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• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Thomas Metzinger • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsAccording to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenom...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Allyson Jule • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insight in...

• Author(s): Miwon Kwon • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyA critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s.Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction t...

• Author(s): Morwenna Griffiths • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryWhat does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosoph...

• Author(s): Ampo Japan Asia Quarterly Review • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryAn insider's view of the world of contemporary Japanese women.

• Author(s): Susan Oyama | Russell D. Gray | Paul E. Griffiths • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: GeneralThe nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental...

• Author(s): John H. Holland • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAn overarching framework for comparing and steering complex adaptive systems is developed through understanding the mecha...

• Author(s): Davydd Greenwood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - PhysicalThe theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of h...

• Author(s): Kathy Davis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryReshaping... looks at women's involvement in cosmetic surgery and raises the question of why women put themselves under the knif...

• Author(s): James Pustejovsky • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The Generative Lexicon lays the foundation...

• Author(s): Richard A. Brealey • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralRichard Brealey presents a brief, nontechnical description of current research on investment management and its implications for the i...

• Author(s): Jeremy Rifkin • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Economics - TheoryVisionary activist and author Jeremy Rifkin exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering "the clea...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - GeneralEconomic Inquiry and Its Logic presents a collection of Buchanan's most representative works in economic method and analysis. A...

• Author(s): Christopher Layne • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)In a provocative book about American hegemony, Christopher Layne outlines his belie...

• Author(s): Michael Carter • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: EconometricsThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical foundations of economics, from basic set theory to fixed point theo...

• Author(s): Diana Raffman • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Instruction & Study - AppreciationThe first cognitivist theory of the nature of ineffable, or verbally inexpressible, musical knowledge.Taking a...

• Author(s): Arij Ouweneel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In Western culture, the psychoanalysis that has guided popular psychology for almost a century is...

• Author(s): Richard Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolve...

• Author(s): Harold M. Stark • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Number TheoryThe majority of students who take courses in number theory are mathematics majors who will not become number theorists. Many of them will, ho...

• Author(s): Kim Sterelny • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionA new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the role of information s...

• Author(s): Laurence J. Kotlikoff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralWhat determines savings? The question is timely and important. The U.S. saving rate is less than half that of Japan, Germany, and...

• Author(s): David Huron • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThe psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's e...

• Author(s): Alexander Kheyfits • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: CombinatoricsThis textbook is devoted to Combinatorics and Graph Theory, which are cornerstones of Discrete Mathematics. Every section ...

• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a ver...

• Author(s): Nicole Markotic • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Literary and filmic depictions of the disabled reinforce an "ableist" ideology that classifies ...

• Author(s): Andrei Shleifer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeA noted economist argues that the ubiquity of regulation can be explained by its greater efficiency when compa...

• Author(s): Kory P. Schaff • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis bookexplores a timely topic for philosophers, social scientists, and ...

• Author(s): Ernest Gellner | John Breuilly • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Nationalism & PatriotismPeriodically, an important book emerges that makes us, thr...

• Author(s): James Bohman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralBohman develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative de...

• Author(s): Lawrence S. Bacow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralAssessing the role of government regulation in occupational safety issues.In 1977, a grain elevator explosion ...

• Author(s): Torsten Persson | Guido Tabellini • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Money & Monetary PolicyHow will the private sector react to different governmental policies? What policies will produce the most des...