CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control
In his new book Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control, William J. Norris ‘99 presents a…
Ending Homelessness: Why We Haven’t, How We Can
Ending Homelessness: Why We Haven’t, How We Can, edited by Donald W. Burnes ’63 and David L. DiLeo, explores why…
Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World
In Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World, Lawrence J. Haas *81 describes the…
Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table—An American Story
Oneida was a religious community in rural New York whose people that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion…
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Abdel Kadar Haidara had travelled across the Sahara, salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscript and preserving…
On Friendship
What is friendship? In On Friendship, philosophy professor Alexander Nehamas *71 investigates the nature of friendship by exploring the history…
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Americans often associate “ghetto” with inner cities populated by the poor. Sociologist Mitchell Duneier examines the history of these places…
Uses and Abuses of Moses: Literary Representations since the Enlightenment
Surveying major literary treatments of Moses since the Enlightenment, Theodore Ziolkowski explores the exploitation of Moses to serve a variety…
The Texas Landscape Project: Nature and People
This 40-chapter environmental atlas, with 300 maps included, discusses the status and conservation of land, water, energy, wildlife and built…
Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy
Surviving Amid Chaos examines Israel’s nuclear strategy as the country adapts to a multitude of new and increasingly complex threats…
The All Star Antes Up
The second book in the “Wager of Hearts” series, The All Star Antes Up is a contemporary romance featuring a…
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Governments
Professors Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels provide scads of evidence in Democracy for Realists to support their theory that citizens…
Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape
Francesca Russello Ammon ’98 releases the first history of the bulldozer, a machine that went from military weapon to essential…
How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli’s Advice to Citizens
Maurizio Viroli, an acclaimed Machiavelli biographer, interprets Niccolò Machiavelli’s writings to see what can be learned about choosing a leader…
The Fires of Spring: A Post-Arab-Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East
Part reportage, part memoir, part analysis, The Fires of Spring expertly weaves together a narrative that examines the Middle East…
Mother, Can You Not?
Kate Seigel ’11 created the Instagram account @CrazyJewishMom to document her hilarious text conversations with her mother. The account now…
What Great Parents Do: 75 Simple Strategies for Raising Kids Who Thrive
Erica Reischer ’92, a clinical psychologist and parent educator, condenses the available information on the best parenting practices today into…
The Good Lieutenant
A new novel by Whitney Terrell ’91, The Good Lieutenant begins when an operation led by Lt. Emma Fowler goes…
