CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement
(Princeton University Press) In this book, Berger looks at civic engagement and how realistic it is to expect more political…
Fictional Religion: Keeping the New Testament New
(Polebridge Press) The author examines how writers of fiction from Chaucer to C.S. Lewis have taken the Christian doctrine they…
Jane and the Canterbury Tale
(Bantam) In the 11th installment of the Jane Austen mystery series, the famous sleuth attends a wedding. Trouble starts when…
North to Nunavut: An Arctic Love Letter
(Chapel Hill Press) This memoir follows the Sparlings during their 10-year adventure in the Eastern Canadian Arctic where they learned…
Functional Analysis: Introduction to Further Topics in Analysis
(Princeton University Press) This is the fourth and final volume in the Princeton Lectures in Analysis series. This book looks…
A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard: A Novel in Three Parts
(Columbia University Press) This novel is set in Japan in the 1960s and focuses on Ben Isaac, a young American…
Drink, Slay, Love
(Simon and Schuster) In this story of a vampire girl gone good, Pearl, a 16-year-old vampire, is stabbed in the…
A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny
(Bethany House) After Becker’s first child, Penny was born with Down syndrome, she had to rethink everything she had imagined…
Shingled Houses in the Summer Sun: The Work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva
(Images Publishing) This monograph of the recent work of the design/build firm Polhemus Savery DaSilva includes more than 400 color…
The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
(University of California Press) In this book, Morning examines how scientists, through teaching and textbooks, are helping to shape ideas…
Justice and the American Metropolis
(University of Minnesota Press) This book is a collection of essays focusing on “thick injustice” — deeply entrenched unjust power…
Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts
(Oxford University Press) By examining a series of linked moments and the works of artists in these moments, the author…
FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944
(Indiana University Press) Most people today assume Franklin D. Roosevelt’s reelection to a fourth term was assured. Jordan’s account of…
The Legacy of Emily Dickinson: Poems by Anthony Ross Potter and Elizabeth Leopold Potter
(Xlibris) Potter is a close relative of Emily Dickinson and this book is a collection of Potter’s poetry. The collection…
Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature
(New York University Press) Gleason explores the relationship between race and architecture in the 19th and early-20th century — the…
Private Utilities and Poverty Alleviation: Market Initiatives at the Base of the Pyramid
(Edward Elgar) This book examines the creation of new business models that can be used to bring basic utilities to…
George F. Kennan [’25]: An American Life
(Penguin) This authorized biography provides a glimpse into Kennan’s personal life. Gaddis also includes critical analyses of Kennan’s roles as…
My War: In Which An Underage Navy Ensign Wages A Notably Unheroic Battle With As Much Damage to His Own Side As to the Enemy
(Railroad Street Press) This book is the story of Jack, a 19-year old Navy Ensign thrust into World War II…