CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Freud: The Making of an Illusion (Metropolitan) reveals a Freud different than the one we think we know: Not only…
The Election of 1860: A Campaign Fraught with Consequences
Michael Holt ’62 presents a new account of the 1860 election: Lincoln versus Stephen Douglass in the North and John…
The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich
Countries and U.S. states are worried about tax flight of the rich, as income inequality grows. The Myth of Millionaire…
The Genius Plague
Paul recovers from a fungal infection that nearly kills him, gaining new mental abilities. However, his brother, Neil, realizes that…
Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia
Danny Hoffman ’94 explores the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, destroyed during the urban warfare of…
Cuteness Engineering
Cuteness Engineering (Springer) defines and explores cuteness and its incorporation into modern products and services. The authors provide detailed analyses…
Saving K-12: What Happened to Our Public Schools? How Do We Fix Them?
Public schools are a money pit, says Bruce Deitrick Price ’63, and education officials seem to prefer inefficiency and mediocrity…
The Cosmic Common Good: Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics
Daniel Scheid ’98, in The Cosmic Common Good (Oxford University Press) presents an argument for ecological ethics by drawing on…
New York Waterways
New York City is surrounded by water, but many of its shorelines are largely unknown. Photographer Susannah Ray ’94 has…
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir
The Obama Inheritance (Three Rooms Press) is a collection of 15 short stories of conspiracy noir from a variety of…
A Modest Proposal: A One-Act Play
Although John and Mer have worked to create the ideal liberated relationship (and even love each other), they are growing…
A History of Charitable Gift Planning: How Gift Annuities Shaped American Philanthropy
A History of Charitable Gift Planning (self-published) explores the evolution of a national system that supplies billions of dollars for…
Betrayal at Bethesda: The Intertwined Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy
In 1949, former secretary of defense James Forrestal died from a fall off the 16th floor of a building in…
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
We know a lot about the victims of the Great Terror — those who were arrested from 1937-38 by the…
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge (University of Toronto Press) is a biography of a group of men who melded Soviet…
Go, Went, Gone
Richard is a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin and one day visits African refugees staging a hunger strike…
Sex and Secularism
In Sex and Secularism (Princeton University Press), Joan Wallach Scott h’12 challenges the notion that secularism is a guarantee of…
Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank
Yael Berda *14 was a human rights lawyer in Jerusalem, representing Palestinian clients trying to obtain labor permits to enter…
