Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Adler, Lenard
 Scattered Minds: Hope and Help for Adults with ADHD (Penguin)

Allen, Richard
 Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony (Columbia)

Altshuler, Bruce
 Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art (Princeton)

Altshuler, Bruce
 The Salon to the Biennial Exhibitions that Made Art History (Volume 1) (Phaidon Press)

Amenta, Edwin
 Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park (Chicago)

Antoon, Sinan
 I’Jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (Columbia)

Baer, Ulrich
 Claims of Literature: The Shoshana Felman Reader (NYU)

Ballon, Hillary
 Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (W. W. Norton)

Barker, Chris
 Direct Compositionality (Oxford)

Bender, Thomas
 Nation among Nations: America’s Place in World History (Farrar, Straus, and Girooux)

 The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (NYU Press)

 Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City (Minnesota)

Benson, Robby
 Who Stole the Funny? A Novel of Hollywood (Harper)

Birdsall, Olivia
 Notes on a Near-Life Experience (Delacorte )

Bishop, Jacqueline
 The River’s Song (IPG)

Boghossian , Paul
 Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism (Oxford)

Bohman-Kalaja, Kimberly
 Reading Games: Aesthetics of Play, O’Brien, Beckett, & Perec (Dalkey)

Borenstein, Eliot
 Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (Cornell)

Brathwaite, Kamau
 Dreamstories (New Directions)

Breton Connelly, Joan
 Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton University Press)

Breytenbach, Breyten
 Windcatcher: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2006 (Harcourt)

Burbank, Jane
 Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 (Indiana)

Calhoun, Craig
 Practicing Culture (RKP)

 Sociology in American History (Chicago)

Casey, Marion
 Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States (NYU Press)

Chase, Oscar G.
 Law, Culture, and Ritual: Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural Context (NYU Press)

Cohen, Jean-Louis
 Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture (Vitra Design Museum)

Cohen, Steve
 Next Stop Hollywood: Short Stories Bound for the Screen (St. Martin's Griffin)

Colaiaco, James A.
 Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July (Palgrave Macmillan)

Collins, Christopher
 Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture (Pennsylvania State University Press)

Connelly, Joy
 The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome (Princeton)

Daughtry, Martin
 Music in the Post 9/11 World (RKP)

Djebar, Assia
 The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry (Seven Stories Press)

Doctorow, E. L.
 Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 (Random House)

Duncombe, Stephen
 Bobbed Haired Bandit: Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York (Random House)

 Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (New Press)

Easterly, William
 The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin)

Fernandez, James
 Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War (NYU Press)

Fine, Kit
 Semantic Relationism (Blackwell)

Fleming, K. E.
 A Faithful Sea: The Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200-1700 (NBN)

Flores, Juan
 A Companion to Latina/o Studies (Wiley-Blackwell)

Galloway, Alexander R.
 Exploit: A Theory of Networks (University Of Minnesota Press)

Galvez, Alyshia
 Performing Religion in the Americas: Media, Politics, and Devotional Practices of the 21st Century (St. Martins)

Gerety, Tom
 The Freshman Who Hated Socrates: A College President Reflects on Life in Liberal Arts (Amherst College Press)

Geronimus, Dennis
 Piedro di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange (Yale)

Gerson, Stéphane
 Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination (Cornell University Press)

Gomez, Jeff
 Print is Dead: Books in our Digital Age (Macmillan)

Gordon, Linda
 The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics (Illinois)

Grandin, Greg
 Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (Holt)

 Truth Commissions: State Terror, History, and Memory (Duke)
 
Hardin, Russell
 David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist (Oxford)

Harries, Martin
 Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship (NYU)

Hodes, Martha
 The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (W. W. Norton)

Hutchinson, Sydney
 From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican-American Youth Culture (Arizona)

Johnson, Steven
 The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Riverhead)

Kapchan, Deborah
 Traveling Spirit Masters : Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace (Wesleyan)

Katz, Esther
 Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Vol. 2 (Illinois)

Kennedy, Philip F.
 Abu Nuwas: A Genius of Poetry (NBN)

Khoury, Elias
 City Gates (Picador)

 Gate of the Sun (Picador)

 Little Mountain (Picador)

