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Haptics by Lynette Jones
Category: Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays.Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object with the ...Show more
Hate Speech by Caitlin Ring Carlson
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread. Book jacket.
Memes: In Digital Culture by Limor Shifman
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video--"Mitt Romney Style," "NASA Johnson Style," "Egyptian Style," and many others. "Gangn ...Show more
Metadata by Jeffrey Pomerantz
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone cal ...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
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
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