Recent books from the MIT community

Empire of AI: Dreams and Night­mares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
By Karen Hao ’15
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $32
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Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts
By Samuel Jay Keyser, HM ’97, emeritus professor of linguistics
MIT PRESS, 2025, $30

Data, Systems, and Society: Harness AI for Societal Good
By Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $27.99

So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs
—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
By Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $35

Perspectives in Antenna Technology: Recent Advances and Systems Applications 
By Jeffrey S. Herd, group leader of the RF Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Alan J. Fenn and M. David Conway, both senior staff in the RF Technology Group
MIT PRESS, 2025, $125

Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia 
By Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko T. Shimabukuro, PhD ’12
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2024, $34.95

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