The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
by Bini Adamczak
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Communism, capitalism, work, crisis, and the market, described in simple storybook terms and illustrated by drawings of adorable little revolutionaries.
Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.
Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the...
On Accident
Episodes in Architecture and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural history.
This collection by “architectural history's most beguiling essayist” (as Reinhold...
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation
Uses and Abuses
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings.
The research evaluation market is booming. “Ranking,” “metrics,” “h-index,” and “impact factors”...
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
The 2013–2015 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was a public health disaster: 28,575 infections and 11,313 deaths (as of October 2015), devastating the countries of...
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....
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,...