MIT Press
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Particles of Truth: A Story of Discovery, Controversy, and the Fight for Healthy Air
$29.95 Add to cartA compelling, real-life account of how scientists uncovered air pollution’s deadly impact on human health–and the contentious battles to use key scientific evidence in the critical fight for clean ai… [more below]
- Author: Pope, C. Arden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551675
- Language: English
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Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century
$34.95 Add to cartAn essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium–winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology.
From the nursery- Author: Zeavin, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049554
- Language: English
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An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions
$39.95 Add to cartA searing indictment of the American public health, media, and political establishments’ decision-making process behind pandemic school closures.
An Abundance of Caution is a devastating account of th- Author: Zweig, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 262549158
- Language: English
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More Butch Heroes
$24.95 Read moreThe much-anticipated sequel to Butch Heroes, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover–and celebrate–queer subjects from around the world.
Ingeniously conceived,- Author: Brodell, Ria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049872
- Language: English
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Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
$22.95 Add 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 026255299X
- Language: English
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The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms Through Puzzles and Strategy Games
$22.95 Add to cartAn engaging and approachable resource for beginning-to-intermediate coders eager to learn advanced ideas in computer programming.
In The Computer Always Wins, Elliot Lichtman will teach you some of co- Author: Lichtman, Elliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551691
- Language: English
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The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground
$32.95 Add to cartA manifesto–and a field guide–for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.
Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and dis- Author: Schilthuizen, Menno
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049090
- Language: English
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Phenology
$16.95 Add to cartOn the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do to help.
Phenology is all about timing–when trees leaf ou
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Crimmins, Theresa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551055
- Language: English
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The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum
$29.95 Read moreWhy the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.
AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, pr
- Author: Oberhaus, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 026204935X
- Language: English
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Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick
$29.95 Add to cartHow Coca-Cola makes Americans sick–and makes sure we don’t know it.
If we knew that Coca-Cola was among the deadliest products in our diet, would we continue drinking it in such great quantities? The- Author: Carpenter, Murray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049503
- Language: English
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Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words
$32.95 Add to cartA beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words–and the many facets of how language begins and ends–from a pioneering language writer.
With our earliest utterances, we announce ourselve- Author: Erard, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049422
- Language: English
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
$32.95 Add to cartHow the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics–and gives us the power to save ourselves.
The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our last–because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also- Author: Sholts, Sabrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 026204885X
- Language: English
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From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech
$26.95 Add to cartA radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.
When it comes to tech, the mainstream head
- Author: Arora, Payal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049309
- Language: English
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Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning
$19.95 Add to cartA poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature–everywhere, if you know how to see it.
In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the for- Series: On Seeing
- Author: Brown, Kimberly Juanita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551721
- Language: English
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Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing
$39.95 Read moreFrom the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America.
In the nineteenth cent
- Author: Block, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049058
- Language: English
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Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity
$29.95 Read moreThe science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitable planetary home.
Planet Earth, it turns out, may- Author: Impey, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047667
- Language: English
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Memory
$16.95 Add to cartA short, accessible primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
Why do we vividly recall a traumatic childhood event but forget where we left our- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Craik, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545209
- Language: English
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Espionage: A Concise History
$16.95 Add to cartA concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today’s high-tech world.
Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is als- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Macrakis, Kristie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545020
- Language: English
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Book from the Ground: From Point to Point
$19.95 Add to cartA book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life.
Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Xu, Bing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0262536226
- Language: English
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Serendipity: The Unexpected in Science
$27.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Imperfection, a theory of uncertainty as the very core of the scientific method–and the essence of its wonder.
How many times have we looked for something and found som- Author: Pievani, Telmo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049155
- Language: English
