Mothers Unite! in the news

Mothers Unite!: Organizing for Workplace Flexibility and the Transformation of Family Life by Jocelyn Elise Crowley has been getting some stellar press of late:

Forbes: Is Maternity Leave in America Changing for the Better?

The Atlantic: Congress’s Doomed, Misguided Attempt to Help Working Families and How to Make the U.S. a Better Place for Caregivers

Penny Lewis in the Chronicle Review

Penny Lewis’s book Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory is featured in the May 13, 2013 Chronicle Review (in the Chronicle of Higher Education): Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement

New releases

Recent arrivals in our warehouse include:

Fault Lines: Views across Haiti’s Divide by Beverly Bell
Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies: The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe by Michael D. Bailey
Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno by David Frick
Food Co-ops in America: Communities, Consumption, and Economic Democracy by Anne Meis Knupfer
Imperial Eclipse: Japan’s Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945 by Yukiko Koshiro
From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, Third Edition by Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon
Interview Research in Political Science, edited by Layna Mosley

Recent Award Winners

Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools by Max Harris is the winner of the Otto Gründler Book Prize given by the Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University

Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence by Joshua Rovner is the winner of the 2011 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award given by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University

Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul by E. Natalie Rothman is the winner of the 2013 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Book Prize given by the Renaissance Society of America

Suzanne Gordon in the Boston Globe

Suzanne Gordon, coauthor of Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety, and Michael Gardam published an op-ed  in the May 1 edition of the Boston Globe: Medical Staff Needs To Lose the Tie and the Rings

Recent Award Winners

Peter Del Tredici, author of Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide will receive the Veitch Memorial Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society on May 20 at the Chelsea Flower Show

My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir by Susan Fox Rogers is Shortlisted for the 2013 ASLE Award in Environmental Creative Writing given by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid by Jennifer is Shortlisted for the Donner Prize given by the Donner Canadian Foundation

New releases

Recent arrivals in our warehouse include:

The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era by Dominic Boyer
Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream by Diane P. Koenker
Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value by Charles Altieri
The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy by Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt
Empire of Language: Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression by Laurent Dubreuil
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life, Updated Edition by Tom Lewis
The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France by Camille Robcis
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Third Edition by Jack Donnelly
History, Literature, Critical Theory by Dominick LaCapra
Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory by Penny Lewis
Dominion Undeserved: Milton and the Perils of Creation by Eric B. Song
Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Monastic Reform as Process: Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900–1100 by Steven Vanderputten