CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
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…
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…
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
(Princeton University Press) The authors tell the story of ancient Mesopotamia from ten thousand years ago up to the seventh…
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…
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…
After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement
(Columbia University Press) The authors in this volume explore the concept of pluralism as a doctrine that is embedded within…
Wasted Genius: How IQ and SAT Tests Are Hurting Our Kids & Crippling America
(CreateSpace) Greene outlines a theory of how people of all races are truly equal and should be afforded equal nurturing…
The Book of Terns
(Ternaround Press) Over 30 years ago, Delacorte and Witte teamed up to create a book of wacky illustrations of puns…
The Gift: Looking to Jesus as He Was
(CreateSpace) In this book, Fletcher describes a “gift” that was given to “all the family, but with no manual to…
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…