Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Allen, Richard

      Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (Tulika Books)

Anderson, Gary
      Advocacy Leadership (Routledge)

Bagnall, Roger
      Early Christian Books in Egypt (Princeton)

Ben-Dor, Zvi Benite 
      Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford)

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth
      Gli imperi: dall'antichita all'eta contemporanea (Il Mulino)

Breytenbach, Breyten
      Mouroir (Archipelago Books)
      Notes from the Middle World (Haymarket Books)
      Intimate Stranger (Archipelago Books)

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce
      The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future (Random House)

Castaneda, Jorge
      Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants (New Press)

 Castro, Lourdes
      Eat, Drink, Think in Spanish (Ten Speed Press)
      Simply Mexican (Ten Speed Press)

Chi, Jennifer Y.
      The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC (Princeton)

Cohen, Robert
      Exil der frechen Frauen (Rotbuch)

Cohen, Robert
      Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s (Oxford)

Cohen, Stephen
     Stephen Cohen, the Soviet Union and Russia (Publishing Works)
     Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: Stalinism to the New Cold War (Columbia)

Conley, Dalton
     Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America (California)

Cooper, Patricia M.
     The Classrooms All Young Children Need: Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley (Chicago)

Corbett, Ken
     Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities (Yale)

Cornyetz, Nina
     Perversion and Modern Japan (Routledge)

Cusick, Suzanne
     Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court (Chicago)

Deer, Patrick
     Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature (Oxford)

Diner, Hasia
     We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (NYU)

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

Doctorow, E.L.
     Homer and Langley (Random House)

Eigen, Michael
     Flames from the Unconscious: Trauma, Madness, and Faith (Karnac Books)

Engel, David
     Zionism (Longman)

Farley, David
     Irreverent Curiosity (Gotham)

Flood, Barry
     Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter (Princeton)

Friedman, Barry
     The Will of the People (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Galeotti, Mark
     Organised Crime in History (Routledge)

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

Gilligan, Carol
     Kyra (Random House)

Gilman, Ernest
     Plague Writing in Early Modern England (Chicago)

Gilsenan, Michael
     Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia (Routledge)

Goebel, Eckart
     Jenseits des Unbehagens: “Sublimierung” von Goethe bis Lacan (Transcript)
     Narziss und Eros: Bild oder Text? (Wallstein)

Goodwin, Jeff
     The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, 2^nd Ed. (Wiley-Blackwell)

Gordon, Linda
     Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (Norton)

Gordon, Meryl
     Mrs. Astor Regrets (Houghton Mifflin Co.)

Grandin, Greg
     Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books)

Grant, Bruce
     The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (Cornell)

Greenberg, Karen J.
     The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford)

Hardin, Russell
     Distrust (Russell Sage Foundation)
     How Do You Know?: The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge (Princeton)
     Whom Can We Trust? (Russell Sage Foundation)

Hay, Jonathan
     Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China (Hawaii)

Horwich, Paul
     World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science (MIT)

Hull, Richard
      Jews and Judaism in African History (Markus Weiner Publishers)

Jost, John T.
     Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology (Oxford)

Judt, Tony
     Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten 20^th Century (Penguin)

Karmel, Pepe
     New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection (Grey Art Gallery)

Katz, Alyssa
     Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us (Bloomsbury)

Keshavarzian, Arang
     Bazaar and State in Iran (Cambridge)

Khan, Aisha
     Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz (North Carolina)

Khoury, Elias
     The Journey of Little Gandhi (Minnesota)
     Yalo (Picador)

Klass, Perri
     Mercy Rule (Mariner Books)
     The Real Life of a Pediatrician (Kaplan)

Komunyakaa, Yusef
     Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (Wesleyan)
     Warhorses (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Kushner, David
     Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Walker and Company)

Lewis, David Levering
     God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 (Norton)
     W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Updated and Revised) (Holt Paperbacks)

Lukes, Steven
     The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat (Verso)

Lukose, Ritty
     Liberalization’s Children: Gender and Youth in Globalizing India (Duke)

Maslon, Laurence
     Some Like it Hot: The Official 50^th Anniversary Companion (Collins Design)

Miller-Idriss, Cynthia
     Blood and Culture: National Belonging in Contemporary Germany (Duke)

Mirzoeff, Nicholas
     An Introduction to Visual Culture, 2^nd Ed. (Routledge)

Moloney, Mick
     Close to the Floor: Irish Dance from the Boreen to Broadway (Macater Press)

Muñoz, Jose Esteban
     Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (NYU)

Newkirk, Pamela
     Letters from Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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

Nissenbaum, Helen
     Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford)

Noguera, Pedro
     The Trouble With Black Boys: And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education (Jossey-Bass)

Norman, Elizabeth and Michael Norman
     Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Nyong’o, Tavia
     Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (Minnesota)

O’Connor, David
     Abuydos: Egypt’s First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris (Thames and Hudson)

Ofri, Danielle
    Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue (Penguin)

Olsher, Dean
     From Square One: A Meditation with Digressions on Crosswords (Scribner)

Ortolano, Guy
     The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Cambridge)

Parikh, Crystal
     An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness (Fordham)

Peimer, David
     Armed Response: Plays From South Africa (Chicago)

Penenberg, Adam L.
     Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter (Hyperion)

Phillips-Fein, Kim
     Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement (Norton)

Polan, Dana
     The Sopranos (Duke)

Rajagopal, Arvind
     The Indian Public Sphere: Readings in Media History (Oxford)

Reimers, David
     Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration, 5^th Ed. (Harper Collins)

Richards, David A. J.
     The Sodomy Cases: Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas (Kansas)

Rosenthal, Joel
     Ethics and International Affairs: A Reader, 3^rd Ed. (Georgetown)

Ross, Andrew
     Nice Work If You Can Get It (NYU)

Rudman, Mark
     The Book of Samuel: Essays on Poetry and Imagination (Northwestern)

Rushkoff, Douglas
     Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back (Random House)

Seife, Charles
     Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion (Viking Adult)

Shirky, Clay
     Here Comes Everybody (Penguin)

Sieburth, Richard
     The Salt Smugglers (translation of Gérard de Nerval; Archipelago)

Siegel, Elke
     Entfernte Freunde: Nietzsche, Freud, Kafka und die Freundschaft der Moderne (Königshausen & Neumann)

Slatkin, Laura
     The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays (Harvard)

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

Stevens, Mitchell L.
     Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites (Harvard)

Strauss, Darin
     More Than It Hurts You (Plume)

Strevens, Michael
     Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation (Harvard)

Tylus, Jane
     Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others (Chicago)

Velleman, J. David
     How We Get Along (Cambridge)

Walkowitz, Daniel J.
     Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation (Duke)

Washburn, Phil
     The Vocabulary of Critical Thinking (Oxford)

Welch, Katherine
     Representations of War in Ancient Rome (Cambridge)

Willis, Deborah
     Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (Norton)
     Posing Beauty: African-American Images from the 1890s to the Present (Norton)

Wolfson, Elliot R.
     Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism (Columbia)

Wright, Rita P.
     The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy, and Society (Cambridge)

Young, Marilyn B.
     Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History (New Press)

Zimmerman, Jonathan
     Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory (Yale)