The Mit Press: 939 books
Lifelong Kindergarten
Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
How lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today's society.
In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like...
Resonant Games
Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives.
Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dictated by school curricula and fail to engage young learners....
Cheap and Clean
How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
How Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this can shape U.S. energy and climate change policy.
How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative...
by Frank Bentley, Edward Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Methods for new mobile experiences, from concept creation to prototyping to commercialization.
The mobile device is changing the ways we interact with each other and with the world. The mobile experience is distinct from the desktop or laptop experience; mobile apps require a significantly...
Girls Coming to Tech!
A History of American Engineering Education for Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education.
Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked...
Architectural Intelligence
How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Architects who engaged with cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies poured the foundation for digital interactivity.
In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity...
Rebel Genius
Warren S. McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
The life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundaries—from experimental neurology to psychiatry to cybernetics to engineering.
Warren S. McCulloch (1898–1969) adopted many identities in his scientific life—among them philosopher, poet, neurologist, neurophysiologist,...
Abelard to Apple
The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
How institutions of higher learning can rescue themselves from irrelevance and marginalization in the age of iTunes U and YouTube EDU.
The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle—reputable educational...
Inventing Atmospheric Science
Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
How scientists used transformative new technologies to understand the complexities of weather and the atmosphere, told through the intertwined careers of three key figures.
“The goal of meteorology is to portray everything atmospheric, everywhere, always,” declared John Bellamy and Harry...
by Elting E. Morison, Leo Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
An engaging look at how we have learned to live with innovation and new technologies through history.
People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This little book by a celebrated...
by David D. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future.
How do you design an internet? The architecture of the current Internet is the product of basic design decisions made early in its history. What would an internet look like if it were designed,...
On the Brink of Paradox
Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
An introduction to awe-inspiring ideas at the brink of paradox: infinities of different sizes, time travel, probability and measure theory, and computability theory.
This book introduces the reader to awe-inspiring issues at the intersection of philosophy and mathematics. It explores ideas...
by MIT Sloan Management Review
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019
Experts offer strategies for managing people in technocentric times.
In these technocentric times, it is more important than ever to manage people well. Companies—employees and managers—may feel overwhelmed by the never-ending disruptions caused by new technologies. This volume in the Digital...
by Deborah J. Nightingale, Donna H. Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Two experts in enterprise architecting lay out a holistic approach to creating a blueprint for future enterprise transformation.
Every enterprise evolves continuously, driven by changing needs or new opportunities. Most often this happens gradually, with small adjustments to strategy, organization,...