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Ting Zhang, “Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China” (U Washington Press, 2020)
Ting Zhang
Circulating the Code
Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China
University of Washington Press, 2020

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 14, 2020 Sarah Bramao-Ramos

How could a peasant in Shandong in the Qing dynasty come to know enough about a specific law that he felt confident enough to kill his own wife and his lover’s husband and think that he could get away with it? As Ting Zhang’s new book, Circulating the Code: Print... Read More
Naomi Appleton, “Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40” (Equinox, 2020)
Naomi Appleton
Many Buddhas, One Buddha
A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40
Equinox Publishing, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network August 13, 2020 Olivia Porter

Naomi Appleton‘s new book Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40 (Equinox Publishing, 2020) introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadānaśataka, or “One Hundred Stories”, and explores some of its perspectives on buddhahood. This text, composed in Sanskrit... Read More
R. R. Reno, “Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism and the Future of the West” (Gateway Editions, 2019)
R. R. Reno
Return of the Strong Gods
Nationalism, Populism and the Future of the West
Gateway Editions, 2019

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & Society August 12, 2020 Charles Coutinho

One of America’s leading intellectuals has written the book which analyzes and explains the current discontents and malcontents of the contemporary West. After the staggering slaughter of back-to-back world wars, Western elites embraced the ideal of the “open society.” The goal being: By liberating ourselves from the old attachments to nation, clan,... Read More
Francis J. Beckwith, “Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant” (Baylor UP, 2019)
Francis J. Beckwith
Never Doubt Thomas
The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant
Baylor University Press, 2019

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network August 7, 2020 Hope J. Leman

Should you care how Protestant theologians and philosophers view a man generally regarded as of interest primarily to Catholics and as a pillar of Catholic thinking? Absolutely. Why? Because much of what has made our modern world in terms of law, philosophy and ethics comes from Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). How... Read More
Joshua Nall, “News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Joshua Nall
News from Mars
Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society August 6, 2020 Mikey McGovern

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re hearing an awful lot about the fraught relationship between science and media. In his book, News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), historian of science Joshua Nall shows us that a... Read More
Samuel Morris Brown, “Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Samuel Morris Brown
Joseph Smith's Translation
The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism
Oxford University Press, 2020

MormonismNBN Special SeriesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network August 5, 2020 Daniel P. Stone

Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill, and produced an Egyptian “Book of Abraham” derived from funerary papyri he extracted from a collection of mummies he bought from a traveling... Read More
Nathan Spannaus, “Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nathan Spannaus
Preserving Islamic Tradition
Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network August 5, 2020 Asad Dandia

What were some of the major transformations taking place for Muslim communities in the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century? How did the introduction of a state-backed structure for Muslim religious institutions alter Islamic religious authority in the empire? And who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his... Read More
Kim Adrian, “Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle” (Fiction Advocate, 2020)
Kim Adrian
Dear Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle
Fiction Advocate, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 5, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

In 2009, a novel was released in Norway with a fairly simple premise; the author would simply write about himself, his life and his attempts to write. The autobiographical novel would be the first in a 6-volume series that would eventually total over 3,500 pages written in just 3 short... Read More
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 9: Vanity of Vanities
Dr. Brian Collins
A Very Square Peg
A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 9: Vanity of Vanities
New Books Network, 2020

New Books in BiographyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books NetworkVery Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler August 4, 2020 Brian Collins

In this episode, I look at Eisler’s last days in England, where he found that the Oxford readership he had been promised before being sent to Dachau was taken by someone else, a paper shortage had put a stop to academic publishing, and that foreign Jews without visas were being... Read More

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