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Janice Audet

Executive Editor for Science

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startquote Building on the Press’s distinguished tradition of leading authors and groundbreaking books, I pursue manuscripts that are distinctive, provide insight to critical questions, uncover new connections, and, ultimately, offer a new understanding of our world. Whether for a trade or scholarly offering, I work closely with authors to develop and refine manuscripts towards long-lasting impact in the scientific and publishing community. I welcome proposals across the life and physical sciences, as well as the history and philosophy of science. My authors have included Françoise Baylis, Cecelia Heyes, Robert M. Kaplan, Roberto Kolter, Pardis Sabeti, and Rüdiger Wehner. endquote

Recent Books

Cover: Vera Rubin: A Life, by Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, with a Foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, from Harvard University Press

Vera Rubin: A Life
Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, with a Foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Cover: Lessons from Plants, by Beronda L. Montgomery, from Harvard University Press

Lessons from Plants
Beronda L. Montgomery

Cover: Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures, by Manasvi Lingam and Avi Loeb, from Harvard University Press

Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures
Manasvi Lingam and Avi Loeb

Cover: A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, by Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, from Harvard University Press

A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer

Cover: Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind, by A. S. Barwich, from Harvard University Press

Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind
A. S. Barwich

Cover: Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters, by Daniel J. C. Kronauer, from Harvard University Press

Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters
Daniel J. C. Kronauer

Cover: Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond, by Christopher Wanjek, from Harvard University Press

Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
Christopher Wanjek

Cover: What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics, by O. Carter Snead, from Harvard University Press

What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
O. Carter Snead

Cover: What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, by Donovan Moore, with a Foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, from Harvard University Press

What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Donovan Moore, with a Foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Cover: From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way, by Michael Bond, from Harvard University Press

From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
Michael Bond

Cover: Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom, by James Danckert and John D. Eastwood, from Harvard University Press

Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom
James Danckert and John D. Eastwood

Cover: The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey, by Henry M. Cowles, from Harvard University Press

The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey
Henry M. Cowles

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, by Marie Favereau, from Harvard University Press

Recent News

Lessons from Plants author Beronda Montgomery discussed the evolutionary and adaptive genius of vegetation with Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness on his podcast Getting Curious.
Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, spoke with Dissent about deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
Tae-Yeoun Keum, author of Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought, explored how philosophy might embrace supposedly manipulative mythmaking for liberal ends in a conversation with BLARB: The Blog of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Andy Horowitz’s Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 was recently named winner of the Bancroft Prize; Nicole Fleetwood’s Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration and Tom Zoellner’s Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire won National Book Critics Circle Awards in the categories of criticism and nonfiction, respectively.

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Jacket: Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, by Daphne A. Brooks, from Harvard University Press

“Everything I Wanted”: Black Women Listeners and the High Fidelity Culture of Taste-Making

Daphne A. Brooks, author of Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, praises Hulu’s High Fidelity series, whose main characters are creative, intelligent Black women who are passionate about music and confident in their tastes and opinions. Where are the other shows like it?…

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