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        Endangered Languages

        Endangered Languages

        Endangered Languages

        by Evangelia Adamou

        ISBN: 9780262548700

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 6, 2024

        Forthcoming from the MIT Press
        Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA

        Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA

        Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA

        Edited by Daniel Strand, Anna Källén and Charlotte Mulcare

        ISBN: 9780262548090

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 2, 2024

        The first comprehensive critical analysis of the practices and consequences of ancient DNA research.
        Sahara

        Sahara

        Sahara

        A Thousand Paths Into the Future

        Edited by Kateryna Botanova, Yarri Kamara and Quinn Latimer

        ISBN: 9781915609205

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 13, 2024

        An anthology that accompanies Culturescapes 2023 Sahara, the 17th edition of the Swiss multidisciplinary festival.
        Postcards for Mia

        Postcards for Mia

        Postcards for Mia

        by Michael Taussig

        ISBN: 9781913689421

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: November 21, 2023

        A picture book to be shared and savored by both children and adults: a journey into a wondrous world colored by the stories we might choose to tell about it.
        Inequality

        Inequality

        Inequality

        A Genetic History

        by Carles Lalueza-Fox

        ISBN: 9780262547314

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 19, 2023

        How genomics reveals deep histories of inequality, going back many thousands of years.
        A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books

        A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books

        A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books

        Edited by Cyril Lemieux, Laurent Berger, Marielle Macé, Gildas Salmon and Cécile Vidal

        Translated by Adrian Morfee

        ISBN: 9780262048088

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 1, 2023

        An intellectual history of the social sciences that offers a library of 101 books that broke new ground for the field.
        Rethinking Human Evolution

        Rethinking Human Evolution

        Rethinking Human Evolution

        Edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz

        ISBN: 9780262546744

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 1, 2022

        Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
        Reckonings

        Reckonings

        Reckonings

        Numerals, Cognition, and History

        by Stephen Chrisomalis

        ISBN: 9780262044639

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 15, 2020

        Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors.
        Living Literacies

        Living Literacies

        Living Literacies

        Literacy for Social Change

        by Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell

        With Diane Collier, Steve Pool, Zanib Rasool and Terry Trzecak

        ISBN: 9780262539715

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 22, 2020

        An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations.
        Contingency and Convergence

        Contingency and Convergence

        Contingency and Convergence

        Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind

        by Russell Powell

        ISBN: 9780262043397

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 25, 2020

        Can we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to make inferences about universal laws of life, on Earth and elsewhere?
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