The Mit Press: 939 books
Democracy Despite Itself
Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Why democracy is the most effective form of government despite irrational (and sometime oblivious) voters and flawed (and sometimes inept) politicians.
Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevant information. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch...
Hate Spin
The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
How right-wing political entrepreneurs around the world use religious offense—both given and taken—to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents.
In the United States, elements of the religious right fuel fears of an existential Islamic threat, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream...
Stuck in the Shallow End
Education, Race, and Computing
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
An investigation into why so few African American and Latino high school students are studying computer science reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately...
by Peter Birch Sørensen, Pedro Gomes, George Economides
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Theoretically and empirically informed studies on the role and efficiency of the public sector, public wage and employment policy, privatization, tax policy, and fiscal sustainability.
The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, total government...
Reassembling Rubbish
Worlding Electronic Waste
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the “right” thing to do with e-waste.
The prevailing storyline about the problem of electronic waste frames e-waste as generated by consumers in developed countries and dumped on people...
The Copyright Book
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
An accessible and comprehensive guide to copyright law, updated to include new developments in infringement, fair use, and the impact of digital technology.
Through five editions since 1981, this book has offered the most comprehensive accessible guide available to all aspects of copyright...
by Robin R. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
A comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and marine modalities.
This book offers the definitive guide to the theory and practice of disaster robotics. It can serve as an introduction for researchers...
Winning Together
The Natural Resource Negotiation Playbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Strategies for transboundary natural resource management; winner of Harvard Law School's Raiffa Award for best research of the year in negotiation and conflict resolution.
Transboundary natural resource negotiations, often conducted in an atmosphere of entrenched mistrust, confrontation, and...
Models of Innovation
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Benoît Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.
Models abound in science, technology, and society (STS) studies and in science, technology, and innovation (STI) studies. They are continually being invented, with one author developing many versions...
Radical, Religious, and Violent
The New Economics of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Applying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign.
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups...
Wu Jinglian
Voice of Reform in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Writings by Wu Jinglian map not only China's path to economic reform but also the intellectual evolution of China's most influential economist.
For more than thirty years, Wu Jinglian has been widely regarded as China's most celebrated and influential economist. In the late 1970s, Wu (b. 1930)...
Burdens of Proof
Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
An examination of the challenges of establishing the authenticity of electronic documents—in particular the design of a cryptographic equivalent to handwritten signatures.
The gradual disappearance of paper and its familiar evidential qualities affects almost every dimension of contemporary...
Scholarship in the Digital Age
Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
An exploration of the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the scholarly infrastructure needed to support research activities in all fields in the twenty-first century.
Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services....
Greening Berlin
The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.
Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of...