{"id":18587,"date":"2026-02-24T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/recent-books-from-the-mit-community-27\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:14:25","slug":"recent-books-from-the-mit-community-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/recent-books-from-the-mit-community-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent books from the MIT community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Launching from the Lab: Building a Deep-Tech Startup<\/strong><br \/>By Lita Nelsen \u201964, SM \u201966, SM \u201979, former director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office, and Maureen Stancik<br \/>Boyce, SM \u201991, SM \u201993, PhD \u201995, with Sophie Hagerty\u00a0<br \/>MIT PRESS, 2026, $35<\/p>\n<p><strong>Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge<\/strong><br \/>By Ian Kumekawa, lecturer in history<br \/>PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $29<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>By Andrea Louise Campbell, professor of political science\u00a0<br \/>PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $29.95<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Adventure: Danger and Discovery from Pole to Pole<\/strong><br \/>By Warren M. Zapol \u201962\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>THE ZAPOL FAMILY, 2025, $37.99<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long-Term Care Around the World<\/strong><br \/>Edited by Jonathan Gruber \u201987, professor of economics and department head, and Kathleen McGarry<br \/>UNIV. OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2025, $35<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plain Talk About Drinking Water (6th edition)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>By James Symons, SM \u201955, ScD \u201957, former assistant professor of sanitary engineering and Nancy E. McTigue<br \/>AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION, 2025, $30<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>By Augustin Landier, PhD \u201902, and David Thesmar, professor of financial economics and finance<br \/>UNIV. OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2025, $25<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<p><em>Send book news to <a href=\"mailto:MITAlumniNews@technologyreview.com\">MITAlumniNews@technologyreview.com<\/a> or\u00a0196 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching from the Lab: Building a Deep-Tech StartupBy Lita Nelsen  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}