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Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
Chakraborty, Arup K.; Shaw, AndreyMIT Press 2021How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work. Throughout history, humans have conten...
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Deep Time Reckoning : How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
Ialenti, VincentMIT Press 2020A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own ac...
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The Inversion Factor : How to Thrive in the IoT Economy
Bernardi, Linda; Sarma, Sanjay E.; Traub, KennethMIT Press 2017Why companies need to move away from a “product first” orientation to pursuing innovation based on customer need.In the past, companies found success with a product-first orientati...
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The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
Thomashow, MitchellMIT Press 2014A former college president offers a framework for sustainability on campus, describing initiatives that range from renewable energy to a revamped curriculum to sustainable investme...
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Net Smart : How to Thrive Online
Rheingold, HowardMIT Press 2012A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded wi...
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Fighting Traffic : The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Norton, Peter D.MIT Press 2011The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930.Before the advent of the automobile, users o...
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Mobile Communication and Society : A Global Perspective
Castells, Manuel; Fernandez-Ardevol, Mireia; Qiu, Jack Linchuan; Sey, ArabaMIT Press 2009How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world—in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in t...