CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise
In The Taming of Free Speech (Harvard University Press), Laura Weinrib *11 reevaluates our understanding of the American Civil Liberties…
Warren H. Manning: Landscape Artist and Environmental Planner
Warren H. Manning’s (1869-1938) national practice comprised more than 1,600 landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small…
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century
Ryan P. Harper *13 examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither’s Homecoming video and concert series, a gospel-music franchise that has…
Death on Nantucket
Meredith Folger, a Nantucket police detective, is called upon to investigate the murder of Spencer Murphy, a famous Vietnam War…
Dis mem ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
National Book Award winner and Princeton creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates brings readers seven mysterious and unsettling works in…
Fitter Faster: The Smart Way to Get in Shape in Just Minutes a Day
In Fitter Faster (AMACOM), Robert Davis '86 shows his readers that getting in shape is a lot easier than they…
A Flood of Evil
A Flood of Evil (CreateSpace) is the fictional tale of a German Catholic boy who becomes a Nazi during World…
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen ‘89 follows up The Pentagon’s Brain with Phenomena (Little, Brown and Co.), the story of…
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
Beyond Trans (NYU Press) pushes the conversation about gender to its limits, questioning why we need gender categories in the…
The VIP Doubles Down
The third novel in the Wager of Hearts series, The VIP Doubles Down (Montlake Romance) tells the story of a…
Prudence
Prudence (Riverhead Books) is the fourth novel by David Treuer ’92, a literature and creative writing professor at the University…
Downtown by History and Choice: First Presbyterian Church of Durham, North Carolina, 1871-2013
Downtown by History and Choice (Carolina Academic Press) is a historical account of a congregation during the Reconstruction period as…
Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
Why do we catch colds? What causes the seasons to change? Cognitive and developmental psychologist Andrew Shtulman ’01 explores the…
Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America
Conventional wisdom says that governments tolerate the violation of their laws and regulations — by people such as squatters and…
Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
Elastic Architecture (MIT Press) explores the work of Frederick Kiesler, a man who bucked architectural trends to create more organic…
Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech
Geek Girl Rising (St. Martin’s Press) gives a much-needed voice to the female engineers, entrepreneurs, investors and innovators paving an…
Castle of Water
In this novel, a female architect and male financier find they are the sole survivors of a plane crash in…
Death by Syrup: The Authentic Adventures of Karol “Karl” Szczygielajczyk, Esq.
The legal spoof Death by Syrup (Createspace) follows a young attorney, who unexpectedly receives a number of bizarre but potentially…
