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Back to SearchAnna L. Tsing, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Anna L. Tsing‘s new book is on my new (as of this post) list of Must-Read-Books-That-All-Humans-Who-Can-Read-Should-Read-And-That-Nonhumans-Should-Fi…
10 years, 5 months ago
Carlos Fraenkel, “Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World” (Princeton UP, 2015)
We tend to think of Philosophy as a professional academic subject that is taught in college classes, with its own rather specialized problems, vocabu…
10 years, 5 months ago
Daniel Schlozman, “When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Daniel Schlozman is the author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History (Princeton University Press, 2015). Schlozm…
10 years, 6 months ago
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton UP, 2014)
It quickly sold out in hardback, and then, within a matter of days, sold out in paperback. Available again as a 2nd edition hardback, and soon in the…
10 years, 7 months ago
Derek J. Penslar, “Jews and the Military: A History” (Princeton UP, 2015)
In Jews and the Military: A History (Princeton University Press, 2015), Derek J. Penslar, the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the Univer…
10 years, 7 months ago
Stephen Macedo, “Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage” (Princeton UP, 2015)
There has been a lot of talk in the United States recently about same-sex marriage. One obvious question is sociological: What are the implications o…
10 years, 7 months ago
Leah Wright Rigueur, “The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Leah Wright Rigueur is an assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her book The Loneliness of the Black Repu…
10 years, 8 months ago
James Turner, “Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities” (Princeton UP, 2014)
James Turner is Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Notre Dame University. His book Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humani…
10 years, 8 months ago
Derek Sayer, “Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History” (Princeton UP 2013)
Prague, according to Derek Sayer, is the place “in which modernist dreams have time and again unraveled.” In this sweeping history of surrealism cent…
10 years, 9 months ago
Madeline Y. Hsu, “The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority” (Princeton UP, 2015)
With high educational and professional attainment, Asian Americans are often portrayed as the “Model Minority” in popular media. This portrayal, thou…
10 years, 10 months ago