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CONTENTS

FORTHCOMING TITLES POLITICAL SCIENCE Liberalism’s Religion Cécile Laborde 3 City of Debtors Anne Fleming 4 The Policy State Karen Orren and 5 Stephen Skowronek The China Questions Michael Szonyi and 6 Jennifer Rudolph When the State Meets the Street Bernardo Zacka 7

ECONOMICS The Color of Money Mehrsa Baradaran 8 A Century of Wealth in America Edward N. Wolff 9

SOCIOLOGY Pious Fashion Elizabeth Bucar 10 Just a Journalist Linda Greenhouse 11 The Fateful Triangle Stuart Hall 12 Black Mirror Eric Lott 13 The New Pakistani Middle Class Ammara Maqsood 14 Mostly Straight Ritch C. Savin-Williams 15

LAW Constitutional Coup Jon D. Michaels 16 The Federal Judiciary Richard A. Posner 17

EDUCATION Arithmetic Paul Lockhart 18 Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity Charles T. Clotfelter 19 Beyond Test Scores Jack Schneider 20 Students of the Dream Ruth Carbonette Yow 21

HISTORY From Byron to bin Laden Nir Arielli 22 A Short History of European Law Tamar Herzog 23 CONTENTS

Indian Captive, Indian King Timothy J. Shannon 24 Afghanistan Rising Faiz Ahmed 25 American Niceness Carrie Tirado Bramen 26 France’s Long Reconstruction Herrick Chapman 27 The Pricing of Progress Eli Cook 28 The Avignon Papacy Contested Unn Falkeid 29 Supreme Injustice Paul Finkelman 30 Oscar Wilde Nicholas Frankel 31 The Dead March Peter Guardino 32 I Remain Yours Christopher Hager 33 Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution Tsuyoshi Hasegawa 34 Civic Longing Carrie Hyde 35 Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture Evan Kindley 36 Inside the Lost Museum Steven D. Lubar 37 Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse Nathan Marcus 38 of Global Finance, 1921–1931 Landscapes of Hope Brian McCammack 39 Safe Passage Kori Schake 40 The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World Cyrus Schayegh 41 Mughal Arcadia Sunil Sharma 42 Political Violence in Ancient India Upinder Singh 43 Enlisting Faith Ronit Y. Stahl 44 A Cold Welcome Sam White 45

RELIGION The Chance of Salvation Lincoln A. Mullen 46

PHILOSOPHY As If Kwame Anthony Appiah 47 The Meaning of Belief Tim Crane 48 Technosystem Andrew Feenberg 49 Changing the Subject Raymond Geuss 50 The Basic Reality and the Human Reality John R. Searle 51 No Morality, No Self James Doyle 52 Self-Consciousness and Objectivity Sebastian Rödl 53 CONTENTS

LITERARY STUDIES Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost William Poole 54

SCIENCE Life through Time and Space Wallace Arthur 55 Life at the Edge of Sight Scott Chimileski and 56 Roberto Kolter Bioinspired Devices Eugene C. Goldfield 57 Chimpanzees and Human Evolution Martin N. Muller, et al. 58 Squire’s Fundamentals of Radiology Robert A. Novelline 59 Observation and Experiment Paul R. Rosenbaum 60

CURRENT HIGHLIGHTS Capital without Borders Brooke Harrington 65 Politics against Domination Ian Shapiro 66 Basic Income Philippe Van Parijs and 67 Yannick Vanderborght Inequality Anthony B. Atkinson 68 The Great Convergence Richard Baldwin 69 After Piketty Heather Boushey, et al. 70 Global Inequality Branko Milanovic 71 Society and Economy Mark Granovetter 72 Make It Stick Peter C. Brown, et al. 73 Njinga of Angola Linda M. Heywood 74 The Habsburg Empire Pieter M. Judson 75 The Invention of Humanity Siep Stuurman 76 Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly Judith Butler 77 On Betrayal Avishai Margalit 78 Unflattening Nick Sousanis 79 Numbers and the Making of Us Caleb Everett 80

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FORTHCOMING TITLES ALL LISTINGS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Liberalism’s Religion

Cécile Laborde

A nuanced assessment of liberal political theory and religion.

SEPTEMBER 2017 Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the law, requiring both special protection (as in guarantees of free worship) and special containment (to keep 350 pages religion and the state separate). But recently this idea that religion requires a legal ex- 6 tables ception has come under fire from those who argue that religion is no different from any other conception of the good, and the state should treat all such conceptions according ACQUIRING EDITOR to principles of neutrality and equal liberty. Cécile Laborde agrees with much of this Ian Malcolm liberal egalitarian critique, but she argues that a simple analogy between the good and religion misrepresents the complex relationships among religion, law, and the state. Reli- TEXT PERMISSIONS gion serves as more than a statement of belief about what is true, or a code of moral and permission may be required ethical conduct. It also refers to comprehensive ways of life, political theories of justice, modes of voluntary association, and vulnerable collective identities. ART PERMISSIONS no permission required Disaggregating religion into its various dimensions, as Laborde does, has two clear advantages. First, it shows greater respect for ethical and social pluralism by ensuring that MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY whatever treatment religion receives from the law, it receives because of features that it May 5 shares with nonreligious beliefs, conceptions, and identities. Second, it dispenses with the Western, Christian-inflected conception of religion that liberal political theory relies RIGHTS HELD on, especially in dealing with the issue of separation between religion and state. As a All Languages result, Liberalism’s Religion offers a novel answer to the question: Can Western theories of secularism and religion be applied more universally in non-Western societies?

Cécile Laborde holds the Nuffield Chair of Political Theory at the University of Oxford.

TALKING POINTS »» Assesses the critique that liberal egalitarianism is ethnocentric and Christian-based. »» Proposes thinking about religion as its constituent elements, thereby eschewing the need for special treatment under the law and showing greater respect for ethical and social pluralism. »» Envisions a liberalism that does not mandate separation of church and state, but allows certain dimensions of religion to directly engage the legitmacy of political order.

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City of Debtors A Century of Fringe Finance Anne Fleming

A legal history of the small-sum lending industry and its regulation in the U.S.

Since the rise of the small-sum lending industry in the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs JANUARY 2018 of the economic ladder in the United States have been asked to pay the greatest price for credit. Again and again, Americans have asked why the most fragile borrowers face 336 pages the highest costs for access to the smallest loans. To protect low-wage workers in need of credit, reformers have repeatedly turned to law, only to face the vexing question of where ACQUIRING EDITOR to draw the line between necessary protection and overreaching paternalism. Thomas LeBien

City of Debtors shows how each generation of Americans has tackled the problem of TEXT PERMISSIONS fringe finance, using law to redefine the meaning of justice within capitalism for those permission may be required on the economic margins. Anne Fleming tells the story of the small-sum lending industry’s growth and regulation from the ground up, following the people who navigated MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY the market for small loans and those who shaped its development at the state and local August 11 level. Fleming’s focus on the city and state of New York, which served as incubators for numerous lending reforms that later spread throughout the nation, differentiates her ap- RIGHTS HELD proach from work that has centered on federal regulation. It also reveals the overlooked All Languages challenges of governing a modern financial industry within a federalist framework.

Fleming’s detailed work contributes to the broader and ongoing debate about the meaning of justice within capitalistic societies, by exploring the fault line in the landscape of capitalism where poverty, the welfare state, and consumer credit converge.

Anne Fleming is Associate Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

TALKING POINTS »» Explains both the historical and ongoing struggles of vulnerable (and poor) borrowers that fall prey to small-sum lending practices. »» Explains why regulating this industry has proven to be difficult for American lawmakers.

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The Policy State An American Predicament Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek

An analysis of the expanded role of policy and problem-solving in the U.S.

OCTOBER 2017 Policy is government’s ready response to changing times, the key to its successful adap- tation. It tackles problems as they arise, from foreign relations and economic affairs to 240 pages race relations and family affairs. Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek take a closer look at this well-known reality of modern governance. In The Policy State they point out that ACQUIRING EDITOR policy is not the only way in which America was governed historically, and they describe John Kulka the transformation that occurred as policy took over more and more of the work of government, emerging as the raison d’être of the state’s operation. TEXT PERMISSIONS no permission required Rather than analyze individual policies to document this change, Orren and Skowronek examine policy’s effect on legal rights and the formal structure of policy-making au- MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY thority. Rights and structure are the principle elements of government that historically June 2 constrained policy and protected other forms of rule. The authors assess the emergence of a new “policy state,” in which rights and structure shed their distinctive characteristics RIGHTS HELD and take on the attributes of policy. All Languages Orren and Skowronek address the political controversies swirling around American government as a consequence of policy’s expanded domain. On the one hand, the policy state has rendered government more flexible, responsive, and inclusive. On the other, it has mangled government’s form, polarized its politics, and sowed deep distrust of its institutions. The policy state frames an American predicament: policy has eroded the foundations of government, even as the policy imperative pushes us ever forward, into an uncertain future.

Karen Orren is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University.

TALKING POINTS »» Traces the U.S.'s evolution from limited government to an expanded government in pursuit of making laws to solve perceived problems. »» Expalains how active policy-making has enabled the U.S. government to be more flexible and inclusive while simultaneously sowing distrust and polarizing opinions.

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The China Questions Critical Insights into a Rising Power edited by Michael Szonyi and Jennifer Rudolph

A collection of short, accessible essays on Chinese culture, environment, history, and politics.

Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. JANUARY 2018 The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has 304 pages provoked. 4 figures, 2 tables

In only a few decades, the most populous country on Earth has moved from relative ACQUIRING EDITOR isolation to center stage. Thirty of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of Kathleen McDermott the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and TEXT PERMISSIONS their leaders tick. They distill a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short, accessible permission may be required essays about Chinese identity, culture, environment, society, history, or policy. ART PERMISSIONS Can China’s economic growth continue apace? Can China embrace the sacrifices re- no permission required quired for a clean environment? Will Taiwan reunite with the mainland? How do the Chinese people understand their position in today’s global marketplace? How do histor- MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY ical setbacks and traditional values inform China’s domestic and foreign policy? Some August 18 of the essays address issues of importance to China internally, revolving around the Communist Party’s legitimacy, the end of the one-child policy, and ethnic tensions. RIGHTS HELD Others focus on China’s relationship with other nations, particularly the United States. All Languages If America pulls back from its Asian commitments, how will China assert its growing strength in the Pacific region?

China has already captured the world’s attention. The China Questions takes us behind media images and popular perceptions to provide insight on fundamental issues.

Michael Szonyi is Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University. Jennifer Rudolph is Associate Professor of modern Chinese political history at Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute.

TALKING POINTS »» Gathers the world's leading experts on China to explain its growing role in the world. »» Distills lifetimes of scholarship into accessible essays for general readers.

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When the State Meets the Street Public Service and Moral Agency Bernardo Zacka

An analysis of the behavior and moral lives of public-facing bureaucrats.

SEPTEMBER 2017 When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent 320 pages government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless oper- 1 halftone, 3 line ators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that illustrations, 2 tables profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights from political theory with his own ethnographic fieldwork as a receptionist in an urban antipoverty agency, Bernardo Zacka ACQUIRING EDITOR shows us firsthand the predicament in which these public servants are entangled. John Kulka Public policy consists of rules and regulations, but its implementation depends on TEXT PERMISSIONS how street-level bureaucrats interpret them and exercise discretionary judgment. These no permission required workers are expected to act as sensible moral agents in a working environment that is notoriously challenging and that conspires against them. Confronted by the pressures of ART PERMISSIONS everyday work, they often and unknowingly settle for one of several reductive concep- no permission required tions of their responsibilities, each by itself pathological in the face of a complex, messy reality. Zacka examines the factors that contribute to this erosion of moral sensibility and MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY what it takes to remain a balanced moral agent in such difficult conditions. April 19 Zacka’s revisionary portrait reveals bureaucratic life as more fluid and ethically fraught RIGHTS HELD than most citizens realize. It invites us to approach the political theory of the democratic All Languages state from the bottom-up, thinking not just about what policies the state should adopt but also about how it ought to interact with citizens when implementing these policies.

Bernardo Zacka is a research fellow at the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University and a junior research fellow at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.

TALKING POINTS »» Shows that even at the lowest rungs of the administrative state, there is considerable room for discretion and moral agency. »» Identifies the ways in which the administrative state undermines the very agency it bestows upon bureaucrats.

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The Color of Money Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Mehrsa Baradaran

An analysis of the role of banks in the racial wealth gap in the U.S.

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned SEPTEMBER 2017 less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Moneypursues the persistence of this ra- 360 pages cial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. Studying these institutions over time, Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the myth ACQUIRING EDITOR that black communities could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. Instead, Joyce Seltzer housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created an inescapable, but hard to detect, economic trap for black communities and their banks. TEXT PERMISSIONS permission may be required The Catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY victims of that same poverty. Not only could black banks not “control the black dollar” May 9 due to the dynamics of bank depositing and lending but they drained black capital into white banks, leaving the black economy with the scraps. RIGHTS HELD All Languages Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self- help is the solution to the racial wealth gap. These initiatives have functioned as a potent political decoy to avoid more fundamental reforms and racial redress. Examining the fruits of past policies and the operation of banking in a segregated economy, she makes clear that only bolder, more realistic views of banking’s relation to black communities will end the cycle of poverty and promote black wealth.

Mehrsa Baradaran is J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law at the Univer- sity of Georgia School of Law.

TALKING POINTS »» Documents the process though which racial oppression impedes banks in black communities from generating wealth for their patrons. »» Shows how the appeal of black economic power and autonomy were political diversions from more meaningful reform to racial inequality.

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A Century of Wealth in America

Edward N. Wolff

A technical analysis of wealth and its accumulation in the U.S.

OCTOBER 2017 Understanding wealth in the United States—who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing 920 pages the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of 105 graphs, 142 tables the world’s great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of wealth since 1900. ACQUIRING EDITOR Ian Malcolm A Century of Wealth in America demonstrates that the most remarkable change has been the growth of per capita household wealth, which climbed almost eightfold prior to the TEXT PERMISSIONS 2007 recession. But overlaid on this base rate are worrying trends. The share of personal no permission required wealth claimed by the richest one percent almost doubled between the mid-1970s and 2013, concurrent with a steep run-up of debt in the middle class. As the wealth of the ART PERMISSIONS average family dropped precipitously—by 44 percent—between 2007 and 2013, with no permission required black families hit hardest, the debt-income ratio more than doubled. The Great Reces- sion also caused a sharp spike in asset poverty, as more and more families barely survived MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY from one paycheck to the next. In short, the United States has changed from being one May 19 of the most economically equal of the advanced industrialized countries to being one of the most unequal. RIGHTS HELD All Languages At a time of deep uncertainty about the future, A Century of Wealth in America provides a sober bedrock of facts and astute analysis. It will become one of the few indispensable resources for contemporary public debate.

Edward N. Wolff is Professor of Economics at New York University.

TALKING POINTS »» Explains the basic facts about patterns of wealth and inequality in the U.S. »» Shows how the U.S. went from being the most equal country in the industrialized world to the most unequal over the span of 4 decades.

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Pious Fashion How Muslim Women Dress Elizabeth Bucar

A demystifying look at modest clothing and fashion of Muslim women.

For many westerners, the Islamic veil is the ultimate sign of women’s oppression. But SEPTEMBER 2017 Elizabeth Bucar’s take on clothing worn by Muslim women is a far cry from this older feminist attitude toward veiling. She argues that modest clothing represents much more 250 pages than social control or religious orthodoxy. Today, headscarves are styled to frame the 21 color illustrations head and face in interesting ways, while colors and textures express individual tastes and challenge aesthetic preconceptions. Brand-name clothing and accessories serve as ACQUIRING EDITOR conveyances of social distinction and are part of a multimillion-dollar ready-to-wear Sharmila Sen industry. Even mainstream international chains are offering lines especially for hijabis. More than just a veil, this is pious fashion from head to toe, which engages with a range TEXT PERMISSIONS of aesthetic values related to moral authority, consumption, and selfhood. permission may be required

Writing in an appealing style based on first-hand accounts, Bucar invites readers to join ART PERMISSIONS her in three Muslim-majority nations as she surveys how women approach the question permission may be required “What to wear?” By looking at fashion trends in the bustling cities of Tehran, Yogyakar- ta, and Istanbul—and at the many ways clerics, designers, politicians, and bloggers try to MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY influence Muslim women’s choices—she concludes that pious fashion depends to a large April 28 extent on local aesthetic and moral values, rather than the dictates of religious doctrine. RIGHTS HELD Pious Fashion defines modesty in Islamic dress as an ever-changing social practice among All Languages Muslim women who—much like non-Muslim women—create from a range of available clothing items and accessories styles they think will look both appropriate and attractive.

