CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans
(Indiana University Press) The author explores the history and significance of the religious traditions, identities, and performance forms celebrated in…
A Comfortable Boy: A Memoir
(Mercer University Press) In this memoir Sam Pickering, who became a celebrity after being portrayed as teacher John Keating in…
The Culture of Diagram
(Stanford University Press) This book explores the terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, and foregrounds diagrams as…
Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School
(Broadway Books) If you have committed yourself to post-graduate work, this humorous guide serves to sooth the trauma of that…
Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow
(University of California Press) This book explores the history and cultural significance of Jim Crow signs. Abel explores the meaning…
Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on Everything You Do
(McGraw Hill) The author takes the reader inside the world of numbers, revealing the practical applications of statistics in our…
Implementing Innovation: Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governance
(Georgetown University Press) Implementing Innovation argues that the key to successful and long-lasting innovation in environmental policy must be a…
The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
(Oxford University Press) In this book, the author argues that the genre of the American slave narrative had a shaping…
Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on Everything You Do
(McGraw Hill) The author looks at how data-driven decisions affect us all and tries to help readers understand what the…
The Liberty Bell
(Yale University Press) Nash explores the history behind the most famous bell in the country, a symbol of liberty and…
The Letters of Sylvia Beach
(Columbia University Press) Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare & Company in 1919 and first publisher of James Joyce’s…
One Minute Stretch: Arise & Become the Movement; Better Health/Less Pain 4 Your Soul & Body
(oneminutestretch.com) This book and companion DVD provide instructions for a one-minute stretching routine used to treat and prevent ligament, muscle…
Day for Night
(Little, Brown, and Company) This intricate novel opens in Florida with Beverly Rabinowitz, a middle-aged doctor who escaped from Poland…
Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons
(Routledge) This book explores how East and West Germany and Japan reconstituted national identity through history education after 1945. Students…
Myths about Suicide
(Harvard University Press) The author investigates accepted myths about suicide and provides personal and professional advice on suicide prevention. He…
The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders
(Portfolio) In the wake of the financial crisis, the Madoff scandal, and other headlines, some people have begun to vilify…
The Lucky Child: A Novel
(Mansfield Press) When Marianne Apostolides asked her father about his childhood in wartime Greece, she received a torrent of stories…
Sanctuaries of Light in Nineteenth-Century European Literature (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, volume 102)
(Peter Lang Publishing) In this collection of essays, the author addresses the theme of sanctuaries of light in 19th-century European…