Recent Books
From the MIT community

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction)
By Junot Díaz, associate professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
Riverhead Books, 2007, $24.95

Managing Catastrophic Loss of Sensitive Data
By Constantine Photopoulos '77
Elsevier, 2008, $59.95

Ropewalk: A Cordage Engineer's Journey through History
A documentary film written and ­narrated by Bill Hagenbuch '40, SM '41, directed by Steve Fetsch
www.storyofrope.org, 2008, $20.00

Dynamic Digital Representations in Architecture: Visions in Motion
By Imdat As, SM '02, and Daniel Schodek, PhD '71
Routledge, 2008, $53.95

Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India
By Parmesh Shahani, SM '05
Sage Publications, 2008, $32.95

Suburban Transformations
By Paul Lukez, MArch '85
Princeton Architectural Press, 2007, $40.00

Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination (new edition)
By Rosalind Williams, professor of the history of science and technology
MIT Press, 2008, $19.95

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