CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
For Durkheim: Essays in Historical and Cultural Sociology
(Ashgate) This volume of 17 essays focuses on Emile Durkheim, the founder of modern academic sociology. The essays cover a…
Another Faust
(Candlewick Press) Another Faust re-creates the story of the Faustian bargain in present day New York. Years after five children…
Honest Sid: Memoir of a Gambling Man
(iUniverse) This book follows the adventures of the author’s father, Sid Probstein, in New York City during the first half…
A Boy at the Four Corners: Looking into Small-town America in its Prime
(CreateSpace) Seen through the eyes of a boy living in 1920’s and ’30’s small-town America, this nonfictional story reviews the…
Dusk at St. Mark’s and Other Poems
(Chester Creek Press) Thirty-five copies of this deluxe limited edition chapbook have been printed letterpress on a variety of handmade…
We Were Merchants: The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux’s and Maison Blanche Department Stores
(Louisiana State University Press) Sternberg provides an account of how his parents, Erich and Lea, fled from Nazi Germany to…
Red Diaper Baby: A Revolutionary Comedy
A performer of autobiographical monologues, Kornbluth wrote this comic coming-of-age story of a young boy who believes he must grow…
The Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property
(Penguin Group) This book gives business leaders new tools to take stock of their intellectual property, compare it to that…
Custodians of Place: Governing the Growth and Development of Cities
(Georgetown University Press) This book provides a theoretical framework that accounts for how different types of cities arrive at decisions…
Obelisk: A History
(The MIT Press) Obelisks — giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects — serve no practical purpose…
Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation
(New York University Press) As a new generation of “donors kids” comes of age, this book calls for better regulation…
Toxic Truth: A Doctor and the Battle over Lead
(Beacon Press) The author chronicles the stories of geochemist Clair Patterson and pediatrician Herbert Needleman as they fought to prove…
The Pied Piper: Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream
(Grove Press) This biography of Allard Lowenstein explores the one-term Congressman who was active in politics in the 1960s and…
Life: Organic Form and Romanticism
(Yale University Press) This book looks at how major writers of the Romantic period strove to produce living forms of…
Women’s Health for Life: Written by Women for Women
(DK Publishing) This compilation of medical advice — assembled exclusively for women — is designed to help women optimize their…
What I Thought I Knew
(Viking) In this memoir, the author recounts the difficult decisions and emotions she faced when she discovered that she was…
In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide
(Basic Books) In this memoir, the author tries to discover who her mother was and why she killed herself. At…
If the Delta Was the Sea
(Hanging Loose Press) In his eighth book of poems, Lourie explores the heritage of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, particularly the city…