the air. He also compares the fluxes of carbon brought into Tyler Volk
the biosphere naturally to those created by the combustion of fossil fuels and 2003, 978-0-262-72042-7
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explains why the latter are responsible for rising temperatures.
Knowledge about the global carbon cycle
and the huge disturbances that human activity
produces in it will equip us to consider the
hard questions Volk raises in the second half
of CO2 Rising: projections of future levels of
CO2 ; which energy systems and processes
(solar, wind, nuclear, carbon sequestration?)
will power civilization in the future; the
relationships among the wealth of nations,
energy use, and CO2 emissions; and global
equity in per capita emissions. Answering
these questions will indeed be our greatest
environmental challenge.
Tyler Volk is Science Director of Environmental
Studies and Associate Professor of Biology at New
York University. He is the author of Gaia’s Body:
Toward a Physiology of the Earth (MIT Press),
Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind, and
other books.

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cognitive science/business
How understanding the signaling
within social networks can
change the way we make
decisions, work with others,
and manage organizations.
October
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HONEST SIGNALS
How They Shape Our World
Alex (Sandy) Pentland
How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely
interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle
patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them.
These unconscious social signals are not just a back channel or a complement
to our conscious language; they form a separate communication network.
Biologically based “honest signaling,” evolved from ancient primate signaling
mechanisms, offers an unmatched window into our intentions, goals, and values.
If we understand this ancient channel of communication, Pentland claims, we
can accurately predict the outcomes of situations ranging from job interviews
to first dates.
Pentland, an MIT professor, has used a specially designed digital sensor worn
like an ID badge — a “sociometer” — to monitor and analyze the back-and-forth
patterns of signaling among groups of people. He and his researchers found that
this second channel of communication, revolving not around words but around
social relations, profoundly influences major decisions in our lives — even though
we are largely unaware of it. Pentland presents the scientific background necessary
for understanding this form of communication, applies it to examples of group
behavior in real organizations, and shows how by “reading” our social networks
we can become successful at pitching an idea, getting a job, or closing a deal.
Using this “network intelligence” theory of social signaling,
Pentland describes how we can harness the intelligence of
our social network to become better managers, workers, and
communicators.
Alex (Sandy) Pentland is a leader in organizational engineering, mobile
information systems, and computational social science. He directs the
MIT Media Lab’s Digital Life Consortium, a group of more than twenty
multinational corporations exploring new ways to innovate, and is
Founder of MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship,
established to support aspiring entrepreneurs in emerging markets.
In 1997, Newsweek magazine named him one of the 100 Americans
likely to shape the century.
 architecture/art/cultural studies

BIG BOX REUSE

Julia Christensen
America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. What happens to the landscape, to
When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box “supercenter” down the road, community, and to the population
it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leaves behind when vacated big box stores are
a changed landscape that can’t be changed back. Acres of land have been paved turned into community centers,
churches, schools, and libraries?
around it. Highway traffic comes to it; local roads end at it. With thousands
of empty big box stores spread across America, these vistas have become a
dominant feature of the American landscape. November
10 x 10, 220 pp.
In Big Box Reuse, Julia Christensen shows us how ten communities have 91 color illus.
addressed this problem, turning vacated Wal-Marts and Kmarts into something
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else: a church, a library, a school, a medical center, a courthouse, a recreation 978-0-262-03379-4
center, a museum, or other more civic-minded structures. In each case, what
was once a shopping destination becomes a center of community life.
Christensen crisscrossed America identifying these projects, then pho-
tographed, videotaped, and interviewed the people involved. The first-person
accounts and color photographs of Big Box Reuse reveal the hidden stories
behind the transformation of these facades into gateways of community life.
Whether a big box store becomes a “Senior Resource Center” or a museum
devoted to Spam (the kind that comes in a can), each renovation displays a
community’s resourcefulness and creativity — but also raises questions about
how big box buildings affect the lives of communities. What does it mean for
us and for the future of America if the spaces of commerce built by a few
monolithic corporations become the sites where education, medicine, religion,
and culture are dispensed wholesale to the populace?
Julia Christensen is an artist whose work has been featured
in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Preservation
Magazine for the National Trust, and other publications;
her art has been shown in galleries and museums nation-
wide. She is Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor of the
Emerging Arts at Oberlin College and Conservatory.

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Contemporary art’s new
relationship to the landscape.
September
6 x 9, 232 pp.
151 color illus.,
30 black & white illus.
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Copublished with MASS MoCA
ARTISTS
Robert Adams, Vaughn Bell,
Boyle Family, Melissa Brown,
Center for Land Use Interpretation,
Leila Daw, Gregory Euclide,
J. Henry Fair, Mike Glier,
Anthony Goicolea, Marine Hugonnier,
Paul Jacobsen, Nina Katchadourian,
Jane Marsching, Alexis Rockman,
Ed Ruscha, Joseph Smolinski,
Yutaka Sone, Jennifer Steinkamp,
Mary Temple
EXHIBIT
MASS MoCA
May 25, 2008–Spring 2009
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BADLANDS
New Horizons in Landscape
edited by Denise Markonish
foreword by Joseph Thompson
The artist’s relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel
in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing
on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New
Topographics movement turned their attention unsentimentally to the industri-
alized “man-altered” environment; in the 1980s, artists animated the natural
landscape with art, movement, and performance; and in the 1990s, Eco-Artists
collaborated with scientists to address sustainability, pollution, and politics.
Badlands explores the latest manifestations of artists’ fascination with the earth,
gathering work by contemporary artists who approach landscape through history,
culture, and science.
Badlands, which accompanies an exhibition at MASS MoCA, approaches
landscape as a theme with variations, grouping artists and their art (which is
shown in 150 color illustrations) by category: Historians, who recontextualize
the history of landscape depiction; Explorers, who explore the environment
and our place within it; Activists and Pragmatists, who alert us to problems
in the natural world and suggest solutions; and the Aestheticists, who look at
the beauty found in nature. Each section begins with an essay: Gregory Volk
maps the evolution of the genre from the Hudson River School to Earth Art;
Ginger Strand examines the relationship between man and landscape through
our cultural history; Tensie Whelan
discusses environmental science,
sustainability, and climate change;
and Denise Markonish considers the
new genre of landscape that emerges
from the work displayed in Badlands.
As a physical object, Badlands
supports the values represented by
its intellectual and artistic content:
it was produced using FSC (Forest
Stewardship Council) certified
techniques including paper,
printing, and inks.
Denise Markonish is a Curator at MASS
MoCA. Badlands is her first curated exhibit
at that institution.
 art

ANISH KAPOOR
Past, Present, Future
edited by Nicholas Baume
The first major American
essays by Nicholas Baume, Mary Jane Jacob, and Partha Mitter,
publication on this important
interview with Anish Kapoor, and foreword by Jill Medvedow contemporary sculptor.
Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors who emerged
in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created a remarkable body of September
work that blends a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 144 pp.
manipulation of form and the perception of space. This book — the first major 90 color illus.

American publication on Kapoor’s work — surveys his work since 1979, with a $29.95T/£15.95 cloth
978-0-262-02659-8
focus on sculptures and installations made since the early 1990s. With more than
ninety color images of these ambitious and complex works, three original essays, Copublished with the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston
an extended interview with Kapoor, and selections from his sketchbooks, this
book confirms Anish Kapoor’s place as one of the most remarkable sculptors
working today. EXHIBITION
Kapoor’s work has evolved into an abstract and perceptually complex elabora- Institute of
tion of the sculptural object as at once monumental and evanescent, physical and Contemporary Art
Boston
ethereal — as in his famous Cloud Gate (2004) in Chicago’s Millennium Park. May 30–September 1, 2008
The artworks in Anish Kapoor include such striking works
as Past, Present, Future (2006), 1000 Names (1979-1980),
and When I Am Pregnant (1992). This book, which Also available
accompanies an exhibition at Boston’s Institute of SUPER VISION
edited by Nicholas Baume
Contemporary Art, offers American readers a long- 2006, 978-0-262-02609-3
overdue opportunity to consider the extraordinary $34.95T/£20.95 cloth
clarity, subtlety, and power of Kapoor’s art.
Nicholas Baume is Chief Curator at the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston, and the curator of the ICA’s
Anish Kapoor exhibition. He is the editor of Super Vision
(MIT Press).

Anish Kapoor. 1000 Names, 1979-80.

Mixed media and pigment, 62 in. (159 cm).
The LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut

Anish Kapoor. When I Am Pregnant,

1992. Fiberglass and paint. Courtesy of
the artist and Lisson Gallery, London

Anish Kapoor. Untitled, 1998.

Fiberglass, polystyrene, and paint,
95 ½ x 132 x 63 ¾ in.
(243 x 335 x 162 cm).
Collection Prada, Milan

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art
Images of more than 300 works
by this groundbreaking artist
document his journey from
legendary outsider to central
figure in many contemporary
art movements.
September
8 1/2 x 11, 550 pp.
300 color illus.,
200 black & white illus.
$54.95T/£27.95 cloth
978-0-262-01254-6
Copublished with ZKM I Center
for Art and Media Technology
ESSAYS BY
Jean-Christophe Ammann,
Margrit Brehm, Bazon Brock,
Suzanne Delehanty, Harald Falckenberg,
Marietta Franke, Stefan Germer,
Kim Gordon, Roland Groenenboom,
Axel Heil, Gregor Jansen, Mike Kelley,
John Miller, Susanne Neubauer,
Kenny Schachter, Harald Szeemann,
Annette Tietenberg, Peter Weibel,
Ann Wilson
EXHIBITION
Phoenix-Hallen
Hamburg
May 30, 2008–September 14, 2008
Also available
MAKING THINGS PUBLIC
Atmospheres of Democracy
edited by Bruno Latour
and Peter Weibel
2005, 978-0-262-12279-5
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PAUL THEK
Artist’s Artist
edited by Harald Falckenberg and Peter Weibel
Paul Thek occupied a place between high art and low art, between the epic
and the everyday. During his brief life (1933-1988), he went against the grain
of art world trends, humanizing the institutional spaces of art with the force
of his humor, spirituality, and character. Twenty years after Thek’s death from
AIDS, we can now recognize his influence on contemporary artists ranging
from Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman to Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley, and
Paul McCarthy, as well as Kai Althoff, Jonathan Meese, and Thomas Hirschhorn.
This book brings together more than 300 of Thek’s works — many of which
are published here for the first time — to offer the most comprehensive
display of his work yet seen. The book, which accompanies an exhibition at
ZKM IMuseum of Contemporary Art presenting Thek’s work in dialogue
with contemporary art by young artists, includes painting, sculpture, drawing,
and installation work, as well as photographs documenting the room-size
environments into which Thek incorporated elements from art, literature,
theater, and religion.
These works chart Thek’s journey from legendary outsider to foundational
figure in contemporary art. In their antiheroic diversity, Thek’s works embody
the art revolution of the 1960s; indeed, Susan Sontag dedicated her classic
Against Interpretation to him. Thek’s treatment of the body in such works as
“Technological Reliquaries,” with their castings and replicas of human body
parts, tissue, and bones, both evoke the aura of Christian relics and anticipate
the work of Damien Hirst. The book, with more than 500 images (300 in color)
and nineteen essays by art historians, curators, collectors, and artists, investigates
Thek’s work on its own
terms and as a starting
point for understanding the
work of the many younger
artists Thek has influenced.
Harald Falckenberg is President
of the Kunstrverein Hamburg
and cocurator of ZKM’s Paul
Thek exhibit. He is one of
Europe’s most important
collectors of contemporary
art and a prolific essayist
on art issues. Peter Weibel is
Director of ZKM I Center for Art
and Media Technology, Karlsruhe,
and coeditor of other ZKM
books, including Making
Things Public: Atmospheres
of Democracy (MIT Press).
 art

FRANZ WEST
To Build a House You Start with the Roof, Work 1972–2008
Darsie Alexander
A book that makes clear why
with contributions by Rachel Harrison and Eric Banks and Tom Eccles
Franz West is not only Vienna’s
There is no easy way to define Franz West’s art: it is fundamentally sculptural most influential living sculptor,
in its construction, veers frequently toward the biomorphic and prosthetic, mines but one of the most entertaining
and cerebral contemporary
the intellectualism of Freud and Wittgenstein, and possesses an awkward beauty artists anywhere.
that speaks with equal fluency to the tradition of painterly abstraction and the
aesthetics of trash art. West’s distinctive vision has resulted in one of the most
November
remarkable bodies of work produced since the 1960s. This book, with more than 9 1/2 x 11, 288 pp.
160 color images, offers a comprehensive look at West’s work from the 1970s to 160 color illus.
the present. A unique blend of illustration, essays, interviews, and artist’s pages, $44.95T/£22.95 cloth
it accompanies a major retrospective organized by The Baltimore Museum of 978-0-262-01250-8
Art, and includes a new piece created specifically for the exhibition. Copublished with
Emerging from Vienna’s confrontational performance art scene led by the The Baltimore Museum of Art
Actionists during the 1960s, West believed from the beginning that physical
engagement is an essential function of the art experience. This is clear both
in his Adaptives (Paßstück) series (begun in 1974), human-scaled sculptures EXHIBITION
The Baltimore Museum of Art
made of plaster to be held and worn by museum visitors, and in his later October 12, 2008–January 4, 2009
installations incorporating cabinets, tables, and chairs. Interaction is no less Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
April 5, 2009–June 28, 2009
a premise in West’s more recent large-scale outdoor sculptures: a series of
brightly painted aluminum works adorning public
plazas throughout Europe and the United States.
The book mixes intense visual content with critical
commentary, an interview with the artist, a concen-
trated section on West’s working methods, an artist’s
response to the work through words and images, and
an extensive chronology and bibliography.
Darsie Alexander is Senior Curator of Contemporary Art
at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Tom Eccles is Executive
Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Rachel Harrison is an artist who lives and works in New York
City and Eric Banks is former editor-in-chief of Bookforum.

Franz West. Violetta. To the song of

Gerhard Rühm: I like to rest, 2005,
and Swimmer, 2005. Epoxy resin and
fiberglass. Both ©Franz West and
courtesy of the artist and
Gagosian Gellery.

Franz West. Paßstück, 1976–1977. Plaster, electrical pipe,

paint, wire. Anonymous Dallas Collection. ©Franz West.

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Works spanning the legendary
and prolific artist’s twenty-year
career, including many of his
self-portraits, paintings, sculptures,
works on paper, installations, and
exhibition posters.
October
9 x 11 3/4, 288 pp.
250 color illus.
$44.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-1-933751-09-2
Distributed for the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
EXHIBITION
The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles
September 15, 2008–January 5, 2009
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
March 1, 2009–May 11, 2009
MARTIN KIPPENBERGER
The Problem Perspective
edited by Ann Goldstein and Lisa Gabrielle Mark
Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) is a special case in art. His life and works
were inextricably linked in a remarkable practice that centered on the role of
the artist within both the culture and the system of art. With his larger-than-life
persona, Kippenberger cast himself as impresario, entertainer, curator, bohemian,
collector, architect, and publisher. He collected art, set up clothing companies and
nightclubs, and ran art-world scams. Nothing was sacred to this iconoclast except
the right to satisfy his enormous appetite for life, appropriate anything for his art,
and create continual chaos around himself. This book, which accompanies the
first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of Kippenberger’s work, at the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, documents Kippenberger’s extraordinary
twenty-year career with works in many media —
paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations,
photographs, collaborations with other artists, posters,
postcards, books, and music. Among the major works
reproduced are key selections from the I.N.P. Bilder (Is
Not Embarrassing Pictures) and No Problem paintings
of the 1980s; the landmark 1987 exhibition of sculp-
ture “Peter. Die russische Stellung” (“Peter. The
Russian Position”); self-portraits in a variety of media;
Laterne an Betrunkene (Street Lamp for Drunks); the
Raft of the Medusa cycle of the 1990s; the renowned
Hotel drawings; and the monumental installation, The
Happy End of Franz Kafka’s “Amerika.” Accompanying
the artworks is an essay by exhibition curator Ann
Goldstein; newly commissioned texts by art historian
Pamela Lee, Kippenberger scholar Diedrich
Diederichsen, and curator Ann Temkin; reprinted
excerpts from a 1991 interview with Kippenberger by
artist Jutta Koether; and an illustrated exhibition his-
tory, chronology, and bibliography. Martin
Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective offers readers
the most comprehensive view yet of this legendary
artist’s body of work.
Ann Goldstein is
Senior Curator at
the Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, where
Lisa Gabrielle Mark
is Director of
Publications.

Top: Martin Kippenberger. The Problem

Perspective (you are not the problem, it´s
the problem-maker in your head),1986. Oil
on canvas, 180 x 150 cm.
Right: Martin Kippenberger. 1x Laterne an
Betrunkene/Street lamp for drunks, 1988.
Steel, lightbulb, 280 x 40 x 40 cm.

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 art/cultural studies

THE BIG ARCHIVE

Art From Bureaucracy
Sven Spieker
The archive as a crucible of
The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies twentieth-century modernism
and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more and key for understanding
than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, contemporary art.

the archive’s content stands as a quasi-objective correlative of the “living” past.

Twentieth-century art made use of the archive in a variety of ways — from October
what Spieker calls Marcel Duchamp’s “anemic archive” of readymades and 6 1/2 x 9, 228 pp.
78 illus.
El Lissitzky’s Demonstration Rooms to the compilations of photographs made
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by such postwar artists as Susan Hiller and Gerhard Richter. In The Big Archive, 978-0-262-19570-6
Sven Spieker investigates the archive — as both bureaucratic institution and
index of evolving attitudes toward contingent time in science and art — and
finds it to be a crucible of twentieth-century modernism.
Dadaists, constructivists, and Surrealists favored discontinuous, nonlinear
archives that resisted hermeneutic reading and ordered presentation. Spieker
argues that the use of archives by such contemporary artists as Hiller, Richter,
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Walid Raad, and Boris Mikhailov responds to and
continues this attack on the nineteenth-century archive and its objectification
of the historical process.
Spieker considers archivally driven art in relation to changing media
technologies — the typewriter, the telephone, the telegraph, film. And he
connects the archive to a particularly modern visual-
ity, showing that the avant-garde used the archive as
something of a laboratory for experimental inquiries
into the nature of vision and its relation to time.
The Big Archive offers us the first critical monograph
on an overarching motif in twentieth-century art.
Sven Spieker teaches in the Comparative Literature Program
and the Department of History of Art and Architecture at
the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the editor
of ARTMargins, an online journal devoted to Central and
Eastern European visual culture.

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MILK AND MELANCHOLY

Kenneth Hayes
The first book on milk in art,
Milk and Melancholy looks at milk through the lens of photography and from
from Harold Edgerton’s drops to the angle of art. Specifically, it considers the milk splash in all its manifestations,
Jeff Wall’s splash: a meditation representations, and variations, tracing the complex flow of the image in works
with photographs. ranging from Harold Edgerton’s milk drop coronet to Jeff Wall’s exploding milk
carton. In Milk and Melancholy, Kenneth Hayes considers milk as corporate
October advertising’s mustache of health; as the antiwine; as a complex mixture of fat,
8 x 8 7/8, 156 pp. protein, corpuscles, lactose, chyle, and plasma that lacks darkness but lacks also
95 color photographs,
25 black & white photographs the morally pure transparency of crystal; and as the luminous middle term
between mercury’s glare and water’s transparency. He offers the first-ever history
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978-0-262-08381-2 of the “knowledge of splashes,” a history that brings together Goethe’s theory of
Copublished with Prefix Institute
optics, the invention of the stroboscope, and
of Contemporary Art, Inc. the milk paint dripped by Jackson Pollock
in the 1940s. Taking Edgerton’s famous
CONTENTS
photograph as a starting point, Hayes tracks
The Photogenics of Milk its influence in the infinite variety of repre-
A Romance with Liquids: The Milk sentations of milk in the work of more than
Splash in California Pop Art twenty artists including Pollock, Ed Ruscha,
The Optical Unconscious in extremis Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Adrian
Energy Made Visible: Vital Fluids in Piper, Martha Rosler, Mike Kelley, and
the Street
William Wegman. More than 100 images,
most of them in color and all of them
ARTISTS INCLUDE exquisitely reproduced, illustrate Hayes’s
David Askevold text. With this book, a splash in its own
John Baldessari
Iain Baxter right, we will never see milk as a mere
Braco Dimitrijevic grocery item again.
Harold Edgerton Milk and Melancholy is the first book
General Idea
Gilbert and George from Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art,
Jack Goldstein publisher of the award-winning magazine
Mike Kelley Prefix Photo.
Barbara Kruger
David Lamelas Kenneth Hayes is an architectural historian
Bruce Nauman and a curator and critic of contemporary art.
Adrian Piper His work has appeared in such publications
Sigmar Polke as Azure, Alphabet City, and Parachute.
Jackson Pollock
Richard Prince
Martha Rosler
Ed Ruscha
Andres Serrano
Jeff Wall
William Wegman
A. M. Worthington

Top: Jeff Wall. Milk, 1984. Color photograph,

187 x 228.6 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Ed Ruscha. Glass of Milk Falling, 1967.

Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches. © Ed Ruscha.

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FUEL
edited by John Knechtel
How will the world work in the post-oil, post-coal future? Our transition could Writers and artists imagine
take the form of disastrous collapses in economic, political, and economic systems the transition to a carbon-free
— or of a radical reinvention of energy. We could relapse into a new Dark Ages, future and the radical reinvention
or we could shift to a new economic model and international order that’s not of energy that would make
it possible.
based on (the appropriately named) “fossil” fuels but on renewable energy. No
matter what, global warming and resource scarcity will force us to do something.
To avert environmental and economic disaster, we’ll have to think beyond the October
4 3/4 x 6 1/4, 320 pp.
weekly fluctuations in the price of gasoline and consider larger matters. 200 color illus.
In Fuel, writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free future: an
$15.95T/£10.95 cloth
architect plans “Velo-city,” a network of elevated bikeways; a designer models 978-0-262-11325-0
a perfectly internalized, tail-chasing energy system; an urbanist examines the
Alphabet City 13
new “Oil Cities” in Dubai and Saudi Arabia; a photographer documents
the social and environmental damage done by the
oil industry in Nigeria; and an architect proposes Also available in this series
that oil rigs be turned into sanctuaries for marine FOOD
and avian wildlife. edited by John Knechtel
2007, 978-0-262-11309-0
Reading Fuel, we read our current energy $15.95T/£10.95 cloth
moment in the broader context of a range of Alphabet City 12
possible futures. TRASH
edited by John Knechtel
John Knechtel is Director of Alphabet
2006, 978-0-262-11301-4
City Media in Toronto.
$15.95T/£10.95 cloth
Alphabet City 11
SUSPECT
edited by John Knechtel
2005, 978-0-262-11290-1
$15.95T/£10.95 cloth
Alphabet City 10
SUBTITLES
edited by Atom Egoyan
and Ian Balfour
2004, 978-0-262-05078-4
$35.00T/£22.95 cloth
Alphabet City 9

Top: George Osodi, Oil Pipelines Okrika, 2006. From Fuel.

Top left: George Osodi, Oil Rig Sangana, 2006. From Fuel.
Left: Velo-city. From Fuel.

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dance/art

How Yvonne Rainer’s art
shaped new ways of watching
and performing.
September
7 x 9, 384 pp.
83 illus.
$34.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-12301-3
An October Book
Also available
FEELINGS ARE FACTS
Yvonne Rainer
2006, 978-0-262-18251-5
$37.95T/£24.95 cloth
YVONNE RAINER
The Mind is a Muscle
Catherine Wood
2007, 978-1-84638-037-2
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
Distributed for Afterall Books
BEING WATCHED
Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously trans-
formed the performing body — stripped it of special techniques and star status,
traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, asked it to haul
mattresses or recite texts rather than leap or spin. Without discounting these
innovations, Carrie Lambert-Beatty argues in Being Watched that the crucial
site of Rainer’s interventions in the 1960s was less the body of the performer
than the eye of the viewer — or rather, the body as offered to the eye. Rainer’s
art, Lambert-Beatty writes, is structured by a peculiar tension between the body
and its display.
Through close readings of Rainer’s works of the 1960s — from the often-
discussed dance Trio A to lesser-known Vietnam war-era protest dances —
Lambert-Beatty explores how these performances embodied what Rainer called
“the seeing difficulty.” (As Rainer said: “Dance is hard to see.”) Viewed from
this perspective, Rainer’s work becomes a bridge between key episodes in post-
war art. Lambert-Beatty shows how Rainer’s art (and related performance work
in Happenings, Fluxus, and Judson Dance Theater) connects with the transfor-
mation of the subject-object relation in minimalism and with emerging feminist
discourse on the political implications of the objectifying gaze. In a spectacle-
soaked era, moreover — when images of war played nightly on the television
news — Rainer’s work engaged the habits of viewing formed in mass-media
America, linking avant-garde art and the wider culture of the 1960s. Rainer is
significant, argues Lambert-Beatty, not only as a choreographer, but as a sculp-
tor of spectatorship.
Carrie Lambert-Beatty is Assistant Professor in the Department
of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of
Visual and Environmental Studies at
Harvard University.

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 architecture

WORLD’S GREATEST ARCHITECT

Making, Meaning, and Network Culture
William J. Mitchell
Function and meaning in
Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously architecture and elsewhere, from
perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the tongue-in-cheek instructions
sturdy Tuscan and Doric types traditionally signify masculinity, the slim and for creating a surveillance
state to reflections on the
elegant Ionic and Corinthian kinds read as feminine. Words are often inscribed architecture of the potato chip.
on objects. (On a door: “push” or “pull.”) Today, information is digitally encoded
(dematerialized) and displayed (rematerialized) to become part of many different
September
objects, at one moment appearing on a laptop screen and at another, perhaps, on 6 x 9, 160 pp.
a building facade (as in Times Square). Well-designed artifacts succeed in being
$16.95T/£10.95 paper
both useful and meaningful. In World’s Greatest Architect, William Mitchell offers 978-0-262-63364-2
a series of snapshots — short essays and analyses — that examine the systems
of function and meaning currently operating in our buildings, cities, and global
networks. Also available
In his writing, Mitchell makes connections that aren’t necessarily obvious IMAGINING MIT
Designing a Campus for
but are always illuminating, moving in one essay from Bush-Cheney’s abuse of the Twenty-First Century
language to Robert Venturi’s argument against rigid ideology and in favor of William J. Mitchell
graceful pragmatism. He traces the evolution of Las Vegas from Sin/Sign City 2007, 978-0-262-13479-8
$24.95T/£15.95 cloth
to family-friendly resort and residential real estate boomtown. A purchase of
chips leads not only to a complementary purchase of beer but to thoughts of PLACING WORDS
Symbols, Space, and the City
Eames chairs (like Pringles) and Gehry (fun to imitate with tortilla chips William J. Mitchell
in refried beans). As for who 2005, 978-0-262-63322-2
the world’s greatest architect $17.95T/£11.95 paper

might be, here’s a hint: he’s ME++

also the oldest. The Cyborg Self and
the Networked City
William J. Mitchell is the Alexander William J. Mitchell
W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Professor of 2004, 978-0-262-63313-0
Architecture and Media Arts and $15.95T/£10.95 paper
Sciences and directs the Smart Cities
research group at MIT’s Media Lab. e-topia
He was formerly Dean of the School “Urban Life, Jim — but
of Architecture and Head of the Not as We Know It”
Program in Media Arts and Sciences William J. Mitchell
at MIT. He is the author of Imagining 2000, 978-0-262-63205-8
MIT: Designing a Campus for the $18.95S/£12.95 paper
Twenty-First Century, Placing Words:
Symbols, Space, and the City, Me++: CITY OF BITS
The Cyborg Self and the Networked Space, Place, and the Infobahn
City, e-topia: “Urban Life, Jim — William J. Mitchell
but Not as We Know It,” City of Bits: 1996, 978-0-262-63176-1
Space, Place, and the Infobahn, and $19.95S/£12.95 paper
The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth
in the Post-Photographic Era, all THE RECONFIGURED EYE
published by The MIT Press. Visual Truth in the
Post-Photographic Era
William J. Mitchell
1992, 978-0-262-63160-0
$36.00S/£23.95 paper

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architecture
Unavailable as a collection until
now, these essays document both
the intellectual journey of one of
the world’s leading architects and
a critical period in the evolution
of architectural thought.
September
7 3/4 x 9 3/4, 233 pp.
100 illus.
$29.95T/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-13500-9
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NURTURING DREAMS
Collected Essays on Architecture and the City
Fumihiko Maki
edited by Mark Mulligan
foreword by Eduard Sekler
Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an
internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko
Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and
uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to
the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-
garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession.
This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism
and Maki’s own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architec-
tural and urban history.
Maki’s treatment of his two overarching themes — the contemporary city
and modernist architecture — demonstrates strong (and sometimes unexpected)
linkages between urban theory and archi-
tectural practice. After writing about his
first encounters with modern architecture
and with CIAM and Team X, Maki
describes his studies of “Collective Form,”
the relationship between cities and their
individual buildings. His influential essay
“The Japanese City and Inner Space”
traces characteristics of the Japanese city
from the Edo period to contemporary
Tokyo; his consideration of Japanese
modernism begins with a discussion of
“the Le Corbusier syndrome” in modern
Japanese architecture. Images and
commentary on three of Maki’s own
works demonstrate the connection
between his writing and his designs.
Moving through the successive waves
of modernism, postmodernism, neomodernism, and other isms, these essays
reflect how several generations of architectural thought and expression have
been resolved within one career.
Fumihiko Maki is one of Japan’s most prolific and distinguished architects, in practice
since the 1960s. His works include projects in Japan, North and South America, Europe,
and Asia. He received the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993. Among his
current works in progress are the World Trade Center Tower 4 in New York City and the
Media Lab Extension at MIT.
 architecture

I AM A MONUMENT
On Learning from Las Vegas
Aron Vinegar
Rereading one of the most
Learning from Las Vegas, originally published by The MIT Press in 1972, was one influential architectural books
of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its era. Thirty-five of the twentieth century — as
years later, it remains a perennial bestseller and a definitive theoretical text. Its intellectual project, graphic
design landmark, and prescient
authors — architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour introduction to issues
— famously used the Las Vegas Strip to argue the virtues of the “ordinary and of concern today.
ugly” above the “heroic and original” qualities of architectural modernism.
Learning from Las Vegas not only moved architecture to the center of cultural September
debates, it changed our ideas about what architecture was and could be. 8 x 9, 208 pp.
In this provocative rereading of an iconic text, Aron Vinegar shows that 82 illus.
Learning from Las Vegas is not only of historical interest but of absolute relevance $29.95T/£19.95 cloth
to current critical debates in architectural and visual culture. Vinegar argues that 978-0-262-22082-8
to read Learning from Las Vegas only as an exemplary postmodernist text — to
understand it, for example, as a call for pastiche or as ironic provocation — is
Also available
to underestimate its deeper critical and ethical meaning, and to miss the under- LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS,
lying dialectic between skepticism and the ordinary, expression and the deadpan, REVISED EDITION
that runs through the text. The Forgotten Symbolism
of Architectural Form
Vinegar’s close attention to the graphic design of Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown,
and his fresh interpretations of now canonical images from the book such as the and Steven Izenour
“Duck,” the “Decorated Shed,” and “Recommendation for a Monument,” make 1977, 978-0-262-72006-9
$22.95T/£14.95 paper
his book unique. Perhaps most revealing is his close analysis of the differences
between the first 1972 edition, designed for The MIT Press by Muriel Cooper,
and the “revised” edition of 1977, which was radically stripped down and largely
redesigned by Denise Scott Brown. The dialogue between the two editions con-
tinues with this book, where for the first time the two versions of Learning from
Las Vegas are read comparatively.
Aron Vinegar is Associate Professor in the Department of
History of Art and the Knowlton School of Architecture at
Ohio State University.

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architecture
An examination of the standard
reference book for architects,
as both practical sourcebook
and window on changes in
the profession.
September
9 1/2 x 11 3/4, 280 pp.
99 illus.
$39.95T/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-10122-6
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DRAFTING CULTURE
A Social History of Architectural Graphics Standards
George Barnett Johnston
Architectural Graphics Standards by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve
Sleeper, first published in 1932 (and now in its eleventh edition), is a definitive
technical reference for architects — the one book that every architect needs to
own. The authors, one a draftsman and the other an architect, created a graphic
compilation of standards that amounted to an index of the combined knowledge
of their profession. This first comprehensive history of Ramsey and Sleeper’s
classic work explores the changing practical uses that this “draftsman’s Bible”
has served, as well as the ways in which it has registered the shifts within the
architectural profession since the first half of the twentieth century. When
Architectural Graphics Standards first appeared, architecture was undergoing
its transition from vocation to profession — from the draftsman’s craft to the
architect’s academically based knowledge with a concomitant rise in social
status. The older “drafting culture” gave way to massive postwar changes in
design and building practice.
Writing a history of the architectural profession from the bottom up —
from the standpoint of the architectural draftsman — George Barnett Johnston
clarifies the role and status of the subordinate architectural workers who once
made up the base of the profession. Johnston’s
account of the evolution of Ramsey and Sleeper’s
book also offers a case study of the social hierarchies
embedded within architecture’s division of labor.
Johnston investigates what became of the draftsman,
and what became of drafting culture, and asks —
importantly, in today’s era of digital formats —
what price is exacted from architectural labor as
architecture pursues new professional ideals.
George Barnett Johnston is an architect, cultural historian,
and Associate Professor in the College of Architecture at
Georgia Institute of Technology.
 architecture

PERSPECTA 41
Grand Tour
The Yale Architectural Journal
Architectural travel, from the
edited by Gabrielle Brainard, Rustam Mehta, and Thomas Moran Eternal City to the generic city.
The Grand Tour was once the culmination of an architect’s education. As a
journey to the cultural sites of Europe, the Tour’s agenda was clearly defined: November
to study ancient monuments in order to reproduce them at home. Architects 9 x 12, 160 pp.
returned from their Grand Tours with rolls of measured drawings and less 160 illus.
tangible spoils: patronage, commissions, and cultural cachet. Although no $25.00T/£16.95 paper
longer carried out under the same name, the practices inscribed by the Grand 978-0-262-51225-1
Tour have continued relevance for contemporary architects. This edition of
Perspecta — the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural
CONTRIBUTORS
journal in America — uses the Grand Tour, broadly conceived, as a model for Esra Akcan, Aaron Betsky,
understanding the history, current incarnation, and future of architectural travel. Ljiljana Blagojević, Edward Burtynsky,
Perspecta 41 asks: where do we go, how do we Matthew Coolidge and CLUI,
Gillian Darley, Brook Denison,
record what we see, what do we bring back, and how Helen Dorey, Keller Easterling,
does it change us? Contributions include explorations Peter Eisenman, Dan Graham and
of architects’ travels in times of war; Peter Eisenman’s Mark Wasiuta, Jeffery Inaba and
C-Lab, Sam Jacob, Michael Meredith,
account of his career-defining 1962 trip with Colin Colin Montgomery, Dietrich Neumann,
Rowe around Europe in a Volkswagen; Robert Enrique Ramirez, Mary-Ann Ray and
Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s discussion of their Robert Mangurian, Kazys Varnelis,
Robert Venturi and
traveling and its effect on their collecting, teaching, Denise Scott Brown,
and design work; drawings documenting the mono- Enrique Walker
lithic churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia; an account of
how James Gamble Rogers designed Yale’s Sterling
Also available
Library and residential colleges using his collection RE-READING PERSPECTA
of postcards; and a proposed itinerary for a contem- The First Fifty Years of the
porary Grand Tour — in America. Yale Architectural Journal
edited by Robert A. M. Stern,
Gabrielle Brainard, Rustam Mehta, and Thomas Moran Peggy Deamer, and Alan Plattus
are graduates of the Yale School of Architecture and 2005, 978-0-262-19506-5
practicing architects. $75.00T/£48.95 cloth

The cover of each copy of Perspecta 41

features a different vintage postcard.

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new media/art
The history of a pioneering era
in computer-based art too often
neglected by postwar art histories
and institutions.
December
7 x 9, 568 pp.
63 illus.
$44.95T/£28.95 cloth
978-0-262-02653-6
A Leonardo Book
CONTRIBUTORS
Roy Ascott, Stephen Bell, Paul Brown,
Stephen Bury, Harold Cohen,
Ernest Edmonds, María Fernández,
Simon Ford, John Hamilton Frazer,
Jeremy Gardiner, Charlie Gere,
Adrian Glew, Beryl Graham,
Stan Hayward, Graham Howards,
Richard Ihnatowicz, Nicholas Lambert,
Malcolm Le Grice, Tony Longson,
Brent MacGregor, George Mallen,
Catherine Mason, Jasia Reichardt,
Stephen A. R. Scrivener,
Brian Reffin Smith, Alan Sutcliffe,
Doron D. Swade, John Vince,
Richard Wright, Aleksandar Zivanovic
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WHITE HEAT COLD LOGIC
British Computer Art 1960–1980
edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere,
Nicholas Lambert, and Catherine Mason
Technological optimism, even utopianism, was widespread at midcentury; in
Britain, Harold Wilson in 1963 promised a new nation “forged from the white
heat of the technological revolution.” In this heady atmosphere, pioneering artists
transformed the cold logic of computing into a new medium for their art, and
played a central role in connecting technology and culture. White Heat Cold Logic
tells the story of these early British digital and computer artists — and fills in a
missing chapter in contemporary art history.
In this heroic period of computer art, artists were required to build their own
machines, collaborate closely with computer scientists, and learn difficult com-
puter languages. White Heat Cold Logic’s chapters, many written by computer art
pioneers themselves, describe the influence of cybernetics, with its emphasis on
process and interactivity; the connections to the constructivist movement; and
the importance of work done in such different venues as commercial animation,
fine art schools, and polytechnics.
The advent of personal computing and graphical user interfaces in 1980
signaled the end of an era, and today we do not have so many dreams of
technological utopia. And yet our highly technologized and mediated world
owes much to these early practitioners, especially for expanding our sense of
what we can do with new technologies.
Paul Brown is Visiting Professor of Art and Technology at the University of Sussex.
Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research, Institute for Cultural Research, at Lancaster
University. Nicholas Lambert is Research Officer, School of History of Art, Film, and Visual
Media, at Birkbeck College, University of London. Catherine Mason is an art historian at work
on a book about computers and artistic practice in art schools and academic institutions.
 game studies/gender studies

BEYOND BARBIE® AND MORTAL KOMBAT

New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming
edited by Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter,
Jill Denner, and Jennifer Y. Sun Girls and women as game players
and game designers in the new
Ten years after the groundbreaking From Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted digital landscape of massively
the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate multiplayer online games, “second
lives,” “modding,” serious
digital game play, the number of women and girl gamers has risen considerably.
games, and casual games.
Despite this, gender disparities remain in gaming. Women may be warriors in
World of Warcraft, but they are also scantily clad “booth babes” whose sex appeal
September
is used to promote games at trade shows. Player-generated content has revolu-
7 x 9, 352 pp.
tionized gaming, but few games marketed to girls allow “modding” (game mod- 36 color illus., 42 black & white illus.
ifications made by players). Gender equity, the contributors to Beyond Barbie $29.95T/£19.95 cloth
and Mortal Kombat argue, requires more than increasing the overall numbers of 978-0-262-11319-9
female players.
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat brings together new media theorists, game
designers, educators, psychologists, and industry professionals, including some CONTRIBUTORS
Cornelia Brunner, Shannon Campe,
of the contributors to the earlier volume, to look at how gender intersects with Justine Cassell, Mia Consalvo,
the broader contexts of digital games today: gaming, game industry and design, Jill Denner, Mary Flanagan,
and serious games. The contributors discuss the rise of massively multiplayer Janine Fron, Tracy Fullerton,
Elisabeth Hayes, Carrie Heeter,
online games (MMOs) and the experience of girl and women players in gaming Kristin Hughes, Mimi Ito,
communities; the still male-dominated gaming industry and the need for differ- Henry Jenkins, Yasmin B. Kafai,
ent perspectives in game design; and gender concerns related to emerging seri- Caitlin Kelleher, Brenda Laurel,
Nicole Lazzaro, Holin Lin, Jacki Morie,
ous games (games meant not only to entertain but also to educate, persuade, or Helen Nissenbaum, Celia Pearce,
change behavior). In today’s game-packed digital landscape, there is an even Caroline Pelletier, Jennifer Y. Sun,
greater need for games that offer motivating, challenging, and enriching con- T. L. Taylor, Brian Winn, Nick Yee
texts for play to a more diverse population of players.
Yasmin B. Kafai is Associate INTERVIEWS WITH
Professor at the UCLA Graduate Nichol Bradford, Brenda Braithwaite,
School of Education and Megan Gaiser, Sheri Graner Ray,
Information Studies. Carrie Morgan Romine
Heeter is Professor of Serious
Game Design in the Department
of Telecommunication,
Also available
Information Studies, and Media,
and Creative Director for Virtual FROM BARBIE® TO MORTAL KOMBAT
University Design and Gender and Computer Games
Technology at Michigan State edited by Justine Cassell
University. Jill Denner is Senior and Henry Jenkins
Research Associate at ETR 2000, 978-0-262-53168-9
Associates, a nonprofit agency $26.00T/£16.95 paper
in California. Jennifer Y. Sun is
President and a founder of UTOPIAN ENTREPRENEUR
Numedeon, Inc., the company Brenda Laurel
that launched Whyville.net, an 2001, 978-0-26262153-3
educational virtual world tar- $16.00T/£10.95 paper
geted at children ages 8 to 14.
PLAY BETWEEN WORLDS
Exploring Online Game Culture
T. L. Taylor
2006, 978-0-262-20163-6
$29.95T/£19.95 cloth
CHEATING
Gaining Advantage in Videogames
Mia Consalvo
2007, 978-0-262-03365-7
$35.00S/£21.95 cloth

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education/computer science/race studies
An investigation into why so
few African American and Latino
high school students are studying
computer science reveals the
dynamics of inequality in
American schools.
September
6 x 9, 200 pp.
10 illus.
$24.95T/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-13504-7
Also available
UNLOCKING THE CLUBHOUSE
Women and Computing
Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher
2003, 978-0-262-63269-0
$16.00T/£10.95 paper
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STUCK IN THE SHALLOW END
Education, Race, and Computing
Jane Margolis
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and
advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to
recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school
students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportuni-
ties, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of
study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis looks at the
daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high
schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school,
and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. She finds an insidious
“virtual segregation” that maintains inequality.
Two of the three schools studied offer only low-level, how-to (keyboarding,
cutting and pasting) introductory computing classes. The third and wealthiest
school offers advanced courses, but very few students of color enroll in them.
The race gap in computer science, Margolis finds, is one example of the way
students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and educational
futures. Margolis traces the interplay of school structures (such factors as course
offerings and student-to-counselor ratios) and belief systems — including
teachers’ assumptions about their students and stu-
dents’ assumptions about themselves. Stuck in the
Shallow End is a story of how inequality is repro-
duced in America — and how students and teachers,
given the necessary tools, can change the system.
Jane Margolis is Senior Researcher at the Institute for
Democracy, Education, and Access at UCLA’s Graduate School
of Education and Information Studies. She is the coauthor
of the award-winning Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women and
Computing (MIT Press).
 technology/essays

THE INNER HISTORY OF DEVICES

edited and with an introduction by Sherry Turkle
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life Personal stories illuminate how
on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her technology enters the inner life.
insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The Inner History of
Devices, she describes her process, an approach that reveals how what we make is October
woven into our ways of seeing ourselves. She brings together three traditions of 5 3/8 x 8, 192 pp.
listening — that of the memoirist, the clinician, and the ethnographer. Each 4 illus.
informs the others to compose an inner history of devices. We read about objects $24.95T/£16.95 cloth
ranging from cell phones and video poker to prosthetic eyes, from Web sites and 978-0-262-20176-6
television to dialysis machines.
In an introductory essay, Turkle makes the case for an “intimate ethnography”
Also available
that challenges conventional wisdom. One personal computer owner tells Turkle: FALLING FOR SCIENCE
“This computer means everything to me. It’s where I put my hope.” Turkle Objects in Mind
explains that she began that conversation thinking she would learn how people edited by Sherry Turkle
2008, 978-0-262-20172-8
put computers to work. By its end, her question has changed: “What was there $24.95T/£16.95 cloth
about personal computers that offered such deep connection? What did a com-
EVOCATIVE OBJECTS
puter have that offered hope?” The Inner History of Devices teaches us to listen Things We Think With
for the answer. edited by Sherry Turkle
In the memoirs, ethnographies, and clinical cases collected in this volume, 2007, 978-0-262-20168-1
$24.95T/£15.95 cloth
we read about an American student who comes to terms with her conflicting
identities as she contemplates a cell phone she used in Japan (“Tokyo sat THE SECOND SELF
Computers and the Human Spirit
trapped inside it”); a troubled patient who uses email both to criticize her Twentieth Anniversary Edition
therapist and to be reassured by her; a compulsive gambler who does not want Sherry Turkle
to win steadily at video poker because a pattern of losing and winning keeps her 2005, 978-0-262-70111-2
$25.00S/£16.95 paper
more connected to the body of the machine. In these writings, we hear untold
stories. We learn that received wisdom never goes far enough.
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé
Professor of the Social Studies of Science and
Technology at MIT and Founder and Director
of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.
A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and
psychologist, she is the author of The Second
Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth
Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), Life on the
Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and
Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud’s
French Revolution. She is the editor of Evocative
Objects: Things We Think With (MIT Press) and
Falling for Science: Objects in Mind (MIT Press).

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technology/urban studies
Tracing the design of
“techno-cities” that
blend the technological
and the pastoral.
September
6 x 9, 208 pp.
43 illus.
$24.95T/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-11320-5
Lemelson Center Studies in Invention
and Innovation series
Also available
INVENTING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
edited by Arthur P. Molella
and Joyce Bedi
2003, 978-0-262-63328-4
$17.95T/£11.95 paper
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INVENTED EDENS
Techno-Cities of the 20th Century
Robert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella
Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky,
dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban
visionaries were looking for ways to improve both living and working conditions
in industrial cities. In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella trace
the arc of one form of urban design, which they term the techno-city: a planned
city developed in conjunction with large industrial or technological enterprises,
blending the technological and the pastoral, the mill town and the garden city.
Techno-cities of the twentieth century range from factory towns in Mussolini’s
Italy to the Disney creation of Celebration, Florida. Kargon and Molella show
that the techno-city represents an experiment in integrating modern technology
into the world of ideal life. Techno-cities mirror society’s understanding of
current technologies, and at the same time seek to regain the lost virtues of
the edenic pre-industrial village.
The idea of the techno-city transcended ideologies, crossed national borders,
and spanned the entire twentieth century. Kargon and Molella map the concept
through a series of exemplars. These include Norris, Tennessee, home to the
Tennessee Valley Authority; Torviscosa, Italy, built by Italy’s Fascist government
to accommodate synthetic textile manufacturing (and featured in an early short
by Michelangelo Antonioni); Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, planned by a team
from MIT and Harvard; and, finally, Disney’s Celebration — perhaps the
ultimate techno-city, a fantasy city reflecting an era
in which virtual experiences are rapidly replacing
actual ones.
Robert H. Kargon is Willis K. Shepard Professor of the History
of Science at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author
of The Rise of Robert Millikan: A Life in American Science
and other books. Arthur P. Molella is Jerome and Dorothy
Lemelson Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson
Center. He is the author of "Exhibiting Atomic Culture: The
View from Oak Ridge" and the coeditor (with Joyce Bedi)
of Inventing for the Environment (MIT Press).
 psychology/fiction

THE CASTLE OF DREAMS

Michel Jouvet
translated by Laurence Garey
A novel by a pioneering
This enlightening, entertaining, and intriguing novel begins as a story within a sleep researcher casts an
story — or a story within a trunk. A Frenchman — our narrator, presumably eighteenth-century aristocrat
the author Michel Jouvet, or a literary version of himself — buys an antique as its scientific and
romantic hero.
chest with brass fittings, labeled with the initials HLS and a partially worn
away date, “178-.” Happy to have such a handsome piece for his hallway, the
narrator is surprised to find within it bundles of ancient papers tied with string. September
5 3/8 x 8, 344 pp.
He has discovered the dream journals, experiments, and correspondence of
eighteenth-century amateur scientist Hugues la Scève. With Jouvet, a recog- $24.95T/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-10127-1
nized authority on sleep and dream research, as our guide, we follow la Scève’s
quest to unlock the mystery of dreams.
In his chateau and elsewhere, la Scève undertakes a series of complex and Also available
often comic experiments: he records his own dreams and speculates on their THE PARADOX OF SLEEP
relation to waking life; he studies sleeping cats, rabbits, and other animals The Story of Dreaming
Michel Jouvet
(and observes rapid eye movement almost two centuries before modern science translated by Laurence Garey
discovers it); he records the sleep and dream experiences of a Swiss soldier 2001, 978-0-262-60040-8
and a pair of Siamese twins. And, because sleep and dreams are often in close $20.00T/£12.95 paper
proximity to the erotic, he considers the relation of dreaming and sexual
activity, heroically undertaking first-hand research with various women
(with the notable exception of his wife).
La Scève’s fantastic experiments and discoveries
have a solid scientific basis: Jouvet has transposed
some of his own cutting-edge research to the context
of the eighteenth century — when scientific knowl-
edge was more limited, but the joy of scientific study
was more widespread. La Scève’s experiments are a
testament to the power of scientific observation. The
tale that Jouvet discovered buried in the old chest
could have been true.
Michel Jouvet, a pioneer in sleep research, is Emeritus
Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of
Lyon, France. He is a member of the French Academy of
Sciences and holds the Gold Medal of the CNRS (Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique). He is the author
of The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming (MIT Press).
Laurence Garey has worked in brain research throughout his
career, at Oxford, the University of California, Berkeley, the
University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and other institutions.
He is the translator of The Paradox of Sleep and other books.

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essays/literature/gender studies
Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James
Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall
Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley,
Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth,
Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth
and the intimate relationship
between emotional damage
and great literature.
September
4 1/2 x 7, 224 pp.
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
978-0-262-07303-5
A Boston Review Book
PRAISE FOR THE
SOLITUDE OF THE SELF
“I love writers who treat thinking
as a dynamic process. Ms. Gornick
does — here and in all her books.
Imagine a photographer of the
psyche. She studies her subject from
all angles. Whether in close-up
or on a landscape crowded
with political and religious
movements, she explores the
public and private selves . . . .
What a potent book this is!”
— Margo Jefferson,
New York Times
Also available in this series
GOD AND THE WELFARE STATE
Lew Daly
2006, 978-0-262-04236-9
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
THE END OF THE WILD
Stephen M. Meyer
2006, 978-0-262-13473-6
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
MAKING AID WORK
Abhijit Banerjee
2007, 978-0-262-02615-4
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
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THE MEN IN MY LIFE
Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage
in her last collection of essays, The End of the Novel of Love, a National Book
Critics Circle Award finalist. In this new collection, she turns her attention to
another large theme in literature: the struggle for the semblance of inner freedom. Great
literature, she believes, is not the record of the achievement but of the effort.
Gornick, who emerged as a major writer during the second-wave feminist
movement, came to realize that “ideology alone could not purge one of the
pathological self-doubt that seemed every woman’s bitter birthright.” Or, as
Anton Chekhov put it so memorably: “Others made me a slave, but I must
squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.” Perhaps surprisingly, Gornick
found particular inspiration for this challenge in the work of male writers —
talented, but locked in perpetual rage, self-doubt, or social exile. From these
men — who had infinitely more permission to do and be than women had
ever known — she learned what it really meant to wrestle with demons.
In the essays collected here, she explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, James
Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen
Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth. Throughout the
book, Gornick is at her best: interpreting the intimate interrelationship of
emotional damage, social history, and great literature.
Vivian Gornick is the author of many books, including Fierce Attachments: A Memoir,
The Romance of American Communism, The End of the Novel of Love, The Situation and the
Story, and, most recently, The Solitude of the Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
PRAISE FOR THE END
OF THE NOVEL OF LOVE
“[Gornick] is fearless. . . . Reading
her essays, one is reassured that the
conversation between life and lit-
erature is mutually sustaining as
well as mutually corrective.”
— Elizabeth Frank,
New York Times Book Review
“Reading [Gornick] is a thrilling,
invigorating, challenging
experience.”
— Barbara Fisher,
Boston Sunday Globe
“Vivian Gornick’s prose is so
penetrating that reading it can
be almost painful. . . . [This book]
stands out as a model of luminous
clarity.”
— Susie Linfield,
Los Angeles Times
 current affairs/political science

RACE, INCARCERATION, AND AMERICAN VALUES

Glenn C. Loury
with Pamela Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Loic Wacquant
Why stigmatizing and
The United States, home to five percent of the worlds’ population, now houses confining a large segment
twenty-five percent of the world’s prison inmates. Our incarceration rate — at of our population should be
714 per 100,000 residents and rising — is almost forty percent greater than our unacceptable to all Americans.
nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is
6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan. September
Economist Glenn Loury argues that this extraordinary mass incarceration is 4 1/2 x 7, 144 pp.
not a response to rising crime rates or a proud success of social policy. Instead, it $14.95T/£9.95 cloth
is the product of a generation-old collective decision to become a more punitive 978-0-262-12311-2
0-262-12311-8
society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that
A Boston Review Book
the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil
rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of
racial hierarchies. Also available in this series
Whatever the explanation, Loury argues, the uncontroversial fact is that THE STORY OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
changes in our criminal justice system since the 1970s have created a nether Colin Dayan
class of Americans — vastly disproportionately black and brown — with 2007, 978-0-262-04239-0
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
severely restricted rights and life chances. Moreover, conservatives and liberals
MOVIES AND THE MORAL
agree that the growth in our prison population has long passed the point of
ADVENTURE OF LIFE
diminishing returns. Stigmatizing and confining such a large segment of our Alan A. Stone
population should be unacceptable to Americans. Loury’s call to action makes 2007, 978-0-262-19567-6
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
all of us now responsible for ensuring that the policy changes.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT
Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department CLIMATE CHANGE
of Economics at Brown University. A 2002 Carnegie Scholar, he is the author of
Kerry Emanuel
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality.
2007, 978-0-262-05089-0
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth
PRAISE FOR THE ANATOMY WHY NUCLEAR
OF RACIAL INEQUALITY DISARMAMENT MATTERS
Hans Blix
“Intellectually rigorous and deeply 2008, 978-0-262-02644-4
thoughtful. . . . The Anatomy of Racial $14.95T/£9.95 cloth
Inequality is an incisive, erudite book THE ROAD TO
by a major thinker.” DEMOCRACY IN IRAN
— Gerald Early, Akbar Ganji
2008, 978-0-262-07295-3
New York Times Book Review $14.95T/£9.95 cloth

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current affairs/science/environment

GLOBAL CATASTROPHES AND TRENDS

The Next Fifty Years
Vaclav Smil
A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary
look at global changes that may Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a “fatal discontinuity,”
occur over the next fifty years — a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent,
whether sudden and cataclysmic gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars,
world-changing events or gradually
unfolding trends. and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental, economic,
and political shifts that unfold over time. In this provocative book, scientist
Vaclav Smil takes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at the catastrophes and
September
7 x 9, 320 pp. trends the next fifty years may bring. This is not a book of forecasts or scenarios
74 illus. but one that reminds us to pay attention
$29.95T/£19.95 cloth to, and plan for the consequences of,
978-0-262-19586-7 apparently unpredictable events and the
ultimate direction of long-term trends.
Smil first looks at rare but
Also available
cataclysmic events, both natural
ENERGY IN NATURE
AND SOCIETY and human-produced, then at trends
General Energetics of global importance: the transition
of Complex Systems from fossil fuels to other energy
Vaclav Smil
2008, 978-0-262-69356-1 sources; demographic and political
$32.00S/£20.95 paper shifts in Europe, Japan, Russia,
ENERGY AT THE China, the United States, and the
CROSSROADS Muslim world; the battle for global
Global Perspectives primacy; and growing economic and
and Uncertainties
Vaclav Smil social inequality. He also considers
2005, 978-0-262-69324-0 environmental change — in some
$18.95T/£12.95 paper ways an amalgam of sudden disconti-
THE EARTH’S BIOSPHERE nuities and gradual change — and
Evolution, Dynamics, assesses the often misunderstood
and Change
Vaclav Smil complexities of global warming.
2002, 978-0-262-69298-4 Global Catastrophes and Trends does not come down on the side of either
$22.00T/£14.95 paper doom-and-gloom scenarios or techno-euphoria. Instead, relying on long-term
ENERGIES historical perspectives and a distaste for the rigid compartmentalization of
An Illustrated Guide to the
Biosphere and Civilization
knowledge, Smil argues that understanding change will help us reverse negative
Vaclav Smil trends and minimize the risk of catastrophe.
2000, 978-0-262-69235-9
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba and the author
$20.95S/£13.95 paper
of many books, including Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex
Systems, Energy at the Crossroads, The Earth’s Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change,
Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization, all of which are published
by The MIT Press. He was awarded the 2007 Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Award for
excellence in writing and editing in the population sciences.

“In a world awash with alarmist commentators and vested interests, Vaclav Smil’s
Global Catastrophes and Trends is a timely antidote. . . . This is not a book for peo-
ple who have made their minds up in the absence of evidence. It is essential reading for
those interested in informing themselves about risks and trends that could derail our
settled expectations and concerned to ensure that the responses they advocate are of
sensible proportions.”
— Simon Upton, Chairman, Round Table on Sustainable Development,
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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 environment/political science

THE SHADOWS OF CONSUMPTION

Consequences for the Global Environment
Peter Dauvergne
An environmentalist maps the
The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth’s hidden costs of overconsumption
ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising in a globalized world by tracing
consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and the environmental consequences
of five commodities.
pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and economic
processes displace the real costs of consumer goods into distant ecosystems,
communities, and timelines, tipping into crisis people and places without the October
6 x 9, 328 pp.
power to resist.
$24.95T/£16.95 cloth
In The Shadows of Consumption, Dauvergne maps the costs of consumption
978-0-262-04246-8
that remain hidden in the shadows cast by globalized corporations, trade,
and finance. He traces the environmental consequences of five commodities:
automobiles, gasoline, refrigerators, beef, and harp seals. In these fascinating Also available
histories we learn, for example, that American officials ignored warnings PATHS TO A GREEN WORLD
about the dangers of lead in gasoline in the 1920s; why China is now a leading The Political Economy of
the Global Environment
producer of CFC-free refrigerators; and how activists were able to stop Canada’s Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne
commercial seal hunt in the 1980s but are unable to do so now. 2005, 978-0-262-53271-6
Dauvergne’s innovative analysis allows us to see why so many efforts to $26.00S/£16.95 paper

manage the global environment are failing even as environmentalism is slowly SHADOWS IN THE FOREST
strengthening. He proposes a guiding principle of “balanced consumption” for Japan and the Politics of
Timber in Southeast Asia
both consumers and corporations. We know that we can make things better Peter Dauvergne
by driving a fuel-efficient car, eating 1997, 978-0-262-54087-2
locally grown food, and buying $28.00S/£18.95 paper

energy-efficient appliances; but these

improvements are incremental, local,
and insufficient. More crucial than
our individual efforts to reuse and
recycle will be reforms in the global
political economy to reduce the
inequalities of consumption and
correct the imbalance between grow-
ing economies and environmental
sustainability.
Peter Dauvergne is Professor of Political
Science, Canada Research Chair in Global
Environmental Politics, and Associate
Dean of Arts at the University of British
Columbia. He is the author of the award-
winning Shadows in the Forest: Japan
and the Politics of Timber in Southeast
Asia (MIT Press) and the coauthor
(with Jennifer Clapp) of Paths to a
Green World: The Political Economy of
the Global Environment (MIT Press).

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food/environment
The complete story of what we
don’t know, and what we should
know, about American food
production and its effect on
health and the environment.
October
7 x 9, 384 pp.
25 illus.
$29.95T/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-02652-9
Also available
AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENTAL
REPORT CARD
Are We Making the Grade?
Harvey Blatt
2006, 978-0-262-52467-4
$13.95T/£8.95
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AMERICA’S FOOD
What You Don’t Know About What You Eat
Harvey Blatt
We don’t think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen
to fill our supermarket’s produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and
its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don’t realize that
the meat in one fast-food hamburger may come from a thousand different cattle
raised in five different countries. In fact, most of us have a fairly abstract under-
standing of what happens on a farm. In America’s Food, Harvey Blatt gives us the
specifics. He tells us, for example, that a third of the fruits and vegetables grown
are discarded for purely aesthetic reasons; that the artificial fertilizers used to
enrich our depleted soil contain poisonous heavy metals; that chickens who
stand all day on wire in cages choose feed with pain-killing drugs over feed
without them; and that the average American eats his or her body weight in
food additives each year.
Blatt also asks us to think about the consequences of eating food so far
removed from agriculture; why unhealthy food is cheap; why there is an
International Federation of Competitive Eating; what we don’t want to know
about how animals raised for meat live, die, and are butchered; whether people
are even designed to be carnivorous; and why there is hunger when food pro-
duction has increased so dramatically. America’s Food describes the production
of all types of food in the United States and the environmental and health
problems associated with each.
After taking us on a tour of the American food system — not only the basic
food groups but soil, grain farming, organic
food, genetically modified food, food pro-
cessing, and diet — Blatt reminds us that
we aren’t powerless. Once we know the
facts about food in America, we can
change things by the choices we make
as consumers, as voters, and as ethical
human beings.
Harvey Blatt is the author of America’s
Environmental Report Card: Are We Making
the Grade? (MIT Press). He taught geology at
the University of Houston and the University
of Oklahoma for many years and is now Professor
of Geology at the Institute of Earth Sciences at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 urban studies/environment

NEW YORK FOR SALE

Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate
Tom Angotti
How community-based planning
foreword by Peter Marcuse
has challenged the powerful real
Remarkably, grassroots-based community planning flourishes in New York City estate industry in New York City.
— the self-proclaimed “real estate capital of the world” — with at least seventy
community plans for different neighborhoods throughout the city. Most of these November
were developed during fierce struggles against gentrification, displacement, and 6 x 9, 304 pp.
environmental hazards, and most got little or no support from government. In 17 illus.

fact, community-based plans in New York far outnumber the land use plans $24.95T/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-01247-8
produced by government agencies.
In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community Urban and Industrial Environments
series
planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and
began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban
renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmental hazards.
Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant in New York community
planning, focuses on the close relationships among community planning, political
strategy, and control over land. After describing the political economy of New
York City real estate, its close ties to global financial capital, and the roots
of community planning in social movements and community organizing,
Angotti turns to specifics. He tells of two pioneering plans forged in reaction to
urban renewal plans (including the first community plan in the city, the 1961
Cooper Square Alternate Plan — a response to a
Robert Moses urban renewal scheme); struggles
for environmental justice, including battles over
incinerators, sludge, and garbage; plans officially
adopted by the city; and plans dominated by
powerful real estate interests. Finally, Angotti
proposes strategies for progressive, inclusive
community planning not only for New York City
but for anywhere that neighborhoods want to
protect themselves and their land. New York for
Sale teaches the empowering lesson that community
plans can challenge market-driven development even
in global cities with powerful real estate industries.
Tom Angotti is Director of the Hunter College Center for
Community Planning and Development and Professor of
Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, City University
of New York. He is the author of Metropolis 2000: Planning,
Poverty, and Politics, the coeditor of Progressive Planning
Magazine, and a columnist for the online journal Gotham
Gazette.

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nature/travel
An exploration of the most
biologically diverse country on
the planet, with more than 200
stunning color photographs.
November
9 x 11 1/2, 176 pp.
250 color illus., 35 maps
$29.95T
978-0-262-08383-6
For sale in North America, Central
America (except Costa Rica), and
South America only
Also available
ORANGUTANS
Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
Junaidi Payne and Cede Prudente
2008, 978-0-262-16253-1
$29.95T cloth
WILD BORNEO
The Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah,
Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan
Nick Garbutt and J. Cede Prudente
2006, 978-0-262-07274-8
$34.95T cloth
WILD CHINA
John MacKinnon
photographs by Nigel Hicks
1996, 978-0-262-13329-6
$39.95T cloth
WILD THAILAND
Belinda Stewart-Cox
photographs by Gerald Cubitt
1995, 978-0-262-19364-1
$41.95T cloth
WILD INDIA
The Wildlife and Scenery
of India and Nepal
Guy Mountfort
photographs by Gerald Cubitt
1991, 978-0-262-13276-3
$41.95T cloth
WILD MALAYSIA
The Wildlife and Scenery of
Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak,
and Sabah
Junaidi Payne
photographs by Gerald Cubitt
1991, 978-0-262-16078-0
$41.95T cloth
All for sale in North America only
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WILD COSTA RICA
The Wildlife and Landscapes of Costa Rica
Adrian Hepworth
The small Central American country of Costa Rica — less than one-eighth
the size of California — boasts the highest density of plant and animal species
in the world. Its wild and rugged landscapes include dense rainforests where
jaguars roam, a volcano that spews rivers of molten lava, and beaches as
unspoiled as they were when Christopher Columbus first anchored his ships
off the Caribbean coast in 1502. Costa Rica’s rich biodiversity is the result of
a hugely varied topography that creates a wide range of natural habitats, and of
the presence of animals and plants native to both North and South America.
In Wild Costa Rica, photographer Adrian Hepworth explores the natural
riches of Costa Rica, providing engaging reports from the field and more
than 200 stunning color photographs.
We learn about Costa Rica’s rainforest, cloudforest, and paramo (high,
treeless plain); the abundance of plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,
and insects these habitats support; and the country’s network of protected
areas — a system of parks, reserves, and refuges that makes up over twenty
percent of Costa Rica’s land. These areas — including such flagship wildlife-
watching locations as Monteverde, Volcan Irazu, and Tapanti — attract
more than a million visitors every year. The money generated by responsible
eco-tourism is central to the survival of Costa Rica’s wild places.
Hepworth’s photographs
show us breathtaking vistas —
including the view of both
Pacific and Atlantic oceans
from Mount Chirripó, Costa
Rica’s highest peak — and
introduce us to distinctive
native wildlife, including the
scarlet macaw, the resplendent
quetzal, the three-toed sloth,
and spider and howler mon-
keys. Wild Costa Rica gives us
a fascinating picture of the
most biologically diverse
country in the world.
Adrian Hepworth is a wildlife
photographer based in San José,
Costa Rica. In 2002, he was a
winner in the prestigious BBC
Wildlife Photographer of the
Year Competition.
 economics

THREE LECTURES ON POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

Daniel Cohen
translated by William McCuaig
A noted economist analyzes the
In this pithy and provocative book, noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his upheavals caused by revolutions in
analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak technology, labor, culture, financial
of industrial society, Cohen writes, it is more difficult to speak meaningfully of markets, and globalization.
post-industrial “society.” The solidarity that once lay at the heart of industrial
society no longer exists. The different levels of large industrial enterprises have November
been systematically disassembled: tasks considered nonessential are assigned to 5 3/8 x 8, 120 pp.
subcontractors; engineers are grouped together in research sites, apart from the $18.95T/£12.95 cloth
workers. Employees are left exposed while shareholders act to protect themselves. 978-0-262-03383-1

Never has the awareness that we all live in the same world been so strong — and
never have the social conditions of existence been so unequal. Also available
In these wide-ranging reflections, Cohen describes the transformations that GLOBALIZATION AND ITS ENEMIES
signaled the break between the industrial and the post-industrial eras. He links Daniel Cohen
the revolution in information technology to the trend toward flatter hierarchies 2007, 978-0-262-53297-6
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
of workers with multiple skills — and connects the latter to work practices
growing out of the culture of the May 1968 protests. Subcontracting and out- OUR MODERN TIMES
The New Nature of Capitalism
sourcing have also changed the nature of work, and Cohen succinctly analyzes in the Information Age
the new international division of labor, the economic rise of China, India, and Daniel Cohen
the former Soviet Union, and the economic effects of free trade on poor coun- 2004, 978-0-262-53263-1
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
tries. Finally, Cohen examines the fate of the European social model — with its
THE WEALTH OF THE
traditional compromise between social justice and economic productivity — in
WORLD AND THE
a post-industrial world. POVERTY OF NATIONS
Daniel Cohen
Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics
1998, 978-0-262-03253-7
at the École Normale Supérieure and the
Université de Paris-I and a member of $37.00S/£23.95 cloth
the Council of Economic Analysis of the
French Prime Minister. He is a frequent
contributor to Le Monde and the author
of The Wealth of the World and the Poverty
of Nations, Our Modern Times: The New
Nature of Capitalism in the Information
Age, and Globalization and Its Enemies,
all published by The MIT Press.

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film/philosophy
Mythic themes and philosophical
probing in film, as seen in works
of Preston Sturges, Jean Cocteau,
Stanley Kubrick, and various
other filmmakers.
November
6 x 9, 256 pp.
$24.95T/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-19589-8
Also available
INGMAR BERGMAN,
CINEMATIC PHILOSOPHER
Reflections on His Creativity
Irving Singer
2007, 978-0-262-19563-8
$24.95T/£14.95 cloth
THREE PHILOSOPHICAL FILMMAKERS
Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir
Irving Singer
2006, 978-0-262-69328-8
$16.95T/£10.95 paper
REALITY TRANSFORMED
Film as Meaning
and Technique
Irving Singer
2000, 978-0-262-69248-9
$18.95S/£12.95 paper
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CINEMATIC MYTHMAKING
Philosophy in Film
Irving Singer
Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythol-
ogy are both larger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world,
and they tell us a good story. Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and
intimate. Cinematic techniques — panning, tracking, zooming, and the other
tools in the filmmaker’s toolbox — create a world that is unlike reality and yet
realistic at the same time. We are passive spectators, but we also have a personal
relationship with the images we are seeing. In Cinematic Mythmaking, Irving
Singer explores the hidden and overt use of myth in various films and, in general,
the philosophical elements of a film’s meaning. Mythological themes, Singer
writes, perform a crucial role in cinematic art and even philosophy itself.
Singer incisively disentangles the strands of different myths in the films he
discusses. He finds in Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve that Barbara Stanwyck’s
character is not just the biblical Eve but a liberated woman of our times; Eliza
Doolittle in the filmed versions of Shaw’s Pygmalion is not just a statue brought
to life but instead a heroic woman who must survive her own dark night of the
soul. The protagonist of William Wyler’s The Heiress and Anieszka Holland’s
Washington Square is both suffering Dido and an awakened Amazon. Singer
reads Cocteau’s films — including La Belle et la Bête, Orphée, and The Testament
of Orpheus — as uniquely mythological cinematic poetry. He compares
Kubrickean and Homeric epics and
analyzes in depth the self-referential
mythmaking of Federico Fellini in
many of his movies, including 8½.
The aesthetic and probing inventive-
ness in film, Singer shows us, restores
and revives for audiences in the
twenty-first century myths of cre-
ation, of the questing hero, and of
ideals — both secular and religious —
that have had enormous significance
throughout the human search for love
and meaning in life.
Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy
at MIT. He is the author of Reality
Transformed: Film as Meaning and
Technique, Three Philosophical Filmmakers:
Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir, and Ingmar
Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher, all
published by The MIT Press, as well
as many other books.
 ZONE BOOKS
photography/political science

THE CIVIL CONTRACT OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Ariella Azoulay
In this compelling work, Ariella Azoulay reconsiders the political and ethical sta- An account of the power relations
tus of photography. Describing what she calls “the civil contract of photography,” that sustain and make possible
she gives an account of the power relations that sustain and make possible photo- photographic meanings, with
graphic meanings. Azoulay argues that anyone — even a stateless person — who special attention to photographs of
Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and
addresses others through photographs or is addressed by photographs, can become women in Western societies.
a member of the citizenry of photography. The civil contract of photography
enables anyone to pursue political agency and resistance through photography.
October
Photography, Azoulay insists, cannot be understood separately from the 6 x 9, 500 pp.
many catastrophes of recent history. The crucial arguments of her book concern 8 color illus.,
two groups with flawed or nonexistent citizenship: the Palestinian noncitizens 100 black & white illus.
of Israel and women in Western societies. Azoulay analyzes Israeli press photo- $36.95T/£23.95 cloth
graphs of violent episodes in the Occupied Territories, and interprets various 978-1-890951-88-7
photographs of women — from famous images by stop-motion photographer Distributed for Zone Books
Eadweard Muybridge to recent photographs from Abu Ghraib prison. Azoulay
asks the question: under what legal, political, or cultural conditions does it
Also available
become possible to see and to show disaster that befalls those who can claim
DEATH’S SHOWCASE
only incomplete or nonexistent citizenship? The Power of Image in
Drawing on such key texts in the history of modern citizenship as the Contemporary Democracy
Declaration of the Rights of Man together with relevant work by Giorgio Ariella Azoulay
2003, 978-0-262-51133-9
Agamben, Jean-François Lyotard, Susan Sontag, and Roland Barthes, Azoulay $22.00T/£14.95 paper
explores the visual field of catastrophe, injustice, and suffering in our time. Her
book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the disasters of recent
history — and the consequences of how these events and their victims have Also available from
Zone Books
been represented.
PROFANATIONS
Ariella Azoulay teaches visual culture and Giorgio Agamben
contemporary philosophy at the Program 2007, 978-1-890951-82-5
for Culture and Interpretation, Bar Ilan $25.95T/£16.95 cloth
University. She is the author of Once
Upon A Time: Photography Following
Walter Benjamin and Death’s Showcase:
The Power of Image in Contemporary
Democracy (MIT Press).

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ZONE BOOKS/NOW IN PAPER
cultural studies/art history
Understanding late medieval
pictorial representations
of violence.
October
6 x 9, 199 pp.
27 illus.
$22.95T/£14.95 paper
978-1-890951-38-2
Distributed for Zone Books
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Also available from Zone Books
WHO ARE YOU?
Identification, Deception,
and Surveillance in
Early Modern Europe
Valentin Groebner
2007, 978-1-890951-72-6
$30.00T/£18.95 cloth
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DEFACED
The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
Valentin Groebner
translated by Pamela Selwyn
Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, invisible enemies: violence and
anonymity go hand in hand. The visual representation of extreme physical
violence makes real people nameless exemplars of horror — formless, hideous,
defaced. In Defaced, Valentin Groebner explores the roots of the visual culture
of violence in medieval and Renaissance Europe and shows how contemporary
visual culture has been shaped by late medieval images and narratives of violence.
For late medieval audiences, as with modern media consumers, horror lies less
in the “indescribable” and “alien” than in the familiar and commonplace.
From the fourteenth century onward, pictorial representations became
increasingly violent, whether in depictions of the Passion, or in vivid and
precise images of torture, execution, and war. But not every spectator witnessed
the same thing when confronted with terrifying images of a crucified man,
misshapen faces, allegedly bloodthirsty conspirators on nocturnal streets, or bar-
barian fiends on distant battlefields. The profusion of violent imagery provoked
a question: how to distinguish the illegitimate violence that threatened and
reversed the social order from the proper, “just,” and sanctioned use of force.
Groebner constructs a persuasive answer by investigating how uncannily
familiar medieval dystopias were constructed and deconstructed. Showing
how extreme violence threatens to disorient, and how the effect of horror
resides in the depiction of minute details, Groebner offers an original model
for understanding how descriptions of atrocities and of outrageous cruelty
depended, in medieval times, on the variation of familiar narrative motifs.
Valentin Groebner is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance
History at the University of Lucerne. He is the author of
Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance
in Early Modern Europe (Zone Books).
“A shocking study that demystifies the significance of suf-
fering in late medieval society by placing representations
of penitence and the Passion on a par with the political
uses of brutality against the body. Iconoclastic, yet
humane, Groebner’s compelling essays uncover the full
spectrum of acts and images that, no matter how grisly
or grotesque, formed part of a semiotics of savagery that
continues to inform representations of law and order and
the practice of compulsion and constraint well into the
modern era.”
— Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University, author
of The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female
Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (Zone Books)
 ZONE BOOKS/NOW IN PAPER
anthropology/gender studies

A SOCIETY WITHOUT FATHERS OR HUSBANDS

The Na of China
Cai Hua
A fascinating account of
translated by Asti Hustvedt
the Na society, which functions
The Na of China, farmers in the Himalayan region, live without the institution without the institution
of marriage. Na brothers and sisters live together their entire lives, sharing of marriage.

household responsibilities and raising the women’s children. Because the Na,
like all cultures, prohibit incest, they practice a system of sometimes furtive, September
sometimes conspicuous nighttime encounters at the woman’s home. The 6 x 9, 505 pp.

woman’s partners — she frequently has more than one — bear no economic $25.95/£16.95 paper
978-1-890951-13-9
responsibility for her or her children, and “fathers,” unless they resemble their
children, remain unidentifiable.
cloth 2001
This lucid ethnographic study shows how a society can function without 978-1-890951-12-2
husbands or fathers. It sheds light on marriage and kinship, as well as on the
position of women, the necessary conditions for the acquisition of identity, and
the impact of a communist state on a society that it considers backward.
Cai Hua is Director of the Center for Anthropologic and Folkloric Studies at Peking
University.

“Dr. Cai Hua has done Western anthropology

a great service by making it acquainted with
one of those few societies in Asia (and Africa
as well) who deny or belittle the roles of father
and husband in their social system. Thanks
to him the Na now have their place in the
anthropological literature.”
— Claude Lévi-Strauss
“Dr. Cai Hua’s revelatory work is replete
with invaluable ethnographic findings and
humane value.”
— Rodney Needham, Oxford University

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cultural studies
Letters by writer, filmmaker,
and cultural revolutionary
Guy Debord conjure a vivid
picture of the dynamic first
years of the Situationist
International movement.
November
6 x 9, 360 pp.
$19.95T/£12.95 paper
978-1-58435-055-2
$55.00S/£35.95 cloth
978-1-58435-063-7
Foreign Agents series
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THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
Guy Debord
1995, 978-0-942299-79-3
$16.95T/£10.95 paper
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GUY DEBORD AND THE
SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL
Texts and Documents
edited by Tom McDonough
2004, 978-0-262-63300-0
$27.95T/£18.95
paper
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CORRESPONDENCE
The Foundation of the Situationist International
(June 1957–August 1960)
Guy Debord
translated by Stuart Kendall
introduction by MacKenzie Wark
Yesterday, the police interrogated me at length about the
journal and other Situationist organizations. It was only
a beginning. This is, I think, one of the principal threats
that came up quickly during the discussion: the police
want to consider the S.I. as an association to bring about
the destruction of France.
— from Correspondence
This volume traces the dynamic first years of the Situationist International
movement — a cultural avant-garde that continues to inspire new generations
of artists, theorists, and writers more than half a century later. Debord’s
letters — published here for the first time in English — provide a fascinating
insider’s view of just how this seemingly disorganized group drifting around a
newly consumerized Paris became one of the most defining cultural movements
of the twentieth century. Circumstances, personalities, and ambitions all come
into play as the group develops its strategy of anarchic, conceptual, but highly
political “intervention.”
Brilliantly conceived, this collection of letters offers the best available
introduction to the Situationist International movement by detailing, through
original documents, how the group formed and defined its cultural mission: to
bring about, “by any means possible, even artistic,” a complete transformation
of personal life within the Society of
the Spectacle.
Writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary,
Guy Debord (1931–1994) was a founding
member of the Lettrist International and
Situationist International groups. His films
and books, including Society of the Spectacle
(1967), were major catalysts for philosophical
and political changes in the twentieth century,
and helped trigger the May 1968 rebellion
in France.
 cultural studies/fiction

ALL THE KING’S HORSES

Michèle Bernstein
translated and with an introduction by John Kelsey
afterword by Odile Passot A Situationist International
roman à clef, written by
“What do you do, exactly? I have no idea.” Guy Debord’s first wife, a founder
“I reify,” he answered. of the movement and one of
its influential thinkers.
“It’s a serious job,” I added.
“Yes, it is,” he said.
“I see,” Carol observed with admiration. “Serious work, October
6 x 9, 128 pp.
with big books and a big table cluttered with papers.”
“No,” said Gilles. “I walk. Mostly I walk.” $14.95T/£9.95 paper
978-1-58435-065-1
— from All the King’s Horses
Distributed for Semiotext(e)
Native Agents series
Michèle Bernstein’s novel, All the King’s Horses (1960), is one of the odder
and more elusive, entertaining, and revealing documents of the Situationist
International. At the instigation of her first husband, Guy Debord, Bernstein Also available from Semiotext(e)
agreed to write a potboiler to help swell the Situationist International’s coffers. REENA SPAULINGS
When she objected to the idea of practicing a “dead art,” Debord suggested The Bernadette Corporation
2005, 978-1-58435-030-9
that it would be instead détournement — the Situationist reuse of media toward
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
different, subversive, ends.
Inspired by the pseudo-scandalous
success of Roger Vadim’s filmed version
of Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons
dangereuses and the adolescent Françoise
Sagan’s bestselling novel Bonjour tristesse,
Bernstein lampooned and borrowed from
both Sagan and de Laclos, concocting
a roman à clef that succeeded on several
levels. A moneymaker for the most radical
front of the French avant-garde, the novel
(by its very success) demonstrated the
bankruptcy of contemporary French
letters and the Situationist contempt for
the psychological novel, while (perhaps
unintentionally) holding up a playful
mirror to the private lives of two of the
Situationist International’s most important
members. All the King’s Horses is a slippery
rewrite of Dangerous Liaisons with Debord
playing the role of cold libertine, Bernstein
as his cohort, and disguised walk-on roles
by the likes of the painter Asger Jorn and
others.
Though Greil Marcus sparked interest in this novel in his 1989 book Lipstick
Traces, All the King’s Horses remained unavailable until its 2004 republication
in France. This Semiotext(e) edition is its first translation into English.
Michèle Bernstein was a founding member of the Situationist International with her first
husband, Guy Debord. After the end of the SI, she became a literary critic for the French
left-wing magazine Libération. Artist, critic, and gallerist John Kelsey cofounded the artists’
collective The Bernadette Corporation, author of the novel Reena Spaulings (Semiotext(e)).

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cultural studies/economics
A major theorist in the Italian
postfordist movement offers
a radical new understanding
of the current international
economic situation.
September
6 x 9, 180 pp.
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
978-1-58435-067-5
Distributed for Semiotext(e)
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AUTONOMIA
edited by Sylvère Lotringer
and Christian Marazzi
2007, 978-1-58435-053-8
$24.95T/£16.95 cloth
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CAPITAL AND LANGUAGE
From the New Economy to the War Economy
Christian Marazzi
introduction by Michael Hardt
translated by Gregory Conti
The Swiss-Italian economist Christian Marazzi is one of the core theorists of the
Italian postfordist movement, along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, and Bifo
(Franco Berardi). But although his work is often cited by scholars (particularly
by those in the field of “Cognitive Capitalism”), his writing has never appeared
in English. This translation of his most recent work, Capital and Language
(published in Italian in 2002), finally makes Marazzi’s work available to an
English-speaking audience.
Capital and Language takes as its starting point the fact that the extreme
volatility of financial markets is generally attributed to the discrepancy between
the “real economy” (that of material goods produced and sold) and the more
speculative monetary-financial economy. But this distinction has long ceased to
apply in the postfordist New Economy, in which both spheres are structurally
affected by language and communication. In Capital and Language Marazzi
argues that the changes in financial markets and the transformation of labor
into immaterial labor (that is, its reliance on abstract knowledge, general
intellect, and social cooperation) are just two sides of the same coin.
Capital and Language focuses on the causes behind the international economic
and financial depression of 2001, and on the primary instrument that the U.S.
government has since been using to face
them: war. Marazzi points to capitalism’s
fourth stage (after mercantilism, industrial-
ism, and the postfordist culmination of
the New Economy): the “War Economy”
that is already upon us.
Marazzi offers a radical new under-
standing of the current international
economic stage and crucial post-Marxist
guidance for confronting capitalism in its
newest form. Capital and Language also
provides a warning call to a Left still
nostalgic for a Fordist construct — a
time before factory turned into office
(and office into home), and before
labor became linguistic.
Christian Marazzi is the coeditor (with Sylvère
Lotringer) of Autonomia: Post-Political Politics
(published by Semiotext(e) in a new edition in
2007), and the author of The Place for Socks,
forthcoming from Semiotext(e).
 art criticism/poetry criticism

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ICELAND

Travel Essays on Art
Eileen Myles
A poet and post-punk heroine
Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, writes on subjects ranging from
and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire’s Björk to Robert Smithson, from
gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city — wandering on garbage-strewn traveling in Iceland to walking in
Thoreau’s footsteps on Cape Cod.
New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of
La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit — seeing it with a poet’s eye for
detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always October
6 x 9, 216 pp.
been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of her —
978-1-58435-066-8
and our — lives in these contemporary crowds.
Active Agents series
Framed by Myles’s account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit Distributed by Semiotext(e)
inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive culture as a
whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best model for writing and
thinking about art and culture. The essays include fresh takes on Thoreau’s Also available from Semiotext(e)
Cape Cod walk, working class speech, James Schulyer and Björk, queer Russia VIDEO GREEN
and Robert Smithson; how-tos on writing an avant-garde poem and driving a Los Angeles Art and the
Triumph of Nothingness
battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body; and opinions on such Chris Kraus
widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie Benning, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, 2004, 978-1-58435-022-4
Ted Berrigan’s Sonnets, and flossing. $14.95T/£9.95 paper
THE NEW FUCK YOU
Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine “the rock star of modern poetry,” is the author
Adventures in Lesbian Reading
of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry,
edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz
Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e)), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e)).
Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 1995, 978-1-57027-057-4
to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most $13.95T/£8.95 paper
recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation. NOT ME
Eileen Myles
1991, 978-0-936756-67-7
$12.95T/£8.95 paper

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cultural studies/philosophy
Groundbreaking essays that
introduce Guattari’s theories
of “schizo-analysis,” in an
expanded edition.
September
6 x 9, 300 pp.
$17.95T/£11.95 paper
978-1-58435-060-6
Foreign Agents series
Distributed by Semiotext(e)
Also available from Semiotext(e)
MOLECULAR REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL
Félix Guattari and Suely Rolnik
2008, 978-1-58435-051-4
$17.95T/£11.95 paper
THE ANTI-OEDIPUS PAPERS
Félix Guattari
2006, 978-1-58435-031-6
$17.95T/£11.95 paper
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NEW EDITION
CHAOSOPHY
Félix Guattari
edited by Sylvère Lotringer
introduction by François Dosse
Chaosophy is an introduction to Félix Guattari’s groundbreaking theories of
“schizo-analysis”: a process meant to replace Freudian interpretation with a more
pragmatic, experimental, and collective approach rooted in reality. Unlike Freud,
who utilized neuroses as his working model, Guattari adopted the model of
schizophrenia — which he believed to be an extreme mental state induced by the
capitalist system itself, and one that enforces neurosis as a way of maintaining
normality. Guattari’s post-Marxist vision of capitalism provides a new definition
not only of mental illness, but also of the micropolitical means for its subversion.
Chaosophy includes such provocative pieces as “Everybody Wants to Be a
Fascist,” a group of texts on Guattari’s collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze
(including the appendix to Anti-Oedipus, not available in the English edition),
and “How Martians Make Love,” a roundtable discussion with Guattari,
Lotringer, Catherine Clément, and Serge Leclaire from 1972 (still unpublished
in French). This new, expanded edition features a new introduction by François
Dosse (author of a new biography of Guattari and Gilles Deleuze) and a range
of additional essays, including “Franco Basaglia: Guerrilla Psychiatrist,” “The
Transference,” “Semiological Subjection, Semiotic Enslavement,” “The Place
of the Signifier in the Institution,” and “Three Billion Perverts on the Stand.”
Félix Guattari (1930–1992), post-’68 French psychoanalyst
and philosopher, is the author of Anti-Oedipus (with
Gilles Deleuze), and a number of books published by
Semiotext(e), including The Anti-Oedipus Papers and
Molecular Revolution in Brazil (with Suely Rolnik).
 NOW IN PAPER
environment/business

SOLAR REVOLUTION
The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry
Travis Bradford
An innovative analysis that shows
In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis how the shift to solar energy — in
Bradford argues — on the basis of standard business and economic forecasting particular, the use of photovoltaic
models — that over the next two decades solar energy will increasingly become cells — is both economically
advantageous and inevitable.
the best and cheapest choice for most electricity and energy applications. Solar
Revolution outlines the path by which the transition to solar technology and
sustainable energy practices will occur. October
6 x 9, 256 pp.
Developments in the photovoltaic (PV) industry over the last ten years have 21 illus.
made direct electricity generation from PV cells a cost-effective and feasible
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
energy solution, despite the common view that PV technology appeals only 978-0-262-52494-0
to a premium niche market. As the scale of PV production increases and costs
continue to decline at historic rates, demand for PV electricity will outpace cloth 2006
supply of systems for years to come. 978-0-262-02604-8

Ultimately, the shift from fossil fuels to solar energy will take place not
“Deeply researched ….hopeful.”
because solar energy is better for the environment or energy security, or because
— Bill McKibben,
of future government subsidies or as yet undeveloped technology. The solar
New York Review of Books
revolution is already occurring through decisions made by self-interested energy
users. The shift to solar energy is inevitable and will be as transformative as the
last century's revolutions in information and communication technologies.
Travis Bradford is President and Founder of the Prometheus Institute
for Sustainable Development, a nonprofit organization in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, focused on using the power of the business and
financial sectors to deploy cost-effective and sustainable technologies.

