New book by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway traces history of Big Business campaign to push ‘big myth’
Books
Excerpts of works by Harvard-affiliated authors
In new book, Tracy Kidder follows ‘Dr. Jim,’ who provides homeless people with health care, prescriptions, hot soup, occasional $5 bill
Neuroscientist Ann-Christine Duhaime’s new book blames it on weaknesses in how we’re wired to deal with abstract challenges
They were physicians, research stars at Dana-Farber, and all couples have secrets. Barrett Rollins wrestles with one Jane Weeks insisted they keep
They’re building blocks of life, Siddhartha Mukherjee says in his new book, but their vulnerabilities are also our vulnerabilities
New book traces insurgent use of text, photos, media on internet to upend crucial institutions of democracy
Becca Levy ‘92, Ph.D. ’95 examines hidden stereotypes of aging, their insidious effects in excerpt from her new book
Some were elected; others lead fight for gun control, racial equity, environment. All embrace social media, their own True North.
Cathy O’Neil, author of award-winning ‘Weapons of Math Destruction,’ examines ways humiliation is weaponized — and why
Weike Wang tails Harvard-educated ICU doc through surprise visit after her dad's death in witty look at family, culture, and COVID
Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s book traces tactics of groundbreaking lawyer Constance Baker Motley amid pivotal protests
In his new book, Matthew Aucoin details what he was thinking, and why it felt like a mistake at times (Spoiler alert: It worked out fine)
Farah Stockman follows unraveling of three lives, examines who wins and loses amid ‘planned obsolescence of people’
It can be fixed, Steven Pinker argues, and if we don’t our democracy and environment may be at stake
Not safer, better nutritionally, or likely produced by small, local farm, Robert Paarlberg argues in new book
Not merely self-deluding, Michael Sandel argues in excerpt from new book, it also fuels our divisiveness
‘The Equivalents’ follows Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin, Tillie Olsen, Barbara Swan, and Marianna Pineda through the birth of Radcliffe Institute and the modern women’s movement