MIT Press Bookstore

The MIT Press Bookstore is owned and operated by The MIT Press, the nonprofit scholarly publishing program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We are located on the MIT campus, and offer quality retail bookselling to both the MIT community and the public at large.

We stock most of the books and journals published by The MIT Press as well as a hand-picked selection of other publishers' books in related fields.

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News & Events
	New from the MIT Press 6/10/13: Computability: Turing, Godel, Church, and Beyond B. Jack Copeland, Carl J. Posy, and Oron Shagrir (eds.) Cosmopolitan Commons: Sharing Resources and Risks Across Borders Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis (eds.) Countless Connecting Threads: MIT’s History Revealed through Its Most Evocative Objects Deborah G. Douglas and Ariel Weinberg Communicating Moral Concern: An Ethics of Critical Responsiveness Elise Springer
	New for the week of 5/27/13: Steven Pinker Learnability And Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure, New Edition Steven Pinker's technical work is not breezy reading, but it is considerably more careful and rigorous than his more popular books. Learnability and Cognition is a classic work which uses the methods of experimental psychology to vindicate the nativist revolution in linguistics of half a century ago.
	New MIT Press books for 5/20/13: Veronica Gonzalez Pena The Sad Passions Antonio Negri The Winter Is Over: Writings on Transformation Denied, 1989-1995 Carlos A. Varela Programming Distributed Computing Systems: A Foundational Approach
	New from the MIT Press week of 05/13/13: Robert J. Glushko (ed.) The Discipline of Organizing Some people might think the subject matter of this book dull. But the potential reader is well advised to look below the textbook surface. The discipline of organizing is not only a field of knowledge in itself, but one of the royal keys to other areas of knowledge.
	New from the MIT Press week of 04/29/13: Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation (expanded and updated edition) Anna Munster An Aesthesia of Networks: Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology Richard Rogers Digital Methods Pierre L. Siklos and Jan-Egbert Sturm (eds.) Central Bank Communication, Decision Making, and Governance: Issues, Challenges, Case Studies Tadeusz Wieslaw Zawidski Mindshaping: A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition
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	New from the MIT Press week of 04/22/13: Daren C. Brabham Crowdsourcing (Essential Knowledge series) Zdravko Radman (ed.) The Hand, an Organ of the Mind: What the Manual Tells the Mental Kenneth I. Wolpin The Limits of Inference without Theory
	New from MITP, week of 4/8/13 Mads Nygaard Folkmann The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design Clemens Fuest and George R. Zodrow (eds.) Critical Issues in Taxation and Development Jean Hindriks and Gareth D. Myles Intermediate Public Economics (2E) Robert M. Townsend, Sombat Sakunthasathien, and Rob Jordan Chronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project
	Oh boy! New Baffler #22 just arrived, and it's scandalous! The Modem & Taboo issue includes pieces by Slavoj Žižek, Evgeny Morozov, Amy Gerstler, and many others. Preview contents>>
	New MITP Books for 4/1/13: Finn Brunton Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet Marcin Milkowski Explaining the Computational Mind Karen O’Rourke Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers Stamatia Portanova Moving Without a Body: Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thought
	Celebrating our 10,000th book! We are proud to announce that Algorithms Unlocked is book number 10,000 in the MIT Press catalog. It has taken a while, our first book was published in 1926, but we couldn't be happier that Thomas Cormen carries the honor. He is, after all, a coauthor of our bestselling book of all time, Introduction to Algorithms. Congratulations!
	New from the MIT Press 3/25/13: Radu J. Bogdan Mindvaults: Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining Johan J. Bolhuis and Martin Everaert (eds.) Birdsong, Speech, and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain Frederic Bouchard and Philippe Huneman (eds.) From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality Sabeth Buchmann and Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz Helio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida: Block Experiments in Cosmococa - Program in Progress Karmen Franinovic and Stefania Serafin (eds.) Sonic Interaction Design Jeanne Haffner The View From Above: The Science of Social Space James J. Heckman Giving Kids a Fair Chance (Boston Review) Malcolm McCullough Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information Ruth Noack Sanja Ivekovic: Triangle James C. O’Connell The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth
	New MIT books, week of 3/18/13: William B. Meyer The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism Joanna L. Robinson Contested Water: The Struggle Against Water Privatization in the United States and Canada
	New from the MIT Press 3/11/13: Philip Ball, Cliff Lauson, and Anne Wagner Light Show Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg, and Peter Weibel (eds.) The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds Greg Costikyan Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking series) Luciana Parisi Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space Gerald Raunig Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity (Semiotext(e) Intervention series) Valerie Shute and Matthew Ventura Stealth Assessment: Measuring and Supporting Learning in Video Games Gerhard Weiss (ed.) Multiagent Systems (2E) Ben Williamson The Future of the Curriculum: School Knowledge in the Digital Age

Holiday & Special Hours
Bookstore Spring Hours: Mon-Fri 9- 7, Sat & Sun 12-6 Open our usual hours, except as noted below March 2013 Sunday, March 31 - Easter - CLOSED April 2013 Monday, April 15 - Patriot's Day - OPEN 11am-5pm May 2013 Monday, May 27 - Memorial Day - OPEN 12-6