CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980
The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980 traces the history of the SoHo district from…
Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor
When did the metaphor of the root begin? Assistant professor of French Christy Wampole traces the history of this figure…
The Banjo: America’s African Instrument
In The Banjo: America’s African Instrument Laurent Dubois ’92 traces the rich history of this iconic instrument to reveal how…
Sun Valley, Moon Mountains
Sun Valley, Moon Mountains is the first of three books in “The Ur Legend” series by Paul Sinsar ’72…
Math Mutation Classics: Exploring Interesting, Fun and Weird Corners
Math Mutation Classics: Exploring Interesting, Fun and Weird Corners is a collection of Erik Seligman ‘91’s most interesting examples of…
Palaces of Memory: American Composer Diane Thome on her Life and Music
Palaces of Memory is the story of pioneer in the music world— the first woman to graduate from Princeton with…
Krav Maga Defense: How to Defend Yourself Against the 12 Most Common Street Attacks
David Kahn ’94 has just released his fifth book Krav Maga Defense: How to Defend Yourself Against the 12 Most…
Civil Rights in My Bones 2005-2015: More Colorful Stories from a Lawyer’s Life and Work
Julian L. McPhillips Jr. ‘68 accounts the last ten years of his life as a civil rights attorney in his…
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…


















