CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics
Playboy was not just a magazine, but also came to embody a new lifestyle that took place in spaces such…
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud produced in late ancient Mesopotamia, Moulie Vidas analyzes key passages to show how the Talmud’s…
Talk of Many Things
In this memoir, Gowen recounts his childhood in Italy and his diverse career and travel experiences. A New York City…
Sanctuaries in Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book
Walter’s book is a collection of essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in The Sketch Book. This volume, part of…
Rocket Crockett and The Shanghai She-Devil
In this homage to 1950s pulp fiction, Lt. Rufus “Rocket” Crockett battles gangsters on the streets of Harlem, assassins in…
Read the Room for Real: How a Simple Technology Creates Better Meetings
Targeted toward trainers, facilitators, and meeting planners, Read the Room: How a Simple Technology Creates Better Meetings shows how audience-response…
Chapel on the Moor
Frank Dole meets an otherworldly young woman on his usual morning fishing trip. What follows is a virtual treasure hunt…
Where the West Ends
In 1841, mountain man Jesse Tipps has a near-fatal encounter with hostile Indians on his way to California. While recuperating…
Philanthropist
Wealthy San Franciscan Fred Klein accidentally kills a young woman the same day he learns he has high cholesterol. The…
The Adventures of Hermes, God of Thieves
The world of Greek mythology comes alive through 100 journeys taken by the precocious young god, Hermes, in his passage…
Voyages: Stories of Ten Sunsail Owner Cruises
A combination travel manual and personal memoir, Voyages sails readers through exotic locations in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and the…
The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World
When it comes to the environment, argues Andrew S. Winston ’91, we have passed the economic tipping point: The weakening…
Northanger Abbey: An Annotated Edition
Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey, with its intrepid 17-year-old heroine and gothic adventures, was relatively underappreciated until the 20th…
The Drama of DNA: Narrative Genomics
The Drama of DNA : Narrative Genomics uses narratives to bring to life the complexities of applying genomic technologies to…
Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political Theory
In Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political Theory, Susan McWilliams *06 explores the tradition of political theorizing that speaks to…
Susan Sontag: A Biography
In the first biography to be published since her 2004 death, Susan Sontag, one of America’s first celebrity intellectuals, is…
Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts
The life and reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch and daughter of James II, are examined in detail…
Defying Convention: U.S. Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women’s Rights
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has been ratified by 187 countries, but…