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The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series features expert overviews of subjects that range from the cultural and the historical to the scientific and the technical. Each book in this series delivers foundational knowledge that informs a principled understanding of the world.
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Explore concise, accessible books on topics of current interest, written by leading thinkers. The series covers cultural, historical, scientific, and technical subjects, from cyborgs to universal basic income, from plastics to extraterrestrials.
Aug 17, 2017 · Celebrating 100 books in the MIT Press’s Essential Knowledge series. The broad-ranging series, which provides fundamental basics on complex, pressing topics, is hitting a major milestone and looking to the future.
- Extraterrestrialsby Wade Roush
- Ai Ethicsby Mark Coeckelbergh
- Ketamineby Bita Moghaddam
- Visual CultureBy Alexis L. Boylan
- Critical Thinkingby Jonathan Haber
- Machine Learning, Revised and Updated Editionby Ethem Alpaydin
- Nuclear Weaponsby Mark Wolverton—Forthcoming February 2022
- Cybersecurityby Duane C. Wilson
- Death and Dyingby Nicole Piemonte and Shawn Abreu
- Gender(S)By Kathryn Bond Stockton
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Everything we know about how planets form and how life arises suggests that human civilization on Earth should not be unique. We ought to see abundant evidence of extraterrestrial activity—but we don’t. Where is everybody? In Extraterrestrials, science and technology writer Wade Roush examines one of the great unsolved problems in science: is there...
Artificial intelligence powers Google’s search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ong...
Ketamine, approved in 2019 by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of depression, has been touted by scientists and media reports as something approaching a miracle cure. Ketaminechronicles the ascent of a drug that has been around for fifty years—in previous incarnations, a Vietnam-era combat anesthetic and a popular club drug—that h...
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 photograph of Kim Kardashian West—somehow becomes legible, normalized, accessible. How does this happen? How do we live and move in our visual environments? V...
Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential twenty-first century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given our propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said that critical thinking is vital to the survival of a democratic society. But what...
Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition—as well as some we don’t yet use everyday, including driverless cars. It is the basis for a new approach to artificial intelligence that aims to program computers to use example data or past experience to solve a given probl...
Although the world’s attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare, the threat of nuclear war still exists. There are now fourteen thousand nuclear weapons in the hands of the nine declared nuclear powers. Even though the world survived the Cold War, we need to understand what it means to live with nuclear weapons. In Nuclear W...
It seems that everything we touch is connected to the internet, from mobile phones and wearable technology to home appliances and cyber assistants. The more connected our computer systems, the more exposed they are to cyber attacks—attempts to steal data, corrupt software, disrupt operations, and even physically damage hardware and network infrastr...
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, physicians and hospitals often set patients and their families on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory toward medical interventions that may actually increase suffering at the end of life. This book...
In Gender(s), Kathryn Bond Stockton explores the fascinating, fraught, intimate, morphing matter of gender. Stockton argues for gender’s strangeness, no matter how “normal” the concept seems; gender is queer for everyone, she claims, even when it’s played quite straight. And she explains how race and money dramatically shape everybody’s gender, eve...
The Essential Knowledge series offers concise, accessible, and beautifully produced books on topics of current interest written by leading thinkers. Explore titles on extraterrestrials, AI ethics, ketamine, visual culture, critical thinking, and more.
Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.
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