Literatura obcojęzyczna MIT Press Ltd

As if John Berger's Ways of Seeing was re-written for the 21st century, Alexis L. Boylan crafts a guide for navigating the complexities...

Deming's classic work on management, based on his famous 14 Points for Management.

The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the...

An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.Quantum...

How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is...

The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the...

Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.

How the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught.Critical thinking...

This book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth aby the middle of...

Twemlow explores five key moments over the past sixty years of product design criticism. From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, for example,...

A biography of two troublesome words.Isn't it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two...

What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access...

By the time Goethe's Theory of Colours appeared in 1810, the wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established. To Goethe,...

Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have...

drawings żeby Duane Bibbyforeword and afterword by Guy L. Steele Jr.The notion that "thinking about computing is one of the most exciting...

Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. Żeby 1930,...

Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer.

Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25%...

In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that...

A comprehensive overview of developments in augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality--and how they could affect every part...

The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical existence to the words...

David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the...

The significantly expanded and updated new edition of a widely used text on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas...

Mathematics stories from Quanta Magazine.

Architect Lon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and...

Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure...

In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing...

How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.The...

Roy Lichtenstein's popular appeal--and his influence on pop culture, seen in everything from greeting cards to sitcoms--at times overshadows...

Twelve stories żeby science fiction master Stanis aw Lem, nine of them never before published in English.Of these twelve short stories żeby...

How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means...

Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in...

An essential guide for teaching and learning computational art and design: exercises, assignments, interviews, and more than 170 illustrations...

In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual...

An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever...

When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had...

How to predict and calculate the positions of stars, planets, the sun, the moon, and satellites using a personal computer and high school...

How organizations can anticipate threats, spot opportunities, and act faster when the time is right; with rich examples including Adobe,...

This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration...

Applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health care challenges, from drug packaging to early detection of breast...

Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper clubżthese...

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...

A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and...

How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society.Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies...

An exploration of what science, mathematics and logic can never tell us.

In Networks of the Brain, Olaf Sporns describes how the integrative nature of brain function can be illuminated from a complex network perspective....

Upon its publication żeby the MIT Press in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas was immediately influential and controversial. The authors made...

Listen, I have been educated.I have learned about WesternCivilization. Do you knowWhat the message of WesternCivilization is? I am alone.This...

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and...

in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved...

Stories define how we think, play, and understand our lives. In this comprehensive and readable bookżalready a classic statement of the...

"What matters is not so much that Zizek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering...

Extending the functional language Scheme with logical constructs in order to help the functional programmer think logically and the logic...

In today's kindergartens, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten...

An accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and language...

Botanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances.

Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains...

In The World Made Meme, Ryan Milner argues that memes, and the memetic process, are shaping public conversation. It's hard to imagine a...

An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer.

Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted...

In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of...

How to succeed in an era of ecosystem-based disruption: strategies and tools for offense, defense, timing, and leadership in a changing...

Previously published in hardcover: 2012.

This book offers an introduction to philosophy of language aby explaining ten classic, often anthologized, texts. Accessible and thorough,...

With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea that movement is simple displacement in space,...

Title and statement of responsibility from page 4 of cover.

An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date.Inevitably,...

Architecture depends -- on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction...

Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond...

Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for...

This is a renaissance moment for video games - in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover....

From one of Bill Gate's favorite authors, a systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories...

There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded...

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved aby the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations...

Why the future of work requires the deconstruction of jobs and the reconstruction of work.Work is traditionally understood as a job, and...

Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references...

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be "smart enough," using technology to promote democracy and equity.Smart cities,...

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby...

An updated edition of a classic: an indispensable companion for a new era in cycling.The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines...

How uncertainty in games--from Super Mario Bros. To Rock/Paper/Scissors--engages players and shapes play experiences.

We used to think that video games were mostly for young men, but with the success of the Nintendo Wii, and the proliferation of games in...

An accessible introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems. Our behavior...

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.

A catastrophic earthquake is followed żeby a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill....

Surveys the architecture of the Las Vegas Strip and examines the role of urban sprawl, advertising, and commercial iconography in contemporary...

An investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often unacknowledged creativity and problem-solving on which...

Since its publication twenty years ago, Sources of Power has been enormously influential. The model of decision making Klein proposes in...

In the early 1990s the design professions were the first to intuit and interpret the new technical logic of the digital age: digital mass-customization...

Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players...

If only today's technology were simpler! It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman...

Neuroscientist Eve Marder has spent forty years studying thirty neurons in the stomach of a lobster. Her focus on this tiny network of cells...

Written żeby two leading bicycle historians and generously illustrated with historic drawings, designs, and photographs, Bicycle Design...

An argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates.

A comprehensive textbook that integrates tools from technology, economics, markets, and policy to approach energy issues using a dynamic...

How adult learners can draw upon skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime to master a foreign language.

A cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition.For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a...

In Design Thinking Peter Rowe provides a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture and urban planning. He examines...

Before The Computational Brain was published in 1992, conceptual frameworks for brain function were based on the behavior of single neurons,...

In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending and the Berlin Wall about to crumble, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the...

The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided this service...

Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask - read work email, reply...

Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished.Nam June...

Everything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer...

Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. Aby pure chance, scientists detect a signal from...

In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying...

Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different...

Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis...

World renowned graphic designer and one of Esquire's 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century," John Maeda gives the ten laws of simplicity...

Artists and writers portray the disorientation of a world facing climate change. This monumental volume, drawn from a 2020 exhibition at...

Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle...

As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly...

The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades.Sunstein's book is illuminating because it...

The story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects,...

How companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify know what "you might also like": the history, technology, business, and societal impact...

Helveticas fifty-year milestone pales in comparison with the two thousandth anniversary in 2014 of Trajans Column and its famous inscription...

The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention...

For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing...

Designing Engineers describes the evolution of three disparate projects: an x-ray inspection system for airports, a photoprint machine,...

What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise...

From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.The...