Mit press ltd aug 2026 (9 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dazzling work of science fiction to which Dune, the Foundation trilogy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey owe a major debt.Narrated telepathically by one of the Last Men, Olaf Stapledon's epic history of the future caused a literary sensation when it first appeared in 1930. Over the course of two billion years, it seems, ever more alien versions of humankind will rise and fall developing every sort of utopian and dystopian civilization only to descend into savagery again and again, until eventually the Earth's resources are depleted.This abridged edition takes us from the fall of the First Men to the initial efforts of the Fifth Men, the "last Terrestrials," to colonize other planets.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How the overturning of Roe has imperiled high-risk pregnanciesand how to ensure safe patient healthcare in the future. From a leading doctor on the front lines after the Dobbs decision.Doctors and patients confronting high-risk pregnancies have always faced profound and life-altering decisions. But after the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe, many of these decisions seem impossible. As a firsthand witness to this convulsion, David Hackney, a leading physician in maternal fetal medicine, offers knowledgeable, thoughtful guidance to patients and practitioners contending with high-risk pregnancies in our new reality.Impossible Choices focuses on the practical implications of high-risk complications for people who are pregnant or considering pregnancyincluding conditions such as pre-eclampsia, premature membrane rupture, or birth defectsespecially in states now under abortion bans. And because maternal fetal medicine overlaps with other medical fields as pregnant patients struggle with, for instance, kidney disease, lupus, diabetes, and cancer, the book also addresses a wide array of medical questions and complications.How do we make decisions when thrown into extreme and uncertain circumstances The author answers this question and more by painting a nuanced and clear-eyed picture of obstetrics after Dobbs, illustrating his reflections with stories from his own practice, as well as those of his wife, in pediatric oncology. Without being partisan or polemical, the book offers the informed compassion and way forward that this fraught moment in maternal medicine calls for.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How employers can compete in a challenging labor marketby hiring differently, redesigning job quality, and rethinking their government relations strategies. From two leaders in business and workforce development with a proven track record in innovative workforce strategies.Over the past ten years, the U.S. labor market has been buffeted, with demand shifting dramatically. At the same time, demographic trends mean that U.S. labor supply will steadily tighten into the coming decade: Relatively fewer native-born workers are entering the workforce; a greater percentage are choosing not to work; and an aging baby boom generation is exiting the workforce. What's worse, this systemic tightening of the US labor market has been exacerbated by the Trump administration's decision to dramatically constrain immigration, the primary source of recent labor market growth.Welcome to the "forever-tight" labor market. In Help Wanted, Jerry Rubin and Steven Dawson combine their 80 years of experience in management and workforce development to offer employers an "employee-focused competitive strategy." This strategy includes a wide range of practical, well-researched tools and detailed case studies from a breadth of employers that will help readers compete for talent and retain a productive workforce.Since the underlying cause of the tightening labor supply is structural, employerswhether for-profit, nonprofit, or governmentalmust respond in kind. They too must undertake structural changes in finding, hiring, and retaining workers.Now equal in importance to an organization's customer-service strategy, an employee-focused strategy is no longer simply a competitive advantageit is fast becoming a competitive necessity.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A powerful new vision of cities as engines of planetary evolution and multispecies cooperation.Evolution, once associated with remote places and deep time, is unfolding in real time, much closer to home. Cities have become a new ecological stage on which evolution is taking place. Humans are now active participants shaping the trajectory of life on Earth. How can we use this knowledge to build more resilient and just futures for humans and other species In Cities for a Shared Planet, Marina Alberti envisions evolving urban ecosystems in which humans and other species shape their shared futures through new forms of cooperation. She argues that the convergence of rapid urbanization and accelerating environmental change may mark the onset of a major evolutionary transitionone that redefines the role of cities in planetary evolution. At the heart of this transformation is the emergence of bio-cooperative cities: adaptive, multispecies systems designed to sustain the evolutionary potential of urban life.Drawing on urban ecology, evolutionary biology, design theory, and environmental justice, Alberti develops the foundations of bio-cooperation, advancing ecological interdependence and eco-evolutionary dynamics as core principles of urban design. Through imaginative scenarios and real-world case studiesfrom Singapore, Seattle, New York City, Ho Chi Minh City, and Cape Townthe book shows how multispecies interactions are transforming infrastructure, reshaping urban space, and redefining how urban environments are inhabited and evolve.Engaging and eye-opening, Cities for a Shared Planet reimagines cities as active participants in a shared planetary future.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What happened to small businesses, government aid, and racial inequality during the pandemic and subsequent economic recovery.The Fall and Rise of Small Businesses provides the first comprehensive analysis of the plight of small businesses, social distancing restrictions, racial inequality, government aid, and broader measures of the US economy during the pandemic and economic recovery. Robert Fairlie weaves evidence from the most up-to-date data on business activity, as well as novel data on PPP receipt and business outcomes recently released by the US Census Bureau, to tell a compelling story of what happened over one of the most important and disruptive five-year periods of economic historyfrom the first cases of COVID in the United States to five years later in the recovery.Although small businesses were severely affected by mandated social distancing restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19, business activity has more than recovered five years later. The economic recovery has been strong, especially for Black, Latinx, and Asian business activity. But retail trade and restaurants have not fully recovered, leading to a visible struggle in many shopping districts and downtown areas. Though the federal government pumped roughly a trillion dollars into aid for small businesses, we have yet to see a complete picture of the costs and benefits of these expenditures. AI, robots, and consumer trends make predictions even more challenging, but the new findings in this book will be key in helping policymakers, business leaders, and small business owners move forward.