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"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"--

"Uneven Futures reimagines the SF megatext as a vibrantly dialogical and enduringly ethical methodology for our living political futures"--

"This is a theoretical music technology book, influenced by new research in embodied music cognition. The main focus is on musical instruments and how they shape our experiences of music"--

"Stiny extends his arguments around shape grammars outlined in his 2006 book Shape in order to provide insights into visual calculating with rules and grammar in art and design"--

"This book goes beyond dualisms and surpasses the pivotal paradigm of (inter)activity, searching for other forms of playful aesthetic expression and perception facilitated within the digital realm"--

"The book explores the origin story of the Open Government Partnership and place the open government reform movement in the context of the long history of public sector reform"--

"This textbook describes approaches and design principles for developing intelligent autonomous systems grounded in biology and neurosciences"--

"A look at how social media shape discourses around pregnancy and motherhood"--

"Originally published as La natura del duce: una storia ambientale del fascismo."

"An introduction to robotics for undergraduates in engineering. The book is explicitly robot-agnostic, reflecting the timeliness of fundamental concepts"--

"A critical examination of the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities"--

"An argument that science is indeed 'socially constructed' but in a way that exposes it to a Darwinian version of variability and selection which ensures its success"--

"A long-term ethnographic study of interdisciplinary biotechnology labs that reveals how cutting edge scientific work actually gets done"--

"A general overview of the systems neuroscience approach written by a leading figure in the field"--

"An undergraduate game theory text that integrates behavioral economics and applications to other economic subdisciplines"--

"How US Copyright law should be reformed to ensure open access to research and scholarship"--

"Monteiro draws on an in-depth field study of the Norwegian oil and gas industry to explore the process of digitalization in the oil industry and what it means for us "to know.""--

London-based Canadian artist Allison Katz has been exploring painting's relationship to questions of identity and expression, selfhood and voice, for more than a decade. Animated by a restless sense of humor, her works articulate what the artist has called a "genuine ambiguity." Artery--a book that situates itself somewhere between a monograph, exhibition catalog, and an artist's book--is an exploration of what is within and below, and of the infrastructural arteries that connect all of us. It is published on the occasion of Katz's first institutional exhibition in the United Kingdom, presented at Nottingham Contemporary (2021) and Camden Art Centre, London (2022).

The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural assimilation, as well as the construction of nature.This pioneering study of Hugh Hayden’s work includes 90 full-color images of the artist’s remarkable, labor-intensive sculptural practice over the past decade, as well as critical essays by curator Sarah Montross, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Carmen Maria Machado, and an interview between the artist and curator Horace Ballard, PhD.Hugh Hayden is best known for creating hand-hewn wooden picnic tables, fences, and chairs from which countless tree branches seem to grow maniacally outward—as if nature herself is lashing out in self-protection from these unthreatening icons of leisure and domesticity. These artworks probe at the inequities of home and land ownership across race and class, speaking to the enduring legacies of enslavement that pervade American culture. In other bodies of work, Hayden creates sculptures related to athletics, faith, education, and cuisine—enterprises that together express how American myths and values shape one’s sense of self and achievement. He surveys many dimensions of American life, noting, “All of my work is about the American dream, whether it’s a table that’s hard to sit at or a thorny school desk. It’s a dream that is seductive, but difficult to inhabit.”

"How the idea of monstrosity, as "other" in critical research, was central to nineteenth-century scientific understandings of "natural" or "normal" biology"--

"This book offers an original, multifaceted view of physiognomy, which invites the reader to reflect on the mystery of the human face"--

"An account of the life and work of Morris Hirshfield, an immigrant to the US in the 1890s; a successful tailor and shoe designer; and then a celebrated self-taught artist, beloved of the surrealists"--

"Bacteria inimical to plant growth spread around the world, causing a blight, Jack Flint is invited to become director of operations at Nordernholt's survivalist colony in England's Clyde Valley"--

An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy.Contact tracing is key to containing and controlling the spread of a virus in a pandemic. South Korea, China, and Singapore were among the few countries that quickly employed contact tracing after the emergence of COVID-19; the United States did not. In People Count, cybersecurity expert Susan Landau offers an accessible examination of the technology and efficacy of contact tracing in a pandemic. Can we repurpose the tracking technology that we carry with us--devices with GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and social media connectivity--to serve public health in a pandemic?

"A collection of essays that speculates both about what architecture makes of theory as well as what theory makes of architecture"--

"An attempt to explain musical cognition from the perspective of embodied cognitive science. Emphasizes interactive sense-making with the environment rather than internal neural mechanisms"--