The Mit Press: 939 books
by R. David Lankes, Sue Kowalski, Beck Tench
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
How librarians can be radical positive change agents in their communities, dedicated to learning and making a difference.
This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities—librarians who recognize that it is no...
Treading Softly
Paths to Ecological Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
How to imagine and then realize an ecological order based on living within our biophysical means.
We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How...
Neighborhood as Refuge
Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods.
Environmental justice as studied in a variety of disciplines is most often associated with redressing disproportionate exposure to...
by Christopher A. Le Dantec
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
An exploration of design considerations in the design of technologies that support local collective action.
Contemporary computing technologies have thoroughly embedded themselves in every aspect of modern life—conducting commerce, maintaining and extending our networks of friends, and mobilizing...
Science in Democracy
Expertise, Institutions, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
An argument that draws on canonical and contemporary thinkers in political theory and science studies—from Machiavelli to Latour—for insights on bringing scientific expertise into representative democracy.
Public controversies over issues ranging from global warming to biotechnology have...
The Cognitive Science of Science
Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.
Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific...
Imperial Technoscience
Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
A study of science and technology practices that shows how even emergent aspects of research and development remain entangled with established hierarchies.
In the last four decades, during which magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as a cutting-edge medical technology and a cultural...
Beyond Red and Blue
How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Why Americans do not divide neatly into red and blue or right and left but form coalitions across party lines on hot-button issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.
On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats...
Late-Talking Children
A Symptom or a Stage?
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
What parents need to know about the causes and treatment of children's late talking: how to avoid misdiagnoses, navigate the educational system, and more.
When children are late in hitting developmental milestones, parents worry. And no delay causes more parental anxiety than late talking,...
Do Apes Read Minds?
Toward a New Folk Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations.
By adulthood, most of us have become experts in human behavior, able to make sense of the myriad behaviors we find in...
Monitoring Movements in Development Aid
Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.
In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures...
Choosing Down Syndrome
Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.
The rate at which parents choose to terminate a pregnancy when prenatal tests indicate that the fetus has Down syndrome is between 60 and 90 percent. In Choosing...
Earth System Governance
World Politics in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A new model for effective global environmental governance in an era of human-caused planetary transformation and disruption.
Humans are no longer spectators who need to adapt to their natural environment. Our impact on the earth has caused changes that are outside the range of natural variability...
by Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schütze
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1999
Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools....