The Rohonc Code

Tracing a Historical Riddle

Benedek Láng

“The Rohonc Code is a valuable guide for how to approach an old unsolved cipher. Historians will benefit from learning some of the mathematical approaches that Láng describes, while mathematicians will benefit from Láng’s detailing of how he pursued potential historical leads.”
—Craig P. Bauer, author of Unsolved! The History and Mystery of the World’s Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies

Under the Literary Microscope

Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel

Edited by Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines, and Roslynn D. Haynes

“This lively collection is valuable for its placement of literary criticism alongside scholarship on public engagement with science.”—Charlotte Sleigh, author of Literature and Science

Arguing with Numbers

The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics

Edited by James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes

“Arguing with Numbers is a major contribution to the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine and is full of important resources for teaching communication to math and engineering students. We can only hope, too, that it will become a foundational book, fostering the further growth of a rhetorical subfield investigating mathematics, related formal systems, and the disciplines that study them.”—Randy Allen Harris, editor of Rhetoric and Incommensurability

Satire as the Comic Public Sphere

Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement

James E. Caron

“Any scholar or student interested in the roles of comic and satiric discourse in twenty-first-century culture will benefit from reading this book. In my own engagements with satire, I will turn to this book first as an authoritative sorting-out of where we are and where we are going.”—Bruce Michelson, author of Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self

La Gazette Druout on The Letters of Edgar Degas edited by Theodore Reff: “The meticulously prepared edition sheds light on Degas’ key role in forming the group of Independents...as well as the lengths to which he was willing to go to expand the circle and use it to serve his own interests.”

Front Porch Republic on Ivan Illich by David Cayley: “In Illich’s own words, ‘friendship suffices,’ and if he can indeed be said to have had a plan, it was to simply ‘remove, by little acts of renunciation, anything that stood in its way..’”

Reading Religion calls The Writings of Elizabeth Webb “timely and valuable” and “readily accessible and useful to those in the larger fields of American religion and early American history.”

CAA.reviews calls America and the Art of Flanders “a milestone in the systematic study of collecting and taste in America.”

To celebrate the 7th Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History & Music, the most recent volume of Journal of Moravian History has been opened until the end of May.

In 1946 Tennessee Williams wrote a letter to Eugene O’Neill on his premiere of The Iceman Cometh that was presumed lost to history. An article on the newly discovered letter is free to read until the end of June.

Pacific Coast Philology has two articles that will remain open for the rest of the year: “All the Reflected Light We Cannot See” by Leila Silvana May and “Boy, Girl, You Are a Sword” by Chloe Allmand.

PSU Press Journals has introduced a simplified way to view subscription and pricing information all in one place. View individual journal information here.

Ramat Raḥel VI

The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010). The Babylonian-Persian Pit

Oded Lipschits, Liora Freud, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Gadot

Copublished with Tel Aviv University

This is part of a three-volume final report of the renewed excavations at Ramat Raḥel by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010). It presents the finds from the Babylonian-Persian pit, one of the most dramatic find-spots at Ramat Raḥel.

A Voice Without End

The Role of David in Psalms 3–14

Andrew C. Witt

“A Voice Without End brings to bear on the selected psalms models of interpretation that open up a much wider conversation—not only with the Psalter as a whole but with the wider contours of scripture in its final form. It will benefit biblical scholars with theological interests as well as theologians.”— Trevor Hart, author of Between the Image and the Word: Theological Engagements with Imagination, Language and Literature

Crude

A Memoir

Pablo Fajardo, Sophie Tardy-Joubert, and Damien Roudeau

Staggering. . . . Give this book to those readers who shun graphic novels for their lack of artistic talent and those who support global environmental causes.—Booklist

The Body Factory

From the First Prosthetics to the Augmented Human

Héloïse Chochois

“This surprisingly delightful and empathetic examination offers an exemplar in the graphic medicine genre”—Publishers Weekly