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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.
Anxiety and the Equation

Anxiety and the Equation

Anxiety and the Equation

Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy

by Eric Johnson

ISBN: 9780262546614

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 1, 2022

A man and his equation: the anxiety-plagued nineteenth-century physicist who contributed significantly to our understanding of the second law of thermodynamics.
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