Category: New Book Tuesday

December 11, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Space Exploration, The Banality of Modernity, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles: Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration Claude A. Piantadosi Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire Saikat Majumdar Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity...

December 4, 2012

New Book Tuesday: A New Title from Roland Barthes and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available: How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces Roland Barthes Kiku’s Prayer: A Novel Endō Shūsaku; Translated by Van C. Gessel Trees Without Wind: A Novel Li Rui; Translated by...

November 20, 2012

New Book Tuesday: LoveKnowledge and a Concubine's Tale

Our weekly list of new titles now available: LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida Roy Brand An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan G.G. Rowley Is Democracy a Lost Cause?: Paradoxes of the...

November 13, 2012

New Titles This Week — William Duggan on Creative Strategy Plus Great Selections from Hong Kong UP

Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation William Duggan Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions Christian K. Wedemeyer The Inquisition of Climate Science (Now available in paper) James Lawrence Powell Sex and Desire in...

November 6, 2012

New Books This Week: Drinking History in the U.S., Meatballs, Best American Magazine Writing, and More!

The following is our weekly list our new titles: Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages Andrew F. Smith Best American Magazine Writing 2012 Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors; with...

November 1, 2012

New Book Tuesday (Thursday Edition): Peanut Butter, Secret Financial Life of Food, and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available: The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets Kara Newman Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food Jon Krampner Green Innovation in China: China’s...

October 23, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Poetry in America, Communism in China, Derrida, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America Mike Chasar The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party Ishikawa Yoshihiro War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics Emile Simpson...

October 16, 2012

New Book Tuesday: White Collar Criminals, Action Movies, Birds, and More New Titles

Our weekly list of new titles now available: How They Got Away with It: White Collar Criminals and the Financial Meltdown Edited by Susan Will, Stephen Handelman, and David C. Brotherton Experiencing Animal Minds: An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters Edited...

October 9, 2012

New Book Tuesday: China's Search for Security and Peepshows

Our weekly list of new titles now available: China’s Search for Security Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic Edited by Xavier Mendik The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield: Fiction 1898–1915...

October 2, 2012

New Books This Week: Feminism and Modernism, Aid in Cambodia, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism Ewa Ziarek Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy Sophal Ear South Sudan: From Revolution to Independence Matthew LeRiche and Matthew Arnold The...

September 25, 2012

New Book Tuesday — A History of Christian Missions in the Middle East and More!

The following books are now available: Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon Traditional Japanese Literature, Abridged Edition: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 Edited by Haruo...

September 18, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Pregnancy on Film, The Homoerotic Photograph, and More

Our weekly list of new books: Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films Kelly Oliver The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe (Now available in paper) Allen Ellenzweig Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and...