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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
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
Crafty Crime-busting by Rachel Wright
Category: Fiction | Series: The Knowledge S.
First criminals could easily get away with murder. Then a killer was caught out by a bloody thumbprint. Now even microscopic clues can be used to collar crooks. This crafty guide gives you the low-down on how the experts crack crime. Sneak a peek inside and you'll uncover the correct way to dust for dab ...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
Extremism by J. M. Berger
Category: Reference | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition--a logical star ...Show more
Flaming Olympics 2004 by Michael Coleman
Category: unmapped | Series: The Knowledge S.
This guide tells readers everything they need to know, from the torture of Olympic training, to some of the best performances dating back as far as 776 BC.
Gender(s) by Kathryn Bond Stockton
Category: Sexual Health | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Bond Stockton explores the fascinating, fraught, intimate, morphing matter of gender. Stockton argues for gender's ...Show more
Gps by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday life. GPS mapping is standard equipment in many new cars and geolocation services are embedded in smart phones. GPS makes Uber and Lyft possible; driverless ca ...Show more