CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy
Environmental assessments underly government policymaking and regulatory action. Discerning Experts (University of Chicago Press) examines how environmental scientists conduct these…
Cervantes’ Persiles and the Travails of Romance
Cervantes’ Persiles and the Travails of Romance (University of Toronto Press) collects essays on the final novel of Miguel de…
The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language
The invention of the printing press in the 16th century sent shockwaves through the European continent. In The Prosthetic Tongue…
Stages of European Romanticism: Cultural Synchronicity Across the Arts, 1798-1848
Romanticism was not a monolithic phenomenon — it progressed in stages throughout the first half of the 19th century. Stages…
The Maggie Barnes Trilogy: Broken Glass
This is the first in the Maggie Barnes Trilogy, which features a family saga of conflict and redemption. Widow Maggie…
Negotiating at the United Nations: A Practitioner's Guide
Negotiating at the United Nations is a comprehensive guide to negotiating at the United Nations. Although much of the advice…
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975
Artists Respond explores how the Vietnam War galvanized American artists and challenged them to transform their art into political statements…
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela
Based upon exhaustive research, White Supremacy Confronted a comprehensive account of the entangled histories of apartheid and Jim Crow culminating…
So You Want To Be A Diplomat?
George Lambrakis ’52 writes this memoir with the aim to help students or other prospective diplomats learn what they might…
The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds
When the first Europeans made contact with American Indians more than 500 indiginous languages were spoken on the continent. Today…
Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
By exploring how Western imperialism shaped the developing world, Atul Kohli analyzes British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the…
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville is a multidisciplinary examination of Melville’s works. The book explores how the…
Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains
Big-screen villains tend to live in architectural splendor, their homes often locations where a hero is tested. Movie villains’ abodes…
The Power Notebooks
Told in a series of notebook entries, Roiphe weaves her personal experiences with divorce, single motherhood, and relationships with insights…
Medusa's Head: The Rise and Survival of Joseph Fouché, Inventor of the Modern Police State
Medusa's Head recounts the career of Napoleon's security chief Joseph Fouché, creator of the modern police state. Fouché was an…
Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye ’58, a leading scholar of international relations, analyzes how ethics have factored into…
Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
In Beyond Broadway, Stacy Wolf considers how examines musical theater in all of its forms and considers how it has…
Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties
Breaking Through examines the evolution of women's rights in sports, introducing to young-adult readers the female athletes who from the…
