Penguin Randomhouse Press, 384pp, 2021

The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

Sherry Turkle

From the author of the prescient best seller and classic Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle, comes an urgent warning about how our ever-increasing reliance on human-like AI chatbots is…
Duke University Press, 2020

Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi

Dwai Banerjee

India today is widely recognized for producing world-class tech talent and Silicon Valley leaders, yet captures only a fraction of the global tech industry’s profits, primarily providing skilled but inexpensive labor…
University of Chicago Press, 2020

Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World

David Kaiser

The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic political and economic shifts brought by world wars, intermittent…
Penquin Random House, 2019

The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Bina Venkataraman

A trailblazing exploration of how we can plan better for the future—our own, our families’, and our society’s. Many of us never learned—or have forgotten—how to make smart decisions for the …
W.W. Norton and Company, 2019

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

Kate Brown

From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community. Nurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and…