MIT Press

Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist. What is the first thing to learn in art school? ?rt can be...

How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is ubiquitous but often...

An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others...

A journey through linguistic time and space, from Aristotle through the twentieth century's ?era of syntax,? in search of a dangerous verb and its significance. Beginning with the early works of...

How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago?and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes...

An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes of God. Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology,...

The machine as a social movement of today's "precariat"--those whose labor and lives are precarious.In this "concise philosophy of the machine," Gerald Raunig provides a historical and critical...

Sharp and witty observations of academic life that range from the local to the global, from PowerPoint to the halls of power.Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that...

A thorough and accessible introduction to a range of key ideas in type systems for programming language. The study of type systems for programming languages now touches many areas of computer...

A curatorial approach towards deliberative cultures of assembly and a realistic scenario of decentralized power and decision-making. This anthology presents work on cultures of assembly. It stresses...

A Situationist International roman ? clef, written by Guy Debord's first wife, a founder of the movement and one of its influential thinkers."What do you do, exactly? I have no idea." "I reify," he...

An accessible synthesis of memory research that discusses the creation of memory representations, the processes of storage and retrieval, and the effectiveness of encoding information. The field of...

Experts from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, and evolutionary biology assess the field of animal cognition. Do animals have cognitive maps? Do they possess knowledge? Do they plan for...

Two experts in enterprise architecting lay out a holistic approach to creating a blueprint for future enterprise transformation. Every enterprise evolves continuously, driven by changing needs or new...

An introduction to the fundamental concepts of the emerging field of Artificial Chemistries, covering both theory and practical applications. The field of Artificial Life (ALife) is now firmly...

A concise introduction to a complex field, bringing together recent work in cognitive science and cognitive robotics to offer a solid grounding on key issues. This book offers a concise and...

A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning. Our galaxy,...

From the bestselling author of Quantum Computing for Everyone, a concise, accessible, and elegant approach to mathematics that not only illustrates concepts but also conveys the surprising nature of...

A cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day. For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors,...

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...

From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women?s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. In the nineteenth...

An introduction to the mathematical, computational, and analytical techniques used for modeling biological rhythms, presenting tools from many disciplines and example applications. All areas of...

An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics for the general reader. Most of us feel at home in front of a...

An engaging and comprehensive exploration of how fundamental ideas in political and legal thought shape the governance of blockchain communities, and are, in turn, shaped by blockchain technology...

A richly illustrated exploration of the history, art, and design of printed LSD blotter tabs. Blotter is the first comprehensive written account of the history, art, and design of LSD blotter paper,...

A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses. In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist...

A heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen's legendary, long out-of-print auto-trepanation memoir.A heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen's legendary, long out-of-print auto-trepanation memoir, Bore...

A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the...

A major theorist in the Italian postfordist movement offers a radical new understanding of the current international economic situation.The Swiss-Italian economist Christian Marazzi is one of the...

Experts from economics, finance, law, policy, and banking discuss the design and implementation of a future capital market union in Europe. The plan for further development of Europe's economic and...