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Fire, Ice, and Physics

The Science of Game of Thrones

by Rebecca C. Thompson

Foreword by Sean Carroll

ISBN: 9780262539616

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 10, 2020

Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters.

Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences

Edited by Snait B. Gissis, Ehud Lamm and Ayelet Shavit

ISBN: 9780262036856

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 12, 2018

Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.

The Beauty of Numbers in Nature

Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World

by Ian Stewart

ISBN: 9780262534284

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 8, 2017

From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web: an engaging examination of patterns in nature and the mathematics that underlie them.

Social Neuroscience

People Thinking about Thinking People

Edited by John T. Cacioppo, Penny S. Visser and Cynthia L. Pickett

ISBN: 9780262517270

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 13, 2012

Studies in the neurobiological underpinnings of social information processing by psychologists, neurobiologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, and neurologists, using methods that range from brain imaging techniques to comparative analyses.

Psychiatry in the Scientific Image

by Dominic Murphy

ISBN: 9780262517447

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 13, 2012

An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences.

The Nature of Difference

Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics

Edited by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Rebecca M. Herzig

ISBN: 9780262582759

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 23, 2009

A collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history.