Digital Bookshelf

Kristi Girdharry, associate teaching professor of English and director of the Writing Center at Babson College, and her co-authors argue that institutions can meet today’s challenges by orienting decision-making around a deep understanding of their learners and how learning actually works. The MIT Press, 2026.  

Houman Oliaei, assistant professor of anthropology, draws on research among displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to trace how they navigate the contradictions of internal displacement, showing how this produces a paradox of protection. Indiana University Press, 2026.

Professor Jason Mohaghegh examines how alternate future dimensions will affect everything from our culture to our politics, our bodies to our minds, overseeing original work from over 20 prominent thinkers in the domains of literature, philosophy, visual art, architecture, design, media studies, ecology, anthropology. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.  

Professor Jason Mohaghegh provides a theoretical investigation into the aesthetics and intensities of cruelty, mapping evil in its minor prisms of fascination and exploring evil as an infinitesimal complex of techniques. Scarlet Imprint, 2025.  

Emily Rosado-Solomon, assistant professor of management, and contributors investigate complex questions about the relationship between work and employees’ mental health, highlighting novel perspectives, as well as areas of opportunity to better understand how diverse employees manage mental health in the changing world of work. Routledge, 2025.  

Tom Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and faculty director of the C. Dean Metropoulos Institute for Technology and Entrepreneurship, and co-author Jim Sterne provide a science-based and insightful new approach to integrating the latest generative AI technologies into your company’s customer communications. Wiley, 2025.  

Associate Professor Stephen Spiess and co-editor Marjorie Rubright pull together a wide range of linguistic, regional and disciplinary expertise, including 25 contributors who traverse multiple geographies and work across 15 languages, to reveal how words are catalysts of cultural, political and epistemological change. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 

Pascal Bornet and Tom Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and faculty director of the C. Dean Metropoulos Institute for Technology and Entrepreneurship, among others, provide a comprehensive guide on agentic AI with a clear, jargon-free strategic roadmap to understanding and applying this technology. Irreplaceable Publishing, 2025.  

Professor Adam Sulkowski offers the second and third volumes in his Extreme Entrepreneurship book series, which profile entrepreneurial leaders—startup founders and others—who succeed in starting and leading their organizations that solve meaningful problems, despite challenging contexts. Voxel Books & Productions, 2024.  

Thomas H. Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, and his co-authors offer a comprehensive look into the role of citizen developers―business domain experts who are driving IT-enabled innovation using technology previously reserved for professional technologists. Wiley, 2024.  

Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, the division chair of Management and the Camilla Latino Spinelli Endowed Term Chair and Professor of Organizational Behavior, and Christopher Wong Michaelson explore what current forces mean for whether work might give meaning and purpose to our lives or take it away. Routledge, 2024.  

Associate Professor of Practice Peter Cohan explains how generative AI works and how much economic value it could create and will map out the industry value network, concluding with a section on what investors and business leaders should do to make an informed decision on where to place their bets. Apress, 2024.