CRASSH, Cambridge Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
CRASSH, Cambridge on XCentre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge. Posts are not endorsements. Newsletter: https://t.co/7GwuspfKpq

Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography
Christos LynterisWe asked Christos Lynteris a few questions about his new book 'Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography', which has arisen out of the 5-year ERC project @visualplague at CRASSH and @StAndrewsAnthro and is published by @mitpress. https://t.co/LHE8Py5doG
Paperback, 2022
$45.00Member price:$45.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie🧵4/7 📚Diversifying Power: Why we need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy (Jennie C Stephens) 📚Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) 📚Thriving (Wayne Visser) 📚Exit West (Mohsin Hamid) 📚There There (Tommy Orange)
Paperback, 2007
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950
Bruce CaldwellIt's #WorldBookDay today, so here's what everyone in CRASSH is reading: 🧵1/7 📚Mischief Acts (Zoe Gilbert) 📚Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (Machado de Assis) 📚Kudos (Rachel Cusk) 📚Hayek - A Life, 1899–1950 (Bruce Caldwell & Hansjoerg Klausinger)
Hardcover, 2022
$50.00Member price:$47.50 + Free shipping5% off
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
Azeem Azhar📺 Watch: 'Azeem Azhar: Exponential' In this discussion, Professor Gina Neff (@ginasue) talks with Azeem Azhar about his new book ‘Exponential', which explores the transition to the exponential age. An @MCTDCambridge event. #ExponentialAge #AzeemAzhar https://t.co/7pwp4UDiym
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More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Meredith Broussard📣 Open for registration Meredith Broussard: Confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech 🗓️ 9 May 2023 📍 @JesusCollegeCam https://t.co/cJeKW9qiXE In what ways does tech reproduce inequality, and what are the strategies to address these problems? With @MCTDCambridge
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk🧵5/7 📚The Smell Culture Reader (ed. Jim Drobnik) 📚Maailman paras Pekka Töpöhäntä (Gösta Knutson) 📚Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk) 📚Combats et Métamorphoses d’une Femme (Édouard Louis)
Paperback, 2020
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Annihilation: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff VanderMeer🧵3/7 📚The Disordered Cosmos (Chanda Prescod-Weinstein) 📚Weasels in the Attic (Hiroko Oyamada) 📚Die Schule an der Grenze (Geza Ottlik) 📚Enchantment (Katherine May) 📚Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer)
Paperback, 2024
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid🧵4/7 📚Diversifying Power: Why we need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy (Jennie C Stephens) 📚Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) 📚Thriving (Wayne Visser) 📚Exit West (Mohsin Hamid) 📚There There (Tommy Orange)
Paperback, 2018
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound
David Rothenberg🧵6/7 📚Metaphysical Animals (Rachel Wiseman & Clare Mac Cumhaill) 📚Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound (David Rothenburg) 📚Good Behaviour (Molly Keane) 📚Cracking the Menopause (Marielle Frostrup)
Paperback, 2023
$27.95Member price:$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Behaviour
Molly Keane🧵6/7 📚Metaphysical Animals (Rachel Wiseman & Clare Mac Cumhaill) 📚Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound (David Rothenburg) 📚Good Behaviour (Molly Keane) 📚Cracking the Menopause (Marielle Frostrup)
Paperback, 2021
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book