Dear Colleague,

In 2012, we sent out an inquiry through the Library of Social Science Newsletter about reviewing the following books:

1. Hauerwas, Stanley — War and the American Difference
2. Herf, Jeffrey — The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust
3. Strenski, Ivan — Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion
4. Vlahos, Michael — Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change

Gentile, Emilio Politics as Religion Princeton University Press

Lifton, Robert Jay The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide Perseus Book Group

Marvin, C. & Ingle D. Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag Cambridge University Press

Skya, Walter Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism Duke University Press

• Political Psychology
• Analysis of ideologies
• Warfare
• Genocide
• Nationalism
• Fascism and totalitarianism
• Psychological Anthropology—psychological meanings of culture
• Social theory

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Some of the reasons why:

• Reviews will be distributed by the Library of Social Science Newsletter, which reaches 53,566 subscribers around the world, including many of our most prominent scholars. This is an excellent vehicle for expressing and conveying your own ideas. Through the miracle of the Internet, your writings will be read by more people in a day than read a journal review in the course of a lifetime.

• With each review that we publish, we will promote books authored by the reviewer. Based on previous experience, we sell 10-20 copies of your publication each time we distribute your review.

• We will create your own website, which will look something like this. This kind of “platform” is crucial for today’s author. In the “attention economy” of the web, there is nothing more important than getting your work known.
  

People write and speak continually about the “crisis in scholarly publishing.” Yet the Internet provides significant, exciting opportunities for the presentation and promotion of new books—and discussion of the ideas they contain. We hope you will join us to bring important scholars and scholarship into the world.

Best regards,
Orion

P.S. Reviewers will be expected to write 2-3 review essays each year—each approximately 1,000 words in length.

Orion Anderson Communications Director Library of Social Science Telephone: 718-393-1104 Fax: 413-832-8145 oanderson@libraryofsocialscience.com