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The main argument of Secular Devotion, I suppose, will appear to some people as outrageous. I am saying that popular music in the Americas is popular in part because it...

Secular Devotion - In a nutshell

Sharon Haar

The City as Campus is concerned with how higher education is situated within urban environments.I explore how urban universities’ missions of service, teaching, and research have transformed over time—as they...

The City As Campus - In a nutshell

Frederick Luis Aldama

Your Brain on Latino Comics provides readers with an understanding of how comic books in general work to move us and to engage our critical faculties and imagination. It also...

Your Brain on Latino Comics - A close-up

Tim Lomas

The book draws on numerous theoretical and empirical paradigms. Perhaps foremost among these is the linguistic relativity hypothesis (LRH), also popularly known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. This paradigm holds that...

Translating Happiness - The wide angle

Gary Stuart

If I could gently nudge a browser in a bookstore to open Innocent Until Interrogated, I’d probably point her to the text on page 221.It’s only a few lines about...

Innocent Until Interrogated - A close-up

Charlie Hailey

Camps are unavoidable functions of our contemporary moment, registering local and global forces at their earliest stages and thus signaling trend, crisis, and identity. These malleable spaces conform to our...

Camps - In a nutshell

Imani Perry

This book is about a conflict between American ideals and our social reality. Although we embrace the ideal of racial equality, in myriad studies in numerous fields there is abundant...

More Beautiful and More Terrible - In a nutshell

Daniel Bodansky

How and why do international environmental norms arise? In what ways do they affect behavior? Do they change what states and individuals actually do, and, if so, why? How effective...

The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law - In a nutshell

Inderpal Grewal

Empires wax and wane, and what we are seeing today is the slow and gradual waning of U.S. empire in the new century. I call this phase of U.S. empire...

Saving the Security State - In a nutshell

Mark C. Taylor

While radical reform is necessary at every level of higher education, it needs to start with a thorough restructuring of graduate education and, by extension, a redesign of the curriculum...

Crisis on Campus - A close-up

Lawrence B. Glickman

This morning, October 1, 2009, I picked up the New York Times to notice a full-page ad on the back of the news section. It was prepared and paid for...

Buying Power - A close-up

Edward Berenson

Perfect Communities tells the story of Levittown, America’s iconic postwar suburb. It’s really the story of Levittowns, plural, because there were four in the United States, eight in France, and...

Perfect Communities - In a nutshell

Richard Ned Lebow

The Iraq invasion of 2003 was justified by the Bush administration on the grounds of national security. But all of the principal advisors of the administration of president George W....

Why Nations Fight - A close-up

Cliff Edwards

This is my third book on the spiritual journey of the artist Vincent Van Gogh. I began with an overview of his life, Van Gogh and God, then focused on...

Mystery of the Night Café - In a nutshell

Jeff Allred

When you hear the words “Great Depression,” certain images pop up: a mother hugging her child on a windswept plain, a hand clutching a tin plate, unemployed men standing in...

American Modernism and Depression Documentary - In a nutshell

David L. Weimer

Each chapter offers interesting research findings interpreted from an economic perspective. “Chasing the Tale” reviews what evolutionary biology tells us about the transformation of wolves into dogs. It also considers...

Dog Economics - A close-up

Despina Stratigakos

The first image in the book depicts a woman builder making repairs to the roof of Berlin’s town hall. Balanced on a ladder high atop the city, this young woman...

A Women’s Berlin - A close-up

Frank Dikötter

Thanks to extraordinarily rich archives, the reader can get much closer to every aspect of life and death during Mao’s Great Famine than ever before. But nothing illustrates the desperation...

Mao’s Great Famine - A close-up

Paul Fleming

My book explores various conflicts surrounding the terms “mediocre,” “common,” “ordinary,” and “non-exceptional” in literary and aesthetic discourse since the eighteenth century, when the average man, the market place, and...

Exemplarity and Mediocrity - In a nutshell

Francesco Duina

I would hope that readers open the book precisely at the first page of Chapter 1, where we hear Eddy’s thoughts (all names have been disguised, to protect anonymity), an...

Broke and Patriotic - A close-up

Gary C. Jacobson

From analyses of thousands of commercial and academic public opinion surveys covering presidents from Truman to Trump, with results detailed in 54 tables and 93 figures, I argue that modern...

Presidents and Parties in the Public Mind - In a nutshell

Elliot R. Wolfson

While I was doing field research during the 1990s for an earlier book, Healthy Democracies, I came across a great deal of government and industry documents focused on the imperatives...

A Dream Interpreted within a Dream - The wide angle

Henry Petroski

The Toothpick is a book in the tradition of my previous book The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. I take as my principal subject an everyday object that...

The Toothpick - The wide angle

Michael Kimmage

The Conservative Turn is an intellectual history of American anti-communism told through the biographies of two intellectuals, Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers, who met as Columbia undergraduates in the 1920s.Both...

The Conservative Turn - In a nutshell

Howard Gardner

As has become the practice these days, the book’s preface summarizes the book’s aims and content, as I have just done. No need to repeat those 1000 words here. But...

