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        A Heart Afire

        A Heart Afire

        A Heart Afire

        Helen Brooke Taussig's Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine

        by Patricia Meisol

        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.
        Writing for Their Lives

        Writing for Their Lives

        Writing for Their Lives

        America's Pioneering Female Science Journalists

        by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

        ISBN: 9780262048163

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 22, 2023

        A breathtaking history of America's trail-blazing female science journalists—and the timely lessons they can teach us about equity, access, collaboration, and persistence.
        Ownership of Knowledge

        Ownership of Knowledge

        Ownership of Knowledge

        Beyond Intellectual Property

        Edited by Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi and Marius Buning

        ISBN: 9780262545594

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 18, 2023

        A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society.
        Molecular World

        Molecular World

        Molecular World

        Making Modern Chemistry

        by Catherine M. Jackson

        ISBN: 9780262545549

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 4, 2023

        A compelling and innovative account that reshapes our view of nineteenth-century chemistry, explaining a critical period in chemistry's quest to understand and manipulate organic nature.
        Evolvability

        Evolvability

        Evolvability

        A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?

        Edited by Thomas F. Hansen, David Houle, Mihaela Pavličev and Christophe Pélabon

        ISBN: 9780262545624

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 27, 2023

        Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and the philosophy of science.
        Carbon Queen

        Carbon Queen

        Carbon Queen

        The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus

        by Maia Weinstock

        ISBN: 9780262545976

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 7, 2023

        The life of trailblazing physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, who expanded our understanding of the physical world.
        Ghost Particle

        Ghost Particle

        Ghost Particle

        In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino

        by Alan Chodos and James Riordon

        Foreword by Don Lincoln

        ISBN: 9780262047876

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 28, 2023

        The fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle—the neutrino.
        The Sounds of the Cosmos

        The Sounds of the Cosmos

        The Sounds of the Cosmos

        Gravitational Waves and the Birth of Multi-Messenger Astronomy

        by Mario Díaz, Gabriela González and Jorge Pullin

        ISBN: 9780262544948

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 28, 2023

        The remarkable story of how humankind discovered gravitational waves, chronicled with unparalleled historical and scientific vision.
        Invention and Innovation

        Invention and Innovation

        Invention and Innovation

        A Brief History of Hype and Failure

        by Vaclav Smil

        ISBN: 9780262048057

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 14, 2023

        From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.
        We Are All Monsters

        We Are All Monsters

        We Are All Monsters

        How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us

        by Andrew Mangham

        ISBN: 9780262047524

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 14, 2023

        How the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us.
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