The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
Wu Jinglian
Voice of Reform in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Writings by Wu Jinglian map not only China's path to economic reform but also the intellectual evolution of China's most influential economist.
For more than thirty years, Wu Jinglian has been widely regarded as China's most celebrated and influential economist. In the late 1970s, Wu (b. 1930)...
Burdens of Proof
Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
An examination of the challenges of establishing the authenticity of electronic documents—in particular the design of a cryptographic equivalent to handwritten signatures.
The gradual disappearance of paper and its familiar evidential qualities affects almost every dimension of contemporary...
Scholarship in the Digital Age
Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
An exploration of the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the scholarly infrastructure needed to support research activities in all fields in the twenty-first century.
Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services....
Greening Berlin
The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.
Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of...
The Long Arm of Moore's Law
Microelectronics and American Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial.
Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced....
Missed Information
Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.
Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the...
Now the Chips Are Down
The BBC Micro
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.
In 1982, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched its Computer Literacy Project, intended “to introduce interested adults to the world...
by Matthew Wisnioski, Humera Fasihuddin, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring...
The Outer Limits of Reason
What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits...
by Sean A. Hartnoll, Andrew Lucas, Subir Sachdev
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
A comprehensive overview of holographic methods in quantum matter, written by pioneers in the field.
This book, written by pioneers in the field, offers a comprehensive overview of holographic methods in quantum matter. It covers influential developments in theoretical physics, making the key...
by Lorraine Daston
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.
Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment...
by Lawrence A. Shapiro, Shannon Spaulding, Daniel D. Hutto
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...
by Robert Arp, Barry Smith, Andrew D. Spear
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
An introduction to the field of applied ontology with examples derived particularly from biomedicine, covering theoretical components, design practices, and practical applications.
In the era of “big data,” science is increasingly information driven, and the potential for computers to store,...
by Mads Nygaard Folkmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
A theoretically informed investigation that relates the philosophies of aesthetics and imagination to understanding design practice.
In The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design, Mads Folkmann investigates design in both material and immaterial terms. Design objects, Folkmann argues, will always...