UNIV ERSIT Y O F CH ICAGO PRESS 1427 EAST 60TH STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60637 KS OO B LL FA CHICAGO 2015 CHICAGO FALL 2015 FALL Recently Published Fall 2015 Contents General Interest 1 Special Interest 50 Paperbacks 118 Blood Runs Green Invisible Distributed Books 145 The Murder That Transfixed Gilded The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen Age Chicago Philip Ball Gillian O’Brien ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23889-0 Author Index 412 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24895-0 Cloth $27.50/£19.50 Cloth $25.00/£17.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23892-0 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24900-1 COBE/EU Title Index 414 Subject Index 416 Ordering Inside Information back cover Infested Elephant Don How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse Bedrooms and Took Over the World Caitlin O’Connell Brooke Borel ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10611-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04193-3 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10625-0 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04209-1 Plankton Say No to the Devil Cover illustration: Lauren Nassef Wonders of the Drifting World The Life and Musical Genius of Cover design by Mary Shanahan Christian Sardet Rev. Gary Davis Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18871-3 Ian Zack Cloth $45.00/£31.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23410-6 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26534-6 Cloth $30.00/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23424-3 JESSA CRISPIN The Dead Ladies Project Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries hen Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chica- go life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of W suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she’s still on the road, in search of not so much a home as understand- ing, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender. The Dead Ladies Project is an account of that journey—but it’s also much, much more. Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of “Crispin is both smart enough to know key locations in its literary map, of places that have drawn writers who there are no answers, and human enough needed to break free from their origins and start afresh. As she reflects to admit she needs them; her resulting on William James struggling through despair in Berlin, Nora Barnacle travelogue is a phenomenal record of the dependant on and dependable for James Joyce in Trieste, Maud Gonne mind in service (maybe) of the heart.” fomenting revolution and fostering myth in Dublin, or Igor Stravinsky —Shalom Auslander, starting over from nothing in Switzerland, Crispin weaves biography, author of Hope: A Tragedy incisive literary analysis, and personal experience into a rich medita- tion on the complicated interactions of place, personality, and society OCTOBER 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-27845-2 that can make escape and reinvention such an attractive, even intoxi- Paper $16.00/£11.00 cating proposition. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-27859-9 TRAVEL LITERATURE Personal and profane, funny and fervent, The Dead Ladies Project ranges from the nineteenth century to the present, from historical figures to brand-new hangovers, in search, ultimately, of an answer to a bedrock question: How does a person decide how to live their life? Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of the magazines Bookslut and Spolia. She has written for the New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Los Ange- les Review of Books, NPR.org, Chicago Sun-Times, Architect Magazine, and other publications. She has lived in Kansas, Texas, Ireland, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere. general interest 1 RAYMOND COPPINGER and MARK FEINSTEIN How Dogs Work ow well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as “man’s best friend,” but what actually drives Hthe things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Cop- pinger and Mark Feinstein know something about these questions, and with How Dogs Work, they’re ready to share; this is their guide to understanding your dog and its behavior. Approaching dogs as a biological species rather than just as pets, Coppinger and Feinstein accessibly synthesize decades of research and field experiments to explain the evolutionary foundations of dog behaviors. They examine the central importance of the shape of dogs: “Written by two of the most distinguished how their physical body (including the genes and the brain) affects teachers and scientists ever to have behavior, how shape interacts with the environment as animals grow, studied dogs, Coppinger and Feinstein, and how all of this has developed over time. Shape, they tell us, is what this book explores the behavioral design makes a champion sled dog or a Border collie that can successfully of the dog most eloquently. But this is no herd sheep. Other chapters in How Dogs Work explore such mysteries dry scientific tome; rather it is delightfully as: why dogs play; whether dogs have minds, and if so what kinds of and sensitively written, and will surely things they might know; why dogs bark; how dogs feed and forage; and strengthen your love of dogs by enhanc- the influence of the early relationship between mother and pup. Go- ing your appreciation of their evolution ing far beyond the cozy lap dog, Coppinger and Feinstein are equally alongside man, their emotions and their fascinated by what we can learn from the adaptations of dogs, wolves, behavior. It is quite simply a ‘must have’ coyotes, jackals, dingoes, and even pumas in the wild, as well as the for all dog enthusiasts, dog behaviorists behavior of working animals like guarding and herding dogs. and training professionals and is an illumi- We cherish dogs as family members and deeply value our lengthy nating joy to read for all dog owners.” companionship with them. But isn’t it time we knew more about who —Peter Neville, Ohio State University and the Center of Fido and Trixie really are? How Dogs Work will provide some keys to un- Applied Pet Ethology, Sheffield, UK locking the origins of many of our dogs’ most common, most puzzling, and most endearing behaviors. OCTOBER 224 p., 8 color plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12813-9 Raymond Coppinger is professor emeritus of biology at Hampshire College. Cloth $26.00/£18.00 His books include Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32270-4 Evolution, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Mark Feinstein is PETS professor of cognitive science at Hampshire College. 2 general interest GABRIEL ZUCMAN The Hidden Wealth of Nations The Scourge of Tax Havens Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan With a Foreword by Thomas Piketty e are well aware of the rapid growth of global economic inequality. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance W is to significantly increase the rate at which we are taxing the wealthy. However, an enormous amount of the world’s wealth is hidden in tax havens, so it can’t be fully accounted for and taxed fairly. To complicate things further, no one, from economists to bankers to “Zucman’s work on tax havens is the first politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world’s serious economic research in this area. assets are currently being hidden—until now. Gabriel Zucman is the His evaluation of the share of global first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the household wealth that is located in tax world’s money held in tax havens. And it’s staggering. havens has become the standard in the In The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and rig- profession. Most importantly, this is the orous approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens first work offering credible estimates of work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution. the kind of economic sanctions that would His research reveals that tax havens are a quickly growing danger to make tax havens give up bank secrecy. the world economy. In the past five years, the amount of wealth in tax The conclusions are powerful.” havens has increased over twenty-five percent—there has never been —Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the as much money held offshore as there is today. This hidden wealth ac- Twenty-First Century counts for a least eight percent of global financial assets, equivalent to $7.6 trillion. Zucman offers an ambitious agenda for reform, focused OCTOBER 128 p., 4 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9 on ways in which countries can change the incentives of tax havens. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24542-3 Only by first understanding the extent of the wealth being secretly Cloth $20.00/£14.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24556-0 held can we begin to estimate the kind of actions that would force tax ECONOMICS havens to give up their practices. In this concise book, Zucman lays out in approachable language how the international banking system works and the dangerous extent to which the large-scale evasion of taxes is undermining the global market as a whole. The Hidden Wealth of Nations is essential reading if we are to find a way to solve the problem of increasing inequality.