CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Tolerance Among the Virtues
In our pluralistic society, some think tolerance results in moral compromises while others dismiss it as political correctness. In Tolerance…
Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
On the 60th anniversary of the Suez Crisis of 1956, Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East…
So Much to Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
Barbara Brenner *77, who died in 2013, was an influential breast cancer activist and executive director of Breast Cancer Action…
A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality
Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing assimilation with the culture, as in mainline Protestant churches, and…
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities
Using the methodology presented in Adam Smith’s The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Politics, this group of…
Business in Contemporary China
Business in Contemporary China (Routledge) is a compilation of relevant articles on Chinese business that also features the perspectives of…
Israelites in Erin: Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival
Until the early 20th century, the Biblical narrative of Exodus served as an allegory for the birth of Ireland as…
Assumptions of the Tea Party Movement: A World of Their Own
David Warfield Brown ’59’s Assumptions of the Tea Party Movement: A World of Their Own (Palgrave Macmillan) offers a reassessment…
Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic
Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic (The Monacelli Press) is a collection of essays from art historians, museum curators, and…
The Jekyll Revelation
Robert Masello ’74’s The Jekyll Revelation (47 North) follows Rafael Salazar, modern-day environmental scientist who finds the journal of renowned…
Dogs Build a House
L. Dennis Thompson ’71 writes about David the Great Dane, who is trying to build a house. Dogs Build a…
Why We Need the Humanities
Calls to deemphasize the humanities in the expectation that scientific and technological innovators will be better for the world may…
Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Ilinois
Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois (Author House) is a history of Jaffe’s careers in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches…
The Texas Landscape Project: Nature and People
The Texas Landscape Project (Texas A&M University Press) presents a wealth of data tracking specific environmental changes in the state…
Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen
Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen (Palgrave Macmillan), a collection of scholarly works edited by Klara Szelak and Dianah…
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
In her memoir, Jennifer Weiner ’91 writes a collection of essays about everything from lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to…
Bees on the Roof
Sam needs to find a seventh-grade science fair project and a way to save the restaurant his father works at…
Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini
Alda Merini is one of Italy’s most beloved living poets, and Susan Stewart brings readers the largest and most comprehensive…
