MIT Press Essential Knowledge
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Large Language Models
$18.95 Add to cartAn in-depth history of Large Language Models–and what their ubiquity, disruption, and creativity mean from a wider sociopolitical perspective.
In November 2022, ChatGPT swept the globe with a mixed f- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Raaijmakers, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0262552698
- Language: English
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Inflation
$19.95 Add to cartFrom an award-winning professor of economics, an accessible and comprehensive introduction to what causes, and what can address, increases in the cost of living.
Anyone who has balked at the price of- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Olney, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0262553155
- Language: English
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Animal Rights
$17.95 Add to cartA fresh view of animals and what we owe them.
Do animals have moral standing? Do they count, morally speaking? In Animal Rights, Mark Rowlands argues that they do and explores the implications of this
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Rowlands, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0262549409
- Language: English
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Standards
$18.95 Add to cartAn engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world.
Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearl
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Pomerantz, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0262549492
- Language: English
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Endangered Languages
$16.95 Read moreA 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 endangere
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Adamou, Evangelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548704
- Language: English
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Hunting: A Cultural History
$16.95 Read moreThe history of hunting, from Stone Age hunter-gatherers to today’s sport hunters.
Hunting has a long history, beginning with our hominid ancestors. The invention of the spear allowed early humans to g- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Dizard, Jan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 026254329X
- Language: English
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Phenology
$16.95 Add to cartOn the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do to help.
Phenology is all about timing–when trees leaf ou
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Crimmins, Theresa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551055
- Language: English
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Memory
$16.95 Read moreA short, accessible primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
Why do we vividly recall a traumatic childhood event but forget where we left our- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Craik, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545209
- Language: English
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Espionage: A Concise History
$16.95 Add to cartA concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today’s high-tech world.
Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is als- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Macrakis, Kristie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545020
- Language: English
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Cryptography
$18.95 Add to cartA broad introduction to cryptography–what it is, how it really works, what its future holds, and why every informed citizen should understand its basics.
We all keep secrets–from our gym locker code
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- Author: Louridas, Panos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549026
- Language: English
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Artificial General Intelligence
$17.95 Add to cartHow to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society.
Artificial intelligence surrounds us. More and more of the systems and services you interact with every
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Togelius, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549344
- Language: English
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Intellectual Property Strategy
$17.95 Read moreHow a flexible and creative approach to intellectual property can help an organization accomplish goals ranging from building market share to expanding an industry.
Most managers leave intellectual pro
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Palfrey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0262516799
- Language: English
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Information and Society
$15.95 Read moreA short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.
We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what doe
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Buckland, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0262533383
- Language: English
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Echo
$16.95 Read moreAn exploration of echo not as simple repetition but as an agent of creative possibilities.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amit Pinchevski proposes that echo is not simple- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Pinchevski, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543400
- Language: English
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Collaborative Society
$15.95 Read moreHow networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society.
Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural col
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Jemielniak, Dariusz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262537915
- Language: English
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Content
$15.95 Read moreA concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.
From the time we roll out of bed to check overnight updates to our last posts, likes, and view- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Eichhorn, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543281
- Language: English
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Fertility Technology
$16.95 Read moreA concise overview of fertility technology–its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world.
In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe an- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544695
- Language: English
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Deconstruction
$15.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Gunkel, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542471
- Language: English
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Annotation
$15.95 Read moreAn introduction to annotation as a genre–a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication–and its significance in scholarship and everyday life.
Annotation–the addition of a note to a t- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kalir, Remi H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0262539926
- Language: English
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Galaxies
$17.95 Add to cartAn eminently readable overview of the history and physics of galaxies.
In Galaxies, Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starti
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Graur, Or
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548755
- Language: English
