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A guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots.

A health-economics textbook for the rest of us. Drawing on combined decades of teaching, MIT-trained economists Gross and Notowidigdo offer readers an accessible primer on the field's essential concepts.

Also available as an ebook. This book explores the earliest roots of the modern food industry, focusing on the development of the canning industry in the United States.

This provocative and timely book identifies and disrupts the conventional regulation and governance discourses concerning AI and big data.

A deeply-researched and reported, original, and entertaining dive into the most important invention in the history of food and drink.

Cohan argues that escaping the gravest perils of climate change will first require American diplomacy, technological innovation, and policy to catalyze decarbonization globally.

A guide to the core issues driving the education wars, offering essential information about issues, actors, and potential outcomes.

With practical strategies and a deep understanding of the history and future of higher education, Mintz outlines how we can transform higher education to promote access, affordability, degree attainment, and equity.

What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the society they would like to live in and then shows how schools can make that vision a reality.

This essential guidebook offers creative, exciting ways for teachers to implement and support deep, authentic, and transformative learning in early childhood.

Comprised of articles by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, this groundbreaking anthology is the first to pull together both the foundational writings and more recent scholarship on the cultural and racial politics of schooling.

This book offers a new perspective on wage stagnation, growing inequality, and the current education reform agenda. The author argues that education must be understood as a necessary public service providing critical benefits, many of which are not strictly economic yet are essential for democratic society.

Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago.

A richly imagined, sweeping novel set in the climate-changed world of our own descendants.

Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.

The story follows Abbott Coburn, a disillusioned Lyft driver, as he's thrust into a bizarre cross-country journey with a mysterious passenger and an enigmatic black box.

Vivid, tender, darkly funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge.

A genre-bending story told in linked obituaries and newsfeeds over three hundred years about one AI woman grappling with her grief after the mysterious death of her human daughter, and wondering what it really means to be human.

A mysterious woman, the granddaughter of a convicted serial killer, leads tours through San Francisco's dark underbelly, uncovering new crimes that eerily mirror her grandfather's past.

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of students in an art master's program that goes dangerously awry.

A lyrical queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller.

A historical fiction novel exploring the complexities of love, race, and colonialism in colonial Malaysia through the lens of a scandalous murder trial.

Liz Buxbaum is a fabulously eccentric high schooler coping with the grief of having lost her mom--while navigating the sparkly idea--and messy reality--of romance, with the inspiration of her mom's favorite romantic comedies.

A young woman named Pampa, gifted with magical powers, dreams a sprawling empire into existence through a fictional city called Bisnaga, weaving together tales of love, power, and societal complexities.

A low-income Baltimore neighborhood is targeted for a controversial urban renewal project--an amusement park in the theme of Baltimore itself--that forces its residents to reckon with racism, displacement, and their futures.

Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing.

Sonically vivid, as empire and climate fall into catastrophe, these poems open portals where the living and the dead find one another in new communication.

Tupac's most honest and intimate thoughts conveyed through the pure art of poetry -- a mirror into his enigmatic life and its many contradictions.

At once memoir and cultural criticism, this collection discovers itself as a book about forgiveness, family, and the truths we find in “the lightness of a door,” “the probability of a radio,” the long line between one story and another.

Spectral Evidence forces us to consider how we think about devotion, beauty and art, about the criminalization and death of Black lives, about justice and how these have been inscribed into our present, our history, and the Western canon.

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life

A memoiristic history of Black utopian movements in the United States.

This book argues that the common impulse to seek exceptionally high levels of significance is misguided. A celebration of being ordinary.

In her most urgent book yet, Valenti shines a light on the conservative assault on women's freedom, cutting through the misinformation and overwhelm to inform, engage, and enrage.

The first full-length study of US comic strips from the period prior to the rise of Sunday newspaper comics.

Farris and Holman argue that the autonomy and authority granted to sheriffs in the US creates an environment where sheriffs rarely change, elections do not create meaningful accountability, employees, budgets, and jails can be used for political gains, marginalized populations can be punished, right-wing extremism flourishes, and reforms fail.

The riveting story of QAnon's devastating impact on the American family, grappling with the seductive allure of disinformation, the trauma it causes, and how we might set ourselves free.

Michel's Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the 1960s South.

Dauber takes readers to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United States.

In this book, Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who created knowledge of the climate and those who attempted to gain power and govern society

Unspooled examines the history of the audio cassette within the context of indie rock musical subcultures.

An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves.

Computational Humanities brings together leading experts to consider what counts as digital humanities scholarship, offering nuanced discourse centered around theories of knowledge and power.

A powerful and unprecedented dive into the entangled history of banking and slavery in nineteenth-century America.

Quinones chronicles the emergence of a drug-trafficking world, producing massive supplies of dope cheaper and deadlier than ever, and marketing to the population of addicts created by the nation's opioid epidemic.

Through the perspectives of patients, providers, activists and lawmakers, the author presents this timely examination of human rights, healthcare and economic and racial inequality in America.

Terrorist Minds offers an up-to-date, evidence-based understanding of the patterns, profiles, motives and mindsets of today's violent extremists from al Qaeda to the extreme right wing.

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century later.

Provides an accessible introduction to the life, work and ground-breaking ideas of author, philosopher, and feminist Simone de Beauvoir.

Explores how the pressures of contemporary American society, particularly within the middle class, manifest as widespread feelings of insecurity and anxiety.

"Are You Calling Me a Racist?" is a much-needed challenge to the status quo of diversity training, and will serve as a valuable resource for anyone dedicated to dismantling racism in their communities, educational institutions, public or private organizations, and social movements.

This tour de force of investigative journalism depicts the United States of America as a country at a crossroads with the battle between the right and left spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences.

This book follows nine different places in the ocean, where the authors delve into the science of how we understand the ocean, and the history of the human connection to these special places.

With its expansive, evolutionary perspective, the book explains how humanity will continue to face new pandemics because humans cause them, by the ways that we are and the things that we do.

The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great auk opens a window onto the human causes of mass extinction.

This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, transformed our understanding of Earth's history.

Thinking About Science is a collection of essays about the nature of the contemporary scientific enterprise.

In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionizing the way we think about mental health.

Xia investigates the impacts of engineered landscapes, the market pressures of development, and the ecological activism and political scrimmages that have carved our contemporary coastline--and foretell even greater changes to our shores.

This book gives a balanced view of the strengths and limitations of climate modeling. It covers historical developments, current challenges, and future trends in the field.

A stunning, panoramic exploration of the symbiotic relationship between humans and combustion and why we are entering a new century of fire.

Washington offers a solution-oriented approach to the ethical challenges of data science.