Search results for “[Subject: inventions]”

• Author(s): Arthur P. Molella | Joyce Bedi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceEssays by historians and practioners on how invention can benefit the environment.This ambitious book describes the ma...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: InventionsFrom the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity--and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. Included in B...

• Author(s): Norbert Wiener | Steve Joshua Heims • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralInternationally honored for brilliant achievements throughout his career, author of Cybernetics, ExProdigy, and the essay God a...

• Author(s): Lillian Hoddeson | Peter Garrett • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyThe first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy ...

• Author(s): Ainissa Ramirez • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemistry - Physical & TheoreticalA "timely, informative, and fascinating" study of 8 inventions--and how they shaped our world--with "totally compell...

• Author(s): Azra Aksamija • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationThe power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions, and artworks from...

• Author(s): Jon Peterson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Role Playing & FantasyThe first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history ...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Georges Didi-Huberman | Alisa Hartz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralThe first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development o...

• Author(s): James Rodger Fleming • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyHow scientists used transformative new technologies to understand the complexities of weather and the a...

• Author(s): Sarah E. Stoller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryThe first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century--and how the concepts of "family-frien...

• Author(s): Marina Yaguello • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Harold J. Abrahams | Marion B. Savin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryElihu Thomson (1853-1937) was one of the most inventive scientists of his time and one of the few truly scientific inventors. ...

• 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): Christof Koch • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA thought-provoking argument that consciousness--more widespread than previously assumed--is the ...

• Author(s): Kat Jungnickel • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Fashion & AccessoriesA collection of thought-provoking interviews with cutting-edge designers who transform ordinary wearables into extraordinary sites...

• 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): 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): Andrea Kantrowitz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Arts in EducationDrawing as a tool of thought: an investigation of drawing, cognition, and creativity that integrates text and hand-drawn images. Drawin...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Kochan | Richard Schmalensee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralThe MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Manageme...

• Author(s): Paul Wapner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralHow environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a prop...

• Author(s): Luci Pangrazio • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - MathematicsA guide to everything you need to understand to navigate a world increasingly governed by data. Data has become a defining...

• Author(s): Clapperton Chakanets Mavhunga • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentA rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and susta...