New Book Tuesday! America the Beautiful and Violent, Aggregating the News, On the Screen, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books is now available!

America the Beautiful and Violent

Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago

Dexter R. Voisin

Aggregating the News

Secondhand Knowledge and the Erosion of Journalistic Authority

Mark Coddington

Allies of Convenience

A Theory of Bargaining in U.S. Foreign Policy

Evan N. Resnick

On the Screen

Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942

Ariel Rogers

Modern Things on Trial

Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935

Leor Halevi

Gendered Morality

Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society

Zahra Ayubi

Pork Barrel Politics

How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era

Andrew H. Sidman

Make It the Same

Poetry in the Age of Global Media

Jacob Edmond

The Perils of the One

Stathis Gourgouris

Black Utopia

The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism

Alex Zamalin

Concepts and Categories

Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis

Michael T. Hannan, Gaël Le Mens, Greta Hsu, Balázs Kovács, Giacomo Negro, László Pólos, Elizabeth Pontikes, and Amanda J. Sharkey

Transitional Subjects

Critical Theory and Object Relations

Edited by Amy Allen and Brian O’Connor

Contingency and the Limits of History

How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning

Liane Carlson

The Making of a Periphery

How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor

Ulbe Bosma

Women Mobilizing Memory

Edited by Ayşe Gül Altınay, María José Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon

Survive and Resist

The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics

Amy L. Atchison and Shauna L. Shames

Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice

Edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth

Columbia University Press

New in Paper!

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods

Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

E. Fuller Torrey

New in Paper!

The Fracking Debate

The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution

Daniel Raimi

New in Paper!

American Capitalism

New Histories

Edited by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan