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        How We Give Now

        How We Give Now

        How We Give Now

        A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us

        by Lucy Bernholz

        ISBN: 9780262547215

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2023

        From Go Fund Me to philanthropy: the everyday ways that we can give our money, our time, and even our data to help our communities and seek justice.
        Explaining Life through Evolution

        Explaining Life through Evolution

        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.
        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.
        Happiness

        Happiness

        Happiness

        by Tim Lomas

        ISBN: 9780262544207

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 3, 2023

        A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness.
        European Objects

        European Objects

        European Objects

        The Troubled Dreams of Harmonization

        by Brice Laurent

        ISBN: 9780262543330

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 1, 2022

        How interventions based on objects—including chemicals, financial products, and consumer goods—offer a path to rethink European integration.
        Toward the Not-Yet

        Toward the Not-Yet

        Toward the Not-Yet

        Art as Public Practice

        Edited by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova and Rachael Rakes

        ISBN: 9780262542500

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 16, 2021

        Combining handbook, dictionary, and anthology, investigations and examples of artistic practices aimed at social change.
        Data Practices

        Data Practices

        Data Practices

        Making Up a European People

        Edited by Evelyn Ruppert and Stephan Scheel

        ISBN: 9781912685851

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: November 2, 2021

        How EU data practices establish and assign people to categories, and how this matters in enacting—“making up”—Europe as a population and people.
        The Demonstration Society

        The Demonstration Society

        The Demonstration Society

        by Claude Rosental

        Translated by Catherine Porter

        ISBN: 9780262542890

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 12, 2021

        Today, as in the past, public demonstrations are not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but also fundamental forms of social interaction and exchange.
        The Bias That Divides Us

        The Bias That Divides Us

        The Bias That Divides Us

        The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking

        by Keith E. Stanovich

        ISBN: 9780262045759

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 31, 2021

        Why we don't live in a post-truth society but rather a myside society: what science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics.
        Gender(s)

        Gender(s)

        Gender(s)

        by Kathryn Bond Stockton

        ISBN: 9780262542609

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 31, 2021

        Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.
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