Book Reviews
Book reviews are published on line once they receive editorial approval, and are subsequently published in the next issue of our open access peer-reviewed journal The Independent Scholar (TIS) when they receive their final format, page numbering etc. Reviews are listed below under the volume in which they (will) appear.
The Independent Scholar Volume 8 (forthcoming, 2021)
Pre-prints of book reviews:
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks. Wendy Laura Belcher.
(Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing, 2019)
A Vote of One’s Own: “Madame Momentum” and the Women’s Network of 1868. Elizabeth Coons
(Bloomington: iUniverse, 2019)
Managing Your Professional Identity Online: A Guide for Faculty, Staff, and Administrators. Kathryn E. Linder
(Stylus Publishing, eBooks.com, 2018)
Black Metal, Trauma, Subjectivity and Sound: Screaming the Abyss. Jasmine Hazel Shadrack
(UK, N. America, Asia: Emerald Publishing, 2020)
The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800. Phillip Reid
(Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020)
How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up. Emily Wapnick
(HarperCollins : HarperOne, 2017)
The Independent Scholar Volume 7 'Connections and Challenges' (August 2020)
Pre-prints of book reviews:
Guns, Grit, and Glory: How the US and Mexico Came Together to Defeat the Last Empire in the Americas. Michael Hogan
(Amissville, VA: Henselstone Verlag, 2019)
Music and Death: Interdisciplinary Readings and Perspectives. Ed. Marie Josephine Bennett and David Gracon
(UK, N. America, Asia: Emerald Publishing, 2019)
Publishing From Your Doctoral Research: Create and Use a Publication Strategy. Janet Salmons and Helen Kara
(Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2019)
Music for Women (Survivors of Violence): A Feminist Music Therapy Interactive eBook. Ed. Sandra L. Curtis
(Dallas, TX: Barcelona Publishers, 2019)
Lizard & Dinomania. Boria Sax
(London: Reaktion Books, 2017 & 2018)
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote. Ellen Carol DuBois
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Sunbelt Diaspora: Race, Class and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican Orlando. Patricia Silver
(Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020)
The Independent Scholar Volume 6 'Meeting Challenges' (February 2020)
Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De-Gaia.
(Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, E-book 2018; Hardcover 2019) 2 vols.
Little Quick Fix Series: Write a Questionnaire & Do Your Interviews. Helen Kara
(London: Sage, 2019)
Little Quick Fix Series: Use Your Interview Data. Helen Kara
(London: Sage, 2019)
Women and the Society of Biblical Literature. Ed. Nicole L. Tilford
(Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2019)
Interpreters vs Machines: Can Interpreters Survive in an AI-Dominated World? Jonathan Downie
(Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2019).
The Independent Scholar Volume 5 (August 2019)
Research Ethics in the Real World: Euro-Western and Indigenous Perspectives. Helen Kara
(Bristol: Policy Press/ University of Bristol, 2018)
Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era. Darnella Davis
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018)
Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland, Bernard Goldstein
(West Lafayette, IND: Purdue University Press, 2016)
Power Under Her Foot: Women Enthusiasts of American Muscle Cars. Chris Lezotte
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018)
Contemplative Wicca: Reflections on Contemplative Practice for Pagans. Teresa Chupp
(Aeon Books, 2018)
The Electoral College: Failures of Original Intent and a Proposed Constitutional Amendment for Direct Popular Vote. Alan E. Johnson
(Philosophia Publications, 2018)
The Independent Scholar Volume 4 'Gender & Society' (December 2018)
The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and Culture, Katya Krylova
(Rochester: Camden House, 2017)
African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017)
Katherine Joseph: Photographing an Era of Social Significance, Suzanne Hertzberg
(Washington, D.C.: Bergamont Press, 2016)
The Independent Scholar Volume 3 'Identity & Transition' (June 2017)
Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship and Marriage, Kathy Chamberlain
(London: Duckworth Overlook, 2017)
Stealing Fire: Memoir of Boyhood in the Shadow of Atomic Espionage, Boria Sax
(Decalogue Books, 2014)
The Book of Pears: The Definitive History and Guide to Over 500 Varieties, Joan Morgan, with paintings by Elisabeth Dowle
(Ebury Press, October 2015)
Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee, Tula Connell
(University of Illinois Press, April 2016)
Surviving the Twenty-First Century: Essays by William Eaton
(Serving House Books, July 2015)
The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience, Alan E. Johnson
(Philosophia Publications, 2015)
The Independent Scholar Volume 2 (September 2016) <Download PDF>
Paranormal: A New Testament Scholar Looks at the Afterlife, Valerie Abrahamsen
(Shires Press, 2015)
The Kosher Sutras, Marcus J. Freed
(FreedThinker Books, 2013)
Animals in the Third Reich, 2nd edition, Boria Sax
(Providence, R.I., Yogh & THORN/The Poet's Press, 2000, 2013)
For the Union and the Catholic Church: Four Converts in the Civil War, Max Longley
(NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015)
The Independent Scholar Volume 1 'Traditions and Transitions' (December 2015) <Download PDF>
Constructing Identity in an Age of Globalization, eds., James E. Block and Amanda J. Haste
(Paris: Ex Modio, 2015)
Dance, Consumerism, and Spirituality, C.S. Walter
(New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
The Kabbalah Sutras: 49 Steps to Enlightenment, Marcus Freed
(Los Angeles, CA: FreedThinker Books, 2015)
The American Dream in Vietnamese, Nhi T. Lieu
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011)