The Mit Press: 939 books
by Vaclav Smil
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.
America's post–Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its...
The Strip
Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself.
The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness....
Keynes
Useful Economics for the World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Why Keynes is relevant to today's global economic crisis, and how Keynesian ideas can point the way to renewed economic growth.
As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the...
Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
How the Super Nintendo Entertainment System embodied Nintendo's resistance to innovation and took the company from industry leadership to the margins of videogaming.
This is a book about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that is not celebratory or self-congratulatory. Most other accounts...
by Peter Dauvergne
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
What it means for global sustainability when environmentalism is dominated by the concerns of the affluent—eco-business, eco-consumption, wilderness preservation.
Over the last fifty years, environmentalism has emerged as a clear counterforce to the environmental destruction caused by industrialization,...
Building Successful Online Communities
Evidence-Based Social Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities.
Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook,...
Winning the Reputation Game
Creating Stakeholder Value and Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace: a back-to-basics approach.
What does a company have to do to be admired and respected? Why does Apple have a better reputation than, say, Samsung? In Winning the Reputation Game,...
Faster, Smarter, Greener
The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable, adaptable, and city-friendly.
The twentieth century was the century of the automobile; the twenty-first will see mobility dramatically re-envisioned. Automobiles altered...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
Toward the Healthy City
People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds,...
Frame Innovation
Create New Thinking by Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems.
When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around...
Protocol
How Control Exists after Decentralization
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
How Control Exists after Decentralization
Is the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom,...
by Carl DiSalvo
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products.
In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms...
Boundary Objects and Beyond
Working with Leigh Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues.
Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy...