Recent books from the MIT community

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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