The Mit Press: 939 books
Climate Change
What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
An updated and accessible account of what science knows about climate change, incorporating the latest scientific findings and policy initiatives.
Most of us are familiar with the term climate change but few of us understand the science behind it. We don't fully comprehend how climate change...
The Chinese Economy
Adaptation and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.
This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not...
Power and Care
Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.
For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human...
by Kyna Leski
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The stages of the creative process—from “unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others.
Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process...
by James J. Heckman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?
In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today....
by Robert Pollin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
A program for building a global clean energy economy while expanding job opportunities and economic well-being.
In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about forty percent by 2030.
Achieving...
by Barry G. Rabe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies.
Climate change, economists generally agree, is best addressed by putting a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels—by taxing carbon, by...
Beyond the Triple Bottom Line
Eight Steps toward a Sustainable Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
A pragmatic new business model for sustainability that outlines eight steps that range from exploring a mission to promoting innovation; with case studies.
Many recent books make the case for businesses to become more sustainable, but few explain the specifics. In this book, Francisco Szekely...
Big Hunger
The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.
Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession...
Revolutionizing Innovation
Users, Communities, and Open Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
A comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the emerging paradigm of user and open innovation, offering both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes...
Biopolitical Screens
Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
An investigation of the aesthetics and politics of new visual media under twenty-first-century capitalism, from console games to virtual reality to video installation art.
In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi Väliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual...
When the Lights Went Out
A History of Blackouts in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Blackouts—whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism—offer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American society.
Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout...
Control
Digitality as Cultural Logic
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
An examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity.
Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer...
For Fun and Profit
A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.
In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences—a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades...