CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

In Our Own Hands: Essays in Deaf History, 1780-1970
This collection of essays show the struggle of deaf people from 1780 to 1970 as they sought autonomy in their…
Citizenship as Foundation of Rights: Meaning for America
Richard Sobel ’71, a visiting scholar at Northwestern University, tackles the relationship between citizenship and the right to vote, right…
Making Angels: A Story of Blessings on Our Journey to Have Children after the Heartache of Infertility, Miscarriage, and Late-term Pregnancy Loss
Making Angels (SPAU HOLDINGS) explores the journey of author Stacey Urrutia ’93 and her husband Kevin as they struggled to…
Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris: The Effort to Contain Global Warming
Science writer William Sweet *75 follows up Kicking the Carbon Habit and The Nuclear Age with a discussion on climate…
Berlin, the Mother of All Research Universities 1860–1918
Charles McClelland ’62 provides background to the current debate over the value of “research universities” with an in-depth look at…
Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think like a Data Scientist
“What is the evidence?” This is the question author and statistician Howard Wainer *68 asks in his new book Truth…
Super Freak: The Life of Rick James
Rick James combined rock and funk to become one of the biggest pop stars of his era. In two posthumously…
Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook
Flash fiction can be anything from prose poems to lists, and in Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (Columbia University Press)…
All-American
All-American (Archway Publishing), a young adult novel, tells the story of Indigo Washington, a Philadelphia high-school student and aspiring filmmaker…
Systematic: How Systems Biology is Transforming Modern Medicine
Thanks to computational capacities now available, systems biology is experiencing a departure from biology’s traditional focus on individual molecules, concentrating…
Competing Modernisms: Toronto’s New City Hall and Square
The 1958 architects’ competition for Toronto’s new city hall and public square garnered more than 500 entries and became the…
Rest Quietly, Colonel Briscoe
Rest Quietly, Colonel Briscoe (Katiedan Publishing) is a love story, set in a future when the United States has become…
Get What’s Yours for Medicare
Retirement expert Philip Moeller explains your Medicare choices — such as the differences between parts A, B, C, and D…
Resolve in International Politics
We rely on resolve to explain most phenomena in international politics, but many don’t understand what it is, how it…
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life (Princeton University Press) is the first complete biography of the influential German-American intellectual who wrote The…
A Sunday in Purgatory
Henry Morgenthau ’39 has written his first book of poetry, A Sunday in Purgatory (Passager Books), in which he reflects…
The Radius of Us
The Radius of Us (St. Martin’s Press) tells the story of Gretchen Asher, a sheltered white girl living in a…


















