Resultaten gefilterd op "MIT Press"

Loneliness

Robert Weiss

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• Loneliness is among the most common distresses. In one survey, a quarter of Americans interviewed said that they had suffered from loneliness within t... Lees meer

Essays on Realism

Georg Lukacs

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press Classics
• Originally published in the 1930s, these essays on realism, expressionism, and modernism in literature present Lukacs's side of the controversy among ... Lees meer

The Architectural Uncanny

Anthony Vidler

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unh... Lees meer

Hannibal Lecter, My Father

Kathy Acker

• Paperback | Engels | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
• A collection of early and not-so-early work by the mistress of gut-level fiction-making. You can say I write stories with sex and violence and therefo... Lees meer

Why Photography Matters

Jerry L Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts. Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of... Lees meer

Warped Space

Anthony Vidler

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• How psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century. Beginning with agoraphobia a... Lees meer

Playing at the World, 2e, Volume 2

Jon Peterson

• Paperback | Engels | Game Histories
• The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World , which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing g... Lees meer

How to Talk to a Science Denier

Lee McIntyre

• Hardcover | Engels
• Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. "Climate change is a hoax--... Lees meer

Managing the Flow of Technology

Thomas J Allen

• Paperback | Engels | MIT Press
• The original edition of this book summarized more than a decade of work on communications flow in science and engineering organizations, showing how h... Lees meer

Notes on the Underground, new edition

Rosalind Williams

• Paperback | Engels | The MIT Press
• Real and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's technology-dominated world. The u... Lees meer

From Gaia to Selfish Genes

• Paperback | Engels | Selected Writings in the Life Sciences
• From Gaia to Selfish Genes is a different kind of anthology. Lively excerpts from the popular writings of leading theorists in the life sciences blend... Lees meer

Computers and the World of the Future

• Paperback | Engels | Mit Press
• Writers including Vannevar Bush and Herbert A. Simon discuss the impact of the computer in its first twenty years.Writers discuss the extraordinary gr... Lees meer

Technology and Productivity

Youngil Lim

• Hardcover | Engels | Mit Press
• In this book Youngil Lim explores the process by which the poverty-stricken agrarian economy of South Korea was transformed over the past three decade... Lees meer

Capital Markets, Fifth Edition

Frank J Fabozzi

• Hardcover | Engels | Capital Markets
• The substantially revised fifth edition of a textbook covering the wide range of instruments available in financial markets, with a new emphasis on ri... Lees meer

The 360° Gaze

Christian Stiegler

• Hardcover | Engels
• A comprehensive study of the pervasive role of immersion and immersive media in postmodern culture, from a humanities and social sciences perspective.... Lees meer

Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects

Rafael Moneo

• Hardcover | Engels | The MIT Press
• A prominent architect considers his contemporaries--James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas... Lees meer

Romance in the Ivory Tower

Paul R Abramson

• Hardcover | Engels | Mit Press
• Should the choice to engage in a faculty-student romance be protected or precluded? An argument that the right to choose a romantic partner is a funda... Lees meer

Salt Wars

Michael F Jacobson

• Paperback | Engels
• How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our fo... Lees meer

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

Anthony Chemero

• Paperback | Engels | Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
• A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computat... Lees meer

History and Structure

Alfred Schmidt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
• Well-written, clear and informed, the study does much to clarify the present discourse between the Frankfurt School's critical theorists and the struc... Lees meer

Control and Freedom

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

• Paperback | Engels | Control and Freedom
• A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom... Lees meer

The Politics of Rights of Nature

Craig M Kauffman, Pamela L Martin

• Paperback | Engels
• How Rights of Nature laws are transforming governance to address environmental crises through more ecologically sustainable approaches to development.... Lees meer

On Linearization

Guglielmo Cinque

• Paperback | Engels
• The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographi... Lees meer

You Are Here

Whitney Phillips, Ryan M Milner

• Paperback | Engels
• How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in cr... Lees meer