The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
The Art of Failure
An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.
We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions...
by Edward Miguel
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy.
By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While “economic miracles” in China and India raised hundreds...
Invisible Users
Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.
The urban youth frequenting the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country's elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
Pirate Politics
The New Information Policy Contests
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.
The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police...
Decoding the Social World
Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences.
Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate...
The Economics of Collusion
Cartels and Bidding Rings
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
An examination of collusive behavior: what it is, why it is profitable, how it is implemented, and how it might be detected.
Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits;...
Building the Intentional University
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.
Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground...
Foundations in Music Psychology
Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
A state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music psychology, written by leaders in the field.
This authoritative, landmark volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music perception and cognition. Eminent scholars from...
by Jeffrey Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1994
an insider's analysis of the political events and economic strategy behind the country's swift transition to capitalism and democracy
In Poland's jump to the Market Economy, Jeffrey Sachs provides an insider's analysis of the political events and economic strategy behind the country's swift...
by Mitchell Thomashow, Anthony Cortese
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
A former college president offers a framework for sustainability on campus, describing initiatives that range from renewable energy to a revamped curriculum to sustainable investment.
Colleges and universities offer our best hope for raising awareness about the climate crisis and the other...
Sustainability in Higher Education
Stories and Strategies for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs.
In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging...
by Peter C. Whybrow, Sarah F. Brosnan, Darby Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.
Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....
by David Keith
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming.
Climate engineering—which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere—has emerged in recent years as an extremely...