CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The Color of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
(Harvard University Press) Harvard’s website describes this book as “a major reevaluation of relationships among blacks, Jews, and the Irish…
Love's Vision
(Princeton University Press) Troy Jollimore offers up his own explanations for both the irrational and logical sides of love in…
Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life’s Stages Through Books
(Random House) Through great authors’ examples, Weinstein analyzes the transitions from childhood to adulthood. Readers see the cost of striving…
Art Healing: Visual Art for Emotional Insight and Well-Being
(Seishin Books) The author explores how and why painting and sculpture can provide catharsis, and provides a method for unlocking…
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
(Princeton University Press) The authors tell the story of ancient Mesopotamia from ten thousand years ago up to the seventh…
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…
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…
High-Value Target: Countering Al-Qaeda in Yemen
(Potomac Books) During Hull’s tenure as American ambassador to Yemen (2001-2004), al-Qaeda’s safe haven in Yemen was disrupted. In this…