Recent books from the MIT community
March/April 2025
Differential Privacy
By Simson L. Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05
MIT PRESSS, 2025, $18.95
Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
By Colleen A. Dunlavy, PhD ’88
POLITY BOOKS, 2024, $29.95
The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature
By Alan Lightman, professor of the practice of the humanities
PANTHEON, 2024, $36
The Path to Singularity: How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity
By J. Craig Wheeler ’65, with a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson
PROMETHEUS BOOKS, 2024, $32.95
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior
By Olga Touloumi, SM ’06
UNIV. OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2024, $35
The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals
By O.C. Zienkiewicz, R.L. Taylor, and Sanjay Govindjee ’86
BUTTERWORTH-HEINNEMANN, 2024, $286.99
Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA
By Shoumita Dasgupta ’97
UNIV. OF CALIF. PRESS, 2025, $29.95
A Moving Meditation: Life on a Cape Cod Kettle Pond
By Stephen G. Waller ’73
BRIGHT LEAF, 2023, $24.95
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