MIT Press Essential Knowledge
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The Mind-Body Problem
$18.95 Read moreAn introduction to the mind-body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.
Philosophers from Descartes to Kripke have struggled with the glittering prize of modern a
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Westphal, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: September 30 2016
- ISBN10: 0262529564
- Language: English
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Virtual Reality
$15.95 Read moreA comprehensive overview of developments in augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality–and how they could affect every part of our lives.
After years of hype, extended reality–augmented re
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Greengard, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537524
- Language: English
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Understanding Beliefs
$18.95 Read moreWhat beliefs are, what they do for us, how we come to hold them, and how to evaluate them.
Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about cultu
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Nilsson, Nils J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0262526433
- Language: English
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Cynicism
$15.95 Read moreA short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present.
Everyone’s a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today’s cynics excuse themselves half-hear
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Allen, Ansgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0262537885
- Language: English
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Spaceflight: A Concise History
$19.95 Add to cartA concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today.
Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of t
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Neufeld, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0262536331
- Language: English
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Metadata
$19.95 Read moreEverything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day.
When “metadata” became breaking news, appearing in stories about surve
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Pomerantz, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: November 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0262528517
- Language: English
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Spatial Computing
$15.95 Add to cartAn accessible guide to the ideas and technologies underlying such applications as GPS, Google Maps, Pok mon Go, ride-sharing, driverless cars, and drone surveillance.
Billions of people around the glob
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Shekhar, Shashi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538040
- Language: English
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Carbon Capture
$16.95 Read moreA concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway.
The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), and these CO2 em
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Herzog, Howard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535750
- Language: English
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Whiteness
$16.95 Add to cartThe socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white.
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowl- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Lund, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544199
- Language: English
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Supernova
$16.95 Add to cartA concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations.
Supernovae are the explosions of stars. They are som
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Graur, Or
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543141
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
$19.95 Read moreKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.
Over the past ten
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Halegoua, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538059
- Language: English
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Gender(s)
$16.95 Add to cartWhy gender is strange, even when it’s played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Bond Stockto- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Stockton, Kathryn Bond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542609
- Language: English
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Computing: A Concise History
$16.95 Add to cartDiscover the history of computing through 4 major threads of development in this compact, accessible history covering punch cards, Silicon Valley, smartphones, and much more.
In an accessible style,- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Ceruzzi, Paul E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0262517671
- Language: English
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Placebos
$16.95 Read moreThe biological power of the placebo effect.
The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the effic- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hall, Kathryn T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544253
- Language: English
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Biofabrication
$15.95 Read moreHow engineered materials and machines powered by living biological cells can tackle technological challenges in medicine, agriculture, and global security.
You are a biological machine whose movement- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Raman, Ritu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 026254296X
- Language: English
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Irony and Sarcasm
$15.95 Add to cartA biography of two troublesome words.
Isn’t it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I’m just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in o
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538261
- Language: English
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Synesthesia
$18.95 Read moreAn accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia–vividly felt sensory couplings–by a founder of the field.
One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Cytowic, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535092
- Language: English
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The Conscious Mind
$18.95 Add to cartAn account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech.
How did the human mind emerge from the collection of
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Torey, Zoltan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0262527103
- Language: English
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Ketamine
$16.95 Read moreThe emergence of ketamine–previously known as a combat anesthetic and club drug–as a treatment for depression.
Ketamine, approved in 2019 by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of dep- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Moghaddam, Bita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542242
- Language: English
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Free Will
$18.95 Add to cartA philosopher considers whether the scientific and philosophical arguments against free will are reason enough to give up our belief in it.
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free wil
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Balaguer, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0262525798
- Language: English
