By Lucy Jane Bledsoe ’79. Rare Bird Books, May, 2018. A tribe of survivors—including a couple of feral kids, a bonobo researcher, and several activists— build community in the wake of a devastating earthquake. Continue reading »
By Justine Howe ’03. Oxford University Press, February 2018. The first study about how third spaces have begun to reshape post-9/11 American Muslim communities Explores conflicts of gender, ethnicity, and class in contemporary Islam Demonstrates how American Islam is constructed and performed through everyday rituals of suburban… Continue reading »
By Alvaro Jarrín ’03. University of California Press, August 2017. The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform… Continue reading »
By Andrew Smith ’64. Available on Amazon, October 2017. A son tries to murder his aged father with the help of his wife. Hilarity ensues. … Continue reading »
By Andrew Smith ’64. Available on Amazon, October 2017. Patsy Costello, a South Philly mook, does one good thing during a gallery heist, and it changes his life forever. … Continue reading »
By Jeffrey B. Lilley ’86. Indiana University Press, December 2017. After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from three Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay fled to the West and was charged as a traitor in his homeland of Kyrgyzstan… Continue reading »
By Benjamin B. Olshin ’85. Brill Publishers, October 2017. Benjamin B. Olshin takes a problem-based approach to the question of the nature of reality. In a series of essays, the book examines the detection of computer simulations from the inside, wrestles with the problem of visual models… Continue reading »
By Dmitri Goudkov ’03. Available on Amazon, February 2018. Is bodybuilding pretty much about oiled-up guys wearing tiny swim trunks flexing their muscles and grunting in order to win in what seems to most uninitiated folks as freak shows? The answer is no. Such burlesque examples are… Continue reading »
By Hal Johnson ’95. Workman Publishing Company, August 2015. This illustrated children’s book, inspired by a 1910 book of the same name, chronicles 20 monstrous American beasts, including the Hodag, the Cactus Cat, and the nearly hairless Gumberoo. Continue reading »
By Andrew Maxwell Triska ’11. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, April 2018. This book provides a concise overview of sexuality and gender identity in clients with intellectual disabilities for therapists, social workers, educators, and healthcare providers. It captures the social, political, and legal environment of the late 2010s and… Continue reading »
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