The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
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,...
Rules of Play
Game Design Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
As pop culture, games are as important as film or television--but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
On Ambivalence: The Problems and Pleasures of Having it Both Ways
The Problems and Pleasures of Having it Both Ways
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?).
Networked: The New Social Operating System
The New Social Operating System
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming--and expanding--social life.
Collision Course
Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.
The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The...
Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving
The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.
Understanding Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain
Exploring the Perception of Pain
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
An expert explores the nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad.
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years
The Next Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty yearswhether sudden and cataclysmic world-changing events or gradually unfolding trends.
Ecstatic Worlds
Media, Utopias, Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.
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On Hitler's Mein Kampf
The Poetics of National Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.
Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian...
Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
A study of Internet blocking and filtering around the world: analyses by leading researchers and survey results that document filtering practices in dozens of countries.