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Matthew E. Ferris, “If One Uses It Lawfully: The Law of Moses and the Christian Life” (Wipf and Stock, 2018)
Matthew E. Ferris
If One Uses It Lawfully
The Law of Moses and the Christian Life
Wipf & Stock, 2018

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network September 13, 2019 Crawford Gribben

One of the most enduring debates within protestant theology has been the discussion about how the law of Moses relates to the Christian life. In this important new book, Matthew E. Ferris, a self-described “gentleman theologian,” puts the debate within the contexts of recent writing in New Testament studies as... Read More
Kenneth Olwig, “The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice” (Routledge, 2019)
Kenneth Olwig
The Meanings of Landscape
Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice
Routledge, 2019

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Science & Technology September 13, 2019 Tricia Keffer

In The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice (Routledge, 2019), Kenneth Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influence from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has now come to be viewed as a form of... Read More
Joy McCann, “Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean” (U New South Wales Press, 2018)
Joy McCann
Wild Sea
A History of the Southern Ocean
University of New South Wales Press, 2018

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network September 13, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Joy McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica. McCann is the author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean (University of New South Wales Press, 2018). She is a historian at the Centre for Environmental History at Australian National University. Flowing completely around the Earth and unimpeded... Read More
James C. W. Ahiakpor, “Macroeconomics without the Errors of Keynes” (Routledge, 2019)
James C. W. Ahiakpor
Macroeconomics without the Errors of Keynes
The Quantity Theory of Money, Saving, and Policy
Routledge, 2019

New Books in EconomicsNew Books in FinanceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 13, 2019 Andrea Bernardi

I spoke with James C. W. Ahiakpor, he is Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, at California State University, East Bay, USA. We discussed his new book Macroeconomics without the Errors of Keynes: The Quantity Theory of Money, Saving, and Policy (Routledge, 2019)–a provocative title for a very original book that... Read More
Lawrence Glickman, “Free Enterprise: An American History” (Yale UP, 2019)
Lawrence Glickman
Free Enterprise
An American History
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in FinanceNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society September 13, 2019 Dexter Fergie

“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense. It appears everywhere from political speeches to pop culture. And it is so central to the idea of the United States that some even labeled Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims free enterprisers. In his new book, Free Enterprise:... Read More
Elizabeth D. Carney, “Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Elizabeth D. Carney
Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power

Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in BiographyNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society September 12, 2019 Mark Klobas

As the wife of a Macedonian king and the mother of three sons who would succeed him, Eurydice played an important role in Macedonia at an important moment in the kingdom’s history. In Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (Oxford University Press, 2019), Elizabeth Donnelly Carney draws upon recent... Read More
Tammy R. Vigil, “Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016” (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Tammy R. Vigil
Moms in Chief
The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016
University Press of Kansas, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 12, 2019 Lilly Goren

Tammy Vigil’s new book, Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016 (University Press of Kansas, 2019), examines the contemporary “first spouses” on the campaign trail, at the nominating conventions, and pays particular attention to how these women (and one man, the 2016... Read More