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• Author(s): John M. Jordan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: RoboticsAbout the Book An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of t...

• Author(s): Illah Reza Nourbakhsh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsA roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.With robot...

• Author(s): Steve Carper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture They are invincible warriors of steel, silky-skinned enticers, stealers of jobs and lovable goofball sidekicks. ...

• Author(s): Ken Goldberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsAn interdisciplinary collection of essays on telepistemology--the study of knowledge acquired at a distance.The Robot in the Garden initiates a...

• Author(s): David J. Gunkel • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyA provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights ...

• Author(s): Russell L. Andersson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThis tour de force in experimental robotics describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players.This tour de force...

• Author(s): Judith A. Markowitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book describes real-world killer robots using a blend of perspectives. Overviews of technologies, such...

• Author(s): Jeff Trinkle | Yoky Matsuoka | Jose A. Castellanos • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsState-of-the-art robotics research on topics including manipulation, locomotion, machine learning, localization...

• Author(s): Etienne Burdet • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceA synthesis of biomechanics and neural control that draws on recent advances in robotics to address control problems solved by the human sensor...

• Author(s): Lynette Jones • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays....

• Author(s): P. W. Singer • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Military Science"[Singer's] enthusiasm becomes infectious . . . Wired for War is a book of its time: this is strategy for the Facebook generation." -...

• Author(s): Donald E. Palumbo | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy A prolific author, Isaac Asimov is most admired for h...

• Author(s): Robin R. Murphy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsA comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and mari...

• Author(s): David J. Gunkel • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAn investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and autonomous machines of o...

• Author(s): Dario Floreano | Claudio Mattiussi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspir...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Kerstin Dautenhahn | Chrystopher L. Nehaniv • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAn interdisciplinary overview of current research on imitation in animals and artifac...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Carl Andre | James Meyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: American - GeneralStatements, dialogue, letters, epigrams, and poems by sculptor Carl Andre, a central figure in minimalism. Just as Carl Andre's...