CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy
(Cornell University Press) The first complete history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), The Other Welfare explores the controversies and inequities…
James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist
(Yale University Press) Analyzing in detail Stirling’s buildings and drawings, Lawrence gives a technical analysis of one of the late…
Huldah: The Prophet Who Wrote Hebrew Scripture
(Wipf and Stock Publishing) Kavanagh examines the influence of Huldah, a female prophet, on the Hebrew bible and Israeli history…
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…
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…
Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
(University of Minnesota Press) Aiming to counter stereotypes about bland, suburban post-war America, Amy Ogata argues that baby boom parents…
Guatemala Journey Among the Ixil Maya
More than just a travel guide, Place’s book provides comprehensive information about the Ixil Maya — from history to regional…
Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire
(Harvard University Press) Looking at diaries, memoirs, and letters from soldiers in the Asia-Pacific theater from 1937-1945, Moore argues that…
Quantum Mechanics in Everyday Life
(Rhodium, Inc.) Wilton Virgo describes how the mathematics behind quantum mechanics is the foundation for everyday technologies like GPS systems…
The Equations of Chemistry (ebook)
(Rhodium, Inc.) An interactive book for iPad, Virgo’s book provides an introduction to the fundamental equations for computational chemistry. The…
A Tale without a Name
(Pushkin Press) Originally published in Greek over a century ago, this novel by Greek children’s writer Penelope Delta tells the…
Dating the Devil
(Bell Bridge Books) Lucy, a 26-year-old public-relations assistant living with her friends in New York, gets dumped by her boyfriend…
Fannie + Freddie: The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography
(Fordham University Press) A collection of prose poetry and word art, Carroll’s book paints a bold picture of American middle…
Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes
(The University of Chicago Press) Greene spends 227 pages on five words: blood, invention, language, resistance, and world. Discussing such…
A President in Yellowstone: The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthur’s 1883 Expedition
(University of Oklahoma Press) Eleven years after the founding of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, President Chester A. Arthur became…
At Home in the World: Globalization and the Peace Corps in Nepal
(Orchid Press) A first-hand narrative and analysis of the first set of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers to travel to Nepal…
Mania: The Story of Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
(Top Five Books) The culmination of eight years of research, Mania tells the fascinating story of post-war nonconformists including Jack…