A few of our Fall books have already been making their way out into the world, but it’s hard not to think of Labor Day as the point when autumn’s really here. So, before we get there, let’s take a moment to look back at some highlights from our Spring list, via their word clouds. Each book’s cloud shows the group of words that appear most often in the text; the larger the word’s font size, the more frequently it appears. They’re a nice way in.
Here’s the cloud for Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts, by Daniel Richter
Peter Fritzsche’s The Turbulent World of Franz Göll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century
Michael S. Neiberg’s Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I
Gary Gallagher’s The Union War
Ramachandra Guha’s Makers of Modern India
Jay M. Smith’s Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast (this one could maybe have used a few more monsters, no?)
Prison Blossoms: Anarchist Voices from the American Past, edited by Miriam Brody and Bonnie Buettner
Sophia Rosenfeld’s Common Sense: A Political History (Dada!)
101 Quantum Questions: What You Need to Know About the World You Can’t See, from Kenneth W. Ford (electrons, gluons, leptons, neutrons, pions, protons, quarks)
Elhanan Helpman’s Understanding Global Trade
Jack Balkin’s Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World
The Politics of Imagining Asia, Wang Hui
And, finally, John Himmelman’s Cricket Radio: Tuning In the Night-Singing Insects
What a nice cloudy Spring it was.
You can take another look at all of these and the rest of our Spring list by flipping through the catalog on Scribd.
Next week comes Fall.
