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La Jetée: Ciné-Roman
$49.00 Add to cartLa Jet e is the book version of the legendary 1964 science fiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse. Chris Marker, the undisputed master of the filmic essay, composed the film alm
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Marker, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 04 1993
- ISBN10: 0942299663
- Language: English
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Zizek’s Jokes: (Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?)
$15.95 Add to cartZizek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy.
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”–Ludwig Wittgenstein
The good news is that this book offers
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: February 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535300
- Language: English
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Publics and Counterpublics
$31.00 Add to cartPublics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? The idea of a public is a cultural form, a kind of practical fiction, present in the modern world in a way that is very
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Warner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 10 2005
- ISBN10: 1890951293
- Language: English
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Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding
$44.95 Add to cartThe evolution of the surfboard, from traditional Hawaiian folk designs to masterpieces of mathematical engineering to mass-produced fiberglass.
Surfboards were once made of wood and shaped by hand, ob
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Kenvin, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0262027607
- Language: English
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Whiteness
$16.95 Add to cartThe socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white.
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowl- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Lund, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544199
- Language: English
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Activism
$27.95 Read moreAn edited collection that addresses the vital intersection of contemporary art and activism in this watershed cultural moment.
Activism is a critical point of contention for institutions and genealogi- Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
- Author: Dias Ramos, Afonso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546566
- Language: English
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Rethinking Gender: An Illustrated Exploration
$24.95 Read moreA lively, informative, and engaging guide to gender by an author-illustrator who helps readers understand the multiplicity of answers to “What even is gender?”
Queer, cisgender, transgender, nonbinary- Author: Läuger, Louie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0262047233
- Language: English
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Supernova
$16.95 Add to cartA concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations.
Supernovae are the explosions of stars. They are som
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Graur, Or
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543141
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
$19.95 Read moreKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.
Over the past ten
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Halegoua, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538059
- Language: English
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Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons
$24.95 Read moreThe story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators.
When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby commu- Series: Game Histories
- Author: Peterson, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542951
- Language: English
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Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
$39.95 Add to cartThe extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.
Amaza Le- Author: Taylor, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048345
- Language: English
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Gender(s)
$16.95 Add to cartWhy gender is strange, even when it’s played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Bond Stockto- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Stockton, Kathryn Bond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542609
- Language: English
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Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor’s Quest for Reform
$27.95 Read moreA deeply revealing expos? of the American prosecutorial system and its historic and present racial inequities–and how we can transform the system to one of fairness and justice.
In Get Off My Neck, D- Author: Hines, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048914
- Language: English
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Computing: A Concise History
$16.95 Add to cartDiscover the history of computing through 4 major threads of development in this compact, accessible history covering punch cards, Silicon Valley, smartphones, and much more.
In an accessible style,- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Ceruzzi, Paul E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0262517671
- Language: English
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The Curie Society
$18.95 Read moreAn action-packed graphic novel for the science lover–“with suspenseful espionage, nerdy humor, and a group of dauntless, eager trailblazers” following in the footsteps of Marie Curie (Shelf Awareness… [more below]
- Series: The Curie Society
- Author: Einhorn, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0262539942
- Language: English
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Placebos
$16.95 Read moreThe biological power of the placebo effect.
The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the effic- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hall, Kathryn T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544253
- Language: English
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Biofabrication
$15.95 Read moreHow engineered materials and machines powered by living biological cells can tackle technological challenges in medicine, agriculture, and global security.
You are a biological machine whose movement- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Raman, Ritu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 026254296X
- Language: English
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Irony and Sarcasm
$15.95 Add to cartA biography of two troublesome words.
Isn’t it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I’m just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in o
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538261
- Language: English
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Synesthesia
$18.95 Read moreAn accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia–vividly felt sensory couplings–by a founder of the field.
One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Cytowic, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535092
- Language: English
