The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
Monitoring Movements in Development Aid
Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.
In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures...
Choosing Down Syndrome
Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.
The rate at which parents choose to terminate a pregnancy when prenatal tests indicate that the fetus has Down syndrome is between 60 and 90 percent. In Choosing...
Earth System Governance
World Politics in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A new model for effective global environmental governance in an era of human-caused planetary transformation and disruption.
Humans are no longer spectators who need to adapt to their natural environment. Our impact on the earth has caused changes that are outside the range of natural variability...
by Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schütze
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1999
Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools....
Technology Choices
Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work.
Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example,...
Iterate
Ten Lessons in Design and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation.
Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity,...
Families at Play
Connecting and Learning through Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning.
Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem...
Playing Smart
On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
A new vision of the future of games and game design, enabled by AI.
Can games measure intelligence? How will artificial intelligence inform games of the future? In Playing Smart, Julian Togelius explores the connections between games and intelligence to offer a new vision of future games and...
A New Understanding of Mental Disorders
Computational Models for Dimensional Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
A new computational and dimensional approach to understanding and classifying mental disorders: modeling key learning and decision-making mechanisms across different mental disorders.
Even as researchers look for neurobiological correlates of mental disorders, many of these disorders are still...
Lee Kuan Yew
The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy.
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and...
Blue and Green
The Drive for Justice at America's Port
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.
In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles....
Taxing Ourselves
A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The new edition of a popular guide to the key issues in tax reform, presented in a clear, nontechnical, and unbiased way.
To follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is often forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the...
Inside the Fed
Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
An insider's account of the workings of the Federal Reserve, thoroughly updated to encompass the Fed's action (and inaction) during the recent financial meltdown.
Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed's Board of Governors for more than thirty years and...
by Eric von Hippel
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.”
In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings...