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Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words
$32.95 Add to cartA beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words–and the many facets of how language begins and ends–from a pioneering language writer.
With our earliest utterances, we announce ourselve- Author: Erard, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049422
- Language: English
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
$32.95 Add to cartHow the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics–and gives us the power to save ourselves.
The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our last–because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also- Author: Sholts, Sabrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 026204885X
- Language: English
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From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech
$26.95 Add to cartA radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.
When it comes to tech, the mainstream head
- Author: Arora, Payal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049309
- Language: English
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Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning
$19.95 Add to cartA poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature–everywhere, if you know how to see it.
In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the for- Series: On Seeing
- Author: Brown, Kimberly Juanita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0262551721
- Language: English
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Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing
$39.95 Read moreFrom the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America.
In the nineteenth cent
- Author: Block, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049058
- Language: English
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Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity
$29.95 Read moreThe science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitable planetary home.
Planet Earth, it turns out, may- Author: Impey, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047667
- Language: English
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Memory
$16.95 Add to cartA short, accessible primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
Why do we vividly recall a traumatic childhood event but forget where we left our- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Craik, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545209
- Language: English
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Espionage: A Concise History
$16.95 Add to cartA concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today’s high-tech world.
Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is als- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Macrakis, Kristie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545020
- Language: English
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Book from the Ground: From Point to Point
$19.95 Add to cartA book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life.
Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Xu, Bing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0262536226
- Language: English
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Serendipity: The Unexpected in Science
$27.95 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of Imperfection, a theory of uncertainty as the very core of the scientific method–and the essence of its wonder.
How many times have we looked for something and found som- Author: Pievani, Telmo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049155
- Language: English
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Thrive: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI
$32.95 Add to cartHow AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that- Author: Bapna, Ravi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049317
- Language: English
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Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior
$24.95 Add to cartHow dominant culture–from sexism and homophobia to racism, capitalism, ableism, and more–has limited the science of animal behavior, and how we can free ourselves from these limited perspectives.
In- Author: Kamath, Ambika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 262049635
- Language: English
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A Book about Ray
$54.95 Add to cartThe first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.
Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. “New York’s most famous unknow
- Author: Levy, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 262048744
- Language: English
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Father Nature: The Science of Paternal Potential
$32.95 Read moreHow and why human males evolved the capacity to be highly involved caregivers–and why some are more involved than others.
We all know the importance of mothers. They are typically as paramount in the- Author: Rilling, James K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048930
- Language: English
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The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know–And Start Again
$34.95 Add to cartA radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US.
Most people think hunger has to do with food: researchers, policymakers, and advocates focus on prom- Series: Food, Health, and the Environment
- Author: Chilton, Mariana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048302
- Language: English
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Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next
$32.95 Read moreFrom the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015–and where the international climate effort need… [more below]
- Author: Stern, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049147
- Language: English
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Cryptography
$18.95 Add to cartA broad introduction to cryptography–what it is, how it really works, what its future holds, and why every informed citizen should understand its basics.
We all keep secrets–from our gym locker code
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Louridas, Panos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549026
- Language: English
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Artificial General Intelligence
$17.95 Add to cartHow to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society.
Artificial intelligence surrounds us. More and more of the systems and services you interact with every
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Togelius, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549344
- Language: English
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Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art
$24.95 Read moreTen acclaimed writers imagine the future of art across space and time.
In this volume from the Twelve Tomorrows series, Deep Dream, ten writers imagine the different ways in which art forms might evol
- Series: Twelve Tomorrows
- Author: Das, Indrapramit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549085
- Language: English
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Cities Made Differently
$19.95 Add to cartFull of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.
What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades ou- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549336
- Language: English
