CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices
(Crown Business) The MIT Media Lab has been the incubator of inventions like the e-reader, LEGO Mindstorms robotic toys, and…
The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World
(Yale University Press) If the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology and biology, it…
A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment
(Cornell University Press) The author finds that the new culture of corporate employment, changes to the job search process, and…
In Defense of Self and Others: Issues, Facts, and Fallacies — the Realities of Law Enforcement’s Use of Deadly Force
(Carolina Academic Press) Patrick comprehensively addresses the use of force by law enforcement officers in this book, through survey and…
Circuits in the Brain: A Model of Shape Processing in the Primary Visual Cortex
(Springer) Legendy attempts to derive certain features of the brain directly from the neurons. He includes a step-by-step development of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Justice and the American Metropolis
(University of Minnesota Press) This book is a collection of essays focusing on “thick injustice” — deeply entrenched unjust power…
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…
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…
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…
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…