CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Myths about Suicide
(Harvard University Press) The author investigates accepted myths about suicide and provides personal and professional advice on suicide prevention. He…