Mit Press imprint: 940 books
The Spatial Economy
Cities, Regions, and International Trade
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2001
The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics.
Since 1990 there has been a renaissance...
The Ringtone Dialectic
Economy and Cultural Form
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics.
A decade ago, the customizable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalized ringer signals....
The Unreliable Nation
Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography,...
Traversals
The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
An exercise in reclaiming electronic literary works on inaccessible platforms, examining four works as both artifacts and operations.
Many pioneering works of electronic literature are now largely inaccessible because of changes in hardware, software, and platforms. The virtual disappearance...
Is the Universe a Hologram?
Scientists Answer the Most Provocative Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.
Science today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual “eurekas.” This book recreates that kind of synergy by offering a series of interconnected...
American Environmental Policy
Beyond Gridlock
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
An updated investigation of alternate pathways for American environmental policymaking made necessary by legislative gridlock.
The “golden era” of American environmental lawmaking in the 1960s and 1970s saw twenty-two pieces of major environmental legislation (including the Clean Air Act,...
Reality Mining
Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
A look at how Big Data can be put to positive use, from helping users break bad habits to tracking the global spread of disease.
Big Data is made up of lots of little data: numbers entered into cell phones, addresses entered into GPS devices, visits to websites, online purchases, ATM transactions,...
Transparency in Global Environmental Governance
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role.
Transparency—openness, secured through greater availability of information—is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of...
Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
A study of Internet blocking and filtering around the world: analyses by leading researchers and survey results that document filtering practices in dozens of countries.
Comparative Environmental Politics
Theory, Practice, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems
How do different societies respond politically to environmental problems around the globe?...
The Innovator's Hypothesis
How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Achieving faster, better, cheaper, and more creative innovation outcomes with the 5X5 framework: 5 people, 5 days, 5 experiments, $5,000, and 5 weeks.
What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending “innovation vacations” and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for...
Technically Together
Reconstructing Community in a Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Why we should not accept “networked individualism” as the inevitable future of community.
If social interaction by social media has become “the modern front porch” (as one sociologist argues), offering richer and more various contexts for community and personal connection, why do we...
by Peter Suber
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.
The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary...
The Well-Played Game
A Player's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
The return of a classic book about games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.
In The Well-Played Game, games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players—as well as game designers, educators,...