Over the past hundred years of urbanization and suburbanization, four key themes haveshaped urban and regional planning in both theory and practice: livability, territoriality,governance, and reflecti
The recent financial crisis shook not only the global economy but also conventionalwisdom about economic policy. After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, policy makersreversed course a
Political acts are encoded in medial forms--punch holes on a card, images on a livestream, tweets about events unfolding in real time--that have force, shaping people as subjects andforming the contou
Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. InHide and Seek, Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as itdeveloped in counterpoint to technological advance
In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this transformation thro
A revolutionary, a Marxist, and one of the leaders of the world socialist movement, Rosa Luxemburg fought for social justice and for the man she loved with equal passion and determination. This skillf
Contrary to the popular image of change and turnover, most Americans spend the majority of their working lives employed in a single firm. The original essays in this book discuss the origins and impor
The Internet has rapidly become an important element of the economic system. The lackof accepted metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions is therefore increasinglyproblematic. This book,
Mathematician, poet, philosopher, life scientist, playwright, teacher, JacobBronowski could readily be referred to as a Renaissance Man. But in the historical context thatwould do him a disservice: he
A visionary book when it was first published in the late 1970s, The Network Nationhas become the defining document and standard reference for the field of computer mediatedcommunication (CMC). This re
foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne'sfirst book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophicalthought in archaic Gre
This is the story of how one company created and codified a new science "on the run,"away from the confines of the laboratory. By construing its service as scientific, Schlumberger wasable to get the
The advances made by modern Spanish architecture from the 1940s, when it lay insilence and obscurity, to the 1990s, when it received worldwide acclaim, is a dramatic story,probably the most remarkable
Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history ofdeath in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of thedeath sign from si
In the 1990s, questions of sex roles and individual identity have taken a centralposition in intellectual debates. These eleven essays in history and anthropology offer a novelperspective on these deb
The Azerbaijani people have been divided between Iran and the former Soviet republicof Azerbaijan for more than 150 years, yet they have retained their ethnic identity. The collapse ofthe Soviet Union
The United States is the only superpower in the world today. Although the media arefilled with prescriptions for how Washington might best wield its power, rarely are other countriesasked what role th
Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access topersonal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people'srelationships with so
Friedrich Nietzsche was a troublesome genius, a figure outside the mainstreamphilosophical tradition whose very apartness has made him central to contemporary philosophy.Nietzsche and Political Though
Siegfried Kracauer's biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable workof social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937 and in English translation in1938, the book uses
