Edited by Nora Kenworthy ’04. Routledge, 2015. The global expansion of HIV programming (HIV “scale-up”) and the growth of global health in the past decade reshaped politics, power, civic relations, and citizen subjectivities in countries across the globe. This book draws on interdisciplinary research from numerous sites… Continue reading »
Translated and Edited by Michael Katz ’66. This newly translated version of Leo Tolstoy’s once-taboo novella is available to English readers for the first time. It also contains counter stories from Tolstoy’s wife and son. Continue reading »
Edited by Gretchen A. Hirschauer and Dennis Geronimus ’95 with contributions by Virginia Brilliant, David Franklin, Alison Luchs, Serena Padovani and Elizabeth Walmsley. Piero di Cosimo left an important mark on art when he died in 1522. This publication explores his career and his many talents. Continue reading »
Edited by Stefanie Spray Jandl, MA ’93 and Mark S. Gold. . 2014. The third volume of the museum studies series A Handbook for Academic Museums, this book’s essays were contributed by museum professionals in the U.S. and the U.K. and examine successful programs that enrich object-based learning in college and university museums. Continue reading »
Edited by Bradley Naranch ’96 and Geoff Eley. This collection considers many aspects of the German colonial empire and its significance, from science and the colonial state to the disciplinary constructions of Africans as colonial subjects for German administrative control. In introductory essays, the editors survey the historiography of and… Continue reading »
By Suzan Saxman, with Perdita Finn ’84. St. Martin’s Press. January 2015. The story of psychic Suzan Saxman, who in childhood was tormented by powerful visions and dreams as she struggled to live the life of a “normal” child on Staten Island, N.Y. Continue reading »
Edited and introduced by Willmott Family Third Century Professor of Sociology & Public Affairs Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham ’83. . November 2014. This collection of essays by author and sociology professor Joseph Bensman explores various topics of applied and humanistic sociology, including “The Meaning of Work in Bureaucratic Society,” “The Aesthetics and… Continue reading »
Edited by Vernon C. Kelly, Jr. ’66 and Margaret Thorsborne. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. May 2014. This book presents the biological theory, affect script psychology (ASP), behind restorative practice, and shows how it works in different settings. The chapters are based around case studies that demonstrate RP in criminal justice,… Continue reading »
By Keith Faigin ’92. Edited by Chris Green ’92. CAKE Mix Press. December 2013. A vampire, a werewolf and the Detroit Police Department’s most incompetent Inhuman Crimes Unit officer walk into a bar. Oh, and so does the CEO of a pharmaceutical company which is hiding a terrible secret. And also the… Continue reading »
Edited by Patrick Lally Michelson and Judith Deutsch Kornblatt ’77. University of Wisconsin Press. July 2014. Thinking Orthodox in Modern Russia illuminates the significant role of Russian Orthodox thought in shaping the discourse of educated society during the imperial and early Soviet periods. Continue reading »
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