“Everyone who wants to understand the permanent energy answer

that can reverse climate change, eliminate oil shocks, and avoid future
Chernobyls should read this book. Bradford builds a compelling busi-
ness case that solar energy is the most disruptive technology in history."
— Denis Hayes, Former Director,
U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
“This is a timely and much-needed book. The solar industry is
evolving with dramatic speed, both technologically and economically.
With a business perspective and a wealth of knowledge about the
solar industry and the wider energy economy, Travis Bradford
provides an excellent account of solar energy today.”
— Dan Kammen, Professor and Founding Director
of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory,
University of California, Berkeley
“Every American who pays or knows someone who pays an electric
bill should read Solar Revolution.”
— Cecil Johnson, “Business Bookshelf,”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“ Solar Revolution is an essential read because it analyzes the transformation of
the global energy economy. The market will drive the new energy economy, and solar
is already a growing and influential player. This is a positive vision of a sensible,
practical, sustainable energy future.”
— Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico
and former U.S. Secretary of Energy 41
NOW IN PAPER
history/economics/environment
THE GREAT LEAD
WATER PIPE DISASTER
Werner Troesken
In The Great Lead Water Pipe
Disaster, Werner Troesken looks
at a long-running environmental
and public health catastrophe:
150 years of lead pipes in local
water systems and the associated
sickness, premature death, politi-
cal inaction, and social denial.
The harmful effects of lead water pipes became appar-
ent almost as soon as cities the world over began to
install them. Doctors and scientists noted cases of acute
illness and death attributable to lead in public water
beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century,
and an editorial in the New York Herald called for
the city to study the matter after a bizarre illness made
headlines in 1868. But officials took no action for
many years.
Troesken examines the health effects of lead expo-
sure, analyzing cases from New York City, Boston, and
Glasgow and many smaller towns in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, and England, documenting the
widespread nature of the problem, the recognized health
effects — particularly for pregnant women and young
children — and official intransigence. He presents an
accessible overview of the old and new science of lead
exposure and he gives us compelling and vivid accounts
of the people and politics involved. The effects of lead
in water continue to be felt; many older houses still have
lead service pipes. The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
is essential reading for understanding this past and
ongoing public health problem.
Werner Troesken is Professor of History at the University of
Pittsburgh and Faculty Research Associate at NBER. He is the
author of Water, Race, and Disease (MIT Press, 2004).
“Werner Troesken has written a fascinating detective story
of a little-known environmental disaster.”
— Dora Costa, Professor of Economics, MIT
October — 6 x 9, 328 pp. — 21 illus.
$15.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-70125-9
cloth 2006
978-0-262-20167-4
42
economics/politics
THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
Reform or Decline
Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi
Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic
and political decline is almost inevitable, economists
Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi write in this
provocative book. Without comprehensive reform, con-
tinental Western Europe’s overprotected, overregulated
economies will continue to slow — and its political
influence will become negligible. In The Future of
Europe, Alesina and Giavazzi (themselves Europeans)
outline the steps that Europe
must take to prevent its eco-
nomic and political eclipse.
Europe, the authors say,
has much to learn from the
market liberalism of America.
Europeans work less and vaca-
tion more than Americans; they
value job stability and security
above all. Americans, Alesina
and Giavazzi argue, work harder
and longer and are more willing to endure the ups and
downs of a market economy.
Alesina and Giavazzi’s prescriptions are sure to
stir controversy, as will their eye-opening view of the
European Union and the euro. But their wake-up call
will ring loud and clear for anyone concerned about
the future of Europe and the global economy.
Alberto Alesina is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political
Economics at Harvard University. He is the coauthor (with
Enrico Spolaore) of The Size of Nations (MIT Press, 2003).
Francesco Giavazzi is Professor of Economics at Bocconi
University and Visiting Professor at MIT. He is the coauthor
(with Alberto Giovannini) of Limiting Exchange Rate Flexibility:
The European Monetary System (MIT Press, 1989).
“This book could have been a diatribe, but is saved from
that by the intelligence of the authors’ arguments and policy
recommendations. A must read for those interested in the
European economy.”
— P. K. Kresl, Choice
October — 6 x 9, 200 pp. — 8 illus.
$14.95T/£9.95 paper
978-0-262-51204-6
cloth 2006
978-0-262-01232-4

economics/religion
THE MARKETPLACE OF CHRISTIANITY
Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hébert,
and Robert D. Tollison
This startlingly original (and sure
to be controversial) account of
the evolution of Christianity
shows that the economics of
religion has little to do with
counting the money in the
collection basket and much to
do with understanding the
background of today’s religious
and political divisions. The Marketplace of Christianity
applies the tools of economic theory (first providing
the reader with clear and nontechnical background
information on economics and the economics of religion)
to illuminate the emergence of Protestantism in the
sixteenth century and to examine contemporary religion-
influenced issues, including evolution and gay marriage.
The Protestant Reformation, the authors argue,
can be seen as a successful penetration of a religious
market dominated by a monopoly firm — the Catholic
Church. The Ninety-five Theses nailed to the church
door in Wittenberg by Martin Luther raised the level
of competition within Christianity to a breaking point.
The Counter-Reformation, the Catholic reaction, con-
tinued the competitive process, which came to include
“product differentiation” in the form of doctrinal and
organizational innovation. Economic theory shows us
how Christianity evolved to satisfy the changing
demands of consumers — worshippers.
Robert B. Ekelund Jr. is Professor of Economics and Edward K.
and Catherine L. Lowder Eminent Scholar Emeritus at Auburn
University. He is the coauthor (with Robert D. Tollison) of
Economics: Private Markets and Public Choice. Robert F. Hébert
is Russell Foundation Professor Emeritus at Auburn University.
Robert D. Tollison is Professor of Economics and BB&T Senior
Fellow at Clemson University. Ekelund, Tollison, and Hébert
are coauthors of Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an
Economic Firm.
“Ekelund, Hébert, and Tollison have written a lucid, cut-
ting-edge treatment of religion and economics. An accessible
book for students in a variety of disciplines and for readers
with a wide range of interests.”
— Robert Barro and Rachel McCleary,
Harvard University
October — 6 x 9, 368 pp. — 8 illus.
$15.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-55071-0
cloth 2006
978-0-262-05082-1
NOW IN PAPER
economics/history of economic thought
BY FORCE OF THOUGHT
Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey
János Kornai
János Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist,
began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and
then became a critic of the communist political and eco-
nomic system. He lost family members in the Holocaust,
contributed to the ideological preparation for the 1956
Hungarian Revolution, and became an influential theo-
rist of the post-Soviet economic transition. He has been
a journalist, a researcher prohibited from teaching in his
home country, and a tenured professor at Harvard. By
Force of Thought traces Kornai’s
lifelong intellectual journey and
offers a subjective complement
to his academic research.
Disenchanted with
communism, Kornai published
Overcentralization (1959), the first
book written by someone living
behind the Iron Curtain to be
openly critical of Soviet-style economics. Kornai went
on to publish the controversial Anti-Equilibrium (1971),
Economics of Shortage (1980), The Road to a Free Economy
(1990), and the summary of his lifetime research, The
Socialist System (1992). Kornai’s memoir describes his
research as well as the social and political environments
in which he did his work. The difficulties faced by a
critic of central planning in a communist country are
made especially vivid by material from newly opened
secret police files and informers’ reports on his activities.
János Kornai is Permanent Fellow, Emeritus, at Collegium
Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Allie S. Freed Professor
of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University, and Distinguished
Research Professor at Central European University. He is the
author of many books.
“A thoughtful account of an extraordinary life and a portrait
of a certain kind of intellectual dissent too little written about
from personal experience.”
— Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal
“The story of a love affair with ideas. This is Kornai’s real
private life, and despite his prosaic style, his memoirs convey,
as few others do, the inner world of intellectual creation.”
— Robert Skidelsky, New York Review of Books
October — 7 x 9, 488 pp. — 122 illus.
$22.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-61224-1
cloth 2007
978-0-262-11302-1
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NOW IN PAPER
art
FANTASTIC REALITY
Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art
Mignon Nixon
The art of Louise Bourgeois
stages a dynamic encounter
between modern art and psycho-
analysis, argues Mignon Nixon in
the first full-scale critical study of
the artist’s work. A pivotal figure
in twentieth-century art, Louise
Bourgeois (b. 1911, France) emi-
grated to New York in 1938 and is still actively working
and exhibiting today. From Bourgeois’s formative strug-
gle with the “father figures” of surrealism, including
André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, to her galvanizing
role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her
subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmod-
ernism, this book explores the artist’s responses to war,
dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of
the “woman artist” and the politics of sexual and social
liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis.
“Fantastic reality” is what Bourgeois calls the condi-
tion of her art. Starting from Bourgeois’s investigation,
through a multiplicity of forms and materials, of the
problem of subjectivity on the very threshold of emer-
gence, this book argues for a new psychoanalytic story
of modern art.
Mignon Nixon is Professor of Art History at the Courtauld
Institute of Art, University of London. She is the editor of
Eva Hesse (MIT Press/October Files, 2002) and coeditor of
The Duchamp Effect (MIT Press/October Books, 1996).
“In Fantastic Reality, Mignon Nixon not only illuminates
the work of this revolutionary artist but rewrites the history
of sculpture in the postwar years.”
— Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of
Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University
“Nixon has offered, in addition to a psychoanalytic inter-
pretation of Bourgeois’s abstract art, a rich repertoire of
techniques through which abstract art can be used to probe
psychoanalytic thought.”
— Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
October — 7 x 9, 352 pp. — 103 illus.
$22.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-64070-1
cloth 2005
978-0-262-14089-8
An October Book
44
new media/design
HERTZIAN TALES
Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience,
and Critical Design
Anthony Dunne
As our everyday social and cultural experiences are
increasingly mediated by electronic products — from
“intelligent” toasters to iPods — it is the design of
these products that shapes our experience of the
“electrosphere” in which we live. Designers of electronic
products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales,
must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic
role of electronic products in
everyday life. Industrial design
has the potential to enrich our
daily lives — to improve the
quality of our relationship to
the artificial environment of
technology, and even, argues
Dunne, to be subverted for
socially beneficial ends.
The cultural speculations and conceptual design pro-
posals in Hertzian Tales are not utopian visions or blue-
prints; instead, they embody a critique of present-day
practices, “mixing criticism with optimism.” Six essays
explore design approaches for developing the aesthetic
potential of electronic products outside a commercial
context — considering such topics as the post-optimal
object and the aesthetics of user-unfriendliness — and
five proposals offer commentary in the form of objects,
videos, and images. These include Electroclimates, ani-
mations on an LCD screen that register changes in
radio frequency; When Objects Dream . . ., consumer
products that “dream” in electromagnetic waves; and
Tuneable Cities, which uses the car as it drives through
overlapping radio environments as an interface of
hertzian and physical space.
Anthony Dunne is Professor and Head of Interaction Design at
the Royal College of Art in London. He is also a partner in the
design practice Dunne & Raby, London.
“A worthwhile challenge to the market subservience that
dominates industrial design, indicating some of the ways
of turning design towards more speculative, critical
possibilities.”
— Design Philosophy Papers
October — 7 x 9, 192 pp. — 96 illus.
$15.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-54199-2
cloth 2006
978-0-262-04232-1

new media/film studies
DIGITAL STORYTELLING
The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film
Shilo T. McClean
Computer-generated effects are
often blamed for bad Hollywood
movies. Yet when a critic com-
plains that “technology swamps
storytelling” (in a review of Van
Helsing, calling it “an example
of everything that is wrong with
Hollywood computer-generated
effects movies”), it says more about the weakness of the
story than the strength of the technology. In Digital
Storytelling, Shilo McClean shows how digital visual
effects can be a tool of storytelling in film, adding
narrative power as do sound, color, and “experimental”
camera angles — other innovative film technologies
that were once criticized for being distractions from
the story. It is time, she says, to rethink the function
of digital visual effects.
Effects artists say — contrary to the critics — that
effects always derive from story. Digital effects are
a part of production, not postproduction; they are
becoming part of the story development process.
Digital Storytelling is grounded in filmmaking, the
scriptwriting process in particular. McClean considers
crucial questions about digital visual effects and looks
at contemporary films (including a chapter-long
analysis of Steven Spielberg’s use of computer gener-
ated effects) and contemporary film theory to find the
answers. McClean argues that to consider digital visual
effects as simply contributing to the “wow” factor
underestimates them. They are, she writes, the
legitimate inheritors of film storycraft.
Shilo T. McClean is a consultant in storybuilding and digital
visual effects. She has worked as a writer, producer, director,
and script editor.
“Smart, compelling, and incisive, Digital Storytelling is
an essential text that will change the debate over the place
of digital effects in contemporary film.”
— Stephen Prince, Professor of
Communication, Virginia Tech
October — 7 x 9, 320 pp. — 19 illus.
$21.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-63369-7
cloth 2007
978-0-262-13465-1
NOW IN PAPER
new media/technology
CONTROL AND FREEDOM
Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control,
been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom
increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control?
In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
explores the current political and technological coupling
of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the
Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid)
myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she
says, stem from our reduction of
political problems into techno-
logical ones.
Chun argues that the rela-
tionship between control and
freedom in networked contact
is experienced and negotiated
through sexuality and race,
describing, among other phe-
nomena, the cyberporn panic of the 1990s and the
conflation by Internet promoters of technological
empowerment with racial empowerment. The Internet’s
potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises
of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather
from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to
other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber
optic networks — light coursing through glass tubes —
as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages
the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for
knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in
order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically
instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
See also http://www.controlandfreedom.net.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Associate Professor of Modern
Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both
Systems Design Engineering and English Literature.
“Wendy Chun’s important new book explores one of the
salient questions raised by networked computing: the para-
dox of furthering the directly opposed aims of surveillance
and democracy,.”
— Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine
October — 7 x 9, 368 pp. — 62 illus.
$18.95T/£12.95 paper
978-0-262-53306-5
cloth 2006
978-0-262-03332-9
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NOW IN PAPER
new media/history of technology
THE INTERNET IMAGINAIRE
Patrice Flichy
In The Internet Imaginaire, sociol-
ogist Patrice Flichy examines the
collective vision that shaped the
emergence of the Internet —
the social imagination that envi-
sioned a technological utopia in
the birth of a new technology. By
examining in detail the discourses
surrounding the development of
the Internet in the United States in the 1990s (and
considering them an integral part of that development),
Flichy shows how an entire society began a new tech-
nological era. The metaphorical “information super-
highway” became a technical utopia that informed a
technological program. The Internet imaginaire, Flichy
argues, led software designers, businesses, politicians,
and individuals to adopt this one technology instead
of another.
Flichy draws on writings by experts — paying
particular attention to the gurus of Wired magazine,
but also citing articles in Time, Newsweek, and Business
Week — from 1991 to 1995. He describes two main
domains of the technical imaginaire: the utopias
(and ideologies) associated with the development of
technical devices and the depictions of an imaginary
digital society. He analyzes the founding myths of
cyberculture and he offers a treatise on “the virtual
society imaginaire,” discussing visionaries from
Teilhard de Chardin to William Gibson, the body
and the virtual, cyberdemocracy and the end of
politics, and the new economy of the immaterial.
Patrice Flichy is Professor in the Department of Sociology at
the University of Marne de la Valleé, France.
“Flichy’s historical perspective, the depth of his research, and
the sobriety of his conclusions are more pressingly relevant
than ever.”
— James Harkin, Financial Times
October — 6 x 9, 264 pp.
$15.95T/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-56238-6
cloth 2007
978-0-262-06261-9
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new media/computer science
AESTHETIC COMPUTING
edited by Paul A. Fishwick
In Aesthetic Computing, key scholars and practitioners
from art, design, computer science, and mathematics lay
the foundations for a discipline that applies the theory
and practice of art to computing. Aesthetic computing
explores the way art and aesthetics can play a role in
different areas of computer science. One of its goals is
to modify computer science by the application of the
wide range of definitions and categories normally
associated with making art. For example, structures in
computing might be represented
using the style of Gaudi or
the Bauhaus school. This goes
beyond the usual definition
of aesthetics in computing,
which most often refers to the
formal, abstract qualities of such
structures — a beautiful proof,
or an elegant diagram. The
contributors to this book discuss the broader spectrum
of aesthetics — from abstract qualities of symmetry
and form to ideas of creative expression and pleasure —
in the context of computer science. The assumption
behind aesthetic computing is that the field of comput-
ing will be enriched if it embraces all of aesthetics.
Human-computer interaction will benefit — “usabil-
ity,” for example, could refer to improving a user’s emo-
tional state — and new models of learning will emerge.
Paul A. Fishwick is Professor of Computer and Information
Sciences and Engineering at the University of Florida.
“Aesthetic Computing covers a wide range of subjects,
with themes including art, emotion, metaphor, mathematics,
transdisciplinarity, visualization, auralization, program-
ming, and interface design, just to name a few. One
strength of this collection is that the theoretical discussions
tend to be grounded in specific examples, which in many
cases draw on extensive previous work by the author.”
— Stan Ruecker, Literary and Linguistic Computing
September — 7 x 9, 480 pp. — 201 illus.
$24.00S/£15.95 paper
978-0-262-56237-9
cloth 2006
978-0-262-06250-3
A Leonardo Book

new media/history
ALWAYS ALREADY NEW
Media, History, and the Data of Culture
Lisa Gitelman
In Always Already New, Lisa
Gitelman explores the newness of
new media while she asks what it
means to do media history. Using
the examples of early recorded
sound and digital networks,
Gitelman challenges readers to
think about the ways that media
work as the simultaneous subjects and instruments of
historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies of
Edison’s first phonographs and the Pentagon’s first
distributed digital network, the ARPANET, Gitelman
points suggestively toward similarities that underlie the
cultural definition of records (phonographic and not) at
the end of the nineteenth century and the definition of
documents (digital and not) at the end of the twentieth.
As a result, Always Already New speaks to present con-
cerns about the humanities as much as to the emergent
field of new media studies. Records and documents are
kernels of humanistic thought, after all — part of and
party to the cultural impulse to preserve and interpret.
Gitelman’s argument suggests inventive contexts for
“humanities computing” while also offering a new
perspective on such traditional humanities disciplines
as literary history.
Lisa Gitelman is Associate Professor and Director, Program
in Media Studies, at Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
She is the coeditor (with Geoffrey B. Pingree) of New Media,
1740-1915 (MIT Press, 2003) and the author of Scripts,
Grooves, and Writing Machines.
“Lisa Gitelman is a brilliant scholar . . . . [She] uses new
historicist, philosophical, and technological observations to
make a compelling case.”
— M. E. DiPaulo, Choice
“Smart and engaging. . . This book is an invitation to do
media history in the archives; at the same time, it keeps
reminding us that the archives ain’t the archives anymore
and that any historical account is dependent on the media
forms it uses.”
— John Nerone, Journal of American History
September — 7 x 9, 224 pp. — 8 illus.
$21.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-57247-7
cloth 2006
978-0-262-07271-7
NOW IN PAPER
computer science/gender studies
WOMEN AND INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
Research on Underrepresentation
edited by J. McGrath Cohoon
and William Aspray
Computing remains a heavily male-dominated field
even after twenty-five years of extensive efforts to
promote female participation. The contributors to
Women and Information Technology look at reasons
for the persistent gender imbalance in computing and
explore some strategies intended to reverse the down-
ward trend. The studies included
are rigorous social science inves-
tigations; they rely on empirical
evidence — not rhetoric,
hunches, or folk wisdom.
Taking advantage of the recent
surge in research in this area, the
editors present the latest findings
of both qualitative and quantita-
tive studies. Each section begins with an overview of
the literature on current research in the field, followed
by individual studies. The first section investigates the
relationship between gender and information technol-
ogy among preteens and adolescents, with each study
considering what could lead girls’ interest in computing
to diverge from boys’; the second section, on higher
education, includes a nationwide study of computing
programs and a cross-national comparison of comput-
ing education; the final section, on pathways into
the IT workforce, considers both traditional and
nontraditional paths to computing careers.
J. McGrath Cohoon is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering
and Applied Science, University of Virginia. She is also a Senior
Research Scientist at the National Center for Women and
Information Technology. William Aspray is Rudy Professor of
Informatics in the School of Informatics, Indiana University,
and former Executive Director of the Computing Research
Association.
“This work provides valuable insight into why women are
not choosing to pursue education and careers in information
technology.”
— K. J. Whitehair, Choice
September — 7 x 9, 520 pp. — 35 illus.
$25.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-53307-2
cloth 2006
978-0-262-03345-9
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NOW IN PAPER
history of science/political science
AMERICAN HEGEMONY AND THE
POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION OF
SCIENCE IN EUROPE
John Krige
In 1945, the United States was
not only the strongest economic
and military power in the world;
it was also the world’s leader
in science and technology. In
American Hegemony and the
Postwar Reconstruction of Science
in Europe, John Krige describes
the efforts of influential figures in the United States to
model postwar scientific practices and institutions in
Western Europe on those in America. They mobilized
political and financial support to promote not just
America’s scientific and technological agendas in
Western Europe but its Cold War political and
ideological agendas as well.
Drawing on the work of diplomatic and cultural
historians, Krige argues that this attempt at scientific
dominance by the United States can be seen as a form
of “consensual hegemony,” involving the collaboration
of influential local elites who shared American values.
He uses this notion to analyze a series of case studies
that describe how the U.S. administration, senior
officers in the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the
NATO Science Committee, and influential members
of the scientific establishment — notably Isidor I. Rabi
of Columbia University and Vannevar Bush of MIT —
tried to Americanize scientific practices in such fields
as physics, molecular biology, and operations research.
John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History,
Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
“Krige is a forceful writer, and the implications of his
research are sure to be provocative and long lasting.”
— Michael D. Gordin, Physics Today
September — 6 x 9, 392 pp.
$23.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-61225-8
cloth 2006
978-0-262-11297-0
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and
Technology series
48
science, technology, and society/history of computing
CALCULATING A NATURAL WORLD
Scientists, Engineers, and Computers
during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research
Atsushi Akera
During the Cold War, the field of computing advanced
rapidly within a complex institutional context. In
Calculating a Natural World, Atsushi Akera describes
the complicated interplay of academic, commercial, and
government and military interests that produced a burst
of scientific discovery and technological innovation
in 1940s and 1950s America. This was the era of big
machines — the computers that made the reputations
of IBM and of many academic
laboratories — and Akera uses
the computer as a historical
window on the emerging infra-
structure of American scientific
and engineering research.
Akera’s study is unique in
that it integrates a history of
postwar computing (usually told
in terms of either business or
hardware) and a mapping of an
“ecology of knowledge” represented by the emerging
institutional infrastructure for computing. For example,
John Mauchly’s early work on computers is seen as
a product of his peripatetic career — his journey
through different institutional ecologies — and
John von Neumann’s work is seen as emerging from
the convergence of physics and applied mathematics
at the Institute for Advanced Study.
The military-industrial complex is often spoken of
as a coherent and unified power, but Akera argues that
it was the tensions as much as the convergences among
military, business, and academic forces that fueled
scientific and technological advances.
Atsushi Akera is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.
“Akera’s well-researched and engaging book offers a new
synthesis of the history of postwar computing.”
— David Mindell, Director, Program in Science,
Technology, and Society, MIT
September — 6 x 9, 440 pp. — 20 illus.
$23.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51203-9
cloth 2006
978-0-262-01231-7
Inside Technology series

science, technology, and society/urban studies
UNBUILDING CITIES
Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change
Anique Hommels
City planning initiatives and
redesign of urban structures
often become mired in debate
and delay. Despite the fact that
cities are considered to be
dynamic and flexible spaces,
never finished but always under
construction, it is very difficult to
change existing urban structures; they become fixed,
obdurate, securely anchored in their own histories
as well as in the histories of their surroundings. In
Unbuilding Cities, Anique Hommels looks at the
tension between the malleability of urban space and
its obduracy, focusing on sites and structures that have
been subjected to “unbuilding” — redesign or reconfig-
uration. Viewing the city as a large sociotechnological
artifact, she demonstrates the usefulness of STS tools
that were developed to analyze other technological
artifacts and explores in detail the role of obduracy in
sociotechnical change.
Hommels examines the tensions between obduracy
and change in three urban redesign projects in the
Netherlands: a renovated city center that fell into drab-
ness and disrepair; a highway system that runs through
a densely populated urban area; and a high-rise housing
project, designed according to modernist precepts and
built for middle-class families, that became a haven for
unemployment and crime. Unbuilding Cities contributes
to a productive fusion of STS and urban studies.
Anique Hommels is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Technology and Society Studies, Faculty of Arts and Culture,
University of Maastricht, Netherlands.
“This book provides some interesting models of thinking for
the professionals of the built environment. . . . A useful con-
tribution to those involved in negotiations about urban
change, including presentational aspects.”
— Judith Ryser, Urban Design
September — 7 x 9, 296 pp. — 27 illus.
$19.00S/£12.95 paper
978-0-262-58282-7
cloth 2005
978-0-262-08340-9
Inside Technology series
NOW IN PAPER
history of technology/European history
THE PATH NOT TAKEN
French Industrialization in the
Age of Revolution, 1750-1830
Jeff Horn
In The Path Not Taken, Jeff Horn argues that —
contrary to standard, Anglocentric accounts — French
industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-
faire British model but the product of a distinctive indus-
trial policy that led, over the long term, to prosperity
comparable to Britain’s. Despite the upheavals of the
Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, France developed
and maintained its own industrial
strengths. France was then able
to take full advantage of the new
technologies and industries that
emerged in the “second industrial
revolution,” and by the end of
the nineteenth century some of
France’s industries were outper-
forming Britain’s handily. The
Path Not Taken shows that the
foundations of this success were
laid during the first industrial revolution.
Technology is at the heart of Horn’s analysis, and
he shows that France, unlike England, often preferred
still-profitable older methods of production in order to
maintain employment and forestall revolution. Horn
examines the institutional framework established by
Napoleon’s most important Minister of the Interior,
Jean-Antoine Chaptal. Focusing on textiles, chemicals,
and steel, he looks at how these new institutions cre-
ated a new industrial environment. Horn’s illuminating
comparison of French and British industrialization
should stir debate among historians, economists, and
political scientists.
Jeff Horn, Associate Professor of History at Manhattan College,
is the author of ”Qui parle pour la nation?” Les élections et les
élus de la Champagne méridionale, 1765-1830.
“Clearly written and drawing on an impressive range of
sources, this is an account of importance not only for French
history, but also for analyses of economic development.”
— Jeremy Black, History
September — 6 x 9, 400 pp. — 3 illus.
$25.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-58283-4
cloth 2006
978-0-262-08352-2
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and
Technology series
49
NOW IN PAPER
history of science/history of music
HARMONIOUS TRIADS
Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument
Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Myles W. Jackson
Historically, music was long clas-
sified as both art and science.
Aspects of music — from the
mathematics of tuning to the
music of the celestial spheres —
were primarily studied as science
until the seventeenth century. In
the nineteenth century, although
scientists were less interested in
the music of the spheres than were the natural philoso-
phers of earlier centuries, they remained committed to
understanding the world of performing musicians and
their instruments. In Harmonious Triads, Myles Jackson
analyzes the relationship of physicists, musicians, and
instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany.
Musical instruments provided physicists with experi-
mental systems, and physicists’ research led directly to
improvements in musical-instrument manufacture and
assisted musicians in their performances. Music also
provided scientists with a cultural resource, which
forged acquaintances and future collaborations.
Jackson’s historical consideration of questions at the
intersection of music and physics shows us how each
discipline helped shape the other.
Myles W. Jackson is Dibner Family Professor History of Science
and Technology at Polytechnic University, New York City. He is
the author of Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and
the Craft of Precision Optics (MIT Press, 2000), which was
winner of the Paul-Bunge-Prize of the German Chemical
Society in 2005 for an outstanding contribution to the
study of scientific instruments.
“If you are intrigued by the concept of ‘singing savants’ or
by the connection between Alexander von Humboldt and
Felix Mendelssohn, read on!”
— Daniel Kleppner, Lester Wolfe
Professor of Physics, Emeritus, MIT
September — 6 x 9, 408 pp. — 48 illus.
$23.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-60075-0
cloth 2006
978-0-262-10116-5
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and
Technology series
50
science, technology, and society/economics
AN ENGINE, NOT A CAMERA
How Financial Models Shape Markets
Donald MacKenzie
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues
that the emergence of modern economic theories of
finance affected financial markets in fundamental
ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based
on elegant mathematical models of markets, were
not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of
economic processes.
Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says
that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather
than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More
than that, the emergence of an
authoritative theory of financial
markets altered those markets
fundamentally.
MacKenzie examines the role
played by finance theory in the
two most serious crises to hit
the world’s financial markets in
recent years. He also looks at
finance theory that is somewhat
beyond the mainstream — chaos
theorist Benoit Mandelbrot’s model of “wild” random-
ness. MacKenzie’s pioneering work in the social studies
of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand
how America’s financial markets have grown into their
current form.
Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair)
at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Inventing
Accuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and Mechanizing
Proof (2001) all published by The MIT Press.
“In one lifetime modern finance theory has revolutionized
the arts of canny investing. MacKenzie knows this exciting
story, and he tells it well.”
— Paul A. Samuelson, MIT, Nobel Laureate
in Economic Sciences (1970)
Winner of the British International Studies Association (BISA)
International Political Economy Group (IPEG) Book Prize for 2007
September — 6 x 9, 392 pp. — 10 illus.
$23.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-63367-3
cloth 2006
978-0-262-13460-6
Inside Technology series

