A gathering of the best material from the MIT Museum's collection of hack-related pictures, reports, and remnants. Hacking is described by MIT undergraduates as any activity that takes one's mind off studying, suggests an unusual solution to a technical problem, or generally fosters nondestructive mischief.

Essays from Hubert L. Dreyfus, the leading voice in American philosophy for the continuing relevance of phenomenology, particularly as developed by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), Court Painter to England's Henry VIII, this richly illustrated work provides a major advance in our understanding of Holbein's contribution to European art.

A self-confessed "tulipomaniac" explores the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to the worldwide phenomenon it is today.

Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its center, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost.

William James, psychologist, philosopher, and one of the founding fathers of modern American thought, suffered a devastating mental collapse. Months later he emerged from the hospital with a profound clarity of purpose. In his enchanting historical novel filmmaker and novelist Jon Boorstin imagines what perils befell James during those months and what saved him.

During World War II, Agnes Aubret risked her life to smuggle Jewish children to safety until an SS officer named Eduard Schwermann exposed her group. Their lives dovetail to form a literary thriller in which, according to Publishers Weekly, “the author’s eloquent prose brings power to the tangled and tragic history on which the story is based.”

Garry Wills’s Venice: Lion City is a tour de force—a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world’s most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of it glory.