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Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property Dagmar Schafer (Editor) Current price: $65.00 A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. ...
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Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence Alicia Juarrero Current price: $45.00 From the influential author of Dynamics in Action, how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation. ...
Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM Brandon R. Brown Current price: $26.95 A personal, practical, and inspirational guide to written and oral STEM communications for scientists and technical professionals. ...
Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives Steven N. Austad Current price: $22.95 Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity. ...
Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence Alicia Juarrero Current price: $45.00 From the influential author of Dynamics in Action, how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation. ...
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century Alice Wong (Editor) Current price: $18.00 “Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. ...
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 ...
The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work Zeynep Ton Current price: $32.00 From MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on Good Jobs comes a leadership guide for choosing excellence and providing good jobs that offer a living wage, dignity, and opportunities for growth. ...
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science Kate Zernike Current price: $30.00 As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they accomplished despite the hurdles. ...
The Only Woman Immy Humes Current price: $29.95 As seen in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Telegraph A compelling gallery of women who made their way into a man's world, shown through group portraits each featuring a lone woman ...
How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) Sextus Empiricus Current price: $16.95 How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgment ...
Harvard Square: A Love Story Catherine Turco Current price: $27.95 "Harvard Square isn't what it used to be." Spend any time there, and you're bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same thing for well over a century. ...
Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games—And Why They Matter Ben Orlin Current price: $28.00 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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) Kevin G. Bethune Current price: $24.95 The power of transformative design, multidisciplinary leaps, and diversity: lessons from a Black professional’s journey through corporate America. ...
Nightwork, updated edition: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT Institute Historian Peterson Current price: $29.95 A lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon. ...
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? ...
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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. ...
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A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries) Richard Reeves Current price: $23.95 A new intellectual biography of Ernest Rutherford, the twentieth century’s greatest experimental physicist. ...
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