CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Incurable: A Life After Diagnosis
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) Only eight days after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, Harris began to write…
Trophy: A Novel
(TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press) Vada Prickett, a 29-year-old car-wash worker in South Carolina, contemplates his last moments in this novel…
What’s Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World
(Random House) After discovering a suspicious (but benign) mass in his abdomen, Jenkins began to investigate everyday exposure to toxic…
In the Language of Silence: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu (h96)
(University of North Carolina Press) Renowned potter Toshiko Takaezu, who was heavily influenced by midcentury modernism, worked actively in clay…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…