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African American Studies 55, 94 Jewish Studies 56 Contents African Studies 66, 71, 193 Latin American Studies 199 General Interest 1 American History 12–13, 19, Law 43–44, 53, 62, 86, 94, 168, 50–51, 54, 82, 84, 91, 93 173, 195 Special Interest 31 Anthropology 66–69, 121, 164, 175 Linguistics 193, 213–14 Archaeology 184, 189 Literary Criticism 1, 31, 40–41, 46, Paperbacks 76 Architecture 2, 38, 82, 107, 111, 50, 52, 66–67, 90, 115, 185, 190–92, 200, 202 Distributed Books 95 141, 144, 146, 183, 189 Art 15, 20, 45–48, 58, 64, 90, 97, Literature 114, 119, 128, 131, 173 Sales Restrictions 214 101–02, 110–11, 122, 133, 135, Mathematics 213 142–47, 150–51, 155–56, 159, 162, Media Studies 63, 196 164, 166, 168–69, 178–79, 181, 185, Ordering Medicine 152, 165, 200, 210 Information 215 189, 198–99, 201, 203 Medieval History 133, 195 Art History 138, 147 Middle Eastern Studies 93 Author Index 216 Asian Studies 46, 54 Music 48, 70, 72, 89, 94, 163 Title Index Inside Biography 3, 18, 53, 103–05, 118, Mystery 79 back cover 124, 137, 147, 183, 190, 194, 195, 209–10 Nature 8–9, 16, 85, 105–06, 132, 149–50, 159, 172, 174, 177–80, 204 Business 27, 44, 84, 212 Philosophy 56–59, 72, 115–17, 171, Children’s 130, 174, 178 209–11 Classics 170, 205 Photography 21, 100–01, 138–40, Cognitive Science 213 143, 148, 154, 159, 161–64, 172–73, Computer Science 198, 213 197 Cooking 98–99, 192 Poetry 30, 41, 48, 128–29, 135, 137, Criminology 75 167, 173, 200, 202, 206 Cultural Studies 125, 199, 201 Political Science 60–63, 92, 123, Current Events 14–15, 21, 28, 39, 125, 176, 186–88, 193 78, 173 Psychology 92, 122 Design 108, 160 Reference 4–5, 8–9, 26, 133–134, Drama 113, 119–20, 205 153, 175 Economics 6, 38, 73–75, 78, 124, Religion 48–49, 59, 83, 88, 93, 149, 169–70, 176 171, 192, 202, 208–12 Education 25, 42–43, 94, 196 Science 10–11, 22–23, 31–37, 76–77, 80–81, 85, 87, 92, 96, 107, Ethnomusicology 71 127, 166, 169, 179–80, 182 European History 37, 49, 52–53, 64, Sexuality 156 109–10, 161, 181, 189, 194–96, 206 Sociology 29, 31, 54–56, 63–65, Fiction 112, 167, 207, 209 86, 88 Film Studies 7, 24, 157–58, Transportation 108 160–163, 166, 182–83, 185 Travel 52, 121, 140, 150, 191, 198 Gardening 136, 177 Cover design by Alice Reimann True Crime 28 Gay and Lesbian Studies 65 Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan Women’s Studies 50, 200, 210 Gender Studies 165 History 6, 10, 17, 33, 35–36, 50, 52–54, 67, 69, 76, 85, 87, 91, 126, 136, 164–65, 175, 186, 201, 207, 212 Stephen Greenblatt Shakespeare’s Freedom

hakespeare lived in a world of absolutes—of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, the author- S ity of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Stephen Greenblatt, author of the best-selling Will in the World, shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes and constantly explored the possibility of freedom from them. Again and again, Shakespeare confounds the designs and pre- tensions of kings, generals, and churchmen. His aversion to absolutes even leads him to probe the exalted and seemingly limitless passions of Praise for Will in the World his lovers. “Greenblatt succinctly and vividly conjures Greenblatt explores this rich theme by addressing four of Shake- up the Elizabethan world in which young speare’s preoccupations across all the genres in which he worked. He Will came of age, showing how the reli- first considers the idea of beauty in Shakespeare’s works, specifically gious and political upheavals of the day, his challenge to the cult of featureless perfection and his interest in as well as contemporaneous aesthetic distinguishing marks. He then turns to Shakespeare’s fascination with conventions, shaped his sensibility and murderous hatred, most famously embodied in Shylock but also seen his work.” in the character Bernardine in Measure for Measure. Next Greenblatt —Michiko Kakutani, considers the idea of Shakespearean authority—that is, Shakespeare’s New York Times deep sense of the ethical ambiguity of power, including his own. Fi- “Greenblatt . . . is a masterful storyteller; nally, Greenblatt takes up Shakespearean autonomy, in particular the his prose is elegant and subtle . . . and his freedom of artists, guided by distinctive forms of perception, to live by imagination is rich and interesting.” their own laws and to claim that their creations are singularly uncon- —Arthur Kirsch, strained. Washington Post A book that could only have been written by Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare’s Freedom is a wholly original and eloquent meditation by the “So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid most acclaimed and influential Shakespearean of our time. that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration.” —Dan Cryer, Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Newsday at Harvard University. He is the author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Hamlet in Purgatory, and the groundbreaking Renaissance The Rice University Campbell Lectures Self-Fashioning, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.

November 152 p., 4 color plates, 10 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30666-7 Cloth $24.00/£15.50 LITERARY CRITICISM general interest 1 Blair Kamin Terror and Wonder Architecture in a Tumultuous Age

or nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and Fengages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political forces that inspire them. Terror and Wonder gath- ers the best of Kamin’s writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world’s tallest skyscraper. Praise for Kamin Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as head-turning “Kamin writes with skill and passion about designs by some of the world’s leading architects, Kamin paints a how the inescapable art of architecture sweeping but finely textured portrait of a tumultuous age torn between impacts our world and lives.” the conflicting mandates of architectural spectacle and sustainability. —Wall Street Journal For Kamin, the story of our built environment over the past ten years is, in tangible ways, the story of the decade itself. Terror and Wonder “Kamin is a master of ‘activist criticism.’ considers how architecture has been central to the main events and . . . His writing combines sharp aesthetic crosscurrents in American life since 2001: the devastating and debili- judgments with an investigative reporter’s tating consequences of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina; the real estate instinct for money, power, and the inside boom and bust; the use of over-the-top cultural designs as engines of story.” civic renewal; new challenges in saving old buildings; the unlikely rise —Washington Post Book World of energy-saving green architecture; and growing concern over our na- tion’s crumbling infrastructure. “Kamin’s pieces are worth reading for A prominent cast of players—including Santiago Calatrava, Frank anyone who loves cities, because he’s so Gehry, Helmut Jahn, Daniel Libeskind, Barack Obama, Renzo Piano, good at conveying how individual build- and Donald Trump—fills the pages of this eye-opening look at the ings are parts of a greater whole.” astounding and extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our —San Francisco Chronicle values—and shapes our everyday lives.

October 320 p., 70 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42311-1 Blair Kamin is the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune. He is the author Cloth $30.00/£19.50 of the critically acclaimed Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago, also ARCHITECTURE published by the University of Chicago Press, and Tribune Tower: American Landmark.

2 general interest Mike Royko Royko in Love Mike’s Letters to Carol Edited by David Royko

treet-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have Slegions of devoted fans who still wonder “what Royko would have said” about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he hardly ever wrote or talked about, though, was his private life, especially the time he shared with his first wife, Carol. She was the love of his life, and her premature death at the age of forty-four shook him to his soul. Mike’s unforgettable public tribute to Carol was a heart-wrenching column written on what would have been her forty-fifth birthday, “No- “Mike Royko wrote love letters to his read- vember Farewell.” His most famous and requested piece, it was the end ers every day, and maybe this is how he of an untold story. got started.” Royko in Love offers that story’s moving and utterly beguiling —Roger Ebert beginning in letters that “Mick” Royko, then a young airman, wrote to his childhood sweetheart, Carol Duckman. He had been in love with “For thirty years Mike Royko’s newspaper her since they were kids on Chicago’s northwest side, but she was a columns made life miserable for bad guys beauty and he was, well, anything but. Before leaving for Korea, he was in politics and business, and brightened crushed to hear she was getting married, but after returning to Blaine the day for readers across the country. Air Force Base in Washington, he learned she was getting a divorce. But for him, the most important words Mick soon began to woo Carol in a stream of letters that are as fervent he ever wrote are the ones in this book: as they are funny. Collected here for the first time, Royko’s letters to his letters to the beautiful girl he had Carol are a mixture of sweet seduction, sarcastic observations on mili- loved from afar since he was nine and tary life, a Chicago kid’s wry view of rural folk, the pain of self-doubt, she was six. He was, as his son David and the fear of losing what is finally so close, but literally so far. His says, a Cyrano de Bergerac in an airman’s only weapons against Carol’s many suitors were his pen, his ardor, and uniform, a 21-year-old Chicago kid using his brilliance. And they won her heart. his pen to express what he couldn’t say in person. It worked. He won her heart, and Mike Royko (1932–97) worked as a daily columnist for the Chicago Daily News, this book will win yours, too.” the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. His Pulitzer Prize–winning —Lois Wille columns were syndicated in more than six hundred newspapers across the country. He is the author of Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago; One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko; For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko; and Early September 254 p., 15 halftones 1 1 Royko: Up Against It in Chicago, the latter three published by the University of 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73078-3 Chicago Press. David Royko is the director of the Marriage and Family Coun- Cloth $24.00/£15.50 seling Service of the Circuit Court of Cook County. He is also the son of Mike BIOGRAPHY and Carol Royko and the author of Voices of Children of Divorce.

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general interest 5 Deirdre N. McCloskey Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World

he big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas Tof economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie who had been denied it for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe. Or so says Deirdre N. McCloskey in Bourgeois Dignity, a fiercely Praise for The Bourgeois Virtues contrarian history that wages a similar argument about economics in “Deirdre McCloskey’s unfashionable, con- the West. Here she turns her attention to seventeenth- and eighteenth- trarian, and compelling manifesto in favor century Europe to reconsider the birth of the industrial revolution and of what she calls the bourgeois virtues the rise of capitalism. According to McCloskey, our modern world was starts with an uncompromising ‘apol- not the product of new markets and innovations, but rather the result ogy’ for how private property, free labor, of shifting opinions about them. During this time, talk of private prop- free trade, and prudent calculation are erty, commerce, and even the bourgeoisie itself radically altered, be- the font of most ethical good in modern coming far more approving and flying in the face of prejudices several society, not a moral threat to it. . . . She millennia old. The wealth of nations, then, didn’t grow so dramatically writes with wonderful ease. Her style because of economic factors: it grew because rhetoric about markets is conversational and lively, sometimes and free enterprise finally became enthusiastic and encouraging of even cheeky, so that even the toughest their inherent dignity. concepts seem palatable.” An utterly fascinating sequel to her critically acclaimed book The —Matt Ridley, Wall Street Journal Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity is a feast of intellectual riches from one of our most spirited and ambitious historians—a work that will for- “An impressive collection of intellectual ever change our understanding of how the power of persuasion shapes riches.” our economic lives. —Alan Ryan, New York Review of Books Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Among her many books are The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, Cross- november 504 p., 4 line drawings, ing: A Memoir, The Secret Sins of Economics, and If You’re So Smart: The Narrative of 3 tables 6 x 9 Economic Expertise, all published by the University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55665-9 Cloth $35.00/£22.50 HISTORY ECONOMICS

6 general interest Roger Ebert The Great Movies III With a Foreword by David Bordwell

oger Ebert has been writing film reviews for theChicago Sun- Times for over four decades now, and his biweekly essays on R great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, “They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of great movies are a foolish attempt to codify works which must stand alone. But it’s fair to say: If you want to take a tour of the landmarks of the first century of cinema, start here.” Praise for Ebert Enter The Great Movies III, Ebert’s third collection of essays on the “No one has done as much as Ebert to crème de la crème of the silver screen, each one a model of critical connect the creators of movies with their appreciation and a blend of love and analysis that will send readers consumers. He has immense power, and back to the films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm—or he’s used it for good, as an apostle of the maybe even lead to a first-time viewing. FromThe Godfather: Part II to cinema.” Groundhog Day, from The Last Picture Show to Last Tango in Paris, the —Richard Corliss, one hundred pieces gathered here display a welcome balance between Time the familiar and the esoteric, spanning Hollywood blockbusters and hidden gems, independent works and foreign language films alike. “As film criticism becomes more marginal- Each essay draws on Ebert’s vast knowledge of the cinema, its fascinat- ized, Ebert may come to be seen as the last ing history, and its breadth of techniques, introducing newcomers to of a kind—the critic who actually has the some of the most exceptional movies ever made, while revealing new power to influence a national audience.” insights to connoisseurs as well. —Booklist Named the most powerful pundit in America by Forbes magazine, October 432 p. 6 x 9 and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Roger Ebert is inarguably the most ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18208-7 prominent and influential authority on the cinema today.The Great Cloth $30.00/£19.50 FILM studies Movies III is sure to please his many fans and further enhance his repu- tation as America’s most respected—and trusted—film critic.

Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic of theChicago Sun-Times. He is the author of numerous books on film, includingThe Great Movies, The Great Movies II, Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert, and Scorsese by Ebert, the latter two titles also published by the University of Chicago Press.

general interest 7 Allen J. Coombes The Book of Leaves A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World’s Great Trees Edited by Zsolt Debreczy

f all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Scampering up the O rough trunk, spying on the world from the cool green shel- ter of the canopy, lying on a limb and looking up through the leaves at the summer sun almost made it seem as if we were made for trees, November 656 p., 2400 color plates 71/2 x 10 and trees for us. Even in adulthood, trees retain their power, from the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13973-9 Cloth $55.00 refreshing way their waves of green break the monotony of a cityscape NATURE REFERENCE to the way their autumn transformations take our breath away. cusa In this lavishly illustrated volume, the trees that have enriched our lives finally get their full due, through a focus on the humble leaves that serve, in a sense, as their public face. The Book of Leaves offers a vi- sually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Each leaf is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the range, distribution, abundance, and habitat of the tree on which it’s found. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each tree and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait.

8 general interest The Henry’s Maple, for instance, found in China and named for an Irish doctor who collected leaves there, bears little initial resem- blance to the statuesque maples of North America, from its diminu- tive stature to its unusual trifoliolate leaves. Then there’s the Medi- terranean Olive, which has been known to live for more than 1,500 years and whose short, narrow leaves only fall after two or three years, pushed out in stages by the emergence of younger leaves. From the familiar friends of our backyards to the giants of the deep woods, The Book of Leaves brings the forest to life—and to our living rooms—as never before.

Allen J. Coombes is botanist at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum in Hampshire, England, and the author of many books about plants and trees. Zsolt Debreczy is research director of the International Dendrologi- cal Research Institute in Boston.

general interest 9 Kenneth J. McNamara The Star-Crossed Stone The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil

hroughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils—or echinoids— Thave continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobi- ologists study them for clues to the earth’s history. In The Star-Crossed Stone, Kenneth J. McNamara, an expert on fossil “The Star-Crossed Stone is outstanding echinoids, takes readers on an incredible fossil hunt, with stops in his- and original, a fascinating story about tory, paleontology, folklore, mythology, art, religion, and much more. sea urchin fossils from Neolithic times Beginning with prehistoric times, when urchin fossils were used as to the present. It is much more than a jewelry, McNamara reveals how the fossil crept into the religious and summary of the folklore surrounding a cultural lives of societies around the world—the roots of the familiar particular fossil, however: it also traces five-pointed star, for example, can be traced to the pattern found on the evolution of mythmaking, the human urchins. But McNamara’s vision is even broader than that: using our urge to collect, and the development of knowledge of early habits of fossil collecting, he explores the evolution complex symbolic thought, combining of the human mind itself, drawing striking conclusions about human- archaeology, paleontology, folklore, and ity’s earliest appreciation of beauty and the first stirrings of artistic anthropology in wonderful, surprising expression. Along the way, the fossil becomes a nexus through which ways that will delight general and scien- we meet brilliant eccentrics and visionary archaeologists and develop tific readers alike.” —Adrienne Mayor, new insights into topics as seemingly disparate as hieroglyphics, author of The Poison King Beowulf, and even church organs. An idiosyncratic celebration of science, nature, and human inge- December 256 p., 26 halftones, 1 line drawing 6 x 9 nuity, The Star-Crossed Stone is as charming and unforgettable as the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51469-7 fossil at its heart. Cloth $27.50/£18.00 SCIENCE HISTORY Kenneth J. McNamara is a lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.

10 general interest Ronald T. Merrill Our Magnetic Earth The Science of Geomagnetism

or the general public, magnetism often seems more the prov- ince of new age quacks, movie mad scientists, and grade-school F teachers than an area of actual, ongoing scientific inquiry. But as Ronald T. Merrill reveals in Our Magnetic Earth, geomag- netism really is an enduring, vibrant area of science, one that offers answers to some of the biggest questions about our planet’s past—and maybe even its future. In a clear and careful fashion, he lays out the physics of geomagnetism and magnetic fields, then goes on to explain “Ronald Merrill skillfully weaves his pro- how Earth’s magnetic field provides crucial evidence for our under- fessional expertise in geomagnetism with standing of continental drift and plate tectonics; how and why animals, related scientific issues and personal ranging from bacteria to mammals, sense and use the magnetic field; anecdotes to create a broad intellectual how changes in climate over eons can be studied through variations tapestry that, in its many fascinating in the magnetic field in rocks; and much more. Throughout, Merrill diversions and anecdotes, gives insight peppers his scientific account with bizarre anecdotes and fascinating into how the mind actually works while details, from levitating pizzas to Moon missions to blackmailing KGB exploring a question of abiding inter- agents—a reminder that real science can at times be stranger, and est. Reading this book will be a learning more amusing, than fiction. experience for almost everyone—and an A winning primer for anyone who has ever struggled with a com- unfailingly pleasant one at that!” —Robert Coe, pass or admired a ragged V of migrating geese, Our Magnetic Earth University of California, Santa Cruz demonstrates that education and entertainment need not be polar opposites. November 272 p., 26 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52050-6 Cloth $25.00/£16.00 Ronald T. Merrill is professor emeritus of earth and space sciences at the Uni- SCIENCE versity of Washington. In 2002 he was awarded the John Adam Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union.

general interest 11 G. J. Barker-Benfield Abigail and John Adams The Americanization of Sensibility

uring the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams Dexchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, they wove a tapestry of correspondence that has become a cherished part of American history and literature. With Abigail and John Adams, historian G. J. Barker-Benfield mines “G. J. Barker-Benfield knows how to those familiar letters to a new purpose: teasing out the ways in which captivate a reader. His engagement with they reflected—and helped transform—a language of sensibility, the inner strengths and utter humanity inherited from Britain but, amid the revolutionary fervor, becoming of Abigail and John is just the beginning Americanized. Sensibility—a heightened moral consciousness of feel- of this ingenious and expansive study of ing, rooted in the theories of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and the intellectual underpinnings of sensibil- Adam Smith and including a “moral sense” akin to the physical sens- ity and the practical uses to which it was es—threads throughout these letters. As Barker-Benfield makes clear, put in Revolutionary America. The author, sensibility was the fertile, humanizing ground on which the Adamses already well known for his readings of not only founded their marriage, but also the “abhorrence of injustice Anglo-American cultural movements, and inhumanity” they and their contemporaries hoped to plant at the explores widely ignored influences on heart of the new nation. Bringing together their correspondence with the couple and adds tantalizing insights a wealth of fascinating detail about life and thought, courtship and other historians do not provide.” sex, gender and parenting, and class and politics in the revolutionary —Andrew Burstein, generation and beyond, Abigail and John Adams draws a lively, convinc- author of The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving ing portrait of a marriage endangered by separation, yet surviving by the same ideas and idealism that drove the revolution itself.

November 520 p. 6 x 9 A feast of ideas that never neglects the real lives of the man and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03743-1 Cloth $32.50/£21.00 woman at its center, Abigail and John Adams takes readers into the heart AMERICAN HISTORY of an unforgettable union in order to illuminate the first days of our nation—and explore our earliest understandings of what it might mean to be an American.

G. J. Barker-Benfield is professor of history at the University at Albany. He is the author of The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes toward Women in Nineteenth-Century America and The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

12 general interest Ann Fabian The Skull Collectors Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead

hen Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and W added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton’s skull wound up in a collector’s cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds of skulls over the course of a long career. Friends, diplomats, doctors, soldiers, and fellow naturalists sent him skulls they gathered from battlefields and burial grounds across America and around the world.

With The Skull Collectors, eminent historian Ann Fabian resur- “Ann Fabian’s latest book is fascinating rects that popular and scientific movement, telling the strange—and and astonishingly original, and it supplies at times gruesome—story of Morton, his contemporaries, and their significant implications for our under- search for a scientific foundation for racial difference. From cranial standing of life and death in America— measurements and museum shelves to heads on stakes, bloody battle- among other things. Brain capacity leads fields, and the “rascally pleasure” of grave robbing, Fabian paints a to issues of intelligence, and we all know lively picture of scientific inquiry in service of an agenda of racial supe- where that leads. The subject is both curi- riority, and of a society coming to grips with both the deadly implica- ous and compelling—American studies tions of manifest destiny and the mass slaughter of the Civil War. Even and cultural history at its best.” as she vividly recreates the past, Fabian also deftly traces the continuing —Michael Kammen, author of Digging Up the Dead implications of this history, from lingering traces of scientific racism to debates over the return of the remains of Native Americans that are October 288 p., 30 halftones 6 x 9 held by museums to this day. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23348-2 Cloth $27.50/£18.00 Full of anecdotes, oddities, and insights, The Skull Collectors takes AMERICAN HISTORY readers on a darkly fascinating trip down a little-visited but surpris- ingly important byway of American history.

Ann Fabian is dean of humanities and professor of American studies and history at Rutgers University. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America.

general interest 13 Tzvetan Todorov The Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations Translated by Andrew Brown

he relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become Tincreasingly tense. A growing immigration population and worries about cultural and political assimilation—exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe, and around the world— have provoked reams of commentary from all parts of the political “Fascinating and important. . . . Now, of all spectrum, a frustrating majority of it hyperbolic or even hysterical. times, there is a need for cool heads, such In The Fear of Barbarians, the celebrated intellectual Tzvetan Todo- as Todorov, who approaches the limits of rov offers a corrective: a reasoned and often highly personal analysis free speech with admirable dexterity.” of the problem, rooted in Enlightenment values yet open to the claims —Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books, of cultural difference. Drawing on history, anthropology, and politics, on the French edition and bringing to bear examples ranging from the murder of Theo van Gogh to the French ban on headscarves, Todorov argues that the West October 240 p. 6 x 9 must overcome its fear of Islam if it is to avoid betraying the values ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80575-7 Cloth $27.50/£18.00 it claims to protect. True freedom, Todorov explains, requires us to current events uk/anz strike a delicate balance between protecting and imposing cultural Copublished with Polity Press values, acknowledging the primacy of the law, and yet strenuously protecting minority views that do not interfere with its aims. Adding force to Todorov’s arguments is his own experience as a native of com- munist Bulgaria: his admiration of French civic identity—and Western freedom—is vigorous but non-nativist, an inclusive vision whose very flexibility is its core strength. The record of a penetrating mind grappling with a complicated, multifaceted problem, The Fear of Barbarians is a powerful, important book—a call, not to arms, but to thought.

Tzvetan Todorov is a historian and political essayist and the author of many books, including Conquest of America: The Question of the Other and, most recently, The Defense of the Enlightenment. Andrew Brown has translated numerous books from French, including Todorov’s The New World Disorder.

14 general interest W. J. T. Mitchell Cloning Terror The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present

he phrase “War on Terror” has quietly been retired from of- ficial usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our Tunderstanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T. Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and that spawned it. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Ter- ror, Mitchell finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality. At the same time, Mitchell lo- cates in the concept of clones and cloning an anxiety about new forms “A fiercely intelligent and insightful book of image-making that has amplified the political effects of the War on that is ambitious, shocking, angry, and Terror. Cloning and terror, he argues, share an uncanny structural heartfelt in equal measure. Mitchell resemblance, shuttling back and forth between imaginary and real, makes the case convincingly that the War metaphoric and literal manifestations. In Mitchell’s startling analysis, on Terror and cloning share a deep cul- cloning terror emerges as the inevitable metaphor for the way in which tural logic. Cloning Terror offers original the War on Terror has not only helped recruit more fighters to the insights into the most pressing issues of jihadist cause but undermined the American constitution with “faith- our recent past, our present, and our im- based” foreign and domestic policies. mediate future.” Bringing together the hooded prisoners of Abu Ghraib with the —Marquard Smith, Director, Institute for Modern cloned stormtroopers of the Star Wars saga, Mitchell draws attention and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London to the figures of faceless anonymity that stalk the ever-shifting and unlocatable “fronts” of the War on Terror. A striking new investigation January 256 p., 8 color plates, of the role of images from our foremost scholar of iconology, Cloning 38 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 Terror will expand our understanding of the visual legacy of a new kind ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53259-2 Cloth $66.00x/£42.50 of war and reframe our understanding of contemporary biopower and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53260-8 Paper $22.50s/£14.50 biopolitics. CURRENT EVENTS ART

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author or edi- tor of ten books, including, most recently, Critical Terms for Media Studies, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He is also coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry.

general interest 15 Daniel J. Lebbin, Michael J. Parr, and George H. Fenwick The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation

hether we live in cities, in the suburbs, or in the country, birds are ubiquitous features of daily life, so much so W that we often take them for granted. But even the casual observer is aware that birds don’t fill our skies in the number they once did. That awareness has spawned conservation action that has led to notable successes, including the recovery of some of the nation’s most October 456 p., 600 color plates 63/10 x9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64727-2 emblematic species, such as the Bald Eagle, Brown Pelican, Whoop- Cloth $45.00/£29.00 ing Crane, and Peregrine Falcon. Despite this, a third of all American NATURE Copublished with Lynx Promocions, S. L. bird species are in trouble—in many cases, they’re in imminent danger of extinction. The most authoritative account ever published of the threats these species face, The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation will be the definitive book on the subject. The Guide presents for the first time anywhere a classification sys- tem and threat analysis for bird habitats in the United States, and the most thorough and scientifically credible assessment of threats to birds published to date, as well as a new list of birds of conservation concern. Filled with beautiful color illustrations and original range maps, the Guide is a timely, important, and inspiring reference for birders and anyone else interested in conserving North America’s avian fauna. But this book is far more than another shout of crisis. The Guide also lays out a concrete and achievable plan of long-term action to safeguard our country’s rich bird life. Ultimately, it is an argument for hope. Whether you spend your early weekend mornings crouched in silence with binoculars in hand, hoping to check another species off your list, or you’ve never given much thought to bird conservation, you’ll appre- ciate the visual power and intellectual scope of these pages.

Daniel J. Lebbin is conservation biologist at the American Bird Conservancy, where Michael J. Parr is vice president and George H. Fenwick is president.

16 general interest Neil Parsons Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman With a Foreword by Alexander McCall Smith

uring the 1920s and ’30s, Franz Taibosh—whose stage name was Clicko—performed in front of millions as one of the Dstars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the “Wild Dancing Bushman,” showing off his frenzied dance moves in freak shows, sideshows, and music halls from Australia to Cuba. When he died in 1940, the New York Times called him “the only African bush- man ever exhibited in this country.” In Clicko, Neil Parsons unearths the untold story of Taibosh’s journey from boyhood on a small farm in “An astonishing story that illuminates the South Africa to top billing as one of the travelling World’s Fair Freaks. history of a talented person who repre- Through Taibosh’s tale, Parsons brings to life the bizarre golden sented a fragile culture to the world. It age of entertainment as well as the role that the dubious new science of entertains and astonishes us—but it also race played in it. Beginning with Taibosh’s early life, Clicko untangles enriches our knowledge of a hardy and the real story of his ancestry from the web of myths spun around him resourceful person and a fascinating slice on his rise to international stardom. Parsons then chronicles the of southern African history.” unhappy middle period of Taibosh’s career, when he suffered under —Alexander McCall Smith, from his Foreword the heel of a vicious manager. Left to freeze and nearly starve in an unheated apartment, Taibosh was rescued by Frank Cook, Barnum october 256p., 24 halftones, 1 map 6 x 9 & Bailey’s lawyer. The Cooks adopted Taibosh as a member of their ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64741-8 Cloth $55.00x/£35.50 family of circus managers and performers, and his happy—if far from ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64742-5 average—years with them make up the final chapter of this remarkable Paper $18.00/£11.50 history story. saz Copublished with Jacana Media Equal parts entertaining and disturbing, Clicko vividly evokes a forgotten era when vaudeville drew massive crowds and circus freaks were featured in Billboard and Variety. Parsons introduces us to color- ful characters such as George Auger the giant and the original Zip the Pinhead, but above all, he gives us an unforgettable portrait of Franz Taibosh, rescued at last from the racists and the romantics and revealed here as an ordinary man with an extraordinary life.

Neil Parsons, a former professor of history at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, is the author of King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes, also published by the University of Chi- cago Press.

general interest 17 Daiva Markelis White Field, Black Sheep A Lithuanian-American Life

er parents never really explained what a D.P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that “displaced person” was H the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Cicero, though, Markelis had only heard the name T.P., since her folks pronounced the D as a T: “In first grade we had learned about the Plains Indians, who had lived in tent-like dwellings made of wood and buffalo skin called teepees. In my childish “Written in a fresh voice, accessible, even confusion, I thought that perhaps my parents weren’t Lithuanian at all, humorous, White Field, Black Sheep is but Cherokee. I went around telling people that I was the child of tee- utterly charming.” pees.” So begins this touching and affectionate memoir about growing —Achy Obejas up as a daughter of Lithuanian immigrants. Markelis was raised during the 1960s and ’70s in a household october 200 p., 21 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 where Lithuanian was the first language.White Field, Black Sheep derives ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50530-5 Cloth $22.50/£14.50 much of its charm from this collision of old world and new: a tough but

BIOGRAPHY cultured generation that can’t quite understand the ways of America and a younger one reared on Barbie dolls and The Brady Bunch, Hostess cupcakes and comic books, The Monkees and Captain Kangaroo. Through- out, Markelis recalls the amusing contortions of language and identity that animated her childhood. She also humorously recollects the touchstones of her youth, from her First Communion to her first game of Twister. Ultimately, she revisits the troubles that surfaced in the wake of her cultural assimilation: the constricting expectations of her family and community, her problems with alcoholism and depression, and her sometimes contentious but always loving relationship with her mother. Deftly recreating the emotional world of adolescence, but overlay- ing it with the hard-won understanding of adulthood, White Field, Black Sheep is a poignant and moving memoir—a lively tale of this Lithua- nian-American life.

Daiva Markelis is associate professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. Her writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune Magazine, Chicago Reader, and American Literary Review, among other publications.

18 general interest Larry Bennett The Third City Chicago and American Urbanism

ur traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of Omachine politics overshadows its ends—is such a power- ful shaper of the city’s identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City—inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko—with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now: the third city. “This is a major new assessment, rich with Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish fresh insights, of Chicago since the last it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial cen- decades of the twentieth century, when ter whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depres- the city entered a whole new phase of sion; and the second city, the rustbelt exemplar of the period from development that had been long in com- around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized ing, as it shed virtually all traces not only urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant of the shock city of its formative years but streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals work- also of the industrial colossus and city of ing in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the neighborhoods it once was.” top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the —Carl Smith, author of The Plan of Chicago: ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, accord- Daniel Burnham and the Remaking ing to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, of the American City a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood Chicago Visions and Revisions revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century.The Third City ultimately contends that to September 248 p., 6 halftones 6 x 9 understand Chicago under Daley’s charge is to understand what met- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04293-0 Cloth $22.50/£14.50 ropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming AMERICAN HISTORY decades.

Larry Bennett is professor of political science at DePaul University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Shef- field, and It’s Hardly Sportin’: Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago.

general interest 19 Wendy Steiner The Real Real Thing The Model in the Mirror of Art

ur era is defined by the model. From Victoria’s Secret and America’s Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Face- Obook and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing. In this bold view of contemporary culture, Wendy Steiner shows us the very meaning of the arts in the process of transformation. Her story begins at the turn of the last century, as the arts abandoned the “Surveying the field of contemporary representation of the world for a heady embrace of the abstract, the culture with grace and wit, Wendy Steiner surreal, and the self-referential. Today though, this “separate sphere comes to the surprising conclusion that of the aesthetic” is indistinguishable from normal life. Media and ‘a revolution is underway in the general images overwhelm us: we gingerly negotiate a real-virtual divide that understanding of beauty.’ The Perfected we suspect no longer exists, craving contact with what J. M. Coetzee Form of the engineered celebrity and has called “the real real thing.” As the World Wide Web renders the supermodel—and such things as Platonic lower-case world in ever-higher definition, the reality-based genres of architecture and sculpture—is giving memoir and documentary are displacing fiction, and novels and films way to a more interactive beauty. The are depicting the contemporary condition through model-protagonists real real engages the audience in vital who are half-human, half-image. Steiner shows the arts searching out a interaction—does not petrify as a Medusa new ethical potential through this figure: by stressing the independent head—it’s a Reality2.” —Charles Jencks, existence of the model, they welcome in the audience in all its unpre- author of Critical Modernism dictability, redefining aesthetic experience as a real-world interaction with the promise of empathy, reciprocity, and egalitarian connection. November 232 p., 50 halftones 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77219-6 A masterly performance by a penetrating, inquisitive mind, The Cloth $32.50/£21.00 Real Real Thing is that rarest of books, one whose provocations will ART inspire readers to take a new—and nuanced—look at the world around them.

Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a wide-ranging cultural critic who has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Nation, London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art.

20 general interest Susie Linfield The Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence

ince the early days of photography, critics have told us that photos of political violence—of torture, mutilation, and death S—are exploitative, deceitful, even pornographic. To look at these images is voyeuristic; to turn away is a gesture of respect. With The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield attacks those ideas head- on, arguing passionately that viewing such photographs—and learn- ing to see the people in them—is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes our “This is a magnificent book. Susie Linfield capacity for cruelty. Contending with critics from Walter Benjamin and has a good eye for the photographs and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmoderns—and analyz- a good head for the politics. And she ing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, China’s Cultural has the moral strength to look at these Revolution, and recent terrorist acts—Linfield explores the complex images of mutilation, death, and destruc- connection between photojournalism and the rise of human rights ide- tion, explain their value, and demand that als. In the book’s concluding section, she examines the indispensable we look at them, too.” —Michael Walzer work of Robert Capa, James Nachtwey, and Gilles Peress, and asks how photography has—and should—respond to the increasingly nihilistic November 344 p., 20 halftones 6 x 9 trajectory of modern warfare. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48250-7 Cloth $30.00/£19.50 A bracing and unsettling book, The Cruel Radiance convincingly PHOTOGRAPHY CURRENT EVENTS demonstrates that if we hope to alleviate political violence, we must first truly understand it—and to do that, we must begin to look.

Susie Linfieldis associate professor of journalism at New York University, where she directs the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. She has been an editor for American Film, the Village Voice, and the Washington Post and has written for a wide range of publications, including the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York Times, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, and the Nation.

general interest 21 Edited by Jonathan Silvertown Fragile Web What Next for Nature?

iodiversity is as close as your breakfast table. Your cereal and coffee are the products of at least a dozen species of plants Band animals. And believe it or not, you are related to your morning meal—all life on Earth is descended from a common ances- tor, giving new meaning to the old saying “You are what you eat.” Making clear why the future of biodiversity matters, Fragile Web— which takes its name from the delicate mechanism that holds all life Contributors together—unites a team of international experts to explore the won- der of the natural world. Drawing on the very latest research, the book Joanna Freeland, William Gosling, explains what biodiversity is and explores its evolution, from 3.5 billion Tim Halliday, Donal O’Donnell, years ago to the present day. It discusses the importance of the world’s Callum Roberts, David Robinson, ecosystems and how directly or indirectly humans are responsible for Phil Sarre, Jonathan Silvertown, and the fate of nature. Crucially, it also examines what can be done to pro- Peter Skelton tect the natural world and why it matters. Although we cannot undo all that we have done, ignoring the current crisis facing biodiversity could August 192 p., 225 color plates 81/2 x10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75781-0 fundamentally change the lives of future generations. Paper $26.00 SCIENCE Fully illustrated with color photographs, diagrams, and maps, nsa and edited by celebrated ecologist Jonathan Silvertown, this book is a Copublished with the Open University timely snapshot of the state of life on Earth. From the plant and ani- mal products that make up our breakfast to the ecosystems that help to produce clean water, our very survival depends upon the variety of plant and animal life on our planet. The year 2010 has been declared by the United Nations the International Year of Biodiversity, and Fragile Web will be an essential guidebook for our time.

Jonathan Silvertown is professor of ecology at the Open University, Milton Keynes, and the author of An Orchard Invisible and Demons in Eden and editor of 99% Ape, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

22 general interest Michael Bliss The Making of Modern Medicine Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease

t the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accus- tomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume A that, regardless of what ails us, doctors almost certainly will be able to help—not just by diagnosing illnesses and alleviating our pain, but by actually treating or even curing diseases, and significantly improving our lives. Praise for The Discovery of Insulin For most of human history, however, that was far from the case, “Bliss’s excellent account of the insulin as veteran medical historian Michael Bliss explains in The Making of story is a rare dissection of the anatomy Modern Medicine. Focusing on a few key moments in the transforma- of scientific discovery, and serves as a tion of medical care, Bliss reveals the way that new discoveries and model of how rigorous historical method new approaches led doctors and patients alike to discard fatalism and can correct the myths and legends their traditional religious acceptance of suffering in favor of a new sometimes perpetrated in the scientific faith in health care and in the capacity of doctors to treat disease. He literature.” takes readers to three turning points—a devastating smallpox outbreak —New Republic in Montreal in 1885, the founding of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and

Medical School, and the discovery of insulin—and recounts the lives of february 112 p., 26 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05901-3 three crucial figures—researcher Frederick Banting, surgeon Harvey Cloth $18.00/£11.50 Cushing, and physician William Osler—turning medical history into a medicine can fascinating story of dedication and discovery. Copublished with the University of Toronto Press Compact and compelling, this searching history vividly depicts and explains the emergence of modern medicine—and, in a provoca- tive epilogue, outlines the paradoxes and confusions underlying our contemporary understanding of disease, death, and life itself.

Michael Bliss is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, a recipient of the Order of Canada, and an honorary Fellow of the Royal Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is the award-winning author of many books, including The Discovery of Insulin, William Osler: A Life in Medi- cine, and Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery.

general interest 23 Jonathan Rosenbaum Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia Film Culture in Transition

he esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four Tdecades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subject to analyses just as diversified as his own discriminating tastes. For Rosenbaum, there is no high or low cinema, only more interesting or less interesting films, and the pieces collected here, from an appre- “One of the finest film critics currently ciation of Marilyn Monroe’s intelligence to a classic discussion on and active.” with Jean-Luc Godard, amply testify to his broad intellect and multifac- —Times (UK) eted talent. Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia gathers together over fifty examples “Among the best is Rosenbaum.” of Rosenbaum’s criticism from the past four decades, each of which —Booklist demonstrates his passion for the way we view movies, as well as how we write about them. Charting our changing concerns with the inter- “This is a major new collection of essays connected issues that surround video, DVDs, the Internet, and new from a preeminent American film critic. media, the writings collected here also highlight Rosenbaum’s polem- . . . Jonathan Rosenbaum’s intellectual ics concerning the digital age. From the rediscovery and recirculation and political engagement, his insistence of classic films, to the social and aesthetic impact of technological in going beyond the U.S.-centrism of most changes, Rosenbaum doesn’t disappoint in assembling a magisterial American critics, and his extraordinarily cast of little-known filmmakers as well as the familiar faces and iconic wide-ranging cinephilia represent near- names that have helped to define our era. heroic work. . . . This excellent collec- As we move into this new decade of moviegoing—one in which tion, much like its author, crosses many Hollywood will continue to feel the shockwaves of the digital age— boundaries with conviction.” —Janet Bergstrom, Jonathan Rosenbaum remains a valuable guide. Goodbye Cinema, Hello University of California, Los Angeles Cinephilia is a consummate collection of his work, not simply for fans of this seminal critic, but for all those open to the wide variety of films he October 376 p. 6 x 9 embraces and helps us understand. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72664-9 Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72665-6 Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote for many periodicals (including the Village Voice, Sight Paper $25.00/£16.00 and Sound, Film Quarterly, and Film Comment) before becoming principal film critic FILM STUDIES for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until his retirement in 2008. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Discovering Orson Welles and the major col- lection of essays Essential Cinema. He continues to write for both print and online publications and maintains a blog at www.jonathanrosenbaum.com.

24 general interest Kieran Egan Learning in Depth A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling

or generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curricula that ensure that F they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by the time they graduate. Yet such broad knowledge can’t help but be somewhat superficial—and, as Kieran Egan argues, it omits a crucial aspect of true education: deep knowledge. Real education, Egan explains, consists of both general knowledge and detailed understanding, and in Learning in Depth he outlines an “Learning in Depth outlines a bold and ambitious yet practical plan to incorporate deep knowledge into basic stimulating curricular innovation designed education. Under Egan’s program, students will follow the usual cur- to improve the quality of schooling from riculum, but with one crucial addition: beginning with their first days kindergarten through high school. The of school and continuing until graduation, they will each also study book’s key idea is certainly worthy of one topic—such as apples, birds, sacred buildings, mollusks, circuses, serious debate and continued experimen- or stars—in depth. Over the years, with the help and guidance of their tation. For that reason alone, I commend supervising teacher, students will expand their understanding of their its suggestive proposal to the attention one topic and build portfolios of knowledge that grow and change of thoughtful educators everywhere.” along with them. By the time they graduate each student will know as —Philip W. Jackson, much about his or her topic as almost anyone on earth—and in the University of Chicago process will have learned important, even life-changing lessons about the meaning of expertise, the value of dedication, and the delight of November 224 p., 4 tables 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-19043-3 knowing something in depth. Cloth $25.00/£16.00 Though Egan’s program may be radical in its effects, it is strikingly EDUCATION ukcan simple to implement—as a number of schools have already discovered —and with Learning in Depth as a blueprint, parents, educators, and administrators can instantly begin taking the first steps toward trans- forming our schools and fundamentally deepening their students’ minds.

Kieran Egan is the author of many books, including The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding and The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up.

general interest 25 Andrew Roberts The Thinking Student’s Guide to College 75 Tips for Getting a Better Education

ach fall, thousands of eager freshmen descend on college and university campuses expecting the best education imaginable: E inspiring classes taught by top-ranked professors, academic advisors who will guide them to a prestigious job or graduate school, and an environment where learning flourishes outside the classroom “By addressing students directly, drawing as much as it does in lecture halls. Unfortunately, most of these fresh- on his experience and observations in men soon learn that academic life is not what they imagined. Classes academic life, Andrew Roberts provides are taught by overworked graduate students and adjuncts rather than an accessible and credible account of how seasoned faculty members, undergrads receive minimal attention from to make college a valuable experience advisors or administrators, and potentially valuable campus resources educationally.” remain outside their grasp. —Michael McPherson, president of the Spencer Foundation, Andrew Roberts’s Thinking Student’s Guide to College helps students former president of Macalester College take charge of their university experience by providing a blueprint they can follow to achieve their educational goals—whether at public “Andrew Roberts has a light touch, gives or private schools, large research universities, or small liberal arts col- students excellent advice, and writes leges. An inside look penned by a professor at Northwestern University, in a direct, engaging style. What I find this book offers concrete tips on choosing a college, selecting classes, particularly interesting is the perspective deciding on a major, interacting with faculty, and applying to gradu- from which he counsels students, that of ate school. Here, Roberts exposes the secrets of the ivory tower to a serious academic fully dedicated to his reveal what motivates professors, where to find loopholes in university profession despite what he sees as its bureaucracy, and, most importantly, how to get a personalized educa- flaws.” —Michael Koppisch, tion. Based on interviews with faculty and cutting-edge educational Michigan State University research, The Thinking Student’s Guide to College is a necessary handbook for students striving to excel academically, creatively, and personally Chicago Guides to Academic Life during their undergraduate years.

September 184 p., 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72114-9 Andrew Roberts is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern Cloth $42.00x/£27.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72115-6 University and fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. He is the author of Paper $14.00/£9.00 The Quality of Democracy in Eastern Europe: Public Preferences and Policy Reforms. REFERENCE

26 general interest Peter Frumkin The Essence of Strategic Giving A Practical Guide for Donors and Fundraisers

n the face of global financial problems and stressed government budgets, the ability of private philanthropy to step in and help I solve public problems—and support vital private institutions as well—has never been more important. But how can donors be sure their contributions will be effective? And how can fundraisers make their case for support in a way that is compelling and productive? With The Essence of Strategic Giving, Peter Frumkin distills the les- Praise for Strategic Giving sons of his comprehensive, award-winning study, Strategic Giving, into a “Frumkin’s book is impressive in its scale concise, practical guide for everyone involved in private philanthropy, and depth. It contains something for ev- from donors to managers of nonprofits to fundraisers. He defines five ery type of reader—seasoned scholars of critical challenges that all donors must address if their philanthropy is the field, old and new practitioners, and to amount to more than indiscriminate charity, including being aware those who want to begin an education of the time frame that guides a gift, specifying the intended impact about issues of philanthropy. . . . A major being pursued, and recognizing how a donation fits with a donor’s own contribution to the field. With it, Frumkin identity and style. Acknowledging and understanding these funda- develops a theoretical framework from mental, strategic aspects of giving, Frumkin argues, will help ensure which we can all learn.” philanthropy that more effectively achieves its aims—and at the same —Andrew Rich, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly time builds a lasting relationship between donors and the institutions they support. “Thought-provoking. . . . Makes an As the next generation of donors wrestles with the challenge of extremely strong case for so-called effectively distributing what Andrew Carnegie called “surplus wealth,” planned giving.” Frumkin’s road map will be an indispensable resource for years to come. —Christopher Ondaatje, Times Higher Education Supplement

Peter Frumkin is professor of public affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and September 192 p., 11 line drawings Community Service, both at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the 51/2 x 81/2 author of On Being Nonprofit and Strategic Giving and coauthor of Serving ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26627-5 Country and Community. Paper $15.00/£9.50 BUSINESS

general interest 27 Jennifer C. Hunt Seven Shots An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath

n July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn—and thus nar- Orowly prevented a devastating suicide bombing of the New York subway. Seven Shots tells the dramatic story of that raid, the painstaking police work that went into it, and its unexpected aftermath, which drew the officers involved into a long-standing conflict with other rank-and-file police and publicity-hungry top brass. Drawing on her “This is the most honest, accurate, and own experience working in the NYPD and a wide network of police heartfelt look beneath the surface of contacts, Jennifer C. Hunt tracks the lives of three officers on the the NYPD that I’ve ever read. This writer Emergency Service team and two bomb technicians from the day of understands cops. The core event, the the raid through their struggles with their superiors—which began 1997 raid that prevented a Brooklyn when they balked at being used as political props and escalated to subway bombing, moves with the pace arguments over tactics, training, and promotion—on to 9/11, when of a thriller, yet Jennifer Hunt perfectly, they once again found themselves risking their lives on the front lines movingly captures the thoughts and of the battle against terrorism. Throughout her fast-paced narrative, emotions of the cops involved. It’s a rare she maintains a strikingly fine-grained, street-level view, allowing us accomplishment to get cops to pour out to understand the cops on their own terms—and often in their own their hearts like this.” words. The result is a compelling insider’s picture of the world of elite —Ed Dee, retired NYPD Lieutenant, police work, from precincts and squad cars to physical dangers and author of The Con Man’s Daughter family strain. As gripping as an Ed McBain novel—and just as steeped in New October 344 p., 1 line drawing 6 x 9 York cop culture—Seven Shots takes readers on an unforgettable jour- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36090-4 Cloth $29.00/£18.50 ney behind the shield and into the hearts of the city’s sentinels. CURRENT EVENTS TRUE CRIME

Jennifer C. Hunt is a sociologist and professor at Montclair State University. She spent four years doing fieldwork among police in uniformed patrol and later worked in the NYPD as an assistant to the deputy commissioner of train- ing. She has written police department training materials, as well as a book on ethnography.

28 general interest Christena Nippert-Eng Islands of Privacy

veryone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise increasingly sophisticated data gathering Etools and joining Facebook verges on obligatory, concerns over the use and abuse of personal information are undeniable. But the way privacy functions on the virtual frontier of the Internet is only a subset of the fascinating ways we work to achieve it throughout our everyday lives. In Islands of Privacy, Christena Nippert-Eng pries open the blinds, giving us an intimate view into the full range of ordinary people’s sometimes extraordinary efforts to preserve the border between them- selves and the rest of the world. Packed with stories that are funny and sad, familiar and strange, Islands of Privacy tours the myriad arenas where privacy battles are “Islands of Privacy is a major work of origi- fought, lost, and won. Nippert-Eng explores how we manage our nal research, depicting the processes, secrets, our phone calls and e-mail, the perimeters of our homes, and exchanges, and concerns involved in our interactions with neighbors. She discovers that everybody practices the ongoing social negotiation of this the art of selectively concealing and disclosing information on a daily thing we call ‘privacy.’ The strength of basis. This important balancing act governs a wide range of behaviors, Nippert-Eng’s closely detailed approach from deciding whether to give our bosses our cell phone numbers to is that it allows us to see that privacy is choosing what we carry in our wallets or purses. Violations of privacy a complicated value subject to constant and anxiety about how we grant it to each other also come under change, pressure, defense, and negation. Nippert-Eng’s microscope as she crafts a compelling argument that The book is also elegantly written—in successfully managing privacy is critical for successfully maintaining admirable Studs Terkel fashion, Nippert- our relationships with each other and our selves. Eng is able to get people to tell some great stories about the things that interest us Roaming from the beach to the bank and from the bathroom to all.” the bus, Nippert-Eng’s keenly observed and vividly told book gives us —John Gilliom, the skinny on how we defend our shrinking islands of privacy in the author of Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, vast ocean of accessibility that surrounds us. and the Limits of Privacy

Christena Nippert-Eng is associate professor of sociology and associate chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She September 408 p., 2 halftones, 5 line drawings, 6 tables 6 x 9 is the author of Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58652-6 also published by the University of Chicago Press. Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58653-3 Paper $22.50/£14.50 SOCIOLOGY

general interest 29 Ziggurat PETER BALAKIAN

Warhol/Electric Chair/’63

The red spreads like Christmas wrapping— the green, a field in a Caucasian rug.

It’s almost beautiful without the metal plates for the head (though the plug on the floor is visible). Tourist in Hell Eleanor Wilner Before decorator colors & Hockney, Calvin Klein in the summery Hamptons, From What It Hinges On before there were—switches to break the flow . . . a letter here, a sentence my mother used to say never touch a radio when you’re in the bathtub, there, years of work litter the field never fly a kite near transmission lines. that lies outside the town that flood But still, it’s furniture or fire took back, as the great tectonic still, it’s a typical American way to go— plates grind out their harmonies below the sea, and the earth turns it’s Sing Sing, the silhouette of Ethel Rosenberg. in its restless sleep, spun In the rheostatic air, the absent man heard “She Loves You,” by what we cannot see, the hand the British invasion and the flat line arrived at once. that is no hand, but brings us calm to think it so, and think it ours Outside Negroes were eaten by dogs. to smite our enemies, Johnson was sworn in. Cuba turned red in the green sea. forgetting as we turn it to a fist, Widely known for his memoir and nonfiction on the Arme- it is ourselves curled, blind nian genocide, Peter Balakian is also an accomplished poet, as newborn kittens, in the palm. and Ziggurat is his first book of poems in nine years. Exploring history, self, and imagination, as well as his ongoing concerns Eleanor Wilner’s poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars with catastrophe and trauma, many of Balakian’s new poems and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. wrestle with the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11. In their litany of loss, in their outrage and sorrow, they retain Whether reliving the building of the World Trade Tow- the joy in life, mercy for the mortal condition, and praise for ers in the inventive forty-three-section poem that anchors the the plenitude of nature and the gifts of human artistry. book, walking the ruins of the Bosnian National Library in Sa- As with her six earlier collections, these poems are drawn rajevo, meditating on Andy Warhol’s silk screens, or consider- from the transpersonal realm of history and cultural memory, ing the confluence of music, language, and memory, Balakian but they display an increasing horror at the bloody repetitions continues his meditations on history, as well as the harshness of history, its service of death, and the destructive savagery of and beauty of contemporary life, that his readers have enjoyed power separated from intelligence and restraint. The poems over the years. In a sensual, layered, and sometimes ellipti- describe “a sordid drama” in which the players wear “eyeless cal language, Balakian in Ziggurat explores absence, war, love, masks,” and the only thing time changes is the name of the and art in a new age of American uncertainty. enemy. Underneath it all, driving “the art that” in both senses “Peter Balakian’s Ziggurat ingests calamity and dissolves “keeps nothing at bay,” swim the enormous formal energies of it into almost exhilarating rhythm and image, pushing the life, the transitive figure that moves on in the depths, something language until it feels like it’s breaking into something new. glimpsed in the first light, something stronger than hope. The work aims to reveal the human capacity to integrate and, “It is a relief to come across work in which a moral intel- after hard passage, transcend.”—Sven Birkerts ligence is matched by aesthetic refinement, in which the craft of the poems is equal to their concerns.”—Christian Wiman, Poetry Peter Balakian is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in Humanities and professor of English at Colgate University. He is Eleanor Wilner is a MacArthur Fellow and the author of six previous the author of five books of poems and three prose works, including collections of poetry, including Otherwise and Sarah’s Choice, both The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, a published by the University of Chicago Press. New York Times best-seller, and Black Dog of Fate, a memoir.

October 96 p. 51/2 x 81/2 September 84 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90032-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03564-2 Paper $18.00/£11.50 Cloth $25.00/£16.00 POETRY POETRY

30 general interest Gravity’s Ghost “Gravity’s Ghost reads like a good mystery novel, with an unexpected Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century twist. A significant contribution to Harry Collins the study of scientific practice.” —Allan Franklin, In theory, at least, gravitational waves do stakes research and cutting-edge discov- University of Colorado exist. We are constantly bathed in gravi- ery. Here, Collins reveals that scientific tational radiation, which is generated discovery and nondiscovery can turn November 192 p., 12 halftones, when stars explode or collide and a por- on scientific traditions and rivalries, 2 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 tion of their mass becomes energy that that ideal statistical analysis rests on im- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11356-2 ripples out like a disturbance on the sur- possible procedures and unattainable Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 face of a serene pond. But unfortunately knowledge, and that fact in one place is SCIENCE no gravitational wave has ever been di- baseless assumption in another. He also rectly detected, even though the search argues that sciences like gravitational has lasted more than forty years. wave detection, in exemplifying how As the leading chronicler of the the intractable is to be handled, can of- search for gravitational waves, Harry fer scientific leadership a moral beacon Collins has been right there with the for the twenty-first century. In the end, scientists since the start. The result of Gravity’s Ghost shows that discoveries are his unprecedented access to the front the denouements of dramatic scientific lines of physical science is Gravity’s mysteries. Ghost, a thrilling chronicle of high-

Harry Collins is distinguished research professor of sociology at Cardiff University; director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science; and author of many books, including Gravity’s Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Letting Stories Breathe “Arthur Frank is a beautiful writer and this is a terrific book. His A Socio-Narratology socio-narratology, while clearly Arthur W. Frank drawing on the work of earlier Stories accompany us through life from Frank’s unique approach uses liter- scholars, is genuinely original, and birth to death. But they do not merely ary concepts to ask social scientific ques- his mastery of narrative theory, entertain, inform, or distress us—they tions: how do stories make life good facility with a range of theoretical show us what counts as right or wrong and when do they endanger it? Going traditions of narrative analysis, and teach us who we are and who we beyond theory, he presents a thorough deep fondness for literature, and can imagine being. Stories connect introduction to dialogical narrative people, but they can also disconnect, analysis, analyzing modes of interpre- capacity as a storyteller—all these creating boundaries between people tation, providing specific questions to together allow him to make a very and justifying violence. In Letting Stories start analysis, and describing different persuasive case.” Breathe, Arthur W. Frank grapples with forms analysis can take. Building on —Cheryl Mattingly, this fundamental aspect of our lives, of- his renowned work exploring the rela- University of Southern California fering both a theory of how stories shape tionship between narrative and illness, us and a useful method for analyzing Letting Stories Breathe expands Frank’s November 192 p. 6 x 9 them. Along the way he also tells stories: horizons further, offering a compelling ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26013-6 Cloth $25.00s/£16.00 from folktales to research interviews to perspective on how stories affect hu- SOCIOLOGY LITERARY CRITICISM remembrances. man lives.

Arthur W. Frank is professor of sociology at the University of Calgary and the author of At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness; The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics; and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live, the latter two also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 31 A Natural History of the New World The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas Alan Graham

The paleoecological history of the due balance to natural histories that Americas is as complex as the region is focus exclusively on animals. Plants are broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle important in evolution’s splendid dra- to Tierra del Fuego, the New World fea- ma. Not only are they conspicuous and tures some of the most extraordinary conveniently stationary components of vegetation on the planet. But until now the Earth’s ecosystems, but their ex- it has lacked a complete natural history. tensive fossil record allows for a thor- Alan Graham remedies that with A Nat- ough reconstruction of the planet’s pa- ural History of the New World. With plants leoenvironments. What’s more, plants as his scientific muse, Graham traces provide oxygen, function as food and the evolution of ecosystems, beginning fuel, and provide habitat and shelter; in in the Late Cretaceous period (about short, theirs is a history that can speak December 392 p., 69 halftones, 100 million years ago) and ending in to many other areas of evolution. 34 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30679-7 the present, charting their responses to A Natural History of the New World is Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 changes in geology and climate. an ambitious and unprecedented syn- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30680-3 By highlighting plant communi- thesis written by one of the world’s lead- Paper $40.00s/£26.00 ties’ roles in the environmental history ing scholars of botany and geology. SCIENCE of the Americas, Graham offers an over-

Alan Graham is curator of paleobotany and palynology at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

“This is the first book-length study Science in the Age of Computer Simulation of the role of simulation models Eric Winsberg from the standpoint of philosophy of science. It will be required read- Computer simulation was first pio- tions in Science in the Age of Computer ing for all who follow.” neered as a scientific tool in meteorol- Simulation. —Ronald Giere, ogy and nuclear physics in the period Scrutinizing these issues with a University of Minnesota following World War II, but it has grown philosophical lens, Winsberg explores rapidly to become indispensable in a the impact of simulation on such issues September 168 p., 5 halftones 6 x 9 wide variety of scientific disciplines, in- as the nature of scientific evidence; the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90202-9 cluding astrophysics, high-energy phys- Cloth $66.00x/£42.50 role of values in science; the nature and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90204-3 ics, climate science, engineering, ecol- role of fictions in science; and the re- Paper $24.00s/£15.50 ogy, and economics. Digital computer lationship between simulation and ex- SCIENCE simulation helps study phenomena of periment, theories and data, and theo- great complexity, but how much do we ries at different levels of description. know about the limits and possibilities Science in the Age of Computer Simulation of this new scientific practice? How do will transform many of the core issues simulations compare to traditional ex- in philosophy of science, as well as our periments? And are they reliable? Eric basic understanding of the role of the Winsberg seeks to answer these ques- digital computer in the sciences.

Eric Winsberg is associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida.

32 special interest From Man to Ape “A tour de force. This is by far the most sophisticated book-length Darwinism in Argentina, 1870–1920 account of the reception of Darwin- Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine ism in one country.” —Thomas F. Glick, Upon its publication, The Origin of Spe- cultural periphery, Novoa and Levine Boston University cies was critically embraced in Europe show that familiar analogies assume and North America. But how did Dar- unfamiliar and sometimes startling December 328 p., 5 halftones 6 x 9 win’s theories fare in other regions of guises in Argentina. The transforma- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-59616-7 Cloth $49.00s/£31.50 the world? Adriana Novoa and Alex tion of these analogies in the Argentine HISTORY SCIENCE Levine offer here a history and inter- context led science—as well as the in- pretation of the reception of Darwin- teraction between science, popular cul- ism in Argentina, illuminating the ways ture, and public policy—in surprising culture shapes scientific enterprise. directions. In diverging from European In order to explore how Argenti- models, Argentine Darwinism reveals a na’s particular interests, ambitions, po- great deal about both Darwinism and litical anxieties, and prejudices shaped science in general. scientific research, From Man to Ape Novel in its approach and its sub- focuses on Darwin’s use of analogies. ject, From Man to Ape reveals a new way of Both analogy and metaphor are cultur- understanding Latin American science ally situated, and by studying scientific and its impact on the scientific commu- activity at Europe’s geographical and nities of Europe and North America.

Adriana Novoa is assistant professor in the Department of the Humanities and Cultural Studies and Alex Levine is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, both at the University of South Florida.

Evolutionary Restraints “Group selection has a turbulent The Contentious History of Group Selection history, and this book, about a the- ory that was prematurely rejected Mark E. Borrello and subsequently accepted, covers

Much of the history of the evolutionary twentieth century, Wynne-Edwards be- an important episode in the history debate since Darwin has focused on the came the primary advocate for group of science that is more timely than level at which natural selection occurs. selection theory and precipitated a de- ever before. Now that evolution as Most biologists acknowledge multiple bate that engaged the most significant a multilevel process is becoming levels of selection—from the gene, the evolutionary biologists, including Ernst widely accepted, a proper history trait, and the organism, to the family, Mayr, John Maynard Smith, G. C. Wil- is badly needed; Evolutionary the group, and the species. However, it liams, and Richard Dawkins. The re- is the debate about group selection that sultant interpretations and arguments Restraints provides that.” Mark E. Borrello focuses on in Evolu- bled out into broader conversations —David Sloan Wilson, author of Darwin’s Cathedral tionary Restraints. about population regulation, environ- Tracing the history of biological mental crises, and the evolution of hu- October 208 p., 1 line drawing, attempts to determine whether selec- man and animal social behavior. Evolu- 16 halftones 6 x 9 tion could lead to the evolution of fitter tionary Restraints illuminates both the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06701-8 groups, Borrello takes as his focus the process of science and the role of con- Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 British naturalist V. C. Wynne-Edwards, troversy in the process. From its origins SCIENCE who proposed that animals could regu- in Darwin’s own thinking, this debate, late their own population levels and Borrello reminds us, remains relevant thereby avoid overexploitation of their and alive to this day. food and other resources. By the mid-

Mark E. Borrello is associate professor of the history of science in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota.

special interest 33 A World of Rivers Environmental Change on Ten of the World’s Great Rivers Ellen Wohl

Far from being the serene, natural China to Central Europe’s Danube and streams of yore, modern rivers have the Mississippi, the book journeys down been diverted, dammed, dumped in, the most important rivers in all corners and dried up, all in efforts to harness of the globe. Wohl shows us how pollu- their power for human needs. But these tion, such as in the Ganges and in the rivers have also undergone environ- Ob of Siberia, has affected biodiversity mental change. The old adage says you in the water. But rivers are also resil- can’t step in the same river twice, and ient, and Wohl stresses the importance Ellen Wohl would agree—natural and of conservation and restoration to help synthetic change are so rapid on the reverse the effects of human careless- world’s great waterways that rivers are ness and hubris. transforming and disappearing right What all these diverse rivers share November 368 p., 64 halftones, 1 line drawing 6 x 9 before our eyes. is a critical role in shaping surrounding ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90478-8 A World of Rivers explores the con- landscapes and biological communi- Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 fluence of human and environmental ties, and Wohl’s book ultimately makes SCIENCE change on ten of the great rivers of the a strong case for the need to steward posi- world. Ranging from the Murray-Dar- tive change in the world’s great rivers. ling in Australia and the Yellow River in

Ellen Wohl is professor of geosciences at Colorado State University and the author of, most recently, Of Rock and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West.

