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Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientifi c ConceptsJennifer BurwellHow highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philoso-phers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.
February 2018 | $40.00 | £30.00 | 328 pp 9780262037556
The Continued Exercise of ReasonPublic Addresses by George BooleEdited by Brendan DooleyLectures, many never before published, that off er insights into the early thinking of the mathematician and polymath George Boole.
March 2018 | $34.00 | £27.00 | 224 pp 9780262535007
Norbert Wiener – A Life in CyberneticsEx-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth and I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a ProdigyNorbert Wiener (1894–1964)Norbert Wiener’s celebrated autobiography, available for the fi rst time in one volume.
March 2018 | $40.00 | £30.00 | 528 pp 9780262535441
Rock, Bone, and RuinAn Optimist’s Guide to the Historical SciencesAdrian CurrieAn argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.
February 2018 | $35.00 | £27.00 | 376 pp 9780262037266Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
PseudoscienceThe Conspiracy Against Science Edited by Allison B. Kaufman and James C. KaufmanCase studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.
January 2018 | $40.00 | £30.00 | 536 pp 9780262037426
Science Not SilenceVoices from the March for Science MovementStephanie Fine Sasse, and Lucky TranSigns, artwork, stories, and photographs from the March for Science Movement and community.
March 2018 | $14.95 | £11.99 | paperback | 176 pp 9780262038102
The Synthetic AgeOutdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our WorldChristopher J. PrestonImagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.
March 2018 | $25.95 | £20.00 | 224 pp 9780262037617
Rethinking Human Evolution Edited by Jeff rey H. SchwartzContributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolu-tionary biology.
February 2018 | $50.00 | £40.00 | 384 pp 9780262037327 Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology Series
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The Chinese Typewriter A HistoryThomas S. MullaneyHow Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foun-dation for China’s information technology successes today.
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Bikes and BloomersVictorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle WearKat JungnickelAn illustrated history of the evolution of British women’s cycle wear.
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Numbered Lives Life and Death in Quantum Media Jacqueline WernimontA feminist media history of quantifi cation, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.
November 2018 | $32.00 | £25.00 | 232 pp 9780262039048 Media Origins Series
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Mission Moon 3-DReliving the Great Space RaceDavid EicherBrian May, Creative DirectorForeword by Charles DukeThe story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stun-ning 3-D images.
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Spacefl ight A Concise History Michael J. NeufeldA concise history of spacefl ight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spacefl ight today.
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SystemThe Shaping of Modern KnowledgeCliff ord SiskinThe role that “system” has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowl-edge, from Galileo and Newton to our own “computational universe.”
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Gravity’s KissThe Detection of Gravitational WavesHarry CollinsA fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientifi c discovery: the fi rst detection of gravitational waves.
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Bad CallTechnology’s Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix ItHarry Collins, Robert Evans and Christopher Higgins How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are—referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illu-sion of perfect accuracy maintained.
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GPS Paul E. CeruzziA concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life.
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Technology in AmericaA History of Individuals and Ideas Third Edition Edited by Carroll PursellThe new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
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Power Button A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing Rachel PlotnickA look at the origins of an American button-pushing society and the illusion of eff ortless control at the touch of a fi nger.
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Plato and the NerdThe Creative Partnership of Humans and TechnologyEdward Ashford LeeHow humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.
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Minding the Weather How Expert Forecasters ThinkRobert R. Hoff man, Daphne S. LaDue, H. Michael Mogil, Paul J. Roebber and J. Gregory TraftonA detailed study of research on the psychol-ogy of expertise in weather forecasting, drawing on fi ndings in cognitive science, meteorology, and computer science.
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The Eugenic Mind Project Robert A. WilsonAn examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived eugenics.
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Synthetic Aesthetics Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfi ck and Drew EndyAs synthetic biology transforms living matter into a medium for making, what is the role of design and its associated values?
2017 | $32.00 | £25.00 | 376 pp | paperback 9780262534017 (Hardback 2014)
Vivarium Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna’s Biologische Versuchsanstalt Edited by Gerd B. MüllerThe scientifi c achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.
2017 | $45.00 | £35.00 | 304 pp 9780262036702 Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology Series
The Art of NamingMichael OhlTranslated by Elisabeth Lauff erFrom Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientifi c naming as a joyful and creative act.
