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By: Shohini Ghose
Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartAn exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and resh… [more below]
- Author: Ghose, Shohini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048310
- Language: English
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By: Vaclav Smil
Energy and Civilization: A History
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartA comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today’s fossil fuel-driven civilization.
“I wait for new Smil books the way
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0262536161
- Language: English
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By: Ruchika Tulshyan
Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work
$29.95HardcoverRead moreHow organizations can foster diversity, equity, and inclusion: taking action to address and prevent workplace bias while centering women of color.
Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right t- Author: Tulshyan, Ruchika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046555
- Language: English
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By: John D. Kelleher
Data Science
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartA concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges.
The goal of data
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kelleher, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535432
- Language: English
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Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
$0.00HardcoverRead moreAn inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet.
The news about wildlife is dire–more than 900 species have been wiped off t- Author: Preston, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204756X
- Language: English
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By: Ethem Alpaydin
Machine Learning, Revised and Updated Edition
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartA concise overview of machine learning–computer programs that learn from data–the basis of such applications as voice recognition and driverless cars.
Today, machine learning underlies a range of ap- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Alpaydin, Ethem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542528
- Language: English
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Explaining Life Through Evolution
$22.95PaperbackRead moreA broad overview of the science of evolution, and why understanding it matters in our everyday lives.
Explaining Life through Evolution tells the origin story of life on this planet and how we arrived- Author: Chakrabarty, Prosanta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546256
- Language: English
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By: Chris Gunn
Inside the Star Factory: The Creation of the James Webb Space Telescope, Nasa’s Largest and Most Powerful Space Observatory
$44.95HardcoverRead moreA fascinating, ground-level backstage pass to the creation, launch, and reach of the James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest orbiting astronomy observatory,- Author: Gunn, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 026204790X
- Language: English
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Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
$79.95HardcoverRead morePowerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America’s abandoned state mental hospitals.
For more than half the nation’s history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent featur
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Payne, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: September 04, 2009
- ISBN10: 0262013495
- Language: English




