Share Tweet Forward New Books in September Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the “victory.” In China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism, Rana Mitter argues that China’s reassessment of the World War II years is central to its newfound confidence abroad and to mounting nationalism at home. Felton Earls and Mary Carlson’s Voice, Choice, and Action: The Potential of Young Citizens to Heal Democracy offers strategies for strengthening democracies by nurturing the voices of children and encouraging public awareness of their role as citizens. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews recommends “an inspiring vision of a newly inclusive democracy.” Join the livestreamed event » | Monday, September 28, at 7:00 p.m. Both authors in conversation with journalist Alex Kotlowitz; hosted by Harvard Book Store. Jon Butler’s God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan portrays a city where people of faith engaged modernity rather than foundered in it. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly celebrates “[an] illuminating history [of] why religious practice flourished in Manhattan during a period when urbanization and its associated ‘spiritual exhaustion’ were destroying it elsewhere.” Fear and Zombies… in the Sciences Daniel T. Blumstein’s The Nature of Fear: Survival Lessons from the Wild takes us into the wild to better understand and manage our fears. Psychology Today calls it a “groundbreaking new book.” In a starred review, Publishers Weekly is mesmerized by Katia Moskvitch’s Neutron Stars: The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos: “Enthralling… Carl Sagan devotees will relish this portrayal of a new frontier in science.” More on Our Shelves In the much-anticipated Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule present a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy increasingly derided as “the deep state.” Also available: Prisoners of the Empire • Scholarship and Freedom • Not Made by Slaves • Rational Fog • Making Civilizations Now in paperback: VC • Open In the Spotlight: Education Wall Street Journal raves about The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life: “Deliver[s] a flood of insights around the book’s central question: To what degree do our childhood personalities and behaviors predict our adult selves?” Justin Reich’s Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education was chosen by Science as a “Book for Uncertain Times.” Book Club: The Privileged Poor As students around the world deliberate their options for further education, only made more challenging in a pandemic, we’re reminded that getting in is only half the battle. As back to school season begins, we spoke to two university book clubs who read and discussed Anthony Abraham Jack’s The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students this summer. A Perennial Bestseller: Make It Stick Adopted by campuses across the country and featured by the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, Inside Higher Ed, and Forbes, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning appeals to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement. Additional resources: Common Reads: First-Year Experience • Guides for Student Success • Teaching Methods Marking Time at MoMA PS1 Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, curates a major exhibition at MoMA PS1 exploring the “work of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture.” More about Marking Time “The beauty in these often painful images… powerfully reclaims the visual idea of what it means to be imprisoned.” —New York Times Book Review This month’s issue of Artforum contains a 16-page spread cover story on Marking Time, featuring an interview with Nicole Fleetwood and highlighting several artists from the book. STAY CONNECTED MORE RESOURCES    Subscribe    Facebook    Twitter    Instagram Awards » Catalogs » Events » Resources for Educators and Students » © 2020 Harvard University Press. All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.