"Her escape from a group suicide pact in the wake of Hitler’s suicide was a first step in her denazification and eventual acceptance of her culpability in the Holocaust, an open-ended process that gained a feminist twist as she realized how politics were personal under Nazism. An eye-opening, honest and absorbing account of how evil takes root and flourishes among ordinary people." —Publishers Weekly

The Shame of Survival is the memoir of Ursula Mahlendorf, the daughter of a man who was a member of the SS at the time of his early death in 1935—and a leader in the Hitler Youth herself. This is her vivid and unflinchingly honest account of her indoctrination and of her gradual awakening to all the damage that Nazism had done to her country. In a moving epilogue, Mahlendorf discloses how she learned to accept and cope emotionally with the shame that haunted her from her childhood allegiance to Nazism and the self-doubts it generated.

“Nelson makes an overwhelmingly persuasive case that in our times the leading secular religion was once economics and is now environmentalism. . . . Out of that utterly original idea for scholarly crossovers—good Lord, an economist reading environmentalism and even economics itself as theology!—come scores of true and striking conclusions. . . . The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America is a brilliant book, which anyone who cares about the economy or the environment or religion needs to read. That’s most of us.”—Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Kathleen Weaver’s Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal, with a Selection of Her Poems brings to life a woman too long lost from our histories—an extraordinary fighter for women’s rights and social justice in Peru, as well as a gifted poet. She is one of the key figures in the twentieth-century struggles of oppressed people in Latin America, and her life story should inspire as well as educate readers of this fine biography.” —Howard Zinn, Boston University

“Johnny is a blue-collar spy whose real-life exploits are more daring than those of any fictional James Bond, and who is on the scene at more history-making events worldwide than Woody Allen’s peripatetic ‘Zelig.’ His story, Johnny: A Spy's Life, is a primer of the spy’s tradecraft.”—Charles D. Ameringer, author of U. S. Foreign Intelligence: The Secret Side of American History

“Çiğdem Kafescioğlu’s elegant study examines the creation of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul through the reformulation of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. The study provides clarity, nuance, and new perspective to a formative period in the city’s history. It is well written and well organized, engaging, and packed full of valuable observations and new, important archival information, which is well synthesized with the visual and material evidence. I learned a great deal by reading Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital, and – more importantly – I was forced to rethink much of what I thought I knew. This is a significant and valuable contribution to the study of urbanism in general, as well as to the history and architecture of Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul in particular.”—Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania

Penn State is famous for many accomplishments, beautiful campuses, outstanding faculty and students, successful alumni, and much more. Ice Cream U. by Lee Stout concentrates on one of its most popular achievements-- the Creamery-- and how it has become one of Penn State's great success stories. From a modest start, the Creamery gradually developed its service to state and nation, and it is now an internationally respected center for education and research. Those who have attended or just plain love Penn State consider the Creamery to be one of their happiest memories of the University.