Contributors include The Ecology of Place Kenneth B. Armitage, James Contributions of Place-Based Research to A. Estes, Peter Feinsinger, Ecological Understanding B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Edited by Ian Billick and Mary V. Price Grant, Stephen P. Hubbell, Clive G. Jones, Sharon E. Ecologists can spend a lifetime re- able general knowledge as well as prac- Kingsland, Charles J. Krebs, searching a small patch of the earth, tical local knowledge, and how society Andrew Noss, Richard S. studying the interactions between or- can facilitate ecological understanding Ostfeld, Robert T. Paine, ganisms and the environment, and by investing in field sites, place-centered exploring the roles those interactions databases, interdisciplinary collabora- Catherine A. Pfister, H. Ronald play in determining distribution, abun- tions, and field-oriented education pro- Pulliam, Edmundo Rivera, dance, and evolutionary change. With grams that emphasize natural history. Donald M. Waller, Nickolas M. so few ecologists and so many systems This unique patchwork of case-study Waser, J. Timothy Wootton to study, generalizations are essential. narratives, philosophical musings, and But how do you extrapolate knowledge historical analyses is tied together with January 512 p., 42 halftones, about a well-studied area and apply it commentaries from editors Ian Billick 32 line drawings, 8 tables 6 x 9 elsewhere? and Mary V. Price that develop and syn- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05042-3 Cloth $120.00x/£77.50 Through a range of original essays thesize common threads. The result is a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05043-0 written by eminent ecologists and natu- unique volume rich with all-too-rare in- Paper $45.00s/£29.00 ralists, The Ecology of Place explores how sights into how science is actually done, SCIENCE place-focused research yields export- as told by scientists themselves.

Ian Billick is executive director of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Crested Butte, Colorado. Mary V. Price is professor emerita of biology at the University of California, Riverside.

34 special interest Histories of Scientific Observation Contributors Edited by Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck Domencio Bertolini-Meli, Charlotte Bigg, Daniela Observation is the most pervasive and Histories of Scientific Observation fea- Bleichmar, Jimena Canales, fundamental practice of all the mod- tures engaging episodes drawn from Otniel E. Dror, Michael ern sciences, both natural and human. across the spectrum of the natural and Its instruments include not only the human sciences, ranging from meteo- Gordin, Harro Maas, Andrew naked senses but also tools such as the rology, medicine, and natural history to Mendelsohn, Mary Morgan, telescope and microscope, the ques- economics, astronomy, and psychology. Katharine Park, Gianna tionnaire, the photographic plate, the The contributions spotlight how observ- Pomata, Theodore M. Porter, notebook, the glassed-in beehive, and ers have scrutinized everything—from Anne Secord, Mary Terrall, myriad other ingenious inventions de- seaweed to X-ray radiation, household Kelley Wilder signed to make the invisible visible, the budgets to the emotions—with ingenu- evanescent permanent, the abstract con- ity, curiosity, and perseverance verging crete. Yet observation has almost never on obsession. This book makes a com- December 440 p., 5 color plates, 42 halftones 6 x 9 been considered as an object of histori- pelling case for the significance of the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13677-6 cal inquiry in itself. This wide-ranging long, surprising, and epistemologically Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 collection offers the first examination significant history of scientific observa- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13678-3 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 of the history of scientific observation tion, a history full of innovations that SCIENCE HISTORY in its own right, as both epistemic cat- have enlarged the possibilities of per- egory and scientific practice. ception, judgment, and reason.

Lorraine Daston is director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and is visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Elizabeth Lunbeck is the Nelson Tyrone, Jr. Chair of American History and professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University.

Wild Mammals in Captivity “This is the only up-to-date and comprehensive manual on the prob- Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management lems of and the solutions to keeping Second Edition Edited by Devra G. Kleiman, Katerina V. Thompson, and handling wild mammals outside and Charlotte Kirk Baer their natural environment. . . . A magnificent manual.” Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vi- breeding; research in physiology, genet- —Harry Miller, Times Higher Education tal centers of animal conservation and ics, and nutrition; and new thinking in Supplement, on the first edition management. For nearly fifteen years, animal management and welfare. these institutions have relied on Wild In this edition, more than three- August 584 p., 100 halftones, Mammals in Captivity as the essential quarters of the text is new, and infor- 39 line drawings, 67 tables 81/2 x 11 reference for their work. Now the book mation from more than seventy-five ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44009-5 Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 reemerges in a completely updated sec- contributors is thoroughly updated. ond edition. Wild Mammals in Captivity The standard text for all courses in zoo SCIENCE presents the most current thinking and biology, Wild Mammals in Captivity will, practice in the care and management in its new incarnation, continue to be of wild mammals in zoos and other used by zoo managers, animal caretak- institutions. In one comprehensive ers, researchers, and anyone with an volume, the editors have gathered the interest in how to manage animals in most current information from studies captive conditions. of animal behavior; advances in captive

Devra G. Kleiman is principal of Zoo-Logic, LLC, Chevy Chase, Maryland; senior scientist emeritus at Smithsonian National Zoological Park; and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland. Katerina V. Thompson is director of Undergraduate Research & Internship Programs in the College of Chemical and Life Sciences at the University of Maryland. Charlotte Kirk Baer is principal of Baer and Associates, LLC, Silver Spring, Maryland. special interest 35 Political Essay on the Island of Cuba Alexander v o n Humboldt Edited by Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette

The research Alexander von Hum- mistranslated to suppress Humboldt’s boldt amassed during his five-year trek strong antislavery sentiments. It re- through the Americas in the early nine- emerges here, newly translated from teenth century proved foundational to the original two-volume French edi- the fields of botany, geography, and tion, to introduce a new generation of geology. But his visit to Cuba during readers to Humboldt’s astonishing mul- this time yielded observations that ex- tiplicity of scientific and philosophical tended far beyond the natural world. perspectives. In their critical introduc- Political Essay on the Island of Cuba is a tion, Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette physical and cultural study of the island emphasize Humboldt’s rare ability to Alexander von Humboldt in English nation. In it, Humboldt denounces co- combine scientific rigor with a cosmo- lonial slavery on both moral and eco- politan consciousness and a deeply felt January 496 p., 115 tables 6 x 9 nomic grounds and stresses the vital philosophical humanism. The result ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46567-8 Cloth $65.00s/£42.00 importance of improving intercultural is a work on Cuba of historical import relations throughout the Americas. that will attract historians of science as SCIENCE HISTORY Humboldt’s most controversial well as cultural historians, political sci- book, Political Essay on the Island of Cuba entists, and literary scholars. was banned, censored, and willfully

Vera M. Kutzinski is the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English, professor of compara- tive literature, and director of the Alexander von Humboldt in English project at Vander- bilt University. Ottmar Ette is chair of romance literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and the author of many books on Humboldt.

“The Cuban Cure is a much-needed The Cuban Cure contribution to the current litera- Reason and Resistance in Global Science ture on the history of science in Cuba and the developing world. S. M. Reid-Henry Illuminating and engaging.” —Mariola Espinosa, After Fidel Castro came to power in Cuban biomedical science, S. M. Reid- author of Epidemic Invasions 1959, his second declaration, after so- Henry examines the forms of resistance cialism, was that Cuba would become a that biotechnology research in Cuba December 216 p. 6 x 9 leader in international science. In bio- presents to the globalization of western ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70917-8 technology he would be proven right, models of scientific culture and prac- Cloth $39.00s/£25.00 and today Cuba counts a meningitis B tice. He illustrates the epistemic, social, HISTORY SCIENCE vaccine and cutting-edge cancer thera- and ideological clashes that take place pies to its name. But how did this politi- when two cultures of research meet, cally and geographically isolated country and how such interactions develop as make such impressive advances? Drawing political and economic circumstances on a unique ethnography, and blending change. Through a novel argument the insights of philosophy, sociology, and about the intersection of socioeconom- geography, The Cuban Cure shows how ic systems and the nature of innovation, Cuba came to compete with U.S. pharma- The Cuban Cure presents an illuminat- ceutical giants—despite a trade embargo ing study of politics and science in the and crippling national debt. context of globalization. In uncovering what is distinct about

S. M. Reid-Henry is lecturer in the Department of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.

36 special interest The Nazi Symbiosis “Sheila Weiss shows how German geneticists enhanced their careers Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich through research agendas that Sheila Faith Weiss both advanced and benefited from the Nazi state’s criminal aims. A The Faustian bargain—in which an other before and during the Third Re- individual or group collaborates with ich. Exploring the ethical and profes- frightening study of the politics of an evil entity in order to obtain knowl- sional consequences for the scientists genetic science under Hitler.” edge, power, or material gain—is per- involved as well as the political ramifi- —Norman J. W. Goda, haps best exemplified by the alliance cations for Nazi racial policies, Sheila University of Florida between world-renowned human ge- Faith Weiss places genetics and eugen- neticists and the Nazi state. Under the ics in their larger international context. November 392 p., 37 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89176-7 swastika, German scientists descended In questioning whether the motives Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 into the moral abyss, perpetrating hei- that propelled German geneticists were EUROPEAN HISTORY SCIENCE nous medical crimes at Auschwitz and different from the compromises that at euthanasia hospitals. But why did researchers from other countries and biomedical researchers accept such a eras have faced, Weiss extends her ar- bargain? gument into our modern moment, as The Nazi Symbiosis offers a nuanced we confront the promises and perils of account of the myriad ways human he- genomic medicine today. redity and Nazi politics reinforced each

Sheila Faith Weiss is professor of history at Clarkson University and the author of Race Hygiene and National Efficiency: The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer.

Geographies of Mars Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet K. Maria D. Lane

One of the first maps of Mars, pub- nith and American expansionism had lished by an Italian astronomer in 1877, begun in earnest. Astronomers work- with its pattern of canals, fueled belief ing in the new observatories of the in intelligent life-forms on the distant American Southwest or in the remote red planet—a hope that continued into heights of the South American Andes the 1960s. Although the Martian canals were inspired, Lane finds, by their own have long since been dismissed as a fa- physical surroundings, and they used mous error in the history of science, K. representations of the Earth’s arid Maria D. Lane argues that there was landscapes to establish credibility for nothing accidental about these early their observations of Mars. With this interpretations. Indeed, she argues, simple shift to the geographer’s point January 272 p., 39 halftones, the construction of Mars as an incom- of view, Lane deftly explains some of 6 line drawings 6 x 9 prehensibly complex and engineered the most perplexing stances on Mars ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47078-8 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 world both reflected and challenged taken by familiar protagonists such as SCIENCE dominant geopolitical themes during a Percival Lowell, Alfred Russel Wallace, time of major cultural, intellectual, po- and Lester Frank Ward. litical, and economic transition in the A highly original exploration of Western world. geography’s spatial dimensions at the Geographies of Mars telescopes in on beginning of the twentieth century, Ge- a critical period in the development of ographies of Mars offers a new view of the the geographical imagination, when mapping of far-off worlds. European imperialism was at its ze-

K. Maria D. Lane is assistant professor of geography at the University of New Mexico.

special interest 37 Praise for Gregotti Architecture, Means and Ends “The most important architect, Vittorio Gregotti critic, and intellectual writing Translated by Lydia Cochrane today.” —Kenneth Frampton Vittorio Gregotti—the architect of Bar- oncilable concerns of aesthetics, mean- celona’s Olympic Stadium, Milan’s Ar- ing, and construction, Architecture, Means

November 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 cimboldi Opera Theater, and Lisbon’s and Ends reflects Gregotti’s overarching ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30758-9 Centro Cultural de Belém, among many claim that buildings always have a sym- Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 other noted constructions—is not only bolic, cultural content. In this book, he ARCHITECTURE a designer of international repute but argues that by making symbolic expres- an acclaimed theorist and critic. Archi- sion a primary objective in the design tecture, Means and Ends is his practical of a project, the designer will produce a and imaginative reflection on the role practical aesthetic as well as an ethical of the technical aspects of architectural solution. Architecture, Means and Ends em- design, both as part of the larger pro- braces that philosophy and will appeal cess of innovation and in relation to the to those, like Gregotti, working at the mythic opposition between vision and intersections of the history of design, art construction. criticism, and architectural theory. Interweaving the seemingly irrec-

Vittorio Gregotti is professor of architecture at the University of Venice and principal in the architectural firm Gregotti Associati International. He is the author ofInside Architecture and New Directions in Italian Architecture, among other books. Lydia Cochrane is the transla- tor of numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.

“A long-awaited and desperately Darwin’s Conjecture needed guide to why the social The Search for General Principles of Social and sciences should take Darwin seri- Economic Evolution ously. Erudite, lucidly written—a Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen veritable tour de force.” —Robin I. M. Dunbar, Of paramount importance to the natu- objections to the application of Dar- University of Oxford ral sciences, the principles of Darwin- winism to social science, arguing that ism, which involve variation, inheri- ultimately Darwinism functions as a November 312 p., 1 halftone, tance, and selection, are increasingly of general theoretical framework for stim- 4 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34690-8 interest to social scientists as well. But ulating further inquiry. Social scientists Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 no one has provided a truly rigorous who adopt a Darwinian approach, they ECONOMICS account of how the principles apply to contend, can then use it to frame and the evolution of human society—until help develop new explanatory theories now. and predictive models. In Darwin’s Conjecture, Geoffrey M. This truly pathbreaking work at Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen re- long last makes the powerful concep- veal how the British naturalist’s core con- tual tools of Darwin available to the cepts apply to a wide range of phenom- social sciences and will be welcomed by ena, including business practices, legal scholars and students from a range of systems, technology, and even science it- disciplines. self. They also critique some prominent

Geoffrey M. Hodgson is research professor in business studies at the University of Hertford- shire, England, and the author of over a dozen books, including The Evolution of Institutional Economics and How Economics Forgot History. Thorbjørn Knudsen is professor of organization design at the University of Southern Denmark and has an extensive publication record specializing in evolutionary dynamics and adaptive organizations.

38 special interest Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman Cutting the Fuse The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It

lmost every week, suicide bombers attack. We know the dan- ger—suicide attacks kill more people than all other forms A of terrorism—and in response we have sacrificed the lives of soldiers and civilians, trillions of dollars, and America’s reputation abroad in a futile quest for absolute security. But do we really under- stand what drives people to deliberately kill themselves on a mission to harm the innocent? Cutting the Fuse offers a wealth of new knowledge about the origins Praise for Robert Pape’s Dying to Win of suicide terrorism and strategies to stop it. Robert A. Pape, James “Invaluable. . . . Gives Americans an K. Feldman, and the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism have urgently needed basis for devising a examined every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009. strategy to defeat Osama bin Laden and Their work fundamentally changes how we understand the root causes other Islamist militants.” of the most important terrorist campaigns today and reveals why the —Michael Scheuer, War on Terror has been ultimately counterproductive. author of Imperial Hubris Since 2004, the number of suicide attacks—whether within a coun- try or transnational—has grown with shocking speed. Through a close “Provocative. . . . Pape wants to change analysis of suicide campaigns by Al Qaeda and other terrorist organi- the way you think about suicide bombings zations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Israel, Chechnya, and and explain why they are on the rise.” Sri Lanka, the authors provide powerful new evidence that, contrary to —Henry Schuster, CNN popular and dangerously mistaken belief, only a tiny minority of these attacks are motivated solely by religion. Instead, the root cause is for- “Enlightening. . . . Sheds interesting eign military occupation, which triggers secular and religious people light on a phenomenon often mistakenly alike to carry out suicide attacks. believed to be restricted to the Middle Cutting the Fuse calls for new, effective solutions that America and East.” its allies can sustain for decades, relying less on ground troops in Mus- —Washington Post Book World lim countries and more on off-shore, over-the-horizon military forces along with political and economic strategies to empower local commu- October 356 p., 34 line drawings, 11 tables 6 x 9 nities to stop terrorists in their midst. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64560-5 Cloth $30.00s/£19.50 CURRENT EVENTS Robert A. Pape is professor of political science at the University of Chicago and the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War. James K. Feldman has taught decision analysis and economics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and defense policy analysis at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies.

special interest 39 “An interesting and significant book. The Freudian Robot The Freudian Robot is part of a Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious new trend in the humanities that is Lydia H. Liu reinventing comparative studies in light of digital media.” The identity and role of writing has ing of digital media. Such intellectual —Eugene Thacker, evolved in the age of digital media. But convergence, she argues, completed the Georgia Institute of Technology how did writing itself make digital me- transformation of alphabetical writing dia possible in the first place? Lydia H. into the post-phonetic, ideographic November 264 p., 26 halftones, 7 tables 6 x 9 Liu offers here the first rigorous study system of digital media, which not only ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48682-6 of the political history of digital writing altered the threshold of sense and non- Cloth $72.00x/£46.50 and its fateful entanglement with the sense in communication processes but ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48683-3 Paper $24.00s/£15.50 Freudian unconscious. also compelled a new understanding of LITERARY CRITICISM Liu’s innovative analysis brings the human-machine interplay at the level work of theorists and writers back into of the unconscious. conversation with one another to docu- Ranging across information the- ment significant meetings of minds and ory, cybernetics, modernism, literary disciplines. She shows how the earlier theory, neurotic machines, and psycho- avant-garde literary experiments with analysis, The Freudian Robot rewrites the alphabetical writing and the word- history of digital media and the literary association games of psychoanalysis theory of the twentieth century. contributed to the mathematical mak-

Lydia H. Liu is the W. T. Tam Professor in the Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and director of graduate studies at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. She is the author or editor of seven books in English and Chinese, including, most recently, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making.

“A fascinating and very well-written The Animal Part book on aspects of representations of animal/human relations that Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination have been little studied.” Mark Payne —Susan Stewart, Princeton University How can literary imagination help us The Animal Part also makes sub- engage with the lives of other animals? stantial contributions to the emerging

September 176 p. 6 x 9 The question represents one of the discourse of the posthumanities. Payne ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65084-5 liveliest areas of inquiry in the humani- offers detailed accounts of the tenuous- Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 ties, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it ness of the idea of the human in ancient LITERARY CRITICISM by exploring the relationship between literature and philosophy and then goes human beings and other animals in on to argue that close reading must re- writings from antiquity to the present. main a central practice of literary study Ranging from ancient Greek poets to if posthumanism is to articulate its own modernists like Ezra Pound and Wil- prehistory. For it is only through fine- liam Carlos Williams, Payne considers grained literary interpretation that we how writers have used verse to commu- can recover the poetic thinking about nicate the experience of animal suffer- animals that has always existed along- ing, created analogies between human side philosophical constructions of the and animal societies, and imagined the human. In sum, The Animal Part marks kind of knowledge that would be pos- a breakthrough in animal studies and sible if human beings could see them- offers a significant contribution to com- selves as animals see them. parative poetics.

Mark Payne is associate professor in the Department of Classics and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction.

40 special interest Marjorie Perloff Unoriginal Genius Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

hat is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information—a world in which, as Walter Benjamin W predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is poten- tially an author? For poets in such a climate, “originality” begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people’s words—fram- ing, citing, recycling, and otherwise mediating available words and sentences, and sometimes entire texts. Marjorie Perloff here explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of “Unoriginal Genius showcases, yet “unoriginal” writing. Paradoxically, she argues, such citational and again, why Marjorie Perloff is the Peggy often constraint-based poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, “per- Guggenheim for the avant-garde in sonal” than was the hermetic poetry of the 1980s and ’90s. poetry. She demonstrates why lauded, Perloff traces this poetics of “unoriginal genius” from its para- modern poets (many of whom have ques- digmatic work, Benjamin’s encyclopedic Arcades Project, a book largely tioned the values of both ‘the original’ made up of citations. She discusses the processes of choice, framing, and ‘the creative’) might prefer instead to and reconfiguration in the work of Brazilian Concretism and Oulipo, ‘cheat’ on their assignments by handing both movements now understood as precursors of such hybrid in poems that steal words and remix lines, citational texts as Charles Bernstein’s opera libretto Shadowtime and verbatim, from the databases of the déja- Susan Howe’s documentary lyric sequence The Midnight. Perloff also dit. I recommend that every genius read finds that the new syncretism extends to language: for example, to this omnibus—then copy its poetics.” the French-Norwegian Caroline Bergvall writing in English and the —Christian Bök, University of Calgary Japanese Yoko Tawada in German. Unoriginal Genius concludes with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith’s conceptualist book Traffic —a seem- November 244 p., 2 color plates, ingly “pure” radio transcript of one holiday weekend’s worth of traffic 44 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66061-5 reports. In these instances and many others, Perloff shows us “poetry Cloth $32.50s/£21.00 by other means” of great ingenuity, wit, and complexity. LITERARY CRITICISM POETRY

Marjorie Perloff is professor of English emerita at Stanford University and the author or editor of many books, including Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Lan- guage and the Strangeness of the Ordinary and The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 41 Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa Academically Adrift Limited Learning on College Campuses

n spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor’s degree is now required for entry Iinto a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they’re born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the funda- mental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates really “Academically Adrift might be the most learning anything once they get there? important book on higher education in a For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s decade. Combined with students’ limited answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research effort and great disparities in benefits draws on survey responses, transcript data, and, for the first time, the among students, Arum and Roksa’s find- state-of-the-art Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test ad- ings raise questions that should have ministered to students in their first semester and then again at the end been raised long ago about who profits of their second year. According to their analysis of more than 2,300 from college and what colleges need to undergraduates at twenty-four institutions, forty-five percent of these do if they are to benefit new groups of students demonstrate no significant improvement in a range of skills— students. In this new era of college for all, including critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing—during their analysis refocuses our attention on their first two years of college. As troubling as their findings are, Arum higher education’s fundamental goals.” and Roksa argue that for many faculty and administrators they will —James Rosenbaum, Northwestern University come as no surprise—instead, they are the expected result of a student body distracted by socializing or working and an institutional culture

January 256 p., 20 line drawings, 20 tables that puts undergraduate learning close to the bottom of the priority list. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02855-2 Academically Adrift holds sobering lessons for students, faculty, Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02856-9 administrators, policy makers, and parents—all of whom are impli- Paper $25.00s/£16.00 cated in promoting or at least ignoring contemporary campus culture. EDUCATION Higher education faces crises on a number of fronts, but Arum and Roksa’s report that colleges are failing at their most basic mission will demand the attention of us all.

Richard Arum is professor in the Department of Sociology with a joint appoint- ment in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. He is also director of the Education Research Program of the Social Science Research Council and the author of Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Author- ity in American Schools. Josipa Roksa is assistant professor of sociology at the 42 special interest University of Virginia. Making Failure Pay “This is a rare and powerful take on the role and work of supplementary For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools educational services. In investigating Jill P. Koyama these services, Koyama has staked out a whole new domain for closer A little-discussed aspect of the No Child ed, state-regulated, district-administered, Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate and school-applied policy—explicitly le- inquiry, successfully convincing us that requires failing schools to hire gitimizes giving private organizations sig- that these services deserve scrutiny after-school tutoring companies—the nificant roles in public education. Based and often perpetuate failure. Making largest of which are private, for-profit on her three years of ethnographic field- Failure Pay should be shared and corporations—and to pay them with work, Koyama finds that the results are should inform future research and federal funds. Making Failure Pay takes political and problematic—and highly policy making.” a hard look at the implications of this profitable. Bringing to light these un- —Edmund T. Hamann, new blurring of the boundaries be- proven, unregulated private companies’ University of Nebraska-Lincoln tween government, schools, and com- almost invisible partnership with the gov- merce in New York City, the country’s ernment, Making Failure Pay lays bare the August 192 p., 2 tables 6 x 9 largest school district. unintended consequences of federal ef- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45173-2 As Jill P. Koyama explains in this re- forts to eliminate school failure—not the Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 velator y book, NCLB — a federally leg islat- least of which is more failure. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45174-9 Paper $22.00s/£14.00 Jill P. Koyama is assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and EDUCATION Policy at the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Asian Legal Revivals “Asian Legal Revivals makes an innovative and significant contribu- Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire tion to the field of law and society Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth scholarship. This book and its largeness of understanding and More than a decade ago, before global- day. Deftly tracing the transformation ization became a buzzword, Yves Deza- of the relationship between law and exceptional vision will establish lay and Bryant G. Garth established state into different colonial settings, a new benchmark and will quickly themselves as leading analysts of how the authors show how nationalist legal become essential reading.” that process has shaped the legal pro- elites in countries such as India, Indo- —Carol A. G. Jones, fession. Drawing upon the insights of nesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singa- visiting fellow, Centre of Asian Pierre Bourdieu, Asian Legal Revivals pore, and South Korea came to wield Studies, University of Hong Kong explores the increasing importance of political power as agents in the move to- the positions of the law and lawyers in ward national independence. Including Chicago Series in Law and Society South and Southeast Asia. fieldwork from over three hundred and November 288 p. 6 x 9 fifty interviews,Asian Legal Revivals illu- Dezalay and Garth argue that the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14462-7 current situation in many Asian coun- minates the recent past and the present Cloth $80.00x/£51.50 tries can only be fully understood by of these legally changing nations and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14463-4 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 looking to their differing colonial ex- explains the profession’s recent revival periences—and considering how those of influence, as spurred on by Ameri- LAW experiences have laid the foundation can geopolitical and legal interests. for those societies’ legal profession to-

Yves Dezalay is director of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Bryant G. Garth is dean and professor of law at Southwestern Law School. They are the authors of two previous books, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 43 “This is an extraordinary book, Ensuring Corporate Misconduct written in a clear and readable How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation style. Until now, those of us in the Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith field had reasons for concern about litigation dynamics and the role of Shareholder litigation and class ac- As Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith insurance, but no real evidence. tion suits play a key role in protect- demonstrate, this need not be the case. . . . More than any contribution to ing investors and regulating big busi- Opening up the formerly closed world the field of corporate litigation in nesses. But Directors and Officers of corporate insurance, the authors in- the last decade, this book breaks liability insurance shields corporations terviewed people from every part of the and their managers from the financial industry in order to show the different new ground.” consequences of many illegal acts, as instances where insurance companies —Donald C. Langevoort, Georgetown University Law Center evidenced by the recent Enron scan- could step in and play a constructive dal and many of last year’s corporate role in strengthening corporate gover-

January 280 p., 4 line drawings 6 x 9 financial meltdowns. Ensuring Corporate nance—yet currently do not. Ensuring ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03515-4 Misconduct demonstrates for the first Corporate Misconduct concludes with a Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 time how corporations use insurance to set of readily implementable reforms LAW BUSINESS avoid responsibility for corporate mis- that could significantly rehabilitate the conduct, dangerously undermining the system. impact of securities laws.

Tom Baker is professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of several books, including The Medical Malpractice Myth, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Sean J. Griffith is the T. J. Maloney Professor of Business Law at Fordham University.

“A worthy successor to Solan’s The Language of Statutes Language of Judges, which remains Laws and Their Interpretation the best introduction to the value Lawrence M. Solan of linguistic analysis to statutory interpretation. . . . A must-read for Pulling the rug out from under debates arise because of the gap between our any serious student of the debates about interpretation, The Language of inability to write crisp yet flexible laws about the rule of lenity, legislative Statutes joins together learning from on the one hand and the ways in which intent, and the new textualism. A law, linguistics, and cognitive science our cognitive and linguistic faculties triumph of reason and learning.” to illuminate the fundamental issues are structured on the other. To make —William N. Eskridge Jr., and problems in this highly contested our lives easier and more efficient, Yale Law School area. Here, Lawrence M. Solan argues we’re predisposed to absorb new situa- that statutory interpretation is alive, tions into categories we have previously Chicago Series in Law and Society well, and not in need of the major over- formed—but in the legislative and judi- haul that many have suggested. Rather, cial realms this can present major dif- November 288 p., 1 halftone, 1 line drawing, 2 tables 6 x 9 he suggests, the majority of people un- ficulties. Solan provides an excellent ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76796-3 derstand their rights and obligations introduction to statutory interpreta- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 most of the time, with difficult cases tion, rejecting the extreme arguments LAW occurring in circumstances that we can that judges have either too much or too predict from understanding when our little leeway, and explaining how and minds do not work in a lawlike way. why a certain number of interpretive Solan explains that these cases problems are simply inevitable.

Lawrence M. Solan is the Don Forchelli Professor of Law and director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language, and Cognition at Brooklyn Law School. He is the author of two other books, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

44 special interest Mary Mathews Gedo Monet and His Muse Camille Monet in the Artist’s Life

“The mourning never stops, it just changes.”

or Claude Monet (1840–1926), the founder of French Impres- sionist painting, these words were a fitting testament to his Flifelong relationship with the female muse, most notably—and most hauntingly—with his first wife, the model Camille Doncieux. “Monet and His Muse is a highly original For the esteemed clinical psychologist and art historian Mary work of impeccable scholarship, not only Mathews Gedo, Monet and His Muse represents a project twenty years in because it provides the first thorough and the making. Artfully interweaving biographical insight with psychoana- penetrating psychobiographical portrait lytic criticism, Gedo takes us on an exploration of Claude Monet’s con- of the artist, but also because of its un- flicted relationships with women, complete with exquisitely researched usual focus on the profound role that the material never before understood about one of our most popular—and painter’s first wife played in his life and inimitable—artists. Beginning with Monet’s childhood, Gedo delves art. . . . This book simply represents the into his relationships with a distant, unreliable father and his beloved, crowning achievement of our country’s doting mother—whose death when Monet was just sixteen inspired a best psychobiographer of figures in the lifelong preoccupation with the sea, its lushly imagined flora, and the visual arts.” figurative landscapes Monet painted to such acclaim. —Bradley I. Collins, Parsons, the New School for Design And then . . . Camille. Entering Monet’s life when he was still a young man, becoming first his model and then mistress and then— August 304 p., 50 color plates, finally—his wife, Camille Doncieux always fulfilled the function of 73 halftones, 1 line drawing 81/2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28480-4 muse, even after her life had ended, as Monet not only painted her Cloth $55.00s/£35.50 one last time on her deathbed, but preserved her memory through the ART gardens he planted at his home in Giverny. Demonstrating how Mo- net’s connections with women were exceedingly complex, fraught with abusive impulses and infantile longing, Gedo sensitively uses Monet and Camille as exemplars in order to explore links between artists and muses in our modern age.

Mary Mathews Gedo is the author of Picasso: Art as Autobiography and Looking at Art from the Inside Out, as well as the editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art.

special interest 45 The Book as Instrument Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture Anna Sigrídur Arnar

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was a art. Arnar demonstrates that Mallarmé French Symbolist poet, theorist, and was invested in creating radically em- teacher whose ideas and legendary sa- powering reading experiences, and lons set the stage for twentieth-century the diverse modalities he proposed for experimentation in poetry, music, the- both reading and looking anticipate in- ater, and art. A canonical figure in the teractive media prevalent in today’s cul- legacy of modernism, Mallarmé was ture. In describing the world of books, also a lifelong champion of the book as visual culture, and mass media of the both a literary endeavor and a carefully late nineteenth century, Arnar touches crafted material object. upon an array of themes that continue December 440 p., 8 color plates, In The Book as Instrument, Anna to preoccupy us in our own moment, 1 112 halftones 8 /2 x 11 Sigrídur Arnar explores how this ob- including speculations on the future of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02701-2 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 ject functioned for Mallarmé and his the book. Enhanced by gorgeous illus- ART LITERARY CRITICISM artistic circle, arguing that the book be- trations, The Book as Instrument is sure came a strategic site for encouraging a to fascinate anyone interested in the modern public to actively participate in ever-vibrant experiment between word the creative act, an idea that informed and image that makes the page and the later twentieth-century developments multi-sensory pleasures of reading. such as conceptual and performance

Anna Sigrídur Arnar is professor of art history in the Department of Art & Design at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Gutai Decentering Modernism Ming Tiampo

This is the first book in English to ex- opments in mass media and travel that amine Gutai, Japan’s best-known mod- made the movement’s field of reception ern art movement, a circle of postwar and influence global in scope. Using artists whose avant-garde paintings, these lines of transmission to claim a performances, and installations fore- place for Gutai among modernist art shadowed many key developments in practices while tracing the impact of American and European experimental Japan on art in Europe and America, art. Tiampo demonstrates the fundamental Working with previously un- transnationality of modernism. Ulti- December 256 p., 12 color plates, published photographs and archival mately, Tiampo offers a new conceptual 69 halftones, 1 map 81/2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80165-0 resources, Ming Tiampo considers model for writing a global history of art, Cloth $99.00x/£64.00 Gutai’s pioneering transnational prac- making Gutai an important and origi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80166-7 tice, spurred on by mid-century devel- nal contribution to modern art history. Paper $39.00s/£25.00 ASIAN STUDIES ART Ming Tiampo is associate professor of art history at Carleton University in Ottawa and curator of the American International Association of Art Critics–award-winning Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954–1965 and Under Each Other’s Spell: Gutai and New York.

46 special interest Mieke Bal Of What One Cannot Speak Doris Salcedo’s Political Art

oris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught Dsituations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris “Of What One Cannot Speak is the next in- Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. novative and brilliant book that will once In Of What One Cannot Speak, Bal leads us into intimate encoun- again push the field of visual studies into ters with Salcedo’s art, encouraging us to consider each work as a unexplored areas. . . . Bal does not simply “theoretical object” that invites—and demands—certain kinds of take Doris Salcedo’s work as her starting considerations about history, death, erasure, and grief. Bal ranges point, and neither does she argue that the widely through Salcedo’s work, from Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios series— violence of the political is somehow merely in which the artist uses worn shoes to retrace los desaparecidos (“the ‘reflected’ in it. Instead, she embarks disappeared”) from nations like Argentina, Chile, and Colombia—to on a much more ambitious and original Shibboleth, Salcedo’s once-in-a-lifetime commission by the Tate Modern, project—initiating a discourse by allowing for which she created a rupture, as if by earthquake, that stretched the a work of art to take the lead.” —Hanneke Grootenboer, length of the museum hall’s concrete floor. In each instance, Salcedo’s University of Oxford installations speak for themselves, utilizing household items, human bones, and common domestic architecture to explore the silent spaces December 264 p., 28 color plates, between violence, trauma, and identity. Yet Bal draws out even deeper 31 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03578-9 responses to the work, questioning the nature of political art altogeth- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 er and introducing concepts of metaphor, time, and space in order to ART contend with Salcedo’s powerful sculptures and installations. An unforgettable fusion of art and essay, Of What One Cannot Speak takes us to the very core of events we are capable of remembering—yet still uncomfortably cannot speak aloud.

Mieke Bal is Academy Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a cofounder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her many books include Loving Yusuf: Con- ceptual Travels from Present to Past, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 47 “Alexander Nagel’s account of the The Controversy of Renaissance Art underappreciated radicality of Re- Alexander Nagel naissance aesthetic experiments is

packed with solid research, original Many studies have shown that images— that pervaded Italian life both before interpretive insights, and flashes their presence in the daily lives of the and parallel to the Reformation north of poetry. This is a substantial, faithful, the means used to control of the Alps. Tracing the intertwined well-written, and much-needed them, and their adaptation to secular relationship of artistic innovation and book that will make a major impact uses—were at the heart of the Reforma- archaism, as well as the new pressures tion crisis in northern Europe. But the placed on the artistic media in the on the field.” question as it affects the art of Italy has midst of key developments in religious —Rebecca Zorach, been raised only in highly specialized iconography, The Controversy of Renais- University of Chicago studies. sance Art offers an important and origi- nal history of humanist thought and ar- December 448 p., 60 color plates, In this book, Alexander Nagel pro- 100 halftones 81/2 x 10 vides the first truly synthetic study of tistic experimentation from one of our ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56772-3 the controversies over religious images most acclaimed historians of art. Cloth $60.00s/£39.00 ART RELIGION Alexander Nagel is professor of Renaissance art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. He is the author of Michelangelo and the Reform of Art and coauthor, with Christopher Wood, of Anachronic Renaissance.

The Complete Poems The 1554 Edition of the Rime, a Bilingual Edition Gaspara Stampa Edited by Troy Tower and Jane Tylus Translated and with an Introduction by Jane Tylus

Gaspara Stampa (1523?–1554) is one more recently been celebrated by femi- of the finest female poets ever to write nist scholars for her distinctive and in Italian. Although she was lauded for original voice and her challenge to con- her singing during her lifetime, her vention. success and critical reputation as a poet The first complete translation of emerged only after her verse was repub- Stampa into English, this volume col- lished in the early eighteenth century. lects all of her passionate and lyrical Her poetry runs the gamut of human verse. It is also the first modern critical emotion, ranging from ecstasy over a edition of her poems, and in restoring consummated love affair to despair at the original sequence of the 1554 text, The Other Voice in Early Modern its end. While these tormented works it allows readers the opportunity to en- Europe and their multiple male addressees counter Stampa as she intended. Jane October 490 p., 4 halftones 6 x 9 have led to speculation that Stampa Tylus renders Stampa’s verse in precise ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77071-0 may have been one of Venice’s famous and graceful English translations, al- Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77072-7 courtesans, they can also be read as a lowing a new generation of students Paper $35.00x/£22.50 rebuttal of typical assumptions about and scholars of poetry, Renaissance lit- POETRY MUSIC women’s roles. Championed by Rainer erature, and music history to rediscover Maria Rilke, among others, she has this incipiently modern Italian poet.

Troy Tower is a PhD candidate in Italian studies at Johns Hopkins University. Jane Tylus is professor of Italian studies and director of the Humanities Initiative at New York Univer- sity. She is the author, most recently, of Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

48 special interest Craig A. Monson Nuns Behaving Badly Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy

itchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the para- W digms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. That is, until now. “A very original take on remarkable mate- In Nuns Behaving Badly, Craig A. Monson resurrects forgotten sto- rial. Monson’s thorough and impeccable ries and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered hero- research into convents of Bologna yielded ines. Here we meet nuns who dared speak out about physical assault many cases of imaginative insubordina- and sexual impropriety (some real, some imagined). Others were only tion, and he tells the stories with evident guilty of misjudgment or defacing valuable artwork that offended their surprise and amusement, imposing a sensibilities. But what unites the women and their stories is the chal- light touch on subjects that were in their lenges they faced: these were women trying to find their way within the historical period and setting quite seri- Catholicism of their day and through the strict limits it imposed on ous. Cleverly written.” them. Monson introduces us to women who were occasionally desper- —Elissa B. Weaver, University of Chicago ate to flee cloistered life, as when an entire community conspired to torch their convent and be set free. But more often, he shows us nuns just trying to live their lives. When they were crossed—by powerful November 264 p., 25 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 priests who claimed to know what was best for them—bad behavior ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53461-9 Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 could escalate from mere troublemaking to open confrontation. EUROPEAN HISTORY RELIGION In retelling these long-forgotten tales and trials, Monson also draws attention to the predicament of modern religious women, whose “misbehavior”—seeking ordination as priests or refusing to give up their endowments to pay for priestly wrongdoing in their own archdio- ceses—continues even today. The nuns of early modern Italy, Monson shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age— and beyond.

Craig A. Monson is professor of music at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian Convent. special interest 49 “In this crisply written and remark- The Enlightenment ably wide-ranging and learned A Genealogy book, Dan Edelstein encourages us Dan Edelstein to rethink our conventional under- standing of the Enlightenment and What was the Enlightenment? Though we would today call the Enlightenment. its origins. Teeming with intellec- many scholars have attempted to solve But Edelstein argues that it was within tual vitality, this short book returns this riddle, none has made as much use the French Academies, and in the con- to readers a bounty of insight and of contemporary answers as Dan Edel- text of the Quarrel of the Ancients and creative thought.” stein does here. In seeking to recover the Moderns, that the key definition, —J. B. Shank, where, when, and how the concept of concepts, and historical narratives of author of The Newton Wars “the Enlightenment” first emerged, the Enlightenment were crafted. and the Beginning of the Edelstein departs from genealogies A necessary corrective to many of French Enlightenment that trace it back to political and phil- our contemporary ideas about the En- osophical developments in England lightenment, Edelstein’s book turns con- December 184 p., 1 table 51/2 x 81/2 and the Dutch Republic. According to ventional thinking about the period on ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18447-0 Edelstein, by the 1720s scholars and its head. Concise, clear, and contrarian, Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18449-4 authors in France were already employ- The Enlightenment will be welcomed by all Paper $20.00s/£13.00 ing a constellation of terms—such as teachers and students of the period. HISTORY LITERARY CRITICISM l’esprit philosophique—to describe what

Dan Edelstein is assistant professor of French at Stanford University and the author of The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution.

“Bodies of Knowledge is a much- Bodies of Knowledge needed addition to scholarship on Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the the women’s health movement, Second Wave feminist historiography, and the Wendy Kline history of medicine, making it appeal widely to students and Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, women expectations, and pitfalls encountered teachers in these fields, as well argued that unless they gained access by the advocates of women’s health: as activists still engaged with to information about their own bodies, the making of Our Bodies, Ourselves; the trying to transform the health care there would be no equality. In Bodies of conflicts surrounding the training and system.” Knowledge, Wendy Kline considers the practice of women’s pelvic exams; the —Susan M. Reverby, ways in which ordinary women worked emergence of abortion as a feminist is- Wellesley College to position the female body at the cen- sue; the battles over contraceptive reg- ter of women’s liberation. ulation at the 1983 Depo-Provera FDA October 208 p., 10 halftones 6 x 9 As Kline shows, the struggle to at- hearings; and the rise of the profession ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44305-8 tain this knowledge unified women but of midwifery. Including an epilogue Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 that considers the experiences of the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44308-9 also divided them—according to race, Paper $22.50s/£14.50 class, sexuality, or level of profession- daughters of 1970s feminists, Bodies of AMERICAN HISTORY alization. Each of the five chapters of Knowledge is an important contribution WOMEN’S STUDIES Bodies of Knowledge examines a distinct to the study of the bodies—that marked moment or setting of the women’s move- the lives—of feminism’s second wave. ment in order to give life to the ideas,

Wendy Kline is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom.

50 special interest George William Van Cleve A Slaveholders’ Union Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic

eginning with its introduction to the first English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal Binstitution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But throughout the contested politics of the early republic, abolitionists cried out that the Constitution itself was a slaveowners’ document, produced to protect and further their rights. “Van Cleve succeeds brilliantly in bring- A Slaveholders’ Union furthers this unsettling claim by demonstrating ing slavery’s place in American politi- once and for all that slavery was indeed an essential part of the founda- cal life to the fore, allowing us a much tion of the nascent republic. better view of early American society and In this powerful book, George William Van Cleve demonstrates politics, as well as the nation’s progress that the Constitution was pro-slavery in its politics, its economics, and toward empire. This book will be a daz- its law. Here, he shows that the Constitutional provisions protecting zling addition to scholarship.” slavery were much more than mere “political” compromises—they —Annette Gordon-Reed, were integral to the principles of the new nation. By the late 1780s, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello: majority of Americans wanted to create a strong federal republic that An American Family would be capable of expanding into a continental empire. In order for America to become an empire on such a scale, Van Cleve argues, the “So thoroughly researched and comprehen- Southern states had to be willing partners in the endeavor, and the sive that it becomes the definitive work on cost of their allegiance was the deliberate long-term protection of slav- the subject. . . . This is unquestionably the ery by American leaders as the nation expanded through the time of best account of slavery and the Constitu- the Missouri Controversy. Reconsidering the role played by the gradual tional Convention ever written.” abolition of slavery in the North, Van Cleve shows that abolition there —Richard R. Beeman, author of Plain, Honest Men: was much less progressive in its origins—and had much less influence The Making of the American Constitution on slavery’s expansion—than previously thought, occurring only where it would not cause significant political, economic, or social disruption October 388 p., 1 line drawing, 2 tables 6 x 9 for white taxpayers. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-84668-2 Cloth $39.00s/£25.00 AMERICAN HISTORY George William Van Cleve is Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of His- tory at the University of Virginia.

special interest 51 “A dazzling achievement, present- Prague Palimpsest ing a multifaceted, intellectually Writing, Memory, and the City complex image of the fabled city at Alfred Thomas the crossroads of central Europe. Alfred Thomas reads Prague as A city of immense literary mystique, dystopia of totalitarian amnesia. the home of a multilingual culture Prague has inspired writers across the Considering a wide range of writ- inscribed with the recurrent pattern centuries with its beauty, cosmopoli- ers, including the city’s most famous son, of forgetting and recovery, like a tanism, and tragic history. Envision- Franz Kafka, Prague Palimpsest reassesses parchment on which the original ing the ancient city in central Europe the work of poets and novelists such as writing remains visible under the as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera, Gustav that has been constantly revised and Meyrink, Jan Neruda, Vítezslav Nezval, erasures and revisions.” rewritten—from the medieval and Re- and Rainer Maria Rilke and engages —Maria Nemcova Banerjee, naissance chroniclers who legitimized Smith College with other famous authors who “wrote” the city’s foundational origins to the Prague, including Guillaume Apolli-

October 200 p., 6 halftones 6 x 9 modernists of the early twentieth cen- naire, Ingeborg Bachmann, Albert Ca- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79540-9 tury who established its reputation as mus, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald. The Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 the new capital of the avant-garde— result is a comparative, interdisciplinary EUROPEAN HISTORY Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has study that helps to explain why Prague— LITERARY CRITICISM become a paradoxical site of inscrip- more than any other major European tion and effacement, of memory and city—has haunted the cultural and politi- forgetting, a utopian link to the prewar cal imagination of the West. and pre-Holocaust European past and a

Alfred Thomas is professor of English and Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of five books, including, most recently,The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture.

The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer David Waines

Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of and mystery. Carefully observing the the world’s truly great travelers. Born great diversity of civilizations that he in fourteenth-century Morocco, and a encountered, Ibn Battuta exhibited an contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Bat- omnivorous interest in such matters as tuta left an account in his own words of food and drink; religious differences his remarkable journeys, punctuated among Christians, Hindus, and Shia by adventure and peril, throughout the Muslims; and ideas about purity and Islamic world and beyond. Whether impurity, disease, women, and sex. sojourning in Delhi and the Maldives, David Waines offers here a grace- wandering through the mazy streets ful analysis of Ibn Battuta’s travelogue. of Cairo and Damascus, or contesting This is a gripping treatment of the life with pirates and shipwreck, the indefat- and times of one of history’s most dar- July 240 p., 22 halftones 6 x 9 igable Ibn Battuta brought to vivid life a ing, and at the same time most human, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86985-8 medieval world brimming with marvel adventurers. Cloth $75.00x ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86986-5 David Waines is emeritus professor of Islamic studies at Lancaster University and the Paper $25.00s author of An Introduction to Islam. HISTORY TRAVEL cusa Copublished with I. B. Tauris

52 special interest The Lady Anatomist The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini Rebecca Messbarger

Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–74), an for the University of Bologna’s famous artist and scientist, surmounted meager medical school. Placing Morandi’s origins and limited formal education work within its cultural and historical to become one of the most acclaimed context, as well as in line with the Ital- anatomical sculptors of the Enlighten- ian tradition of anatomical studies and ment. The Lady Anatomist tells the story design, Messbarger uncovers the mes- of her arresting life and times, in light sages contained within Morandi’s wax of the intertwined histories of science, inscriptions, part complex theories of gender, and art that complicated her the body and part poetry. Widely ap- Courtesy of the Museo di Palazzo Anna Morandi, Self-portrait, Wax, Poggi, Universita’ di Bologna. rise to fame in the eighteenth century. pealing to those with an interest in the October 248 p., 50 color plates, Examining the details of Mo- tangled histories of art and the body, 20 halftones 7 x 10 randi’s remarkable life, Rebecca Mess- and including lavish, full-color repro- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52081-0 barger traces her intellectual trajectory ductions of Morandi’s work, The Lady Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 from provincial artist to internation- Anatomist is a sophisticated biography EUROPEAN HISTORY BIOGRAPHY of a true visionary. Published with the support of the Getty ally renowned anatomical wax modeler Foundation Rebecca Messbarger is associate professor in romance languages at Washington University in St. Louis and coeditor and cotranslator of The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women’s Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Praise for Dominique Charpin Babylonian Mesopotamia “Charpin is to be congratulated, for he has furthered considerably Dominique Charpin Translated by Jane Marie Todd our understanding of an important period in Mesopotamian history.” Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile cres- the principles of authority, precedent, —Journal of the American cent between the Tigris and Euphrates and documentation that dominate us Oriental Society rivers in what is now western Iraq and to this day. As legal codes throughout eastern Syria, is considered to be the the region evolved through advances November 200 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10158-3 cradle of civilization—home of the in cuneiform writing, kings and gov- Cloth $55.00x/£35.50 Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as ernments were able to stabilize their HISTORY LAW well as the great Code of Hammurabi. control over distant realms and impose The Code was only part of a rich juridi- a common language—which gave rise cal culture from 2200 to 1600 BCE that to complex social systems overseen by saw the invention of writing and the magistrates, judges, and scribes that development of its relationship to law, eventually became the vast empires of among other remarkable firsts. history books. Sure to attract any read- Though ancient history offers inex- er with an interest in the ancient Near haustible riches, Dominique Charpin East, as well as rhetoric, legal history, focuses here on the legal systems of Old and classical studies, this book is an in- Babylonian Mesopotamia and offers novative account of the intertwined his- considerable insight into how writing tories of law and language. and the law evolved together to forge

Dominique Charpin is directeur d’études, section des Sciences historiques et philologiques, École pratique des hautes études at the University of Paris. He is the author of Lire et Ecrire à Babyloné, most recently, among several other books. Jane Marie Todd is the translator of numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 53 “Brody finds that visual media Visualizing American Empire played a major role in shaping Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines Americans’ perceptions of the David Brody Philippines, indeed, that the public eye focused on the events In 1899 an American could open a press, maps, parades, and material from and ideas that lent themselves to newspaper and find outrageous im- world’s fairs and urban planners— sensational visual treatment. A ages, such as an American soldier be- Brody offers a distinctive perspective creative work of interdisciplinary ing injected with leprosy by Filipino on American imperialism. Exploring scholarship, Visualizing American insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic the period leading up to the Spanish- accounts, David Brody argues in this il- American War, as well as beyond it, Empire reframes our understanding luminating book, were just one element Brody argues that the way Americans of this important topic.” of the visual and material culture that visualized the Orient greatly influenced —Kristin Hoganson, played an integral role in debates about the fantasies of colonial domestication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign empire in late nineteenth- and early that would play out in the Philippines. twentieth-century America. Throughout, Brody insightfully exam-

September 224 p., 66 halftones, Visualizing American Empire ex- ines visual culture’s integral role in the 2 line drawings 6 x 9 plores the ways visual imagery and de- machinery that runs the colonial en- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07533-4 sign shaped the political and cultural gine. The result is essential reading for Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 anyone interested in the history of the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07534-1 landscape. Drawing on a myriad of Paper $27.00s/£17.50 sources—including photographs, tat- United States, art, design, or empire. AMERICAN HISTORY ASIAN STUDIES toos, the decorative arts, the popular

David Brody is assistant professor of design studies at Parsons, the New School for Design, and coeditor of Design Studies: A Reader.

“This is a wonderfully fluid, fluent, Starring Mandela and Cosby and extraordinarily well-written Media and the End(s) of Apartheid analysis. Krabill has immersed Ron Krabill himself in his story and he provides a theoretically refreshing way of During the worst years of apartheid, created a shared space for communi- telling it. He senses the contextual the most popular show on television in cation in a deeply divided nation that experiential nuance and the local- South Africa—among both blacks and seemed destined for civil war along ra- global texture of events as they un- whites—was The Cosby Show. Why did cial lines. At a time when it was illegal to folded, and by locating his narrative people living under a system built on publish images of Nelson Mandela, Bill within the analytical nexus between the idea that blacks were inferior and Cosby became the most recognizable threatening flock to a show that por- black man in the country—and, Krabill Mandela and Cosby, the United trayed African Americans as comfort- argues, his presence in the living rooms States and South Africa, he appeals ably mainstream? Starring Mandela and of white South Africans helped lay the to readers across disciplines.” Cosby takes up this paradox, revealing groundwork for Mandela’s release and —Keyan Tomaselli, the surprising impact of television on ascension to power. University of KwaZulu-Natal racial politics. Weaving together South Africa’s The South African government political history and a social history of September 200 p. 6 x 9 maintained a ban on television until television, Krabill challenges conven- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45188-6 Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 1976, and, according to Ron Krabill, tional understandings of globalization, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45189-3 they were right to be wary of its poten- offering up new insights into the relation- Paper $21.00s/£13.50 tial power. The medium, he contends, ship between politics and the media. HISTORY SOCIOLOGY Ron Krabill is associate professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program at the University of Washington Bothell and a member of the graduate faculty in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington Seattle.

54 special interest Troubling Vision “A provocative and timely medita- tion on how black subjects of Performance, Visuality, and Blackness cultural production trouble visual Nicole R. Fleetwood discourse. By moving beyond any single medium or genre, Fleetwood In 2001 Renée Cox’s Yo Mama’s Last Sup- the cultural meaning of blackness relies per was exhibited at the Brooklyn Mu- on understanding both performance is able to articulate how visual seum. Cox’s photographic recreation of and vision. tropes of blackness circulate across Leonardo da Vinci’s painting features Taking into account this fixation different visual fields, while never an almost all black cast and the artist, on black visibility, Nicole R. Fleetwood losing sight of the unique logics of nude, standing in for Jesus. The intense explores how blackness is always a trou- the media she examines.” controversy that erupted testifies to the bling presence in the field of vision and —Juana María Rodriguez, enduring power of images of black bod- the black body is persistently seen as a University of California, Berkeley ies to unsettle and disturb viewers. Over problem. Fleetwood examines a wide the course of the twentieth century, as range of materials from visual and December 288 p., 42 halftones 6 x 9 black visibility rose across a variety of media art, documentary photography, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25302-2 media, scholars in art history and media theater and performance, fashion ad- Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25303-9 studies began to analyze how audiences vertising, and celebrity culture. Based Paper $25.00s/£16.00 view black subjects, while performance on her trenchant analysis of this work, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES and theater studies scholars examined Fleetwood investigates the various ways black self-presentation. Troubling Vision black cultural producers disrupt domi- bridges the gap between these diver- nant notions of black identity and the gent approaches, arguing that grasping black body.

Nicole R. Fleetwood is assistant professor of American studies at Rutgers University and an art consultant who has worked with numerous museums and art institutions.

Thug Life “Thug Life is a finely developed and sophisticated analysis of the Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop complex terrain that is hip-hop. Michael Jeffries Jeffries’ interdisciplinary scope is impressive; in addition to cultural Hip-hop has come a long way from its These questions have dogged hip- origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when hop for decades, but unlike most pun- criticism, elements of sociology, rapping and DJing were just part of a dits, Michael Jeffries finds answers by cultural history, literary criticism, lively, decidedly local scene that also interviewing everyday people. Instead of and culture industry analysis in- venerated break-dancing and graffiti. turning to performers or media critics, form the book, making it a fascinat- Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon Thug Life focuses on the music’s fans— ing read on several levels.” and, in the United States, a massively young men, both black and white—and —S. Craig Watkins, successful corporate enterprise pre- the resulting account avoids romanti- University of Texas at Austin dominantly controlled and consumed cism, offering an unbiased examination by whites while the most prominent of how hip-hop works in people’s daily December 272 p., 3 halftones, performers are black. How does this lives. As Jeffries weaves the fans’ voices 2 tables 6 x 9 shift in racial dynamics affect our un- together with his own sophisticated anal- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39584-5 Cloth $63.00x/£40.50 derstanding of contemporary hip-hop, ysis, we are able to understand hip-hop ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39585-2 especially when the music perpetuates as a tool listeners use to make sense of Paper $21.00s/£13.50 stereotypes of black men? Do black themselves and society as well as a rich, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES listeners interpret hip-hop differently self-contained world containing politics SOCIOLOGY from white fans? and pleasure, virtue and vice.

Michael Jeffries is assistant professor of American studies at Wellesley College.

special interest 55 “Engaging, clear, and fun to read, Confronting Vulnerability Confronting Vulnerability is an The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics exciting book that goes well Jonathan Wyn Schofer beyond its specialist contribution. Because it engages with issues of While imparting their ethical lessons, these pedagogical goals were achieved fundamental human importance— rabbinic texts often employ vivid imag- through reminders that one’s time on how we confront our bodily nature, es of death, aging, hunger, defecation, earth is limited and that God is the ul- its weaknesses and its aging—it persecution, and drought. In Confront- timate master of the world. Conscious- has something to offer to anyone ing Vulnerability, Jonathan Wyn Schofer ness of death and of divine accounting who is interested in those ques- carefully examines these texts to find guide students to live better lives in the out why their creators thought that hu- present. Schofer’s analysis teaches us tions. Furthermore, Schofer is an man vulnerability was such a crucial much about rabbinic pedagogy in late articulate and careful scholar with tool for instructing students in the de- antiquity and also provides inspiration interesting observations about how velopment of exemplary behavior. for students of contemporary ethics. to do comparative ethics.” These rabbinic texts uphold vir- Despite their cultural distance, these rab- —Martha C. Nussbaum tues such as wisdom and compassion, binic texts challenge us to develop theo- propound ideal ways of responding to ries and practices that properly address September 224 p. 6 x 9 others in need, and describe the details our frailties rather than denying them. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74009-6 of etiquette. Schofer demonstrates that Cloth $40.00s/£26.00

JEWISH STUDIES PHILOSOPHY Jonathan Wyn Schofer is associate professor of comparative ethics at Harvard Divinity School and the author of The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics.

Praise for Simmel The View of Life “Simmel is the only social theorist Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms one can read anymore.” Georg Simmel —Max Horkheimer Translated by John A. Y. Andrews and Donald N. Levine With an Introduction by Donald N. Levine and Daniel Silver December 240 p., 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75783-4 Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 Published in 1918, The View of Life is his “testament,” a capstone work of pro-

PHILOSoPHY SOCIOLOGY Georg Simmel’s final work. Famously found metaphysical inquiry intended deemed “the brightest man in Europe” to formulate his conception of life in its by George Santayana, Simmel ad- entirety. dressed a variety of topics across his es- Now Anglophone readers can at sayistic writings, which have influenced last read in full the work that shaped the scholars in aesthetics, ethics, epistemol- argument of Heidegger’s Being and Time ogy, and sociology. Nevertheless, a set and whose extraordinary impact on Eu- of core issues emerged over the course ropean intellectual life between the wars of his career, most centrally the genesis, has been extolled by Jürgen Habermas. structure, and transcendence of social Presented alongside these seminal essays and cultural forms and the nature and are aphoristic fragments from Simmel’s genesis of authentic individuality. Com- last journal, providing a beguiling look posed in the years before his death, The into the mind of one of the twentieth View of Life was, according to Simmel, century’s greatest thinkers.

Georg Simmel (1858–1918) was professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin and, later, at the University of Strasbourg. His many books include The Philosophy of Money, On Social Differentiation, and Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art. John A. Y. Andrews is an information systems consultant for the Rhode Island Department of Human Services. Donald N. Levine is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the author of, most recently, Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America. 56 special interest Edited by Alan D. Schrift The History of Continental Philosophy

rom Kant to Kierkegaard, from Hegel to Heidegger, continental philosophers have indelibly shaped the trajectory Fof Western thought since the eighteenth century. Although much has been written about these monumental thinkers, students and scholars lack a definitive guide to the entire scope of the conti- nental tradition. The most comprehensive reference work to date, this “A superb and absolutely unique project eight-volume History of Continental Philosophy will both encapsulate the that will be an invaluable resource for subject and reorient our understanding of it. Beginning with an over- students and teachers of continental view of Kant’s philosophy and its initial reception, the History traces philosophy. The academic rigor and qual- the evolution of continental philosophy through major figures as well ity of the work is truly exemplary and is as movements such as existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, unlike anything currently on the mar- and poststructuralism. The final volume outlines the current state of ket. I cannot imagine a more competent the field, bringing the work of both historical and modern thinkers to group of editors and authors or a more bear on such contemporary topics as feminism, globalization, and the thoughtful presentation of the material. environment. Throughout, the volumes examine important philosoph- This landmark series provides the first ical figures and developments in their historical, political, and cultural comprehensive history of continental contexts. philosophy in the English language— probably the first in any language. Every The first reference of its kind,The History of Continental Philosophy library will want to own a copy and every has been written and edited by internationally recognized experts with scholar of continental philosophy will a commitment to explaining complex thinkers, texts, and movements have occasion to turn to it often.” in rigorous yet jargon-free essays suitable for both undergraduates and —Michael Naas, seasoned specialists. These volumes also elucidate ongoing debates DePaul University about the nature of continental and analytic philosophy, surveying the distinctive, sometimes overlapping characteristics and approaches of each tradition. Featuring helpful overviews of major topics and plot- November 8 volumes, 2704 p. 6 x 9 ting road maps to their underlying contexts, The History of Continental ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74046-1 Cloth $800.00x Philosophy is destined to be the resource of first and last resort for PHILOSOPHY nsa students and scholars alike. Copublished with Acumen UK

Alan D. Schrift is professor of philosophy at Grinnell College. He is the author of many books, including Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers, Modernity and the Problem of Evil, and Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics. special interest 57 “Filled with rich and probing ac- Writing Art History counts of many of art history’s Disciplinary Departures most noted writers, this book Margaret Iversen and Stephen Melville shows how, through the writing

of art history, deep changes have Faced with an increasingly media-satu- tion. Their project is to excavate the been encouraged and effected in rated, globalized culture, art historians lost continuities between philosophical our modes of contemplation and have begun to ask themselves challeng- aesthetics, contemporary theory, and judgment.” ing and provocative questions about the art history through close readings of —Lydia Goehr, nature of their discipline. Why did the figures as various as Michael Baxandall, Columbia University history of art come into being? Is it now Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, and in danger of slipping into obsolescence? Alois Riegl. Ultimately, the authors pro- December 296 p., 30 halftones, And, if so, should we care? pose that we might reframe the ques- 15 line drawings 6 x 9 In Writing Art History, Margaret tions concerning art history by asking ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38825-0 Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 Iversen and Stephen Melville address what kind of writing might help the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38826-7 these questions by exploring some as- discipline to better imagine its actual Paper $30.00s/£19.50 sumptions at the discipline’s founda- practices—and its potential futures. ART PHILOSOPHY Margaret Iversen is professor of the history of art at the University of Essex and the author of Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes, among other titles. Stephen Melville is professor emeritus of the history of art at Ohio State University and the author of Seams: Art as Philo- sophical Context and other works.

Praise for Charles Larmore’s The Practices of the Self Patterns of Moral Complexity Charles Larmore “A solid piece of work—clearly Translated by Sharon Bowman written, admirably free of cant, his- What is the nature of the fundamental value of what we desire. torically informed, and analytically relation we have to ourselves that makes Larmore develops this conception ambitious. It is a fine contribution each of us a self? To answer this ques- with frequent reference to such classic to moral theory.” tion, Charles Larmore develops a sys- authors as Montaigne, Stendhal, and —Ethics tematic theory of the self, challenging Proust and by comparing it to other the widespread view that the self’s de- views of the self in contemporary phi- Praise for The Morals of Modernity fining relation to itself is to have an im- losophy. He also discusses the impor- mediate knowledge of its own thoughts. tant ethical consequences of his theory “Advances several important new On the contrary, Larmore maintains, of the self, arguing that it allows us to proposals, especially regarding our essential relation to ourselves is better grasp what it means to be our- political liberalism and moral epis- practical, as is clear when we consider selves and why self-understanding often temology. . . . A book rich in ideas.” the nature of belief and desire. For to involves self-creation. —Philosophical Review believe or desire something consists in The Practices of the Self is that rare committing ourselves to thinking and kind of lucid yet rigorous work that November 224 p. 6 x 9 acting in accord with the presumed transcends disciplinary boundaries. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46887-7 truth of our belief or the presumed Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 Charles Larmore is the W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities and PHILOSOPHY professor of philosophy at Brown University. He is the author of numerous books in French and English, including The Autonomy of Morality.

58 special interest Kant and Phenomenology “This is a clear, concise, and enjoy- able read by a senior scholar who is Tom Rockmore an expert on all aspects of German Phenomenology, together with Marx- cal approach back to the second edition idealism. Tom Rockmore is uniquely ism, pragmatism, and analytic phi- of the Critique of Pure Reason. In response qualified to establish clearly the losophy, dominated philosophy in the to various criticisms of the first edition, phenomenological-epistemological twentieth century—and Edmund Hus- Kant more forcefully put forth a con- narrative extending from Kant to serl is usually thought to have been structivist theory of knowledge. This Husserl, Heidegger, and beyond. the first to develop the concept. His shift in Kant’s thinking challenged the His constructivist reading of Kant views influenced a variety of important representational approach to epistemol- later thinkers, such as Heidegger and ogy, and it is this turn, Rockmore con- along with his contrast of Kant with Merleau-Ponty, who eventually turned tends, that makes Kant the first great Husserl makes his case convincing- phenomenology away from questions phenomenologist. He then follows this ly in a work of exceptional clarity of knowledge. But in this significant phenomenological line through the and rigorous documentation.” new work, Tom Rockmore argues for a work of Kant’s idealist successors, Fichte —Alan Olson, return to phenomenology’s origins in and Hegel. Steeped in the sources and Boston University epistemology and does so by locating its literature it examines, Kant and Phenome- roots in the work of Immanuel Kant. nology persuasively reshapes our concep- January 272 p. 6 x 9 Kant and Phenomenology traces the tion of both of its main subjects. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72340-2 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 formulation of Kant’s phenomenologi- PHILOSOPHY Tom Rockmore is professor of philosophy and a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor at Duquesne University. He is the author of numerous books, including Kant and Idealism; In Kant’s Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century; and Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy.

After Life “This is a timely, significant, and original work that deepens and Eugene Thacker enlarges the terms of contempo- Life is one of our most basic concepts, ines the influence of Aristotle’s ideas rary philosophical debate over the yet when examined directly it proves in medieval and early modern thought, nature of ‘life.’ After Life promises remarkably contradictory and elusive, leading him to the work of Immanuel to become an indispensable point encompassing both the broadest and Kant, who notes the inherently contra- of reference for future discussions the most specific phenomena. We can dictory nature of “life in itself.” Along of this topic.” see this uncertainty about life in our the way, Thacker shows how early mod- —Ray Brassier, habit of approaching it as something at ern philosophy’s engagement with the American University of Beirut once scientific and mystical, in the re- problem of life affects thinkers such as turn of vitalisms of all types, and in the Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, and November 312 p., 4 line drawings, pervasive politicization of life. In short, Alain Badiou, as well as contemporary 1 table 6 x 9 life seems everywhere at stake and yet is developments in the “speculative turn” ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79371-9 nowhere the same. in philosophy. Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79372-6 In After Life, Eugene Thacker clears At a time when life is categorized, Paper $29.00s/£18.50 the ground for a new philosophy of life measured, and exploited in a variety of PHILOSOPHY RELIGION by recovering the twists and turns in ways, After Life invites us to delve deeper its philosophical history. Beginning into the contours and contradictions of with Aristotle’s originary formulation the age-old question, “what is life?” of a philosophy of life, Thacker exam-

Eugene Thacker is associate professor of literature, communication, and culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

special interest 59 Contributors Strengthening Peace in Post–Civil War States Nikolas Emmanuel, Michael Transforming Spoilers into Stakeholders W. Foley, Caroline A. Hartzell, Edited by Matthew Hoddie and Caroline A. Hartzell Matthew Hoddie, David A. Lake, Terrence Lyons, Shaheen Among the more frequent and most lasting peace relies on aligning the Mozaffar, Philip G. Roeder, devastating of conflicts, civil wars— self-interest of individuals and com- Donald Rothchild, Timothy D. from Yugoslavia to Congo—frequently munities with the society-wide goal of reignite and even spill over into the in- ending war; if citizens and groups have Sisk, Susan L. Woodward ternational sphere. Given the inherent a stake in peace, they will seek to main- fragility of civil war peace agreements, tain and defend it. The rest of the con- August 280 p., 1 line drawing, innovative approaches must be taken to tributors explore two complementary 3 tables, 1 map 6 x 9 ensure the successful resolution of these approaches toward achieving this goal: ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35124-7 Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 conflicts. Strengthening Peace in Post– restructuring domestic institutions and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35125-4 Civil War States provides both analytical soft intervention. Some essays examine Paper $29.00s/£18.50 frameworks and a series of critical case the first tactic, which involves reform- POLITICAL SCIENCE studies demonstrating the effectiveness ing governments that failed to prevent of a range of strategies for keeping the war, while others discuss the second, peace. an umbrella term for a number of non- Coeditors Matthew Hoddie and military strategies for outside actors to Caroline A. Hartzell here contend that assist in keeping the peace.

Matthew Hoddie is assistant professor of political science at Towson University. Caroline A. Hartzell is professor of political science at Gettysburg College. Together they are coauthors of Crafting Peace: Power-Sharing Institutions and the Negotiated Settlement of Civil Wars.

“World Rule is ambitious, engaging, World Rule and well-researched; it will be a Accountability, Legitimacy, and the Design of major contribution to the literature Global Governance on international organizations and Jonathan GS Koppell global governance more broadly.” —Steven Bernstein, Dilemmas from climate change to finan- tial to a global rulemaking regime. University of Toronto cial meltdowns make it clear that global Through a novel empirical study of interconnectedness is the norm in the twenty-five GGOs, Jonathan GS Koppell August 392 p., 3 figures, 46 tables twenty-first century. As a result, global 6 x 9 provides a clearer picture of the com- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45098-8 governance organizations (GGOs)— promises within and the competition Cloth $95.00x/£61.50 from the World Trade Organization to among these influential institutions by ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45099-5 Paper $36.00s/£23.50 the Forest Stewardship Council—have focusing attention on their organiza- taken on prominent roles in the man- POLITICAL SCIENCE tional design. Analyzing four aspects agement of international affairs. These of GGO organization in depth—rep- GGOs create and promulgate rules to resentation and administration, the address a host of pressing problems. rulemaking process, adherence and But as World Rule reveals, they struggle enforcement, and interest group par- to meet two challenges: building au- ticipation—Koppell describes variation thority despite limited ability to impose systemically, identifies patterns, and sanctions and maintaining legitimacy offers explanations that link GGO de- while satisfying the demands of key sign to the fundamental challenge of constituencies whose support is essen- accountability in global governance.

Jonathan GS Koppell is associate professor of politics and management at the Yale School of Management and the author of The Politics of Quasi-Government: Hybrid Organizations and the Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control.

60 special interest Obama’s Race “Obama’s Race is a timely, pro- vocative, and important book that The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America anyone with even a passing inter- Michael Tesler and David O. Sears est in politics simply must read. In their careful and detailed analysis, Barack Obama’s presidential victory liberals that extended well beyond that naturally led people to believe that the usually offered to ideologically similar Tesler and Sears make a persuasive United States might finally be moving white candidates, Hillary Clinton lost case for why Obama’s election does into a post-racial era. Obama’s Race— much of her long-standing support not represent a fundamental sea and its eye-opening account of the role and instead became the preferred can- change in how people think about played by race in the election—paints a didate of Democratic racial conserva- politics. The results are striking, dramatically different picture. tives. Time and again, voters’ racial pre- sobering, and deeply revealing.” The authors argue that the 2008 dispositions trumped their ideological —Cindy D. Kam, preferences as John McCain—seldom election was more polarized by racial Vanderbilt University attitudes than any other presidential described as conservative in matters of race—became the darling of racial election on record—and perhaps more Chicago Studies in American Politics significantly, that there were two sides conservatives from both parties. Hard- to this racialization: resentful opposi- hitting and sure to be controversial, November 224 p., 37 line drawings, tion to and racially liberal support for Obama’s Race will be both praised and 7 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79382-5 Obama. As Obama’s campaign was giv- criticized—but certainly not ignored. Cloth $54.00x/£35.00 en a boost in the primaries from racial ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79383-2 Paper $18.00s/£11.50 Michael Tesler is a graduate student in political science at the University of California, Los POLITICAL SCIENCE Angeles. David O. Sears is distinguished professor of psychology and political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of numerous books.

Why Iowa? “This is an excellent, groundbreak- ing study of the Iowa Caucus, as How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the well as the presidential nomination Presidential Nominating Process system. Why Iowa? is fascinating David P. Redlawsk, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Todd Donovan reading, rich in new insights, and studded with gems unearthed by If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, in American politics. its powerful analysis. . . . Well- most commentators believe that he Considering whether a sequential would not have been able to go on to primary system, in which early, smaller written and readable, this will be capture the Democratic nomination for states such as Iowa and New Hampshire a crucial contribution to election president. Why Iowa? offers the defini- have such a tremendous impact, is fair literature, for both students and tive account of those early weeks of the or beneficial to the country as a whole, scholars alike.” campaign season: from how the Iowa the authors here demonstrate that not —Christopher C. Hull, caucuses work and what motivates the only is the impact warranted, but it also author of Grassroots Rules: candidates’ campaigns, to participation reveals a great deal about information- How the Iowa Caucus Helps Elect and turnout, as well as the lingering al elements of the campaigns. Contrary American Presidents effects that the campaigning had on to conventional wisdom, this sequential Iowa voters. Demonstrating how “what system does confer huge benefits on the December 296 p., 53 line drawings, 40 tables 6 x 9 happens in Iowa” truly reverberates nominating process, while Iowa’s par- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70695-5 throughout the country, five-time Iowa ticularly well-designed caucus system— Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 precinct caucus chair David P. Redlawsk extensively explored here for the first ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70696-2 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 and his coauthors take us on an inside time—brings candidates’ arguments, POLITICAL SCIENCE tour of one of the most media-saturated strengths, and weaknesses into the and speculated-about campaign events open and under the media’s lens.

David P. Redlawsk is professor of political science and director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University. Caroline J. Tolbert is professor of political science at the University of Iowa. Todd Donovan is professor of political science at Western Washington University. special interest 61 “Widely appealing not only to schol- Specializing the Courts ars in the fields of law, political sci- Lawrence Baum ence, and sociology, but to general readers as well, Specializing the Most Americans think that judges the government, and economic issues Courts is a landmark treatment of a should be, and are, generalists who in the private sector. Baum examines very important phenomenon writ- decide a wide array of cases. Nonethe- the process by which court systems in ten by a major scholar, encyclope- less, we now have specialized courts in the United States have become increas- many key policy areas. Specializing the ingly specialized and the motives that dic in its range and depth. It will be Courts provides the first comprehensive have led to the growth of specialization. the go-to source on this topic for analysis of this growing trend toward He also considers the effects of judicial years to come.” specialization in the federal and state specialization on the work of the courts —Charles R. Epp, court systems. by demonstrating that under certain University of Kansas Lawrence Baum incisively explores conditions, specialization can and does the scope, causes, and consequences have fundamental effects on the poli- Chicago Series in Law and Society of judicial specialization in four areas cies that courts make. For this reason, January 288 p., 11 tables 6 x 9 that include most specialized courts: the movement toward greater special- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03954-1 foreign policy and national security, ization constitutes a major change in Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 criminal law, economic issues involving the judiciary. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03955-8 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 Lawrence Baum is professor of political science at Ohio State University. He is the author of LAW POLITICAL SCIENCE many books, including, most recently, Judges and Their Audiences.

“All of this is wonderful, excit- Hyperpolitics ing, imaginative, and generous. An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts Hyperpolitics is a great service to Edited by Mauro Calise and Theodore J. Lowi many disciplines, not just political science. As an intellectual history Fifteen years in the making, Hyperpoli- draws upon a global vocabulary in order of political science, this book is tics is an interactive dictionary offering to turn complex ideas into an innova- unequalled. This is a pioneering a wholly original approach for under- tive teaching aid. Its companion open revinvention of the dictionary.” standing and working with the most access website has already been widely —Richard M. Valelly, central concepts in political science. acknowledged in the fields of educa- Swarthmore College Designed and authored by two of the tion and political science and will con- discipline’s most distinguished schol- tinue to serve as a formidable hub for October 272 p. 7 x 10 ars, its purpose is to provide its readers the book’s audience. Much more than ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09101-3 with fresh critical insights about what a dictionary and enhanced by dynamic Cloth $54.00x/£35.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09102-0 informs these political concepts, as well graphics, Hyperpolitics introduces an in- Paper $18.00s/£11.50 as a method by which readers—and es- genious means of understanding com- POLITICAL SCIENCE pecially students—can unpack and re- plicated concepts that will be an invalu- construct them on their own. able tool for scholars and students alike. International in scope, Hyperpolitics

Mauro Calise is professor of political science at the University of Naples Federico II. The author of several books (www.maurocalise.it), he is also the president of the Italian Politi- cal Science Association and director of the IPSA Web Portal for Electronic Sources. Theodore J. Lowi is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell Univer- sity. A former president of the American Political Science Association and of the Interna- tional Political Science Association, he is the author of The End of Liberalism.

62 special interest After the Rubicon “Douglas Kriner closely scrutinizes how and when Congress influ- Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War ences foreign policy in this very Douglas L. Kriner fine book. This is the best state- ment, quantitative or qualitative, When the United States goes to war, even in politically sensitive wartime I’ve seen on the role of Congress in the nation’s attention focuses on the environments, individual members of president. As commander in chief, a Congress frequently propose legisla- American foreign policy making.” president reaches the zenith of power, tion, hold investigative hearings, and —David Clark, while Congress is supposedly shunted engage in national policy debates in the Binghamton University to the sidelines once troops have been public sphere. These actions influence deployed abroad. Because of Congress’s the president’s strategic decisions as he Chicago Series on International repeated failure to exercise its legisla- weighs the political costs of pursuing and Domestic Institutions tive powers to rein in presidents, many his preferred military course. November 320 p., 2 halftones, have proclaimed its irrelevance in mili- Marshalling a wealth of quantitative 20 line drawings, 16 tables 6 x 9 tary matters. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45355-2 and historical evidence, Kriner expertly Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 After the Rubicon challenges this demonstrates the full extent to which ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45356-9 conventional wisdom by illuminating Congress materially shapes the initia- Paper $30.00s/£19.50 the diverse ways in which legislators tion, scope, and duration of major mili- POLITICAL SCIENCE influence the conduct of military af- tary actions and sheds new light on the fairs. Douglas L. Kriner reveals that timely issue of interbranch relations.

Douglas L. Kriner is assistant professor of political science at Boston University and coauthor of The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities.

News at Work “News at Work is a brilliantly cre- ative and much anticipated study of Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance the new world of news. Pablo Boc- Pablo J. Boczkowski zkowski takes us on a far-ranging exploration—from the newsroom to Before news organizations began put- of the news. Peeking inside the news- ting their content online, people got rooms where journalists create stories the business office, the reporter’s the news in print or on TV and almost and the work settings where the public cubicle to the reader’s desktop—on always outside of the workplace. But reads them, Pablo J. Boczkowski reveals which we get a panoramic view of nowadays, most of us keep an eye on why journalists contribute to the grow- the links between the production, the headlines from our desks at work, ing similarity of news—even though distribution, and consumption of and we have become accustomed to they dislike it—and why consumers digital media. He already has a instant access to a growing supply of acquiesce to a media system they find constantly updated stories on the Web. increasingly dissatisfying. reputation for rigorous scholarship This change in the amount of news Comparing and contrasting two —this book is better than anything available as well as how we consume it newspapers in Buenos Aires with simi- he has published to date.” has been coupled with an unexpected lar developments in the United States, —Eric Klinenberg, development in editorial labor: rival News at Work offers an enlightening per- New York University news organizations can now keep tabs spective on living in a world with more on the competition and imitate them, information but less news. September 280 p., 7 halftones, 2 line drawings, 12 tables 6 x 9 resulting in a decrease in the diversity ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06279-2 Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 Pablo J. Boczkowski is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06280-8 Northwestern University and the author of Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. Paper $27.50s/£18.00 SOCIOLOGY MEDIA STUDIES

special interest 63 “Political Epistemics is a wonderful Political Epistemics book that explains at long last the epistemological reasons behind The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism the collapse of Eastern European Andreas Glaeser state socialism. It is a magnificent testimony to the resurgence of the What does the durability of political And how was the formation of dissident sociology of knowledge and its institutions have to do with how actors understandings possible in a state that provocative arguments and conclu- form knowledge about them? Andreas monopolized mass communication sions will be debated widely for Glaeser investigates this question in and group formation? He also explores years to come.” the context of a fascinating historical why the Stasi, although always well in- —Dominic Boyer, case: socialist East Germany’s unex- formed about dissident activities, never Rice University pected self-dissolution in 1989. His developed a realistic understanding of analysis builds on extensive in-depth the phenomenon of dissidence. Chicago Studies in Practices of interviews with former secret police Out of this ambitious study, Glaes- Meaning officers and the dissidents they tried er extracts two distinct lines of thought. to control as well as research into the On the one hand he offers an epistemic november 672 p., 17 line drawings 6 x 9 documents both groups produced. In account of socialism’s failure that dif- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29793-4 particular, Glaeser analyzes how these fers markedly from existing explana- Cloth $100.00x/£64.50 two opposing factions’ understanding tions. On the other hand he develops ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29794-1 Paper $35.00s/£22.50 of the socialist project came to change a theory—a sociology of understand- SOCIOLOGY EUROPEAN HISTORY in response to countless everyday expe- ing—that shows us how knowledge can riences. These investigations culminate appear validated while it is at the same in answers to two questions: why did the time completely misleading. officers not defend socialism by force?

Andreas Glaeser is associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and the author of Divided in Unity: Identity, Germany, and the Berlin Police, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Producing Local Color Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago Diane Grams

In big cities, major museums and elite place, Diane Grams presents and ana- galleries tend to dominate our idea of lyzes the different kinds of networks of the art world. But beyond the cultural interest and support that sustain the core ruled by these moneyed institu- making of art outside of the limelight. tions and their patrons are vibrant, lo- And she introduces us to the various cal communities of artists and art lov- individuals—from cutting-edge artists ers operating beneath the high-culture to collectors to municipal planners— radar. Producing Local Color is a guided who work together to develop their tour of three such alternative worlds that communities, honor their history, and thrive in the Chicago neighborhoods of enrich the experiences of their neigh- Bronzeville, Pilsen, and Rogers Park. bors through art. Along with its novel These three neighborhoods are, insights into these little-examined art October 296 p., 20 color plates, respectively, historically African Ameri- worlds, Producing Local Color also pro- 2 halftones, 7 figures, 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30517-2 can, predominantly Mexican American, vides a thought-provoking account of Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 and proudly ethnically mixed. Drawing how urban neighborhoods change and SOCIOLOGY ART on her ethnographic research in each grow.

Diane Grams is assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University and coeditor of Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in the Nonprofit Arts.

64 special interest Contested Reproduction “This is an artfully conceived, well- researched, and well-written book Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate on a topic of immense importance. John H. Evans It is completely original—literally unique in the focus of its investiga- Scientific breakthroughs have led us is the stimulating result. tion and the data it brings to bear. to a point where soon we will be able Some of the opinions Evans docu- to make specific choices about the ge- ments are familiar, but others—such as Evans takes an extremely technical netic makeup of our offspring. In fact, the idea that certain genetic conditions and complicated area of science this reality has arrived—and it is only produce a “meaningful suffering” that and ethics and makes it acces- a matter of time before the technology is, ultimately, desirable—provide a fas- sible with a refreshing, admirably becomes widespread. cinating glimpse of religious reactions even-handed approach. Contested Much like past arguments about to cutting-edge science. Not surprisingly, Reproduction will be a landmark stem-cell research, the coming debate Evans discovers that for many people over these reproductive genetic tech- opinion on the issue closely relates to study.” nologies (RGTs) will be both political their feelings about abortion, but he —Christian Smith, and, for many people, religious. In or- also finds a shared moral language that University of Notre Dame der to understand how the debate will offers a way around the unproductive September 280 p., 3 line drawings, play out in the United States, John H. polarization of the abortion debate and 3 tables 6 x 9 Evans conducted the first in-depth other culture-war concerns. Contested Re- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-22265-3 study of the claims made about RGTs by production is a prescient, profound look Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 religious people from across the politi- into the future of a hot-button issue. SOCIOLOGY cal spectrum, and Contested Reproduction

John H. Evans is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Just One of the Guys? “Truly innovative, courageous, and rigorous. Just One of the Guys? will Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality spark a lot of dialogue and some Kristen Schilt contentious discussions. Kristen

The fact that men and women continue stories are a testament to systemic gen- Schilt has taken an ethnographic to receive unequal treatment at work is der inequality. The reactions of cowork- and interview-based approach a point of contention among politicians, ers and employers to transmen, Schilt to understanding the workplace the media, and scholars. Common demonstrates, reveal the ways assump- inequalities facing a highly under- explanations for this disparity range tions about innate differences between studied population, and the results from biological differences between men and women serve as justification are sobering and unexpected. the sexes to the conscious and uncon- for discrimination. She finds that some scious biases that guide hiring and pro- transmen gain acceptance—and even This is an indubitably creative and motion decisions. Just One of the Guys? privileges—by becoming “just one of the original book.” sheds new light on this phenomenon guys,” that some are coerced into work- —Shari L. Dworkin, by analyzing the unique experiences of ing as women or marginalized for be- University of California, San Francisco transgender men—people designated ing openly transgender, and that other female at birth whose gender identity is forms of appearance-based discrimina- December 216 p., 9 tables 6 x 9 male—on the job. tion also influence their opportunities. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73805-5 Kristen Schilt draws on in-depth Showcasing the voices of a frequently Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 interviews and observational data to overlooked group, Just One of the Guys? ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73807-9 Paper $22.50s/£14.50 show that while individual transmen lays bare the social processes that foster forms of inequality that affect us all. SOCIOLOGY have varied experiences, overall their GAY AND LESBIAN studies Kristen Schilt is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.

special interest 65 “Unquestionably a work of the The Poetics of Repetition in English highest pedigree, this book is the product of a lifetime of thought and and Chinese Lyric Poetry decades of exhaustive research. Cecile Chu-Chin Sun Sun clearly has experienced For more than half a century, Chinese- resentative sampling of poems from poetry profoundly and can speak Western comparative literature has both traditions, she illustrates how the profoundly of it. Her language is been recognized as a formal academic irreducible generic nature of the lyric arresting through its strength of discipline, but critics and scholars in transcends linguistic and cultural bar- conviction and not because of liter- the field have done little to develop a riers but also reveals the fundamental ary flourishes or jargon. This book viable, common basis for comparison distinctions between the traditions. between these disparate literatures. In Most crucially, she dissects the two radi- should be required reading for all this pioneering book, Cecile Chu-chin cally different conceptualizations of readers of and commentators on Sun establishes repetition as the ideal reality—mimesis and xing—that serve Chinese and English—and perhaps perspective from which to compare the as underlying principles for the poetic any—lyric poetry.” poetry and poetics from these two tra- practices of each tradition. —David E. Pollard, ditions. Skillfully integrating theory and author of The True Story of Lu Xun Sun contends that repetition is at practice, The Poetics of Repetition in Eng- the heart of all that defines the lyric as lish and Chinese Lyric Poetry provides a January 312 p., 6 halftones, 2 tables a unique art form and, by closely exam- much-needed model for future study of 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78020-7 ining its use in Chinese and Western Chinese and English poetry as well as Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 poetry, she demonstrates how one can lucid, succinct interpretations of indi- LITERARY CRITICISM identify important points of conver- vidual poems. gence and divergence. Through a rep-

Cecile Chu-chin Sun teaches in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of Pearl from the Dragon’s Mouth: Evocation of Scene and Feeling in Chinese Poetry.

Sex and Salvation Imagining the Future in Madagascar Jennifer Cole

Sex and Salvation chronicles the com- draw on long-standing ideas of gender ing of age of a generation of women and sexuality, it ignores how urbanites in Tamatave in the years that followed relate to their rural counterparts, and it Madagascar’s economic liberalization. neglects the relationship between these Eager to forge a viable future amid husband-seeking women and their el- poverty and rising consumerism, many ders who join Pentecostal churches. young women entered the sexual econ- And yet, as talk about the women circu- omy in hope of finding a European lates through the city’s neighborhoods, husband. Just as many Westerners be- bars, Internet cafes, and churches, it lieve that young people break with the teaches others new ways of being. past as they enter adulthood, Malagasy Cole’s sophisticated depiction of citizens fear that these women have how a generation’s coming of age con- December 264 p., 14 halftones, 1 map 6 x 9 severed the connection to their history tributes to social change eschews a nar- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11330-2 and culture. row focus on crisis. Instead, she reveals Cloth $80.00x/£51.50 Jennifer Cole’s elegant analysis how fantasies of rupture and concep- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11331-9 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 shows how this notion of generational tions of the changing life course shape ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES change is both wrong and consequen- the everyday ways that people create tial. It obscures the ways young people the future.

Jennifer Cole is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Human Develop- ment at the University of Chicago and the author of Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar. 66 special interest Globalizing American Studies Contributors Edited by Brian T. Edwards and DILIP Parameshwar Gaonkar Kate Baldwin, Ali Behdad, Wai Chee Dimock, Brent Hayes The discipline of American studies was the traffic of American movies within Edwards, Brian T. Edwards, established in the early days of World the British Empire, the reception of Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, War II and drew on the myth of Ameri- the film Gone with the Wind in the Arab Brian Larkin, Claudio Lomnitz, can exceptionalism. But now that the world, the parallels between Japanese so-called American Century has come and American styles of nativism, and Donald E. Pease, Naoki Sakai, to an end, what would a truly globalized new incarnations of American studies Elizabeth F. Thompson, Juliet version of American studies look like? itself in the Middle East, to name a few. A. Williams, and Kariann Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Paramesh- Bringing together established scholars Akemi Yokota war Gaonkar offer a new standard for already associated with the global turn the field’s transnational aspiration with in American studies with contributors December 368 p., 11 halftones 6 x 9 Globalizing American Studies. who specialize in African studies, East ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18506-4 The essays here offer a compara- Asian studies, Latin American studies, Cloth $80.00x/£51.50 tive, multilingual, or multi-sited ap- media studies, anthropology, and other ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18507-1 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 proach to ideas and representations of areas, Globalizing American Studies is a LITERARY CRITICISM HISTORY America. The contributors explore un- timely response to an important disci- expected perspectives on the interna- plinary shift in academia. tional circulation of American culture:

Brian T. Edwards is associate professor of English, comparative literary studies, and Ameri- can studies at Northwestern University. Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar is associate professor of rhetoric and public culture and the director of the Center for Global Culture and Communication at Northwestern University.

Anthropology at War “Evans not only offers an explana- tion for the key transition in the World War I and the Science of Race in Germany history of German anthropology, Andrew D. Evans he also presents the most compre- hensive history of the discipline Between 1914 and 1918, German an- Anthropology at War examines both the available to date. Even beyond thropologists conducted their work origins and consequences of this shift. in the midst of full-scale war. The dis- Evans locates its roots in the decision this impressive scholarly work, cipline was relatively new in German to allow scientists access to prisoner- Evans has made a real conceptual academia when World War I broke out, of-war camps, which prompted them contribution to the history of sci- and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this to focus their research on racial stud- ence, correcting the dominant view illuminating book, its development was ies of the captives. Caught up in war- of the relation between science and profoundly altered by the conflict. As time nationalism, a new generation of politics.” the war shaped the institutional, ideo- anthropologists began to portray the logical, and physical environment for country’s political enemies as racially —Matti Bunzl, University of Illinois anthropological work, the discipline different. After the war ended, the im- at Urbana-Champaign turned its back on its liberal roots and portance placed on racial conceptions became a nationalist endeavor primar- and categories persisted, paving the September 312 p., 16 halftones 6 x 9 ily concerned with scientific studies of way for the politicization of scientific ISBN-13: 978-0-226-22267-7 race. inquiry in the years of the ascendancy Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 Combining intellectual and cul- of National Socialism. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-22268-4 Paper $29.00s/£18.50 tural history with the history of science, ANTHROPOLOGY history Andrew D. Evans is assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

special interest 67 “González’s ethnographic medita- Unveiling Secrets of War in the tion on identity, history, violence, inequality, and cultural transfor- Peruvian Andes Olga M. González mation is a joy to read. In writing that is sharp and insightful, she The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Drawing on extensive fieldwork offers a cutting-edge analysis of Path launched its violent campaign and a novel use of a cycle of paintings, local remembering and forgetting against the government in Peru’s Ayacu- González examines the relationship juxtaposed with recorded historic cho region in 1980. When the military between secrecy and memory. Her at- events. This is anthropology at its and counterinsurgency police forces tention to the gaps and silences within were dispatched to oppose the insurrec- both the Sarhuinos’ oral histories and best and a real treat to read.” tion, the violence quickly escalated. The the paintings reveals the pervasive re- —Victoria Sanford, Lehman College, peasant community of Sarhua was at the ality of secrecy for people who have City University of New York epicenter of the conflict, and this small endured episodes of intense violence. village is the focus of Unveiling Secrets of González conveys how public secrets February 344 p., 31 color plates, War in the Peruvian Andes. There, more turn the process of unmasking into 4 maps, 1 table 6 x 9 than a decade after the event, Olga M. a complex mode of truth telling. Ulti- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30270-6 González follows the tangled thread of mately, public secrecy is an intricate way Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30271-3 a public secret: the disappearance of of “remembering to forget” that estab- Paper $30.00s/£19.50 Narciso Huicho, the man blamed for lishes a normative truth that makes life ANTHROPOLOGY plunging Sarhua into a conflict that livable in the aftermath of a civil war. would sunder the community for years.

Olga M. González is assistant professor of anthropology at Macalaster College.

Contributors Sorcery in the Black Atlantic Patricia Birman, Katherine Edited by Luis Nicolau Parés and Roger Sansi Fidler, Peter Geschiere, Yvonne Maggie, Basile Ndjio, Most scholarship on sorcery and witch- tors here examine sorcery in Brazil, Stephan Palmié, Luis Nicolau craft has narrowly focused on specific Cuba, South Africa, Cameroon, and times and places, particularly early Angola. Their insightful essays reveal Parés, Luena Nunes Pereira, modern Europe and twentieth-century the way practices and accusations of João José Reis, Roger Sansi, Africa. And much of that research in- witchcraft spread throughout the At- Laura de Mello e Souza, and terprets sorcery as merely a remnant of lantic world from the age of discovery Daniel Stone premodern traditions. Boldly challeng- up to the present, creating an indelible ing these views, Sorcery in the Black Atlan- link between sorcery and the rise of January 304 p. 6 x 9 tic takes a longer historical and broader global capitalism. Shedding new light ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64577-3 geographical perspective, contending on a topic of perennial interest, Sorcery Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 that sorcery is best understood as an At- in the Black Atlantic will be provocative, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64578-0 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 lantic phenomenon that has significant compelling reading for historians and ANTHROPOLOGY connections to modernity and global- anthropologists working in this grow- ization. ing field. A distinguished group of contribu-

Luis Nicolau Parés is professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. Roger Sansi is lecturer in anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

68 special interest The Spirits and the Law “In this compelling study, Ramsey culls a remarkable set of materi- Vodou and Power in Haiti als to bring to bear on the topic, Kate Ramsey ranging from colonial travel ac- counts, memoirs, State Department After Haiti’s recent earthquake, various ten strictly enforced, these laws were at American commentators—from Pat times the basis for attacks on Vodou by records, and UN sorcery reports. Robertson to David Brooks—joined a the Haitian state, the Catholic Church, The richness of her account is a tes- long tradition of blaming Vodou for the and occupying U.S. forces. Beyond tament to indefatigable research, country’s woes. The Spirits and the Law such offensives, Ramsey argues that in and she develops fresh insights examines that vexed history, asking prohibiting practices considered essen- into the related literature as well. why, from 1835 to 1987, Haiti banned tial for maintaining relations with the This fascinating book adds much to many popular ritual practices. spirits, anti-Vodou laws reinforced the our knowledge of modern Haiti as To find out, Kate Ramsey begins political marginalization, social stigma- with the Haitian Revolution and its tization, and economic exploitation of well as religion and cultural politics aftermath. Fearful of an independent the Haitian majority. At the same time, in Latin America and the Caribbean black nation inspiring similar revolts, she examines the ways communities in general.” the United States, France, and the rest across Haiti evaded, subverted, redi- —Lauren Derby, of Europe ostracized Haiti. Successive rected, and shaped enforcement of the University of California, Los Angeles Haitian governments, seeking to refute laws. Analyzing the long genealogy of the image of Haiti as primitive as well anti-Vodou rhetoric, Ramsey thorough- January 424 p., 18 halftones, 2 maps as to contain popular organization and ly dissects claims that the religion has 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70379-4 leadership, outlawed “spells” and, later, impeded Haiti’s development. Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 “superstitious practices.” While not of- ANTHROPOLOGY HISTORY

Kate Ramsey teaches in the Department of History at the University of Miami.

A Heart for the Work “Drawing on an impressive amount of original, empirical research and Journeys through an African Medical School written in an engaging style, A Claire L. Wendland Heart for the Work is an extremely interesting look at medical training Burnout is common among doctors in devastation and possibility. in Malawi. Wendland argues that the West, so one might assume that a Wendland, a physician anthropol- medical career in Malawi, one of the ogist, conducted extensive interviews trainee doctors, facing an enor- poorest countries in the world, would and worked in wards, clinics, and op- mous gap between the ideals of place far greater strain on the ideal- erating theaters alongside the student their training and the conditions of ism that drives many doctors. But, as doctors whose stories she relates. From medical practice, forge their own A Heart for the Work makes clear, Ma- the relative calm of Malawi’s College set of practical ethics and their own lawian medical students learn to con- of Medicine to the turbulence of train- professional culture.” front poverty creatively, experiencing ing at hospitals with gravely ill patients fatigue and frustration but also joy and and dramatically inadequate supplies, —Megan Vaughan, University of Cambridge commitment on their way to becoming staff, and technology, Wendland’s physicians. The first ethnography of work reveals the way these young doc- September 352 p., 8 tables 6 x 9 medical training in the global South, tors engage the contradictions of their ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89325-9 Claire L. Wendland’s book is a moving circumstances, shedding new light on Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 and perceptive look at medicine in a debates about the effects of medical ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89327-3 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 world where the transnational move- training, the impact of traditional heal- ment of people and ideas creates both ing, and the purposes of medicine. ANTHROPOLOGY

Claire L. Wendland is assistant professor in the departments of Anthropology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Malawi College of Medicine. special interest 69 “Kubik’s scholarship is deep and Theory of African Music vast, and this collection of his Gerhard Kubik writing has no parallel. He stands alone among Africanists for many Taken together, these comprehensive the continent; and explores movement reasons, which are amply demon- volumes offer an authoritative account and sound in eastern Angola. In the strated in these volumes.” of the music of Africa. One of the most second volume, he turns to the cogni- —Eric Charry, prominent experts on the subject, Ger- tive study of African rhythm, Yoruba Wesleyan University hard Kubik draws on his extensive trav- chantefables, the musical Kachamba els and three decades of study in many family of Malawi, and African concep- Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology parts of the continent to compare and tions of space and time. contrast a wealth of musical traditions Each volume features an extensive Volume 1 from a range of cultures. selection of photographs and is accom- August 464 p., 64 halftones, In the first volume, Kubik describes panied by a compact disc of Kubik’s 113 musical examples, 9 maps, and examines xylophone playing in own recordings. Erudite and exhaus- 32 line drawings, 14 figures, 13 tables, 1 compact disc 81/4 x 55/16 southern Uganda and harp music from tive, Theory of African Music will be an ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45690-4 the Central African Republic; com- invaluable reference for years to come. Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 pares multi-part singing from across ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45691-1 Paper $30.00x/£19.50 Gerhard Kubik is professor of ethnology and African studies at the universities of Vienna MUSIC and Klagenfurt, Austria, and the author of many books, including Africa and the Blues. Volume 2 August 408 p., 75 halftones, 48 musical examples, 35 line drawings, 6 tables, 1 compact disc 81/4 x 55/16 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45693-5 Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45694-2 Paper $30.00x/£19.50 MUSIC

The Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music Martin Stokes

At the heart of The Republic of Love are Stokes examines Turkey’s repressive the voices of three musicians—queer politics and civil violence as well as nightclub star Zeki Müren, arabesk its uncommonly vibrant public life, in originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop which music, art, literature, sports, and diva Sezen Aksu—who collectively have journalism have flourished. However, dominated mass media in Turkey since Stokes’s primary concern is how the the early 1950s. Their fame and ubiq- music and careers of Müren, Gencebay, uity have made them national icons— and Aksu can be understood in light of but, Martin Stokes here contends, they theories of cultural intimacy. In partic- do not represent the official version of ular, he considers their contributions to Turkish identity propagated by anthems the development of a Turkish concept Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology or flags; instead, they evoke a much of love, analyzing the ways these singers October 280 p., 7 halftones, 1 map, more intimate and ambivalent concep- explore the private matters of intimacy, 20 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 tion of Turkishness. affection, and sentiment on the public ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77505-0 Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 Using these three singers as a lens, stage. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77506-7 Paper $29.00s/£18.50 Martin Stokes is University Lecturer in ethnomusicology at the University of Oxford and a MUSIC fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey.

70 special interest Erotic Triangles “This is a highly original and illuminating study of Sundanese Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java performing arts and gender ideol- Henry Spiller ogy. Theoretically challenging and historically rich, Erotic Triangles In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a enon, arguing that Sundanese men use woman’s voice and a drumbeat to make dance to explore and enact contradic- frames men’s improvisational a man get up and dance. Every day, men tions in their gender identities. dance as the playful working out there—be they students, pedicab driv- Framing the three crucial ele- of gendered identity relations.” ers, civil servants, or businessmen— ments of Sundanese dance—the fe- —Andrew N. Weintraub, breach ordinary standards of decorum male entertainer, the drumming, and University of Pittsburgh and succumb to the rhythm at village men’s sense of freedom—as a triangle, ceremonies, weddings, political rallies, Spiller connects them to a range of oth- Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology and nightclubs. The music the men er theoretical perspectives, drawing on dance to varies from traditional gong August 288 p., 8 halftones, thinkers from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 9 musical examples, 14 line drawings, ensembles to the contemporary pop Lévi-Strauss, and Freud to Euclid. By 13 tables 6 x 9 known as dangdut, but they consistently granting men permission to literally ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76958-5 dance with great enthusiasm. In Erotic Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 perform their masculinity, Spiller ul- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76959-2 Triangles, Henry Spiller draws on de- timately concludes, dance provides a Paper $27.50s/£18.00 cades of ethnographic research to ex- crucial space for both reinforcing and ETHNOMUSICOLOGY plore the reasons behind this phenom- resisting orthodox gender ideologies.

Henry Spiller is assistant professor of music at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia.

Stambeli Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia Richard C. Jankowsky

In Stambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky pres- Stambeli, Jankowsky avers, is thoroughly ents a vivid ethnographic account of the marked by a sense of otherness—the healing trance music created by the de- healing spirits, the founding musicians, scendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought and the instruments mostly come from to Tunisia during the eighteenth and outside Tunisia—which creates a unique nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music space for profoundly meaningful inter- calls upon an elaborate pantheon of actions between sub-Saharan and North sub-Saharan spirits and North African African people, beliefs, histories, and Muslim saints to heal humans through aesthetics. ritualized trance. Based on nearly two Part ethnography, part history of Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology years of participation in the musical, the complex relationship between Tu- ritual, and social worlds of stambeli mu- nisia’s Arab and sub-Saharan popula- November 264 p., 7 halftones, sicians, Jankowsky’s study explores the tions, Stambeli is compulsively readable 12 line drawings, 1 map, 7 tables, 1 compact disc 6 x 9 way the music evokes the cross-cultural, and will be welcomed by scholars and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39217-2 migratory past of its originators and students of ethnomusicology, anthro- Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 their encounters with the Arab-Islamic pology, African studies, and religion. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39219-6 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 world in which they found themselves. ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Richard C. Jankowsky is assistant professor of music at Tufts University. AFRICAN STUDIES

special interest 71 Contributors Music in German Philosophy H. James Birx, Christel Fricke, An Introduction Oliver Fürbeth, Günther Edited by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and Oliver Fürbeth Pöltner, Herbert Schnädelbach, With an Introduction by Michael Spitzer and a Foreword by H. James Birx Gunter Scholtz, Stefan Lorenz Translated by Susan H. Gillespie Sorgner, Michael Spitzer, Though many well-known German most prominent German thinkers, all of Beate Regina Suchla, Lucia philosophers have devoted consider- whom are specialists in the writers they Sziborsky, Francesca Vidal, able attention to music and its aesthet- treat. Each chapter consists of a short Berbeli Wanning, and ics, surprisingly few of their writings biographical sketch of the philosopher Günter Zöller on the subject have been translated concerned, a summary of his writings into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a on aesthetics, and finally a detailed ex-

December 304 p. 6 x 9 philosopher, and Oliver Fürbeth, a mu- ploration of his thoughts on music. The ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76837-3 sicologist, here fill this important gap book is prefaced by the editors’ original Cloth $95.00x/£61.50 for musical scholars and students alike introduction, presenting music philoso- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76838-0 Paper $35.00s/£22.50 with this compelling guide to the musi- phy in Germany before and after Kant, cal discourse of ten of the most impor- as well as a new introduction and fore- PHILOSOPHY MUSIC tant German philosophers, from Kant word to this English-language edition, to Adorno. which places contemplations on music Music in German Philosophy includes by these German philosophers within a contributions from a renowned group of broader intellectual climate. ten scholars, including some of today’s

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner teaches philosophy at the University of Erfurt. Oliver Fürbeth is a lecturer in musicology and music theory at the Music Academy Kassel. Susan H. Gillespie is founding director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College and the translator of several previous books.

Attila Drama lirico in a Prologue and Three Acts by Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave Giuseppe Verdi Edited by Helen Greenwald

Verdi’s Attila, his ninth opera, had its one of Verdi’s most popular and oft- premiere at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice staged early works. The composer’s in- in March 1846. Based on the German imitable vitality, soaring arcs of melody, play Attila, King of the Huns, the libretto grand choruses, and passion are here has its own storied history: as Verdi fell amply apparent. This critical edition, seriously ill before the work’s comple- based on Verdi’s autograph full score tion, the main librettist moved perma- preserved at the British Library, restores nently to Madrid, leaving the last act the opera’s original text and accurately The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, of Attila only a sketch. It was then that reflects the composer’s colorful and Series I: Operas Verdi called upon Francesco Maria Pia- elaborate musical setting, while Helen ve, the librettist for two of his earlier Greenwald’s masterly introduction dis- February 2 volumes, 640 p., works, who at the composer’s behest cusses the opera’s origins, sources, and 6 halftones, 30 musical examples, 3 tables 101/2 x 141/2 scratched plans for a large choral finale performance questions, and her critical ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85332-1 and decided instead to concentrate on commentary details editorial problems Cloth $295.00x/£190.00 the dramatic roles of the protagonists. and their solutions. MUSIC In the years since Attila has become iwg Helen Greenwald is professor of musicology at the New England Conservatory.

72 special interest The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia Edited by Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose

Recent studies show that almost all in- group of experts to explore such topics dustrial countries have experienced as comparative demographic change, National Bureau of Economic dramatic decreases in both fertility and population aging, the rising cost of Research East Asia Seminar on mortality rates. This situation has led to health care, and specific policy con- Economics aging societies with economies that suf- cerns in individual countries. The vol- November 408 p., 66 figures, fer from both a decline in the working ume provides an overview of economic 82 tables 6 x 9 population and a rise in fiscal deficits growth in East Asia as well as more spe- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38685-0 linked to increased government spend- cific studies on Japan, Korea, China, Cloth $105.00x/£68.00 ing. East Asia exemplifies these trends, and Hong Kong. Offering important in- ECONOMICS and this volume offers an in-depth look sights into the causes and consequences at how long-term demographic transi- of this transition, this book will benefit tions have taken shape there and how students, researchers, and policy mak- they have affected the economy in the ers focused on East Asia, as well as any- region. one concerned with similar trends else- The Economic Consequences of Demo- where in the world. graphic Change in East Asia assembles a

Takatoshi Ito is professor in the graduate schools of public policy and of economics at the University of Tokyo and a research associate of the NBER. Andrew K. Rose is the B. T. Rocca Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and a research associate of the NBER.

Targeting Investments in Children Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited Edited by Phillip B. Levine and David J. Zimmerman

A substantial number of American chil- their impact as tools for poverty allevia- dren experience poverty: about seven- tion. National Bureau of Economic teen percent of those under the age of Targeting Investments in Children Research Conference Report eighteen meet the government’s defini- tackles the problem of evaluating these tion, and the proportion is even greater programs by examining them using a October 464 p., 19 line drawings, within minority groups. Childhood pov- common metric: their impact on earn- 38 tables 6 x 9 erty can have lifelong effects, resulting ings in adulthood. The volume’s con- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47581-3 Cloth $99.00x/£64.00 in poor educational, labor market, and tributors explore a variety of issues, ECONOMICS physical and mental health outcomes such as choosing which stage of chil- for adults. These problems have long dren’s development to target, and study been recognized, and there are numer- a range of programs, including child ous programs designed to alleviate or care, after-school care, and drug pre- even eliminate poverty; as these pro- vention. The results will be invaluable grams compete for scarce resources, it to educational leaders and researchers is important to develop a clear view of as well as policy makers.

Phillip B. Levine is the Class of 1919 Professor in and chair of the Department of Economics at Wellesley College and a research associate of the NBER. David J. Zimmerman is professor of economics and the Orrin Sage Professor of Political Economy at Williams College and a research associate of the NBER.

special interest 73 Demography and the Economy Edited by John B. Shoven

Demographic studies help make sense connections between demography and of key aspects of the economy, offering economics and analyzes a variety of is- insight into trends in fertility, mortality, sues, including the impact of greater National Bureau of Economic immigration, and labor force participa- wealth on choices about marriage and Research Conference Report tion, as well as age, gender, and race- childbearing and the effects of aging specific trends in health and disability. populations on housing prices, Social January 512 p., 140 line drawings, 61 tables 6 x 9 Demography and the Economy explores the Security, and Medicare. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75472-7 Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 John B. Shoven is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University, the ECONOMICS Wallace R. Hawley Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a research associate of the NBER.

Labor in the New Economy Edited by Katharine G. Abraham, James R. Spletzer, and Michael Harper

This book examines a variety of impor- treatment of outliers, imputation meth- tant trends related to labor in the new ods, and weighting in the context of National Bureau of Economic economy, including inequality of earn- specific surveys to the evaluation of the Research Studies in Income and ings and other forms of compensation, strengths and weaknesses of data from Wealth job security, employer reliance on tem- different sources. This volume provides November 568 p., 174 line drawings, porary and contract workers, hours of important insight into the recent past 54 tables 6 x 9 work, and workplace safety and health. and it will be a useful tool for research- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00143-2 Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 Labor in the New Economy also addresses ers in the future. ECONOMICS a host of measurement issues: from the Katharine G. Abraham is a professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, adjunct professor of economics, and faculty associate of the Maryland Population Research Center at the University of Maryland, and a research associate of the NBER. James R. Spletzer is a senior research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Michael Harper is associ- ate commissioner for productivity and technology at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America Edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Crime rates in Latin America are among Contributors address a variety of topics, National Bureau of Economic the highest in the world, yet there has including the impact of kidnappings on Research Conference Report been little systematic effort to study investment, mandatory arrest laws, edu- crime in the region and the effective- cation in prisons, and the relationship September 488 p., 95 figures, 107 tables 6 x 9 ness of policies designed to tackle it. between poverty and crime. The book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-15374-2 This book contributes to the current also presents research from outside Lat- Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 debate on causes and solutions by ap- in America, illustrating the broad range ECONOMICS plying lessons learned from recent de- of approaches that have been fruitful in velopments in the economics of crime. studying crime in developed nations.

Rafael Di Tella is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a research associate of the NBER. Sebastian Edwards is the Henry Ford II Professor of International Economics at the Anderson Graduate School of Manage- ment, University of California, Los Angeles, and a research associate of the NBER. Ernesto Schargrodsky is a professor in and dean of the business school at Universidad 74 special interest Torcuato Di Tella. Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 24 edited by Jeffrey R. Brown

Tax Policy and the Economy publishes of economic stimulus to a targeted anal- current academic research findings on ysis of the Low Income Housing Tax taxation and government spending that Credit. Also included are two papers have both immediate bearing on policy that examine different aspects of poli- October 200 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07673-7 debates and longer-term interest. The cies designed to provide fiscal stimulus, Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 papers in this volume range from topics as well as an examination of the effects ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07674-4 as broad as the relative efficacy of tax of recent reforms in the Earned Income Paper $20.00x/£13.00 cuts versus spending increases as a form Tax Credit. ECONOMICS

Jeffrey R. Brown is the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a research associate of the NBER.

Crime and Justice, Volume 39 edited by Michael Tonry

Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series of racial disparity in imprisonment, rape Crime and Justice: A Review of has presented a review of the latest in- and attrition in the legal process, and sex Research ternational research, providing exper- offender recidivism. Contributors to this December 400 p. 6 x 91/4 tise to enhance the work of sociologists, volume include Brigitte Bouhours, Jona- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80881-9 psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice than P. Caulkins, Aaron Chalfin, Philip Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 scholars, and political scientists. The se- J. Cook, Kathleen Daly, Denise C. Got- CRIMINOLOGY ries explores a full range of issues con- tfredson, David S. Kirk, John H. Laub, cerning crime, its causes, and its cure. Stephen D. Mastrofski, Chongmin Na, Volume 39 covers a range of criminal Steven Raphael, Michael D. Reisig, Peter justice issues, including how drug en- Reuter, Dirk van Zyl Smit, Keith Soothill, forcement affects drug prices, the source Michael Tonry, and James J. Willis.

Michael Tonry is director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy and the Sonofsky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He is also a senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

special interest 75 Joshua Blu Buhs Bigfoot The Life and Times of a Legend

ith Bigfoot, Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and wooly story of America’s favorite homegrown monster. He begins with W nineteenth-century accounts of wildmen roaming the for- ests of America, treks to the Himalayas to reckon with the Abominable Snowman, then takes us to northern California in 1958, when reports of a hairy hominid loping through remote woodlands marked Big- foot’s emergence as a modern marvel. Throughout, Buhs delves deeply into the trove of lore that has sprung up around Bigfoot in the ensu- ing half century. We meet charlatans, pseudo-scientists, and dedicated “Buhs traces the journey between these hunters of the beast—and with Buhs as our guide, the focus is always perceptions of elusive wild men and dis- less on evaluating their claims than on understanding why Bigfoot has covers a story of twentieth-century shifts inspired all this drama and devotion in the first place. Writing with a in American culture and class. Bigfoot scientist’s skepticism but an enthusiast’s deep engagement, Buhs invests was both a product of the postwar ascen- the story of Bigfoot with the detail and power of a novel, offering the dance of mass culture and a reaction to it, definitive take on this elusive beast. capturing the imagination of those who “Devotees of Sasquatchiana won’t be disappointed.”—New York longed to ‘touch the really real behind Times Book Review the false front of consumer goods and “Buhs is at his amused best when following the exploits of Bigfoot’s scientific arrogance.’” human handlers—the colorful band of true believers, hoaxers and —New Yorker pseudo-documentarists who constructed this greatest of all shaggy- hominid stories.”—Publishers Weekly September 296 p., 35 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07980-6 “The value of Buhs’s book is in its synthesizing of the many historical Paper $18.00/£11.50 Bigfoot/Sasquatch stories into one readable narrative . . . summing-up SCIENCE HISTORY Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-07979-0 of the state of Bigfoot research and belief today.”—Globe and Mail “Proceeding era by era and place by place, Buhs evaluates the sto- ries of encounters with the giant creatures, deconstructs hoaxes, and evaluates genuine studies in service of tracking down the truth.” —Booklist

Joshua Blu Buhs is an independent scholar and the author of The Fire Ant Wars, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

76 paperbacks Jonathan Silvertown An Orchard Invisible A Natural History of Seeds

he story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. With An Orchard Invisible, Jonathan Silvertown presents the oft-ignored T seed with the natural history it deserves, one nearly as varied and surprising as the earth’s flora itself. In a clear and engaging style, he delves into the science of seeds: How and why do some lie dormant for years on end? How did seeds evolve? The wide variety of uses that humans have developed for seeds of all sorts also receives a fascinat- ing look, studded with examples, including foods, oils, perfumes, and “A fabulous book. . . . Silvertown’s skills pharmaceuticals. An able guide with an eye for the unusual, Silver- are in telling stories. Expect wonders, town is happy to take readers on unexpected—but always interesting— too. . . . In this book, Silvertown has pro- tangents, from Lyme disease to human color vision to the Salem witch duced a gem. . . . Read it as a gardener, trials. But he never lets us forget that the driving force behind the story scientist, food aficionado, historian, of seeds—its theme, even—is evolution, with its irrepressible habit of botanist, or naturalist, and you’ll not be stumbling upon new solutions to the challenges of life. disappointed.” “Anyone who has ever marveled at the idea of a tree explod- —Times Higher Education ing from something as tiny as a seed will exalt in the beauty of this book.”—San Francisco Chronicle september 224 p., 21 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75774-2 “I loved this little book. . . . An Orchard Invisible practically spills Paper $17.00/£11.00 over with interesting insights.”—Boston Globe SCIENCE Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75773-5 “A subtle but engaging narrative of the evolutionary struggles of seeds. . . . Each of the first twelve chapters of this book tells a remark- able story, accompanied by well-chosen literary excerpts.”—Times Literary Supplement “Silvertown is a witty botanist with a flair for seeds. . . . All bota- nists will enjoy this tribute to seeds.”—Choice “Seeds may look small and boring, yet tricks, bribes and devious deceptions lie at the heart of their evolution, as ecologist Jonathan Silvertown entertainingly recounts in this fascinating celebration of the green world upon which all human life depends.”—New Scientist

Jonathan Silvertown is professor of ecology at the Open University, Milton Keynes, and is the author of Demons in Eden and editor of Fragile Web.

paperbacks 77 Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner Uncommon Sense Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism

n December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as ONobel Prize–winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the Becker-Posner Blog. In no time, the blog had established a wide readership and repu- tation as a reliable source of lively, thought-provoking commentary on current events, its pithy and profound weekly essays highlighting

“An excellent book. . . . For anyone who the value of economic reasoning when applied to unexpected topics. wants a quick and easy crash course Uncommon Sense gathers the most important and innovative entries on Chicago economics–style thinking, from the blog, arranged by topic, along with updates and even recon- this book is as good as it gets. . . . I read siderations when subsequent events have shed new light on a question. nearly the whole book in one sitting.” Whether it’s Posner making the economic case for the legalization of —New York Times’s gay marriage, Becker arguing in favor of the sale of human organs for Freakonomics blog transplant, or even the pair of scholars vigorously disagreeing about the utility of collective punishment, the writing is always clear, the “The best way of getting into the econom- interplay energetic, and the resulting discussion deeply informed and ics of what is known as the ‘Chicago intellectually substantial. School’ without paying tuition.” —Chicago Tribune To have a single thinker of the stature of a Becker or Posner ad- dressing questions of this nature would make for fascinating reading; to have both, writing and responding to each other, is an exceptionally November 384 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04102-5 rare treat. With Uncommon Sense, they invite the adventurous reader to Paper $17.00/£11.00 join them on a whirlwind intellectual journey. All they ask is that you CURRENT EVENTS ECONOMICS Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04101-8 leave your preconceptions behind.

Gary S. Becker is University Professor at the University of Chicago and the author of many books, including Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empiri- cal Analysis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. Richard A. Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School, and the author of numerous books, including How Judges Think.

78 paperbacks Three Parker Novels by Richard Stark

With a new Foreword by Charles Ardai Deadly Edge Slayground Plunder Squad

y the time Richard Stark sat down to write Deadly Edge in 1971, he’d been chronicling the adventures of his antihero, Parker, for nearly a decade. But it turns out he was just warming up: B “The Parkers read with the speed of pulp the next three Parker novels would see Stark crank everything up a while unfolding with an almost Nabok- notch—tightening the writing, heightening the violence, and, most of ovian wit and flair.” all, hardening the deadly heister at the books’ heart. —Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times Deadly Edge kicks things off by bidding a brutal adieu to the 1960s: Parker robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds “Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who himself—and his woman, Claire—menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug- always gets away with the swag.” crazed hippies. Slayground turns the hunter into prey, as Parker gets —Stephen King, trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local Entertainment Weekly mobsters. He’s low on bullets—but, as anyone who’s crossed his path knows, that definitely doesn’t mean he’s defenseless. Finally, inPlunder “Whatever Stark writes, I read.” Squad, job after job disintegrates into failure and violence, and a rare act —Elmore Leonard of mercy from earlier in the series comes back to bite Parker—hard. These books by Stark reveal a master craftsman working at the Deadly Edge height of his powers, and they deserve a place on the bookshelf of september 230 p. 51/4 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77091-8 every fan of crime fiction. Paper $14.00 MYSTERY “Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir cobe novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world Slayground he makes things simple.”—William Grimes, New York Times september 200 p. 51/4 x 8 “Richard Stark’s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77092-5 Paper $14.00 polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.”—John Banville, mystery Bookforum cobe Plunder Squad Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake September 198 p. 51/4 x 8 (1933–2008), a prolific author of noir crime fiction. In 1993, the Mystery Writ- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77093-2 ers of America bestowed the society’s highest honor on Westlake, naming him Paper $14.00 a Grand Master. mystery cobe

paperbacks 79 David Garfinkle and Richard Garfinkle Three Steps to the Universe From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter

f scientists can’t touch the Sun, how do they know what it’s made of? And if we can’t see black holes, how can we be confident they I exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, sci- ence fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle these questions and more in Three Steps to the Universe, a tour through some of the most com- plex phenomena in the cosmos and an accessible exploration of how “Aside from revealing the science behind scientists acquire knowledge about the universe through observation, the sun, black holes and dark matter, indirect detection, and theory. the Garfinkles demonstrate how science From the Sun and black holes, the authors lead us further into the develops, encouraging readers always to unknown, to the dark matter and energy that pervade our universe, ask, ‘How do they know that?’ as a way of where science teeters on the edge of theory and discovery. Returning understanding science. . . . The Garfinkles from the depths of space, the final section of the book brings readers aren’t afraid to get technical, but this back down to Earth for a final look at the practice of science, ending smart, rewarding read is helped by a with a practical guide to discerning real science from pseudoscience welcome voice, a feel for narrative, and a among the cacophony of print and online scientific sources.Three Steps useful glossary.” to the Universe will reward anyone interested in learning more about the —Publishers Weekly universe around us and shows how scientists uncover its mysteries. “This book is not only an excellent introduction to the Sun, black September 280 p., 13 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28348-7 holes, and dark matter, but also a very good book about the scientific Paper $16.00/£10.50 process.”—Choice SCIENCE Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28346-3 “A fluid, crystalline presentation of how scientists think. . . . The Garfinkles systematically instill how confident lay readers can be in what they read in the popular-science format.”—Booklist

David Garfinkleis professor in the Department of Physics at Oakland Univer- sity. Richard Garfinkle is the author of two books of science fiction,Celestial Matters and All of an Instant.

