The Mit Press: 939 books
by Stephen M. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems.
With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years....
The Shadows of Consumption
Consequences for the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.
The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences...
Drawing Physics
2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Drawings and short essays offer engaging and accessible explanations of key ideas in physics, from triangulation to relativity and beyond.
Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and...
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.
Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818–1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous...
The Psychophysical Ear
Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical...
by Katja Kwastek
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
An art-historical perspective on interactive media art that provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and analyzing digital art.
Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks...
Real Hallucinations
Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion.
In Real Hallucinations, Matthew Ratcliffe offers a philosophical examination of the structure of human experience,...
by Jill Stoner
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built.
Architecture can no longer limit itself to the art of making buildings; it must also invent the politics of taking them apart. This is Jill Stoner's premise for a minor architecture. Her architect's...
Literature and Cartography
Theories, Histories, Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the...
Consuming Power
A Social History of American Energies
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.
How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the development...
Tomorrow's Energy
Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
How the use of nonpolluting, zero-emission hydrogen as fuel could be the cornerstone of a new energy economy.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. An invisible, tasteless, colorless gas, it can be converted to nonpolluting, zero-emission, renewable energy. When burned in an...
ENIAC in Action
Making and Remaking the Modern Computer
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.
Conceived in 1943, completed in 1945, and decommissioned in 1955, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose...
Technology and Social Inclusion
Rethinking the Digital Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004
Much of the discussion about new technologies and social equality has focused on the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide." Technology and Social Inclusion moves beyond the limited view of haves and have-nots to analyze the different forms of access to information and communication technologies....
Remaking the News
Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.
The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that technology is a central and indispensable...