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The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax.Linearization, or the typical sequence of words in a sentence, varies tremendously from language to language. Why, for example, does the English phrase “a white table” need a different word order from the French phrase “une table blanche,” even though both refer to the same object? Guglielmo Cinque challenges the current understanding of word order variation, which assumes that word order can be dealt with simply by putting a head either before or after its complements and modifiers. The subtle variations in word order, he says, can provide a window into understanding the deeper structure of language and are in need of a sophisticated explanation.The bewildering variation in word order among the languages of the world, says Cinque, should not dissuade us from researching what, if anything, determines which orders are possible (and attested/attestable) and which orders are impossible (and not attested/nonattestable), both when they maximally conform to the “head-final” or “head-initial” types and when they depart from them to varying degrees. His aim is to develop a restrictive theory of word order variation—not just a way to derive the ideal head-initial and head-final word orders but also the mixed cases.In the absence of an explicit theory of linearization, Cinque provides a general approach to derive linear order from a hierarchical arrangement of constituents, specifically, by assuming a restrictive movement analysis that creates structures that can then be linearized by Richard S. Kayne's Linear Correspondence Axiom.

"A short and possibly the first accessible overview of Operaismo (or "workerism," or "Autonomous Marxism"), which was the movement out of which today's general body of "Italian Theory" (Negri, Berardi, Virno, etc.) emerged"--

"A reassessment of the influence of John Dewey's mature work, especially "Experience and Nature" on recent trends in cognitive science"--

"An accessible yet in-depth analysis of recent developments in US-China clean energy collaboration, the most important bilateral relationship in the world in terms of climate change"--

"An exploration of how labor law has protected companies' rights to surveil their employees and limit worker power, and how it might be reformed"--

"An analysis of the recovery of the Roman architect Vitruvius' groundbreaking treatise The Ten Books of Architecture in the Renaissance"--

In 2005, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University (TMU) acquired the massive collection Black Star Collection of the photo agency previously based in New York City--nearly 292,000 black-and-white prints. Preserved at The Image Centre at TMU, the images include iconic stills of the American Civil Rights movement by Charles Moore, among thousands of ordinary photographs that were classified by theme in the agency's picture library. While the move of the collection from a corporate photo agency to a public cultural institution enables more access, researchers must still face the size of the collection, its structural organization, the materiality of the prints, and the lack of ephemera. Facing Black Star aims to fruitfully highlight this tension between research expectations and challenges.

"This book investigates how women have been cast with regard to climate change science and policy-making, such as roles as victims, drivers of change, laborers, and saviors"--

"Repairing Play tries to wrest the narrative of play away from white, European notions that rely primarily on pleasure by including different connotations of play that do not rely on the access to the conditions of leisure"--

"A comprehensive insider's account of the discovery of gravitational waves, including insights on the physics theory and the critical LIGO technology that made it possible"--

"A critical investigation of a massive commercial phenomenon, the so-called "Euro" or "German"-style tabletop board games whose basic goal is explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate"--

Exploring how design can be used for good—prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.Good design provides solutions to problems. It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects. But what if design could also improve societal problems by prompting positive ideological change? In this book, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp survey recent critical design practices and propose a new, more inclusive field of socially minded practice: discursive design. While many consider good design to be unobtrusive, intuitive, invisible, and undemanding intellectually, discursive design instead targets the intellect, prompting self-reflection and igniting the imagination. Discursive design (derived from “discourse”) expands the boundaries of how we can use design—how objects are, in effect, good(s) for thinking.Discursive Design invites us to see objects in a new light, to understand more than their basic form and utility. Beyond the different foci of critical design, speculative design, design fiction, interrogative design, and adversarial design, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp establish a more comprehensive, unifying vision as well as innovative methods. They not only offer social criticism but also explore how objects can, for example, be used by counselors in therapy sessions, by town councils to facilitate a pre-vote discussions, by activists seeking engagement, and by institutions and industry to better understand the values, beliefs, and attitudes of those whom they serve. Discursive design sparks new ways of thinking, and it is only through new thinking that our sociocultural futures can change.

"An advanced-level logic textbook that presents proof construction on equal footing with model building. Potentially relevant to students of mathematics and computer science as well"--

"A comprehensive overall survey of the tools and techniques used in the field of computer music, aimed at beginners as well as intermediate and advanced users"--

"A phenomenological exploration of the emotional experience of grief. Written by one of the leading figures philosophical psychology"--

"Chemistry for Cooks is a science for nonmajors textbook that addresses the science of cooking. No background knowledge in science is needed"--

"This book will provide the first English-language monographic account of the work of Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997), a West German provocateur who has become one of the most exhibited German artists"--

"Immigrant service members are simultaneously held up as the exemplary immigrants and treated with suspicion as potential spies or infiltrators. The Green Card Soldier leverages the intersection between two key American institutions-the military and immigration-to understand how their overlap helps build a vision of the nation rooted in militarized citizenship and empire"--

"Photo documentary of the creation and launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the world's largest orbiting astronomy observatory"--

"This expansive history of knowledge and its openness makes a strong and nuanced case for opening scholarly knowledge to the public"--

"A practical guide for business leaders to manage workers within and outside their organizations"--

"A book of photographs of US artist Sol LeWitt's in situ pencil drawings on the walls of a medieval tower in Spoleto, Italy, preceded by an illustrated introductory and contextual essay"--

"Richly illustrated, the first monograph to examine artist Cheyney Thompson's oeuvre the way he reimagines complex data to investigate history, production, labor & the artworld itself"--

"We raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this? This book is one woman's quest for an answer, as a philosopher and as a mother"--

"A book in the Ohlin Lectures series on trade agreements"--

"The pandemic has raised awareness of the need for universal access to high speed internet service in the United States. This book shows us that the debate about internet access is but the latest chapter in a long history of debates about universal service in the United States. This book analyzes the history, costs, and benefits of providing universal access to technologies and services, including education, postal service, telephone service, electrification, public libraries, and Internet"--

"This book re-focuses media design for material as well as human needs. It provides examples, critical discussions, and defining criteria for media that do not serve humans alone anymore"--

"A sober, but polemical text on how the linguistics and language field has lost sight of the fact that syntactic structure remains crucial"--

"An exploration of the idea of the world in art (both an image of the world that has perished, and another opened up by the artwork) as revealed through a number of seminal philosophical thinkers as well as through assorted modes of aesthetic production, including painting, film, photography, poetry and music"--