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.

Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
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
Second Sunday
Jo Ann Petty
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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Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
Ralph Wilson
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)
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Sasha Costanza-Chock
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
The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
Thulani Davis
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)
The New College Classroom
Cathy N. 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
The New College Classroom
Cathy N. 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
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Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Margaret Atwood
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
Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities
Laura T. Hamilton
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)
How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation
Harry Binswanger
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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