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A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
3) E-textiles
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Introduces the concept of electronic, electro-, or e-textiles, describing them as pieces of clothing that incorporate digital and electronic devices. Includes photographs and a glossary.
4) Double Digit
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"Digit attends MIT, where she hopes to lead a normal life. But Jonas Furnace, the ecoterrorist she foiled before, knows where she is, and he's gunning for her"--
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"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event--one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. The Exceptions is the story of the women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader: Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer...
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"In all the Marvel-Verse, few young minds are more brilliant than that of teen genius Riri Williams! Inspired by Tony Stark, Riri built her own invincible suit of armor - but she soon stepped out of Stark's shadow to forge her own future as the heroic Ironheart! Can Riri combine her studies at M.I.T. with her extracurricular activities - by which we mean taking down super-villains like the acoustic menace Clash? Plus: Ironheart shares an adventure...
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The director of MIT's Media Lab and a contributor to "Wired" present a set of working principles for adapting and thriving in the face of the twenty-first century's rapidly changing and unpredictable digital environments.
The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world...
12) Dust
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After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field and physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital...
13) La Historia de la Tierra: Los primeros 4500 millones de años del polvo estelar al planeta viviente
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"Una teoría nueva y fascinante sobre los orígenes de la Tierra escrita en un estilo brillante, con muchos toques personales." Kirkus ReviewUn fascinante viaje al pasado remoto de la Tierra para conocer las condiciones que hicieron posible su existencia y los dramáticos cambios que dieron como resultado el planeta que conocemos.Tal es la propuesta de Robert M. Hazen, distinguido geofísico y divulgador científico estadunidense. Recurriendo a la...
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Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology transformed the nature of linguistics before he was 40. In this program with world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee, the outspoken Chomsky challenges accepted notions of the way in which language is learned, examines the relationship of language to experience, and discusses the philosophical nature of knowledge.
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The invention by American chemical engineer Robert Langer and team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge relies on delivering anti-cancer drugs in synthetic polymers to ensure their targeted delivery to target sites, such as tumor sites. Covering the highly potent pharmaceuticals in biodegradable plastics helps focus the drug’s effect where it is needed: directly at the tumour site. The drugs used in the invention include...