HEB's Top Ten Titles for July 2013-December 2013

As we do every six months, HEB is pleased to publish another top-hit titles list, covering the second half of 2013. The most frequently accessed titles in our collection of 4,000 books typically reflect course adoptions, and tend to feature a number of recurring books every cycle (such as, once again, Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures, Henry Jenkins's Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest).

For the fall 2013 semester, we are seeing a rising interest in sociology, cultural studies, nationalism and post colonialism, women's and gender studies, religion, and technology. There are three new entries making their first appearance among the top-hit titles for this period: Samantha Power's A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, David E. Nye's Technology Matters: Questions to Live With, and Karen McCarthy Brown's Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn.

1. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso, 2006)
2. Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 1973)
3. Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York University Press, 2006)
4. McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995)
5. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton University Press, 1996)
6. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2004)
7. Power, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Perseus Books, 2002)
8. Nye, Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (MIT Press, 2006)
9. Brown, Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (University of California Press, 1991)
10. Mintz, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard University Press, 2004)

Forthcoming in 2014: New Titles from Harvard University Press

ACLS Humanities E-Book's (HEB) forthcoming title release in early summer 2014 will include 49 titles from Harvard University Press, published between 1948 and 2010 and covering diverse areas such as European History, U.S. History, Asian History, Science & Technology, Women’s Studies, and Literature. Many of these books are prizewinners in their fields. Others were recommended by ACLS’s constituent learned societies, such as the American Academy of Religion, the World History Association, the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Historians Task Force.



Harvard University Press was among the original set of publishers to partner with HEB when the collection launched in 2002 (as the ACLS History E-Book Project). Founded in 1913, Harvard University Press continues to be a leading publisher of convergent works in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences, while also taking bold steps toward innovative partnerships and an expanded commitment to facilitating scholarly conversation around the globe.

HEB is pleased to be able to feature these new titles and continue our collaboration with Harvard University Press.

Forthcoming in 2014: New Titles from Oxford University Press

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is pleased to report that our forthcoming title release in early summer 2014 will include 112 titles published by Oxford University Press, covering areas from U.S. History to Women’s Studies to Music & Musicology. These titles are either prizewinners in their fields and/or have been recommended for inclusion in our collection by ACLS’s constituent learned societies, such as the American Academy of Religion, the World History Association and the American Society for Legal History, as especially valuable for course work, research and reference.

OUP was one of the original publishers to partner with HEB when the collection first launched (as the ACLS History E-Book Project) in 2002. As a department of the University of Oxford, OUP furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship and education by publishing worldwide. OUP is the world’s largest university press with the widest global presence.

We are happy to be able to add to our offerings from this esteemed university press and look forward to continuing our collaboration with OUP in the future.