Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Anastas, Jeane                                                    
     Teaching in Social Work: An Educators' Guide to Theory and Practice (Columbia)

Anker, Peder
     From Bauhaus to Ecohaus: A History of Ecological Design (Louisiana State)

Appuhn, Karl
     A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice (Johns Hopkins)

Balcetis, Emily
     Social Psychology of Visual Perception (Psychology Press)

Baumol, William
     The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship (Princeton)
     The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (Princeton)

Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte
      When Ego Was Imago: Signs of Identity in the Middle Ages (Brill)

Benton, Lauren
     A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (Cambridge)

Berenson, Edward
     Constructing Charisma: Celebrity, Fame, and Power in 19th-Century Europe (Berghahn Books)
     Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and Conquest in Africa (California)

Bishop, Kathleen
     Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

Brathwaite, Kamau
      Elegguas (Wesleyan)

Breytenbach, Breyten
      Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago)

Broderick, Mosette
     Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age (Knopf)

Bruner, Jerome
      Making Sense: The Child's Construction of the World (Methuen)

Burbank, Jane and Fred Cooper
     Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton)

Calhoun, Craig
      Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science (Chicago)
      Varieties of Secularism (Harvard)

Canemaker, John
      Two Guys Named Joe (Disney)

Carruthers, Mary
      Rhetoric Beyond Words: Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle Ages (Cambridge)

Cartledge, Paul
      Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities (Oxford)

Chioles, John
      Poems: The Canon (Cavafy)

Chelkowski, Peter
      Eternal Performance: Taziyah and Other Shiite Rituals (Chicago)

Cheney, Colin
      Here Be Monsters (Georgia)

Cohen, Stephen
      The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin (Publishing Works)

Conley, Dalton
      Elsewhere U.S.A. (Random House)
      Social Class: How Does it Work? (Russell Sage Foundation)

Conover, Ted
      The Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today (Knopf)

Dancyger, Ken
      The Technique of Film and Video Editing: Theory and Practice, 5E (Focal Press)

Davis, Peggy Cooper
      Enacting Pleasure: A Response to Gilligan's New Map of Love (Chicago)

Deneys-Tunney, Anne
      Un autre Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Le paradoxe de la technique (Presses Universitaires de France)

Diawara, Manthia
      African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics (Prestel USA)

Diner, Hasia
      A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America (Rutgers)
      Houdini: Art and Magic (Yale)

Doctorow, E.L.
      Lives of the Poets (Random House)

Donoghue, Denis
      On Eloquence (Yale)

Dopico, Ana
     Jose Marti: Revolution, Politics And Letters: Volume One: Cuba: The Struggle For Independence (Oxford)

Ellen, Ingrid
      How to House the Homeless (Russell Sage Foundation)

Estlund, Cynthia
     Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (Yale)

Feldman, Yael
      Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative (Stanford)

Ferejohn, John
      War and State Building in Medieval Japan (Stanford)
      A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution (Yale)

Fleming, K.E.
      Greece: A Jewish History (Princeton)

Flores, Juan
      The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (Duke)
      The Diaspora Strikes Back (Routledge)
      Bugalú y otros guisos (Ediciones Callejon)

Foy, George
      Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence (Scribner)

Francia, Luis
      History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos (Overlook)

Frank, Nathaniel
      Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America (Thomas Dunne Books)

Freedgood, Elaine
      The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago)

Garland, David
      Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (Belknap Press, Harvard)

Gaudiani, Claire
      Generosity Unbound: How American Philanthropy Can Strengthen the Economy and Expand the Middle Class (Broadway Publications)

Geroulanos, Stefanos
      Henri Atlan: Selected Writings (Fordham)
      An Atheism That is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought (Stanford)

Gilman, Ernest
      Representing the Plague in Early Modern England (Chicago)

Goodwin, Jeff
      How to Explain a Social Movement (Paradigm)

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

Gottlieb, Michah and Elliot Wolfson
      New Directions in Jewish Philosophy (Indiana)

Grandin, Greg
      A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War (Duke)
      Who is Rigoberta Menchu? (Verso)

Grant, Bruce
      The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke)

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

Groys, Boris
      History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism (MIT)
      The Communist Postscript (Verso)

Hajo, Cathy Moran
       Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916-1939 (Illinois)

Haney, Lynne
      Offending Women: Power, Punishment and the Regulation of Desire (California)

Homans, Jennifer
      Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Random House)

Horwich, Paul
      Truth Meaning Reality (Oxford)

Iskander, Natasha
      Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico (Cornell)

Irving, David
      Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, 4E (McFarland & Company)

Jackson, Robert Max
      Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women's Status (Harvard)

Jamieson, Dale
      Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford)

Jones, Bruce
      Power & Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats (Brookings Institution Press)

Kaplan, Marion
      Gender and Jewish History (Indiana)

Karl, Rebecca
      Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History (Duke)

Katz, Esther, Cathy Moran Hajo and Peter C. Engelman, eds.
      Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Vol. 3 (Illinois)

Khoury, Elias
      White Masks (Archipelago)

Kingsbury, Benedict
     Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development (NYU)
     The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations, B. Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann, eds. (Oxford)

Klass, Perri
      Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training, rev. ed. (Random House)
      A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As A Medical Student, rev. ed. (Plume)

Labanyi, Jo
      Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)

Lepecki, Andre
      Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory and the Global (Chicago)

Lezra, Jacques
      Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (Fordham)

Linfield, Susie
      The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (Chicago)