80 paperbacks Steven Shapin The Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

ho are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their W considerable authority? The Scientific Life is historian Steven Shapin’s story about who scientists are, who we think they are, and why our sensibilities about such things matter. From the early twentieth- century origins of corporate research laboratories to the high-flying scientific entrepreneurship of the present, Shapin argues that the radi- cal uncertainties of much contemporary science have made personal virtues more central to its practice than ever before, and he also reveals “Shapin has produced a work of exception- how radically novel aspects of late modern science have unexpectedly al originality, power, and significance. He deep historical roots. His elegantly conceived history of the scientific has also given readers much to chew over career and character ultimately encourages us to reconsider the very in regard to contemporary developments nature of the technical and moral worlds in which we now live. and perennial issues. . . . Shapin tells this “Remarkably rich in detail and revelation. . . . Shapin may not be story exceedingly well, framing its episodes doing a conventional history of the ‘scientific life,’ but what he has richly and developing them through vivid done is both novel and provocative.”—New York Review of Books depictions of representative figures, texts, “[A] thought-provoking challenge to the assumptions of scientific incidents, and anecdotes.” objectivity by science’s practitioners and an acknowledgment of just —London Review of Books how important the morality of scientists may be in the advancement and authority of knowledge.”—Library Journal september 486 p., 16 halftones, 2 line drawings 6 x 9 “The Scientific Life provokes us to discard worn-out understandings ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75025-5 Paper $20.00/£13.00 that science outside universities is necessarily aberrant. . . . The book SCIENCE succeeds masterfully.”—Science Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75024-8 “A stunning antidote to the naive portraits of how science is or should be done.”—Choice “Required reading for all scientists and those studying the social activity of science.”—Nature

Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of A Social History of Truth and The Scientific Revolution, and, with Simon Schaffer, coauthor of Leviathan and the Air-Pump. He has also written for the New Yorker and is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books.

paperbacks 81 David Garrard Lowe Lost Chicago With a new Preface

he City of Big Shoulders has always been our most quintes- sentially American—and world-class—architectural metropo- Tlis. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1871, a great building boom—still the largest in the history of the nation—introduced the first modern skyscrapers to the Chicago skyline and began what would become a legacy of diverse, influential, and iconoclastic contributions to the city’s built environment. Though this trend continued well into the twentieth century, sour city finances and unnecessary acts of de- “An elaborate and handsome volume that molition left many previous cultural attractions abandoned and then is as much an ode to the city as it is a destroyed. work about landmarks and their role in Lost Chicago explores the architectural and cultural history of this the urban fabric.” great American city, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly —New York Times squandered during the second half of the twentieth century. David Garrard Lowe’s crisp, lively prose and over 270 rare photographs and October 272 p., 271 halftones, 5 maps 81/2 x 11 prints, many of them published here for the first time, illuminate the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49432-6 decades when Gustavus Swift and Philip D. Armour ruled the greatest Paper $35.00/£22.50 ARCHITECTURE AMERICAN HISTORY stockyards in the world; when industrialists and entrepreneurs such as Most recently published by Watson-Guptill Cyrus McCormick, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, and Marshall Field ISBN: 978-0-8230-2871-9 made Prairie Avenue and State Street the rivals of New York City’s Fifth Avenue; and when Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and Frank Lloyd Wright were designing buildings of incomparable excellence. Here are the mansions and grand hotels, the office buildings that achieved tech- nical perfection (including the first skyscraper), and the stores, trains, movie palaces, parks, and racetracks that thrilled residents and tourists alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of progress. “Lost Chicago is more than just another coffee table gift, more than merely a history of the city’s architecture; it is a history of the whole city as a cultural creation.”—New York Times Book Review

David Garrard Lowe is a lecturer, cultural historian, and the president of the Beaux Arts Alliance in New York City. He is the author of Stanford White’s New York, Beaux Arts New York, Art Deco New York, and Chicago Interiors.

82 paperbacks Buddhism and Science “In Buddhism and Science, Donald Lopez fills a major gap, and he does A Guide for the Perplexed so with his trademark rigor, conci- Donald S. Lopez Jr. sion, and élan. No serious student of science-and-religion can afford Beginning in the nineteenth century modern world that began in the nine- and continuing to the present day, teenth century and that still flare today. to skip this book.” both practitioners and admirers of As new discoveries continue to reshape —Jack Miles, general editor, Norton Buddhism have proclaimed its compat- our understanding of mind and matter, Anthology of World Religions ibility with science. In Buddhism and Sci- Buddhism and Science will be indispens- ence, Donald S. Lopez Jr. explores how able reading for those fascinated by Buddhism and Modernity and why these two seemingly disparate religion, science, and their often vexed modes of understanding the inner and relation. September 278 p. 6 x 9 outer universe have been so persistently “A tour de force. This extremely ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49319-0 Paper $18.00/£11.50 linked. He argues that by presenting an original and well-written book . . . pro- ancient Asian tradition as compatible vides all the background needed for RELIGION with—and even anticipating—scien- those unfamiliar with Buddhism to Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49312-1 tific discoveries, European enthusiasts understand the tradition and the per- and Asian elites have sidestepped de- plexing scientific claims made for it.” bates on the relevance of religion in the —Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University

Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He is the author, editor, or translator of a number of books, including The Madman’s Middle Way, Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism, Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, and In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, a Bilingual Edition, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Sacred Attunement “A profoundly honest quest for A Jewish Theology authentic theological expression. Michael Fishbane . . . I was deeply engaged in what is a nuanced, personal, and very adult Sacred Attunement is Michael Fishbane’s as theological topics in their own right. guide to the experience of faith.” attempt to renew Jewish theology for Sacred Attunement is a work of uncom- —Forward our time, in the larger context of mod- mon personal integrity and original- 1 1 ern and postmodern challenges to the- ity from one of the most distinguished october 246 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25172-1 ology and theological thought in the scholars of Judaica in our time. Paper $22.50s/£14.50 broadest sense. Fishbane regrounds “A passionately poetic devotion to RELIGION theology in this setting and opens up the ideal of religious living, one that is Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-25171-4 new pathways through nature, art, and serious without being preachy. When the theological dimension as a whole. Fishbane tells us that the reality of After introducing his hermeneutical God erupted into Jewish consciousness theology, Fishbane focuses on modes at Sinai, and that we have been trying of self-cultivation for awakening and to make sense of and respond to that sustaining a covenant theology. Finally, event ever since, it is clear that he has he takes up questions of scripture, au- been doing this in his own life for a very thority, belief, despair, and obligation long time.”—Tikkun

Michael Fishbane is the Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School and a member of the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking.

paperbacks 83 “The book is half fascinating Out of the Pits cultural portrait and half in-depth Traders and Technology from Chicago to London academic text. . . . What emerges Caitlin Zaloom from the mix is a nuanced, bottom-

up picture of Chicago’s economic In Out of the Pits, Caitlin Zaloom shows how brokers, business managers, and importance in the world market, how traders, brokers, and global fi- software designers are collaborating to and how our city’s working-class nancial markets have adapted to the build new markets. A penetrating and swagger has shaped derivatives digital age. Drawing on her firsthand richly detailed account of how cities, trading from the inception of the experiences as a clerk and a trader, as culture, and technology shape everyday well as her unusual access to key sites life in the global economy, Out of the market.” of global finance, she explains how Pits will be required reading for anyone —Time Out Chicago changes at the world’s leading financial who has ever wondered how financial exchanges have transformed economic markets work. october 238 p., 17 halftones 6 x 9 cultures and the craft of speculation; ISBN-13: 978-0-226-97814-7 “Zaloom’s superb book is a dou- Paper $19.00s/£12.50 how people and places are responding ble-site ethnography [that shows how] BUSINESS to the digital transition; how traders the appearance of chaos hid a complex Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-97813-0 are remaking themselves to compete social order, which Zaloom delineates in the contemporary marketplace; and beautifully.”—London Review of Books

Caitlin Zaloom is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her research on traders and technol- ogy has been featured in the New York Times and on the BBC.

“Blueprint for Disaster adds a new Blueprint for Disaster dimension to the [public housing] The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing debate. . . . Hunt locates the prob- D. Bradford Hunt lems less with a poisonous mixture of political and real estate inter- Blueprint for Disaster traces public hous- maintenance contracts—also paved the ests, governmental neglect and ing’s history in Chicago from its New road to failure. Moreover, administra- racism than the fact that there was Deal roots through current mayor tors who fully understood the potential no realistic financial plan for public Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transfor- drawbacks did not try to halt such deep- housing and that residents were mation. In the process, D. Bradford ly flawed projects as Cabrini-Green and not engaged in the process.” Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing the Robert Taylor Homes. The result- Authority’s own transformation from ing combination of fiscal crisis, mana- —Chicago Tribune the city’s most progressive government gerial incompetence, and social unrest agency to its largest slumlord. plunged the CHA into a quagmire from Historical Studies of Urban Challenging explanations that at- which it is still struggling to emerge. America tribute the projects’ decline primar- Blueprint for Disaster, then, is an urgent October 392 p., 28 halftones, ily to racial discrimination and real reminder of the havoc poorly conceived 4 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 estate interests, Hunt argues that well- policy can wreak on our most vulner- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36086-7 able citizens. Paper $22.50s/£14.50 intentioned but misguided policy deci- sions—ranging from design choices to AMERICAN HISTORY Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36085-0 D. Bradford Hunt is associate dean and associate professor of social science at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

84 paperbacks The Fate of the Forest “Hecht’s and Cockburn’s historical perspective is illuminating. . . . Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon They are to be congratulated.” Updated Edition —Nature Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn “This is a powerful book, elegantly The Amazon rain forest covers more the panorama of destruction as it un- written and well informed.” than five million square kilometers, folded and also reveal the extraordi- amid the territories of nine different nary turnaround that is now taking —Times Literary Supplement nations. It represents over half of the place, thanks to both social movements planet’s remaining rain forests. But and the emergence of new environ- november 392 p., 6 maps, 1 table 51/2 x 81/2 is it truly in peril? And what steps are mental markets. Exploring the role ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32272-8 necessary to save it? To understand the of human hands in destroying—and Paper $22.50s/£14.50 future of Amazonia, one must know saving—this vast, forested region, The nature history how its history was forged: in the eras Fate of the Forest pivots on the murder of of large pre-Columbian populations, in Chico Mendes, the legendary labor and the gold rush of conquistadors, in cen- environmental organizer assassinated turies of slavery, in the schemes of Bra- after successful confrontations with big zil’s military dictators in the 1960s and ranchers. A multifaceted portrait of 1970s, and in new globalized economies Eden under siege, complete with a new where Brazilian soy and beef now domi- preface and afterword by the authors, nate, while the market in carbon credits this book demonstrates that those who raises the value of standing forest. would hold a mirror up to nature must Susanna Hecht and Alexander first learn the lessons offered by some Cockburn show in compelling detail of their own people.

Susanna Hecht is professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Institute of the Environ- ment at the University of California, Los Angeles. Alexander Cockburn is coeditor of Coun- terPunch, a regular columnist for the Nation and First Post, and the author of several books, including Political Ecology, Corruptions of Empire, and The Golden Age Is in Us.

Colonialism and Science “That one book can successfully address topics of such importance Saint Domingue and the Old Regime and bring them to rare clarity, James E. McClellan III coupled with an unprecedented use With a new Foreword by Vertus Saint-Louis of archives, means that it is a major How was the character of science by Vertus Saint-Louis, a native of Haiti book and its author needs to be shaped by the colonial experience? In and a widely acknowledged expert on placed in the first tier of his genera- turn, how might we make sense of how colonialism. Frequently cited as the tion’s European historians.” science contributed to colonialism? crucial starting point in understand- —Eighteenth-Century Studies Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the ing the Haitian revolution, Colonialism world’s richest colony in the eighteenth and Science will be welcomed by students October 416 p., 24 figures, 4 maps, century and home to an active society of and scholars alike. 4 tables 6 x 9 science—one of only three in the world “By deftly weaving together imperi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51467-3 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 at that time. In this deeply researched alism and science in the story of French history science and pathbreaking study of the colony, colonialism, [McClellan] . . . brings to James E. McClellan III first raised his light the history of an almost forgotten incisive questions about the relation- colony.”—Journal of Modern History ship between science and society that “McClellan has produced an im- historians of the colonial experience pressive case study offering excellent are still grappling with today. Long surveys of Saint Domingue’s colonial hard to find, the book is now back in history and its history of science.”—Isis print, accompanied by a new foreword

James E. McClellan III is professor of the history of science at Stevens Institute of Technol- ogy. He is the author of Science and Technology in World History, among several other books. paperbacks 85 “Kent Greenfield demonstrates with The Failure of Corporate Law remarkable clarity how a series of essential changes in the premises Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities and obligations of the corporation Kent Greenfield can turn the nature of the beast in The Failure of Corporate Law returns cor- would enable corporations to meet the very positive directions.” porate law to a system in which the pub- progressive goal of creating wealth for —William Greider, lic has a greater say in how firms are society as a whole rather than merely author of The Soul of Capitalism: governed. Kent Greenfield maintains for shareholders and executives. Opening Paths to a Moral Economy that the laws controlling firms should “Greenfield commences with a re- be much more protective of the public consideration of the basic and gener- august 257 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30694-0 interest and of the corporation’s vari- ally accepted purposes and norms of Paper $25.00s/£16.00 ous stakeholders. Only when the law of law. The result is as startling as it is en- LAW corporations is evaluated as a branch lightening. . . . A seminal piece of writ- Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30693-3 of public law—as with constitutional law ing that evidences dominance of a vast or environmental law—will it be clear range of ideas, research, and critical what types of changes can be made in thinking, and puts it into a coherent, corporate governance to improve the well argued, accessible whole.”—Law common good. Greenfield proposes and Politics Book Review changes in corporate governance that

Kent Greenfieldis professor of law at Boston College Law School and served as a law clerk under Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter.

“This book is an important schol- Marriage and Cohabitation arly contribution to understanding Arland Thornton, William G. Axinn, and Yu Xie marriage and family in the United States, with many interesting in- Situating their argument in the context commitment or intentions of eventual sights and interpretations concern- of the Western world’s five-hundred- marriage. The authors’ controversial ing the growing phenomenon of year history of marriage, the authors of findings suggest that family history, premarital cohabitation. . . . Highly this work reveal what factors encourage religious affiliation, values, projected marriage and cohabitation in a contem- education, lifetime earnings, and ca- recommended.” porary society where marriage and the reer aspirations all tip the scales in fa- —Choice relationships between women and men vor of either cohabitation or marriage. have changed dramatically. This book lends new insight into young Population and Development Series While many people still choose to adult relationship patterns and will be marry without first cohabiting, others of interest to sociologists, historians, october 412 p., 16 line drawings, and demographers alike. 29 tables 6 x 9 elect to cohabit with varying degrees of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79867-7 Paper $29.00s/£18.50 Arland Thornton is professor of sociology and a research professor at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Reading History Sideways, SOCIOLOGY also published by the University of Chicago Press. William G. Axinn is professor of sociology Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79866-0 at the University of Michigan and a research professor at the ISR. Yu Xie is the Otis Dudley Duncan Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Michigan and a research professor at the ISR.

86 paperbacks Technics and Civilization “A brilliant historical and critical account of the effect of the artificial Lewis Mumford With a new Foreword by Langdon Winner environment on man and of man on the environment, a necessary Technics and Civilization first presented cal choices we made, not the machines account, one for which we have its compelling history of the machine that we used, that determined our in- waited too long in English.” and critical study of its effects on civi- dustrially driven economy. Equal parts —New York Times lization in 1934—before television, the powerful history and polemic, Technics personal computer, and the Internet and Civilization was the first comprehen- October 522 p. 6 x 9 even appeared on our periphery. sive attempt in English to portray the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55027-5 Drawing upon art, science, philos- development of the machine age over Paper $25.00s/£16.00 ophy, and the history of culture, Lewis the last thousand years—and to predict HISTORY science Mumford explained the origin of the the pull the technological still holds machine age and traced its social re- over us today. sults, asserting that the development of “The questions posed in the first modern technology had its roots in the paragraph of Technics and Civilization Middle Ages rather than the Industrial still deserve our attention, nearly three- Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that quarters of a century after they were it was the moral, economic, and politi- written.”—Technology and Culture

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) was a writer whose scope encompassed literary criticism, architecture, history, urban sociology, and philosophy. The author of over thirty books, he was also the architectural critic for the New Yorker for over thirty years. He was eventually honored with the United States Medal of Freedom and named a Knight of the Order of the British Empire.

Imperial Nature “This biography shows how science in the nineteenth century trans- Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science formed from the activities of inde- Jim Endersby pendently wealthy men to those of professionals paid by govern- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) was links concerns about empire, profes- an internationally renowned botanist, sionalism, and philosophical practices ments. . . . Highly recommended.” a close friend and early supporter of to the forging of a nineteenth-century —Choice Charles Darwin, and one of the first— scientific identity. october 441 p., 50 halftones 6 x 9 and most successful—British men of sci- “A refreshing record of how scien- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20792-6 ence to become a full-time profession- tists worked. . . . The practice of science Paper $25.00s/£16.00 al. He was also, Jim Endersby argues, provides the context necessary for un- SCIENCE the perfect embodiment of Victorian derstanding how theories advanced; Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20791-9 science. A vivid picture of the complex without this background, scientific interrelationships of scientific work and progress looks too simple, and leaps scientific ideas, Imperial Nature grace- seem extraordinary.”—Nature fully uses one individual’s career to il- “Imperial Nature adds significantly lustrate the changing world of science to our understanding of the multifacet- in the Victorian era. By focusing on sci- ed and far from inevitable ascendancy ence’s material practices and one of its of the professional scientist in Victorian foremost practitioners, Endersby ably culture.”—Isis

Jim Endersby is a lecturer in the History Department at the University of Sussex.

paperbacks 87 Politics and the Order of Love An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship Eric Gregory

Augustine—for all of his influence of Love will provoke new conversations on Western culture and politics—was for those interested in Christian ethics, hardly a liberal. Drawing from theolo- moral psychology, and the role of reli- gy, feminist theory, and political philos- gion in public life. ophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal “Gregory has shaped the param- ethics of citizenship, one less suscep- eters of future discussion and offers a tible to anti-liberal critics because it is compelling argument that must be tak- informed by the Augustinian tradition. en seriously.”—Choice The result is a book that expands Au- “Eric Gregory is the most sophisti- gustinian imaginations for liberalism cated and subtle Christian ethical and and liberal imaginations for Augus- political thinker of his generation. He tinianism. From an Augustinian point also is a major voice in contemporary “A joy to read. . . . A return to an of view, Gregory argues, love and sin discourse on love and justice, freedom, Augustine that Augustine himself constrain each other in ways that yield and democracy. His powerful defense a distinctive vision of the limits and pos- would have recognized.” of Augustinian civic liberalism is a tour sibilities of politics. Politics and the Order de force!”—Cornel West —Christian Century Eric Gregory is professor of religion at Princeton University. September 434 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30752-7 Paper $30.00x/£19.50 RELIGION Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30751-0 Gabriel Tarde on Communication and Social Influence Gabriel Tarde Edited by Terry N. Clark With a Foreword by Morris Janowitz

Heritage of Sociology Series Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most social patterns. Unlike the mass soci- outstanding sociologists of nineteenth- ety theorists that followed in his wake, september 332 p. 51/2 x 8 century France, though not as well Tarde integrated his discussions of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78971-2 Paper $30.00x/£19.50 known by English readers as his peers societal change at the macrosocietal sociology Comte and Durkheim. This book makes and individual levels, anticipating later available Tarde’s most important work twentieth-century thinkers who fused and demonstrates his continuing rel- the studies of mass communications evance to a new generation of students and public opinion research. Terry N. and thinkers. Clark’s introduction, considered the Tarde’s landmark research and premier guide to Tarde’s opus, and a empirical analysis drew upon collec- foreword by Morris Janowitz accompa- tive behavior, mass communications, ny this important work, reprinted here and civic opinion as elements to be ex- for the first time in forty years. plained within the context of broader

Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904) was one of the founding fathers of sociology. Terry N. Clark is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and the editor, coeditor, and coauthor of numerous books.

88 paperbacks Unsettling Opera “Intelligent and lucidly written, Unsettling Opera opens up new Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky and exciting vistas for thinking and David J. Levin writing about opera. . . . A book that is sure to become required While a stage production can disrupt Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, and Alexander a work that was thought to be estab- Zemlinsky. Ultimately, the book seeks reading for all those interested in lished, David J. Levin here argues that to initiate a dialogue between scholars the study—and performance—of the genre of opera is itself unsettled, of music, literature, and performance by opera.” and that the performance of operas, addressing questions raised in each field —German Studies Review at its best, clarifies this condition by in a manner that influences them all. bringing opera’s restlessness and vola- “Levin is one of the few scholars November 272 p., 26 halftones, tility to life. who functions effectively as both a liter- 11 musical examples 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47523-3 Unsettling Opera explores a variety ary critic in the university and a practi- Paper $25.00x/£16.00 of fields, considering questions of oper- cal dramaturg in the opera house. His MUSIC atic textuality, dramaturgical practice, fascinating book demonstrates how Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47522-6 and performance theory. Levin opens critical readings of music and text can with a brief history of opera produc- generate stagings that challenge and tion, opera studies, and dramatic com- compel. . . . An indispensable guide.” position, and goes on to consider in de- —Philip Gossett tail various productions of the works of

David J. Levin is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, the Com- mittee on Cinema and Media Studies, and the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. In addition to his academic work, he has served as dramaturge for various opera companies in the United States and Germany.

Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy Martha Feldman

Performed throughout Europe during maintain sovereignty in an increasingly the eighteenth century, Italian heroic democratic world. opera, or opera seria, was the century’s Employing a widely interdisciplin- most significant and popular musi- ary argument that opera seria must be cal art form, engaging such figures as understood in light of the period’s social Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. In Opera and political upheavals, Opera and Sover- and Sovereignty, Martha Feldman takes eignty will continue to interest a broad a groundbreaking anthropological ap- range of scholars, from musicologists to proach to the study of the genre. historians of the Enlightenment. Opera and Sovereignty traces Italian “A book of astounding breadth of opera’s shift from asserting sovereignty subject matter, rich source materials, and to fomenting questions about absolute December 584 p., 4 color plates, provocative methodologies.”—Geoffrey 46 halftones, 26 musical examples, 10 ideals. Against the backdrop of eigh- Burgess, Current Musicology tables 7 x 10 teenth-century Italian culture, Feldman “Opera and Sovereignty is a massive ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24113-5 Paper $39.00s/£25.00 shows how opera seria both reflected achievement.”—Reinhard Strohm, Early MUSIC and affected the struggles of rulers to Music Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-24112-8 Martha Feldman is professor of music at the University of Chicago.

paperbacks 89 The Ideas in Things Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel Elaine Freedgood

The Ideas in Things explores apparently edge, generating darker meanings inconsequential objects in popular Vic- outside the novels’ symbolic systems. A torian texts to make contact with their valuable contribution to the field of ob- fugitive meanings. Developing an inno- ject studies, The Ideas in Things pushes vative approach to analyzing nineteenth- readers’ thinking about things beyond century fiction, Elaine Freedgood re- established concepts of commodity and connects the things readers unwittingly fetish. ignore to the stories they tell. Building “Ultimately, what Freedgood gen- her case around objects from three well- erates is far more than a new set of known Victorian novels—Charlotte readings of key Victorian texts. In her Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell’s important project of recuperating the Mary Barton, and Charles Dickens’s meaning of things, Freedgood demon-

september 184 p., 11 halftones Great Expectations—Freedgood argues strates the considerable delights and re- 51/2 x 81/2 that these things are connected to his- wards of literal-mindedness.”—Victorian ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26163-8 tories that the novels barely acknowl- Studies Paper $22.50s/£14.50 LITERARY CRITICISM Elaine Freedgood is professor of English at New York University. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-26155-3

“An ambitious, broad-ranging study Believing and Seeing of the role and function of the im- The Art of Gothic Cathedrals age within the medieval church. Roland Recht This volume is of fundamental Translated by Mary Whittall importance to the study of medi- eval art, and should become part In Believing and Seeing, Roland Recht ar- scholars with a new lens through which of the intellectual apparatus of all gues that preoccupation with vision as a to view Gothic art and architecture. who concern themselves with the key to religious knowledge profoundly “Readers will be rewarded by Recht’s religious image.” affected a broad range of late medieval brilliant analysis of Gothic architectur- works. In addition to the great cathe- —Times Higher Education al polychromy, stained glass, and stone drals of France, Recht explores key re- sculpture, and should find the unity of ligious buildings throughout Europe october 392 p., 85 halftones 6 x 9 Recht’s ‘vision’ of the Gothic ultimately ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70607-8 to reveal how their grand designs sup- convincing.”—Choice Paper $27.50s/£18.00 ported this profusion of images that “Recht’s book is especially at its ART made visible the signs of scripture. Rei- most engaging when it opens up the Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70606-1 magining these works as a link between treatment of images to suggest that devotional practices in the late Middle ways of seeing, believing, and mak- Ages and contemporaneous theories ing constitute all together ‘l’art des that deemed vision the basis of empiri- cathédrales.’”—Art Bulletin cal truth, Recht provides students and

Roland Recht is professor of art history at the University of Strasbourg. Mary Whittall (1937–2005) translated many books from French and German, including several for the University of Chicago Press.

90 paperbacks The Forgotten Frontier “This thought-provoking book will interest not only readers concerned A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-African Frontier with Mediterranean history and Andrew C. Hess culture, but those concerned with Islam Resurgent both then and The sixteenth-century Mediterranean and an interpretative essay about the witnessed the expansion of both Euro- Habsburg–Ottoman imperial struggle now.” pean and Middle Eastern civilizations and its aftermath.”—Hispanic American —Journal of Modern History in the guises of the Hapsburg monar- Historical Review chy and the Ottoman empire. Here, An- “Impressively researched, concise, Publications of the Center for drew C. Hess considers the relations be- and informative. . . . Convincingly ex- Middle Eastern Studies tween these two dynasties in light of the plains why two empires came face to November 290 p., 9 figures, 4 tables social, economic, and political affairs at face and then turned back to back, 51/2 x 81/2 the frontiers between North Africa and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33031-0 leaving two very different and mutually Paper $30.00x/£19.50 the Iberian peninsula. antagonistic societies in their wake.” history “An erudite reinterpretation of —Catholic Historical Review Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33028-0 sixteenth-century Mediterranean his- “The implied scope of Hess’s very tory. . . . An impressive contribution impressive piece of work is far greater [that is] at once a regional frontier than its title would suggest. . . . A very history, a synthesis of the sixteenth- skillful and sure-handed tour.”—Middle century western Mediterranean wars, East Journal

Andrew C. Hess is professor of diplomacy and director of the Program for Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization at Tufts University.

Slumming “An enthralling history. . . . Assidu- ously parsed, perhaps to mitigate Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, the inherent titillation of the 1885–1940 material.” Chad Heap —New Yorker In this fascinating history, Chad Heap tation and voyeurism in slumming—or Historical Studies of Urban America reveals that the reality of slumming was the resistance it often provoked—he far more widespread—and important— argues that the relatively uninhibited October 432 p., 19 halftones, than nostalgia-tinged recollections mingling it promoted across bounds of 7 maps 6 x 9 would lead us to believe. From its ap- race and class helped to dramatically ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32244-5 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 pearance as a “fashionable dissipation” recast the racial and sexual landscape AMERICAN HISTORY centered on the immigrant and work- of burgeoning U.S. cities. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-32243-8 ing-class districts of 1880s New York “Exhaustively researched and through its spread to Chicago and into beautifully written. . . . Vivid and aston- the 1930s nightspots frequented by les- ishingly detailed.”—George Chauncey, bians and gay men, Slumming charts the author of Gay New York development of this popular pastime, “This is a beautiful book that will demonstrating how its moralizing ori- be a milestone in our understandings gins were soon outstripped by the artis- of sexuality, race, normalcy, and metro- tic, racial, and sexual adventuring that politan American modernity.”—Ameri- typified Jazz Age America. And while can Historical Review Heap doesn’t ignore the role of exploi-

Chad Heap is associate professor of American studies at the George Washington University.

paperbacks 91 “Hogarth tackles a fascinating topic Educating Intuition that has until now garnered little Robin M. Hogarth scientific attention. This ambitious book aims not only to define and In Educating Intuition, Robin Hogarth cate our sixth sense. To this end he of- explore the strengths and limita- offers the first comprehensive over- fers concrete suggestions and exercises tions of humans’ ‘sixth sense’ view of what the science of psychology to help readers develop their intuitive but also to discover how it can be can tell us about intuition—where it skills and habits for learning the “right” improved.” comes from, how it works, whether we lessons from experience. —American Scientist can trust it. He finds that intuition is a Artfully and accessibly combining normal and important component of cognitive science, the latest research in september 360 p., 3 halftones, thought that has its roots in processes of psychology, and Hogarth’s own obser- 7 line drawings, 7 tables 6 x 9 tacit learning. Environment, attention, vations, Educating Intuition eschews the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34862-9 experience, expertise, and the success vague approach to the topic that has Paper $20.00s/£13.00 of the scientific method all form part become commonplace and provides PSYCHOLOGY SCIENCE of Hogarth’s perspective on intuition, instead a wholly engaging and practical Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-34860-5 leading him to the surprising—but guide to enhancing our intuitive skills. natural—conclusion that we can edu-

Robin M. Hogarth is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Bar- celona. He is a former president of the Judgment and Decision Making Society and the European Association for Decision Making, and the author of Judgment and Choice, among other titles.

“Because of its methodological News That Matters integrity and richness, News That Television and American Opinion Matters is likely to be regarded as Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder an impressive, possibly ground- Updated Edition breaking work.” —New York Times Book Review Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto the national news become more impor- Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first tant to viewers, while those that are ig- Chicago Studies in American documented a series of sophisticated nored lose credibility. Moreover, those Politics and innovative experiments that unob- issues that are prominent in the news October 216 p., 1 line drawing 6 x 9 trusively altered the order and empha- stream continue to loom more heavily ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38858-8 sis of news stories in selected television as criteria for evaluating the president Paper $17.00x/£11.00 broadcasts. Their resulting book, News and for choosing between political can- POLITICAL SCIENCE That Matters, now hailed as a classic by didates. scholars of political science and public “News That Matters does matter, be- opinion alike, is here updated for the cause it demonstrates conclusively that twenty-first century, with a new preface television newscasts powerfully affect and epilogue by the authors. Backed opinion. . . . All that follows, whether it by careful analysis of public opinion supports, modifies, or challenges their surveys, the authors show how, despite conclusions, will have to begin here.” changing American politics, those is- —Public Interest sues that receive extended coverage in

Shanto Iyengar is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, professor of political science, and director of the Political Communication Lab at Stanford Univer- sity. He is the author of several other books. Donald R. Kinder is the Philip E. Converse Col- legiate Professor in the Department of Political Science and professor of psychology and research professor in the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, as well as the author of several additional books.

92 paperbacks The Specter of Salem Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America Gretchen A. Adams

In The Specter of Salem, Gretchen A. Ad- memories in the life of a nation. ams reveals the many ways that the “Imaginative and thoughtful. . . . Salem witch trials loomed over the Thought-provoking, informative, and American collective memory from the convincingly presented, The Specter of Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Salem is an often spellbinding mix of Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, politics, cultural history, and public his- evoked the episode to demonstrate the toriography.”—New England Quarterly new nation’s progress from a disorderly “This well-researched book, forgo- and brutal past to a rational present, ing the usual heft of scholarly studies, while critics of new religious movements is not another interpretation of the in the 1830s cast them as a return to Sa- Salem trials, but an important major lem-era fanaticism, and during the Civil work within the scholarly literature on october 240 p. 6 x 9 War southerners evoked witch burning the witch-hunt, linking the hysteria of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00543-0 to criticize Union tactics. Shedding new the period to the evolving history of the Paper $20.00s/£13.00 light on the many, varied American in- American nation. A required acquisi- AMERICAN HISTORY vocations of Salem, Adams ultimately tion for academic libraries.”—Choice, Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-00541-6 illuminates the function of collective Outstanding Academic Title 2009

Gretchen A. Adams is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University.

The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam “Very illuminating. . . . Rich and comprehensive. . . . A sophisticated Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi’ite Iran analysis of the history of Shi’ite in- from the Beginning to 1890 fluence on political action in Iran.” Said Amir Arjomand —American Journal of Sociology

Dismissing oversimplified and politically contemporary Western scholarship and Publications of the Center for charged views of the politics of Shi’ite Is- made an important contribution to the Middle Eastern Studies lam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly continuing debate on the subject of re- researched sociological and historical ligion and politics in [Shi’ite] Islam.” november 368 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02784-5 study of Shi’ism and the political order —American Historical Review Paper $27.50x/£18.00 of premodern Iran that exposes the “A remarkable achievement in pro- middle eastern studies roots of what became Khomeini’s the- viding a sustained, solid theoretical religion ocracy. perspective on a massive movement in Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02782-1 “This book deserves to be read by modern Islamic societies, while advanc- anyone concerned with the relationship ing the sociological study of Islam to an between religion and state in Iran and unsurpassed level. . . . Supported by an Islam.”—New Republic impressive and unprecedented analyti- “This is an important book. . . . Ar- cal examination of theological and ju- jomand has certainly challenged much ridical texts.”—Contemporary Sociology

Said Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook Uni- versity. He is the author of The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran and After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors, as well as the editor or coeditor of several books.

paperbacks 93 “Morris’s ingenuity in ferreting out a Reading, ’Riting, and Reconstruction wealth of biographical information . . . is particularly impressive. . . . The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861–1870 Robert C. Morris An especially welcome addition to the literature.” This study of education for freedmen black, Northern, Southern—and at —American Journal of Education following Emancipation is the defini- the curricula and textbooks they used. tive treatment of the subject. Employ- While giving special emphasis to the october 368 p., 10 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ing a wide range of sources, Robert C. Freedmen’s Bureau school program, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53929-4 Morris examines the organizations that Morris places the freedmen’s educa- Paper $35.00s/£22.50 staffed and managed black schools in tional movement fully in its nineteenth- education the South, with particular attention century context, relating it both to the african american studies paid to the activities of the Freedman’s antislavery crusade that preceded it and Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53928-7 Bureau. He looks as well at those who to the conservative era of race relations came to teach, a diverse group—white, that followed.

Robert C. Morris (1942–2003) held positions at Columbia University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library before becoming director of the National Archives, Northeast Region.

Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents Daniel Harrison

October 352 p., 107 musical examples The highly chromatic music of the late cal innovations with a sound historical 3 1 6 /4 x 9 /2 1800s and early 1900s includes some of understanding, Harmonic Function in ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31809-7 Paper $35.00x/£22.50 the best-known works by Gustav Mahl- Chromatic Music will aid anyone study- er, Richard Strauss, César Franck, and ing this pivotal period of Western music MUSIC Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31808-0 Hugo Wolf. In this book, Daniel Har- history. rison builds on nineteenth-century “This book will clearly be of great music theory to provide an original importance to music theorists and his- and illuminating method for analyzing torians alike.”—Patrick McCreless, Yale chromatic music. Combining theoreti- University

Daniel Harrison is the Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory at Yale University.

“Like most good history, this book The Development of a Russian does more than its title promises. It is at once . . . an important contri- Legal Consciousness bution to the current reevaluation Richard S. Wortman of the reform period as a whole and Until the nineteenth century, the Rus- lectual processes that produced legal a commentary on social change in sian legal system was subject to an ad- reform. He ultimately demonstrates developing countries.” ministrative hierarchy headed by the how the stage was set for later events, —Journal of Social History tsar, and the courts were expected to as the autocracy and judiciary pursued enforce, not interpret the law. Rich- contradictory—and mutually destruc- december 358 p. 6 x 9 ard S. Wortman here traces the first tive—goals. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90775-8 Paper $30.00s/£19.50 professional class of legal experts who “A meticulous, well-balanced, and law emerged during the reign of Nicholas I enlightening inquiry on a most impor- Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-90776-5 (1826–56). Discussing how new legal tant chapter of Russian legal, social, institutions fit into the traditional sys- and intellectual history.”—Journal of tem of tsarist rule, Wortman analyzes Modern History how conflict arose from the same intel-

Richard S. Wortman is the James Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History at Columbia University. He is the author of Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, From Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II, among numerous other books. 94 paperbacks Distributed books Reaktion Books 96 Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University 111 Seagull Books 112 British Library 126 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 134 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 138 Royal Collection Publications 145 Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago 148 Musée du Louvre 150 Smart Museum of Art 151 KWS Publishers 152 Solar Books 154 Intellect Books 157 Swan Isle Press 167 The Karolinum Press, Charles University Prague 168 American Meteorological Society 169 Eburon Publishers, Delft 169 Brigham Young University Press 171 University of Alaska Press 172 Campus Verlag 176 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 177 Amsterdam University Press 181 University of Wales Press 190 Liverpool University Press 197 Conservation International 204 The Field Museum, Chicago 204 University of Exeter Press 205 University of Scranton Press 207 Center for the Study of Language and Information 213 Johnny Ryan A History of the Internet and the Digital Future

rom the comfort of our living rooms we can fill our pantries with groceries, file our taxes, watch amateur videos of some- Fone’s talented cat in Norway, and befriend strangers around the world who share our esoteric interests—all thanks to the Internet, an invention so improbable that if it weren’t a fact of daily life, it would seem pure science fiction. Nevertheless, whether the Internet is bring- ing us closer together as a global community or making it possible for October 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-777-0 us to have lives devoid of direct human contact, there is no question Cloth $27.00 that it has redefined the workplace, politics, and social life. Science NSa In A History of the Internet and the Digital Future, Johnny Ryan explores the development of the Internet from its invention in the 1960s to its modern-day success. He charts its growth, focusing on the false technological leads of the 1970s and the way the Internet revolu- tionized political campaigns in the 1990s, as well as the dot-com bust and the rise of social networking. He also analyzes the impact of the Internet on the balance of power between the state and the individual and the conflicts it has generated related to censorship, copyright infringement, and intellectual freedom. In A History of the Internet and the Digital Future, Ryan presents a fascinating and accessible history of this revolutionary technology and explores its impact on the role of the individual within this networked world. Though we have so quickly come to take the ubiquity of the Internet for granted—from our laptops to our smart phones, we are always connected—this book celebrates just how fantastic and innova- tive the invention truly was and still is.

Johnny Ryan is senior researcher at the Institute of International and Euro- pean Affairs, Dublin, where he leads the Digital Future Programme. He has published articles in such publications as OpenDemocracy, Europe’s World, the Irish Times, and NATO Review, and has contributed to the BBC World Service, Reuters, and the Associated Press.

96 Reaktion Books Katy Siegel Since ’45 America and the Making of Contemporary Art

ince ’45 details the collision of American history and modern art. For the more than half-century since World War II, New SYork has been the center of world art, with an influence that extends well beyond the United States. Since ’45 discusses how artists’ preoccupations with issues of race, mass culture, the individual, subur- bia, apocalypse, and nuclear destruction have come to find their place in their art works. Katy Siegel’s study encompasses a variety of works, including Rothko’s planes of color, Warhol’s serial silkscreens, Richard Prince’s November 224 p., 60 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 cowboys, Robert Longo’s Men in Cities, Faith Ringgold’s Black Light, ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-773-2 Cloth $29.00 and Laurie Simmons’s dollhouses, and moves fluidly from discussion art of artists’ works, art museums, and galleries to cultural influences NSA and significant historical events. Rather than arguing on national- ist grounds or viewing American culture as representative of a now- devalued nation, Siegel explores how American culture dominated not only American artists, but created conditions that now, after the full globalization of the art world, affect artists around the world. Since ’45 will interest all readers engaged with postwar and contemporary art in the United States and beyond.

Katy Siegel is associate professor of art history at Hunter College in New York. She is a contributing editor at Artforum and the editor-in-chief of Art Journal.

Reaktion Books 97 Whiskey A Global History Kevin R. Kosar

A Manhattan or a Sazerac; neat, on the claims, there were no good old days of rocks, or with a splash of soda—no mat- whiskey: before the twentieth century, ter how it’s served up, whiskey is synony- consumers could never be sure just mous with the poet’s inspiration and what was being poured in their cup the devil’s spirit. Be it bourbon, rye, —unscrupulous profiteers could distill corn, Irish, or Scotch, whiskey has an anything into booze and pawn it off as infamous and celebrated history, from whiskey. Eventually, government and a sometimes lethal, herb-infused con- industry established legal definitions coction to a high-quality, meticulously of what whiskey is and how it could be crafted liquor. made, allowing for the distinctive styles In Whiskey, Kevin R. Kosar delivers of whiskey known today. an informative, concise narrative of the Whiskey explains what whiskey is, Edible drink’s history, from its obscure medi- how it is made, and how the types of eval origins to the globally traded prod- whiskey differ. With a list of suggested October 160 p., 30 color plates, 20 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 uct that it is today. Focusing on three brands and classic cocktail recipes for ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-780-0 nations—Scotland, Ireland, and Amer- the thirsty reader, this book is perfect Cloth $15.95 ica—Kosar charts how the technique of for drink and food enthusiasts and his- cooking distillation moved from ancient Egypt tory lovers alike. NSA to the British Isles. Contrary to popular

Kevin R. Kosar is the founder of AlcoholReviews.com. His writings on alcoholic beverages have appeared in American.com, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, the New York Press, and the New York Hangover.

Tea A Global History Helen Saberi

From chai to oolong to sencha, tea is and 1913 creation of a tea dance called one of the world’s most popular bev- “Thé Dansant” that combined tea and erages. Perhaps that is because it is a tango. Saberi also explores where and uniquely adaptable drink, consumed how tea is grown around the world and in many different varieties by cultures how customs and traditions surround- across the globe and in many different ing the beverage have evolved from settings, from the intricate traditions of its legendary origins to its present-day Japanese teahouses to the elegant tea- popularity. rooms of Britain to the verandas of the Featuring vivid images of teacups, deep South. plants, tearooms, and teahouses as well In Tea, food historian Helen Sa- as recipes for both drinking tea and us- beri explores this rich and fascinating ing it as a flavoring, Tea will engage the Edible history. Saberi looks at the economic senses while providing a history of tea and social uses of tea, such as its use and its uses. October 160 p., 40 color plates, 20 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 as a currency during the Tang Dynasty ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-776-3 Cloth $15.95 Helen Saberi is assistant editor of The Oxford Companion to Italian Food. She has traveled extensively and is the author of numerous books about food. Cooking NSA

98 Reaktion Books Sandwich A Global History Bee Wilson

The humble peanut butter and jelly or award-winning food writer Bee Wilson bologna and cheese or corned beef on unravels the mystery of how the Earl rye—no matter your cooking expertise, invented this most elementary but de- chances are you’ve made and eaten licious way of eating. Wilson explores countless sandwiches in your lifetime. what sandwiches might have been like It’s quick, it’s simple, and it’s open to before the eighteenth century, why infinite variety and inventiveness. If the name “sandwich” stuck, and how there’s something bread- or bun-like the Earl’s invention took off so quickly in your cupboard, there is a sandwich around the globe. waiting to happen. Wilson brings together a wealth of Though sandwiches are a near-uni- material to trace how the sandwich has versal food, their origin can be traced evolved, looking at sandwiches from to a precise historical figure: John Mon- the decadent meatball hoagie to the Edible tagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, who, dainty cucumber tea sandwich. Loved October 176 p., 30 color plates, one night sometime before 1762 being the world over, this popular food has 20 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 too busy to stop for dinner, asked for surprisingly never before been the sub- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-771-8 some cold beef to be brought to him be- ject of a book-length history until now. Cloth $15.95 tween two slices of bread. In Sandwich, cooking NSA Bee Wilson is a historian and journalist who writes for the London Review of Books, Times Lit- erary Supplement, New Yorker, Sunday Times, and the New York Times. She also writes a weekly food column for the Sunday Telegraph called “The Kitchen Thinker,” for which she has received the Guild of Food Writers Food Journalist of the Year award three times.

Soup A Global History Janet Clarkson

From the restorative powers of chicken to the most delicately crafted consom- soup on a sick day to the warmth of a mé, Clarkson explores how soup got its bowl of chowder on a wintry night, name and describes the different roles there is no food quite as comforting of soup in Eastern and Western cuisine. and emblematic of home as soup. Soup, Featuring the national soups of many as Janet Clarkson tells us, is the first countries and including an assortment true culinary creation of humanity, and of anecdotes and recipes taken from it has made a long journey from the pre- seven centuries of culinary history, Soup historic cave to the kitchen table and entertains as much as it informs, telling the white linens of Michelin-starred of how the history of the restaurant it- restaurants. self is intricately interwoven with the Tracing its myriad reinventions very concept of soup. through history and across the globe, “With enthusiasm and detailed re- Edible Clarkson argues in Soup that it is the search, Clarkson’s entertaining history only truly universal dish—every culture is a nutrient-rich meal for the mind, October 160 p., 30 color plates, 30 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 in the world makes soup, and it is widely sure to be devoured as happily as its ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-774-9 valued as a dish adaptable for any situ- subject.”—Publishers Weekly, on Clark- Cloth $15.95 ation. From the swill of the poorhouse son’s Pie Cooking NSA Janet Clarkson is a general practitioner and lecturer at the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland, Australia. She writes regularly on culinary history and is also the author of Pie: A Global History, published by Reaktion Books. Reaktion Books 99 Mick Gidley Photography and the USA

rom Ansel Adams to Carlton Watkins, Diane Arbus to Weegee, Berenice Abbott to James Van Der Zee, Ameri- Fcan photographers have recorded their vast and diverse nation in images that have come to define American identity, both within the country and in the world’s eye. In Photography and the USA, Mick Gidley asks how and why photography has been such a significant force in shaping American culture. Featuring one hundred iconic and lesser-known images, Exposures Photography and the USA encompasses the major movements, artists, and works that are crucial to understanding American photography.

November 160 p., 40 color plates, Focusing on works that reveal the many different facets of America, its 60 halftones 71/2 x 82/3 landscapes and its people, Gidley explores the ambiguities of Ameri- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-770-1 Paper $29.95 can history and culture. This unique analysis juxtaposes images such photography nsa as an anti-lynching demonstration in 1934 with Dorothea Lange’s poster “All races serve the crops in California,” and an image of a fire- man in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 against the Ground Zero photographs of Joel Meyerowitz taken in 2001. Organizing his narra- tive around ideas of documentary, history, and technology, Gidley not only presents a history of photography, but also reveals the complexi- ties inherent in reading photographs themselves. A concise yet comprehensive overview of photography in the Unit- ed States, this book is an excellent introduction for students of Ameri- can history or the visual arts, as well as the general reader fascinated by the role of the image in American history and culture.

Mick Gidley is professor emeritus of American literature and culture at the University of Leeds.

100 Reaktion Books Photography and Italy Maria Antonella Pelizzari

In this beautifully illustrated book, Ma- ing times and political heroes, creating ria Antonella Pelizzari traces the his- icons of figures such as Garibaldi and tory of photography in Italy from its be- the brigands. Pelizzari’s exploration of ginnings to the present as she guides us Italian visual traditions also includes through the history of Italy and its an- the photographic collages of Bruno cient sites and Renaissance landmarks. Munari, the neorealist work of photog- Pelizzari specifically considers the raphers such as Franco Pinna, the bold, role of photography in the formation of stylized compositions of Mario Gia- Italian national identity during times comelli, and the controversial images of political struggle, such as the lead-up created by Oliviero Toscani for Benet- to unification in 1860, and later in the ton advertising in the 1980s. nationalist wars of Mussolini’s regime. Featuring unpublished works and While many Italians and foreigners— a rare selection of over one hundred Exposures such as Fratelli Alinari or Carlo Ponti, images, this book will appeal to art col- John Ruskin or Kit Talbot—focused lectors and students of art history and November 176 p., 65 color plates, their lenses on architectural master- Italian culture. 51 halftones 71/2 x 82/3 pieces, others documented the chang- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-769-5 Paper $29.95s

Maria Antonella Pelizzari is associate professor in the Department of Art at Hunter College photography in New York. She is also the editor of Traces of India: Photography, Architecture and the NSA Politics of Representation.

Framing Russian Art Oleg Tarasov

The notion of the frame in art can re- cal and cultural meanings of the icon’s fer not only to a material frame border- setting, and of the iconostasis. Tarasov’s ing an image, but also to a conceptual study then moves through Russian and frame. Both meanings are essential to European art from ancient times to the how the work is perceived. In Framing twentieth century, including abstract art Russian Art, art historian Oleg Tarasov and Suprematism. Along the way, Tara- investigates the role of the frame in its sov pays special attention to the Russian literal function of demarcating a work baroque period and the famous nine- of art and in its conceptual function teenth-century Russian battle painter affecting the understanding of what is Vasily Vereshchagin. This enlightening seen. account of the cultural phenomenon of The first part of the book is dedi- the frame and its ever-changing func- cated to the framework of the Russian tions will appeal to students and schol- September 448 p., 81 color plates, icon. Here, Tarasov explores the histori- ars of Russian art history. 152 halftones 8 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-762-6 Oleg Tarasov is a senior research fellow in the Department of Cultural History at the Cloth $70.00s Institute of Slavic Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is the author of Icon and Devotion, also published by Reaktion Books. Art NSA

Reaktion Books 101 Jon Bird Leon Golub Echoes of the Real Second Edition, Expanded and Updated

eon Golub (1922–2004) was a leading advocate of history painting—paintings that depicted narrative scenes drawn Lfrom famous moments in history and symbolized the ongoing struggle for power in both social and political relations. In this updated and expanded edition of Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real, Jon Bird examines Golub’s work from his classically influ- enced early paintings to his later depictions of conflict and mascu- line aggression and the compelling images of his final decades. October 272 p., 173 color plates, 35 halftones 81/4 x 104/5 Despite the critical attention Golub’s work has received, the ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-783-1 range and extent of his practice and its complex interweaving of the Cloth $75.00x ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-765-7 iconographic traditions of both high and popular art have not been Paper $39.00s art properly examined. Making a case for Golub’s practice of critical real- nsa ism, which also takes account of the unconscious, Bird focuses on two themes that dominate Golub’s work: how his art presents the body as a sign for social and psychic identity and how his work posits the sym- bolic expression of social space. Featuring nearly two hundred color plates, Bird’s study is the definitive look at Golub, defining his relation- ship to modernism and his place among the great American artists of the twentieth century.

Jon Bird is professor of art and critical theory at Middlesex University, the author of Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith, and co-editor of Rewriting Conceptual Art, both published by Reaktion Books.

102 Reaktion Books Stephen M. Hart Gabriel García Márquez

any years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureli- ano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when Mhis father took him to discover ice.” Thus begins Nobel Prize–winner Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of the twentieth century’s most lauded works of fiction. InGabriel García Márquez, literary scholar Stephen M. Hart provides a succinct yet thorough look into García Márquez’s life and the political struggles of Latin America that have influenced his work, fromLove in the Time of Cholera to Memories of My Melancholy Whores. By interviewing García Márquez’s family in Cuba, Hart was able Critical Lives to gain a unique perspective on his use of “creative false memory,” providing new insight into the magical realism that dominates García October 208 p., 25 halftones 5 x 77/8 Márquez’s oeuvre. Using these interviews and his original research, ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-763-3 Paper $16.95 Hart defines five ingredients that are critical to García Márquez’s work: biography nsa magical realism, a shortened and broken portrayal of time, punchy one-liners, dark and absurd humor, and political allegory. These ele- ments, as described by Hart, illuminate the extraordinary allure of García Márquez’s work and provide fascinating insight into his ap- proach to writing. Hart also explores the divisions between García Márquez’s everyday life and his life as a writer, and the connection in his work between family history and national history. Gabriel García Márquez presents an original portrait of this re- nowned writer and is a must-read for fans of his work as well as those interested in magical realism, Latin American fiction, and modern literature.

Stephen M. Hart is professor of Hispanic studies at University College London. He is also the author of Companion to Latin American Literature.

Reaktion Books 103 Claude Debussy David J. Code

French composer Claude Debussy his later works, dominated by national- (1862–1918) created music that was istic pieces inspired by French Renais- revolutionary, with a distinctly modern sance poets and composed in the lead- sound that highlighted the intersection up to World War I. Along the way, Code of art and life. Here, in this unique bi- looks at Debussy’s orchestral composi- ography, David J. Code explores the im- tions and operas, inspired by Stéphane portant moments in the development of Mallarmé and Maurice Maeterlinck. Debussy’s literary interests that shaped This book will give readers a fresh his music—and in the process brings to way of listening to Debussy’s classic life Debussy’s sardonic personality. music by offering the most up-to-date Claude Debussy presents an in-depth critical analysis of the intersection of look at how Debussy’s love for poetry Debussy’s literary interests and musi- influenced his musical compositions. cal compositions and will appeal to any Critical Lives Code explores both Debussy’s earlier reader with a love of Debussy, as well as years, filled with student cantatas in- modern music, literature, and the arts. 7 August 208 p., 29 halftones 5 x 7 /8 spired by Verlaine and Baudelaire, and ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-759-6 Paper $16.95 David J. Code is lecturer in music at the University of Glasgow. Biography NSA

Alfred Jarry Jill Fell

Alfred Jarry’s (1873–1907) creation of garde characters, including Gauguin, the monster-tyrant Ubu in his play Ubu Rachilde, Wilde, Beardsley, and Apol- Roi was a watershed in theater history linaire. The quarrels that punctuated and brought him instant notoriety fol- Jarry’s life—and the extravagance and lowing its Paris premiere in 1896. In this the drinking that drained his meager concise, critical biography, Jill Fell ex- wealth—form the background to this plores this and the many achievements portrait of an obsessive writer, commit- that this multi-talented and influential ted to his craft and undeterred by his writer and playwright crammed into his worsening domestic circumstances. short life. In this entertaining biography, Drawing on numerous anecdotes Jarry’s spirit and his inventions clearly and the early publications of the Col- emerge as a source of inspiration to the lège de ’Pataphysique, Fell traces Jarry’s great figures of experimental twenti- Critical Lives growth and influence, as he rapidly eth-century theater, art, and literature. established his literary reputation as a Alfred Jarry will inform and delight read- August 208 p., 40 halftones 5 x 77/8 prose writer, journalist, art critic, and ers who wish to learn more about this ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-755-8 Paper $16.95 playwright. Along the way, Fell explores fascinating, unconventional figure. Biography his interaction with a wide cast of avant- NSA Jill Fell is an associate research fellow in the French department at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is also the author of Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt.

104 Reaktion Books Eadweard Muybridge Marta Braun

Best known for his contribution to the horse’s stride, there is a moment when development of the motion picture, all four of its legs leave the ground. The Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) was resulting collection of motion studies, a pioneering photographer. Alongside as Braun explains, inspired Muybridge his remarkable photographic achieve- to take photography beyond landscapes ments, his personal life was riddled to the realm of science. He went on to with melodrama—including a near- invent the zoopraxiscope, which cap- fatal stagecoach accident and a betrayal tures movement too quick for the hu- by his wife that ended with Muybridge man eye to record. Most importantly, being tried for the murder of her lover. his pioneering use of sequence pho- Marta Braun’s revealing biography trac- tography to simulate motion through a es the sensational events of Muybridge’s series of stills served as a forerunner to life and his personal reinventions as the introduction of cinematography in artist, photographer, researcher, and the 1890s. Critical Lives showman. This illuminating study examines October 208 p., 40 halftones In the 1870s, Muybridge’s photog- a man whose influence has resounded 5 x 77/8 raphy skills were enlisted by Leland through generations. In Eadweard Muy- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-760-2 Stanford, a racehorse breeder who bridge, Braun firmly establishes Muy- Paper $16.95 later founded Stanford University, bridge’s central contributions to the biography to prove the “unsupported motion history of art, science, photography, NSA controversy”—the theory that during a and motion pictures.

Marta Braun is professor at the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is the author of Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey and Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science.

Otter Daniel Allen

Although rarely seen in the wild, the ot- cific and chased with hounds for sport ter is admired for its playful character in Britain. In contrast, Allen describes and graceful aquatic agility, which were how Native Americans revered the otter established in the popular imagination and how indigenous fishermen in parts through books like Tarka the Otter and of Asia trained otters to assist them. Ring of Bright Water. This, however, is Sadly, all thirteen species of otter are just a very small part of their story— now considered threatened, and their throughout history the otter has also survival is by no means certain. been widely hunted for its fur and flesh. In this wide-ranging look at the ot- In Otter, Daniel Allen reveals how the ter, Allen incorporates anecdotes from animal’s identity has been shaped by folklore, sports, popular literature, me- this variety of human interactions. dia, and conservation studies in order Animal As Allen explains, otters, while to unravel this complicated cultural his- feared by some communities, were hunt- tory. Otter is a lively book that offers a October 224 p., 50 color plates, ed to near extinction by others—killed new way of thinking about this admired 50 halftones 53/8 x 71/2 for their valuable pelts in the north Pa- and endangered animal. ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-767-1 Paper $19.95 Daniel Allen is a human geographer with expertise in cultural, historical, and nature environmental geography. NSA

Reaktion Books 105 Spider Katarzyna and Sergiusz Michalski

Both fascinating and frightening, the ise Bourgeois. Horror stories, science spider has a rich symbolic presence in fiction, folklore, and children’s tales the imagination. At once a represen- are also investigated, as well as the af- tative of death, due to its fangs and fliction of arachnophobia and the pro- dangerous poison, the spider can also cedures used to cure it. The association represent life and creation, because of of the spider with women or mothers is its intricate web and females who carry explored alongside the role of the spi- sacs of thousands of tiny eggs. In this der metaphor in Freudian and Jungian wide-ranging book, Katarzyna and Ser- psychoanalysis, and the Michalskis’ in- giusz Michalski investigate the natural depth account concludes with a look at history and cultural significance of the the unfavorable portrayal of the sinis- spider. ter spider in film. Animal From ancient Greek myth to Dos- A thorough and engaging look at toyevsky, the authors explore the ap- the natural and cultural history of the September 224 p., 40 color plates, 60 halftones 53/4 x 71/2 pearance of spiders in literature and spider, this book will appeal to anybody ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-775-6 their depictions in art, paying particu- who admires or fears this delicate yet Paper $19.95 lar attention to the sculptures of Lou- dangerous creature. nature NSA Katarzyna Michalski is a cultural historian based in Tübingen, Germany, and coauthor of the Eyewitness Guide to Munich and the Bavarian Alps. Sergiusz Michalski is professor of art history at the University of Tübingen. His previous books include The New Objectivity and Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage 1870–1997, also published by Reaktion Books.

Giraffe Edgar Williams

Their extraordinary long necks, dis- Middle Ages, when giraffes were con- tinctive camouflage, graceful move- sidered mythical beasts as improbable ments, and friendly nature have made and mysterious as the dragon; and the giraffes one of the most fascinating and Victorian era, in which giraffe hunting beloved animals on the planet. But was considered an exhilarating sport. while giraffes once roamed the Great Giraffe is the first book to provide Plains of Africa in huge herds, their a comprehensive, twenty-first-century numbers have greatly diminished, and view of the giraffe in art, literature, they are now entirely dependent on film, and popular culture, as well as its humanity for their survival. In Giraffe, natural history, from prehistory to mod- Edgar Williams explores not only the ern times. With new insights into the gi- biology of the tallest animals on earth, raffe’s genetics and evolution, this book Animal but also their impact on human histo- will appeal to those interested in the ry—including in ancient Egypt, where giraffe’s unique biology and to anyone October 224 p., 50 color plates, giraffes were kept as exotic pets; the 50 halftones 53/8 x 71/2 who admires this majestic creature. ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-764-0 Paper $19.95 Edgar Williams is a reader in the Faculty of Health, Sport and Science at the University of Glamorgan. nature NSA

106 Reaktion Books The Matter of Air Science and Art of the Ethereal Steven Connor

Take a deep breath. Air—without it, emissions and climate change. Steven life on Earth would cease to exist. Connor looks at the human relationship Though not usually seen, its presence with air, both positive and negative. His is relied upon. At once both ethereal explorations include the dangers posed and physical, air has been associated by radio atmospherics, poison gas, and with flight and spirit, and yet it has pro- haze as well as our continued fascina- gressively become a territory that can be tion with effervescence and explosives. claimed through communications, war- Drawing ideas from religion, science, fare, travel, and scientific exploration. art, literature, and philosophy, The Mat- At the same time, air is no longer a com- ter of Air creates a comprehensive history pletely reliable part of our daily life: like of the human perception of air. Thor- water, it has become an environmental oughly researched and written with wit element that must be watched closely and quirky enthusiasm, the book will ap- September 352 p., 10 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 for quality and purity. peal to a wide range of general readers ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-766-4 The Matter of Air investigates the interested in the environment, human Cloth $39.00s meanings of air over the last three centu- history, and our most essential aspects science ries, including our modern concern over of life. NSA

Steven Connor is professor of modern literature and theory in the School of Literature and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. His other books include Fly and The Book of Skin, both published by Reaktion Books.

Architecture’s Evil Empire Triumph and Tragedy of Global Modernism Miles Glendinning

From Chicago to Toronto to Shanghai, of global capitalism—and explains its cities around the world have sprouted key organizational and architectural “iconic” buildings by celebrity archi- features, placing its most influential tects like Frank Gehry and Daniel Libe- theorists and designers in a broader skind that compete for attention both context of history and artistic move- on the skyline and in the media. But in ments. recent years, criticism of these extreme Arguing against the excesses of “gestural” structures, known for their iconic architecture, Glendinning ad- exaggerated forms, has been growing. vocates a vision of modern renewal Miles Glendinning’s impassioned po- that seeks to remedy the shattered and lemic, Architecture’s Evil Empire, looks at alienated look he sees in contemporary how today’s trademark architectural in- architecture. Mingling scholarship with 3 dividualism stretches beyond the well- wry humor and a genuine concern for October 176 p. 4 /4 x 8 known works and ultimately extends to ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-756-5 the state of architecture, Architecture’s Paper $27.95s the entire built environment. Glendin- Evil Empire will raise many heated de- architecture ning examines how the global empire bates and appeal to a wide range of NSA of the current modernism emerged— readers, from architects to historians, particularly in relation to the excesses interested in the built environment.

Miles Glendinning is director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies and a reader in the School of Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art. He is also the author of Modern Architect: The Life and Times of Robert Matthew and Scottish Architecture, among other books. Reaktion Books 107 Chair Anne Massey

The chair—you’re likely sitting in one and slavishly copied by cheaper models. right now. Yet, despite its common Other chairs have reached iconic status presence in offices, restaurants, and simply through their everydayness— homes, we very rarely stop to think think of Van Gogh’s chair or the way about the origins of the chair and its Shaker chairs have become emblematic place in culture. After all, the human of a simpler and purer lifestyle. Massey body is actually more suited to sitting further examines how chairs have been on the ground than on a chair; and as crafted, from local to global manufac- a result, chairs often cause back prob- ture. In doing so she elucidates the lems. Nonetheless, in Western culture, meaning of the chair in contemporary as Anne Massey explains, the chair is culture, as well as the development, de- an object that marks our place in the sign, and manufacture of this ubiqui- modern world. tous piece of furniture. Objekt Massey explores how, particularly Drawing on design, art, popular in the last hundred years, the chair has culture, and personal experience, Chair October 224 p., 40 color plates, become a revered object of design. Cer- is an engaging and informative biog- 80 halftones 6 x 82/5 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-758-9 tain chairs have become iconic—like raphy of this everyday object and will Paper $27.00s the Eames Lounge chair and Verner appeal to anyone interested in why we Design Panton’s S Chair, which are photo- choose to sit on the chairs we do. NSA graphed, exhibited in art museums,

Anne Massey is professor of design history at Kingston University. She is the author of Interior Design Since 1900 and Designing Liners: Interior Design Afloat.

