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Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s Photographic Materials
$59.95 Read moreThe first-ever volume of the photographs of German writer W.G. Sebald, exquisitely designed to shed new light on his creative process, as it chronicles the images and encounters that shaped his writin… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Clive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0262548291
- 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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The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
$27.95 Read moreThe Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1890951560
- 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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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
$15.95 Add to cartA guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.
In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues tha
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Broussard, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 026253701X
- 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
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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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Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self
$21.95 Read moreWhat altered states of consciousness–the dissolution of feelings of time and self–can tell us about the mystery of consciousness.
During extraordinary moments of consciousness–shock, meditative sta- Author: Wittmann, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546086
- Language: English
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Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change
$39.95 Read moreThe illuminating evolution of the iconic space of Times Square.
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of- Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
- Author: Sagalyn, Lynne B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204854X
- 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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Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks
$22.95 Add to cartA manifesto calling for a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.
Spatializing Justice calls for architects and urban designers to do more than- Author: Cruz, Teddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544539
- 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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Architecture and Abstraction
$34.95 Add to cartA landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.
In this theoretical study of abstraction in architec- Series: Writing Architecture
- Author: Aureli, Pier Vittorio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545233
- 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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Architectures of Spatial Justice
$34.95 Read moreA field-defining work that demonstrates how architects are breaking with professional conventions to advance spatial justice and design more equitable buildings and cities.
As state violence, the pand- Author: Cuff, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545217
- Language: English
