CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living
(Island Press) Rogers and his colleagues from the Union of Concerned Scientists provide actions individuals can take to reduce their…
Growing Up: Limiting Adolescence in a World Desperate for Adults
(Friesen Press) This book attempts to replace the standard functional definition of adulthood — earning an independent income, getting married…
Mortals with Tremendous Responsibilities: A History of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
(Saint Joseph’s University Press) This book recounts the story of the oldest court in the United States, which traces its…
Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
(Princeton University Press) This book examines the political, intellectual, and economic roots of the shift from patronage to a freelance…
Nathaniel Purple
(Voyage/Brigantine Media) This novella is named for its narrator — Nathaniel Purple, the librarian of a small Vermont town. This…
How Many Jelly Beans? A Giant Book of Giant Numbers!
(Chronicle Books) This large picture book for children 3 to 8 years old features Emma and her Brother Aiden, who…
My Date with Neanderthal Woman
(Dzanc Books) This collection of short stories won Dzanc Books’ first short-story collection prize. The title piece is about a…
Angry Birds Space: A Furious Flight Into the Final Frontier
(National Geographic Society) This children’s book companion to the Angry Birds game can also be read independently. It takes readers…
The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told Through Equations
(Princeton University Press) Requiring little prior mathematical knowledge, this book tells the histories of the 24 most surprising, consequential, and…
Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It
(Thomas Dunne Books) After 30 years as an elected Republican in the U.S. Senate, Specter broke with the Republicans over…
Ends of Enlightenment
(Stanford University Press) This collection of essays explores three realms of 18th-century European innovation: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and…
Sasha’s Sweet Sixteen Secrets to Long Life
(Animate Photography) This warmhearted picture book dispenses the wisdom of Sasha, a 16-year-old cat who gives down-to-earth advice on how…
The Heart of Ma Yuan: The Search for a Southern Song Aesthetic
(Hong Kong University Press) This book discusses the paintings of Ma Yuan, one of China’s best-known artists, and a major…
The Little Yellow Trolley Car — a True Story
(G. Boreas Publishing) This picture book tells the true story of a little trolley that brought passengers and freight from…
The Ararat Illusion
(David Minier) Santa Barbara cop Michael Page becomes involved in a series of international incidents involving Armenian terrorist Antranik. Working…
The Future According to Me
(Amazon Digital Services) This compilation of 35 one-page scenarios features futures that are ironic, absurd, and bizarre. The “what if”…
Philadelphia’s Golden Age of Retail (Images of America)
(Arcadia Publishing) Arrigale and Keels present Philadelphia as the birthplace of America’s consumer culture. Philadelphia’s thriving middle class made the…
Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space
(University of North Carolina Press) This book examines some of the hundreds of little-known women who worked for major metropolitan…