SUNY Press

11/05/2025

"Overall, Ross provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the motivations behind school shootings and a critical examination of responses to them. It is also timely, as SROs are becoming increasingly common but have generated relatively little discussion. As Ross points out, no proposed solution is a panacea, but it would be naive and inefficient to take a purely reactive approach, and it is important to reconsider policies that might cause more harm than good."

Though School Shootings lacks concrete solutions, it is a step in the right direction to understanding the multifaceted nature of this troubling problem. 

11/05/2025

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On this Election Day in the US, some essential reading on democracy from AUPresses members around the world:
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11/04/2025

Discover how Muhammad’s heavenly journey became the meeting point of faith, philosophy, and mysticism in early medieval Spain.

New in paperback, MUHAMMAD'S ASCENSION IN MUSLIM SPAIN traces Muslim, Jewish, and Christian debates about the Prophet’s ascension and reveals how these exchanges shaped both religious polemic and profound mystical insight.

https://tinyurl.com/3tdcevr7

11/04/2025

This Native American Heritage Month, we invite you to engage with stories that honor Indigenous resilience, creativity, and connection to place—from art and history to remembrance and global community. Celebrate with us and save 30% on Indigenous Studies titles with code SNAHM25 through November 30, 2025.
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11/03/2025

This week’s from Senior Acquisitions Editor, Mike Rinella uncovers how the 1854 Treaty with the Chippewa of Wisconsin reshaped both land and identity. Through the story of the treaty’s “mixed-blood provision,” "OUR RELATIONS…THE MIXED BLOODS" reveals how racial ideology, kinship, and colonial expansion intertwined to transform the region’s landscape—laying the foundation for resource extraction, displacement, and enduring questions of belonging.

https://tinyurl.com/y5jjbz7u

11/03/2025

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11/02/2025

"THE HISTORICAL MIND, while open-ended, is surprisingly coherent and complete. Each of the sections contains chapters that outline the essential perspectives and issues surrounding the historical mind and its humanist way of thinking and being. Each is thought-provoking and, like the Babbitt/Ryn humanist project as a whole, each is an invitation to further inquiry and interlocution." — THE UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN

https://tinyurl.com/bdfup4bv

10/31/2025

In this fascinating conversation, we talk with Jeffrey Louis Decker, whose new book REBEL GIRL AND THE GODFATHER explores the unexpected intersection of civil rights, organized crime, and urban politics through the intertwined lives of two unlikely figures: Mary Sansone and Joe Colombo.

From a Brooklyn basement to a Madison Avenue suite, Sansone and Colombo mobilized thousands of Italian Americans in the turbulent 1960s and ’70s—challenging stereotypes, reshaping notions of power, and forging surprising alliances across race, class, and gender.

In this author Q&A, Decker shares what inspired the book, the myths he set out to unravel, and how the struggles of Mary and Joe still echo in today’s polarized times.

https://tinyurl.com/jxvhsb6k

10/31/2025

New in paperback in December, STATEN ISLAND'S ELLIOTTVILLE uncovers the 19th-century Staten Island community of Elliottville, a remarkable enclave that fostered the careers of nationally significant reformers, abolitionists, and transcendentalists.

Spanning five decades, James A. Kaser traces how the residents’ collective work in art, literature, and social reform contributed to broader movements that reshaped the nation — from abolition to women’s suffrage.

https://tinyurl.com/2vrpcxhy

10/30/2025

Nora Gilbert, coeditor of Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice (forthcoming in March 2026),writes about how to understand gaslighting, you really to need to watch the film Gaslight.

The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.

10/28/2025

In YOGA AND PHENOMENOLOGY ON CONSCIOUSNESS, philosopher and yoga practitioner Giulia Moiraghi bridges ancient yogic wisdom with cutting-edge research in philosophy and cognitive science.

Exploring the embodied horizon of consciousness, this work reveals how yoga offers vital insights for today’s debates on mind, self, and awareness.

https://tinyurl.com/57x5jhkc