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How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.

A concise introduction to the theory of contracts, emphasizing basic tools that allow the reader to understand the main theoretical models; revised and updated throughout for this edition.

An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.

Marine Hydrodynamics was specifically designed to meet the need for an ocean hydrodynamics text that is up-to-date in terms of both content and approach. The book is solidly based on fundamentals, but it also guides the student to an understanding of their engineering applications through its consideration of realistic configurations.

The final part of the 1st ed. is not included in this revision.

Perceptrons - the first systematic study of parallelism in computation - has remained a classical work on threshold automata networks for nearly two decades.

An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the "management treadmill."

The role that "system" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own "computational universe."

What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.

Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.

An economist's perspective on the nuts and bolts of economic policymaking, based on his experience as the Chief Economic Adviser in India.

The complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System platform, from code to silicon, focusing on its technical constraints and its expressive affordances.

The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.

How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.

Why our brains aren't built for media multitasking, and how we can learn to live with technology in a more balanced way.

An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features.

Two experts in monetary policy offer a unified framework for studying the role of money and liquid assets in the economy.

Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.

An expert in management takes on the conventional wisdom about disruption, looking at companies that proved resilient and offering managers tools for survival.

The tumultuous life and career of a woman who fought gender bias on multiple fronts-in theory and in practice, for herself and for us all.

A presentation of the cost-of-capital approach for analyzing the economic impact of tax policy.