A Synthesizing Mind - A close-up

Eric Ames

This book tells the story of one of the greatest showmen in the history of zoos and circuses. Carl Hagenbeck (1844-1913) may not be well-known today, but his name was...

Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments - In a nutshell

Ayelet Shachar

By treating the automatic and perpetual transmission of citizenship by birth as a weak moral link, resembling the property regimes of old that are now deeply discredited and banned, The...

The Birthright Lottery - A close-up

Peter Laufer

I cannot pick out a single page where I would want your browsing reader to go first.One of the joys for me of this project is that the book is...

Calexico - A close-up

Elizabeth Collins Cromley

Although my training in architectural history was very traditional—I studied the history of architects, their patrons, and buildings produced with high budgets and aesthetic ambitions—I became interested in how people...

The Food Axis - The wide angle

Peter Laufer

After September 11, 2001, Washington decided that one of the answers to threats of terrorism was to detain travelers driving north at the Mexican border and relentlessly question them.What the...

Calexico - The wide angle

Sharon R. Krause

As citizens, our relationship to the laws shouldn’t be one of blind obedience; it should reflect critical engagement and sound judgment. In fact, we have a political obligation as democratic...

Civil Passions - The wide angle

Lynne A. Weikart

‍We are fond of dogs. Although it would be a bit of a stretch to say that we are also fond of economics, we certainly appreciate its usefulness in understanding...

Follow the Money - The wide angle

Larry Wolff

A fascinating cast of characters populate the pages of the book—individuals who contributed to shaping the idea of Galicia over the course of two centuries.I write about Habsburg emperors like...

The Idea of Galicia - A close-up

Eric A. Posner

The book criticizes an attitude I call “global legalism,” the faith or hope that international law can solve the word’s problems even though the world is a largely anarchical place,...

The Perils of Global Legalism - In a nutshell

David L. Hu

Understanding animal motion requires application of physics, material science, and robotics.Take an insect walking on water called the water strider. Its legs are covered in the hairiest surface in the...

How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls - The wide angle

Rachel Herz

The general rubric under which the concepts of this book are laid out is evolutionary biology. The core positions are about how and why the emotion of disgust aids in...

That’s Disgusting - The wide angle

Dean Keith Simonton

Three points need to be made about how this book covers the subject.First, although the overview is restricted to creative genius—and thus ignores genius in politics, war, and religion—the coverage...

The Genius Checklist - The wide angle

Andrew Burstein

Democracy’s Muse examines why it is that Thomas Jefferson has come to represent American ideals for all modern generations, why the most emotive figure of the founding era appeals to...

Democracy's Muse - In a nutshell

Noah Feldman

To me the heart of the book is my argument (in chapter two) about the two major Egyptian movements that centered on Tahrir Square: The January 25 movement or revolution,...

The Arab Winter - A close-up

Erin E. O'Connor

The answer to is, in large part, constituted by a personal path - so much so that it constitutes the book's Prologue. I come from a family of makers and...

Fire Craft - The wide angle

Alex Krieger

The book’s primary intent is to portray the American inclination to experiment with forms of settlement, evident in both utopian and pragmatic efforts at reconceiving how and in what shape...

City on a Hill - In a nutshell

Antone Martinho-Truswell

Do you touch on the nature-nurture debate in your book?In this book, I’m mainly talking about nature, particularly when I’m getting into topics such as monogamous pairings, and biparental care...

The Parrot in the Mirror - A close-up

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

In recent years, we have witnesses the overthrow of authoritarian regimes and the difficulties new regimes have in their transition to liberal democracy. This book provides a clue to understanding...

Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution - The wide angle

Charles L. Ponce de Leon

This book is about a seemingly crazy idea that turned into one of the most remarkable publishing successes of the twentieth century. In 1967, Jann Wenner, a 20-year-old Berkeley dropout, and Ralph J. Gleason, a 50-year-old music journalist who had become his mentor, conceived Rolling Stone, a magazine inspired by a belief that rock music’s popularity with young people was a sign of ...

Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism - In a nutshell

Harold James

One of the most dramatic bubbles of the 2000s occurred in the art market, above all in contemporary art. For fine art overall, the most widely quoted index, the Mei...

The Creation and Destruction of Value - A close-up

Sharon Zukin

Not surprisingly for a book about consuming authenticity, a lot of the writing revolves around food. Food is the new “art” in the urban cultural experience. This is true not...

Naked City - A close-up

Judith Keene

The chapter entitled “Iva Toguri and the Trial of Tokyo Rose” raises profound questions about the operation of post war justice and particularly the pernicious influence of the Japanese-American community...

Treason on the Airwaves - A close-up

Erin Manning

A reader encountering Relationscapes in a bookstore might find themselves attracted to the front cover, which is a reproduction of a painting by Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kngwarreye. This might...

Relationscapes - A close-up

Ralph James Savarese

Can autistic people, across the spectrum, read literary fiction? Can they enjoy and profit from the experience? For years, experts have said no. A “triad of impairments”—in language, social understanding,...

See It Feelingly - In a nutshell

Éloi Laurent

Measuring Tomorrow is about ending our passion for growth and engaging in the well-being and sustainability transition. Growth of Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, captures only a tiny fraction of...