CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The Death Instinct
(Riverhead Books) This historical mystery starts off with New York’s first terrorist attack, which occurred on September 16, 1920, when…
Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map
(Holiday House) The narrator of this picture book is Agnes Morley, who grew up working on her family’s ranch in…
Hell on Two Wheels: An Astonishing Story of Suffering, Triumph, and the Most Extreme Endurance Race in the World
(Triumph Books) Each year some of the world’s most talented ultra-distance cyclists gather in California for the most extreme endurance…
The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
(University of California Press) Morning draws on interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergraduates to determine how scientists are influencing ideas…
The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World
(Spiegel and Grau) Braude explores the story of an ordinary Islamic citizen whose life clashes with the underbelly of the…
Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
(Duke University Press) Digital sampling, the act of incorporating snippets of existing recordings into new ones, has revolutionized the music…
Laughing Out Laud: Tripping Over Party Lines
(Independent Books) Paul Laud pokes fun at politicians and business and media pundits in this book of limericks and satirical…
Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution
(MIT Press) In this collection, the authors offer new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. Each contributor…
Whitethorn
(LSU Press) Osherow’s collection of poetry focuses on the idea that although human suffering may be irremediable, nature and language…
The Color of Night
(Vintage Books) The narrator of this novel about the persistence of violence in America is Mae, a blackjack dealer in…
Mandela’s Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
(Crown) Stengel recounts stories from Nelson Mandela’s childhood, his days as a revolutionary, his imprisonment, and even his personal relationships…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Culture of Diagram
(Stanford University Press) This book explores the terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, and foregrounds diagrams as…
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…
Getting It
(iUniverse.com) In this novel, Shaviro satirizes the world of large law firms, detailing the professional and personal exploits of Bill…