Mit Press imprint: 940 books
by Andreas Schäfer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
A discussion of the opportunities and challenges involved mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger travel.
In the nineteenth century, horse transportation consumed vast amounts of land for hay production, and the intense traffic and ankle-deep manure created miserable living conditions...
by Vaclav Smil, Kazuhiko Kobayashi
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
An examination of the transformation of the Japanese diet from subsistence to abundance and an assessment of the consequences for health, longevity, and the environment.
In a little more than a century, the Japanese diet has undergone a dramatic transformation. In 1900, a plant-based, near-subsistence...
Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change
Human Virtues of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective, exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change is fundamentally an ethical...
The Environmental Humanities
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies.
The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction...
Plastic Water
The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
How and why branded bottles of water have insinuated themselves into our daily lives, and what the implications are for safe urban water supplies.
How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good—no longer a common resource...
by Angela N. H. Creager, Sigrid Schmalzer, Matthew Shindell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific...
Green Grades
Can Information Save the Earth?
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
A comprehensive assessment and analysis of the validity, trustworthiness, and effectiveness, of such environmental ratings as ENERGY STAR, LEED, and USDA Organic.
Consumers are confronted with a confusing array of environmental ratings on products that range from refrigerators to shampoos....
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
Plantations and Protected Areas
A Global History of Forest Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas.
Today, the world's forests are threatened by global warming, growing demand for wood products, and increasing pressure to clear tropical forests for agricultural...
Rock, Bone, and Ruin
An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.
The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in...
All and Nothing
A Digital Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = *xn*: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.**
In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and God was the One.
—All and Nothing
In 1854, the British mathematician George Boole...
GMOs Decoded
A Skeptic's View of Genetically Modified Foods
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions.
Since they were introduced to the market in the late 1990s, GMOs (genetically modified organisms, including genetically modified crops), have been subject to a barrage...
What a City Is For
Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.
Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes,...
Pirate Philosophy
For a Digital Posthumanities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
How philosophers and theorists can find new models for the creation, publication, and dissemination of knowledge, challenging the received ideas of originality, authorship, and the book.
In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher...