{"id":38960,"date":"2024-07-03T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=38960"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:20:58","slug":"summer-2024-mit-recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/summer-2024-mit-recommended-reading\/38960\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2024 MIT recommended reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AnMIT News is featuring recent books published by MIT faculty and staff in its 2024 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


\nNovel, memoir, and poetry<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cSeizing Control: Managing Epilepsy and Others\u2019 Reactions To It \u2014 A Memoir<\/a>\u201d (Haley\u2019s, 2023)
\nBy Laura Beretsky, grant writer in the MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science (MITES) program<\/p>\n

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Science and engineering<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Visual Elements: Handbooks for Communicating Science and Engineering<\/a>\u201d (University of Chicago Press, 2023 and 2024)
\nBy Felice Frankel, research scientist in chemical engineering<\/p>\n

\u201cA Book of Waves<\/a>\u201d (Duke University Press, 2023)
\nBy Stefan Helmreich, professor of anthropology<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Introduction to System Safety Engineering<\/a>\u201d (MIT Press, 2023)
\nBy Nancy G. Leveson, professor of aeronautics and astronautics<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Culture, humanities, and social sciences<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cPolitical Rumors:\u00a0 Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It<\/a>\u201d (Princeton University Press, 2023)
\nBy Adam Berinsky, professor of political science<\/p>\n

\u201cLaws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China<\/a>,\u201d (Princeton University Press, 2023)
\nBy Tristan Brown, assistant professor of history<\/p>\n

\u201cTrouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions<\/a>\u201d (Polity, 2024)
\nBy Alex Byrne, professor of philosophy<\/p>\n

\u201cLife at the Center: Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/b>(University of California Press, 2024)
\nBy Erica Caple James, professor of medical anthropology and urban studies<\/p>\n

\u201cPortable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History<\/a>\u201d (University of Texas Press, 2024)
\nBy Paloma Duong, associate professor of media studies\/writing<\/p>\n

\u201cThey All Made Peace \u2014 What Is Peace?<\/a>\u201d (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
\nChapter by Lerna Ekmekcioglu, professor of history and director of the Program in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary and Filmic Arts<\/a>\u201d (Duke University Press, 2023)
\nBy Michael M.J. Fischer, professor of anthropology and of science and technology studies<\/p>\n

\u201cLines Drawn across the Globe<\/a>\u201d (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)
\nBy Mary Fuller, professor of literature and chair of the faculty<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline<\/a>\u201d (Yale University Press, 2023)
\nBy Yasheng Huang, the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and professor of global economics and management<\/p>\n

\u201cDare to Invent the Future: Knowledge in the Service of and Through Problem-Solving<\/a>\u201d (MIT Press, 2023)
\nBy Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, professor of science, technology, and society<\/p>\n

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Technology, systems, and society<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cCode Work: Hacking Across the U.S.\/M\u00e9xico Techno-Borderlands<\/a>\u201d (Princeton University Press, 2023)
\nBy H\u00e9ctor Beltr\u00e1n, assistant professor of anthropology<\/p>\n

\u201cUnmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines<\/a>\u201d\u00a0(Penguin Random House, 2023)
\nBy Joy Buolamwini SM \u201917, PhD \u201922, member of the Media Lab Director\u2019s Circle<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCounting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action<\/a>\u201d (MIT Press, 2024)
\nBy Catherine D\u2019Ignazio, associate professor of urban science and planning<\/p>\n

\u201cRethinking Cyber Warfare: The International Relations of Digital Disruption<\/a>\u201d (Oxford University Press, 2024)
\nBy R. David Edelman, research fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness<\/a>\u201d\u00a0(Penguin Random House, 2024)
\nChapter by Tod Machover, the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media; R\u00e9becca Kleinberger SM \u201914, PhD \u201920; and Alexandra Rieger SM \u201918, doctoral candidate in media arts and sciences<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots<\/a>\u201d (W. W. Norton and Company, 2024)
\nBy Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; and Gregory Mone<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Education, business, finance, and social impact<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cDisciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics: 15 Tactics to Turn Your Business Plan Into a Business<\/a>\u201d (Wiley, 2024)
\nBy Paul Cheek, executive director and entrepreneur in residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and senior lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management, with foreword by Bill Aulet, professor of the practice of entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan and managing director of the Martin Trust Center<\/p>\n

\u201cOrganic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities<\/a>\u201d (KoganPage, 2023)
\nBy Jenny Li Fowler, director of social media strategy in the Institute Office of Communications<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion<\/a>\u201d (MIT Press, 2024)
\nBy Malia Lazu, lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results<\/a>\u201d (Hachette Book Group, 2023)
\nBy Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy<\/p>\n

\u201cIterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools<\/a>\u201d (Teaching Systems Lab, 2023)
\nBy Justin Reich, associate professor in comparative media studies\/writing<\/p>\n

\u201cred helicopter \u2014 a parable for our times: lead change with kindness (plus a little math)<\/a>\u201d (HarperCollins, 2024)
\nBy James Rhee, senior lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management<\/p>\n

\u201cWiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification<\/a>\u201d (IT Revolution, 2023)
\nBy Steven J. Spear, senior lecturer in system dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Gene Kim<\/p>\n

\u201cOxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance<\/a>\u201d (Oxford University Press, 2024)
\nChapter by Annie Thompson, lecturer in the MIT Center for Real Estate; Walter Torous, senior lecturer at the MIT Center for Real Estate; and William Torous<\/p>\n

\u201cData Is Everybody\u2019s Business: The Fundamentals of Data Monetization<\/a>\u201d (MIT Press, 2023)
\nBy Barbara H. Wixom, principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR); Leslie Owens, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and former executive director of MIT CISR; and Cynthia M. Beath<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Arts, architecture, planning, and design<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death<\/a>\u201d (Routledge, 2023)
\nChapter by Laura Anderson Barbata, lecturer in MIT\u2019s Program in Art, Culture, and Technology<\/p>\n

\u201cLand Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era<\/a>\u201d (Brill, 2023)
\nChapter by Caroline Murphy, the Clarence H. Blackall Career Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cMade Here: Recipes and Reflections From NYC\u2019s Asian Communities<\/a>\u201d (Send Chinatown Love, 2023)
\nChapter by Robin Zhang, postdoc in mathematics, and Diana Le<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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MIT News is featuring recent books published by MIT faculty and staff in its 2024 summer reading list. 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. Novel, memoir, and poetry \u201cSeizing Control: Managing Epilepsy and Others\u2019 Reactions To It \u2014 A Memoir\u201d (Haley\u2019s, 2023) By Laura Beretsky, grant writer in the MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science (MITES) program   Science and engineering \u201cThe Visual Elements: Handbooks for Communicating Science and Engineering\u201d (University of Chicago Press, 2023 and 2024) By […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"subtitle":"Borrow these titles recommended by MIT News","is_event":false,"calendar_url":"","calendar_id":"","calendar_image":"","pauthor":"","urgent":false,"notes":"","featuredListImg":false,"homeImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/07\/MIT_Summer-Books-24-01-PRESS_0_111x206_acf_cropped.jpg","listImg":false,"homepage_post_title":"Summer 2024 MIT recommended reading","featuredArticle":"false"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38960"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39053,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions\/39053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}