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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS Exquisite Books 1-773-702-7000 The Elements A Visual History of Their Discovery Philip Ball From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. “Ball has once again produced a terrific book, one that presents a tremendous amount of the history of chemistry in a manner that is engagingly written, beautifully illustrated, and conscientious about avoiding the usual traps of popular science. . . . I cannot think of another popular history of chemistry I have so enjoyed reading.” —Michael D. Gordin, author of On the Fringe 2021 224 p. 71/2 x 93/4 200 color plates 1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77595-1 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Tropical Arctic Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland Jennifer C. McElwain, Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian J. Glasspool “A compelling fusion of art and science, Tropical Arctic brings to life a warmer world at the dawn of the Jurassic when Greenland was covered with lush forests and global climate change wrought ecologi- cal disruption. Tropical Arctic reveals the creativity and dedication needed to understand our planet’s ancient past”—Sir Peter Crane, president, Oak Spring Garden Foundation “Tropical Arctic recreates a collapsing ecosystem 200 million years ago in words and visuals that are detailed and beautiful. . . . This timely book is engrossing as it relays the dangers of exceeding the limits of plant and animal resilience and overheating an already too hot Earth.”—Foreword 2021 144 p. 81/2 x 11 91 color plates, 15 halftones 2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53443-5 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Aesop’s Fables Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker For 25 centuries, the animal stories that go by the name of Aesop’s Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best- loved fables, including “The Boy who Cried Wolf,” “The Lion and the Mouse,” “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg,” “The Hare and the Tortoise,” and “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse,” alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with 37 woodcuts by Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980), one of the greatest British wood engraving artists of the twentieth century. Distributed for Bodleian Library 2021 208 p. 71/2 x 91/2 35 halftones 3 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-537-6 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00

Strata William Smith’s Geological Maps Edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History “Some books are beautiful, others are enlightening. Strata is both. Packed with exquisite illustrations, it presents the work of William Smith, a seventeenth-century geologist, who was the first person to comprehensively map the earth beneath our feet. It’s the best non- fiction book I’ve read in a long time.”—BBC News “Offers a glimpse of ancient history and reminds us of the immensity of geological time. . . . The book’s visual appeal distinguishes it—beauti- fully drawn, colorful maps and drawings are as much a work of art as of science.”—Library Journal 2020 256 p. 101/2 x 143/8 500 color plates 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75488-8 $65.00 Your Price: $52.00 Front cover: photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash press.uchicago.edu/directmail Great Reading 1

Black Paper The Nutmeg’s Curse Writing in a Dark Time Parables for a Planet in Crisis Teju Cole Amitav Ghosh “Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black “In this brilliant book, aflame with insight and Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to moral power, Ghosh shows that in the history of the sustain our humanity—and witness the human- nutmeg lies the path to our planetary crisis, twisting ity of others—in a time of darkness. One of the through the horrors of empire and racial capitalism. most celebrated essayists of his generation, Cole The Nutmeg’s Curse brings to life alternative visions here plays variations on the essay form, giving us of human flourishing in consonance with the rest intriguing new ways of thinking about blackness of nature—and reminds us how great are the vested and its numerous connotations. As he describes the interests that obstruct them.”—Sunil Amrith, author carbon-copy process in his epilogue: “Writing on of Unruly Waters the top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto the bottom white sheet. Black “Ghosh challenges readers to reckon with war, transported the meaning.” empire, and genocide in order to fully grasp the 2021 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 color plates, 6 halftones world-devouring logics that underpin ecological col- 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64135-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 lapse. . . . Do not miss this book—and above all, do not tell yourself that you already know its contents, Available for Preorder because you don’t.”—Naomi Klein, author of This Black in White Space Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 2021 336 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81545-9 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 Elijah Anderson “A captivating book that is a must-read for anyone The Subversive Simone Weil seeking a lucid discussion of American race rela- A Life in Five Ideas tions.”—William Julius Wilson, Harvard University Robert Zaretsky “Black in White Space is an elegantly composed, “This memorable survey delivers a rich portrait of brilliant, and intimate look at how Black people are the intellectual currents that shaped a one-of-a-kind seen in and navigate through predominantly white thinker. Those curious about Weil’s work will find spaces. This will be an extremely useful text— this to be a welcome place to start.”—Publishers Weekly particularly as we grapple with what diversity means in its substance as an aspiration.”—Imani Perry, “[An] absorbing and tender intellectual portrait. Princeton University . . . With her demanding vision of the life well lived, 2021 272 p. 6 x 9 in her extreme judgments and through her punish- 6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65723-3 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 ing empathy, Weil emerges here as a figurehead for the intellectual and ethical challenges of the current The Porch moment.”—Alice Kaplan, author of Looking for The Meditations on the Edge of Nature Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic Charlie Hailey 2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-54933-0 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 “A Sand County Almanac for the Anthropocene. . . . Hailey’s book reaches beyond the merely static facts Keats’s Odes of history to something more poetic.”—Guernica A Lover’s Discourse “The Porch first appears to be a study of a minor Anahid Nersessian architectural element, but it turns into a meditation “Intense emotion abounds in this literary blend of on the secrets of human existence and the world. analysis and autobiography. . . . In six essays that This book demonstrates convincingly how even a examine each of Keats’s Great Odes, Nersessian modest piece of architecture turns into a mediat- tells a ‘kind of love story’ between herself and the ing device that frames, focuses, and articulates our poems.”—Publishers Weekly views of reality. This book is a delightful invitation 2021 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 to the joys of reading, imagining, and dreaming.” 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76267-8 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 —Juhani Pallasmaa, Aalto University, Helsinki 2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 6 halftones, 6 line drawings 7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76995-0 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 2 Great Reading 1-773-702-7000

The Oak Park Studio of Frank Supernatural America Lloyd Wright The Paranormal in American Art Lisa D. Schrenk Edited by Robert Cozzolino “In this magnificent offering, Schrenk takes a re- “Covers more than 200 years of visualizations of markably detailed look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak paranormal phenomena and otherworldly contact, Park Studio in Chicago. . . . Architecture buffs won’t demonstrating a search for healing from the coun- want to miss this extraordinary monograph.” try’s violent past by embracing the uncanny.” —Publishers Weekly —Bookseller “Frank Lloyd Wright said he shook his designs “Cozzolino aims to offer new ways of seeing, and out of his sleeve. In this remarkable and informa- new entry points for comprehending how artists tive new book, Schrenk shows what Wright had up have given physical form to intangible visitations or his sleeve at his Oak Park Studio—a talented team experiences (spanning the realms of UFOs, séances, of architects, artists, and designers who helped him and spirits of Indigenous or enslaved peoples). . . . produce a masterpiece a year.”—Kevin Harrington, Whether or not readers believe in the supernatu- Illinois Institute of Technology ral, they’ll be impressed by the erudition of these 2021 336 p. 81/2 x 11 179 halftones, 1 table texts and the wide range of beautifully presented 11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31894-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 artworks.”—Library Journal 2021 320 p. 91/4 x 11 200 color plates Matisse 14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78682-7 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00 The Books Vincent’s Books Louise Rogers Lalaurie Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him “[A] fresh, in-depth, lavishly illustrated study.” Mariella Guzzoni —Financial Times “Vincent van Gogh’s letters are almost as wonderful “Henri Matisse did not confine his art to the cut- as his paintings and in one of them he writes, ‘I out or the canvas. In fact, over a period of 18 years, have a more or less irresistible passion for books.’ he produced eight limited-edition books that dem- Guzzoni traces that passion in the beautifully onstrate a deft understanding of the interplay be- designed Vincent’s Books. If you need a gift for a book tween word and image. In this new volume, Louise or art lover, this is it.”—Washington Post Rogers Lalaurie considers the significance of these editions. . . . Not only does it contain rarely seen “During this meandering journey through Hol- images, but also a sensitive analysis of [Matisse’s] land, Paris, Provence, and beyond, Guzzoni reveals relationships (as inscribed in these books) and his just how much Van Gogh’s favorite books and political affiliations during World War II.” authors defined his life and art.”—Christie’s 2020 224 p. 6 x 9 132 color plates —Arts Society 15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70646-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 2020 320 p. 121/2 x 103/8 350 color plates 12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75054-5 $75.00 Your Price: $60.00 Fantastic Women Chicago Apartments Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Louise A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury Bourgeois Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein Edited by L. Kirstin Degel and Ingrid Pfeiffer The ribbon of high rise luxury apartment buildings Seeking to present the female perspective of the along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals women artists of surrealism, Fantastic Women nationwide for sustained architectural significance. highlights this forgotten side of the avant-garde This historic confluence of site, money, style, and movement. Including 350 color plates, this book development lies at the heart of the updated edition showcases paintings, drawings, photography, films, of Neil Harris’s Chicago Apartments. Featuring nearly and other artworks that create a powerful case for 350 stunning images and a foreword by renowned the recognition and celebration of the women artists Chicago author Sara Paretsky, this new edition of of the avant-garde. Distributed for Hirmer Publishers Chicago Apartments offers a wide-ranging look inside 2020 420 p. 91/2 x 111/2 350 color plates some of the Windy City’s most magnificent abodes. 16 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3414-8 $60.00 Your Price: $48.00 2020 368 p. 81/2 x 11 344 duotones 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61087-0 $85.00 Your Price: $68.00 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Great Reading 3

The Modern Myths Pulp Empire Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism Imagination Paul S. Hirsch Philip Ball “Hirsch positions the early decades of the American “From acclaimed popular science writer Ball comes comic book in a global context and illuminates the a fresh look at the modern legends that shape our anxieties this powerful new form of popular culture perception of reality. Stories like Dracula, Batman, inspired not only in parents and cultural critics but Sherlock Holmes, or Frankenstein, which we keep also in government officials and world leaders.” retelling and reimagining, are doing the kind of —Jared Gardner, author of Projections: Comics and the cultural work that ancient myths and fairy tales History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling once did. How do they operate, and why do we need “Every so often, a single book changes our under- them? And what tales will come to be the new myths standing of an entire topic. Hirsch’s brilliant, artfully of the future?”—Bookseller written Pulp Empire does that for mid-twentieth-cen- 2021 368 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones 17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71926-9 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 tury American studies. The billions of comic books that rolled off American presses and circumnavi- Gen Z, Explained gated the globe in the 1940s and ’50s reveal significant The Art of Living in a Digital Age unexplored aspects of American society, politics, Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, and and foreign policy.”—Martin J. Sherwin, coauthor of Linda Woodhead American Prometheus 2021 344 p. 6 x 9 44 color plates, 6 halftones “This extraordinarily rich and empathetic account 21 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35055-4 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 of Gen Z offers a groundbreaking understanding of this generation’s habits and motivations without Beyond Weird reducing them to the sum of their posts and tweets. Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum . . . Parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about Physics Is Different our future as a society should read this deeply in- Philip Ball formed contribution to the research on Gen Z.” “Ball’s gorgeously lucid text takes us to the edge of —Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise 2021 280 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 7 tables contemporary theorizing about the foundations of 18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79153-1 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 quantum mechanics.”—Washington Post “[Ball] weighs up the competing interpretations, Seeing Silicon Valley and the misconceptions, that have attached them- Life inside a Fraying America selves to quantum theory in its 100-year history, Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner finishing with more recent attempts to rebuild the “Seeing Silicon Valley spotlights people lost in the theory ‘from scratch’, and new ideas that offer tan- shadows of the tech capital. . . . Through their col- talizing glimpses beyond. . . . [A] laudable achieve- lection of around 30 portraits and mini-narratives ment.”—Sunday Times 2020 384 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 halftones, 19 line drawings of everyday people, Meehan and Turner take us 22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75510-6 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 through the unique lives of a swath of the region’s residents who each struggle, in their own ways, to In Praise of the Bicycle feel a sense of stability.”—San Francisco Chronicle Marc Augé 2021 112 p. 10 x 7 67 color plates 19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78648-3 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 “In this playful (and playfully illustrated) little book . . . a French anthropologist expounds on his love Now in Paperback of cycling. On a bicycle, he asserts, ‘you become Crime Dot Com someone else, and yet you are yourself as never From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global before.’ . . . His argument is fast and incautious; he’s Geoff White freewheeling and having great fun.”—New York Times Distributed for Reaktion Books Book Review 2021 344 p. 5 x 73/4 Distributed for Reaktion Books 20 Your Price: $11.20 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-443-7 $14.00 2019 96 p. 43/4 x 73/4 8 halftones 23 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-138-2 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 4 Great Reading 1-773-702-7000

