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August books
This month: our changing relationship with monuments, an exposé of the new challenges to literary freedom, a new translation of the 1924 Russian science fiction crime and espionage adventure, and more.
Celebrating Women Astronomers
This year for National Women Astronomers, we’re celebrating that women have been involved in space study for nearly as long as the field has existed. Our curated list of titles honors a few women who have had a major impact on astronomy and space exploration.
Recent awards
We are proud to highlight some of the accolades given to our authors in recent months, from this year’s PROSE Awards to the Axiom Business Book Awards.
Books for understanding
Online polarization and bias have become defining features of our digital age, particularly through the anonymous nature of social media interactions. But meaningful dialogue across ideological differences still remains possible—and indeed, necessary. If you’re struggling to navigate conversations that feel increasingly fraught, we’ve gathered a collection of books that provide context to our current moment and provide tools for respectful, productive communication across ideological divides.
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The MIT Press Reader
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Basic Bioethics
The Basic Bioethics series makes innovative works in bioethics available to a broad audience and introduces seminal scholarly manuscripts, state-of-the-art reference works, and textbooks. Topics engaged include the philosophy of medicine, advancing genetics and biotechnology, end-of-life care, health and social policy, and the empirical study of biomedical life.
Series editor: Arthur Caplan
New in the series, Basic Bioethics Data Safety Monitoring Boards: A Bioethical Perspective by Deborah R. Barnbaum dives into this critical and underexplored area of bioethics—the ethical issues that emerge from the data monitoring of clinical trials.
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