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Brian A. Hatcher, "Hinduism Before Reform" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Did modern Hinduism truly emerge due to the âreformsâ instigated by âprogressiveâ colonial figures such as Rammohun Roy? Brian A. Hatcher's new book Hinduism Before Reform (Harvard University Press, 2020) challenges...
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn't require tangibles, like rabbits or hats....
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Andrew Ollett, "Language of the Snakes" (U California Press, 2017)
Andrew Ollett, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, argues in his book, Language of the Snakes: (University of California Press, 2017), that...
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Phillipa Chong, âInside the Criticsâ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Timesâ (Princeton UP, 2020)
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Criticsâ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillipa Chong, assistant professor in sociology at McMaster University,...
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Jennifer B. Saunders, "Imagining Religious Communities: Transnational Hindus and their Narrative Performances" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Imagining Religious Communities: Transnational Hindus and their Narrative Performances (Oxford University Press, 2019) tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
If youâre a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. However, if youâve spent the last several years working on a PhD, or if...
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Kenneth R. Valpey, "Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics? Why are cows treated with such reverence in the Indian context? Join us as we speak to Kenneth R. Valpey about his new book Cow Care in...
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Simon Brodbeck, "Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2019)
While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline. Beyond this, it is rich storehouse of cosmological, genealogical, theological materials, detailing the...
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Christopher Austin, "Pradyumna: Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara" (Oxford UP, 2019)
This is the first sustained study of an important figure in Hindu narrative, one largely obscure to readers and scholars alike: KášášŁáša's son Pradyumna. In Pradyumna: Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara (Oxford...
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Weâve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we donât understand what weâre looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitousâand easier to share than ever. We...
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Angela Rudert, "Shakti's New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Angela Rudert's Shakti's New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) is the first academic study of the popular contemporary North Indian female guru Anandmurti Gurumaa....
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books in that most of them are what you might called "fundamental...
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