The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
The Resilient Enterprise
Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Stories from Nokia, Dell, UPS, Toyota, and other companies show how firms can reduce their vulnerability to high-impact distributions, from earthquakes to strikes, from SARS to terrorism, and use them for competitive advantage.
What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole...
by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.
Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled...
Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?
Experiencing Aural Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.
We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house...
In the Bubble
Designing in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.
We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the...
by Sean Gerrish
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Everything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs.
The future is here: Self-driving cars are on the streets, an algorithm gives you movie and TV recommendations, IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy...
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.
Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy...
Obfuscation
A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.
With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways...
by Leonard Talmy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
A proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, “targeting,” underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and deixis (speech-external).
In this book, Leonard Talmy proposes that a single linguistic/cognitive system, targeting, underlies two domains of linguistic...
by Nick Montfort
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
A book for anyone who wants to learn programming to explore and create, with exercises and projects to help the reader learn by doing.
This book introduces programming to readers with a background in the arts and humanities; there are no prerequisites, and no knowledge of computation is assumed....
by Mark Balaguer
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
A philosopher considers whether the scientific and philosophical arguments against free will are reason enough to give up our belief in it.
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely...
by Timothy Morton
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.
Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you.
Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the...
Feeding the Other
Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.
The United States has one of the highest rates of hunger and food insecurity in the industrialized world, with poor households,...
Energy at the Crossroads
Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy.
In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern...
Robot Sex
Social and Ethical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.
Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification...