CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
(University of North Carolina Press) This book uses the tuberculosis crisis among urban African Americans in the first half of…
Peace versus Justice?: The Dilemma of Transitional Justice in Africa
(University of KwaZulu Natal Press) This volume examines a wide range of approaches to accountability and peacebuilding in African countries…
Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species
(Burford Books) This guide to spin-fishing techniques for the absolute beginner explains how to select a rod, how to cast…
Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales
(Stanford University Press) This study draws from theories of the grotesque to examine many of the strange and extraordinary creatures…
Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis
(Hoover Institution Press) In this book, Taylor provides empirical research to explain what caused the current financial crisis, what prolonged…
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters
(Random House) In this follow-up to Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School and Other Scary Things, Alvin conquers his fears…
The Dream Wizard Conquers His Knight Mare
(Xlibris) This bedtime story — a fantasy adventure about Sandy and his dog Rem — seeks to educate children about…
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…
Everything Is Cinema
(Metropolitan Books) In this biography of one of the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave, the author examines how…
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…