Spring 2018 University Press of New England Contents Recently Released

Including ForeEdge & UPNE Book Partners UPNE Spring 2018 University Press of New England Contents Recently Released University Press of New England Emerald Labyrinth 1–14 New Titles A Scientist’s Adventures in the Jungles of the Congo ForeEdge ELI GREENBAUM Brandeis University Press Dartmouth College Press “[A] riveting scientific travelogue.” Booklist (starred review) UPNE Book Partners 15 University of New Hampshire Press 15 Oberlin College Press Paper, $19.95 · 978-1-5126-0097-1 / Ebook, $14.99 · 978-1-5126-0120-6 16 Wesleyan University Press 24 Paris Press 26 International Polar Institute The Book Smugglers 27 Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth Partisans, Poets, and the Race 27 Bauhan Publishing to Save Jewish Treasures from 29 Autumn House Press the Nazis 32 CavanKerry Press, Ltd. DAVID E. FISHMAN 34 Nightboat Books “First-rate scholarship that pulses with 39 Four Way Books the beat of a most human heart. 44 New Issues Poetry & Prose a work that is scholarly and intimate, 46 Omnidawn Publishing descriptive and personal.” 49 Saturnalia Books Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 51 Carnegie Mellon University Press Cloth, $29.95 · 978-1-5126-0049-0 / Ebook, $24.99 · 978-1-5126-0126-8 55 Sheep Meadow Press 56 Peter E. Randall Publisher 57 Academia Press The Ice Bucket Challenge 57 Chipstone Foundation Pete Frates and the 58 Warring States Project Fight against ALS CASEY SHERMAN & DAVE WEDGE Ordering / Sales Representation / Indexes “Tells an amazing story of family, courage, and relentless 59 Ordering and Customer Service Information determination.” 59 Sales Representation Robert D. Manfred, Jr., 60 Indexes commissioner of Major facebook.com/universitypressofnewengland League Baseball Paper, $19.95 · 978-1-5126-0096-4 / Ebook, $14.99 · 978-1-5126-0159-6 @upnepub upne.blogspot.com Stay in the loop on new releases and subscribe to the UPNE newsletter at upne.com Squid Empire { Cover image from The Rise and Fall of p Twain at Sea: The the Cephalopods u ne Maritime Writings of bookpartners DANNA STAAF Samuel Langhorne Clemens (see p. 9) “Cephs rule! Squid Empire, like its protagonists, is nimble, fast, surprising, smart, and weird in the very coolest sense of the word.” Prices and publication sy montgomery dates subject to change without notice Cloth, $27.95 · 978-1-61168-923-5 / Ebook, $22.99 · 978-1-5126-0128-2 ForeEdge Dinner in Camelot The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House joseph a. esposito foreword by rose styron “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” President John F. Kennedy, April 29, 1962 On April 29, 1962, President and Mrs. Kennedy hosted the leading lights of the literary and scientific world—including forty-nine Nobel laureates—at the White House. Dinner in Camelot offers much more than a chronicle of this high- wattage dinner party, however; it depicts a national turning April point. The party’s guests were members of the old guard 252 pp., 45 photos (10 color), 6 x 9" and the new. Attendees included J. Robert Oppenheimer, Cloth, $29.95 • 978-1-5126-0012-4 (CAD 38.00) Pearl S. Buck, Robert Frost, Linus Pauling, and Lionel and Ebook, $24.99 • 978-1-5126-0255-5 Diana Trilling—all representatives of a generation that history / politics / culture came of age well before World War II. Also present were James Baldwin, John Glenn, Robert Kennedy, and William and Rose Styron—each younger than the president himself. ,!7IB5B2-gaabce! After JFK’s assassination, nineteen months later, American culture and politics would undergo deep and fundamental changes. Many of the participants at this historic dinner would play pivotal roles in the nation’s next chapters. In this captivating book, author Joseph Esposito explores how one evening at the White House affected its attendees, America, and the world beyond. “A wonderful recounting of the Greatest Party of the 1960s. A real page-turner. Highly recommended!” Douglas Brinkley, author of Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America “Joseph Esposito takes us back to a golden moment in time also of interest and makes it a fascinating metaphor for an age sadly lost.” Union Jack Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon and Robert JFK’s Special Kennedy: His Life Relationship with joseph a. esposito served in three presidential Great Britain administrations. He lives in Virginia. CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD Cloth, $29.95 · 978-1-61168-852-8 Ebook, $24.99 · 978-1-5126-0093-3 www.upne.com · 800.421.1561 1 ForeEdge Blessings from Beijing Inside China’s Soft-Power War on Tibet greg c. bruno After sixty years in exile, can the Tibetan diaspora survive the onslaught of a newly assertive China? As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of