The Mit Press: 939 books
Reality Mining
Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
A look at how Big Data can be put to positive use, from helping users break bad habits to tracking the global spread of disease.
Big Data is made up of lots of little data: numbers entered into cell phones, addresses entered into GPS devices, visits to websites, online purchases, ATM transactions,...
Transparency in Global Environmental Governance
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role.
Transparency—openness, secured through greater availability of information—is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of...
Comparative Environmental Politics
Theory, Practice, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems
How do different societies respond politically to environmental problems around the globe?...
The Innovator's Hypothesis
How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Achieving faster, better, cheaper, and more creative innovation outcomes with the 5X5 framework: 5 people, 5 days, 5 experiments, $5,000, and 5 weeks.
What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending “innovation vacations” and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for...
The Well-Played Game
A Player's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
The return of a classic book about games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well-played game and the well-lived life.
In The Well-Played Game, games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players—as well as game designers, educators,...
The Second Digital Turn
Design Beyond Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.
Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the...
Low Power to the People
Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
An examination of how activists combine political advocacy and technical practice in their promotion of the emancipatory potential of local low-power FM radio.
The United States ushered in a new era of small-scale broadcasting in 2000 when it began issuing low-power FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial...
The Greenest Nation?
A New History of German Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
An account of German environmentalism that shows the influence of the past on today's environmental decisions.
Germany enjoys an enviably green reputation. Environmentalists in other countries applaud its strict environmental laws, its world-class green technology firms, its phase-out of nuclear...
Adjusted Margin
Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public.
This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
by Benjamin H. Bratton, Søren Bro Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.
Mobile apps promise to deliver (h)appiness to our devices at the touch of a finger or two. Apps offer gratifyingly immediate access to connection and entertainment. The array of...
by Hans Blix
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.
In 2002 Dr. Hans Blix, then chief United Nations weapons inspector, led his team on a search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Before the United States went to war with Iraq the next...
by Akbar Ganji
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
Akbar Ganji, called by some “Iran's most famous dissident,” was a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. But, troubled by the regime's repressive nature, he became an investigative...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.
Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the United States came as something of a surprise—to many analysts, journalists, and voters. The *New York Times'*s The Upshot gave Hillary Clinton an 85 percent...