Liberia: The Violence of Democracy–Now in Paperback
07/17/2008
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy Mary H. Moran 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3907-2 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper 2008 | ISBN… READ MORE
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Reparations to Africa — Now Available
07/11/2008
Reparations to Africa Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann. With Anthony P. Lombardo 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4101-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania… READ MORE
Public Culture — Now Available
Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States Edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4081-8 |… READ MORE
Sageman Warns of Web Wannabes
07/09/2008
"The world’s most dangerous jihadists no longer answer to al-Qaeda. The terrorists we should fear most are self-recruited wannabes who find purpose in terror and comrades on the Web. This… READ MORE
Boyarin and Idel Comment on Ancient Hebrew Tablet
07/07/2008
"Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection," an article in yesterday’s New York Times, outlines the potential religious significance of a centuries-old stone tablet that "may speak of a… READ MORE
Chambers’s Book is Choice Editors’s Pick
Choice Reviews Online includes Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry by Jason Chambers among its Editors’s Picks for July, calling the book "a cogent… READ MORE
Inexpressible Privacy–Now in Paperback
07/02/2008
Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature Milette Shamir 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3906-5 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper… READ MORE
Gordon’s Book ‘Does the best job,’ says St. Louis Regional Planner
07/01/2008
Les Sterman, Executive Director of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments, the regional planning organization for the Greater St. Louis area, had kind words for the work of historian Colin… READ MORE
Black Phliosopher, White Academy–Now Available
06/30/2008
Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine Bruce Kuklick 192 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4098-6 | $55.00 | £36.00 At… READ MORE
Bloom’s Public Housing Commentary
"Public housing that works is a legacy that New York would be foolish to squander," argues Nicholas Dagen Bloom, author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth… READ MORE