Tracing Behind the Image discusses how our relationship to images, collectively and individually is constantly shifting in our increasingly screen-based world. This volume offers pedagogies, analyses and strategies for developing…

In simple children’s terms this is the story of the big bang and the development of life on earth and the story of recycling energy.

The book discusses access to big data for city, state, and federal government agencies and legal, social science, statistical, and technical communities interested in enabling research on big data. The…

Polly longs for an easier, more glamorous life, but with her irrepressible young daughter and her charming - if scheming - husband, will things improve? Charlotte is trying to forget…

This classroom-tested book fills a major gap in graduate- and professional-level data science and social science education. It can be used to train a new generation of social data scientists…

Deindustrialization in the United States has triggered record-setting joblessness in manufacturing centers from Detroit to Baltimore. At the same time, global competition and technological change have actually stimulated both new…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

How do we get to imagine the music we make? Where and how is it grounded? What is the relationship between the art and its maker, and what and who…