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Politics & Prose hosts @casssunstein.bsky.social for a talk on his latest book, "Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times."

📆 Sun, Feb. 22nd
🕓 5:00 PM
📍5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, D.C.

Link for details: politics-prose.com/event/2026-0... @politicsprose.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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"[A] scholarly, in-depth survey with insightful critiques." — Kirkus Reviews

Soraya Murray's "Technothriller" explores popular American films that channel our cultural anxieties, dreams, and convictions about the power and meaning of advanced technology. Out Feb 3: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205101...
Cover image of "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" on a neon background. The cover features an image of eyes in black and white staring out at the viewer with fear.
January 22, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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"True to an engineering ethos of ’doing better,’ [Degrees of Freedom] explores the foundational aspects of power that invisibly shape robot design and ... how to build robots better suited for advancing social justice." — Ericka Johnson

Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255402...
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January 22, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Renowned engineer and lifelong birder Lorna Gibson reveals the marvel of how birds work, exploring the hidden microscopic structures and engineering principles that keep birds aloft and alive.

"Birds Up Close" flies onto shelves April 28th, 2026: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204989...
Image of "Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders" by Lorna Gibson. The cover depicts a zoomed in image of a white feather over a black-and-white bird with a red cap and a seed in its beak. Text below the image features a review from Kirkus that reads "Eye-opening, if best suited for the geekiest birds and enginerds."
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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AI may have killed the college essay, but grading ideas still matters. David Weinberger says educators should assess student dialogue with LLMs, which can challenge thinking, test claims, and help students build confidence in critical inquiry: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ai-can-teach...
Screenshot of a headline and subtitle that reads "AI Can Teach Our Students the Art of Dialogue: The same technology that's ruining essay writing as a pedagogical tool can help students learn how to reason via conversations." David Weinberger is credited as the author.
January 21, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Slowness and reflectiveness have always been part of the video game medium. In "Zen and Slow Games," Víctor Navarro-Remesal challenges the dominant discourse by delving into the reflective modes of playfulness in video games. Available #OpenAccess: bit.ly/3Lh2r22 @vthewanderer.bsky.social
A copy of "Zen and Slow Games" by Victor Navarro-Remesal on a plain background. The cover features a pixelated illustration.
January 20, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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The traditional way we teach students to code doesn’t work for everyone. Michael Smith provides a highly engaging alternative approach based on his Harvard class in the innovative textbook "Problem Solving with Python": bit.ly/45QAXqK
A copy of "Problem Solving with Python: Using Computational Thinking in Everyday Life" by Michael D. Smith on a plain background. The cover evokes a sunset over a calm open body of water.
January 20, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Carlin Wing's "Bounce" is a lively account of the bouncing ball through the history of nonelectronic & electronic games, spotlighting an interaction that is central to thousands of physical and digital games and sports. Available #OpenAccess: bit.ly/4jXL9UB
A copy of "Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodiees in Games and Play" by Carlin Wing on a plain background. The cover depicts a ball following an arc and bouncing off cover.
January 20, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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In "American Bridge," Gregory Dreicer provides a landmark contribution to the history of technology and construction, exploring a new way of building that introduced uniformity and modularity on a global scale while enabling the connectivity essential to the rise of the nation-state: bit.ly/3NGRAiq
A copy of "American Bridge: Reinventing Biilding, Making History" by Gregory Dreicer on a plain background. The cover features a black and white photograph of a construction worker scaling a steel structure.
January 20, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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In "Archiving Machines," Amelia Acker traces the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage.

Available in paperback and #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
Hands holding a copy of "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" by Amelia Acker on a plain background. The cover depicts a punch card.
January 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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What should space tourists expect to happen to them during a journey to an orbiting space station, the Moon, or Mars? In "Becoming Martian," out Feb. 17th, @scottsolomon.bsky.social explores how humanity’s migration into space will change our bodies and our minds: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205151...
An endorsement of Becoming Martian by Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, against an image of the surface of Mars. The endorsement reads "Solomon is an explorer, storyteller, and particularly gifted explainer of evolutionary biology. So, naturally, Becoming Martian is a fascinating and insightful look at our species' past, present, and interplanetary future!"
January 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Essential reading on how the brain makes language possible, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social's "Wired for Words" provides a critical synthesis of over 150 years of research to build a new understanding of the neural architecture of the brain’s language system: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
Hands holding a copy of "Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language" by Gregory Hickok on a plain background. The cover features a image of the brain.
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Announcing the shortlists for the second annual MIT Press Faculty and Alumni Book Awards! This year’s shortlisted titles exemplify the intellectual ambition, creativity, and impact that define the MIT community.

