CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know
Since the late 1970s, China’s manufacturing capability and car market have increased dramatically and technologically advanced cities have replaced fertile…
Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid Pro Quo?
Gonda Van Steen *95, in the first book dedicated to dedicated to the vast adoption network in Greece following the…
The Future of the History of Chemical Information
The Future of the History of Chemical Information (American Chemical Society/Oxford University Press) collects contributions from a 2012 symposium during…
Eight Kisses: Eight All-New Tales of Holiday Romance
In this anthology, eight authors write short romance stories for Hanukkah, ranging from interfaith couples to online dating. Eight Kisses…
The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
Protests, Daniel Q. Gillion argues, are vitally important for and directly influence voter behavior when election season rolls around —…
Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions
In this work, Catherine Keyser ’01 explores American construction of food and race in early- to mid-20th century literature, and…
Science of the Soul, the Afterlife, and the Shift
In this third volume of The Synchronized Universe series, Claude Swanson *76 argues that there exists real scientific evidence for…
Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now
In this collection of personal essays, Andre Perry ’00 wields a wide variety of styles to tell the semi-fragmented, raw…
Thinking Inside the Box
Part history, part profile, and full love letter, Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who…
Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees From Nazi Europe
As Nazi Germany cracked down on Jewish, communist, and all “non-Aryan” peoples, persecuted scholars tried desperately to leave the country…
A *New* Program for Graphic Design
A do-it-yourself textbook, A *New* Program for Graphic Design (Inventory Press) reflects graphic design lessons from three Princeton design courses.
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson
In 1839, James Collins Johnson fled slavery in Maryland and found work in Princeton as a janitor for the college…
Flip-Flops and Microwaved Fish: Navigating the Dos and Don’ts of Workplace Culture
Flip-Flops and Microwaved Fish (Greenleaf) offers practical advice for people beginning lives in the professional world, humorously addressing standards of…
Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy
The U.S. government has several avenues for practicing foreign policy, such as monetary and physical aid, trade, and military force…
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era
In Illiberal Reformers (Princeton University Press), research scholar Thomas C. Leonard explores the rise of the “administrative state” during the…
Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America
Less than 20 years after the United States achieved independence, the French colony of Haiti underwent its own revolution, led…
Captivating Technology
From ankle monitors and policing algorithms, technologies rapidly expanded into everyday life including hospitals, schools, banking, social services, shopping malls…
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
After America won the Cold War, Andrew Bacevich *82 argues that we developed a hubris that undermined the seemingly bright…


















