Category: New Book Tuesday

March 31, 2020

New Book Tuesday! How the Suburbs Were Segregated, The Bearded Lady Project and Socialist Cosmopolitanism

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series How the Suburbs Were Segregated Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960 Paige Glotzer Focusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest...

March 24, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Anxious Cinephilia, Transpacific Attachments, andChina’s Green Religion

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Death of Idealism Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps Meghan Elizabeth Kallman Why do Peace Corps volunteers often return having lost their idealism? In The Death of Idealism, Meghan Elizabeth...

March 17, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men; Just Like Us and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables B. R. Ambedkar. Edited and annotated by Alex George and S. Anand. With an introduction by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd....

March 10, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Newsmakers, Poetry Unbound and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Newsmakers Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism Francesco Marconi Will the use of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it—or its savior?...

March 3, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Whistleblowing Nation, Archives of Conjure, The Chile Pepper in China and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Whistleblowing Nation The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy Edited by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines, Whistleblowing Nation is...

February 25, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Making Worlds and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Making Worlds Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema Claudia Breger Claudia Breger argues that contemporary European cinema provides ways of thinking about and feeling collectivity that can challenge the twenty-first...

February 18, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Becoming Guanyin and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Premodern East Asia: New Horizons series Becoming Guanyin Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China Yuhang Li Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial...

February 11, 2020

New Book Tuesday! The First Political Order, Woe From Wit and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The First Political Order How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen The First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the...

February 4, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Uneven Innovation and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Uneven Innovation The Work of Smart Cities Jennifer Clark Jennifer Clark reframes the smart city concept within the trajectory of uneven development of cities and regions, as well as the long...

January 28, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Fantastic Fossils, Stating the Sacred, Social Value Investing and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fantastic Fossils A Guide to Finding and Identifying Prehistoric Life Donald R. Prothero Illustrated by Mary Persis Williams In Fantastic Fossils, Donald R. Prothero offers an accessible, entertaining, and richly illustrated guide...

January 21, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Le Boogie Woogie, Your Sons Are at Your Service, and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From The Cosmopolitan Life series Le Boogie Woogie Inside an After-Hours Club Terry Williams The sociologist Terry Williams returns to the cocaine culture of Harlem in the 1980s and ’90s with...

January 14, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Biotechnology Law, The Profits of Nature and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Biotechnology Law A Primer for Scientists Alan J. Morrison This book is an essential introduction to biotechnology law for scientists and other nonattorneys with biotech backgrounds. This work is a clear, concise,...