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Jennifer Hoewe
Enjoyment Is Breaking News

Why we crave enjoyment from news, how our news use divides us, and what we can do to create better news and more informed citizens.TikTok. Short-form reels. Late-night TV monologues. Podcasts. The way new…

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Per Högselius
Atomic Disenchantment

A global history of nuclear energy from 1945 to today---and why the atom has failed to become a dominant, cheap, and safe energy source.Nuclear energy is once again being promoted as the means to phase ou…

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Harmony Holiday
Life of the Party

Semiotext(e)

An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.Life of the Party is an archive and annotation of Black mus…

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Nicholas Humphrey
Why Is the World So Beautiful?

A fascinating inquiry into why beauty matters and how it has played an evolutionary role in our understanding of the world. From a pioneering neuropsychologist and the winner of the Mind and Brain Prize.W…

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Mike Jay
The Influencing Machine, expanded edition

A gripping true tale of madness, technology, politics, and paranoia in Georgian England.Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews's case is one of the most bizarre in the an…

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Jesper Juul
Too Much Fun

The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s---the machine that taught the world that computing should be fun .The Commodore 64 (C64) is officially the best-sell…

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Frank C. Keil
The Disappearance of Insight

How we can prepare children to find insights and cognitive agency in a world of ever shrinking opportunities to learn how things work.From infancy onwards, children show a natural interest in the hidden c…

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Frederick Kiesler,
Magic Architecture

The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler's epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant. Winner of the 2026 DAM Architectural Book AwardMagic Arc…

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Mordecai Kurz
Private Power and Democracy's Decline

Why unregulated free-market capitalism endangers democracy---and what to do about it.In Private Power and Democracy's Decline , Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and d…

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Patti Tamara Lenard
Cultural Appropriation

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful.What exactly is cultural appropriation? At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any bor…

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Panos Louridas
Algorithms

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

An accessible introduction to algorithms, explaining not just what they are but how they work, with examples from a wide range of application areas.Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructi…

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Alexander Macdonald
The Spaceflight Narrative

How three hundred years of storytelling and literature laid the foundations for spaceflight, from NASA's first chief economist.The Spaceflight Narrative explores the earliest origins of spaceflight as it …

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Tara Mahfoud
A Brain for Europe

How the effort to build a unified model of the human brain helps us reconsider the tension between unification and pluralism in science and in Europe.The Human Brain Project was launched by the European C…

lieferbar ab 8.12.2026.

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Julien Mailland
Soviet Blocks

A geopolitical and legal history of the bestselling videogame Tetris---the stunningly successful game that began in a Soviet research lab monitored by the KGB.Tetris---the game that would take the world b…

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The Marquand House Collective
Auditing AI

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to polic…

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Antonio Melechi
The Unconscious

A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive."Know thyself"---the injunction that was once inscribed upon the Temple of Apol…

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Joshua D. Mezrich
Every Living Creature

The incredible history and promise of inter-species organ transplantation, from an award-winning transplant surgeon.With more than 100,000 patients in the United States waiting for life-saving organ trans…

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Nozomi Naoi
The Land of Happiness

A fascinating look at how Japanese department stores of the twentieth century influenced modern life, identity, and the concept of a dreamworld---and why they continue to loom so large in our imagination.…

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Michael J. Neufeld
Spaceflight

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today.Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the t…

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Saul Justin Newman
Morbid

A darkly comedic journey into the science of aging---where ethics are irrelevant, the studies are a sales pitch, and the "world's oldest living people" all turn out to be dead.Our morbid fascina…

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