The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
Spaceflight
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today.
Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than...
by J. M. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.
A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition—a...
by Jay R. Sklar
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Detailed descriptions of detection, direction-finding, and signal-estimation methods, using consistent formalisms and notation, emphasizing HF antenna array sensing applications.
Adaptive antenna array technology encompasses many powerful interference suppression approaches that exploit spatial...
by Michael Buckland
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.
We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal...
What the Digital Future Holds
20 Groundbreaking Essays on How Technology Is Reshaping the Practice of Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
The relationship between management and digital technology: experts present a new agenda for the practice of management.
Digital technology has profoundly affected the ways that businesses design and produce goods, manage internal communication, and connect with customers. But the next phase...
The Subject's Matter
Self-Consciousness and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self.
The body may be the object we know the best. It is the only object from which we constantly receive a flow of...
Who Wins in a Digital World?
Strategies to Make Your Organization Fit for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
How organizations can adapt to a constantly changing business environment by being flexible but focused, embracing change, and moving fast.
In the new digital world, the unknowns are never-ending. Our ability to embrace the demands of change has become a prerequisite for success. It's not easy....
Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City
Reworking Nature in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City.
by Boris Groys
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of arts complex relationship to power.
March 4
Scientists, Students, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Scientists debate the role of scientific research in the military-industrial complex and consider the complicity of academic science in American wars.
On March 4, 1969, MIT faculty and students joined together for an extraordinary day of protest. Growing out of the MIT community's anguish over...
by Nick Montfort
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.
The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can only hope to predict, like the weather. In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge...
The Technology Fallacy
How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology.
Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete....
Cybernetic Revolutionaries
Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
A historical study of Chiles twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics.
by Dara O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Where public policy fails, can consumer choices lead the way to more ethical and sustainable production practices?