MIT Press Essential Knowledge
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Food
$19.95 Read moreA consumer’s guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.
Everybody eats. We may ev
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Parasecoli, Fabio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537311
- Language: English
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Anticorruption
$43.25 Add to cartWinning the anticorruption battle: a guide for citizens and politicians.
The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass,
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Rotberg, Robert I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538830
- Language: English
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Tech Monopoly
$16.95 Add to cartA serious look at competition problems in tech markets and whether antitrust law can help address them.
In recent years, the astronomical rise of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft ha
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hovenkamp, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548747
- Language: English
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Fake Photos
$15.95 Add to cartA concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media.
Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and other dictators routinely doctored photographs
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Farid, Hany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537494
- Language: English
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Machine Translation
$40.00 Read moreA concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.
The dream of a universal translatio
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Poibeau, Thierry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534215
- Language: English
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Memes in Digital Culture
$15.95 Read moreTaking “Gangnam Style” seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture.
In December 2012, the exuberant video “Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one b
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Shifman, Limor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0262525437
- Language: English
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Contraception: A Concise History
$15.95 Read moreThe development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.
The beginning of the modern contra
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538423
- Language: English
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The Future
$15.95 Read moreHow the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.
The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can onl
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Montfort, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: December 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534819
- Language: English
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Hate Speech
$15.95 Add to cartAn investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread.
Hate speech can happen anywhere–in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in kha- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Carlson, Caitlin Ring
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 026253990X
- Language: English
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Cyborg
$16.95 Read moreA concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.
This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzi- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Forlano, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262547554
- Language: English
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Universal Basic Income
$18.95 Read moreAn accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.
The growing mo- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Widerquist, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0262546892
- Language: English
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Paradox
$18.95 Add to cartAn introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.
Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno’s.
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Cuonzo, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0262525496
- Language: English
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Recommendation Engines
$18.95 Add to cartHow companies like Amazon and Netflix know what “you might also like” the history, technology, business, and social impact of online recommendation engines.
Increasingly, our technologies are giving us
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Schrage, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539071
- Language: English
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Behavioral Insights
$16.95 Add to cartThe definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.
Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our c… [more below]- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hallsworth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539403
- Language: English
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Visual Culture
$15.95 Add to cartHow to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, eve
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Boylan, Alexis L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539365
- Language: English
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The Technological Singularity
$19.95 Add to cartThe idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence.
The idea that human history is approaching a “singula
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Shanahan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0262527804
- Language: English
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Sustainability
$16.95 Add to cartA concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.
The word “sustainability” has been connected to everything fr
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Portney, Kent E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0262528509
- Language: English
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The Internet of Things, Revised and Updated Edition
$16.95 Add to cartA guided tour of the rapidly evolving networked world of connected devices, objects, and people that is changing the way we live and work.
Since the publication of the original edition of this volume- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Greengard, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542625
- Language: English
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Citizenship
$15.95 Add to cartThe story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination.
The glorification of citizenship is a given in today’s world, part of a civi
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kochenov, Dimitry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537796
- Language: English
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3D Printing
$18.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses.
The use of 3D printing–digitally controlled additive ma
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Jordan, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0262536684
- Language: English