Animals’ Best Friends What’s Eating the Universe? Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity And Other Cosmic Questions and in the Wild Paul Davies Barbara J. King “Brilliant. You won’t find a clearer, more engaging “Sharing her personal experiences and her exten- guide to what we know (or would like to know) about sive research, King shows how people can treat the universe and how it is put together.”—Bill Bryson, animals with sensitivity, from not killing spiders author of A Short History of Nearly Everything in the home to avoiding eating Chinook salmon, a “Davies gives us a thought-provoking, fascinat- preferred food of orca whales. . . . This interesting ing, and delightful journey through some of the Big work is often troubling to read, yet it’s important in Questions that have perplexed and tantalized scien- showing how people can compassionately care for tists throughout history. . . . What happened before the animals that share our planet.”—Library Journal the beginning? What is the meaning of the universe? 2021 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60148-9 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 Are there other universes?”—Michio Kaku, author of Physics of the Impossible 2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 halftones, 1 tables The Other Dark Matter 28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81629-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health ‘I Know Who Caused Lina Zeldovich COVID-19’ “Zeldovich shows to dazzling effect how a famously Pandemics and Xenophobia difficult subject—the often peculiar scientific history Zhou Xun and Sander L. Gilman of human waste—can become an engrossing tale. The story is enlightening, surprising, occasionally This is a timely, cogent examination of the blame and enraging—and wholly worth your time.” xenophobia that have been brought to the surface by —Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a close analysis The Poison Squad of four cases from around the world, this book 2021 264 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones explores prejudice toward groups who are thought 25 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61557-8 $26.00 Your Price: $20.80 to have caused and spread COVID-19. The authors examine stereotyping and the false attribution of Geometry of Grief blame towards these groups, as well as what hap- Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life pens when a collective is actually at fault, and how Michael Frame the community deals with these conflicting issues. Distributed for Reaktion Books “With concision and compassion, Frame shows how 2021 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 a mathematical mind makes sense of a grieving 29 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-507-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 heart. The result is a peculiar, wise, and beautiful book.”—Ben Orlin, author of Math with Bad Drawings Breathing 2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 45 halftones An Inspired History 26 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80092-9 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 Edgar Williams How to Make a Vaccine Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Ranging over topics from ancient meditation prac- John Rhodes tices to modern ventilator technology, air pollution, “At a time when online searches for books on vac- and the threat of respiratory viruses, this book tells cines are more likely to turn up misinformation the fascinating story of breathing—a tale relevant to than reliable literature, How to Make a Vaccine is everyone. a required primer that demystifies concepts and “An expansive piece of scholarship that explores gives an informative overview of how vaccines are the wild and often weird history of our most essen- developed and how they work. An essential guide tial biological function.”—James Nestor, author of indeed.”—The Inquisitive Biologist Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art 2021 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 table 27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79251-4 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00 Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 256 p. 51/2 x 91/4 70 halftones 30 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-362-1 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Great Reading 5

A Brief History of Nakedness The Fires of Lust Philip Carr-Gomm Sex in the Middle Ages “As Carr-Gomm reveals in his academic romp Katherine Harvey through two millenniums of public exhibitionism “With unabashed directness, a delicate touch of wit, from the ancient Greeks to animal-rights activists, and constant humanity, Harvey surveys the world you can be naked anywhere. You are only nude of medieval sex and sexuality. Throughout The Fires if someone is watching. Nakedness on its own is of Lust she situates the twin themes of morality and straightforward—it’s the context and the audience of medicine in the social and material world that me- nudity that make it interesting.”—Times dieval people inhabited. . . . Here, in its messy com- “Carr-Gomm’s lushly illustrated book takes a long plexity, is medieval life—life laid bare, but always and enthusiastic look at the politics and culture of with respect and care. A triumph.”—John H. Arnold, nakedness. . . . Thought-provoking.”—Economist author of Belief and Unbelief in the Middle Ages Distributed for Reaktion Books Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 320 p. 61/4 x 91/4 17 halftones 2013 288 p. 6 x 9 99 color plates, 44 halftones 34 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-489-5 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 31 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-022-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 The People’s Porn With the Hand A History of Handmade Pornography in America A Cultural History of Masturbation Lisa Z. Sigel Mels van Driel “From erotic scrimshaw made by nineteenth- “An enthusiastic, amusing, and eye-opening ex- century sailors to amateur polaroids, [this book] ploration of a topic which remains disappointingly charts a course through the ways in which appar- taboo.”—New Scientist ently ‘ordinary’ men and women represented sex “When [van Driel’s] stethoscope is about his neck, in all its variety—cis and trans, straight and queer, the M.D. employs all the unvarnished plainspoken- in couples or groups, with people or animals and ness of any health care professional. But when he somewhere in between. . . . The People’s Porn is at its entertains historical, literary, and other arts-and- most illuminating when exploring the place of sex humanities perspectives, he is as curious and open in shared cultures of humor and conviviality, show- to surprise as any cultural critic.”—Chronicle of ing that pornography was as much about male (and Higher Education sometimes female) bonding as it was about private Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 255 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 halftones fantasy.”—History Today 35 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-919-4 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 256 p. 61/4 x 81/4 70 color plates, 29 halftones 32 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-226-6 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 Sex in the World of Myth The Pleasure’s All Mine David Leeming In this survey of the sex lives of the world’s mytho- A History of Perverse Sex logical figures, Leeming demonstrates that even Julie Peakman when such myths are meant to elicit laughter or “Whether sussing out topics like homosexuality titillation, they also offer answers to questions of and BDSM, to those that still remain taboo, like religion, existence, and human sexuality. bestiality and pedophilia, Peakman is able to pro- “Destined to become a classic in its field. . . . vide a well-needed historical context for all things [Leeming] understands that lack of respect for the ‘perverse’ (or in her opinion, not perverse at all) and female is the great wound at the heart of human shine a light in the many places we would rather sexuality, and this book serves as a starting point to keep dark.”—Bookslut heal it.”—Australian “Peakman’s broad overview is stunning, sweeping, Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 color plates, 50 halftones and very carefully nonjudgmental. . . . A fact-filled, 36 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-977-4 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 entertaining read for sex history neophytes and scholars alike.”—Library Journal Distributed for Reaktion Books This catalog is available online at 2016 472 p. 6 x 9 64 color plates, 114 halftones 33 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-675-9 $29.00 Your Price: $23.20 bit.ly/UCP-Reading 6 Reference & Language 1-773-702-7000

Hyphens & Hashtags* On Revision *The stories behind the symbols on our keyboard The Only Writing That Counts Claire Cock-Starkey William Germano In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to “On Revision is about the process of writing and communicate to the punctuation marks, mathemati- its last steps, those of shaping a text and turning a cal symbols, and other glyphs that hover on the manuscript into a well-argued and readable book it edges of our keyboard. Hyphens & Hashtags presents wants to be. With On Revision at your side, you will the history and modern evolution of these stalwart have a superb guide to gaining the skills and experi- symbols, revealing the long road many have taken ence needed to finish your own project, all the while on their way to general usage. enjoying the elegance and wit of Germano’s prose.” Distributed for Bodleian Library —Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania 2021 192 p. 43/4 x 71/4 2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftones, 6 line drawings 37 Your Price: $18.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-536-9 $22.50 41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-41065-4 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 Storycraft, Second Edition I, Grape; or The Case for The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction Fiction Jack Hart Essays “This book is a master class in narrative nonfic- Brock Clarke tion, a must-read for anyone who wants to tell true stories. Whether you’re a novice writer or seasoned “Novelist Clarke chronicles in this whimsical outing veteran, you will learn from Hart’s insight and ex- his obsession with fiction as an art form. . . . This amples culled from decades of coaching and editing impassioned defense of fiction is great for dipping some of the country’s best reporters. He shows us into, and those who engage with fiction on a deep how to seek scenes, build structure, explore voices, level will find much here that piques.” write riveting stories—then make them sing.” —Publishers Weekly Distributed for Acre Books —Lane DeGregory, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist 2021 176 p. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 2021 320 p. 6 x 9 42 Paper ISBN: 978-1-946724-36-6 $17.00 Your Price: $13.60 38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73692-1 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 Information Now An Inky Business Second Edition A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to the American Civil War A Graphic Guide to Student Research and Web Literacy Matthew J. Shaw Matt Upson, Holly Luetkenhaus, C. Michael Hall, and Kevin Cannon “A vivid and incisive account of the origins of “Information Now equips undergraduate students newspapers and their extraordinary role in the with essential research strategies and tools as transformation of society over two hundred years. they navigate the complex information world. It With the very concept of news under threat, this scaffolds the research process through real-world book could not be more timely.”—Paul Lay, editor of examples, good humor, and helpful exercises. The History Today Distributed for Reaktion Books authors have packed their many years of informa- 2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 20 halftones tion literacy teaching wisdom into this short graphic 39 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-386-7 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 guide—the comic-book style engages college readers and makes the learning experience enjoyable.” Just the Job —Ning Zou, Harvard University How Trades got their Names 2021 136 p. 7 x 10 Alexander Tulloch 43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76611-9 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 In this highly original book, linguist Alexander Around the World in 80 Tulloch examines the etymology behind a selection of trades and professions, unearthing intriguing bits Words of historical information along the way. A Journey through the English Language Distributed for Bodleian Library Paul Anthony Jones 3 1 2020 224 p. 4 /4 x 7 /4 30 halftones 2020 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-550-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68279-2 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Inspiration & Quotables 7

The Pocket Epicurean The Daily Henry David John Sellars Thoreau Though today we tend to associate the word A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season “Epicurean” with indulgence in the form of food Edited by Laura Dassow Walls and wine, the philosophy of Epicurus was about a life well lived even in the hardest of times. This “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, book is a concise, approachable guide to living the drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself good life through the teachings of Epicurus. to the influence of each.” “In this brief and eloquent book, Sellars takes Drawn from the full range of Thoreau’s journals us through the basic arguments of Epicureanism and published writings, and arranged according to with wonderful clarity, distilling the essence of an season, The Daily Henry David Thoreau allows us to ancient philosophy that speaks with increasing discover the endless variation and surprise to be urgency to our troubled times.”—David Konstan, found in the natural world. This little volume em- New York University bodies, in small compass, Thoreau’s own ambition 2021 72 p. 41/2 x 6 to “live in season”—to attune ourselves to nature and 45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79864-6 $12.50 Your Price: $10.00 heal our modern sense of discontinuity with our surroundings. The Pocket Stoic 2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 48 Your Price: $9.60 John Sellars Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62496-9 $12.00 “Sellars’s book is an excellent starting point for any- The Daily Sherlock Holmes one interested in experimenting with this approach A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World’s to life.”—Five Books Greatest Detective “Expertly and vividly Sellars presents lessons Edited by Levi Stahl and Stacey Shintani in Stoicism that are strikingly relevant to modern The Daily Sherlock Holmes is the perfect bedside life. From the great Roman Stoic authors, he distills companion for fans of the world’s only consulting teaching on managing emotions, dealing with detective. Within these pages readers will find a adversity, facing death, and making the best use of quotation for every day of the year, drawn from every hour and situation. This is a book that excel- across the Conan Doyle canon. lently shows why Stoicism is the philosophy for our 2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 time. I recommend it with enthusiasm.” 49 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65964-0 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 —A. A. Long, author of Epictetus: How to be Free 2020 64 p. 41/2 x 6 The Daily Jane Austen 46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68296-9 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 A Year of Quotes Seneca Edited by Devoney Looser Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic “Delightful. . . . Some [quotations] are the briefest Lucius Annaeus Seneca little bons mots, others provide a satisfying chunk In the year 62, the Roman philosopher Seneca with- of Austen to illuminate your day.”—Jane Austen’s drew from public service and devoted his time to Regency World 2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 writing. His letters from this period offer a window 50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65544-4 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 into his personal life and provide lucid explana- tions for many key points of Stoic philosophy. This The Daily Charles Dickens selection of fifty letters brings out the essentials of A Year of Quotes Seneca’s thought, with much that speaks directly to Edited by James R. Kincaid the modern reader. Above all, they explore the inner life of the individual who proceeds through philo- “Dickens was a chronicler of Victorian times, an sophical inquiry from a state of emotional turmoil entertainer and a fighter for social justice. So what to true friendship, self-determination, and personal book lover wouldn’t want a daily quote to chew on to excellence. start the day?”—Our Windsor 1 1 2021 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2018 208 p. 4 /2 x 7 /4 47 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78293-5 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80 51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56374-9 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80 8 Food & Travel 1-773-702-7000

