CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

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 —…
Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions
In this work, Catherine Keyser ’01 explores American construction of food and race in early- to mid-20th century literature, and…
Science of the Soul, the Afterlife, and the Shift
In this third volume of The Synchronized Universe series, Claude Swanson *76 argues that there exists real scientific evidence for…
Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now
In this collection of personal essays, Andre Perry ’00 wields a wide variety of styles to tell the semi-fragmented, raw…
Thinking Inside the Box
Part history, part profile, and full love letter, Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who…
Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees From Nazi Europe
As Nazi Germany cracked down on Jewish, communist, and all “non-Aryan” peoples, persecuted scholars tried desperately to leave the country…
A *New* Program for Graphic Design
A do-it-yourself textbook, A *New* Program for Graphic Design (Inventory Press) reflects graphic design lessons from three Princeton design courses.


















