The MIT Press

Book Reviews

• Artificial Life (Christopher Langton)
  - articles from the first three issues of the journal
• Borders in Cyberspace (Brian Kahin, Charles Nesson)
  Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure
• *Central Banking in Theory and Practice (Alan S. Blinder)
  - lectures by an ex-Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board
• The Cerebral Code (William H. Calvin)
  Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
• City Cycling (John Pucher, Ralph Buehler)
  - cycling as everyday urban transport, worldwide
• **The Computational Beauty of Nature (Gary William Flake)
  Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
• *Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (Elliott Sober)
  - a mix of classic papers and more recent material
• Coordinating the Internet (Brian Kahin, James H. Keller)
  - governance, domain names, and interconnection agreements
• Cyberspace: First Steps (Michael Benedikt)
  - information representations and virtual reality interfaces
• Cycling for Sustainable Cities (Ralph Buehler, John Pucher)
• Darwin's Dreampond (Tijs Goldschmidt)
  Drama in Lake Victoria
• Dennett's Philosophy (Don Ross, Andrew Brook, David Thompson)
  A Comprehensive Assessment
• *Elbow Room (Daniel C. Dennett)
  The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
• The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul (Paul M. Churchland)
  A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
• Environmental Evolution (Margulis, Matthews, Haselton)
  Effects of the Origin and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth
• *The Evolution of Communication (Marc D. Hauser)
  - neurobiological, ontogenetic, adaptive, and psychological approaches
• From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog (Martin Campbell-Kelly)
  A History of the Software Industry
• From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure (Christine L. Borgmann)
  - all about digital libraries
• HAL's Legacy (David G. Stork)
  2001's Computer as Dream and Reality
• How Not to Network a Nation (Benjamin Peters)
  The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
• Ideas That Shaped Buildings (Fil Hearn)
  - architectural theory from Vitruvius to deconstructivism
• Mind and Morals (Larry May, Marilyn Friedman, Andy Clark)
  Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science
• Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound (Perry R. Cook)
  An Introduction to Psychoacoustics
• Noam Chomsky (Robert F. Barsky)
  A Life of Dissent
• The Origins of Music (Nils L. Wallin, Björn Merker, Steven Brown)
  - towards an evolutionary musicology
• The Prism of Grammar (Tom Roeper)
  How Child Language Illuminates Humanism
• Privacy on the Line (Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau)
  The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
• Public Access to the Internet (Brian Kahin, James Keller)
• Scholarly Publishing (Robin P. Peek, Gregory B. Newby)
  The Electronic Frontier
• Ships and Science (Larrie D. Ferreiro)
  The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
• *The Simple Science of Flight (Henk Tennekes)
  From Insects to Jumbo Jets
• Species (Robert A. Wilson)
  New Interdisciplinary Papers
• Tower of Babel (Robert T. Pennock)
  The Evidence Against the New Creationism
• **A Vast Machine (Paul N. Edwards)
  Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
• Wild Borneo (Nick Garbutt, J. Cede Prudente)
  The wildlife and scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan