January/February 2008

The Real Thing

Continued from page 1

By Mara E. Vatz SM '04

Recent Books
From the MIT community

Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures
By Steven J. Brams '62
Princeton University Press, 2008, $65.00/$27.95

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-Mail Overload
By Mark Hurst '94
Good Experience Press, 2007, $15.00

Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom
By Marina Bers, PhD '01
Teachers College Press, 2007, $56.00/$25.95

How Computer Games Help Children Learn
By David Williamson Shaffer, SM '96, PhD '98
Palgrave Press, 2006, $26.95/$14.95

The Affect Effect: Dynamics of Emotion in Political Thinking and Behavior
Edited by George E. Marcus, W. Russell Neuman, Michael ­Mac­Kuen, and Ann N. Crigler, PhD '86
University of Chicago Press, 2007, $60.00/$24.00

Folded Unipole Antennas: Theory and Applications
By Jeremy K. Raines '69, PhD '74
McGraw-Hill, 2007, $115.00

Number Theory through Inquiry
By David C. Marshall, Edward Odell, PhD '75, and Michael Starbird
Mathematical Association of America, 2007, $51.00

Suburban Transformations
By Paul Lukez, MArch '85, ­former MIT faculty member
Princeton Architectural Press, 2007, $40.00

Please submit titles of books and papers published in 2007 and 2008 to be considered for this column.

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