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In The Empire of Disorder, Alain Joxe offers the first truly comprehensive analysis of the new world disorder of the twenty-first century. The contemporary world, claims Joxe, is dominated by the...

How science is opening up the mysteries of the heart, revealing the poetry in motion within the machine. Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any human-made...

A comprehensive and accessible account of the U.S. estate tax, examining its history and evolution, structure and inner workings, and economic consequences. Governments have been levying some form of...

The HeadlandAuthor: Abi CurtisPublisher: MIT PressPublication Date: Aug 06, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1915983126ISBN-13: 9781915983121

Exposed to a high-tech dust that can transport people from one dimension to another, three travelers must try to escape the totalitarian Philadelphia of 2118. When three people in Philadelphia inhale...

How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain?the hypothalamus?govern our physiology and behavior. As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how much of what we...

How the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics?and gives us the power to save ourselves. The COVID-19 pandemic won?t be our last?because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also...

The final book in Santayana's masterwork of philosophical naturalism argues that science crowns the life of reason. Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one...

How survivors of the Covid-19 pandemic battling long-term disabling conditions are fighting for recognition and research?and helping to transform healthcare for many overlooked diseases. To the...

The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world. The Economist called Stanford R. Ovshinsky...

Flanagan's last finished work, is an extraordinary chronicle of the final year of his life before his death from cystic fibrosis at the age of forty-three. Los Angeles writer and artist Bob Flanagan...

A radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US. Most people think hunger has to do with food: researchers, policymakers, and advocates focus on...

An argument that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment, solidifying the continued existence of a commercially driven internet. Media reform activists...

Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising, a physicist and war veteran awakens 150 years later?on the eve of a new Dark Age! In The People of the Ruins, Edward Shanks imagines England...

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us with internet connections can access...

An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences. Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnation, talking to the dead, UFO sightings,...

How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities?and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty. In...

How to design and activate the skills-based enterprise that is pivotal for navigating the ?ext?of work. As the world navigates the rapid and disruptive effects of AI, climate change, and geopolitical...

An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination?a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm...

An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features?a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body...

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of...

A proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, ?targeting,? underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and deixis (speech-external). In this book, Leonard Talmy proposes...

How business leaders can grow profits and competitive advantage by doing the right thing. Acting on values?oing good for the benefit of all?an substantially benefit the bottom line, but many business...

An examination of technology-based education initiatives?from MOOCs to virtual worlds?that argues against treating education as a product rather than a process. Behind the lectern stands the...

A brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis, malaria, bird flu, cancer, killer asteroids, and tofu. Most of us think that in order to be...

Economists offer rigorous quantitative analyses of how the institutional design and purpose of the WTO (and its progenitor, the GATT) affect economic development. The World Trade Organization (WTO)...

Santayana's argument for the unity of philosophy and poetry. This concise and compelling volume?described by Santayana as a ?piece of literary criticism, together with a first broad lesson in the...

A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from...

Experts explore the influence of trace metals on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases. Many parts of the world in which common infectious diseases are endemic also have the highest prevalence of...

Tracking the zombie from Hollywood back to its origins in the voodoo folklore of Haiti.There are zombies among us! From the rotting hordes of TV's The Walking Dead to the blockbuster nightmares of...