economics/political science
THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF SOCIAL
SECURITY IN AGING SOCIETIES
Vincenzo Galasso
Doubts about the ability of
industrialized countries to con-
tinue to provide a sufficient level
of retirement benefits to a grow-
ing number of retirees has fueled
much recent debate and inspired
a variety of recommendations for
reform. Few major reforms, how-
ever, have actually been imple-
mented. In The Political Future of Social Security in Aging
Societies, Vincenzo Galasso argues that the success of
any reform proposals depends on political factors rather
than economic theory. He offers a comparative analysis
of the future political sustainability of social security
in six countries with rapidly aging populations —
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. Using a quantitative approach,
he finds that an aging population has political as well
as economic effects: an older electorate will put pressure
on politicians and policymakers to maintain or even
increase benefits.
Galasso evaluates how each country’s different
political constraints shape its social security system,
considering such country-specific factors as the pro-
portion of retirees in the population, the redistributive
feature of each system, and the existing retirement
policy in each country. He concludes that an aging
population will lead to more pension spending; yet
postponing retirement mitigates the impact of this,
and may be the only politically viable alternative for
social security reform.
Vincenzo Galasso is Associate Professor of Economics at
Bocconi University. He is Research Affiliate at the Centre
for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Research Fellow
at Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research
(IGIER), and Associate Editor of the European Journal
of Political Economy.
“Vincenzo Galasso has written a penetrating and thought-
ful book on a topic of undeniable importance.”
— Thomas Cooley, Paganelli-Bull Professor of
Economics, New York University
September — 6 x 9, 280 pp. — 37 illus.
$19.00S/£12.95 paper
978-0-262-57246-0
cloth 2006
978-0-262-07273-1
NOW IN PAPER
economics/finance
THE ECONOMICS OF
CONSUMER CREDIT
edited by Giuseppe Bertola, Richard Disney, and
Charles Grant
Academic research and policy discussions of credit
markets usually focus on borrowing by firms and
producers rather than by households, which are
typically analyzed in terms of their savings and
portfolio choices. The Economics of Consumer Credit
brings together leading international researchers
to focus specifically on consumer debt, presenting
current empirical and theoretical research crucial to
ongoing policy debates on
such topics as privacy rules,
the regulation of contractual
responsibilities, financial
stability, and overindebtedness.
The rapidly developing
consumer credit industry in
the United States is mirrored
by that in Europe, and this
volume is noteworthy for its
cross-national perspective.
Giuseppe Bertola is Professor of Economics at the University of
Turin and Scientific Coordinator at Finance and Consumption,
European University Institute, Florence. Richard Disney is
Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham and
Research Fellow at the Institute of Fiscal Studies, London.
Charles Grant is a Lecturer at Reading University and a
visiting Research Associate at Finance and Consumption,
European University Institute, Florence.
“This book will be a valuable asset to students, researchers,
and policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic.”
— Christian Gollier, IDEI, University of Toulouse
“This book redefines the cutting edge of research on con-
sumer credit. Given the breadth, depth, and rigor of the
scholarship (by many of the field's leading researchers), the
book will undoubtedly become an indispensable resource for
anyone who hopes to make contributions in related areas.”
— Christopher D. Carroll, Professor of Economics,
Johns Hopkins University
September — 6 x 9, 392 pp. — 37 illus.
$23.00S/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-52495-7
cloth 2006
978-0-262-02601-7
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NOW IN PAPER
economics
MONEY, INTEREST, AND POLICY
Dynamic General Equilibrium
in a Non-Ricardian World
Jean-Pascal Bénassy
An important recent advancement
in macroeconomics is the devel-
opment of dynamic stochastic
general equilibrium (DSGE)
macromodels. The use of DSGE
models to study monetary policy,
however, has led to paradoxical
and puzzling results on a number
of central monetary issues including price determinacy
and liquidity effects. In Money, Interest, and Policy,
Jean-Pascal Bénassy argues that moving from the
standard DSGE models — which he calls “Ricardian”
because they have the famous “Ricardian equivalence”
property — to another, “non-Ricardian” model would
resolve many of these issues. A Ricardian model repre-
sents a household as a homogeneous family of infinitely
lived individuals, and Bénassy demonstrates that a
single modification — the assumption that new agents
are born over time (which makes the model non-
Ricardian) — can bridge the current gap between
monetary intuitions and facts, on one hand, and
rigorous modeling, on the other.
Jean-Pascal Bénassy is Director of Research at CNRS (National
Center for Scientific Research), Paris, and a Research Fellow at
CEPREMAP (Center for Economic Research and Applications). He
is the author of The Macroeconomics of Imperfect Competition
and Nonclearing Markets: A Dynamic General Equilibrium
Approach (MIT Press, 2002).
“This book is a gem. . . . [Bénassy] writes with his usual
crispness and sharpness, and the reader comes out of the
book's ten chapters wanting to learn more.”
— Philippe Weil, European Centre
for Advanced Research in Economics and
Statistics, Université Libre de Bruxelles
September — 6 x 9, 216 pp. — 14 illus.
$21.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-52493-3
cloth 2007
978-0-262-02613-0
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science/nature/environment
SCIENTISTS DEBATE GAIA
The Next Century
edited by Stephen H. Schneider,
James R. Miller, Eileen Crist,
and Penelope J. Boston
foreword by Pedro Ruiz Torres
introductions by James Lovelock
and Lynn Margulis
Scientists Debate Gaia is a multidisciplinary reexamina-
tion of the Gaia hypothesis, which was introduced by
James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s.
The Gaia hypothesis holds that Earth’s physical and
biological processes are linked to
form a complex, self-regulating
system and that life has affected
this system over time. Despite
initial dismissal of the Gaian
approach as New Age philosophy,
it has today been incorporated
into mainstream interdisciplinary
scientific theory, as seen in its
strong influence on the field of Earth system science.
Scientists Debate Gaia provides a fascinating, multi-
faceted examination of Gaia as science and addresses
significant criticism of, and changes in, the hypothesis
since its introduction, exploring the scientific, philo-
sophical, and theoretical foundations of Gaia.
Stephen H. Schneider is Professor of Biological Sciences and
Codirector of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy
at Stanford University. James R. Miller is Professor of Earth
System Science in the Department of Marine and Coastal
Studies at Rutgers University. Eileen Crist is Associate
Professor of Science and Technology in Society in the Center
for Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech. Geomicrobiologist
Penelope J. Boston is Associate Professor of Cave and Karst
Science and Director of the Cave and Karst Studies Program
at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
“This is a stimulating, up-to-date account of one of the most
far-reaching modern ideas connecting biology and geology.”
— Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography,
University of California, Los Angeles,
author of Guns, Germs and Steel
September — 8 1/2 x 11, 400 pp. — 109 illus.
$30.00S/£19.95 paper
978-0-262-69369-1
cloth 2004
978-0-262-19498-3

cognitive science
BRAIN AND CULTURE
Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change
Bruce E. Wexler
Research shows that between
birth and early adulthood the
brain requires sensory stimulation
to develop physically. By early
adulthood, the neuroplasticity of
the brain is greatly reduced, and
this leads to a fundamental shift
in the relationship between the
individual and the environment:
during the first part of life, the brain and mind shape
themselves to the major recurring features of their envi-
ronment; by early adulthood, the individual attempts
to make the environment conform to the established
internal structures of the brain and mind.
In Brain and Culture, Bruce Wexler explores the
social implications of the close and changing neurobio-
logical relationship between the individual and the
environment, with particular attention to the difficulties
individuals face in adulthood when the environment
changes beyond their ability to maintain the fit between
existing internal structure and external reality. These
difficulties are evident in bereavement, the meeting of
different cultures, the experience of immigrants, and the
phenomenon of interethnic violence. The groundbreak-
ing connections he makes provide a new biological base
from which to consider such social issues as “culture
wars” and ethnic violence.
Bruce E. Wexler is Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical
School and Director of the Neurocognitive Research Laboratory
at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.
“Bruce Wexler’s Brain and Culture is a major achievement,
touching the deepest biological and human issues and fram-
ing them in verifiable terms. A very powerful and very
important book.”
— Oliver Sacks, author of
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“A fascinating step toward decoding the seemingly universal
us/them mentality. “
— Scientific American, “The Editors Recommend”
September — 5 3/8 x 8, 320 pp. — 2 illus.
$18.00S/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-73193-5
cloth 2006
978-0-262-23248-7
NOW IN PAPER
philosophy/cognitive science
HOT THOUGHT
Mechanisms and Applications
of Emotional Cognition
Paul Thagard
Contrary to standard assumptions, reasoning is often
an emotional process. Emotions can have good effects,
as when a scientist gets excited about a line of research
and pursues it successfully despite criticism. But emo-
tions can also distort reasoning, as when a juror ignores
evidence of guilt just because the accused seems like a
nice guy. In Hot Thought, Paul Thagard describes the
mental mechanisms — cognitive, neural, molecular, and
social — that interact to produce
different kinds of human think-
ing, from everyday decision mak-
ing to legal reasoning, scientific
discovery, and religious belief,
and he discusses when and how
thinking and reasoning should
be emotional.
Thagard argues that an
understanding of emotional
thinking needs to integrate the
cognitive, neural, molecular, and social levels. Many of
the chapters employ computational models of various
levels of thinking, including HOTCO (hot cognition)
models and the more neurologically realistic GAGE
model. Identifying and assessing the impact of emotion,
Thagard argues, can suggest ways to improve the
process of reasoning.
Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and
Computer Science, and Director of the Cognitive Science
Program at the University of Waterloo. He is the author
of Coherence in Thought and Action (MIT Press, 2000) and
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, second edition
(MIT Press, 2005).
“Impressively comprehensive, unfailingly sensible, and made
all the more appealing by its hip-pocket readability, Hot
Thought will be a godsend to instructors in philosophy and
cognitive science.”
— Patricia S. Churchland, UC President's Professor
of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
September — 6 x 9, 320 pp. — 34 illus.
$21.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-70124-2
cloth 2006
978-0-262-20164-3
A Bradford Book
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NOW IN PAPER
philosophy
HEIDEGGER’S TOPOLOGY
Being, Place, World
Jeff Malpas
This groundbreaking inquiry into
the centrality of place in Martin
Heidegger’s thinking offers not
only an illuminating reading of
Heidegger’s thought but a detailed
investigation into the way in
which the concept of place relates
to core philosophical issues. In
Heidegger’s Topology, Jeff Malpas argues that an engage-
ment with place, explicit in Heidegger’s later work,
informs Heidegger’s thought as a whole. What guides
Heidegger’s thinking, Malpas writes, is a conception of
philosophy’s starting point: our finding ourselves already
“there,” situated in the world, in “place.” Heidegger’s
concepts of being and place, he argues, are inextricably
bound together. (Malpas also challenges the widely
repeated arguments that link Heidegger’s notions of
place and belonging to his entanglement with Nazism.)
The significance of Heidegger as a thinker of place,
Malpas claims, lies not only in Heidegger’s own inves-
tigations but also in the way that spatial and topo-
graphic thinking has flowed from Heidegger’s work
into that of other key thinkers of the past sixty years.
Jeff Malpas is Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Tasmania. He is the author of Place and Experience: A
Philosophical Topology.
“This is a brilliant book that will change the entire field of
Heidegger studies.”
— Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of
Philosophy, Stony Brook University
“Malpas’s work opens up new ways to read Heidegger (con-
sidered for too long the philosopher of time) by underscoring
the centrality of place and its many implications for under-
standing our world, our environment, and ourselves.”
— John Panteleimon Manoussakis,
Journal of the History of Philosophy
October — 6 x 9, 424 pp.
$21.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-63368-0
cloth 2007
978-0-262-13470-5
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philosophy of mind
SUBJECTIVITY AND SELFHOOD
Investigating the First-Person Perspective
Dan Zahavi
What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere
social construct — or is it perhaps a neurologically
induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the
self has been questioned by both neuroscientists and
philosophers in recent years. Countering this, in
Subjectivity and Selfhood, Dan Zahavi argues that the
notion of self is crucial for a proper understanding of
consciousness. He investigates the interrelationships of
experience, self-awareness, and
selfhood, proposing that none of
these three notions can be under-
stood in isolation. Any investiga-
tion of the self, Zahavi argues,
must take the first-person per-
spective seriously and focus on the
experiential givenness of the self.
Subjectivity and Selfhood explores a
number of phenomenological
analyses pertaining to the nature
of consciousness, self, and self-experience in light of con-
temporary discussions in consciousness research.
Philosophical phenomenology — as developed by
Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and others
— not only addresses crucial issues often absent from
current debates over consciousness but also provides a
conceptual framework for understanding subjectivity.
By engaging in a dialogue with other philosophical and
empirical positions, says Zahavi, phenomenology can
demonstrate its vitality and contemporary relevance.
Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of
the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of
Copenhagen and the author of Self-Awareness and Alterity
in Husserl’s Phenomenology.
“ Subjectivity and Selfhood is a rich and clearly written
book which ranges over many topics.”
— David E. Cooper, Times Literary Supplement (TLS)
“This work takes a huge step forward in bringing phenom-
enological philosophy to bear on contemporary issues in the
philosophy of mind and cognitive science.”
— Evan Thompson, Professor, Department of
Philosophy, University of Toronto
September — 6 x 9, 280 pp.
$21.00S/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-74034-0
cloth 2006
978-0-262-24050-5
 PROFESSIONAL
political science/law

THE PRIVACY ADVOCATES

Resisting the Spread of Surveillance
Colin J. Bennett
An analysis of the people
Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewil- and groups who have emerged
dering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and to challenge the increasingly
distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of intrusive ways personal
information is captured,
cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. processed, and disseminated.
In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups around
the world who have risen to challenge the most intrusive surveillance practices by
October
both government and corporations. Bennett describes a network of self-identified 6 x 9, 296 pp.
privacy advocates who have emerged from civil society — without official sanction 11 illus.
and with few resources, but surprisingly influential. $28.00S/£18.95 cloth
A number of high-profile conflicts in recent years have brought this interna- 978-0-262-02638-3
tional advocacy movement more sharply into focus. Bennett is the first to exam-
ine privacy and surveillance not from a legal, political, or technical perspective
Also available
but from the viewpoint of these independent activists who have found creative
THE GOVERNANCE OF PRIVACY
ways to affect policy and practice. Drawing on extensive interviews with key Policy Instruments in
informants in the movement, he examines how they frame the issue and how Global Perspective
they organize, who they are and what strategies they use. He also presents Colin Bennett and Charles Raab
2006, 978-0-262-52453-7
a series of case studies that illustrate how effective their efforts have been, $30.00S/£19.95 paper
including conflicts over key-escrow encryption (which allows the government
to read encrypted messages), online advertising through third-party cookies that
track users across different Web sites, and online
authentication mechanisms such as the short-lived
Microsoft Passport. Finally, Bennett considers how
the loose coalitions of the privacy network could
develop into a more cohesive international social
movement.
Colin J. Bennett is Professor in the Department of Political
Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
He is the coauthor (with Charles Raab) of The Governance
of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective (updated
paperback edition, MIT Press).

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PROFESSIONAL
technology/political science
GOVERNING GLOBAL
ELECTRONIC NETWORKS
edited by William J. Drake
and Ernest J. Wilson III
The burgeoning use and transformative impact of
global electronic networks are widely recognized to be
defining features of contemporary world affairs. Less
often noted has been the increasing importance of
global governance arrangements in managing the many
issues raised in such networks. This volume helps fill
the gap by assessing some of the key international
institutions pertaining to global telecommunications
regulation and standardization, radio frequency spec-
trum, satellite systems, trade in services, electronic com-
merce, intellectual property, traditional mass media and
Internet content, Internet names and numbers, cyber-
crime, privacy protection, and development. Eschewing
technocratic approaches, the contributors offer empiri-
cally rich studies of the international power dynamics
shaping these institutions. They devote particular atten-
tion to the roles and concerns of nondominant stake-
holders, such as developing countries and civil society,
and find that global governance often reinforces wider
power disparities between and within nation-states.
But at the same time, the contributors note, governance
arrangements often provide nondominant stakeholders
with the policy space needed to advance their interests
more effectively. Each chapter concludes with a set of
policy recommendations for the promotion of an open,
dynamic, and more equitable networld order.
CONTRIBUTORS Peng Hwa Ang, Jonathan D. Aronson,
Byung-il Choi, Tracy Cohen, Peter F. Cowhey, William J. Drake,
Henry Farrell, Rob Frieden, Alison Gillwald, Boutheina Guermazi,
Ian Hosein, Cees J. Hamelink, Wolfgang Kleinwaechter,
Don MacLean, Christopher May, Milton Mueller, John Richards,
David Souter, Ernest Wilson III, Jisuk Woo
William J. Drake is Director of the Project on the Information
Revolution and Global Governance in the Program for the Study
of International Organizations at the Graduate Institute of
International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Ernest J. Wilson
III is Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the
University of Southern California. He is the author of The
Information Revolution and Developing Countries (MIT Press,
2004).
October — 6 x 9, 720 pp. — 10 illlus.
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-04251-2
Information Revolution and Global Politics series
56
communications/information science/computer science
LIBERATING VOICES
A Pattern Language for
Communication Revolution
Douglas Schuler
In recent decades we have witnessed the creation of a
communication system that promises unparalleled con-
nectedness. And yet the optimistic dreams of Internet-
enabled engagement and empowerment have faded
in the face of widespread Internet commercialization.
In Liberating Voices, Douglas Schuler urges us to
unleash our collective creativity — social as well as
technological — and develop the communication
systems that are truly needed.
Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in
Christopher Alexander’s classic 1977 book, A Pattern
Language, Schuler presents a pattern language contain-
ing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges.
Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model
of social change that integrates theory and practice
by showing how information and communication
(whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based)
can be used to address urgent social and environmental
problems collaboratively.
Each of the patterns that form the pattern language
(which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100
contributors) is presented consistently; each describes
a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution.
The pattern language begins with the most general
patterns (“Theory”) and proceeds to the most specific
(“Tactics”). Each pattern is a template for research as
well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus
forming a single coherent whole. Readers will find
Liberating Voices an intriguing and informative catalog
of contemporary intellectual, social, and technological
innovations, a practical manual for citizen activism, and
a compelling manifesto for creating a more intelligent,
sustainable, and equitable world.
Douglas Schuler is a member of the faculty at The Evergreen
State College, former Chair of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility (CPSR), and a founding member of the
Seattle Community Network (SCN). He is coeditor of several
books, including Shaping the Network Society: The New Role
of Civic Society in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004) and the
author of New Community Networks: Wired for Change.
October — 8 x 10, 504 pp. — 5 illlus.
$35.00S/£22.95 paper
978-0-262-69366-0
$70.00S/£45.95 cloth
978-0-262-19579-9

information science/human-computer interaction
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION
ON THE INTERNET
edited by Gary M. Olson, Ann Zimmerman,
and Nathan Bos
foreword by William Wulf
Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled
by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with
international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants.
Historically, scientific collaborations were carried
out by scientists in the same physical location — the
Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for example, involved
thousands of scientists gathered on a remote plateau
in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Today, information and
communication technologies allow cooperation among
scientists from far-flung institutions and different disci-
plines. Scientific Collaboration on the Internet provides
both broad and in-depth views of how new technology
is enabling novel kinds of science and engineering col-
laboration. The book offers commentary from notable
experts in the field along with case studies of large-scale
collaborative projects, past and ongoing.
The projects described range from the development
of a national virtual observatory for astronomical
research to a National Institutes of Health funding
program for major multi-laboratory medical research;
from the deployment of a cyberinfrastructure to con-
nect experts in earthquake engineering to partnerships
between developed and developing countries in AIDS
research. The chapter authors speak frankly about the
problems these projects encountered as well as the suc-
cesses they achieved. The book strikes a useful balance
between presenting the real stories of collaborations
and developing a scientific approach to conceiving,
designing, implementing, and evaluating such projects.
It points to a future of scientific collaborations that
build successfully on aspects from multiple disciplines.
Gary M. Olson is Paul M. Fitts Collegiate Professor of Human
Computer Interaction and Professor in both the School of
Information and the Department of Psychology at the University
of Michigan. Ann Zimmerman is a Research Assistant Professor
in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.
Nathan Bos is a Senior Research Scientist at the Applied
Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University.
October — 7 x 9, 432 pp. — 42 illus.
$45.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-15120-7
Acting with Technology series
PROFESSIONAL
science, technology, and society
INSATIABLE CURIOSITY
Innovation in a Fragile Future
Helga Nowotny
translated by Mitch Cohen
Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific
activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations,
does not know what it will find, or where it will lead.
Science needs autonomy to cultivate this kind of
untrammeled curiosity; innovation, however, responds
to the needs and desires of society. Innovation, argues
influential European science studies scholar Helga
Nowotny, tames the passion of science, harnessing it
to produce “deliverables.” Science brings uncertainties;
innovation successfully copes with them. Society calls
for both the passion for knowledge and its taming.
This ambivalence, Nowotny contends, is an inevitable
result of modernity.
In Insatiable Curiosity, Nowotny explores the strands
of the often unexpected intertwining of science and
technology and society. Uncertainty arises, she writes,
from an oversupply of knowledge. The quest for inno-
vation is society’s response to the uncertainties that
come with scientific and technological achievement.
Our dilemma is how to balance the immense but
unpredictable potential of science and technology with
our acknowledgement that not everything that can be
done should be done. We can escape the old polarities
of utopias and dystopias, writes Nowotny, by accepting
our ambivalence — as a legacy of modernism and a
positive cultural resource.
Helga Nowotny, one of the leading European voices in Science
Studies, is Vice-President of the European Research Council
and Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, University of Vienna.
PRAISE FOR THE GERMAN EDITION
“Seldom have the contradictions of our times been so
penetratingly described and traced back to their scientific-
historical causes. . . . Helga Nowotny has written a
wonderfully worldly-wise book that eliminates the last
remnants of trust in progress without completely sounding
the death knell of the project of modernity.”
— Ludger Heidbrink, Die Zeit
September — 5 3/8 x 8, 216 pp.
$30.00S/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-14103-1
Inside Technology series
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PROFESSIONAL
history of technology/history of science

POWER STRUGGLES
Scientific Authority and the Creation of
Practical Electricity before Edison
The development of electrical Michael Brian Schiffer
technologies that laid the
foundation for Edison’s In 1882, Thomas Edison and his Edison Electric Light Company unveiled the
work: their invention, first large-scale electrical system in the world to light a stretch of offices in a
commercialization,
city. This was a monumental achievement, but it was not the beginning of the
and adoption.
electrical age. The first electric generators were built in the 1830s, the earliest
commercial lighting systems before 1860, and the first commercial application of
September
generator-powered lights (in lighthouses) in the early 1860s. In Power Struggles,
7 x 9, 440 pp.
51 illus. Michael Brian Schiffer examines some of these earlier efforts, both successful
$38.00S/£24.95 cloth
and unsuccessful, that paved the way for Edison.
978-0-262-19582-9 After laying out a unified theoretical framework for understanding techno-
logical change, Schiffer presents a series of fascinating case studies of pre-Edison
electrical technologies, including Volta’s electrochemical battery, the blacksmith’s
electric motor, the first mechanical generators, Morse’s telegraph, the Atlantic
cable, and the lighting of the Capitol dome. Schiffer discusses claims of “practi-
cality” and “impracticality” (sometimes hotly con-
tested) made for these technologies, and examines the
central role of the scientific authority — in particular,
the activities of Joseph Henry, mid-nineteenth-cen-
tury America’s foremost scientist — in determining
the fate of particular technologies.
These emerging electrical technologies formed the
foundation of the modern industrial world. Schiffer
shows how and why they became commercial prod-
ucts in the context of an evolving corporate capital-
ism in which conflicting judgments of practicality
sometimes turned into power struggles.
Michael Brian Schiffer is Fred A. Riecker Distinguished
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona
and Research Associate at the Lemelson Center, National
Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
He is the author of six previous books on technology.