Elizabeth Bucar is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at North- eastern University.

TALKING POINTS »» Injects nuance into the debate of "veiling" by showing that modest clothing doesn't necessarily indicate oppression or overly zealous piety. »» Explores the diversity and history of modest clothing—as seen in Iran, Turkey, and Indonesia—and how Muslim women actively participate in "pious fashion".

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Just a Journalist On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between Linda Greenhouse

A Pulitzer–winning reporter's critique of mainstream journalism in the U.S.

OCTOBER 2017 In this timely book, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of remarkable transition in American journalism. Just a few years ago, the 170 pages mainstream press was wrestling with whether labeling waterboarding as torture violated important norms of neutrality and objectivity. Now, major American newspapers regu- ACQUIRING EDITOR larly call the president of the United States a liar. Clearly, something has changed as the Kathleen McDermott old rules of “balance” and “two sides to every story” have lost their grip. Is the change for the better? Will it last? TEXT PERMISSIONS permission may be required In Just a Journalist, Linda Greenhouse—who for decades covered the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times—tackles these questions from the perspective of her own MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY experience. A decade ago, she faced criticism from her own newspaper and much of May 26 journalism’s leadership for a speech to a college alumnae group in which she criticized the Bush administration for, among other things, seeking to create a legal black hole at RIGHTS HELD Guantanamo Bay—two years after the Supreme Court itself had ruled that the detainees All Languages could not be hidden away from the reach of federal judges who might hear their appeals.

One famous newspaper editor expressed his belief that it was unethical for a journalist to vote, because the act of choosing one candidate over another could compromise objectivity. Linda Greenhouse disagrees. Calling herself “an accidental activist,” she raises urgent questions about the role journalists can and should play as citizens, even as participants, in the world around them.

Linda Greenhouse is Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who is a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times.

TALKING POINTS »» Critiques "he said, she said" reporting, which produces false equivalences and disempowers readers from making informed judgments. »» Highlights examples when "two sides" reporting collide with stories that only have one valid side—or many. »» Offers a deeply personal account of how the author's activism conflicted with an establishment that says reporters shouldn't have opinions, much less express them.

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The Fateful Triangle Race, Ethnicity, Nation Stuart Hall, edited by Kobena Mercer

A critique of race as a construct of identity.

Race as a category of biological difference stems from the earliest European encounters SEPTEMBER 2017 with “the other” in Africa and the New World. Though now discredited as a scientific concept, the idea of race has continued to play into our human instinct for defining 200 pages ourselves through our most obvious differences.Fateful Triangle pushes back on this stubborn endurance of race, opening up new possibilities for defining our twenty-first ACQUIRING EDITOR century selves. Lindsay Waters

Even if we objectively know that race is a social—not scientific—concept, our eyes don’t TEXT PERMISSIONS lie either, Stuart Hall observes. As long as people can see and point out differences—in permission may be required skin color, hair texture, cranial size, and other features—they will jump to conclusions about the sources of those differences and what those differences mean. For those in MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY power, they produce “authoritative knowledge” in what those differences mean, where April 19 their subsequent actions upon those differences often have devastating real-world consequences. For oppressed groups, in acts of seeming self-liberation, they embrace racial RIGHTS HELD categories as a way to demonstrate pride. Hall argues that these rigid notions of race, All Languages ethnicity, and nationality fail to capture the blurriness of human existence in our globalized world of mixing and migrations, and these categories carry with them histories of oppression that, in fact, reinforce hierarchical notions of cultural difference.

Derived from unpublished lectures delivered in 1994, The Fateful Triangle speaks to the crisis of liberal democracy with prescient insight, critical vigor, and generous wisdom.

Stuart Hall was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at The Open University. Ko- bena Mercer is Professor in History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University.

TALKING POINTS »» Shows how race, ethnicity, and nationalism push us toward an us-versus-them mentality. »» Suggests new ways of constructing identity, drawing from examples of diaspora cultures. »» By the author of Formations of Modernity, Questions of Cultural Identity, Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, and others—with translations in over 13 languages.

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Black Mirror The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism Eric Lott

A sophisticated exploration of the ways American pop culture uses racial symbols to reinforce white cultural dominance.

SEPTEMBER 2017 Blackness, as the entertainment and sports industries well know, is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, black culture invites whites 304 pages to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while at the same time offering the 8 halftones illusory reassurance that they remain “wholly” white. Charting a rich landscape that includes classic American literature, Hollywood films, pop music, and investigative jour- ACQUIRING EDITOR nalism, Eric Lott reveals the hidden dynamics of this self-and-other mirroring of racial Lindsay Waters symbolic capital.

TEXT PERMISSIONS Black Mirror is a timely reflection on the ways provocative representations of racial dif- permission may be required ference serve to sustain white cultural dominance. As Lott demonstrates, the fraught symbolism of racial difference props up white hegemony, but it also tantalizingly threat- ART PERMISSIONS ens to expose the contradictions and hypocrisies upon which the edifice of white power permission may be required has been built. Mark Twain’s still-controversial depiction of black characters and dialect, John Howard Griffin’s experimental cross-racial reporting, Joni Mitchell’s perverse pen- MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY chant for cross-dressing as a black pimp, Bob Dylan’s knowing thefts of black folk music: May 12 these instances and more show how racial fantasy, structured through the mirroring of identification and appropriation so visible in blackface performance, still thrives in RIGHTS HELD American culture, despite intervening decades of civil rights activism, multiculturalism, All Languages and the alleged post-racialism of the twenty-first century. InBlack Mirror, white and black Americans view themselves through a glass darkly, but also face to face.

Eric Lott is Professor of English and American Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

TALKING POINTS »» Reveals the ways in which American culture mirrors—and influences—racial dynamics.

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The New Pakistani Middle Class

Ammara Maqsood

An ethnographic study of middle class identity and politics in modern-day Pakistan.

Pakistan’s presence in the outside world is dominated by images of religious extremism NOVEMBER 2017 and violence. These images—and the narratives that interpret them—inform events in the international realm, but they also twist back around to shape local class politics. In 168 pages The New Pakistani Middle Class, Ammara Maqsood focuses on life in contemporary La- 3 halftones hore, where she unravels these narratives to show how central they are for understanding competition and the quest for identity among middle-class groups. ACQUIRING EDITOR Sharmila Sen Lahore’s traditional middle class has asserted its position in the socioeconomic hierar- chy by wielding significant social capital and dominating the politics and economics of TEXT PERMISSIONS urban life. For this traditional middle class, a Muslim identity is about being modern, no permission required global, and on the same footing as the West. Recently, however, a more visibly religious, upwardly mobile social group has struggled to distinguish itself against this backdrop of ART PERMISSIONS conventional middle-class modernity, by embracing Islamic culture and values. The re- no permission required ligious sensibilities of this new middle-class group are often portrayed as Saudi-inspired and Wahhabi. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY June 2 Through a focus on religious study gatherings and also on consumption in middle-class circles—ranging from the choice of religious music and home décor to debit cards and RIGHTS HELD the cut of a woman’s burkha—The New Pakistani Middle Class untangles current trends All Languages in piety that both aspire toward, and contest, prevailing ideas of modernity. Maqsood probes how the politics of modernity meets the practices of piety in the struggle among different middle-class groups for social recognition and legitimacy.

Ammara Maqsood is ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Junior Research Fellow at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford.

TALKING POINTS »» Documents a struggle for modernity within Pakistan by a social class that otherwise remains invisible in international headlines. »» Reveals the plurality of ways the middle classes represent themselves, and the collision between modernity and practices of piety.

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Mostly Straight Sexual Fluidity among Men Ritch C. Savin-Williams

An exploration of male sexual orientation in the U.S.

NOVEMBER 2017 Most of us assume that sexuality is fixed: either you’re straight, gay, or bisexual. Yet an increasing number of young men today say that those categories are too rigid. They are, 238 pages they insist, “mostly straight.” They’re straight, but they feel a slight but enduring roman- 1 table tic or sexual desire for men. To the uninitiated, this may not make sense. How can a man be “mostly” straight? Ritch Savin-Williams introduces us to this new world by bringing ACQUIRING EDITOR us the stories of young men who consider themselves to be mostly straight or sexually Andrew Kinney fluid. By hearing about their lives, we discover a radically new way of understanding sexual and romantic development that upends what we thought we knew about men. TEXT PERMISSIONS no permission required Today there are more mostly straight young men than there are gay and bisexual young men combined. Based on cutting-edge research, Savin-Williams explores the personal ART PERMISSIONS stories of forty young men to help us understand the biological and psychological factors no permission required that led them to become mostly straight and the cultural forces that are loosening the sexual bind that many boys and young men experience. These young men tell us how MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY their lives have been influenced by their “drop of gayness,” from their earliest sexual June 2 memories and crushes to their sexual behavior as teenagers and their relationships as young adults. Mostly Straight shows us how these young men are forging a new personal RIGHTS HELD identity that confounds both traditional ideas and conventional scientific opinion. All Languages Ritch C. Savin-Williams is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University.

TALKING POINTS »» Argues that male sexuality—like female sexuality—is on a continuum. »» Through interviews with men who identify as "mostly straight", helps readers understand the biological, psychological, and cultural forces that are changing how men think about their sexuality.

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Constitutional Coup Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic Jon D. Michaels

A sharp critique of the privatization of American government—and a defense of the administrative state.

Americans have a love-hate relationship with government. Rejecting bureaucracy—but OCTOBER 2017 not the goods and services the welfare state provides—Americans have demanded that government be made to run like a business. Hence today’s privatization revolution. 280 pages

But as Jon D. Michaels shows, separating the state from its public servants, practices, ACQUIRING EDITOR and institutions does violence to the Constitution, and threatens the health and stability Thomas LeBien of the Republic. Constitutional Coup puts forward a legal theory that explains the modern welfare state as a worthy successor to the framers’ three-branch government. TEXT PERMISSIONS permission may be required What legitimates the welfare state is its recommitment to a rivalrous system of separation of powers, in which political agency heads, career civil servants, and the public writ MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY large reprise and restage the same battles long fought among Congress, the president, June 2 and the courts. Privatization now proclaims itself as another worthy successor, this time to an administrative state that Americans have grown weary of. Yet it is a constitutional RIGHTS HELD usurper. Privatization dismantles those commitments to separating and checking state All Languages power by sidelining rivalrous civil servants and public participants.

Constitutional Coup cements the constitutionality of the administrative state, recognizing civil servants and public participants as necessary—rather than disposable—compo- nents. Casting privatization as an existential constitutional threat, it underscores how the fusion of politics and profits commercializes government—and consolidates state power in ways both the framers and administrative lawyers endeavored to disaggregate. It urges—and sketches the outlines of—a twenty-first-century bureaucratic renaissance.

Jon D. Michaels is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law.

TALKING POINTS »» Argues that the administrative state, and the bureaucracy it entails, produces better, more legitimate decisions. »» Provides strategies for boosting the morale and competence of civil servants and increasing public engagement. »» Presents a timely defense against the policies of the Trump administration.

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The Federal Judiciary Strengths and Weaknesses Richard A. Posner

A candid critique of the U.S. federal judiciary.

AUGUST 2017 No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. Skewering the 416 pages politicization of the Supreme Court, the mismanagement of judicial staff, the overly complex system of appeals, the threat of originalism, outdated procedures, and the back- ACQUIRING EDITOR ward-looking traditions of law schools and the American judicial system, Posner has Thomas LeBien written a cri de coeur and a battle cry. With the prospect that the Supreme Court will soon be remade in substantial, potentially revanchist, ways, The Federal Judiciaryexposes TEXT PERMISSIONS the American legal system’s most troubling failures in order to instigate much-needed permission may be required reforms.

MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY Posner presents excerpts from legal texts and arguments to expose their flaws, incorpo- available now rating his own explanation and judgment to educate readers in the mechanics of judicial thinking. This rigorous intellectual work separates sound logic from artful rhetoric de- RIGHTS HELD signed to subvert precedent and open the door to oblique interpretations of American All Languages constitutional law. In a rebuke of Justice Antonin Scalia’s legacy, Posner shows how originalists have used these rhetorical strategies to advance a self-serving political agenda. Judicial culture adheres to an antiquated traditionalism, Posner argues, that inhibits progressive responses to threats from new technologies and other unforeseen challenges to society.

With practical prescriptions for overhauling judicial practices and precedents, The Fed- eral Judiciary offers an unequaled resource for understanding the institution designed by the founders to check congressional and presidential power and resist its abuse.

Richard A. Posner is Circuit Judge, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

TALKING POINTS »» Delivers a frank critique of the American judiciary and its refusal to modernize. »» By the prolific author of Law and Literature, How Judges Think, The Crisis in Capitalist Democracy, and others—with translations in over 13 languages.

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Arithmetic

Paul Lockhart

An engaging introduction to arithmetic, from practical techniques to abstract concepts.

Because evolution endowed humans with a complement of ten fingers, a grouping size AUGUST 2017 of ten seems natural to us, perhaps even ideal. But from the perspective of mathematics, groupings of ten are arbitrary, and can have serious shortcomings. Twelve would be bet- 272 pages ter for divisibility, and eight is smaller and well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by 58 line illustrations two, as in binary code, has turned out to have its own remarkable advantages. ACQUIRING EDITOR Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers—a practical Jeff Dean if mundane branch of knowledge best suited for balancing a checkbook or filling out tax forms—but as a set of ideas that exhibit the fascinating and sometimes surprising TEXT PERMISSIONS behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. The essence of arithmetic no permission required is the skillful arrangement of numerical information for ease of communication and comparison, an elegant intellectual craft that arises from our desire to count, add to, ART PERMISSIONS take away from, divide up, and multiply quantities of important things. Over centuries, no permission required humans devised a variety of strategies for representing and using numerical information, from beads and tally marks to adding machines and computers. Lockhart explores the MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY philosophical and aesthetic nature of counting and of different number systems, both available now Western and non-Western, weighing the pluses and minuses of each. RIGHTS HELD A passionate, entertaining survey of foundational ideas and methods, Arithmetic invites All Languages readers to experience the profound and simple beauty of its subject through the eyes of a modern research mathematician.

Paul Lockhart teaches mathematics at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York.

TALKING POINTS »» Written in an accessible conversational style, intended for readers who are otherwise discouraged by the subject. »» By the author of Measurement, licensed in complex Chinese; simplified Chinese; Korean; and Turkish; and A Mathematician's Lament, licensed in Italian.

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Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity

Charles T. Clotfelter

An in-depth analysis of inequality at U.S. universities.

OCTOBER 2017 For decades, leaders in higher education have voiced their intention to expand college education to include disadvantaged groups. Colleges have embraced and defended pub- 304 pages lic policies that push back against discrimination and make college more affordable. 60 line illustrations, 10 tables And yet, as the economist Charles Clotfelter shows, America’s system of undergraduate education was unequal in 1970 and is even more so today. ACQUIRING EDITOR Thomas LeBien In Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity, Clotfelter presents quantitative comparisons across selective and less selective colleges from the 1970s to the present, in exploration of TEXT PERMISSIONS three themes: diversity, competition, and inequality. Diversity shows itself in the variety permission may be required of colleges’ objectives but also in the disparity of the material and human resources at their disposal. Competition operates through both the supply and the demand sides of ART PERMISSIONS the market, with college admissions becoming more meritocratic even as the most desir- no permission required able colleges choose to contend fiercely for top-tier students rather than accommodate rising numbers of qualified applicants. Clotfelter shows that exclusive colleges have also MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY benefited disproportionately from America’s growing income inequality. As their en- June 9 dowments have ballooned, their students have become more academically advantaged, owing in part to the extraordinary steps affluent families take to groom their children RIGHTS HELD for college admission. All Languages Clotfelter finds that despite a revolution in civil rights, billions spent on financial aid, and the commitment of colleges to greater equality, stratification has grown starker. Top colleges cater largely to children of elites.

Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University.

