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Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation
$19.95 Add to cartThe fascinating, little-known history of female sex fluids through the millennia.
For over 2000 years, vulval sex fluids were understood to be a natural part of female pleasure, only to become dispute- Author: Haerdle, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048515
- Language: English
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The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age
$34.95 Add to cartThe fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.
A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese–- Author: Mullaney, Thomas S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0262047519
- Language: English
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Gaia’s Web: How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Ea
$29.95 Read moreA riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration?
At the uncan- Author: Bakker, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048752
- Language: English
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Galaxies
$17.95 Add to cartAn eminently readable overview of the history and physics of galaxies.
In Galaxies, Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starti
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Graur, Or
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548755
- Language: English
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
$39.00 Read moreWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world withou
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Groebner, Valentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951722
- Language: English
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
$19.95 Read moreA top behavioral geneticist argues DNA inherited from our parents at conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses.
This “modern classic” on genetics and nature vs. nurture is “one- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Plomin, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537982
- Language: English
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Food
$19.95 Read moreA consumer’s guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.
Everybody eats. We may ev
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Parasecoli, Fabio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537311
- Language: English
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Politically Red
$29.95 Read moreHow reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence.
“Reading is class struggle,” writes Bertolt Brecht. Politica- Author: Cadava, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047802
- Language: English
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Living and Working
$59.95 Read moreAn argument against the ideology of domesticity that separates work from home; lavishly illustrated, with architectural proposals for alternate approaches to working and living.
Despite the increasing- Author: Dogma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543516
- Language: English
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Anticorruption
$43.25 Read moreWinning the anticorruption battle: a guide for citizens and politicians.
The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass,
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Rotberg, Robert I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538830
- Language: English
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A Darwinian Survival Guide: Hope for the Twenty-First Century
$34.95 Add to cartHow 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.
Desp- Author: Brooks, Daniel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 026204868X
- Language: English
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Tech Monopoly
$16.95 Add to cartA serious look at competition problems in tech markets and whether antitrust law can help address them.
In recent years, the astronomical rise of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft ha
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hovenkamp, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548747
- Language: English
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Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt
$34.95 Add to cartA portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning.
Our galaxy, th- Author: Von Mertens, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049384
- Language: English
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Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Norman, Donald A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548305
- Language: English
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Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
$36.95 Add to cartHow to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.
Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative- Author: Dunne, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548682
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
$29.95 Add to cartHow data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities–and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
In- Series: Information Society
- Author: Sinnreich, Aram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048817
- Language: English
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Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
$32.95 Read moreLearning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of “common” people and less immodest in their erec… [more below]
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Venturi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 1977
- ISBN10: 026272006X
- Language: English
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Fake Photos
$15.95 Read moreA concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media.
Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and other dictators routinely doctored photographs
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Farid, Hany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537494
- Language: English
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Machine Translation
$40.00 Read moreA concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.
The dream of a universal translatio
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Poibeau, Thierry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534215
- Language: English
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Nightwork, Updated Edition: A History of Hacks and Pranks at Mit
$29.95 Add to cartA lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.
An MIT “hack” is an ingenious, benign, and anonymous prank or practical joke, often req
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Peterson, Institute Historian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0262515849
- Language: English
