Recent books from the MIT community
July/August 2025
False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren’t True
By Joe Pierre ’92
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $29.99
Edgar H. Schein: The Artistry of a Reflexive Organizational Scholar-Practitioner
By David Coghlan, SM ’85
ROUTLEDGE, 2024, $56.99 (and Open Access)
Wicked Problems: What Can We Do in This Time of Collapse?
By Christian Sarkar and Philip Kotler, PhD ’56
IDEA BITE PRESS, 2025, $39.38
Graph Theory and Additive Combinatorics: Exploring Structure and Randomness
By Yufei Zhao ’10, PhD ’15, associate professor of mathematics
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2023, $69.99
The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
By Joseph Torigian, PhD ’16
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $50
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight
By Arthur Bahr, professor of literature
UNIVERSITY of CHICAGO PRESS, 2025, $45
The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club
By Gloria Chao ’08
HARPERCOLLINS, 2025, $18.99
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