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Luke Bretherton: (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Bretherton, Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Research Professor of Moral & Political Theology at Duke Divinity School, provides a new constructive framework that integrates classic approaches to the pursuit of wisdom with contemporary liberationist voices to examine how Christian belief and practice relate to living well amid the difficulties of everyday life and the catastrophes and injustices that afflict so many today.

Robert Conrad (with Michael Alexeev), (Oxford Academic)

Conrad, an associate professor emeritus of public policy, provides new insights on tax reform in developing nations.  The authors propose a framework known as "Collection-Driven Taxation," which prioritizes individual taxpayers and leverages advanced payments to enhance compliance. 

John Feinstein, . (��ţӰ�� Press)

The Duke alumnus and noted sportswriter tells the inside history of Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s 42-year career at Duke and the five NCAA championships.

Christine Folch, (Princeton University Press)

The Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Folch tells the story of the most interesting beverage. Folch discusses who drinks yerba mate, and why, and whether this earthier caffeinated drink with its promise of a different buzz and a more authentic, spiritual connection to place can find a market niche beyond South America.

Linda Garziera with Maggie Largent, .(Kindle)

A first-year student at Duke, Garziera’s follows the journey of 19-year-old Felix Laudrey and his best friend Boon Mee embark on a journey to Thailand—Felix to find his real family and Boon to save his brother.

Kevin Hart:  (Paul Dry Books)

One of three new books by Kevin Hart, the new Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor at Duke Divinity School. “Dark-Land” shares a searing, yet at times hilarious, narrative of his first 13 years. This memoir of a working-class childhood in the East End of London is a story of survival and transformation, migration to a new and bewildering life in sub-tropical Australia and of unexpected conversion to Christianity in a math class.

Kevin Hart: (Columbia University Press)

In this work, Hart offers a philosophical introduction to the theory and practice of contemplation and provides both religious and nonreligious readers with a foundational understanding of the history and nature of contemplation as well as the benefits of practicing it. 

Kevin Hart: (Chicago University Press)

And in his third recent work, Hart adapts his prestigious Gifford Lectures to develop a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a meditation on Christian thought and secular philosophy that draws on Kant, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, and Husserl and then shows this hermeneutic at work in poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and others.

Frederic Jameson,  (Penguin/Random House)

The book is a transcription of a seminar Jameson gave at Duke on Theodore Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, one of the most influential theories of modernist aesthetics. Jameson is Knut Schmidt Nielsen Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature.

Frederic Jameson, (Verso Books)

In a new work, Jameson analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and other authors. He shows how The most interesting contemporary novels are those which try to awaken our sense of a collectivity behind individual experience.

Warren Kinghorn: (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing)

Kinghorn, Esther Colliflower Associate Research Professor of Pastoral and Moral Theology at Duke Divinity School and associate professor of psychiatry at Duke, offers an alternative paradigm of healing to the current model of mental health care that often sees only symptoms to fix rather than people who could flourish. Drawing on theological wisdom and scientific evidence, this paradigm offers gentle guidance and practical suggestions for pastors, patients, practitioners, and fellow wayfarers with those on the journey of mental health.

Yuval Levin, (Basic Books)

Levin, the 2024 Egan Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, writes about while many Americans express frustration with the U.S. Constitution, it still holds exceptional power to facilitate constructive disagreement, negotiate resolutions to disputes, and forge unity in a fractured society.

Arie Lewin (co-editor): (World Scientific Press)

Lewin, professor emeritus of strategy and international business, and other scholars pay tribute to Yair Aharoni, the founding scholar of the field of international business research.

Mesha Maren, (Hachette Book Group)

Maren, a novelist and associate professor of the practice of English, has written a queer coming-of-age novel about addiction, belonging, and loving a place that doesn’t always love you back.

Randy L. Maddox, (Abingdon)

Maddox, the William Kellon Quick Professor Emeritus of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School, has completed the final volume of the comprehensive collection of the written work of John Wesley. The final volumes include Wesley’s letters to and about Methodists in North America, letters discovered since the project began, and a set of indexes for the full collection.

Emilie Menzel, (Hub City Press)

Menzel, collections management and strategies librarian for Duke’s Goodson Law Library, has written a book-length lyric, a dark, ruminative poem that explores how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story. It was the winner of the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize.

Beverly Murphy with Shannon Jones (editors), (Rowman and Littlefield)

With contributions from more than 30 people, the book explores cultural humility as a framework for encouraging ongoing self-education and empathy to enhance understanding of the lived experiences of others. Murphy is assistant director for communications and web content management at the ��ţӰ�� Medical Center Library & Archives.

Jennifer Nash, (��ţӰ�� Press)

Nash, Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, explores Black feminist As she was writing, Nash said the pain from her mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s disease was part of every page.

Marilyn Oermann, (co-author) (Springer Publishing)

In the seventh edition of this award-winning text, Oermann and her co-authors present an expanded discussion on assessment of higher-level learning and clinical judgment, new content on assessment of competencies. Oermann is Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing.

Anathea Portier-Young, (Oxford University Press)

Portier-Young, associate professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School, assesses the prevalence, implications, and origins of a logocentric model of biblical prophecy and proposes an alternative, embodied paradigm of analysis that draws insights from disciplines ranging from cognitive neuroscience to anthropology.

Cate Reilly, (Columbia University Press)

In 19^th century, several new fields of psychiatry and psychology transformed understanding of mental life in ways that influenced modernist literature. Reilly, assistant professor of literature, explores how modernist texts of this period responded to these new scientific models of the psyche.

Deondra Rose, (Oxford University Press)

Although many are aware of the significance of HBCUs in expanding Black Americans' educational opportunities, much less attention has been paid to the vital role that they have played in enhancing American democracy. Rose, Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Public Policy, explores how HBCUs have been essential for empowering Black citizens and for the ongoing fight for democracy in the United States.

C. Kavin Rowe: (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing)

Rowe, the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, explores questions about the purpose of studying the New Testament and how best to approach that study through a collection of essays that connect the field of biblical studies with theology, philosophy, history and human life.

C. Kavin Rowe: (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing)

Rowe’s second new work unfolds a multidisciplinary approach to exegesis focused on the New Testament books of Luke, Acts, and letters of Paul, weaving together historical context, intertextuality, material culture, and ecclesial theology. 

John Staddon, (2022, Regnery Gateway)

Staddon, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience, describes how science is undergoing an identity crisis and calls for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Staddon expresses concern that researchers are buckling to the societal demands of what ought to be rather than what is and offers a prescription for recovery.

John Staddon, (Taylor and Francis)

In a newly published second edition of the work, Staddon aims to help curious readers understand the idea of science, not by learning a list of techniques but through examples both historical and contemporary. Other new chapters focus on the emergence of AI and machine learning, science and diversity, and behavioral economics.

Michael Tomasello, (Oxford University Academic).

In a new work, Tomasello proposes a new model of child cognitive development. Tomasello argues that children of different ages live and learn in different worlds because their capacities to cognitively represent and operate on experience change in significant ways over the first years of life.

Laceye C. Warner: (Abingdon)

Warner, the Royce and Jane Reynolds Professor of the Practice of Evangelism and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School, describes the values and characteristics that make the Wesleyan way distinctive, including emphasizing God’s grace for all and sanctification as tangible transformation in lives, communities, and environmental stewardship.