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Happy #BookBirthday to this great collection of books! #ReadUP #TuesdayBookBlog

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Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures by Katy Börner (

) mitpress.mit.edu/books/atlas-fo "An amazing and incredibly important resource."—

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Atlas of Forecasts

Forecasting the future with advanced data models and visualizations.To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of...

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Red Lines: Political Cartoons and the Struggle against Censorship by

& @sonnyliew mitpress.mit.edu/books/red-lines “The political cartoon is the art form of our deeply troubled world, and this...is far and away the definitive guide.”—

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Gender(s) by Kathryn Bond Stockton - the latest in the #EssentialKnowledgeSeries mitpress.mit.edu/books/genders

says it "presents an accessible, witty and contemporary examination of the true queerness of genders and gendering."

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Why 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 Essent...

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The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking by Keith #Stanovich mitpress.mit.edu/books/bias-div “This is the book for our era: a brilliant and balanced explanation of the phenomenon of partisanship. . . fascinating, timely, and profound.”—

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The Bias That Divides Us

Why we don't live in a post-truth society but rather a myside society: what science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics.In The Bias That Divide...

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Just Housing: The Moral Foundations of American Housing Policy by

mitpress.mit.edu/books/just-hou "The definitive volume on the ethical bases and imperatives of an American 'right to home.'"—Sonia Hirt, College of Environment + Design, University of Georgia

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A new conception of housing justice grounded in moral principles that appeal to the home's special connection to American life.In response to the twin crises...

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Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes by

mitpress.mit.edu/books/preparin "A fascinating account of the 'preparators' [who transform] chunks of rock brought from distant sites into...spectacular skeletons."—Martin Rudwick Avail. in #OpenAccess

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Preparing Dinosaurs

An investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often unacknowledged creativity and problem-solving on which scientists rely....

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Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities by Janneke Adema (

@openreflections

) mitpress.mit.edu/books/living-b "Shows a way forward: by taking scholarly books seriously as books, denaturalized and richly reimagined.”—

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New Paperback: The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot by

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mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-wi "Asks what the assignment of gender of its devices says about the societies they are meant to help."—

@ShelfAwareness

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The life and times of the Smart Wife—feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available.Mee...

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