CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
European Archaeology as Anthropology: Essays in Memory of Bernard Wailes
While most archaeologists drew their models for the emergence of social complexity from the ancient Middle East or Latin America…
The Barbarians
Ancient Greece and Rome, to our modern minds, are discrete places that influenced Western culture, but Peter Bogucki remind us…
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
In The Arabic Freud (Princeton University Press), Omnia El Shakry *02 challenges the notion that there is a strict divide…
Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher’s Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success
The education community has known for more than 10 years that true family engagement is necessary for student, teacher, and…
Liberal Opinions: My Life in the Stream of History
William A. Norris ’51 was a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals who wrote the judicial opinion striking…
Second to None
Billionaire chemist Max Varela is selling his company and leaving New York when Emily Wade bursts into his office, desperate…
Funville Adventures: Math Personified
In Funville Adventures (self-published), 9-year-old Emmy and her 5-year-old brother, Leo, go down an abandoned slide and are magically transported…
Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine
Subprime Health (University of Minnesota Press) examines race-based medicine as it intersects with debt, covering race-based prescriptions and marketing, to…
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars (Greenwillow) helps make enormous numbers accessible to children, like the 37 billion rabbits and 3…
Hegel’s Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation
Molly Farneth *14 offers a fresh interpretation of G. W. F. Hagel’s most famous book, The Phenomenology of Spirit, showing…
Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist
In 1788, Warner Mifflin was one of the founders of Delaware’s first abolition societies, and he was recognized internationally for…
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
Social media, mobile phones, and other new technology have enabled us to collect and process data about human behavior on…
The Essential W.S. Merwin
From the vast writings of W.S. Merwin ’48’s extensive and celebrated career comes The Essential W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)…
Waypoints
From John Delaney, who worked for 35 years in the Department of Rare Books as a curator of historic maps…
The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology Viviana Zelizer’s 1997 book has been reissued in this second edition with an updated…
You, Too, Could Write a Poem: Selected Reviews and Essays, 2000-2015
In You, Too, Could Write a Poem (Penguin), David Orr ’96 brings out some of his best work for The…
Calling Mr. Beige: Book One of the Shuttlecocks Series
The mysterious but comedic Calling Mr. Beige (self-published) follows a superstar as his adoring fans, family, and even his dog…
Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
In Unshackling America (St. Martin’s Press) Willard Sterne Randall *84 makes a case against the common narrative that the United…
