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Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design
(MIT Press, 2012)Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and ... -
Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain
(MIT Press, 2012)Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. We scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and information. We search for ... -
Mining the Biomedical Literature
(MIT Press, 2012)The introduction of high-throughput methods has transformed biology into a data-rich science. Knowledge about biological entities and processes has traditionally been acquired by thousands of scientists through decades of ... -
Human Information Interaction: An Ecological Approach to Information Behavior
(MIT Press, 2012)Human information interaction (HII) is an emerging area of study that investigates how people interact with information, its subfield human information behavior (HIB) is a flourishing, active discipline. Yet despite their ... -
Taken for Grantedness: The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society
(MIT Press, 2012)Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument ... -
The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics
(MIT Press, 2012)One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal question"--consideration of the moral status of nonhuman ... -
Neither physics nor chemistry : a history of quantum chemistry
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Discovering the Human Connectome
(MIT Press, 2012)Crucial to understanding how the brain works is connectivity, and the centerpiece of brain connectivity is the connectome, a comprehensive description of how neurons and brain regions are connected. The human brain is a ... -
The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
(MIT Press, 2012)The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach--which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy--has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts ... -
Keynes : useful economics for the world economy
(MIT Press, 2014)As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the economists Peter Temin and David Vines provide an ... -
The Future of the Curriculum: School Knowledge in the Digital Age
(MIT Press, 2013)An examination of curriculum innovations that are shaped by new ideas about digital media and learning. Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention ... -
Design structure matrix methods and applications
(MIT Press, 2012)This book derives from our passion to understand and improve the practice of developing complex systems. Over the past 20 years, we have come to appreciate the rich insights available to engineers and managers through the ... -
Documentary
(MIT Press, 2013)After a long period in eclipse, documentary has undergone a marked revival in recent art. This has been spurred by two phenomena: the exhibition of photographic and video work on political issues at Documenta and numerous ... -
Matter and Consciousness
(MIT Press, 2013)In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed ... -
From X-Rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology
(MIT Press, 2013)An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels. Engineering has been an essential ... -
Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion
(MIT Press, 2013)Over the past few decades, a growing body of research has emerged from a variety of disciplines to highlight the importance of cultural evolution in understanding human behavior. Wider application of these insights, however, ... -
Deliberating American Monetary Policy: A Textual Analysis
(MIT Press, 2013)A systematic analysis of Federal Reserve and congressional deliberations on monetary policy, drawing on textual analysis software and in-depth interviews with participants. American monetary policy is formulated by the ... -
Critical Issues in Taxation and Development
(MIT Press, 2013)Many developing countries find it difficult to raise the revenue required to provide such basic public services as education, health care, and infrastructure. Complicating the policy challenges of taxation in developing ... -
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
(MIT Press, 2013)Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population ... -
Intermediate public economics
(MIT Press, 2013)Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy -- economic efficiency and the distribution of income and wealth. This comprehensive text on public economics covers the core topics ...