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Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Walking Pepys’s London Where to Find Them Jacky Colliss Harvey Joseph M. Bagley “Undaunted by the seedier aspects of the great As Boston approaches its 400th anniversary, it is diarist’s character, Jacky Colliss Harvey’s new walk- remarkable that the city still maintains its historic ing guide to London invites us to step into Pepys’s character despite constant development. This book shoes on five carefully plotted routes. . . . It cannot takes readers on a tour of fifty historic buildings in help but leave the reader with a profound sense of Boston that pre-date 1800, ranging from homes to architectural loss.”—Telegraph Distributed for Haus Publishing churches and warehouses to restaurants. Featuring 2021 220 p. 4 x 8 5 maps a wealth of full-­color photos and illustrations as well 65 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-28-9 $22.95 Your Price: $18.36 as chapters on the history and preservation of each structure, this book is perfect for history lovers, Armchair Travels from architectural enthusiasts, and tourists alike. Distributed for Brandeis University Press Haus Publishing 2021 248 p. 7 x 10 160 color plates 62 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-039-2 $29.95 Your Price: $23.96 Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners John G. Sayers In the heyday of ocean travel—between the late nineteenth century and World War II—ocean liners were a home away from home. Passengers prepared for voyages that could last as long as three months, and shipping companies ensured their guests were Kafka’s Prague as comfortable as possible, providing entertain- Klaus Wagenbach ment, dining, sleeping quarters, and smoking lounges to accommodate passengers of all ages and “A useful addition to any thinking person’s library. budgets. Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners dives into . . . Wagenbach’s volume on Kafka includes repro- a vast, unique collection of ephemera to reveal the ductions of Kafka’s letters, original book covers scandals, glamour, challenges, and tragedies of and a well-drawn map of Prague showing the places ocean liner travel. mentioned in the text.”—New Statesman Distributed for Bodleian Library 2020 160 p. 5 x 8 48 halftones 2021 256 p. 7 x 9 150 color plates 66 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-65-4 $18.95 Your Price: $15.16 63 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-530-7 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 Dickens’s London India Peter Clark UNESCO World Heritage Sites Marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s Edited by Shikha Jain, Vinay Sheel Oberoi, and death, Dickens’s London leads us in the footsteps of Rohit Chawla the author through his beloved city. This stunning photographic survey presents India’s 2020 160 p. 5 x 8 20 halftones, 5 maps thirty-eight World Heritage Sites, together with com- 67 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-67-8 $18.95 Your Price: $15.16 mentary by architects and conservationists. The cultural sites in India are a rich repository of Hemingway in Italy the country’s long history, bearing witness to the Richard Owen creativity and influence of multiple communities, “An exceptionally lively study. . . . Hemingway’s crafts, and religions. They include ancient rock art, adoration of Italy never waned.”—Times Literary Buddhist caves and Hindu temples, Sultanate and Supplement Mughal forts, medieval Hindu and Islamic cities, 2020 174 p. 5 x 8 Portuguese churches, Victorian and Art Deco archi- 68 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-70-8 $17.95 Your Price: $14.36 tecture, twentieth-century industrial heritage sites, and national parks of exceptional natural beauty. To sign up for email notification of new Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2021 240 p. 10 x 12 250 color plates releases by subject, visit bit.ly/UCPnotify 64 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3571-8 $60.00 Your Price: $48.00 10 Books for Young Readers 1-773-702-7000

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Reynard the Fox Basilisks and Beowulf Retold by Anne Louise Avery Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World “A tour de force of storytelling and a beautiful object Tim Flight in itself.”—Wall Street Journal “A bold and wide-ranging expedition into the wildest “Game of Thrones meets The Wind in the Willows corners of the early medieval mind; Flight skillfully in Avery’s retelling of Reynard the Fox. Riffing on conjures the primal fears and ancient wonders that William Caxton’s 1481 English translation of a popu- once lurked in England’s shadowed groves and hol- lar Dutch beast epic, this is set in an intricate medi- lows.”—Thomas Williams, author of Viking Britain: eval world reminiscent of Brian Jacques’s ‘Redwall’ A History Distributed for Reaktion Books series, except bawdy and violent. . . . The challenge 2021 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 color plates, 10 halftones of Avery’s language is equaled by the reward of 81 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-433-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 world-building.”—School Library Journal Distributed for Bodleian Library Eaters of the Dead 2020 480 p. 53/4 x 73/4 78 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-555-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Shapeshifters “Wetmore has written a fascinating history of the A History ultimate recycling—cannibalism. . . . The book is John B. Kachuba two-fold, investigating not only the innate fear of be- “[A] wide-ranging study . . . of our long-established ing eaten but the nightmare of becoming a cannibal fascination with shapeshifting in all its guises. It ourselves.”—Del Howison, author and editor Distributed for Reaktion Books is ubiquitous in literature and folklore, from the 2021 276 p. 61/4 x 81/4 43 halftones countless metamorphoses in Greek myth down 82 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-444-4 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 to the apprentice wizards of Hogwarts. Transfor- mation is the lifeblood of narrative. . . . Kachuba The Devil and His Advocates refreshes the meager store of case studies from the Erik Butler time of the European witch craze with comparable “[Butler] explores the character of the devil in litera- modern accounts.”—Literary Review ture, theology, visual art, and music from antiquity Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 20 halftones up to the present, discussing canonical authors such 79 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-079-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 as Dante, Goethe, and Milton.”—Publishers Weekly Fairies “The Devil and His Advocates presents a grand sweep of Western intellectual history that amounts A Dangerous History to an alternative history of evil in the Christian Richard Sugg world. In Butler, the Devil has found his most “[A] bulging field guide to fairy lore. Taking read- eloquent, sophisticated, and measured advocate to ers on a tour of the brownies, hobs, changelings, date.”—Nick Groom, University of Macau kelpies, selkies, sea trows, and various other fairy Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 248 p. 61/4 x 81/4 29 halftones types of the British Isles and beyond, Sugg inves- 83 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-373-7 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 tigates ‘the great heresy of fairyland’ in folklore, the arts, and historical testimony.”—Times Literary The Writer’s Map Supplement An Atlas of Imaginary Lands “Far from the innocuous flutterings of Disney Edited by Huw Lewis-Jones films, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries “One of life’s great treats, for a lover of books (espe- fairies were often regarded as dangerous creatures. cially fantasy books), is to open a cover to find a map . . . This account of apparent ‘sightings,’ and what secreted inside and filled with the details of a land they tell us about wider society, makes for compel- about to be discovered. . . . The Writer’s Map contains ling reading.”—History Revealed dozens of the magical maps writers have drawn Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 color plates, 4 halftones or that have been made by others to illustrate the 80 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-120-7 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 places they’ve created.”—Atlas Obscura 2018 256 p. 81/4 x 113/4 220 color plates 84 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-59663-1 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00 12 Ancient Worlds 1-773-702-7000

Gladius Now in Paperback The World of the Roman Soldier Egyptomania Guy de la Bédoyère A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy “In his encyclopedic Gladius, Guy de la Bédoyère Ronald H. Fritze collects pretty much every fact known about what “The richness, distinction and diversity of ancient it was like to be in the military arm of the Roman Egyptian culture has fired imaginations for millen- Empire.”—New York Times Book Review nia. Here, historian Fritze examines ‘Egyptomania’ “Neither a history of the army nor a review of in detail and through time. As Herodotus and other battlefield tactics, Gladius[ ] studies daily life in classical scholars extolled Giza’s pyramids and the military services far beyond the aspects of soldier- great lighthouse at Alexandria, Egyptian cults, and ing typically treated in history books. . . . de la esoteric tracts seeped into Greece and Rome—to later Bédoyère’s informative and readable book offers fascinate and befuddle medieval and Renaissance real immediacy to readers.”—Clifford Ando, scholars. The cracking of hieroglyphs, discovery of University of Chicago Tutankhamun’s tomb, and ‘mummymania’ from the 2020 352 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 4 tables nineteenth century onwards ensured that the craze 85 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75023-1 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 persists almost unabated today.”—Nature Distributed for Reaktion Books Heroes and Marvels of the 2021 448 p. 61/4 x 91/4 50 halftones Middle Ages 88 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-348-5 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 Jacques Le Goff The Making of a King Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history of Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks the imagination that explores the iconography of the Robin Waterfield medieval universe. “General, patron of the arts, votary of the god Pan, “In these 19 short essays—originally published in generous king, and occasional tyrant, Antigonus French in 2005—[Le Goff] offers case studies of ‘the Gonatas ruled the legendary Kingdom of Macedon. medieval imaginary’ to argue that many creations . . . The Making of a King is the perfect introduction of medieval culture not only had long lives but are to this eccentric and exciting figure.”—J. E. Lendon, still present today. . . . The erudition is smoothly author of Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in presented with an implicit argument for the basic Classical Antiquity similarity between medieval culture and its modern “Not merely an impressive biography of Antigo- heirs. . . . Recommended.”—Choice Distributed for Reaktion Books nus Gonatas but also an excellent introduction to the 2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 32 halftones whole early Hellenistic era. The author combines 86 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-212-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 meticulous research with an accessible writing style to bring to life an oft-neglected period of ancient his- The Sarpedon Krater tory.”—Philip Matyszak, author of Forgotten Peoples of The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase the Ancient World Nigel Spivey 2021 296 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 8 maps 89 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61137-2 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 Perhaps the most spectacular of all Greek vases, the Sarpedon krater was decorated some 2,500 years Laughing Shall I Die ago by Athenian artist Euphronios. Its subsequent Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings history involves tomb raiding, intrigue, duplicity, Tom Shippey litigation, international outrage, and possibly even homicide. This concise, stylish book braids together “Magnificent. . . . Lively, friendly, and occasionally the creation and adventures of this extraordinary barbed. . . . Shippey’s magnum opus provides not object with an exploration of its abiding influence. only an exhilarating, mind-expanding appraisal and 2019 240 p. 51/4 x 8 83 color plates retelling of Viking history but also an invitation to 87 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66659-4 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 discover the cold-iron poetry and prose of the medi- eval North. Take up that invitation.”—Washington Post Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 368 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 90 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-217-4 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Ancient Worlds & European History 13

Homer King of the World The Very Idea The Life of Louis XIV James I. Porter Philip Mansel “This book is a reckoning with who or what we “Why did a king make such blunders? Mansel seeks understand Homer to be and how we have rein- to find out in this superior study that will appeal to vented him for our own ends. Porter makes clear the history buffs and may become the go-to biography of impossibility of Homer both as a concept and as a Louis XIV.”—Library Journal person, revealing him as the illusion of a perfectly “[Mansel] is as good at explaining and illustrat- formed whole that has been kept alive for millennia, ing Louis’s decline as his ascendancy. . . . Copiously, a ghost in the machine, a phantom both alive and beautifully, and intelligently illustrated, comple- dead. . . . An original, compelling, and eye-opening mented by excellent maps and diagrams (notably a book.”—Alex C. Purves, author of Homer and the ground-plan of Versailles), King of the World is one Poetics of Gesture of the most stimulating and enjoyable works on 2021 280 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones 91 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67589-3 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 European history to have been published for many a long year.”—Wall Street Journal Lost Civilizations from 2020 608 p. 6 x 9 57 color plates, 2 halftones 98 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69089-6 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 Reaktion Books The books in this series explore the rise and fall of William III the great civilizations of the ancient world. From Prince of Orange to King of England William Pull This book tells the story of William of Orange before he became the king of England, examining the sys- tem of clan family and patron-client relationships across Europe on which the prince’s political and- The Aztecs diplomatic influences rested. Providing a full and Frances F. Berdan detailed recounting of the dramatic clash between 2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 color plates, 20 halftones William’s regime with Louis XIV’s governance of 92 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-360-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 France, the book does not shy away from engaging in historical controversies. Drawing from English The Sumerians and Dutch sources and historiography, the book is Paul Collins a detailed study in the struggle for power between 2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 color plates, 20 halftones 93 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-415-4 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 seventeenth-century European ruling elites. Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2021 576 p. 7 x 93/4 12 color plates The Indus 99 Paper ISBN: 978-1-913491-60-4 $37.95 Your Price: $30.36 Andrew Robinson 2021 208 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 78 halftones A History of the Silk Road 94 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-385-0 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00 Jonathan Clements The Phoenicians The Silk Road is not a place, but a journey, a route Vadim S. Jigoulov from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central 2021 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 39 color plates, 23 halftones plains of China, through high mountains and 95 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-478-9 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 inhospitable deserts. A History of the Silk Road takes a comprehensive and illuminating look at the rich The Barbarians history of this dynamic and little known region, and Peter Bogucki provides an easy-to-use reference source. Clements 2017 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 25 color plates, 25 halftones 96 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-718-3 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 pays particular attention to the fascinating histori- cal sites that feature on any visitor’s itinerary and The Goths also gives special emphasis to the writings and reac- David M. Gwynn tions of travelers through the centuries. Distributed for Haus Publishing 1 1 2018 208 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 48 color plates,20 halftones 2017 220 p. 5 x 8 1 map 97 Your Price: $20.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-845-6 $25.00 100 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-37-1 $16.95 Your Price: $13.56 14 European History 1-773-702-7000

