SPACE OF FREEDOM:
LIbrary of Social Science Review Essays

Often thought of as material objects, books are actually containers of ideas. A book and an essay about a book are not separate. Each is part of a developmental process generating cultural change and psychic growth. The Internet—producing an endless flow of information—has shattered the idea of permanence. As the world changes, so does our understanding of it. Indeed, the world of change is not separate from changes occurring within ourselves.

LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK REVIEWS identifies significant titles and promotes them through substantive review essays written by top scholars. Our reviews are thoughtful commentaries engaging a book’s arguments and articulating the implications of its ideas. Library of Social Science provides a space of freedom, allowing scholars to challenge conventional approaches, develop new theories, and present original ideas.

PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR INFORMATION ON TITLES RECENTLY REVIEWED. TO ACCESS ANY ESSAY, SIMPLY CLICK THE BUTTON ENTITLED READ THE COMPLETE REVIEW ESSAY. FOR INFORMATION ON ORDERING A BOOK REVIEWED, OR A BOOK AUTHORED BY THE REVIEWER, CLICK THE BUTTON FOR ANY TITLE: “Order From Amazon at a Special, Discounted Rate.”

BENEFITS OF AUTHORING AN LSS REVIEW ESSAY
  • Reviewers reach, and interact with a group of scholars who research and write about similar topics. You become part of an ongoing dialogue as we forge a community including some of the world’s best scholars.

  • Review essays can be up to 6,000 words in length. This provides a unique opportunity to go beyond the conventional review: to convey one’s own ideas and research, as well as to incorporate findings from other publications.

  • With each book reviewed, we promote and publicize a book (or dissertation, or paper) authored by the reviewer (please see directly below). While we are promoting and selling the book under review, we simultaneously promote and sell the reviewer’s book.

BELOW IS A LISTING OF TITLES RECENTLY REVIEWED. TO ACCESS ANY ESSAY, SIMPLY CLICK THE BUTTON ENTITLED READ THE COMPLETE REVIEW ESSAY. FOR INFORMATION ON ORDERING A BOOK REVIEWED, OR A BOOK AUTHORED BY THE REVIEWER, CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW ANY TITLE: “Order From Amazon at a Special, Discounted Rate.”

Book Reviewed Read the Complete Review Essay Publication by Reviewer
Stanley Hauerwas

War and the American Difference
War and the American Difference

Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Emeritus Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University in Durham, NC. 

Rev. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Moravian College.
Kelly Denton-Borhaug

U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation
André Mineau

SS Thinking and the Holocaust
SS Thinking and the Holocaust

André Mineau is Professor of Ethics and History at the University of Quebec at Rimouski.

Brian Crim is Associate Professor of History at Lynchburg College.
Brian Crim’s Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914-1938 is forthcoming from Lexington Books in 2014.
Eric Weitz

A Century of Genocide
A Century of Genocide

Eric D. Weitz is Dean of Humanities and Arts and Professor of History at The City College of New York.

Murray Schwartz teaches Shakespeare, Holocaust Literature and Literature and Psychoanalysis at Emerson College in Boston.
Murray Schwartz

The Dance Claimed Me
Laura Wittman

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Laura Wittman is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University.

Roger Griffin is professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University.
Roger Griffin

Modernism and Fascism
Mark Schantz

Awaiting the Heavenly Country
Awaiting the Heavenly Country

Mark S. Schantz is Professor of History and Director of the Odyssey Program at Hendrix College.

Rana Salimi received her Ph.D from UC San Diego, department of Theater and Dance, and currently lectures at UC San Diego and National University.

Rana Salimi’s doctoral dissertation, "Visual Representation of Palestinian Female Martyrs Inside and Outside of Muslim Culture", deals with the issue of self-sacrifice for a higher cause.