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Jessica T
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Professor of Engineering at Olin College
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Frantically adding to my list of books to buy for kid/nieces/nephews after the book segment on the #toyshow. Gods Don’t Cry by Ellen Ryan looks amazing (and Girls Who Slay Monsters by same author). Now to find them in US!
November 24, 2023 at 11:58 PM
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First post here is to share news of my friend and colleague’s new book. Deb has been writing and thinking about and teaching this stuff for years - you’ll want to hear her take.
edyong209.bsky.social Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social · Oct 6
Deb Chachra’s HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS comes out in two weeks, and it’s the perfect time to preorder it.

I loved it, as you can tell by this blurb. It’s exactly the kind of book I think we need right now. And Deb is a truly wonderful human to boot.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711...
““The urgent problems of the modern era have instilled in so many of us a deep craving to more clearly see the systems that define our lives, to better understand when and why they fail, and to regain agency over a world that can seem too complex to understand much less affect. Fortunately, Deb Chachra has written exactly the book we needed. Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes” The cover of How Infrastructure Works. Pink, orange and yellow lines have been painted on tarmac.
October 7, 2023 at 1:50 AM