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Algorithms by Panos Louridas
Category: Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range from search engines to tournament scheduling, DNA sequencing, and machine learning. Arguing that every educated person today needs to have some understanding of algorithms a ...Show more
Annotation by Remi H. Kalir; Antero Garcia
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An introduction to annotation as a genre-a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication-and its significance in scholarship and everyday life. Book jacket.
Anticorruption by Robert I. Rotberg
Category: History | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Winning the anticorruption battle: a guide for citizens and politicians. The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass, people have sought a leg up, a shortcut, or an end run to power and influence. In this volume in the M ...Show more
Auctions by Timothy P. Hubbard; Harry J. Paarsch
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
How auctions work, in theory and practice, with clear explanations and real-world examples that range from government procurement to eBay.Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling adver ...Show more
Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math by Alex Berke
Category: Science | Series: The MIT Press
A coloring book that invites readers to explore symmetry and the beauty of math visually. Beautiful Symmetry is a coloring book about math, inviting us to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and visual puzzles. We can explore symmetry and the beauty of mathematics pla ...Show more
Beyond the Self - Conversations Between by Matthieu Ricard; Wolf Singer
Category: Science | Series: The MIT Press
Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating intro ...Show more
Butch Heroes: Reinscribing the Narrative from the 15th to the 20th Century by Ria Brodell
Category: Sexual Health | Series: The MIT Press
Portraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries."A serious--and seriously successful--queer history recovery project."--Publishers WeeklyKatherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have ...Show more
Cloud Computing by Nayan B. Ruparelia
Category: Business | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to non-technologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply a selling point. This book, however, explains the cloud from the user's viewpoint -- the business user's in particu ...Show more
Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital ...Show more
Cybersecurity by Duane C. Wilson
Category: Politics | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other topics. It seems that everything we touch is connected to the internet, from mobile phones and wearable technology to home appliances and cyber assistants. The ...Show more
Death and Dying by Nicole Piemonte; Shawn Abreu
Category: Self-Help | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities. Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death ...Show more
Designed for Hi-Fi Living - The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America by Janet Borgerson; Jonathan Schroeder; Daniel Miller
Category: Music | Series: MIT Press
How record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury Americans who longed to be modern. The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like Frank Sinatra, Elvis ...Show more