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…
Spartak Moscow: The People’s Team in the Workers’ State
(Cornell University Press) Spartak Moscow chronicles the history of Spartak, a soccer team that emerged in Moscow and gained a…
In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred
(Harmony Books) In this book, the author addresses provocative questions regarding religion today, with an aim to recover the experience…
Apocalypses
(Finishing Line Press) In this poetry chapbook, the author uses verse to explore existential anxieties that often turn out to…
Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan
(Columbia University Press) Named U.S. Ambassador to Japan by President Kennedy in 1961, Edwin O. Reischauer urged his fellow citizens…
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
(Portfolio) This book examines how people allot the 168 hours of each week and suggests that with a little reorganization…
How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today’s Economy
(Crown Business) Forbes argues that a crisis of confidence in capitalism (spurred on by the worst recession in decades) is…
Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity
(University of Michigan Press) In Understanding Torture, the author argues that prohibiting torture will not end it. He claims that…
Prostate Cancer Survivors Speak Their Minds: Advice on Options, Treatments, and Aftereffects
(Wiley) Offering a medical discussion of prostate cancer options, treatments, and aftereffects, this book is a guide for men diagnosed…
Multiannual Macroeconomic Programming Techniques for Developing Economies
(World Scientific Publishing Company) In this book, the author describes a range of techniques that analysts can use to project…
Satan Lake
(McArthur & Co.) In this novel, Angie and Ross spend the summer of 1984 in the idyllic upstate town of…
Black Dogs and Blue Words: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care
(Rutgers University Press) The author analyzes the rhetoric surrounding depression. She argues that the language and techniques of depression marketing…
Live!
(Terry Silverlight Records). Featuring Terry Silverlight ’79’s drumming and original music, this jazz album is a compilation of live performances…
Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
(Portfolio) In Rough Justice , the author explores the many sides of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer ’81: well-intentioned…
Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism
(MIT Press) In this book, the author addresses the meaning of environmentalism in a “postnature” age when wildness is coming…
What Darwin Got Wrong
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The authors argue that Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection cannot explain evolution. While not denying…
France and its Empire Since 1870: The Republican Tradition
(Oxford University Press) Covering the history of the French nation and its overseas empire since 1870, this book sets out…
Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think
(Oxford University Press) The author examines the religious views of elite scientists from top U.S. research universities and argues that…