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The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction (MIT Press / Radium Age) Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (Editor) Current price: $19.95 The first English translation of a cult science fiction favorite by Hemendra Kumar Roy, one of the giants of early Bangla literature, and other sf stories from the colonial period in India. ...
From Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Management on the Cutting Edge) Malia C. Lazu Current price: $32.95 How business leaders can move their DEI efforts from intention to impact through strategy and culture change. ...
Cracking the Bro Code (Labor and Technology) Coleen Carrigan Current price: $40.00 Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy and social justice. ...
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Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (On Seeing) Kimberly Juanita Brown Current price: $18.95 A powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness. ...
Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care Susannah Fox Current price: $29.95 An action-oriented and radically hopeful field guide to the underground, patient-led revolution for better health and health care. ...
A Darwinian Survival Guide: Hope for the Twenty-First Century Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta Current price: $34.95 How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago—and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes. ...
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Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football John Urschel, Louisa Thomas Current price: $18.00 A New York Times bestseller John Urschel, mathematician and former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, tells the story of a life balanced between two passions ...
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will Robert M. Sapolsky Current price: $35.00 The instant New York Times bestseller “Excellent…Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” – Wall Street Journal ...
We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) Kate Cohen Current price: $28.95 "It's an inspiring book that will--hopefully--push us toward a larger cultural conversation in which 'atheism' isn't seen as a dirty word."--The Humanist ...
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines Joy Buolamwini Current price: $28.99 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. ...
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Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games—And Why They Matter Ben Orlin Current price: $30.00 Bestselling author and worst-drawing artist Ben Orlin expands his oeuvre with this interactive collection of mathematical games. With 70-plus games, each taking a minute to learn and a lifetime to master, this treasure trove will delight, educate, and entertain. ...
White Holes Carlo Rovelli Current price: $26.00 A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time ...
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe Brian Clegg Current price: $29.95 How patterns--from diagrams of spacetime to particle trails revealed by supercolliders--offer clues to the fundamental workings of the physical world. ...
The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler Current price: $17.95 An updated edition of the international bestseller that distills into a single volume the fifty best decision-making models. Every day, we face the same questions: How do I make the right decision? How can I work more efficiently? And, on a more personal level, what do I want? ...
The Secrets of Words Noam Chomsky, Andrea Moro Current price: $17.95 Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries. ...
Computing the Future Computing the Future Current price: $24.95 Computing the Future: 10 Years of Innovation at MIT CSAIL outlines the diverse range of ground-breaking research and academic efforts that have taken place over the past decade at MIT's largest interdepartmental research laboratory, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) ...
Cyberfeminism Index Mindy Seu (Editor) Current price: $34.95 Hackers, scholars, artists and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology ...
Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens Rajiv Shah Current price: $28.99 “Encouraging…Uplifting...Meeting apparently insurmountable goals requires thinking big…this will inspire.” —Publishers Weekly ...
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Kieran Setiya Current price: $18.00 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST ...
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Temple Grandin, PhD Current price: $18.00 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD “A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman ...
Cyborg (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Laura Forlano, Danya Glabau Current price: $16.95 A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied. ...
Universal Basic Income (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Karl Widerquist Current price: $16.95 An 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. ...
Cloud Computing, revised and updated edition (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Nayan B. Ruparelia Current price: $16.95 An updated, revised, and comprehensive overview of the concepts related to cloud computing, including recent applications, innovations, and its future evolution. ...
Plastics (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Imari Walker-Franklin, Jenna Jambeck Current price: $16.95 A comprehensive introduction to the plastics life cycle—the impacts on our lives, our future, and our planet—and the actions we can take. ...
Smart Cities (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Germaine Halegoua Current price: $16.95 Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems. ...
Critical Thinking (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Jonathan Haber Current price: $16.95 An insightful guide to the practice, teaching, and history of critical thinking—from Aristotle and Plato to Thomas Dewey—for teachers, students, and anyone looking to hone their critical thinking skills. ...
Extraterrestrials (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Wade Roush Current price: $15.95 Are we alone in the universe? If not, where is everybody? An engaging exploration of one of the most important unsolved problems in science. ...
Macroeconomics (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Felipe Larrain B. Current price: $15.95 The non-economist’s accessible, pocket-sized refresher on the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies! ...
Discounted Algorithms (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Panos Louridas Previous price: $16.95 Current price: $15.95 An accessible introduction to algorithms, explaining not just what they are but how they work, with examples from a wide range of application areas. ...
Hate Speech (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Caitlin Ring Carlson Current price: $15.95 An investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread. ...
Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Sherryl Vint Current price: $15.95 How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change. ...
Discounted Ketamine (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Bita Moghaddam Previous price: $16.95 Current price: $15.95 The emergence of ketamine--previously known as a combat anesthetic and club drug--as a treatment for depression. ...
