Penguin Randomhouse Press, 384pp, 2021

The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

Sherry Turkle

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with…
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

Winner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by…
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…