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Presenting Our Spring 2026 Catalog
Books that answer the most pressing questions of our fraught moment.
The best of 2025
The books that everyone was talking about this year.
The Architect and the Animal
A spirited abecedarium-style book that shows how architects have engaged with animals as references and metaphors in modern and postmodern architecture.
Publisher Spotlight: MIT Kids Press
Lively, fascinating, and far-reaching writing on STEAM topics for young people, offering engaging books for the next generation of budding thinkers, designers, scientists, leaders, and inventors.
December 2025: New Books
A clarion call for visions of vibrant, hopeful climate futures; an essential guidebook on innovation in higher education; and more.
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Susan Sontag: A Critic at the Crossroads of Culture
The New York avant-gardist deftly navigated two intellectual worlds, somehow evading just about every label along the way.
Genetic Ancestry Doesn’t Tell Your Whole Story
If you’re looking for your genetic origin story, your DNA will only take you so far.
Chasing the Mirage of “Ethical” AI
Isaac Asimov’s “Handbook of Robotics” imagined simple rules for machine morality. But reality is a maze of contradictions, biases, and blind spots.
How Coca-Cola’s Calories-Out Myth Backfired Spectacularly
The soda giant astroturfed a campaign meant to shift blame from sugar to sedentary lifestyles. Instead, it sparked a PR nightmare.
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Award-winning books: December 2025 edition
Celebrating the end of the year by reflecting on our authors’ accomplishments.
Monday December 22, 2025
