CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration
(University of Illinois Press) During Japanese internment during World War II, the U.S. authorities turned photographs against Japanese Americans while…
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…
Transmigration: Poems
(Sheep Meadow Press) In this collection of poems, the author examines marriage, falling in and out of love, the soul…
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics
(Duke University Press) The author calls for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States, criticizing the…
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
(University of California Press) The art of dissimulation, practiced widely in early modern Europe, allowed princes, aristocrats, and commoners alike…
US Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda: Signalling and the Terrorist World-View
(Routledge) In this book Geltzer examines the communicative aspects and implications of U.S. counter-terrorist policies toward al-Qaeda, looking specifically at…
Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt
(SUNY Press) This book is an ethnography of life within two large textile factories in Alexandria, Egypt. The author, who…
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
(Modern Library Chronicles) Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kotkin and Gross revisit the collapse of Communist…
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan ['25], and the History of the Cold War
(Henry Holt). In this dual biography of the two master architects of America’s Cold War strategy, the author explores the…
![The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan ['25], and the History of the Cold War](/sites/default/files/styles/small_100/public/images/content/LIVE.Releases_Hawk.jpg?itok=xhVyv896 "The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan ['25], and the History of the Cold War")
Radical Games: Popping the Bubble of 1960s’ Architecture
(NAi Publishers) Comparing a number of radical architectural movements in the 1960s, Schrijver traces a moment in the history of…
Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age
(University of Chicago Press) At the turn of the 19th century, Europeans and North Americans were making a remarkable social…
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
(Duke University Press) Although financial collapses are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles, Karen Ho rejects the…
The Immobile Man: A Neurologist’s Casebook
(McClain Printing Company) The author provides stories of patients struggling with neurological problems and covers issues from medical-ethical dilemmas to…
Far Flung and Well Fed: The Food Writing of R.W. Apple Jr.
(St. Martin’s Press) In this collection of more than 50 essays written by the late New York Times political reporter…
In This Way I Was Saved
(Simon & Schuster) This novel that Publishers Weekly called a “spellbinding debut” follows Luke and his imaginary friend, Daniel, whom…
Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora
(University of California Press) Mooney explores the challenges that Haitians face in three case study cities (Miami, Montreal, and Paris)…