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Paradox
$18.95 Add to cartAn introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.
Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno’s.
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Cuonzo, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0262525496
- Language: English
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Melancholy Wedgwood
$34.95 Read moreAn experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity.
Melancholy Wedgwood traces the- Author: Moon, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0262546345
- Language: English
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How Your Brain Works: Neuroscience Experiments for Everyone
$27.95 Read moreDiscover the hidden electrical world inside your nervous system using DIY, hands-on experiments, for all ages. No MD or PhD required!
The workings of the brain are mysterious: What are neural signals?- Author: Gage, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 262544385
- Language: English
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Recommendation Engines
$18.95 Add to cartHow companies like Amazon and Netflix know what “you might also like” the history, technology, business, and social impact of online recommendation engines.
Increasingly, our technologies are giving us
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Schrage, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539071
- Language: English
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Design After Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
$32.95 Add to cartHow design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.
The designed things, experiences, and symbols that we u- Author: Wizinsky, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543567
- Language: English
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Behavioral Insights
$18.95 Add to cartThe definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.
Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our c… [more below]- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hallsworth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539403
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartHow 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
$27.95 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
$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
$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 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