TALKING POINTS »» Reveals how universities—despite efforts to promote diversity—are more unequal than before. »» Studies 188 colleges and universities over a 40-year period. »» Aims to describe quantitatively how the higher education market functions, rather than critique it.

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Beyond Test Scores A Better Way to Measure School Quality Jack Schneider

A critical analysis of how the U.S. measures the academic performance of public schools.

When it comes to sizing up America’s public schools, test scores are the go-to metric AUGUST 2017 of state policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the “best” schools. Yet ample research indicates that standardized tests are a poor way to measure a 298 pages school’s performance. It is time—indeed past time—to rethink this system, Jack Schnei- 11 line illustrations der says. ACQUIRING EDITOR Beyond Test Scores reframes current debates over school quality by offering new approach- Andrew Kinney es to educational data that can push us past our unproductive fixation on test scores. Using the highly diverse urban school district of Somerville, Massachusetts, as a case TEXT PERMISSIONS study, Schneider and his research team developed a new framework to more fairly and no permission required comprehensively assess educational effectiveness. And by adopting a wide range of measures aligned with that framework, they were able to more accurately capture a broader ART PERMISSIONS array of school strengths and weaknesses. Their new data not only provided parents, no permission required educators, and administrators with a clearer picture of school performance, but also challenged misconceptions about what makes a good school. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY March 30 With better data, Schneider shows, stakeholders at the federal, state, and local levels can undo the damage of present accountability systems and build greater capacity in our RIGHTS HELD schools. Policy makers, administrators, and school leaders can better identify where as- All Languages sistance is needed. Educators can engage in more evidence-based decision making. And parents can make better-informed choices for their children. Perhaps most importantly, better data can facilitate communication among all these groups, allowing them to take collective action toward shared, concrete goals.

Jack Schneider is Assistant Professor of Education at the College of the Holy Cross and Director of Research for the Massachusetts Consortium for Innova- tive Education Assessment.

TALKING POINTS »» Provides a framework for measuring the quality of a school, as well as a vision of local and national assessment systems that better inform the public.

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Students of the Dream Resegregation in a Southern City Ruth Carbonette Yow

An ethnographic history of racial resegregation in U.S. public schools.

NOVEMBER 2017 For decades, Marietta High was the flagship public school of a largely white suburban community in Cobb County, Georgia, just northwest of Atlanta. Today, as the school’s 236 pages majority black and Latino students struggle with high rates of poverty and low rates of 11 tables graduation, Marietta High has become a symbol of the wave of resegregation that is sweeping white students and students of color into separate schools across the American ACQUIRING EDITOR South. Andrew Kinney Students of the Dream begins with the first generations of Marietta High desegregators TEXT PERMISSIONS authorized by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling and follows the experi- no permission required ences of later generations who saw the dream of integration fall apart. Grounded in over one hundred interviews with current and former Marietta High students, parents, teach- ART PERMISSIONS ers, community leaders, and politicians, this innovative ethnographic history invites no permission required readers onto the key battlegrounds—varsity sports, school choice, academic tracking, and social activism—of Marietta’s struggle against resegregation. Well-intentioned calls MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY for diversity and colorblindness, Ruth Carbonette Yow shows, have transformed local June 9 understandings of the purpose and value of school integration, and not always for the better. RIGHTS HELD All Languages The failure of local, state, or national policies to stem the tide of resegregation is leading activists—students, parents, and teachers—to reject traditional integration models and look for other ways to improve educational outcomes among African American and Latino students. Yow argues for a revitalized commitment to integration, but one that challenges many of the orthodoxies—including colorblindness—inherited from the mid-twentieth-century civil rights struggle.

Ruth Carbonette Yow is Marion L. Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

TALKING POINTS »» Blends national trends and local history to reveal the impacts of segregated schools upon society. »» Redefines the debate over how—and whether—to protect the legacy ofBrown v. Board of Education.

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From Byron to bin Laden A History of Foreign War Volunteers Nir Arielli

A history and analysis of foreign war volunteers, from the French Revolution to the current Syrian Civil War.

What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why JANUARY 2018 did diverse individuals such as Lord Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and Osama bin Laden all volunteer for ostensibly foreign causes? Nir Arielli helps us understand this 264 pages perplexing phenomenon with a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the wars of the French Revolution to the civil war in Syria. ACQUIRING EDITOR Ian Malcolm Challenging narrow contemporary interpretations of foreign fighters as a security problem, Arielli opens up a broad range of questions about individuals’ motivations and TEXT PERMISSIONS their political and social context, exploring such matters as ideology, gender, interna- permission may be required tional law, military significance, and the memory of war. He shows that even though volunteers have fought for very different causes, they share a number of characteristics. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY Often driven by a personal search for meaning, they tend to superimpose their own be- July 28 liefs and perceptions on the wars they join. They also serve to internationalize conflicts not just by being present at the front but by making wars abroad matter back at home. RIGHTS HELD Arielli suggests an innovative way of distinguishing among different types of foreign All Languages volunteers,examines the mixed reputation they acquire, and provides the first in-depth comparative analysis of the military roles that foreigners have played in several conflicts.

Merging social, cultural, military, and diplomatic history, From Byron to bin Laden is the most comprehensive account yet of a vital, enduring, but rarely explored feature of warfare past and present.

Nir Arielli is Associate Professor of International History at the University of Leeds.

TALKING POINTS »» Explains the motivations and ideologies that prompt individuals to volunteer for military service in foreign conflicts. »» Includes examples from France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Latin America, Spain, former Yugoslavia, and Syria.

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A Short History of European Law The Last Two and a Half Millennia Tamar Herzog

A concise history of major developments and movements in European law.

JANUARY 2018 To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through history. Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the West over the past 2,500 250 pages years is far from self-evident. In A Short History of European Law, Tamar Herzog offers a new road map that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By identi- ACQUIRING EDITOR fying what European law was, where its iterations could be found, who was allowed to Kathleen McDermott make and implement it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances, and allows readers to grasp their malleability and fragility. TEXT PERMISSIONS permission may be required Herzog describes how successive European legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the establishment and growth of the European Union. Roman MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was understood, August 11 used, and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and place to the next. Only by considering continental civil law and English common law together do we see how they RIGHTS HELD drew from and enriched this shared tradition. All Languages Expanding the definition of Europe to include its colonial domains, Herzog explains that British and Spanish empires in the New World were not only recipients of Euro- pean legal traditions but also incubators of new ideas. Their experiences, as well as the constant tension between overreaching ideas and naive localism, explain how European law refashioned itself as the epitome of reason and as a system with potentially global applications.

Tamar Herzog is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor in the History Department at Harvard University, and Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School.

TALKING POINTS »» Links the development of law to societal changes, and provides a clear narrative of this interplay from the Roman Empire to the European Union. »» Covers both continental and English law, as well as influences from colonial provinces.

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Indian Captive, Indian King Peter Williamson in America and Britain Timothy J. Shannon

An engaging and colorful tale of Peter Williamson—an 18th century Scottish memoirist of dubious repute.

In 1758 Peter Williamson appeared on the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, dressed as a JANUARY 2018 Native American Indian and telling a remarkable tale. He claimed that as a young boy he had been kidnapped from the city and sold into slavery in America. In performances 328 pages and in a printed narrative he peddled to his audiences, Williamson described his tribu- 22 halftones, 2 maps lations as an indentured servant, Indian captive, soldier, and prisoner of war. Aberdeen’s magistrates called him a liar and banished him from the city, but Williamson defended ACQUIRING EDITOR his story. Kathleen McDermott

Separating fact from fiction, Timothy J. Shannon explains what Williamson’s tale says TEXT PERMISSIONS about how working people of eighteenth-century Britain, so often depicted as victims no permission required of empire, found ways to create lives and exploit opportunities within it. Exiled from Aberdeen, Williamson settled in Edinburgh, where he cultivated enduring celebrity as ART PERMISSIONS the self-proclaimed “king of the Indians.” His performances and publications capital- additional permission required ized on the curiosity the Seven Years’ War had ignited among the public for news and information about America and its native inhabitants. As a coffeehouse proprietor and MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY printer, he gave audiences a plebeian perspective on Britain’s rise to imperial power in July 28 North America. RIGHTS HELD Indian Captive, Indian King is a history of empire from the bottom up, showing how All Languages Williamson’s American odyssey illuminates the real-life experiences of everyday people on the margins of the British Empire and how those experiences, when repackaged in travel narratives and captivity tales, shaped popular perceptions about the empire’s racial and cultural geography.

Timothy J. Shannon is Professor of History at Gettysburg College in Gettys- burg, PA.

TALKING POINTS »» Introduces readers to Peter Williamson, who claimed he was kidnapped; sold into slavery; captured by Indians; and later captured as a POW as a British soldier. »» Explores how the working classes of 18th century Britian found their own (often creative) ways to create lives and exploit opportunities within it.

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Afghanistan Rising Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires Faiz Ahmed

A history of the people and institutions that established Afghanistan as a constitutional monarchy in the early 20th century.

NOVEMBER 2017 Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and the rule of law as a secular-liberal monopoly, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first 336 pages Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its own laws, and ratify a consti- 20 halftones, 5 maps, 4 tables tution after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

ACQUIRING EDITOR Afghanistan Rising illustrates how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Kabul—far from being Kathleen McDermott a landlocked wilderness or remote frontier—became a magnet for itinerant scholars and statesmen shuttling between Ottoman and British imperial domains. Tracing the TEXT PERMISSIONS country’s longstanding but often ignored scholarly and educational ties to Istanbul, Da- permission may be required mascus, and Baghdad as well as greater Delhi and Lahore, Ahmed explains how the court of Kabul attracted thinkers eager to craft a modern state within the interpretive ART PERMISSIONS traditions of Islamic law and ethics, or sharia. From Turkish lawyers and Indian bureau- permission may be required crats to Pashtun clerics trained in madrasas of the Indo-Afghan borderlands, this rich narrative focuses on encounters between divergent streams of modern Muslim thought MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY and politics, beginning with the Sublime Porte’s first mission to Afghanistan in 1877 June 16 and concluding with the collapse of Ottoman rule after World War I.

RIGHTS HELD By unearthing a lost history behind Afghanistan’s founding national charter, Ahmed All Languages shows how debates today on Islam, governance, and the rule of law have deep roots in a beleaguered land. Based on archival research in six countries and as many languages, Afghanistan Rising rediscovers a time when Kabul stood proudly as a center of constitutional politics, Muslim cosmopolitanism, and contested visions of reform in the greater Islamic world.

Faiz Ahmed is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University.

TALKING POINTS »» Presents a counternarrative in which Afghanistan was once a center of Muslim cosmopolitanism and influential in the making of the modern Muslim world. »» Explores how Afghanistan resisted Western models by integrating Islamic legal theory with modern statecraft and governance.

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American Niceness A Cultural History Carrie Tirado Bramen

A provocative look at how and why Americans consider themselves fundamentally nice people— despite any evidence to the contrary.

The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still express- AUGUST 2017 es what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a very different national archetype—the nice Ameri- 330 pages can—which has been central to ideas of U.S. identity since the nineteenth century. 11 halftones

Niceness is often assumed to be a superficial concept unworthy of serious analysis. Yet ACQUIRING EDITOR the distinctiveness of Americans has been shaped by values of sociality and likability for Lindsay Waters which the adjective “nice” became a catchall. In America’s fledgling democracy, niceness was understood to be the indispensable trait of a people who were refreshingly free of TEXT PERMISSIONS Old World snobbery. Bramen elucidates the role niceness plays in a particular fantasy permission may be required of American exceptionalism, one based not on military and economic might but on friendliness and openness. Niceness defined the attitudes of a plucky (and white) settler ART PERMISSIONS nation, commonly expressed through an affect that Bramen calls “manifest cheerful- additional permission required ness.” MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY To reveal its contested inflections, Bramen shows how American niceness intersects with March 20 ideas of femininity, Native American hospitality, and black amiability. Who claimed niceness and why? Despite evidence to the contrary, Americans have largely considered RIGHTS HELD themselves to be a fundamentally nice and decent people, from the supposedly amicable All Languages meeting of Puritans and Native Americans at Plymouth Rock to the early days of Amer- ican imperialism when the mythology of Plymouth Rock became a portable emblem of goodwill for U.S. occupation forces in the Philippines.

Carrie Tirado Bramen is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

TALKING POINTS »» Explores the role of "niceness" in the American national fantasy of exceptionalism. »» Highlights the ways in which American niceness facilitates suppressing, concealing, and disavowing historical consequences.

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France’s Long Reconstruction In Search of the Modern Republic Herrick Chapman

An analysis of France's reconstruction after WWII and its legacy today.

JANUARY 2017 At the end of World War II, France’s greatest challenge was to repair a civil society torn asunder by Nazi occupation and total war. Recovery required the nation’s complete 368 pages economic and social transformation. But just what form this “new France” should take 15 halftones remained the burning question at the heart of French political combat until the Algerian War ended, over a decade later. Herrick Chapman charts the course of France’s long ACQUIRING EDITOR reconstruction from 1944 to 1962, offering fresh insights into the ways the expansion of Kathleen McDermott state power, intended to spearhead recovery, produced fierce controversies at home and unintended consequences abroad in France’s crumbling empire. TEXT PERMISSIONS permission may be required Abetted after Liberation by a new elite of technocratic experts, the burgeoning French state infiltrated areas of economic and social life traditionally free from government ART PERMISSIONS intervention. Politicians and intellectuals wrestled with how to reconcile state-directed additional permission required modernization with the need to renew democratic participation and bolster civil society after years spent under the Nazi and Vichy yokes. But rather than resolving the tension, MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY the conflict between top-down technocrats and grassroots democrats became institu- August 4 tionalized as a way of framing the problems facing Charles de Gaulle’s Fifth Republic.

RIGHTS HELD Uniquely among European countries, France pursued domestic recovery while simul- All Languages taneously fighting full-scale colonial wars. France’s Long Reconstruction shows how the Algerian War led to the further consolidation of state authority and cemented repressive immigration policies that now appear shortsighted and counterproductive.

Herrick Chapman is Associate Professor of History and French Studies at New York University.

TALKING POINTS »» Explains the origins of modern France's two defining features: economic strength and dynamism; and political volatility.

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The Pricing of Progress Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life Eli Cook

An analysis of how—and why—Americans measure societal progress in terms of money.

How did Americans come to quantify their society’s progress and well-being in units SEPTEMBER 2017 of money? In today’s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our 326 pages self-worth. The Pricing of Progress traces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an indicator of human ACQUIRING EDITOR prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price Joyce Seltzer on everyday life. TEXT PERMISSIONS Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the emergence of modern capitalism and permission may be required the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. He explores how the maximization of MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY market production became the chief objective of American economic and social policy. availability tbd We see how distinctly capitalist quantification techniques used to manage or invest in railroad corporations, textile factories, real estate holdings, or cotton plantations escaped RIGHTS HELD the confines of the business world and seeped into every nook and cranny of society. As All Languages economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities.

Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the “health” of our economy and nation.The Pric- ing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.

Eli Cook is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Haifa.

TALKING POINTS »» Reveals the ways in which capitalism is far more than a market economy, but a way of life and set of cultural values. »» Draws connections between slavery and economic indicators, and how all Americans came to be "human capital". »» Highlights long-forgotten measures of social progress.

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The Avignon Papacy Contested An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena Unn Falkeid

A study of intellectual and literary resistence to the Avignon papacy.

AUGUST 2017 The Avignon papacy (1309–1377) represented the zenith of papal power in Europe. The Roman curia’s move to southern France enlarged its bureaucracy, centralized its 270 pages authority, and initiated closer contact with secular institutions. The pope’s presence also attracted leading minds to Avignon, transforming a modest city into a cosmopolitan ACQUIRING EDITOR center of learning. But a crisis of legitimacy was brewing among leading thinkers of the Andrew Kinney day. The Avignon Papacy Contested considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who waged literary war against the Catholic Church’s increasing claims of supremacy TEXT PERMISSIONS over secular rulers—a conflict that engaged contemporary critics from every corner of no permission required Europe.

MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY Unn Falkeid uncovers the dispute’s origins in Dante’s Paradiso and Monarchia, where she March 27 identifies a sophisticated argument for the separation of church and state. In Petrarch’s writings she traces growing concern about papal authority, precipitated by the curia’s RIGHTS HELD exile from Rome. Marsilius of Padua’s theory of citizen agency indicates a resistance to All Languages the pope’s encroaching power, which finds richer expression in William of Ockham’s philosophy of individual liberty. Both men were branded as heretics. The mystical writings of Birgitta of Sweden and Catherine of Siena, in Falkeid’s reading, contain cloaked confrontations over papal ethics and church governance even though these women were later canonized.

While each of the six writers responded creatively to the implications of the Avignon papacy, they shared a concern for the breakdown of secular order implied by the expansion of papal power and a willingness to speak their minds.

Unn Falkeid is Associate Professor of History of Ideas at the University of Oslo.

TALKING POINTS »» Closely studies the writings of Dante Alighieri, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, Francis Petrarch, Birgitta of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena. »» Identifies commonalities among these writers, despite two being branded heretics, two being canonized, and two becoming models for humanism.

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Supreme Injustice Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court Paul Finkelman

An authoritative account of pre-Civil War U.S. Supreme Court Justices and their positions on slavery.

The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War—Chief Justices JANUARY 2018 John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph Story—upheld the institution of slavery in ruling after ruling. These opinions cast a shadow over the Court and 272 pages the legacies of these men, but historians have rarely delved deeply into the personal and political ideas and motivations they held. In Supreme Injustice, the distinguished legal ACQUIRING EDITOR historian Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice’s proslavery Joyce Seltzer position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the incentives created by circumstances in his private life. TEXT PERMISSIONS permission may be required Finkelman uses census data and other sources to reveal that Justice Marshall aggressively bought and sold slaves throughout his lifetime—a fact that biographers have ignored. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY Justice Story never owned slaves and condemned slavery while riding circuit, and yet August 4 on the high court he remained silent on slave trade cases and ruled against blacks who sued for freedom. Although Justice Taney freed many of his own slaves, he zealously and RIGHTS HELD consistently opposed black freedom, arguing in Dred Scott that free blacks had no Con- All Languages stitutional rights and that slaveowners could move slaves into the Western territories. Finkelman situates this infamous holding within a solid record of support for slavery and hostility to free blacks.

Supreme Injustice boldly documents the entanglements that alienated three major justices from America’s founding ideals and embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.

Paul Finkelman is John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

TALKING POINTS »» Looks past the legal rulings of each justice and investigates their private circumstances and motivations. »» Shows that decisions in landmark cases in the U.S.—like Dred Scott v. Sandford— were not anomalies or "mistakes" but a culmination of decades of aggressive support for slavery.

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Oscar Wilde The Unrepentant Years Nicholas Frankel

A critical biography of Oscar Wilde's final years in exile.

OCTOBER 2017 Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde’s final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English pris- 340 pages on for the crime of “gross indecency” between men. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years 13 halftones challenges the prevailing, traditional view of Wilde as a broken, tragic figure, a martyr to Victorian sexual morality, and shows instead that he pursued his post-prison life with ACQUIRING EDITOR passion, enjoying new liberties while trying to resurrect his literary career. John Kulka After two bitter years of solitary confinement, Frankel shows, Wilde emerged from pris- TEXT PERMISSIONS on in 1897 determined to rebuild his life along lines that were continuous with the path permission may be required he had followed before his conviction, unapologetic and even defiant about the crime for which he had been convicted. England had already done its worst. In Europe’s more ART PERMISSIONS tolerant atmosphere, he could begin to live openly and without hypocrisy. permission may be required Frankel overturns previous misunderstandings of Wilde’s relationship with Lord Alfred MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY Douglas, the great love of his life, with whom he hoped to live permanently in Naples, May 19 following their secret and ill-fated elopement there. He describes how and why the two men were forced apart, as well as Wilde’s subsequent relations with a series of young RIGHTS HELD men. Oscar Wilde pays close attention to Wilde’s final two important works,De Pro- All Languages fundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, while detailing his nearly three-year residence in Paris. There, despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde attempted to rebuild himself as a man—and a man of letters.

Nicholas Frankel is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth Universi- ty and editor of The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition.

TALKING POINTS »» Rejects common assumptions that, after release from imprisonment, Wilde died a broken man. »» By the editor of the The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition, licensed in 6 languages.

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The Dead March A History of the Mexican-American War Peter Guardino

An analysis of the U.S.'s victory in the Mexican-American War.

By focusing on the experiences of ordinary Mexicans and Americans, The Dead March AUGUST 2017 offers a clearer historical picture than we have ever had of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America. 480 pages 11 halftones, 13 maps Peter Guardino invites skepticism about the received view that the United States emerged victorious in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) because its democratic ACQUIRING EDITOR system was more stable and its citizens more loyal. In fact, heading into the war, Amer- Kathleen McDermott ican forces dramatically underestimated the strength of Mexicans’ patriotism and failed to see how bitterly Mexicans resented America’s claims to national and racial superior- TEXT PERMISSIONS ity. Having regarded the United States as a sister republic, Mexicans were shocked by no permission required the scope of America’s expansionist ambitions, and their fierce resistance surprised U.S. political and military leaders, who had expected a quick victory with few casualties. As ART PERMISSIONS the fighting intensified over the course of two years, it claimed the lives of thousands of additional permission required Americans and at least twice as many Mexicans, including many civilians. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY As stark as they were, the misconceptions that the Mexican-American War laid bare on April 14 both sides did not determine the final victor. What differentiated the two countries in battle was not some notion of American unity and loyalty to democracy but the United RIGHTS HELD States’ huge advantages in economic power and wealth—advantages its poorer Latin All Languages American neighbor could not hope to overcome.

Peter Guardino is Professor in the Department of History at Indiana Univer- sity.

TALKING POINTS »» Argues that the U.S. didn't win because it was more nationalistic than Mexico, but because it was wealthier. »» Provides an engaging narrative of war that focuses on the experiences and attitudes of ordinary people and common soldiers.

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I Remain Yours Common Lives in Civil War Letters Christopher Hager

An intimate history of letter-writing during the U.S. Civil War.

JANUARY 2018 When North and South went to war, millions of American families endured their first long separation. For men in the armies—and their wives, children, parents, and siblings 284 pages at home—letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Yet for many of these 16 halftones Union and Confederate families, taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task. I Remain Yours narrates the Civil War from the perspective of ordinary people who had to ACQUIRING EDITOR figure out how to salve the emotional strain of war and sustain their closest relationships Joyce Seltzer using only the written word.

TEXT PERMISSIONS Christopher Hager presents an intimate history of the Civil War through the interlaced no permission required stories of common soldiers and their families. The previously overlooked words of a carpenter from Indiana, an illiterate teenager from Connecticut, a grieving mother in ART PERMISSIONS the mountains of North Carolina, and a blacksmith’s daughter on the Iowa prairie reveal additional permission required through their awkward script and expression the personal toll of war. Is my son alive or dead? Returning soon or never? Can I find words for the horrors I’ve seen or the lone- MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY liness I feel? Fear, loss, and upheaval stalked the lives of Americans straining to connect availability tbd the battlefront to those they left behind.

RIGHTS HELD Hager shows how relatively uneducated men and women made this new means of All Languages communication their own, turning writing into an essential medium for sustaining relationships and a sense of belonging. Letter writing changed them and they in turn transformed the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of communication.

Christopher Hager is Associate Professor of English at Trinity College.

TALKING POINTS »» Focuses specifically on letters by relatively uneducated people and highlights their adapting to (what was to them) a new form of communication. »» Narrates the Civil War from the perspective of ordinary citizens' emotional lives.

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Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

A social history of violence and policing in revolutionary Russia.

Russians from all walks of life poured into the streets of the imperial capital after the OCTOBER 2017 February Revolution of 1917, joyously celebrating the end of Tsar Nicholas II’s monarchy. One year later, with Lenin’s Bolsheviks now in power, Petrograd’s deserted streets 330 pages presented a very different scene. No celebrations marked the Revolution’s anniversary. 10 halftones, 2 maps, Amid widespread civil strife and lawlessness, a fearful citizenry stayed out of sight. 5 charts, 1 table

In Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa offers a new ACQUIRING EDITOR perspective on Russia’s revolutionary year through the lens of violent crime and its dev- Kathleen McDermott astating effect on ordinary people. When the Provisional Government assumed power after Nicholas II’s abdication, it set about instituting liberal reforms, including elimi- TEXT PERMISSIONS nating the tsar’s regular police. But dissolving this much-hated yet efficient police force no permission required and replacing it with a new municipal police led rapidly to the breakdown of order and services. Amid the chaos, crime flourished. Gangs of criminals, deserters, and hooli- ART PERMISSIONS gans brazenly roamed the streets. Mass prison escapes became common. And vigilantism no permission required spread widely as ordinary citizens felt compelled to take the law into their own hands, often meting out mob justice on suspected wrongdoers. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY May 5 The Bolsheviks swept into power in the October Revolution but had no practical plans to reestablish order. As crime continued to escalate and violent alcohol riots almost RIGHTS HELD drowned the revolutionary regime, they redefined it as “counterrevolutionary activity,” All Languages to be dealt with by the secret police, whose harshly repressive, extralegal means of en- forcement helped pave the way for a Communist dictatorship.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cal- ifornia, Santa Barbara.

TALKING POINTS »» Describes in vivid detail a cycle of social breakdown—from the Bolsheviks' dismissal of the Tsar's police, to a rise in crime, to mob justice, to an eventual crackdown by the Bolsheviks and their rise as an authoritarian regime. »» By the author of Racing the Enemy, licensed in two languages.

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Civic Longing The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship Carrie Hyde

A history of U.S. citizenship in the tumultuous era between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War.

JANUARY 2018 Citizenship defines the U.S. political experiment, but the modern legal category that it now names is a relatively recent invention. There was no Constitutional definition of cit- 320 pages izenship until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, almost a century 3 halftones after the Declaration of Independence. Civic Longing looks at the fascinating prehistory of U.S. citizenship in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, when the ACQUIRING EDITOR cultural and juridical meaning of citizenship—as much as its scope—was still up for John Kulka grabs. Carrie Hyde recovers the numerous cultural forms through which the meaning of citizenship was provisionally made and remade in the early United States. TEXT PERMISSIONS permission may be required Civic Longing offers the first historically grounded account of the formative political power of the imaginative traditions that shaped early debates about citizenship. In the MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY absence of a centralized legal definition of citizenship, Hyde shows, politicians and writ- August 11 ers regularly turned to a number of highly speculative traditions—political philosophy, Christian theology, natural law, fiction, and didactic literature—to authorize visions of RIGHTS HELD what citizenship was or ought to be. These speculative traditions sustained an idealized All Languages image of citizenship by imagining it from its outer limits, from the point of view of its “negative civic exemplars”—expatriates, slaves, traitors, and alienated subjects.

By recovering the strange, idiosyncratic meanings of citizenship in the early United States, Hyde provides a powerful critique of originalism, and challenges anachronistic assumptions that read the definition of citizenship backward from its consolidation in the mid-nineteenth century as jus soli or birthright citizenship.

Carrie Hyde is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

TALKING POINTS »» Explores not just who counted as a citizen, but what "citizenship" was supposed to entail. »» Tracks the special role that literature played in shaping conceptions of citizenship.

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Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture

Evan Kindley

A study of the institutionalization of 20th century American literature.

The period between 1920 and 1950 saw an epochal shift in the American cultural econ- SEPTEMBER 2017 omy. The shocks of the 1929 market crash and the Second World War decimated much of the support for high modernist literature, and writers who had relied on wealthy 142 pages benefactors were forced to find new protectors from the depredations of the free market. Private foundations, universities, and government organizations began to fund the arts, ACQUIRING EDITOR and in this environment writers were increasingly obliged to become critics, elucidating Lindsay Waters and justifying their work to an audience of elite administrators. TEXT PERMISSIONS In Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture, Evan Kindley recognizes the major no permission required role modernist poet-critics played in the transition from aristocratic patronage to technocratic cultural administration. Poet-critics developed extensive ties to a network of MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY bureaucratic institutions and established dual artistic and intellectual identities to appeal April 28 to the kind of audiences and entities that might support their work. Kindley focuses on Anglo-American poet-critics including T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, RIGHTS HELD Archibald MacLeish, Sterling A. Brown, and R. P. Blackmur. These artists grappled with All Languages the task of being “village explainers” (as Gertrude Stein described Ezra Pound) and legit- imizing literature for public funding and consumption.

Modernism, Kindley shows, created a different form of labor for writers to perform and gave them an unprecedented say over the administration of contemporary culture. The consequences for our understanding of poetry and its place in our culture are still felt widely today.

Evan Kindley is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at Claremont McK- enna College.

TALKING POINTS »» Describes the end of artistic patronage in the U.S., and the rise of literary programs supported by universities, magazines, philanthropic foundations, and the federal government. »» Explains how poets, in particular, were forced to justify their art to the public to secure financial support.

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Inside the Lost Museum Curating, Past and Present Steven D. Lubar

An exploration of the history and curation of American museums.

AUGUST 2017 Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plot- ting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in 364 pages a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our 21 halftones impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Cura- tors consider visitors’ interactions with objects and with one another, how our bodies ACQUIRING EDITOR move through displays, how our eyes grasp objects, how we learn and how we feel. Inside Janice Audet the Lost Museum documents the work museums do and suggests ways these institutions can enrich the educational and aesthetic experience of their visitors. TEXT PERMISSIONS no permission required Woven throughout Inside the Lost Museum is the story of the Jenks Museum at Brown University, a nineteenth-century display of natural history, anthropology, and curiosities ART PERMISSIONS that disappeared a century ago. The Jenks Museum’s past, and a recent effort by artist additional permission required Mark Dion, Steven Lubar, and their students to reimagine it as art and history, serve as a framework for exploring the long record of museums’ usefulness and service. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY available now Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every collection and exhi- bition. Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and RIGHTS HELD using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through histor- All Languages ical and contemporary examples. Inside the Lost Museum speaks to the hunt, the find, and the reveal that make curating and visiting exhibitions and using collections such a rewarding and vital pursuit.

Steven D. Lubar, a former museum curator and director, is Professor of Amer- ican Studies at Brown University.

TALKING POINTS »» Introduces readers to the work of museums: what they collect, how they preserve it, how they decide what to display, and how they decide which stories to tell. »» Spans 150 years and documents significant paradigm shifts in museum curation.

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Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921–1931

Nathan Marcus

A financial history of 1920s Austria.

In 1921 Austria became the first interwar European country to experience hyperinfla- FEBRUARY 2018 tion. The League of Nations, among other actors, stepped in to help reconstruct the economy, but a decade later Austria’s largest bank, Credit-Anstalt, collapsed. Historians 480 pages have correlated these events with the banking and currency crisis that destabilized inter- 20 halftones, 40 graphs, 8 tables war Europe—a narrative that relies on the claim that Austria and the global monetary system were the victims of financial interlopers. In this corrective history, Nathan Mar- ACQUIRING EDITOR cus deemphasizes the destructive role of external players in Austria’s reconstruction and Thomas LeBien points to the greater impact of domestic malfeasance and predatory speculation on the nation’s financial and political decline. TEXT PERMISSIONS no permission required Consulting sources ranging from diplomatic dossiers to bank statements and financial analyses, Marcus shows how the League of Nations’ efforts to curb Austrian hyperinfla- ART PERMISSIONS tion in 1922 were politically constrained. The League left Austria in 1926 but foreign permission may be required interests intervened in 1931 to contain the fallout from the Credit-Anstalt collapse. Not until later, when problems in the German and British economies became acute, MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY did Austrians and speculators exploit the country’s currency and compromise its value. August 25 Although some statesmen and historians have pinned Austria’s—and the world’s—economic implosion on financial colonialism, Marcus’s research offers a more accurate RIGHTS HELD appraisal of early multilateral financial supervision and intervention. All Languages

Illuminating new facets of the interwar political economy, Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance reckons with the true consequences of international in- volvement in the Austrian economy during a key decade of renewal and crisis.

Nathan Marcus is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the Russian National Research University Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

TALKING POINTS »» Provides a corrective account of interwar European history. »» Offers lessons on the impact of international capitalism on national sovereignty.

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Landscapes of Hope Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago Brian McCammack

A case study of black migration in the U.S. and the importance of nature.

