CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Huldah: The Prophet Who Wrote Hebrew Scripture
(Wipf and Stock Publishing) Kavanagh examines the influence of Huldah, a female prophet, on the Hebrew bible and Israeli history…
James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist
(Yale University Press) Analyzing in detail Stirling’s buildings and drawings, Lawrence gives a technical analysis of one of the late…
The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy
(Cornell University Press) The first complete history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), The Other Welfare explores the controversies and inequities…
Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre
(Southern Illinois University Press) Founder of Fringe Benefits, an activist theater company that works with schools and communities to promote…
Quantum Mechanics in Everyday Life
(Rhodium, Inc.) Wilton Virgo describes how the mathematics behind quantum mechanics is the foundation for everyday technologies like GPS systems…
Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire
(Harvard University Press) Looking at diaries, memoirs, and letters from soldiers in the Asia-Pacific theater from 1937-1945, Moore argues that…
Upstanding Young Gentlemen
Founded by four students (Joey Edelmann ’13, Cory Furlong ’13, Javier Masis ’13, and Nathan Tyrell ’14) in 2011, Burne…
The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
(Yale University Press) Plater wrote this book in an attempt to clarify controversy surrounding a Supreme Court case he won…
Snippet the Early Riser
(Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers) This children’s book tells the story of snippet, an early-rising snail with early-morning…
Addiction Trajectories
(Duke University Press) Based on ethnography from around the world, this collection of essays explores the meaning of addiction in…
Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
(Harvard University Press) James Fleming and Linda McClain tackle some of the biggest civil liberties issues of today in their…
Bioluminescence: Living Lights, Lights for Living
(Harvard University Press) Hastings and Williams look into why organisms that emit light do so. The book shows how bioluminescence…
The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century
(Louisiana State University Press) Looking at the colonization efforts in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth century, Thompson explains how…
Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction
(Metropolis Books/Gordon DeVries Studio) Christopher Rawlins examines the career of Horace Gifford, a widely forgotten architect who died of AIDS…
All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry
(Cornell University Press) The initiation of 12 or more black men into a Boston Freemason lodge in 1775 marked the…
The French Revolution in Global Perspective
(Cornell University Press) Placing both the origins and impacts of the French Revolution in their global context, the contributors to…
Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
(University of Minnesota Press) Aiming to counter stereotypes about bland, suburban post-war America, Amy Ogata argues that baby boom parents…
Guatemala Journey Among the Ixil Maya
More than just a travel guide, Place’s book provides comprehensive information about the Ixil Maya — from history to regional…