Features 101 lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation. From the basics of How to Draw a Line to the complexities of color theory, this work provides a primer in architectural literacy. Each lesson utilizes a two-page format, with a brief explanation and an illustration that can range from diagrammatic to whimsical.

Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world.

The technological breakthroughs and entrepreneurial adventures of Frank J. Sprague during the transformative years of the early electrical industry.

Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys--from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells--in the history of brain sciences.

A new account of the peculiar syntax of psychological verbs argues that experiencers are grammaticalized as locative phrases.

An argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.

A conceptual framework and empirical case studies of the policy effect of voluntary programs sponsored by industry, government, and nongovernmental organizations.

Applying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign.

A guide to computational modeling methods in neuroscience, covering a range of modeling scales from molecular reactions to large neural networks.

A survey of how engineering techniques from control and systems theory can be used to help biologists understand the behavior of cellular systems.

Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.

The long-awaited publication in English of the definitive book on Paris Dada.

Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.

An investigation into how machines and living creatures fly, and of the similarities between butterflies and Boeings, paper airplanes and plovers.

An essential guide to an essential book, this first anthology on Camera Lucida offers critical perspectives on Barthes's influential text.

A Lacanian approach to murder scene investigation.

The first collection of writings on poetry that is composed, disseminated, and read on computers; essays and artist statements explore visually arresting, aurally charged, and dynamic works that are created by a synergy of human beings and intelligent machines.

Blending artist theory, personal memoir, satire, and fictional narratives, a noted net artist constructs a poetics of net art that parallels his practice.

Noam Chomsky as political gadfly, groundbreaking scholar, and intellectual guru: key issues in Chomsky's career and the sometimes contentious reception to his ideas.

Is the artist's monograph an endangered species or a timeless genre? This critical history traces the formal and conceptual trajectories of art history's favorite form, from Vasari onward, and reconsiders the validity of the life-and-work model for the twenty-first century.