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| Economics and Psychology
A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field
Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (Eds.)
Leading economics scholars consider the influence of psychology on economics, discussing topics including pro-social behavior, conditional trust, neuroeconomics, procedural utility, and happiness research.
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| Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods
Barry Eichengreen
Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.
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| Combinatorial Auctions
Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham and Richard Steinberg (Eds.)
A synthesis of theoretical and practical research on combinatorial auctions from the perspectives of economics, operations research, and computer science.
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| Semi-Supervised Learning
Olivier Chapelle, Bernhard Schölkopf and Alexander Zien (Eds.)
A comprehensive review of an area of machine learning that deals with the use of unlabeled data in classification problems: state-of-the-art algorithms, a taxonomy of the field, applications, benchmark experiments, and directions for future research.
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| Press On
Principles of Interaction Programming
Harold Thimbleby
How to understand and program interactive devices so that they are reliable and easy to use; includes wide-ranging programming insights, tools, and code.
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| Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage
A Critical Discourse
Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine (Eds.)
Theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in interpretation and representation of cultural heritage.
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| Second Person
Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media
Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Eds.)
Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media."
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| Democracy across Borders
From Dêmos to Dêmoi
James Bohman
An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state: rule by peoples across borders rather than by "the people" within a fixed jurisdiction.
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| Wireless
From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion
Sungook Hong
A new look at the early history of wireless communication.
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| Ships and Science
The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
Larrie D. Ferreiro
The first book to portray the birth of naval architecture as an integral part of the Scientific Revolution, examining its development and application across the major shipbuilding nations of Europe.
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| Urban Machinery
Inside Modern European Cities
Mikael Hård and Thomas J. Misa (Eds.)
Modern European cities viewed as complex constructs entangled with technology: the most dramatic changes in the urban environment over the last century and half, abundantly illustrated with rare photographs.
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| Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience
The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting
Eugene M. Izhikevich
Explains the relationship of electrophysiology, nonlinear dynamics, and the computational properties of neurons, with each concept presented in terms of both neuroscience and mathematics and illustrated using geometrical intuition.
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| Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
Robert C. Richardson
A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.
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| The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature
Scott Atran and Douglas Medin
An analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it, and how these are affected by cultural differences.
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