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Algorithms by Panos Louridas
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range from search engines to tournament scheduling, DNA sequencing, and machine learning. Arguing that every educated person today needs to have some understanding of algorithms a ...Show more
Anticorruption by Robert I. Rotberg
$35.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | 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
Content by Kate Eichhorn
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
A concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.From the time we roll out of bed to check overnight updates to our last posts, likes, and views of the previous day, we're consuming and producing content. But what does the term "content" even mean? ...Show more
Fantastic Future by Mike Goldsmith
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: The Knowledge S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
In 30 years' time will you be holidaying on the moon? In 100 years' time could you genetically engineer your own pet? In 1000 years' time will you travel through space in an anti-matter-drive spaceship? This eye-opening guide predicts the future with a time-travelling trip through, well, time...Inside, ...Show more
Gps by Paul E. Ceruzzi
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday life. GPS mapping is standard equipment in many new cars and geolocation services are embedded in smart phones. GPS makes Uber and Lyft possible; driverless ca ...Show more
Metadata by Jeffrey Pomerantz
$43.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone cal ...Show more
Neurolinguistics by Giosue Baggio
$35.00 NZD
Category: Languages & Reference | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and language disorders.Neurolinguistics, the study of language in the brain, describes the anatomical structures (networks of neurons in the brain) and physiological processes ...Show more
The Book by Amaranth Borsuk (Assistant Professor, University of Washington-Bothell)
$44.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | 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
The Incredible Internet by Michael Cox
$13.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: The Knowledge S. | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
First there were a load of boffins who got excited about their network of nodes. Then along came one boffin who decided to make his net into a web. Now hundreds of millions log on to the incredible Internet and wondrous World Wide Web. This cyberspace safari tells you all you need to know.
Visual Culture by Alexis L. Boylan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
How to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture. The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see--color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a p ...Show more
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