Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Globalizing Innovation
State Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
The impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies.
In the past, multinational firms have looked to developing countries as sources of raw materials, markets, or production efficiencies, but rarely as locations for innovation. Today,...
Sequel to Suburbia
Glimpses of America's Post-Suburban Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.
In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban development emerged. The expansive rings of outer suburbs that formed around major cities were decentralized...
Networking Peripheries
Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological...
Beyond Imported Magic
Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...
Blended Learning in Practice
A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A guide to both theory and practice of blended learning offering rigorous research, case studies, and methods for the assessment of educational effectiveness.
Blended learning combines traditional in-person learning with technology-enabled education. Its pedagogical aim is to merge the scale,...
Spontaneous Venturing
An Entrepreneurial Approach to Alleviating Suffering in the Aftermath of a Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering.
In Spontaneous Venturing, Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous,...
Machine Learning
The New AI
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
A concise overview of machine learning—computer programs that learn from data—which underlies applications that include recommendation systems, face recognition, and driverless cars.
Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations...
by Pamela M. Greenwood, Raja Parasuraman
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Two noted researchers explain scientific evidence that shows why certain experiential and lifestyle factors may promote and maintain cognitive vitality in older adults.
Although our physical abilities clearly decline as we age, cognitive decline in healthy old age is neither universal nor inevitable....
Treading Softly
Paths to Ecological Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
How to imagine and then realize an ecological order based on living within our biophysical means.
We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How...
Transit Life
How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
An exploration of the ways that everyday life in the city is defined by commuting.
We spend much of our lives in transit to and from work. Although we might dismiss our daily commute as a wearying slog, we rarely stop to think about the significance of these daily journeys. In Transit Life,...
Civic Ecology
Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework for understanding civic ecology as a global phenomenon.
In communities across the country and around the world, people are coming together to rebuild and restore local environments...
Fighting King Coal
The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements.
In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have...
Neighborhood as Refuge
Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods.
Environmental justice as studied in a variety of disciplines is most often associated with redressing disproportionate exposure to...
Access Controlled
The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Reports on a new generation of Internet controls that establish a new normative terrain in which surveillance and censorship are routine.
Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic...