The Mit Press: 939 books
IBM
The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It...
Protocol Politics
The Globalization of Internet Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
What are the global implications of the looming shortage of Internet addresses and the slow deployment of the new IPv6 protocol designed to solve this problem?
The Internet has reached a critical point. The world is running out of Internet addresses. There is a finite supply of approximately...
The Outsourcer
The Story of India's IT Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.
The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to...
by Richard N. L. Andrews, Michael E. Kraft, Karin Bäckstrand
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.”
Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...
Dolphin Communication and Cognition
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Experts survey the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, offering a comprehensive reference to findings in the laboratory and from the field.
Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring,...
The Grid
Biography of an American Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure.
The North American power grid has been called the world's largest machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the continent; Americans rely utterly on the...
Democratic Experiments
Problematizing Nanotechnology and Democracy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
An examination of nanotechnology as a lens through which to study contemporary democracy in both theory and practice.
In Democratic Experiments, Brice Laurent discusses the challenges that emerging technologies create for democracy today. He focuses on nanotechnology and its attendant problems,...
The Sound of Innovation
Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music.
In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel...
Reordering Life
Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.
The rise of genomics engendered intense struggle over the control of knowledge. In Reordering Life, Stephen Hilgartner examines the “genomics revolution” and develops...
Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine
How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things.
Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.
Environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology have taken divergent paths despite their common interest in examining human modification of the natural world. Yet...
Vision
How It Works and What Can Go Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Descriptions of basic visual mechanisms and related clinical abnormalities, by a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist.
Over the past fifty years, enormous progress has been made in understanding visual mechanisms and treating eye disorders. And yet the scientist is not always aware of the...
The Craft of Economics
Lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin Framework
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
A review of the Heckscher–Ohlin framework prompts a noted economist to consider the methodology of economics.
In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher–Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics:...
Biological Clocks, Rhythms, and Oscillations
The Theory of Biological Timekeeping
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
An introduction to the mathematical, computational, and analytical techniques used for modeling biological rhythms, presenting tools from many disciplines and example applications.
All areas of biology and medicine contain rhythms, and these behaviors are best understood through mathematical...