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New Books List October-December 2011 This catalogue of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) is the result of two decades of research during which 232 surviving copies of this immeasurably important book were located – a remarkable 72 more than were recorded in the previous census over a century ago – and examined in situ, creating an essential reference work. ෮ Internationally renowned authors Eric Rasmussen, co-editor of the RSC Shakespeare series and Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA; Anthony James West, Shakespeare scholar, focused on the history of the First Folio since it left the press. ෮ Full bibliographic descriptions of each extant copy, including detailed accounts of press variants, watermarks, damage or repair and provenance ෮ Fascinating stories about previous owners and incidents ෮ Striking Illustrations in a colour plate section ෮ User’s Guide and Indices for easy cross referencing ෮ Hugely significant resource for researchers into the history of the book, as well as auction houses, book collectors, curators and specialist book dealers November 2011 | Hardback | 978-0-230-51765-3 | £225.00 For more information, please visit: www.palgrave.com/reference Order securely online at www.palgrave.com or telephone +44 (0)1256 302866 fax + 44(0)1256 330688 email [email protected] Jellybeans © Andrew Johnson/istock.com New Books List October-December 2011 KEY TO SYMBOLS Title is, or New Title available Web resource as an ebook Textbook comes with, a available CD-ROM/DVD Contents Language and Linguistics 68 Anthropology 2 Life Sciences 70 Astronomy 3 Literature 71 THIS CATALOGUE IS NOW Banking and Finance 3 Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 86 AVAILABLE ONLINE IN A Business 9 Nursing and Health 87 British Film Institute 27 Office for National Statistics 88 NEW MAGAZINE FORMAT Counselling and Psychotherapy 29 Philosophy and Religion 89 Culture and Media 31 Politics 96 Fully searchable and with embedded video and Economics 37 Psychology 116 audio this offers an enhanced browsing experience and secure ordering facilities Education 44 Social Work and Social Policy 118 Gender Studies 45 Sociology 119 ϐTake a look now at: General and Reference 46 Theatre and Performance 131 www.palgrave.com/NBL/october2011 History 46 Index 136 For a complete list of titles, please visit www.palgrave.com. Prices are correct at the time of print. Our catalogues and the packaging they are delivered in are recyclable - when you have finished with this catalogue please recycle it. Printed by an ISO 14001 (Environmental Standard) accredited printer on paper from a managed source to PEFC standard, and printed using vegetable-based ink. ANTHROPOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY Faith in Objects Militant Publics in India American Missionary Expositions in the Early Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Racial Identities, Genetic Twentieth Century Modern Polity Ancestry, and Health in South Erin L. Hasinoff, Fellow in Arafaat A. Valiani, Assistant America Museum Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology American Museum of and Sociology, Williams Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay Natural History and Bard College, USA Graduate Center, USA Edited by Sahra Gibbon, Lecturer, University College An historically informed London, UK, Mónica Sans, Director, Biological 'Thorough, balanced, ethnographic study of Anthropology Department, Universidad de la República, theoretically informed, conceptions, arenas, Uruguay and Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor, and gracefully written. and practices of physical Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The strength of the study training and militancy in is the wonderful way in the context of religious The edited collection brings together social and nationalism in twentieth- biological anthropology scholars, biologists, and which the author takes and twenty-first-century geneticists to examine the interface between complex anthropological western India. Valiani offers readers a telling Genetic Admixture, Identity and Health, directly issues and lucidly demonstrates their relevance glimpse of the social world in which militants are contributing to an emerging field of ‘bio-cultural for the understanding of this important made, explaining how group physical training and anthropology. exhibition. The book will expand a very small technico-ethical experiments with it have created a Contents: Preface; N.Redclift / PART I: DOING AND literature, making an enormous and thoroughly powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat DEFINING “BIO-CULTURAL” ANTHROPOLOGY AS original contribution.' - David Morgan, Professor that has been held responsible for carrying out APPLIED TO GENETICS / Anthropology, Race, and of Religion, Duke University, USA spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities. the Dilemmas of Identity in the Age of Genomics; In the early twentieth century, missionary R.Ventura Santos & M.Chor Maio / The Inexistence expositions were a central event in the religious Contents: PART I: MODALITIES OF POLITICAL of Biology Verses the Existence of Social Races: Can life of many Americans. Hasinoff brings the untold MOBILIZATION / Efficacies of Political Action: Physical Science Inform Society?; S.D.J.Pena & T.S.Birchal / Ethics/ history of the World in Boston of 1911, “America’s Culture and the Kinesthetic Politics of Gandhian Bioethics and Anthropological Fieldwork; A.L.Caratini First Great Missionary Exposition,” to light, Nationalism / Preparatory Training and Disciplined / PART II: ADMIXTURE MAPPING AND GENOMICS focusing on how the material culture of missions Satyagraha in Bardoli (1928) / Militant Peacekeeping IN SOUTH AMERICA AND BEYOND / Admixture shaped domestic interactions with evangelism, and Subterfugic Violence of the Quit India Movement Dynamics in Hispanics: A Shift in the Nuclear Genetic Christianity, and the consumption of ethnological (1942) / PART II: ELABORATING POLITICAL ITINERARIES Ancestry of a South American Population Isolate; L.Ruiz knowledge. / Physical Culture, Civic Activism, and Hindu Nationalism / Pharmacogenetic Studies in the Brazilian Population; in the City / Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and G.Suarez-Kurtz & S.D.J.Pena / Admixture Mapping Contents: PART I: PRELIMINARIES / Antecedents / Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu and Genetic Technologies; B.Bertoni / The Significance PART II: THE WORLD IN BOSTON OF 1911 / Setting Nationalist Movement of Sickle Cell Anemia within the Context of the the Stage / First Impressions / PART III: PEDAGOGICAL November 2011 288pp 216x138mm Brazilian Government’s ‘Racial Policies’ (1995-2004); ARCHITECTURE / Object Lessons / Spiritless Pleasures Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-11257-5 P.H.Fry / PART III: GENETIC ADMIXTURE HISTORY, / PART IV: THE MISSIONARY EXHIBIT OF 1900 / An NATIONHOOD AND IDENTITY IN SOUTH AMERICA Established Tradition / Missionary Engagements / Objects / Gene Admixture and Type of Marriage in a Sample of of Missionary Education / PART V: STEWARDSHIP / Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area; F.R.Carnese / Ethnic/ Scripted Parts / Life-Long Lessons / Epilogue Race Self-Adscription, Genetics, and National Identity in November 2011 288pp 216x138mm Uruguay; M.Sans / Forced Disappearance and Suppresion Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-11672-6 of Identity of Children in Argentina: Experiences after Genetic Identification; V.B.Penchaszadeh / Molecular Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Vignettes of the Columbian Nation: The Place of Race Series Editor: Robert W. Hefner and Ethnicity in Networks of Biocapital; C.A.Barrigan / Afterward/Commentaries; R.Rapp, T.Disotell, M.Montoya To order all titles in the series please go to: http:// & P.Wade www.palgrave.com/booksellers/standingorder.asp October 2011 288pp 216x138mm 10pp figures and 10pp tables Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-11061-8 Available Web resource Comes with New Textbook 2 as an ebook available a CD/DVD ASTRONOMY Ǧ BANKING AND FINANCE ASTRONOMY BANKING AND FINANCE Basel III, the Devil and Global Banking Conducting Astronomy Education Marketing Shares, Sharing Dimitris N. Chorafas, Research Markets International Management Consultant A Primer Experts in Investment Banking The banking industry J.M. 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