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Universal Basic Income
$18.95 Read moreAn accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.
The growing mo- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Widerquist, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0262546892
- Language: English
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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
$52.95 Read moreEssays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture.
The increasing representation of tr- Series: Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture
- Author: Gossett, Reina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 026254489X
- Language: English
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Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality
$31.00 Read moreHearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense — less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reason and Resonance is the first full-length study to
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Erlmann, Veit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1935408054
- Language: English
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Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
$31.00 Add to cartToward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called “women’s secrets,” by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Park, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1890951684
- Language: English
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A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions
$22.95 Read moreFollowing the trails of Hawai’i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction.
In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet- Author: Van Dooren, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547341
- Language: English
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Play Matters
$33.33 Add to cartWhy play is a productive, expressive way of being human, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being.
What do we think about when we think about play? A pastime? Games? Childish- Series: Playful Thinking
- Author: Sicart, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534517
- Language: English
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Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
$39.95 Read moreAnne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of- Author: Weintraub, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046806
- Language: English
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
$31.00 Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951544
- Language: English
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Paradox
$18.95 Add to cartAn introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.
Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno’s.
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Cuonzo, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0262525496
- Language: English
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Melancholy Wedgwood
$34.95 Read moreAn experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity.
Melancholy Wedgwood traces the- Author: Moon, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0262546345
- Language: English
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How Your Brain Works: Neuroscience Experiments for Everyone
$27.95 Read moreDiscover the hidden electrical world inside your nervous system using DIY, hands-on experiments, for all ages. No MD or PhD required!
The workings of the brain are mysterious: What are neural signals?- Author: Gage, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 262544385
- Language: English
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Recommendation Engines
$18.95 Add to cartHow companies like Amazon and Netflix know what “you might also like” the history, technology, business, and social impact of online recommendation engines.
Increasingly, our technologies are giving us
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Schrage, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539071
- Language: English
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Design After Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
$32.95 Add to cartHow design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.
The designed things, experiences, and symbols that we u- Author: Wizinsky, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543567
- Language: English
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Behavioral Insights
$16.95 Add to cartThe definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.
Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our c… [more below]- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hallsworth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539403
- Language: English
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Visual Culture
$15.95 Add to cartHow to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, eve
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Boylan, Alexis L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539365
- Language: English
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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
$19.95 Add to cartHow lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today’s society.
In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Resnick, Mitchel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0262536137
- Language: English
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The Technological Singularity
$19.95 Add to cartThe idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence.
The idea that human history is approaching a “singula
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Shanahan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0262527804
- Language: English
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The Atom: A Visual Tour
$39.95 Read moreAn accessible and engaging guide to the atom, the smallest, most fundamental constituent of matter.
Until now, popular science has relegated the atom to a supporting role in defining the different chem
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Challoner, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 026203736X
- Language: English
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Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery: The Illustrated Edition
$29.95 Read moreHow rewilding has transformed the conservation movement, combining radical scientific insights with practical innovations.
Progressive scientists and conservation professionals are pursuing a radical
- Author: Jepson, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046768
- Language: English
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
$27.95 Read moreJust as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Individuals can forget words, phrases, even entire languages, and over the course of time speaking communities, too, let go of the tongues that were
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951501
- Language: English
