Image Kendall Square's underground bookstore Visit us today! Learn more Best Sellers Gift Cards Staff Picks Audio Books Store hours New releases from the MIT Press Browse All See all items New Release Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future De Kai Current price: $32.95 From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI—as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children. ... WITCH: Anthology Michelle Tea (Editor) Current price: $17.95 An exploration of the Witch, as radical archetype, in ancient and contemporary life. ... How That Robot Made Me Feel Ericka Johnson (Editor) Current price: $55.00 An edited collection that explores what emotions we have when encountering robots, how we react emotionally to them in different contexts, and why these emotional responses are so important. ... 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WITCH: Anthology Michelle Tea (Editor) Current price: $17.95 An exploration of the Witch, as radical archetype, in ancient and contemporary life. ...
How That Robot Made Me Feel Ericka Johnson (Editor) Current price: $55.00 An edited collection that explores what emotions we have when encountering robots, how we react emotionally to them in different contexts, and why these emotional responses are so important. ...
Tacita Dean (October Files #30) George Baker (Editor) Current price: $30.00 A highly anticipated and richly illustrated anthology of essays on the work of artist Tacita Dean. ...
The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States John Hultgren Current price: $40.00 The future of our environment lies in the hands of the working class, but what if the future of the working class also lies in environmental political struggles? ...
AI Fairness: Designing Equal Opportunity Algorithms Derek Leben Current price: $55.00 A theory of justice for AI models making decisions about employment, lending, education, criminal justice, and other important social goods. ...
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How to Speak Machine, with a new preface by the author: A Gentle Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) John Maeda Current price: $24.95 A simple, enduring framework for understanding the complex world of AI and machine learning—updated with a new preface. ...
Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury Jordan Troeller Current price: $49.95 How a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children. ...
New Release Heartbeat Art (Leonardo) Claudia Arozqueta Current price: $40.00 An innovative history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the works of a wide international array of artists and composers. ...
New Release Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think Marian Petre, Andre Van Der Hoek Current price: $18.95 An engaging, illustrated collection of insights revealing the practices and principles that expert software designers use to create great software. ...
Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century Hannah Zeavin Current price: $34.95 An essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium—winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology. ...
New Release Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts Samuel Jay Keyser Current price: $30.00 Why we enjoy works of art, and how repetition plays a central part in the pleasure we receive. ...
More Butch Heroes Ria Brodell Current price: $24.95 The much-anticipated sequel to Butch Heroes, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover—and celebrate—queer subjects from around the world. ...
The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games Elliot Lichtman Current price: $22.95 An engaging and approachable resource for beginning-to-intermediate coders eager to learn advanced ideas in computer programming. ...
The Ecology Politic: Power, Law, and Earth in the Anthropocene (Earth System Governance) Anthony Burke, Stefanie Fishel Current price: $55.00 A compelling proposal for new international law and institutions to address the planetary crisis that improves biodiversity protection, supports Indigenous peoples, and prevents catastrophic climate change. ...
Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran: Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan (Short Circuits) Joan Copjec Current price: $40.00 A theoretical examination of veiling, shame, and modesty in the films of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami through the lenses of Islamic philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis. ...
Capital Markets, sixth edition: Institutions, Instruments, and Risk Management Frank J. Fabozzi Current price: $170.00 The comprehensively updated sixth edition of a leading textbook that examines the wide range of instruments available in financial markets, with new material on central banks, capital market technology, and financing markets for small businesses. ...
Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby Current price: $39.95 What it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility. ...
The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication Carlotta Daro Current price: $50.00 A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture. ...
The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics Whitney Phillips, Mark Brockway Current price: $40.00 A novel account of the culture wars and Evangelical influence in the United States that traces the 80-year rise of a quasi-religious anti-liberal demonology. ...
The Saucerian: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker Gabriel Mckee Current price: $32.95 The strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century. ...
The Economics of FinTech: Understanding Digital Transformation in Financial Services Michael Imerman, Frank J. Fabozzi Current price: $100.00 A groundbreaking, comprehensive exploration of how FinTech innovation is reshaping finance. ...
Being Ecological, with a new preface by the author Timothy Morton Current price: $17.95 From “our most popular guide to the new epoch” (Guardian), a new edition of the book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir. ...
Natural Neuroscience: Toward a Systems Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors Nachum Ulanovsky Current price: $65.00 A new approach to brain research that emphasizes studying the brain under naturalistic conditions. ...
Accelerating Innovation: Competitive Advantage through Ecosystem Engagement (Management on the Cutting Edge) Phil Budden, Fiona Murray Current price: $32.95 A practical handbook for accelerating innovation, both internally and externally, through engagement with innovation ecosystems. ...
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (The Essential John Berger) John Berger Current price: $19.95 A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice ...
Super Gay Poems: Lgbtqia+ Poetry After Stonewall Stephanie Burt Current price: $29.95 A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. ...
The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots Daniela Rus, Gregory Mone Current price: $17.99 “Urges readers to consider how they might be used to enhance human work and to support human flourishing.” —Valerie Thompson, Science ...
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory Brian Eno, Bette Adriaanse Current price: $19.95 No description available.
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines Joy Buolamwini Current price: $22.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. ...
The Physics of Sorrow: A Novel Georgi Gospodinov Current price: $16.99 A radical reimagining of the minotaur myth, from an essential voice in world literature. Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature • Finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Translation and the Strega Europeo ...
The Cat Who Taught Zen James Norbury Current price: $25.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER! From the author and illustrator of the international bestseller Big Panda and Tiny Dragon comes a beautifully illustrated exploration into the journeys we take for self-discovery and the connections we make along the way. ...
Sour Cherry Natalia Theodoridou Current price: $17.95 Named a Best Book by: CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS, LITHUB, GOODREADS ...
Audubon's Birds of America: The Tiny Folio Editors of Abbeville Press Current price: $13.95 The greatest masterpiece of bird art in the palm of your hand ...
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West Guido Alfani Current price: $22.95 "In this masterly book, Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read "--Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century ...
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) Diogenes Current price: $17.95 An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity ...
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