The Mit Press: 939 books
The Evolving Animal Orchestra
In Search of What Makes Us Musical
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species.
Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality. We are a musical species—but are we the only musical species?...
by Andrew Goffey, Matthew Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
A philosophical manual of media power for the network age.
Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems,...
Truly Human Enhancement
A Philosophical Defense of Limits
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.
The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and...
Advanced Manufacturing
The New American Innovation Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
How to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector by encouraging advanced manufacturing, bringing innovative technologies into the production process.
The United States lost almost one-third of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010. As higher-paying manufacturing...
Water Resource Economics
The Analysis of Scarcity, Policies, and Projects
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts.
Economics brings powerful insights to water management, but most water professionals receive limited training in it. The second edition of...
The Stuff of Bits
An Essay on the Materialities of Information
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
An argument that the material arrangements of information—how it is represented and interpreted—matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.
Virtual entities that populate our digital experience, like e-books, virtual worlds, and online stores, are backed...
Titans of the Climate
Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
How the planet's two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.
The United States and China together account for a disproportionate 45 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. In 2014, then-President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced complementary efforts to...
Off-Track and Online
The Networked Spaces of Horse Racing
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
How horse racing's pioneering use of communication and information networks helped shape the modern media, information, and leisure environment.
The horse racing industry has been a pioneer in interactive media, information networks, and their deployment. The race track and the off-track betting...
Disrupted Economic Relationships
Disasters, Sanctions, Dissolutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Empirical studies and theoretical analyses examine the causes and consequences of disruptions in cross-border economic relationships, including political conflict, economic sanctions, and institutional collapse.
Cross-border economic relationships gradually strengthened in the decades after...
The Synthetic Age
Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.
We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics...
Indexing It All
The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of individuals and groups in the form of documents, information, and data.
In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood...
Divine Games
Game Theory and the Undecidability of a Superior Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
A game-theoretical analysis of interactions between a human being and an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being highlights the inherent unknowability of the latter's superiority.
In Divine Games, Steven Brams analyzes games that a human being might play with an omnipotent and omniscient godlike...
Mindmade Politics
The Cognitive Roots of International Climate Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
How integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into the effectiveness of climate negotiations.
Mindmade Politics takes a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex and contentious dynamics of global climate politics....
Modeling and Simulating Software Architectures
The Palladio Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
A new, quantitative architecture simulation approach to software design that circumvents costly testing cycles by modeling quality of service in early design states.
Too often, software designers lack an understanding of the effect of design decisions on such quality attributes as performance...