The Mit Press: 939 books
Unlocking Energy Innovation
How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Experts outline a plan to overhaul the U.S. energy innovation system for accelerated, large-scale adoption of reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy technologies.
Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity...
by Kent E. Portney
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
A concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.
The word “sustainability” has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic development to corporate promises about improved supply...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2002
Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways; as calls for...
Robot-Proof
Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover—filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot.
Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks,...
The War on Learning
Gaining Ground in the Digital University
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
An examination of technology-based education initiatives—from MOOCs to virtual worlds—that argues against treating education as a product rather than a process.
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides,...
Overcrowded
Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things.
The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders—users or communities. This kind of innovating can be effective...
by Giorgio A. Ascoli
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
An examination of the stunning beauty of the brain's cellular form, with many color illustrations, and a provocative claim about the mind-brain relationship.
The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures—make...
China's Next Strategic Advantage
From Imitation to Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
A book for everyone who does business with China or in China.
The history-making development of the Chinese economy has entered a new phase. China is moving aggressively from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation. Driven both by domestic needs and by global ambition, China is establishing...
by James W. Cortada
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
A guide to information as the transformative tool of modern business.
While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing...
by Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table.
In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores,...
The Art of Failure
An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.
We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions...
by Edward Miguel
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy.
By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While “economic miracles” in China and India raised hundreds...
Invisible Users
Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.
The urban youth frequenting the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country's elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...