The Mit Press: 939 books
by Charles Kooperberg, James Y. Dai, Li Hsu
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Diverse methodological and statistical approaches for investigating the role of gene-environment interactions in a range of complex diseases and traits.
Findings from the Human Genome Project and from Genome-Wide Association (GWA) studies indicate that many diseases and traits manifest a more...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
by Todd E. Feinberg, MD, Jon M. Mallatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes.
Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be...
Between Preservation and Exploitation
Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation.
In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally...
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.
This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...
Climate of Capitulation
An Insider's Account of State Power in a Coal Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities.
The United States has pledged to the world community a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28 percent below 2005 levels in 2025....
by Alan A. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Essays on small art films and big-budget blockbusters, including Antonia's Line, American Beauty, Schindler's List, and The Passion of the Christ, that view films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.
For Alan Stone, a one-time Freudian analyst and former president of...
Beyond Versus
The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
If everyone now agrees that human traits arise not from nature or nurture but from the interaction of nature and nurture, why does the “nature...
by Peter Zachar
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as “real,” “true,” and “objective” and the implications for classification and diagnosis.
In psychiatry, few question the legitimacy of asking whether a given psychiatric disorder is real; similarly, in psychology,...
Einstein's Wife
The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Was Einstein's first wife his uncredited coauthor, unpaid assistant, or his unacknowledged helpmeet? The real “Mileva Story.”
Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered...
by Linda A. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
A review of the scientific evidence on the effects of cannabinoids on brain and behavioral functioning, with an emphasis on potential therapeutic use.
The cannabis plant has been used for recreational and medicinal purposes for more than 4,000 years, but the scientific investigation into its...
by Jaakko Stenros, Torill Elvira Mortensen, Victor Navarro-Remesal
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions.
Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players....
How Things Shape the Mind
A Theory of Material Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.
An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or “all in...
by John D. Lantos, Diane S. Lauderdale
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Why preterm birth rates in the United States remain high even as access to prenatal care has improved and infant mortality has steadily dropped.
The United States has one of the highest rates of premature birth of any industrialized nation: 11.5%, nearly twice the rate of many European countries....