Now in Paperback A History of the Second D-Day and Normandy World War in 100 Maps A Visual History Jeremy Black Anthony Richards As Black convincingly shows in this lavish full-color “Rare photos and historians’ painstaking detective book, it is impossible to understand the events and work map out [the] reality of how the Allies launched outcomes of the Second World War without deep ref- the world’s biggest ever military op. . . . The shots, erence to mapping at all levels. Drawing on 100 key published chronologically for the first time ever, maps from the unparalleled collections of the Brit- have brought to life one of the key turning points of ish Library and other sources, this book provides a the Second World War.”—Daily Mail captivating overview of World War II from the air, Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group sea, and sky. 2021 232 p. 83/4 x 101/4 46 color plates, 96 halftones 101 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912423-21-7 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 “A spectacular reference source. . . . This scrupu- lous survey of early-1940s to mid-1950s cartography Sheer Misery offers a full study of the war through posters and Soldiers in Battle in WWII photos of communication lines, waterways, and Mary Louise Roberts troop movements, with text from government and “Thoroughly researched and skillfully written, media sources.”—Booklist 2020 256 p. 81/2 x 11 150 color plates Sheer Misery is an extraordinary examination of how 105 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75524-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 American, British, and German soldiers endured the rigors of combat and battled the forces of nature Rommel in the campaigns for Italy, France, and the Low The End of a Legend Countries. Roberts thoroughly details the essence Ralf Georg Reuth of fighting in nasty and brutish conditions, the struggle infantrymen faced to stay alive, and the im- “The legend of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel—the pact of war on their bodies.”—Peter Mansoor, author Desert Fox—is threefold: he was a simple soldier of The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American who did his duty and knew nothing of Nazism; he Infantry Divisions, 1941–1945 was a commander of superlative talent who ran 2021 208 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 4 maps rings around the British in North Africa in 1941–42; 102 Your Price: $18.40 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75314-0 $23.00 he was a leader in resistance to Hitler and gave his What Soldiers Do life to the cause after the failure of the July 1944 plot. In this lucid, exemplary volume, Reuth shows Sex and the American GI in World War II France that all three of these assumptions are false . . . and Mary Louise Roberts reveals the truth in a brilliant book.”—Independent “This clear-eyed examination of what randy Distributed for Haus Publishing 2020 230 p. 5 x 8 60 halftones American soldiers got up to in France from D-Day 106 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912208-22-7 $14.95 Your Price: $11.96 through 1946 strips away the sentimentality from the overworked, clichéd portrayal of the Greatest Guests of the Third Reich Generation.”—Publishers Weekly The British Prisoner of War Experience in Germany 2014 368 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones 103 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-92311-6 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 1939–1945 Anthony Richards The Last Days of Hitler “[A] powerful account of what life was like for Brit- Hugh Trevor-Roper ish servicemen. . . . Richards uses diary entries, Late in 1945, Trevor-Roper was appointed by British sound recordings and letters held by Imperial Intelligence in Germany to investigate conflicting War Museum to paint a vivid picture of life in evidence surrounding Hitler’s final days and to captivity.”—H for History produce a definitive report on his death. Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2019 216 p. 5 x 8 30 halftones “From exhaustive research [Trevor-Roper] has 107 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912423-06-4 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 put together a carefully documented, irrefutable, and unforgettable reconstruction of the last days in Much more information about each book is on April, 1945.”—New Republic our website at press.uchicago.edu. To order 1992 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 104 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81224-3 $26.00 Your Price: $20.80 online, see the order form. press.uchicago.edu/directmail British History 15

Britain at War in Colour Lee Miller Air, Land and Sea Fashion in Wartime Britain Ian Carter Robin Muir and Amber Butchard Britain at War in Colour showcases one hundred of Lee Miller “has borne the whole weight of our studio the best rare and original color images from the production through the most difficult period in Imperial War Museums’ unparalleled collection. Brogue’s history,” wrote British Vogue editor Audrey This powerful visual collection shows us a new—or Withers in the summer of 1941. Despite this, much at least long-forgotten—World War II. of Miller’s fashion photography—which dominated “Seeing the Second World War in color still gives the pages of British Vogue during World World II— us the shock of time travel. . . . Throughout, blue has since been forgotten or overshadowed by her skies, green grass and flushed cheeks lend these im- subsequent war reportage. Drawn from a research ages a poignant and unsettling intimacy, narrowing base of nearly four thousand vintage negatives, this the gap between past and present.” collection showcases more than one hundred stun- —Daily Telegraph (UK) ning fashion photographs from the war era. Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2021 160 p. 91/2 x 111/2 50 color plates, 50 halftones 2021 240 p. 8 x 111/2 100 color plates 111 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-9532389-8-9 $44.95 Your Price: $35.96 108 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-912423-36-1 $37.95 Your Price: $30.36 Churchill’s War in Words London At War 1939–1945 His Finest Quotes, 1939–1945 A Nation’s Capital Survives Jonathan Asbury Alan Jeffreys Presented in chronological order and accompa- At the outbreak of World War II, London suddenly nied by short year-by-year introductions and one found itself on the front line. Using photographs, hundred images, the quotations chosen by Jonathan maps, archival documents, and personal accounts Asbury convey afresh the full force of Churchill’s from letters and diaries, London at War tells the oratory, the wit he displayed in the face of often story of those turbulent wartime years in the capi- appalling odds, and the hopes and fears that he tal, as experienced by those who lived there. Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group inspired in those around him. 2018 216 p. 83/4 x 101/4 150 illustrations Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 112 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904897-33-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 2018 192 p. 61/2 x 61/2 illustrated throughout 109 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904897-36-1 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 The Road Is Wider Than Long Churchill’s Cocktail Cookbook Leatherlook edition Imperial War Museums Roland Penrose This charming book features dozens of cocktail In 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose recipes, each accompanied by detailed instructions, and Lee Miller made a journey together through the an ingredients list, and a short description of how Balkans. As they traveled, Penrose created pictures the drink is inspired by British former head of state and took notes, and on their return produced a Winston Churchill. Photographs of the cocktails at charming handmade photobook for Miller—a surre- Churchill War Rooms or the Churchill Bar accom- alist love poem, drawn from his own memories and pany each recipe, and archival images of Churchill records. This special facsimile edition of the book himself tie the volume together. Published in asso- Penrose wrote for Miller has an important place in ciation with the Churchill Bar at the Hyatt Regency the history of surrealist literature, and it provides a Churchill in London, this is the ideal gift for anyone fascinating glimpse into the lives of two artists in a who likes a glass of something strong mixed with a world that would soon be transformed forever. Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group splash of history. 2021 56 p. 63/4 x 81/4 40 halftones Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 113 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-914298-00-4 $25.95 Your Price: $20.76 2021 96 p. 51/2 x 83/4 25 color plates, 25 halftones 110 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-912423-39-2 $19.95 Your Price: $15.96 16 Social History 1-773-702-7000

Wanderers Paths of Fire A History of Women Walking The Gun and the World It Made Kerri Andrews Andrew Nahum “The reader of Andrews’s Wanderers: A History of “Ancient yet contemporary, the gun has for centu- Women Walking laces her boots and strikes out with ries dominated the world in a myriad of ways. . . . ten women who walked, wrote, and wrote about [This] chronicle of the gun is an authoritative as well walking. . . . The book is at its best when imagi- as original study of this invention and its impact natively recreating the sole-tiring, soul-stirring, on society and nations. . . . The book abounds with stomping simplicity of walking alone. Then the amusing anecdotes as well as revealing portraits of reader shares the rapture of Virginia Woolf’s cry: key figures in this often underrated milestone in hu- ‘Oh the joy of walking!’”—The Critic man technological ingenuity.”—History of War Distributed for Reaktion Books Distributed for Reaktion Books 3 2021 304 p. 5 x 7 /4 2021 248 p. 63/4 x 83/4 70 halftones 114 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-501-4 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 118 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-397-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 Policing the Big Apple Games People Played The Story of the NYPD A Global History of Sports Jules Stewart Wray Vamplew “Stewart has written an intriguing history of the “Vamplew’s Games People Played is one of the smart- New York City Police Department replete with est books written about sports. Not only does Vam- colorful characters, surprising facts, and entertain- plew detail the evolution of sports across cultures ing anecdotes. His deft narrative leads the reader and countries, he thoughtfully discusses how sport through the history of law enforcement, from the historians do their jobs. . . . No one who reads the cobblestones of New Amsterdam to the metropolis book will ever think of sports the same way.” of the twenty-first century.”—Jeffrey Kroessler, City —Randy Roberts, Purdue University University of New York Distributed for Reaktion Books Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 456 p. 61/4 x 91/4 98 halftones 2021 272 p. 61/4 x 91/4 29 halftones 119 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-457-4 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 115 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-482-6 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 Now in Paperback Fabulosa! Tinker to Evers to Chance The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America Paul Baker David Rapp “Brilliant. . . . A compelling history of the linguis- tic lengths to which gay people had to go to hide “Vividly details the lives of all three players, weav- in plain sight within an aggressively homophobic ing together how they converged in Chicago at the culture.”—Observer beginning of the twentieth century. Along the way, Distributed for Reaktion Books Rapp tells the story of a changing America that 2020 320 p. 5 x 73/4 39 halftones became suddenly and almost inexplicably gripped 116 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-294-5 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 with baseball fever.”—Chicago Magazine 2021 340 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones Lost Girls 120 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79024-4 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 The Invention of the Flapper Linda Simon Cricketing Lives “To read Simon’s social and literary history of flap- A Characterful History from Pitch to Page pers is to feel . . . the relief of the loosening of cor- Richard H. Thomas sets, the excitement of the shimmy and tango in the “[An] entertaining collection of portraits of cricket’s dance hall, the thrill of smoking, the bliss of escape characters. . . . So colorful and well told is this book, from detested chaperoning rules, and the swooning heavy on research but light in touch, that it should effect of watching Rudolph Valentino on the silent interest even those who find the game dull.” screen.”—Times —The Critic Distributed for Reaktion Books Distributed for Reaktion Books 3 2019 296 p. 5 x 7 /4 47 halftones 2021 448 p. 61/4 x 91/4 48 halftones 117 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-071-2 $13.99 Your Price: $11.19 121 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-371-3 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 press.uchicago.edu/directmail American History 17

A Drop of Treason Restricted Data Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Jonathan Stevenson Alex Wellerstein “One of America’s ‘most hated’ spies receives a “Secrecy was a defining aspect of the creation of the lively, thoughtful biography. . . . An insightful and atomic bomb and, 75 years later, nuclear secrecy evenhanded portrait.”—Kirkus remains a feature of American democracy. In “Remarkably well researched and treats complex Restricted Data, Alex Wellerstein examines the issues with admirable clarity. . . . [A Drop of Treason] health of democracy in the face of big science, big offers a vivid snapshot of America in the mid-1970s.” government, and big weapons.”—Science 2021 528 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones, 7 line drawings, 3 tables —New York Times 126 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02038-9 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 2021 328 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 122 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35668-6 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 Pushing Cool New Edition Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of Making the Second Ghetto the Menthol Cigarette Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960 Keith Wailoo Arnold R. Hirsch “For decades, cigarette makers have used menthol “Hirsch’s deeply transformational book lays out how to target Black Americans. Wailoo does an excellent a perfect storm of racism, redlining, and public poli- job showing how Big Tobacco has used both its mar- cies formed Chicago and other American cities. keting muscle and political power to get mentholat- If you want to understand what came after the 1960s, ed smoke into African American lungs—with deadly you have to understand what came before them. And consequences. An indispensable text for anyone today we’re still dealing with the same issues Hirsch who recognizes that Black lungs matter.” wrote about. Every sector of the city . . . [has] em- —Robert N. Proctor, Stanford University 2021 392 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones ployed particular weaponry to effect a single goal: 127 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79413-6 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 the subjugation of black people. It hasn’t changed.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of We Were Eight Years In Now in Paperback Power 2021 400 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones After Redlining 123 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72851-3 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Revised Edition Financial Deregulation Rebecca K. Marchiel The Conspiracy Trial of the “After Redlining is a compelling and revelatory Chicago Seven history of community activism, American bank- John Schultz ing, and the politics of inequality. Marchiel details “Schultz, more than any other observer, covered the how common-sense ideas about place, power, and Conspiracy Trial in all its bizarre aspects. . . . This economic fairness informed the work of ‘grassroots work, aside from being a profound study of fear, is financial regulators’ who altered the national urban investigative journalism in its highest sense.” policy landscape, all the while moving seamlessly —Studs Terkel between rich local stories, Washington, DC, and 2020 416 p. 51/2 x 81/2 a seismic restructuring of financial markets that 124 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76074-2 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 undercut progressive reform. Essential reading on the persistent tension between finance and democ- Queer Legacies racy in American history.”—David Freund, author of Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics John D’Emilio in Suburban America 2021 296 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones “Full of fascinating stories, Queer Legacies gives us 128 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81586-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 a front-row seat to over fifty years of community building and activism.”—David K. Johnson, author Much more information about each book is on of The Lavender Scare our website at press.uchicago.edu. To order 2020 272 p. 51/4 x 81/4 125 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72753-0 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 online, see the order form. 18 World History 1-773-702-7000