NOVEMBER 2017 In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience, Landscapes of Hope travels to Chicago’s parks and beaches 360 pages as well as youth camps, vacation resorts, and the farms and forests of the rural Midwest. 24 halftones, 7 maps Despite persistent racial discrimination and violence in many of these places, African Americans retreated there to relax and sometimes work, reconnecting with southern ACQUIRING EDITOR identities and lifestyles they had left behind. Andrew Kinney Between 1915 and 1940, hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved away TEXT PERMISSIONS from the South to begin new lives in the urban North. In Chicago alone, the black permission may be required population quintupled to more than 275,000 in a quarter century. Most historians map the integration of southern and northern black culture through labor, religion, politics, ART PERMISSIONS and popular culture. Brian McCammack follows a different path, recapturing black Chi- additional permission required cagoans as they forged material and imaginative connections to nature. In the relatively prosperous migration years but also in the depths of the Great Depression, Chicago’s MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY black community—women and men, young and old, working class and upper class— May 3 sought out, fought for, built, and enjoyed natural and landscaped environments. No matter how crowded or degraded, green spaces provided a refuge for black Chicagoans RIGHTS HELD and an opportunity to realize the promise of nature and of the Great Migration itself. All Languages Situated at the intersection of race and place in American history, Landscapes of Hope traces the contours of a black environmental consciousness that runs throughout the African American experience.

Brian McCammack is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Lake Forest College.

TALKING POINTS »» Focuses on the South Side of Chicago, a prominent African American community in the U.S. »» Reveals the importance of natural and landscaped environments, despite the urban setting, to African Americans who migrated to Chicago in the early 20th century.

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Safe Passage The Transition from British to American Hegemony Kori Schake

A history of the peaceful transition of world dominance from Britain to the U.S.

History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from NOVEMBER 2017 British to American dominance of the international order. What made that transition uniquely cooperative and nonviolent? Does it offer lessons to guide policy as the United 250 pages States faces its own challengers to the order it has enforced since the 1940s? To answer 1 map these questions, Kori Schake explores nine points of crisis or tension between Britain and the United States, from the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the establishment of the ACQUIRING EDITOR unequal “special relationship” during World War II. Ian Malcolm

Over this period, Safe Passage shows, the United States gradually changed the rules that TEXT PERMISSIONS Britain had established at its imperial height. It was able to do so peacefully because, no permission required during the crucial years, Britain and the United States came to look alike to each other and different from other nations. Britain followed America’s lead in becoming more ART PERMISSIONS democratic, while the United States, because of its conquest of the American West, additional permission required developed an imperial cast of mind. Until the end of World War II, both countries paid more attention to their cumulative power relative to other states in the order than to MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY their individual power relative to each other. June 2

The factors that made the Anglo-American transition peaceful, notably the convergence RIGHTS HELD in their domestic ideologies, are unlikely to apply in future transitions, Schake con- All Languages cludes. We are much more likely to see high-stake standoffs among competing powers attempting to shape the international order to reflect the starkly different ideologies that prevail at home.

Kori Schake is Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

TALKING POINTS »» Draws insight from specific moments of crisis in the U.S.-U.K. relationship, and how that power dynamic evolved. »» Considers the implications of this history for China's rise as a global power.

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The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World

Cyrus Schayegh

An innovative analysis of nation- state building in Greater Syria.

AUGUST 2017 In The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh presents an innovative socio-spatial history that traces how different geographic areas and networks 480 pages molded the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. 9 halftones, 3 maps Centering his study on an area roughly coextensive with the modern states of Syria, ACQUIRING EDITOR Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel, Schayegh examines the complex interplay of local and Sharmila Sen transregional forces in a diverse territory that first came under Ottoman rule in the 1500s. For centuries, the major cities of this region—Damascus, Aleppo, Jerusalem, TEXT PERMISSIONS and Beirut—exercised a degree of autonomy. But in the nineteenth century, the Otto- no permission required man Empire, responding to the rise of European imperialism, attempted to exert greater administrative control. Cities remained powerful, but their ties to one another grew ART PERMISSIONS stronger as the region became more integrated. These developments did not cease with no permission required the Ottoman Empire’s collapse after World War I. Partitioned by the victorious British and French, this territory (known in Arabic as Bilād al-Shām) became an umbrella re- MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY gion from which new nation states would emerge—states whose very foundations were March 28 transnational and tied together multiple urban areas.

RIGHTS HELD Building on the Middle Eastern case, Schayegh argues that the modern world is best All Languages defined by the interlinking of cities, states, and regions in mutually transformative ways.

Cyrus Schayegh is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.

TALKING POINTS »» Presents a transnational narrative that shows how strong ties between cities and regions shaped new nation-states. »» Focuses on a formative period from the 1830s to the 1940s.

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Mughal Arcadia Persian Literature in an Indian Court Sunil Sharma

A study of the rise—and demise—of Persian court poetry in the Mughal Empire.

At its height in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Mughal Empire was one of NOVEMBER 2017 the largest empires in Eurasia, with territory extending over most of the Indian subconti- nent and much of present-day Afghanistan. As part of the Persianate world that spanned 268 pages from the Bosphorus to the Bay of Bengal, Mughal rulers were legendary connoisseurs of 10 halftones, 1 map the arts. Their patronage attracted poets, artists, and scholars from all parts of the eastern Islamic world. Persian was the language of the court, and poets from Safavid Iran played ACQUIRING EDITOR a significant role in the cultural life of the nobility.Mughal Arcadia explores the rise and Sharmila Sen decline of Persian court poetry in India and the invention of an enduring idea—found in poetry, prose, paintings, and architecture—of a literary paradise, a Persian garden TEXT PERMISSIONS located outside Iran, which was perfectly exemplified by the valley of Kashmir. no permission required

Poets and artists from Iran moved freely throughout the Mughal empire and encoun- ART PERMISSIONS tered a variety of cultures and landscapes that inspired aesthetic experiments which additional permission required continue to inspire the visual arts, poetry, films, and music in contemporary South Asia. Sunil Sharma takes readers on a dazzling literary journey over a vast geographic terrain MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY and across two centuries, from the accession of the first emperor, Babur, to the throne May 11 of Hindustan to the reign of the sixth great Mughal, Aurangzeb, in order to illuminate the life of Persian poetry in India. Along the way, we are offered a rare glimpse into the RIGHTS HELD social and cultural life of the Mughals. All Languages

Sunil Sharma is Professor of Persian & Indian Literatures at Boston University.

TALKING POINTS »» Explores the Persian literary history of the Mughal Empire from the 16th to the 18th centuries. »» Identifies new themes and shifts in aesthetics, including depictions of Mughal-occupied Kashmir as a utopia.

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Political Violence in Ancient India

Upinder Singh

A corrective history of political violence in ancient India.

SEPTEMBER 2017 Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence 540 pages (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to 12 halftones, 4 maps reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the dynamic tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian ACQUIRING EDITOR political thought and practice over twelve hundred years. Sharmila Sen Political Violence in Ancient India looks at representations of kingship and political vio- TEXT PERMISSIONS lence in epics, religious texts, political treatises, plays, poems, inscriptions, and art from no permission required 600 BCE to 600 CE. As kings controlled their realms, fought battles, and meted out justice, intellectuals debated the boundary between the force required to sustain power ART PERMISSIONS and the excess that led to tyranny and oppression. Duty (dharma) and renunciation no permission required were important in this discussion, as were punishment, war, forest tribes, and the royal hunt. Singh reveals a range of perspectives that defy rigid religious categoriza- MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY tion. Buddhists, Jainas, and even the pacifist Maurya emperor Ashoka recognized that May 5 absolute nonviolence was impossible for kings.

RIGHTS HELD By 600 CE religious thinkers, political theorists, and poets had justified and aesthet- All Languages icized political violence to a great extent. Nevertheless, questions, doubt, and dissent remained. These debates are as important for understanding political ideas in the ancient world as for thinking about the problem of political violence in our own time.

Upinder Singh is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delhi.

TALKING POINTS »» Rejects the 20th century notion of a nonviolent India, arguing that ancient India, like all cultures, was marked by violence of various kinds. »» Draws upon texts and archaeological records to show how rulers and intellectuals alike debated the necessity of violence.

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Enlisting Faith How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America Ronit Y. Stahl

A history of the administration of religion in the U.S. military.

A century ago, as the United States prepared to enter World War I, the military chaplain- NOVEMBER 2017 cy included only mainline Protestants and Catholics. Today it counts Jews, Mormons, Muslims, Christian Scientists, Buddhists, Seventh-day Adventists, Hindus, and evan- 324 pages gelicals among its ranks. Enlisting Faith traces the uneven processes through which the 25 halftones military struggled with, encouraged, and regulated religious pluralism over the twentieth century. ACQUIRING EDITOR Joyce Seltzer Moving from the battlefields of Europe to the jungles of Vietnam and between the forests of Civilian Conservation Corps camps and meetings in government offices, Ronit Y. TEXT PERMISSIONS Stahl reveals how the military borrowed from and battled religion. Just as the state relied no permission required on religion to sanction war and sanctify death, so too did religious groups seek recognition as American faiths. At times the state used religion to advance imperial goals. But ART PERMISSIONS religious citizens pushed back, challenging the state to uphold constitutional promises no permission required and moral standards. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY Despite the constitutional separation of church and state, the federal government au- June 2 thorized and managed religion in the military. The chaplaincy demonstrates how state leaders scrambled to handle the nation’s deep religious, racial, and political complexities. RIGHTS HELD While officials debated which clergy could serve, what insignia they would wear, and All Languages what religions appeared on dog tags, chaplains led worship for a range of faiths, navigated questions of conscience, struggled with discrimination, and confronted untimely death. Enlisting Faith is a vivid portrayal of religious encounters, state regulation, and the trials of faith—in God and country—experienced by the millions of Americans who fought in and with the armed forces.

Ronit Y. Stahl is a fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

TALKING POINTS »» Reveals the surprising degree to which the U.S. government facilitates, regulates, and administers faith to its armed forces. »» Offers a new perspective on the U.S. military—one that is progressive, innovative, and pragmatic.

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A Cold Welcome The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America Sam White

A history of the Little Ice Age—and how it shaped the colonization of North America.

OCTOBER 2017 When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The -av erage global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia, and its effects were 304 pages stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, and winters 20 halftones when even the Rio Grande froze. This period of climate change has come to be known as the Little Ice Age, and it played a decisive role in Europe’s encounter with the lands and ACQUIRING EDITOR peoples of North America. In A Cold Welcome, Sam White tells the story of this crucial Andrew Kinney period in world history, from Europe’s earliest expeditions in an unfamiliar landscape to the perilous first winters at Santa Fe, Quebec, and Jamestown. TEXT PERMISSIONS permission may be required Weaving together evidence from climatology, archaeology, and the written historical record, White describes how the severity and volatility of the Little Ice Age climate ART PERMISSIONS threatened to freeze and starve out the Europeans’ precarious new settlements. Lacking permission may be required basic provisions and wholly unprepared to fend for themselves under such harsh conditions, Europeans suffered life-threatening privation, and their desperation precipitated MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY violent conflict with Native Americans. availability tbd In the twenty-first century, as we confront an uncertain future from global warming, A RIGHTS HELD Cold Welcome reminds us of the risks of a changing and unfamiliar climate. All Languages Sam White is Associate Professor in the Department of History at The Ohio State University.

TALKING POINTS »» Provides a unique history of Europe's earliest explorations through the lens of extreme climate, covering British, French, and Spanish expeditions. »» Highlights the all-too-implicit implications of climate change, including crop failure, water shortages, famine, and disease.

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The Chance of Salvation A History of Conversion in America Lincoln A. Mullen

A comparative study of religious conversion in the U.S.

The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, and yet Americans have AUGUST 2017 often thought that people’s faith determines their eternal destinies. The result is that Americans switch religions more often than any other nation. The Chance of Salvation 340 pages traces the history of the distinctively American idea that religion is a matter of individual 8 halftones, 2 maps, 3 graphs choice. ACQUIRING EDITOR Lincoln Mullen shows how the willingness of Americans to change faiths, recorded in Joyce Seltzer narratives that describe a wide variety of conversion experiences, created a shared as- sumption that religious identity is a decision. In the nineteenth century, as Americans TEXT PERMISSIONS confronted a growing array of religious options, pressures to convert altered the basis of no permission required American religion. Evangelical Protestants emphasized conversion as a personal choice, while Protestant missionaries brought Christianity to Native American nations such as ART PERMISSIONS the Cherokee, who adopted Christianity on their own terms. Enslaved and freed African permission may be required Americans similarly created a distinctive form of Christian conversion based on ideas of divine justice and redemption. Mormons proselytized for a new tradition that stressed MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY individual free will. American Jews largely resisted evangelism while at the same time April 6 winning converts to Judaism. Converts to Catholicism chose to opt out of the system of religious choice by turning to the authority of the Church. RIGHTS HELD All Languages By the early twentieth century, religion in the United States was a system of competing options that created an obligation for more and more Americans to choose their own faith. Religion had changed from a family inheritance to a consciously adopted identity.

Lincoln A. Mullen is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University.

TALKING POINTS »» Identifies and traces the roots of a unique facet of religious practice in the U.S. »» Explains why Americans tend to be highly religiously affiliated, but also very secular.

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As If Idealization and Ideals Kwame Anthony Appiah

A defense of idealizations—fictional accounts of the world within our imaginations—and their usefulness in understanding reality.

AUGUST 2017 Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models in our scientific research and utopias in our political imaginations. Concepts like belief, 210 pages desire, reason, and justice are bound up with idealizations and ideals. Life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we encounter. In idealizing, ACQUIRING EDITOR we proceed “as if” our representations were true, while knowing they are not. This is not Lindsay Waters a dangerous or distracting occupation, Kwame Anthony Appiah shows. Our best chance of understanding nature, society, and ourselves is to open our minds to a plurality of TEXT PERMISSIONS imperfect depictions that together allow us to manage and interpret our world. no permission required The philosopher Hans Vaihinger first delineated the “as if” impulse at the turn of the MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY twentieth century, drawing on Kant, who argued that rational agency required us to March 21 act as if we were free. Appiah extends this strategy to examples across philosophy and the human and natural sciences. In a broad range of activities, we have some notion of RIGHTS HELD the truth yet continue with theories that we recognize are, strictly speaking, false. From All Languages this vantage point, Appiah demonstrates that a picture one knows to be unreal can be a vehicle for accessing reality.

As If explores how strategic untruth plays a critical role in far-flung areas of inquiry: decision theory, psychology, natural science, and political philosophy. A polymath who writes with mainstream clarity, Appiah defends the centrality of the imagination not just in the arts but in science, morality, and everyday life.

Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University.

TALKING POINTS »» Explains why an atheist might recognize myths as "myths" and yet still value them for their ethical values, and why metaphors and hyperbole still communicate some truth. »» Explores the usefulness of idealization across other disciplines—aesthetics, political philosophy, and others. »» By the author of Cosmopolitanism, licensed in 15 languages; The Honor Code, licensed in 8; and Experiments in Ethics, licensed in 3.

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The Meaning of Belief Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View Tim Crane

A philosophical account of what religion is—and isn't.

Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with OCTOBER 2017 their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. 210 pages The Meaning of Belief offers a way out of this stalemate. ACQUIRING EDITOR An atheist himself, Tim Crane writes that there is a fundamental flaw with most athe- Ian Malcolm ists’ basic approach: religion is not what they think it is. Atheists tend to treat religion as a kind of primitive cosmology, as the sort of explanation of the universe that science TEXT PERMISSIONS offers. They conclude that religious believers are irrational, superstitious, and bigoted. permission may be required But this view of religion is almost entirely inaccurate. Crane offers an alternative account based on two ideas. The first is the idea of a religious impulse: the sense people have of MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY something transcending the world of ordinary experience, even if it cannot be explicitly May 19 articulated. The second is the idea of identification: the fact that religion involves -be longing to a specific social group and participating in practices that reinforce the bonds RIGHTS HELD of belonging. Once these ideas are properly understood, the inadequacy of atheists’ con- All Languages ventional conception of religion emerges.

The Meaning of Belief does not assess the truth or falsehood of religion. Rather, it looks at the meaning of religious belief and offers a way of understanding it that both makes sense of current debate and also suggests what more intellectually responsible and prac- tically effective attitudes atheists might take to the phenomenon of religion.

Tim Crane is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cam- bridge.

TALKING POINTS »» Offers a rebuke to assumptions held about religion by New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and others. »» Charts out a path of toleration for religion—not necessarily out of respect, but out of desire for peace.

