CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
(Yale University Press) Combining imperial, political, social, and cultural history, Colley examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented…
River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
(Duke University Press) In this ethnographic account, Dent describes the production and reception of Brazilian country music, and explains why…
Ménage à Twang
This debut album by the all-girl camp country trio — Emily Moore ’99, Jessica Del Vecchio ’99, and Rachel Levy…
Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World
(MIT Press) The authors provide a tour of the molecular structure of invisible atomic structures. Beginning with simple structures like…
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
(Penguin Press) Modern warfare is starting to resemble science fiction, as robots are becoming a bigger presence in the military…
Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change
(FT Press) Using the metaphor of whitewater rafting, this book is a guide to thriving, not simply surviving, in the…
Race to Injustice: Lessons Learned from the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
(Carolina Academic Press) Using the Duke lacrosse rape case as model, this book investigates limitations of the American criminal-justice system…
Naked Wire
Released under Deborah Hurwitz ’89’s pseudonym Deborah Marlowe, this solo album features a rich blend of pop, acoustic rock, and…
How Your Surgeon Feels: Lifetime Essays in the Art and Science of Surgery
(iUniverse.com) In a compilation of 10 essays, the author reflects on his life as a doctor and writer, the national…
How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn’t Have to be Forever
(Dutton) Jack Horner, who advised Steven Spielberg on Jurassic Park, and James Gorman reveal how scientists can manipulate a chicken…
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism
(Doubleday) The author traces the social and intellectual forces that led to Christian anti-Semitism. She shows how Augustine of Hippo…
Adaptations: Disquisitions on Psychoanalysis 1997-2006
(Word Association) In this collection of 10 speeches patterned after the style of Sigmund Freud and coupled with the humor…
The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
(Princeton University Press) “Was George Bush the heir of Woodrow Wilson?” So begins this timely exploration of the relationship between…
Lives of the Artists
(Henry Holt) In this collection of profiles that first appeared in The New Yorker, the author examines the personal and…
Majesty and Humanity: Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age
(Yale University Press) The author explores a surprising preoccupation with the disrobing of the king in the golden age of…
Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
(W.W. Norton) Instead of focusing on Einstein’s many successes, Ohanian turns to his mistakes, both careless and fruitful, in this…
Theoryland: A Tragedy in Five Cantos
(CreateSpace) This epic poem satirizes academic pretense. The poem, which tells the story of a young professor who wants to…
The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body
(Oxford University Press) The authors explore the evolution of the still-emerging art form, new music theater, an alternative performance art…