CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Wannabee CEO: A Practical Guide to Starting Your Own Small Business
Starting your own business as a burgeoning entrepreneur is a difficult, risky, and expensive move—but by asking questions, doing careful…
The Attention Deficit: Unintended Consequences of Digital Connectivity
Digital technology facilitates connectivity in an overwhelmingly appealing way to humans seeking social bonds and interactions. In The Attention Deficit…
Finding Your Path — Unconventional Lessons from 36 Leading Scientists and Engineers
Daniel Goodman’82 teams up with leading scientists and engineers to explore the harshness and difficulties of being a scientist. Finding…
Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank
Berda *14, who worked as a civil-rights attorney in the West Bank, provides a first-hand account of Israel’s permit regime…
Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons
Mary Watkins ’72’s Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons (Yale University Press), has been called “A landmark book…
Einstein in Bohemia
Professor of modern and contemporary history Michael D. Gordin sheds a light on Einstein’s 16 months spent in Prague, in…
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
Hammer ’79 writes a true-crime adventure in The Falcon Thief (Simon & Schuster). This adventure describes the parallel lives of…
Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine
Taxes and Trust (Cambridge University Press) is the first book to focus on trust and taxes and to concentrate on…
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
The Book Rescuer (Paul Wiseman/Simon & Schuster) highlights MacArthur Grant winner Aaron Lansky’s attempts to find books written in Yiddish…
The Trust Revolution: How Digitization of Trust will Revolutionize Business and Government
Henderson ’93 and Churi offer insight as to how the Internet provides a means to strengthen human trust in the…
Tell Me, Signora
In Ann Harleman *72’s novel Tell Me, Signora, Kate Hagesfeld escapes to Italy after her husband’s death in 9/11. Kate…
Sanctified Sisters: A History of Protestant Deaconesses
Legath *08 highlights the lives of American deaconesses, American Protestant women who modeled the lifestyles of Catholic nuns the late…
Saint Joan of New York: A Novel About God and String Theory
In Saint Joan of New York (Springer), Alpert ’82 details 17-year-old math genius Joan’s mind as she struggles between string…
The True West
Mifflin Lowe ’70’s children’s book offers an untold perspective of the diversity of those in the American West in The…
How to Read Architecture
Paulette Singley *98 offers a fresh perspective on architecture based on the idea that observers already interpret structures and that…
Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters are Breaking America
Since Nov. 8, 2016, critics of Donald Trump have organized and carried out a “Resistance” to the Trump presidency —…
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
In this anthology of new short stories, Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers (Akashic Books)…
Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
In this memoir, P. Carl reflects on his transition to becoming a man after 50 years of living as a…


















