Books

  • Cover of Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
    Providence Canyon and the Soils of the SouthBy Paul Sutter, associate professor of historyUniversity of Georgia PressProvidence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies
  • Cover of Dreams Bigger Than the Night
    By Paul M. Levitt, professor emeritus of EnglishTaylor Trade PublishingSet during the Great Depression, when fascism was looking increasingly attractive to many, Paul M. Levitt’s latest novel surrounds attempts to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics
  • Cover of Disknowledge
    Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance EnglandBy Katherine Eggert, professor of EnglishUniversity of Pennsylvania Press“Disknowledge”: knowing something isn’t true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature,
  • Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Feinet cover
    Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval EuropeBy Scott G. Bruce, associate professor of historyCornell University PressIn the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of
  • Forensic Plant Science book cover
    Two longtime ˛ĘĂń±¦µä professors who have been using their expertise for decades to help solve crimes, often murder, have teamed up on a new forensic plant science book expected to aid investigators around the world.
  • Cover of Rendering Nature
    Animals, Bodies, Places, PoliticsEdited by Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. YoungUniversity of Pennsylvania Press“Rendering Nature collects the work of exemplary scholars working at the nexus of the vibrant fields of American studies and
  • Laura DeLuca, assistant professor adjunct in anthropology and and director of CU-Boulder’s Global Seminar in Tanzania, is shown here in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo courtesy of Laura DeLuca.
    Laura DeLuca published a young adult novel that tells the often-overlooked story of one of the Lost Girls of Sudan and shines a light on the inadvertently competitive nature of asylum-seeking; it won a 2014 Colorado Book Award and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of its top 2014 book picks.
  • Cover of Communication Activism
    Vol. 3: Struggling for Social Justice Amidst DifferenceEdited by Lawrence R. Frey, professor of communication at CU; and Kevin M. Carragee, Suffolk UniversityHampton PressExtending the scholarship presented in the first two volumes of “Communication
  • Cover of Matters of Communications
    Political, Cultural and Technological ChallengesEdited by Tim Kuhn, associate professor of communicationHampton Press“Matters of Communication: Political, Cultural and Technological Challenges” is an invitation to consider the consequences of
  • Stalin's Barber cover
    Stalin’s BarberA NovelBy Paul M. Levitt, professor of EnglishTaylor Trade PublishingAvraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the
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