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Mission Moon 3-D by Michael Middleditch
Category: Science | Series: Mit Press Ser.
The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images. July 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11's epochal lunar landing, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon. This visually rich book offers a new pers ...Show more
Paradox by Margaret Cuonzo
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of ...Show more
Phenomenology by Chad Engelland
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, a philosophical movement that investigates the experience of experience. Founded by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and expounded by Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and ...Show more
Pragmatism by John R. Shook
Category: Business | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
A concise, reader-friendly overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought.Pragmatism, America's homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns and d ...Show more
Psychedelic by David S. Rubin
Category: Art and Design | Series: MIT Press
The history of an aesthetic sensibility that began with Op Art and album covers; with more than seventy-five stunning color images.
Return from the Stars by Stanislaw Lem; Barbara Marsza; Frank Simpson
Category: Science Fiction | Series: The MIT Press
An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission that lasted ten years--although because of time dilation, 127 years hav ...Show more
Robots by Jordan John M
Category: Other Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life and work.Robots are entering the mainstream. Technologies have advanced to the point of mass commercialization--Roomba, for example--and adoption by governme ...Show more
Science Fiction by Sherryl Vint
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or Brave New W ...Show more
Spaceflight - A Concise History by Michael J. Neufeld
Category: Other Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than twelve years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon.Michael Neufeld explains that "the space program" should not be equated only with hu ...Show more
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas De Monchaux
Category: Fiction | Series: The MIT Press
How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering.
Sustainability by Kent E. Portney
Category: Business Finance Management | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
The word "sustainability" has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic development to corporate promises about improved supply sourcing. But despite the apparent ubiquity of the term, the concept of sustainability has come to mean a number of specific things. In this accessible guide ...Show more