The Mit Press: 939 books
by Stephen Balogh, Laura A. Bozzi, Robin Broad
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway.
Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but...
Aesthetics Equals Politics
New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
How aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.
These essays make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial,...
Dream Chasers
Immigration and the American Backlash
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
How the immigration battle plays out in America, from curriculum disputes to federal raids to the civil rights activism of young “Dreamers.”
Illegal immigration continues to roil American politics. The right-wing media stir up panic over “anchor babies,” job stealing, welfare dependence,...
Reform of the International Monetary System
Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
An argument that a rules-based reform of the international monetary system, achieved by applying basic economic theory, would improve economic performance.
In this book, the economist John Taylor argues that the apparent correlation of monetary policy decisions among different countries—largely...
Why Have Children?
The Ethical Debate
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful...
Polarized America
The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Updated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality.
The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché....
by Pamela S. Karlan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
A prominent lawyer and legal scholar describes her vision of an evolving Constitution, examining current legal issues that range from health care to gun control.
Pamela S. Karlan is a unique figure in American law. A professor at Stanford Law School and former counsel for the NAACP, she has...
Concepts, Syntax, and their Interface
The Theta System
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
A systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that capture subsequent developments.
One of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory is the development of the Theta System (TS), a theory of the interface between the system of concepts...
by Jennifer Burwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.
The principles of quantum physics—and the strange phenomena they describe—are represented most precisely in highly abstract...
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The...
Why Are We Waiting?
The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action.
The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development,...
Humanity Enhanced
Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices.
Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity...
by Sandra C. Greer
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers.
This book offers the first comprehensive guide to ethics for physical scientists and engineers who conduct research. Written by a distinguished professor of chemistry and chemical engineering,...
Undone Science
Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
A theoretical integration of science and technology studies and social movement studies that finds both common ground and “undone” research.
As the fields of social movement studies (SMS) and science and technology studies (STS) have diversified in topical focus, they have moved closer...