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Fall 2010 Guide to Subjects 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.