RIT 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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In the Heights: Finding Home
Lin-Manuel Miranda@RITNTID’s Department of Performing Arts presents its production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights, April 15-17, at Panara Theatre in Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall. Info on tickets and showtimes are here: https://t.co/5G5AwKT0NB
Hardcover, 2021
$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880
Christine KeinerChristine Keiner, chair of @RIT_LiberalArts' Department of Science, Technology, & Society talked about her book The Oyster Question, which explores the history & challenges of the Chesapeake oyster industry, on The Voices of the Chesapeake Bay podcast. https://t.co/6r7ORcqafp
Paperback, 2010
$36.95Member price:$35.10 + Free shipping5% off
Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance
Janet Borgerson.@MagazineBlind recently featured @RIT_LiberalArts Professor Jonathan Schroeder's new book, Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance. This book takes a look into the influence that the arts had on mid-century America. https://bddy.me/3fYo7wm
Hardcover, 2021
$39.95Member price:$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Turn on the Words!: Deaf Audiences, Captions, and the Long Struggle for Access
Harry G. Lang.@engadget recently spoke with @RITNTID Professor Emeritus Harry G. Lang about the history of closed captioning and his book "Turn on the Words! Deaf Audiences, Captions, and the Long Struggle for Access". https://t.co/VDZojn1UJs
Paperback, 2021
$34.95Member price:$33.20 + Free shipping5% off
Deaf Republic: Poems
Ilya KaminskyIn April 2023, @RITNTID will host the @NEAarts' Big Read project during National #DeafHistoryMonth. Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (@ilya_poet)—a hard-of-hearing Ukrainian-American poet, critic, translator, and professor—has been selected as the book. https://t.co/EjJvkxQwYI
Paperback, 2019
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Earth: The Third Rock from the Sun Astronomy Beginners' Guide Grade 4 Children's Astronomy & Space Books
Baby Professor.@RITscience Professor Joel Kastner has been awarded a $400,000 grant from @NASA to lead a team of RIT scientists to study baby stars and newborn planets closest to Earth. https://t.co/Alw955jpqG
Hardcover, 2020
$30.99Member price:$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book