CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook
Flash fiction can be anything from prose poems to lists, and in Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (Columbia University Press)…
All-American
All-American (Archway Publishing), a young adult novel, tells the story of Indigo Washington, a Philadelphia high-school student and aspiring filmmaker…
Systematic: How Systems Biology is Transforming Modern Medicine
Thanks to computational capacities now available, systems biology is experiencing a departure from biology’s traditional focus on individual molecules, concentrating…
Competing Modernisms: Toronto’s New City Hall and Square
The 1958 architects’ competition for Toronto’s new city hall and public square garnered more than 500 entries and became the…
Rest Quietly, Colonel Briscoe
Rest Quietly, Colonel Briscoe (Katiedan Publishing) is a love story, set in a future when the United States has become…
Get What’s Yours for Medicare
Retirement expert Philip Moeller explains your Medicare choices — such as the differences between parts A, B, C, and D…
Resolve in International Politics
We rely on resolve to explain most phenomena in international politics, but many don’t understand what it is, how it…
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life (Princeton University Press) is the first complete biography of the influential German-American intellectual who wrote The…
A Sunday in Purgatory
Henry Morgenthau ’39 has written his first book of poetry, A Sunday in Purgatory (Passager Books), in which he reflects…
The Radius of Us
The Radius of Us (St. Martin’s Press) tells the story of Gretchen Asher, a sheltered white girl living in a…
War Porn
War Porn (Soho Press) is Roy Scranton *16’s first novel. It follows the lives of a restless young woman at…
Tolerance Among the Virtues
In our pluralistic society, some think tolerance results in moral compromises while others dismiss it as political correctness. In Tolerance…
Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
On the 60th anniversary of the Suez Crisis of 1956, Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East…
So Much to Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
Barbara Brenner *77, who died in 2013, was an influential breast cancer activist and executive director of Breast Cancer Action…
A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality
Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing assimilation with the culture, as in mainline Protestant churches, and…
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities
Using the methodology presented in Adam Smith’s The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Politics, this group of…
Business in Contemporary China
Business in Contemporary China (Routledge) is a compilation of relevant articles on Chinese business that also features the perspectives of…
Israelites in Erin: Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival
Until the early 20th century, the Biblical narrative of Exodus served as an allegory for the birth of Ireland as…


