Ship Gregory Votolato

From oar-powered quinqueremes, to and the reality of modern ships, the steam-powered freighters, to luxury technology that creates them, and the ocean liners such as the Titanic, to air- events that can lead to disasters such as craft carriers like the Abraham Lincoln, the Exxon Valdez or Amoco Cadiz. ships have played an integral role in Here Votolato delves into the world trade, transportation, and war through- of the ship, describing the unpredict- out history. Today, ships remain the able and often hostile environment of largest and most expensive moving weather at sea, the resurgent threats objects on the planet; engineers and posed by pirates, and the responsi- designers constantly push the limits of bilities of captains and crews onboard. design, creating vessels that continue Ship’s broad overview of technology to rival newer technologies such as air- and design also offers unique insights planes and cars. into this extraordinary result of human Objekt But unlike other, more common creativity. Votolato’s book will appeal to modes of transportation, the great ships readers interested in the general design October 224 p., 40 color plates, of the world travel in the deep oceans, history of ships as well as their social, 70 halftones 6 x 82/5 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-772-5 out of sight and out of mind—until, political, and technological impact on Paper $27.00s that is, something goes wrong. In Ship, our modern world. transportation Gregory Votolato explores the fiction NSA Gregory Votolato is a lecturer at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He is the author of American Design in the Twentieth Century and Transport Design: A Travel History, the latter also published by Reaktion Books. 108 Reaktion Books Three Germanies West Germany, East Germany and the Berlin Republic Michael Gehler Translated by Anthony Mathews

Since the defeat of the Third Reich in on, Germany became two very different 1945, Germany has been in a continual countries with opposite political ideals, state of turmoil and reinvention. In Three splitting families down the middle ideo- Germanies, Michael Gehler explores the logically—and soon physically, with the political rollercoaster Germany has erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961. been riding since the Yalta Conference, Though the Berlin Wall came down which split postwar Germany into sepa- in 1989 and Germany was reunified, its rate zones controlled by the Soviets, problems were far from over: to this Americans, French, and British. Peace, day Chancellor Angela Merkel and the however, was short-lived; from 1948 to Grand Coalition struggle to implement 1949 Stalin blockaded Berlin in an at- reform. Gehler’s timely and relevant tempt to gain control over the largest study will appeal to readers interested November 272 p., 40 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 city in Germany. Though the blockade in postwar diplomacy and the future of ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-778-7 was finally broken in May of 1949, soon Germany, as it examines Germany’s at- Paper $27.00s

Germany was officially split into the tempts to find a government and a lead- European History Federal Republic of Germany, or West er that will create a stable and secure NSA Germany, and the German Democratic country in the twenty-first century. Republic, or East Germany. From then

Michael Gehler is director of the Institute of History at the University of Hildesheim. His other books include Towards a European Constitution: A Historical and Political Comparison with the United States and From the Marshall Plan to the EU: Austria and European Integration from 1945 to the Present. Anthony Mathews is an associate lecturer at the Open University.

War and Peace Ireland since the 1960s Christine Kinealy

In War and Peace: Ireland since the 1960s, movement, which has given rise to the historian Christine Kinealy explores election of two female presidents, prov- the political triumphs and travails in ing Ireland’s ability to accept and inter- Ireland over the last five decades. War nalize change. and Peace provides a thorough and up- Despite political and religious to-date account of the unfolding of turbulence, this partitioned island “The Troubles,” the three decades of has remained an important player on violence and social unrest between the the world stage. Describing Ireland’s Catholic nationalists and the Protestant struggle with the global recession and unionists. In addition, Kinealy exam- its efforts to establish a lasting peace, ines the Republic of Ireland’s entry into War and Peace presents a comprehensive the European Union in 1973, its often look at the events that have shaped con- 1 1 contentious relationship with England, temporary Ireland. This book will be October 400 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-779-4 and the changes in emigration dur- essential reading for anyone interested Cloth $40.00s ing the period. Of additional interest in Ireland’s recent past and how it will European History to Kinealy is the effect of the women’s continue to develop in the future. NSA

Christine Kinealy is professor of history in the Caspersen Graduate School at Drew Uni- versity in New Jersey. She is the author of A New History of Ireland and The Great Famine in Ireland: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion. Reaktion Books 109 Feeling Persecuted Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages Anthony Bale

In Feeling Persecuted, Anthony Bale ex- ages and texts explored by Bale expose plores the medieval Christian attitude a surprising practice of recreational toward Jews, which included a pervasive persecution and show that the violence fear of persecution and an imagined perpetrated against medieval Jews was fear of violence enacted against Chris- far from simple anti-Semitism and was tians. As a result, Christians retaliated in fact a complex part of medieval life with expulsions, riots, and murders that and culture. systematically denied Jews the right to Bale’s comprehensive look at me- religious freedom and peace. Through dieval poetry, drama, visual culture, close readings of a wide range of sourc- theology, and philosophy makes Feeling es, Bale exposes the perceived violence Persecuted an important read for anyone enacted by the Jews and how the images interested in the history of Christian- October 240 p., 35 halftones 6 x 9 of this Christian suffering and persecu- Jewish relations and the impact of this ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-761-9 Cloth $45.00s tion were central to medieval ideas of history on modern culture. love, community, and home. The im- european History NSA Anthony Bale is professor of English and medieval cultures at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also the author of The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms 1350–1500.

Ballets Russes Style Diaghilev’s Dancers and Paris Fashion Mary E. Davis

In the two decades between its debut sian artists who traveled with the troupe performance and the death of impresa- from St. Petersburg—Bakst, Benois, rio Sergei Diaghilev in 1929, the Ballets and Stravinsky among them—and the Russes was an unrivalled sensation in Parisian avant-garde, including Picasso, Paris and around the world. But while Matisse, Derain, Satie, Debussy, and scholarly attention has often centered Ravel. She focuses on how the ensem- on the links between Diaghilev’s troupe ble brought the stage and everyday life and modernist art and music, there has into direct contact, most noticeably in been surprisingly little analysis of the the world of fashion. The Ballets Russes Ballets’ role in the area of tastemaking and its audience played a key role in de- October 256 p., 30 color plates, 60 and trendsetting. Ballets Russes Style ad- fining Paris style, which would echo in halftones 6 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-757-2 dresses this gap, revealing the extent of fashions throughout the century. Paper $29.00s the ensemble’s influence in the arenas Beautifully illustrated, and draw- art of high style and fashion. ing on unpublished images and memo- NSA In Ballets Russes Style, Mary E. Davis rabilia, this book illuminates the ways explores how the Ballets Russes perfor- in which the troupe’s innovations in mances were a laboratory for ambitious dance, music, and design mirrored and cultural experiments, often grounded invigorated contemporary culture. in the aesthetic confrontation of Rus-

Mary E. Davis is professor of musicology at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism and Erik Satie, the latter also published by Reaktion Books. 110 Reaktion Books Now in Paperback The Age of Sinan Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire Gülru Necipoglu

Mimar Koca Sinan (1489–1588), the patrons, rather than from unrestrained most celebrated of all Ottoman Empire formal experimentation. Using prima- architects, is particularly renowned for ry source material, Necipoglu describes his contributions to the cityscape of Is- how Sinan created a layered system of tanbul. During his fifty-year career he mosque types, reflecting social status designed hundreds of buildings, and and territorial rank. his distinctive architectural idiom left “Brushing aside skewed oriental- its imprint on the terrain of a vast em- ist and nationalist readings which have pire extending from the Danube to the colored many previous studies of his Tigris. work, the author, using original docu- “The effort that has gone into the Sinan’s mosques are considered mentation, provides the most detailed research and compilation of this among his best work, and, with their written study ever, of not only Sinan’s publication is remarkable. . . . An light-filled centralized domes, they re- architecture, but also, arguably, of Ot- essential text for anyone with a main a testament to his inventive spirit toman culture, politics and society in and passion for experimentation. In the classical age. . . . Without question, serious interest in architecture.” this major study of Sinan’s extraordi- The Age of Sinan is one of the most re- —Architectural Review nary buildings, Gülru Necipoglu ar- markable architectural biographies gues that Sinan’s rich variety of mosque ever written and the book Sinan’s life July 592 p., 250 color plates, designs sprang from a process of nego- and work richly deserves.”—Prospect 296 halftones 9 x 11 tiation between the architect and his ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-253-9 Paper $49.00s

Gülru Necipoglu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Depart- Architecture ment of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She is the editor of NSA Muqarnas: An Annual of Islamic Visual Culture.

Allison Smith Needle Work Allison Smith With Contributions by Wendy Vogel and Lauren Adams

Contemporary artist Allison Smith’s di- revisions of European and American verse creative practice critically engag- gas masks from World War I and World es with popular forms of historical re- War II. Smith used art supplies found at enactment through a variety of media, local fabric and craft retail stores to ex- including sculpture, textiles, ceram- plore a range of masklike forms—from ics, and photography. Focusing on the the ghoulish to the foolish—thereby handmade and performative aspects of questioning essential notions of cam- history and material culture, Smith re- ouflage and masquerade. stages, refigures, and replays the role of This exhibition catalog, illustrated traditional crafts in large-scale installa- throughout in color, includes an essay tions that reconsider the construction that considers Smith’s project in light available 64 p., 34 color plates 6 x 9 of collective memory and identity. of Peter Sloterdijk’s Terror from the Air, ISBN-13: 978-0-936316-30-7 Paper $15.00s/£9.50 For the core of Allison Smith: Needle as well as in-depth interviews with the Work, the artist created contemporary artist and the curator. art

Allison Smith is assistant professor of sculpture at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has appeared at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Massachusetts Mu- seum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Arario Gallery in Cheonan, South Korea, and the P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. Reaktion Books 111 Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Thomas Bernhard Victor Halfwit A Winter’s Tale Translated by Martin Chalmers With Illustrations by Sunandini Banerjee

ne night in the middle of winter, as deep snow covers the mountains and forests of Austria, a doctor is crossing a Oridge from Traich to Föding to see a patient. He stumbles over a body in the darkness and fears it is a corpse. But it’s not a corpse at all—in fact, it’s wooden-legged Victor Halfwit, collapsed, but still very much alive. So begins this dark and comic tale by celebrated Aus- trian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard. Praise for Bernhard We discover that Halfwit foolishly made a bet with a local mill own- “What is extraordinary about Bernhard er that Halfwit could cover the distance between Traich and Föding is that his relentless pessimism never in an hour or less—despite his wooden legs, the darkness of the night, seems open to ridicule; his world is so the deep snow, and the brutal mid-winter cold. Thanks to the seren- powerfully imagined that it can seem to dipitous presence of the doctor, Halfwit wins the bet and thus will be surround you like little else in literature.” able to buy the new boots that he desired—but he has destroyed his —New Yorker wooden legs in the very process of winning.

Seagull World Literature Victor Halfwit may have originally been conceived as an absurd fable for children, but Bernhard’s masterly grasp of the intersection of tragedy and comedy renders this a story for all ages. January 96 p., 45 color plates 81/2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-64-4 “The feeling grows that Thomas Bernhard is the most original, Cloth $25.00/£16.00 Fiction concentrated novelist writing in German. His connections . . . with the IND great constellation of Kafka, Musil, and Broch become ever clearer.” —George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement

Thomas Bernhard (1931–89) grew up in Salzburg and Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. He went on to win many of the most prestigious literary awards of Europe. Martin Chalmers is a translator and editor whose translations include works by Hubert Fichte, Ernst Weiss, Herta Mueller, Alexander Kluge, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar, and Erich Hackl. Sunandini Banerjee is an editor, translator, and graphic designer who lives and works in Calcutta.

112 Seagull Books Peter Handke Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light

Translated by Mike Mitchell

escribed as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beck- ett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Austrian playwright and novelist Peter DHandke’s Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light is a mono- logue delivered by the “she” in Beckett’s play. This unnamed female similarly recalls other significant female protagonists in Handke’s own Praise for Handke work, such as The Left-handed Woman. Handke prefaces the monologue in Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light with a description of two “There is no denying Handke’s willful stone figures. While the male figure remains “as dead and gone as intensity and knife-like clarity of emotion. anyone can,” the female bursts into life, and her monologue gradually He writes from an area beyond psycholo- focuses on Krapp’s use of pauses and language to dominate the other gy, where feelings acquire the adamancy characters in the Beckett play. Ultimately, however, her complaints of randomly encountered, geologically and critique of Krapp become a declaration of her love for Krapp or analyzed pebbles. The best writer, at least an affirmation of their attachment, as the two of them are ulti- altogether, in his language.” —John Updike, mately bound together, perhaps even inseparable. New Yorker Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light is Handke at his best, evidencing the great skill, psychological acumen, and vision for which September 96 p. 41/4 x 61/4 his work has been celebrated. ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-73-6 Cloth $12.00/£8.00 “The David Byrne of fiction: a writer with a resonant, powerfully Drama ind direct voice who could invoke the particular Sartrean nausea of post- modern existence in the simplest events.”—New York Times “In power and vision and range, Peter Handke is the most impor- tant new writer on the international scene since Beckett.” —Stanley Kaufmann

Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many works of fiction include Absence; Across; The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick; and Short Letter, Long Farewell. Mike Mitchell has worked as a literary translator since 1995.

Seagull Books 113 Roland Barthes Incidents Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan

rench philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in Ftwentieth-century literary thought, and some of his best-known works, like S/Z, speak directly to the essential and individual relation- ship between a reader and a literary text. Here, in Incidents, readers have the privilege of going inside the life and thought of Barthes, through a work that is a testament to Barthes’ belief that a literary Praise for Barthes work should invite the full, active participation of the reader. “For Barthes, as for Nietzsche, the point is The essays collected in Incidents, originally published in French to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, shortly after Barthes’ death, provide unique insight into the author’s detached. And to give pleasure.” life, his personal struggles, and his delights. Though Barthes ques- —Susan Sontag tioned the act of keeping a journal with the aim of having it published,

The French List he decided to undertake a diary-like experiment in four parts. The first, which gives the collection its title, is a revealing personal account of his time living in Morocco. The second, “The Light of the South- September 184 p. 6 x 71/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-59-0 west,” is an ode to Barthes’ favorite region in France, while in “At Le Cloth $25.00/£16.00 Palace Tonight,” Barthes describes a vibrant Paris entertainment spot. Literature IND Finally, the journal entries of “Evenings in Paris” reveal Barthes as an older gay man, struggling with his desire for young lovers. Rendered here in a fresh and lyrical translation, Incidents will delight fans of Barthes’ other works, as well as anyone curious for a look inside the mind of one of the twentieth century’s foremost intellectuals.

Roland Barthes (1915–80) was a professor at the Collège de France until his death. His books include Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography; Image, Music, Text ; and A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a free- lance translator living in Chicago. She has published over twenty translations, including J. M. G. Le Clézio’s The Mexican Dream.

114 Seagull Books Jean-Paul Sartre Critical Essays

Translated by Chris Turner

ritical Essays contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life, the years Cbetween 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly interest- ing because it is before Sartre published the magnum opus that would solidify his name as a philosopher, Being and Nothingness. Instead, dur- ing this time Sartre was emerging as one of France’s most promising young novelists and playwrights—he had already published Nausea, The Age of Reason, The Flies, and No Exit. Not content, however, he was meanwhile consciously attempting to revive the form of the essay via detailed examinations of writers who were to become central to Euro- Praise for Sartre pean cultural life in the immediate aftermath of World War II. “For my generation [Sartre] has always Collected here are Sartre’s experiments in reimagining the idea been one of the great intellectual heroes and structure of the essay. Among the distinguished writers he ana- of the twentieth century, a man whose lyzes are Francis Ponge, Georges Bataille, Vladimir Nabokov, Maurice insight and intellectual gifts were at the Blanchot, and, of course, Albert Camus, whose novel The Stranger Sar- service of nearly every progressive cause tre endeavors to explain in these pages. Critical Essays also contains a of our time.” famous attack on the Catholic novelist François Mauriac, studies of the —Edward Said great American literary iconoclasts Faulkner and Dos Passos, and brief but insightful essays on aspects of the philosophical writings of Husserl The French List and Descartes.

This new translation by Chris Turner reinvigorates the original August 554 p. 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-60-6 skill and voice of Sartre’s work and will be essential reading for fans of Cloth $30.00/£19.50 Sartre and the many writers and works he explores. philosophy literary criticism IND

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) was a novelist, playwright, and biographer, and he is widely considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

Seagull Books 115 Tzvetan Todorov The Limits of Art Two Essays Translated by Gila Walker

zvetan Todorov, one of Europe’s leading intellectuals, ex- plores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics Tin the two essays that make up The Limits of Art. In “Artists and Dictators,” Todorov traces the intimate relationship between avant- garde art and radical politics in pre-revolutionary Russia, pre-fascist Italy, and pre-Nazi Germany. Todorov sets forth the radical idea that the project of totalitarian dictators and avant-garde artists actually Praise for Todorov “emerged from the same womb”: both artists and dictators set out to

“Like the authors he focuses on, Todorov is make it new—be it art or society. tolerant, understanding and wise.” Further troubling the role of art in the world at large, in “Art and —Observer Ethics” Todorov re-examines the age-old question of what can be expected from art and whether it should be emancipated from eth- The French List ics. Must art be morally instructive, or should it be self-sufficient and concept-free? The answer is not an either/or to Todorov, who believes,

October 96 p. 41/4 x 61/4 like Baudelaire, that art has both cognitive and ethical aspects to it— ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-62-0 even if it is presented as art for art’s sake. Cloth $15.00/£9.50 Philosophy Throughout the essays in The Limits of Art, Todorov insists on the IND essential need for artists to recognize, understand, and even love the world outside. “Todorov harbors no illusions about the mix of good and bad that enters into the fabric of all that is human. . . . He speaks throughout in his own voice, with rare breadth of sympathy and with a fine eye for the complexities of human experience.”—New Republic

Tzvetan Todorov is the author of The Conquest of America, Imperfect Garden, The New World Disorder, Memory as a Remedy for Evil, Torture and the War on Terror, and The Fear of Barbarians, among others. Gila Walker has translated more than a hundred works from French, including texts by Jacques Derrida, François Julienne, Yves Bonnefoy, and Georges Didi-Huberman.

116 Seagull Books André Gorz The Immaterial

Translated by Chris Turner

n The Immaterial, French social philosopher André Gorz argues, in his finely tuned and polemical style, that the economic boom I that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new, so-called knowledge economy. In this, the last full-length philosophical work Gorz completed before his death, he argues instead for the creation of a true knowledge economy. This economy would be based on zero-cost exchange and pooled resources, and knowledge would be treated as humanity’s com- Praise for Gorz mon property. Currently, in order to exploit knowledge and turn it into capital, the capitalist enterprise privatizes specialized knowledge and “A great figure of the intellectual Left.” —Nicolas Sarkozy claims ownership through private licenses and copyright. But as Gorz shows, the traditional foundations of such capitalist economics have “Gorz’s intelligence strikes you at the begun to crumble because of the immaterial nature of this new form very first glance: it is one of the nimblest, of product, which makes it almost impossible to measure in monetary acutest intelligences I know.” terms. The knowledge economy, Gorz declares, is the crisis of —Jean-Paul Sartre capitalism.

Thought-provoking and divisive, The Immaterial is the perfect book The French List for our time, as we begin to reimagine the structures of our economic system in order to rebuild and move forward. August 212 p. 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-61-3 “It is to Gorz . . . that readers should turn for a compelling combi- Cloth $19.95/£13.00 nation of sharp analysis, well-wrought polemic, and suggestions for the Philosophy IND future.”—Red Pepper

André Gorz (1923–2007), also known by his pen name, Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian-French social philosopher. He was the editor of Les Temps modernes and cofounded Le Nouvel Observateur, a leftist weekly. His other books include Socialism and Revolution, Farewell to the Working Class, and Ecologica, the last also published by Seagull Books. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

Seagull Books 117 Peter Weiss Hölderlin Translated by Jon Swan in collaboration with Carl Weber

he work of German poet Frederich Hölderlin (1770–1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers, from Paul Celan Tto Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Ni- etzsche. Despite the international renown and respect his hymns and elegies have since earned for their lyric style and innovative approach to Greek myth, his work was not widely celebrated during his lifetime. Diagnosed with a severe case of hypochondria at a young age, he was beset by mental illness for much of his life, living the final decades in the care of a carpenter. Though the details of Hölderlin’s life inspired the acute awareness of the lonely human condition that is at the center “One of the most significant works of of many of his poems, there has previously been no serious biography postwar German literature. . . . Exhilarat- of his life. ingly strange, compelling, and original. In Hölderlin, well-known German writer Peter Weiss finally brings Readers who dare to enter this demand- to the page the life and times of one of Germany’s greatest poets. ing verbal landscape will not come away Weiss explains that he was motivated “to describe something of the empty-handed.” conflict that arises in a person who suffers to the point of madness — Bookforum, on Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance from the injustices, the humiliations in his society, who completely supports the revolutionary upheavals, and yet does not find the praxis The German List with which the misery can be remedied.” The resulting biography is a powerful celebration of the intense and influential poems of Hölderlin and the life behind them. October 172 p. 5 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-72-9 Paper $14.95/£9.50 Peter Weiss (1916–82) was a German playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and biography IND painter. His works include the plays Marat/Sade and The New Trial and the novels The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman and The Conversation of the Three Walkers. Jon Swan is the author of two collections of poems and a collection of one-act plays. Carl Weber is professor emeritus of directing and dramaturgy at Stanford University.

118 Seagull Books Zurich Transit Sketch of a Film Max Frisch Translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte

This screenplay by Swiss playwright and reveal himself to them, and especially novelist Max Frisch was developed from not to his wife. “How does one say that an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein, he is alive?” wonders Theo. or A Wilderness of Mirrors. At the center Life, as Frisch said, “is the sum of of both works is Theo Ehrismann, a man events that happen by chance, and it who cannot seem to change his life no always could as well have turned out matter how many times he resolves to differently; there is not a single action do so. Chance comes to Theo one day or omission that does not allow for vari- upon returning from a trip abroad—he ables in the future.” Zurich Transit pres- arrives home to read his own obituary ents Frisch at the height of his dramatic in the paper. He shows up just in time powers and exemplifies his ardent belief for his own funeral and observes the at- in a dramaturgy of coincidence rather The German List tending mourners, yet he is not able to than causality. September 82 p. 5 x 81/2 Max Frisch (1911–91) was one of the giants of twentieth-century literature, achieving fame ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-63-7 as a novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist. His works include “Andorra,” I’m Not Stiller, Cloth $14.95/£9.50 Man in the Holocene, and Biography: A Game, the last also published by Seagull Books. Drama Birgit Schreyer Duarte is a freelance dramaturge, theater director, and translator. She has ind also translated works by Pascal Mercier and Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Unlikely Progeny Linda Quilt With Illustrations by Michael Sowa

In the tradition of Edward Lear, Hi- out loud—which just might doom some laire Belloc, and G. K. Chesterton, Lin- hated teachers to a grim fate. And then da Quilt’s imaginative fables recount there’s dear Norm—the poor fellow is the adventures of six bizarrely gifted so utterly normal that nobody can re- child prodigies who wreak havoc on member him, not even his own parents, their baffled families. Sweet Melinda, who wonder every day at the strange lit- for example, has a toad that hops out tle boy who comes home from school. of her mouth each time she tells a lie; These fantastic and creative tales, consequently, she’s fiercely committed with equally marvelous illustrations by to telling the truth even in the face of Michael Sowa, will capture the excite- fat aunts who eat too much cream cake ment of readers of all ages and have or pimpled boys who declare their love them debating whether these extraordi- to her. In another tale, shy Howab re- nary children are sly monsters or inno- Seagull World Literature alizes that he can make people disap- cent victims of their astonishing talents. pear simply by saying his own name September 132 p., 10 color plates 5 x 8 It is rumored that Linda Quilt was born in a small village near Stratford-upon-Avon, which ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-66-8 has since vanished mysteriously from the maps of Great Britain. German poet and edi- Cloth $21.95/£14.00 tor Hans Magnus Enzensberger was so impressed when he received Quilt’s unpublished Literature manuscript in the mail that he found a famous illustrator for her book and shepherded it ind to publication. Michael Sowa paints pictures and illustrates books; his collection of animal portraits, Arche Sowa, was published by Sanssouci. Seagull Books 119 Aimé CÉsaire A Season in the Congo Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

his play by renowned poet and political activist Aimé Césaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime Tminister of the Congo Republic and an African national- ist hero. A Season in the Congo follows Lumumba’s efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961. Césaire powerfully depicts Lumumba as a sympathetic, Christ-like figure whose conscious martyrdom reflects his

Praise for Césaire self-sacrificing humanity and commitment to pan-Africanism.

“One of the most powerful French poets of Born in Martinique and educated in Paris, Césaire was a revolu- the century.” tionary artist and lifelong political activist who founded the Marti- —New York Times Book Review nique Independent Revolution Party. Césaire’s ardent personal op- “Césaire [was] the greatest living poet in position to Western imperialism and racism fuels both his profound the French language.” sympathy for Lumumba and the emotional strength of A Season in the —American Book Review Congo. Now rendered in a lyrical translation by distinguished scholar The French List Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Césaire’s play will find a new audience of readers interested in world literature and the vestiges of European October 168 p. 5 x 8 colonialism. ISBN-13: 978-1-905422-94-4 Cloth $17.95/£11.50 “Patrice Lumumba’s tragically brief time in power, followed by his drama IND murder, is one of those pivotal, revelatory episodes of injustice that keeps echoing through the decades. Small wonder that it has inspired artwork, novels, films, and this haunting play, which it is splendid to have in a spirited new translation.”—Adam Hochschild, author of The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey

Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique. Though educated in Paris, he was deeply involved in the struggle for French West Indian rights. He is the author of several volumes of poetry and plays, includ- ing Putting in Fetters; Lost Bodies, Decapitated Sun; and The Tragedy of King Christophe. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor in the humanities at Columbia University.

120 Seagull Books Tramp Or the Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life Tomas Espedal Translated by James Anderson

“Why travel?” asks Tomas Espedal in dal contemplates what this ambulatory Tramp, “Why not just stay at home, in mode of travel has meant for great art- your room, in your house, in the place ists and thinkers, including Rousseau, you like better than any other, your own Kant, Hazlitt, Thoreau, Rimbaud, Whit- place. The familiar house, the requisite man, Giacometti, and Robert Louis Ste- rooms in which we have gathered the venson. In the process, he confronts his things we need, a good bed, a desk, a own inability to write from a fixed abode whole pile of books. The windows giv- and his refusal to banish the temptation ing on to the sea and the garden with its to become permanently itinerant. apple trees and holly hedge, a beautiful Lyrical and rebellious, immediate garden, growing wild.” and sensuous, Tramp entertainingly con- The first step in any trip or journey veys Espedal’s own need to explore on Seagull World Literature is always a footstep—the brave or curi- foot—in places as diverse as Wales and November 322 p. 5 x 8 ous act of putting one foot in front of Turkey—and offers us the excitement ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-68-2 the other and stepping out of the house and adventure of being a companion on Cloth $21.95/£14.00 onto the sidewalk below. Here, Espe- his fascinating and intriguing travels. Travel ind Tomas Espedal is a graduate of the University of Bergen and the author of several novels and prose collections, including Nearly Art. James Anderson’s literary translations from the Norwegian include Berlin Poplars by Anne B. Ragde, Nutmeg by Kristin Valla, and several books by Jostein Gaarder.

Wars I Have (Not) Seen Rosalind C. Morris

Do the relentless media images of the works, she explores the relationship military campaigns in Afghanistan and among war, the war on terror, and the Iraq convey a tangible picture of the hu- mass media, and she reflects on trans- man reality involved? Do they obstruct formations in the understanding and rather than bring into view the post- representation of the war throughout 9/11 world? Gertrude Stein wrote of the last decade. Wars I Have (Not) Seen her experiences in World War II under explores the technological structures the heading of Wars I Have Seen; in her that bind play and war in an uncomfort- answer, Wars I Have (Not) Seen, Rosalind able imitation of each other, and Morris C. Morris describes a world in which our traces appearances of war in contempo- everyday reality is insistently sealed off rary culture. Trenchant and reasoned, from the fact of war, despite the preva- these essays insist that we must look lence of media imagery. beyond our daily media dosage to fully 1 Gathered here are essays that Mor- understand the human and political dy- December 112 p. 4 /4 x 7 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-74-3 ris has been writing since the American namics being reconfigured today on a Cloth $20.00s/£13.00 invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. In these global scale. anthropology IND Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia, In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand, and New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography, and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures.

Seagull Books 121 Enacting Pleasure A Response to Carol Gilligan’s New Map of Love Edited by Peggy Cooper Davis and Lizzy Cooper Davis

In her book In a Different Voice, psy- In Enacting Pleasure, a distinguished chologist Carol Gilligan proffered the group of artists and scholars explores controversial idea that a psychology of the personal and political implications male development could not suffice as a of Gilligan’s account of pleasure and the psychology of all human development, human psyche. The contributors to this both male and female. Since the pub- volume come to Gilligan’s work with a lication of that revolutionary book and wide range of perspectives—from those her later work The Birth of Pleasure: A who view her ideas as Eurocentric, het- New Map of Love, which argued that the erocentric, Freudian, or anti-Freudian pleasure of love is a common human to others who see it as among the most denominator often repressed in a hier- advanced theories in neuroscience and archical culture, Gilligan has been rec- human biology, as well as a blueprint Enactments ognized by some scholars as a pioneer for progressive politics. As a whole, this

December 300 p., 2 halftones 6 x 9 of feminist thought and vilified by oth- diverse collection stands as a medita- ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-69-9 ers as an essentialist and a proponent of tion on the role that love plays in psy- Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 gender difference. chology, art, and politics. psychology ind Peggy Cooper Davis is the John S. R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics at New York University and the author of Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values. Lizzy Cooper Davis is a performance artist and doctoral candidate in African and African American studies and anthropology at Harvard University.

Conversations Across Borders Guillermo GÓmez-PeÑa Edited by Laura Levin

For the last fifteen years, performance vealing their significant contribution to artist and writer Guillermo Gómez- key debates within the international art Peña has led a series of ongoing con- world. versations with cultural luminaries Both bold and humorous, these from both North and South America. conversations address issues of timely These dialogues with theorists, cura- concern to artists, including border tors, activists, and fellow artists—such culture, new technologies, urban hip- as Lisa Wolford Wylam, Tim Miller, sterism, and globalization gone wrong. Felipe Ehrenberg, Orlando Britoo Jino- Conversations Across Borders explores dia- rio, Silvana Straw, and Rafael Lozano- logue as a performative act, as a radi- Enactments Hemmer, among others—explore the cal space for initiating and testing the terrain between art and theory. In Con- boundaries of critical culture. Togeth- December 452 p., 34 halftones versations Across Borders, Gómez-Peña er, these texts propose a distinct set of 1 1 7 /2 x 8 /2 has gathered the most challenging and critical practices that are invigorated by ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-50-7 Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 captivating of these conversations, re- the endangered art of conversation. art Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the United States in 1978, ind where he established himself as a performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. His other books include Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy and The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century. Laura Levin is assistant professor of theater at York University in Toronto. 122 Seagull Books Catastrophe in Indonesia Max Lane

In 1965 Indonesia had the largest com- movement. Consequently, the govern- munist movement in the world outside ment collapsed, opening the way for an of the Soviet Union and the People’s Re- extremely violent uprising in which over public of China. Indonesian President a million people were killed and tens Sukarno supported the movement and of thousands imprisoned. All left-wing was edging Indonesia towards social- ideas and activities were banned—and ism when a mutiny coordinated by D. remain so today. N. Aidit, chairperson of the Indonesian In Catastrophe in Indonesia, Lane Communist Party, was launched on the probes this massive and complicated last day of September 1965. The back- collapse of communism, providing a lash destroyed the movement. thorough and knowledgeable explana- As Max Lane describes in Catastro- tion of how the movement’s leadership phe in Indonesia, though Aidit’s attempt trapped itself in such a disastrous situa- to replace the anti-communist army tion. He then brings the story up to the What Was Communism? leadership was organized without the present, analyzing the overall impact October 102 p. 41/4 x 7 knowledge of the communist party, the on Indonesian politics and the re-emer- ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-67-5 army launched a subsequent propagan- gence of a new Indonesian left today. Cloth $15.00s/£9.50 da campaign against the communist Political Science Ind Max Lane is an independent scholar and activist with forty years of experience of Indone- sian and left-wing politics. He has translated Indonesian literature by Pramoedya Ananta Toer and W. S. Rendra and is the author of Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto.

Humanitarian Assistance? Haiti and Beyond Neil Middleton

Seeing the terrible and frightening Though the assistance offered includes scenes of death and distress in the after- providing food, water, medical care, and math of the recent earthquake in Haiti, shelter, the distribution of these needs many of us immediately responded by often involves armed forces who provide seeking ways to send help and were re- security and assist with logistics. Using assured when governments around the case studies from Somalia and Sudan, world offered to do the same. Popular both of which have been devastated by support for that sort of humanitarian internal wars, Middleton reveals that assistance rests on the assumption that though circumstances differ in every it is politically disinterested, purely phil- country that receives aid, by accepting anthropic, and responds to the needs the assistance each country becomes of the moment. However, in practice, similarly vulnerable to the donors’ inter- argues Neil Middleton, it is no such national policies and interests. This sur- Manifestos for the 21st Century. In Collabroration with Index thing. prising look at the intersection of global Censorship In this work, Middleton shows how philanthropy and politics will interest humanitarian assistance is driven by the concerned civilians and aid profession- December 96 p. 41/4 x 7 international politics of those countries als alike. ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-76-7 wealthy enough to mount aid programs. Cloth $14.95s/£9.50 political Science Neil Middleton has traveled with coalitions of scholars and officials to assess programs of Ind humanitarian assistance in such countries as Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sudan, and Somalia. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including, most recently, Negotiating Poverty: New Directions, Renewed Debate, and Rio Plus Ten: Politics, Poverty and the Environment. Seagull Books 123 Trust Money, Markets and Society Geoffrey Hosking

Mutual trust is an essential element of the result of a bubble of trust misplaced a globalized economy, and a market in financial markets and state welfare economy without trust leads only to fur- systems by individuals, companies, and ther disaster. If we want to ensure fu- governments alike. He carefully and ture stability, Geoffrey Hosking argues, approachably explains that the roots we must first understand the character- of this crisis go back more than three istics of this trust relationship—and to centuries, but its symptoms greatly in- that end he provides tools to seek out tensified as governments deregulated where socio-economic trust has been financial markets in the 1980s. misplaced and where it can be strength- “Among the most enlightening ened positively for the future. and informative accounts of what has Social and economic trust in the already been one of the most amaz- Manifestos for the 21st Century. United Kingdom and the United States ing peaceful revolutions in modern In Collaboration with Index on waned in the 1990s and exploded into a times.”—New York Times Book Review, Censorship major crisis of economic distrust in the on Hosking’s The Awakening of the Soviet December 92 p. 41/4 x 7 form of the credit crunch that began in Union ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-75-0 2007. The crisis, argues Hosking, was Cloth $14.95s/£9.50 Economics Geoffrey Hosking was professor of Russian history in the School of Slavonic and East Euro- ind pean Studies at the University of London from 1984 to 2007. He has written many books and articles on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, including The First Socialist Society and The Awakening of the Soviet Union.

History Thieves Zinovy Zinik

Coming from a thoroughly secular Sovi- In the entertaining and exhilarat- et background, the Russian-British nov- ing manner of the classic detective sto- elist Zinovy Zinik became fully aware of ry, Zinik’s narrative of assumed identity his Jewishness for the first time when and plagiarized past culminates in the he emigrated to Israel in the 1970s. In redemption that the acknowledgment this innovative autobiographical tale, of identity can offer. Zinik ultimately Zinik describes how an experience in concludes that this identity recognition Berlin—of seeing in reality a mysteri- is not only central to the twentieth- ous house he had dreamed about many century Jewish experience, or even the years before in London—led him to in- wider world of émigrés, exiles, and mi- vestigate the checkered and enigmatic grants of all kinds, but to the human past of his Russian-born grandfather. condition itself. To his surprise, Zinik discovered that Praise for Zinik Manifestos for the 21st Century. his grandfather, while ostensibly prac- “Zinovy Zinik makes you think and In Collaboration with Index on ticing as a doctor in Lithuania, had a he makes you laugh.”—New York Times Censorship hand in building the Soviet empire Book Review January 118 p. 41/4 x 7 from which Zinik had to escape fifty “A great comic gift and an intricate ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-78-1 years later. critical mind.”—Literary Review Cloth $14.95s/£9.50 Biography Zinovy Zinik is a novelist and broadcaster who has been living in the UK since 1976. He is IND editor and presenter of West End, a weekly radio show for the BBC Russian Service, and a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of many books, 124 Seagull Books including Mind the Doors, My Father’s Leg, and At Home Abroad. That’s Offensive! Criticism, Identity, Respect Stefan Collini

That’s Offensive! examines the common Collini’s ideas are timely and assertion that to criticize someone else’s controversial, addressing deep issues deeply held ideas or beliefs is inher- about identity and human agency. His ently offensive. This idea, Stefan Collini maxims—do not be so afraid of giving argues, is unfortunately reinforced by offense that you allow bad arguments two of the central requirements of an to pass as though they were good ones, enlightened global politics: treating all and do not allow your concern for the people with equal respect and trying to disadvantaged to exempt their beliefs avoid words or deeds that compound ex- from the kind of rational scrutiny to isting social disadvantages. In this pow- which your own must also be subject- erfully argued book, Collini identifies a ed—provide solid guiding principles for confused form of relativism and a well- dialogue in our world today. meaning condescension at the heart of “One of Britain’s finest essayists Manifestos for the 21st Century. In Collaboration with Index on such attitudes. Instead, Collini suggests and writers. . . . His style is capacious, Censorship that one of the most profound ways to fair-minded and unbuttoned, alert to show our respect for other people is by the quirks of personality and the con- January 82 p. 41/4 x 7 treating them as capable of engaging in flicts of creative restlessness.”—Times ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-79-8 Cloth $14.95s/£9.50 reasoned argument and thus as equals Higher Education Supplement, on Collini’s in intellect and humanity. Cultural Studies Common Reading ind

Stefan Collini is professor of intellectual history and English literature at the universities of Sussex and Cambridge. A frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and the Nation, Collini is also the author of Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain and Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics, among other books.

Who Do You Think You Are? The Search for Argentina’s Lost Children Andrew Graham-Yooll

Who Do You Think You Are? is a powerful threatening family identities. and startling look at our ideas of human Equally shocking, Graham-Yooll ar- identity as seen through the example gues, is that this practice of murder and of a generation of lost children born adoption was carried out in a country under Argentina’s military dictatorship with one of the highest levels of educa- from 1976 to 1983. As Andrew Graham- tion and the largest middle class in Lat- Yooll explains, the killings during the in America at the time. Though we may dictatorship were enacted under a par- want to believe that such atrocities can- ticularly chilling and conniving plan: A not happen again in enlightened societ- group of senior military officers drew up ies, the Argentine example argues oth- a policy of disappearing guerrilla rivals erwise. With Who Do You Think You Are?, and subsequently forcing the adoption Graham-Yooll weaves together ideas Manifestos for the 21st Century. of their orphaned children into the sup- from literary texts and studies of child- In Collaboration with Index on posedly more suitable families of the hood in order to define what exactly we Censorship ruling class. The goal of this practice mean when we speak of identity—who January 112 p. 41/4 x 7 was annihilation and cultural domina- we are, where we come from, and where ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-77-4 tion, the cancellation of unwanted and we belong. Cloth $14.95s/£9.50 political science Andrew Graham-Yooll was born in Buenos Aires of a Scottish father and an English mother. ind He is the author of nearly thirty books, including A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina’s Nightmare and The Forgotten Colony: A History of the English-Speaking Communities in Argentina. Formerly the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, he is now reader’s editor for Perfil in Buenos Aires. Seagull Books 125 Peter Barber and Tom Harper Magnificent Maps Power, Propaganda and Art

aps are often as much a visual art form as they are a practical tool for navigation. Of particular visual inter- Mest are display maps—maps that often used size and beauty to convey messages of regional and social status and power. Despite their historical significance, many of these display maps have been lost or destroyed over time. Magnificent Maps brings together the best surviving examples in order to illustrate their role in early modern Europe and describe the settings in which they were displayed. September 176 p., 100 color plates 1 9 /2 x 12 Most of the maps collected in Magnificent Maps date from the peri- ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5092-1 Cloth $45.00s od 1450 to 1800, the heyday of this approach to mapping. During their history NSA time, these maps were displayed in a range of settings, from palaces to schoolrooms to bedchambers, and Peter Barber and Tom Harper here offer vivid descriptions of their original settings and examine their dual roles as propaganda and art. Drawn from one of the greatest collections in the world at the British Library, many of these maps will be completely new even to experts. The unusual aspect of cartography presented in Magnificent Maps will appeal to collectors, historians, and mapmakers and users, as well as anyone curious about the many ways we have come to illustrate and define our world.

Peter Barber is head of map collections at the British Library and the author of many books, including The Map Book. Tom Harper is curator of antiquarian mapping, also at the British Library.

126 British Library Stephen v a n Dulken Inventing the 21st Century

rom the iPod to the Wii, the first decade of the twenty-first century has already brought us incredible inventions we could Fnot have imagined before, yet that have already changed how we live our lives and spend our free time. Although the twenty-first century is only beginning, the number of new patents that have been filed bears witness to the ongoing ingenuity of inventors around the world and the fact that technology is changing more rapidly than ever before. Following on the success of Stephen van Dulken’s previous surveys of invention, Inventing the 21st Century examines the leading inventions September 192 p., 100 line drawings 61/4 x 91/4 of this century, including the Blackberry, the teen-repelling Mosquito ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5802-6 Paper $17.95 Tone, the Segway, mixed-source DNA analysis, and E-book readers. Science Van Dulken is careful to describe both the technical aspects of the NSA inventions and the human interest stories behind them; to this end, he includes personal interviews with the inventors themselves, providing an engaging insight into how and why they came up with their unique ideas. Illustrated throughout with the original patents for the inventions, this absorbing and readable account of the amazing technological leaps already taken this century—and the creative inventors behind them—will be of interest to anyone fascinated by the world of modern technology and gadgets that surrounds us.

Stephen van Dulken is patents curator at the British Library. His previous books include Inventing the 19th Century, Inventing the 20th Century, and Inventing the American Dream.

British Library 127 The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath The British Library

Sylvia Plath is widely regarded as one of “Candles,” “Tulips,” “The Surgeon at 2 the most influential American authors a.m.,” and “Berck-Plage.” In addition, of the twentieth century. Her frank, con- the disc presents Plath discussing poetic fessional style of writing, combined with craft and her move to Britain, as well as her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes a significantly revealing interview with and her tragic suicide at age thirty have Plath and Hughes, in which they talk created an enduring literacy legacy and about their famous marriage and what public fascination. it means to live with your muse. This CD brings together BBC re- Many of these recordings are avail- British Library Sound Archive cordings from the British Library Sound able here for the first time, and together Archive and features Plath reading many they will be a must-have for fans of Plath July 1 compact disc and booklet of her poems, such as “Leaving Early,” and twentieth-century poetry. ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5102-7 Compact Disc $15.00 poetry NSA

The Spoken Word: Aldous Huxley The British Library

Best known for his dystopian novel at the effects of drug-taking on the writ- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley was a ing process; an excerpt in which Hux- prolific and respected author of many ley discusses his move from England to works of fiction and social satire. This California—which was due in part to CD presents recordings from the BBC his fear that many of the prophecies of archives spanning nearly thirty years of Brave New World had come true; and a Huxley’s career. conversation about Island that attempts The recordings include: a broad- to show how utopian ideals may be put cast on The Causes of War, in which Hux- into effect. British Library Sound Archive ley explains the psychological reason- Many of the recordings here have ing used by governments to encourage not been available since they were first July 1 compact disc and booklet people to fight; a discussion of Ape and broadcast, and they offer unique insight ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5103-4 Compact Disc $15.00 Essence, a fantasy about a future world into one of the most intriguing authors literature after biological and atomic war; a look of the twentieth century. NSA

128 British Library The Spoken Word: American Poets The British Library

This incredible three-CD set, drawn Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, from the archives of the BBC, captures Adrienne Rich, and Gregory Corso. the voices of poets from the twentieth Each of the thirty poets gathered here is century, one of the most prolific and sig- heard reading his or her own work. nificant periods in American writing. These unique broadcasts are a won- Capturing the enormous energy derful collector’s item for aspiring poets and variety in American poetry at this and fans of American poetry. time, the compilation includes record- “After spending a few hours reveling British Library Sound Archive ings of Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, in this diverse collection, there will be William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, voices in the listener’s head . . . the voices October 3 compact discs and Robinson Jeffers, Langston Hughes, of the women and men who shaped the 1 booklet ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5106-5 Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Archi- twentieth century with the written ver- Compact Disc $35.00 bald MacLeish, Ogden Nash, Theo- sions of their words.”—Chicago Tribune, poetry dore Roethke, John Berryman, Allen on The Spoken Word: American Writers NSA

The Spoken Word: British Poets The British Library

From Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Ted Larkin and Edwin Morgan. Other po- Hughes, this remarkable three-CD set ets included are Laurence Binyon, Rob- offers an audio tour of some of the ert Graves, Basil Bunting, Stevie Smith, greatest British poets from the last Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, century. Thirty poets are included in George Barker, David Gascoyne, King- all, each reading from their own work, sley Amis, and Thom Gunn. often with their own spoken introduc- The majority of the recordings are tions. taken from BBC broadcasts and are British Library Sound Archive The selection includes historic available here for the first time since recordings by Tennyson and Robert they were broadcast, making this the October 3 compact discs and 1 booklet Browning, and British Poet Laureates most authoritative and exciting audio ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5105-8 John Masefield, Cecil Day Lewis, and survey of a century of British poetry. Compact Disc $35.00

John Betjeman. There are unforgettable “A dream of the perfect literary poetry voices, such as Edith Sitwell and Dylan cocktail party.”—Lev Grossman, Time, NSA Thomas, and rare recordings by Philip on The Spoken Word series

British Library 129 The Golden Primer J. M. D. Meiklejohn With Illustrations by Walter Crane

First published in 1884, The Golden these useful lessons are accompanied Primer is a stunning example of Victori- by Crane’s charming and witty illus- an book illustration by one of the fore- trations, for which he continues to be most artists and illustrators of his day, known. Walter Crane. The primer uses meth- All the full-color illustrations are ods for teaching literacy that are still reproduced in this beautiful new fac- in use today, such as encouraging the simile edition, which presents side-by- child reader to interact with the words side illustrations and text. Back in print and pictures, pointing out the printed after over a hundred years, The Golden words as they see them in the pictures, Primer will be a treasured gift and an constructing these into sentences of excellent addition to any young reader’s September 64 p., 64 color plates rhyming verse, and counting how many collection. 6 x 9 times a word appears on a page. All of ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5805-7 Cloth $14.95s J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1830–1902) was a Scottish educator and the author of many textbooks Children’s on language and literacy. Walter Crane (1845–1915) was an artist and book illustrator and NSA part of the Arts and Crafts style of late Victorian illustrated literature that still influences nursery rhymes and children’s stories.

Grammar-Land Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire M. L. Nesbitt

Before the days of Schoolhouse Rock’s tion, and irksome Interjection—are jingles like “Conjunction Junction,” brought to trial by Judge Grammar to and silly English class acronyms like settle disputes over the rules of lan- the “Fan Boys,” there was the playful guage. Each part of speech is called primer Grammar-Land, which has been in turn to take the stand, where they teaching children (and adults in need are questioned by Doctor Syntax and of a refresher) the basic rules of Eng- Sergeant Parsing. In the course of the lish grammar since its first publication amusing trial, the reader, perhaps with- in the 1870s. out even realizing it, is exposed to the most important rules of grammar. September 124 p., 20 line drawings In the allegorical world of Gram- 5 x 7 mar-Land, the nine parts of speech— This charming facsimile edition ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5806-4 rich Mr. Noun, his useful friend Pro- once again brings the characters of Cloth $14.95s noun, little ragged Article, talkative Grammar-Land to life for the enter- Children’s Adjective, busy Dr. Verb and Adverb, tainment and edification of a new gen- NSA perky Preposition, convenient Conjunc- eration of adults and children alike.

M. L. Nesbitt is the author of several books for children, such as Harold’s Choice; Or, Boy- hood’s Aims and Manhood’s Work and Charlie’s Choice.

130 British Library Rudyard Kipling The Cat that Walked by Himself and other stories

riginally collected in Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories in 1902, The Cat that Walked by Himself is one of the best-loved Ocat tales ever written. It is a story of the beginning of domes- ticated life: Man meets Woman and they move into a cave and set up the first household. Dog, Horse, and Cow come out of the Wild Woods and become tame. But Cat refuses, “I am not a friend and I am not a September 80 p., 10 drawings 4 x 6 servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself and all places are alike to ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5809-5 Cloth $12.95 me.” Woman makes a bargain with Cat to allow him to come into the Literature NSA cave and sit by the fire and drink milk. But when night comes, he is once again the Cat that walks by himself. The contrast between the cozy, domestic world and the cold, dark outdoors where the cat still has his freedom make this a compelling tale and a fun take on the independent feline character. This beautiful book is illustrated with the original pen-and-ink drawings by Kipling, including the iconic picture of the cat “walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods and waving his wild tail”. This edition also offers three other favorite children’s stories told by Kipling, “How the Camel Got His Hump,” “The Elephant’s Child,” and “How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.” This charming book is the perfect gift for children, cat lovers, and Kipling fans alike.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was one of the most popular writers in English of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the youngest and the first English-speaking Nobel laureate.

British Library 131 British Butterflies A History in Books David Dunbar

Drawing on over six hundred publica- est discovery and naming of butterflies tions, including Thomas Moffett’s The in the British Isles to contemporary Theatre of Insects, published in 1634, scientific works on ecology and conser- and modern-day guides and scientific vation. Throughout, British Butterflies is resources, David Dunbar’s unique and illustrated with color reproductions of expansive book is the first to trace a fine prints from old butterfly and insect four-hundred-year history of the ap- books, images of lepidopterists’ col- pearance and discussion of British but- lecting equipment and other scientific terflies in books. artifacts, and examples of distribution British Butterflies opens with a brief mapping techniques. account of the growing interest in but- Concisely written and beautifully terflies in the sixteenth century that led illustrated, British Butterflies is a wonder- July 176 p., 60 color plates, 20 halftones 7 x 10 amateur naturalists to collect and pub- ful addition to the history of the book ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5096-9 lish their observations. Dunbar then and a striking look at one of nature’s Cloth $75.00s examines the entire spectrum of but- most delicate and ephemeral crea- nature terfly-related literature, from the earli- tures. NSA David Dunbar is a lepidopterist, writer, photographer, and antiquarian bookseller. His pre- vious publications include Saving Butterflies: A Practical Guide to the Conservation of Butterflies in Great Britain and Ireland, and he is the editor of Glorious Butterflies and their Flora.

Secret Songs of Birds The Hidden Beauty of Birdsong Revealed The British Library

Secret Songs of Birds invites us to listen to these remarkable compositions. Even the hidden beauty of birdsong. Many experienced ornithologists are often remarkable songbirds produce songs not able to grasp the complexity of the that astound us with their complex- songs by simply listening. ity and speed of delivery. Though such On this disc, however, the original sounds as the duets of the Pacific Wren, recordings are played alongside digital- the loud symphony of the Skylark, the ly mastered versions where the natural

July 1 compact disc and booklet babbling mimicry of the Icterine War- speed has been slowed down to reveal ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5104-1 bler, and the acrobatic range of the the subtle intricacy of each song in its Compact Disc $15.00s Grey Fantail never fail to impress, it is full splendor. This unusual approach to nature almost impossible for the human ear to birdsong will delight anyone fascinated NSA distinguish the wealth of hidden notes by the extraordinary range of birdsongs and surprising melodies that make up around the world.

132 British Library The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Early Medieval World Michelle P. Brown

The Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illu- “The Lindisfarne Gospels” and the minated at the beginning of the eighth Early Medieval World brings together his- century, is one of the most outstanding torical, archaeological, paleographical, masterpieces of early medieval Euro- and theological perspectives to explore pean book painting. It was the creation and understand the full significance of of just one person, Eadfrith, who was this magnificent undertaking. Lavishly Bishop of Lindisfarne, and is a precious illustrated with full-page color repro- testament to the tenacity of Christian ductions of the essential pages of The belief during one of the most turbulent Lindisfarne Gospels and incorporating periods of British history. Costly in time new research on relations between the and materials and superb in design, the British Isles, continental Europe, and October 160 p., 100 color plates manuscript is an artistic and religious the Near East during the early Middle 81/2 x 111/2 world treasure. Although written in Ages, this book is a fantastic resource ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5801-9 Latin, the manuscript also contains the that celebrates both the beauty and the Cloth $45.00s oldest surviving translation of the Gos- historical significance of the original medieval History art pels into English, added to the manu- manuscript. NSA script around 970.

Michelle P. Brown is professor of medieval manuscript studies at the University of London; she was formerly curator of illuminated manuscripts at the British Library. Her recent pub- lications include The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe; Painted Labyrinths: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels; Pagans and Priests: The Coming of Christianity to Britain and Ireland; and In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000.

A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library and Other Libraries in the United Kingdom Vrej Nersessian

This catalog identifies and describes phy. There is an entry for each of the the Armenian manuscripts acquired manuscripts described that gives full since 1913 and held in the British Li- details—a description of the physical brary’s extensive collection, as well as object and its present condition, includ- thirteen other significant and previous- ing the binding, provenance, contents, ly uncatalogued collections in libraries and details of any illustrations con- and museums in the United Kingdom, tained. The catalog also contains twen- including the Bodleian Library and ty-four pages of color images of minia- John Rylands University Library in tures contained in the manuscripts. Manchester. Intended as a reference work for November 2 volumes, 1352 p., Vrej Nersessian’s introduction pro- scholars, this comprehensive volume is 24 color plates 8 x 10 vides a short history of each of the col- the only listing of its kind and will stand ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-4905-5 lections, followed by a chapter outlin- as a major achievement in Armenian Cloth $250.00x ing the sources of Armenian iconogra- studies for many generations. reference NSA Vrej Nersessian is head of the Christian Middle East section at the British Library. His pre- vious books include Catalogue of Early Armenian Books 1512–1850, Armenian Illuminated Gospel Books, The Bible in the Armenian Tradition, and Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art, all published by the British Library.

British Library 133 Edited by the Bodleian Library The First English Dictionary of Slang, 1699

With an Introduction by John Simpson

t’s a shame that so many very apt words fall out of common use over time, like “blobber-lippd,” which means having lips that are Ivery thick, hanging down, or turning over; and “chounter,” which is to talk pertly, and sometimes angrily. Both words can be found in The First English Dictionary of Slang, originally published in 1699 as October 224 p. 5 x 73/4 A New Dictionary of Terms, Ancient and Modern, of the Canting Crew, by ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-348-8 Cloth $25.00 B. E. Gentleman. Though a number of early texts, beginning in the Reference NAM sixteenth century, codified forms of cant—the slang language of the criminal underworld—in word lists which appeared as appendices or parts of larger volumes, the dictionary of 1699 was the first work dedicated to slang words and their meanings. It aimed to educate the more polite classes in the language and, consequently, the methods, of thieves and vagabonds, protecting the innocent from cant speakers and their activities. This dictionary is also the first that attempts to show the overlap and integration between canting words and common slang words. Refusing to distinguish between criminal vocabulary and the more ordinary everyday English of the period, it sets canting words side by side with terms used in domestic culture and those used by sailors and laborers. With such a democratic attitude toward words, this text is genuinely a modern dictionary, as well as the first attempt by diction- ary makers to catalog the ever-changing world of English slang. Reproduced here with an introduction by John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, describing the history and culture of canting in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as the evolution of English slang, this is a fascinating volume for all who marvel at words and may wish to reclaim a few—say, to dabble in the parlance of a seventeenth-century sailor one day and that of a vagabond the next.

134 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Re-announcing William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Michael Phillips

o work has challenged its readers like Blake’s The Mar- riage of Heaven and Hell. Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell”—by Nturns iconoclastic, bizarre, and unprecedented—have been employed as the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Most extraordinary, though, is the revo- lutionary method Blake employed in making the physical book. The Bodleian Library holds one of the first copies that Blake printed using a technique he called “illuminated printing,” and it is the only work in which he signifies its importance. This new facsimile edition of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell includes a plate-by-plate guide to the texts, interlinear figures, and larger designs in a commentary accompanying the transcript of each “This edition of one of Blake’s most potent reproduced plate. Drawings from Blake’s manuscript notebook, which and provocative books will give great were used as a basis for the designs, as well as working proof impres- pleasure both to Blake enthusiasts and to sions, are also included, demonstrating the evolution of the work. This those new to his work.” edition also reproduces a single plate from each of the other eight —Tracy Chevalier surviving copies, revealing how over a period of more than thirty years Blake altered the way he finished each copy. An introduction explores 1 the book’s literary and historical background, Blake’s printing process, november 136 p., 30 color plates 6 x 9 /4 ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-341-9 and the book’s anonymous initial publication. Cloth $80.00x ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-366-2 This expertly edited work is available for students and scholars in Paper $25.00s POETRY ART paperback and for collectors in a special hardcover edition. Both NAM versions allow Blake’s vision to reassert its breathtaking power.

Michael Phillips is a reader in the Department of English and Related Litera- ture, University of York. He is also the author of William Blake: The Creation of the Songs, from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing.

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 135 Planting Paradise Cultivating the Garden, 1501–1900 Stephen Harris

Beautifully illustrated, Planting Paradise cultivating exotic plants had spread charts the evolution of the cultivation of to all levels of society. As global gardens from the sixteenth to the nine- exploration took Europeans all over teenth centuries. In this age of discov- the world, gardens became a tapestry ery, when the world was being explored of many diverse botanical histories— as never before, gardening itself took some plants were native, some were in- on new dimensions. The Renaissance troduced from foreign lands, and oth- belief in direct observation of nature ers were bred in the garden. Planting NOVEMBER 196 p., 53 color plates offered an alternative way of thinking Paradise shows how the garden became 10 x 10 and inspired the scientific approach of a symbol of human interactions within ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-343-3 Cloth $50.00s the Enlightenment, and soon gardens the botanical world. Gardening were no longer just places of beauty, A lovely gift book for garden NAM but also laboratories for scientific inves- lovers, Planting Paradise showcases the tigation. superb collection of botanical illustra- Planting Paradise reveals how the tions in the Plant Sciences Department botanic gardens of early modern Eu- and Bodleian Library, University of rope were largely viewed as a means Oxford, and presents a handsome and of supplying surgeons with medicines, fascinating look at the history of the gar- but by the seventeenth and eighteenth den from the picturesque to the practi- centuries the interest in gardens and cal and back again.

Stephen Harris is Druce Curator of the Oxford University Herbaria and university research lecturer at Green College. He is the author of The Magnificent Flora Graeca, also published by the Bodleian Library.

An Englishwoman in California The Letters of Catherine Hubback, 1871–76 Edited by Zoë Klippert

Catherine Hubback (1818–77) was the An Englishwoman in California within the daughter of Sir Francis Austen and the exciting history of their time, including niece of Jane Austen. Like her aunt, the aftermath of the Gold Rush and the Hubback was a novelist, publishing ten completion of the transcontinental rail- books between 1850 and 1862. In 1870, road, as well as the hardships of fires, however, she emigrated to the United earthquakes, drought, bank failure, and States, settling in Oakland, California. depression. Hubback’s correspondence This volume collects the many letters is honest and uncensored, referring she sent to her eldest son, John, a Liver- freely to family anxieties and financial pool grain broker, and his wife, Mary. difficulties, yet it is nonetheless upbeat These letters offer an articulate com- and engaging in its truthfulness. mentary on life by a Victorian woman This illuminating portrait of a november 304 p., 14 halftones trying to find her place in the dramatic 51/2 x 81/2 transitional era in both the life of one ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-344-0 new world of a still rapidly growing and woman and the history of a country will Cloth $50.00s changing California. interest fans of both English and Amer- History Zoë Klippert presents the letters in ican history and culture. NAM Zoë Klippert is a freelance editor who lives in Moraga, California.

136 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Shelley’s Ghost Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family Stephen Hebron and Elizabeth C. Denlinger

It is difficult to think of a family more Stephen Hebron and Elizabeth C. endowed with literary genius than the Denlinger chart the history of this Shelley family: from the Romantic talented yet troubled family. After poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s drowning in novelist Mary Shelley, to Mary’s 1822, Mary published various manu- parents, William Godwin and Mary scripts relating to both her husband’s Wollstonecraft—all were authors of and her father’s lives, and passed this lasting influence. Using extensive ar- historical legacy to her son, Sir Percy chival material, Shelley’s Ghost explores Florence Shelley, and his wife, Lady the making of this remarkable literary Jane Shelley. As guardians of the family’s reputation. archive until they bequeathed it to the Drawing on the Bodleian Library’s Bodleian in 1892, Sir Percy Florence December 176 p. 71/5 x 94/5 outstanding collection of letters, and Lady Jane helped shape the post- ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-339-6 poetry manuscripts, rare printed books, humous reputations of these writers. Paper $35.00s portraits, and other personalia— An unparalleled look at one of biography including Shelley’s working notebooks, the most significant families of British NAM Keats’s letters to Shelley, William Romantic literature, Shelley’s Ghost will Godwin’s diary, and the original manu- be welcomed by scholars and the many script of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein— fans of this enduring literacy legacy.

Stephen Hebron has published widely in the field of Romanticism and curated a series of exhibitions at the Wordsworth Trust in Cumbria, England. His previous publications include John Keats: A Poet and His Manuscripts. Elizabeth C. Denlinger is curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library and the author of Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era.

A Facsimile Edition of The Vernon Manuscript A Literary Hoard from Medieval England Edited by Wendy Scase

The Vernon Manuscript, produced some- full-color facsimile with images of time between 1390 and 1400, is one of each page of the manuscript, visible the greatest treasures of early English at high magnification, and a complete literature and one of the most fre- transcription of the text with quently studied literary manuscripts hyperlinks that allow for searches across of medieval England. It contains the text. Also included are essays on over three hundred and fifty Middle the contents, production, decoration, English texts, among them Piers and language, as well as a complete Plowman, the Ancrene Riwle, the South glossary of descriptive terms. Providing Bodleian Digital Texts English Legendary, the Prick of Conscience, an unprecedented degree of access and the Miracles of the Virgin. to this remarkable manuscript, this october For the first time, the entire edition will be a valuable resource for ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-329-7 manuscript is available in an inno- specialists and students in medieval DVD-ROM $100.00x vative, highly accessible DVD-ROM literature and art and the history of Institutional Site License ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-333-4 format. The DVD-ROM contains a the book. $325.00xx Poetry Wendy Scase is the Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the NAM University of Birmingham. She is also the author of Piers Plowman and the New Anticlericalism and New Medieval Literatures, among other books. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 137 Edited by Thomas Kramer New York in Postcards 1880–1980 The Andreas Adam Collection With Essays by Andreas Adam, Paul Goldberger, and Kent Lydecker

October 560 p., 900 color plates 9 x 11 ew York is a global icon—the quintessential metropolis. Over ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-713-6 Cloth $65.00s three centuries it has morphed from the colonial fur trad- photography art History UK/EU Ning hub of New Amsterdam into one of the most vibrant and exciting cities on earth. The history of the Big Apple has been documented many times over in many diverse ways, including books, photographs, and songs. But in this lavish, beautiful volume, Thomas Kramer offers a new perspective, telling the story of New York through Andreas Adam’s vast collection of rare picture postcards that recount the city’s changing identity and culture over the last century. The nine hundred well-preserved, vintage cards in New York in Postcards 1880–1980 bring to life the look and feel of their eras in con- cise visual statements. The cards’ striking prints, organized by subject and geographic area, vividly depict every aspect of New York City over the centuries: the Native American village that became Manhattan; nineteenth-century street scenes; famous architectural landmarks; lush gardens; cars and trains; and historical events. The images themselves are a fascinating mélange of artistic media. There are archival pho- tographs, as well as paintings and drawings that represent a range of styles, from art nouveau to neo-objectivism, naturalism, and pop art. The book is rounded out with essays by Paul Goldberger, the New Yorker’s renowned architecture critic, and art historian Kent Lydecker on the visual narrative and the architectural history of New York and the cultural history of the picture postcard.

