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RIT Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: In the Heights: Finding Home, Lin-Manuel Miranda

In the Heights: Finding Home

Lin-Manuel Miranda
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@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
Book Cover for: The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880, Christine Keiner

The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880

Christine Keiner
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Christine 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
Book Cover for: Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance, Janet Borgerson

Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance

Janet Borgerson
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.@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
Book Cover for: Turn on the Words!: Deaf Audiences, Captions, and the Long Struggle for Access, Harry G. Lang

Turn on the Words!: Deaf Audiences, Captions, and the Long Struggle for Access

Harry G. Lang
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.@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
Book Cover for: Deaf Republic: Poems, Ilya Kaminsky

Deaf Republic: Poems

Ilya Kaminsky
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In 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
Book Cover for: Earth: The Third Rock from the Sun Astronomy Beginners' Guide Grade 4 Children's Astronomy & Space Books, Baby Professor

Earth: The Third Rock from the Sun Astronomy Beginners' Guide Grade 4 Children's Astronomy & Space Books

Baby Professor
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.@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