Featured catalogs collection for Books Division page
- What's next for #MeToo? Rethinking the place for gender in politics and society with a look back to eighteenth-century France.
- NANCY LUXON University of Minnesota Never in history have questions of gender and authority been so acute. One cannot discuss contemporary politics ...
- Learning from youth about competitive school choice policy
- BY KATE PHILLIPPOLoyola University Chicago’s School of Education It’s hard to miss academic competition these days. In 2019 alone, events abound. ...
- Swede Hollow: The surprises and intrigue behind Ola Larsmo’s haunting story of a real place
- BY OLA LARSMO I guess it was the silence that caught my imagination. It was very deep, in the middle of a bustling city. My wife, Rita, had spent an i ...
- Suspects not Citizens: Criminalizing Muslims in the United States
- BY NICOLE NGUYEN In 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his silver Dodge Charger into counter-protestors at the “Unite the Right” white supremacist ...
- Swede Hollow: The surprises and intrigue behind Ola Larsmo’s haunting story of a real place
- BY OLA LARSMO I guess it was the silence that caught my imagination. It was very deep, in the middle of a bustling city. My wife, Rita, had spent an i ...
- Learning from youth about competitive school choice policy
- BY KATE PHILLIPPOLoyola University Chicago’s School of Education It’s hard to miss academic competition these days. In 2019 alone, events abound. ...
- Understanding the power behind the prison system
- BY BRETT STORYAuthor of Prison Land In June, the federal government announced that it will be rescinding funding for a new federal penitentiary in Let ...
- When to Name Names
- BY JACK EL-HAI Early in my writing of The Lost Brothers I considered an ethical question: In telling the story of the 68-year-old case of three young ...
- Growing Up in Westeros: Breaking the Wheel of Fantasy Expectations
- BY MARIA SACHIKO CECIRE The tendency to set up—and then dash—the expectations of fantasy has always been crucial to HBO’s Game of Thrones and i ...
- Turbulent Thoughts of a Peaceful Mind
- BY BJØRN EKEBERG "Who am I? A vortex. A dispersal that comes undone." —Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics An extraordinary philosopher of scienc ...