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Recasting the "problem of the last 100 feet" as "the length of the first 100 feet", this book challenges individuals, businesses, and policymakers to rethink fundamental issues in telecommunications policy.

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A history of computing focusing on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality.

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The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages provides the basic mathematical techniques necessary for those who are beginning a study of the semantics and logics of programming languages.

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The electronic marketplace is a global one, and it's changing every aspect of the consumer-vendor relathionship.

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Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer.

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The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The Generative Lexicon lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects explicitly to a compositional semantics.

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A scientist examines the origins and evolutionary significance of play in humans and animals.

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This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.

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A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.

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An examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the global development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies, with case studies from China.

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Analyzes privacy policy instruments available to contemporary industrial states, from government regulations and transnational regimes to self-regulation and privacy enhancing technologies.

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"This is a book that is full of things I have never seen before, and full of new things to say about things I thought I knew well. It is a book about houses and about culture and about how each affects the other, and it must stand as one of the major works on the history of modern housing." - Paul Goldberger, The New York Times Book Review

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The history of a long-running environmental catastrophe chronicles the harmful effects of lead pipes and their continued use despite evidence that they pose a significant health risk.

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The contributors, both scholars and policymakers, examine a range of contemporary issues in the Balkans and on NATO's southern flank. The essays shed light on nation building, political and economic development, modernization, and post-Cold War international relations.

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A vision of a green democratic state, how to realize it, and the implications for democracy, citizenship, sovereignty, and international cooperation.

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An account of German environmentalism that shows the influence of the past on today's environmental decisions.

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The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure.

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An integrated connectionist/symbolic architecture of the mind/brain, applied to neural/genomic realization of grammar; acquisition, processing, and typology in phonology and syntax; and foundations of cognitive explanation.

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The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest scientific research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature.

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The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts.