(Išleidimo metai: 04-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262380539)
An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world.Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearly all objects that surround us in the modern world....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262381734)
How a small number of risky experiments creates many unwieldy problems for life science research.The life sciences have never been more critical to human health, wealth, and security. But with any endeavor comes risk, and the last decade has seen con...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Feb-2024, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262377768)
A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like aut...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Aug-2023, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262377058)
A comprehensive introduction to the plastics life cycle-the impacts on our lives, our future, and our planet-and the actions we can take.Everywhere we look, we are surrounded by plastics: perhaps you have a book in one hand and your phone-made of var...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Aug-2023, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262376211)
An updated, revised, and comprehensive overview of the concepts related to cloud computing, including recent applications, innovations, and its future evolution.In this Essential Knowledge volume, Nayan B. Ruparelia provides an updated and revised ve...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2023, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262373005)
A concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to todays high-tech world.Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is also, as the popularity of spy stories suggests, one o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Feb-2022, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262367363)
A concise introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations.Supernovae are the explosions of stars. They are some of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe, rivaling the...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Feb-2022, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262368414)
A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.Although the worlds attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Apr-2021, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262361392)
An introduction to annotation as a genre-a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication-and its significance in scholarship and everyday life.Annotation-the addition of a note to a text-is an everyday and social activity that provides i...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Apr-2021, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262361309)
An investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread.Hate speech can happen anywhere-in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "e;Jews will not replace us"e;;...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Sep-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262360135)
The definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our conscious awareness, although we tend to underestim...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Sep-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262358798)
How companies like Amazon and Netflix know what "e;you might also like"e;: the history, technology, business, and social impact of online recommendation engines.Increasingly, our technologies are giving us better, faster, smarter, and more pe...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Aug-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262358668)
An accessible introduction to algorithms, explaining not just what they are but how they work, with examples from a wide range of application areas.Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficien...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Jul-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262358422)
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...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Mar-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262356206)
A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present.Everyones a cynic, yet few will admit it. Todays cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly-"e;I hate to be a cynic, but..."e;-b...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Mar-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262357340)
How the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught.Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential twenty-first century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given our pr...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Mar-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262357067)
An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions.Artificial intelligence powers Googles search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, an...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Mar-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262357579)
The development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Mar-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262357593)
Are we alone in the universe? If not, where is everybody? An engaging exploration of one of the most important unsolved problems in science.Everything we know about how planets form and how life arises suggests that human civilization on Earth should...Daugiau...