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meteorology/history of science
WEATHER BY THE NUMBERS
The Genesis of Modern Meteorology
Kristine C. Harper
For much of the first half of the twentieth century,
meteorology was more art than science, dependent on
an individual forecaster’s lifetime of local experience.
In Weather by the Numbers, Kristine Harper tells the
story of the transformation of meteorology from a
“guessing science” into a sophisticated physics- and
mathematics-based scientific discipline. What made
this possible was the development of the electronic
digital computer; earlier attempts at numerical weather
prediction had foundered on the human inability to
solve nonlinear equations quickly enough for timely
forecasting. After World War II, the combination of an
expanded observation network developed for military
purposes, newly trained mathematics- and physics-
savvy meteorologists, and the nascent digital computer
created a new way of approaching both atmospheric
theory and weather forecasting.
Harper examines the efforts of meteorologists to
professionalize their discipline during the interwar
years and the rapid expansion of personnel and obser-
vational assets during World War II. She describes
how, by the 1950s, academic, Weather Bureau, and
military meteorologists had moved atmospheric mod-
eling from research subject to operational forecasting.
Challenging previous accounts that give sole credit for
the development of numerical weather prediction to
digital computer inventor John von Neumann, Harper
points to the crucial contributions of Carl-Gustav
Rossby (founder of MIT’s meteorology program and
part of what Harper calls the “Scandinavian Tag Team”
working with von Neumann). This transformation of
a discipline, Harper writes, was the most important
intellectual achievement of twentieth-century meteor-
ology, and paved the way for the growth of computer-
assisted modeling in all the sciences.
Kristine C. Harper is Assistant Professor of History at the New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. In 2007-2008, she
was a Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University
of Utah and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.
September — 6 x 9, 328 pp. — 20 illus.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-08378-2
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and
Technology series
PROFESSIONAL
history of science
H.G. BRONN, ERNST HAECKEL,
AND THE ORIGINS OF
GERMAN DARWINISM
A Study in Translation and Transformation
Sander Gliboff
The German translation of Darwin’s The Origin of Species
appeared in 1860, just months after the original, thanks
to Heinrich Georg Bronn, a distinguished German
paleontologist whose work in some ways paralleled
Darwin’s. Bronn’s version of the book (with his own notes
and commentary appended) did much to determine how
Darwin’s theory was understood and applied by German
biologists, for the translation process involved more than
the mere substitution of German words for English.
In this book, Sander Gliboff tells the story of how The
Origin of Species came to be translated into German,
how it served Bronn's purposes as well as Darwin’s,
and how it challenged German scholars to think in new
ways about morphology, systematics, paleontology, and
other biological disciplines. Gliboff traces Bronn’s influ-
ence on German Darwinism through the early career
of Ernst Haeckel, Darwin’s most famous nineteenth-
century proponent and popularizer in Germany, who
learned his Darwinism from the Bronn translation.
Gliboff argues, contrary to most interpretations,
that the German authors were not attempting to
“tame” Darwin or assimilate him to outmoded systems
of romantic Naturphilosophie. Rather, Bronn and
Haeckel were participants in Darwin’s project of
revolutionizing biology. We should not, Gliboff
cautions, read pre-Darwinian meanings into Bronn’s
and Haeckel’s Darwinian words.
Gliboff describes interpretive problems faced by
Bronn and Haeckel that range from the verbal to the
conceptual. One of these conceptual problems, the ori-
gins of novel variation and the proper balance between
creativity and constraint in evolution, emerges as crucial.
Evolutionists today, Gliboff points out, continue to
grapple with comparable questions — continuing a
larger process of translation and interpretation of
Darwin’s work.
Sander Gliboff is Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy
of Science at Indiana University.
September — 6 x 9, 272 pp.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-07293-9
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and
Technology series
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PROFESSIONAL
science, technology, and society
TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
Building Our Sociotechnical Future
edited by Deborah G. Johnson
and Jameson M. Wetmore
Technological change does not happen in a vacuum;
decisions about which technologies to develop, fund,
market, and use engage ideas about values as well as
calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology
focuses on the interconnections of technology, society,
and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as
Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and
Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent
thinking about technology and provide them with con-
ceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge
to help understand how technology shapes society and
how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new
perspective on such current issues as globalization, the
balance between security and privacy, environmental
justice, and poverty in the developing world.
The careful ordering of the selections and the
editors’ introductions give Technology and Society a
coherence and flow that is unusual in anthologies.
The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses
in STS and other disciplines. The selections begin
with predictions of the future that range from forecasts
of technological utopia to cautionary tales. These are
followed by writings that explore the complexity of
sociotechnical systems, presenting a picture of how
technology and society work in step, shaping and being
shaped by one another. Finally, the book goes back to
considerations of the future, discussing twenty-first-
century challenges that include nanotechnology, the
role of citizens in technological decisions, and the
technologies of human enhancement.
Deborah G. Johnson is Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of
Applied Ethics and Department Chair, Department of Science,
Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. Jameson
M. Wetmore is Assistant Professor at the Consortium for
Science, Policy, and Outcomes and the School of Human
Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
October — 7 x 9, 648 pp. — 39 illus.
$42.00S/£27.95 paper
978-0-262-60073-6
$80.00S/£51.95 cloth
978-0-262-10124-0
Inside Technology series
60
sociology/technology/economics
LIVING IN A MATERIAL WORLD
Economic Sociology Meets Science
and Technology Studies
edited by Trevor Pinch and Richard Swedberg
Although social scientists generally agree that technol-
ogy plays a key role in the economy, economics and
technology have yet to be brought together into a
coherent framework that is both analytically interesting
and empirically oriented. This book draws on the tools
of science and technology studies and economic sociol-
ogy to reconceptualize the intersection of economy
and technology, suggesting materiality — the idea
that social existence involves not only actors and social
relations but also objects — as the theoretical point
of convergence.
The contributors take up general concerns, such
as individual agency in a network economy and the
materiality of the household in economic history, as
well as specific financial technologies such as the stock
ticker, the trading room, and the telephone. Forms of
infrastructure — accounting, global configurations of
trading and information technologies, and patent law
— are examined. Case studies of the impact of the
Internet and information technology on consumption
(e-commerce), the reputation economy (the rise of
online reviews of products), and organizational settings
(outsourcing of an IT system) round off this collection
of essays.
CONTRIBUTORS Elizabeth Popp Berman, Daniel Beunza,
Michel Callon, Karin Knorr Cetina, Thomas F. Gieryn, Barbara Grimpe,
David Hatherly, David Leung, Christian Licoppe, Donald MacKenzie,
Philip Mirowski, Fabian Muniesa, Edward Nik-Khah, Trevor Pinch,
Alex Preda, Nicholas S. Rowland, David Shay, David Stark,
Richard Swedberg
Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies
and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the
coeditor of How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users
and Technology (MIT Press, 2003) and the coauthor of Analog
Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer and
other books. Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at
Cornell University. He is the author of Max Weber and the
Idea of Economic Sociology, Principles of Economic Sociology,
and other books.
November — 6 x 9, 432 pp. — 18 illus.
$30.00S/£19.95 paper
978-0-262-66207-9
$75.00S/£48.95 cloth
978-0-262-16252-4
Inside Technology series

history of technology/urban studies
MECHANICAL SOUND
Technology, Culture, and Public Problems
of Noise in the Twentieth Century
Karin Bijsterveld
Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of tech-
nology have been the subject of complaints, regulation,
and legislation. By the early 1900s, anti-noise leagues
in Western Europe and North America had formed to
fight noise from factories, steam trains, automobiles,
and gramophones, with campaigns featuring confer-
ences, exhibitions, and “silence weeks.” And, as Karin
Bijsterveld points out in Mechanical Sound, public
discussion of noise has never died down and continues
today. In this book, Bijsterveld examines the persistence
of noise on the public agenda, looking at four episodes
of noise and the public response to it in Europe and the
United States between 1875 and 1975: industrial noise,
traffic noise, noise from neighborhood radios and
gramophones, and aircraft noise. She also looks at a
twentieth-century counterpoint to complaints about
noise: the celebration of mechanical sound in avant-
garde music composed between the two world wars.
Bijsterveld argues that the rise of noise from new
technology combined with overlapping noise regula-
tions created what she calls a “paradox of control.”
Experts and politicians promised to control some
noise, but left other noise problems up to citizens.
Aircraft noise, for example, measured in formulas
understandable only by specialists, was subject to
public regulation; the sounds of noisy neighborhoods
were the responsibility of residents themselves. In
addition, Bijsterveld notes, the spatial character of
anti-noise interventions that impose zones and draw
maps, despite the ability of sound to cross borders and
boundaries, has helped keep noise a public problem.
We have tried to create islands of silence, she writes,
yet we have left a sea of sounds to be fiercely discussed.
Karin Bijsterveld is Professor of Science, Technology, and
Modern Culture at the Department of Science and Technology
Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
August — 7 x 9, 368 pp. — 24 illus.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-02639-0
Inside Technology series
PROFESSIONAL
agricultural science/science, technology, and society
CULTIVATING SCIENCE,
HARVESTING POWER
Science and Industrial Agriculture in California
Christopher R. Henke
Just south of San Francisco lies California’s Salinas
Valley, the heart of a multi-billion dollar agricultural
industry that dominates U. S. vegetable production.
How did the sleepy valley described in the stories of
John Steinbeck become the nation’s “salad bowl”? In
Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, Christopher R.
Henke explores the ways that science helped build the
Salinas Valley and California’s broader farm industry.
Henke focuses on the case of University of California
“farm advisors,” scientists stationed in counties through-
out the state who have stepped forward to help growers
deal with crises ranging from labor shortages to plagues
of insects. These disruptions in what Henke terms
industrial agriculture’s “ecology of power” provide a
window onto how agricultural scientists and growers
have collaborated — and struggled — in shaping
this industry.
Through these interventions, Henke argues, science
has served as a mechanism of repair for industrial agri-
culture. Basing his analysis on detailed ethnographic
and historical research, Henke examines the history of
state-sponsored farm advising — in particular, its roots
in Progressive Era politics — and looks at both past
and present practices by farm advisors in the Salinas
Valley. He goes on to examine specific examples,
including the resolution of a farm labor crisis during
World War II at the Spreckels Sugar Company, the use
of field trials for promoting new farming practices, and
farm advisors’ and growers’ responses to environmental
issues. Beyond this, Henke argues that the concept of
repair is broadly applicable to other cases and that
expertise can be deployed more generally to encourage
change for the future of American agriculture.
Christopher R. Henke is Assistant Professor of Sociology at
Colgate University.
October — 6 x 9, 256 pp. — 17 illus.
$32.00S/£20.95 cloth
978-0-262-08373-7
Inside Technology series
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PROFESSIONAL
environment/political science
NATURAL EXPERIMENTS
Ecosystem-Based Management
and the Environment
Judith A. Layzer
Scholars, scientists, and policymakers have hailed
ecosystem-based management (EBM) as a remedy
for the perceived shortcomings of the centralized, top-
down, expert-driven environmental regulatory frame-
work established in the United States in the late 1960s
and early 1970s. EBM entails collaborative, landscape-
scale planning and flexible, adaptive implementation.
But although scholars have analyzed aspects of EBM
for more than a decade, until now there has been no
systematic empirical study of the overall approach. In
Natural Experiments, Judith Layzer provides a detailed
assessment of whether EBM delivers in practice the
environmental benefits it promises in theory. She does
this by examining four nationally known EBM initia-
tives (the Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Program
in Austin, Texas, the San Diego Multiple Species
Program, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration
Plan, and the California Bay-Delta Program) and three
comparison cases that used more conventional regula-
tory approaches (Arizona’s Sonoran Desert
Conservation Plan and efforts to restore Florida’s
Kissimmee River and California’s Mono Basin).
Layzer concludes that projects that set goals based
on stakeholder collaboration, rather than through con-
ventional politics, are less likely to result in environ-
mental improvement, largely because the pursuit of
consensus drives planners to avoid controversy and
minimize short-term costs. Layzer’s resolutely practical
focus cuts through the ideological and theoretical argu-
ments for and against EBM to identify strategies that
hold genuine promise for restoring the ecological
resilience of our landscapes.
Judith A. Layzer is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy
in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She
is the author of The Environmental Case: Translating Values
into Policy.
October — 6 x 9, 416 pp. — 7 maps
$28.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-62214-1
$70.00S/£45.95 cloth
978-0-262-12298-6
American and Comparative Environmental Policy series
62
environment/political science
WATER, PLACE, AND EQUITY
edited by John M. Whiteley, Helen Ingram,
and Richard Warren Perry
Many predict that by the end of this century water
will dominate world natural resources politics as oil
does today. Access to water is widely regarded as a
basic human right, and was declared so by the United
Nations in 1992. And yet the water crisis grows:
although the total volume of water on the planet may
be sufficient for our needs, much of it is misallocated,
wasted, or polluted, and the poorest of the poor live in
arid areas where water is scarce. The coming decade
will require new perspectives on water resources and
reconsideration of the principles of water governance
and policy.
Water, Place, and Equity argues that fairness in the
allocation of water will be a cornerstone to a more
equitable and secure future for humankind. With
analyses and case studies, it demonstrates that consid-
erations of equity are more important in formulating
and evaluating water policy than the more commonly
invoked notions of efficiency and markets.
The case studies through which the book explores
issues of water equity range from cost and benefit
disparities that result from Southern California’s
storm water runoff policies to the privatization of
water in Bolivia. In a final chapter, Water, Place, and
Equity considers broader concerns — the impact of
global climate change on water resources and better
ways to incorporate equity into future water policy.
CONTRIBUTORS Thomas Clay Arnold, Madeline Baer, Amy Below,
David Feldman, Paul W. Hirt, Helen Ingram, Sheldon Kamieniecki,
Maria Carmen Lemos, Stephen P. Mumme, Richard Warren Perry,
Ismael Vaccaro, John M. Whiteley, Margaret Wilder
John M. Whiteley is Professor of Social Ecology at the
University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor of
Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and
Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia
(MIT Press, 1999). Helen Ingram is Research Fellow at the
Southwest Center, University of Arizona, and Professor
Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. She is the
author or editor of many books, including Reflections on
Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and
Cooperation (MIT Press, 2001). Richard Warren Perry is
Professor of Justice Studies at San Jose State University.
October — 6 x 9, 312 pp. — 7 illus.
$25.00S/£17.95 paper
978-0-262-73191-1
$63.00S/£40.95 cloth
978-0-262-23271-5
American and Comparative Environmental Policy series

international affairs/environment
THE POWER OF WORDS IN
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse
Charlotte Epstein
In the second half of the twentieth century, worldwide
attitudes toward whaling shifted from widespread
acceptance to moral censure. Why? Whaling, once
as important to the global economy as oil is now, had
long been uneconomical. Major species were long
known to be endangered. Yet nations had continued to
support whaling. In The Power of Words in International
Relations, Charlotte Epstein argues that the change was
brought about not by changing material interests but
by a powerful anti-whaling discourse that successfully
recast whales as extraordinary and intelligent endan-
gered mammals that needed to be saved. Epstein views
whaling both as an object of analysis in its own right
and as a lens for examining discursive power, and how
language, materiality, and action interact to shape inter-
national relations. By focusing on discourse, she develops
an approach to the study of agency and the construction
of interests that brings non-state actors and individuals
into the analysis of international politics.
Epstein analyzes the “society of whaling states”
as a set of historical practices where the dominant
discourse of the day legitimated the killing of whales
rather than their protection. She then looks at this
whaling world’s mirror image: the rise from the
political margins of an anti-whaling discourse,
which orchestrated one of the first successful global
environmental campaigns, in which saving the whales
ultimately became shorthand for saving the planet.
Finally, she considers the continued dominance of
a now taken-for-granted anti-whaling discourse,
including its creation of identity categories that align
with and sustain the existing international political
order. Epstein’s synthesis of discourse, power, and
identity politics brings the fields of international
relations theory and global environmental politics
into a fruitful dialogue that benefits both.
Charlotte Epstein is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Government and International Relations at the University
of Sydney.
November — 6 x 9, 344 pp. — 4 illus.
$26.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-55069-7
$65.00S/£41.95 cloth
978-0-262-05092-0
Politics, Science, and the Environment series
PROFESSIONAL
international affairs/environment
ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE
The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management
D. G. Webster
foreword by Oran R. Young
The rapid expansion of the fishing industry in the last
century has raised major concerns over the long-term
viability of many fish species. International fisheries
organizations have failed to prevent the overfishing of
many stocks, but succeeded in curtailing harvests for
some key fisheries. In Adaptive Governance, D. G.
Webster proposes a new perspective to improve our
understanding of both success and failure in interna-
tional resource regimes. She develops a theoretical
approach, the vulnerability response framework, which
can increase understanding of countries’ positions on
the management of international fisheries based on
linkages between domestic vulnerabilities and national
policy positions. Vulnerability, mainly economic in this
context, acts as an indicator for domestic susceptibility
to the increasing competition associated with open
access and related stock declines. Because of this rela-
tionship, vulnerability can also be used to trace the tra-
jectory of nations’ positions on fisheries management as
they seek political alternatives to economic problems.
Webster tests this framework by using it to predict
national positions for eight cases drawn from the
International Commission for the Conservation of
Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). These studies reveal that
there is considerable variance in the management meas-
ures ICCAT has adopted and that much of this vari-
ance can be traced to vulnerability response behavior.
Little attention has been paid to the ways in which
international regimes change over time. Webster’s
innovative approach illuminates the pressures for
change that are generated by economic competition
and overexploitation in Atlantic fisheries. Her work
also identifies patterns of adaptive governance, as
national responses to such pressures culminate in
patterns of change in international management.
D. G. Webster is a Researcher at the Wrigley Institute for
Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California.
November — 6 x 9, 376 pp. — 47 illus.
$27.00S/£17.95 paper
978-0-262-73192-8
$67.00S/£43.95 cloth
978-0-262-23270-8
Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability
and Institutional Innovation series
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PROFESSIONAL
environment/political science
INSTITUTIONS AND
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Principal Findings, Applications,
and Research Frontiers
edited by Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King,
and Heike Schroeder
Studies show that institutions play a role both in caus-
ing and in addressing problems arising from human-
environment interactions. But the nature of this role is
complex and not easily described. This book presents an
overview of recent research on how institutions matter
in efforts to tackle such environmental problems as the
loss of biological diversity, the degradation of forests,
and the overarching issue of climate change. Using the
tools of the “new institutionalism” in the social sciences,
the book treats institutions as sets of rights, rules, and
decision-making procedures. Individual chapters pres-
ent research findings and examine policy implications
regarding questions of causality, performance, and insti-
tutional design as well as the themes of institutional fit
(or misfit), interplay, and scale.
Institutions and Environmental Change is the prod-
uct of a decade-long international research project on
the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change (IDGEC) carried out under the auspices of
the International Human Dimensions Programme.
The book’s policy insights demonstrate that research
on institutions can provide the basis for practical advice
on effective ways to deal with the most pressing envi-
ronmental problems of our times.
CONTRIBUTORS Frank Biermann, Carl Folke, Victor Galaz,
Thomas Gehring, Joyeeta Gupta, Thomas Hahn, Leslie A. King,
Ronald B. Mitchell, Sebastian Oberthür, Per Olsson, Heike Schroeder,
Uno Svedin, Simon Tay, Arild Underdal, Oran R. Young
Oran R. Young is Professor in the Bren School of Environmental
Science and Management at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, where he is also Codirector of the Program
on Governance for Sustainable Development. He is the author
of The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change
(MIT Press, 2002) and many other books. Leslie A. King is
Vice President, Academic, of Malaspina University-College in
British Columbia. Heike Schroeder is Tyndall Research Fellow
in the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University’s
Centre for the Environment.
November — 6 x 9, 400 pp. — 5 illlus.
$28.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-74033-3
$70.00S/£45.95 cloth
978-0-262-24057-4
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environment/political science
POLITICAL THEORY AND
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
edited by Steve Vanderheiden
foreword by John Barry
Climate change will shape the political, economic, and
cultural landscape as surely as it shapes the natural
landscape. It challenges our existing political institutions,
ethical theories, and ways of conceptualizing the human
relationship to the environment, it defies current princi-
ples of distributive justice, transcends current discourses
on rights, and disrupts our sense of place. Political
Theory and Global Climate Change argues that the con-
ceptual tools of political theory can help us understand
the obstacles to fair and effective global climate change
policies, and this volume offers a selection of innovative
and integrative scholarly efforts to do so. Illuminating
the variety of political, economic, and social problems
caused by global warming, the book applies a range of
theoretical approaches and methodologies — from
analytic philosophy and constitutional and legal theory
to neo-Marxism and critical theory — using climate
change as a case to test standard normative and
empirical premises.
The book first looks at distributive justice concerns
raised by climate change, including allocation of the
global atmospheric commons and how to establish
the basis for a fair and effective global climate policy
regime, then examines the complex relationships
between climate change and society, including the
way that social institutions and practices construct,
reinforce, aim to address, and are disrupted by climatic
instability. Showing how political theory challenges and
is challenged by global climate change, the book both
demonstrates and evaluates innovative approaches in
the developing field of environmental political theory.
CONTRIBUTORS Martin J. Adamian, John Barry,
Peter F. Cannavò, Stephen Gardiner, George Gonzalez,
Amy Lovecraft, Timothy W. Luke, Leigh Raymond,
Steve Vanderheiden
Steve Vanderheiden is Assistant Professor of Political Science
at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of
Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change.
November — 6 x 9, 280 pp. — 3 illus.
$24.00S/£15.95 paper
978-0-262-72052-6
$60.00S/£38.95 cloth
978-0-262-22084-2

political science/international affairs
GLOBAL POWERS IN
THE 21ST CENTURY
Strategy and Relations
edited by Alexander T. J. Lennon
and Amanda Kozlowski
Although the United States is considered the world’s
only superpower, other major powers seek to strengthen
the roles they play on the global stage. Because of the
Iraq War and its repercussions, many countries have
placed an increased emphasis on multilateralism. This
new desire for a multipolar world, however, may
obscure the obvious question of what objectives other
powerful countries seek. Few scholars and policymakers
have addressed the role of the other major powers in a
post-9/11 world. Global Powers in the 21st Century fills
this gap, offering in-depth analyses of China, Japan,
Russia, India, and the European Union in this new
global context.
Prominent analysts, including Zbigniew Brzezinski,
C. Raja Mohan, David Shambaugh, Dmitri Trenin,
Akio Watanabe, and Wu Xinbo, examine the policies
and positions of these global players from both inter-
national and domestic perspectives. The book discusses
each power’s domestic politics, sources of power, post-
9/11 changes, relationship with the United States,
adjustments to globalization, and vision of its place
in the world. Global Powers in the 21st Century offers
readers a clear look at the handful of actors that will
shape the world in the years ahead.
CONTRIBUTORS Franco Algieri, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Yong Deng,
Xenia Dormandy, Evan A. Feigenbaum, Michael J. Green,
Robert E. Hunter, Edward J. Lincoln, Jeffrey Mankoff,
C. Raja Mohan, Thomas G. Moore, Robin Niblett, George Perkovich,
Gideon Rachman, Richard J. Samuels, Timothy M. Savage,
Teresita C. Schaffer, David Shambaugh, Robert Sutter,
Dmitri Trenin, Celeste A. Wallander, Akio Watanabe, Wu Xinbo
Alexander T. J. Lennon is editor in chief of The Washington
Quarterly, the journal of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS). He is the editor of The Epicenter
of Crisis: The New Middle East (MIT Press, 2008) and other
Washington Quarterly Readers. Amanda Kozlowski is associate
editor of The Washington Quarterly.
September — 6 x 9, 432 pp.
$28.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-62218-9
A Washington Quarterly Reader
PROFESSIONAL
urban studies/political science
DEMOCRACY AS PROBLEM SOLVING
Civic Capacity in Communities
Across the Globe
Xavier de Souza Briggs
Complexity, division, mistrust, and “process paralysis”
can thwart leaders and others when they tackle local
challenges. In Democracy as Problem Solving, Xavier de
Souza Briggs shows how civic capacity — the capacity
to create and sustain smart collective action — can be
developed and used. In an era of sharp debate over the
conditions under which democracy can develop while
broadening participation and building community,
Briggs argues that understanding and building civic
capacity is crucial for strengthening governance and
changing the state of the world in the process. More
than managing a contest among interest groups or
spurring deliberation to reframe issues, democracy can
be what the public most desires: a recipe for significant
progress on important problems.
Briggs examines efforts in six cities, in the United
States, Brazil, India, and South Africa, that face the
millennial challenges of rapid urban growth, economic
restructuring, and investing in the next generation.
These challenges demand the engagement of govern-
ment, business, and nongovernmental sectors. And the
keys to progress include the ability to combine learning
and bargaining continuously, forge multiple forms of
accountability, and find ways to leverage the capacity
of the grassroots and what Briggs terms the “grasstops,”
regardless of who initiates change or who participates
over time. Civic capacity, Briggs shows, can — and
must — be developed even in places that lack traditions
of cooperative civic action.
Xavier de Souza Briggs is Associate Professor of Sociology and
Urban Planning at MIT. He has worked as a community planner
and senior urban policy official. A faculty research fellow of
Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, he is also
the founder of The Community Problem-Solving Project @ MIT.
His book The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing
Choice in Metropolitan America received a Paul Davidoff Award
form the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
September — 6 x 9, 384 pp. — 13 illus.
$28.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-52485-8
$70.00S/£45.95 cloth
978-0-262-02641-3
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bioethics/health policy
CONFLICTS OF CONSCIENCE
IN HEALTH CARE
An Institutional Compromise
Holly Fernandez Lynch
Physicians in the United States who refuse to perform a
variety of legally permissible medical services because of
their own moral objections are often protected by “con-
science clauses.” These laws, on the books in nearly
every state since the legalization of abortion by Roe v.
Wade, shield physicians and other health professionals
from such potential consequences of refusal as liability
and dismissal. While some praise conscience clauses as
protecting important freedoms, opponents, concerned
with patient access to care, argue that professional
refusals should be tolerated only when they are based
on valid medical grounds. In Conflicts of Conscience in
Health Care, Holly Fernandez Lynch finds a way around
the polarizing rhetoric associated with this issue by
proposing a compromise that protects both a patient’s
access to care and a physician’s ability to refuse. This
focus on compromise is crucial, as new uses of medical
technology expand the controversy beyond abortion
and contraception to reach an increasing number of
doctors and patients.
Lynch argues that doctor-patient matching on the
basis of personal moral values would eliminate, or at
least minimize, many conflicts of conscience, and sug-
gests that state licensing boards facilitate this goal.
Licensing boards would be responsible for balancing
the interests of doctors and patients by ensuring a suf-
ficient number of willing physicians such that no
physician’s refusal leaves a patient entirely without
access to desired medical services. This proposed solu-
tion, Lynch argues, accommodates patients’ freedoms
while leaving important room in the profession for
individuals who find some of the capabilities of med-
ical technology to be ethically objectionable.
Holly Fernandez Lynch is an Associate in the Pharmaceuticals
and Biotechnology Group at Hogan and Hartson, LLP, in
Washington, D.C.
September — 6 x 9, 358 pp. — 25 illus.
$34.00S/£21.95 cloth
978-0-262-12305-1
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biology
PROTOCELLS
Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter
edited by Steen Rasmussen, Mark A. Bedau,
Liaohai Chen, David Deamer, David C. Krakauer,
Norman H. Packard, and Peter F. Stadler
Protocells offers a comprehensive resource on current
attempts to create simple forms of life from scratch in
the laboratory. These minimal versions of cells, known
as protocells, are entities with lifelike properties created
from nonliving materials, and the book provides in-depth
investigations of processes at the interface between
nonliving and living matter. Chapters by experts in the
field put this state-of-the-art research in the context
of theory, laboratory work, and computer simulations
on the components and properties of protocells. The
book also provides perspectives on research in related
areas and such broader societal issues as commercial
applications and ethical considerations.
Protocells promises to be the essential reference for
research on bottom-up assembly of life and living
technology for years to come. It is written to be both
resource and inspiration for scientists working in this
exciting and important field and a definitive text for
the interested layman.
Steen Rasmussen is Scientific Team Leader for Self-Organizing
Systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mark A. Bedau
is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College,
cofounder and COO of ProtoLife Srl. and the coeditor of
Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science
(MIT Press, 2008). Liaohai Chen is a molecular biologist and
Group Leader in the Biosciences Division at Argonne National
Laboratory. David Deamer is Research Professor of Chemistry
and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
David C. Krakauer is Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Norman H. Packard is cofounder and CEO of ProtoLife Srl.
Peter F. Stadler is Professor of Bioinformatics at the University
of Leipzig. Rasmussen, Packard, and Stadler are External
Research Professors at the Santa Fe Institute.
November — 7 x 9, 776 pp.
20 color illus., 100 black & white illus.
$75.00S/£48.95 cloth
978-0-262-18268-3

evolutionary biology
EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATIVE
FLEXIBILITY
Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in
Human and Animal Communication
edited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel
The evolutionary roots of human communication are
difficult to trace, but recent comparative research suggests
that the first key step in that evolutionary history may
have been the establishment of basic communicative
flexibility — the ability to vocalize freely combined
with the capability to coordinate vocalization with
communicative intent. The contributors to this volume
investigate how some species (particularly ancient
hominids) broke free of the constraints of “fixed signals,”
actions that were evolved to communicate but lack the
flexibility of language — a newborn infant’s cry, for
example, always signals distress and has a stereotypical
form not modifiable by the crying baby. Fundamentally,
the contributors ask what communicative flexibility is
and what evolutionary conditions can produce it.
The accounts offered in these chapters are notable
for taking the question of language origins farther
back in evolutionary time than in much previous work.
Many contributors address the very earliest commu-
nicative break of the hominid line from the primate
background; others examine the evolutionary origins of
flexibility in, for example, birds and marine mammals.
The volume’s interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives
illuminate issues that are on the cutting edge of recent
research on this topic.
D. Kimbrough Oller is Professor and Plough Chair of Excellence
in the School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at
the University of Memphis. Ulrike Griebel is an adjunct faculty
member of the Department of Biology at the University of
Memphis. Oller is an external faculty member and Griebel
a member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and
Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria. They are the editors of
Evolution of Communications Systems: A Comparative Approach
(MIT Press, 2004).
September — 7 x 9, 352 pp. — 36 illus.
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-15121-4
Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
PROFESSIONAL
biology/computer science
BIOLOGICAL MODELING
AND SIMULATION
A Survey of Practical Models, Algorithms,
and Numerical Methods
Russell Schwartz
There are many excellent computational biology
resources now available for learning about methods
that have been developed to address specific biological
systems, but comparatively little attention has been paid
to training aspiring computational biologists to handle
new and unanticipated problems. This text is intended
to fill that gap by teaching students how to reason
about developing formal mathematical models of bio-
logical systems that are amenable to computational
analysis. It collects in one place a selection of broadly
useful models, algorithms, and theoretical analysis tools
normally found scattered among many other disci-
plines. It thereby gives the aspiring student a bag of
tricks that will serve him or her well in modeling prob-
lems drawn from numerous subfields of biology. These
techniques are taught from the perspective of what the
practitioner needs to know to use them effectively, sup-
plemented with references for further reading on more
advanced use of each method covered.
The text, which grew out of a class taught at
Carnegie Mellon University, covers models for opti-
mization, simulation and sampling, and parameter
tuning. These topics provide a general framework for
learning how to formulate mathematical models of
biological systems, what techniques are available to
work with these models, and how to fit the models
to particular systems. Their application is illustrated
by many examples drawn from a variety of biological
disciplines and several extended case studies that show
how the methods described have been applied to real
problems in biology.
Russell Schwartz is Associate Professor in the Department of
Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
September — 7 x 9, 408 pp. — 111 illus.
$45.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-19584-3
Computational Molecular Biology series
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PROFESSIONAL
neuroscience/vision
A comprehensive guide to
current research, reflecting
recent technical breakthroughs
that have established the
usefulness of the mouse model
as part of a bilateral exchange
between experimental and
clinical research.
August
8 1/2 x 11, 872 pp.
264 illus. in color and black & white
$135.00S/£79.95 cloth
978-0-262-03381-7
Also available
THE VISUAL NEUROSCIENCES
edited by Leo M. Chalupa
and John S. Werner
2003, 978-0-262-03308-4
$195.00S/£125.95 cloth
68
EYE, RETINA, AND VISUAL SYSTEM OF THE MOUSE
edited by Leo M. Chalupa and Robert W. Williams
Recent years have seen a burst of studies on the mouse eye and visual system,
fueled in large part by the relatively recent ability to produce mice with precisely
defined changes in gene sequence. Mouse models have contributed to a wide
range of scientific breakthroughs for a number of ocular and neurological diseases
and have allowed researchers to address fundamental issues that were difficult to
approach with other experimental models. This comprehensive guide to current
research captures the first wave of studies in the field, with fifty-nine chapters by
leading scholars that demonstrate the usefulness of mouse models as a bridge
between experimental and clinical research.
The opening chapters introduce the mouse as a species and research model,
discussing such topics as the mouse’s evolutionary history and the mammalian
visual system. Subsequent sections explore more specialized subjects, considering
optics, psychophysics, and the visual behaviors of mice; the organization of the
adult mouse eye and central visual system; the development of the mouse eye
(including comparisons to human development); the development and plasticity
of retinal projections and visuotopic maps; mouse models for human eye disease
(including glaucoma and cataracts); and the application of advanced genomic
technologies (including gene therapy and genetic knockouts) to the mouse
visual system. Readers of this unique reference will see that the study of mouse
models has already demonstrated real translational prowess in vision research.
Leo M. Chalupa is Distinguished Professor in the Department
of Ophthalmology and the Section of Neurobiology, Physiology,
and Behavior at the University of California, Davis. He is
the coeditor of The Visual Neurosciences (MIT Press). Robert
W. Williams is Professor in the Department of Anatomy and
Neurobiology and the Dunavant Chair of Developmental
Genetics in Pediatrics and the University of Tennessee. He
is codirector of the Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics
at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and
founding director of the Complex Trait Consortium.
“The book, Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the
Mouse examines the extensive ophthalmic research
currently being done, including: optics, psychophysics,
and visual behavior; the relationship of the eye to the
central nervous system; ocular development; development
of retinal projections to the brain; some examples of mouse
models of human eye disease; and a summary of some
advanced gene technologies. The many well-known
contributors to this book have provided good summaries
of a wide range of topics that will be useful to all who
study visual neuroscience.”
— Richard Smith, Research Scientist,
The Jackson Laboratory

