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Annotation by Remi H. Kalir; Antero Garcia
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An introduction to annotation as a genre-a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication-and its significance in scholarship and everyday life. Book jacket.
Anticorruption by Robert I. Rotberg
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi
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Category: No Category | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital ...Show more
Cybersecurity by Duane C. Wilson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Extremism by J. M. Berger
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Gender(s) by Kathryn Bond Stockton
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Bond Stockton explores the fascinating, fraught, intimate, morphing matter of gender. Stockton argues for gender's ...Show more
Hate Speech by Caitlin Ring Carlson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread. Book jacket.
Spaceflight - A Concise History by Michael J. Neufeld
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Category: Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than twelve years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon.Michael Neufeld explains that "the space program" should not be equated only with hu ...Show more
Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic
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Category: Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia--vividly felt sensory couplings--by a founder of the field. One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait--like perfect pitch--synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory ...Show more
The Book by Amaranth Borsuk (Assistant Professor, University of Washington-Bothell)
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Category: Art and Design | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded by clay ...Show more
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