The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
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...
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...
by Winifred Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
A comprehensive, practical guide to composing video game music, from acquiring the necessary skills to finding work in the field.
Music in video games is often a sophisticated, complex composition that serves to engage the player, set the pace of play, and aid interactivity. Composers of video...
The Encultured Brain
An Introduction to Neuroanthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.
The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately...
Polyphonic Minds
Music of the Hemispheres
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.
Polyphony—the interweaving of simultaneous sounds—is a crucial aspect of music that has deep implications for how we understand the mind. In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance...
The Radical Fool of Capitalism
On Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto-Icon
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time.
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver...
by D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Shadreck Chirikure
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge.
In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker...
Distributed Algorithms
An Intuitive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
A comprehensive guide to distributed algorithms that emphasizes examples and exercises rather than mathematical argumentation.
This book offers students and researchers a guide to distributed algorithms that emphasizes examples and exercises rather than the intricacies of mathematical models....
The Embodied Mind
Cognitive Science and Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.
This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered...
Rational Action
The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The evolution of a set of fields—including operations research and systems analysis—intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making.
During World War II, the Allied military forces faced severe problems integrating equipment, tactics, and logistics into...
Thieves of Virtue
When Bioethics Stole Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring.
Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised...
Drone
Remote Control Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Drone warfare described from the perspectives of drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, international law, military thinkers, and others.
**"[A] thoughtful examination of the dilemmas this new weapon poses."
—**Foreign Affairs
Drones are changing the conduct...
by Bruce N. Waller
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
A vigorous attack on moral responsibility in all its forms argues that the abolition of moral responsibility will be liberating and beneficial.
In Against Moral Responsibility, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions,...