CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life
(Princeton University Press) Although many organizations devote substantial resources to limiting and clarifying the logics used for evaluating employee worth…
The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
(Princeton University Press) Examining the federal regulation of homosexuality in America from the turn of the 20th century, Canaday reveals…
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
(Columbia University Press) In this volume of seven essays, Cohen questions conventional assumptions about the course of Soviet history, the…
Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature
(University of Texas Press) The author revisits the 1930s as a crucial decade for the Mexican American reclamation of Texas…
Hybrid Organizations: New Business Models for Environmental Leadership
(Greenleaf Publishing) This book shows how “hybrid organizations,” companies that operate in the blurry space between the for-profit and nonprofit…
Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
(University of North Carolina Press) While skilled workers of the early 19th century “owned” their workplace knowledge and technical skill…
The Divine Farce
(Leapfrog Press) Locked together in a tiny cell, three people grow intimately close, even loving, in this allegorical interrogation of…
Ultra: I Was There
(Lulu Publishing) An American intelligence officer during WWII, Landis Gores worked for the code and cipher service of British Military…
The Software License Unveiled: How Legislation by License Controls Software Access
(Oxford University Press) The author examines how proliferating but largely unread license terms affect access to software. Licenses for software…
Sounding Out
Anna Rubin *00’s new composition, “Shards of Sappho,” is included on the DVD Sounding Out (Everglade Records), featuring computer-generated works…
The First American Women Architects
(University of Illinois Press) The author traces the lives and careers of more than 70 pioneering female architects practicing in…
Siddur Sha’ar Zahav
(Congregation Sha’ar Zahav) The world’s first LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Jewish prayer book, Siddur Sha’ar Zahav adapts the traditional…
Deep Driller
(Xlibris) Set in the 1970s, this novel takes place on an oil rig during the discovery of petroleum in the…
Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France
(Duke University Press) In Mobilizing Youth , Whitney explains how the Communist and Catholic youth movements came to the forefront…
Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois
(Oxford University Press) Although W. E. B. Du Bois is known for his skepticism and even hostility to religion, Kahn…
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
(PublicAffairs) In The Case for Books , Darnton offers a history of our literary past and a look at the…
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…