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
 Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (U Penn)

 They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust (University of California Press)

Klinenberg, Eric
 Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media (Holt)

Komunyakaa, Yusef
 Covenant: Scenes from an African-American Church  (Indiana University Press)

Kupperman, Karen
 The Jamestown Project (Belknap Press)

 Roanoke, the Abandoned Colony  (Rowman & Littlefield)

Landy, Robert
 The Couch and the Stage: Integrating Words and Action in Psychotherapy (Rowman)

Leadbeater, Bonnie J.
 Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths (NYU)

Longuenesse, Beatrice
 Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics (Cambridge)

Lounsbery, Anne
 Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russian and America (Harvard)

Marconi, Clemente
 Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus (Cambridge)

Martin, Carol
 Global Foreigners: An Anthology of Plays (St. Martins)

Martin, Emily
 Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture (Princeton)

Martin, Randy
 The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries, and Dance Canons (Wesleyan)

 Empire of Indifference (Duke)

Maslon, Laurence
 The Sound of Music Companion (Fireside)

Merry, Sally
 The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local (Cambridge)

Miller, Judith
 Ariane Mnouchkine (RKP)

Monda, Antonio
 Do You Believe? Conversations on God and Religion (Random House)

Morton, Brian
 Breakable You (Harvest Books)

 Starting out in the Evening (Harvest Books)

Nestle, Marion
 Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Revised and Expanded Edition) (University of California Press)

 What to Eat (North Point Press)

Newman, Karen
 Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris (Princeton)

Nicole, Eugène
 L’Œuvre des mers (Seuil)

 Alaska (Seuil)

Nochlin, Linda
 Courbet (Thames & Hudson)

 Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art (Merrell)

Peters, F. E.
 The Voice, the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Princeton)

Polan, Dana
 Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film (California)

Pratt, Mary Louise
 Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (RKP)

Ritchin, Fred
 In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography  (DAP)

Roiphe, Katie
 Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939 (RKP)

Ross, Andrew
 Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai (Vintage)

Rubenstein, Ernest
 Religion and the Muse: The Vexed Relation between Religion and Western Literature (SUNY Press)

Sanders, Mark
 Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission (Stanford)

Sandhu, Sukhdev
 Night Haunts: A Journey through Nocturnal London (Verso)

Schieffelin, Bambi
 The Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies (Oxford)

Schiffman, Lawrence
 War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition (KTAV)

Sennett, Richard
 Culture of the New Capitalism (Yale)

Shapiro, Susan
 Only As Good As Your Word: Writing Lessons from My Favorite Literary Gurus (Seal Press)

Shengold, Leonard
 Haunted by Parents (Yale)

Shrum, Robert
 No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner (Simon & Schuster)

Silber, William L.
 When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy (Princeton)

Siu, Lok
 Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions (Stanford)

 Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford)

Smith, Craig
 Sing My Whole Life Long: Jenny Vincent’s Life in Folk Music and Activism (University of New Mexico Press)

Solomon, Stephen D.
 Ellery’s Protest (Michigan)

Stam, Robert
 A Companion to Literature and Film (Blackwell)

Sturken, Marita
 Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (Duke)

Sullivan, Edward J.
 Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas (Yale)

Torreano, John
 Drawing by Seeing

Tyrell, Michael
 Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (NYU Press)

Unger, Peter
 All the Power in the World (Oxford)

Vaidhyanathan, Siva
 Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies (Hopkins)

Velleman, J. David
 Practical Reflection (Chicago)

Violi, Paul
 Overnight (SPD)

Waterman, Bryan
 Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Hopkins)

Weissmann, Gerald
 Galileo’s Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment (Bellevue Literary Press)

Welch, Katherine
 Roman Ampitheatre: From Its Origins to the Colosseum (Cambridge)

Williams, Paul
 Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities (St. Martins)

Willis, Deborah
 Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African-American Portraits (USMTH)

Wolff, Larry
 Anthropology of the Enlightenment (Stanford)

Wolfson, Elliot R.
 Footdreams and Treetales: 92 Poems (NYU)

Young, Robert
 The Idea of English Ethnicity (Blackwell)

Zhang, Zhen
 The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Duke)