Celebrating 100 books in the MIT Press’s Essential Knowledge series
May 23, 2023
The broad-ranging series, which provides fundamental basics on complex, pressing topics, is hitting a major milestone and looking to the future.
Category: Essential Knowledge Series
Bite-sized brainy books for Brain Awareness Week
March 13, 2023
The brain is complicated. Learning about it doesn’t have to be.
What Is This Thing Called Mind?
February 20, 2019
In this extract from Zoltan Torey’s ‘The Conscious Mind’, which published in 2014 as part of our Essential Knowledge Series, the author explains the emergence of the ‘mind’.
Essential Reading for Back-to-School
August 17, 2017
We asked John Jordan, Nayan Ruparelia, and Paul E. Ceruzzi to comment briefly on what essential knowledge they hope students might get from their books.