Mit Press: 1072 books
The Qualified Self
Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.
Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion....
Made in the USA
The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
"There is probably no other writer whose books I anticipate with more enthusiasm than Vaclav Smil. He brings remarkable insight to every topic he examines, combining his vast knowledge of science and energy, history and business to address some of the most pressing issues we face today. So I'm pleased...
by Ana Iorga, Ming Hsu, Irit Shapira-Lichter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
A comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions about purchasing goods and services.
Contrary to the assumptions of economists, consumers are not always rational actors who make decisions in their own best interests....
by Hamid R. Ekbia, Bonnie A. Nardi
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.
The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people...
Sources of Power
How People Make Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A modern classic about how people really make decisions: drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis.
Since its publication twenty years ago, Sources of Power has been enormously influential. The book has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into...
Afflicted
How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
How medical education and practice can move beyond a narrow focus on biological intervention to recognize the lived experiences of illness, suffering, and death.
In Afflicted, Nicole Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological...
Architect?
A Candid Guide to the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
The new edition of an essential text offers an informative, engaging view of the architectural profession from education through practice.
Since 1985, Architect? has been an essential text for aspiring architects, offering the best basic guide to the profession available. This third edition...
Prime Movers of Globalization
The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made todays globally integrated economy possible.
Aluminum Dreams
The Making of Light Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
How aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil.
Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined...
Atari to Zelda
Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The cross-cultural interactions of Japanese videogames and the West, from DIY localization by fans to corporate strategies of “Japaneseness.”
In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn't recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting...
by Richard Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
A proposal to repurpose Web-native techniques for use in social and cultural scholarly research.
In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture....
Machine Learning for Data Streams
with Practical Examples in MOA
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
A hands-on approach to tasks and techniques in data stream mining and real-time analytics, with examples in MOA, a popular freely available open-source software framework.
Today many information sources—including sensor networks, financial markets, social networks, and healthcare monitoring—are...
by Mason Willrich
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
A comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing America's electricity infrastructure while ensuring affordable, reliable, secure, and environmentally sustainable electricity services.
America's aging electricity infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly even as the need for highly reliable...
The Ethics of Animal Research
Exploring the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified.
An estimated 100 million nonhuman vertebrates worldwide—including primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, birds, rats, and mice—are bred, captured, or otherwise acquired every year...