Noam Chomsky, Interventions (The Open Media Series, edited by Greg Ruggiero), City Lights Books, 2007. A compilation of essays written for the New York Times Syndicate between September 2002 and July 2006 on topics largely concerned with Iraq. Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Linguistics.

Joe Haldeman, The Accidental Time Machine, Ace Hardcover, 2007. Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, his calibrator turns into a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who has left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose by taking a time machine trip himself—or so he thinks. Joe Haldeman is an Adjunct Professor of Fiction in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.

Dagmar Jaeger, Theater in the Age of Media: The postdramatic theater of Elfriede Jelinek and Heiner Muller, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2007. This book is an analysis of the contemporary German theater work written by Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek and Heiner Muller in the context of media culture. By drawing on Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, among others, Dagmar Jaeger shows how their plays challenge the various messages and images given by media culture. Published in German. Dagmar Jaeger is a Lecturer of German with the Foreign Languages and Literatures Section.

Robert Kanigel, Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes, Joseph Henry Press, 2007. From formica, vinyl siding, and particle board to cubic zirconium, knockoff designer bags, and genetically altered foods, inspired fakes of every description fly the polyester pennant of a brave new man-made world. Each represents an often passionate journey of scientific, technical, and entrepreneurial innovation. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative. Robert Kanigel is Professor of Science Writing.

Richard J. Samuels, Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, Cornell University Press, 2007. Securing Japan is a definitive assessment of Japanese security policy and its implications for the future of East Asia. Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies.

David Andrew Singer, Regulating Capital: Setting Standards for the International Financial System, Cornell University Press, 2007. In Regulating Capital, Singer explores the international repercussions of bank failures, stock market crashes, the rise of derivatives, and the catastrophic financial losses caused by Hurricane Katrina and the events of September 11th. David Andrew Singer is Assistant Professor of Political Science.

Stephen Van Evera, ed., How to Make America Safe: New Policies for National Security, The Tobin Project, 2006. A collection of papers by leading scholars that frames the main threats to U.S. national security today and defines strategies to address these threats. Stephen Van Evera is Professor of Political Science.

Curtis Gilroy and Cindy Williams, eds., Service to Country: Personnel Policy and the Transformation of Western Militaries, MIT Press, 2007. Service to Country looks at ongoing changes in military personnel policies in the U.S. and Europe. It also looks at the transitions to all-volunteer forces going on in many European countries today. Cindy Williams is a Principal Research Scientist with the Security Studies Program in the Center for International Studies.

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