Duke University Press, 336pp, 2023

Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life (Experimental Futures)

Michael MJ Fischer

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and…
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

“Becoming MIT successfully charts the expansion of voices in MIT’s perpetual self-reckoning.” — Technology and Culture How did MIT become MIT? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
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…