New Book Tuesday! Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes, Gender, Power, and Talent, Shari’a Scripts, and More!

​Our weekly listing of new books is now available!

Shari’a Scripts

A Historical Anthropology

Brinkley Messick

Gender, Power, and Talent

The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China

Jinhua Jia

Poetry and Animals

Blurring the Boundaries with the Human

Onno Oerlemans

The Welfare State Revisited

Edited by José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz

New In Paper!

Building the New American Economy

Smart, Fair, and Sustainable

Jeffrey D. Sachs. Foreword by Bernie Sanders

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

Maggie Hennefeld

New In Paper!

The Story of Life in 25 Fossils

Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution

Donald R. Prothero

Migration and Refugee Policies in Germany

New European Limits of Control?

Andreas Ette

(Barbara Budrich Publishers)

Managing Expatriates

Success Factors in Private and Public Domains

Edited by Heiko Rüger, Deniz Ones, and Brenton Wiernik

(Barbara Budrich Publishers)

I Spit on Your Grave

David Maguire

(Wallflower Press)