CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
(W.W. Norton) Instead of focusing on Einstein’s many successes, Ohanian turns to his mistakes, both careless and fruitful, in this…
Majesty and Humanity: Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age
(Yale University Press) The author explores a surprising preoccupation with the disrobing of the king in the golden age of…
Horrors of Slavery: Or, The American Tars in Tripoli
(Rutgers University Press) A true tale of an American sailor, William Ray, and his crew who were captured during the…
First Things When
(Carcanet) In this collection of poems, the author meditates on the power of snow, rootless places in modern society such…
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District
(Princeton University Press) For just over one year, Peter Moskos served as a police officer in the high-crime area of…
Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
(University of California Press) In this analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, Di-Capua examines the Egyptian experience of modernity…
Transmigration: Poems
(Sheep Meadow Press) In this collection of poems, the author examines marriage, falling in and out of love, the soul…
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics
(Duke University Press) The author calls for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States, criticizing the…
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
(University of California Press) The art of dissimulation, practiced widely in early modern Europe, allowed princes, aristocrats, and commoners alike…
US Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda: Signalling and the Terrorist World-View
(Routledge) In this book Geltzer examines the communicative aspects and implications of U.S. counter-terrorist policies toward al-Qaeda, looking specifically at…
Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt
(SUNY Press) This book is an ethnography of life within two large textile factories in Alexandria, Egypt. The author, who…
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
(Modern Library Chronicles) Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kotkin and Gross revisit the collapse of Communist…
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan ['25], and the History of the Cold War
(Henry Holt). In this dual biography of the two master architects of America’s Cold War strategy, the author explores the…
![The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan ['25], and the History of the Cold War](/sites/default/files/styles/small_100/public/images/content/LIVE.Releases_Hawk.jpg?itok=xhVyv896 "The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan ['25], and the History of the Cold War")
Radical Games: Popping the Bubble of 1960s’ Architecture
(NAi Publishers) Comparing a number of radical architectural movements in the 1960s, Schrijver traces a moment in the history of…
The First American Women Architects
(University of Illinois Press) The author traces the lives and careers of more than 70 pioneering female architects practicing in…
Blue Boy
(Kensington) In this debut novel, Kiran Sharma, a 12-year-old Indian-American living in suburban Cincinnati, doesn’t fit in with other Indian…
Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration
(University of Illinois Press) During Japanese internment during World War II, the U.S. authorities turned photographs against Japanese Americans while…