By Markes E. Johnson, Charles L. MacMillan Professor of Geology Emeritus, and Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez. A handbook on ecology and paleoecology that draws connections between the natural history of the past and the geology of the present. Continue reading »
By Gregory Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. University of Chicago Press, December 2015. An ethnography of male sex workers in Brazil. Continue reading »
By Rashida K. Braggs, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Comparative Literature and American Studies. An analysis of African-American musicians’ strategies in coping with racism after migrating to Paris after World War II. Continue reading »
By Peter Grudin, former Professor of English. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 2015. Available on Amazon. This is a story about a particular place and the people who inhabit it over two centuries. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is accidental. The resemblance of the times involved… Continue reading »
By Guy Hedreen, Amos Lawrence Professor of Art. Cambridge University Press, November 2015. This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored… Continue reading »
By Darra Goldstein, Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian. Ten Speed Press (Penguin Random House), October 2015. A cookbook exploring recipes from Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden). Continue reading »
By Susan Dunn, John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy Professor of Humanities. Yale University Press, June 2014 (reprint). An account of the turbulent political climate in 1940, with the contest between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie for the presidency, against the backdrop of the Nazi threat. Continue reading »
By Francis Oakley, Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus; President, Emeritus; and Senior Oakley Fellow. The last volume of a trilogy, this book is a study of the political thinkers of “the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, the Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the era that… Continue reading »
By Christina Simko, Assistant Professor of Sociology. An analysis of American leaders’ discourse in the period immediately following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 as well as how consolation dialogue and a desire to “define the meaning of Sept. 11” shaped the way leaders spoke about issues surrounding Sept. 11 in the… Continue reading »
By Jim Shepard, J. Leland Miller Professor of American History, Literature, and Eloquence. This book follows the story of Aron, an engaging, if peculiar, young boy whose family is driven from the countryside into the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Continue reading »
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