MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Five books that illuminate the lives of wartime civilians whose worlds are forever changed by forces beyond their control. — A commentary by the late John Tirman (1950-2022), Exec Director of @MIT_CIS, author of "The Deaths of Others." https://t.co/pCEz3ZlZrC

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Who has freedom of movement and mobility in the U.S.? Watch MIT Professor of History @craigswilder and others in a PBS documentary that examines African American travel and the road to civil rights. Streaming on PBS. https://t.co/aT7pqUrnr7 https://t.co/drIs0dme0m

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“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” — from Middlemarch, by George Eliot https://t.co/uFdiejdm6l

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Congrats to @ProfHendershot, whose new book “When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America" was listed in the @newyorker's The Best Books We Read This Week! 👏 ⭐ https://t.co/rD0JmwMWru @mit_cmsw https://t.co/pjygAKNItp

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"Bioecological, sociocultural analysis at its best." In her recent book "Traveling with Sugar," @MITAnthopology Professor Amy Moran-Thomas makes the connections between the global diabetes epidemic, history, technology, and planetary well-being. @ucpress https://t.co/BKkGEFWC0P https://t.co/jdD42jyRlL

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“There are already many wonderful books about science,” says author and @MIT professor Alan Lightman, whose new book is “The Transcendent Brain.” “I wish more authors would write about philosophy in an accessible and meaningful way.” https://t.co/L6XK7IQ5X1 @mit_cmsw

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Prof. Amy Finkelstein speaks with Stephen Dubner of @Freakonomics about why insurance markets are broken, how they can be fixed, and her new book, “Risky Business.” https://t.co/sVlUZwaGvh @MITEcon https://t.co/J1eA1AqHmr

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Published #OTD 1854: "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau. Learn more about the man who was: "flawed, full of contradictions…and a prose stylist so exquisite that Proust, Carson, Robinson, Dillard [and many others have] admired his sentences.” https://t.co/x9byeOdhnt

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Happy Birthday to Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer (6 Oct 1917-14 March 1977), heroic American and legendary organizer for voting rights and democracy. Recommended: @KeishaBlain's recent book "Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America": https://t.co/Xx7YTFQ8sf https://t.co/wEn9bTPPda

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An extraordinary essay to read for #Juneteenth: In "The Bluest Eye turns 50," MIT Prof @salexandy honors Toni Morrison's debut novel & illuminates the ways Morrison's exquisite language renders something as complex as structural racism comprehensible. https://bit.ly/BluestEye50thAnniversary https://t.co/TKGAChWOJ7