The Mit Press: 939 books
Technology Choices
Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work.
Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example,...
Iterate
Ten Lessons in Design and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation.
Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity,...
Families at Play
Connecting and Learning through Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning.
Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem...
Playing Smart
On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
A new vision of the future of games and game design, enabled by AI.
Can games measure intelligence? How will artificial intelligence inform games of the future? In Playing Smart, Julian Togelius explores the connections between games and intelligence to offer a new vision of future games and...
A New Understanding of Mental Disorders
Computational Models for Dimensional Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
A new computational and dimensional approach to understanding and classifying mental disorders: modeling key learning and decision-making mechanisms across different mental disorders.
Even as researchers look for neurobiological correlates of mental disorders, many of these disorders are still...
Lee Kuan Yew
The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy.
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and...
Blue and Green
The Drive for Justice at America's Port
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.
In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles....
Taxing Ourselves
A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The new edition of a popular guide to the key issues in tax reform, presented in a clear, nontechnical, and unbiased way.
To follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is often forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the...
Inside the Fed
Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
An insider's account of the workings of the Federal Reserve, thoroughly updated to encompass the Fed's action (and inaction) during the recent financial meltdown.
Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed's Board of Governors for more than thirty years and...
by Eric von Hippel
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.”
In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings...
The The Elusive Quest for Growth
Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2002
Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling...
Strategies and Games
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1999
Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate aswell as business school students. This text is the first to provideboth a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety ofreal-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business,political science, and the...
by Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, James D. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2005
The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure? Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related economic question of why...
IT Strategy for Non-IT Managers
Becoming an Engaged Contributor to Corporate IT Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
How non-IT managers can turn IT from an expensive liability into a cost-effective competitive tool.
Firms spend more on information technology (IT) than on all other capital assets combined. And yet despite this significant cash outlay, businesses often end up with IT that is uneconomical and...