Thomas Kramer is managing director and chief editor of Scheidegger & Spiess.

138 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess Edited by Hilar Stadler Eduard Spelterini and the Spectacle of Images The Coloured Slides of the Pioneer Balloonist With Essays by Hilar Stadler, Anton Holzer, Jürgen Bleibler, and Christophe Brandt Praise for Eduard Spelterini—Photographs of a Pioneer Balloonist

wiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini (1852–1931) lived an extraor- “By reminding us of the many obstacles he dinary life. Born the son of an innkeeper and beer brewer in a overcame, the editors have performed a Sremote village in the Toggenburg area of Switzerland, Spelter- valuable service. Spelterini mastered his ini achieved international fame when he became the first aeronaut to risky profession, steering these whimsi- fly over the Swiss Alps in 1898. Over the next two decades, Spelterini cal vehicles through all kinds of weather, navigated his balloon through the skies of Europe, Africa, and Asia, without killing himself or others during and over such sites as the Great Pyramid of Giza and the gold mines of more than 550 flights. By unearthing pho- South Africa. tographs that continue to excite our gaze, Spelterini remains an important figure today because of his this book restores the forgotten aeronaut achievements in aerial photography. Seeking images to illustrate his to his deserved place as a pioneer of lectures, he began taking a camera along with him on his expeditions luxurious travel across the heavens.” —Richard B. Woodward, in 1893, and his breathtaking photographs quickly became the talk of New York Times Europe.

A complementary volume to Eduard Spelterini—Photographs of a “Beautiful black-and-white bird’s-eye Pioneer Balloonist, this new book presents a selection of Spelterini’s views—a great treat for lovers of never-before-published colored slides, offering readers an altogether adventure stories.” new look at the spectacular work of this pioneer of photography and —Eyemazing aviation.

August 208 p., 100 color plates, Hilar Stadler is director of the Museum im Bellpark in Kriens, Switzerland. 40 halftones 9 x 111/2 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-303-9 Cloth $55.00s Photography UK/EU

Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 139 Photographs by Roger Eberhard Edited by Walter Keller Wilted Country With Essays by Anthony Bannon and Benedict Wells

n the years following World War II, the National Highway System began to expand into the American West, improving trade and Ibringing with it tourists from the East Coast. Along these new thoroughfares grew small communities hoping to cash in on this sud- den influx. But by century’s end, many of these upstart communities had failed, and huge numbers of their residents had left in search of

September 100 p., 50 color plates another livelihood. 81/2 x 111/2 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-306-0 But what happens to these communities when all the people have Cloth $55.00s Photography travel disappeared? In late 2008 Swiss-born and American-educated photog- UK/EU rapher Roger Eberhard set out on a road trip to find out. With camera in tow, Eberhard journeyed from Reno to Montana, on to North and South Dakota, then south to Texas. Along the way he encountered— and captured on film—several remnants of a once-bustling past, from toppled water towers and boarded-up businesses to abandoned homes hidden behind overgrown lawns. Eberhard’s resulting images explore the enduring impact that humans have on their landscape and simul- taneously offer an evocative tour through the past and present of the storied American West. Wilted Country collects the best of Eberhard’s images in a single vol- ume and complements them with critical essays on the artist’s craft by Anthony Bannon, the director of the George Eastman House Interna- tional Museum of Photography and Film, and Benedict Wells, a young German novelist.

Roger Eberhard is a freelance photographer who divides his time between Berlin and Zürich. Walter Keller is a freelance publicist and manager of the Walter Keller Gallery in Zürich. He is the former director of Scalo Publishers in Zürich and New York.

140 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess Edited by agps architecture Open Ended 17 Short Stories on Architecture With Essays by Benjamin Muschg, Denise Bratton, Verena Doerfler, and Claude Enderle and Photographs by Andrea Helbling

ridging the domains of urban design, infrastructure, land- scape, and architecture, agps architecture approaches Bproblem solving as a collaborative enterprise, exploring the re- lationship between idea and practice and emphasizing the importance of the functional, technical, economic, environmental, and aesthetic in design and construction methods. December 192 p., 100 color plates, The firm has designed multiple projects in America and Europe 20 halftones 61/2 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-718-1 for government bodies and educational institutions, as well as several Cloth $65.00s Architecture structures for commercial and residential use. Their projects in the UK/EU United States include the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, lunch shelters for the Los Angeles Unified School District, storefronts in Los Angeles’s Korea Town, private residences in California, and the Port- land Aerial Tram. Open Ended is the first comprehensive survey of the projects imag- ined and completed by agps architecture. Complete with color photo- graphs of each of the projects, floor plans, sections, and elevations, as well as several essays that delve into frequently overlooked aspects of architectural design, this stunning volume serves as both a portfolio and a sort of exploration of latent, but recognizable traits that are as much a part of the buildings as their physical manifestation.

Founded in 1982, agps architecture is a multidisciplinary design cooperative with studios in Los Angeles and Zürich.

Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 141 Pirate Silk The History and Design Archive of Abraham Ltd. Edited by the Swiss National Museum ZÜrich

Textiles are one of Switzerland’s oldest 1943, when Gustav Zumsteg became a industries, and one of the biggest names partner, and finally to 2002, the year in Switzerland’s silk trade has been Abraham Ltd. ceased operations. The Abraham Ltd. Pirate Silk: The History second volume presents illustrations of and Design Archive of Abraham Ltd. draws the designs, patterns, and samples of from the vast archives that are now the fabrics produced by Abraham Ltd. kept at the Swiss National Museum in but also images of the elegant dresses Zürich to document the fascinating his- created from their fabrics—dresses tory of this influential enterprise. The from such couturiers as Coco Chanel, first volume tells the firm’s story, from Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent. 1878, when Jakob Abraham became a Together these stunning volumes will partner in the Zürich-based business bring to life a chapter in the history of Two-Volume Set Königsberger, Rüdenberg & Co., to fashion worldwide. January 416 p., 700 color plates, 50 halftones 9 ½ x 12 The Swiss National Museum was founded by the Swiss Confederation in 1891 and opened ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-725-9 in Zürich in 1898. It contains Switzerland’s largest collection of objects regarding the cul- Cloth $125.00s Art UK/EU tural history of Switzerland. The permanent exhibition covers all periods, from prehistory to the twenty-first century. Volume 1: History January 160 p., 100 color plates, 10 halftones 9 ½ x 12 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-724-2 Cloth $65.00s Art UK/EU Volume 2: Design Archive January 256 p., 600 color plates, 40 halftones 9 ½ x 12 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-313-8 Cloth $110.00s Art UK/EU

Earth Extremes 9 Projects Made of Space and Time Christian Waldvogel Edited by Jacqueline Burckhardt

“When producing works of art, the art- to examine our world within the solar ist judges a piece’s themes from a point system. In Top of the World, for example, of view that is characteristic of his be- Waldvogel imagines approaching the liefs and the perspective that he takes Earth from another galaxy, as though on things. In many cases, this point of he were an alien traveling from another view is set outside the system the piece planet. In another, Waldvogel imagines is about.” Galileo’s fate had he been given the op- So writes artist Christian Waldvogel portunity to observe the Earth from the in Earth Extremes, a collection of nine of Moon. Combining science with art and his projects from the past six years. For imagination, Earth Extremes offers read- the pieces in Earth Extremes, Waldvogel ers a glimpse of what it’s like to travel September 304 p., 200 color plates 81/2 x 121/2 situates his point of view in space, us- through the final frontier. ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-305-3 ing photography and digital imagery Cloth $85.00s Art Christian Waldvogel is an architect, artist, and musician living in Switzerland. Jacqueline UK/EU Burckhardt is an art historian and contributor to various books and art journals. She is coeditor of Parkett art magazine in Zürich.

142 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess Bianca Brunner Gap in the Real Edited by Bündner Kunstmuseum With Photographs by Bianca Brunner and an Essay by Katharina Ammann

Bianca Brunner is a young Swiss pho- flect on the power of sudden, momen- tographer whose work has gained con- tary absorption to arrest and change siderable international recognition and our experience of daily life—characters acclaim. Brunner’s haunting photos— and sets embodying a hypnotic aesthetic for which she uses neither artificial akin to that which may be found in, say, light nor flashes—captivate viewers a painting of a mostly empty interior by with their imaginative character, de- Wilhelm Hammershoi, or in the subver- picting models and self-constructed sive sense of memory and possession in sets that seem as fragile and ephemeral a surrealist film. The young Swiss pho- as dreams. Bianca Brunner: Gap in the tographer’s contemplative images of Real is the first book dedicated solely individuals looking as anonymous and to Brunner’s work. It features full-color abandoned as the interior and exterior January 80 p., 50 color plates 81/2 x 11 reproductions of approximately fifty of environments in which they are framed ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-309-1 Brunner’s never-before-published pho- are remarkable for their uncanny, al- Cloth $55.00s tographs, as well as a critical essay by most mystically Spartan demeanor.” photography curator Katharina Ammann. —Lupe Nunez-Fernandez, Saatchi On- UK/eu “Bianca Brunner’s enigmatically line TV Magazine simple photographic compositions re-

Bianca Brunner is a photographer living in London. Her work is represented in the perma- nent collections of the Aperture Foundation in New York, the University Art Collection in London, and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland.

rosalie Light-Art rosalie With Essays by Armin Köhler, Michael Merin, Jörg Müller-Quade, and Peter Weibel

The work of German artist and stage use of new technologies and materials designer rosalie is marked by the inno- to create large kinetic light sculptures, vative transgression of limits. Her work or, as she calls them, “new universes of has been shown in galleries and muse- light.” rosalie Light-Art presents several ums across Germany and has been fea- of these light-art projects, revealing in tured in several international art fairs, steps how each piece was conceived and including Art Basel, Art Cologne, and then constructed. Accompanying the Art Frankfurt. In addition, rosalie has 350 color illustrations are a DVD and gained particular recognition with op- essays by authors in physics and musi- era and theater audiences for her stage cology exploring the relationships be- and costume designs. tween science and art. December 256 p., 350 color plates, But in recent years rosalie has made 1 DVD 101/2 x 13 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-308-4 rosalie is a professor at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach, Germany. In 2008 Cloth $160.00s she was awarded the European Foundation for Culture’s European Culture Prize. art UK/eu

Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 143 Rift / Gap / Hinge A Edited by Heinrich Dunst and Walter Pamminger In collaboration with Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna With Essays by Heinrich Dunst, Walter Pamminger, Rainer Bellenbaum and Sabeth Buchmann, Patricia Grzonka, Elisabeth Madlener, and Rosemarie Schwarzwälder

Rift / Gap / Hinge A documents an tween visual art, film, and literature. internationally recognized exhibition This catalog features works from artists that appeared in 2006 and 2007 at the worldwide, including American-born Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie artists John Baldessari, Louise Lawler, Schwarzwälder in Vienna, one of Eu- and Christian Marclay. rope’s most eminent venues for contem- Comprising seventy photographs of porary art. Curated by the Austrian artist the artworks and the exhibition, as well Heinrich Dunst, Rift / Gap / Hinge A col- as detailed descriptions of the pieces on lected works that explore the difference display and an introductory essay, this between the visible and the expressible book creates a lively panorama of Amer- August 228 p., 208 color plates and trace the illuminating relation be- ican and European contemporary art. 8 x 101/2 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-301-5 Heinrich Dunst Walter Pamminger Paper $55.00s is an artist and curator living in Vienna. is an author, book designer, chemist, and curator also living in Vienna. art UK/EU

Il Girasole. A House Near Verona A Film by Christoph Schaub and Marcel Meili With Essays by Marcel Meili and Christoph Schaub

On the slope of a hill in northern Italy’s fers an inside look into Casa Girasole, Po Basin stands Casa Girasole. Built in guiding audiences across the grounds the early 1930s by the Italian architects and through the various rooms of the Angelo Invernizzi and Ettore Fagiuoli, villa, which has been entirely preserved this villa exemplifies the Italian style in its original state. Filmmaker Chris- Futurismo in architecture. But what toph Schaub and architect Marcel Meili makes Casa Girasole truly extraordi- provide not just a history of this archi- nary is its ability to follow the sun across tectural feat but also a survey of the pe- the sky, rotating using an electric mo- riod in which it was conceived. tor and providing its occupants with The DVD is complemented by a a panoramic view of the surrounding booklet with introductory essays and landscape. illustrations and will appeal to anyone August 48 p., 16 color plates, The award-winning documentary interested in twentieth-century archi- 10 halftones, 1 DVD 6 x 8 film Il Girasole. A House Near Verona of- tecture. ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-906-2 Cloth $45.00s Christoph Schaub is one of Switzerland’s most accomplished filmmakers. His numerous architecture films include dramas, comedies, and documentaries. Marcel Meili is a senior partner at UK/EU Meili Peter Architects and professor of architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s ETH Studio Basel.

144 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess Caroline d e Guitaut Fabergé’s Animals A Royal Farm in Miniature

n 1907 King Edward VII and his consort, Queen Alexandra, commissioned Peter Carl Fabergé to create miniature hard- Istone carvings of all the animals on their sprawling country estate at Sandringham in Norfolk. Domestic or wild, each creature was to be rendered in hardstone adorned with rose diamonds, emeralds, and rubies by the celebrated Russian goldsmith and November 120 p., 150 color plates 8 x 8 jeweler, whose name was already synonymous the world over with ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-12-4 Cloth $24.95 opulence and grandeur. art USCA Fabergé’s Animals takes the reader on a dazzling tour of the Sandringham commission—the largest collection of Fabergé’s hardstone animal carvings in existence. The book brings the magic of this miniature menagerie to life with photographs, sketches, and other documentary material—some never before seen—from both the Russian and royal archives. Along with a historical introduction to the royal patronage behind the commission, this stunning volume includes information on Fabergé’s workshops and carvers and the materials and special techniques they employed. With more than 150 lavish full-color photographs—many newly commissioned—Fabergé’s Animals is a resplendently beautiful book.

Caroline de Guitaut is Assistant Curator of the Queen’s Works of Art and Assistant to the Director of the Royal Collection.

Royal Collection Publications 145 Lucinda Lambton The Queen’s Dolls’ House

rom simple one-room cottages to multilevel castles, doll- houses have long been treasured by children and adults Falike. In an ever-expanding array of sizes and styles, they may be closely modeled on reality or wildly whimsical. Few, how- ever, approach the splendor of the royal dollhouse on display at Windsor Castle. With running water, electricity, two working October 120 p., 200 color plates 8 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-26-1 elevators, and many other delights, there can be no question that Cloth $24.95 Architecture art this is a dollhouse fit for a queen. USCA This lavishly illustrated volume offers a detailed history of the creation, decoration, and furnishing of this extraordinary doll- house. Commissioned in the 1920s for Queen Mary and designed by renowned architect Sir Edwin Luytens, the house is a perfect scale replica of an Edwardian residence, complete in every detail. Its library boasts original works by the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, and Edith Wharton. Its wine cellar is replete with tiny bottles containing thimblefuls of real vintage wine. And, naturally, its tiny residents eschew pink convertibles in favor of the fleet of elegant Rolls Royce limousines housed in the miniature garage. These and hun- dreds of other charming features are lovingly detailed in color, with extensive use of material from the royal archives, illustrating for the first time the contributions of the artists, craftspeople, and donors involved in its creation. An imaginative tour of this smallest and grandest of aristocratic residences, which receives thousands of full-sized visitors each year, The Queen’s Dolls’ House is full of surprises that will captivate toy collectors, miniaturists, and fans of the royal family alike.

Lucinda Lambton is a writer, photographer, and broadcaster well known for her much-loved books on architectural oddities.

146 Royal Collection Publications The Queen’s Year A Souvenir Album David Oakey

The Queen’s Year opens the Queen’s formal and informal events within the calendar to all for the first time with Queen’s year. Two hundred and fifty a season-by-season description of the color illustrations accompany the text, engagements that make up a year in making this both a history and a mag- the life of Queen Elizabeth II. From nificent visual exploration of a year in Buckingham Palace garden parties the life of the Queen. Offering fans a to Remembrance Sunday, from Royal rare insider’s point of view, The Queen’s August 120 p., 250 color plates 8 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-34-6 Ascot to visits from heads of state, this Year contains a wealth of insight into Cloth $19.95s royal agenda comprises all, explaining the life and work of the monarch and art biography the history and significance of both royal court today. USCA

David Oakey is Assistant to the Deputy Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art at the Royal Collection.

Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen Vanessa Remington

The reign of Queen Victoria spanned sand pieces of this collection from lead- a period of dramatic technical advance ing miniaturists of the time—all newly in the art of portrait painting, and her photographed for this catalog. Descrip- patronage helped drive the growth of tions and genealogical tables cast light the art form. Yet by the close of the on the central role miniatures occupied nineteenth century, the photograph in sustaining Victoria’s contact with her had usurped the role of the portrait extended family throughout Europe, miniature, and the number of practitio- particularly in the etiquette surround- ners had dwindled almost to nothing. ing bereavement. The first detailed The Royal Collection houses one treatment of Victorian-age portrait of the largest groups of portrait min- miniatures, this catalog traces the last iatures in existence. Here, in two large great flourish of the art form. volumes, are the more than one thou-

Vanessa Remington is Assistant Curator of Paintings in the Royal Collection. She is a specialist in portrait miniatures. DEcember 2 volumes, 864 p., 1200 color plates 91/2 x 124/5 ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-23-0 Cloth $295.00x

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Royal Collection Publications 147 John Willis Views from the Reservation With an Essay by Kent Nerburn

rofessor and photographer John Willis is well aware of the exploitation that sometimes occurs when photogra- “This is a beautiful, painful book: a phers enter impoverished communities for a project. So, soulful reminder of a dark part of our P in 1992, when he first traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation past and present; an elegant road in the southwest corner of South Dakota, he assured the elders of the to a better future.” —Ken Burns Oglala Lakota Sioux that he would not be exhibiting any of the images he took while there. Over time, however, Willis earned the respect and

“Views from the Reservation is amazing— trust of the community, and the elders—hoping that the photographs incredible pictures and heartfelt stories might bring aid to their community—urged him to show his work. perfectly told. This is not only a terrific The product of several visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, photo book, but also a very important Views from the Reservation is meant to open our eyes, minds, and hearts one, telling a story needing to be told to the life, culture, and conditions of the Oglala Lakota people. With and preserving a significant piece of our his insightful and complex images Willis enlists several other voices history. Every photograph is a classic: to offer a more complete story: writer Kent Nerburn, who contributes carefully seen, lovingly captured, and an orginal essay; Lakota elders and Pine Ridge High School students, painstakingly executed.” who offer poems; Emil Her Many Horses, the associate curator of the —Henry Hornstein, National Museum of the American Indian; Kevin Gover, the Assistant Rhode Island School of Design Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; and Oglala Lakota art- ist Dwayne Wilcox. Accompanying the book is Heartbeat of the Rez, a September 184 p., 36 color plates, compact disc collecting traditional songs compiled by the author, the 80 halftones, 1 compact disc 10 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-12-2 elders, and KILI, the radio station of the reservation. Cloth $50.00/£32.50 Photography “John Willis’s book looks to redefine a special place—the Pine Ridge Reservation—and, in doing so, offers a new model for tackling the issues of place, communities, and history. The mix of Willis’s photographs, historical and archival images, student poetry, artifacts, documents, and essays constitute a very rich assemblage. With such diversity, we can only attempt to negotiate a knowing and be open to things we do not expect to see.”—Linda Connor, San Francisco Art Institute

John Willis is professor of photography at Marlboro College and coauthor of Recycled Realities, also published by the Center for American Places. His photo- graphs have appeared at the George Eastman House Museum, High Museum of Art, Library of Congress, National Museum of Native Americans, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other places. 148 Center for American Places The Himalaya Encounters with the Roof of the World David Zurick

For more than thirty-five years, David and politics of the Himalaya region. Zurick—one of the world’s foremost ex- Each chapter moves effortlessly be- perts and writers on the Himalaya—has tween the journal-like immediacy of been trekking this remote, dramatic re- the author’s experiences and the back- gion and documenting its magnificent ground framing—whether ecological geographical features. In this, his third or cultural—that locates it. Even bet- book on the Himalaya, Zurick offers a ter, Zurick moves beyond description different and more personal appraisal to raise issues of a more philosophi- of the region, detailing his own intimate cal sort: the preconceptions of the re- experiences with the environment and search process and its transformation the people who live there. In a clear, by experience, the politics of commodi- conversational style, Zurick covers a fication and tourism among indigenous “David Zurick stands alone in his wide array of topics, from the interplay people, and alternative possibilities of knowledge of the entire Himalaya. of different religions in Kathmandu to ‘development.’ Throughout the book I know of no person today who the economic and social changes trans- is the consistent exploration of change piring in Bhutan to the fragile frontier and the anchoring of that exploration has such a command of breadth of Tibet. in the researcher’s experience and of knowledge over such a great “Zurick provides a rich, if under- reappraisals.”—Tom Fricke, University region.” stated, course on the geology, history, of Michigan —Nigel J. R. Allan, University of California, Davis David Zurick is the Foundation Professor of Geography at Eastern Kentucky University. His six books include Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World and Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya. December 192 p., 54 color plates 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-930066-96-0 Cloth $39.95s/£26.00

Nature The Place of Religion in Chicago “A detailed study of Chicago’s religious landscape, one that is Wilbur Zelinksy and Stephen A. Matthews illustrative of the diversity that exists at the national scale. It With The Place of Religion in Chicago, sociologists, and anthropologists—but will certainly make an important Wilbur Zelinsky and Stephen A. Mat- also to anyone with an interest in Chi- contribution to the study of reli- thews provide the first detailed, system- cago and its heritage. atic geographical study of the religious “The Place of Religion in Chicago is a gion in America—such an in-depth landscape of Chicago. Zelinsky and clearly written account of a little-studied examination of an urban area’s Matthews have scoured the city—from aspect of American landscape. Based religious geography is original the South Side to the West Side to the on unique field surveys and supported and a welcome addition to the North Side—to document and inves- by photographs, tables, and beautifully literature.” tigate the locations and traits of the crafted maps, the book will form a last- —M. Beth Schlemper, various houses of worship, as well as the ing contribution to our understanding University of Toledo congregations that sustain them. Their of an overlooked element of the Ameri- account is rounded out with photo- can urban scene: the religious land- December 224 p., 52 halftones, graphs, color maps, and tables, making scape of a major metropolis.”—Peter 91 maps 81/2 x 11 this volume valuable to geographers, Haggett, University of Bristol ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-15-3 Cloth $65.00s/£42.00

Wilbur Zelinsky is professor of geography emeritus at Penn State University and the author Religion of more than a dozen books, including The Cultural Geography of the United States. Stephen A. Matthews is associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and demography and director of the Geographic Analysis Core in the Population Research Institute at Penn State University.

Center for American Places 149 My Kind of Countryside Finding Design Principles in the Land Roger G. Courtenay

“When walking, or perhaps more rarely these experiences in his sketches. when sauntering on horseback, one is “The landscape is personal, wheth- in direct contact with surroundings, re- er it is an urban, suburban, rural, or wild ifying a connection to natural rhythms. place. It arouses the senses and engen- To forget the season, soil, and sky is to ders an emotional response that links deny existence.” So writes renowned a person to it in a thousand intimate landscape architect Roger G. Courtenay ways. And each landscape is a unique in My Kind of Countryside. Whether walk- combination of cultural, historical, and ing the Piedmont of Virginia, canoeing biophysical forces, offering those who the French Broad River near Asheville, look for the endless wonder beneath the North Carolina, driving along the Blue surface of current development an en- My Kind of . . . Ridge Parkway, or exploring Thomas riching experience that fuses the past, Jefferson’s Academical Village, Cour- present, and future. Roger Courtenay is December 192 p., 32 line drawings tenay turns to his local countryside for such a time traveler. . . . My Kind of Coun- 7 x 9 inspiration. In My Kind of Countryside tryside blends calligraphy-like drawings, ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-16-0 Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 Courtenay delves into the nuances of poetry, and descriptive vignettes to in- his craft, inviting us to share his en- nature travel struct us in the structure, vocabulary, counters with a myriad of landscapes and meaning of place.”—John Warfield and revealing how he then interprets Simpson, author of Visions of Paradise

Roger G. Courtenay is a principal and vice president of EDAW. His projects include the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.; the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center; and the Mount Vernon Orientation Center, Education Center, and Museum.

Tanagras. Figurines for Life and Eternity The Musée du Louvre’s Collection of Greek Figurines Violaine Jeammet

Named for the city in Greece where they collections of Tanagra figurines. were first discovered in the 1870s, Tana- This stunning exhibition catalog is gra statuettes are an elegant example the most current publication in English of ancient Greek terra-cotta sculpture devoted to the Tanagras. Showcasing the from the fourth and third centuries BC. Louvre’s prestigious collection of figu- Mainly found in tombs in this city, the rines, Tanagras includes new research small statuettes take many forms, mostly carried out by the world’s leading schol- girls but also young men, children, old ars of Hellenistic art and culture. The es- women, and sometimes deities. In Ath- says examine the meaning and purpose ens, they were also used in sacred con- of the statuettes in ancient Greece and texts and are believed to have had a reli- the artistic and technical skill involved Available 300 p., 400 color plates, gious significance. The “tanagrean” style in the making of such handicraft. Tana- 22 halftones, 3 maps, 1 table spread throughout the Mediterranean gras presents a beautiful and informed 91/2 x 113/4 ISBN-13: 978-84-8471-171-1 basin. Today, the Louvre houses one of look at one of the masterly achievements Paper $35.00s/£22.50 the world’s largest and most complete of classical Greek art. ART ESP Violaine Jeammet is senior curator in the Louvre’s Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities and organizing curator of two exhibitions on Tanagra figurines. Published with the assistance of Fundación Bancaja

150 Center for American Places Musée du Louvre Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan Katherine R. Tsiang With Contributions by Richard A. Born, Jinhua Chen, Albert E. Dien, Lec Maj, Nancy S. Steinhardt, Daisy Yiyou Wang, J. Keith Wilson, and Wu Hung

Carved into the mountains of northern University of Chicago’s Center for the China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xi- Arts of East Asia. Using such twenty-first- angtangshan were the crowning cultural century technologies as 3-D scanning, achievement of the sixth-century North- Tsiang and an international team of ern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnifi- technicians and scholars have identified cent array of limestone sculptures, the many of the dispersed sculptures from caves were heavily damaged during the Xiangtangshan in an effort to shed new first half of the twentieth century, and light on the original beauty and mean- much of the work housed there was lost ing of the cave temples. This exhibition to the international art market. catalog features entries with full-color October 192 p., 160 color plates, The exhibition Echoes of the Past— illustrations of the works in the exhibi- 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map 9 x 12 co-organized by the University of Chi- tion, as well as six new essays discussing ISBN-13: 978-0-935573-50-3 cago’s Smart Museum of Art and the the artistic, historical, and religious sig- Paper $40.00s/£26.00 Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. nificance of the caves and their sculp- art Sackler Gallery—draws upon the find- tures and recent research dedicated to ings of a multiyear research project their digital reconstruction. headed by Katherine R. Tsiang at the

Katherine R. Tsiang is associate director of the Center for the Arts of East Asia at the University of Chicago.

The Tragic Muse Art and Emotion, 1700–1900 Anne Leonard With Contributions by Glenn W. Most, Sarah Nooter, Thomas Pavel, and Joyce Cheng

Art is often appreciated for its ability to guished scholars to examine the richly delight our eyes and refresh our minds. varied representation of tragedy in the But it can also serve as a powerful vehi- European artistic tradition over the cle for exploring darker emotions, such course of two centuries. This catalog is as fear, sadness, and grief. And while generously illustrated with full-color re- these themes have an artistic history productions of all the works contained dating back to the ancients, the ways in in the exhibition, and the fascinating which they have been represented in art contributions offer new insights into have changed dramatically over time. the approaches taken by the visual arts, Published to coincide with an exhi- as well as literature and drama, in ex- pressing and eliciting strong emotions. December 128 p., 75 color plates bition at the Smart Museum of Art, The 8 x 11 Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700–1900 ISBN-13: 978-0-935573-49-7 draws on the work of several distin- Paper $30.00s/£19.50 art Anne Leonard is curator and Mellon Program coordinator at the Smart Museum of Art and a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago 151 Edited by David A. Cooke When Your Doctor Says . . .

n this era when doctors are ever busier—and harder to reach with questions—patients are turning to other sources for answers Iabout the problems they face. But it is difficult to know where to turn to find the most reliable and up-to-date information on a specific health condition, and evaluating the vast number of sources available can take countless hours and be quite costly. The When Your Doctor Says series from KWS Publishers offers the latest in research in afford- able paperback editions, each volume dedicated to a single medical condition. When Your Doctor Says . . . Breast Cancer discusses what to expect if you have just received a diagnosis of breast cancer. It explains the different kinds and stages of breast cancer and how the proper diag- nosis can guide appropriate treatment choices. Treatment options and suggestions for coping with the side effects of these treatments are included. The book also features facts about follow-up care, planning Breast Cancer for the future, and the prevention of cancer recurrence.

October 350 p. 6 x 9 When Your Doctor Says . . . Diabetes offers authoritative information ISBN-13: 978-0-7808-1169-0 Paper $29.95s/£19.50 about what to expect if you have been recently diagnosed with type 1, MEDICINE type 2, or gestational diabetes. It discusses the roles of insulin, medi- cations, nutrition, and lifestyle adjustments in disease management. Diabetes The book also features details about preventing complications, and it October 350 p. 6 x 9 reports on recent research and innovations in treatment. ISBN-13: 978-0-7808-1167-6 Paper $29.95s/£19.50 When Your Doctor Says . . . Heart Disease provides practical guid- MEDICINE ance about what to do if you have suffered a heart attack or received Heart Disease a diagnosis of a heart condition. It explains the diagnostic tests and monitoring procedures used to evaluate heart function and describes October 350 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-7808-1168-3 the various medications used to regulate heart rhythm, lower blood Paper $29.95s/£19.50 pressure, control cholesterol, and improve the efficiency of the heart. MEDICINE Lifestyle issues related to restoring heart health are also reviewed.

David A. Cooke is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and currently works in the University of Michigan Health System.

152 KWS Publishers Ruffner’s Allusions Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary Third Edition Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., and Laurence Urdang

Widely known to professional research- in paperback for the first time, this new ers, writers, and editors, Ruffner’s Allu- edition contains 3,500 new entries— sions is a thematic dictionary that traces making a grand total of 13,000 allusion the cultural, literary, religious, and entries divided into 730 thematic cate- historical allusions found in the works gories—and will be a helpful, authori- of Shakespeare; the Bible and other re- tative resource for students and general ligious texts; Greek mythology; Ameri- readers interested in understanding the can, European, and Eastern legends; meaning of the many allusions found in and in music, the arts, business, com- everyday reading and speech. ics, movies, radio, and television. Now September 1000 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-7808-1170-6 Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., is the founder of the publishing companies Gale Research, Omni- Paper $45.00s/£29.00 graphics, and OmniData. He is the creator of several series of reference books, including reference Contemporary Authors and Directory of Foundations. Laurence Urdang (1927–2008) was a renowned lexicographer and the author or editor of more than one hundred reference books and books on language.

The Last Word The English Language: Opinions and Prejudices Laurence Urdang

In The Last Word, noted lexicographer and ambiguity; language and culture; Laurence Urdang offers what would be taboo, slang, informal, and colloquial his final reflections on the state of the language; good and bad writing; care- English language. Finished just before lessness and other bad habits; language his death in 2008, The Last Word cov- and computers; pronunciation; and sev- ers a wide range of topics, including eral others. This reference will appeal political, social, and grammatical cor- to all students of the English language, rectness; word origins; connotation from high school on up.

Laurence Urdang (1927–2008) was a renowned lexicographer and the author or editor of more than one hundred reference books and books on language. September 304 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-7808-1171-3 Paper $19.95s/£13.00 reference

KWS Publishers 153 Candice Black Ghosts of the Black Chamber Experimental, Dada and Surrealist Photography 1918–1948

hotography is most often thought of as a way to document Solar Art Directives reality—to capture true-life experiences as they occur. But for the artists of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, November 136 p., 200 halftones 1 1 P 8 /2 x 8 /2 who placed the very question of reality and its perception at the center ISBN-13: 978-0-9820464-4-9 Paper $29.95/£19.50 of their works, the camera’s lens functioned as a creative extension of photography the imagination—a third eye attuned to unconscious meaning—and the photograph was an index of signs that could be modified, simulta- neously recording the everyday and exposing new meanings beneath its surface. Ghosts of the Black Chamber presents numerous examples of this fantastic vision in an illustrated directory of experimental photog- raphy from 1918 to 1948. Ghosts of the Black Chamber presents over two hundred photographic images by revolutionary and iconic artists of the time. In addition to the photographs, which exemplify not only Dadaism and Surrealism, but also lesser-known movements such as Futurism and Vorticism, the book also includes profiles of the fifty well-known artists featured, including Dalí, Bellmer, Breton, Ernst, Magritte, and Man Ray. This comprehensive and stunning collection is both a wonderful introduction to midcentury experimental art and a must-have for fans of the Surrealists and Dadaists.

Candice Black is an author, translator, and editor specializing in Surrealist studies. She graduated from Warwick University in England and currently lives in Tokyo.

154 Solar Books Odilon Redon I Am the First Consciousness of Chaos The Black Album Edited and with an Introduction by Candice Black

rench artist Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was a key precursor Solar Nocturnal of Surrealist thought. A contemporary of the Impressionists, November 208 p., 250 halftones Redon instead chose to align himself with literary Symbolism, 81/2 x 81/2 F ISBN-13: 978-0-9799847-5-4 as evidenced by his friendship with poet Stéphane Mallarmé and his vi- Paper $29.95/£19.50 sual interpretations of the decadent texts of such writers as Baudelaire, art Flaubert, Poe, and others. I Am the First Consciousness of Chaos collects Redon’s key “noirs,” as he called his works in black—lithographs, etch- ings and charcoals—that evidence the artistic lineage from Symbolism to Surrealism. Never previously available in a single volume, the majority of Redon’s noirs—over 250 illustrations—are finally collected here, along with illuminating excerpts from the texts that inspired their creation, including work by J. K. Huysmans, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and St. John the Divine, as well as an autobiographical introductory essay by Redon himself. Within the pages of this dark and bizarre collection are grotesque and oneiric images: giant and sun- dered eyes, fantastic cannibal shadows, skeletal harbingers of dread, and the nebulous phantasms that erupt from the night. I Am the First Consciousness of Chaos is an extraordinary gathering of art sprung from the unique mind of Redon and motivated by some of the nineteenth century’s most influential literature.

Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon, was a native of Bor- deaux, France. His works can be found in the collections of such museums as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Mod- ern. Candice Black is an author, translator, and editor specializing in Surreal- ist studies. She graduated from Warwick University in England and currently lives in Tokyo.

Solar Books 155 Hijikata: Revolt of the Body STEPHEN BARBER

Hijikita: Revolt of the Body examines Hijikata’s family and all of his surviv- the life and work of Tatsumi Hijikata ing collaborators, this is the only book (1928–86), who invented a revolution- to focus exclusively on Hijikata and ary performance art and dance known his work, including his interest in Eu- as Ankoku Butoh, or “Dance of Dark- ropean art and figures such as Genet, ness.” The Butoh style of performance Artaud, Sade, and Lautréamont, as well and movement premiered in Japan in as the Japanese Surrealist movement. It 1959 and developed in subsequent years also provides a unique, in-depth analy- in response to the student riots and the sis of Japanese avant-garde culture of 1960s protest movement. Hijikata is the the 1960s—including film, visual art, supreme figure in the last half-century and literature—in direct relation to Hi- of Japan’s experimental culture, and jikata’s performance pieces. he remains a seminal and inspirational Butoh and Hijikata’s performance “A brilliant and illuminating study of presence for Japanese artists, choreog- art continue to grow in popularity and Hijikata and the Japanese avant- raphers, filmmakers, musicians, and appreciation around the world, and this garde.” writers. text is the definitive study of Hijikata —Donald Richie Based on extended interviews with and his radical art.

Stephen Barber is a maverick cultural historian once described by the Independent as “the Solar East most dangerous man in England.” He is the author of more than twenty books, including Edmund White: The Burning World and Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space. He currently September 144 p., 30 halftones lives in Berlin. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-9820464-3-2 Paper $19.95/£13.00 art

Sadism and Masochism The Psychopathology of Sexual Cruelty Wilhelm Stekel Translated by Domino Falls

First published in English in 1929, Sa- include such paraphilias as vampirism; dism and Masochism remains one of the cannibalism; necrophilia; castration most important books of sexology, a and amputation complexes; genital masterwork of psychoanalysis docu- mutilation; bestiality; impalement fan- menting and defining the spectrum of tasies; crucifixion complexes; urola- fetishes and psychosexual disorders. gnia and coprophilia; anal fetishes; and The culmination of research by Wil- whippings, beatings, and blood. helm Stekel, a psychologist who was an This new translation is an acces- early follower of Freud, Sadism and Mas- sible, streamlined edition that presents ochism describes some of the most dis- the case histories in an approachable turbing, violent, and extreme instances format for scholars and others curious Solar Asylum of sexual perversion ever recorded. The about the dark list of human sexual sixty-four case histories reprinted here behaviors. October 392 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-9820464-5-6 Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940) was a psychologist of Polish origin whose influential works in- Paper $19.95/£13.00 clude Auto-erotism: A Psychiatric Study of Onanism and Neurosis and The Interpretation of Dreams: sexuality New Developments and Technique. Domino Falls previously translated Psychopathia Sexualis, and she currently lives in Berlin.

156 Solar Books Edited by John Berra Directory of World Cinema American Independent

ith high-profile Academy Award nominations and an increasing number of big-name actors eager to sign on to W promising projects, independent films have been at the forefront in recent years like never before. But the roots of such critical and commercial successes as The Hurt Locker and Precious can be traced to the first boom of independent cinema in the 1960s, when a raft of talented filmmakers emerged to capture the attention of a rapidly Directory of World Cinema growing audience of young viewers.

A thorough overview of a thriving area of cultural life, Directory of August 350 p., 50 halftones 7 x 10 World Cinema: American Independent chronicles the rise of the indepen- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-368-4 Paper $25.00 dent sector as an outlet for directors who challenge the status quo, yet Film Studies UK/EU/ANZ still produce accessible feature films that not only find wide audiences but enjoy considerable box office appeal—without sacrificing critical legitimacy. Key directors are interviewed and profiled, and a sizeable selection of films are referenced and reviewed. More than a dozen sub-genres—including African American cinema, queer cinema, documentary, familial dysfunction, and exploitation—are individually considered, with an emphasis on their ability to engage with tensions inherent in American society. Copious illustrations and a range of research resources round out the volume, making this a truly compre- hensive guide. At a time when independent films are enjoying considerable cul- tural cachet, this easy-to-use yet authoritative guide will find an eager audience in media historians, film studies scholars, and movie buffs alike.

John Berra is a writer and researcher specializing in contemporary film stud- ies. He is the author of Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production and the editor of Directory of World Cinema: Japan. He is also a contributor to magazines, including Electric Sheep and Film International.

Intellect Books 157 Directory of World Cinema Australia and New Zealand Volume 1 Edited by Ben Goldsmith and Geoff Lealand

This addition to Intellect’s Directory of level of government involvement and World Cinema series turns the spotlight funding, and relations with other coun- on Australia and New Zealand and of- tries and national cinemas. Through fers an in-depth and exciting look at the essays about prominent genres and cinema produced in these two countries themes, profiles of directors, and com- since the turn of the twentieth century. prehensive reviews of significant titles, Though the two nations share consid- this user-friendly guide explores the di- erable cultural and economic connec- versity and distinctiveness of films from tions, their film industries remain dis- Australia and New Zealand from Whale tinct, marked by differences of scale, Rider to The Piano to Wolf Creek.

Directory of World Cinema Ben Goldsmith is a senior researcher at the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School and a research fellow at the University of Queensland. Geoff Lealand is associate professor October 350 p., 50 halftones 7 x 10 of screen and media studies at the University of Waikato. ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-373-8 Paper $25.00s Film Studies UK/EU/ANZ

Directory of World Cinema Russia Edited by Birgit Beumers

Be they musicals or melodramas, war the former Soviet Union. Introductory movies or animation, Russian films essays establish key players and situate have a long and fascinating history of important genres within their cultural addressing the major social and politi- and industrial milieus, while reviews cal events of their time. From Sergei and case studies analyze individual Eisenstein’s anti-tsarist drama The Bat- titles in considerable depth. For the tleship Potemkin, to socialist realism, to film studies scholar, or for all those who the post-glasnost thematic explosion, love Russian cinema and want to learn this volume explores the sociopoliti- more, Directory of World Cinema: Russia cal impact of the cinema of Russia and will be an essential companion.

Birgit Beumers is a reader in Russian at the University of Bristol. Her most recent publica- Directory of World Cinema tions include A History of Russian Cinema and, with Mark Lipovetsky, Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama. She is also editor of Intellect’s journal Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. December 350 p., 50 halftones 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-372-1 Paper $25.00s

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158 Intellect Books Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde A History of the Future Toni Sant

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New now established names in contempo- York–based arts organization whose rary art. mission is to preserve, document, and Here, for the first time, is a com- present works of avant-garde art by prehensive history of this remarkable emerging artists—particularly those organization from its conception to the whose works may be vulnerable due to present. Organized around the major institutional neglect or politically un- art genres that emerged in the second popular content. Over more than thirty half of the twentieth century, this book years, Franklin Furnace has exhibited intersperses first-person narratives with October 160 p., 45 halftones 7 x 9 works by hundreds of avant-garde art- readings by artists and scholars on is- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-371-4 ists, some of whom—Laurie Anderson, sues critical to the organization’s suc- Paper $25.00s Vito Acconci, Karen Finley, Guillermo cess, as well as Franklin Furnace’s many art Gómez-Peña, Jenny Holzer, and the contributions to avant-garde art. UK/EU/ANZ Blue Man Group, to name a few—are

Toni Sant is a lecturer in performance and creative technologies at the University of Hull’s School of Arts and New Media.

The Blind Edited by Alfredo Cramerotti With Images by Renhui Zhao and Text by Hyacinth Messam

Images of animals are all around us. Yet principle that an object vanishes from the visibility offered by wildlife photog- sight if light rays striking it are not re- raphy can’t help but contribute to an flected, but are instead forced to flow image of the animal as fundamentally around as if it were not there. In fifty separate from the human. But how can stunning color photographs, this vol- we get closer to animals without mak- ume shows the cloak tested in nature ing them aware of us or changing their reserves, grasslands, and urban envi- relationship to their environment? ronments. By taking the human out of The Blind might be the answer. the picture, The Blind offers an oppor- Critical Photography Developed for naturalists by the Insti- tunity to explore how we see animals in October 128 p., 50 color plates 9 x 9 tute of Critical Zoologists, the Blind is photography. ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-362-2 a camouflage cloak that works on the Paper $50.00s

Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator, and artist based in the United Kingdom. Photography nature UK/EU/ANZ

Intellect Books 159 Berliner Chic A Locational History of Berlin Fashion Susan Ingram and Katrina Sark

Since becoming the capital of reunit- charts the turbulent stories of entrepre- ed Germany, Berlin has had a dose of neurially savvy manufacturers and cul- global money and international style tural workers striving to establish their added to its already impressive cultural city as a fashion capital and being re- veneer. Once home to emperors and peatedly interrupted by politics, ideol- dictators, peddlers and spies, it is now ogy, and war. There are many stories to a fashion showplace that attracts the tell about Berlin’s fashion industry, and young and hip. Moving beyond descrip- Berliner Chic tells them all with consider- tions of Berlin’s fashion industry and able expertise. its ready-to-wear clothing, Berliner Chic

Susan Ingram is associate professor and coordinator of European Studies at York November 256 p., 20 halftones 7 x 9 University. Katrina Sark is a PhD student in the Department of German Studies ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-369-1 at McGill University. Paper $35.00s design UK/EU/ANZ

Europe and Love in Cinema Edited by Luisa Passerini, Jo Labanyi, and Karen Diehl

Europe and Love in Cinema explores the Through the international distribution relationship between love and Europe- process, these films in turn engage with anness in a wide range of films from the ideas of Europe from both outside and 1920s to the present. A critical look at within, while some, treated extensively the manner in which love—in its broad- in this volume, even offer alternative est sense—is portrayed in cinema from models of love. A bracing collection of across Europe and the United States, essays from top film scholars, Europe this volume exposes constructed no- and Love in Cinema demonstrates the tions of “Europeanness” that both set centrality of desire to film narrative Europe apart and define some parts and explores multiple models of love of it as more “European” than others. within Europe’s frontiers.

Luisa Passerini is professor of cultural history and cofounder of the Interdepartmental December 256 p., 40 halftones 7 x 9 Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Turin. Jo Labanyi is professor in the ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-379-0 Department of Spanish and Portuguese and director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Paper $35.00s Center at New York University. Karen Diehl earned a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and now works in film. Film Studies UK/EU/ANZ

160 Intellect Books New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema Edited by Cacilda M. RÊgo and Carolina Rocha

As part of a raft of neoliberal economic This comprehensive and accessible reforms in the early 1990s, Brazilian volume surveys Brazilian and Argentine president Fernando Collor de Mello cinematic production from its subse- and Argentine president Carlos Menem quent dramatic rebirth to the present. eliminated long-standing state financial It addresses not only the commercially support for cinema. National film pro- successful films but also the effects of duction, distribution, and exhibition globalization and cultural policies on were deeply affected by the absence of public incentives for filmmaking. An the entire structure and legislation on indispensable resource for students of which they had relied for decades. By film and cultural studies, New Trends in the mid-1990s, however, new laws were Argentine and Brazilian Cinema is more- passed reestablishing subsidies and over an exciting glimpse into a momen- November 320 p. 7 x 9 credit lines—and allowing for a rebirth tous period in recent cinematic history. ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-375-2 of national cinema in both countries. Paper $35.00s Film Studies Cacilda M. Rêgo is an associate professor at Utah State University. Carolina Rocha is an UK/EU/ANZ assistant professor at Southern Illinois University.

Streets of Crocodiles Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland Katarzyna Marciniak and Kamil Turowski With an Introduction by J. Hoberman

This powerful presentation of photo- ly one million people. Photographer graphs of Poland from the late 1980s Kamil Turowski’s monotones are capti- to the present depicts the hybridized vating—seeming to conceal a looming landscape of this pivotal Eastern Euro- threat—while Katarzyna Marciniak’s pean nation following its entry into the accompanying text expands on the European Union. A visual record of the photos and the “crocodilian” texture of country’s transition from socialism to contemporary Eastern Europe. A walk October 128 p., 30 color plates, capitalism, it focuses on the industrial on the wild side, Streets of Crocodiles cap- 35 halftones 7 x 9 blue-collar city of Lódz—located in the tures viscerally the changing landscape ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-365-3 heart of New Europe and home to near- of postsocialist Poland. Paper $50.00x European History photography Katarzyna Marciniak is associate professor of transnational studies in the English depart- UK/EU/ANZ ment at Ohio University. Kamil Turowski is a creator of short films, animations, and photographic narratives. He holds MFAs in cinematography from the National Film School in Lódz and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Intellect Books 161 Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’ The Art of Documentary Photography Jonathan Day

In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Day revisits this pivotal work and con- Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thou- tributes a thoughtful and revealing crit- sand-mile road trip across America, ical commentary. Though the impor- capturing thousands of photographs of tance of The Americans has been widely all levels of a rapidly changing society. acknowledged, it still retains much of The resultant photo book, The Ameri- its mystery. This comprehensive analy- cans, represents a seminal moment in sis places it thoroughly in the context of both photography and in America’s contemporary photography, literature, understanding of itself. To mark the music, and advertising from its own pe- book’s fiftieth anniversary, Jonathan riod through the present. December 160 p. 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-315-8 Jonathan Day is a senior lecturer in visual communications and theoretical and historical Paper $40.00x studies in art and design. Photography UK/EU/ANZ Why We Make Art And Why It Is Taught Second Edition Richard Hickman

September 176 p. 7 x 9 Governments around the world spend cultural accounts of the nature of art- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-378-3 millions on art and cultural institu- making in favor of a largely psycho- Paper $25.00s tions, evidence of a basic human need logical approach aimed at addressing art for what the author refers to as “creat- contemporary developmental issues in UK/EU/ANZ ing aesthetic significance.” Yet what art education. Bringing to bear current function or purpose does art satisfy in ideas about evolutionary psychology, today’s society? In this thorough and this second edition will be an impor- accessible text, Richard Hickman re- tant resource for anyone interested in jects the current vogue for social and arts education.

Richard Hickman is reader at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. His previ- ous publications include Research in Art and Design Education and Critical Studies in Art and Design Education.

Historical Comedy on Screen Edited by Hannu Salmi

In 1893 Friedrich Engels branded his- Historical Comedy on Screen exam- tory “the cruelest goddess of all.” This ines this tendency, paying particular at- sorrowful vision of the past is deeply tention to the themes most difficult to rooted in the Western imagination, laugh at and exploring the place where and history is thus presented as a joyless comical and historical storytelling in- playground of inevitability rather than tersect. The book emphasizes the many a droll world of possibilities. There are oft-overlooked comical renderings of November 232 p., 20 halftones 7 x 9 few places this is more evident than in history and asks what they have to tell ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-367-7 historical cinema, which tends to por- us if we begin to take them seriously. Paper $40.00x tray the past in a somber manner. Film Studies UK/EU/ANZ Hannu Salmi is professor of cultural history at the University of Turku in Finland and coedi- tor of the series Studies on Popular Culture, also published by Intellect. 162 Intellect Books Recording Memories from Political Violence A Film-Maker’s Journey Cahal McLaughlin

Based on work the author has carried ethics in the collaboration between the out with survivor groups in Northern filmmaker and the participant and the Ireland and South Africa, Recording effect of location on the accounts of Memories from Political Violence draws on participants. Cahal McLaughlin draws written and audiovisual texts to describe on the diverse fields of film and cul- and analyze the use of documentary tural studies, as well as nearly twenty filmmaking in recording experiences years of production experience, in this of political conflict. A variety of issues informed and instructive contribution relevant to the genre are addressed at to documentary filmmaking and post- length, including the importance of conflict studies. December 144 p. 7 x 9 Cahal McLaughlin is a senior lecturer at the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at the ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-301-1 Paper $40.00x University of Ulster. He is also a documentary filmmaker whose recent projects include Inside Stories: Memories of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison and We Never Give Up. Film Studies UK/EU/ANZ Theatre in Passing A Moscow Photo-Diary Elena Siemens

Theatre in Passing explores spaces of the city’s “theatrical geography” is un- November 144 p., 70 halftones 7 x 9 performance in contemporary Moscow. covered, from the Bolshoi Theater in ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-374-5 Inspired by French philosopher Michel Theater Square to hidden gems like the Paper $40.00x de Certeau’s model of a “second, po- recently restored Kuskovo estate. With Photography UK/EU/ANZ etic geography” in which the walker— additional sections on street theater the everyday practitioner—invents the and other public gatherings, Theatre in space observed by the voyeur, this book Passing is a must-read book for anyone takes the reader on a tour of spaces of curious about the theatrical architec- performance in contemporary Mos- ture and geography of Russia’s capital. cow. Through text and photography,

Elena Siemens is associate professor of modern languages and cultural studies at the University of Alberta.

Deleuze and Film Music Building a Methodological Bridge between Film Theory and Music Gregg Redner

The analysis of film music is emerging then forms the basis of his exploration as one of the fastest-growing areas of of the function of the film score and its interest in film studies. Yet scholarship relation to film’s other elements. Not in this up-and-coming field has been just a groundbreaking examination of beset by the lack of a common lan- persistent difficulties in this new area of guage and methodology between film study, Deleuze and Film Music also offers and music theory. Drawing on the phi- a solution—a methodological bridge— October 224 p., 15 tables 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-370-7 losophy of Gilles Deleuze, film studies that will take film music analysis to a Paper $40.00x scholar Gregg Redner provides a much- new level. Fim Studies Music needed analysis of the problem which UK/EU/ANZ

Gregg Redner is a lecturer in film studies at the University of Western Ontario. Intellect Books 163 Moving the Eye Through 2-D Design A Visual Primer Buy Shaver

An overview of the visual arts funda- er’s eye to and through a composition. mentals, Moving the Eye Through 2-D De- With this method, artists learn to incor- sign provides a step-by-step approach to porate feeling into the creative process understanding what causes us to look from the outset rather than leaving it as at a painting, photograph, or any two- a subjective afterthought. Equally appli- dimensional media and what is needed cable to the fine arts, applied arts, and to maintain visual interest. This volume digital media, Moving the Eye Through introduces a goal-oriented method that 2-D Design provides a simple and com- applies aspects of line, shape, value, prehensive methodology through which and color directly to moving the view- artists can create dynamic art. August 192 p., 150 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-363-9 Buy Shaver is professor in the foundation program at the University of the Arts, Paper $40.00x Philadelphia. art UK/EU/ANZ Europe in Black and White Immigration, Race, and Identity in the ‘Old Continent’ Edited by Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Fernando Clara, JoÃo Ferreira Duarte, and Leonor Pires Martins

The essays in Europe in Black and White postcolonial Europe and national and offer new critical perspectives on race, identity politics and their dependence immigration, and identity on the “Old on linguistic practices inherited from Continent.” In reconsidering the vari- imperial times. Featuring scholars from ous forms of encounters with difference, a wide variety of nationalities and disci- such as multiculturalism and hybridity, plinary areas, this collection will speak the contributors address a number of to an equally wide readership. issues, including the cartography of

Manuela Ribeiro Sanches is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon. September 304 p., 17 halftones 7 x 9 Fernando Clara is a senior lecturer at the Faculty for the Humanities and the Social Sci- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-357-8 ences at the New University of Lisbon. João Ferreira Duarte is professor at the Faculty of Paper $50.00x Letters, University of Lisbon. Leonor Pires Martins is an anthropologist and researcher at Anthropology the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon. UK/EU/ANZ Picturing Immigration Photojournalistic Representation of Immigrants in Greek and Spanish Press Athanasia Batziou

December 160 p., 73 halftones 7 x 9 In recent years Greece and Spain have Picturing Immigration offers a com- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-360-8 seen an influx of immigrants from parative study of the photojournalistic Paper $40.00x nearby developing nations. And as framing of immigrants in these two photography history their foreign populations grew, both southern European nations. Going UK/EU/ANZ countries’ national media were there to beyond traditional media analysis, it document the change—in the process focuses on images rather than text to shaping perceptions of the immigrant explore a host of hot topics, including groups by their new countries and the media representation of minorities, im- world. migration, and stereotypes.

Athanasia Batziou is a researcher at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences 164 Intellect Books in Athens, Greece. Gendered Transformations Theory and Practices on Gender and Media Edited by Tonny Krijnen, Claudia Alvares, and Sofie Van Bauwel With an Introduction by Liesbet van Zoonen

Comprising the most current scholar- of reality, these essays explore a wide va- ship from leading experts in the fields riety of concerns from a similarly wide of gender and media studies, Gendered variety of perspectives, from essentialist Transformations offers readers a new to anti-essentialist. A thought-provok- foundation from which to reexamine ing contribution, Gendered Transforma- traditional perspectives on gender. tions offers a rare interdisciplinary ap- Organized into sections concerning proach to gender that reflects the most representational politics, embodied recent developments in media theory performance, and social constructions and methodology. August 192 p. 7 x 9 Tonny Krijnen is assistant professor in the Media Department of Erasmus University ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-366-0 Rotterdam. Claudia Alvares is associate professor in culture and communication at Paper $40.00x Lusofona University. Sofie Van Bauwel is assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies Communication Studies at the University of Ghent and vice chair of the Gender UK/EU/ANZ and Communication section of the European Communication Research and Education Association.

The Grey Zone in Health and Illness Alan Blum

Most discussions of health care center as a sort of state of permanent emergen- Culture, Disease, and Well-Being on medical advances, cost, and the roles cy, like the nuclear standoff of the cold of insurers and government agencies. war. To move beyond that, he argues, September 304 p. 7 x 9 With The Grey Zone in Health and Illness, will require a complete rethinking of ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-364-6 Cloth $60.00x Alan Blum offers a new perspective, health and sickness, self-governance outlining a highly nuanced theoreti- and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge Medicine UK/EU/ANZ cal approach to health and health care intervention in a critical area of society, alike. Drawing on a range of thinkers, The Grey Zone in Health and Illness will Blum explains how our current under- have wide ramifications in the academy standing of health care tends to posit it and beyond.

Alan Blum is director of the Culture of Cities Centre, professor at York University, and adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Spectacular Death Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and (Un)Representability Edited by Tristanne Connolly

A collection of essays on the medical and This volume goes beyond these Culture, Disease, and Well-Being social articulation of death, this book models to self-reflexively question how considers to what extent a subject as elu- the management of death is organized December 288 p., 10 halftones 7 x 9 sive as death can be examined. Though and motivated and the ways that death is ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-322-6 it touches us all, we can perceive it only at once feared and embraced. Spectacu- Cloth $60.00x in life—with the predictable result that lar Death gives us an enlightening new History we treat it either as a clinical or social perspective on death from the classical UK/EU/ANZ problem to be managed or as a phe- world to the twenty-first century. nomenon to be studied quantitatively.

Tristanne Connolly is associate professor at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, Canada. Intellect Books 165 Misreading Postmodern Antigone Marco Bellocchio’s Devil in the Flesh (Diavolo in Corpo) Edited by Jan Jagodzinski

In the mid-1980s, film director Marco this scene has itself been frequently mis- Bellocchio and renegade psychoanalyst read, opening up the text to questions Massimo Fagioli cowrote The Devil in the of feminism, politics, and the represen- Flesh, a politically and sexually charged tation of Antigone—a figure frequently film illustrating some of Fagioli’s con- used and abused in feminist politics. troversial theories. Echoing the anti- Displaying considerable analytic depth, Lacanian sentiment popularized by Misreading Postmodern Antigone consid- Gilles Deleuze, the film is perhaps best ers these divergent readings and what remembered for a scene in which the they have to tell us about contemporary character Andrea misreads a section of society. December 160 p., 5 halftones 7 x 9 the famous Greek tragedy Antigone. But ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-361-5 Paper $40.00x Jan Jagodzinski is professor of art, media, and education at the University of Alberta. Film Studies UK/EU/ANZ The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness Second Edition Mel Alexenberg

October 304 p. 7 x 9 In The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age, between these perspectives demonstrate ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-377-6 artist and educator Mel Alexenberg of- the confluence between postdigital art Cloth $60.00x fers a vision of a postdigital future that and the dynamic, Jewish structure of art reveals a paradigm shift from the Hel- consciousness. Alexenberg’s pioneer- UK/EU/ANZ lenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western ing artwork—a fusion of spiritual and culture. He ventures beyond the digital technological realms—exemplifies the to explore postdigital perspectives ris- theoretical thesis of this investigation ing from creative encounters among into interactive and collaborative forms art, science, technology, and human that imaginatively envisages the vast po- consciousness. The interrelationships tential of art in a postdigital future.

Mel Alexenberg is head of the School of the Arts at Emuna College in Jerusalem.

Global Technological Change From Hard Technology to Soft Technology Second Edition Zhouying Jin

This updated second edition of Global elements of both Eastern and Western Technological Change reconsiders how we philosophy, she offers insight into the make and use technology in the twenty- dynamic between the two as it relates to first century. With human-centered “soft technological innovation. More relevant technology” driving machine-based than ever, Global Technological Change “hard technology” in ever more com- continues to challenge assumptions September 320 p. 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-376-9 plex ways, Zhouying Jin provides an un- about technology and the gap between Paper $50.00x derstanding of the human dimension of the developed and developing countries Science technological advancement. Through a in the twenty-first century. UK/EU/ANZ theoretical framework that incorporates

Zhouying Jin is a senior researcher and professor at the Institute of Quanti-Economics and 166 Intellect Books Techno-Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. New Letters to a Young Poet Joan Margarit Translated by Christopher Maurer

In these intimate pages, award-winning writer and reader, a “road toward inner Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a growth.” For Margarit, poetry promises passionate defense of poetry and of the “a clarity that allows us mysteriously to intelligible poem—the well-made text live without the need to forget.” This is that can provide refuge, wisdom, and essential reading for poets young and consolation. Inspired by Rilke’s clas- old, writers, and readers seeking in- sic Letters to a Young Poet, this slender sights into the creative process and “the volume explores poetry as vocation, way both poet and reader can find their obsession, and partnership between own way to face solitude.”

Joan Margarit is a Catalan poet and architect. He has won numerous awards for his previ- 3 ous books of poetry. Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University. October 70 p. 5 x 7 /4 ISBN-13: 978-0-9748881-9-4 Cloth $24.00/£15.50 poetry

In Spite of the Dark Silence Jorge Volpi Translated by Olivia Maciel

“He was named Jorge, like me, and for his work that eventually led to a mental this his life hurts me twice.” So writes ward—and a shocking suicide at thirty- Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel eight. The fictional “Jorge,” as narrator, that presents a biographical perspec- embarks on an obsessive quest to un- Í nsk Í

tive on the tragic life of the poet and derstand the life of the long-dead poet, dz r chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one with the distance between subject and o el m

of the founders of Los Contemporá- researcher blurring as he finds himself ni neos, an influential twentieth-century struggling to understand his own life. by Dao by literary movement. The poetic voice of It is a brave search for anyone willing t o

Cuesta’s verses can be heard through- to gaze into the mirror of mortality “in ph out, offering insights into the creative spite of the dark silence.” October 140 p. 6 x 9 and destructive forces and impulses in ISBN-13: 978-0-9748881-8-7 Cloth $28.00/£18.00 Jorge Volpi, the author of Season of Ash, among other books, is one of the founders of the Fiction influential literary movement The Crack.In Spite of the Dark Silence was his first novel, published when he was just twenty-four. Olivia Maciel is visiting professor in the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Swan Isle Press 167 Medieval Painting in Bohemia Jan Royt

Originally published in Czech in 2002 Painting in Bohemia will be an indis- and now available in English, Medieval pensable guide for everyone curious to Painting in Bohemia assesses the history know more about this region, as well as of painting in Bohemia and Moravia students of art history seeking a defini- from the emergence of the Czech state tive introduction. in the late ninth century to the end “The contributions of Jan Royt’s of the rule of Ludwig Jagiello in 1526. publication are manifold. First of all, it Leading Czech art historian Jan Royt has compassed the most recent knowl- traces the developments in and preser- edge in the field; second, it can be used vation of mural and panel painting dur- as a textbook; and third, it fills a cer- ing this period, as well as illuminations tain empty place in contemporary lit- and medieval iconography, and he also erature. Last, but not least, its engaging Available 160 p., 80 color plates explores the various themes that in- style demonstrates the scholar’s sense of 8 x 10 spired these pieces. The text is rounded significant manifestations and clarity, ISBN-13: 978-80-246-0266-0 Cloth $40.00s/£27.50 out with more than eighty full-color as can be evidenced by the well-chosen illustrations, each supplied with a de- pictorial supplement.”—Jirí Kropácek, art CZE/SVK tailed caption. Charles University Prague Original yet authoritative, Medieval

Jan Royt is head of the Institute of Christian Art History at Charles University Prague.

