Hell of a Hat

The Rise of ‘90s Ska and Swing

Kenneth Partridge

“Now it can be told: the ska and swing music of the glorious post-Nirvana ‘90s deserves your love and respect. Kenneth Partridge takes you back to the songs that will have your Vans tapping, with stories that will make your pompadour stand on end. Mr. Partridge, skanks for the memories.”—Dave Holmes, editor-at-large of Esquire and former MTV VJ

Kabbalah and Sex Magic

A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy

Marla Segol

In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in medieval kabbalah, and in New Age ritual practice.

School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy

How Market-Based Education Reform Fails Our Communities

Robert Asen

“The affirmative and affirming vision of School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy is one that rejects the ‘neutrality’ of ‘the market,’ and the habit of ignoring problems such as economic coercion, in favor of a world of interconnection. Asen’s elegant analysis of the (a)morality of neoliberalism is sure to be heavily cited for years to come”—Patricia Roberts-Miller, author of Demagoguery and Democracy

A New Handbook of Rhetoric

Inverting the Classical Vocabulary

Edited by Michele Kennerly

“A New Handbook of Rhetoric is a major contribution to the ongoing conversation about how contemporary rhetorical theory relates to the rhetorical tradition. The digital world and global crises such as climate change motivate a search for theories that can explain, accommodate, and advance rhetorical judgments and rhetorical practice. The ‘alpha-privative’ strategy employed here is novel and productive, offering an innovative way to both learn from the past and move into the uncharted and unprecedented future.”—Carolyn R. Miller, coeditor of Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Genre Studies

Women Write About Comics says of MK Czerwiec’s Eisner-winning anthology, “Menopause: A Comic Treatment is a testament to how graphic medicine has grown over the past decade, not only as a field of study, but as an intersectional movement that values perspectives from diverse voices from beyond the medical field, to challenge previously held misconceptions about the body, health, illness and everything that lies in between”

Sarah Lightman’s The Book of Sarah has been named to JoAnn Purcell’s top 10 go-to comic book and graphic novel list!

How do you distinguish friend from foe? British General Sir William Howe grew frustrated attempting to do just this. “Panic in Philadelphia, 1777: Civilian Behavior and British Military Failure” is open for free access until the end of the year!

Editor Alex Petit came up with a unique way to introduce the most recent issue of The Eugene O’Neill Review. Check out this video preview of Volume 42, Issue 2!

This is a tale of two Creación playtexts. This open article uses archival documentation and an awareness of performance norms of the period to attempt to solve the riddle of which came first. Hurry! This is open until October 15!

Our 2022 Journals Catalog just dropped online! Check out our 80+ journal titles which span dozens of subjects and areas of focus.

As Above, So Below

Religion and Geography

Edited by Gina Konstantopoulos and Shana Zaia

This volume addresses the nexus of religion and geography in the ancient Near East through case studies of various time periods and regions. Using Sumerian, Akkadian, and Aramaic text corpora, iconography, and archaeological evidence, the contributors illuminate the diverse phenomena that occur when religion is viewed through the lenses of space and place.

The Road Taken

An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible

Seymour (Sy) Gitin

“Sy Gitin reinvented American archaeology in the Middle East. A uniquely talented raconteur, scholar, and Mensch, he transformed the sleepy American archaeological school in Jerusalem into an engine propelling meaningful collaboration across daunting divides. Here’s the account—filled with remarkable scientific, political, diplomatic, and above all human surprises, and not a few great stories—of a pioneer in scholarship without borders. The result is a manual for thinking about any historical field from the actual ground up.”—Baruch Halpern, author of The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History

Dirty Biology

The X-Rated Story of the Science of Sex

Léo Grasset, Illustrated by Colas Grasset

“The mix of giggle-inducing factoids and incisive scientific insights make this investigation of copulation well worth digging into”—Publishers Weekly

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