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Technosystem The Social Life of Reason Andrew Feenberg

A sophisticated study of the ethics and politics of technology.

NOVEMBER 2017 We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by personnel trained in those disciplines. This is a unique form of social 210 pages organization that largely determines our way of life, but the actions of individuals and 2 halftones, 3 tables social protest still play a role in developing and purposing these rational systems. In Tech- nosystem, Andrew Feenberg builds a theory of both the threats of technocratic modernity ACQUIRING EDITOR and the potential for democratic change. Jeff Dean Feenberg draws on the tradition of radical social criticism represented by Herbert TEXT PERMISSIONS Marcuse and the Frankfurt School, which recognized the social effects of instrumental permission may be required rationality but did not advance a convincing alternative to the new forms of domination imposed by rational systems. That is where the fine-grained analyses of Science, Tech- ART PERMISSIONS nology, and Society (STS) studies can contribute. Feenberg uses these approaches to additional permission required reconcile the claims of rationality with the agency of a public increasingly mobilized to intervene in technically based decisions. The resulting social theory recognizes emerging MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY forms of resistance, such as protests and hacking, as essential expressions of public life May 12 in the “rational society.”

RIGHTS HELD Combining the most salient insights from critical theory with the empirical findings All Languages of STS, Technosystem advances the philosophical debate over the nature and practice of reason in modern society.

Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University and Directeur de Programme in the Collège International de Philosophie.

TALKING POINTS »» Analyzes the ways in which technology (and its gatekeepers) influence social order, from right-handed scissors to the commodified echo-chambers of the internet. »» Identifies how public resistance—hacking, boycotts, law suits, and protest movements—are effective tools against technocratic power.

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Changing the Subject Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno Raymond Geuss

An off-beat history of philosophy and philosophers who defied conventional wisdom.

Ask a question and it is reasonable to expect an answer or a confession of ignorance. But OCTOBER 2017 a philosopher may defy expectations. Confronted by a standard question arising from a normal way of viewing the world, a philosopher may reply that the question is mis- 330 pages guided, that to continue asking it is, at the extreme, to get trapped in a delusive hall of mirrors. According to Raymond Geuss, this attempt to bypass or undercut conventional ACQUIRING EDITOR ways of thinking, to escape from the hall of mirrors, represents philosophy at its best Ian Malcolm and most characteristic. TEXT PERMISSIONS To illustrate, Geuss explores the ideas of twelve philosophers who broke dramatically no permission required with prevailing wisdom, from Socrates and Plato in the ancient world to Wittgenstein and Adorno in our own. The result is a striking account of some of the most innovative MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY and important philosophers in Western history and an indirect manifesto for how to May 19 pursue philosophy today. Geuss cautions that philosophers’ attempts to break from con- vention do not necessarily make the world a better place. Montaigne's ideas may have RIGHTS HELD been benign, but the fate of the views developed by, for instance, Augustine, Hobbes, All Languages and Nietzsche has been more varied. But in the act of provoking people to think dif- ferently, philosophers make clear that we are not fated to live within the often stifling systems of thought that we inherit. We can change the subject.

A work of exceptional range, power, and originality, Changing the Subject manifests the precise virtues of philosophy that it identifies and defends.

Raymond Geuss is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

TALKING POINTS »» Features 12 Western philosophers who creatively sought alternatives to conventional wisdom about the world. »» Explains why philosophers appear prone to not answering questions (i.e., "changing the subject"). »» By the author of Public Goods, Private Goods, licensed in 4 languages.

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The Basic Reality and the Human Reality

John R. Searle

A philosophical account of reality— what it is and how it works.

AUGUST 2017 There is a single overriding question in contemporary philosophy, and John Searle addresses it in this book. Given what we know from physics, chemistry, and the other 208 pages natural sciences—that the universe consists entirely of mindless, meaningless physical particles in fields of force, and these are organized into systems—how do we account ACQUIRING EDITOR for the human reality of mind, meaning, consciousness, intentionality, society, science, Lindsay Waters aesthetics, morality, and all social organization, including money, property, government, and marriage? TEXT PERMISSIONS no permission required Our philosophical tradition evades the problem by postulating two worlds—the mental and the physical—and in some versions even three worlds, with the social world added MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY on. Searle shows how we live in one world whose various higher-level features are natural April 11 consequences of the basic world. He begins with how consciousness can be caused by, and at the same time realized in, the brain as a higher level—or system—feature. Given RIGHTS HELD consciousness, it is not difficult to get to intentionality, the property by which the mind All Languages is directed at objects and states of affairs typically apart from itself. With consciousness and intentionality, including collective intentionality, in place, we can explain language. And from an account of language we can see how humans use it to construct a social reality of money, nation states, private property, universities, and businesses. His approach avoids the traditional mistakes of materialism, dualism, and idealism.

The Basic Reality and the Human Reality includes a discussion of free will, as well as notions of power and human rights.

John R. Searle is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor Emeritus of Philoso- phy at the University of California, Berkeley.

TALKING POINTS »» Reconciles what we think of as reality—consciousness, society, morality, etc.—with the reality that is described by the hard sciences. »» By the author of Speech Acts, Intentionality, and Minds, Brains, and Science, with translations in nearly 20 languages.

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No Morality, No Self Anscombe’s Radical Skepticism James Doyle

A defense of Elizabeth Anscombe's provocative theses about ethical reasoning and individual identity.

Frequently cited and just as often disputed, Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Phi- SEPTEMBER 2017 losophy” (1958) and “The First Person” (1975) are touchstones of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Though the arguments Anscombe advances in these papers are 224 pages familiar to philosophers, their significance remains widely misunderstood, says James Doyle. ACQUIRING EDITOR Lindsay Waters No Morality, No Self offers a fresh interpretation of Anscombe’s still-controversial theses about ethical reasoning and individual identity, specifically, her argument that the term TEXT PERMISSIONS “moral” (as it occurs in such contexts as “moral obligation”) is literally meaningless, permission may be required and that “I” does not refer to some special entity called a “self”—a pair of claims that philosophers have responded to with deep skepticism. However unsettling Anscombe’s MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY conclusions may be, Doyle shows the underlying seriousness of the British philosopher’s April 11 reasoning, exposing with clarity and concision how the counterarguments of Anscombe’s detractors are based on a flawed or incomplete understanding of her ideas. RIGHTS HELD All Languages Doyle zeroes in on the central conundrum Anscombe posed to the referentialist school: namely, that it is impossible to give a noncircular explanation of how “I” refers to the person who utters it. He shows where the refutations of philosophers including Lucy O’Brien, Gareth Evans, and Ian Rumfitt fall short, and throws light on why “I” developed features that make it look as if it functions as a referring expression. Reconciling seemingly incompatible points of view, Doyle argues that “I” does refer to a self, but not in a way anyone suspected—a surprising conclusion that is entirely à propos of Anscombe’s provocative thought.

James Doyle is Lecturer in Philosophy at Harvard University.

TALKING POINTS »» Shows how Anscombe's arguments and main claims are widely misunderstood. »» Ties together Anscombe's contributions with important developments in philosophy in subsequent decades.

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Self-Consciousness and Objectivity An Introduction to Absolute Idealism Sebastian Rödl

A sophisticated and provocative defense of absolute idealism.

JANUARY 2018 The publication of Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift marked a turning point in philosophy. In Self-Consciousness and Objectivity, Sebastian Rödl traces Frege's influence—evident 176 pages in the development and present state of analytic philosophy—and challenges central doctrines in contemporary semantics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. ACQUIRING EDITOR Lindsay Waters Thought is both self-conscious and objective. It is self-conscious because thinking something is not distinct from thinking that is being thought. It is objective because the TEXT PERMISSIONS validity of a thought depends simply on what is being thought, not on its being thought. no permission required These assumptions to appear to be in tension: on the one hand, if thought is objective, then what is thought would necessarily be distinct from its being thought; on the other MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY hand, if thought is self-conscious, then there should be no distinction between what is August 4 thought in thinking something and what is thought in thinking that it is being thought. Rödl identifies the source of this difficulty as an attempt to separate empirical knowledge RIGHTS HELD from self-knowledge. As Rödl explains, these cannot be separated—they can only be All Languages thought together. Self-consciouness and objectivity are actually one.

Provocative and innovative, Self-Consciousness and Objectivity challenges the current orthodoxy in analytic philosophy.

Sebastian Rödl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.

TALKING POINTS »» Offers a contemporary defense of German idealism. »» By the author of Self-Consciousness, licensed in German, and Kategorien des Zeitlichen [Categories of the Temporal].

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Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost

William Poole

An introduction to, and interpretation of, John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England’s OCTOBER 2017 self-elected national poet and explains how the single greatest poem of the English language came to be written. 350 pages

In early 1642 Milton—an obscure private schoolmaster—promised English readers a ACQUIRING EDITOR work of literature so great that “they should not willingly let it die.” Twenty-five years John Kulka later, toward the end of 1667, the work he had pledged appeared in print: the epic poem Paradise Lost. In the interim, however, the poet had gone totally blind and had also be- TEXT PERMISSIONS come a controversial public figure—a man who had argued for the abolition of bishops, no permission required freedom of the press, the right to divorce, and the prerogative of a nation to depose and put to death an unsatisfactory ruler. These views had rendered him an outcast. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY May 19 William Poole devotes particular attention to Milton’s personal situation: his reading and education, his ambitions and anxieties, and the way he presented himself to the RIGHTS HELD world. Although always a poet first, Milton was also a theologian and civil servant, All Languages vocations that informed the composition of his masterpiece. At the emotional center of this narrative is the astounding fact that Milton lost his sight in 1652. How did a blind man compose this staggeringly complex, intensely visual work? Poole opens up the epic worlds and sweeping vistas of Milton’s masterpiece to modern readers, first by exploring Milton’s life and intellectual preoccupations and then by explaining the poem itself—its structure, content, and meaning.

William Poole is John Galsworthy Fellow and Tutor in English, New College, University of Oxford.

TALKING POINTS »» Offers a complete analysis of the plot, structure, and content of this notoriously difficult poem. »» Provides an insightful narrative of Milton's life and times and how they influenced his work.

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Life through Time and Space

Wallace Arthur

An introduction to the origins of life— from humans to planet Earth itself.

AUGUST 2017 All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Life through Time and Space 270 pages brings together the latest discoveries in both biology and astronomy to examine our 7 line illustrations deepest questions about where we came from, where we are going, and whether we are alone in the cosmos. ACQUIRING EDITOR Janice Audet A distinctive voice in the growing field of astrobiology, Wallace Arthur combines embry- ological, evolutionary, and cosmological perspectives to tell the story of life on Earth and TEXT PERMISSIONS its potential to exist elsewhere in the universe. He guides us on a journey through the no permission required myriad events that started with the Big Bang and led to the universe we inhabit today. Along the way, readers learn about the evolution of life from a primordial soup of or- ART PERMISSIONS ganic molecules to complex plants and animals, about Earth’s geological transformation no permission required from barren rock to diverse ecosystems, and about human development from embryo to infant to adult. Arthur looks closely at the history of mass extinctions and the prospects MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY for humanity’s future on a planet that grows hotter and more populous by the year. available now Do intelligent aliens exist on a distant planet in the Milky Way, sharing the three origins RIGHTS HELD that characterize all life on Earth? In addressing this question, Life through Time and All Languages Space tackles the many riddles of our place and fate in the universe that have intrigued human beings since they first gazed in wonder at the nighttime sky.

Wallace Arthur is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

TALKING POINTS »» Presents an accessible, popular-science narrative to the origins of life. »» Speculates on the likelihood of intelligent alien life, from both biological and astronomical points of view.

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Life at the Edge of Sight A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter

A visual exploration of microbes and their contributions to science as well as day-to-day life.

Microbes create medicines, filter waste water, and clean pollution. They give cheese SEPTEMBER 2017 funky flavors, wines complex aromas, and bread a nutty crumb.Life at the Edge of Sight is a stunning visual exploration of the inhabitants of an invisible world, from the pio- 350 pages neering findings of a seventeenth-century visionary to magnificent close-ups of the inner 183 color illustrations, 35 halftones workings and cooperative communities of Earth’s most prolific organisms. ACQUIRING EDITOR Using cutting-edge imaging technologies, Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter lead Janice Audet readers through breakthroughs and unresolved questions scientists hope microbes will answer soon. They explain how microbial studies have clarified the origins of life on TEXT PERMISSIONS Earth, guided thinking about possible life on other planets, unlocked evolutionary no permission required mechanisms, and helped explain the functioning of complex ecosystems. Microbes have been harnessed to increase crop yields and promote human health. ART PERMISSIONS no permission required But equally impressive, Life at the Edge of Sight opens a beautiful new frontier for readers to explore through words and images. We learn that there is more microbial biodiversity MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY on a single frond of duckweed floating in a Delft canal than the diversity of plants and May 12 animals that biologists find in tropical jungles. Colonies with millions of microbes can produce an array of pigments that put an artist’s palette to shame. The microbial world RIGHTS HELD is ancient and ever-changing, buried in fossils and driven by cellular reactions operating All Languages in quadrillionths of a second. All other organisms have evolved within this universe of microbes, yielding intricate beneficial symbioses. With two experts as guides, the invisible microbial world awaits in plain sight.

Scott Chimileski is a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, specializing in imaging and photography. Roberto Kolter is a Professor at Harvard Medi- cal School and Co-Director of Harvard's Microbial Sciences Initiative.

TALKING POINTS »» Presents a stunning collection of images to introduce readers to the world of microbes. »» Explains the profound impact of microbes, from the first stirrings of life on Earth to our "domestication" of microbes to produce food to our current search for habitable planets.

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Bioinspired Devices Emulating Nature’s Assembly and Repair Process Eugene C. Goldfield

A survey of the principles in nature that can help scientists develop new therapies.

FEBRUARY 2018 Robotic exoskeletons that allow stroke survivors to regain use of their limbs, 3D-printed replacement body parts, and dozens of other innovations still in schematic design 424 pages are revolutionizing the treatment of debilitating injuries and nervous system disorders. 27 color illustrations, 1 halftone, What all these technologies have in common is that they are modeled after engineering 1 line illustration, 37 tables strategies found in nature—strategies developed by a vast array of organisms over eons of evolutionary trial and error. ACQUIRING EDITOR Janice Audet Eugene Goldfield lays out many principles of engineering found in the natural world, with a focus on how evolutionary and developmental adaptations, such as sensory organs TEXT PERMISSIONS and spinal cords, function within complex organisms. He shows how the component no permission required parts of highly coordinated structures organize themselves into autonomous functional systems. For example, when people walk, spinal cord neurons generate coordinated sig- ART PERMISSIONS nals that continuously reorganize patterns of muscle activations during the gait cycle. additional permission required This self-organizing capacity is just one of many qualities that allow biological systems to be robust, adaptive, anticipatory, and self-repairing. To exploit the full potential of MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY technologies designed to interact seamlessly with human bodies, properties like these July 21 must be better understood and harnessed at every level, from molecules to cells to organ systems. RIGHTS HELD All Languages Bioinspired Devices brings together insights from a wide range of fields. A member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Goldfield offers an insider’s view of cutting-edge research, and envisions a future in which synthetic and biological devices share energy sources and control, blurring the boundary between nature and medicine.

Eugene C. Goldfield is Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Bos- ton Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

TALKING POINTS »» Introduces readers to how complex organisms build and repair themselves, and how those insights might be applied in healing humans. »» Highlights cutting-edge and revolutionary work done at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.

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Chimpanzees and Human Evolution

edited by Martin N. Muller, Richard W. Wrangham, and David Pilbeam

A sustained comparison of human and chimpanzee evolution.