Machado, Eduardo
      Havana is Waiting and Other Plays (Theatre Communications Group)

Martin, Carol
      Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage (Palgrave Macmillan)

Maslon, Laurence
      Broadway: The American Musical (Bulfinch)

McCarthy, Anna
      Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America (The New Press)

McLane, Maureen
      World Enough (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Meisel, Perry
      The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan (Wiley-Blackwell)

Mendelson, Jordana
      Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity (Penn State)

Mirsepassi, Ali
      Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment: Philosophies of Hope and Despair (Cambridge)

Molotch, Harvey
      Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (NYU)

Morton, Rebecca
      Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality (Cambridge)

Nagel, Alexander
      Anachronic Renaissance (MIT)
      Controversy of Renaissance Art (Chicago)

Nestle, Marion
      Feed Your Pet Right (Simon and Schuster)
      Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (California)
      Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety, rev. ed. (California)

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

Ofri, Danielle
      Medicine in Translation: Journeys With My Patients (Beacon)

Ostashevsky, Eugene
      Auf tritt Morris Imposternak, verfolgt von Ironien (SuKuLTuR)

Patell, Cyrus and Bryan Waterman
      The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York (Cambridge)

Peters, F.E. (Emeritus)
      Jesus and Muhammad: Parallel Tracks, Parallel Lives (Oxford)

Polyne, Millery
      From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 (Florida)

Pratt, Mary Louise
      Ojos imperiales (trans) (Fondo de Cultura Economica)

Przeworski, Adam
      Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government (Cambridge)

Ravitch, Diane
     The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (Basic Books)

Rea, Peter W.
      Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, 4E (Focal Press)

Ritchin, Fred
      After Photography (Norton)
      In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (Aperture)

Robinson, Julia
      New Realisms, 1957-1962: Object Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacle (MIT)

Ronell, Avital
      Fighting Theory (Illinois)
      Lignes de front (Stock)

Ross, Andrew
      Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (NYU)

Rubenstein, Jeffrey
      Stories of the Babylonian Talmud (Johns Hopkins)

Salemi, Joseph
      Skirmishes (Pivot Press)

Sandhu, Sukhdev
      Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night (Verso)

Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
      Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World: The Ross School Model and Education for the Global Era (NYU)

Seife, Charles
      Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception (Viking Adult)

Shasha, Dennis
      Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines (Norton)

Shirky, Clay
      Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (Penguin)

Shohat, Ella
      Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (I.B. Tauris)

Siegel, Judith
      Stop Overreacting: Effective Strategies for Calming Your Emotions (New Harbinger Publications)

Silver, Kenneth
      Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936 (Guggenheim Museum)

Silverman, Kenneth
      Houdini: Art and Magic (Yale)
      Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage (Knopf)

Singh, Nikhil
      Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell (California)

Siskin, Clifford
      This Is Enlightenment (Chicago)

Skolnick, Jerome
      The Politics of Protest: Task Force on Violent Aspects of Protest and Confrontation of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (NYU)

Smith, Roy
      Paper Fortunes: Modern Wall Street; Where It's Been and Where It's Going (St. Martin’s Press)

Soffer, Jonathan
      Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City (Columbia)

Sokal, Alan
      Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture (Oxford)

Sorabji, Richard
      Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India (Penguin)

Soussan, Michael
      Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy (Nation Books)

Stewart, Richard
      Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development (NYU)
      Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Protection that Will Work (Yale)

Strauss, Darin
      Half a Life (McSweeney’s)

Suarez-Orozco, Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
      Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society (Belknap Press)

Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo
      Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World: The Ross School Model and Education for the Global Era (NYU)

Sullivan, Edward
      Nueva York (Scala)

Taleb, Nassim
      The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Random House)

Tancredi, Laurence
      Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals About Morality (Cambridge)

Trachtenberg, Marvin
      Building in Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (Yale)

Tu, Thuy Linh Nguyen
      The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion (Duke)

Tylus, Jane
     The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain (ed. by Gerry Milligan and Jane Tylus) (Toronto)
     Gaspara Stampa, The Complete Poems: The 1554 Edition of the “Rime,” A Bilingual Edition (ed. by Troy Tower and Jane Tylus; translated by Jane Tylus) (Chicago)

Volk, Tyler
      CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge (MIT)
      Death and Sex (Chelsea Green)

Wachtel, Chuck
      3/03 (Hanging Loose Press)

Walden, Scott
      Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature (Wiley-Blackwell)

Waldron, Jeremy
      Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs: Philosophy for the White House (Oxford)

Walkowitz, Daniel
      Rethinking U.S. Labor History: The Working Class Experience (Continuum)
      City Folk: English Country Dance (NYU)

White, Doug
      The Nonprofit Challenge: Integrating Ethics into the Purpose and Promise of Our Nation's Charities (Palgrave Macmillan)

Willis, Deborah
      Black Venus 2010: They Called Her Hottentot (Temple)
      Harlem: A Century in Images (Skira Rizzoli)

Willis, Meredith Sue
      Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories (Ohio)
      Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel (Montemayor Press)

Wolff, Larry
      The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture (Stanford)

Woodruff, Nancy
      My Wife’s Affair (Amy Einhorn Books)

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

Wyman, Katrina and Richard Stewart
      Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Protection that Will Work (Yale)

Yager, Susan
      The Hundred Year Diet: America's Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight (Rodale)

Youn, Monica
      Ignatz (Four Way Books)

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

Zaloom, Caitlin
      Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (Chicago)