Mit Press: 1072 books
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,...
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 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...
Atari Age
The Emergence of Video Games in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)
Beginning with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong in 1972, video games, whether played in arcades and taverns...
Ethics in Everyday Places
Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.
In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, “you do everything right but...
Lee Kuan Yew
The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy.
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and...
Blue and Green
The Drive for Justice at America's Port
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.
In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles....
Taxing Ourselves
A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The new edition of a popular guide to the key issues in tax reform, presented in a clear, nontechnical, and unbiased way.
To follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is often forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the...
Inside the Fed
Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
An insider's account of the workings of the Federal Reserve, thoroughly updated to encompass the Fed's action (and inaction) during the recent financial meltdown.
Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed's Board of Governors for more than thirty years and...
by Eric von Hippel
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.”
In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings...
The The Elusive Quest for Growth
Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2002
Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling...
Strategies and Games
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1999
Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate aswell as business school students. This text is the first to provideboth a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety ofreal-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business,political science, and the...
by Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, James D. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2005
The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure? Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related economic question of why...
IT Strategy for Non-IT Managers
Becoming an Engaged Contributor to Corporate IT Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
How non-IT managers can turn IT from an expensive liability into a cost-effective competitive tool.
Firms spend more on information technology (IT) than on all other capital assets combined. And yet despite this significant cash outlay, businesses often end up with IT that is uneconomical and...