Knowledge of chimpanzees in the wild has expanded dramatically in recent years. This NOVEMBER 2017 comprehensive volume brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain what is unique about humans, by studying their closest living relatives. 704 pages Their observations and conclusions have the potential to transform our understanding 20 halftones, 90 line illustrations of human evolution. ACQUIRING EDITOR Chimpanzees offer scientists an unmatched view of what distinguishes humanity from Andrew Kinney its apelike ancestors. Based on evidence from the hominin fossil record and extensive morphological, developmental, and genetic data, Chimpanzees and Human Evolution TEXT PERMISSIONS makes the case that the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans was chim- permission may be required panzee-like. A thorough chapter-by-chapter analysis reveals which key traits we share with chimpanzees and which appear to be distinctive to Homo sapiens, and shows how ART PERMISSIONS understanding chimpanzees helps us account for the evolution of human uniqueness. permission may be required Traits surveyed include social behaviors and structures, mating systems, diet, hunting practices, tool use, culture, cognition, and communication. MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY July 7 Edited by three of primatology’s most renowned experts, with contributions from 32 scholars drawing on decades of field research, Chimpanzees and Human Evolution RIGHTS HELD provides readers with detailed up-to-date information on what we can infer about our All Languages chimpanzee-like ancestors and points the way forward for the next generation of discoveries.

Martin N. Muller is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Richard W. Wrangham is Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolution- ary Biology at Harvard University. David Pilbeam is Henry Ford II Professor of Human Evolution in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

TALKING POINTS »» Features a collection of essays by experts with direct experience studying chimpanzees, fossils, and human foragers. »» Emphasizes the importance of studying chimpanzees as a means of understanding human evolution and identifying what makes humans unique.

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Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology Seventh Edition Robert A. Novelline

A revised edition of one of the world's most important radiology textbooks.

JANUARY 2018 Medical students preparing for a career in clinical practice must become familiar with a wide range of diagnostic imaging techniques and image-guided interventions. They 672 pages must learn to identify the indications for radiological examination and recognize the role 20 color illustrations, 1350 each procedure plays in the workup, diagnosis, and therapeutic management of patients. halftones, 80 line illustrations That is whySquire’s Fundamentals of Radiology has been such an important, longstanding resource for medical students, physicians, and other professionals at all stages of their ACQUIRING EDITOR careers. It teaches essential topics in the radiology curriculum and features hundreds of Janice Audet illustrative cases clinicians can turn to again and again in practice.

TEXT PERMISSIONS In this long-awaited seventh edition, Robert Novelline provides more than 600 new permission may be required high-resolution images representing the current breadth of radiological procedures: conventional X-rays, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging ART PERMISSIONS (MRI), angiography, radioisotope scanning, positron emission tomography (PET), and permission may be required molecular imaging. This edition’s expanded coverage addresses dual energy CT, breast tomosynthesis, PET-MR scanning, and tractography brain imaging, along with best MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY practices for managing patient experiences during and after examination. All new images availability tbd were produced at a major teaching hospital using state-of-the-art imaging technologies.

RIGHTS HELD Squire’s Fundamentals of Radiology is designed to be read cover to cover by students, All Languages with concepts, principles, and methods progressing in a logical, cumulative manner. It also serves as an invaluable tool for teachers and an indispensable reference for seasoned practitioners. Written by a radiologist who has trained thousands of medical students and residents, this textbook is the clear choice for excelling in the general practice of radiology.

Robert A. Novelline, M.D., is Professor Emeritus of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and former director of both the Harvard Medical School Core and Advanced Radiology Student Clerkships at MGH.

TALKING POINTS »» Features more than 600 new high-resolution images using state-of-the-art imaging technology. »» Describes and illustrates the latest techniques for both radiology students and seasoned practitioners alike. »» Previously licensed in over seven languages.

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Observation and Experiment An Introduction to Causal Inference Paul R. Rosenbaum

An introduction to understanding causal inferences.

In the daily news and the scientific literature, we are faced with conflicting claims about AUGUST 2017 the effects caused by some treatments, behaviors, and policies. A daily glass of wine pro- longs life, or so we are told. Yet we are also told that alcohol can cause life-threatening 370 pages cancer and that pregnant women should abstain from drinking. Some say that raising 13 graphs, 28 tables the minimum wage decreases inequality while others say it increases unemployment. In- vestigators once confidently claimed that hormone replacement therapy reduces the risk ACQUIRING EDITOR of heart disease but today investigators confidently claim it raises that risk. How should Thomas LeBien we study such questions? TEXT PERMISSIONS Observation and Experiment is an introduction to causal inference from one of the field’s no permission required leading scholars. Using minimal mathematics and statistics, Paul Rosenbaum explains key concepts and methods through scientific examples that make complex ideas concrete ART PERMISSIONS and abstract principles accessible. no permission required

Some causal questions can be studied in randomized trials in which coin flips assign MANUSCRIPT AVAILABILITY individuals to treatments. But because randomized trials are not always practical or eth- March 22 ical, many causal questions are investigated in nonrandomized observational studies. To illustrate, Rosenbaum draws examples from clinical medicine, economics, public health, RIGHTS HELD epidemiology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry. Readers gain an understanding of the All Languages design and interpretation of randomized trials, the ways they differ from observational studies, and the techniques used to remove, investigate, and appraise bias in observational studies. Observation and Experiment is a valuable resource for anyone with a serious interest in the empirical study of human health, behavior, and well-being.

Paul R. Rosenbaum is Robert G. Putzel Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Econom- ics, University of Pennsylvania.

TALKING POINTS »» Teaches readers core stastical concepts and methods underlying causal inference, using minimal math.

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Capital without Borders Wealth Managers and the One Percent Brooke Harrington

An exposé of how a secretive group of wealth managers help the one percent maintain and hide their wealth.

SEPTEMBER 2016 How do the one percent hold on to their wealth? And how do they keep getting richer, despite financial crises and the myriad of taxes on income, capital gains, and inheri- 400 pages tance? Capital without Borders takes a novel approach to these questions by looking at 2 halftones, 6 line illustrations, professionals who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world’s richest people: 1 map, 2 tables wealth managers. Brooke Harrington spent nearly eight years studying this little-known group—including two years training to become a wealth manager herself. She then “fol- ACQUIRING EDITOR lowed the money” to the eighteen most popular tax havens in the world, interviewing Ian Malcolm practitioners to understand how they helped their high-net-worth clients avoid taxes, creditors, and disgruntled heirs—all while staying just within the letter of the law. RIGHTS HELD All Languages Capital without Borders reveals how wealth managers use offshore banks, shell corporations, and trusts to shield billions in private wealth not only from taxation but from all RIGHTS SOLD manner of legal obligations. And it shows how practitioners justify their work, despite Danish: Djof Publishing evidence that it erodes government authority and contributes to global inequality. Japanese: Misuzu Shobo Korean: Dongnyok Publishing Harrington’s research offers the first glimpse into the tactics and mentality of a secretive profession that controls astonishingly large flows of capital around the world. Based on sixty-five practitioner interviews—conducted in the traditional financial centers of -Eu rope and the Americas as well as the up-and-coming tax havens of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific—Capital without Borders gives voice for the first time to an elite that has worked quietly and unobtrusively to enrich the one percent.

Brooke Harrington is Associate Professor of Sociology at Copenhagen Busi- ness School, Denmark.

TALKING POINTS »» Sheds light on the most important but least understood form of inequality: wealth. »» Draws from interviews with wealth managers in 17 countries and the author's own training as a wealth manager.

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Politics against Domination

Ian Shapiro

A proposal to redefine politics as a means to combat domination.

Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the overriding purpose of politics should be APRIL 2016 to combat domination. Moreover, he shows how to put resistance to domination into practice at home and abroad. Thisis a major work of applied political theory, a profound 270 pages challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution. ACQUIRING EDITOR Ian Malcolm Shapiro builds his case from the ground up, but he also spells out its implications for pressing debates about electoral systems, independent courts, money in politics, mini- RIGHTS HELD mum wages, and the vulnerabilities of minorities. He takes up debates over international All Languages institutions and world government, intervention to prevent genocide and ethnic cleans- ing, and the challenges of fostering democracy abroad. Shapiro is brutally realistic in his RIGHTS SOLD assessments of politics and power, yet he makes an inspiring case that we can reasonably Czech: under negotiation hope to devise ways to combat domination and act on them. Gleaning insights from the Russian: Praxis Research battle against slavery, the creation of modern welfare states, the civil rights movement, & Publishing Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, and the worldwide campaign against sweatshops, among other sources, Shapiro explains the ingredients of effective coalitions for political change and how best to press them into the service of resisting domination.

Politics against Domination ranges over political science, psychology, economics, history, sociology, and law. It will be of interest to seasoned veterans of political theory in all these disciplines. But it is written in the lucid and penetrating style for which Shapiro is widely known, making it readily accessible to newcomers.

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale, where he directs the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

TALKING POINTS »» Argues that the goal of politics is to ensure that no group is dominated by another. »» Examines the efficacy of various government types in balancing and protecting the interests of its constituents. »» By the author of The Moral Foundations of Politics, translated into nine languages, among other titles.

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Basic Income A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght

An ambitious proposal for and defense of unconditional basic income.

MARCH 2017 It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to every individual, 398 pages rich or poor, active or inactive, has been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas 8 graphs, 1 table Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. For a long time, it was hardly no- ticed and never taken seriously. Today, with the traditional welfare state creaking under ACQUIRING EDITOR pressure, it has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the Ian Malcolm world. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present the most comprehensive defense of this radical idea so far, advocating it as our most realistic hope for addressing RIGHTS HELD economic insecurity and social exclusion in the twenty-first century. All Languages The authors seamlessly combine philosophy, politics, and economics as they compare RIGHTS SOLD the idea of a basic income with rival ideas past and present for guarding against poverty Chinese, Simplified: and unemployment. They trace its history, tackle the economic and ethical objections China University Political against an unconditional income—including its alleged tendency to sap incentives and Science and Law foster free riding—and lay out how such an apparently implausible idea might be viable Korean: Next Wave Media financially and achievable politically. Finally, they consider the relevance of the proposal Italian: Mulino in an increasingly globalized economy. Russian: under negotiation Spanish: Grano de Sal In an age of growing inequality and divided politics, when old answers to enduring social problems no longer inspire confidence, Basic Income presents fresh reasons to hope that we might yet achieve a free society and a sane economy.

Philippe Van Parijs is Professor of Economic and Social Ethics, University of Louvain. Yannick Vanderborght is Professor of Political Science, Université Saint-Louis, Brussels.

TALKING POINTS »» Presents a philosophical and economic case for universal income. »» By the author of Ethique économique et sociale, licensed in Algerian, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, and Spanish, and the co-author of L'allocation universelle, licensed in German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish.

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Inequality What Can Be Done? Anthony B. Atkinson

An overview of the rising poverty within developed nations and a practical guide to mitigating this trend.

Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World MAY 2015 War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of the problem—talk about the 99% and the 1% is entrenched in public debate—but there has 400 pages been little discussion of what we can do but despair. According to the distinguished 40 graphs, 6 tables economist Anthony Atkinson, however, we can do much more than skeptics imagine. ACQUIRING EDITOR Atkinson has long been at the forefront of research on inequality, and brings his theoreti- Ian Malcolm cal and practical experience to bear on its diverse problems. He presents a comprehensive set of policies that could bring about a genuine shift in the distribution of income in de- RIGHTS HELD veloped countries. The problem, Atkinson shows, is not simply that the rich are getting All Languages richer. We are also failing to tackle poverty, and the economy is rapidly changing to leave the majority of people behind. To reduce inequality, we have to go beyond placing new RIGHTS SOLD taxes on the wealthy to fund existing programs. We need fresh ideas. Atkinson thus rec- Chinese, Complex: ommends ambitious new policies in five areas: technology, employment, social security, Commonwealth Publishing the sharing of capital, and taxation. He defends these against the common arguments Chinese, Simplified: CITIC and excuses for inaction: that intervention will shrink the economy, that globalization Czech: Albatros Media makes action impossible, and that new policies cannot be afforded. Danish: Gyldendal Dutch: Polis Publishers More than just a program for change, Atkinson’s book is a voice of hope and informed French: Editions du Seuil optimism about the possibilities for political action. German: Klett-Cotta Greek: Patakis Publishers Anthony B. Atkinson was Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Centenni- Hungarian: Kossuth Publishing al Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Italian: Cortina Editore Japanese: Toyo Keizai Shimpo Sha Korean: Geulhangari Norwegian: Cappelen Damm Polish: Krytyka Polityczna Portuguese, Brazil: LeYa Editora Portuguese, Portugal: Bertrand Editora TALKING POINTS Russian: Delo Publishers »» Stresses the importance of reducing inequality and provides concrete, actionable Spanish: Fondo de solutions. Cultura Económica »» By the founder of modern inequality studies and frequent collaborator with Thomas Turkish: Efil Yayinevi Piketty.

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The Great Convergence Information Technology and the New Globalization Richard Baldwin

A fascinating look at how information technology has radically changed the nature of globalization.

NOVEMBER 2016 Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to 330 pages where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new 2 halftones, 29 line illustrations, age of globalization that is drastically different from the old. 41 graphs, 9 tables In the 1800s, globalization leaped forward when steam power and international peace ACQUIRING EDITOR lowered the costs of moving goods across borders. This triggered a self-fueling cycle of Ian Malcolm industrial agglomeration and growth that propelled today’s rich nations to dominance. That was the Great Divergence. The new globalization is driven by information tech- RIGHTS HELD nology, which has radically reduced the cost of moving ideas across borders. This has All Languages made it practical for multinational firms to move labor-intensive work to developing nations. But to keep the whole manufacturing process in sync, the firms also shipped RIGHTS SOLD their marketing, managerial, and technical know-how abroad along with the offshored Italian: Mulino jobs. The new possibility of combining high tech with low wages propelled the rapid in- Japanese: Nikkei Publishing dustrialization of a handful of developing nations, the simultaneous deindustrialization Korean: under negotiation of developed nations, and a commodity supercycle that is only now petering out. The Russian: Delo Publishers result is today’s Great Convergence. Spanish: Antoni Bosch Because globalization is now driven by fast-paced technological change and the frag- mentation of production, its impact is more sudden, more selective, more unpredictable, and more uncontrollable. As The Great Convergence shows, the new globalization presents rich and developing nations alike with unprecedented policy challenges in their efforts to maintain reliable growth and social cohesion.

Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Director of the Centre of Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London.

TALKING POINTS »» Revises and expands our understanding of globalization to account for both historical and the more radical contemporary consequences. »» Explains the current era of globalization's impact on the world economy, including the de-nationalization of competitiveness; the hollowing out of rich nation labor markets; the premature de-industrialization of many developing nations; and the rise of stock values relative to wages.

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After Piketty The Agenda for Economics and Inequality edited by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, and Marshall Steinbaum

A retrospective of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work MAY 2017 of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go 640 pages from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? 8 halftones, 2 line illustrations, A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with 41 graphs, 7 tables Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. ACQUIRING EDITOR After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer, the book’s translator, Ian Malcolm of the reasons for Capital’s phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. The rest of the book is devoted to RIGHTS HELD newly commissioned essays that interrogate Piketty’s arguments. Suresh Naidu and oth- All Languages er contributors ask whether Piketty said enough about power, slavery, and the complex nature of capital. Laura Tyson and Michael Spence consider the impact of technology RIGHTS SOLD on inequality. Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging Korean: Ulysses Publishing from gender to trends in the global South. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a variety of essayists examine the book’s implications for the social sciences more broadly. Piketty replies to these questions in a substantial concluding chapter.

An indispensable interdisciplinary work, After Piketty does not shy away from the seemingly intractable problems that made Capital in the Twenty-First Century so compelling for so many.

Heather Boushey is Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Wash- ington Center for Equitable Growth. J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Marshall Steinbaum is Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, New York.

TALKING POINTS »» Evaluates the success of Capital, assesses Piketty's conclusions, and takes stock of where we are at and where we are going. »» Features a collection of original essays from thought leaders Robert Solow, Paul Krugman, Branko Milanovic, Emmanuel Saez, and others, plus Thomas Piketty himself.

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Global Inequality A New Approach for the Age of Globalization Branko Milanovic

A compelling and cutting-edge look at inequality within and among nations.