neuroscience/psychology/gender studies
SEXUALIZED BRAINS
Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence
from a Cultural Perspective
edited by Nicole C. Karafyllis
and Gotlind Ulshöfer
The now-popular idea that emotions have an intelligent
core (and the reverse, that intelligence has an emotional
core) comes from the neurosciences and psychology.
Similarly, the fundamental sexualization of the brain —
the new interest in “essential differences” in male and
female brains and behaviors — is based on neuroscience
research and neuroimages of emotions. In Sexualized
Brains, scholars from a range of disciplines reflect on
the epistemological claims that emotional intelligence
(EI) can be located in the brain and that it is legitimate
to attribute distinct kinds of emotions to the biological
sexes. The brain, as an icon, has colonized the humani-
ties and social sciences, leading to the emergence of
such new disciplines as neurosociology, neuroeconom-
ics, and neurophilosophy. Neuroscience and psychology
now have the power to transform not only the practice
of science but also contemporary society. These devel-
opments, the essays in this volume show, will soon
affect the very heart of gender studies.
Contributors examine historical views of gender,
sex, and elite brains (the influential idea of the “genius”);
techniques for representing and measuring emotions
and EI (including neuroimaging and pop science);
the socioeconomic contexts of debates on elites, EI,
and gender and the underlying power of the brain
as a model to legitimize social disparities.
CONTRIBUTORS Anne Bartsch, Carmen Baumeler,
Myriam Bechtoldt, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Malte-Christian Gruber,
Michael Hagner, Bärbel Hüsing, Eva Illouz, Nicole C. Karafyllis,
Carolyn MacCann, Gerald Matthews, Robert Nye, William Reddy,
Richard D. Roberts, Ralf Schulze, Gotlind Ulshöfer, Moshe Zeidner
Nicole C. Karafyllis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and
Science and Technology Studies at Johan Wolfgang Goethe
University Frankfurt and University of Stuttgart. Gotlind
Ulshöfer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University Frankfurt and Program Director for
Economics, Business Ethics, and Gender at the Protestant
Academy Arnoldshain, Germany.
November — 7 x 9, 416 pp. — 11 color illus.
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-11317-5
A Bradford Book
PROFESSIONAL
cognitive neuroscience
HANDBOOK OF DEVELOPMENTAL
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Second Edition
edited by Charles A. Nelson and Monica Luciana
The publication of the second edition of this handbook
testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive
neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging and record-
ing technologies, along with well-defined behavioral tasks
— the essential methodological tools of cognitive neuro-
science — are now being used to study development. The
Handbook covers basic aspects of neural development,
sensory and sensorimotor systems, language, cognition,
emotion, and the implications of lifelong neural plasticity
for brain and behavioral development.
The second edition reflects the dramatic expansion
of the field in the seven years since the publication of
the first edition. This new Handbook has grown from
forty-one chapters to fifty-four, all original to this edi-
tion. It places greater emphasis on affective and social
neuroscience — an offshoot of cognitive neuroscience
that is now influencing the developmental literature.
The second edition also places a greater emphasis on
clinical disorders, primarily because such research is
inherently translational in nature. Finally, the book’s
new discussions of recent breakthroughs in imaging
genomics include one entire chapter devoted to the
subject. The intersection of brain, behavior, and genet-
ics represents an exciting new area of inquiry, and the
second edition of this essential reference work will
be a valuable resource for researchers interested in
the development of brain-behavior relations in the
context of both typical and atypical development.
Charles A. Nelson is Research Director, Developmental
Medicine Center at Children’s Hospital Boston, and Professor
of Pediatrics and Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric
Developmental Medicine Research at Harvard Medical School.
Monica Luciana is Associate Professor of Psychology and
Child Development at the University of Minnesota.
First edition, winner of the 2001 Professional/Scholarly Publishing
Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of
American Publishers, Inc., in the category of Single Volume
Reference: Science.
August — 8 x 11, 956 pp.
153 illus. in color and black & white
$165.00S/£94.95 cloth
978-0-262-14104-8
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience series
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PROFESSIONAL
cognitive science
CREATING SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS
Nancy Nersessian
How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating
Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer
this central but virtually unasked question in the prob-
lem of conceptual change. She argues that the popular
image of novel concepts and profound insight bursting
forth in a blinding flash of inspiration is mistaken.
Instead, novel concepts are shown to arise out of the
interplay of three factors: an attempt to solve specific
problems; the use of conceptual, analytical, and material
resources provided by the cognitive-social-cultural con-
text of the problem; and dynamic processes of reasoning
that extend ordinary cognition.
Focusing on the third factor, Nersessian draws on
cognitive science research and historical accounts of sci-
entific practices to show how scientific and ordinary
cognition lie on a continuum, and how problem-solving
practices in one illuminate practices in the other. Her
investigations of scientific practices show conceptual
change as deriving from the use of analogies, imagistic
representations, and thought experiments, integrated
with experimental investigations and mathematical
analyses. She presents a view of constructed models as
hybrid objects, serving as intermediaries between targets
and analogical sources in bootstrapping processes.
Extending these results, she argues that these complex
cognitive operations and structures are not mere aids to
discovery, but that together they constitute a powerful
form of reasoning — model-based reasoning — that
generates novelty. This new approach to mental model-
ing and analogy, together with Nersessian’s cognitive-
historical approach, make Creating Scientific Concepts
equally valuable to cognitive science and philosophy
of science.
Nancy Nersessian is Regents’ Professor of Cognitive Science
in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute
of Technology. She is the author of Faraday to Einstein:
Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories, and numerous
articles on the creative reasoning practices of scientists
and on science learning.
November — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 54 figures
$32.00S/£20.95 cloth
978-0-262-14105-5
A Bradford Book
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cognitive science
HUMAN REASONING
AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Keith Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen
In Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science, Keith
Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen — a cognitive
scientist and a logician — argue for the indispensability
of modern mathematical logic to the study of human
reasoning. Logic and cognition were once closely con-
nected, they write, but were “divorced” in the past cen-
tury; the psychology of deduction went from being
central to the cognitive revolution to being the subject
of widespread skepticism about whether human reason-
ing really happens outside the academy. Stenning and
van Lambalgen argue that logic and reasoning have
been separated because of a series of unwarranted
assumptions about logic.
Stenning and van Lambalgen contend that psychol-
ogy cannot ignore processes of interpretation in which
people, wittingly or unwittingly, frame problems for
subsequent reasoning. The authors employ a neurally
implementable defeasible logic for modeling part of
this framing process, and show how it can be used to
guide the design of experiments and interpret results.
They draw examples from deductive reasoning, from
the child's development of understandings of mind,
from analysis of a psychiatric disorder (autism), and
from the search for the evolutionary origins of human
higher mental processes.
The picture proposed is one of fast, cheap, auto-
matic but logical processes bringing to bear general
knowledge on the interpretation of task, language, and
context, thus enabling human reasoners to go beyond
the information given. This proposal puts reasoning
back at center stage.
Keith Stenning is Professor of Human Communication in
the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
He is author of Seeing Reason and coauthor of Introduction
to Cognition and Communication (MIT Press, 2006).
Michiel van Lambalgen is Professor of Logic and Cognitive
Science at the University of Amsterdam and coauthor of
The Proper Treatment of Events.
August — 6 x 9, 392 pp. — 38 illus.
$42.00S/£27.95 cloth
978-0-262-19583-6
A Bradford Book

evolutionary psychology
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Second Edition
John Cartwright
Evolutionary psychology occupies an important place
in the drive to understand and explain human behavior.
Darwinian ideas provide powerful tools to illuminate
how fundamental aspects of the way humans think,
feel, and interact derive from reproductive interests
and an ultimate need for survival. In this updated and
expanded edition of Evolution and Human Behavior,
John Cartwright considers the emergence of Homo
sapiens as a species and looks at contemporary issues,
such as familial relationships and conflict and coopera-
tion, in light of key theoretical principles.
The book covers basic concepts including natural
and sexual selection, life history theory, and the funda-
mentals of genetics. New material will be found in
chapters on emotion, culture, incest avoidance, ethics,
and cognition and reasoning. Two new chapters are
devoted to the evolutionary analysis of mental disor-
ders. Students of psychology, human biology, and
physical and cultural anthropology will find Evolution
and Human Behavior a comprehensive textbook of
great value.
John Cartwright is Senior Lecturer and teaching fellow at the
University of Chester, where he teaches courses on evolutionary
psychology, genetics and evolution, and animal behavior.
“This book offers a well-balanced approach to the subject of
evolutionary approaches to human behavior. The revised
edition still contains more evolutionary biology than other
evolutionary psychology textbooks, which is a real strength.
The new chapter on ethics is a valuable addition, as it pres-
ents philosophical arguments linked to an evolutionary
approach to human behavior.”
— Julie Coultas, Visiting Research Fellow,
Psychology, University of Sussex
7 1/2 x 9 1/2, 448 pp. — 148 illus.
$36.00S paper
978-0-262-53304-1
$80.00S cloth
978-0-262-03380-0
A Bradford Book
For sale in the U.S. and dependencies and Canada only
PROFESSIONAL
cognitive science/linguistics
ORIGINS OF HUMAN
COMMUNICATION
Michael Tomasello
Human communication is grounded in fundamentally
cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original
and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of
human communication, Michael Tomasello connects
the fundamentally cooperative structure of human
communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice)
to the especially cooperative structure of human
(as opposed to other primate) social interaction.
Tomasello argues that human cooperative communica-
tion rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared inten-
tionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally
for collaboration and culture more generally. The basic motives
of the infrastructure are helping and sharing. Cooperative
motives each created different functional pressures for con-
ventionalizing grammatical constructions. Requesting help in
the immediate you-and-me and here-and-now, for example,
required very little grammar, but informing and sharing
required increasingly complex grammatical devices.
Drawing on empirical research into gestural and
vocal communication by great apes and human infants
(much of it conducted by his own research team),
Tomasello argues further that humans’ cooperative
communication emerged first in the natural gestures of
pointing and pantomiming. Conventional communica-
tion, first gestural and then vocal, evolved only after
humans already possessed these natural gestures and
their shared intentionality infrastructure along with
skills of cultural learning for creating and passing
along jointly understood communicative conventions.
Challenging the Chomskian view that linguistic knowl-
edge is innate, Tomasello proposes instead that the
most fundamental aspects of uniquely human commu-
nication are biological adaptations for cooperative social
interaction in general and that the purely linguistic
dimensions of human communication are cultural
conventions and constructions created by and passed
along within particular cultural groups.
Michael Tomasello is Codirector of the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. He is the author of
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition and Constructing a
Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition.
September — 5 3/8 x 8, 400 pp.
$36.00S/£23.95 cloth
978-0-262-20177-3
Jean Nicod Lectures
A Bradford Book
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PROFESSIONAL
philosophy

INDETERMINACY THE FUTURE OF CITIZENSHIP

The Mapped, the Navigable, and the Uncharted edited by Jose V. Ciprut
edited by Jose V. Ciprut The ongoing expansion in the field of citizenship stud-
Distinctions have been made between what is physically ies is one of the most important and remarkable recent
indeterminate out there and what is indeterminable by trends in social sciences and humanities research. This
human observation or in human action. The implica- volume examines — without advocating any ideological
tions of these insights into indeterminacy and indeter- agenda — the evolving meaning of citizenship, with an
minabilities for practical and theoretical knowledge eye to the future. The future of citizenship, they argue,
span physics, philosophy, ontology, causality, and the may be a worldwide “citizenship by voluntary associa-
philosophy of mind. In this book, contributors from tion,” paramount to a global civic interface.
a range of disciplines consider the concept of indeter-
September — 6 x 9, 432 pp.
minacy and a few varieties of indeterminability, with
$37.00S/£23.95 paper
attention to the distinctions between the two phe-
978-0-262-53312-6
nomena, appropriate approaches for examining both,
$80.00S/£51.95 cloth
and the differences vis-à-vis uncertainty, vagueness, 978-0-262-03389-3
and ambiguity.
September — 6 x 9, 432 pp. — 39 illus. FREEDOM
$37.00S/£23.95 paper Reassessment and Rephrasings
978-0-262-53311-9 edited by Jose V. Ciprut
$80.00S/£51.95 cloth Some philosophers conceive freedom as a state; others
978-0-262-03388-6
view it as an ideal. A songwriter sees it as a way of life:
“Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight
DEMOCRATIZATIONS choir, I have tried in my way to be free.” In this cross-
Comparisons, Confrontations, and Contrasts disciplinary volume, the contributors reassess and
edited by Jose V. Ciprut rephrase the conceptualizations and theorizations of
Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations freedom and their applicability to daily life. Their
are open-ended processes; they depend on structures field-specific studies help reconcile theory and practice.
and functions in systemic contexts that idiosyncratically
September — 6 x 9, 376 pp.
evolve in tone, tenor, direction, and pace. In interlinked
$37.00S/£23.95 paper
chapters that span a number of disciplines, this volume
978-0-262-53310-2
reexamines the basic traits, the comparable outcomes,
$80.00S/£51.95 cloth
and the self-defining dynamics of some of the more 978-0-262-03387-9
widely attempted versions of democracy across the world.
The crucial question these chapters address is whether
democratization is possible without an understanding of
ETHICS, POLITICS, AND DEMOCRACY
From Primitive Principles
what is expected from a mode of citizenship inseparable
to Prospective Practices
from an ethic of freedom.
edited by Jose V. Ciprut
September — 6 x 9, 424 pp. This volume examines continuities and change in the
$37.00S/£23.95 paper normative underpinnings of both ancient and modern
978-0-262-53308-9 practices of political governance, public duties, and
$80.00S/£51.95 cloth personal responsibilities. As such, it stands at the cross-
978-0-262-03385-5
disciplinary intersection between the practice of demo-
Jose V. Ciprut is an economist, independent scholar, and the cratic citizenship and the exercise of political ethics.
author of The Art of the Feud: Reconceptualizing International
Relations and Of Fears And Foes: Security And Insecurity In A September — 6 x 9, 408 pp.
Globalizing International Political Economy. $37.00S/£23.95 paper
978-0-262-53309-6
$80.00S/£51.95 cloth
978-0-262-03386-2
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philosophy
PRAGMATISM AND REFERENCE
David Boersema
Despite a recent revival of interest in pragmatist philos-
ophy, most work in the analytic philosophy of language
ignores insights offered by classical pragmatists and
contemporary neopragmatists. In Pragmatism and
Reference, David Boersema argues that a pragmatist
perspective on reference presents a distinct alternative
— and corrective — to the prevailing analytic views on
the topic. Boersema finds that the pragmatist approach
to reference, with alternative understandings of the
nature of language, the nature of conceptualization and
categorization, and the nature of inquiry, is suggested in
the work of Wittgenstein and more thoroughly devel-
oped in the works of such classical and contemporary
pragmatists as Charles Peirce and Hilary Putnam.
Boersema first discusses the descriptivist and causal
theories of reference — the received views on the topic
in analytic philosophy. Then, after considering
Wittgenstein’s approach to reference, Boersema details
the pragmatist approach to reference by nine philoso-
phers: the “Big Three,” of classical pragmatism, Peirce,
William James, and John Dewey; three contemporary
American philosophers, Putnam, Catherine Elgin, and
Richard Rorty; and three important continental
philosophers, Umberto Eco, Karl-Otto Apel, and
Jürgen Habermas. Finally, Boersema shows explicitly
how pragmatism offers a genuinely alternative account
of reference, presenting several case studies on the
nature and function of names. Here, he focuses on
conceptions of individuation, similarity, essences, and
sociality of language. Pragmatism and Reference will
serve as a bridge between analytic and pragmatist
approaches to such topics of shared concern as the
nature and function of language.
David Boersema is Professor of Philosophy and Douglas C. Strain
Chair of Natural Philosophy at Pacific University, Oregon. He is
the author of Philosophy of Science.
December — 6 x 9, 328 pp.
$36.00S/£23.95 cloth
978-0-262-02660-4
PROFESSIONAL
psychology
PSYCHOLOGICAL AGENCY
Theory, Practice, and Culture
edited by Roger Frie
Agency is a central psychological phenomenon that
must be accounted for in any explanatory framework
for human action. According to the diverse group of
scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have con-
tributed chapters to this book, psychological agency
is not a fixed entity that conforms to traditional
definitions of free will but an affective, embodied, and
relational processing of human experience. Agency is
dependent on the biological, social, and cultural con-
texts that inform and shape who we are. Yet agency
also involves the creation of meaning and the capacity
for imagining new and different ways of being and
acting and cannot be entirely reduced to biology or
culture. This generative potential of agency is central
to the process of psychotherapy and to psychological
change and development.
The chapters explore psychological agency in
theoretical, clinical and developmental, and social and
cultural contexts. Psychological agency is presented as
situated within a web of intersecting biophysical and
cultural contexts in an ongoing interactive and devel-
opmental process. Persons are seen as not only shaped
by but also capable of fashioning and refashioning their
contexts in new and meaningful ways. The contributors
have all trained in psychology or psychiatry, and many
have backgrounds in philosophy; wherever possible
they combine theoretical discussion with clinical
case illustration.
CONTRIBUTORS John Fiscalini, Roger Frie, Jill Gentile,
Adelbert H. Jenkins, Elliot L. Jurist, Jack Martin, Arnold Modell,
Linda Pollock, Pascal Sauvayre, Jeff Sugarman
Roger Frie is Associate Professor of Psychology at Long
Island University, Brooklyn Campus, and Assistant Clinical
Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons. His recent books include
Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism
and Psychotherapy as a Human Science.
December — 6 x 9, 272 pp.
$34.00S/£21.95 paper
978-0-262-56231-7
$80.00S/£51.95 cloth
978-0-262-06267-1
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PROFESSIONAL
game studies/music
An examination of the many
complex aspects of game
audio, from the perspectives
of both sound design and
music composition.
October
8 x 9, 216 pp.
42 illus.
$28.00S/£18.95 cloth
978-0-262-03378-7
74
GAME SOUND
An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice
of Video Game Music and Sound Design
Karen Collins
A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an
important role in this: a player’s actions can trigger dialogue, sound effects, ambi-
ent sound, and music. And yet game sound has been neglected in the growing
literature on game studies. This book fills that gap, introducing readers to the
many complex aspects of game audio, from its development in early games to
theoretical discussions of immersion and realism. In Game Sound, Karen Collins
draws on a range of sources — including composers, sound designers, voice-over
actors and other industry professionals, Internet articles, fan sites, industry con-
ferences, magazines, patent documents, and, of course, the games themselves —
to offer a broad overview of the history, theory, and production practice of video
game audio.
Game Sound has two underlying themes: how and why games are different
from or similar to film or other linear audiovisual media; and technology and
the constraints it has placed on the production of game audio. Collins focuses
first on the historical development of game audio, from penny arcades through
the rise of home games and the recent rapid developments in the industry. She
then examines the production process for a contemporary game at a large game
company, discussing the roles of composers, sound designers, voice talent, and
audio programmers; considers the growing presence
of licensed intellectual property (particularly popular
music and films) in games; and explores the function
of audio in games in theoretical terms. Finally, she
discusses the difficulties posed by nonlinearity and
interactivity for the composer of game music.
Karen Collins is Canada Research Chair at the Canadian
Centre of Arts and Technology, University of Waterloo.

technology/communications
NETWORKED PUBLICS
edited by Kazys Varnelis
Digital media and network technologies are now part of
everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of
communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous
mobile phone connects us with others as it removes
us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics
examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts
created by these technologies have transformed our
relationships to (and definitions of ) place, culture,
politics, and infrastructure.
Four chapters — each by an interdisciplinary team
of scholars using collaborative software — provide a
synoptic overview along with illustrative case studies.
The chapter on place describes how digital networks
enable us to be present in physical and networked
places simultaneously (on the phone while on the
road; on the Web while at a café) — often at the
expense of non-digital commitments. The chapter
on culture explores the growth of amateur-produced
and -remixed content online and the impact of these
practices on the music, anime, advertising, and news
industries. The chapter on politics examines the new
networked modes of bottom-up political expression
and mobilization, and the difficulty in channeling
online political discourse into productive political
deliberation. And finally, the chapter on infrastructure
notes the tension between openness and control in the
flow of information, as seen in the current controversy
over net neutrality. An introduction by anthropologist
Mizuko Ito and a conclusion by architecture theorist
Kazys Varnelis frame the chapters, giving overviews
of the radical nature of these transformations.
Online content including a research blog and lecture
videos may be found at http://www.networkedpublics.org.
CONTRIBUTORS Walter Baer, François Bar, Anne Friedberg,
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Mizuko Ito, Mark E. Kann, Merlyna Lim,
Fernando Ordonez, Todd Richmond, Adrienne Russell, Marc Tuters,
Kazys Varnelis
Kazys Varnelis is Director of the Network Architecture Lab,
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
at Columbia University, and Member, Founding Faculty, at
the School of Architecture, University of Limerick.
October — 7 x 9, 176 pp. — 1 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-22085-9
PROFESSIONAL
computer science
SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING
edited by Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
and Michael Papazoglou
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promises a world
of cooperating services loosely connected, creating
dynamic business processes and agile applications that
span organizations and platforms. As a computing
paradigm, it utilizes services as fundamental elements
to support rapid, low-cost development of distributed
applications in heterogeneous environments. Realizing
the SOC promise requires the design of Service-
Oriented Architectures (SOAs) that enable the devel-
opment of simpler and cheaper distributed applications.
In this collection, researchers from academia and indus-
try report on recent advances in the field, exploring
approaches, technology, and research issues related to
developing SOAs.
SOA enables service discovery, integration, and use,
allowing application developers to overcome many dis-
tributed enterprise computing challenges. The contrib-
utors to this volume treat topics related to SOA and
such proposed enhancements to it as Event Drive
Architecture (EDA) and extended SOA (xSOA) as
well as engineering aspects of SOA-based applications.
In particular, the chapters discuss modeling of SOA-
based applications, SOA architecture design, business
process management, transactional integrity, quality of
service (QoS) and service agreements, service require-
ments engineering, reuse, and adaptation.
CONTRIBUTORS L. Bahler, Boualem Benatallah,
Christoph Bussler, F. Caruso, Fabio Casati, C. Chung, Emilia Cimpian,
B. Falchuk, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Jaap Gordijn, Paul Grefen,
Jonas Grundler, Woralak Kongdenfha, Yutu Liu, Mark Little,
Heiko Ludwig, J. Micallef, Thomas Mikalsen, Adrian Mocan,
Anne HH Ngu, Bart Orriens, Savas Parastatidis, Michael Papazoglou,
Barbara Pernici, Pierluigi Plebani, Isabelle Rouvellou, Quan Z. Sheng,
Halvard Skogsrud, Stefan Tai, Farouk Toumani, Pascal van Eck,
Jim Webber, Roel Wieringa, Jian Yang, Liangzhao Zeng,
Olaf Zimmermann
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos is Senior Scientist at Telcordia
Technologies, Austin, Texas. Michael Papazoglou is Professor of
Computer Science and Director of INFOLAB at Tilburg
University, the Netherlands.
October — 8 x 9, 416 pp. — 138 illus.
$55.00S/£35.95 cloth
978-0-262-07296-0
Cooperative Information Systems series
75
PROFESSIONAL
computer science
QUANTUM COMPUTING
WITHOUT MAGIC
Devices
Zdzislaw Meglicki
This text offers an introduction to quantum computing,
with a special emphasis on basic quantum physics,
experiment, and quantum devices. Unlike many other
texts, which tend to emphasize algorithms, Quantum
Computing without Magic explains the requisite quan-
tum physics in some depth, and then explains the
devices themselves. It is a book for readers who, having
already encountered quantum algorithms, may ask,
“Yes, I can see how the algebra does the trick, but how
can we actually do it?” By explaining the details in the
context of the topics covered, this book strips the sub-
ject of the “magic” with which it is so often cloaked.
Quantum Computing without Magic covers the
essential probability calculus; the qubit, its physics,
manipulation and measurement, and how it can be
implemented using superconducting electronics;
quaternions and density operator formalism; unitary
formalism and its application to Berry phase manipula-
tion; the biqubit, the mysteries of entanglement,
nonlocality, separability, biqubit classification, and
the Schroedinger's Cat paradox; the controlled-NOT
gate, its applications and implementations; and classi-
cal analogs of quantum devices and quantum processes.
Quantum Computing without Magic can be used as
a complementary text for physics and electronic engi-
neering undergraduates studying quantum computing
and basic quantum mechanics, or as an introduction
and guide for electronic engineers, mathematicians,
computer scientists, or scholars in these fields who are
interested in quantum computing and how it might
fit into their research programs.
Zdzislaw Meglicki, who holds doctorates in electronic engi-
neering and physics, is Senior Technical Advisor to the Office
of Vice President for Information Technology at Indiana
University.
September — 8 x 9, 448 pp.
$35.00S/£22.95 paper
978-0-262-13506-1
Scientific and Engineering Computation series
76
computer science/programming languages
DESIGN CONCEPTS IN
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Franklyn A. Turbak and David K. Gifford
with Mark A. Sheldon
Hundreds of programming languages are in use today
— scripting languages for Internet commerce, user
interface programming tools, spreadsheet macros,
page format specification languages, and many others.
Designing a programming language is a metaprogram-
ming activity that bears certain similarities to program-
ming in a regular language, with clarity and simplicity
even more important than in ordinary programming.
This comprehensive text uses a simple and concise
framework to teach key ideas in programming language
design and implementation. The book’s unique approach
is based on a family of syntactically simple pedagogical
languages that allow students to explore programming
language concepts systematically. It takes as premise
and starting point the idea that when language behav-
iors become incredibly complex, the description of the
behaviors must be incredibly simple.
The book presents a set of tools (a mathematical
metalanguage, abstract syntax, operational and denota-
tional semantics) and uses it to explore a comprehen-
sive set of programming language design dimensions,
including dynamic semantics (naming, state, control,
data), static semantics (types, type reconstruction,
polymporphism, effects), and pragmatics (compilation,
garbage collection). The many examples and exercises
offer students opportunities to apply the foundational
ideas explained in the text. Specialized topics and code
that implements many of the algorithms and compila-
tion methods in the book can be found on the book’s
Web site, along with such additional material as a sec-
tion on concurrency and proofs of the theorems in the
text. The book is suitable as a text for an introductory
graduate or advanced undergraduate programming lan-
guages course; it can also serve as a reference for
researchers and practitioners.
Franklyn A. Turbak is an Associate Professor in the Computer
Science Department at Wellesley College. David K. Gifford
is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT.
Mark A. Sheldon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the
Computer Science Department at Wellesley College.
August — 8 x 10, 1200 pp. — 411 illus.
$75.00S/£43.95 cloth
978-0-262-20175-9

