CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Snippet the Early Riser
(Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers) This children’s book tells the story of snippet, an early-rising snail with early-morning…
Addiction Trajectories
(Duke University Press) Based on ethnography from around the world, this collection of essays explores the meaning of addiction in…
Huckleberry Friend (Four Fathers, Vol. 2)
(Amazon)The second volume in Harris’ Four Fathers octology, this book continues to follow Joe Cebellum, Fred Etheridge, Tommy Wanderby, and…
Bioluminescence: Living Lights, Lights for Living
(Harvard University Press) Hastings and Williams look into why organisms that emit light do so. The book shows how bioluminescence…
The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century
(Louisiana State University Press) Looking at the colonization efforts in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth century, Thompson explains how…
Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction
(Metropolis Books/Gordon DeVries Studio) Christopher Rawlins examines the career of Horace Gifford, a widely forgotten architect who died of AIDS…
All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry
(Cornell University Press) The initiation of 12 or more black men into a Boston Freemason lodge in 1775 marked the…
The French Revolution in Global Perspective
(Cornell University Press) Placing both the origins and impacts of the French Revolution in their global context, the contributors to…
The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
(Yale University Press) Plater wrote this book in an attempt to clarify controversy surrounding a Supreme Court case he won…
Upstanding Young Gentlemen
Founded by four students (Joey Edelmann ’13, Cory Furlong ’13, Javier Masis ’13, and Nathan Tyrell ’14) in 2011, Burne…
Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy
(Duke University Press) Through an examination of American and British poetry from the past two centuries, Fuss argues that poetry…
Black Dahlia & White Rose
(Harper Collins) Aiming to show the world’s darker side, this book of 11 previously uncollected short stories has a broad…
"Light Horse Harry" Lee In the War for Independence
(The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America) The second in a series on George Washington’s best officers, the book…
A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog Throughout Jewish History
(Sussex Academic Press) This book of essays explores how Jews have viewed dogs through history. The essays look at different…
The Word on the Street
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In this book of rock lyrics, Muldoon explores both working-class New Jersey and his Irish roots…
The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Secret Boyhood Diary
(University of Minnesota Press) Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minn., and at age 14 started keeping a short diary…
Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures
(Princeton University Press) Examining the long relationship between poetry and pictures, primarily from antiquity to the renaissance, Barkan notices that…