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Anticorruption by Robert I. Rotberg
Category: Politics | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Winning the anticorruption battle: a guide for citizens and politicians. The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass, people have sought a leg up, a shortcut, or an end run to power and influence. In this volume in the M ...Show more
Carbon Capture by Howard J. Herzog
Category: No Category | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway.The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), and these CO2 emissions are a major driver of climate change. Carbon capture offers a path to climate change mitigation ...Show more
Cloud Computing by Nayan B. Ruparelia
Category: Business | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to non-technologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply a selling point. This book, however, explains the cloud from the user's viewpoint -- the business user's in particu ...Show more
Cybersecurity by Duane C. Wilson
Category: Computers | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other topics. It seems that everything we touch is connected to the internet, from mobile phones and wearable technology to home appliances and cyber assistants. The ...Show more
Death and Dying by Nicole Piemonte; Shawn Abreu
Category: Self-Help | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities. Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death ...Show more
Extremism by J. M. Berger
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition--a logical star ...Show more
Free Will by Mark Balaguer
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are, then ...Show more
Hunting - A Cultural History by Jan E. Dizard; Mary Zeiss Stange
Category: Sport | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
The history of hunting, from Stone Age hunter-gatherers to today's sport hunters.Hunting has a long history, beginning with our hominid ancestors. The invention of the spear allowed early humans to graduate from scavenging to actual hunting. The famous cave paintings at Lascaux show a meticulous knowled ...Show more
Memes: In Digital Culture by Limor Shifman
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video--"Mitt Romney Style," "NASA Johnson Style," "Egyptian Style," and many others. "Gangn ...Show more
Pragmatism by John R. Shook
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
A concise, reader-friendly overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought.Pragmatism, America's homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns and d ...Show more
Science Fiction by Sherryl Vint
Category: Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or Brave New W ...Show more