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Adam Brown, “Judging ‘Privileged’ Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the ‘Grey Zone'” (Berghahn, 2015)
Adam Brown
Judging 'Privileged' Jews
Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'
Berghahn Books, 2015

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network July 2, 2020 Yakir Englander 

The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such... Read More
Co-Authored: Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward

Co-Authored
Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
New Books Network, 2020

Co-AuthoredNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network July 2, 2020 Heath Brown

When you ask people about academic collaborations, Piven and Cloward is almost always the first one they mention. In this episode of the Co-Authored podcast, we look at the four-decade collaboration between Professors Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. This collaboration is incredibly timely today, as protest and social movements... Read More
Doron Galili, “Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939” (Duke UP, 2020)
Doron Galili
Seeing by Electricity
The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network July 2, 2020 Mark Klobas

With the burst of new technologies in the 1870s, many inventors and visionaries believed that the transmission of moving images was just around the corner. As Doron Galili details in his book Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 (Duke University Press, 2020), the half-century of speculations that followed... Read More
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “The Age of Phillis” (Wesleyan UP, 2020)
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The Age of Phillis

Wesleyan University Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoetryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 2, 2020 Jennifer J. Davis

Jennifer J. Davis speaks with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, about The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan UP, 2020), Jeffers’s latest collection of poems centered on the remarkable life of America’s first poet of African descent, Phillis Wheatley Peters. The Society of Early Americanists recently... Read More
Will Thomas, “Lethal Pursuit” (Minotaur, 2019)
Will Thomas
Lethal Pursuit

Minotaur, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Historical FictionNew Books in LiteratureNew Books Network July 2, 2020 Michael Morales

London, 1892. Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn have been tasked by the Prime Minister to deliver a satchel to the Vatican. The satchel contains a document desperately desired by the German government, an unnamed first-century gospel. With secret societies, government assassins, political groups, and shadowy figures of... Read More
Evan Smith, “No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech” (Routledge, 2020)
Evan Smith
No Platform
A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech
Routledge, 2020

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EducationNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 2, 2020 Kirk Meighoo

No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech (Routledge, 2020) is the first to outline the history of the tactic of ‘no platforming’ at British universities since the 1970s, looking at more than four decades of student protest against racist and fascist figures on campus.... Read More
A. P. Carnevale, “The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America” (The New Press, 2020)
A. P. Carnevale
The Merit Myth
How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
The New Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EducationNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Sociology July 2, 2020 Stephen Pimpare

Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way. As the recent bribery scandal demonstrates, social inequalities and colleges’ pursuit of wealth and prestige stack the deck in favor of the children of privilege. For... Read More
Charlene Li, “The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations Transform While Others Fail” (IdeaPress, 2019)
Charlene Li
The Disruption Mindset
Why Some Organizations Transform While Others Fail
IdeaPress, 2019

New Books in EconomicsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & Technology July 2, 2020 Dan Hill

What does it take for a company’s culture to enable ongoing growth? Today I talked to Charlene Li, author of The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations Transform While Others Fail (IdeaPress, 2019). Li is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership, and is also... Read More
He Bian, “Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China” (Princeton UP, 2020)
He Bian
Know Your Remedies
Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China
Princeton University Press, 2020

New Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network July 2, 2020 Sarah Bramao-Ramos

He Bian’s new book Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2020) is a beautiful cultural history of pharmacy in early modern China. This trans-dynastic book looks at how Chinese approaches to knowledge changed during the Ming and Qing as state-commissioned pharmacopeias dwindled, amateur investigations... Read More

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