CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes
Communism’s Shadow (Princeton University Press), by Princeton professor Grigore Pol-Eleches of the Woodrow Wilson School and NYU politics professor Joshua…
The Peace of the Gods: Elite Religious Practices in the Middle Roman Republic
The Peace of the Gods (Princeton University Press), by former Princeton Classics lecturer professor Craige B. Champion *93, examines religion…
Victorian Pain
Victorian Pain (Princeton University Press), by Rachel Ablow ’91, is a new analysis of the literary and philosophical history of…
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party
In Vanguard of the Revolution (Princeton University Press) former Princeton professor of politics A. James McAdams looks broadly at Communism…
One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and The Politics of Global Health
One Blue Child (Stanford University Press) is an ethnographic examination of dealing with asthma in the age of increased self-management…
Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
Free as Gods (The University Press of New England) examines the works of the expatriate community in Paris during the…
Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
Face Value (Princeton University Press) is an accessibly written overview of Princeton psychology professor Alexander Todorov’s extensive work on facial…
Hosta Seizure
Hosta Seizure (Cedarwood Press) is a mystery in which hosta plants help gardeners solve a missing persons case and help…
Discovering Princeton: A Photographic Guide with Five Walking Tours
Discovering Princeton (Schiffer Publishing) is a photographic and historical guide taking readers through Princeton’s oldest neighborhoods and the campuses of…
Law and Murder
Law and Murder, book two of the Washington Vampires series (Book View Café) is a humorous novel by Mindy Klasky…
What Are the Arts and the Sciences?: A Guide for the Curious
Many of us have been to college or want to go, but may wonder just what the various disciplines represent…
David and the Philistine Woman
Paul Boorstin ’65 reimagines the Biblical story of David and Goliath, depicting female characters not mentioned in the original story…
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
Joseph Süss Oppenheimer — “Jew Süss” — is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. He…
How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production
Drawing on an extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of Tim…
Lies She Told
In her new novel, Lies She Told (Crooked Lane Books), Cate Holahan ’02 pens a psychological thriller about Liza, a…
The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft
Corruption corrodes all facets of the world’s political life, but no one book explained how best to battle it. The…
Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties
Age of Empires (Yale University Press) presents the art of China during one of the most critical periods of its…
Power-Up: Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games
Every time you pick up your PlayStation or Xbox controller, you are entering a game world steeped in mathematics. In…
