Chigusa and the Art of Tea

Edited by: Louise Allison Cort and Andrew Watsky Publisher: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2014 This book of essays by multiple authors tells the story of an extraordinary tea-leaf storage jar named Chigusa. The Continue Reading →

House of Debt: How they (and you) caused the great recession, and how we can prevent it from happening again

Authors: Atif Mian and Amir Sufi Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2014 The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of 8 million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than 4 million homes were lost Continue Reading →

Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization

Edited by: Sigrid Adriaenssens, Philippe Block, Diederik Veenendaal and Chris Williams, with a foreword by Pritzker Prize Winner Shigeru Ban Publisher: Routledge: Taylor and Francis, 2014 This book presents contemporary design methods for shell and Continue Reading →

The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America

Author: Naomi Murakawa Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014 The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the 20th century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white Continue Reading →

Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe

Author: Eileen Reeves Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Professor of Comparative Literature Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways Continue Reading →

Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878 – 1928

It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. He later Continue Reading →