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What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africa...| MIT Press
What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africa...| MIT Press
A new multimodal edition of Black Elegies by Kimberly Juanita Brown explores Black grief through art, literature, and music. The post The MIT Press and Brown University Library release new multimodal book on visual literacy, second volume in On Seeing series appeared first on MIT Press.| MIT Press
The latest scholarship for the new school year.| MIT Press
The word “glitch” implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in most...| MIT Press
Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure underpinning the so-called Dark Web. Bu...| MIT Press
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Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have transformed science and society, but the critical roles they played in their fields are not alway...| MIT Press
We now know that the universe is mostly dark, made up of particles and forces that are undetectable even by our most powerful telescopes. The discovery of th...| MIT Press
The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in wha...| MIT Press
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light years—a figure we can calculate because of the work of Henrietta Leavitt (1868–1921), wh...| MIT Press
Explore some of our more anticipated new releases for August 2025. The post New books for August 2025: Monumental, That Book Is Dangerous!, Yankees in Petrograd, and more appeared first on MIT Press.| MIT Press
Highlighting the women astronomers leading the way in space exploration.| MIT Press
Anyone who has fallen off the conveyer belt of mainstream health care and into the shadowy corners of illness knows what a dark place it is to land. Where is...| MIT Press
When you are faced with a decision, do you consider the best outcome, or do you consider your deepest values about which actions are appropriate? The Cost of...| MIT Press
Reading for respectful, productive communication across ideological divides. The post Books for understanding one another appeared first on MIT Press.| MIT Press
Featuring an exploration on how AI will alter democracy; a much-needed defense of liberalism; a formula to protect your health and prevent the next pandemic; and more. The post Presenting our Fall 2025 catalog appeared first on MIT Press.| MIT Press
Sloman’s The Cost of Conviction is a timely perspective on how people frame decisions and how relying on sacred values unwittingly leads to social polarization.| MIT Press
MIT Press - Author Kathryn T. Hall is Deputy Commissioner for Population Health and Health Equity at the Boston Public Health Commission and Assistant Professor (part-time) in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Molecular Biologist in the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.| MIT Press
When Dungeons & Dragons made its debut in the mid-1970s, followed shortly thereafter by other, similar tabletop games, it sparked a renaissance in game d...| MIT Press
The partnership between Duke University Press and the MIT Press will begin in 2026, greatly expanding the reach of quality open access scholarship through Direct to Open.| MIT Press
Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolith...| MIT Press
Many MIT Press journals rank highly in their fields with 2024 impact factors, with Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Security hitting top spots.| MIT Press
Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing y...| MIT Press
Editors-in-Chief Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid share their vision for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science as it surpasses 100 published articles.| MIT Press
Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and discovering a rare mason bee that builds its nest in empty snail shells. Or a miniature ...| MIT Press
The MIT Press welcomes the open access journal from ESA, the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.| MIT Press
Celebrating just a few of our award-winning books, from The Painful Truth about Hunger in America to Beyond Vanity.| MIT Press
A searing indictment of the American public health, media, and political establishments' decision-making process behind pandemic school closures.| MIT Press
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Explore some of our most anticipated new releases for February 2025.| MIT Press
The first English translation of a cult science fiction favorite by Hemendra Kumar Roy, one of the giants of early Bangla literature, and other sf stories fr...| MIT Press
What to read once your gaming session is over, with books from the MIT Press.| MIT Press
Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising, a physicist and war veteran awakens 150 years later—on the eve of a new Dark Age!In The People of ...| MIT Press
An eye-opening investigation into charitable crowdfunding for healthcare in the United States—and the consequences of allowing healthcare access to be deci...| MIT Press
A message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth on the publication of the first round of the Generative AI Impact Papers, published through MIT Press's MIT Open Publishing Services (MITops).| MIT Press
A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of...| MIT Press
How we can get more joy from our machines by telling them what our hearts desire.In this informative, accessible, and very funny book, Michael L. Littman in...| MIT Press
How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines—from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box.Contr...| MIT Press
