{"id":37921,"date":"2023-06-29T11:35:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=37921"},"modified":"2023-08-23T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:14:29","slug":"summer-2023-mit-recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/summer-2023-mit-recommended-reading\/37921\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2023 MIT recommended reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AnFor the third straight year, MIT News is featuring recent books published by MIT faculty and staff in its summer reading list<\/a>. The following titles from this year\u2019s list are available to borrow now from the MIT Libraries. We will add to this list as more titles become available.<\/p>\n

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Novels and poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Pomegranate” (Atria Books, 2023)
\nBy\u00a0<\/span>Helen Elaine Lee, <\/span>professor, Comparative Media Studies\/Writing
\n<\/span>Ebook and Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


\nScience<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Responding to the Climate Threat: Essays on Humanity\u2019s Greatest Challenge” (Springer Cham, 2023)
\nBy Henry Jacoby, the William F. Pounds Professor Emeritus in management; Gary Yohe; Richard Richels; and Benjamin Santer<\/span>
\n<\/span>Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science” (Pantheon, 2023)
\nBy <\/span>Alan Lightman, professor of the practice in humanities<\/span>
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cClimate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change\u201d (Oxford University Press, 2022)
\n<\/span>By Robert S. Pindyck, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


\nCulture, humanities, and social sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Spoken Word: A Cultural History” (Knopf, 2023)
\nBy Joshua Bennett, visiting professor of literature
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia\u201d (University of Chicago, 2022)
\n<\/span>By Manduhai Buyandelger, professor of anthropology
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games” <\/span>(MIT Press, 2023)
\nBy Mikael Jakobsson, lecturer in comparative media studies, and Mary Flanagan<\/span>
\n<\/span>Ebook and Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“A New Companion to Herman Melville” (Wiley, 2022)
\nEdited by Wyn Kelley, senior lecturer of literature, and Christopher Ohge
\n<\/span>Print and ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland” (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
\nBy Noah L. Nathan, professor of political science
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a>
\nEbook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“<\/span>Eating Beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies\u201d <\/span>(Duke University Press, 2023)
\nEdited by Heather Paxson, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and head of MIT Anthropology
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and his Historical Project” (Edinburgh University Press, November 2022)
\n<\/span>By Nasser Rabbat, professor of architecture
\n<\/span>Ebook<\/span><\/a>
\nPrint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Life Is Hard” (Riverhead Books, 2022)
\nBy Kieran Setiya, professor of philosophy<\/span>
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Grand Delusion: <\/span>The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East” (Penguin Random House, 2023)
\nBy <\/span>Steven Simon, Robert E Wilhelm Fellow, MIT Center for International Studies
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin\u201d (Duke University Press, 2022)
\nBy Bettina Stoetzer, associate professor of anthropology<\/span>
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHarvard Square: A Love Story\u201d (Columbia University Press, 2023)
\n<\/span>By Catherine J. Turco, associate professor of management
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


\nTechnology and society<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPower and Progress: Our Thousand Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity\u201d (PublicAffairs, 2023)
\n<\/span>By Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, and Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Handbook of Innovation and Appropriate Technologies for International Development”<\/span> (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022)
\n<\/span>Edited by Daniel Frey, professor of mechanical engineering; Samuel Pierre; Philippe R\u00e9gnier; Koshy Varghese; and Pascal Wild
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


\nWork, finance, and industry<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates” (MIT Press, 2023)
\nBy Olivier Blanchard, the Robert Solow Professor of Economics Emeritus<\/span>
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It\u201d (Yale University Press, 2022)
\nBy Amy Finkelstein, professor of economics; Liran Einav; and Ray Fisman<\/span>
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies” <\/span>(MIT Press, 2023)
\nBy David Kiron, editorial director of research at MIT Sloan Management Review<\/em>; Elizabeth J. Altman; Jeff Schwartz; and Robin Jones
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone\u2019s Work\u201d (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023)
\n<\/span>By Zeynep Ton, professor of the practice, Operations Management
\n<\/span>Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFuture Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value\u201d (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022)
\n<\/span>By Stephanie L. Woerner, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) director and principal research scientist; Peter Weill, CISR senior research scientist and chairman emeritus, and Ina M. Sebastian, CISR research scientist
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


\nArts, architecture, planning, and design<\/strong><\/p>\n

“<\/span>Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation: In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City\u201d (Oxford University Press, 2022)
\nBy Gabriella Carolini, associate professor of urban studies and planning<\/span>
\n<\/span>Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline” (Bloomsbury Press, April 2023)
\nBy Mark Jarzombek, professor of architecture
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Design and Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures” (Columbia University Press, February 2023)
\nBy <\/span>Rafi Segal, associate professor of architecture, and Marissa <\/span>Mor\u00e1n Jahn SM \u201907
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment” (Yale University Press, October 2022)
\n<\/span>Edited by Kristel Smentek, associate professor of architecture, Edouard Kopp, and Elizabeth M. Rudy
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Shapes of Imagination: Calculating in Coleridge\u2019s Magical Realm” (MIT Press, November 2022)
\nBy George Stiny, professor of architecture
\n<\/span>Print and Ebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


\nFor young readers<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The Order of Things” (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2023)
\nBy Kaija Langley, director of development at MIT Libraries
\n<\/span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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