{"id":21548,"date":"2026-04-21T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/recent-books-from-the-mit-community-28\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:16:13","slug":"recent-books-from-the-mit-community-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/recent-books-from-the-mit-community-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent books from the MIT community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared Prosperity<\/strong><br \/>Edited by Elisabeth B. Reynolds, professor of the practice of urban studies and planning and former executive director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future\u00a0<br \/>MIT PRESS, 2026, $24.95<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live<\/strong><br \/>By Alan Lightman, professor of the practice of the humanities, and Martin Rees<br \/>PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>By Bruno Perreau, professor of French studies and language\u00a0<br \/>MIT PRESS, 2025, $34<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Analytics Edge in Healthcare<\/strong><br \/>By Dimitris Bertsimas, SM \u201987, PhD \u201988, professor of management and operations research and associate dean of online education and AI; Agni Orfanoudaki, PhD \u201921; and Holly Wiberg\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>DYNAMIC IDEAS, 2025, $110<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Art of Monetary Policy: Lessons from Sun Tzu for Central Banks<\/strong><br \/>By Kristin J. Forbes, PhD \u201998, professor of management and global economics<br \/>MIT PRESS, 2026, $30<\/p>\n<p><strong>SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of Intelligence\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>By Ja-Na\u00e9 Duane, academic research fellow at MIT\u2019s Center for Information Systems Research, and Steve Fisher<br \/>WILEY, 2025, $28<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<p>Send book news to <a href=\"mailto:MITAlumniNews@technologyreview.com\">MITAlumniNews@technologyreview.com<\/a> or\u00a0196 Broadway, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02139<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared ProsperityEdited by Elisabeth  [&#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-21548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21548","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=21548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideainthebox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}