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Access Denied The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain (Eds.) "No one had a clear sense of the nature of Internet censorship until now. This extraordinary work maps the unfreedom of the Net. Unfortunately, that state is becoming the norm."—Lawrence Lessig
Mexican Modernity The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution Rubén Gallo "Not only insightful, informed, and strikingly original but also fun to read, Gallo's book vividly captures the sense of excitement that accompanied the introduction of modern technology into twentieth-century Mexican culture. I will never look at cement the same way again!"—Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Columbia University
ACTORS A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems Gul Agha This book addresses central issues in concurrency, and by producing both a syntactic definition and a denotational model of Hewitt's actor paradigm—a model of computation specifically aimed at constructing and analyzing distributed large-scale parallel systems—it substantially advances the understanding of parallel computation.
Modeling Biology Structures, Behaviors, Evolution Manfred D. Laubichler and Gerd B. Müller (Eds.) Experts examine new modeling strategies for the interpretation of biological data and their integration into the conceptual framework of theoretical biology, detailing approaches that focus on morphology, development, behavior, or evolution.
Sound Unbound Sampling Digital Music and Culture Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid (Ed.) "Paul Miller has grabbed disparate philosophies and references from the past five hundred years and tied them into a neat and interesting narrative on music, sound, and current thought in our time. Sound Unbound is an excellent reference on art—in the popular context—in the twenty-first century."—Branford Marsalis
American Environmental Policy, 1990-2006 Beyond Gridlock Christopher McGrory Klyza and David Sousa "Quite simply, this is the best book on environmental politics and American politics I have read in some time."—Robert Duffy, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University
The End of the Wild Stephen M. Meyer "This book is an exemplar of clear, structured polemical writing, a 10,000-word essay in which each word serves a purpose. In just 97 quarto-sized pages, Meyer offers a more powerful and convincing dissection of the human predicament in relations to biodiversity than most full-length academic books."—Mike Hulme, Times Higher Education Supplement
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School Matthew Frederick Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory.
Group Cognition Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge Gerry Stahl "In this bold and brilliant book, Stahl integrates three distinct fields of knowledge: computational design, communication studies, and the learning sciences. Such an interdisciplinary effort is both timely and necessary to foster innovations for human learning. This book shows how small-group cognition can be the underlying building block for individual and collective knowledge building."—Sten Ludvigsen, Professor and Director of InterMedia, University of Oslo