March 2018 | $29.95 | £24.00 | 312 pp 9780262037761
1668 The Year of the Animal in France Peter SahlinsWhen animals and their symbolic represen-tations—in the Royal Menagerie, in art, in medicine, in philosophy—helped transform the French state and culture.
October 2017 | $34.95 | £27.00 | 492 pp 9781935408994 Distributed for Zone Books
The Form of Becoming Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760–1830 Janina WellmannTranslated by Kate SturgeAn examination of the constitutive role of rhythm and movement in the visualization of developing life.
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Drawing Physics 2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs Don S. LemonsDrawings and short essays off er engaging and accessible explanations of key ideas in physics, from triangulation to relativity and beyond.
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American Illuminations Urban Lighting, 1800-1920David E. NyeHow Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright commercial lighting to create the world’s most dazzling and glamorous cities.
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Electric Light An Architectural History Sandy IsenstadtHow electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture.
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The GridBiography of an American TechnologyJulie A. CohnThe history of the grid, the world’s largest interconnected power machine that is North America’s electricity infrastructure.
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Power LinesElectricity in American Life and Letters, 1882–1952Jennifer L. LiebermanHow electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.
July 2017 | $30.00 | £24.00 | 288 pp 9780262036375
Modernizing America’s Electricity Infrastructure Mason WillrichA comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing America’s electricity infra-structure while ensuring affordable, reliable, secure, and environmentally sustainable electricity services.
October 2017 | $25.00 | £20.00 | 320 pp 9780262036795
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The Body Populace Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War Heinrich HartmannTranslated by Ellen Yutzy GlebeHow data gathered from national conscrip-tions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.
December 2018 | $35.00 | £27.00 | 208 pp 9780262536325 Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series
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Documenting Aftermath Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters Megan FinnAn examination of how changing public in-formation infrastructures shaped people’s experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.
September 2018 | $39.00 | £30.00 | 280 pp 9780262038218 Infrastructures Series
The Man Who Saw TomorrowThe Life and Inventions of Stanford R. OvshinskyLillian Hoddeson The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.
April 2018 | $29.95 | £24.00 | 400 pp 9780262037532
Artificial Unintelligence How Computers Misunderstand the World Meredith BroussardA guide to understanding the inner work-ings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.
April 2018 | $24.95 | £20.00 | 248 pp 9780262038003
The BookAmaranth BorsukThe book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.
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Post-Truth Lee McIntyreHow we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.
February 2018 | $15.95 | £11.95 | 240 pp 9780262535045 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Information and SocietyMichael BucklandA short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex mul-tiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.
March 2017 | $15.95 | £11.95 | 232 pp 9780262533386 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
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Waste Is Information Infrastructure Legibility and Governance Dietmar OffenhuberForeword by Carlo RattiThe relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sens-ing projects.
October 2017 | $34.00 | £27.00 | 280 pp 9780262036733 Infrastructures Series
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Energy at the End of the World An Orkney Islands Saga Laura WattsMaking local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.
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Inventing Future Cities Michael BattyHow we can invent—but not predict— the future of cities.
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DriverlessIntelligent Cars and the Road AheadHod Lipson September 2017 | $17.95 | £13.99 | paperback 328 pp | 9780262534475
Faster, Smarter, GreenerThe Future of the Car and Urban MobilityVenkat Sumantran, Charles Fine and David GonsalvezAugust 2018 | $19.95 | £14.99 | 352 pp 9780262536202
Energy and Civilization A History Vaclav SmilA comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today’s fossil fuel–driven civilization.
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DroneRemote Control WarfareHugh GustersonSeptember 2017 | $15.95 | £12.99 | 216 pp 9780262534413
Technically TogetherReconstructing Community in a Networked WorldTaylor DotsonWhy we should not accept “networked individualism” as the inevitable future of community.
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Weather as Medium Toward a Meteorological Art Janine RandersonAn exploration of artworks that use weather or atmosphere as the primary medium, creating new coalitions of collective engagement with the climate crisis.
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How Not to Network a Nation The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet Benjamin PetersSeptember 2017 | $25.00 | £20.00 | paperback 9780262534666 (Hardback 2016) Information Policy Series
Machineries of OilAn Infrastructural History of BP in IranKatayoun ShafieeThe emergence of the international oil cor-poration as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP’s infrastructure and information arrangements in Iran.
