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BOOKNEWS - NEWS & EVENTS from The MIT Press Bookstore
November 1996                  published occasionally
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In this issue:

Save Money: Thursdays 6-8:30 in November
Election 96 : The Spot
November Holiday Hours
City of Bits Talk - 11/12 
Community Servings Pies
New Books by MIT Affiliates
New Books from The MIT Press

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SAVE MONEY - SHOP LATE
The MIT Press Bookstore is now OPEN late on Thursdays ... until 8:30 PM!
During November get 20% OFF any MIT Press purchases when you buy between 6
PM and 8:30 PM every Thursday.  Tell your friends!  This is a great way to
save money on holiday gifts and get some of that shopping done early...
um... late... um... before the rush starts... well, you know what we
mean...  See you then! 

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PUT �EM ON _THE SPOT_ : V O T E !
With the clock ticking away until Tuesday�s election, we remind you to
vote with a special window and in-store display: Vintage presidential
election �spots� from Eisenhower vs. Stevenson to Reagan vs. Mondale. View
these on videotape now through Wednesday, November 6.

Edwin Diamond & Stephen Bates� definitive book on political advertising
_The Spot: Rise of Political Advertising on Television_ and Diamond &
Silverman�s _White House to Your House: Media and Politics in Virtual
America_ are ON SALE through November at $10. each (regularly $17.95 and
$20 respectively). Both are published by The MIT Press.

Political advertising and its negative effects on the electoral process
are the subject of MIT political scientist Stephen Ansolabehere�s book
_Going Negative_ (Free Press, $24. cloth) written with Shanto Iyengar of
UCLA. U.S. voter turnout is now the lowest of any of the industrialized
democracies, driven downward say the authors, by negative TV ads.

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NOVEMBER HOLIDAY HOURS 

We�re OPEN Veteran�s Day weekend (Nov. 10 & 11)
our usual hours Sunday 12-6 and Monday 9-7
(thanks to the AAAI Fall Symposium at MIT)

Thanksgiving 
OPEN Wednesday, Nov. 27 9-4* (early closing) 
* pick up your Community Servings� pies! (see below)
CLOSED Thursday, Thanksgiving, Nov. 28
OPEN as usual Friday 9-7, Saturday 10-6, Sunday 12-6, 
Nov. 29 - Dec. 1

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CITY OF BITS (and beyond)
will be the topic of William Mitchell�s talk, Tuesday, November 12 at 5:30
in MIT Bldg. 6-120.

Mitchell, Dean of the Architecture School at MIT and author of _City of
Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn_ (now an MIT Press paperback, $10)
will speak about developments on the World Wide Web and in his own work
since his book became the first to be published simultaneously on the web
and in hardcover . The free talk is part of the authors@mit.edu series
sponsored by The MIT Press Bookstore and the MIT Humanities and Dewey
Libraries. Refreshments will be served and Mitchell will sign copies of
the book.

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DELICIOUS PIES FOR THANKSGIVING
are the easiest part of your holiday meal when you buy them from Community
Servings� annual Thanksgiving �PIE IN THE SKY� sale.
Choose from pumpkin, apple, sweet potato or pecan. All are baked by the
area�s best restaurants and bakers. 100% of the proceeds go to provide
free Thanksgiving meals to individuals and families homebound with AIDS.
One pie is $20, more than one $15 each. 

The MIT Press Bookstore is proud to once again be part of this great
effort. Order pies in the Bookstore or from other participating merchants,
but hurry! *Pies must be ordered before this Friday, November 8!* You can
pick up your pies on Wednesday before Thanksgiving in any one of over 25
locations around greater Boston. MIT locations are Lobby 10 from 8:30 to
12:30 or from us 9  to 4. For more information on Community Servings check
the bulletin board in our lobby or call 445-7777.

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NEW BOOKS BY MIT AFFILIATED AUTHORS (including contributors, etc.)
recently received (alphabetical by author)

Aaron, H & Gale, W (ed)   
Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform  Brookings Inst. Press

Boice, B & Bois Y - A, & Krauss, R & Leen, F, & Meyer, J, et al   
Mel Bochner:   Thought Made Visible: 1966 - 1973   Yale 

Cogswell, D.  Chomsky for Beginners    Writers & Readers

Farquhar,D      The Other Machine    Routledge

Guillemin, Victor & Lerman, Eugene, & Sternberg, S      
Symplectic Fibrations and Multiplicity Diagrams   Cambridge
 
Gusterson, Hugh      
Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War   California

Haldeman, Joe   None So Blind   Morrow

Hays, K   Hejduk�s Chronotope   Princeton Architectural

Heron, L & Williams, V (ed)   
Illuminations: Women�s Writings on Photography 
from 1850 to the Present   Duke

Jablonski, D & Erwin, D & Lipps, J   
Evolutionary Palebiology   Chicago

Kaysen, C., ed.   The American Corporation Today   Oxford

Krimsky, S & Wrubel, R      
Agricultural Biotechnology & the Environment   U Illinois

Kuhn, Thomas   
Structure of Scientific Revolutions (3rd ed)   Chicago

Lust, Barbara et al   
Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic
Perspectives: Heads, Projections, and Learnability      Erlbaum

Murphy, P & Doherty, Paul            
The Color of Nature: An Exploratorium Book   Chronicle

Singer, Irving   
The Harmony of Nature & Spirit (Vol 3 of the Meaning of Life)   John Hopkins

Singer, Irving  
The Creation of Value (Vol 1 of meaning in life)   John Hopkins

Stork, David G., editor   
HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality    The MIT Press

Sulloway, Frank   
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives   Pantheon

Weinberg, Robert      
Racing to the Beginning of the Road : The Search for the Origin of
Cancer   Harmony
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NEW MIT PRESS BOOKS
received in the last month (alphabetical by title):

Buskirk, M & Nixon, M ed   The Duchamp Effect

Mehrotra, Kishan, Chilukuri K. Mohan, and Sanjay Ranka    
Elements of Artificial Neural Networks

Fogel, Lawrence J., Peter J. Angeline, and Thomas Back, editors  
Evolutionary Programming V. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on
Evolutionary Programming

Frenkel, Jacob A., and Assaf Razin, with the collaboration of Chi-Wa
Yuen   Fiscal Policies and Growth in the World Economy, 3rd ed

Kasabov, Nikola K.   
Foundations of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and Knowledge Engineering

Epstein, Joshua M., and Robert L. Axtell   
Growing Artificial Societies:  Social Science from the Bottom Up

Stork, David G., ed.   
HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream & Reality
 
Thagard, Paul   Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science

Simon, Herbert A.   Models of My Life

Raymond, Eric S.      
The New Hacker's Dictionary, Third Edition

Smith, Brian Cantwell   On the Origin of Objects

Zajac, Edward E.   Political Economy of Fairness

Bohman, James   Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy

Foster, Hal      
The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century
Simon, Herbert A.   Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd ed

Blauert, Jens   
Spatial Hearing: The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization, revised edition

Honneth, Axel   
Struggle for Recognition, The: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts

Slemrod, Joel, and Jon Bakija   
Taxing Ourselves: A Citizens Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform

MacKinnon, John  with photographs by Nigel Hicks   
Wild China, (including Tibet, Taiwan)

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