CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Heartlessness of Dixie: Alabama at the Millennium
Donald Nolte ’68 and Diana White’s Heartlessness of Dixie (Amazon) provides a look into social and political issues in Alabama’s…
The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smart-Phones to Love—Why We Get Hooked & How We Can Break Bad Habits
We are all vulnerable to addiction, be it constantly checking social media, binge eating, smoking, or any other behavior that…
The Gulag After Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, 1953-1964
Jeffrey S. Hardy *11 discusses how the Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin’s death…
Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
Westward expansion of the United States is conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and luck. However, as Professor of…
Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction
Quantitative analysis is an essential skill for social science research, yet many students in the social sciences do not receive…
Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership
Chinese politics is at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping has surprised people with his bold anti-corruption campaign and his…
Lucky Broken Girl
In her first novel for children, Lucky Broken Girl (Nancy Paulsen Books), Ruth Behar *83 tells the story of Cuban-Jewish…
David Wiesner and the Art of Wordless Storytelling
A master of storytelling through pictures and three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal, David Wiesner is one of the most…
The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
David Callahan *98 charts the rise of new power players as they convert the fortune of a second Gilded Age…
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (Liveright) is the first biography in a generation to tell the story of…
The Weight of Ink
In her new novel, The Weight of Ink (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Rachel Kadish ’91 tells of two women separated by…
Ageing: A Very Short Introduction
In Ageing: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press), Nancy A. Pachana ’87 discusses the lifelong dynamic changes in biology…
Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing
In his debut book of poetry, Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (Southern Illinois University Press), Charif Shanahan ’05…
Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art
The artists’ books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the…
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence
Though many Jews and Ukrainians care about their respective ancestral heritages, they often view one another through stereotypes, misperceptions, and…
Aristotle’s Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens
Aristotle was the first philosopher in the Western tradition to address politics systematically and empirically, and he continues to be…
Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
Cathy Caruth ’77 claims in Unclaimed Experience (Johns Hopkins University Press) that in the experience of trauma and our attempt…
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins
In Extreme Domesticity (Columbia University Press), Susan Fraiman ’78 reminds readers that keeping house is just as likely to involve…
