CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Topped Chef
(Signet) The third installment in a mystery series, Isleib’s novel continues the story of Hayley Snow, a food critic tapped…
Avoiding Skewed Entrepreneurial Strategies
(First Edition Design Publishing) Beilin and Delfino, small business consultants, published this short guide to help small-business owners who might…
Ceremonies of Bravery: Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair
(Oxford University Press) After years of research, Maguire explores Oscar Wilde’s peculiar involvement in the Dreyfus affair, a French political…
Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre
(Southern Illinois University Press) Founder of Fringe Benefits, an activist theater company that works with schools and communities to promote…
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…
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…