MIT Press
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Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
$29.95 Add to cartAn urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Good without God.
Today’- Author: Epstein, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049201
- Language: English
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Playing at the World, 2e, Volume 1: The Invention of Dungeons & Dragons
$29.95 Add to cartThe first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.
This new edition of Playing at the World is th
- Series: Game Histories
- Author: Peterson, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548771
- Language: English
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Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
$24.95 Add to cart“Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is rebounding. Not everywhere. Not every species. But a handful of wildlif… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Christopher J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 026254833X
- Language: English
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Beautiful Math: The Surprisingly Simple Ideas Behind the Digital Revolution in How We Live, Work, and Communicate
$27.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Quantum Computing for Everyone, a concise, accessible, and elegant approach to mathematics that not only illustrates concepts but also conveys the surprising nature of t… [more below]
- Author: Bernhardt, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549778
- Language: English
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Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
$29.95 Read moreAn exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello exp- Author: Yaguello, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547155
- Language: English
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Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
$18.95 Add to cartHow Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world.
On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, me- Author: Marcus, Gary F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262551063
- Language: English
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Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation
$19.95 Read moreThe 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 Add to cartA 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
$19.95 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 Add to cartA 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