APRIL 2016 One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast 320 pages data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make 1 map, 1 diagram, 50 inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped graphs, 4 tables the most by globalization, who has been held back, andwhat policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice. ACQUIRING EDITOR Ian Malcolm Global Inequality takes us back hundreds of years, and as far around the world as data allow, to show that inequality moves in cycles, fueled by war and disease, technological RIGHTS HELD disruption, access to education, and redistribution. The recent surge of inequality in the All Languages West has been driven by the revolution in technology, just as the Industrial Revolution drove inequality 150 years ago. But even as inequality has soared within nations, it has RIGHTS SOLD fallen dramatically among nations, as middle-class incomes in China and India have Chinese, Simplified: CITIC drawn closer to the stagnating incomes of the middle classes in the developed world. A Dutch: Uitgeverij Unieboek more open migration policy would reduce global inequality even further. Finnish: Vastapaino German: Suhrkamp Verlag Both American and Chinese inequality seems well entrenched and self-reproducing, Hebrew: Hakibbutz Publishing though it is difficult to predict if current trends will be derailed by emerging plutocracy, Japanese: Misuzu Shobo populism, or war. For those who want to understand how we got where we are, where Korean: Book21 Publishing we may be heading, and what policies might help reverse that course, Milanovic’s com- Russian: Foundation Gaidar pelling explanation is the ideal place to start. Serbian: Akademska Knjiga Spanish: Fondo de Branko Milanovic is Senior Scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study Center, Cultura Económica and Visiting Presidential Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New Swedish: Bokförlaget Daidalos York.

TALKING POINTS »» Explains how emerging markets caught up at the expense of the West's middle classes. »» Reveals that inequality among nations is shrinking, but inequality within nations is growing. »» By the author of Worlds Apart and The Haves and the Have-Nots, with translations in simplified Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Serbian, and Spanish.

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Society and Economy Framework and Principles Mark Granovetter

A sweeping overview of the interactions between social norms and the economy.

Society and Economy—a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern eco- FEBRUARY 2017 nomic sociology—is the first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined. 220 pages

The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities, Granovetter writes. ACQUIRING EDITOR It is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and Ian Malcolm constraints as religion, science, politics, or law. While some actions can be understood in traditional economic terms as people working rationally toward well-defined ends, RIGHTS HELD much human behavior is harder to fit into that simple framework. Actors sometimes All Languages follow social norms with a passionate faith in their appropriateness, and at other times they conform without conscious thought. They also trust others when there is no ob- RIGHTS SOLD vious reason to do so. The power individuals wield over one another can have a major Chinese, Simplified: CITIC impact on economic outcomes, even when that power arises from noneconomic sources. Italian: EGEA Russian: under negotiation Although people depend on social norms, culture, trust, and power to solve problems, the guidance these offer is often murky and complicated. Granovetter explores how problem solvers improvise to assemble pragmatic solutions from this multitude of principles. He draws throughout on arguments from psychology, social network studies, and long-term historical and political analysis and suggests ways to maneuver back and forth among these approaches. Underlying Granovetter’s arguments is an attempt to move beyond such simple dualisms as agency/structure to a more complex and subtle appreci- ation of the nuances and dynamics that drive social and economic life.

Mark Granovetter is Joan Butler Ford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.

TALKING POINTS »» Distills decades of thought by the founder of modern economic sociology. »» By the editor of The Sociology of Economic Life and the author of Getting a Job, with translations licensed in simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, and Korean.

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Make It Stick The Science of Successful Learning Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark. A. McDaniel

A practical guide on the best study habits.

APRIL 2014 To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of stu- 336 pages dents and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and ACQUIRING EDITOR other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive Andrew Kinney learners.

RIGHTS HELD Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as All Languages applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later RIGHTS SOLD retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Chinese, Complex: Commonwealth Publishing Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Chinese, Simplified: CITIC Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of Czech: Jan Melvil Publishing new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and du- French, EU: Editions Markus Haller rable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting French, Africa: Nouveaux Horizons to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice Japanese: NTT Shuppan of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, Korean: Mirae N and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong Polish: Grupo Inco learning and self-improvement. Russian: Alpina Publishers Turkish: Tuva Yazilim Peter C. Brown is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, including the his- Vietnamese: Alpha Books torical novel The Fugitive Wife. Henry L. Roediger III is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. Mark A. McDaniel is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIR- CLE) at Washington University in St. Louis.

TALKING POINTS »» Provides surprising insights on successful learning, based on empirical studies. »» Illustrates examples with stories of real people with diverse occupations, including a jet pilot, a neurosurgeon, a police officer, an investor, an athletics coach, and others.

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Njinga of Angola Africa’s Warrior Queen Linda M. Heywood

An exciting biography of the iconic and powerful Njinga of Angola.

Though largely unknown in the Western world, the seventeenth-century African queen FEBRUARY 2017 Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, a woman who rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Linda Heywood 330 pages offers the first full-length study in English of Queen Njinga’s long life and political influ- 14 halftones, 6 maps ence, revealing how this Cleopatra of central Africa skillfully navigated—and ultimately transcended—the ruthless, male-dominated power struggles of her time. ACQUIRING EDITOR Kathleen McDermott In 1626 after being deposed by the Portuguese, she transformed herself into a prolific slave trader and ferocious military leader, waging wars against the Portuguese colonizers RIGHTS HELD and their African allies. Surviving multiple attempts to kill her, Njinga conquered the All Languages neighboring state of Matamba and ruled as queen of Ndongo/Matamba. At the height of her reign in the 1640s Njinga ruled almost one-quarter of modern-day Angola. To- RIGHTS SOLD ward the end of her life, weary of war, she made peace with Portugal and converted to Portuguese, Portugal: Christianity, though her devotion to the new faith was questioned. Oficina do Livro

Who was Queen Njinga? There is no simple answer. In a world where women were subjugated by men, she repeatedly outmaneuvered her male competitors and flouted gender norms, taking both male and female lovers. Today, Njinga is revered in Angola as a national heroine and honored in folk religions, and her complex legacy continues to resonate, forming a crucial part of the collective memory of the Afro-Atlantic world.

Linda M. Heywood is Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University.

TALKING POINTS »» Provides a full biography of Njinga of Angola, whose story rivals that of Catherine the Great, Queen Elizabeth I, and Isabella of Aragon. »» Surveys all facets of Njinga's life and legacy: her ruthless quest for power; her adventurous sexual life; her political cunning and military prowess; her prolific slave trading; her steadfast loyalty to her people.

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The Habsburg Empire A New History Pieter M. Judson

A history of the late Hapsburg Empire and its enduring legacy.

APRIL 2016 In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Em- pire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of 480 pages language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attach- 40 halftones, 7 maps ment to “their empire,” while bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, and academics devised inventive solutions to the challenges of governing Europe’s second largest state. In the ACQUIRING EDITOR decades before and after its dissolution, some observers belittled the Habsburg Empire as Kathleen McDermott a dysfunctional patchwork of hostile ethnic groups and an anachronistic imperial relic. Judson examines their motives and explains just how wrong these rearguard critics were. RIGHTS HELD All Languages Rejecting fragmented histories of nations in the making, this bold revision surveys the shared institutions that bridged difference and distance to bring stability and meaning RIGHTS SOLD to the far-flung empire. By supporting new schools, law courts, and railroads, along with Chinese, Simplified: CITIC scientific and artistic advances, the Habsburg monarchs sought to anchor their authority German: Verlag C.H. Beck in the cultures and economies of Central Europe. A rising standard of living through- Italian: under negotiation out the empire deepened the legitimacy of Habsburg rule, as citizens learned to use Polish: Bellona the empire’s administrative machinery to their local advantage. Nationalists developed Slovene: Sophia distinctive ideas about cultural difference in the context of imperial institutions, yet all of them claimed the Habsburg state as their empire.

The empire’s creative solutions to governing its many lands and peoples—as well as the intractable problems it could not solve—left an enduring imprint on its successor states in Central Europe. Its lessons remain no less important today.

Pieter M. Judson is Professor of 19th and 20th Century History at the Euro- pean University Institute in Florence, Italy.

TALKING POINTS »» Compares histories of the various regions of the Habsburg Monarchy from the 18th to 20th century. »» Explains attempts to create a unified empire, where subjects became citizens. »» Highlights continuities seen in successor states today.

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The Invention of Humanity Equality and Cultural Difference in World History Siep Stuurman

A global investigation of the idea of a "common humanity".

For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, sel- FEBRUARY 2017 dom as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. Siep Stuurman traces evolving ideas of human equality and 626 pages difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present. 5 maps

Despite humans’ deeply ingrained bias against strangers, migration and cultural blend- ACQUIRING EDITOR ing have shaped human experience from the earliest times. As travelers crossed frontiers Kathleen McDermott and came into contact with unfamiliar peoples and customs, frontier experiences gener- ated not only hostility but also empathy and understanding. Empires sought to civilize RIGHTS HELD their “barbarians,” but in all historical eras critics of empire were able to imagine how All Languages the subjected peoples made short shrift of imperial arrogance. RIGHTS SOLD Drawing on the views of a global mix of thinkers—Homer, Confucius, Herodotus, the Chinese, Simplified: Guangxi medieval Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun, the Haitian writer Antenor Firmin, the Filipino Normal University Press nationalist Jose Rizal, and more—The Invention of Humanity surveys the great civiliza- tional frontiers of history, from the interaction of nomadic and sedentary societies in ancient Eurasia and Africa, to Europeans’ first encounters with the indigenous peoples of the New World, to the Enlightenment invention of universal “modern equality.” Against a backdrop of two millennia of thinking about common humanity and equality, Stu- urman concludes with a discussion of present-day debates about human rights and the “clash of civilizations.”

Siep Stuurman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas at Utrecht Uni- versity, The Netherlands.

TALKING POINTS »» Explores how we came to think of "others" as fellow human beings. »» Draws from great thinkers like Homer, Confucius, Herodotus, Ibn Khaldun, Antenor Firmin, Jose Rizal, and more.

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Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

Judith Butler

A treatise on the dynamics of public assembly.

NOVEMBER 2015 Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as 256 pages plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing ACQUIRING EDITOR force and theme in today’s highly visible protests. Lindsay Waters Butler broadens the theory of performativity beyond speech acts to include the concert- RIGHTS HELD ed actions of the body. Assemblies of physical bodies have an expressive dimension that All Languages cannot be reduced to speech, for the very fact of people gathering “says” something without always relying on speech. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s view of action, yet revising RIGHTS SOLD her claims about the role of the body in politics, Butler asserts that embodied ways of Chinese, Simplified: Henan coming together, including forms of long-distance solidarity, imply a new understand- University Press ing of the public space of appearance essential to politics. Danish: Billedkunstskolern Forlag French: Lirairie Arthème Fayard Butler links assembly with precarity by pointing out that a body suffering under con- German: Suhrkamp Verlag ditions of precarity still persists and resists, and that mobilization brings out this dual Greek: Angelus Novus Publishing dimension of corporeal life. Just as assemblies make visible and audible the bodies that Italian: Edizioni Nottetempo require basic freedoms of movement and association, so do they expose coercive prac- Japanese: Seidosha tices in prison, the dismantling of social democracy, and the continuing demand for Polish: Krytyka Polityczna establishing subjugated lives as mattering, as equally worthy of life. By enacting a form Portuguese, Brazil: of radical solidarity in opposition to political and economic forces, a new sense of “the Civilização Brasileira people” emerges, interdependent, grievable, precarious, and persistent. Russian: Ad Marginem Serbian: Center for Media Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Criti- and Communications cal Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Spanish: Ediciones Paidós

TALKING POINTS »» Analyzes the potential and power of public assembly through the lens of recent protests like Occupy and Gezi Park. »» By the author of Gender Trouble, Antigone's Claim, Exciteable Speech, and other titles—licensed in over 20 languages.

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On Betrayal

Avishai Margalit

A philosophical account of the nature of betrayal.

Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we con- FEBRUARY 2017 stantly see and hear stories of betrayal, and many people have personally experienced a destructive breach of loyalty. Avishai Margalit argues that the tension between the 310 pages ubiquity of betrayal and the loosening of its hold is a sign of the strain between ethics and morality, between thick and thin human relations. On Betrayal offers a philosophical ACQUIRING EDITOR account of thick human relations—relationships with friends, family, and core commu- Lindsay Waters nities—through their pathology, betrayal. RIGHTS HELD Judgments of betrayal often shift unreliably. A whistle-blower to some is a backstabber All Languages to others; a traitor to one side is a hero to the other. Yet the notion of what it means to betray is remarkably consistent across cultures and eras. Betrayal undermines thick trust, RIGHTS SOLD dissolving the glue that holds our most meaningful relationships together. Recently, Catalan: Atmarcadia public attention has lingered on trust between strangers—on relations that play a central Chinese, Simplified: China role in the globalized economy. These, according to Margalit, are guided by morality.On University of Political Betrayal is about ethics: what we owe to the people and groups that give us our sense of Science and Law Press belonging. Italian: Einaudi Editore Korean: Eulyoo Publishing Margalit’s clear-sighted account draws on literary, historical, and personal sources, including stories from his childhood during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Through its discussion of betrayal, it examines what our thick relationships are and should be and revives the long-discarded notion of fraternity.

Avishai Margalit is Schulman Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former George F. Kennan Professor at the Insti- tute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

TALKING POINTS »» Discusses four different types of betrayal: personal, political, social, and religious. »» Identifies betrayal as an undermining of "thick" human relationships—relationships with those closest to us. »» By the author of The Decent Society, licensed in 9 languages, and The Ethics of Memory, licensed in 4.

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Unflattening

Nick Sousanis

An innovative inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge, presented in the form of a graphic novel.

APRIL 2015 The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely 208 pages as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conven- 164 pages of illustrations tional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. ACQUIRING EDITOR Sharmila Sen Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint. Weaving together diverse ways of seeing drawn from science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology, it uses RIGHTS HELD the collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active process All Languages of incorporating and reevaluating different vantage points. While its vibrant, constantly morphing images occasionally serve as illustrations of text, they more often connect in RIGHTS SOLD nonlinear fashion to other visual references throughout the book. They become allu- Chinese, Simplified: sions, allegories, and motifs, pitting realism against abstraction and making us aware Ginkgo Book Co. that more meets the eye than is presented on the page. French: Editions Actes Sud Italian: Lavieri In its graphic innovations and restless shape-shifting, Unflatteningis meant to counteract Korean: Chaek-Se-Sang Pub. Co. the type of narrow, rigid thinking that Sousanis calls “flatness.” Just as the two-dimen- Polish: Proszynski Media sional inhabitants of Edwin A. Abbott’s novella Flatland could not fathom the concept Portuguese, Brazil: Veneta of “upwards,” Sousanis says, we are often unable to see past the boundaries of our cur- Serbian: Center for the rent frame of mind. Fusing words and images to produce new forms of knowledge, Promotion of Science Unflattening teaches us how to access modes of understanding beyond what we normally Turkish: Tudem Yayinlari apprehend.

Nick Sousanis is a comics artist and an educator. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Comics Studies at the University of Calgary.

TALKING POINTS »» Demonstrates the potential of comics to represent thought in unique and powerful ways. »» Challenges notion of what thinking and learning look like.

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Numbers and the Making of Us Counting and the Course of Human Cultures Caleb Everett

A fascinating and accessible study of how numbers have shaped human culture.

Carved into our past, woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the MARCH 2017 world and of ourselves much more than we commonly think. Numbers and the Making of Us is a sweeping account of how numbers radically enhanced our species’ cognitive 304 pages capabilities and sparked a revolution in human culture. Caleb Everett brings new in- 7 halftones, 1 line illustration sights in psychology, anthropology, primatology, linguistics, and other disciplines to bear in explaining the myriad human behaviors and modes of thought numbers have made ACQUIRING EDITOR possible, from enabling us to conceptualize time in new ways to facilitating the develop- Jeff Dean ment of writing, agriculture, and other advances of civilization. RIGHTS HELD Number concepts are a human invention—a tool, much like the wheel, developed and All Languages refined over millennia. Numbers allow us to grasp quantities precisely, but they are not innate. Recent research confirms that most specific quantities are not perceived in the RIGHTS SOLD absence of a number system. In fact, without the use of numbers, we cannot precisely Chinese, Simplified: CITIC grasp quantities greater than three; our minds can only estimate beyond this surprisingly Spanish: Critica Editorial minuscule limit.

Everett examines the various types of numbers that have developed in different societies, showing how most number systems derived from anatomical factors such as the number of fingers on each hand. He details fascinating work with indigenous Amazonians who demonstrate that, unlike language, numbers are not a universal human endowment. Yet without numbers, the world as we know it would not exist.

Caleb Everett is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Associate Professor of An- thropology at the University of Miami.

TALKING POINTS »» Explains how numbers are a uniquely human creation, though an unnatural one. »» Highlights the historical impact of numbers, from the development of agriculture and writing to the creation of monotheistic religions. »» Describes how numbers shape the human experience.

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