Waves Across the South Blood, Sweat and Earth A New History of Revolution and Empire The Struggle for Control over the World’s Diamonds Sujit Sivasundaram Throughout History “Sivasundaram guides the reader smoothly through Tijl Vanneste the expanses of the oceanic south. . . . The great Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical achievement of Waves Across the South is that its shift exposé of the diamond industry, focusing on the of perspective lets us reconsider the meaning of exploitation of workers and the environment, the revolution in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.” monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how little —Wall Street Journal this has changed over time. While recent discover- 2021 496 p. 6 x 9 58 halftones, 7 line drawings ies of diamond deposits have brought an end to 129 Your Price: $16.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79041-1 $20.00 monopolization, the book shows that advances in Contested Lands the production of synthetic diamonds have not yet been able to eradicate the exploitation caused by the A History of the Middle East since the First World War world’s unquenchable thirst for sparkle. T. G. Fraser Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 432 p. 61/4 x 91/4 96 halftones “Fraser guides us deftly through the complexities of 133 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-435-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 the last hundred years of Middle Eastern history and politics in this engaging and authoritative survey.” Now in Paperback —Ruth Henig A Fistful of Shells Distributed for Haus Publishing 2021 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 halftones, 2 maps West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of 130 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-24-1 $29.95 Your Price: $23.96 Revolution Russia as Empire Toby Green “A Fistful of Shells illuminates the flourishing and Past and Present connected economy of West Africa that existed long Kees Boterbloem before a European capitalist system established Covering more than one thousand years of tumultu- itself on the continent. Extraordinarily written and ous history, Russia as Empire shows how the medi- researched, the book paints a huge, complex canvas.” eval empire of Kyivan Rus’ metamorphosed into —Wall Street Journal today’s Russian Federation. 2021 650 p. 6 x 9 134 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78973-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 “An original synthesis and a stimulating overview of how Russia acquired and maintained its land- A History of Crete based empire.”—Brian Boeck, DePaul University Chris Moorey Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 256 p. 51/4 x 81/4 25 halftones Known by the Greeks as ‘Megalónisos,’ or the ‘Great 131 Your Price: $24.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-291-4 $30.00 Island,’ Crete has a long and varied history. A History Masters of the Pearl of Crete steps in to fill a gap in scholarship on this storied island, providing the first complete history A History of Qatar of Crete to be published for over twenty years. Michael Quentin Morton “A fascinating journey through Cretan history, “That rare pearl: an accessible book on a Gulf coun- from its mythological past to its tourist-crowded try that also manages to be well-researched. Recom- present.”—Mick Reed, University of New England mended for students and visitors alike, Quentin Distributed for Haus Publishing Morton’s prose reveals a passion for the Qatar of old 2020 444 p. 5 x 8 135 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912208-96-8 $18.95 Your Price: $15.16 where he lived the early years of his life. Qatar today is now a regular, international news headline. This Now in Paperback book puts that news in context.”—Allen Fromherz, author of Qatar: A Modern History The Culinary Crescent Distributed for Reaktion Books A History of Middle Eastern Cuisine 2020 256 p. 61/4 x 91/4 61 halftones 132 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-311-9 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 Peter Heine Distributed for Gingko Library 2021 232 p. 61/2 x 91/2 70 halftones 136 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909942-42-4 $24.95 Your Price: $19.96 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Cartography 19

Time in Maps The Eternal City From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era A History of Rome in Maps Edited by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer Jessica Maier “Leading scholars consider the sophisticated ways in “Organized chronologically from Rome’s early be- which the movement of time was depicted in maps, ginnings to the present, this richly detailed history examining centuries of cartography from around of Rome is focused through the lens of maps and the world, and providing more than 100 color maps cartographic images. . . . A fascinating account.” and illustrations.”—Bookseller —Pamela O. Long, author of Engineering the Eternal “Time in Maps shows definitively that maps brim City 2020 240 p. 81/2 x 11 140 color plates with temporal references, both overt and subtle. . . . 140 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-59145-2 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 Contrary to popular opinion, printed maps are any- thing but ‘static’ once one learns to recognize how A History of America in 100 they in fact hold time in the embrace of space.” Maps —Anne Kelly Knowles, University of Maine 2020 272 p. 81/4 x 10 25 color plates, 80 maps Susan Schulten 137 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71859-0 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00 “Lavish and fascinating.”—Economist The History of Cartography, “Maps often capture history much more economi- cally than any narrative. This is Schulten’s premise, Volume 4 which she supports by offering 100 cartographic Cartography in the European Enlightenment snapshots of America from the European arrival to Edited by Matthew H. Edney and the digital age.”—New York Times Mary Sponberg Pedley 2018 256 p. 81/2 x 11 120 color plates 141 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45861-8 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its The Atlas of Boston History mapmaking practices. As maps acquired increased Edited by Nancy S. Seasholes authority as reliable and truthful images, the logic underpinning their trustworthiness depended on an “Boston history buffs as well as lovers of cartogra- intricate blend of observation, reason, and personal phy will find much pleasure inThe Atlas of Boston reputation. This magisterial volume offers a com- History. . . . The book is a rich new way of looking at prehensive overview of the cartographic practices the city.”—Boston Globe of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans from “A visual feast. . . . Mapping the forces that have 1650 to 1800, featuring more than 400 encyclopedic shaped and reshaped the city, from the Ice Age to articles, copious bibliographical references, and the Big Dig to Global Warming, this panoramic nearly 1,000 full-color illustrations. narrative also encompasses the human saga of a 2020 1920 p. 81/2 x 11 962 color plates, 4 line drawings, 6 tables 138 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18475-3 $500.00 Your Price: $400.00 diverse population and its ongoing struggles to forge a just society.”—Barnet Schecter, author of George Why North Is Up Washington’s America 2019 224 p. 11 x 14 57 color plates Map Conventions and Where They Came From 142 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63115-8 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 Mick Ashworth “In this handsome and informative book, Mick Fifty Maps and the Stories Ashworth picks through the conventions that have they Tell shaped cartography thus far, in a lively narrative Jerry Brotton and Nick Millea augmented by lavish illustrations of the maps in The Bodleian Library’s map collection is a treasure question. For map addicts and casual bystanders trove of cartographic delights spanning more than alike, this is a terrific work that both entertains and a thousand years. This lavishly illustrated book fea- enlightens.”—Mike Parker, author of Map Addict tures highlights from the collection together with Distributed for Bodleian Library 2019 224 p. 7 x 9 108 color plates rare artifacts and some stunning examples from 139 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-519-2 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is ac- companied by a narrative revealing the story behind its creation and the significance of its design. Distributed for Bodleian Library 2019 144 p. 7 x 7 80 color plates 143 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-523-9 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 20 Biography & Memoir 1-773-702-7000

The Invention of Oscar Wilde Hadassah Nicholas Frankel An American Story “Oscar the man, Oscar the life, Oscar the tragedy, Hadassah Lieberman Oscar the standard bearer for art, Irishness, queer- “Lieberman’s new memoir is a candid, thoughtful, ness, intellect, and wit we all know. But there is Os- and moving account of her journey from war- car the idea too: the symbol, the representative, the shattered Czechoslovakia to the heights of US totem, the global icon which looms above the other politics. Its pages capture Hadassah’s love of family, identities. . . . There is no one better to unwrap the respect for tradition, and deep devotion to her ad- mystery and challenge of this Oscar than Frankel, opted country. As a fellow immigrant, I am glad she whose previous work has already established him is sharing her story of pursuing, and achieving, the as one of the world’s foremost Wildeans. This book American dream.”—Madeleine K. Albright is such an invaluable and permanent addition to the Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2021 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 24 halftones literature.”—Stephen Fry 147 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-68458-037-8 $27.95 Your Price: $22.36 Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 43 halftones 144 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-414-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 The Critical Lives Series from To Live Is to Resist Reaktion Books The Life of Antonio Gramsci “Beautifully produced—very short critical biogra- Jean-Yves Frétigné phies whose main target audience is likely to be undergraduates, but that will also do nicely for a One of the most influential political thinkers of the general audience.”—Times Literary Supplement twentieth century, Antonio Gramsci has left an in- delible mark on philosophy and critical theory. His Charles Darwin innovative work on history, society, power, and the state has influenced several generations of readers J. David Archibald 2021 240 p. 5 x 73/4 57 halftones and political activists, and even shaped important 148 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-440-6 $19.00 developments in postcolonial thought. But Grams- Your Price: $15.20 ci’s thinking is scattered across the thousands of notebook pages he wrote while he was imprisoned Aldous Huxley by Italy’s fascist government from 1926 until shortly Jake Poller 2021 208 p. 5 x 73/4 20 halftones before his death. This in-depth biography casts new 149 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-427-7 $19.00 light on Gramsci’s life and writing, emphasizing his Your Price: $15.20 unflagging spirit. 2021 328 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing, 1 table Hannah Arendt 145 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71909-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 Samantha Rose Hill 2021 224 p. 5 x 73/4 30 halftones Gutenberg 150 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-379-9 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 Stephan Füssel Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the Henri Matisse most influential and revolutionary inventions in Kathryn Brown 2021 224 p. 5 x 73/4 60 halftones Europe’s history: a printing press with mechani- 151 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-381-2 $19.00 cal movable type. Written by the leading expert on Your Price: $15.20 Gutenberg, Füssel’s biography brings together high academic standards and thorough historical details René Magritte in a highly readable text that conveys everything Patricia Allmer 2019 240 p. 5 x 73/4 60 halftones you need to know about the man who changed print- 152 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-151-1 $19.00 ing forever. Your Price: $15.20 Distributed for Haus Publishing 2020 212 p. 5 x 73/4 56 color plates, 1 map Jack London 146 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912208-67-8 $16.95 Your Price: $13.56 Kenneth K. Brandt 2021 224 p. 5 x 73/4 37 halftones 153 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-387-4 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Fiction & Nonfiction 21

Judge Dee Mysteries by Robert van Gulik “Judge Dee belongs in that select group of fic- tional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes. I assure you it is a compliment not given frivolously.”—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times “The China of old, in Mr. van Gulik’s skilled hands, comes vividly alive again.”—New York Times Book Review

A Case of Royal Blackmail Sherlock Holmes Move over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. What if Sherlock Holmes were given the chance to write his own story? That is the premise behind A Case of Royal Blackmail. In this entertaining novel, we meet a twenty-four- year-old detective named Sherlock Holmes who regales us with an account of a significant case in his detective life. Here he tells how he untangled the web of blackmail and deceit surrounding the complex romantic endeavors of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2021 256 p. 5 x 73/4 163 Paper ISBN: 978-1-913491-42-0 $11.95 Your Price: $9.56 Lost Mars Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet Edited by Mike Ashley “Enchanting. . . . Readers fond of classic science fiction imbued with romance, exotic settings, and whimsical scenarios will treasure these evocative The Chinese Maze Murders stories.”—Publishers Weekly 2012 336 p. 51/4 x 8 12 line drawings 154 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84878-5 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40 “A fascinating overview of the history of Mars in science fiction, from the birth of the genre through The Emperor’s Pearl the beginning of the space age.”—Booklist 2008 192 p. 51/4 x 8 9 line drawings 2018 304 p. 51/8 x 71/2 155 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84872-3 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 164 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57508-7 $17.00 Your Price: $13.60 The Haunted Monastery The Speaking Stone 1997 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 line drawings 156 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84879-2 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 Stories Cemeteries Tell Michael Griffith The Monkey and The Tiger “Griffith finds a fruitful ground for his research 2005 152 p. 51/4 x 8 8 line drawings 157 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84869-3 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 into the past in the third largest [cemetery] in the country, that contains poignancies and mysteries Murder in Canton alike.”—Kirkus 2004 216 p. 51/4 x 8 12 line drawings 158 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84874-7 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 “An ingenious anti-memoir full of strange and delightful tales from the lost corners of history, not The Phantom of the Temple least among them those concerning the author him- 2007 214 p. 51/4 x 8 11 line drawings self.”—Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable 159 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84877-8 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40 Veblen Distributed for University of Cincinnati Press Poets and Murder 2021 325 p. 6 x 9 86 halftones 165 Paper ISBN: 978-1-947602-30-4 $29.95 Your Price: $23.96 2005 184 p. 51/4 x 8 160 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84876-1 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 The Red Pavilion 2005 185 p. 51/4 x 8 6 line drawings 161 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84873-0 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

The Willow Pattern This catalog is available online at 2009 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 16 line drawings 162 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84875-4 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 bit.ly/UCP-Reading 22 Fiction & Poetry 1-773-702-7000

Eleven-Inch speculation, n. Michal Witkowski Shayla Lawz Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, two queer Calling attention to the images we see in the news teens from Eastern Europe embark on a journey and beyond, these poems explore what it means to in search of a better life as sex workers. Milan, a be alive and Black when the world regularly specu- dreamy, passive naïf from Slovakia, drifts haplessly lates on your death. from one abusive sugar daddy to the next, whereas “‘sometimes i want to ask the earth, / was it beau- Michał, a sanguine pleasure-seeker from Poland, tiful here / without us’ writes Lawz in this virtuoso takes advantage of the physical endowment for performance. Innovative, inimitable, endlessly which he is dubbed “Eleven-Inch.” With campy wit urgent, speculation, n. is far more than just a col- and sensuous humor, Michał Witkowski explores lection of poems. It is a dazzling verbal and visual the transition from Soviet-style communism to performance, a concerto, a book of our days that is neoliberal capitalism in Europe through the experi- as heart-wrenching as it is an accurate portrayal of ences of the most marginalized: destitute queers. Distributed for Seagull Books what it means to live and sing in America today.” 2021 304 p. 6 x 9 —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic 166 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-891-2 $24.50 Your Price: $19.60 Distributed for Autumn House Press 2021 72 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Here Is a Game We Could 169 Paper ISBN: 978-1-63768-005-6 $16.95 Your Price: $13.56 Play As Long As Trees Take Root A Novel in the Earth Jenny Bitner and Other Poems A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Alain Mabanckou Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, These compelling poems by Congolese novelist and an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown in- Man Booker Prize finalist Alain Mabanckou conjure dustrial town she grew up in—a place plagued with nostalgia for an African childhood where the fauna, troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking flora, sounds, and smells evoke snapshots of a life escape from tedium, loneliness, and her obsessive forever gone. Mabanckou’s yearning for the land of fear of poisoning, Claudia retreats into books . . . his ancestors is even more poignant because he has and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover. been declared persona non grata in his homeland “The fast pace, visceral imagery, and endlessly due to his biting criticism of the country’s regime. endearing protagonist make this book a must-read Despite these barriers, his poetry exudes hope that for fans of Alissa Nutting and Melissa Broder.” nature’s resilience will lead humankind on the path —Booklist to redemption and reconciliation. Distributed for Acre Books Distributed for Seagull Books 2021 232 p. 6 x 9 2021 124 p. 61/4 x 9 167 Paper ISBN: 978-1-946724-40-3 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 170 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-877-6 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 Land of Cockaigne All Who Belong May Enter Jeffrey Lewis Nicholas Ward “This deeply humane novel, about an intricate rela- “In All Who Belong May Enter, Ward thoughtfully and tionship between born-heres and from-aways in a honestly interrogates aspects of masculinity and small Maine town, left me breathless, wordless, and how it affects his relationships and how he moves grateful to be part of the human family. The story is through the world. He expands his personal story to riveting, the prose hypnotic. Lewis treats his flawed, explore how gentrification has changed cities like beautiful characters with both a ruthless honesty Detroit and Chicago, considering white silence and and a rare generosity. . . . Let me just say: Unforget- complicity. An introspective, beautifully written table. I feel changed.”—Monica Wood, author of The work.”—Jaquira Díaz, author of Ordinary Girls One-in-a-Million Boy Distributed for Autumn House Press 1 1 Distributed for Haus Publishing 2021 248 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 171 Paper ISBN: 978-1-938769-96-2 $17.95 Your Price: $14.36 2021 190 p. 51/2 x 83/4 168 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-16-6 $22.95 Your Price: $18.36 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Wartime Fiction 23