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An eye-opening collection from contemporary artists and authors about how art and technology can reimagine humanity's relationship with nature and society.Shimmerthe apt name of both the highly-illustrated book and the exhibition it accompaniesoffers a timely collection of essays by today's key thinkers about art and technology. In this vital showcase that takes on some of the most salient questions of our time, authors and artists consider how a "posthuman" perspective can help inspire new ways to confront crises like climate change, species extinction, technological manipulation, and social alienation.Here, you'll find current thinking on interspecies entanglement, the role of dreams in imagining a post-anthropocentric world, a return to the interconnectivity found in prior (mostly Indigenous) technologies, and the power of enchantment. Examining both the advantages and dangers of twenty-first century tools, essayists explore the artistic use of quantum computing, machine learning, motion capture software, and augmented, extended, and virtual reality.Throughout this engaging collection, the authors show that, like the Surrealists of the twentieth century, many of today's artists tap the transformative agency of the marvelous, the uncanny, and the unpredictable, destabilizing conventional patterns of thought to open new pathways to unexplored terrain.Artist profiles include Nancy Baker Cahill, Ian Cheng, Chalet Comellas, Anna Dumitriu and Alex May, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Libby Heaney, Marguerite Humeau, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Kite, Katja Loher, Josefa Ntjam, Rachel Rossin, Jacolby Satterwhite, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Saya Woolfalk, and Marina Zurkow.The exhibition Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman opens September 2026 at the Frist Museum in Nashville and in 2027 travels to the Media Majlis Museum of Northwestern University in Doha and the Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A practical, evidence-based guide to entrepreneurship communication that takes readers from generating an idea to pitching it for the first time.How do successful entrepreneurs communicate Plenty of entrepreneurship books address interviewing customers or crafting a pitch, but none provide a complete picture of the process from venture idea to venture offering. Filling this gap, The Persuasive Entrepreneur shows readers how to effectively communicate and cocreate with potential customers, markets, and other stakeholders at each step of their early startup journey. Clay Spinuzzi draws on social and rhetorical theory as well as extensive empirical research to distill what makes an entrepreneur persuasive, centering market dialogue as the key to solving problems. Rooted in the Lean Startup approach and packed with real-life case studies and tools, this practical textbook teaches entrepreneurs not just what to do, but why and how to do it. - Presents entrepreneurship as an ongoing exchange between entrepreneurs and stakeholders - Details how to understand market dialogue, conduct it well, and cocreate with customers - Illustrates step-by-step process with diagrams, tables, and real-world examples - Covers pitching, conducting interviews, identifying problems, establishing feedback loops, and refining value propositions.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How US federal and state environmental agencies have developed, and how the intersection of these agencies impacts policymaking today.In this history of the development of US federal and state environmental agencies, this book shows how past laws and agencies and federal-state differences create roadblocks to building effective environmental policy today. Examining the role of states in environmental management from the late 1700s through 2000, Christopher McGrory Klyza focuses on the interplay of federal-state leadership in green state building and analyzes the patterns of this state building among states, regions, policy areas, and time periods. Throughout, he pays special attention to intercurrenceconflict that arises between governing orders from different times and between the states and federal government.The book places the green state among other topics central to American political development studies, such as the military, welfare state, and discrimination. He discusses US federal and state institutions that deal with natural resources management, pollution control, and other areas related to the environment, such as energy. Congressional gridlock on issues like climate, he says, has not meant no climate policy; instead, as in the past, much of the policy has moved to states like California, New York, and Washington. He shows how the conflict among governing orders that results from the deep, layered nature of the green state complicates current policy-making on biodiversity, climate, and environmental justice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A theory of the formal structure of commonsense concepts.In Conceptual Form, Sandeep Prasada develops a new and original approach to the study of commonsense concepts. He argues that lexically expressible concepts such as DOG possess a formal structurea conceptual formwhich provides perspectives for thinking, talking, and reasoning. These perspectives are not a property of the things the concept represents. Rather, they are "mental lenses," or ways of thinking and talking. The conceptual form functions as a mental lens by providing instructions for how to think and talk about what the concept represents.The book is unique in its focus on the formal dimension of commonsense concepts, its original proposal for how the type-token distinction is realized within our conceptual systems, its proposal that the core of concepts involves the acquisition of principles, not facts and generalizations, and its detailed consideration of linguistic and experimental data in the formulation of the theory of conceptual form. Finally, this book provides a new perspective on classic questions concerning the atomicity and innateness of concepts. Even those who disagree with specific claims are likely to find the theoretical tools and distinctions introduced by the theory of conceptual form to be valuable in their investigation of concepts.…