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

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

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

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.

A Lacanian approach to murder scene investigation.

How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.

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.

How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world--in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing world.

A provocative view of economic growth in the Third World argues that the countries that have achieved steady economic growth--including future economic superpowers India and China--have done so because they have resisted the American ideology of free markets.

How a virtual journalist in the virtual world of online gaming landed on the real-world front page of the New York Times and how his virtual newspaper chronicled the emergence of the next generation of the World Wide Web.

The theory and practice of bio art, a new art form that uses the materials and processes of biotechnology, with examples of work by such prominent artists as Eduardo Kac and Marc Quinn.

A collection of writings on a conceptual and installation artist who has been called one of the most important artists of the decade.

The development of themes, motifs, and techniques in Bergman's films, from the first intimations in the early work to the consummate resolutions in the final movies.

Current perspectives on the Phillips curve, a core macroeconomic concept that treats the relationship between inflation and unemployment.

Assessing the influence of scientific advice in societies that increasingly question scientific authority and expertise.

A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.

The odyssey of a group of refugees from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.

Writers and artists offer new perspectives on water, with writings and projects that touch on subjects ranging from new water infrastructures to the bliss of bathing.