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        Arguments that Count

        Arguments that Count

        Arguments that Count

        Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012

        by Rebecca Slayton

        ISBN: 9780262549578

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense.
        Beyond Versus

        Beyond Versus

        Beyond Versus

        The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture

        by James Tabery

        ISBN: 9780262549608

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
        The Empire of Value

        The Empire of Value

        The Empire of Value

        A New Foundation for Economics

        by André Orléan

        Translated by M. B. DeBevoise

        ISBN: 9780262549585

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior.
        The Systemic Image

        The Systemic Image

        The Systemic Image

        A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations

        by Inge Hinterwaldner

        ISBN: 9780262549646

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        A new conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in real-time simulations that distinguishes among four levels of forming.
        Ecstatic Worlds

        Ecstatic Worlds

        Ecstatic Worlds

        Media, Utopias, Ecologies

        by Janine Marchessault

        ISBN: 9780262549745

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.
        Borges and Memory

        Borges and Memory

        Borges and Memory

        Encounters with the Human Brain

        by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

        Translated by Juan Pablo Fernández

        Foreword by María Kodama

        ISBN: 9780262549561

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.
        Dolphin Communication and Cognition

        Dolphin Communication and Cognition

        Dolphin Communication and Cognition

        Past, Present, and Future

        Edited by Denise L. Herzing and Christine M. Johnson

        ISBN: 9780262549622

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        Experts survey the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, offering a comprehensive reference to findings in the laboratory and from the field.
        Classifying Psychopathology

        Classifying Psychopathology

        Classifying Psychopathology

        Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds

        Edited by Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline A. Sullivan

        ISBN: 9780262549592

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.
        What’s Left of Human Nature?

        What's Left of Human Nature?

        What's Left of Human Nature?

        A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept

        by Maria Kronfeldner

        ISBN: 9780262549684

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.
        Alien Agency

        Alien Agency

        Alien Agency

        Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making

        by Chris Salter

        Afterword by Andrew Pickering

        ISBN: 9780262549615

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions.
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