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Fall 2018 catalog

Our Fall/Winter 2018 catalog is now available! Browse a digital version here.

new & noteworthy

Fresh biographies of creative and daring women

George Sand

George Sand

Martine Reid, Translated with a foreword by Gretchen van Slyke

“Highly recommended for George Sand devotees, but the audience for this masterly and definitive biography should be legion.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“An excellent point of entry into Sand’s life and thought.”—Publishers Weekly

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Tracy Fessenden

“A rich and compelling portrait at the intersection of Holiday’s personal history, American Catholicism, blues and jazz culture, and the currents of race and gender in American life.”—Judith Weisenfeld, author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration

Gretchen van Slyke

Gretchen van Slyke & George Sand

Pictured: Gretchen van Slyke, translator of the new biography George Sand by Martine Reid, chats with Harper’s magazine editor Elizabeth Bryant at Book Culture on Columbus, May 10th in New York City. The event, hosted by Harper’s, featured a lively discussion of Sand’s rebellious life and the challenges and rewards of translating Martine Reid’s Ernest Montusès Award-winning biography. Thank you to all who attended!

subject/series highlight

Essential Reading on Women’s Issues

Women's issues

From graphic novels to rhetorical studies, our list of books that explore important women’s issues continues to grow. Here are a few recent favorites that tackle such topics as reproduction, women’s health, and advocacy for victims of domestic violence.

Read more here on the PSU Press blog

upcoming exhibits & events

01
JUNE Book signing by
Elizabeth Britt,
author of
Reimagining Advocacy
at 12:30pm,
RSA Conference, Minneapolis
01
JUNE Meet & greet with
Thinking Together editors
Angela G. Ray
and Paul Stob
at 2:00pm,
RSA Conference, Minneapolis
02
JUNE Book signing by
Amy Koerber,
author of
From Hysteria to Hormones
at 12:30pm,
RSA Conference

awards & reviews

Where Honeybees Thrive

Where Honeybees Thrive

Stories from the Field

Heather Swan

Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field by Heather Swan is the 2017 adult category winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Award

Power and Posterity

Power and Posterity

American Art at Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition

Kimberly Orcutt

ARLIS/NA reviews Power and Posterity: American Art at Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition by Kimberly Orcutt: “Orcutt successfully argues that the who, the how, and the why of an exhibition are just as important—perhaps more so—than the contents.”

journals news

Journal of Posthuman Studies

“Human Reproduction in the Twenty-First Century,” an article by Henry T. Greely recently published in the Journal of Posthuman Studies, is now open access until June 30th. Read it on JSTOR.

new from eisenbrauns

The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations

The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations

An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives

Robert D. Miller II

The dragon-slaying myth has a hoary ancestry, extending back long before its appearance in the Hebrew Bible, and a vast range, spanning as far as India and perhaps even Japan. This book is a chronicle of its trajectories and permutations. The target of this study is the biblical myth. This target, however, is itself a fluid tradition, responding to . . . (more)

Usefulness of Scripture

The Usefulness of Scripture

Essays in Honor of Robert W. Wall

Edited by Daniel Castelo, Sara M. Koenig, and David R. Nienhuis

Robert Wall began his teaching career at Seattle Pacific University in 1978. Now, forty years later and in celebration of his seventieth birthday, colleagues and former students have gathered to produce this volume in honor of their friend and teacher. The results are sure to delight all of those who have studied under or been friends of Professor Wall . . . (more)

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