CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
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…
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…
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…
The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
(Rutgers University Press) Through investigations of literary and cultural texts by African American and Jewish women, this book raises new…
Executive Employment Law: Protecting Executives, Entrepreneurs, and Employees
(Oxford University Press) In today’s world, the country is more concerned than ever before with executive compensation practices, but few…
Muhammad's Grave
(Columbia University Press) Through study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Halevi compares prescriptive…
DeepFreeze! A Photographer’s Antarctic Odyssey in the Year 1959
(International Photography Publishers) During the summer of 1959, McCabe visited the Antarctic as part of an assignment for the New…
Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition
(University of Pennsylvania Press) Jewish experience is re-explored in this collection of essays, which give consideration to non-written expressions of…
From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers, and Education in Nineteenth Century Egypt
(I.B. Tauris) During the 19th century, the Egyptian state under Muhammad Ali Pasha sought to create a new relationship with…
Buglette: The Messy Sleeper
(Tricycle Press) Buglette is a tidy bug by day, but messy by night — her dreams are so big that…
A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, with “On My Religion”
(Harvard University Press) In this publication of Rawls’ senior thesis at Princeton, the late philosopher explores the link between moral…
And the Best is Yet to Come
(Lulu.com) In this autobiography, Whallon chronicles his early years, time at Princeton, his years as a chaplain in the Navy…
From the Box Marked "Some Are Missing"
(Hobblebush Books) This volume of poetry includes selected poems from three of Pratt’s earlier books, along with many poems that…
Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia
(Routledge) Church Slavonic is one of the world’s historic sacred languages, and has experienced a revival in the contemporary period…
Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan
(Waveland Press) Buzkashi, a game that involves horsemen struggling over a mutilated calf carcass, is a vivid part of life…