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The Mobile WorkshopThe Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge ProductionClapperton Chakanetsa MavhungaHow the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
June 2018 | $37.00 | £29.00 | paperback | 430 pp 9780262535021
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Laboratory Lifestyles The Construction of Scientific Fictions Edited by Sandra Kaji-O’Grady, Chris L. Smith and Russell HughesA generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists’ work.
November 2018 | $29.95 | £24.00 | 280 pp 9780262038928
Fascist Pigs Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism Tiago SaraivaHow the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.
August 2018 | $19.95 | £14.99 | 344 pp 9780262536158 (Hardback 2016) Inside Technology Series
The Unreliable NationHostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold WarEdward Jones-ImhotepAn examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
July 2017 | $35.00 | £27.00 | 312 pp 9780262036511
Listening in the FieldRecording and the Science of BirdsongJoeri BruyninckxThe transformation of sound recording into a scientific technique in the study of birdsong, as biologists turned wildlife sounds into scientific objects.
March 2018 | $34.00 | £27.00 | 240 pp 9780262037624
Polyphonic MindsMusic of the HemispheresPeter PesicAn exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.
October 2017 | $38.00 | £30.00 | 344 pp 9780262036917
High Static, Dead LinesSonic Spectres & the Object HereafterKristen GallerneauxA literary mix tape that explores the en-twined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief.
July 2018 | $21.95 | £16.99 | 264 pp 9781907222665 Distributed for Strange Attractor Press
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing Big Data and the Future of Entertainment Michael D. Smith and Rahul TelangHow big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.
August 2017 | $19.95 | £14.99 | 232 pp 9780262534529 (Hardback 2016)
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Left to Our Own Devices Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus Margaret E. Morris Foreword by Sherry TurkleUnexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies.
October 2018 | $24.95 | £20.00 | 184 pp 9780262039130
Disaster RoboticsRobin R. MurphyA comprehensive, authoritative, and ac-cessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and marine modalities.
September 2017 | $35.00 | £27.00 | 240 pp 9780262534659 Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series
Robot Sex Social and Ethical Implications Edited by John Danaher and Neil McArthurPerspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.
August 2018 | $19.95 | £14.99 | paperback 328 pp | 9780262536028 (Hardback 2017)
Open Space The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data Mariel BorowitzAn examination of environmental satellite data sharing policies, offering a model of data-sharing policy development, case and practical recommendations for increasing global data sharing.
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Recoding GenderWomen’s Changing Participation in Computing Janet AbbateThe untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
September 2017 | $25.00 | £20.00 | paperback 258 pp | 9780262534536 (Hardback 2012) History of Computing Series
Programmed InequalityHow Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in ComputingMarie HicksHow Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.
February 2018 | $20.00 | £14.99 | paperback 352 pp | 9780262535182 (Hardback 2017)
ENIAC in ActionMaking and Remaking the Modern ComputerThomas HaighJanuary 2018 | $25.00 | £20.00 | paperback 366 pp | 9780262535175 (Hardback 2016) History of Computing Series
Making IT Work A History of the Computer Services Industry Jeffrey R. YostThe evolution of the multi-billion-dollar com-puter services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.
October 2017 | $37.00 | £29.00 | 376 pp 9780262036726 History of Computing Series
For Fun and Profit A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution Christopher TozziForeword by Jonathan ZittrainAugust 2017 | $30.00 | £24.00 | 336 pp 9780262036474 History of Computing Series
FrankensteinAnnotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All KindsDavid Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott RobertThe original 1818 text of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and caution-ary aspects.
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Once and Future Feminist Edited by Merve EmreFeminist writers and scholars consider whether technology has made good on its promise to liberate women—sexually, biologically, economically, and politically.
July 2018 | $16.00 | £12.99 | 128 pp | 9781946511102 Distributed for Boston Review
Twelve TomorrowsEdited by Wade RoushTwelve visions of the future—by turns hilari-ous, frightening, and relevant—from new and established voices in science fiction.
May 2018 | $19.95 | £14.99 | paperback | 248 pp 9780262535427
The Future Nick MontfortHow the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.
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