CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
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…
Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital
Six years before Rosa Parks launched the Montgomery bus boycott, Mary Church Terrell tried to eat at Thomson’s Restaurant in…
Pride’s Children: PURGATORY
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt’s Pride’s Children: PURGATORY is a novel of obsession, betrayal, and love. Partly set in Princeton, it tells…
Artful Business: 50 Lessons from Creative Geniuses
Gregory J. Stone ’75 provides novel tools to spark the reader’s imagination in his book. In each chapter of Artful…
The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon
Based on extensive research in Arabic, Latin, and Romance sources, The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval…
The Luna Blanket
The Luna Blanket is a children’s story following the life of Daniel, a boy whose great-grandmother presents him with a…
1941: Fighting the Shadow War, a Divided America in a World at War
1941: Fighting the Shadow War, a Divided America in a World at War explores the little-known history of America’s clandestine…
