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Adhocism
MIT Press (MA) |
April 19, 2013 |
256 pages
Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972.
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$35.00
Digital Methods
MIT Press (MA) |
May 3, 2013 |
280 pages
In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social andcultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study ofonline culture. It is not a toolkit for Internet research, or operating instructions for a softwarepackage; it deals with... More Info
$28.50
The Information Revolution And Developing Countries
MIT Press (MA) |
May 24, 2013 |
456 pages
An analysis of the problems and possibilities of the information revolution in developing countries, taking into account political, institutional, and cultural dynamics and structures.
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$18.00
Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets
MIT Press (MA) |
January 13, 2012 |
341 pages
Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a... More Info
$29.95
Spam
MIT Press (MA) |
April 5, 2013 |
304 pages
The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncraticallyspelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, andpleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Wheredoes it come... More Info
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Giving Kids a Fair Chance
MIT Press (MA) |
April 5, 2013 |
152 pages
In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist JamesHeckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today.Children born into disadvantage are, by the time they start kindergarten, already at risk ofdropping out of school, teen pregnancy, crime,... More Info
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Ambient Commons
MIT Press (MA) |
March 8, 2013 |
320 pages
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts andformats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appeareverywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Sensors, processors,and memory are not found only... More Info
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Contested Water: The Struggle Against Water Privatization in the United States and Canada
MIT Press (MA) |
March 15, 2013 |
254 pages
Attempts by local governments to privatize water services have met with furiousopposition. Activists argue that to give private companies control of the water supply is to turnwater from a common resource into a marketized commodity. Moreover, to cede local power to a globalcorporation puts... More Info
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Something for Nothing
MIT Press (MA) |
February 8, 2013 |
336 pages
David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College,Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small collegein a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. Hethinks he is... More Info
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Inside Jokes
MIT Press (MA) |
February 8, 2013 |
376 pages
An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that ishumor.
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The End of Energy
MIT Press (MA) |
February 8, 2013 |
384 pages
Forty years of energy incompetence: villains, failures of leadership, and missedopportunities.
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Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists
MIT Press (MA) |
February 8, 2013 |
256 pages
Guidance for maintaining national security without abandoning the rule of law and ourdemocratic values.
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Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously
MIT Press (MA) |
January 11, 2013 |
400 pages
A theoretically driven comparison of sustainability programs in U.S. cities.
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$19.00
The Comingled Code
MIT Press (MA) |
January 11, 2013 |
250 pages
The interaction of open source and proprietary software and the implications foreconomic development.
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$25.00
The Rediscovery of the Wild
MIT Press (MA) |
February 1, 2013 |
272 pages
We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature -- a citypark, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity of connectingwith wild nature -- untamed, unmanaged, not encompassed, self-organizing, and unencumbered andunmediated by... More Info
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Occupy the Future
MIT Press (MA) |
January 4, 2013 |
192 pages
The Occupy Wall Street movement has ignited new questions about the relationshipbetween democracy and equality in the United States. Are we also entering a moment in history inwhich the disjuncture between our principles and our institutions is cast into especially sharprelief? Do new... More Info
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Texture
MIT Press (MA) |
September 21, 2012 |
320 pages
Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways tocommunicate.
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Good Faith Collaboration
MIT Press (MA) |
September 21, 2012 |
264 pages
How Wikipedia collaboration addresses the challenges of openness, consensus, andleadership in a historical pursuit for a universal encyclopedia.
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Comparative Environmental Politics
MIT Press (MA) |
February 24, 2012 |
424 pages
How do different societies respond politically to environmental problems around the globe? Answering this question requires systematic, cross-national comparisons of political institutions, regulatory styles, and state-society relations. The field of comparative environmental politics approaches... More Info
$19.95
Sacrifice Zones
MIT Press (MA) |
September 21, 2012 |
368 pages
The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took actionwhen pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.
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Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change
MIT Press (MA) |
April 6, 2012 |
336 pages
Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective, exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change is fundamentally an ethical... More Info
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Push Comes To Shove
MIT Press (MA) |
September 21, 2012 |
312 pages
The new celebration of women's aggression in contemporary culture, from Kill Bill andPrime Suspect to the artists group Toxic Titties.
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Hijacking Sustainability
MIT Press (MA) |
February 17, 2012 |
224 pages
The idea of "sustainability" has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie stars, it's even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobranding strategies. In Hijacking Sustainability, Adrian Parr describes how this has... More Info
Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods
MIT Press (MA) |
April 27, 2012 |
376 pages
Global public goods (GPGs)--the economic term for a broad range of goods and services that benefit everyone, including stable climate, public health, and economic security--pose notable governance challenges. At the national level, public goods are often provided by government, but at the global... More Info
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Digital Dead End
MIT Press (MA) |
September 14, 2012 |
266 pages
The realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the UnitedStates.
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$37.95
Effective Cycling
MIT Press (MA) |
April 27, 2012 |
624 pages
Effective Cycling is an essential handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert, whether daily commuters or weekend pleasure trippers. This thoroughly updated seventh edition offers cyclists the information they need for riding a bicycle under all conditions: on congested city streets or winding... More Info
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Newsgames
MIT Press (MA) |
September 14, 2012 |
235 pages
How videogames offer a new way to do journalism.
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$27.00
The Ethics of Animal Research
MIT Press (MA) |
March 30, 2012 |
352 pages
An estimated 100 million nonhuman vertebrates worldwide--including primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, birds, rats, and mice--are bred, captured, or otherwise acquired every year for research purposes. Much of this research is seriously detrimental to the welfare of these animals, causing... More Info
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Virtual Knowledge
MIT Press (MA) |
October 19, 2012 |
288 pages
Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarlyknowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transformation is connected to the use ofdigital technologies and the virtualization of knowledge. In this book, scholars from a range ofdisciplines consider just what,... More Info
Philosophy of Communication
MIT Press (MA) |
August 10, 2012 |
674 pages
To philosophize is to communicate philosophically. From its inception, philosophy hascommunicated forcefully. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle talk a lot, and talk ardently. Becausephilosophy and communication have belonged together from the beginning--and because philosophy comesinto its own and... More Info
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Blaming Islam
MIT Press (MA) |
March 9, 2012 |
121 pages
In the United States and in Europe, politicians, activists, and even some scholars argue that Islam is incompatible with Western values and that we put ourselves at risk if we believe that Muslim immigrants can integrate into our society. Norway's Anders Behring Breivik took this argument to its... More Info
$50.00
Oh, Canada
MIT Press (MA) |
July 20, 2012 |
399 pages
Published in the occasion of an exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Being Nuclear
MIT Press (MA) |
March 9, 2012 |
451 pages
Discusses what guidelines define a nation as "nuclear," and examines the relationships between developing nations with large contents of raw uranium and nuclear power nations, who are often former colonizers.
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Taken for Grantedness
MIT Press (MA) |
October 26, 2012 |
256 pages
Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer theirmobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net,the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides ataken-for-granted... More Info
Blowout in the Gulf
MIT Press (MA) |
February 17, 2012 |
272 pages
On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo well. For months, oil gushed into the Gulf, spreading death and destruction. Americans watched real-time video of the... More Info
The Cosmetic Gaze
MIT Press (MA) |
March 9, 2012 |
240 pages
If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze--in Bernadette Wegenstein's groundbreaking formulation--is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the... More Info
Why Have Children?
MIT Press (MA) |
February 3, 2012 |
253 pages
In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more... More Info
The Last Art College
MIT Press (MA) |
March 2, 2012 |
480 pages
How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education--and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself--in the 1960s and 1970s? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of... More Info
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