MIT Press
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Supernova
$16.95 Read moreA concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations.
Supernovae are the explosions of stars. They are som
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Graur, Or
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543141
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
$19.95 Read moreKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.
Over the past ten
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Halegoua, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538059
- Language: English
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Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons
$24.95 Add to cartThe story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators.
When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby commu- Series: Game Histories
- Author: Peterson, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542951
- Language: English
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Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
$39.95 Read moreThe extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.
Amaza Le- Author: Taylor, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048345
- Language: English
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Gender(s)
$16.95 Add to cartWhy gender is strange, even when it’s played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Bond Stockto- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Stockton, Kathryn Bond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542609
- Language: English
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Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor’s Quest for Reform
$27.95 Read moreA deeply revealing expos? of the American prosecutorial system and its historic and present racial inequities–and how we can transform the system to one of fairness and justice.
In Get Off My Neck, D- Author: Hines, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048914
- Language: English
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Computing: A Concise History
$16.95 Add to cartDiscover the history of computing through 4 major threads of development in this compact, accessible history covering punch cards, Silicon Valley, smartphones, and much more.
In an accessible style,- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Ceruzzi, Paul E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0262517671
- Language: English
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The Curie Society
$18.95 Add to cartAn action-packed graphic novel for the science lover–“with suspenseful espionage, nerdy humor, and a group of dauntless, eager trailblazers” following in the footsteps of Marie Curie (Shelf Awareness… [more below]
- Series: The Curie Society
- Author: Einhorn, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0262539942
- Language: English
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Placebos
$16.95 Read moreThe biological power of the placebo effect.
The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the effic- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hall, Kathryn T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544253
- Language: English
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Biofabrication
$15.95 Add to cartHow engineered materials and machines powered by living biological cells can tackle technological challenges in medicine, agriculture, and global security.
You are a biological machine whose movement- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Raman, Ritu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 026254296X
- Language: English
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Irony and Sarcasm
$15.95 Add to cartA biography of two troublesome words.
Isn’t it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I’m just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in o
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538261
- Language: English
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Synesthesia
$18.95 Read moreAn accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia–vividly felt sensory couplings–by a founder of the field.
One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Cytowic, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535092
- Language: English
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The Conscious Mind
$18.95 Add to cartAn account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech.
How did the human mind emerge from the collection of
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Torey, Zoltan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0262527103
- Language: English
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Ketamine
$16.95 Read moreThe emergence of ketamine–previously known as a combat anesthetic and club drug–as a treatment for depression.
Ketamine, approved in 2019 by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of dep- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Moghaddam, Bita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542242
- Language: English
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Objectivity
$37.00 Read moreObjectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences — and show how the
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 12 2010
- ISBN10: 189095179X
- Language: English
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Free Will
$18.95 Add to cartA philosopher considers whether the scientific and philosophical arguments against free will are reason enough to give up our belief in it.
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free wil
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Balaguer, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0262525798
- Language: English
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Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
$24.95 Add to cartHow sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are.
Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain- Author: Kraus, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0262545071
- Language: English
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Macroeconomics
$21.95 Add to cartThe non-economist’s accessible, pocket-sized refresher on the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies!
Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a … [more below]- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Larrain B., Felipe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538571
- Language: English
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The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment
$32.95 Add to cartIn his bestselling first book, Eric Siegel explained how machine learning works. Now, in The AI Playbook, he shows how to capitalize on it.
“Eric Siegel delivers a robust primer on machine learning, t- Series: Management on the Cutting Edge
- Author: Siegel, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048906
- Language: English
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Death and Dying
$15.95 Add to cartAn examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death’s existential and emotional realities.
Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Piemonte, Nicole M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542420
- Language: English