Czech Law Between Europeanization and Globalization Edited by Michal TomÁŠek

In 2005 the Ministry of Education, this collection are divided into four sec- Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic tions: Historical Impulses for the Devel- granted to the Charles University Law opment of Law, Theoretical and Consti- Faculty funds to research developments tutional Impulses for the Development in Czech law from the last twenty years. of Law, Transformation of Public Law, Their findings were compiled into a and Transformation of Private Law. Ac- four-volume collection entitled New companying each section are extensive Phenomena in Law at the Beginning of the bibliographies to help those unfamiliar 21st Century. with the Czech legal system. In Czech Law Between Europeaniza- A major contribution from many of tion and Globalization, editor Michal the leading Czech legal scholars, Czech Tomášek features those selections from Law Between Europeanization and Global- September 600 p. 67/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-80-246-1785-5 the original monograph that are most ization provides necessary background Cloth $30.00x/£19.50 relevant to an international audience. for all who study comparative, Europe- LAw Translated into English, the texts in an, and international law. CZE/SVK Michal Tomášek is head of the Department of European Law at Charles University Prague.

168 Karolinum Press, Charles University Prague Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter

For almost a decade, economists Kevin the U.S. Census in order to examine M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter have the casualties caused by tornadoes and been studying the economic impacts to evaluate the National Weather Ser- and social consequences of the ap- vice’s efforts to reduce these casualties. proximately 1,200 tornadoes that touch In Economic and Societal Impacts of Torna- down across the United States annually. does, Simmons and Sutter present their During this time, Simmons and Sutter findings. This analysis will be extremely have been compiling information from useful to anyone studying meteorology sources such as the National Oceanic and imperative for anyone working in and Atmospheric Administration and emergency disaster management.

Kevin M. Simmons is the Corrigan Chair of Economics at Austin College. In 2009 he was se- lected as a Fulbright Scholar to work with the International Center for Geohazards in Oslo. Daniel Sutter is associate professor of economics at the University of Texas–Pan American January 296 p., 30 halftones, and a senior affiliated scholar of the Mercatus Institute. 28 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-878220-99-8 Paper $30.00s/£19.50 Science economics

Creative Industries Colourful Fabric in Multiple Dimensions Edited by Giep Hagoort and Rene Kooyman

In recent decades, a new academic field their current research and the impact has emerged in the United States and that these innovations will have on the across Europe that links two previously future of this relatively young area of in- unrelated disciplines: art and econom- quiry. Creative Industries will be essential ics. Editors Giep Hagoort and Rene reading for anyone interested in join- Kooyman have collected in this volume ing academic dialogues concerned with several articles from their colleagues in creative and cultural entrepreneurship, the Faculty of Art and Economics at the cultural management, creative indus- Utrecht School of the Arts that set out tries, and creative processes. the parameters of the field and explain

Giep Hagoort is professor of art and economics at Utrecht University and the Utrecht School of the Arts and the author of Art Management: Entrepreneurial Style, also published September 226 p. 6 x 9 by Eburon Publishers, Delft. Rene Kooyman is a publicist and a researcher at the Utrecht ISBN-13: 978-90-5972-353-5 School of the Arts. Paper $25.00s art economics CUSA

American Meteorological Society 169 Eburon Publishers, Delft Where on Earth Is Ithaca? A Quest for the Homeland of Odysseus Cees H. Goekoop

Since antiquity classicists have debated Goekoop takes the reader on a fascinat- the true location of Ithaca, the island ing journey through the world of the home of Homer’s mythological hero Odyssey and tries to unlock the mystery: Odysseus. With Where on Earth Is Ithaca? which of the Ionian islands is Ithaca?” Cees H. Goekoop expertly guides read- —Nanno Marinatos, University of Illi- ers through the existing scholarship nois at Chicago on the whereabouts of the island and “There are many good reasons details the evidence that still has the why this book should reach a wider power to unite and divide scholars. audience. Mr. Goekoop demonstrates Goekoop mines Homer’s original text the importance of analyzing the local to unearth a wealth of geographical geography from the large number of clues and then offer his own theories. clues provided in the Odyssey. His meth- September 192 p., 34 color plates, 11 halftones, 15 maps 54/5 x 81/5 Where on Earth Is Ithaca? intrigues as it odology and research are outstanding.” ISBN-13: 978-90-5972-344-3 informs and will appeal to all who are —Robert Bittlestone, author of Odysseus Paper $29.50s interested in classical history. Unbound Classics “In this exciting book Cees H. CUSA Cees H. Goekoop is the former mayor of Leiden and the author of several works on Homer.

The Caspian Sea Region towards 2025 Caspia Inc., National Giants or Trade and Transit? Morten Anker, Pavel K. Baev, Bjørn Brunstad, Indra Øverland, and Stina Torjesen

With security of energy supply high three different futures and predict the on the international agenda and fears Caspian Sea region’s place within each. of resource shortages resurfacing, the In the first scenario, the world is domi- countries surrounding the Caspian nated by economic competition, and Sea are stepping onto the global stage, those countries around the Caspian claiming for themselves new roles as Sea are leading gas and oil exporters. providers of resources to the world. But The second scenario describes a world with this newfound role come several dominated by geopolitical rivalry and uncertainties. How will the current re- resource nationalism in which the oil cession affect these recently indepen- and gas sectors are state-controlled. dent countries? How will global climate And the last tells the story of a world September 156p., 13 halftones, 12 maps 63/10 x 92/5 policy alter the value of their massive where climate challenges have initiated ISBN-13: 978-90-5972-361-0 hydrocarbon reserves? And might the a global shift from carbon-based to low- Paper $25.00s wealth generated from the sale of these carbon energy sources. Economics resources lead to armed conflict within A fascinating and timely exercise, CUSA the region? The Caspian Sea Region towards 2025 will To better understand the potential be required reading for all those invest- impact of these forces, the authors of The ed in global politics and the future of Caspian Sea Region towards 2025 imagine energy security.

Morten Anker is a senior consultant at the research and consulting firm Econ Pöyry. Pavel K. Baev is a research professor at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo. Bjørn Brunstad is an expert in foresight and scenario planning, dividing his time between the Center for Climate Strategy at the Norwegian School of Management and Econ Pöyry. Indra Øverland is acting head of the Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and associate professor at the University of Tromso. Stina Torjesen is a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Institute 170 Eburon Publishers, Delft of International Affairs. Critique of Christian Origins A Parallel English-Arabic Text - Abd a l -Jabbar Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Gabriel Said Reynolds and Samir Khalil Samir

In the Critique of Christian Origins Abd contains a wealth of information on the al-Jabba- r—a leading Muslim intellectu- ideological contours of Abd al-Jabba- r’s al of the late tenth century—develops time, including perspectives on Juda- what might be considered the first Is- ism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and lamic history of Christianity, analyzing several sects within Islam itself, in addi- the Bible, church rituals, and miracles. tion to Christianity. Unlike Muslim scholars before him, This edition, which includes a fully Abd al-Jabba- r criticizes Christianity not vocalized Arabic edition of the text and only theologically but also on historical a complete English translation accom- grounds. He argues that the schemes of panied by detailed explanatory notes, secular and religious leaders led to the a glossary, a bibliography, and three in- “The Islamic Translation Series . . . suppression of the Islamic religion of dexes, makes this important work read- has established itself as one of the Jesus and the creation of Christianity in ily accessible to students and specialists most valuable resources available its place. The Critique of Christian Origins alike. to scholars of Islamic theology and Gabriel Said Reynolds is associate professor of Islamic studies and theology at the Univer- Arab philosophy.” sity of Notre Dame. Samir Khalil Samir is professor of theology at St. Joseph University in —Bulletin of the Royal Institute Beirut, Catholic University in Milan, and the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. for Inter-Faith Studies

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Available 512 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-8425-2715-6 Cloth $37.95x/£24.50 religion The Physics of The Healing A Parallel English-Arabic Text in Two Volumes Avicenna Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Jon McGinnis

Avicenna’s Physics is the very first vol- ics, with its emphasis on natural causes, ume that he wrote when he began his the nature of motion, and the condi- monumental encyclopedia of science tions necessary for motion, the work is and philosophy, The Healing. Avicenna’s hardly derivative. It represents arguably reasons for beginning with Physics are the most brilliant mind of late antiquity numerous: it offers up the principles grappling with and rethinking the en- needed to understand such special nat- tire tradition of natural philosophy in- ural sciences as psychology; it sets up herited from the Greeks as well as the many of the problems that take center physical thought of Muslim speculative stage in his Metaphysics; and it provides theologians. As such, Physics is essential concrete examples of many of the ab- reading for anyone interested in under- stract analytical tools that he would de- standing Avicenna’s complete philo- Islamic Translation Series velop later in Logic. sophical system, the history of science, While Avicenna’s Physics roughly or the history of ideas. Available 2 volumes, 1168 p. 6 x 9 follows the thought of Aristotle’s Phys- ISBN-13: 978-0-8425-2747-7 Cloth $49.95x/£32.50 Jon McGinnis is associate professor of classical and medieval philosophy at the University of Philosophy Missouri, St. Louis.

Brigham Young University 171 Still Rainin’ Still Dreamin’ Hall Anderson’s Ketchikan Hall Anderson

A staff photographer for the Ketchikan Still Rainin’ Still Dreamin’ showcases Daily News, Hall Anderson counted Anderson’s prize-winning black-and- among his early influences photog- white images, which collectively chron- raphers like Robert Frank and Henri icle three decades of life in Ketchikan, Cartier-Bresson, who understood the spanning its transition from a timber- visual bounty to be found in photo- and fishing-based economy to one built graphing the candid side of life. For on a booming tourism industry. From September 118 p., 100 halftones more than twenty-five years, Anderson timber carnivals to election coverage to 10 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-889963-90-7 has brought this perspective to his pho- Fourth of July parades, Still Rainin’ Still Paper $35.00/£22.50 tographic endeavors, both personal Dreamin’ is a poignant celebration of the Photography and professional, in the small town of uncanny juxtapositions found in every- Ketchikan in southeast Alaska. day life.

Hall Anderson is a photographer who has worked for the Ketchikan Daily News since 1984.

Arctic Sanctuary Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Jeff Jones and Laurie Hoyle

Guided by photographer Jeff Jones’s pays homage to a vast and remote land sure and well-developed vision, Arctic that remains untamed by technology Sanctuary leads the reader on a remark- and undisturbed by human develop- able journey that few of us will ever take ment. A rare window into a world that is in real life: a trek deep into Alaska’s whole, ecologically intact, and still driv- September 192 p., 162 color plates 14 x 9 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By en by ancient evolutionary energies, ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-088-0 turns celebratory and contemplative, Arctic Sanctuary invites us to examine Cloth $55.00/£35.50 emotionally evocative and beautifully our own ideas of the wilderness ethic in nature photography fierce, this collection of lyrical essays the modern world. and stunning panoramic photographs

Jeff Jones is a landscape photographer with decades of experience in remote wilderness areas. Laurie Hoyle is a writer and vice chair of the Sequoia Parks Foundation board of directors.

172 University of Alaska Press Bong Hits 4 Jesus A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska’s Capital James C. Foster

In January 2002, for the first time, the within a public high school, this book Olympic Torch Relay visited Alaska on chronicles the events that followed: October 320 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 its way to the Winter Games. When the Frederick’s suspension, the subsequent ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-089-7 relay runner and accompanying cam- suit against the school district, and, ul- Paper $26.95/£17.50 era cars passed Juneau-Douglas High timately, the escalation of a local con- law current events School, senior Joseph Frederick and flict into a federal case. Brought to life several friends unfurled a fourteen- through interviews with the principal foot banner reading “BONG HiTS 4 figures in the case, Bong Hits 4 Jesus is a JESUS.” gripping tale of the boundaries of free An in-depth look at student rights speech in an American high school.

James C. Foster is a professor at Oregon State University. He has taught and written about aspects of judicial politics for over thirty years.

Cold Flashes Literary Snapshots of Alaska Edited by Michael Engelhard

As the old adage goes, “if you can’t say it nutshell. By minimizing the exposition, in a few pages, you won’t in a hundred.” the selections stimulate the imagina- The selections in Cold Flashes—very tion to reflect on the rich diversity of short prose and black-and-white pho- people and places that make up Alas- tographs—embody perfectly this trans- ka. To be savored piecemeal at coffee parency, thrift, and restraint. Found shops, on the bus, or while waiting in here are highly polished micro-narra- line, the images and text in Cold Flashes tives, both fiction and nonfiction, and a will resonate with both the reader and series of eloquent and artistic halftones each other, fusing into something pro- July 210 p., 68 halftones 6 x 9 that capture their sizeable subjects in a found yet elusive. ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-093-4 Paper $21.95/£14.00 Michael Engelhard is a writer and wilderness guide whose work has appeared in Outside literature photography and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the editor of several anthologies, including Wild Moments.

Ice Floe Edited by Shannon Gramse and Sarah Kirk

Ice Floe, the celebrated and award-win- English translation. With contributors September 208 p. 6 x 9 ning journal of circumpolar poetry, is including former Alaska poet laureate ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-083-5 here reborn as an annual book series. John Haines, Gunnar Harding, Robert Paper $20.00/£13.00 This first volume features the best of Bly, Lennart Sjögren, and dozens of Poetry the journal’s first seven years, along other established and emerging poets, with evocative new poetry from Alaska, this wonderful collection of voices from Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Fin- the northern latitudes is a great read land, and Russia. All work is presented for all lovers of poetry and internation- in both its original language and in al literature.

Shannon Gramse is a poet and cofounder of Ice Floe. Sarah Kirk is a lifelong Alaskan and cofounder of Ice Floe. They both teach English at the University of Alaska Anchorage. University of Alaska Press 173 A Woman in the Polar Night Christiane Ritter With an Introduction by Lawrence Millman

For most of us, the Arctic conjures up water and ice. Won over, Ritter joined images of freezing and forsaken soli- her husband and grew to love life on tude. Hence, Austrian painter Chris- this small isle off Norway’s coast, and tiane Ritter was at best ambivalent when in this charming memoir she describes her husband asked her to join him on her experiences, with insight and wry the small Arctic island of Spitsbergen humor. Whether or not you ever plan in a tarpaulin-covered hut sixty miles a trip to the Arctic, A Woman in the Po- from the nearest neighbor. Yet his de- lar Night offers thoughtful reflections scriptions were filled not with cold and on isolation and the place the natural hardship but tales of remarkable wild- world holds in the human psyche. life, alluring light shows, and treks over

“An unpretentious but arresting Christiane Ritter was an Austrian painter. She wrote A Woman in the Polar Night after her return to Austria in 1934, and the original German edition is still in print. book about life south of nowhere.” —Time Back in Print July 208 p. 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-100-9 A Caribou Journey Paper $19.95 Debbie S. Miller Nature USA Illustrated by Jon Van Zyle

“A detailed, richly illustrated title. An imposing line of caribou stretches plores their habits and habitat—as well Miller is a natural storyteller and for miles across the frozen tundra of as the dangers that await the young and Alaska. The sound of clicking hooves old—along this ancient trail. Writer expertly interweaves facts into her echoes through the air as the herd fol- Debbie S. Miller and artist Jon Van Zyle narrative.” lows its centuries-old migration route. are keen naturalists and the premier —School Library Journal With their thick coats and their padded, duo in Alaska children’s literature, and shovel-like hooves, caribou are ideally this beautifully illustrated appreciation August 32 p., 15 color plates 10 x 8 adapted to their snowbound environ- of the caribou brings this stately mam- ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-097-2 ment, and this lively children’s book ex- mal alluringly to life. Cloth $15.95/£10.50 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-096-5 Paper $9.95/£6.50 Debbie S. Miller is the author of several picture books, including A Polar Bear Journey, one of Booklist’s Top Ten Animal Books for Youth. Jon Van Zyle is an artist whose illustrations Children’s appear in A Polar Bear Journey and Raven and River.

Back in Print A Woolly Mammoth Journey Debbie S. Miller Illustrated by Jon Van Zyle

A Woolly Mammoth Journey travels back As the seasons pass, the mammoths in time to follow a pack of woolly mam- prepare for the long winter and try to moths across rivers, plains, and glacial protect each other from predators and ridges on their annual migration to fa- the changing climate. Packed with in-

August 32 p., 15 color plates 10 x 8 miliar feeding grounds. Along the way, formation and featuring vibrant full- ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-099-6 a new calf is born and learns to walk, color illustrations, A Woolly Mammoth Cloth $15.95/£10.50 use her trunk to get food, and play with Journey brings the far-distant past—and ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-098-9 Paper $9.95/£6.50 other young mammoths in the herd. its long-lost wildlife—strikingly close.

Children’s Debbie S. Miller is the author of several picture books, including A Polar Bear Journey, one of Booklist’s Top Ten Animal Books for Youth. Jon Van Zyle is an artist whose illustrations 174 University of Alaska Press appear in A Polar Bear Journey and Raven and River. Yupiit Yuraryarait Yup’ik Ways of Dancing Ann Fienup-Riordan With Photographs by James Barker

Far more than just a dance, the dynam- point of view. Then, armed with oral ic choreography of the Yup’ik provides history testimony spanning thirty years, an illuminating window into the moral- she shows how singing and dancing are ity, social organization, and colonial interconnected and imbued with mean- history of this indigenous people. In ing in this complex ritual. Accompanied Yupiit Yuraryarait, anthropologist Ann by one hundred original photographs, Fienup-Riordan begins with a brief his- this volume marks the first in-depth torical overview of the colonization and look at the Yup’ik people through the development of Alaska from the Yup’ik lens of interpretive dance. September 304 p., 100 halftones 93/4 x 101/4 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-082-8 Ann Fienup-Riordan is a cultural anthropologist and recipient of the Alaska Federation of Cloth $50.00/£32.50 Natives President’s Award for her work with Alaska Natives. James Barker is a documentary photographer and the author of Always Getting Ready: Yup’ik Eskimo Subsistence anthropology in Southwest Alaska.

City for Empire An Anchorage History, 1914–1941 Preston Jones

First settled in 1915, Anchorage, Alas- the projection of American power. City October 208 p., 10 halftones 6 x 9 ka, was founded with the American for Empire tells the story of Anchorage’s ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-084-2 Paper $21.95/£14.00 empire in mind. During World War I, it development in that period, focusing served as a conduit through which coal in particular on the international con- History could be shipped to the Pacific, where text of the city’s early decades and its the U.S. Navy was engaged with Japan. surprisingly diverse inhabitants. A thor- Decades later, during World War II, An- ough yet accessible study, City for Empire chorage became an equally important captures the history of this remarkable site for the defense of the mainland and city.

Preston Jones is professor of history at John Brown University and the author of God’s Hiddenness in Combat, Empire’s Edge, and Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant?

Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions Edited by Libby Roderick

Making up more than ten percent of light on some common misconceptions. Alaska’s population, Native Alaskans With responses composed by scholars are the state’s largest minority group. within the represented communities Yet most non-Native Alaskans know sur- and reviewed by a panel of experts, this prisingly little about the histories and easy-to-read compendium aims to fa- cultures of their indigenous neighbors, cilitate a deeper exploration and richer or about the important issues they face. discussion of the complex and compel- This concise book compiles frequently ling issues that are part of Alaska Native July 108 p., 16 halftones, 1 map 6 x 9 asked questions and provides informa- life today. ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-091-0 Paper $12.95s/£8.50 tive and accessible responses that shed Reference Libby Roderick graduated from Yale University and has worked as a television and print news reporter, radio consultant, and writer on Alaska Native issues. University of Alaska Press 175 Ahead of Change How Crowd Psychology and Cybernetics Transform the Way We Govern Constantin Malik

Wars, revolutions, and financial disas- book, Malik brings management theory ters do not have to happen. There are to government, suggesting a series of ways to transform governmental poli- new methods and instruments for suc- cies so as to avoid such catastrophes. cessful governance, approaches based What is needed—argues management on the latest research in the fields of expert Constantin Malik—is to antici- crowd psychology and management cy- pate change and to prepare for it. With bernetics. this highly instructive and provocative

Constantin Malik is the secretary of the board of directors at Malik Management.

August 250 p. 51/2 x 83/8 ISBN-13: 978-3-593-39204-2 Paper $67.00x/£43.50 Economics

Community and Autonomy Institutions, Policies and Legitimacy in Multilevel Europe Fritz W. Scharpf

Since the mid-1980s, Fritz W. Scharpf in Europe and offers new contributions has been investigating the evolution that focus on the asymmetric impact of of the multilevel European polity and European law on the institutions and its impact on the effectiveness and le- policy legacies of EU member states gitimacy of democratic government in and on the implications of these asym- Europe. Community and Autonomy col- metries for the democratic legitimacy lects in one volume Scharpf’s nearly of government at national and Euro- two decades of research on government pean levels.

Fritz W. Scharpf is director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.

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July 385 p. 51/2 x 83/8 ISBN-13: 978-3-593-39188-5 Paper $55.00x/£35.50 Political Science

176 Campus Verlag Growing Windowsill Orchids Philip Seaton

From the elegant, warmth-loving moth watering and feeding process, but also orchid to the perennially popular slip- repotting, composting, and keeping or- per orchid, Growing Windowsill Orchids chids free from pests and disease. tells indoor gardeners everything they For those who wish to know more need to know in order to grow these ex- about the science behind orchids, this quisite flowering plants at home. With sumptuous book covers the basics of more than thirty years of experience orchid biology and conservation. Writ- growing and writing about the many ten in non-technical language and co- species of orchids, Philip Seaton shares piously illustrated with line drawings July 60 p., 80 color plates, 1 1 his recommendations for choosing the and full-color photographs, Growing 30 line drawings 7 /2 x 9 /2 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-427-4 best plant, looking after plants that have Windowsill Orchids is the perfect primer Paper $10.00 finished flowering, and encouraging on everything the orchid novice needs Gardening plants to flower year after year. Step-by- to know to cultivate these perennial fa- CMUSA step instructions demystify not only the vorites in the home.

Philip Seaton is a former editor of the Orchid Review and coauthor of Growing Orchids from Seed. He is also project manager for Orchid Seed Stores for Sustainable Use, a Darwin Initiative project.

Alpines, from Mountain to Garden Richard Wilford

Alpines, from Mountain to Garden is a re- species native to each of nine regions, freshing new perspective on the many including the United States and Can- stunning plant species that make their ada, South America, China, Europe, home above the treeline. Where most and Africa. In all, over three hundred guides to alpine plants have favored plants are described and prolifically collecting and rare species, Richard illustrated. Additional chapters cover Wilford offers a holistic approach that cultivation, conservation, and the im- describes their discovery and introduc- pact of indiscriminate collecting on the tion into cultivation and why these fac- many species that are now on the verge tors must be taken into consideration of extinction. With its wealth of insight when planting these mountain dwellers into where alpine plants come from and in your garden. how this affects their cultivation, this Organized geographically, Alpines, new book from Kew’s Botanical Maga- Botanical Magazine Monograph from Mountain to Garden covers the con- zine Monograph series is sure to be a Series ditions—drainage, climate, light levels, hit with gardeners, collectors, travelers, temperature, and precipitation—and and photographers alike. December 320 p., 331 color plates, 8 maps 76/8 x 104/8 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-172-3 Richard Wilford is collections manager in the Hardy Display Section at the Royal Botanic Cloth $48.00s Gardens, Kew and the author of Tulips: Species and Hybrids for the Gardener. Nature Gardening CMUSA

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 177 Marianne North A Very Intrepid Painter Michelle Payne

Marianne North was an English natu- built under her patronage and opened ralist and remarkable botanical art- in 1882. ist who traveled to more than a dozen Fully illustrated and including a countries in the course of more than stunning eight-page fold-out, this en- a decade spent painting the tropical gaging and accessible account provides and exotic plants of the world. Despite an overview of North’s spirited work, having no formal artistic training and life, and travels as well as a concise his- October 64 p., 200 color plates a rather unconventional technique, 91/2 x 71/2 tory of the popular gallery—newly re- ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-430-4 North documented her subjects in situ stored and refurbished—where almost Paper $11.50 with a scientific accuracy that continues all her paintings hang. The Marianne art Nature to impress botanists today. More than North Gallery is among Kew’s finest CMUSA eight hundred of her detailed, brightly attractions, and this exquisite volume colored paintings are displayed in Kew’s captures its magic to perfection. Marianne North Gallery, which was

Michelle Payne holds an MA in twentieth-century literature from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is an editor at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kids’ Kew A Children’s Guide Second Edition Miranda Ma c Quitty

For visitors traveling with children, quizzes, jokes, crosswords, and other the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are activities help children savor the trip a wonderfully exciting, not to men- once home. tion educational, destination for a day Kids’ Kew also contains an impor- trip. This action-packed source of fun tant conservation message, educating facts and activities is the ultimate re- “With this sparkling new guide children about the many projects Kew source for that trip. Aimed at seven- to Gardens has underway to help save wild book, the adventure doesn’t stop eleven-year-olds, this interactive guide plants from around the world—and when the Gardens close for the is jam-packed with activities that will de- teaching them what they can do to help. night.” light any child—from wildlife watches Educational yet thoroughly entertain- —The Visitor to dinosaur trivia, from steamy jungle ing, this beautifully illustrated official outings to stickers with which to keep guide will help children and grown-ups October 48 p., 300 color plates track of plants spotted. An easy-to-use understand why Kew is so important to 1 1 9 /2 x 7 /2 fold-out map helps parent and child ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-431-1 the world. Paper $8.00 navigate the Gardens and the many

children’s Nature Miranda MacQuitty is a biologist, science writer, and contributor to magazines and CMUSA children’s radio.

178 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The Last Great Plant Hunt The Story of the Millennium Seed Bank Project Sue Seddon and Carolyn Fry

With climate change posing an esca- Bank Project and its partner organi- lating threat to biodiversity, the need zations, which are now found in more for humans to conserve seeds from all than fifty countries worldwide. From plant species is increasingly critical. In the collection and care of seeds to their the fight against extinction, Kew’s Mil- use in conservation research, all prac- lennium Seed Bank is a unique global tical aspects of seed storage are dis- asset. The largest wild plant seed bank cussed. Additional chapters consider in the world, it contains the world’s the future of global seed conservation. December 192 p., 155 color plates 101/4 x 111/4 most diverse seed collection, compris- Timely and informed, The Last Great ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-432-8 ing more than three-and-a-half billion Plant Hunt recounts the history and de- Cloth $45.00 seeds from nearly twenty-five thousand tails the mission of this impressive and nature science distinct species. ever more necessary international con- CMUSA The Last Great Plant Hunt describes servation effort. the vital work of the Millennium Seed

Sue Seddon is an author and former editor of Kew magazine. Carolyn Fry is a journalist and author whose previous works include The Plant Hunters and The World of Kew.

The Smallest Kingdom Plants and Plant Collectors at the Cape of Good Hope Mike Fraser and Liz Fraser

The Smallest Kingdom is an illustrated biodiversity hotspot. account of the botanical exploration Over the 250 year history of Kew of South Africa’s Cape Floral Kingdom Gardens, the plants of the Cape—and, and the plants that this region has giv- of course, their collectors—have con- en to the gardens of the world over the tributed greatly to the establishment last four centuries. Home to more than of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew as nine thousand distinct plant species, the preeminent center for botanical re- thirty percent of which are native only search. This pictorial celebration of the to the Cape Floral Kingdom, this small Cape brings its rich flora to life with a region was declared a UNESCO World selection of brilliant photographs and December 300 p., 115 color plates Heritage site in 2004, as well as a global full-color botanical paintings. 93/8 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-389-5 Mike Fraser is a writer, teacher, and ecologist. Liz Fraser is a teacher and painter. Cloth $46.00s Nature art CMUSA

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In 1928, after eleven years of extensive to oppose his corrections. research and editing, Dr. Jacob Baart To this day, the international art de la Faille finally finished the first world struggles to separate the real Van catalogue raisonné of Vincent van Gogh’s Goghs from the fake. A Real Van Gogh work. Soon after, however, de la Faille begins with the story of de la Faille and discovered that he had mistakenly list- moves into the late decades of the twen- ed dozens of forged works as genuine in tieth century, outlining the numerous the catalog. He quickly set out to set the clashes over the authenticity of Van record straight but was met with strong Gogh’s works while simultaneously ex- resistance from art dealers, collectors, posing the often bewildering repercus- critics, and politicians, among others— sions for art critics and scholars when all of whom had self-interested reasons they bring unwelcome news. August 352 p., 42 color plates 71/2 x 93/4 Henk Tromp is a lecturer in cultural anthropology at Leiden University. ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-176-2 Paper $49.50s

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Performing the Past Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe Edited by Karin Tilmans, Frank v a n Vree, and Jay M. Winter

Throughout Europe, narratives about literary, musical, and historical frame- the past circulate at a dizzying speed, works within which the past has entered and producing and selling these nar- into the European imagination. The es- ratives is big business. In museums, in says in this volume, from such interna- cinemas and opera houses, in schools, tionally renowned scholars as Reinhart and even on the Internet, Europeans Koselleck, Jan Assmann, Jane Caplan, are using the power of performance to Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer, Peter craft stories that ultimately define the Burke, and Alessandro Portelli, inves- ways their audiences understand and tigate various national and disciplinary remember history. traditions to explain how Europeans Performing the Past offers unparal- see themselves in the past, in the pres- leled insights into the philosophical, ent, and in the years to come. July 368 p., 19 color plates, 49 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 Karin Tilmans is a historian and the academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-205-9 Frank van Vree for Postdoctoral Studies at the European University Institute. is a historian Paper $39.50x and professor of journalism at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. European History CUSA

Amsterdam University Press 181 Mapping the Moving Image Gesture, Thought and Cinema circa 1900 Pasi Väliaho

In this multidisciplinary volume, Pasi study of art, philosophy, the human sci- Väliaho draws from science and philos- ences, physics, and biology in the ma- ophy to offer a compelling study of how trix of cinema at the turn of the twen- the medium of film has shaped our un- tieth century. Blending contemporary derstanding of ourselves and the world theory with close readings of the foun- around us. Väliaho examines key films dational writings of modernity, Väliaho from the early twentieth century, trac- shows how the autonomy of the movie- ing the role that various arrangements machine shapes the ways we believe we of movement have played in the devel- think and live today. It will be a point of opment of corporeality, perception, reference for every student of cinema, and modes of thought in cinematic mo- consciousness, and perception.”—Tom dernity. Conley, Harvard University Film Culture in Transition “A commanding and consummate

July 256 p., 12 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 Pasi Väliaho is a lecturer in film and screen studies at Goldsmiths College, ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-141-0 University of London. Cloth $83.00x ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-140-3 Paper $41.25s Film Studies CUSA

Players Unleashed! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming Tanja Sihvonen

It has been ten years since video game new content and scenarios. giant Electronic Arts first released The In Players Unleashed!—the first Sims, the best-selling game that allows study of its kind—Tanja Sihvonen pro- its players to create a household and vides a fascinating examination of mod- then manage every aspect of daily life ding, tracing its evolution and detailing within it. And since its debut, gam- its impact on The Sims and the game ers young and old have found ways to industry as a whole. Along the way, “mod” The Sims, a practice in which Sihvonen shares insights into specific gamers manipulate the computer code modifications and the cultural contexts of a game, and thereby alter it to add from which they emerge.

Tanja Sihvonen is a researcher in computer games, players, and participatory culture. MediaMatters

July 296 p., 16 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-201-1 Paper $45.00s Science CUSA

182 Amsterdam University Press The Karimjee Jivanjee Family Merchant Princes of East Africa 1800–2000 Gijsbert Oonk

The Karimjee family has played a ma- their rise from nineteenth-century im- jor role in shaping the political and migrant traders to today’s political and economic history of East Africa for over business leaders. Combining family two hundred years. Here Gijsbert Oonk and political history with cultural an- draws from a variety of sources as well thropology, this beautifully designed as interviews with the family and associ- and illustrated volume is a monument ates to offer a comprehensive biography to cultural roots and family tenacity. of the Karimjee Jivanjee family, tracing

Gijsbert Oonk is assistant professor of history at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

July 176 p., 26 color plates, 120 halftones 91/2 x 111/4 ISBN-13: 978-90-8555-027-3 Cloth $72.50x “They Thought It Was a Marvel” biography Arthur Melbourne-Cooper (1874–1961), CUSA Pioneer of Puppet Animation Tjitte d e Vries and Ati Mul

Drawing on hitherto unseen archival film. Accompanying the book is a DVD July 576 p., 32 color plates, 3 1 material and interviews, “They Thought that features the six surviving animated 74 halftones, 1 DVD 6 /10 x 9 /2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8555-016-7 It Was a Marvel” sketches an unforget- films made by Melbourne-Cooper. Cloth $55.00s table portrait of pioneering British “This book makes the reader sit up Film Studies filmmaker Arthur Melbourne-Cooper. and realize that this is not going to be CUSA Tjitte de Vries and Ati Mul sift through just another boring academic text. . . . several of Melbourne-Cooper’s films, Because of the unusual interest of both emphasizing his contributions to early authors in the subject, the study is way cinema while simultaneously arguing over and above that of any other aca- their case that Melbourne-Cooper’s demic writing.”—Anthony Slide, author Matches Appeal is the first animated of Incorrect Entertainment

Tjitte de Vries is a researcher and journalist. Ati Mul was for many years an archivist at the Holland Animation Society.

Shelter City Protecting Citizens Against Air Raids Koos Bosma

Shelter City provides a detailed overview before and after World War II, painting of air-raid protection plans and struc- a fascinating picture of these sophisti- tures developed in Europe between cated spatial and social systems of po- Landscape & Heritage Research 1933 and 1945. Koos Bosma compares lice, firefighters, medical experts, food the British, Dutch, and German pro- and rescue teams, shelter staff, and vol- July 308 p., 200 halftones tection policies and structures in place unteers. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-211-0 Koos Bosma is chair of the history of architecture and heritage studies at the Vrije Paper $69.00x Universiteit Amsterdam. architecture CUSA

Amsterdam University Press 183 Archaeological Prediction and Risk Management Alternatives to Current Practice Edited by Hans Kamermans, Martijn v a n Leusen, and Philip Verhagen

Archaeological Studies Leiden The Netherlands is one of the few coun- contributors to Archaeological Prediction University tries in Europe where heritage experts and Risk Management offer an overview and land developers use predictive of the various methods of predictive July 162 p. 63/10 x 91/2 modeling to avoid destroying future modeling and evaluate how the models ISBN-13: 978-90-8728-067-3 Paper $41.50x archaelogical sites, even though many are, or should be, used by stakeholders Archaeology scholars consider the application for in cultural heritage management in the CUSA this purpose highly controversial. The Netherlands.

Hans Kamermans is head of the Center for IT Expertise and assistant professor at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University. Martijn van Leusen is assistant professor at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Groningen. Philip Verhagen is a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy A Contextual Approach to Religious Aspects of Rural Society after the Roman Conquest Tesse Stek

This rigorously researched study sheds case study on the Samnite Temple of new light on the religious structures San Giovanni in Galdo, the author in- and rituals of the Italic tribes from 400 vestigates the fluctuating function of Amsterdam Archaeological Studies to 100 BC. Citing literary, epigraphic, these cult places in and among the non- and archaeological evidence from cen- Roman Italic communities before and July 296 p., 60 halftones tral and southern Italy, including a after the establishment of Roman rule. 81/4 x 113/4 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-177-9 Tesse Stek is a lecturer in classical archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. Cloth $69.50x Archaeology CUSA

Reader in Landscape and Heritage Edited by Jan Kolen and Rob v a n d e r Laarse

Landscape & Heritage Textbooks Jan Kolen and Rob van der Laarse have Bender, Tim Ingold, and David Lowen- collected in this reader thirty of the thal. With essays in history, archaeol- July 306 p. 63/10 x 91/2 most influential articles in landscape ogy, anthropology, and geography, this ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-185-4 and heritage research from the past volume will be indispensable for any- Paper $36.00x forty years. Among the numerous inter- one studying the history of landscape archaeology nationally acclaimed contributors are J. architecture and design. CUSA B. Jackson, Marwyn Samuels, Barbara

Jan Kolen is professor of heritage studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and director of the heritage and history research institute CLUE. Rob van der Laarse is assistant professor of heritage studies at the University of Amsterdam.

184 Amsterdam University Press film3 [kyu¯-bik film] New Cubic Films from the Netherlands Edited by Anna Abrahams, Claartje Opdam, and Mariska Graveland

In 2004 the Filmbank and the Filmmu- velopments are the motivation behind seum in Amsterdam published mm2: Ex- film3. The editors bring together eleven perimental Film in the Netherlands, a sur- in-depth interviews with young Dutch vey of the classical avant-garde film in visual artists in which they discuss their the Netherlands. Since then, the media work and motivation, examine avant- landscape has undergone major chang- garde filmmaking in the Netherlands Filmmuseum es, and a generation of directors offer- during the past decade, and forecast ing fresh perspectives and innovative the future of the genre. July 392 p., 100 halftones techniques has emerged. These new de- 81/8 x 54/5 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-199-1 Anna Abrahams is director of the Filmbank in Amsterdam and a lecturer at the Royal Cloth $40.00x Academy of Arts in the Hague. Claartje Opdam is a staff member at the Filmbank. Film Studies Mariska Graveland is a freelance film journalist. CUSA

Picturing Art History The Rise of the Illustrated History of Art in the Eighteenth Century Ingrid R. Vermeulen

Today’s book buyer takes for granted played in the emergence of the field of that books on art history will be illus- art history, arguing that the reproduc- trated with quality full-color reproduc- tion collections of such scholars as Gio- tions of famous masterpieces. Yet it was vanni Bottari, Johann Winckelmann, only in the eighteenth century that art and Jean-Baptiste Seroux d’Agincourt books began to be illustrated. In Pic- led to the belief that the artistic past turing Art History, Ingrid R. Vermeulen should not be pictured as a history of investigates the role that illustrations artists, but as a history of artworks.

Ingrid R. Vermeulen is assistant professor of art history at the Vrije Universiteit July 352 p., 150 halftones Amsterdam. 71/2 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-031-4 Paper $69.50s art Asian Literary Voices CUSA From Marginal to Mainstream Edited by Philip F. Williams

The essays in this collection give voice Asia, Europe, and the United States August 168 p. 63/10 x 91/2 to a wide range of artists and writers cover a wide range of topics over a vast ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-092-5 from China, Japan, Korea, and India expanse of time, from Sanskrit poetry Paper $49.50x who to this day remain largely unknown dating back over a thousand years to Literary Criticism cusa or poorly understood in literary circles Chinese fiction of the twenty-first cen- around the world. Contributors from tury.

Philip F. Williams is professor of Chinese language and culture at the Mansfield Center, University of Montana.

Amsterdam University Press 185 “This volume is the definitive A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? work on the politics of reform in The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe Bismarckian welfare regimes. Edited by Bruno Palier It features both rich empirical accounts of individual countries A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? is the first “The contributors to the volume are and penetrating new comparative study to provide an exhaustive com- all recognized experts in their field and analyses. Wonderfully rounded parative account of all welfare reforms provide strictly comparable analyses in off by synthetic introductory and in continental Europe during the past their chapters, making this volume a concluding chapters by Palier, three decades, covering Austria, Bel- goldmine for comparative welfare state this book is essential reading for gium, the Czech Republic, France, Ger- scholars. Palier’s study is certain to be- many, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, come a benchmark for the foreseeable any scholar interested in welfare Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzer- future.”—John D. Stephens, University reform—or, indeed, in institutional land. of North Carolina and policy change more generally.” —Kathleen Thelen, Bruno Palier is CNRS researcher at the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques in Paris Massachusetts Institute and scientific coordinator of the European Network of Excellence, Reconciling Work and of Technology Welfare in Europe.

Changing Welfare States

July 452 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-234-9 Paper $34.95s Politics of Risk-Taking Political Science Welfare State Reform in Advanced Democracies CUSA Barbara Vis

Changing Welfare States How much and in which direction have affect a government’s view of risk—and the welfare states among the Western thereby the degree and type of reform August 248 p. 63/10 x 91/2 democracies changed over the past they pursue. This study’s new theoreti- ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-227-1 decades? Moreover, under what condi- cal stance and innovative methodologi- Paper $49.95s tions have governments enacted these cal approach make it a must read for Political Science changes? Based on insights from pros- those policymakers, scholars, and stu- CUSA pect theory, Barbara Vis demonstrates dents interested in the politics of wel- how socioeconomic or political setbacks fare state reform.

Barbara Vis is assistant professor of comparative politics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Atlantis Lost The American Experience with De Gaulle, 1958–1969 Sebastian Reyn

During the 1960s, Charles de Gaulle’s tian Reyn traces American responses to greatest quarrel was with the Ameri- de Gaulle’s foreign policy from 1958 to cans. The American attitude towards 1969, concluding that how Americans American Studies this forceful European leader was, how- judged de Gaulle depended largely on July 664 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ever, an equally defining part of the whether their politics leaned to the left ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-214-1 dispute. In this riveting study of trans- or the right. Paper $89.00x atlantic international relations, Sebas- history CUSA Sebastian Reyn is a senior civil servant at the Dutch Ministry of Defense.

186 Amsterdam University Press Ideational Leadership in German “This is a first-rate book that lends great insights into the transforma- Welfare State Reform tion of social policy in Germany. How Politicians and Policy Ideas Transform It uses an innovative theoretical Resilient Institutions approach that highlights the role of Sabina Stiller ‘ideational leadership’ in explain- ing institutional change, an impor- An important contribution to the de- Based on in-depth case studies of indi- tant new concept in the literature.” bates surrounding the evolution of vidual reforms in health care, pensions, —Vivien A. Schmidt, the European welfare state model, this and unemployment insurance since the Boston University volume investigates the role that “ide- early 1990s, it illuminates the ways in ational leadership” has played in the which Germany has made the transi- Changing Welfare States passing of structural reforms in the tion from its Bismarckian past to a hy- change-resistant German welfare state. brid welfare state. July 256 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-186-1 Sabina Stiller is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Radboud Paper $49.95x University Nijmegen. Political science CUSA

Uncertain Safety Allocating Responsibilities for Safety Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy

Floods and fires, food safety, hazard- the uncertainties of future threats. In July 178 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ous materials, infectious diseases, and this vital report, the Netherlands Sci- ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-181-6 Paper $39.95x many other threats to public health and entific Council for Government Policy the environment call for ongoing public provides an exhaustive overview of the Political Science CUSA alertness. However, the ways in which political, economic, and ethical dimen- these safety risks are currently assessed sions of various risks and the safety poli- and managed fall short in addressing cies aimed at reducing them.

The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy is an independent advisory body to the Dutch government.

Strategies of Care Changing Elderly Care Policies and Practices in Italy and the Netherlands Barbara Da Roit

In Strategies of Care, Barbara Da Roit remained relatively stable, while the Care and Welfare Series traces the changes in the elderly care Italian system has undergone major systems of Italy and the Netherlands transitions despite minimal policy inter- September 224 p. 63/10 x 91/2 since the early 1990s, drawing attention vention. Based on a wealth of data and ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-224-0 Paper $49.95x to the advantages and disadvantages extensive interviews with both caregiv- of these two very different models. She ers and patients, Strategies of Care will ap- Political Science CUSA examines the formal care system of the peal to anyone interested in the future Dutch, and reveals how this system— of European health care debates. despite strong policy pressures—has

Barbara Da Roit is assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University. Amsterdam University Press 187 European Development Cooperation In Between the Local and the Global Edited by Paul Hoebink

august 330 p. 63/10 x 91/2 The foreign aid disbursed by the EU energy projects in Africa, and security- ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-225-7 member states reached record levels in related assistance for smaller EU mem- Paper $59.00x 2008, as several member states raised bers, as well as an overview of new pro- Political Science their assistance considerably and new grams. The contributors also discuss CUSA ones began to contribute. This defini- the role of local and regional authori- tive study offers valuable new insights ties in development cooperation in the into previously established forms of Netherlands, Germany, and Spain. aid, such as food donations, support for

Paul Hoebink holds the Extraordinary Professorship in Development Cooperation at the Centre for International Development Issues at Radboud University Nijmegen.

The Local Dimension of Migration Policymaking Edited by Tiziana Caponio and Maren Borkert

This book prompts a fresh examination diversity—and consider urban policies of immigrant integration policies. Re- and realities in different national con- vealing just how immigrants and their texts. Spanning Switzerland, Italy, Ger- receiving societies interact in everyday many, the Netherlands, and Canada, life, the contributors show how societal the case studies display great variety in inclusion operates at a local level. The their theoretical and methodological studies included here focus on three approaches and lay the foundations for issue areas of migration policy—citi- future migration policy research. zenship, welfare services, and religious IMISCOE Reports Tiziana Caponio is a researcher at the University of Turin and a research associate at the Fo- July 202 p. 63/10 x 91/2 rum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull’Immigrazione in Turin. Maren Borkert is ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-232-5 a research officer at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development in Vienna Paper $49.95x and a lecturer at the University of Vienna. Political Science CUSA

Diaspora and Transnationalism Concepts, Theories and Methods Edited by Rainer Bauböck and Thomas Faist

IMISCOE Research Diaspora and transnationalism are another. Rainer Bauböck and Thomas concepts that have become very popu- Faist bring together scholars from a september 376 p. 63/10 x 91/2 lar in modern academic and political wide range of academic disciplines ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-238-7 discourses. And while most of the new to discuss the concepts, theories, and Paper $59.50x literature treats the two separately, this methodologies used in the study of bor- political Science CUSA book studies these fields alongside one der-crossing affiliations.

Rainer Bauböck is professor of social and political theory at the European University Insti- tute in Florence. Thomas Faist is professor of transitional and development studies in the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University. 188 Amsterdam University Press Looking for Lines Theories on the Essence of Art and the Problem of Mannerism Paul v a n d e n Akker

Studies of the old masters are often as Hogarth, Comte de Caylus, Goethe, implicitly based on modern notions, Carl Schnaase, Burckhardt, Heinrich which do not necessarily tally with ideas Wölfflin, and John Shearman, and fo- contemporary with the art of the time cusing particular attention on the his- being studied. With Looking for Lines, toriography of mannerism, van den Paul van den Akker offers a survey of Akker traces the evolution of aesthetic the concepts and controversies of artis- judgment over the past three centuries tic value since the eighteenth century. and at the same time scrutinizes it for Drawing from the writings of art his- clues to the way we see and think about torians, critics, and philosophers such art today.

October 408 p., 150 halftones Paul van den Akker is a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the Vrije Universiteit 63/10 x 91/2 Amsterdam. ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-178-6 Paper $65.00x

art A Timeless Vale CUSA Archaeology and Related Studies of the Jordan Valley Edited by Eva Kaptijn and Lucas P. Petit

Written and organized in honor of re- the paleoecology of the Hula area, an Archaeological Studies nowned Leiden archaeologist Gerrit analysis of the Jordan Valley during the Leiden University van der Kooij, A Timeless Vale presents early Bronze Age, a description of sugar a wealth of research on the prehistory production in Jericho during the Ayyu- July 202 p., 100 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 and history of the Jordan Valley. Chron- bid and Mamluk periods, and an over- ISBN-13: 978-90-8728-076-5 ologically and thematically diverse, the view of Dutch archaeological activity in Paper $42.50x chapters cover a range of topics, includ- Jordan during the last fifty years. archaeology ing the history of the Zerqa Triangle, CUSA

Eva Kaptijn is a postdoctoral researcher on the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Lucas P. Petit is a researcher in African and Near Eastern archaeology.

Financing Cathedral Building in the Middle Ages The Generosity of the Faithful Wim Vroom

This volume is the first complete over- parishioners for whom the structure view of the process of commissioning was to be erected. The second part is a and financing the construction of cathe- case study of the financing of Utrecht’s drals during the Middle Ages. The first cathedral, for which the archives are part of the book outlines the sources of among the best-preserved in Europe. October 672 p., 66 color plates, 3 3 wealth from which the commissioners Vroom concludes with an analysis of 20 halftones 6 /4 x 8 /4 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-035-2 of these projects could draw, includ- the financing for other notable cathe- Cloth $89.50x ing contributions from the bishop, the drals, including St. Peter’s in Rome. european History architecture chapter, the city, and above all those CUSA

Wim Vroom is the former director of the Department of Dutch History at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press 189 Bram Stoker Carol A. Senf

In part because of the huge success of During his lifetime, Stoker au- his novel Dracula, Bram Stoker is largely thored seventeen books in addition to responsible for moving the gothic out Dracula, as well as several short stories, of medieval castles and into the center many of which were not classically goth- Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions of modern life, using gothic motifs and ic. Senf’s study is the first to pay sus- conventions to examine social, eco- tained attention to these, searching out January 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2306-9 nomic, and political problems. In Bram the gothic elements in tales of romance Paper $25.00s Stoker, Carol A. Senf offers a detailed or stories of supernatural mystery. Literary Criticism and accessible introduction to the en- As fascinating as it is significant to NSA/AU/NZ tirety of Stoker’s oeuvre, focusing on Stoker scholarship, this volume will ap- his contributions to the modern notion peal to anyone interested in literature of the gothic. and cultural studies at the fin de siècle.

Carol A. Senf is a professor at Georgia Tech and the author of three books on Bram Stoker.

Geoffrey of Monmouth K. Jankulak

Born early in the twelfth century, Geof- accessible account of the life and times frey of Monmouth was a clergyman who of this extremely influential medieval played a central role in the development writer and historian. K. Jankulak delves and spread of the Arthurian legend into Geoffrey’s writings, offering de- from Britain to medieval Europe. But tailed synopses and explaining their his works, both his History of the Kings of significance to the British historical re- Britain and his Life of Merlin, go far be- cord. Jankulak also addresses recent ar- yond King Arthur and his court: these guments over whether Geoffrey relied works presented, for the first time, a co- on information from earlier sources or herent and proud account of Britain’s simply invented stories and concludes early history, from its founding to its that Geoffrey did invent or adapt eclipse at the hands of the Anglo-Sax- much of what he wrote, but was sub- ons. stantially faithful to his main source, Writers of Wales The present volume provides an Welsh tradition.

August 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 K. Jankulak is a lecturer in religious history in the Department of Theology and ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2151-5 Religious Study at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Paper $25.00s Biography NSA/AU/NZ

190 University of Wales Press The Medieval Castles of Wales John R. Kenyon

The Medieval Castles of Wales is a concise with each entry featuring a history of but informative guide that highlights the site, a description of the visible re- the most important and interesting mains, and relevant tourist information medieval castles throughout the Welsh such as maps and entry prices. A final countryside. The opening chapter trac- chapter provides a brief overview of cas- es the history of castle architecture in tle-like buildings constructed since the Britain. The five subsequent chapters— seventeenth century and an extensive divided by region—guide the reader bibliography for further reading. through these magnificent structures,

John R. Kenyon is head librarian of Amgueddfa Cymru—National Museum Wales. He is one of the United Kingdom’s leading authorities on castles and has written and edited a number of books and academic papers on this topic.

December 160 p., 16 color plates, 14 halftones 71/2 x 91/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2180-5 Paper $25.00s French Fiction into the Twenty-First Century travel The Return to the Story NSA/AU/NZ Simon Kemp

The French novel’s “return to the story” writers—Annie Ernaux, Pascal Quig- French and Francophone Studies in the last decades of the twentieth cen- nard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Ech- tury and the beginning of the twenty- enoz, and Patrick Modiano—in the September 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 first has been widely acknowledged in context of the current French literary ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2273-4 Cloth $90.00x literary scholarship. But is this assess- scene, and examines how far they pur- Literary Criticism ment accurate? With French Fiction into sue the innovations of their predeces- NSA/AU/NZ the Twenty-First Century, Simon Kemp sors and just how far they have turned looks at the work of five contemporary their backs on the era of experiment.

Simon Kemp is a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St John’s College.

Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand Alison Rudd

Alison Rudd provides a comparative legacies of colonialism. She covers a di- analysis of the way the gothic has pro- verse terrain of well-known contempo- vided writers from the Caribbean, Can- rary writers, including Derek Walcott, ada, Australia, and New Zealand with a Shani Mootoo, Margaret Atwood, Peter means to express the anxieties of post- Carey, and Keri Hulme. colonial experience and the traumatic Gothic Literary Studies Alison Rudd is assistant registrar at the University of the West of England. November 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2211-6 Cloth $90.00x Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ

University of Wales Press 191 Wine Drinking Culture in France A National Myth or a Modern Passion? Marion Demossier

Wine drinking culture has traditionally it cannot be separated from the wider been a source of pride for the French. cultural context in which it takes place In fact, to many it is an essential part but also revealing how recent social, of what it means to be French. In Wine economic, and political forces have Drinking Culture in France, Marion Dem- transformed wine’s role in constructing ossier examines wine consumption in France’s national identity. France since the 1970s, arguing that

Marion Demossier is a senior lecturer in French and European studies at the University of Bath.

French and Francophone Studies French Muslims September 224 p., 11 graphs, 1 map 51/2 x 81/2 New Voices in Contemporary France ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2208-6 Sharif Gemie Cloth $85.00x

cooking NSA/AU/NZ French Muslims provides a critical per- school, the traditions of the French spective on Muslim politics and experi- republic, and the legacy of the French French and Francophone Studies ences in contemporary France, the Eu- empire. In addition, Gemie analyzes ropean country with the largest Muslim the most important organizations and

October 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 population. Drawing from the work of structures representing French Muslim ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2209-3 four Muslim thinkers and activists— opinion today, including the French Cloth $90.00x Chahdortt Djavann, Fadela Amara, Council of the Muslim Faith and the religion Tariq Ramadan, and Houria Bouteld- Union of Islamic Organizations of NSA/AU/NZ ja—this volume examines issues such France. as the veil, integration, the role of the

Sharif Gemie is a reader in history at the University of Glamorgan. He has published four previous works, including French Revolutions, 1815–1914: An Introduction and Brittany: The Invisible Nation.

Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture Yaw Agawu-Kakraba

Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Cul- a profound postmodernity in contem- ture presents Spain as one of the most porary letters. His goal is to analyze postmodern of all European nations ‘what really constitutes postmodernity and argues that certain exclusive social within the Spanish context.’ The book and cultural experiences in Spain, such is a serious look at an important matter. Iberian and Latin American as immigration, globalization, and ter- It is written with conviction and good Studies rorism, are not only patently Spanish close readings of the texts, and it offers but also that in their totality they con- a new window into contemporary Span- September 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 stitute a powerful postmodern current ish literature and culture.”—David T. ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2271-0 Cloth $90.00x in Spain. Gies, University of Virginia literary criticism “Agawu-Kakraba attempts to reveal NSA/AU/NZ Yaw Agawu-Kakraba is associate professor of Spanish at the Penn State Altoona. 192 University of Wales Press Western Sahara The Refugee Nation Pablo San Martín

In 1975, after Francoist Spain aban- camps. But now these camps are more doned Western Sahara, Morocco, and than refugee settlements: they have be- Mauritania hastily moved in to occupy come the center of a state founded by Iberian and Latin American the territory, despite protests by the the Saharawi nationalists, the Saharawi Studies United Nations and resistance from a Arab Democratic Republic. This book December 224 p., 7 halftones nascent Saharawi liberation movement examines how a new Saharawi identity, 51/2 x 81/2 known as the Frente Polisario. During culture, and society have emerged in ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2205-5 the conflict’s first few months, thou- these refugee camps over the past few Cloth $90.00x sands of Saharawis were displaced to decades and highlights the impact that african Studies the neighboring Algerian region of Tin- the Hispanic, Arab, and African worlds NSA/AU/NZ douf, where almost 200,000 Saharawis have had in shaping the contours of this still live today in four large refugee nation.

Pablo San Martín is a lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Leeds.

Welsh in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Delyth Morris

In this volume, Delyth Morris surveys immigrants towards the language, and the use of the Welsh language in Wales language planning institutions and leg- today. Morris considers topics such as islation. Welsh in the Twenty-First Century the spread of Welsh to the Internet, the will be of interest both to academic au- use of the language by young people, diences and the Welsh language com- bilingual education, emigration and munity as a whole. its effect on the language, attitudes of

Delyth Morris is a senior lecturer in sociology and spatial policy at the School of Social Sciences at Bangor University.

August 128 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2299-4 Cloth $35.00x Linguistics NSA/AU/NZ Gender and Social Justice in Wales Edited by Nickie Charles and Charlotte Aull Davies

In 1999 Wales held the inaugural elec- With Gender and Social Justice in Gender Studies in Wales tions for the National Assembly for Wales, editors Nickie Charles and Char- 1 1 Wales, and nearly forty percent of those lotte Aull Davies examine how that September 224 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2268-0 elected were women. Within four years, composition has affected the policies of Paper $25.00x this proportion had increased to fifty the assembly over the past decade and Political Science percent, making the National Assembly assess the effects of these policies on so- NSA/AU/NZ for Wales the first legislative body in his- cial justice for women in Wales. tory to be equal parts men and women.

Nickie Charles is professor in and director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gen- der at the University of Warwick. Charlotte Aull Davies is senior lecturer in sociology and anthropology in the School of the Environment and Society at Swansea University.

University of Wales Press 193 Royal Wales Deborah Fisher

Royal Wales offers a comprehensive his- allegiances and politics in Wales, royal tory of the royalty of Wales, from those tradition and customs and their effects families that ruled during the early on Wales, royal visits to Wales, royal Middle Ages to the predominantly Eng- patronage in Wales, and Welsh public lish royal families that have ruled ever opinion on the subject of royalty. since. Included are discussions of royal

Deborah Fisher is a freelance writer and historian. She is the author of Princesses of Wales and Princes of Wales, both published by the University of Wales Press.

November 192 p. 61/4 x 91/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2214-7 Paper $25.00x European History Slave Wales NSA/AU/NZ The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660–1850 Chris Evans

November 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Between the mid-fifteenth and the mid- Wales. He also shows that some of the ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2303-8 nineteenth centuries, nearly twelve mil- wealth that slaves generated in the West Cloth $35.00x lion Africans were enslaved and trans- Indies made its way back to Wales, often European History ported across the Atlantic to colonies to fund the construction of furnaces NSA/AU/NZ in North and South America and the and mills. With appearances by Henry West Indies. With Slave Wales, Chris Ev- Morgan, Thomas Williams, Anthony ans traces the role that Wales and the Bacon, and Thomas Picton, this pen- Welsh played in this infamous trade. etrating investigation will be required Evans reveals that many of these slaves reading for historians on both sides of were purchased with commodities like the Atlantic. copper and brass that originated in

Chris Evans is a lecturer in history at the University of Glamorgan.

‘The Bard Is a Very Singular Character’ Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture Ffion M. Jones

A cunning and successful literary fascinating and original study, Ffion M. forger, Iolo Morganwg has remained a Jones examines how Morganwg dealt controversial figure within Welsh liter- with the frustrations of his obscurity, Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic ary tradition and history ever since his offering insights into Morganwg’s con- Tradition in Wales death in 1826. During his lifetime, how- tribution to and sometimes tortuous September 250 p., 13 halftones ever, he was a figure who existed on the relationship with the print culture of 61/4 x 91/4 margins of Welsh literary society. In this his age. ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2195-9 Cloth $70.00x Ffion M. Jones is a research fellow at University of Wales’s Center for Advanced Welsh and Biography Celtic Studies. She is coeditor of The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg. NSA/AU/NZ

194 University of Wales Press David Hughes Parry A Jurist in Society R. Gwynedd Parry

Sir David Hughes Parry was one of the reer as a lawyer, legal scholar, university most renowned and influential Welsh policy maker, and public servant. It also jurists of the twentieth century. Drawing considers his distinctive and sometimes from a range of primary and secondary controversial contribution to Welsh life, sources, including archival material and and in particular, its public institutions unpublished personal papers, this book and the Welsh language and culture. provides a holistic assessment of his ca-

R. Gwynedd Parry is a senior lecturer in law at Swansea University.

September 256 p., 21 halftones 51/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2292-5 Thomas Matthews’ Welsh Records in Paris Cloth $70.00x A Study in Selected Welsh Medieval Records Biography LAW NSA/AU/NZ Edited by Dylan Rees and J. Gwynfor Jones

In 1910 Thomas Matthews published edition and have supplemented it with September 192 p., 8 halftones a collection of several Welsh docu- essays that provide introductions to the 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2301-4 ments held in the Archives Nationales original work and its author, consider Cloth $70.00x in France. Covering such figures as the documents from a contemporary Medieval History Llewelyn Fawr, the Bishop of Menevia, perspective, revise Matthews’s original NSA/AU/NZ and Owain Glyndwˆr, these documents evaluation, and take note of recent de- provide an important window into me- velopments in the scholarship relating dieval Welsh history. With this volume, to this field. the editors have reproduced Matthews’s

Dylan Rees works at Gorseinon College, Swansea, where he combines teaching with management responsibilities. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors. J. Gwynfor Jones, formerly professor of history at Cardiff University, is a prolific author and authority on Welsh history and has published many books with the University of Wales Press.

The Women and Men of 1926 A Gender and Social History of the General Strike and Miners’ Lockout in South Wales Sue Bruley

In The Women and Men of 1926 Sue Bru- investigates how households coped with ley recounts the social history of the the lockout and assesses the impact that mining communities in south Wales it had on gender relations. Individual during the 1926 lockout. Relying on chapters consider topics such as school July 224 p., 19 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 hitherto unpublished oral testimony as canteens, miners’ lodges, recreational ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2275-8 well as other archival material, Bruley activities, picketing, and politics. Cloth $65.00x

Sue Bruley is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Portsmouth. She has published European History NSA/AU/NZ widely on women, work, and politics in interwar Britain. University of Wales Press 195 The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys 1840–1920 Power and Influence in the Porth-Pontypridd Region Richard Griffiths

Until now most studies of the Welsh his attention on the middle class and coal boom of the late 1800s and early reveals how several of these individuals 1900s have concentrated on the work- were—by hard work, perseverance, and ers and the unions. Instead, in The En- often creative business practices—able trepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys to build up considerable wealth and 1840–1920, Richard Griffiths focuses power.

