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Leah Stokes, “Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Leah Stokes
Short Circuiting Policy
Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Science & Technology January 28, 2020 Susan Liebell

Why do even successful clean energy policies fail to create momentum for more renewable energy? In her new book Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States (Oxford University Press, 2020), Leah Stokes analyzes policy-making in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and... Read More

Abraham Kuyper, “On Education” (Lexham Press, 2019)

Abraham Kuyper
On Education
Edited by Wendy Naylor and Harry Van Dyke
Lexham Press, 2019

New Books in Christian Studies New Books in Education New Books in European Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith January 28, 2020 Crawford Gribben

Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition – and a newspaper editor, university founder and Prime Minister to boot. Lexham Press are publishing his “Collected Works in Public Theology,” in editions that bring together his writings on business, economics, the arts and other... Read More

Andrew R. M. Smith, “No Way But To Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing” (U Texas Press, 2020)

Andrew R. M. Smith
No Way But To Fight
George Foreman and the Business of Boxing
University of Texas Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sports New Books Network January 28, 2020 Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Andrew R. M. Smith, author of No Way But To Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing (University of Texas Press, 2020). In our conversation, we discussed Foreman’s career, the role of race in American sports, and how boxing helped give rise to athletic... Read More

Catherine R. Stimpson
Great Books
Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior's 'The Second Sex'
Think About It, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in French Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network January 28, 2020 Uli Baer

“Woman is not born but made.” This is only one of the powerful sentences in Simone de Beauvoir’s magisterial The Second Sex (1949). It means that there’s nothing natural about the fact that 50% of humanity has been oppressed by the other half for millennia. There’s nothing natural about the... Read More

Mark Katz, “Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World” (Oxford UP, 2019)

Mark Katz
Build
The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Music New Books in National Security New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society January 28, 2020 Kristen M. Turner

In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department. Next Level brings hip hop practitioners from the United States to other countries where they collaborate with local... Read More

Lowell Mick White
Burnt House

Buffalo Times Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in the American South January 28, 2020 GP Gottlieb

After her parents’ divorce, Jackie Stalnaker is sent to her grandmother’s dilapidated house in a tiny town in West Virginia. It’s a hot, mid 1970’s summer in Burnt House, where the only thing to look forward to is a weekly old movie shown at the library. But Jackie is grateful... Read More

Scott C. Esplin, “Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo” (U Illinois Press, 2019)

Scott C. Esplin
Return to the City of Joseph
Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo
University of Illinois Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Christian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network January 27, 2020 Daniel P. Stone

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844. The quiet farm town became a major Mormon heritage site visited annually by tens of thousands of people.... Read More