Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Jack Linchuan Qiu | Manuel Castells | Carolyn Cartier • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyAn examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has...

• Author(s): Lawrence Busch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherHow free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on...

• Author(s): Christoph Durt | Thomas Fuchs | Christian Tewes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive ScienceThe first interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural context of enactive embodiment, offering perspe...

• Author(s): Stephen L. Cochi | Walter R. Dowdle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryExperts explore the biological, social, and economic complexities of eradicating disease. Disease eradication repr...

• Author(s): Derek Bickerton | Eors Szathmary • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInterdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on sy...

• Author(s): William Hirstein | Katrina L. Sifferd | Tyler K. Fagan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAn examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offer...

• Author(s): James F. Leckman | Catherine Panter-Brick | Rima Salah • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Developmental - ChildExperts investigate the role of child development in promoting a culture of peace, reporting o...

• Author(s): Liliana Albertazzi | Gert J. Van Tonder | Dhanraj Vishwanath • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionProposing a new paradigm for perceptual science that goes beyond standard...

• Author(s): Harold Kincaid | Jacqueline A. Sullivan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralScholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagn...

• Author(s): Barry Hoffmaster | Cliff Hooker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyHow developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of hu...

• Author(s): Roman Jakobson | Ronald F. Feldstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThe first English translation of a classic and groundbreaking work in historical phonology. Th...

• Author(s): Karl S. Zimmerer | Stef de Haan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Biological DiversityExperts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines tha...

• Author(s): Christian Ulrik Andersen | Soren Bro Pold • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: DigitalHow the interface has moved from the PC into cultural platforms, as seen in a series of works of net art, software art an...

• Author(s): Janine Marchessault • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Film & VideoWhen media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's "Family of Man," Jacques C...

• Author(s): Inge Hinterwaldner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social Aspects - Human-Computer InteractionA new conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in real-time simulations tha...

• Author(s): James Tabery • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryWhy the "nature versus nurture" debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture. If ...

• Author(s): William P. Delaney | Robert G. Atkins | Alan D. Bernard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)A guide to defense systems analysis by experts who have worked on systems that range from air...

• Author(s): Denise L. Herzing | Christine M. Johnson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Marine BiologyExperts survey the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, offering a comprehensive...

• Author(s): Xu Qiyu | Graham Allison | Joshua Hill • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralGermany's rise to power before World War I from a Chinese persective, and the geopolitical lessons...

• Author(s): Maria Kronfeldner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyA philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Huma...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Mike Ananny • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: JournalismReimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear. In Networked Press Freedom, ...

• Author(s): Ragnhild Brøvig | Anne Danielsen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Recording & ReproductionHow sonically distinctive digital "signatures"--including reverb, glitches, and autotuning--affect the aesthe...

• Author(s): Chris Salter | Andrew Pickering • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - GeneralAn investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways...

• Author(s): Andre Orlean | M. B. Debevoise • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsAn argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful the...

• Author(s): Reza Shadmehr | Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceA novel theoretical framework that describes a possible rationale for the regularity in how we move, how we learn, and how...

• Author(s): Rodrigo Quian Quiroga | Juan Pablo Fernandez | Maria Kodama • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceA scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who c...

• Author(s): Rebecca Slayton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Military ScienceHow differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense. In a rapidly c...

• Author(s): William B. Bonvillian | Peter L. Singer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyHow to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector b...

• Author(s): Mikhail I. Rabinovich | Karl J. Friston | Pablo Varona • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceExperimental and theoretical approaches to global brain dynamics that draw on the latest research in th...

• Author(s): B. Coleman | Clay Shirky • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Virtual WorldsAn examination of our many modes of online identity and how we live on the continuum between the virtual and the real. Hello Avatar...

• Author(s): Norie Neumark | Ross Gibson | Theo Van Leeuwen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesPerspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance ...

• Author(s): Dietmar Offenhuber | Carlo Ratti • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsThe relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three...

• Author(s): Michael Madary • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - PhenomenologyPhenomenological and empirical methods of investigating visual experience converge to support the thesis that visual perception is...

• Author(s): Ramaswamy Sridharan | Antonio F. Pensa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsThe development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveil...

• Author(s): Tamir Hazan | George Papandreou | Daniel Tarlow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA description of perturbation-based methods developed in machine learning to augment nove...

• Author(s): Markus Krajewski | Peter Krapp • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Cataloging & ClassificationWhy the card catalog--a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements--can...

• Author(s): Alan Bale | Charles Reiss • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyAn introduction to generative phonology using tools of basic set theory, logic, and combinatorics. This t...

• Author(s): Masahiko Aoki • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralA conceptual and analytical framework for understanding economic institutions and institutional change. Markets are one of the most salie...

• Author(s): Wolfgang LeFevre • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow technical drawings shaped early engineering practice. Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a rang...

• Author(s): Marc Leman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsA new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective processes underlying interactions ...

• Author(s): Benjamin Hale • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)A brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis, malar...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Losh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherAn examination of technology-based education initiatives--from MOOCs to virtual worlds--that argues against treating education as ...

• Author(s): Suzanne P. Hudson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralThis first book-length study of Robert Ryman argues that his work is a continuous experiment in the possibilities of paintin...

• Author(s): Andy Miah • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesRamifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the role of media innovation at the Oly...

• Author(s): Kourken Michaelian • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionDrawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past. In thi...

• Author(s): Neil Myler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A...

• Author(s): Jose Luis Bermudez • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionEssays on the role of the body in self-consciousness, showing that full-fledged, linguistic self-consciousness is b...

• Author(s): Ole Lund | Morten Nielsen | Claus Lundegaard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ImmunologyUsing bioinformatics methods to generate a systems-level view of the immune system; description of the main biologi...

• Author(s): Josh A. Lerner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileDrawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy. Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that ...

• Author(s): Mark Stuart Day | C. A. Jennings • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and ot...

• Author(s): Rosalind E. Krauss • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryA personal journey leads a celebrated critic to discover "knights of the medium," contemporary artists who battle the aesthetic m...

• Author(s): Susanna Paasonen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EmotionsAn exploration of the modalities, affective intensities, and disturbing qualities of online pornography. Digital production tools and online netw...

• Author(s): Mariel Borowitz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsAn examination of environmental satellite data sharing policies, offering a model of data-sharing policy development, case and practical rec...

• Author(s): Manjana Milkoreit • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive ScienceHow integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into the effectiveness of climat...

• Author(s): Taylor Dotson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyWhy we should not accept "networked individualism" as the inevitable future of community. If social interaction by social media has be...

• Author(s): Stamatia Portanova • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: DigitalA radically empirical exploration of movement and technology and the transformations of choreography in a digital realm. Digital technologies of...

• Author(s): Henry Lowood | Raiford Guins • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileEssays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies ...

• Author(s): Steven J. Brams • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Game TheoryA game-theoretical analysis of interactions between a human being and an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being highlights the inherent unknow...

• Author(s): Fiona MacPherson | Dimitris Platchias • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyScientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, n...