By Michael Glier, Williams professor of art, Lucy R. Lippard, Thomas Crow and David Breslin. This tribute to Glier’s wide-ranging career provides a glimpse into his intellectual and artistic process. Representative works from throughout his career capture each phase of his growth and exploration as an artist. Inspired by the… Continue reading »
By Susan Engel, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Class of 1959 Director of Program in Teaching. Harvard University Press, March 2015. Children naturally possess an active interest in knowing more about the world around them. But what begins as a robust trait becomes more fragile over… Continue reading »
By Susan Engel, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Class of 1959 Director of Program in Teaching. The New Press, February 2015. This book asks what would happen if we changed the implicit goal of education and imagines how different things would be if we made happiness, rather than money,… Continue reading »
By Neil Roberts, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Political Science. University of Chicago Press, January 2015. In Freedom as Marronage, Professor Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood… Continue reading »
By Candis Watts Smith, Assistant Professor of Political Science. NYU Press, October 2014. Using interviews and survey data, Smith examines diversity among black communities in the U.S. Smith looks at how this growing diversity will affect black people, and how it may influence the political behaviors of a demographic that… Continue reading »
By Colin C. Adams, Thomas T. Read Professor of Mathematics. The fictional account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a calculus class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. Continue reading »
By Colin C. Adams, Thomas T. Read Professor of Mathematics. A collection of humorous math stories, this book gives a window into mathematics and the culture of mathematicians. Appropriate for mathematicians, math students, math teachers, lay people with an interest in mathematics, and everyone else. … Continue reading »
By Paul Park, Senior Lecturer in English. An acclaimed science fiction writer, Park presents a vision of Northern Berkshire County that is larger, darker and grander than the one we know. Park imagines a Civil War where the United States is split in two, then takes the reader to an… Continue reading »
By Rhon S. Manigault-Bryant, Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Duke University Press. June 2014. An ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry who receive guidance from deceased ancestors through dreams, prayer and visions. Continue reading »
By Alan White, Mark Hopkins Professor of Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic. January 2014. Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything shows the importance of systematic thinking while also defending positions on central philosophical issues are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy. Continue reading »
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