CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
(Rutgers University Press) Through investigations of literary and cultural texts by African American and Jewish women, this book raises new…
Love's Vision
(Princeton University Press) Troy Jollimore offers up his own explanations for both the irrational and logical sides of love in…
The Color of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
(Harvard University Press) Harvard’s website describes this book as “a major reevaluation of relationships among blacks, Jews, and the Irish…
Second Sight: Views from an Eye Doctor’s Odyssey
(CreateSpace) This book is a memoir from the ophthalmologist who created the non-profit ORBIS, which is dedicated to providing and…
Buglette: The Messy Sleeper
(Tricycle Press) Buglette is a tidy bug by day, but messy by night — her dreams are so big that…
From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers, and Education in Nineteenth Century Egypt
(I.B. Tauris) During the 19th century, the Egyptian state under Muhammad Ali Pasha sought to create a new relationship with…
Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map
(Holiday House) The narrator of this picture book is Agnes Morley, who grew up working on her family’s ranch in…
Hell on Two Wheels: An Astonishing Story of Suffering, Triumph, and the Most Extreme Endurance Race in the World
(Triumph Books) Each year some of the world’s most talented ultra-distance cyclists gather in California for the most extreme endurance…
The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
(University of California Press) Morning draws on interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergraduates to determine how scientists are influencing ideas…
The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World
(Spiegel and Grau) Braude explores the story of an ordinary Islamic citizen whose life clashes with the underbelly of the…
Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
(Duke University Press) Digital sampling, the act of incorporating snippets of existing recordings into new ones, has revolutionized the music…
Laughing Out Laud: Tripping Over Party Lines
(Independent Books) Paul Laud pokes fun at politicians and business and media pundits in this book of limericks and satirical…
Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution
(MIT Press) In this collection, the authors offer new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. Each contributor…
Whitethorn
(LSU Press) Osherow’s collection of poetry focuses on the idea that although human suffering may be irremediable, nature and language…
The Color of Night
(Vintage Books) The narrator of this novel about the persistence of violence in America is Mae, a blackjack dealer in…
Mandela’s Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
(Crown) Stengel recounts stories from Nelson Mandela’s childhood, his days as a revolutionary, his imprisonment, and even his personal relationships…
DeepFreeze! A Photographer’s Antarctic Odyssey in the Year 1959
(International Photography Publishers) During the summer of 1959, McCabe visited the Antarctic as part of an assignment for the New…
Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition
(University of Pennsylvania Press) Jewish experience is re-explored in this collection of essays, which give consideration to non-written expressions of…