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Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher’s Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids and Everyone Else
$27.95HardcoverRead moreBeing parents and being human: building hope for our children in a fragile world.
Environmental catastrophes, pandemics, antibiotic resistance, institutionalized injustice, and war: in a world so out- Author: Cripps, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047586
- Language: English
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Diversity Dividend: The Transformational Power of Small Changes to Debias Your Company, Attract Divrse Talent, Manage Everyone Better and
$29.95HardcoverRead moreFrom entry-level to the boardroom, what works to create large-scale change in organizations looking to accelerate their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and reap financial benefits.
Every lead- Author: Cecchi-Dimeglio, Paola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 026204840X
- Language: English
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Communications Breakdown: SF Stories about the Future of Connection
$22.95PaperbackRead moreAn exciting science fiction collection that looks at what future communication might look like and how our shifting relationships with technology could change this most human of capabilities.
In Commu- Series: Twelve Tomorrows
- Author: Strahan, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546469
- Language: English
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By: Chodos, Alan
Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino
$32.95HardcoverRead moreThe fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle–the neutrino.
Isaac Asimov is said to have observed of the neutrino: “The only reason scientists suggested it
- Author: Chodos, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 026204787X
- Language: English
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By: Davis, Katie
Technology’s Child: Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up
$29.95HardcoverRead moreHow children engage with technology at each stage of development, from toddler to twentysomething, and how they can best be supported.
What happens to the little ones, the tweens, and the teenagers, w
- Author: Davis, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262046962
- Language: English
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Atlas of Perfumed Botany
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartA cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition.
For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a multitude of associations and impressions that must be carefull- Author: Ellena, Jean-Claude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046733
- Language: English
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There’s Nothing Micro about a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for Women
$23.95PaperbackRead moreWhy it takes more than microloans to empower women and promote sustainable, inclusive economic growth.
Nearly one billion women have been completely excluded from the formal financial system. Without- Author: Iskenderian, Mary Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547198
- Language: English
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By: Epstein, Greg
Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartAn urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Good without God.
Today’- Author: Epstein, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049201
- Language: English
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By: Peterson, Jon
Playing at the World, 2e, Volume 1: The Invention of Dungeons & Dragons
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.
This new edition of Playing at the World is th
- Series: Game Histories
- Author: Peterson, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548771
- Language: English
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Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
$24.95PaperbackRead more“Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is rebounding. Not everywhere. Not every species. But a handful of wildlif… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Christopher J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 026254833X
- Language: English
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By: Bernhardt, Chris
Beautiful Math: The Surprisingly Simple Ideas Behind the Digital Revolution in How We Live, Work, and Communicate
$27.95HardcoverAdd to cartFrom the bestselling author of Quantum Computing for Everyone, a concise, accessible, and elegant approach to mathematics that not only illustrates concepts but also conveys the surprising nature of t… [more below]
- Author: Bernhardt, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549778
- Language: English
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By: Yaguello, Marina
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
$29.95PaperbackRead moreAn exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello exp- Author: Yaguello, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547155
- Language: English
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By: Marcus, Gary F.
Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartHow Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world.
On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, me- Author: Marcus, Gary F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262551063
- Language: English
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Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation
$19.95PaperbackRead moreThe fascinating, little-known history of female sex fluids through the millennia.
For over 2000 years, vulval sex fluids were understood to be a natural part of female pleasure, only to become dispute- Author: Haerdle, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048515
- Language: English
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The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age
$34.95HardcoverRead moreThe fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.
A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese–- Author: Mullaney, Thomas S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0262047519
- Language: English
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By: Bakker, Karen
Gaia’s Web: How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Ea
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartA riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration?
At the uncan- Author: Bakker, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048752
- Language: English
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By: Graur, Or
Galaxies
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn eminently readable overview of the history and physics of galaxies.
In Galaxies, Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starti
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Graur, Or
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548755
- Language: English
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
$39.00HardcoverRead moreWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world withou
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Groebner, Valentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951722
- Language: English
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By: Robert Plomin
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartA top behavioral geneticist argues DNA inherited from our parents at conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses.
This “modern classic” on genetics and nature vs. nurture is “one- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Plomin, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537982
- Language: English
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Food
$19.95PaperbackRead moreA consumer’s guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.
Everybody eats. We may ev
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Parasecoli, Fabio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537311
- Language: English








