CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
(Stanford University Press) This book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge…
Change in Democratic Mongolia – Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining
(BRILL) Since Mongolia removed itself from the collapsing Soviet Bloc more than 20 years ago, the country has been undergoing…
American Presidents in Portraits and Verse
This book contains woodcut images of all the presidents of the United States, with verse about each of them. Illick…
The Rules of Influence: Winning When You’re in the Minority
(St. Martin’s Press) This book looks at how the “weak influence the strong [and] how the minority changes the majority.”…
First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America’s Prosperity
(W.W. Norton & Co.) This book presents a straightforward plan to rebuild America’s economic future by returning to its founding…
The Ararat Illusion
(David Minier) Santa Barbara cop Michael Page becomes involved in a series of international incidents involving Armenian terrorist Antranik. Working…
The Little Yellow Trolley Car — a True Story
(G. Boreas Publishing) This picture book tells the true story of a little trolley that brought passengers and freight from…
The Heart of Ma Yuan: The Search for a Southern Song Aesthetic
(Hong Kong University Press) This book discusses the paintings of Ma Yuan, one of China’s best-known artists, and a major…
Sasha’s Sweet Sixteen Secrets to Long Life
(Animate Photography) This warmhearted picture book dispenses the wisdom of Sasha, a 16-year-old cat who gives down-to-earth advice on how…
Ends of Enlightenment
(Stanford University Press) This collection of essays explores three realms of 18th-century European innovation: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and…
Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It
(Thomas Dunne Books) After 30 years as an elected Republican in the U.S. Senate, Specter broke with the Republicans over…
Your Body Beautiful: Clockstopping Secrets to Staying Healthy, Strong, and Sexy in Your 30s, 40s, and Beyond
(Avery) Ashton and Rojo assert that a woman’s 30s and 40s can be the most beautiful, energetic, and passionate time…
Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era
(Palgrave Macmillan) In a high-speed, media-centric world, not only do events move quickly, but so does public reaction to those…
Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women’s Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne
(Cornell University Press) This book reconstructs the lived experiences of the communities of religious women that the Cistercians incorporated into…
Footprints of Africa
(Focus Fine Art Photography Publishing) With its striking images, this book of wildlife photography brings out the rich life of…
When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?: How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality
(Princeton University Press) This book looks at how a liberal democracy should respond to hate groups and others that oppose…
Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese
(Princeton University Press) This fully revised edition provides learners with a deeper fluency in high-level Chinese vocabulary and grammar, includes…
The Firing of Stephen Ledberg
(The Troy Book Makers) This book follows the journeys of Stephen Ledberg, who goes all the way to Africa in…