
El The MIT Press Be sure to visit your friendly neighborhood bookstore to celebrate National Bookstore Day!
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Remember bookstores? You know, those places that are like libraries, but with commerce involved. (Come to think of it, remember libraries?)

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Once
called Seattle's answer to the Algonquin, the Sorrento Hotel is hosting a series of literary and cultural events to celebrate their
100th anniversary. Bruce Benderson will speak about Pacific Agony on
Thursday. Check it out if you are in the area.
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El The MIT Press Semiotext(e) re-releases the coveted German Issue.
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This coming Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and much hoopla has been planned: a grand public party at the Brandenburg Gate, and a new symbolic falling of the Wall to take place in...

El The MIT Press Thanks to Ken Wark for leading us to this interesting article about one of our favorite game scholars.
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Videos and role playing replace textbooks and midterms at one New York school.

El The MIT Press You don't have to be smitten with Johnny Depp to adore pirates...
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Over the years, fleet after fleet of academic-press books about those fabled rogues have suggested that the imaginations of professors, too, may away to the high seas.

El The MIT Press In case you missed last week's webinar "Building CISnet: How we did it; What we're Learning," is now available on-demand (slides and recorded audio). Nice work Gita and Jake!
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Thanks to all who participated in last week's webinar, and to MIT Press for a presentation that drew fantastic attendance and uniformly favorable comments. Video of the full presentation is below. Slides are available for download in PPT and PDF formats.

El The MIT Press Tempted to go to art school? Steven Henry Madoff tells IHE what it's like now and how art education could change in the future.
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El The MIT Press Check out our home page if you are looking for somthing to read for halloween. Spooky, spooky!
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The MIT Press online catalog contains descriptions of in-print and out-of-print books, current and past journals, online ordering/subscription options, contact and customer service information, news, events, and other materials relating to our publications.

El The MIT Press Fans in Toronto: be sure to check out Alphabet City's Water Festival. It starts tomorrow and there are activities all next week.
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Alphabet City art director Kelsey Blackwell discusses the processes and ideas she used in making the Water anthology. One of Canada’s leading book designers, Blackwell has previously worked at Bruce Mau Design and Pentagram.

El The MIT Press Chris Payne unlocks the secrets of the now decaying New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane in Concord.
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Among the horror film formulas of gothic monsters, aliens, slashers and the undead is one that now stands out as unfeeling: the insane asylum.

El The MIT Press Robots that care...
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This week's New Yorker features a lengthy profile of Maja Matarić, USC computer science professor and author of The Robotics Primer. New Yorker writer Jerome Groopman writes about Matarić's work with stroke and Alzheimer’s patients and autistic children. She and...

El The MIT Press The Enlightened Economist "highly satisfied" with Gary Klein's new Streetlights and Shadows
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El The MIT Press CISnet is a fully searchable library of many of our recent and classic compuer science titles. Join in tomorrow's webinar to see how we did it and what we learned along the way.
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