{"product_id":"the-disordered-cosmos-a-journey-into-dark-matter-spacetime-and-dreams-deferred-1","title":"The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred","description":"Review\n\n\"The Disordered Cosmos, more than most other science books, is an urgently needed call for justice. It is brave, passionate and angry, and rightly so. If the book and documentary A Brief History of Time were influential in making a wider public accept and celebrate disabled scientists, Prescod-Weinstein's book will hopefully do the same for people of colour and other marginalized groups.\"--Nature Astronomy\n\n\"The Disordered Cosmos is equal parts critical analysis, personal essay, and popular science...Prescod-Weinstein not only narrates her struggle to become a cosmologist, she advocates for all peoples whom physicists have undervalued...Prescod-Weinstein's most vital work, in the end, is the emancipation of Black and brown children who still cannot see their futures in the stars.\"?--Undark\n\n\"A groundbreaking work of science and art--a clarion call to think rigorously, to question fearlessly, to challenge what we've long been told and reimagine what could exist in our search to better understand ourselves and our universe.\"\n--Nicole Chung, author of All You Can Ever Know\n\n\"A resonant paean to the beauties of the cosmos and a persuasive appeal for solutions to injustices in science.\"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n\n\"A rethinking of what time, space and matter mean when we understand the systems of oppression and exploitation that structure our realities. We've never more needed a map of the stars to guide us, and Chanda gives us a great big new one in this book.\"\n--Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman\n\n\"Afrofuturists seeking a deeper grounding in sciences beyond Earth's terrain will enjoy this well-crafted book that centers both Black Lives and space theory in a quest to understand the universe.\"--Ytasha L. Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi \u0026amp; Fantasy Culture\n\n\"Both scientist and humanist, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein integrates her personal experience as a Black woman growing up in an America filled with social injustice with her quest to understand the cosmos. For me, she embodies Star Trek: The Next Generation.\"\n--Gates McFadden, actress and director\n\n\"Breathtakingly expansive and intimate.... Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a griot of the universe, and her powerful storytelling will reignite your commitment to creating a world in which we all have the spacetime to think and dream.\"\n--Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology\n\n\"Celebrated scientist Dr. Prescod-Weinstein uncovers how systematic racism limits humanity's potential. Using the universe as her classroom, she highlights the value of equality in laboratories and society at large.\"--Essence\n\n\"Eye-opening, provocative, and ultimately inspiring: if we can grasp the enormity of the cosmos, surely we can look within ourselves and try to be better to each other.\"\n--Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime\n\n\"Her book is a tour of particles like quarks and leptons, as well as the axions that Prescod-Weinstein specializes in, but it also explores the various structural oppressions that affect who gets to study and discover them -- and even who gets to name those discoveries.\"--CNN\n\n\"Imagine if someone could make you fall in love not only with the nighttime sky not only as a thing of beauty but as a matter of matter, the stuff of our existence seen and unseen. Imagine a physics professor who could assure you that the world and its wonder belongs to all of us, Black women included. That is what you have in Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's The Disordered Cosmos. Her writing is beautiful and clear, her ideas are expansive, honest and precise. You will feel yourself grow inside this book. Finally, this is the decolonized science we have yearned for, a gift from a rare intellectual who fights for freedom on every page and inside every theory.\"\n--Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry\n\n\"In this eye-opening book Prescod-Weinste","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40308115865685,"sku":"9781541724686N","price":8.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/ed02bdc4-ca9a-4f79-b900-077fdefc4365.jpg?v=1663225450","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-disordered-cosmos-a-journey-into-dark-matter-spacetime-and-dreams-deferred-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}