Bookshelf

(New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Based on extensive field work, including 170 interviews conducted in Egypt during the Arab Spring, the author offers insight into what motivated thousands to take to the streets against the Mubarak regime in 2011: “[s]ocial media, violent government repression, changes in political opportunities, and the military.”

(New York: Riverhead Books, 2017)
Described as a Greek tragedy in the age of ISIS, the author reimagines Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family living in the shadow of a dead father and his sins. This novel, the author’s seventh, was longlisted for the prestigious 2017 Man Booker Prize. One reviewer observed, “The most impressive part of Home Fire … is Shamsie’s writing, which is beautiful without being florid, and urgent without being rushed.”

(Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2017)
The author asked 12 everyday people — from a physician, to an actor, to a prisoner serving a life sentence — to imagine themselves as “secondary” characters from stories in the Bible and then to reflect on those characters’ points of view. For example, the story of Adam and Eve told from the perspective of the serpent or the crucifixion of Jesus as witnessed by the centurion responsible for his execution. The results, as one reviewer noted, “are striking and at times unforgettable.”

(Cambridge, Mass.: Academic Press)
Neutron Scattering [Vol. 44, 2013]; Neutron Scattering – Magnetic and Quantum Phenomena [Vol. 48, 2015]; Neutron Scattering – Applications in Biology, Chemistry, and Materials Science [Vol. 49, 2017] provides an in-depth overview of the applications of ­neutron scattering in the fields of physics, materials science, chemistry, biology, earth sciences, and engineering. Fernandez-Alonso is head of the Molecular Spectroscopy Group and coordinator of the Centre for Molecular Structure and Dynamics at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom.

(Deer Park, N.Y.: PBJ Enterprises, 2017)
The author writes from the heart in this story about his beloved wife of over 60 years, Patricia “Teash” Marion Conroy. He shares candid reflections not only of the love and devotion she gave him and their family, but also the sorrows experienced after her death in 2015.

(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Drawing on extensive research and using high-profile leaders as examples, the author debunks the notion that “negotiation is a tool to use outside the organization to deal with customers, suppliers, and creditors. Inside, it’s strictly ‘my way or the highway.’” Salacuse explains negotiation’s role “in gaining, exercising, and retaining leadership within organizations, large and small, public and private.”

(AuthorHouse, 2017)
From leveraging technology to managing people, this easy-to-follow guide “opens the door to the most contemporary business start-up methods available to today’s entrepreneur.” Founder of the highly successful Junk-A-Haulics trash removal business, the author speaks for today’s “youthpreneurs” and the value they place on quality of life over focusing on profit alone.

(Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2017)
The celebrated verse of perhaps the most influential Francophone poet of the 20th century is collected in this bilingual edition. As one reviewer noted, the book “offers three inestimable gifts: ­Césaire’s poetry in its original, ­unrevised form; rich details on the contexts of publication; and new translations into English that account for both. A treasure!”

(Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
The author, a professor of law and political science at the University of Wyoming, traces the evolution of the constitutional order — from the framers’ vision of a system that balanced government power and individual rights, to one “in which corporations and billionaires wield herculean political power.”

(New York: Kensington, 2017)
This compelling page-turner tells the parallel stories of one woman’s lifelong quest to escape a family enmeshed in criminal activities and another woman’s attempt to find answers to some unsolved mysteries. Their paths combine and secrets are revealed. A former executive at Sun Microsystems, the author is now a high-tech consultant. This is her first novel.