computer science/artificial intelligence
BIO-INSPIRED ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
Theories, Methods, and Technologies
Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi
New approaches to artificial intelligence spring from
the idea that intelligence emerges as much from cells,
bodies, and societies as it does from evolution, develop-
ment, and learning. Traditionally, artificial intelligence
has been concerned with reproducing the abilities of
human brains; newer approaches take inspiration from
a wider range of biological structures that that are
capable of autonomous self-organization. Examples of
these new approaches include evolutionary computation
and evolutionary electronics, artificial neural networks,
immune systems, biorobotics, and swarm intelligence
— to mention only a few. This book offers a compre-
hensive introduction to the emerging field of biologi-
cally inspired artificial intelligence that can be used as
an upper-level text or as a reference for researchers.
Each chapter presents computational approaches
inspired by a different biological system; each begins
with background information about the biological sys-
tem and then proceeds to develop computational mod-
els that make use of biological concepts. The chapters
cover evolutionary computation and electronics; cellu-
lar systems; neural systems, including neuromorphic
engineering; developmental systems; immune systems;
behavioral systems — including several approaches to
robotics, including behavior-based, bio-mimetic, epige-
netic, and evolutionary robots; and collective systems,
including swarm robotics as well as cooperative and
competitive co-evolving systems. Chapters end with a
concluding overview and suggested reading.
Dario Floreano is Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent
Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Lausanne (EPFL). He is the coauthor of Evolutionary Robotics:
The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing
Machines (MIT Press, 2000). Claudio Mattiussi is a researcher
at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL.
September — 8 x 9, 544 pp. — 130 illus.
$50.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-06271-8
Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series
PROFESSIONAL
economics
REVISITING KEYNES
Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren
edited by Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga
In 1931 distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes
published a short essay, “Economic Possibilities for Our
Grandchildren,” in his collection Essays in Persuasion.
In the essay, he expressed optimism for the economic
future despite the doldrums of the post-World War I
years and the onset of the Great Depression. Keynes
imagined that by 2030 the standard of living would be
dramatically higher; people, liberated from want (and
without the desire to consume for the sake of consump-
tion), would work no more than fifteen hours a week,
devoting the rest of their time to leisure and culture. In
Revisiting Keynes, leading contemporary economists
consider what Keynes got right in his essay — the rise
in the standard of living, for example — and what he
got wrong — such as a shortened work week and con-
sumer satiation. In so doing, they raise challenging
questions about the world economy and contemporary
lifestyles in the twenty-first century.
The contributors — among them, four Nobel laure-
ates in economics — point out that although Keynes
correctly predicted economic growth, he neglected
the problems of distribution and inequality. Keynes
overestimated the desire of people to stop working and
underestimated the pleasures and rewards of work —
perhaps basing his idea of economic bliss on the life of
the English gentleman or the ideals of his Bloomsbury
group friends. In Revisiting Keynes, Keynes’s short essay
— usually seen as a minor divertissement compared
to his other more influential works — becomes the
catalyst for a lively debate among some of today’s top
economists about economic growth, inequality, wealth,
work, leisure, culture, and consumerism.
CONTRIBUTORS William J. Baumol, Leonardo Becchetti,
Gary S. Becker, Michele Boldrin, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Robert H. Frank,
Richard B. Freeman, Benjamin M. Friedman, Axel Leijonhufvud,
David K. Levine, Lee E. Ohanian, Edmund S. Phelps, Luis Rayo,
Robert Solow, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fabrizio Zilibotti
Lorenzo Pecchi is Managing Director at UniCredit Markets and
Investment Banking Division and Adjunct Professor at the
University of Rome Tor Vergata. Gustavo Piga is Professor
of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
September — 6 x 9, 232 pp. — 7 illus.
$30.00S/£19.95 cloth
978-0-262-16249-4
77
PROFESSIONAL
economics
MINIMUM WAGES
David Neumark and William L. Wascher
Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred coun-
tries, both industrialized and developing. The United
States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938
and has increased the minimum wage and its coverage
at irregular intervals ever since; in addition, as of the
beginning of 2008, thirty-two states and the District
of Columbia had established a minimum wage higher
than the federal level. Over the years, the minimum
wage has been popular with the public, controversial in
the political arena, and the subject of vigorous debate
among economists over its costs and benefits. In this
book, David Neumark and William Wascher offer a
comprehensive overview of the evidence on the eco-
nomic effects of minimum wages. Synthesizing nearly
two decades of their own research and reviewing other
research that touches on the same questions, Neumark
and Wascher discuss the effects of minimum wages on
employment and hours, the acquisition of skills, the
wage and income distributions, longer-term labor mar-
ket outcomes, prices, and the aggregate economy.
Arguing that the usual focus on employment effects is
too limiting, they present a broader, empirically based
inquiry that will better inform policymakers about the
costs and benefits of the minimum wage.
Based on their comprehensive reading of the evi-
dence, Neumark and Wascher argue that minimum
wages do not achieve the main goals set forth by their
supporters. They reduce employment opportunities for
less-skilled workers and tend to reduce their earnings;
they are not an effective means of reducing poverty;
and they appear to have adverse longer-term effects on
wages and earnings, in part by reducing the acquisition
of human capital. The authors argue that policymakers
should instead look for other tools to raise the wages of
low-skill workers and to provide poor families with an
acceptable standard of living.
David Neumark is Professor of Economics at the University
of California, Irvine. William L. Wascher is Associate Director
in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal
Reserve Board.
December — 6 x 9, 400 pp. — 50 illus.
$40.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-14102-4
78
economics
COMPUTATIONAL MACROECONOMICS
FOR THE OPEN ECONOMY
G. C. Lim and Paul D. McNelis
Policymakers need quantitative as well as qualitative
answers to pressing policy questions. Because of
advances in computational methods, quantitative
estimates are now derived from coherent nonlinear
dynamic macroeconomic models embodying measures
of risk and calibrated to capture specific characteristics
of real-world situations. This text shows how such
models can be made accessible and operational for
confronting policy issues.
The book starts with a simple setting based on
market-clearing price flexibility. It gradually incorpo-
rates departures from the simple competitive framework
in the form of price and wage stickiness, taxes, rigidities
in investment, financial frictions, and habit persistence
in consumption.
Most chapters end with computational exercises;
the Matlab code for the base model can be found in
the appendix. As the models evolve, readers are
encouraged to modify the codes from the first simple
model to more complex extensions.
Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy
can be used by graduate students in economics and
finance as well as policy-oriented researchers.
G. C. Lim is Professorial Research Fellow at the Melbourne
Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University
of Melbourne. She is the coauthor of Dynamic Economic Models
in Discrete Time: Theory and Empirical Applications and An
Introduction to Dynamic Economic Models (both with Brian
Ferguson). Paul D. McNelis is Robert Bendheim Chair of
Economic and Financial Policy at Fordham University Graduate
School of Business Administration. He is the author of Neural
Networks in Finance: Gaining Predictive Edge in the Market.
October — 6 x 9, 248 pp. — 76 illus.
$45.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-12306-8

economics
MONEY, CRISES, AND TRANSITION
Essays in Honor of Guillermo A. Calvo
edited by Carmen M. Reinhart, Carlos A. Végh,
and Andrés Velasco
Guillermo Calvo, one of the most influential macro-
economists of the last thirty years, has made pathbreak-
ing contributions in such areas as time-inconsistency,
lack of credibility, stabilization, transition economies,
debt maturity, capital flows, and financial crises. His
work on macroeconomic issues relevant for developing
countries has set the tone for much of the research in
this area and greatly influenced practitioners’ thinking
in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.
In Money, Crises, and Transition, leading specialists
in Calvo’s main areas of expertise explore the themes
behind this impressive body of work.
The essays take on the issues that have fascinated
Calvo most as an academic, a senior advisor at the
International Monetary Fund, and as the chief
economist at the Inter-American Development Bank:
monetary and exchange rate policy (both in theory
and practice); financial crises; debt, taxation, and
reform; and transition and growth. A final section
provides a behind-the-scenes look at Calvo’s career
and intellectual journey and includes an interview
with Calvo himself.
CONTRIBUTORS Leonardo Auernheimer, Fabrizio Coricelli,
Padma Desai, Allan Drazen, Sebastian Edwards, Roque B. Fernández,
Stanley Fischer, Ricardo Hausmann, Bostjan Jazbec, Peter Isard,
Graciela L. Kaminsky, Michael Kumhof, Amartya Lahiri,
Igal Magendzo, Enrique G. Mendoza, Frederic S. Mishkin,
Igor Masten, Pritha Mitra, Alejandro Neut, Maurice Obstfeld,
Edmund S. Phelps, Assaf Razin, Carmen M. Reinhart,
Francisco Rodriguez, Efraim Sadka, Ratna Sahay, Rajesh Singh,
Evan Tanner, Carlos A. Végh, Andrés Velasco, Rodrigo Wagner
Carmen M. Reinhart is Professor of Economics at the University
of Maryland. Carlos A. Végh is Professor of Economics at the
University of Maryland. Andrés Velasco, on leave as Sumitomo
Professor of International Finance and Development at
Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is currently
serving as Chile’s Minister of Finance. All three are Research
Associates at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
September — 7 x 9, 504 pp. — 64 illus.
$75.00S/£48.95 cloth
978-0-262-18266-9
PROFESSIONAL
economics
DEPOSIT INSURANCE
AROUND THE WORLD
Issues of Design and Implementation
edited by Aslı Demirgüç-Kunt, Edward J. Kane,
and Luc Laeven
Explicit deposit insurance (DI) is widely held to be a
crucial element of modern financial safety nets. For this
reason, establishing a DI system is frequently recom-
mended by outside experts to countries undergoing
reform. Predictably, DI systems have proliferated in the
developing world. The number of countries offering
explicit deposit guarantees rose from twenty in 1980 to
eighty-seven by the end of 2003. This book challenges
the wisdom of encouraging countries to adopt DI with-
out first repairing observable weaknesses in their insti-
tutional environment. The evidence and analysis
presented confirm that many countries would do well
to delay the installation of a DI system. Analysis shows
that many existing DI systems are not adequately
designed to control possible DI-induced risk taking by
financial institutions, and the book provides advice on
principles of good design for those countries in the
process of adopting or reforming their DI systems.
Empirical evidence on the efficiency of real-world
DI systems has been scarce, and analysis has focused
on the experience of developed countries. The contrib-
utors to this book draw on an original cross-country
dataset on DI systems and design features to examine
the impact of DI on banking behavior and assess
the policy complications that emerge in developing
countries. Recent bank runs on loss-making banks in
Germany and the United Kingdom have pushed the
issues of DI systems back to the center of debates on
regulatory policy in both developing and industrialized
countries. The guiding principles identified in this
book can contribute powerfully to that debate.
CONTRIBUTORS Thorsten Beck, Modibo K. Camara,
Aslı Demirgüç-Kunt, Kalina Dimitrova, Stephen Haber,
Patrick Honohan, Harry Huizinga, Edward Kane,
Baybars Karacaovali, Randall Kroszner, Luc Laeven,
William Melick, Fernando Montes-Negret, Nikolay Nenovsky
Aslı Demirgüç-Kunt is Senior Research Manager, Finance and
Private Sector, in the World Bank’s Development Economics
Research Group. Edward J. Kane is James F. Cleary Professor
in Finance at Boston College. Luc Laeven is Senior Economist
at the World Bank.
August — 6 x 9, 408 pp. — 17 illus.
$45.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-04254-3
79
PROFESSIONAL
economics
THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF
HECKSCHER-OHLIN TRADE MODELS
A Review
Robert E. Baldwin
No names are more closely associated with modern
trade theory than Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin.
The basic Heckscher-Ohlin proposition, according to
which a country exports factors in abundant supply and
imports factors in scarce supply, is a key component
of modern trade theory. In this book, Robert Baldwin
traces the development of the HO model, describing
the historical twists and turns that have led to the basic
modern theoretical model in use today. Baldwin not
only presents a clear and cohesive view of the model’s
evolution but also reviews the results of empirical tests
of its various versions.
Baldwin, who published his first theoretical
article on the HO model in 1948, first surveys the
development of the HO model and then assesses
empirical tests of its predictions. Most discussions
of empirical work on HO models confine themselves
to the basic theorem, but Baldwin devotes a chapter
to empirical tests of three related propositions: the
Stolper-Samuelson theorem; the Rybczynski theorem;
and the factor price equalization theorem. He concludes
that the formulation and testing of these later models
have improved economists’ understanding of the forces
shaping international trade, but that many empirical
trade economists (himself included) were so enamored
of the elegant but highly unrealistic factor price
equalization models developed from the insights of
Heckscher and Ohlin that they have neglected investi-
gation of other models without this relationship.
Robert E. Baldwin is Hilldale Professor Emeritus in the
Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison. He is the author or coauthor of many books,
including most recently The Decline of US Labor Unions and
the Role of Trade. He is a Research Associate at the National
Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations.
December — 5 3/8 x 8, 212 pp. — 12 illus.
$35.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-02656-7
Ohlin Lectures series
80
economics
EQUILIBRIUM, TRADE, AND GROWTH
Selected Papers
Lionel W. McKenzie
edited by Tapan Mitra and Kazuo Nishimura
Influential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has
made major contributions to postwar economic thought
in the fields of equilibrium, trade, and capital accumula-
tion. This selection of his papers traces the develop-
ment of his thinking in these three crucial areas.
McKenzie’s early academic life took him to Duke,
Princeton, Oxford, the University of Chicago, and
the Cowles Commission. In 1957, he went to the
University of Rochester to head the economics depart-
ment there, and he remains at Rochester, now Wilson
Professor Emeritus of Economics. McKenzie’s most
significant research was undertaken during a period
that saw the development of the major themes of neo-
classical economics and the use of fundamental mathe-
matical methods to do so. McKenzie contributed to
both aspects of this research program. He helped shape
the direction of the field and, at Rochester, influenced
generations of future scholars. In 2002, The MIT Press
published McKenzie’s Classical General Equilibrium
Theory, a detailed summary of the model and method-
ology. This book, collecting his most important papers
in the form in which they were originally published,
can be seen as a companion to that one. The many
state-of-the-art results achieved in McKenzie’s original
papers present sophisticated theoretical work that will
continue to be important to future developments in
the discipline.
Lionel W. McKenzie is Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics
at the University of Rochester. Tapan Mitra is Goldwin Smith
Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies in the
Field of Economics at Cornell University. Kazuo Nishimura is
Professor at the Institute of Economics Research at Kyoto
University and, since 2006, its Director. Mitra and Nishimura
both studied under Lionel McKenzie at the University of
Rochester.
November — 6 x 9, 576 pp. — 29 illus.
$75.00S/£48.95 cloth
978-0-262-13501-6
Also available
CLASSICAL GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY
Lionel W. McKenzie
2005, 978-0-262-63330-7
$22.00S/£14.95 paper

economics/education
SCHOOL CHOICE INTERNATIONAL
Exploring Public-Private Partnerships
edited by Rajashri Chakrabarti
and Paul E. Peterson
Public-private partnerships in education exist in various
forms around the world, in both developed and devel-
oping countries. Despite this, and despite the impor-
tance of human capital for economic growth, systematic
analysis has been limited and scattered, with most
scholarly attention going to initiatives in the United
States. This volume helps to fill the gap, bringing
together recent studies on public-private partnerships
in different parts of the world, including Asia, North
and South America, and Europe.
These initiatives vary significantly in form and
structure, and School Choice International offers not only
comprehensive overviews (including a cross-country
analysis of student achievement) but also detailed stud-
ies of specific initiatives in particular countries. Two
chapters compare public and private schools in India
and the relative efficacy of these two sectors in provid-
ing education. Other chapters examine the use of pub-
licly funded vouchers in Chile and Colombia,
reporting promising results in Colombia but ambigu-
ous findings in Chile; and student outcomes in pub-
licly funded, privately managed schools (similar to
American charter schools) in two countries: Colombia’s
“concession schools” and the United Kingdom’s City
Academies Programme. Taken together, these studies
offer important insights for scholars, practitioners, and
policymakers into the purposes, directions, and effects
of different public-private educational initiatives.
CONTRIBUTORS Felipe Barrera, Cristian Bellei, Eric P. Bettinger,
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Geeta G. Kingdon, Michael Kremer,
Norman LaRocque, Stephen Machin, Karthik Muralidharan,
Thomas Nechyba, Harry A. Patrinos, Paul E. Peterson,
Ludger Woessmann
Rajashri Chakrabarti is an economist with the Research and
Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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RACE AND
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Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned
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Robert W. Fairlie and Alicia M. Robb
Thirteen million people in the United States — roughly
one in ten workers — own a business. And yet rates
of business ownership among African Americans are
much lower and have been so throughout the twentieth
century. In addition, and perhaps more importantly,
businesses owned by African Americans tend to have
lower sales, fewer employees and smaller payrolls,
lower profits, and higher closure rates. In contrast,
Asian American-owned businesses tend to be more
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entrepreneurship authorities Robert Fairlie and Alicia
Robb examine racial disparities in business perform-
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compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, Fairlie and Robb
examine in particular why Asian-owned firms perform
well in comparison to white-owned businesses and
black-owned firms typically do not. They also explore
the broader question of why some entrepreneurs are
successful and others are not.
After providing new comprehensive estimates of
recent trends in minority business ownership and per-
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capital, financial capital, and family business background
in successful business ownership. They find that a high
level of startup capital is the most important factor con-
tributing to the success of Asian-owned businesses, and
that the lack of startup money for black businesses
(attributable to the fact that nearly half of all black fami-
lies have less than $6,000 in total wealth) contributes to
their relative lack of success. In addition, higher educa-
tion levels among Asian business owners explain much
of their success relative to both white- and African
American-owned businesses. Finally, Fairlie and Robb
find that black entrepreneurs have fewer opportunities
than white entrepreneurs to acquire valuable pre-business
work experience through working in family businesses.
Robert W. Fairlie is Associate Professor of Economics at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, and an adjunct researcher
at the RAND Corporation. Alicia M. Robb is a Research Associate
in Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a
senior economist with Beacon Economics.
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STRATEGIC BARGAINING AND
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An Integrated Assessment Modeling Approach
Zili Yang
The impact of climate change is widespread, affecting
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small. Similarly, the study of climate change spans
many disciplines, in both natural and social sciences.
In environmental economics, leading methodologies
include integrated assessment (IA) and game theoretic
modeling, which, despite their common premises, sel-
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in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations, Zili Yang connects these
two important approaches by incorporating various
game theoretic solution concepts into a well-known
integrated assessment model of climate change. This
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cooperation and strategic interaction that can inform
policy choices in greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation.
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game of stock externality provision — the economic
abstraction of climate change — within the IA frame-
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William D. Nordhaus and Zili Yang in 1996). The
game connects the solution of an optimal control prob-
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of GHG mitigation quotas among the regions in
the RICE model. Yang then compares the results of
both game theoretic and conventional solutions of the
RICE model from incentive and strategic perspectives
and, through numerical analysis of the simulation
results, demonstrates the superiority of game theoretic
solutions. Yang also applies the game theoretic solu-
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unexpected shocks in economic/climate systems and
redistribution and transfer issues in GHG mitigation
policies. Yang’s innovative approach sheds new light on
the behavioral aspects of IA modeling and provides
game theoretic modeling of climate change with a
richer economic substance.
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SUNY Binghamton.
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Debates over post-Kyoto Protocol climate change
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William A. Pizer, Philippe Quirion, Katrin Rehdanz, P. R. Shukla,
Jaemin Song, Ian Sue Wing, Sylvie Thoron, Richard S. J. Tol,
Henry Tulkens
Roger Guesnerie is Professor at the Collège de France and
President of the Paris School of Economics. He is the author
of Assessing Rational Expectations and Assessing Rational
Expectations 2 (MIT Press, 2001, 2005). Henry Tulkens is
Professor of Economics and Public Finance and a member of
the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
at Université Catholique de Louvain.
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 INDEX

Adaptive Governance, Webster 63 Debord, Correspondence 36

Aesthetic Computing, Fishwick 46 Defaced, Groebner 34
Akera, Calculating a Natural World 48 Demirgüç-Kunt, Deposit Insurance around the World 79
Alesina, The Future of Europe 42 Democracy as Problem Solving, Briggs 65
Alexander, Franz West 7 Democratizations, Ciprut 72
All the King's Horses, Bernstein 37 Deposit Insurance around the World, Demirgüç-Kunt 79
Always Already New, Gitelman 47 Design Concepts in Programming Languages, Turbak 76
American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Design of Climate Policy, The, Guesnerie 82
Europe, Krige 48 The Development and Testing of Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Models,
Baldwin 80
America's Food, Blatt 28
Digital Storytelling, McClean 45
An Engine, Not a Camera, Mackenzie 50
Drafting Culture, Johnston 16
Angotti, New York for Sale 29
Drake, Governing Global Electronic Networks 56
Anish Kapoor, Baume 5
Dunne, Hertzian Tales 44
Azoulay, The Civil Contract of Photography 33
The Economics of Consumer Credit, Bertola 51
Badlands, Markonish 4
Ekelund, The Marketplace of Christianity 43
Baldwin, The Development and Testing of Heckscher-Ohlin Trade
Models 80 Epstein, The Power of Words in International Relations 63
Baume, Anish Kapoor 5 Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth, McKenzie 80
Being Watched, Lambert-Beatty 12 Ethics, Politics, and Democracy: From Primitive Principles to
Prospective Practices, Ciprut 72
Benassy, Money, Interest, and Policy 52
Evolution and Human Behavior, second edition, Cartwright 71
Bennett, The Privacy Advocates 55
Evolution of Communicative Flexibility, Oller 67
Bernstein, All the King's Horses 37
Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse, Chalupa 68
Bertola, The Economics of Consumer Credit 51
Fairlie, Race and Entrepreneurial Success 81
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat, Kafai 19
Falckenberg, Paul Thek 6
Big Archive, The Spieker 9
Fantastic Reality, Nixon 44
Big Box Reuse, Christensen 3
Fishwick, Aesthetic Computing 46
Bijsterveld, Mechanical Sound 61
Flichy, The Internet Imaginaire 46
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Floreano 77
Floreano, Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence 77
Biological Modeling and Simulation, Schwartz 67
Franz West, Alexander 7
Blatt, America's Food 28
Freedom, Ciprut 72
Boersema, Pragmatism and Reference 73
Frie, Psychological Agency 73
Bradford, Solar Revolution 41
Fuel, Knechtel 11
Brain and Culture, Wexler 53
The Future of Citizenship, Ciprut 72
Brainard, Perspecta 41 "Grand Tour" 17
The Future of Europe, Alesina 42
Briggs, Democracy as Problem Solving 65
Galasso, The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies 51
Brown, White Heat Cold Logic 18
Game Sound, Collins 74
By Force of Thought, Kornai 43
Georgakopoulos, Service-Oriented Computing 75
Calculating a Natural World, Akera 48
Gitelman, Always Already New 47
Capital and Language, Marazzi 38
Gliboff, H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German
Cartwright, Evolution and Human Behavior, second edition 71
Darwinism 59
The Castle of Dreams, Jouvet 23
Global Catastrophes and Trends, Smil 26
Chakrabarti, School Choice International 81
Global Powers in the 21st Century, Lennon 65
Chalupa, Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse 68
Goldstein, Martin Kippenberger 8
Chaosophy, new edition, Guattari 40
Gornick, The Men in My Life 24
Christensen, Big Box Reuse 3
Governing Global Electronic Networks, Drake 56
Chun, Control and Freedom 45
The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, Troesken 42
Cinematic Mythmaking, Singer 32
Groebner, Defaced 34
Ciprut, Democratizations 72
Guattari, Chaosophy, new edition 40
Ciprut, Ethics, Politics, and Democracy 72
Guesnerie, The Design of Climate Policy 82
Ciprut, Freedom 72
H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism,
Ciprut, Indeterminacy 72 Gliboff 59
Ciprut, The Future of Citizenship 72 Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, second edition,
The Civil Contract of Photography, Azoulay 33 Nelson 69
CO2 Rising, Volk 1 Harmonious Triads, Jackson 50
Cohen, Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society 31 Harper, Weather by the Numbers 59
Cohoon, Women and Information Technology 47 Hayes, Milk and Melancholy 10
Collins, Game Sound 74 Heidegger's Topology, Malpas 54
Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy, Lim 78 Henke, Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power 61
Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care, Lynch 66 Hepworth, Wild Costa Rica 30
Control and Freedom, Chun 45 Hertzian Tales, Dunne 44
Correspondence, Debord 36 Hommels, Unbuilding Cities 49
Creating Scientific Concepts, Nersessian 70 Honest Signals, Pentland 2
Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, Henke 61 Horn, The Path Not Taken 49
Dauvergne, The Shadows of Consumption 27 Hot Thought, Thagard 53 89
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Hua, A Society without Fathers or Husbands 35
Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science, Stenning 70
I AM A MONUMENT, Vinegar 15
The Importance of Being Iceland, Myles 39
Indeterminacy, Ciprut 72
The Inner History of Devices, Turkle 21
Insatiable Curiosity, Nowotny 57
Institutions and Environmental Change, Young 64
The Internet Imaginaire, , Flichy 46
Invented Edens, Kargon 22
Jackson, Harmonious Triads 50
Johnson, Technology and Society 60
Johnston, Drafting Culture 16
Jouvet, The Castle of Dreams 23
Kafai, Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat 19
Karafyllis, Sexualized Brains 69
Kargon, Invented Edens 22
Knechtel, Fuel 11
Kornai, By Force of Thought 43
Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of
Science in Europe 48
Lambert-Beatty, Being Watched 12
Layzer, Natural Experiments 62
Lennon, Global Powers in the 21st Century 65
Liberating Voices, Schuler 56
Lim, Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy 78
Living in a Material World, Pinch 60
Loury, Race, Incarceration, and American Values 25
Lynch, Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care 66
Mackenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera 50
Maki, Nurturing Dreams 14
Malpas, Heidegger's Topology 54
Marazzi, Capital and Language 38
Margolis, Stuck in the Shallow End 20
The Marketplace of Christianity, Ekelund 43
Markonish, Badlands 4
Martin Kippenberger, Goldstein 8
McClean, Digital Storytelling 45
McKenzie, Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth 80
Mechanical Sound, Bijsterveld 61
Meglicki, Quantum Computing Without Magic 76
The Men in My Life, Gornick 24
Milk and Melancholy, Hayes 10
Minimum Wages, Neumark 78
Mitchell, World's Greatest Architect 13
Money, Crises, and Transition, Reinhart 79
Money, Interest, and Policy, Benassy 52
Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland 39
Natural Experiments, Layzer 62
Nelson, Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience,
second edition 69
Nersessian, Creating Scientific Concepts 70
Networked Publics, Varnelis 75
Neumark, Minimum Wages 78
New York for Sale, Angotti 29
Nixon, Fantastic Reality 44
Nowotny, Insatiable Curiosity 57
Nurturing Dreams, Maki 14
Oller, Evolution of Communicative Flexibility 67
Olson, Scientific Collaboration on the Internet 57
Origins of Human Communication, Tomasello 71
The Path Not Taken, Horn 49
Paul Thek, Falckenberg 6
90
Pecchi, Revisiting Keynes 77
Pentland, Honest Signals 2
Perspecta 41 "Grand Tour", Brainard 17
Pinch, Living in a Material World 60
The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies, Galasso 51
Political Theory and Global Climate Change, Vanderheiden 64
The Power of Words in International Relations, Epstein 63
Power Struggles, Schiffer 58
Pragmatism and Reference, Boersema 73
The Privacy Advocates, Bennett 55
Protocells, Rasmussen 66
Psychological Agency, Frie 73
Quantum Computing Without Magic, Meglicki 76
Race and Entrepreneurial Success, Fairlie 81
Race, Incarceration, and American Values, Loury 25
Rasmussen, Protocells 66
Reinhart, Money, Crises, and Transition 79
Revisiting Keynes, Pecchi 77
Schiffer, Power Struggles 58
Schneider, Scientists Debate Gaia 52
School Choice International, Chakrabarti 81
Schuler, Liberating Voices 56
Schwartz, Biological Modeling and Simulation 67
Scientific Collaboration on the Internet, Olson 57
Scientists Debate Gaia, Schneider 52
Service-Oriented Computing, Georgakopoulos 75
Sexualized Brains, Karafyllis 69
The Shadows of Consumption, Dauvergne 27
Singer, Cinematic Mythmaking 32
Smil, Global Catastrophes and Trends 26
Society without Fathers or Husbands, Hua 35
Solar Revolution, Bradford 41
Spieker, The Big Archive 9
Stenning, Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science 70
Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas
Mitigations, Yang 82
Stuck in the Shallow End, Margolis 20
Subjectivity and Selfhood, Zahavi 54
Technology and Society, Johnson 60
Thagard, Hot Thought 53
Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society, Cohen 31
Tomasello, Origins of Human Communication 71
Troesken, The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster 42
Turbak, Design Concepts in Programming Languages 76
Turkle, The Inner History of Devices 21
Unbuilding Cities, Hommels 49
Vanderheiden, Political Theory and Global Climate Change 64
Varnelis, Networked Publics 75
Vinegar, I AM A MONUMENT 15
Volk, CO2 Rising 1
Water, Place, and Equity, Whiteley 62
Weather by the Numbers, Harper 59
Webster, Adaptive Governance 63
Wexler, Brain and Culture 53
White Heat Cold Logic, Brown 18
Whiteley, Water, Place, and Equity 62
Wild Costa Rica, Hepworth 30
Women and Information Technology, Cohoon 47
World's Greatest Architect, Mitchell 13
Yang, Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas
Mitigations 82
Young, Institutions and Environmental Change 64
Zahavi, Subjectivity and Selfhood 54
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