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Carbon Capture by Howard J. Herzog
$29.99 AUD
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
$35.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | 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
Extremism by J. M. Berger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | 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
$22.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | 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
Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Mit Press Essential Knowledge
The Book by Amaranth Borsuk (Assistant Professor, University of Washington-Bothell)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | 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 Conscious Mind by Zoltan Torey
$24.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible ...Show more
The Future by Nick Montfort
$22.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can only hope to predict, like the weather. In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge series, Nick ...Show more
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