The Mit Press: 939 books
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...
Invisible Mind
Flexible Social Cognition and Dehumanization
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
An interdisciplinary view of the evolution and consequences of flexible social cognition—the capacity to withhold the inference of mental states to other people.
In Invisible Mind, Lasana Harris takes a social neuroscience approach to explaining the worst of human behavior. How can a person...
Hume's Problem Solved
The Optimality of Meta-Induction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
A new approach to Hume's problem of induction that justifies the optimality of induction at the level of meta-induction.
Hume's problem of justifying induction has been among epistemology's greatest challenges for centuries. In this book, Gerhard Schurz proposes a new approach to Hume's problem....
Voice Leading
The Science behind a Musical Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
An accessible scientific explanation for the traditional rules of voice leading, including an account of why listeners find some musical textures more pleasing than others.
Voice leading is the musical art of combining sounds over time. In this book, David Huron offers an accessible account...
Shadow Libraries
Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.
From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal...