MIT Press

A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the world?s languages?or, approximately 4,000 languages?are endangered...

Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world. The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London...

A multidisciplinary examination of cognitive mechanisms, shaped over evolutionary time through natural selection, that govern decision making. How do we make decisions? Conventional decision theory...

An extended argument that cognitive phenomena?perceiving, imagining, remembering?can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Evolving...

Discussions of the use and limits of randomized control trials, considering the power of theory, external validity, gaps in knowledge, and what issues matter. The practice of development economics...

Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5. Psychiatry and mental health research is in...

What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the...

How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning. Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social...

How and why human males evolved the capacity to be highly involved caregivers?and why some are more involved than others. We all know the importance of mothers. They are typically as paramount in the...

On the fiftieth anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, a collection of essays that explores and celebrates the game?s legacy and its tremendous impact on gaming and popular culture. In 2024, the...

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...

A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away ?or free.?In this book, Eric von Hippel, author...

A radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world. When it comes to tech, the mainstream...

The fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle?the neutrino. Isaac Asimov is said to have observed of the neutrino: ?The only reason scientists suggested...

Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory. Reflection on the nature of...

A new edition of the essential resource on using functional neuroimaging techniques to study the neural basis of cognition, revised with the student in mind; thoroughly updated, with new chapters on...

A feminist paean to perversity: on remaking intimacy outside the Republic of Gender. Seasonal begins writing sentences and thinking thoughts they never thought possible. They want to give László the...

A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade. I am beginning to realize that taking the...

The trailblazing book that influenced a generation of writers, and proves that mature reflection needn?t be lacking in attitude. In the beginning when everything was very sexual we talked about our...

Using bioinformatics methods to generate a systems-level view of the immune system; description of the main biological concepts and the new data-driven algorithms. Despite the fact that advanced...

How organizations can foster diversity, equity, and inclusion: taking action to address and prevent workplace bias while centering women of color. Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right...

Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-si?cle.A lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma "pale as...

How we can invent?but not predict?the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like...

From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity?and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List Included in...

Experts from the natural and social sciences examine the coexistence of productive and exploitative behavior strategies observable in many species at many levels. In the natural world, some agents...

How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation. Failure is an inevitable part of any creative...

The fascinating, little-known history of female sex fluids through the millennia. For over 2000 years, vulval sex fluids were understood to be a natural part of female pleasure, only to become...

A journey through over two decades of intersectional and queering practices in film, performance, sculpture, community work, and textiles. BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! Thousand Years of Troubled...

An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding. The laboratory building is as significant to the...

From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015?and where the international climate effort...