Yossi Sheffi is the author of this intensely disturbing book about the experience of American and Israeli Jews on campus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre. Sheffi holds an endowed chair in engineering systems at MIT and is a member of the faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, and the Operations Research Center. He is a leading expert in supply chain management and the author of nine books in his areas of professional expertise. He has been a member of the MIT faculty for almost 50 years.

The tiny island nation of Taiwan finds itself at the center of a potential great power war between the United States and China. Such a conflict would be devastating beyond measure. But as Eyck Freymann argues in his new book Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China, the conquest of Taiwan might not unfold as we'd expect.

Before shooting up Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, Dylann Roof "spent months visiting local museums and plantations and churches, including Mother Emanuel," Beverly Gage writes in This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History. "When the police arrived, his car was strewn with travel brochures."