Richard Griffithsis professor emeritus at the University of Wales and King’s College London. He is the author of a number of books on British political history, English and French literature, and religion. September 320 p., 7 halftones, 3 maps 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2290-1 Cloth $70.00x

European History NSA/AU/NZ Bangor University 1884–2009 David Roberts

Available 224 p., 100 halftones The University of Wales, Bangor has a gor and a trained historian, has writ- 73/4 x 93/4 rich and compelling history. The story ten an admirably lucid, fair-minded ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2226-0 Cloth $35.00x of this seat of learning—from its open- account of the one-hundred-twenty-five- ing in an eighteenth-century coaching year history of his university. It chron- Education NSA/AU/NZ inn in 1884 to a multimillion-pound in- icles the major personalities, issues, vestment in staff and buildings—is one achievements, and conflicts of these of heroic struggles, personal endeavor, years, with skill, insight, and transparent financial crises, and political unrest. honesty. It deserves a wide readership Roberts traces the growth and develop- among everyone concerned with the ment of the institution, focusing on the history of modern Wales.”—Kenneth O. personalities that shaped its direction. Morgan, University of Oxford. “David Roberts, registrar of Ban-

David Roberts has been secretary and registrar at Bangor University since 1999.

A History of Independent Television in Wales J. Medhurst

This volume provides the first detailed try, particularly for its innovative and and systematic historical narrative and diverse programming. J. Medhurst’s critical analysis of independent televi- accessible and readable history looks sion (ITV) in Wales. Seen by some as back several decades and emphasizes August 224 p., 9 halftones a more populist and sometimes tacky the channel’s place within debates over 51/2 x 81/2 alternative to the BBC, Wales ITV has national identity, language, and culture ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2213-0 Paper $35.00x been a pioneer in the television indus- in Wales.

Media Studies J. Medhurst is a lecturer in film and television studies and director of learning and teaching NSA/AU/NZ in the Department of Theater, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University.

196 University of Wales Press Edited by Matthew H. Clough and Colin Fallows Astrid Kirchherr A Retrospective

strid Kirchherr is best known to many as the first professional photographer to photograph the Beatles in Hamburg in 1960 A and 1961, and as the fiancée of Stuart Sutcliffe, the original bass player in the Beatles. Less well-known are her other photographs, and Astrid Kirchherr: A Retrospective seeks to place Kirchherr’s photogra- phy in a wider context. The book charts her life as an art student in Hamburg through November 128 p., 100 halftones 8 x 12 new interviews with Kirchherr and the people who knew her personal- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-477-3 ly at that time. Klaus Voormann, Kirchherr’s close friend at art college, Paper $29.95 Photography provides unique insight into their life in the city in the late 1950s, with NAM fascinating details of the time and place. Further detail is provided by Gibson Kemp, Kirchherr’s ex-husband, and Ulf Kruger, her close friend and manager. It was in a studio created in Kirchherr’s mother’s attic that Stuart Sutcliffe made his famous Hamburg series of abstract expressionist canvases—and where historic photographs of the Beatles were made. The editors, working closely with Kirchherr, have had unparalleled access to her photographic archives, and the essays are complemented with a wealth of black-and-white and color plates of key photographs, and by numerous additional images of Kirchherr and her contem- poraries, including the Beatles. Many of these photos are previously unpublished and many more appear here for the first time uncropped.

Matthew H. Clough is director of the Victoria Gallery and Museum. Colin Fallows is professor of sound and visual arts at Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University.

Liverpool University Press 197 Liverpool to Liverpool Simon Faithfull

Liverpool to Liverpool tells the story of an landscapes he was passing through and epic journey by artist Simon Faithfull the people he encountered as he drew from Liverpool, England to Liverpool, them—from English Liverpudlians Nova Scotia. Faithfull made roughly six crouched under umbrellas to Canadian September 224 p., 100 halftones 6 x 9 drawings each day throughout his jour- Liverpudlians with mustachioed lips ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-488-9 ney, documenting the minutiae of daily and pick-up trucks. Both the words and Paper $19.95s life on land and sea with his Palm Pilot. images in this fascinating book attest art travel This book includes more than one hun- to the survival of the individual texture NAM dred digital drawings, as well as Faith- and detail of everyday lives even in our full’s wry, imagist commentary on the restlessly mobile world.

Simon Faithfull is an artist and lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Artists Re: Thinking Games Edited by Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, and Corrado Morgana

Foundation for Art & Creative Since the beginning of the twenty-first range of visual artists, developers, and Technology century, artists have embraced the tools new media scholars, including Mathius and culture of digital gaming to cre- Fuchs, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Bill Vio- September 87 p., 16 color plates ate artwork that challenges the norms la, and Emma Westecott. Not your aver- 6 x 9 and expectations of both the game and age computer games reader, Artists Re: ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-247-2 Paper $17.00s art worlds. Artists Re: Thinking Games Thinking Games brings together experts explores the themes adopted by artists in the field who take a critical, some- Art Computer science NAM working at the intersections of com- times subversive, but always fresh look puter games and the visual arts and at computer games. includes essays and interviews with a

Ruth Catlow is an artist and cofounder of Furtherfield, an independent art collective. Marc Garrett is an artist, writer, and cofounder of Furtherfield.Corrado Morgana is an artist, musician, and researcher at the University of Wales, Newport.

198 Liverpool University Press The Reinvention of Mexico National Ideology in a Neoliberal Era Gavin O’Toole

The Reinvention of Mexico explores the volume shows that Mexico’s transforma- ideological conflict between neoliberal- tion in the 1990s has broader implica- Liverpool Latin American Studies ism and nationalism that has been at the tions for the study of nationalism. A wel- core of economic and political develop- come contribution to the literature on November 256 p. 6 x 9 ment in Latin America since the mid- Latin American history, The Reinvention ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-485-8 Cloth $95.00x 1980s. Grappling with a wide variety of Mexico offers important insight into Latin American Studies of issues generated by the dismantling national responses to globalization and NAM of the statist economy and subsequent the most appropriate vision of political climate of market reforms, this timely economy in Latin America.

Gavin O’Toole is an America Series advisory board member for Texas Tech University Press and the editor of the Latin Review of Books.

Poetics of the Poster The Rhetoric of Image/Text David Scott

The unique collaborative relationship ing on the innovative visual equivalents Contemporary French and between text and image has allowed the of conventional textual ways of com- Francophone Cultures once-humble poster to evolve distinctive municating meaning—metaphor, me- strategies of persuasion that have trans- tonymy, and rebus—Poetics of the Poster January 192 p., 120 color plates 6 x 9 formed modern advertising. Closely looks at how modern-day signage, from ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-486-5 related to contemporary developments airline logos to tourism advertisements Cloth $95.00x in the visual arts—in particular Futur- to boxing match announcements, art ism and Art Deco—these advances also wields maximum persuasive power over NAM reflect the contemporary confluence viewers. between art and graphic design. Focus-

David Scott is professor of French and textual and visual studies at Trinity College Dublin.

Transnational French Studies Postcolonialism and Littérature-Monde Edited by Alec G. Hargreaves, Charles Forsdick, and David Murphy

In March 2007 France’s Le Monde pub- French and Francophone literature, Society for Francophone lished a “Manifesto for a World Litera- it has been criticized by others for re- Postcolonial Studies ture in French,” a proposal to recast creating that division through the exoti- Francophone literature as “world lit- cism of the Francophone body of work. January 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-483-4 erature written in French.” Signed by In Transnational French Studies, leading Cloth $95.00x a multinational group of forty-four au- scholars address this debate and assess Cultural Studies thors—many from former French col- the wider question of the evolving status NAM onies—the manifesto has drawn mixed of French, Francophone, and postcolo- reactions. Praised by some for breaking nial studies amid the challenges of glo- down the hierarchical division between balization.

Alec G. Hargreaves is director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University. Charles Forsdick is professor of French and head of the School of Cultures, Languages, and Area Studies at the University of Liverpool. David Murphy is professor of French and postcolonial studies at the University of Stirling. Liverpool University Press 199 “John Kinsella is an Orphic fountain, Activist Poetics by John Kinsella a prodigy of the imagination. . . . He John Kinsella frequently makes me think of John Edited and with an Introduction by Niall Lucy Ashbery: improbable fecundity, eclecticism, and a stand that fuses John Kinsella is known internationally for poetry as a vital form of resistance to populism and elitism in poetic as the acclaimed author of more than a variety of social and ethical ills. Build- audience.” thirty books of poetry and prose, but ing on his own earlier notion of “linguis- —Harold Bloom, from the in tandem with—and often through— tic disobedience,” he analyzes his poetry introduction to Kinsella’s those creative works, Kinsella is also a and prose in the context of resistance. Peripheral Light prominent political activist. In this col- For Kinsella, all poetry is a call to ac- lection of essays, he explores anarchism, tion, and Activist Poetics reads like a lively September 256 p. 6 x 9 veganism, pacifism, and ecological poet- manifesto for it to escape the aesthetic ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-469-8 ics and makes a compelling argument vacuum and enter the real world. Cloth $95.00x Poetry John Kinsella is a fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge; professor of English NAM at Kenyon College; and adjunct professor at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. He is founding editor of the literary journal Salt. Niall Lucy is a research fellow with the Australian Research Institute and former head of the School of Arts at Murdoch University.

Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature Dave Gunning

Drawing on a selection of works from rizations and identities, this study traces such prominent authors as Monica Ali, its influence over the last two decades Hanif Kureishi, and Zadie Smith, Race on individual identities and the wider and Antiracism in Black British and British political debate, including the chang- Asian Literature offers the first extended ing attitudes toward Muslim culture in exploration of the cultural impact of Britain and the role of Africa as a sym- race and antiracism in Britain through bolic focus for black political culture. the lens of black British and British This volume will be of interest to anyone Asian literature. With antiracism—the seeking a better understanding of the politics of opposing discrimination— nuances of antiracism in Britain. December 256 p. 6 x 9 increasingly determining racial catego- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-482-7 Cloth $95.00x Dave Gunning is lecturer in English literature at the University of Birmingham. Literary Criticism NAM The Female Body in Medicine and Literature Edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge

August 256 p. 6 x 9 Drawing on a range of texts from the attention, including the relationship ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-472-8 seventeenth century to the present, The between gynecology and psychology Cloth $95.00x Female Body in Medicine and Literature and the influence of popular art forms Medicine women’s studies NAM explores accounts of motherhood, fer- on “women’s science” prior to the twen- tility, and clinical procedures for what ty-first century. Taken together, these they have to tell us about the develop- essays offer a wealth of insight into the ment of women’s medicine. The essays medical treatment of women and will offer nuanced historical analyses of appeal to scholars in gender studies, lit- subjects that have received little critical erature, and the history of medicine.

Andrew Mangham is a lecturer in the Department of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. Greta Depledge is a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of 200 Liverpool University Press London. Irish Birmingham “Well written, engaging, and stimu- lating. . . . This book fills a major A History gap in the history of Birmingham.” James Moran —Carl Chinn, University of Birmingham Birmingham has long been shaped by book examines this important aspect of its Irish residents. In the mid-1800s, English-Irish history and explains how August 256 p., 16 halftones 6 x 9 following the migration caused by Ire- events in Birmingham have influenced ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-474-2 land’s potato famine, Birmingham’s Irish political figures from Daniel Cloth $95.00x ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-475-9 Irish-born population was the fourth- O’Connell to Padraic Pearse, Irish dra- Paper $29.95s largest of any English or Welsh town. In matists from Brendan Behan to Tom History the 1960s, one in six of its children had Murphy, and English writers from Ge- NAM at least one parent from Ireland. This rard Manley Hopkins to Jonathan Coe.

James Moran teaches in the School of English at the University of Nottingham and writes for the Dublin Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.

Creating Memorials, Building Identities The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic Alan Rice

This incisive book investigates memo- music, and film. A series of case stud- rials to slavery throughout the African ies ranging from the eighteenth to the diaspora, with an emphasis on Europe. twenty-first centuries, from Senegal and It analyzes not only the increasing num- Montserrat to Manchester and Paris, ber of physical monuments but also the explores issues such as the Lancashire practice of remembering—and forget- cotton famine, black soldiers in World ting—in museums and plantation hous- War II, and the 2007 commemoration es as well as in contemporary cultural of abolition in regional museums. forms like the visual arts, literature, Studies in International Slavery

Alan Rice is reader in American cultural studies at the University of Central Lancashire. December 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-471-1 Cloth $95.00x Cultural Studies NAM

Dialectical Conversions Donald Kuspit’s Art Criticism Edited by David Craven and Brian Winkenweder

Few art critics in Western history have multifaceted art criticism has gained had the lasting international impact of world renown for reasons that critics, philosopher and psychoanalyst Donald art historians, and philosophers from Kuspit. A student of Theodor Adorno, around the world explain here. The

Kuspit introduced in the 1970s a new first book about one of the most distin- November 240 p., 10 halftones 7 x 9 type of philosophical art criticism guished art critics in history, Dialectical ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-479-7 drawing on critical theory, phenome- Conversions is a searching survey of Kus- Cloth $95.00x nology, and psychoanalysis. Dense and pit’s role in triggering several historic Art demanding, yet deft and incisive, this shifts within art criticism. NAM

David Craven is distinguished professor of art history at the University of New Mexico. Brian Winkenweder is associate professor of art history at Linfield College. Liverpool University Press 201 The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination 1860–1920 Jennifer Stevens

Fictional reconstructions of the Gos- drew influence from other works of pels continue to find a place in con- biblical scholarship. The latest in the temporary literature and the popular English Association Monographs se- imagination. Present-day writers of ries, The Historical Jesus and the Literary New Testament–based fiction are con- Imagination paints a convincing picture sidered to be part of a tradition formed of the relationship between nineteenth- in the mid-to-late twentieth century. century biblical scholarship and literary Yet the foundations were laid earlier works that raises interesting questions still by writers like Oscar Wilde, George for scholars working at the intersection Moore, and Marie Corelli who, in turn, of literature and theology.

Jennifer Stevens teaches at the Godolphin and Latymer School in London. She is a found- English Association Monographs ing fellow of the English Association.

August 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-470-4 Cloth $95.00x Ciaran Carson Religion Literary Criticism Space, Place, Writing NAM Neal Alexander

Liverpool English Texts and Ciaran Carson is one of the most chal- ploys urbanism, cultural theory, and Studies lenging and inventive of contemporary literary criticism to decipher the ways Irish writers, exhibiting verbal bril- in which Carson imaginatively navi- January 224 p. 6 x 9 liance, formal complexity, and intellec- gates the ideas of space and place. A ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-478-0 tual daring across a remarkably varied truly groundbreaking book and a new Cloth $95.00x body of work. With his birthplace and critical framework for exploring liter- Literary Criticism NAM hometown of Belfast as a recurrent— ary representations of space, this is the and often gritty—frame of reference, first study to consider the entire Carson Carson engages the themes of history, canon, including poetry, prose, and geography, violence, and power. In this translation. in-depth study, Neal Alexander em-

Neal Alexander is a lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham.

Voyages over Voices Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson Edited by Angela Leighton

Voyages over Voices is the first book-length Leighton provides an invaluable con- critical exploration of the work of inter- tribution to understanding Stevenson’s nationally acclaimed American-British large body of work. poet Anne Stevenson, who has long “Anne Stevenson is as big and as been regarded as one of the most im- great a poet as Plath or Bishop. . . . portant contemporary poets on either Leighton’s richly rewarding collection Liverpool English Texts and side of the Atlantic. Bringing together makes a significant and invaluable Studies a distinguished list of contributors— contribution to our knowledge of her December 256 p. 6 x 9 including Jay Parini, Carol Rumens, work.”—Andrew McNeillie, University ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-484-1 Tim Kendall, and John Lucas—Angela of Exeter Cloth $95.00x Poetry Angela Leighton is senior research fellow at Trinity College and the author of On Form: NAM Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word. 202 Liverpool University Press Public Sculpture of Bristol Douglas Merritt, Francis Greenacre, and Katharine Eustace

Situated on the scenic River Avon, the a major regional center as infamous for West Country city of Bristol has an abun- its slave trade as for its sherry and man- dance of public sculpture adorning its ufacturing, and its fascinating history Public Sculpture of Britain historic streets, buildings, and squares. lives in its monuments. The wealth of This volume draws attention to over information that Public Sculpture of Bris- November 464 p., 400 halftones 9 x 10 two hundred of these works through tol makes available will entice visitors to ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-481-0 illustrations, biographical entries, and this vibrant city as well as encourage its Cloth $95.00x essays, including a detailed survey of guardians to plan for the conservation art Bristol’s church monuments. Dating of its rich heritage. NAM back to Anglo-Saxon times, Bristol was

Douglas Merritt is honorary visiting professor at the University of the West of England. Francis Greenacre was curator at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery from 1969 to 1997. Katharine Eustace is the editor of Sculpture Journal.

Public Sculpture of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse

Public sculpture includes not only back as the twelfth century from sculp- open-air sculpture but also architec- tors such as Peter Hollins, John Bacon, tural sculpture and notable sculptures Ann Campbell, Diana Gorvin, and inside public and semi-public build- Carlo Marochetti. From ornamental ings. With a focus on England’s West carvings on buildings to fountains to Public Sculpture of Britain Midlands counties of Herefordshire, commemorative statues, this book will Shropshire, and Worcestershire, this be an important resource for sculpture August 448 p., 250 halftones 9 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-172-7 volume includes works dating as far and regional history enthusiasts alike. Cloth $95.00x

George T. Noszlopy is professor emeritus of art history at the University of Central art NAM England. Fiona Waterhouse is a researcher at the University of Central England.

Sculpture Journal Volume 18.2 Edited By Katharine Eustace September 128 p., 52 halftones 8 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-489-6 Britain’s foremost scholarly journal Day and Edward Morris on the sculp- Paper $95.00x dedicated to sculpture in all its aspects, ture collection at Eaton Hall, as well as art Sculpture Journal provides an interna- current exhibition news and book re- NAM tional forum for critics, historians, and views. Academically focused but acces- researchers in the field of post-classical sible, and richly illustrated throughout, Volume 19.1 and contemporary Western sculpture. Sculpture Journal is an insightful read for October 128 p., 50 halftones 8 x 11 Recent highlights include essays by art scholars, enthusiasts, or collectors. ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-490-2 historian David Fraser Jenkins on Paul Paper $95.00x

art Katharine Eustace has an MA in medieval history from the University of St Andrews and an NAM MA in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Liverpool University Press 203 Evaluación Rápida de la Biodiversidad de los Ecosistemas Acuáticos de la Cuenca Alta del Río Cuyuní, Guayana Venezolana Edited by Carlos A. Lasso, Josefa C. Señaris, Anabel Rial, and Ana Liz Flores

A rapid biological assessment of the Up- scale gold mining. At least six species of per Cuyuni River Basin in southeastern fishes new to science were documented, Venezuela was conducted in January as well as ten new species records for RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 2008. Taxonomic information was col- Venezuela. Results included 517 species lected for mammals, birds, reptiles, am- of plants, 82 species of aquatic macro-

July 235 p. 8 x 12 phibians, fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, invertebrates, 125 fish species, 29 am- ISBN-13: 978-1-934151-36-5 aquatic insects, and vegetation. The phibian species, 24 reptile species, 254 Paper $20.00x/£13.00 data will be used to guide conservation bird species, and 87 mammal species. Nature efforts and management of the region, This report is in Spanish, with an Eng- which is severely threatened by small- lish summary.

Carlos A. Lasso is the coordinator of biological conservation and use of biodiversity at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute in Colombia. Josefa C. Señaris is director of the Museo de Historia Natural La Salle in Caracas, Venezuela. Anabel Rial is the former science coordinator for Conservation International Venezuela and is a botanical and conservation consultant. Ana Liz Flores is the former director of Conservation International Venezuela and is a natural resource management consultant.

Ecuador Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual Edited by Corine Vriesendorp, William S. Alverson, Álvaro d e l Campo, Douglas F. Stotz, Debra K. Moskovits, Segundo Fuentes Cáceres, Byron Coronel Tapia, and Elizabeth P. Anderson

Rapid Biological and Social The remote, rugged Cabeceras Cofanes- reserve. Working closely with local com- Inventories Chingual is one of the last intact moun- munities and indigenous Cofan, whose tainous regions in Ecuador and serves ancestral territory abuts the proposed available 318 p., 20 color plates, as the most important remaining refuge reserve to the south, the teams surveyed 4 maps, 8 graphs, 12 tables for endangered, range-restricted flora the hydrology, geology, soils, vegetation 3 3 8 /16 x 10 /4 and fauna of the Ecuadorian Andes. In and flora, fishes, amphibians and rep- ISBN-13: 978-0-914868-73-6 Paper $30.00x/£19.50 October 2008 scientists from Ecuador, tiles, birds, mammals, archaeology, and Peru, and the United States conducted current human communities. Full and Nature a rapid biological inventory and a rapid abstracted results of the fieldwork are social inventory to assess the region’s provided in Spanish and English. suitability for protection as a municipal

Corine Vriesendorp is the director of the Rapid Inventories and Conservation Tools Pro- gram of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo) at the Field Museum. William S. Alverson is a senior conservation ecologist/botanist with ECCo. Álvaro del Campo is the international field programs manager with ECCo. Douglas F. Stotz is a senior conserva- tion ecologist/ornithologist with ECCo. Debra K. Moskovits is the senior vice president of ECCo. Segundo Fuentes Cáceres is the regional director of the Ministerio del Ambiente in Imbabura, Ecuador. Byron Coronel Tapia is the director of Medio Ambiente y Turismo in La Bonita, Sucumbios, Ecuador. Elizabeth P. Anderson is the conservation sustainability 204 Conservation International director of ECCo. the Field Museum, Chicago The Censorship of British Drama 1900–1968 Volume Four: The Sixties Steve Nicholson

This volume is the fourth and final part tion of theater makers arrived, ready to December 288 p. 6 x 9 of Steve Nicholson’s analysis of British sweep away yesterday’s conventions and ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-846-1 Cloth $90.00x theater censorship, based on previ- challenge the establishment. Focusing drama ously undocumented material in the on plays we know, plays we have forgot- NSA Lord Chamberlain’s Correspondence ten, and plays that were silenced forever, Archives in the British Library and the this book reveals how a powerful elite Royal Archives at Windsor. The 1960s exerted pressure over these new voices was a significant decade for the British in an attempt to preserve the veneer of in social and political spheres, especial- a polite, unquestioning society. ly in theaters. As certainties shifted and social divisions widened, a new genera-

Steve Nicholson is a reader in twentieth-century and contemporary theater at the Univer- sity of Sheffield and the author of several books on British theater of the twentieth century.

Pseudo-Skylax’s Periplous The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World Text, Translation and Commentary Graham Shipley

The Periplous—often attributed to Sky- edition of the Periplous to be published January 265 p., 1 halftone, 16 maps 1 1 lax of Karyanda but in fact written by since 1855, and the first complete 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-82-2 an unknown author during the fourth English translation. Graham Shipley’s Cloth $75.00x century BC—describes the coasts of commentary and the sixteen specially ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-83-9 the Mediterranean and Black seas as produced maps make this edition ideal Paper $30.00s known by the ancient Greeks in great for teachers and students of the Greek classics NSA detail, noting towns, rivers, harbors, language. and mountains. This is the first full

Graham Shipley is professor of ancient history in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester.

Critical Essays on British “A carefully considered and most South Asian Theatre welcome planned addition to the (surprisingly neglected) document- Edited by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell ing and appraisal of British South Asian theatre.” Critical Essays on British South Asian The- critical analyses of theater practice and —Chris Banfield, atre marks a major contribution to the performance from the last thirty years. Vayu Naidu Theatre Company understanding of one of the most re- “I am impressed by the authorita- markable examples of diasporic artistic tive (and often innovative) range of November 288 p., 16 halftones activity in recent history. The second topics and individuals involved and by 61/4 x 91/4 volume on British South Asian theater the detailed and sympathetic knowl- ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-834-8 Cloth $95.00x compiled by Graham Ley and Sarah edge that is revealed.”—Martin Ban- ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-835-5 Dadswell, this volume provides detailed ham, University of Leeds Paper $32.50s drama Graham Ley is professor of drama and theory at the University of Exeter. Sarah Dadswell NSA was formerly a research fellow in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter. Together, they are the coeditors of British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History, also published by the University of Exeter Press. University of Exeter Press 205 The Devil’s Book Charles I, The Book of Sports and Puritanism in Tudor and Early Stuart England Alistair Dougall

Originally published in 1617 by James I, republication of The Book of Sports. It ar- the royal declaration commonly known gues that this provocative and divisive as The Book of Sports was republished statement of royal policy was a key fac- by Charles I in 1633. The Book of Sports tor in England’s eventual descent into sanctioned participation in “lawful rec- the civil wars of the 1640s. reations,” such as archery and dancing, “A rich telling of an important story after church attendance on Sundays. of developing tensions within English Radical Protestants sought to oppress Protestantism. . . . A well conceived all Sunday recreations, and the cultural and very well executed study. . . . I can battle over Sunday observance and tra- warmly commend this book to you.” February 288 p., 8 halftones ditional pastimes intensified. —John Morrill, University of Cam- 1 1 6 /4 x 9 /4 This new work by Alistair Dougall bridge ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-856-0 Cloth $90.00x examines the events surrounding the

European History Alistair Dougall teaches history at the Godolphin School in Salisbury. NSA

A Companion to the Exeter Christ Poems Edited by Carolin Esser and Bruce D. Gilchrist With a Foreword by Bernard Muir

February 448 p., 15 halftones The Exeter Christ is a triptych of poems Book studies Bernard Muir. 61/4 x 91/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-855-3 on the Advent, Ascension, and Last “There is a compelling case for pro- Cloth $110.00x Judgement of Christ—also known as ducing volumes of key critical essays fo- Poetry Christ I, II, and III. This triptych is cused on particular Old English poems. NSA drawn from the most important extant . . . Since one could not contemplate manuscript of vernacular verse pro- such a detailed engagement with schol- duced in the Anglo-Saxon era, The Exeter arship on The Exeter Book as a whole, it Book. This companion collects ground- seems a good idea to break its contents breaking new scholarship on the Exeter up into ‘sets’ of poems. The Christ piec- Christ poems from experts in the field as es are an ideal starting point, unified well as seminal but previously hard-to- as they are both by their subject matter find articles. The volume also includes a and the history of critical approaches to comprehensive bibliography and a fore- them.”—Richard Dance, University of word by preeminent scholar of Exeter Cambridge

Carolin Esser is a lecturer in English at the University of Winchester. Bruce D. Gilchrist is professor of English at Bishop’s University in Quebec.

206 University of Exeter Press Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow A Guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive Edited by David E. Fishman, Mark Kupovetsky, and Vladimir Kuzelenkov Translated by Avram Brown

During their ascendency and subsequent in closed, secret archives. This catalog occupation of much of Europe, the Na- and guide supplies the first comprehen- zis plundered the documents and cul- sive, collection-by-collection English-lan- tural treasures of Jewish organizations guage description of this historical and September 300 p., 16 halftones 6 x 9 as well as other groups and individu- cultural documentation, which the Nazis ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-220-9 als they deemed to be enemies of the meant to be among the only vestiges of Cloth $30.00s/£19.50

Reich. When the Nazis were crushed, the millions of victims they annihilated. History many of these looted collections, as well Scholars and lay researchers will find this Published in association with the as records of Nazi state agencies that reference a unique and indispensable United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Theological Seminary persecuted and murdered Jews, were dis- guide to the invaluable remains of a rich covered by the Soviet Army, then trans- world brutally destroyed. ferred to Moscow and held for decades

David E. Fishman is professor of Jewish history and director of Project Judaica at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Mark Kupovetsky is executive director of the Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Vladimir Kuzelenkov is director of the Russian State Military Archive.

The South Street Gang vs. the Coalcracker Cyclops Richard Benyo

When Bob Capek’s mother is killed in a ous game of cat-and-mouse with the hit-and-run accident in 1956, his father cruelest, most diabolical man in town, moves the family from Virginia back to the Cyclops—a greedy mine owner who his hometown of Mauch Chunk, a small will stop at nothing, including murder, town in the middle of the eastern Penn- to own every coal mine in the county. sylvania anthracite coal region. From But Bob is determined to put a stop to the moment Bob boards the north- the Cyclops’s sinister schemes—and the bound train, the life he knew before results are explosive. comes to an end—and another, more From the author of Jim Thorpe Nev- harrowing one begins. Soon after ar- er Slept Here and Leap of Faith, The South riving in Mauch Chunk, Bob is threat- Street Gang vs. the Coalcracker Cyclops is ened by a notorious cross-town gang, an exciting tale that brings the powers July 150 p. 6 x 9 the Center Street Scorpions. As if that’s of good and evil to the streets of small- ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-208-7 Paper $8.00/£5.00 not enough, Bob also initiates a danger- town America. Fiction Richard Benyo is the executive editor of Marathon & Beyond magazine.

University of Scranton Press 207 A Privilege of Intellect Conscience and Wisdom in Newman’s Narrative D. A. Drennen

Based on decades of research, A Privi- fied this fall—devoted his life both to lege of Intellect is D. A. Drennen’s portrait the Church and to the university, dem- of the English cardinal John Henry onstrating that religious faith and intel- Newman (1801–90), whose conversion lectual pursuits could exist in harmony. September 400 p. 6 x 9 to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845 Drennen’s biography combines theolo- ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-210-0 significantly boosted the presence of gy with psychology and philosophy and Paper $35.00x/£22.50 the Catholic Church in England and will appeal to anyone interested in the Religion caused many Anglicans to follow his history of the Church of England and example. Newman—who will be beati- the Roman Catholic Church.

D. A. Drennen (1925–2004) was a psychotherapist and professor of philosophy and worked as the news editor for BusinessWeek and the associate editor of Medical Economics.

Greater Than a Mother’s Love Kinship in the Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi Gilberto Cavazos-González, OFM

Although there are several studies dedi- tions of their various human relation- cated to the lives of Francis and Clare ships to understand their experiences of Assisi, Gilberto Cavazos-González’s with God. Accompanying this study are Greater Than a Mother’s Love is the first to an exhaustive bibliography and several investigate their spirituality in the con- appendices that enhance this unique text of family relationships. He delves treatment of these two beloved and ad- into the writings of Francis and Clare mired religious figures. and illustrates how both used observa-

Gilberto Cavazos-González, OFM, is associate professor of spirituality and the director of the Hispanic Ministry Program at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

September 300 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-213-1 Paper $28.00x/£18.00 Religion

208 University of Scranton Press The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar Claudio Orrego Vicuña Translated by Christine Cervenak and Alejandra Méndez

A parable rich in imagery and mean- of humor, and a strong self-reliance. Peace, Justice, Human Rights, and ing, The Surprising Adventures of Balt- Written in 1974, The Surprising Adven- Freedom in Latin America hazar provides readers of all ages with tures of Balthazar can also be read as an profound insights into the nature of au- allegory of the human rights violations July 160 p. 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-218-6 thority, power, and freedom. The tale and atrocities committed by the Chilean Cloth $15.00/£9.50 begins when a polar bear named Balt- military dictatorship in the aftermath Fiction hazar is captured by hunters and put in of the 1973 coup. This bilingual edition a city zoo in Chile. But Balthazar is no makes it available to English-language ordinary bear, for he faces his grim situ- readers for the first time. ation with an uncanny wisdom, a sense

Claudio Orrego Vicuña (1939–82) was a Chilean sociologist, journalist, professor, and a member of Parliament. Christine Cervenak is a lawyer who has worked for two decades in human rights and conflict resolution. Alejandra Méndez, a professional translator and English teacher, works at Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in Santiago, Chile.

The Law of Love From Autonomy to Communion Stephen F. Brett, SSJ

With an interdisciplinary combination and that a potent and healthy mix of September 180 p. 51/2 x 81/2 of philosophy, theology, and family law, temperance, chastity, and modesty ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-207-0 The Law of Love explores the impact of is the antidote. Styled accessibly and Paper $18.00x/£11.50 secular conceptions of autonomy on quite cleverly with a broader audience Religion Philosophy sexuality and family. Drawing from the in mind, The Law of Love will appeal thought of Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, to intellectuals of all faiths who are in- Aquinas, and the modern theologian terested in facing the ambiguities and Servais Pinckaers, Stephen F. Brett ar- problems of contemporary life in a sec- gues that the divorce of freedom from ularized society. virtue has caused cultural relativism,

Stephen F. Brett, SSJ, a Josephite priest and lawyer, is adjunct professor of theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia and serves as rector of the St. Joseph Manor Foundation in Baltimore. Archbishop Oscar Romero A Disciple Who Revealed the Glory of God Damian Zynda

During his lifetime, Archbishop Os- With Archbishop Oscar Romero, Da- Peace, Justice, Human Rights, and car Romero chose to live the Christian mian Zynda offers a compelling ex- Freedom in Latin America Gospel in a radical way, defending, sup- amination of the bishop’s eventful life. July 200 p. 6 x 9 porting, and serving the poor, and con- Zynda delves into the psychological and ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-211-7 fronting the oppressive and murderous spiritual depths of Romero’s faith, trac- Paper $18.00x/£11.50 violence of the Salvadoran dictator- ing its progression from his childhood Biography Religion ship. As a result, in March 1980, while up to the episcopacy and his prophetic celebrating Mass in a small chapel in El stand against the government. Salvador, he was assassinated.

Damian Zynda is a faculty member of the Christian Spirituality Program at Creighton University. University of Scranton Press 209 A Mysticism of Kindness The Lucie Christine Story Astrid M. O’Brien

September 270 p., 20 halftones 6 x 9 On the surface, Lucie Christine—the remarkable woman, revealing how her ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-206-3 pseudonym given to a nineteenth-cen- experiences as a mystic allowed her to Paper $25.00x/£16.00 tury Frenchwoman named Mathilde persevere as a wife and mother in the Women’s Studies religion Boutle—was a very ordinary upper- midst of constant verbal and physical middle-class woman, fulfilling her abuse from her alcoholic husband. Her daily responsibilities to her husband story will inspire all those who struggle and children. But underneath, Lucie to find a way to live a strong spiritual Christine was an extraordinary human life in an often difficult and troubling being. In A Mysticism of Kindness, Astrid world. M. O’Brien tells the life story of this

Astrid M. O’Brien is associate professor of philosophy at Fordham University.

Death with Dignity Ethical and Practical Considerations for Caregivers of the Terminally Ill Peter A. Clark, SJ

December 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 End-of-life issues and questions are living wills, power of attorney, pain as- ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-214-8 complex and frequently cause confu- sessment and pain management, pallia- Paper $20.00x/£13.00 sion and anxiety. In Death with Dignity, tive and hospice care, the role of spiritu- medicine theologian, medical ethicist, and pasto- ality in end-of-life care, and physicians’ ral caregiver Peter A. Clark examines communication with terminal patients. numerous issues that are pertinent to Patients, family members, medical stu- patients, family members, and health dents, and health care professionals “With the insight given by her care professionals, including physiol- will find inDeath with Dignity the practi- ogy, consciousness, the definition of cal and ethical knowledge they need to personal relationship with Carla death, the distinction between extraor- capably and confidently cope with end- and her family, the author reveals dinary and ordinary means, medical of-life challenges. the complexity of these real human futility, “Do Not Resuscitate” orders, beings that we make into saints Peter A. Clark, SJ, is director of the Institute of Catholic Bioethics at St. Joseph’s University without always appreciating the in Philadelphia and editor-in-chief of the Internet Journal of Catholic Bioethics. profound inner struggles and personal hardships that framed the decisions they made as missioners, Vessel of Clay and the courage of their commit- ments.” The Inspirational Journey of Sister Carla —Margaret Swedish, coauthor of Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore Like Grains of Wheat: A Spirituality of Solidarity Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore presents to the poor of Latin America but also in this volume the biography of her revealing her struggles with self-doubt Peace, Justice, Human Rights, and lifelong friend Carol Piette, known and emotional frailty. Vessel of Clay will Freedom in Latin America throughout Chile and El Salvador as appeal to both lay and religious readers Sister Carla. Drawing from the memo- interested in peace and social justice, July 200 p., 16 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-217-9 ries of those who knew her and excerpts spiritual formation and development, Paper $18.00x/£11.50 from her letters and diaries, Vessel of women’s issues, liberation theology, biography Religion Clay chronicles Sister Carla’s extraor- and mission service. dinary life, highlighting her dedication

Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore is a retired social worker. 210 University of Scranton Press The Choice Converts to Judaism Share Their Stories Arnine Cumsky Weiss and Carol Weiss Rubel

In The Choice, Arnine Cumsky Weiss and and a gradual development of spiritual Carol Weiss Rubel present the stories of and intellectual understanding and ac- forty-five converts to Judaism. These re- ceptance of conversion. The stories in flective narratives demonstrate that no The Choice will be a source of inspira- two converts’ experiences are alike, yet tion and affirmation for anyone who is most share some common characteris- struggling with a conversion decision or tics: a spiritual uneasiness, fear, doubt, knows someone who is.

Arnine Cumsky Weiss is a nationally certified sign language interpreter working in New York City. This is her fifth book. Carol Weiss Rubel works as an education consultant and lives in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.

October 300 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-209-4 Paper $25.00/£16.00 religion

Thomism and Tolerance John F. X. Knasas

In this incisive study, John F. X. Knasas other people and thus acknowledge December 130 p. 51/2 x 81/2 grounds the ideal of tolerance in Aqui- our duty to be tolerant of one another. ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-215-5 Paper $20.00x/£13.00 nas’s natural law ethics and connects An important contribution to practi- philosophy the virtue of civic tolerance to the con- cal metaphysics and the philosophical cept of being. If God is the source of foundations of political theory, Thomism being, argues Knasas, then we are the and Tolerance will appeal to philosophy articulation of being, and it is in this ca- scholars and students at the undergrad- pacity that we recognize our bond with uate and graduate level.

John F. X. Knasas is professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

Medieval Philosophy Redefined John Deely

With Medieval Philosophy Redefined John through to the seventeenth-century September 450 p. 7 x 10 Deely provides an in-depth, original work of Poinsot. That common thread ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-216-2 Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 history of medieval philosophy, tracing is the philosophy of sign. Sure to be con- a common thread that coherently uni- troversial, this volume will be required philosophy fies and defines what he calls “the Latin reading for all students and scholars of Age”—which reaches unbroken from the history of philosophy and medieval the fifth-century work of Augustine specialists.

John Deely is the Rudman Chair in Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

University of Scranton Press 211 The West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire Kathleen Purcell Munley

Pennsylvania Heritage Books In early 1947 residents of the west side menace, hundreds of homes and build- of Carbondale, Pennsylvania began no- ings were purchased and destroyed, and November 100 p., 20 halftones 5 x 8 ticing a peculiar steam escaping from what was once a vibrant neighborhood ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-212-4 the ground. An investigation into this became an abandoned wasteland. Paper $15.00/£9.50 phenomenon revealed that Carbondale Historian Kathleen Purcell Munley History was slowly but steadily being destroyed narrates here the story of this great fire, by an inferno deep below its surface—a identifying its source, tracing its history, fire raging through the deserted anthra- and, through personal interviews with cite mine shafts that twisted and turned former Carbondale residents, revealing beneath that part of the city. After sev- its physical and psychological toll. The eral years of attempting to contain the mine fire destroyed the West Side as it fire by flushing, municipal leaders de- was, but this volume will keep its memo- cided that the only sure way of eliminat- ry alive and preserve an important chap- ing the threat to the community was by ter in the history of Carbondale and digging it out. To eradicate the burning Pennsylvania.

Kathleen Purcell Munley is professor of history at Marywood University.

The Idea of the Catholic University Proceedings from the 30th Annual Conference of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Edited by Kenneth Whitehead

Fellowship of Catholic Scholars For decades, those involved in Catho- man’s The Idea of the University, Kenneth lic higher education—including ad- Whitehead collects in this volume thir- Available 180 p. 6 x 9 ministrators, professors, philosophers, teen original essays that examine the ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-219-3 Paper $20.00x/£13.00 theologians, and students—have peren- mission of Catholic higher education, nially taken on the challenge of defining covering such topics as Catholic studies Religion and clarifying what exactly and uniquely programs at Catholic and non-Catholic characterizes their endeavor. Borrowing universities and the engagement of Cath- his title in part from John Henry New- olic universities with secular culture.

Kenneth Whitehead is an independent scholar, author, and translator. He is the editor of Sacrosanctum Concilium and the Reform of the Liturgy: Proceedings from the 29th Annual Conven- tion of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, also published by the University of Scranton Press.

Next-Generation Leadership A Toolkit for Teens and Twenty- and Thirty-Year-Olds William J. Byron

September 250 p. 6 x 9 Drawing on his five decades of leader- and Byron devotes separate, in-depth ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-221-6 ship experience, William J. Byron out- chapters to each. Aimed at an audience Paper $25.00x/£16.00 lines in this volume the theory, practice, now largely overlooked by leadership Business and purpose of leadership. Intuition, literature, Next-Generation Leadership will humility, empathy, simplicity of lifestyle, appeal to the business, government, re- and sound speaking and writing skills ligion, and nonprofit leaders of tomor- are all essential for effective leadership, row.

William J. Byron is a Jesuit priest, educator, and economist. He is the former president of 212 University of Scranton Press the Catholic University of America and the University of Scranton. Selected Papers on Fun and Games Donald E. Knuth

Donald E. Knuth’s influence in com- often given credit for shaping the field, puter science ranges from the invention and his scientific papers are widely ref- of methods for translating and defining erenced and stand as milestones of de- programming languages to the creation velopment over a wide variety of topics. CSLI Lecture Notes No. 192 of the TeX and METAFONT systems for The present volume is the eighth in a desktop publishing. His award-winning series of his collected papers. October 600 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-585-0 textbooks have become classics that are Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-584-3 Donald E. Knuth is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science emeritus at Stanford Paper $35.00x/£22.50 University. Computer Science

Studies in Weak Arithmetics Edited by Patrick Cégielski

The field of weak arithmetics is an ap- the fact that the reals e and pi have ap- plication of logical methods to number proximations expressed by first-order theory that was developed by mathema- formulas using bounded quantifiers; ticians, philosophers, and theoretical properties of infinite pictures depend- computer scientists. In this volume, ing on the universe of sets used; a lan- after a general presentation of weak guage that simulates in a sufficiently arithmetics, the following topics are nice manner all algorithms of a certain studied: the properties of integers of restricted class; the logical complexity a real closed field equipped with ex- of the axiom of infinity in some vari- ponentiation; conservation results for ants of set theory without the axiom of the induction schema restricted to first- foundation; and the complexity to de- order formulas with a finite number termine whether a trace is included in of alternations of quantifiers; a survey another one. CSLI Lecture Notes No. 196 of a class of tools called pebble games; Available 221 p. 6 x 9 Patrick Cégielski is professor at Université Paris-Est Créteil-IUT de Sénart Fontainebleau. ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-602-4 Paper $40.00x/£26.00 Mathematics Computer Science

Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research Edited by Sally Rice and John Newman

Empirical and Experimental Methods in and syntax, semantic factors affecting Conceptual Structure in Discourse Cognitive/Functional Research consists form patterning, grammaticalization of and Language of selected papers from the seventh basic verbs, form/meaning pairings in meeting of the Conceptual Structure, discourse, and experimental investiga- July 369 p. 6 x 9 Discourse, and Language Conference, tions of language/mind and language/ ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-613-0 Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 held at the University of Alberta in Oc- use interactions. In addition, a plenary ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-612-3 tober 2004. The papers fall into five paper by Nick Evans on complex events, Paper $32.50x/£21.00 main categories, reflecting the cogni- propositional overlay, and the special Linguistics Cognitive Science tive and functional orientation of the status of reciprocal clauses is included. conference: reciprocity between lexis

Sally Rice is the Landrex Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. John Newman is professor in and chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta. CSLI 213 Let’s Speak Twi Proficiency Course in Akan Language and Culture Adams Bodomo, Charles Marfo, and Lauren Hall-Lew

Let’s Speak Twi is an introductory lan- are several practice exercises and ac- guage-learning textbook for speakers tivities; an extensive range of culturally July 150 p., 35 halftones, of English and other languages who relevant topics and dialogues; lists of 15 symbols 7 x 10 seek proficiency in Akan Twi, the most idiomatic, colloquial, and euphemistic ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-604-8 widely used and understood native lan- expressions; a reference glossary; and Paper $27.50x/£18.00 guage of Ghana. Included in the book tips on culturally appropriate behavior. Linguistics Adams Bodomo is associate professor in and chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. Charles Marfo is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Lan- guages at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Lauren Hall-Lew is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English and linguistics, philology, and phonetics at the University of Oxford.

Layers of Aspect Edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Brenda Laca

The eight articles in this volume re- ian Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, examine the syntactic and semantic and German. The papers address four analyses of aspect that have been pro- aspect-related problems in particular: posed mainly on the basis of aspectual the grammatical and semantic con- expressions in English. The authors straints on the different readings of contrast expressions sharing an analo- the present perfect, the semantic and Studies in Constraint-Based gous morpho-syntactic makeup and syntactic analysis of auxiliaries, the im- Lexicalism some core distributional and semantic pact of adverbial expressions on the as- properties, drawing on a wide range of pectual properties of the sentence, and Available 250 p. 6 x 9 new empirical data from languages as morphology-semantics mapping. ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-597-3 Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 diverse as Syrian Arabic, Urdu, Brazil- ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-596-6 Paper $35.00x/£22.50 Patricia Cabredo Hofherr is a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. Brenda Laca is professor of linguistics at the Université Paris VIII. Linguistics

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Abd al-Jabba¯r/Critique of Christian Origins, 171 Ebert/The Great Movies III, 7 Kramer/New York in Postcards 1880–1980, 138 Ryan/A History of the Internet and the Digital Future, 96 Abraham/Labor in the New Economy, 74 Edelstein/The Enlightenment, 50 Krijnen/Gendered Transformations, 165 Saberi/Tea, 98 Abrahams/film³ [‘kju:bIk fIlm], 185 Edwards/Globalizing American Studies, 67 Kriner/After the Rubicon, 63 Salmi/Historical Comedy on Screen, 162 Adams/The Specter of Salem, 93 Egan/Learning in Depth, 25 Kubik/Theory of African Music, 70 San Martín/Western Sahara, 193 Agawu-Kakraba/Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Endersby/Imperial Nature, 87 Lambton/The Queen’s Dolls’ House, 146 Sanches/Europe in Black and White, 164 Culture, 192 Engelhard/Cold Flashes, 173 Lane/Catastrophe in Indonesia, 123 Sant/Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde, 159 agps architecture/Open Ended, 141 Espedal/Tramp, 121 Lane/Geographies of Mars, 37 Sartre/Critical Essays, 115 Alexander/Ciaran Carson, 202 Esser/A Companion to the Exeter Christ Poems, 206 Larmore/The Practices of the Self, 58 Scase/A Fascimile Edition of the Vernon Manuscript, 137 Alexenberg/The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age, 166 Eustace/Sculpture Journal ,203 Lasso/Evaluación Rápida, 204 Scharpf/Community and Autonomy, 176 Allen/Otter, 105 Evans/Anthropology at War, 67 Lebbin/The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Schaub/Il Girasole. A House Near Verona, 144 Anderson/Still Rainin’ Still Dreamin’, 172 Evans/Contested Reproduction, 65 Conservation, 16 Schilt/Just One of the Guys?, 65 Anker/The Caspian Sea Region Towards 2025, 170 Evans/Slave Wales, 194 Leighton/Voyages over Voices, 202 Schofer/Confronting Vulnerability, 56 Arjomand/The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam, 93 Fabian/The Skull Collectors, 13 Leonard/The Tragic Muse, 151 Schrift/The History of Continental Philosophy, 57 Arnar/The Book as Instrument, 46 Faithfull/Liverpool to Liverpool, 198 Levin/Unsettling Opera, 89 Scott/Poetics of the Poster, 199 Arum/Academically Adrift, 42 Feldman/Opera and Sovereignty, 89 Levine/Targeting Investments in Children, 73 Seaton/Growing Windowsill Orchids, 177 Avicenna/The Physics of The Healing, 171 Fell/Alfred Jarry, 104 Ley/Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre, 205 Seddon/The Last Great Plant Hunt, 179 Baker/Ensuring Corporate Misconduct, 44 Fienup-Riordan/Yupiit Yuraryarait, 175 Linfield/The Cruel Radiance, 21 Senf/Bram Stoker, 190 Bal/Of What One Cannot Speak, 47 Fishbane/Sacred Attunement, 83 Liu/The Freudian Robot, 40 Shapin/The Scientific Life, 81 Balakian/Ziggurat, 30 Fisher/Royal Wales, 194 Lopez/Buddhism and Science, 83 Shaver/Moving the Eye Through 2-D Design, 164 Bale/Feeling Persecuted, 110 Fishman/Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow, 207 Lowe/Lost Chicago, 82 Shipley/Pseudo-Skylax’s Periplous, 205 Barber/Hijikata, 156 Fleetwood/Troubling Vision, 55 Lucas/Preliminary List of the Myrtaceae in Northeastern Shoven/Demography and the Economy, 74 Barber/Magnificent Maps, 126 Foster/Bong Hits 4 Jesus, 173 Brazil, 180 Siegel/Since ’45, 97 Barker-Benfield/Abigail and John Adams, 12 Frank/Letting Stories Breathe, 31 MacQuitty/Kids’ Kew, 178 Siemens/Theatre in Passing, 163 Barthes/Incidents, 114 Fraser/The Smallest Kingdom, 179 Maggiore/Vessel of Clay, 210 Sihvonen/Players Unleashed!, 182 Batziou/Picturing Immigration, 164 Freedgood/The Ideas in Things, 90 Malik/Ahead of Change, 176 Silvertown/Fragile Web, 22 Bauböck/Diaspora and Transnationalism, 188 Frisch/Zurich Transit, 119 Mangham/The Female Body in Medicine and Literature, 200 Silvertown/An Orchard Invisible, 77 Baum/Specializing the Courts, 62 Frumkin/The Essence of Strategic Giving, 27 Marciniak/Streets of Crocodiles, 161 Simmel/The View of Life, 56 Becker/Uncommon Sense, 78 Garfinkle/Three Steps to the Universe, 80 Margarit/New Letters to a Young Poet, 167 Simmons/Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes, 169 Beentje/Flora of Tropical East Africa, 180 Garrett/CITES and Timber—Ramin, 180 Markelis/White Field, Black Sheep, 18 Smith/Allison Smith, 111 Bennett/The Third City, 19 Gedo/Monet and His Muse, 45 Massey/Chair, 108 Solan/The Language of Statutes, 44 Benyo/The South Street Gang vs. the Coalcracker Gehler/Three Germanies, 109 McClellan/Colonialism and Science, 85 Sorgner/Music in German Philosophy, 72 Cyclops, 207 Gemie/French Muslims, 192 McCloskey/Bourgeois Dignity, 6 Spiller/Erotic Triangles, 71 Bernhard/Victor Halfwit, 112 Gidley/Photography and the USA, 100 McLaughlin/Recording Memories from Political Violence, 163 Stadler/Eduard Spelterini and the Spectacle of Images, 139 Berra/Directory of World Cinema, 157 Glaeser/Political Epistemics, 64 McNamara/The Star-Crossed Stone, 10 Stampa/The Complete Poems, 48 Beumers/Directory of World Cinema, 158 Glendinning/Architecture’s Evil Empire, 107 Medhurst/A History of Independent Television in Wales, 196 Stark/Deadly Edge, 79 Billick/The Ecology of Place, 34 Goekoop/Where on Earth Is Ithaca?, 170 Meiklejohn/The Golden Primer, 130 Stark/Plunder Squad, 79 Bird/Leon Golub, 102 Goldsmith/Directory of World Cinema, 158 Merrill/Our Magnetic Earth, 11 Stark/Slayground, 79 Black/Ghosts of the Black Chamber, 154 Gómez-Peña/Conversations Across Borders, 122 Merritt/Public Sculpture of Bristol, 203 Steiner/The Real Real Thing, 20 Blake/The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 135 González/Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes, 68 Messbarger/The Lady Anatomist, 53 Stek/Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Bliss/The Making of Modern Medicine, 23 Gorz/The Immaterial, 117 Michalski/Spider, 106 Italy, 184 Blum/The Grey Zone in Health and Illness, 165 Graham/A Natural History of the New World, 32 Middleton/Humanitarian Assistance?, 123 Stekel/Sadism and Masochism, 156 Boczkowski/News at Work, 63 Graham-Yooll/Who Do You Think You Are?, 125 Miller/A Caribou Journey, 174 Stevens/The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination Bodleian Library, The/The First English Dictionary of Grams/Producing Local Color, 64 Miller/A Wooly Mammoth Journey, 174 1860–1920, 202 Slang, 134 Gramse/Ice Floe, 173 Mitchell/Cloning Terror, 15 Stiller/Ideational Leadership in German Welfare State Bodomo/Let’s Speak Twi, 214 Reform, 187 Greenblatt/Shakespeare’s Freedom, 1 Monson/Nuns Behaving Badly, 49 Borrello/Evolutionary Restraints, 33 Stokes/The Republic of Love, 70 Greenfield/The Failure of Corporate Law, 86 Moran/Irish Birmingham, 201 Bosma/Shelter City, 183 Sun/The Poetics of Repetition in English and Chinese Lyric Gregory/Politics and the Order of Love, 88 Morris/Reading, ’Riting, and Reconstruction, 94 Braun/Eadweard Muybridge, 105 Poetry, 66 Gregotti/Architecture, Means and Ends, 38 Morris/Wars I Have (Not) Seen, 121 Brett/The Law of Love, 209 Swiss National Museum Zürich/Pirate Silk, 142 Griffiths/The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Morris/Welsh in the Twenty-First Century, 193 Tarasov/Framing Russian Art, 101 The British Library/Secret Songs of Birds, 132 Valleys, 196 Mumford/Technics and Civilization, 87 Tarde/Gabriel Tarde on Communication and Social The British Library/The Spoken Word: Aldous Huxley, 128 Gunning/Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Munley/The West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Influence, 88 The British Library/The Spoken Word: American Poets, 129 Asian Literature, 200 Fire, 212 Tesler/Obama’s Race, 61 The British Library/The Spoken Word: British Poets, 129 Hagoort/Creative Industries, 169 Nagel/The Controversy of Renaissance Art, 48 Thacker/After Life, 59 The British Library/The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath, 128 Handke/Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light, 113 Necipoglu/The Age of Sinan, 111 Thomas/Prague Palimpsest, 52 Brody/Visualizing American Empire, 54 Hargreaves/Transnational French Studies, 199 Nersessian/A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the Thornton/Marriage and Cohabitation, 86 Brown/The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Early Medieval Harris/Planting Paradise, 136 British Library, 133 Tiampo/Gutai, 46 World, 133 Harrison/Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music, 94 Nesbitt/Grammar-Land, 130 Tilmans/Performing the Past, 181 Brown/Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 24, 75 Hart/Gabriel García Márquez, 103 Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy/ Uncertain Safety, 187 Timberlake/Flora Zambesiaca Volume 13 Part 4, 180 Bruley/The Women and Men of 1926, 195 Heap/Slumming, 91 Nicholson/The Censorship of British Drama 1900–1968, 205 Todorov/The Fear of Barbarians, 14 Buhs/Bigfoot, 76 Hebron/Shelley’s Ghost, 137 Nippert-Eng/Islands of Privacy, 29 Todorov/The Limits of Art, 116 Bündner Kunstmuseum/Bianca Brunner, 143 Hecht/The Fate of the Forest, 85 Noszlopy/Public Sculpture of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Tomásek/Czech Law Between Europeanization and Byron/Next Generation Leadership, 212 Hess/The Forgotten Frontier, 91 Worcestershire, 203 Globalization, 168 Calise/Hyperpolitics, 62 Hickman/Why We Make Art, 162 Novoa/From Man to Ape, 33 Tonry/Crime and Justice, Volume 39, 75 Caponio/The Local Dimension of Migration Policymaking, 188 Hoddie/Strengthening Peace in Post–Civil War States, 60 O’Brien/A Mysticism of Kindness, 210 Tromp/A Real van Gogh, 181 Catlow/Artists Re: Thinking Games, 198 Hodgson/Darwin’s Conjecture, 38 O’Toole/The Reinvention of Mexico, 199 Tsiang/Echoes of the Past, 151 Cavazos-González/Greater Than a Mother’s Love, 208 Hoebink/European Development Cooperation, 188 Oakey/The Queen’s Year, 147 University of Chicago Press Staff/The Chicago Manual of Cégielski/Studies in Weak Arithmetics, 213 Hofherr/Layers of Aspect, 214 Oonk/The Karimjee Jivanjee Family, 183 Style, 16th Edition, 4 Césaire/A Season in the Congo, 120 Hogarth/Educating Intuition, 92 Palier/A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?, 186 University of Chicago Press Staff/Indexes, 4 Charles/Gender and Social Justice in Wales, 193 Hosking/Trust, 124 Pape/Cutting the Fuse, 39 Urdang/The Last Word, 153 Charpin/Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Hunt/Blueprint for Disaster, 84 Mesopotamia, 53 Parés/Sorcery in the Black Atlantic, 68 Väliaho/Mapping the Moving Image, 182 Hunt/Seven Shots, 28 Clark/Death with Dignity, 210 Parry/David Hughes Parry, 195 Van Cleve/A Slaveholders’ Union, 51 Ingram/Berliner Chic, 160 Clarkson/Soup, 99 Parsons/Clicko, 17 van den Akker/Looking for Lines, 189 Ito/The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change Passerini/Europe and Love in Cinema, 160 van Dulken/Inventing the 21st Century, 127 Clayton/A Key to Pacific Grasses, 180 in East Asia, 73 Payne/The Animal Part, 40 Verdi/Attila, 72 Clough/Astrid Kirchherr, 197 Iversen/Writing Art History, 58 Payne/Marianne North, 178 Vermeulen/Picturing Art History, 185 Code/Claude Debussy, 104 Iyengar/News that Matters, 92 Pelizzari/Photography and Italy, 101 Vicuña/The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar, 209 Cole/Sex and Salvation, 66 Jagodzinski/Misreading Postmodern Antigone, 166 Perloff/Unoriginal Genius, 41 Vis/Politics of Risk-Taking, 186 Collini/That’s Offensive, 125 Jankowsky/Stambeli, 71 Quilt/Unlikely Progeny, 119 Volpi/In Spite of the Dark Silence, 167 Collins/Gravity’s Ghost, 31 Jankulak/Geoffrey of Monmouth, 190 Ramsey/The Spirits and the Law, 69 von Humboldt/Political Essay on the Island of Cuba, 36 Connolly/Spectacular Death, 165 Jeammet/Tanagras. Figurines for Life and Eternity, 150 Recht/Believing and Seeing, 90 Votolato/Ship, 108 Connor/The Matter of Air, 107 Jeffries/Thug Life, 55 Redlawsk/Why Iowa?, 61 Vriesendorp/Ecuador, 204 Cooke/When Your Doctor Says, 152 Jin/Global Technological Change, 166 Redner/Deleuze and Film Music, 163 Vroom/Financing Cathedral Building in the Middle Ages, 189 Coombes/The Book of Leaves, 8 Jones/’The Bard Is a Very Singular Character’, 194 Redon/I Am the First Consciousness of Chaos, 155 Waines/The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta, 52 Courtenay/My Kind of Countryside, 150 Jones/Arctic Sanctuary, 172 Rees/Thomas Matthews’ Welsh Records in Paris, 195 Waldvogel/Earth Extremes, 142 Weiss/The Choice, 211 Cramerotti/The Blind, 159 Jones/City for Empire, 175 Rêgo/New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema, 161 Weiss/The Choice, 211 Craven/Dialectical Conversions, 201 Kamermans/Archaeological Prediction and Risk Weiss/Hölderlin, 118 Da Roit/Strategies of Care, 187 Management, 184 Reid-Henry/The Cuban Cure, 36 Weiss/The Nazi Symbiosis, 37 Daston/Histories of Scientific Observation, 35 Kamin/Terror and Wonder, 2 Remington/Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 147 Wendland/A Heart for the Work, 69 Davis/Ballets Russes Style, 110 Kaptijn/A Timeless Vale, 189 Reyn/Atlantis Lost, 186 Whitehead/The Idea of the Catholic University, 212 Davis/Enacting Pleasure, 122 Kemp/French Fiction into the Twenty-First Century, 191 Rice/Creating Memorials, Building Identities, 201 Wilford/Alpines, from Mountain to Garden, 177 Day/Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’, 162 Kenyon/The Medieval Castles of Wales, 191 Rice/Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/ Williams/Asian Literary Voices, 185 de Guitaut/Fabergé’s Animals, 145 Kinealy/War and Peace, 109 Functional Research, 213 Williams/Giraffe, 106 de Kok/Field Guide to the Seed Plants of Eastern Sabah, Kinsella/Activist Poetics, 200 Ritter/A Woman in the Polar Night, 174 Willis/Views from the Reservation, 148 Malaysia, 180 Kipling/The Cat That Walked by Himself, 131 Roberts/Bangor University 1884–2009, 196 Wilner/Tourist in Hell, 30 De Vries/”They Thought It Was a Marvel”, 183 Kleiman/Wild Mammals in Captivity, 35 Roberts/The Thinking Student’s Guide to College, 26 Wilson/Sandwich, 99 Deely/Medieval Philosophy Redefined, 211 Kline/Bodies of Knowledge, 50 Rockmore/Kant and Phenomenology, 59 Winsberg/Science in the Age of Computer Simulation, 32 Demossier/Wine Drinking Culture in France, 192 Klippert/An Englishwoman in California, 136 Roderick/Alaska Native Cultures and Issues, 175 Wohl/A World of Rivers, 34 Dezalay/Asian Legal Revivals, 43 Knasas/Thomism and Tolerance, 211 rosalie/rosalie Light-Art, 143 Wortman/The Development of a Russian Legal Di Tella/The Economics of Crime, 74 Knuth/Selected Papers on Fun and Games, 213 Rosenbaum/Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia, 24 Consciousness, 94 Dougall/The Devil’s Book, 206 Kolen/Reader in Landscape and Heritage, 184 Royko/Royko in Love, 3 Zaloom/Out of the Pits, 84 Drennen/A Privilege of Intellect, 208 Koppell/World Rule, 60 Royt/Medieval Painting in Bohemia, 168 Zelinksy/The Place of Religion in Chicago, 149 Dunbar/British Butterflies, 132 Kosar/Whiskey, 98 Rudd/Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Zinik/History Thieves, 124 Dunst/Rift / Gap / Hinge A, 144 Koyama/Making Failure Pay, 43 Canada, Australia and New Zealand, 191 Zurick/The Himalaya, 149 Eberhard/Wilted Coutnry, 140 Krabill/Starring Mandela and Cosby, 54 Ruffner/Ruffner’s Allusions, 153 Zynda/Archbishop Oscar Romero, 209