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Cathy Davidson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Author, educator, advocate. "How We Know" Trilogy. Cofounder/Codirector @HASTAC. RT's are not endorsements. All views (and typos) are my own.

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Book Cover for: Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

Octavia Butler's classic dystopia about brave resistance to tyranny, The Parable of the Sower, was written in 1993, set 30 years ahead, right on time for Trrrmp. I'm sending my clifi, white supremacist dystopia to my agent this week. I give us 20 years. Gosh, I hope I'm wrong.

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Second Sunday

Jo Ann Petty
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

I love your work and your website---it will be great to be writing partners in our now-almost-legendary Second Sundays science fiction writing group. Thank you @mrheeloy! We're planning a reading, signing, w @orbitbooks @BethanyGJacobs in the Fall @GC_CUNY Hope you can join! https://t.co/Nezi74JpZZ

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Book Cover for: Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War, Ralph Wilson

Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War

Ralph Wilson
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

Recommended by @NancyMacLean5 Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War, by Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola. "Shows how Koch network seeks to transform higher education; how it has provoked ugly clashes to gain entry, clashes that rightwing media amplify".

Hardcover, 2021

$115.00$90.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, Sasha Costanza-Chock

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

Sasha Costanza-Chock
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

Equitable Inequity in Design Justice: A Review of Sasha Costanza-Chock’s "Design Values: Hard-Coding Liberation?" https://t.co/I1p4odTtdE

Paperback, 2020

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, Thulani Davis

The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

Thulani Davis
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

Incredible conversation—a living, breathing archive—between Eric Lott and the legendary Thulani Davis on ⁦@IntellPublics⁩ ⁦@GC_CUNY⁩ Her book Emancipation Circuit (⁦@DukePress⁩ ) is astonishing. #Genius https://t.co/X0NSeY3HaE

Hardcover, 2022

$119.95$94.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: The New College Classroom, Cathy N. Davidson

The New College Classroom

Cathy N. Davidson
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

1-Well, there's the other two books of mine in the "How We Know" trilogy ("Now You See It"--neuroscience of learning--and, coauthored w Christina Katopodis "The New College Classroom"--how to apply the principles in an actual classroom.) https://t.co/6ggbHRDS7f

Hardcover, 2022

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The New College Classroom, Cathy N. Davidson

The New College Classroom

Cathy N. Davidson
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

Thanks to @krish_nanditha and other @HASTACScholars for the excellent probing interview with myself and @katopodis_phd https://t.co/fbSVCe7J1X @HASTAC

Hardcover, 2022

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories, Margaret Atwood

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Margaret Atwood
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

I was surprised at how deeply sad I felt learning of the passing of Graeme Gibson in the beautiful review of @MargaretAtwood "Old Babes in the Woods" in @nytimesbooks. I knew them many years ago, when I co-edited the first book on Atwood. She was much younger then and so was I.

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities, Laura T. Hamilton

Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities

Laura T. Hamilton
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

CRUCIAL must read! Suboptimal by Design: On Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen’s “Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities” https://t.co/N4l4LKtIRb via @lareviewofbooks

Hardcover, 2021

$115.00$90.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation, Harry Binswanger

How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation

Harry Binswanger
Cathy DavidsonCathy Davidson

1) "Now You See It," the 1st book in the "How We Know" trilogy, deploys neuroscience of attention for learning. Overview of Kentucky Derby=perfect example: Announcer only sees two contending, "winning" horses until the instant Rich Strike takes the lead and wins. https://t.co/MTCSBlVj1j

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