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Politically Red
$29.95 Read moreHow reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence.
“Reading is class struggle,” writes Bertolt Brecht. Politica- Author: Cadava, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047802
- Language: English
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Living and Working
$59.95 Add to cartAn argument against the ideology of domesticity that separates work from home; lavishly illustrated, with architectural proposals for alternate approaches to working and living.
Despite the increasing- Author: Dogma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543516
- 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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A Darwinian Survival Guide: Hope for the Twenty-First Century
$34.95 Add to cartHow 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.
Desp- Author: Brooks, Daniel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 026204868X
- 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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Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt
$34.95 Add to cartA 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, th- Author: Von Mertens, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049384
- Language: English
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Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Norman, Donald A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548305
- Language: English
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Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
$36.95 Add to cartHow to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.
Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative- Author: Dunne, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548682
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
$29.95 Add to cartHow data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities–and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
In- Series: Information Society
- Author: Sinnreich, Aram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048817
- Language: English
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Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
$32.95 Add to cartLearning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of “common” people and less immodest in their erec… [more below]
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Venturi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 1977
- ISBN10: 026272006X
- 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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Nightwork, Updated Edition: A History of Hacks and Pranks at Mit
$29.95 Add to cartA lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.
An MIT “hack” is an ingenious, benign, and anonymous prank or practical joke, often req
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Peterson, Institute Historian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0262515849
- 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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Topology of Violence
$19.95 Add to cartOne of today’s most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.
Some things never disappear–violence, for example. Viol
- Series: Untimely Meditations #9
- Author: Han, Byung-Chul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0262534959
- 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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A Brief History of Feminism
$16.95 Add to cartAn 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.
The- Author: Patu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548674
- Language: English