Clouds of Love and War On the Rope Rachel Billington A Hero’s Story Clouds of Love and War balances a detailed and Erich Hackl highly researched picture of the life of a World War Based on a true story, On the Rope is an account of II Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a two German Jews forced into hiding during the young woman on her own. Second World War. “Astonishingly engaging. . . . This book shows an “Hackl’s On the Rope is a compelling story of un- acute understanding of the contradictions which heralded courage and survival. With prose stripped most people felt a lot of the time in this uniquely to the bone, it reminds us that humanity in the inclusive conflict.”—Northern Reader middle of great inhumanity is still a possibility.” Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group —Andrew Williams, author of A Passing Fury 2021 352 p. 5 x 73/4 172 Paper ISBN: 978-1-913491-13-0 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00 Distributed for Haus Publishing 2020 120 p. 5 x 8 175 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912208-84-5 $16.95 Your Price: $13.56

Wartime Classics from the Imperial War Museum distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group Originally published to considerable acclaim, these titles were written either during or just after the Second World War and have been out of print until now.

Pathfinders Squadron Airborne Cecil Lewis Elleston Trevor Over the course of a single night in 1942, the crew Based on the author’s own service as an RAF Flight members of a Wellington bomber reflect on the Engineer during the Battle of Britain, Squadron paths of their own lives as they embark on a fateful Airborne unfolds over one unforgettable week in the mission deep in the heart of Nazi Germany. summer of 1940. 2021 264 p. 5 x 73/4 2021 224 p. 5 x 73/4 173 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912423-37-8 $12.95 Your Price: $10.36 176 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912423-27-9 $12.95 Your Price: $10.36 Eight Hours from England Green Hands Anthony Quayle Barbara Whitton “A faithful evocation of [Quayle’s] searing experiences “Whitton evokes the highs and lows, joys and in Nazi-occupied Albania after he was sent there to agonies of being a Land Girl in the Second World assist the Resistance.”—Roderick Bailey, author of War.”—Julie Summers, author of Jambusters Forgotten Voices of the Secret War 2021 224 p. 5 x 73/4 177 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912423-26-2 $12.95 Your Price: $10.36 2021 212 p. 5 x 73/4 174 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912423-10-1 $12.95 Your Price: $10.36 24 Art & Design 1-773-702-7000

Textures Lion The History and Art of Black Hair Mark Adlington Edited by Tameka Ellington and Following artist Mark Adlington’s three-year mis- Joseph L. Underwood sion to find lions in six different habitats across East Textures synthesizes research in history, fashion, and Southern Africa, this collection of paintings and art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of drawings represents months of patient waiting, ob- peoples of African descent. Combs, products, and servation, and interactions that gave the artist new implements from the collection of hair pioneer Wil- insight into these most beautiful of big cats. With lie Morrow are paired here with masterworks from written contributions from frontline lion conserva- artists like Sonya Clark, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene tionists, this book will delight and inform. Thomas, and Alison Saar. Exploring topics such as Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2021 176 p. 83/4 x 103/4 150 color plates the preferential treatment of straight hair, the social 181 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913491-07-9 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00 hierarchies of skin, and the power and politics of display, Textures is a lavishly illustrated exploration Great Masters in Art of Black hair and its important, complicated place in the history of African American life and culture. from Hirmer Publishers Distributed for Hirmer Publishers These lavishly illustrated books offer a concise 2020 200 p. 8 x 10 150 color plates 178 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3554-1 $39.95 Your Price: $31.96 introduction to the life and works of master artists of the modern era. Chihuly at Kew Reflections on nature Dale Chihuly Dale Chihuly’s sculptures are some of the most im- mediately recognizable and internationally beloved. He revolutionized the Studio Glass movement and Hans Purrmann is credited as helping to elevate blown glass from Christoph Wagner craft to fine art form. This book showcases Chihuly’s 2021 80 p. 51/2 x 8 55 color plates utterly unique glass artworks across one of London’s 182 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3679-1 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40 most breathtaking landscapes in a perfect marriage of art, science, and nature. Florine Stettheimer Karin Althaus and Susanne Böller “This celebration of Chihuly’s creations depicts 2021 80 p. 51/2 x 8 60 color plates his stunning designs across Kew’s spectacular land- 183 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3632-6 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40 scape.”—Bookseller Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Paula Modersohn-Becker 2019 120 p. 91/2 x 11 100 color plates Frank Laukötter 179 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-682-7 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 2020 72 p. 51/2 x 8 49 color plates 184 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3489-6 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40 Caillebotte Vincent van Gogh Painter and Patron of Impressionism Klaus Fußmann Edited by Ralph Gleis 2017 64 p. 53/4 x 81/4 With its almost life-sized figures and unconven- 185 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-2758-4 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40 tional perspective, Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Willem De Kooning Caillebotte (1848–1894) became an icon of the Corinna Thierolf impressionist movement. Caillebotte sheds new light 2018 72 p. 51/2 x 8 51 color plates on this painting in the context of Caillebotte’s in- 186 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3073-7 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40 novative artistic work, introducing him as a driving force in the establishment of impressionism and Egon Schiele describing his intense exchanges with fellow artists. Diethard Leopold 2017 80 p. 53/4 x 81/4 46 color plates, 15 halftones Featuring eighty color illustrations of the works of 187 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-2852-9 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40 Caillebotte and others, this book is a compelling look at a central player of the impressionist movement. László Moholy-Nagy Distributed for Hirmer Publishers Hans-Michael Koetzle 2019 120 p. 81/2 x 101/2 78 color plates 1 180 Paper ISBN: 978-3-7774-3323-3 $24.00 Your Price: $19.20 2020 72 p. 5 /2 x 8 55 color plates 188 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3403-2 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Art & Design 25

Renaissance Lives from Reaktion Books Books in the Renaissance Lives series explore and illustrate the life histories and achievements of significant artists, intellectuals, and scientists in the early modern world.

Typographic Firsts John Boardley “Profusely, gloriously illustrated, Typographic Firsts is a scholarly dive deep into the history of type. Readers will learn the precise recipe Gutenberg used to cast his metal type, how long it took for a punch cutter to make a complete set of punches, and the difference between rustic capitals and square capitals produced in ancient Rome.”—Communication Arts Distributed for Bodleian Library 2019 208 p. 71/2 x 93/4 60 color plates 194 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-473-7 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 Type is Beautiful The Story of Fifty Remarkable Fonts Simon Loxley Behind every great font is a great story, and, in this fascinating cultural history, graphic designer and design writer Simon Loxley covers more than five hundred years in the history of typography—from the oldest printed typeface used in the Gutenberg Bible right up to the present day. Type is Beautiful traces the history of fifty remarkable fonts, taking a Rubens’s Spirit highly informative and entertaining trip through a lesser-known aspect of history with major signifi- From Ingenuity to Genius cance for print and design culture. Alexander Marr Distributed for Bodleian Library 2021 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 71 color plates, 17 halftones 2016 288 p. 5 x 81/2 50 halftones 189 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-399-7 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 195 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-431-7 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 Artemisia Gentileschi and Cats in Art Feminism in Early Modern Desmond Morris Europe “Emphasizes the rich variety of cat images in art Mary D. Garrard history, from a 7,000-year-old Libyan carving of cats 2020 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 65 color plates, 4 halftones fighting to Ronald Searle’s cartoon cats. Featuring 190 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-202-0 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 130 reproductions, Cats in Art explores the various manifestations and meanings behind the feline Giorgione’s Ambiguity motif in art history. . . . Morris strikes a perfect bal- Tom Nichols ance between scholarly information and pop culture 2020 288 p. 51/4 x 81/4 40 color plates, 20 halftones history.”—Publishers Weekly 191 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-297-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 224 p. 71/2 x 93/4 120 color plates Piero della Francesca and the 196 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-833-3 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 Invention of the Artist Dogs in Art Machtelt Brüggen Israëls Susie Green 2020 368 p. 51/4 x 81/4 94 color plates 192 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-321-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 “This refreshing look at the dog in art runs over eight chapters. There is Landseer, Cubism, Japanese Hans Holbein art, sculpture, and pop art, too. Through these strik- ing images the story of the dog in art is traced, but The Artist in a Changing World also the story of the dog’s relationship to man and Jeanne Nuechterlein what it means.”—Field 1 1 2020 288 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 65 color plates, 5 halftones Distributed for Reaktion Books 193 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-211-2 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 2019 288 p. 71/2 x 93/4 140 color plates, 10 halftones 197 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-129-0 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 26 Film, Fashion, & Photography 1-773-702-7000

Vanity Project Werner Herzog A Tale of Fashion and Celebrity Styled by Dave Thomas Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests Dave Thomas Kristoffer Hegnsvad Dave Thomas is a pioneer of celebrity styling whose “Hegnsvad’s book about the German filmmaker 30-year fashion career spans Vogue Hommes, Vanity Werner Herzog is not a journalistic examination Fair, and Interview. This book is a behind-the-scenes of cinema, but a philosophical journey into the look at the world of celebrity styling that traces the creative workshop of a remarkable artist. . . . It’s a evolution of celebrity styling from the streets of study about what it requires to be curious about the London in the 1980s to the red carpets of Holly- world, about life, and about pushing the limits when wood today. Featuring interviews conducted by Boy it comes to how this curiosity is pursued.” George alongside 250 full-color images, the book —Modern Times Review gives readers a behind-the-curtain look at more Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 256 p. 61/4 x 83/4 40 color plates, 67 halftones than three decades’ worth of glamour. 202 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-410-9 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2021 288 p. 91/4 x 113/4 250 color plates, 100 halftones 198 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913491-00-0 $59.00 Your Price: $47.20 Show People A History of the Film Star Gloves Michael Newton An Intimate History An encyclopedic, illustrated history of film idols Anne Green ready for their close-ups, Show People offers a com- ‘‘Absolutely fascinating: a timely foray into the prehensive history of the film star that draws on strange world of gloves in all their symbolic and examples from around the world. functional glory.’’—Claire Wilcox, author of Patch “Examines how film stars shaped the medium, Work: A Life Amongst Clothes Distributed for Reaktion Books rather than vice versa. . . . It’s a collection of essays 2021 256 p. 61/4 x 91/2 65 color plates, 25 halftones on individual actors, from Mary Pickford and Char- 199 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-458-1 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 lie Chaplin to Scarlett Johansson, sometimes focus- ing on a single film, sometimes on whole careers, In the Blink of an Eye and sometimes just on gossip. . . . [Made] me want to A Cultural History of Spectacles seek out some of the oddities and forgotten classics Stefana Sabin [Newton] mentions.”—Evening Standard Distributed for Reaktion Books “Sabin’s charming history-in-miniature reveals how 2019 448 p. 6 x 91/2 50 halftones history, culture, and politics have been shaped over 203 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-156-6 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 centuries by paired discs of polished glass, and why, every once in a while, they inspire such unease, American Presidents and such contempt, and even, sometimes, fear.” Oliver Stone —Simon Ings, author of The Eye: A Natural History Distributed for Reaktion Books Kennedy, Nixon, and Bush between History and Cinema 2021 112 p. 43/4 x 73/4 30 color plates, 15 halftones Carl Freedman 200 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-463-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 “A powerful critical reflection on Stone’s achieve- Now in Paperback ments as a filmmaker, and a deeply insightful reflec- The Suit tion on American politics of the past sixty years. . . . Careful attention to detail, combined with its broad Form, Function and Style vision and explanatory scope, make it an impressive Christopher Breward and indeed essential book.”—Steven Shaviro, Wayne “Expertly shows how the adoption of the suit was State University a manifestation of societal change. . . . Indeed, it “This book has the potential to become not only would be hard to name another facet of our modern a great source on its subject, but a model of how to culture that has so effortlessly and variously ex- approach historical fiction in general.” pressed the cross-purposes of, say, Baudelaire, Le —Film International Corbusier, and Mao Zedong.”—Wall Street Journal Distributed for Intellect Ltd Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 220 p. 6 x 9 2021 240 p. 61/4 x 91/2 53 color plates, 46 halftones 204 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78938-262-4 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 201 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-496-3 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Music 27

