Mit Press imprint: 940 books
by Stanley Fields, Mark Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.
News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are...
by Michael Ohl
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act.
Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda davidbowie. Behind each act of scientific naming is a story. In this entertaining and illuminating book, Michael Ohl considers scientific naming as a...
The Ancient Origins of Consciousness
How the Brain Created Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious.
How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which...
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces
Diversity and Free Expression in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus.
Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, the disinvitation of speakers, demands to rename campus landmarks—debate over these issues began in lecture halls and on college quads but ended up...
by Stephen M. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems.
With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years....
The Shadows of Consumption
Consequences for the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.
The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences...
Drawing Physics
2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Drawings and short essays offer engaging and accessible explanations of key ideas in physics, from triangulation to relativity and beyond.
Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and...
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.
Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818–1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous...
The Psychophysical Ear
Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical...
by Katja Kwastek
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
An art-historical perspective on interactive media art that provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and analyzing digital art.
Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks...
Real Hallucinations
Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion.
In Real Hallucinations, Matthew Ratcliffe offers a philosophical examination of the structure of human experience,...
by Jill Stoner
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built.
Architecture can no longer limit itself to the art of making buildings; it must also invent the politics of taking them apart. This is Jill Stoner's premise for a minor architecture. Her architect's...
Literature and Cartography
Theories, Histories, Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the...
Participatory Politics
Next-Generation Tactics to Remake Public Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
An examination of the mix of face-to-face and digital methods that young people use in their experiments with civic engagement.
Although they may disavow politics as such, civic-minded young people use every means and media at their disposal to carry out the basic tasks of citizenship. Through...