New Books in Earth Science

Kathleen McAuliffe, “This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society?...

Kathleen McAuliffe‘s This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior...

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Stephen H. Grant, “Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)

Henry and Emily Folger were linked together not just by their love for one another, but their...

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Laurence A. Rickels, “The Psycho Records” (Wallflower Press, 2016)

Reading Laurence Rickels‘ The Psycho Records (Wallflower Press, 2016) gave me the urge to ask...

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Robert Jervis, “How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics” (Princeton UP, 2017)

Robert Jervis is the author of How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics...

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Ronald E. Yates, “The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles” (Xlibris, 2016)

Journalism, history, biography, memoirs, and historical fiction overlap to some degree. The first...

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Kelly Belanger, “Invisible Seasons: Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports” (Syracuse UP, 2016)

As I write this, the women’s basketball team for the University of Connecticut is in the midst of...

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Sarah Hammerschlag, “Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion” (Columbia UP, 2016)

In Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion (Columbia University...

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Tony Collins, “The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

The 2017 Six Nations rugby tournament is entering its final weekend. England will travel to...

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Christopher Pizzino, “Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature” (U of Texas Press, 2016)

There’s a common myth about the history of comic books and strips. Its the idea that the medium...

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Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)

Todd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University...

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Daniel Immerwahr, “Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development” (Harvard UP, 2015)

Modernization dominates development historiography. Historians characterize moments in...

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Emily K. Hobson, “Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left” (U. Cal Press, 2016)

In Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left (University of...

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Garrison Nelson, “John William McCormack: A Political Biography” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)

John William McCormack served as Speaker of the House of Representatives throughout most of the...

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Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez, “The Valiant Woman: The Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century American Culture” (UNC Press, ...

When people think of the Virgin Mary in terms of American religious history, there is a tendency...

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Liz Conor, “Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women (UWA Publishing, 2016)

In an activist application of her scholarly discipline, Dr Liz Conor’s Skin Deep: Settler...

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Joan Maya Mazelis, “Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor” (NYU Press, 2017)

A number of recent events (the Great Recession, Occupy Wall Street, the Bernie Sanders...

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Travis Linnemann, “Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power” (NYU Press, 2016)

If all you knew about methamphetamines came from popular culture (“Breaking Bad”) or government...

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Richard Weikart, “Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich” (Regnery History, 2016)

Trying to figure out what Hitler “really” thought about anything is difficult because he...

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Stephanie Ruphy, “Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered: A New Approach to the (Dis)unity of Science (U. Pittsburgh Pre...

The idea that the sciences can’t be unified–that there will never be a single ‘theory of...

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Julia Alekseyeva, “Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution” (Microcosm Publishing, 2017)

Julia Alekseyeva’s graphic novel Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution was published by Microcosm...

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