Machine Learning, revised and updated edition (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Ethem Alpaydin Current price: $15.95 MIT presents a concise primer on machine learning—computer programs that learn from data and the basis of applications like voice recognition and driverless cars. No in-depth knowledge of math or programming required! ...
Gender(s) (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Kathryn Bond Stockton Current price: $15.95 Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients. ...
Supernova (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Or Graur Current price: $16.95 A concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations. ...
Nuclear Weapons (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Mark Wolverton Current price: $16.95 A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture. ...
Hunting: A Cultural History (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Jan E. Dizard, Mary Zeiss Stange Current price: $16.95 The history of hunting, from Stone Age hunter-gatherers to today’s sport hunters. ...
Echo (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Amit Pinchevski Current price: $16.95 An exploration of echo not as simple repetition but as an agent of creative possibilities. ...
Robot Ethics (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Mark Coeckelbergh Current price: $16.95 A guide to the ethical questions that arise from our use of industrial robots, robot companions, self-driving cars, and other robotic devices. ...
Whiteness (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Martin Lund Current price: $16.95 The socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white. ...
Placebos (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Kathryn T. Hall Current price: $16.95 The biological power of the placebo effect. ...
Memory (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Fergus Craik, Larry Jacoby Current price: $16.95 A short, accessible primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers. ...
Espionage: A Concise History (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Kristie Macrakis Current price: $16.95 A concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today’s high-tech world. ...
Happiness (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Tim Lomas Current price: $16.95 A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness. ...
I'm a Black Hole (Meet the Universe) Eve M. Vavagiakis Current price: $18.99 Journey to the event horizon in this playful, mind-bending introduction to one of our universe’s most mysterious marvels—narrated by a black hole itself. ...
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The Curie Society, Volume 2: Eris Eternal (The Curie Society Series #2) Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni, Anne Toole Current price: $22.95 The plucky young scientist heroes of The Curie Society go toe-to-toe with a powerful and sinister threat in a globe-spanning scientific adventure on the cutting edge of advanced biotech. ...
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Down to Business: 51 Industry Leaders Share Practical Advice on How to Become a Young Entrepreneur Fenley Scurlock, Jason Liaw Current price: $19.99 You have a start-up idea but ... where do you go from there? Two teen entrepreneurs bring together 51 influential business leaders for Q&As about starting a business, finding success, and, yes, making money. ...
Nature's Architects Amber Hendricks Current price: $9.99 Birds build nests. Beavers build lodges. Animals' homes are all different, but they're all built to protect young. ...
Santiago Saw Things Differently: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Artist, Doctor, Father of Neuroscience Christine Iverson Current price: $18.99 In an exquisitely illustrated nonfiction picture book about the childhood and discoveries of the “father of neuroscience,” science and art—together—work wonders. ...
Grace for President Kelly DiPucchio Current price: $18.99 A fresh, fun, and "thought-provoking" New York Times bestseller about the American electoral college and why every vote counts from bestselling and award-winning duo Kelly DiPucchio and LeUyen Pham. "Where are the girls?" ...
AlphaBot Vicky Fang Current price: $14.99 Even the youngest robotocists will love flipping the flaps to create their own robot—while exploring a simple A to Z roundup of robotics terms. ...
Whose Bones?: An Animal Guessing Game Gabrielle Balkan Current price: $12.95 A playful, informative introduction to bones for the youngest readers, by the team behind the bestselling Book of Bones ...
8 Little Planets Chris Ferrie Current price: $10.99 A delightfully fun, fact-filled planetary tale from the creator of the Baby University series! ...
Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub Steven Beaucher Current price: $70.00 A richly illustrated story of public transit in one of America’s most historic cities, from public ferry and horse-drawn carriage to the MBTA. ...
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America Leila Philip Current price: $19.99 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. ...
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine Alan Lightman Current price: $17.00 From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams—“an elegant and moving paean to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science" (The New York Times Book Review). ...
I Love You as Big as Boston Rose Rossner Current price: $9.99 Celebrate the places you and Baby love in Beantown! Show your little one that Boston is where the heart is in this snuggle-worthy board book for babies and toddlers. ...
Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey Current price: $8.99 What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A Caldecott Honor Book! ...
Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America Rena Selya Current price: $35.00 The life of Nobel-winning biologist Salvador Luria, whose passion for science was equaled by his commitment to political engagement in Cold War America. ...
From the Basement to the Dome: How MITs Unique Culture Created a Thriving Entrepreneurial Community Jean-Jacques Degroof Current price: $29.95 How a bottom-up problem-solving ethos, multidisciplinary approach, and experimental mindset has nurtured entrepreneurship at MIT. ...
Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators Karen Weintraub, Michael Kuchta Current price: $39.95 Anne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub Robert Buderi Current price: $34.95 The evolution of the most innovative square mile on the planet: the endless cycles of change and reinvention that created today’s Kendall Square. ...