The first critical reader on one of today's most pivotal (and perplexing) contemporary artists.

A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress.

A new edition of the essential text and professional reference, with substantial new material on such topics as vEB trees, multithreaded algorithms, dynamic programming, and edge-base flow.

How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage.

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.

According to a 2006 survey, 58 percent of young people aged 15 to 25 were civically disengaged, meaning that they participated in fewer than two types of either electoral activities or civic activities. The authors are interested in what role video games may or may not play in this disengagement.

Studies the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. To create common ground between mind in science and mind in experience, the authors develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditative psychology, placing it in relation to such traditions as phenomenology.

This presentation of the theory and practice of model checking includes basic as well as state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms and tools, and can be used as an introduction to the subject or a reference for researchers.

Shows the many advances in the field of cognitive neurosciences. From the molecular level up to that of human consciousness, the contributions cover one of the most fascinating areas of science - the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the brain/nervous system.

NOT AVAILABLE IN THE US OR CANADA. International Student Paperback Edition. A new edition of the essential text and professional reference, with substantial new material on such topics as vEB trees, multithreaded algorithms, dynamic programming, and edge-base flow.

Experts discuss the wide variety of investigative tools available to cognitive neuroscience, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, neuroscience computation, fMRI, imaging genetics, and neuropharmacology, with particular emphasis on convergence of techniques and innovative uses.

An original and comprehensive approach to reduplication, with extensive examples and case studies in many languages.

Goethe's influential text, newly illustrated with stunning color photographs.

How international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, attempted to increase public awareness of advances in health and medicine.

An analysis of the role and influence of scientists at the agenda-setting, legislative, and implementation stages of environmental policy making.

Change in scientific practice and its implications for the status of scientific claims, examined through an analysis of three episodes at a synchrotron laboratory.

How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or radiance, which also means radiation in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.

Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the offshoring of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.

Analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state, and local levels, involving public, private, and civic actors.