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Properties of Life

Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology

by Bernd Rosslenbroich

ISBN: 9780262546201

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

A coherent and comprehensive theory of life that synthesizes the specific properties of living organisms.

Sharing Our Science

How to Write and Speak STEM

by Brandon R. Brown

Foreword by Julia Schaletzky

ISBN: 9780262546959

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 29, 2023

A personal, practical, and inspirational guide to written and oral STEM communications for scientists and technical professionals.

Enchantment of the Virtual

Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy

by Gilles Châtelet

Introduction by Charles Alunni

Translated by Taylor Adkins, Jack Cox, Matt Hare, John Paetsch, Robin Mackay, Cecile Malaspina, Dan Mellamphy, Thomas Murphy and Ben Woodard

ISBN: 9781733628112

Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press

Pub Date: August 29, 2023

Collected essays, interviews, and reviews by the late French philosopher and mathematician.

Explaining Life through Evolution

by Prosanta Chakrabarty

ISBN: 9780262546256

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 8, 2023

A broad overview of the science of evolution, and why understanding it matters in our everyday lives.

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.

Off-Earth

Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space

by Erika Nesvold

ISBN: 9780262047548

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 7, 2023

Can we do better in space than we've done here on Earth?

Interdisciplinarity in the Making

Models and Methods in Frontier Science

by Nancy J. Nersessian

ISBN: 9780262544665

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 22, 2022

A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling methods.

How Knowledge Grows

The Evolutionary Development of Scientific Practice

by Chris Haufe

ISBN: 9780262544450

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 1, 2022

An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientific knowledge are governed by Darwin's evolutionary model of descent with modification.