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Books for every type of nerd

This holiday season, we’ve put together book recommendations for every nerd on your list, from the peer-reviewers and scholars to the armchair intellectuals and budding aficionados. Happy holidays and happy reading, nerds.

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Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

Stu Horvath explores how the hobby of roleplaying games, commonly known as RPGs, blossomed out of an unlikely pop culture phenomenon and became a dominant gaming form by the 2010s.

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Expanding Mindscapes

November books

This month: the extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, a collection exploring the diverse and global history of psychedelics, the engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College, and more

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Open Access Week

The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week is “Community over Commercialization,” which is tailor-made for many of the efforts we have undertaken in our journals program in recent years. Nick Lindsay, director of journals and open access, outlines the latest open access initiatives at the Press.

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Along with many of our outstanding partners like the MIT Press Bookstore and MIT Libraries, the MIT Press offers virtual, in-person, and hybrid events throughout the year. Join us for conferences and exhibits, author talks, panel discussions, and more.

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The Town Devoted to Philosophy
The Town Devoted to Philosophy Notes on my winter’s visit to Larung Gar, one of the largest academies of philosophy in history.

By Matthieu Ricard

Michael Taussig’s Delightful Anthropological Postcards
Michael Taussig’s Delightful Anthropological Postcards A collection of postcards from the renowned anthropologist’s first fully illustrated picture book, “Postcards for Mia."

By Michael Taussig

Will AI Render Programming Obsolete?
Will AI Render Programming Obsolete? It's exhilarating to think that, with the help of generative AI, anyone who can write can also write programs. It’s not so simple.

By Michael L. Littman

A Brief 200-Year History of Synesthesia
A Brief 200-Year History of Synesthesia Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon.

By Richard E. Cytowic

Books for scifiophiles

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Our authors, loyal readers, and staff are all unapologetically enthusiastic about their niche interests. If that makes us nerds, we’ll wear the honorific proudly.

We’ve put together book recommendations for every type of nerd, including the fans of science fiction. Whatever flavor of sci-fi, from hard science and speculative tales to cyberpunk and proto-science fiction classics, we’ve got you covered.

Happy holidays and happy reading, nerds.

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