A veritable rock star in the book world some five centuriesafter his birth, Leonardo Da Vinci is a man for the ages. Millionsof readers hungrily ponder the mysteries behind his sketch-fillednotebooks, radical inventions, and enigmatic paintings. Thisstunning book, like no other on the market, explores the master’sinsights and synthesizes his relationship with art and science in amagnificently illustrated and informative style. Every pageresonates with Leonardo’s genius, demonstrated by his own art andwritings as well as modern diagrams and workable re-creations ofhis inventions. Physicist and artist Bulent Atalay, author of Math and the MonaLisa, deftly explains Leonardo’s interest in topics ranging fromarchitecture to botany to philosophy. Engaging prose and splendidimages point up the science and mathematics underlying Leonardo’sgenius, showing how attention to proportions, patterns, shapes, andsymmetries informed his art. The story flows chronologically, withquotations revealing the near-magical

From one of the most significant neuroscientists at worktoday, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that hasconfounded philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists forcenturies: how is consciousness created? Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying andwriting about how the brain operates, and his work has garneredacclaim for its singular melding of the scientific and thehumanistic. In Self Comes to Mind, he goes against thelong-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from thebody, presenting compelling new scientific evidence thatconsciousness—what we think of as a mind with a self—is to beginwith a biological process created by a living organism. Besides thethree traditional perspectives used to study the mind (theintrospective, the behavioral, and the neurological), Damasiointroduces an evolutionary perspective that entails a radicalchange in the way the history of conscious minds is viewed andtold. He also advances a radical hypothesis regarding the o

Rental housing subsidy programmes have been an important partof the American welfare system since the 1930s. The Benefits ofSubsidized Housing Programs: An Intertemporal Approach is anempirical study of the distributive effects of the entire system ofrental housing subsidies for lower-income households based on anational sample. Using the 1977 Annual Housing Survey, ProfessorHammond has evaluated the benefits of all federal, state and localgovernment rental housing subsidy programmes taken as a wholeacross the nation. Additionally, she has estimated the changes inconsumption patterns resulting from these programmes and therelationship between household benefit and household income;household size; age, education, sex, and race of the head of thehousehold; and the geographic location of the household.