Electric Wizards Beethoven A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times JR Moores William Kinderman From Black Sabbath to Big Black, this book takes a “Drawing on letters, sketchbooks, manuscripts, ride through the evolution, diversity, and influence and abundant scholarship, concert pianist and of genre-defying heavy music. music scholar Kinderman argues convincingly that “The landscape of heavy music is vast, its exis- Beethoven (1770–1827) was ‘far from indifferent’ tence is ever evolving. There is no better person to to political events that roiled Europe during his explore its dynamic terrain than Moores.” lifetime.”—Kirkus 2021 256 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates, 20 halftones, 26 line drawings —Matt Baty, member of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs 208 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66905-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 “Moores covers a rich landscape of sounds. . . . What’s more, he achieves a rare feat in rock criti- The Eighth cism of saying something fresh and interesting Mahler and the World in 1910 about the Beatles.”—Dan Franklin, author of Heavy: Stephen Johnson How Metal Changes the Way We See the World “[A] thrilling study of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 480 p. 61/4 x 91/4 19 halftones No. 8. . . . Johnson makes a strong case for its qual- 205 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-448-2 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 ity, musically and philosophically, in this magnifi- cent, strongly argued and yet wonderfully subtle The Blues Dream of study. Whatever our final judgment may be on the Billy Boy Arnold Eighth, having read Johnson, we shall never listen to it in the same way again.”—Guardian Billy Boy Arnold with Kim Field 2020 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 line drawing This book is the frank, funny, and unforgettable 209 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74082-9 $26.00 Your Price: $20.80 autobiography of a living legend of Chicago blues. The Guitar “Billy Boy Arnold’s great Vee-Jay sides were a big Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree influence on me when I was first starting out. The Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren first two singles I ever played on were covers of Billy Boy Arnold tunes that I recorded with the Yardbirds. “How old is a guitar? Did its life begin in the hands I’m very happy to see his amazing personal story of the player, in the workshop or the factory, in the finally appear in print.”—Eric Clapton sourcing of its wood, or in the forests from which 2021 288 p. 6 x 9 57 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 tables it came with their majestic, centuries-old trees? In 206 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80920-5 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 an exhilarating, round-the-world journey, Gibson and Warren follow the trail of this most eloquent A Band with Built-In Hate of instruments to its arboreal roots.”—Tim Ingold, The Who from Pop Art to Punk University of Aberdeen Peter Stanfield 2021 288 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones, 1 table 210 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76396-5 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 “Eloquently framing their success as the only suc- cessful 1960s UK pop/rock group that didn’t want to Amplified be either the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, Stanfield A Design History of the Electric Guitar locates the Who (and crucially their peak years, Paul Atkinson during which they were, he writes ‘not copyists but innovators’) at a boundary-breaking intersection of “A truly compelling, fact-packed read all about how pop and art-rock.”—Irish Times guitars are made, look, sound, and play. Atkinson admirably recounts a century of history, invention, “Essential reading for anyone who’s ever loved and experimentation by experts and amateurs of a the Who, or wants an insight into the Sixties’ music revolutionary instrument.”—KT Tunstall, singer- scene that goes beyond greatest hits compilations songwriter and guitarist and easy generalizations.”—Louder Than War Distributed for Reaktion Books Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 288 p. 71/4 x 93/4 100 color plates, 30 halftones 2021 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 halftones 211 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-274-7 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 207 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-277-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 28 Space & Astronomy 1-773-702-7000

Asteroids The Greatest Adventure Clifford J. Cunningham A History of Human Space Exploration “This quintessential guide to asteroids, filled with Colin Burgess informative photographs and other illustrations, “Burgess has contributed to the library of space is a must-read for those interested in the evolution history something it has sorely lacked. When people of our solar system and the astrogeology of our ask what the one book is that they should read to planet.”—Booklist learn about human space exploration, I now know Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 232 p. 63/4 x 83/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones exactly where to send them. This engaging, com- 212 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-358-4 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 prehensive history covers everything from the early days of rocketry to a new era of exploration that is Twenty Worlds dawning this very moment.”—David Hitt, coauthor The Extraordinary Story of Planets Around Other Stars of Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story Distributed for Reaktion Books Niall Deacon 2021 368 p. 61/4 x 91/4 138 halftones “A wonderfully enjoyable tour of twenty diverse 215 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-460-4 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 worlds that orbit distant stars. Deacon uses simple ideas from science to show us how each world has its The Infinite own personality—its own story. Twenty Worlds is an Living Among the Stars accessible introduction to some of the most exciting Edited by Phoebe Greenberg and Marie discoveries in astronomy.”—Michael E. Summers, Brassard George Mason University Shot over two years, The Infiniteis a groundbreaking “This is the perfect book to introduce exoplanet immersive VR experience that captures life aboard science. . . . Nowhere will you find a more descrip- the International Space Station and extraordinary tive book to understand the processes used to learn imagery of the cosmos. This gorgeous oversize pub- about the existence of these worlds.” lication documents the making of the biggest media —BBC Sky at Night Magazine project ever filmed in orbit, featuring brand-new Distributed for Reaktion Books views of space and stunning production shots. 2020 216 p. 51/4 x 81/4 27 color plates, 4 halftones Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 213 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-338-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 2021 72 p. 9 x 12 72 color plates 216 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3767-5 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 Galaxy Mapping the Cosmos The Illuminates Series James Geach Distributed for In this book, astrophysicist James Geach tells the Unicorn Publishing Group rich stories of both the evolution of galaxies and Written by expert astronomers from the Royal our ability to observe them, offering a fascinating Observatory Greenwich, these beautiful, pocket- history of how we’ve come to realize humanity’s sized books explore the wonders of the night sky. tiny place in the vast universe. With more than one hundred superb color illustrations, Galaxy is an il- luminating guide to the choreography of the cosmos Stars and the science of mapping the infinite. Greg Brown 2021 120 p. 41/4 x 7 10 color plates 217 Paper ISBN: 978-1-906367-81-7 $12.95 “Gorgeous color photos, coupled with clear and Your Price: $10.36 engaging explanations of the science behind them, make this book a winner on every level.” —Publishers Weekly “An excellent guide to a world many of us never Planets get to see, both on and off this planet.”—BBC Focus Distributed for Reaktion Books Emily Drabek-Maunder 2021 120 p. 41/4 x 7 10 color plates 2019 272 p. 63/4 x 83/4 108 colour plates 218 Paper ISBN: 978-1-906367-82-4 $12.95 214 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-133-7 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 Your Price: $10.36 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Oceans & Marine Biology 29

Future Sea We Are All Whalers How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility Deborah Rowan Wright Michael J. Moore “Books about climate change are often rife with “Whale hunters aren’t the only threats to the world’s doomy predictions, but Future Sea brims with hope- largest mammal, argues marine scientist Moore in ful stories of communities around the world that are this treatise on protecting the animals and helping working to protect and conserve our oceans. Our them thrive.”—Publishers Weekly seas face many threats, including climate change, “A truly compelling, captivating, and in places pollution, and overfishing, but this book is solu- heart-wrenching story of one scientist’s journey caring tions-oriented. A marine-policy researcher, Rowan for a highly endangered species. . . . Coexistence with Wright puts forth a sweeping—if somewhat radi- whales is possible, and Moore’s book lays the foun- cal—plan that offers total protection of all oceans on dation.”—Moira Brown, Canadian Whale Institute Earth and all of their living inhabitants. The book 2021 224 p. 5 x 8 33 halftones also includes actions individuals can take right now 222 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80304-3 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 to be better stewards of the seas.”—LitHub 2020 200 p. 51/4 x 81/4 Now in Paperback 219 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-54267-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 Waters of the World Now in Paperback The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries Billion-Dollar Fish of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock Sarah Dry Kevin M. Bailey “In the eight detailed, immensely readable essays of “Few would be accused of romanticizing the Waters of the World, Dry shows how over the past 150 pollock—a fish about which only the most devoted years scientists have slowly come to see climate as a marine biologists would use the word ‘charismatic.’ global system.”—New York Review of Books But the fishermen’s tales of its hunting to near 2021 368 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones extinction are no less fantastical. . . . [Bailey’s] book 223 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81684-5 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 isn’t really about the fish at all. It is about a modern- day gold rush, a Wild West of the high seas, and an Ahab’s Rolling Sea environmental catastrophe.”—Times (UK) A Natural History of Moby-Dick “Billion-Dollar Fish is an eye-opener for those who Richard J. King have caught themselves pondering the origins of “King reflects on what we have learned and lost their fried fish sandwiches.”—ScienceNews from the oceans since Melville’s time. He answers 2021 300 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones, 7 line drawings questions many readers surely ponder. . . . Read 220 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79217-0 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 Moby-Dick, read this, then read Moby-Dick again.” —BBC Wildlife Science on a Mission 2019 464 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 71 halftones How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t 224 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-51496-3 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 Know about the Ocean Naomi Oreskes The Thinking Person’s Guide “In Science on a Mission, science historian Naomi to Climate Change Oreskes explores how naval funding revolutionized Second Edition our understanding of earth and ocean science—es- Robert Henson pecially plate tectonics and deep ocean circulation. The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change com- She also investigates the repercussions of the mili- bines years of data with recent research, providing tary’s influence on what we still don’t know about the most comprehensive, yet accessible, overview of the ocean. . . . Oreskes uses these stories to explore where climate science stands today. the question of what difference it makes who pays Distributed for American Meteorological Society for science.”—Science News 2019 480 p. 5 x 8 Illustrated in color throughout 2021 744 p. 6 x 9 73 halftones, 17 line drawings 225 Paper ISBN: 978-1-944970-39-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 221 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73238-1 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 30 Animals & Nature 1-773-702-7000

Avian Illuminations Otter A Cultural History of Birds Daniel Allen Boria Sax “Did you know that the otter is J. K. Rowling’s Beautifully illustrated, Avian Illuminations is a superb favorite animal? Or that the earliest evidence of its overview of humanity’s long and rich association existence dates back twenty million years? Or that with our avian companions. the fur of the sea otter is the densest in the animal kingdom? All these and numerous other intriguing “The wonderful Avian Illuminations traces in rich snippets of otter lore are contained within a beauti- and fascinating detail the cultural relationships be- fully presented volume as charming and captivating tween humans and birds through history, philoso- as its subject matter. . . . You will love this one.” phy, religion, and art.”—Esther Woolfson, author of —Daily Mail Corvus: A Life with Birds Distributed for Reaktion Books Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 192 p. 5 x 8 103 halftones 1 1 2021 456 p. 6 /4 x 9 /4 102 color plates, 105 halftones 230 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-224-2 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 226 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-432-1 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 The Genesis Quest Yellowstone Wolves Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, and Daniel R. MacNulty Michael Marshall “How did wolves go from feared, hunted and “The Genesis Quest traces the ongoing efforts of scien- decimated to a protected part of Yellowstone Na- tists to explain exactly how life first arose on Earth. tional Park’s ecosystem? Yellowstone Wolves tells the Marshall introduces the field’s major theories, fascinating story. . . . A powerful testament to what figures, and controversies.”—Publishers Weekly 2021 368 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones, 1 table happens when ‘people unite to give Mother Nature 227 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81804-7 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 a chance,’ as Jane Goodall puts it in her foreword to the book.”—Washington Post Nature Fast and Nature Slow 2020 344 p. 81/2 x 11 62 color plates, 29 halftones, 24 line drawings How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions 231 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72834-6 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 of Years Nicholas P. Money Patterns in Nature “This is a lovely concept, a cosmic zoom of biology, Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does where the zoom is not in space but in time. Each Philip Ball chapter looks at biological actions that occur in a “From tigers’ stripes to the hexagons that make up particular timeframe, starting with those that occur honeycombs to the ripples in windblown sand, the in a fraction of a second and running up to billions natural world is full of order and regularity. Science of years.”—Popular Science writer Ball investigates the phenomenon in his new Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 9 color plates, 1 halftone book, Patterns in Nature, with 250 photographs of 228 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-404-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 snowflakes, shells, and more.”—Wall Street Journal 2016 288 p. 81/2 x 10 250 color plates Vulture 232 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33242-0 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 The Private Life of an Unloved Bird Thinking like a Parrot Katie Fallon Perspectives from the Wild “Fallon shines a bright light on this clan of sadly Alan Bond and Judy Diamond unloved birds, which are not only vitally important ecologically, but are also among the most imperiled “Under [Bond and Diamond’s] expert guidance, we avian groups on the planet. Vulture is an overdue meet brilliant keas, cheeky sulphur-crested cocka- love letter to a bird that deserves far better than toos, affable crimson-fronted parakeets, dazzling we’ve given it.”—Scott Weidensaul, author of Living rainbow lorikeets, adaptable rose-ringed parakeets, on the Wind and adorable kakapos. . . . This book is filled with Distributed for Brandeis University Press intriguing information.”—Forbes 2020 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 30 color plates 2021 296 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 35 halftones, 6 line drawings 229 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-033-0 $24.95 Your Price: $19.96 233 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81520-6 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Animals & Nature 31

