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Visual Culture
$15.95 Read moreHow 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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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
$19.95 Add to cartHow lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today’s society.
In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Resnick, Mitchel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0262536137
- 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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The Atom: A Visual Tour
$39.95 Read moreAn accessible and engaging guide to the atom, the smallest, most fundamental constituent of matter.
Until now, popular science has relegated the atom to a supporting role in defining the different chem
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Challoner, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 026203736X
- Language: English
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Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery: The Illustrated Edition
$29.95 Read moreHow rewilding has transformed the conservation movement, combining radical scientific insights with practical innovations.
Progressive scientists and conservation professionals are pursuing a radical
- Author: Jepson, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046768
- Language: English
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
$29.95 Read moreJust as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Individuals can forget words, phrases, even entire languages, and over the course of time speaking communities, too, let go of the tongues that were
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951501
- Language: English
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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 Read moreA 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
$29.95 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 Read moreThe 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
$19.95 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 Read moreAn 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 Add to cartAn 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 Add to cartWhat 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 Read moreA 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
