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Her Space, Her Time

How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

by Shohini Ghose

ISBN: 9780262048316

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 17, 2023

An exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and reshaped the rules of society.

Seasonal Associate

by Heike Geissler

Afterword by Kevin Vennemann

Translated by Katy Derbyshire

ISBN: 9781635900361

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: December 4, 2018

How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center.

Wanderlust

Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967–2017

by Rachel Adams

ISBN: 9780262037051

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 22, 2017

Artists as voyagers who leave their studios to make art, including Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci, Sophie Calle, and Richard Long.

Handprints on Hubble

An Astronaut's Story of Invention

by Kathryn D. Sullivan

ISBN: 9780262539647

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 1, 2020

The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.

Owning the Street

The Everyday Life of Property

by Amelia Thorpe

Foreword by Davina Cooper

ISBN: 9780262539784

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 15, 2020

How local, personal, and materially grounded understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city.

Dr Space Junk vs The Universe

Archaeology and the Future

by Alice Gorman

Foreword by Adam Roberts

ISBN: 9780262539654

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 10, 2020

A pioneering space archaeologist explores artifacts left behind in space and on Earth, from moon dust to Elon Musk's red sports car.

Sundogz

by Mark von Schlegell

ISBN: 9781584351627

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: March 27, 2015

The third novel in von Schlegell's System Series, set among the water-rich moons of planet Uranus, during Earth's full collapse.

Cosmic Odyssey

How Intrepid Astronomers at Palomar Observatory Changed our View of the Universe

by Linda Schweizer

Foreword by Dava Sobel

ISBN: 9780262044295

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 24, 2020

From newborn galaxies to icy worlds and blazing quasars, a behind-the-scenes story of how Palomar Observatory astronomers unveiled our complex universe.