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By: Redish, A. David
Changing How We Choose: The New Science of Morality
$32.95HardcoverRead moreThe “new science of morality” that will change how we see each other, how we build our communities, and how we live our lives.
In Changing How We Choose, David Redish makes a bold claim: Science has “- Author: Redish, A. David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0262047365
- Language: English
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By: Randl, Chad
Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space
$39.95HardcoverRead moreAn essay collection exploring the board game’s relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space.
Board games harness the creation of entirel- Author: Randl, Chad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047837
- Language: English
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By: Aylett, Ruth
Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know
$21.95PaperbackRead more“An intimate understanding of what robots are for the average popular science reader, with a focus dispelling fears and showcasing how humans might interact with robots”–
- Author: Aylett, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546043
- Language: English
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The Smart Mission: Nasa’s Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects
$22.95PaperbackRead moreWhy human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make projects succeed.
The project is the basic unit of work in many industries. Software applications, antiviral vaccines, launch-ready s- Author: Hoffman, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547279
- Language: English
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By: Walker, Stuart
Design for Resilience: Making the Future We Leave Behind
$34.95HardcoverRead moreA beautifully written and illustrated framework for resilient design that is as pragmatic as it is inspiring, showing us not only how but why we should design differently.
Design for Resilience is a t- Author: Walker, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048094
- Language: English
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By: Hamacher, Sophie
Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance
$35.00HardcoverRead moreA wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind anthology of art and writing exploring how surveillance impacts contemporary motherhood.
The tracking of our personal information, activities, and medical data throug- Author: Hamacher, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047810
- Language: English
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By: Fitz, Angelika
Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future
$39.95PaperbackRead moreA rich exploration of the extraordinary life and work of celebrated architect Yasmeen Lari, winner of the 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
After more than three decades as a renowned global architect, Yasm- Author: Fitz, Angelika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546094
- Language: English
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Fertility Technology
$16.95PaperbackRead moreA concise overview of fertility technology–its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world.
In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe an- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544695
- Language: English
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By: Van Dooren, Thom
A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions
$29.95HardcoverRead moreFollowing the trails of Hawai’i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction.
In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet- Author: Van Dooren, Thom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0262047020
- Language: English
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Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births
$44.95HardcoverRead moreMore than eighty designs–iconic, archaic, quotidian, and taboo–that have defined the arc of human reproduction.
While birth often brings great joy, making babies is a knotty enterprise. The designed- Author: Fisher, Michelle Millar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0262044897
- Language: English
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By: Vishmidt, Marina
Speculation
$26.95PaperbackRead moreA wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character.
Engaging with- Author: Vishmidt, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545330
- Language: English
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Methuselah’s Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives
$22.95PaperbackRead more“Opossums in the wild don’t make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most of them underground). Whales, however, can live … [more below]
- Author: Austad, Steven N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547171
- Language: English
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The House at Capo d’Orso
$24.95PaperbackRead moreRocks, wind, sea, and sky frame a house on the Sardinian coast, and the house frames a family’s life and art, suspended in memory.
How does a house shape experience? How does architecture establish a- Author: Brandolini, Sebastiano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544962
- Language: English
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By: Reitz, Chris
Martin Kippenberger: Everything Is Everywhere
$49.95HardcoverRead moreAn illuminating study of the work of artist Martin Kippenberger, whose art expressed the enthusiasms and frustrations of the West German middle class.
Martin Kippenberger: Everything Is Everywhere is- Author: Reitz, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545012
- Language: English
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By: Lee, Lisa
ISA Genzken
$50.00PaperbackAdd to cartGenerously illustrated essays consider Isa Genzken’s remarkable body of work, from her early elegant floor pieces to her later explosive assemblages.
Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary
- Series: October Files #17
- Author: Lee, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0262527111
- Language: English
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By: Kinney, Will
An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe
$22.95PaperbackRead moreWhat happened before the primordial fire of the Big Bang: a theory about the ultimate origin of the universe.
In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years- Author: Kinney, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547228
- Language: English
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By: Mangham, Andrew
We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us
$32.95HardcoverRead moreHow the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us.
“Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” In We Are All Monster- Author: Mangham, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047527
- Language: English
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By: Cruz, Teddy
Socializing Architecture: Top-Down / Bottom-Up
$54.95PaperbackRead moreWith a focus on deepening inequality across this world, this richly illustrated monograph of social practice in architecture shows how to catalyze productive change in the world’s border regions.
Situ- Author: Cruz, Teddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545187
- Language: English
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By: Meisol, Patricia
A Heart Afire: Helen Brooke Taussig’s Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine
$39.95HardcoverRead moreA deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children’s heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering.
In A Heart Afire, Patrici- Author: Meisol, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048523
- Language: English
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By: Daston, Lorraine
Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science
$27.95PaperbackRead moreImagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, explain, remark on, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would, in short, stop speaking; we would become as mute as obje
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951447
- Language: English

