Browse by category
Algorithms by Panos Louridas
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | 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
27.99 AUD
Category: Politics | 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
Gps by Paul E. Ceruzzi
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | 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
His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem; Michael Kandel
29.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: The MIT Press
Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. By pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand this message, knowing nothing about the senders--even whether or not they e ...Show more
Hospital of the Transfiguration by Stanislaw Lem; William R. Brand
29.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: The MIT Press
An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanislaw Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration tells the story of a young doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II. A ...Show more
Memoirs of a Space Traveler by Stanislaw Lem; Joel Stern; Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek; Antonia Lloyd-Jones
29.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: The MIT Press
The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena. Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange ex ...Show more
Return from the Stars by Stanislaw Lem; Barbara Marsza; Frank Simpson
29.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: The MIT Press
An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission that lasted ten years--although because of time dilation, 127 years hav ...Show more
Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic
31.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | 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
Visual Culture by Alexis L. Boylan
24.99 AUD
Category: Art | 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
1 - 9 of 9