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A Heart Afire
Helen Brooke Taussig's Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine
ISBN: 9780262048521
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
A deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children's heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering.
Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
ISBN: 9780262048347
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
ISBN: 9781635901924
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.
The Claims of Life
A Memoir
ISBN: 9780262048491
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 7, 2023
The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power and love.
Chapel Perilous
The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson
ISBN: 9781913689568
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 7, 2023
The first biography of the late countercultural novelist and underground philosopher Robert Anton Wilson.
Two-Headed Doctor
Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris
ISBN: 9781913689605
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 7, 2023
A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.
Her Space, Her Time
How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
ISBN: 9780262048316
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
An exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and reshaped the rules of society.
Austin Osman Spare, revised edition
Austin Osman Spare
The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
ISBN: 9781913689650
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
A revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare.
Notebooks of a Wandering Monk
ISBN: 9780262048293
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
The memoirs of renowned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard and his extraordinary journey toward inner freedom and compassion in action.

A Heart Afire
Helen Brooke Taussig's Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine
ISBN: 9780262048521
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
ISBN: 9780262048347
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
ISBN: 9781635901924
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
The Claims of Life
A Memoir
ISBN: 9780262048491
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 7, 2023
Chapel Perilous
The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson
ISBN: 9781913689568
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 7, 2023
Two-Headed Doctor
Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris
ISBN: 9781913689605
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 7, 2023
Her Space, Her Time
How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
ISBN: 9780262048316
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
Austin Osman Spare, revised edition
Austin Osman Spare
The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
ISBN: 9781913689650
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
Notebooks of a Wandering Monk
ISBN: 9780262048293
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023