CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Gravitation
Gravitation (Princeton University Press) is a graduate-level textbook, first published in 1973, that takes on Einstein's general theory of relativity…
Guide to Financial Markets: Why They Exist and How They Work
Levinson *85’s Guide to Financial Markets provides a clear guide to the complex world on topics that even market professionals…
The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist’s Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
Martin Seligman ’64 has had an enormous impact on the field of psychology, and his Positive Psychology movement has shifted…
The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church
The Framing of Sacred Space (Oxford University Press) offers the first study of canopies and their function as symbolic units…
Vanished!: America’s Most Mysterious Kidnappings, Castaways, and the Forever Lost
Vanished! (Lyons Press) is an illustrated tour of the most confounding cases of disappearance, such as Amelia Earhardt, Jimmy Hoffa…
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
The U.S. Army and Navy recruited more than 10,000 women as code breakers during World War II. Code Girls (Hachette…
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
Ellen Pao ’91 sued a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in 2015 for workplace discrimination against women and other underrepresented…
Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Freud: The Making of an Illusion (Metropolitan) reveals a Freud different than the one we think we know: Not only…
The Election of 1860: A Campaign Fraught with Consequences
Michael Holt ’62 presents a new account of the 1860 election: Lincoln versus Stephen Douglass in the North and John…
The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich
Countries and U.S. states are worried about tax flight of the rich, as income inequality grows. The Myth of Millionaire…
The Genius Plague
Paul recovers from a fungal infection that nearly kills him, gaining new mental abilities. However, his brother, Neil, realizes that…
Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia
Danny Hoffman ’94 explores the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, destroyed during the urban warfare of…
Cuteness Engineering
Cuteness Engineering (Springer) defines and explores cuteness and its incorporation into modern products and services. The authors provide detailed analyses…
Saving K-12: What Happened to Our Public Schools? How Do We Fix Them?
Public schools are a money pit, says Bruce Deitrick Price ’63, and education officials seem to prefer inefficiency and mediocrity…
The Cosmic Common Good: Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics
Daniel Scheid ’98, in The Cosmic Common Good (Oxford University Press) presents an argument for ecological ethics by drawing on…
New York Waterways
New York City is surrounded by water, but many of its shorelines are largely unknown. Photographer Susannah Ray ’94 has…
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir
The Obama Inheritance (Three Rooms Press) is a collection of 15 short stories of conspiracy noir from a variety of…
A Modest Proposal: A One-Act Play
Although John and Mer have worked to create the ideal liberated relationship (and even love each other), they are growing…
