The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
The Shared World
Perceptual Common Knowledge, Demonstrative Communication, and Social Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
A novel treatment of the capacity for shared attention, joint action, and perceptual common knowledge.
In The Shared World, Axel Seemann offers a new treatment of the capacity to perceive, act on, and know about the world together with others. Seemann argues that creatures capable of joint...
Responsible Brains
Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
An examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offers a comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility.
When we praise, blame, punish, or reward people for their actions, we are holding them responsible for what they have done. Common sense tells us...
Energy at the End of the World
An Orkney Islands Saga
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.
The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Surrounded by fierce seas and shrouded by clouds and mist, the islands seem to mark the edge...
The Politics of Invisibility
Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible.
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern...
Machineries of Oil
An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arrangements in Iran.
In the early twentieth century, international oil corporations emerged as a new kind of political actor. The development of the...
Documenting Aftermath
Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.
When an earthquake happens in California today, residents may look to the United States Geological Survey for online maps that show the...
System
The Shaping of Modern Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The role that “system” has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own “computational universe.”
A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer (Windows 10), or be made on a page (the fourteen engineered lines...
Novacene
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
The originator of the Gaia theory offers the vision of a future epoch in which humans and artificial intelligence together will help the Earth survive.
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about...
Broken Movement
The Neurobiology of Motor Recovery after Stroke
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
An account of the neurobiology of motor recovery in the arm and hand after stroke by two experts in the field.
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in adults and recovery is often difficult, with existing rehabilitation therapies largely ineffective. In Broken Movement, John Krakauer and...
Once Upon an Algorithm
How Stories Explain Computing
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
How Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, the movie Groundhog Day, Harry Potter, and other familiar stories illustrate the concepts of computing.
Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app....
The Arid Lands
History, Power, Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered.
Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Texts—including essays, reviews, and statements by the artist—on the work of Sherrie Levine.
The artist Sherrie Levine (b. 1947) is best known for her appropriations of work by other artists—most famously for her rephotographs of canonical images by Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and other...
Digital Apollo
Human and Machine in Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight—the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.
As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission...
Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!
Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism.
For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media—newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue...