All New Books

Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World
Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World
By Alex (Sandy) Pentland

How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.
October 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-16256-2   $22.95/£14.95 (CLOTH)
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Water, Place, and Equity
Water, Place, and Equity
Edited by John M. Whiteley, Helen Ingram and Richard Warren Perry

An argument for the importance of equity as a criterion in evaluating water policy, with examples in wide-ranging case studies from North and South America and Europe.
October 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-23271-5   $63.00/£40.95 (CLOTH)
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Water, Place, and Equity
Water, Place, and Equity
Edited by John M. Whiteley, Helen Ingram and Richard Warren Perry

An argument for the importance of equity as a criterion in evaluating water policy, with examples in wide-ranging case studies from North and South America and Europe.
October 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-73191-1   $25.00/£16.95 (PAPER)
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Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing
Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing
By Jane Margolis

An investigation into why so few African American and Latino high school students are studying computer science reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.
September 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-13504-7   $24.95/£16.95 (CLOTH)
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Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s
Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s
By Carrie Lambert-Beatty

How Yvonne Rainer's art shaped new ways of watching and performing.
September 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-12301-3   $34.95/£22.95 (CLOTH)
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America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat
America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat
By Harvey Blatt

The complete story of what we don't know, and what we should know, about American food production and its effect on health and the environment.
October 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-02652-9   $29.95/£19.95 (CLOTH)
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Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies
By Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi

A comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures.
September 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-06271-8   $50.00/£32.95 (CLOTH)

The Men in My Life
The Men in My Life
By Vivian Gornick

Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.
September 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-07303-5   $14.95/£9.95 (CLOTH)
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Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California
Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California
By Christopher R. Henke

How agricultural scientists and growers in California have cooperated—and struggled—in shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar farm industry.
October 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-08373-7   $32.00/£20.95 (CLOTH)
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Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Race, Incarceration, and American Values
By Glenn C. Loury

Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.
September 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-12311-2   $14.95/£9.95 (CLOTH)
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Creating Scientific Concepts
Creating Scientific Concepts
By Nancy Nersessian

An account that analyzes the dynamic reasoning processes implicated in a fundamental problem of creativity in science: how does genuine novelty emerge from existing representations?
November 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-14105-5   $32.00/£20.95 (CLOTH)
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Evolution of Communicative Flexibility: Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communication
Evolution of Communicative Flexibility: Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communication
Edited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel

Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.
September 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-15121-4   $50.00/£32.95 (CLOTH)

Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film
Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film
By Irving Singer

Mythic themes and philosophical probing in film, as seen in works of Preston Sturges, Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick, and various other filmmakers.
November 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-19589-8   $24.95/£16.95 (CLOTH)
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The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy
The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy
By Sven Spieker

The archive as a crucible of twentieth-century modernism and key for understanding contemporary art.
October 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-19570-6   $24.95/£16.95 (CLOTH)
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Origins of Human Communication
Origins of Human Communication
By Michael Tomasello

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.
September 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-20177-3   $36.00/£23.95 (CLOTH)
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Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers
Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers
Edited by Oran R. Young, Heike Schroeder and Leslie A. King

This overview of recent research on how institutions matter in tackling environmental problems reports the findings and policy implications of a decade-long international research project.
November 2008   ISBN-13 978-0-262-74033-3   $28.00/£18.95 (PAPER)
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Book sales

Stock up at the MIT Libraries Booksale, Wednesday, April 30
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Time: 10:00a–3:00p Location: 10-105 Stop by and browse titles in diverse subject areas including Aero/Astro, Art, Architecture, Engineering, Fiction, Math, Management, Music, Physics, & Political Science/Social Science. Open to the MIT Community only. Questions? Contact the Gifts Office at gifts-lib@mit.edu or x 3.5693 All proceeds benefit the Libraries’ Preservation Fund. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fnews-libraries.mit.edu%2Fblog%2Fstock-libraries-2%2F1066%2F'; [...]
Published on : Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:14:43 +0000

Diehard fans: Mark your calendars for the Spring Book Sale!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Time: 10 am - 3 pm Location: 10-105, Bush Room Stop by and browse titles in diverse subject areas including Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Fiction, History, Linguistics, Management, Music & Miscellaneous. Some materials are free! Open to the MIT Community only Questions? Contact the Gifts Office at gifts-lib@mit.edu or x 3.5693 All proceeds benefit the Libraries’ [...]
Published on : Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:45:21 +0000

Irving Singer speaks on Ingmar Bergman - Thursday Nov. 15th, 6pm
Please join authors@mit in welcoming Professor Irving Singer, as he speaks on his new book, Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher, just published by The MIT Press. Known for their repeating motifs and signature tropes, the films of Ingmar Bergman also contain extensive variation and development. In these reflections on Bergman’s artistry and thought, Irving Singer discerns distinctive [...]
Published on : Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:25:40 +0000

Stock up at the MIT Libraries Booksale, Tuesday, October 2
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 Time: 10:00a–3:00p Location: 10-105 Stop by and browse titles in diverse subject areas including Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Fiction, History, Linguistics, Management, Music & Miscellaneous. Some materials are free! Open to the MIT Community only Questions? Contact the Gifts Office at gifts-lib@mit.edu or x 3.5693 All proceeds benefit the Libraries’ Preservation Fund. addthis_url [...]
Published on : Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:39:20 +0000

Bill Mitchell speaks about his new book IMAGINING MIT!
Please join us as Professor William J. Mitchell presents his newest book. Imagining MIT is the image rich story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche. Professor Mitchell is the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor [...]
Published on : Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:34:27 +0000

So many books; so little time! - Booksale April 3rd, Bush Room
The next MIT Libraries booksale is coming up! Stop by and browse titles in Art, Architecture, Chemistry, Earth Science, Engineering, Fiction, History, Linguistics, Music, Urban Studies and much, much more! You’ll find everything from cookbooks to DVDs to atlases. WHEN: Tuesday, April 3rd, 10-3 WHERE: Bush Room 10-105 Questions? Contact the Gifts Office at gifts-lib@mit.edu or [...]
Published on : Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:01:54 +0000

Mark the date! Next MIT Libraries’ booksale will be on April 3rd
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Published on : Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:37:00 +0000

MIT Libraries booksale, Thursday 11/30, 10-3
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Published on : Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:39:11 +0000

MIT Libraries booksale, Thursday 11/30, 10-3
MIT Libraries booksale Books on a variety of subjects will be available. Thursday, November 30th, 10-3 Bush Room 10-105 Questions? gifts-lib@mit.edu or x3-5693 All proceeds benefit the Libraries’ Preservation Fund. MIT COMMUNITY ONLY addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fnews-libraries.mit.edu%2Fblog%2F258%2F258%2F'; addthis_title = 'MIT+Libraries+booksale%2C+Thursday+11%2F30%2C+10-3'; addthis_pub = '';
Published on : Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:06:49 +0000

MIT Libraries booksale, Friday 2/24, 10-3
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Published on : Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:14:31 +0000