Cottom’s Clever Chiasmus
02/01/2007
A review of Daniel Cottom’s Unhuman Culture appears in the January/February 2007 Bloomsbury Review. Critic Larry T. Shillock writes: Unhuman Culture takes the categories of the person and the Other,… READ MORE
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Now Available–Her Life Historical
01/31/2007
Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints’ Lives in Late Medieval England Catherine Sanok 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3986-7 | $55.00… READ MORE
American Capitalism– Now in Paperback
American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century Nelson Lichtenstein, Editor 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3923-2 | $49.95… READ MORE
The Origins of Freemasonry–Now in Paperback
01/26/2007
The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions Margaret C. Jacob 176 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3901-0 | $26.50 | £17.50 Paper 2007… READ MORE
Schoolcraft in the News
01/25/2007
From The Chicago Reader’s Daily Harold: Hot off the presses at the University of Pennsylvania is what might be a Midwestern blockbuster, The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the… READ MORE
Child Soldiers in Africa–Now in Paperback
Child Soldiers in Africa Alcinda Honwana 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3911-9 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1987-6 |… READ MORE
“Venice” Makes ForeWord’s Big Ten
01/24/2007
ForeWord magazine lists Margaret Doody’s Tropic of Venice among the Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006. The ForeWord review begins by placing Doody in some impressive company:… READ MORE
Female Circumcision–Now in Paperback
01/23/2007
Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Editor 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1941-8 | $19.95 | £13.00 A volume in the… READ MORE
The Insight of Unbelievers–Now Available
01/20/2007
The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages Deeana Copeland Klepper 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus…. READ MORE
Sageman’s Deadly “Bunch of Guys”
01/19/2007
The work of Understanding Terror Networks author Marc Sageman is featured in Azzam the American: The making of an Al Qaeda homegrown, a recent New Yorker article about jihadism in… READ MORE