Winners will be announced in April 9th: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres....
Photo of the MIT Press Faculty Book Award shortlist: Accelerating Innovation, Spheres of Injustice, Play it Again, Sam, and The New Lunar Society. Photo of the MIT Press Alumni Book Award shortlist: Graph Visions, Flash Teams, Mysteries of the Deep, and Carbon Removal.
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Colombo looks idyllic — but living there means unrelenting heat. “To walk or cycle anywhere in Colombo… is to slowly succumb to a wet, sickly heat,” writes Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. His solution: redesign cities for comfort, not growth. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-city-cast-...
Screenshot of headline, subheading, and a lead image on an article. The headline reads: A City Cast in Concrete, Trapped Under Unbearable Heat Subheading: Unchecked development has turned Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo into an unlivable urban nightmare. But solutions exist to lift it out of climate catastrophe. The image is an aerial image of Colombo, warped and with a reddish tint.
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Join authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on Saturday, January 24th for a virtual discussion about their book "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" hosted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. Link for details: citylights.com/events/rewir... @eff.org
A copy of "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders against a plain background. The cover is black and features a glitched image of the head of the Statue of Liberty.
January 14, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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We can’t afford to delay climate action. In "Clearing the Air," data scientist and bestselling author @hannahritchie.bsky.social answers 50 key climate questions once and for all, getting the facts straight so we can take action and fix things. Out February 17th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205274...
An illustration of a multicolored pinwheel with a quote from Saul Griffith, author of "Electrify," below. The quote reads "The world needs practical, calm, and data-led climate problem solving, and Clearing the Air provides answers - and hope - in spades."
January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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"Aymar Jèan Escoffery is one of the most important thinkers and creators of our time. [Reparative Media] is the roadmap we need to repair from the deep divisions the internet has created among us." — @safiyanoble.bsky.social

Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255326...
Hands holding a copy of "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" by Aymar Jèan Escoffery on a plain background. The cover features purple, blue, and pink illustrations of people holding tools for filming media.
January 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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"Robophilosophy" brings together researchers in philosophy, psychology, and the technical sciences to explore the deep and far-reaching implications of social robotics. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204498...
A copy of "Robophilosophy: Philosophy of, for, and by Social Robotics" on a plain background. The cover depicts and illustration of a humanoid robot in profile with its arm outstretched. A profile reminiscent of a Greek bust protrudes from the back of the robots head. Text along the bottom notes the book is edited by Johanna Seibt, Raul Hakli, and Marco Norskov.
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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In "Living Minerals," Javiera Barandiarán presents a sobering investigation of the rush for lithium for electric vehicles, the problematic history of lithium mining, and the consequences for sustainability. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255370...
A copy of "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" by Javiera Barandiarán on a plain background. The cover depicts a flamingo walking alone along a sandy shore.
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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In "Expecting Inequity," Khiara M. Bridges draws an unsparing picture of racial disparities in reproductive healthcare in the US. persist across income levels. Coming March 31st: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205155...
A silhouette of a pregnant belly in profile against a purple background. An endorsement from Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart and Killing the Black Body, reads "With empathy, rigor, and keen legal insight, Bridges illuminates both the systemic forces behind the inequality in maternal health and the strategies black women create to protect themselves. Essential."
January 13, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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We're raffling off copies of Yosef Grodzinsky's "How Deeply Human is Language?" at #LSA2026. Winners will be chosen after the conference to receive a copy when the book publishes this April. Visit us at booth 200 to enter! @lingsocam.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205200...
A 2D image of "How Deeply is Human Language: Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy" by Yosef Grodzinsky on a light purple background.
January 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Edited by Samuel Jay Keyser, our journal Linguistic Inquiry leads the field in research on current topics in linguistics. We're giving away copies of the Fall 2025 issue at #LSA2026. Come by booth 200 to grab one while supplies last! direct.mit.edu/ling @lingsocam.bsky.social
2D cover of the Winter 2026 issue of Linguistic Inquiry on a light pink background.
January 9, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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We're in New Orleans at the Linguistics Society of America through January 11th. Visit us at booth 200 to see what's new and forthcoming from the press! #LSA2026.
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A spread of covers relevant to linguistics on a plain background. Covers include "Syntax," "Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge," "Mereological Syntax," "Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes," "Play it Again, Sam," and "Wired for Words."
January 8, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Mike Rosulek's accessible textbook, "The Joy of Cryptography," provides an introduction to the algorithms that keep our digital lives safe, how they work, what makes them different, and why they are secure: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204997...
A copy of "The Joy of Cryptography: An Undergraduate Course in Provable Security" by Mike Rosulek. The cover is green and features a minimal illustration of a nautilus shell.
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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"Designing Serious Games" is a comprehensive guide to the design and development process of games for impact that combines diverse case studies with actionable advice, and interviews with transformational game practitioners and industry leaders: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204998...
A copy of "Designing Serious Games" by Magy Seif El-Nasr, Elin Carstensdottir, and Michael John on a plain background.
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM