CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
Everything Is Cinema
(Metropolitan Books) In this biography of one of the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave, the author examines how…
Courts and Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution
Quirk asserts that the government has lost confidence in the people, citing the shift of decision-making power from Congress to…
Sex at Noon Taxes
(Louisiana State University Press) Winner of the 2007 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the poems in…
Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change
Half step-by-step guide and half personal anecdote, Bregman has boiled down almost 20 years consulting with corporate America to present…
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 —…
Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America
(Collins) Birding expert and editor of Birding Magazine, Floyd packed his book with more than 2,500 photos of birds and…