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        Designing the X

        Designing the X

        Designing the X

        by Dennis Frenchman, Svafa Gronfeldt and Sigurdur Thorsteinsson

        ISBN: 9780998117089

        Publisher: SA+P Press

        Pub Date: September 23, 2025

        The role of design in complex problem solving.
        Every American an Innovator

        Every American an Innovator

        Every American an Innovator

        How Innovation Became a Way of Life

        by Matthew Wisnioski

        ISBN: 9780262550734

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 13, 2025

        A landmark cultural history that reveals how the relentless pursuit of innovation has transformed our society, our institutions, and our inner selves.
        Not Here, Not Now

        Not Here, Not Now

        Not Here, Not Now

        Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination

        by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

        ISBN: 9780262049665

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 6, 2025

        What it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.
        Invention and Innovation

        Invention and Innovation

        Invention and Innovation

        A Brief History of Hype and Failure

        by Vaclav Smil

        ISBN: 9780262551014

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 3, 2024

        From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.
        The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

        The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

        The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

        The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky

        by Lillian Hoddeson and Peter Garrett

        ISBN: 9780262552646

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 2, 2024

        The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.
        Prior Art

        Prior Art

        Prior Art

        Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture

        by Peter H. Christensen

        ISBN: 9780262048958

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 7, 2024

        A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.
        Free Innovation

        Free Innovation

        Free Innovation

        by Eric von Hippel

        ISBN: 9780262551922

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 30, 2024

        A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.”
        Dare to Invent the Future

        Dare to Invent the Future

        Dare to Invent the Future

        Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-Solving

        by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

        ISBN: 9780262546867

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 21, 2023

        A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence.
        On the Brink of Utopia

        On the Brink of Utopia

        On the Brink of Utopia

        Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems

        by Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera

        Foreword by Stefan Hell

        ISBN: 9780262546485

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 24, 2023

        A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.
        Born in Cambridge

        Born in Cambridge

        Born in Cambridge

        400 Years of Ideas and Innovators

        by Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta

        ISBN: 9780262046800

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 3, 2022

        Anne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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