The Animal Series from Reaktion Books This pioneering series explores the historical significance and impact of a wide range of animals. “Wonderfully idiosyncratic”—New York Times

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Now in Paperback A Philosophy of Simple Living Philosophy, Writing, and the Jérôme Brillaud Character of Thought “This fascinating and well-written book by Brillaud does not evangelize about simple living or tell read- John T. Lysaker ers how to think or live. Rather, it is a diverse and “This book is a profound meditation on what it profound review of various perspectives on simplic- means to write philosophy in all the remarkable ity that have emerged throughout the ages, from the diversity of ways in which this has happened. Ancient Greeks, through Christianity, to the modern Examples abound from a rich tapestry composed of Voluntary Simplicity Movement. . . . Paradoxically, figures from Plato through Emerson and Thoreau, however, it turns out the notion of ‘simplicity’ is into Heidegger, Cavell, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. surprisingly complex, but readers will be both chal- . . . Lysaker shows that philosophy at its best is an lenged and enriched.”—Samuel Alexander, author of experimentation and a provocation; and his own Prosperous Descent text . . . is both of these at once.”—Edward S. Casey, Distributed for Reaktion Books State University of New York at Stony Brook 2020 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 257 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-227-3 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 2021 224 p. 6 x 9 253 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81585-5 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 Taste What Is Time? A Philosophy of Food An Enquiry Sarah E. Worth Truls Wyller In Taste, Sarah Worth argues that taste is a sense “With this erudite yet very accessible book, Wyller that needs educating, for the real pleasures of eating tackles the most central question in the study of only come with an understanding of what one re- time: How do we reconcile the time of physics with ally likes. From taste as an abstract concept to real time as we experience it? His answer—drawing on examples of food, she explores how we can learn history, philosophy, science, and literature—is that about and develop our sense of taste through themes time is constituted by consciousness itself. Delight- ranging from pleasure, authenticity, and food fraud, ful, synoptic, and laudably interdisciplinary.” to visual images, recipes, and food writing. —Adrian Bardon, author of A Brief History of the “This engaging book . . . invites rumination on Philosophy of Time the familiar saying, ‘We are what we eat.’” Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones —Carolyn Korsmeyer, author of Making Sense of Taste 254 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-236-5 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Against Fairness 258 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-480-2 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 Stephen T. Asma A Significant Life “Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our Human Meaning in a Silent Universe obsession with egalitarianism.”—Wall Street Journal Todd May 2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 23 line drawings 255 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70212-4 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 “In A Significant Life, May has produced a tour de force. It is a thoughtful, subtle, beautifully written Seven Ways of Looking at discussion of what it takes to live a meaningful Pointless Suffering life. A careful study of this book will tell you what it takes to make life worth living. It is refreshing What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery to encounter someone worrying about such a big of All question in the small-minded times we live in, and Scott Samuelson an absolute joy to discover that he may actually have “A compelling and highly readable assessment of provided an answer.”—Barry Schwartz, author of modern and perennial responses to suffering.” The Paradox of Choice —Christian Century 2016 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 259 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-42104-9 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 2018 272 p. 6 x 9 256 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40708-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 34 Philosophy 1-773-702-7000

Geschlecht III Party Fun with Kant Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity Nicolas Mahler Jacques Derrida In Party Fun with Kant, Nicolas Mahler tells the story Translated by Katie Chenoweth and Rodrigo Therezo of Kant—and his fellow serious-minded figures from “Geschlecht III opens a new chapter in the relation the history of philosophy—with a comic edge. We between Derrida and Heidegger. . . . With meticu- go to parties with Kant, visit an art exhibition with lous care, Derrida interrogates Heidegger’s thinking Hegel, shop at the supermarket with Nietzsche, go to on questions of language, nationalism, the home- the cinema with Deleuze, and celebrate the dream land and the foreign, and sexual difference. . . . wedding with de Beauvoir. A masterclass in reading, in translating, and in “A delicious-comical journey into the realm of reading and translating as a practice of philosophi- philosophy.”—Michael Braun cal thinking.”—Samir Haddad, author of Derrida and Distributed for Seagull Books the Inheritance of Democracy 2019 192 p. 63/4 x 73/4 264 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-536-2 $21.50 Your Price: $17.20 2020 168 p. 51/2 x 81/2 260 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67746-0 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 The Whale and the Reactor Heidegger A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Second The Question of Being and History Edition Jacques Derrida Langdon Winner Translated by Geoffrey Bennington First published to great acclaim in 1988, Lang- “Absorbing. . . . Because it dates from the early don Winner’s groundbreaking exploration of the years of Derrida’s career and because it is a series political, social, and philosophical implications of of classroom lectures, this book serves as a helpful technology is timelier than ever. A seminal text in preparation for reading the more intricate and the history and philosophy of science, this new edi- playful texts that he published in the late 1960s and tion includes a new chapter, preface, and postscript beyond. It also shows just how indebted Derrida is to by the author. Heidegger.”—Los Angeles Review of Books 2019 288 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 3 tables “With educated wit, home-grown insight, and 261 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67892-4 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 even a bit of gallows humor, Winner strives to awaken us from our technological sleepwalking.” Theory and Practice —David F. Noble, author of America by Design Jacques Derrida 2020 240 p. 6 x 9 265 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69254-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 Translated by David Wills “Wills’s nuanced, wordplay-sensitive translation The Human Condition includes foreign terms for those with ears to hear Second Edition the etymological associations so important to Der- Hannah Arendt rida’s arguments and presents a crisp, clear, elegant statement of the author’s text.”—Choice “The combination of tremendous intellectual power 2019 144 p. 6 x 9 with great common sense makes Arendt’s insights 262 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-57234-5 $38.00 Your Price: $30.40 into history and politics seem both amazing and obvious.”—New Yorker Richard Rorty “Arendt’s most important philosophical work.” The Making of an American Philosopher —New Republic Neil Gross “A great work of the mind and the imagination. “Rorty granted Gross access to his papers and cor- . . . Arendt has done even more to prise open our respondence, and Gross uses this material very oyster minds than she did in The Origins of Totalitari- effectively. . . . This inside view of one of the most anism.”— Guardian well-connected academics in the world can’t help 2018 380 p. 6 x 9 but fascinate us.”—Notre Dame Philosophical Review 266 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58660-1 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 2019 390 p. 6 x 9 263 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67648-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Philosophy & Religion 35

Now in Paperback Now in Paperback Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric Miracles of Our Own Making Translated by Robert C. Bartlett A History of Paganism “Bartlett has made Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric acces- Liz Williams sible to contemporary readers with his literal but “[An] engaging and often entertaining history of all elegant translation. . . . Aristotle’s Rhetoric offers a strands of paganism and magic, taking in witch- healthy correction to current ways of thinking about craft, shamanism, Druidry, heathenry, and more. politics and about what we can expect of political The author is a ‘level-headed’ journalist, science fic- leaders.”—Law & Liberty tion author, and practicing witch, who nevertheless 2021 288 p. 6 x 9 has zero tolerance for woo-woo.”—Bookseller 267 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78990-3 $17.00 Your Price: $13.60 Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 352 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones The Rabbit Between Us 271 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-221-1 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 Victor Menza Acts Against God Through philosophy, history, education, art, and A Short History of Blasphemy personal musing on everyday uncanny experiences, David Nash Menza reveals why people have long found rabbits our special kin and emblems of love. Surprising “Acts Against God is the new authoritative account of allies in these non-traditional philosophical blasphemy law’s long history. . . . With a verve that wanderings include Ludwig Wittgenstein, William bowls the reader along, Nash shows how democrats Shakespeare, and Beatrix Potter—to name just a few. since Socrates have hankered for an Open Society Gentle and political at once, this unique book will in which freedom of religion might one day be appeal to any intellectually curious reader. matched by freedom from religion.” Distributed for Seagull Books —Callum Brown, University of Glasgow 2021 172 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones Distributed for Reaktion Books 268 Your Price: $19.60 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-797-7 $24.50 2020 224 p. 61/4 x 91/4 272 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-201-3 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 The Kingdom and the Garden Giorgio Agamben Jewish Treasures from Oxford What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve Libraries were expelled? In The Kingdom and the Garden, Edited by Rebecca Abrams & Giorgio Agamben uses this question as a starting César Merchán-Hamann point for an investigation of human nature and the Representing four centuries of collecting and a prospects for political transformation. In a tour- thousand years of Jewish history, this lavishly il- de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, lustrated book brings together Hebrew manuscripts Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always and rare books from the Bodleian Library and served as a symbol for humanity’s true nature. Oxford colleges. Distributed for Seagull Books Distributed for Bodleian Library 1 3 2020 164 p. 5 /2 x 7 /4 2020 304 p. 91/2 x 101/4 136 color plates 269 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-786-1 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20 273 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-502-4 $55.00 Your Price: $44.00 Attention The Goddess Beyond Mindfulness Myths of the Great Mother Gay Watson Christopher Fee and David Leeming “Watson weaves together profound spiritual “The Goddess tells us the intriguing story of the femi- insights, crisply clear science, and page-turning nine principle as worshipped in dozens of cultures personal observations about the front edge of and across thousands of years. Just about every god- consciousness: how we attend to our inner and outer dess from India’s Kali to Ireland’s Morrigan puts in worlds.”—Rick Hanson, author of Buddha’s Brain an appearance in this amazing and sprawling saga.” Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 —Jeffrey P. Cain, Sacred Heart University 270 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-745-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 Distributed for Reaktion Books 2016 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 27 halftones 274 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-509-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 36 Literature & Literary Studies 1-773-702-7000

Pan Elegy Written in a Country The Great God’s Modern Return Churchyard Paul Robichaud Thomas Gray From classical myth to modern literature, film, and Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker music, the god Pan has long fascinated and terrified “The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day . . .” the western imagination. Part-goat, part-man, Pan bridges the divide between the human and animal Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Church- worlds. In exquisite prose, Paul Robichaud explores yard has been loved and admired throughout the how Pan has been imagined in mythology, art, centuries. This new edition reproduces Agnes Miller literature, music, spirituality, and popular culture Parker’s exquisite wood engravings inspired by the through the centuries. poem, which were completed in 1938. All 32 stanzas of the poem are accompanied by detailed full-page “This is simply the most wide-ranging and up-to- illustrations. Commemorating the 250th anniversa- date exploration of the impact of Pan on the Western ry of the poet’s death, this edition will not only bring imagination yet written.”—Ronald Hutton, author of new readers to the Elegy but will also appeal to those The Triumph of the Moon Distributed for Reaktion Books already familiar with its riches. Distributed for Bodleian Library 2021 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 15 color plates, 20 halftones 1 275 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-476-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 2021 88 p. 6 x 8 /4 33 halftones 278 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-577-2 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 Now in Paperback The Rubáiyát of Omar The Ruins Lesson Khayyám Meaning and Material in Western Culture Illustrated Collector’s Edition Susan Stewart Omar Khayyám “[Stewart] charts the West’s fascination with decayed remains, from Egyptian relics to contempo- The Rubáiyát is one of the most popular poems of all rary monuments of destruction and trauma. The Ru- time. A collection of quatrains composed in the elev- ins Lesson is a sweeping cultural history that draws enth century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar in Renaissance humanism, eighteenth-century Khayyám, it was first published in English-language changes in representing the past, and the Romantic translation by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. This col- reconfiguration of memory. . . . Stewart writes with lector’s edition of The Rubáiyát features stunning poetic grace and a nonspecialist’s appreciation of full-color illustrations created by René Bull in 1913 printmaking, painting, literature and architecture. that interpret the poem’s brilliant sensual imagery Readers outside the academy will find much to value and provide the perfect complement to Fitzgerald’s in this lovely book.”—Washington Post translation, which remains the most famous. Every 2021 400 p. 7 x 10 11 color plates, 80 halftones page of poetry in this collector’s edition features 276 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79220-0 $28.00 Your Price: $22.40 unique art nouveau borders in gold, with each il- lustration framed in a gold border. The Midlife Mind Distributed for Bodleian Library 2015 112 p. 71/2 x 93/4 64 color plates Literature and the Art of Aging 279 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-417-1 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00 Ben Hutchinson “In this elegantly essayistic book, Hutchinson The Aeneid contemplates the central stretch of our human ex- Virgil istence. Personal as well as learned, conversational Translated by David Ferry but braced, it ranges widely through European cul- “A marvel throughout. . . . The advantages of Ferry’s tures (Dante to Beckett, Montaigne to Beauvoir) and version seem obvious to me: regularity of meter, reminds us that being caught in the middle, with or clarity of image, simplicity of language, understate- without a crisis, can produce opportunities as well ment of the horrific. Throughout, Ferry maintains a as restriction. Its great distinction is to respond to coolness even amid the most terrible drama.”—New both with wise and warmhearted understanding.” York Review of Books —Andrew Motion, author of Ways of Life 2017 432 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone Distributed for Reaktion Books 280 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45018-6 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 2020 328 p. 61/4 x 91/4 20 halftones 277 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-350-8 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 press.uchicago.edu/directmail Politics 37

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