CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China
Pharmacy—both a medical and commercial enterprise—has influenced China’s early modern cultural transformation. In Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in…
What Happens When We Practice Religion?: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life
We say we “practice” religion, but what does this really mean? In What Happens When We Practice Religion?: Textures of…
Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity
In this book, Peter Schäfer, professor emeritus of religion and Judaic Studies, complicates Judeo-Christian monotheism by reintroducing a second, junior…
The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has helped solidify manufacturing as a foundational base of the U.S. economy since 1895…
Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds
The avian mating system starts with courtship and ends with raising chicks. In Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds…
The Little Book of Cosmology
It can be hard to conceptualize the enormity of the universe, but Lyman Page, professor of physics, creates an accessible…
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Life expectancy has fallen in the United States for three years straight, and economics professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton…
Lectures on Dostoevsky
In this collection of lectures delivered by Joseph Frank, professor emeritus of comparative literature, published posthumously, Dostoevsky and his novels…
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
The final year of the Civil War shaped the America we know today. Hymns of the Republic: The Story of…
First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
In First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship (Bloomsbury), sociology professor Richard Lachmann asserts that the U.S. is headed for…
Awakening the Butterfly
A syfy romance with strong spiritual and economic themes. A multicultual cast of characters guide the visit of an unintentional…
Cry Havoc: Charlottesville and American Democracy Under Siege
Mike Signer ’95 was the mayor of Charlottesville when the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally descended upon the city…
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
As Allied forces pursued the German army across northern France in the summer of 1944, French leader Charles de Gaulle…
Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know
Since the late 1970s, China’s manufacturing capability and car market have increased dramatically and technologically advanced cities have replaced fertile…
Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid Pro Quo?
Gonda Van Steen *95, in the first book dedicated to dedicated to the vast adoption network in Greece following the…
The Future of the History of Chemical Information
The Future of the History of Chemical Information (American Chemical Society/Oxford University Press) collects contributions from a 2012 symposium during…
Eight Kisses: Eight All-New Tales of Holiday Romance
In this anthology, eight authors write short romance stories for Hanukkah, ranging from interfaith couples to online dating. Eight Kisses…
The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
Protests, Daniel Q. Gillion argues, are vitally important for and directly influence voter behavior when election season rolls around —…
