CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

What Comes after Farce?
What Comes after Farce? reviews the state of art and culture in the Trump era, asking questions such as how…
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography includes pieces from 25 different scholars across a variety of fields who investigate…
Fires of Gold: Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana
Fires of Gold explores the Ghanaian gold mining industry in this detailed ethnography. Rosen argues that, outside of Ghana’s official…
Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature
Arabic Poetics argues that post-11th-century Arabic literature and literary criticism had moved away from valuing traditional or static rhetorical forms…
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary Sources
An anthology of primary sources on the Spanish Pacific translated into English and introduced by a scholar in the field…
Miss Aluminum: A Memoir
Susanna Moore’s memoir, Miss Aluminum, tells the tale of her early life as a model in 1970s Los Angeles. She…
Lean Against This Late Hour
The first English translation of a collection of Garous Abdolmalekian poems, this anthology features poetry about loss and trauma.
Adventures in English Syntax
Adventures in English Syntax is an approachable account of how English sentence structure works to create understanding in a reader…
A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa
A Slave Between Empires follows General Husayn, a 19th-century slave whose life and posthumous estate connected disparate empires and cultural…
Rendez-vous With America: An Explanation of the US Election System
A book aimed primarily at helping non-Americans understand U.S. elections, Rendez-vous With America is an approachable read for anyone looking…
Bicycling Thorough Paradise: Historical Tours around Cincinnati
Chris Hanlin ’81 and Kathleen Smythe, a history professor and an architect, guide the reader through twenty historical cycling tours…
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
Michael Friendly *71 and Howard Wainer *68 chronicle the history of data visualization, from plotting distances in the mid-17th century…
The Agent
Book three in The Consultants series, The Agent follows New Jersey salon owner Natalie Hart and former FBI agent turned…
The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano
The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano chronicles Bach’s life and times, drawing…
Rethink Your Shrink: The Best Alternatives to Talk Therapy and Meds
Including topics such as “A is for Acupuncture” and “Happiness On Tap,” Dr. Sam Von Reiche ’84 explores science-backed alternative…
Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work
Jeff Schwartz *87 considers changes that must be made to create a successful 21st-century workplace in Work Disrupted. Questions include…
Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina
Drawing on anthropological work started at Princeton, Natasha Zaretsky *08 explores the everyday lives of people coping with political violence…
Information: A Historical Companion
Information studies the rise of information from 1450 through our present day. Covering information and how it is presented in…