Fall Meetings: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, History of Science Society

This fall, ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) will be an exhibitor at two society meetings.

We will be at the 2014 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) Annual Meeting, taking place October 31-November 1 at the JW Marriott Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN. The meeting will be held jointly with the Religious Research Association and the Mormon Social Science Association. Details and registration information can be found on the SSSR website: http://www.sssrweb.org.

We will also be exhibiting at the 2014 History of Science Society (HSS) meeting, taking place on November 6-9, 2014, at the Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel in Chicago, IL. (HSS is a constituent society of ACLS.) The meeting will be held jointly with the Philosophy of Science Association. More details about the meeting can be found here: hssonline.org/meetings/2014-hss-annual-meeting.

Subscribers planning to attend either event and those interested in learning more about our resource are encouraged to reach out to Lee Walton, who will be representing HEB, at lwalton@hebook.org.

HEB's Top Ten Titles for January 2014-June 2014

HEB is pleased to once again publish our list of top-hit titles, which this time covers the first half of 2014. These represent the titles most frequently accessed by our subscribers during this period, often reflecting course adoptions.

While a number of titles noted below have appeared on this list consistently over the years (e.g., Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures, and Henry Jenkins's Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide), we are also seeing several new entries. These include: John K. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800; E. J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality; and Paul S. Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.

This implies a continued interest in the subjects of nationalism, colonialism, race and racism, and religion, to name a few—a trend that HEB has been observing over the course of the last few semesters.

1. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso, 2006)
2. Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York University Press, 2006)
3. Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 1973)
4. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Pantheon, 1993)
5. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early American (Harvard University Press, 2003)
6. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
7. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2004)
8. Brown, Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (University of California Press, 1991)
9. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
10. Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Harvard University Press, 1974)