Books

Linguists and literary scholars from the universities of Freiburg and Bielefeld present two new works from the Samica book series.

Released this month by Oxford University Press, the new book 'Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge' traces the history of contemporary sanctuary policies and their effects over the past 40 years. Co-authors Loren Collingwood of the University of California, Riverside, and Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien of San Diego State University also analyze how media coverage and public discourse around sanctuary cities impact how these places are portrayed and viewed today.

A new book by University of Illinois professor Andrew Orta studies the culture of contemporary business education and the MBA degree through the lens of a professional anthropologist.

The world's first undergraduate textbook on epigenetics focusing on humans has just been released by University of Eastern Finland Professor Carsten Carlberg and Associate Professor Ferdinand Molnár. The Springer textbook Human Epigenetics: How Science Works describes the role of epigenetics both in health and disease.

Researchers from the Universities of Konstanz and Uppsala find that Internet availability in autocracies reduces the occurrence of popular mobilization, but once protest forms, it is catalyzed by digital tools.

The story of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk epitomizes one of the most important and dramatic clashes in the European culture of memory and public history in last decades. In Poland, the museum became the archenemy for the nationalist right-wing as 'cosmopolitan,' 'pseudo-universalistic,' 'pacifistic' and 'not Polish enough.'

New book examines the past and future of Japanese intelligence services in a rapidly shifting world.

University of Massachusetts Amherst mathematician and science writer Brian David Burrell and Harvard Medical School neurologist Dr. Allan H. Ropper have co-authored a new book that confronts and explores the historical schism between brain disease and mental illness.

'Taming Uncertainty' sheds light on devices the human mind employs when confronted with everyday choices like what to eat, how to spend money or even how to cross the street in traffic.