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More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech Meredith Broussard Current price: $26.95 When technology reinforces inequality, it’s not just a glitch—it’s a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. ...
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Theodore Savage (MIT Press / Radium Age) Cicely Hamilton Current price: $19.95 From one of the earliest feminist science fiction writers, a novel that envisions the fall of civilization—and the plight of the modern woman in a post-apocalyptic wilderness. ...
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. ...
White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness Nicholas Mirzoeff Current price: $29.95 From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them. ...
We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us Andrew Mangham Current price: $32.95 How the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us. ...
Women and Climate Change: Examining Discourses from the Global North Nicole Detraz Current price: $40.00 How ideas of gender and climate change intersect with our path to a livable future. ...
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall Current price: $22.95 A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities. ...
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure Vaclav Smil Current price: $24.95 From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. ...
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Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach in Racket Jeremy G. Siek Current price: $50.00 A hands-on approach to understanding and building compilers. ...
The Lost World and The Poison Belt (MIT Press / Radium Age) Arthur Conan Doyle Current price: $19.95 A heart-stopping adventure tale featuring a brilliant scientist—one as insufferably pompous as Doyle’s most famous character—and his unlikely trio, and its apocalyptic sequel. ...
Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals Christopher J. Preston Current price: $29.95 An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet. ...
Perspecta 55: Futures Index Ethan Zisson (Editor) Current price: $35.00 A collection that explores how architecture ought to negotiate the future, when the future is anything but certain. ...
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. ...
The Sounds of the Cosmos: Gravitational Waves and the Birth of Multi-Messenger Astronomy Mario Diaz, Gabriela Gonzalez, Jorge Pullin Current price: $40.00 The remarkable story of how humankind discovered gravitational waves, chronicled with unparalleled historical and scientific vision. ...
Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino Alan Chodos, James Riordon Current price: $32.95 The fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle—the neutrino. ...
Postsensual Aesthetics: On the Logic of the Curatorial James Voorhies Current price: $24.95 Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics. ...
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