Category: New Book Tuesday

December 22, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Out of the Dark Night, Aimlessness, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Out of the Dark Night Essays on Decolonization Achille Mbembe Out of the Dark Night reconstructs critical theory’s historical and philosophical framework for understanding colonial and postcolonial events and expands our sense...

December 15, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Underwater, Made in Hong Kong, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Society and the Environment Underwater Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States Rebecca Elliott In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront...

December 8, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Vineland Reread, Research Exposed, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Rereadings series Vineland Reread Peter Coviello Vineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing...

December 1, 2020

New Book Tuesday! The Terroir of Whiskey, Pleasure in Profit and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History series The Terroir of Whiskey A Distiller’s Journey Into the Flavor of Place Rob Arnold In this book, the...

November 24, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Notre-Dame of Amiens, The Arab and Jewish Questions, and Hubert Harrison

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Notre-Dame of Amiens Life of the Gothic Cathedral Stephen Murray A beautifully illustrated account of a grand, historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety...

November 17, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Bookishness, Redlining Culture, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Literature Now series Bookishness Loving Books in a Digital Age Jessica Pressman In Bookishness, Jessica Pressman examines the new status of the book as object and symbol. She explores the...

November 10, 2020

New Book Tuesday! The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries and Epistenology

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries The Evidence and the People Who Found It Donald R. Prothero In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most...

November 3, 2020

New Book Tuesday! What Would Nature Do?, Aging Behind Prison Walls, Critique on the Couch and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! What Would Nature Do? A Guide for Our Uncertain Times Ruth DeFries Ruth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather these...

October 27, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Plastic Free and Super Polluters, The Contemporary Superhero Film

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Plastic Free The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn This book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns...

October 20, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Radio Empire, So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? and Zhou History Unearthed

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Modernist Latitudes series Radio Empire The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel Daniel Ryan Morse In Radio Empire, Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance...

October 13, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Artificial Whiteness and Working for Respect

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Artificial Whiteness Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence Yarden Katz Yarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic...

September 29, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Mind Ecologies and A Misunderstood Friendship

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Mind Ecologies Body, Brain, and World Matthew Crippen and Jay Schulkin Matthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. They...