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Machineries of Similarity and Difference

AIDS from Its Research Infrastructures

by David Ribes

ISBN: 9780262553599

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 21, 2026

An examination of three research infrastructures over three decades as they sought to support studies of HIV/AIDS across dramatic changes to the disease, the science, and its politics.

The Unconscious

A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond

by Antonio Melechi

ISBN: 9780262051026

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 10, 2026

A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive.

Crush

Close Encounters with Gravity

by James Riordon

ISBN: 9780262050982

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 18, 2025

The fascinating story of gravity, from its intimate role in our daily lives to its cosmic significance.

An Engineered World

The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity

Edited by Edward Beatty and Israel G. Solares

ISBN: 9780262553353

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 11, 2025

How engineering as a modern profession emerged as a global phenomenon—and why its development and expansion are so critical to our understanding of twentieth-century world history.

Identity

What DNA Can Tell Us About Ourselves

by Carles Lalueza-Fox

ISBN: 9780262553223

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 14, 2025

How genetics can provide novel, fascinating, and objective data on human identity–when identity has never been more important.

Absolutely Essential

Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order

by Jonathan D. Moreno

ISBN: 9780262553377

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 16, 2025

What the end of the post-World War II global political system means for bioethics and beyond.

Heartbeat Art

by Claudia Arozqueta

ISBN: 9780262551885

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 27, 2025

An innovative history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the works of a wide international array of artists and composers.

Geniuses, Heroes, and Saints

The Nobel Prize and the Public Image of Science

by Massimiano Bucchi

Translated by Tania Aragona

ISBN: 9780262551847

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 13, 2025

A rich account of the world's leading science prize told through the lives it has changed, the controversies it has generated, and the impact it has made on the public.