The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
The Expressive Moment
How Interaction (with Music) Shapes Human Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective processes underlying interactions with music.
The expressive moment is that point in time when we grasp a situation and respond quickly, even before we are aware of it. In this book, Marc Leman argues...
Chasing Men on Fire
The Story of the Search for a Pain Gene
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
A thirty-year quest, from genes to pain-signaling neurons to people with a rare genetic disorder that makes them feel they are on fire.
Two soldiers, both with wounds injuring the same nerve, show very different responses: one is disabled by neuropathic pain, unable to touch the injured limb...
by Kristine Jørgensen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
An investigation into computer game interfaces, both naturalistic and symbolic, and the distinction between gameworlds and other kinds of fictional worlds.
Computer games usually take one of two approaches to presenting game information to players. A game might offer information naturalistically,...
Designing with the Body
Somaesthetic Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle.
With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and interfaces with...
Linkography
Unfolding the Design Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The description of a method for the notation and analysis of the creative process in design, drawing on insights from design practice and cognitive psychology.
This book presents linkography, a method for the notation and analysis of the design process. Developed by Gabriela Goldschmidt in...
Efficient Cognition
The Evolution of Representational Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.
Many organisms (including humans) make decisions by relying on mental representations. Not simply a reaction triggered by perception, representational...
Living Zen Remindfully
Retraining Subconscious Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
A seasoned Zen practitioner and neurologist looks more deeply at mindfulness, connecting it to our subconscious and to memory and creativity.
This is a book for readers who want to probe more deeply into mindfulness. It goes beyond the casual, once-in-awhile meditation in popular culture, grounding...
The Digital Plenitude
The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media.
Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms—websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more—and...
by Christos H. Papadimitriou
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
The world of computation according to Turing, an interactive tutoring program, as told to star-crossed lovers: a novel.
Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this...
Elements of Causal Inference
Foundations and Learning Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning.
The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained...
Forms of Life
The Method and Meaning of Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
A concise, accessible, and engaging guide for students and practitioners of sociology.
In Forms of Life, Harry Collins offers an introduction to social science methodology, drawing on his forty-plus years of conducting high-profile sociological research. In this concise, accessible, and engaging...
Altered States of Consciousness
Experiences Out of Time and Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
What altered states of consciousness—the dissolution of feelings of time and self—can tell us about the mystery of consciousness.
During extraordinary moments of consciousness—shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication—our...
Re-Reasoning Ethics
The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.
In Re-Reasoning Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker enhance and empower ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm...
What's Left of Human Nature?
A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.
Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human nature? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is...