China’s 1959 invasion of Tibet—and the subsequent creation of the Tibetan exile community—the question of the diaspora’s survival looms large. Beijing’s foreign policy has grown more adventurous, particularly since the post-Olympic expansion of 2008. As the pressure mounts, Tibetan refugee families that have made their homes outside China—in the mountains of Nepal, the jungles of India, or the cold concrete houses high above the Dalai Lama’s monastery in Dharamsala—are migrating once again. April Blessings from Beijing untangles the chains that tie 240 pp., 2 maps, 6 x 9" Tibetans to China and examines the political, social, and Cloth, $29.95 • 978-1-61168-978-5 (CAD 38.00) economic pressures that are threatening to destroy Tibet’s Ebook, $24.99 • 978-1-5126-0185-5 refugee communities. Journalist Greg Bruno has spent current events / human rights / nearly two decades living and working in Tibetan areas. chinese history Bruno journeys to the front lines of this fight: to the high Himalayas of Nepal, where Chinese agents pay off Nepali villagers to inform on Tibetan asylum seekers; to the ,!7IB6B1-gijhif! monasteries of southern India, where pro-China monks wish the Dalai Lama dead; to Asia’s meditation caves, where lost souls ponder the fine line between love and war; and to the streets of New York City, where the next generation of refugees strategizes about how to survive China’s relentless assault. But Bruno’s reporting does not stop at well-worn tales of Chinese meddling and political intervention. It goes beyond them—and within them—to explore how China’s strategy is changing the Tibetan exile community forever. greg c. bruno is a journalist and editor whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Guardian, also of interest Forbes, and other international media. The Enlightened Gene Biology, Buddhism, and the Convergence that Explains the World ARRI EISEN AND YUNGDRUNG KONCHOK Cloth, $29.95 · 978-1-5126-0000-1 Ebook, $24.99 · 978-1-5126-0125-1 2 www.upne.com · 800.421.1561 ForeEdge The Return of the Moguls How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century dan kennedy Will the return of old-style individual ownership spark a renaissance in the newspaper business? Over the course of a generation, the story of the daily newspaper has been an unchecked slide from record earnings and readership to plummeting profits and increasing irrelevance. The forces killing newspapers are well understood, and the catalog of major dailies and alternative weeklies that have gone under reads like a who’s who of American journalism. If newspapers have any chance at survival, it may be through a return to the original model of ownership: the newspaper mogul. In The Return of the Moguls, media critic Dan Kennedy charts the course March being set by Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post, John Henry 296 pp., 6 x 9" at the Boston Globe, and the other wealthy and iconoclastic Cloth, $29.95 • 978-1-61168-594-7 (CAD 38.00) individuals committed to saving the daily paper. Ebook, $24.99 • 978-1-5126-0178-7 media / business “America’s newspapers are in crisis. In this timely and much needed book, Dan Kennedy tells us how enlightened owners are reinventing their publications to keep them operating.” ,!7IB6B1-gifjeh! Bob Schieffer, CBS News “There is no ‘fake’ news in Dan Kennedy’s important, scrupulously reported account of why news and newspapers are vital to a democracy.” Ken Auletta dan kennedy is an associate professor at Northeastern University in Boston and a panelist on WGBH-TV’s Beat the Press. He writes on the news media for WGBHNews.org and the Nieman Journalism Lab, hosts the blog Media Nation, and is the author of The Wired City. also of interest Tell Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights MAJOR MARGARET WITT Cloth, $27.95 · 978-1-61168-842-9 Ebook, $22.99 · 978-1-5126-0111-4 www.upne.com · 800.421.1561 3 ForeEdge Air Officer Commanding Theodore Roosevelt Hugh Dowding, Architect of A Literary Life the Battle of Britain thomas cullen bailey and john t. lasaine, jr. katherine joslin A new biography of Understanding the architect of RAF Theodore Roosevelt Fighter Command in through his writings the centennial year of the Royal Air Force This new biography explores the life of Hugh For all of his animated bluster, Theodore Roosevelt Dowding, architect of RAF Fighter Command. considered himself a man of letters. This fascinating Hugh Dowding was born in 1882 at the apex of account traces Roosevelt’s lifelong engagement with British imperial power. He graduated from the books and discusses his writings from childhood Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In 1936 he journals to his final editorial, finished just hours was assigned the critical task of reorganizing the before his death.

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