CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
To Lima With Love
(Amazon Digital Services) Harris’ book tells the story of an American pilot flying to Peru in search of lost love…
Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present
(Smithsonian Books) This anthology of modern and Civil War era poems includes poems by John Koethe ’67, two Princeton professors…
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…
Addiction Trajectories
(Duke University Press) Based on ethnography from around the world, this collection of essays explores the meaning of addiction in…
Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
(Harvard University Press) James Fleming and Linda McClain tackle some of the biggest civil liberties issues of today in their…
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…
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…