CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
Plant Light and Las Vegas: 14 Experimental Stories
(Xlibris) Most of these 14 experimental fictions, interweaving transparently realistic and fantastically opaque elements, have appeared in small press publications…
Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
In this account of the Hungarian uprising and Soviet crackdown, the author, a former Radio Free Europe journalist in Munich…
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
In this analysis of the West’s war against terrorism, the author rethinks foreign policy by exploring it from legal, historical…
The World of Soy
In this volume, food specialists examine issues relating to soy production and consumption, including genetically engineered soybeans, increasing soybean cultivation…
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
(Princeton University Press) In this history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, the author examines the imperial struggle…
The New Mom’s Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby
(Bantam Dell) Filled with anecdotes, burning questions and answers, and practical advice, this primer offers medical information and addresses psychological…
The Year She Disappeared
After her daughter, Alex, claims her husband is abusing their daughter, Nan Mulholland, the main character in this novel goes…
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
The main character in this chapter book for young readers, Alvin Ho, a Chinese-American second-grader, is afraid of everything —…
The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
(Basic Books) The author, the winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 2004, explains the search for what scientists…
A Fish in the Moonlight: Growing Up in the Bone Marrow Unit
(Purdue University Press) The author recounts his experience sharing his childhood stories — about fighting with his brother over a…
The Shadow of Sirius
(Copper Canyon Press) In his latest collection of poetry, which Publishers Weekly called “his best book in a decade —…
