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Distributed Books 94 Gems and Gemstones Great Plains Ordering Timeless Natural Beauty of the America’s Lingering Wild Information 206 Mineral World Michael Forsberg Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn With a Foreword by Ted Kooser Chapter Introductions by David Wishart ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30511-0 and Essays by Dan O’Brien Subject Index 207 Cloth $45.00/£31.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25725-9 Cloth $45.00/£31.00 Author Index 208

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Piracy Gerhard Richter The Intellectual Property Wars A Life in Painting from Gutenberg to Gates Dietmar Elger Adrian Johns Translated by Elizabeth M. Solaro ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40118-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20323-2 Cloth $35.00/£24.00 Cloth $45.00/£31.00

Cover image: Photograph by Phillip Colla/www.oceanlight.com Uncommon Sense Secrets of the Universe Cover design by Alice Reimann Economic Insights, from How We Discovered the Cosmos Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan Marriage to Terrorism Paul Murdin Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55143-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04101-8 Cloth $49.00 Cloth $29.00/£20.00 CUSA Robert K. Elder Last Words of the Executed With a Foreword by Studs Terkel

Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams.

eath waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour—and only they can be sure that their Dlast words will be recorded for posterity. Last Words of the Executed presents an oral history of American capital punishment, as heard from the gallows, the chair, and the gurney. “This is a dangerous book. Who knows The product of seven years of extensive research by journalist how we will emerge from the encounter? Robert K. Elder, the book explores the cultural value of these final It makes me want to live, use my energies statements and asks what we can learn from them. We hear from both in soul-sized pursuits like justice, like the famous—such as Nathan Hale, Joe Hill, Ted Bundy, and John love. One of the psalms says that God Brown—and the forgotten, and their words give us unprecedented collects our tears in a flask—so too does glimpses into their lives, their crimes, and the world they inhabited. this collection of last words from human Organized by era and method of execution, these final statements beings before they were killed.” range from heartfelt to horrific. Some are calls for peace or cries —Sister Helen Prejean against injustice; others are accepting, confessional, or consoling; still others are venomous, rage-fueled diatribes. Even the chills evoked by May 304 p. 6 x 9 some of these last words are brought on in part by the shared human- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20268-6 Cloth $22.50/£14.50 ity we can’t ignore, their reminder that we all come to the same end, TRUE CRIME AMERICAN HISTORY regardless of how we arrive there. Last Words of the Executed is not a political book. Rather, Elder simply asks readers to listen closely to these voices that echo history. The result is a riveting, moving testament from the darkest corners of society.

Robert K. Elder has written for the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Salon, and many other publications. He teaches journalism at Northwestern University and is the author or editor of several books.

general interest 1 Michael Kammen Digging Up the Dead A History of Notable American Reburials

funeral closes a life story, and a grave in a cemetery marks its end forever. But what happens when those left behind A don’t agree about the meaning of that story? Or when that disagreement extends all the way to arguments about the final resting place itself? In a surprising number of cases over the years, that’s when people have chosen to grab shovels and start digging. “A master historian and witty storyteller, With Digging Up the Dead, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Michael Michael Kammen fully exploits the in- Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and some- terpretive potential of his unlikely topic. times gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial from throughout Not only wonderfully readable, Digging American history. Taking us to the contested gravesites of such figures up the Dead is rich in social and cultural as Sitting Bull, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Boone, Jefferson Davis, and insights.” even Abraham Lincoln, Kammen explores how complicated interac- —Paul S. Boyer, editor of The Oxford Companion tions of regional pride, shifting reputations, and evolving burial prac- to United States History tices led to public and often emotional battles over their final resting places. Grave-robbing, skull-fondling, cases of mistaken identity, and april 272 p., 40 halftones 6 x 9 the financial lures of cemetery tourism all come into play as Kammen ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42329-6 Cloth $25.00/£16.00 delves deeply into this little-known—yet surprisingly persistent—aspect AMERICAN HISTORY of American history. Simultaneously insightful and interesting, masterly and macabre, Digging Up the Dead reminds us that the stories of American history don’t always end when the key players pass on. Rather, the battle—over reputations, interpretations, and, last but far from least, possession of the remains themselves—is often just beginning.

Michael Kammen is the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture emeritus at Cornell University. He is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization.

2 general interest Edited by Oliver Lubrich Travels in the Reich, 1933–45 Foreign Authors Report from Germany Translated by Kenneth Northcott, Sonia Wichmann, and Dean Krouk

ven now,” wrote Christopher Isherwood in his Berlin Diary of 1933, “I can’t altogether believe that any of this has really hap- Epened.” Three years later, W. E. B. DuBois described Germany as “silent, nervous, suppressed; it speaks in whispers.” In contrast, a young John F. Kennedy, in the journal he kept on a German tour in “No single account of life inside Hitler’s 1937, wrote, “The Germans really are too good—it makes people gang Germany paints a more vivid landscape against them for protection.” than Travels in the Reich. From Samuel Drawing on such published and unpublished accounts from writ- Beckett to Virginia Woolf, the three dozen ers and public figures visiting Germany,Travels in the Reich creates a writers collected in this volume take us chilling composite portrait of the reality of life under Hitler. Com- on a journey that is as compelling as it is posed in the moment by writers such as Virginia Woolf, Isak Dinesen, disturbing. An important addition to the Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shirer, Georges Simenon, history of World War II.” and Albert Camus, the essays, letters, and articles gathered here offer —Rick Atkinson, author of The Day of Battle fascinating insight into the range of responses to Nazi Germany. While some accounts betray a distressing naivete, overall what is striking is April 336 p. 6 x 9 just how clearly many of the travelers understood the true situation— ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49629-0 and the terrors to come. Cloth $30.00/£20.50 EUROPEAN HISTORY Through the eyes of these visitors, Travels in the Reich offers a new perspective on the quotidian—yet so often horrifying—details of life in Nazi Germany, in accounts as compelling as a good novel, but bear- ing all the weight of historical witness.

Oliver Lubrich is junior professor of rhetoric at the Institute of General and Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin.

general interest 3 Edited by RobERt AllEn Bulletproof Feathers How Science Uses Nature’s Secrets to Design Cutting-Edge Technology

May 192 p., 120 color plates 82/5 x 82/5 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01470-8 Cloth $35.00 SCIENCE CuSa abrics that F are not only stain resistant but actually clean themselves. Airplane wings that change shape in midair to take advantage of shifts in wind currents. Hypodermic needles that use tiny serrations to render injections virtually pain free. Though they may sound like the stuff of science fiction, in fact such inventions represent only the most recent iterations of natural mechanisms that are billions of years old—the focus of the rapidly growing field of biomimetics. Based on the realization that natural selection has for countless eons been conducting trial-and-error experiments with the laws of physics, chemistry, material science, and engineering, biomimetics takes nature as its laboratory, looking to the most successful developments and strategies of an array of plants and animals as a source of technological innovation and ideas. Thus the lotus flower, with its waxy, water-resistant surface, gives us stainproof- ing; the feathers of raptors become transformable airplane wings; and the nerve-deadening serrations on a mosquito’s proboscis are adapted to hypodermics.

4 general interest Ideas and discoveries from the cutting edge of the exciting field of biomimetics

With Bulletproof Feathers, Robert Allen brings together some of the greatest minds in the field of biomimetics to provide a fascinating—at times even jaw-dropping—overview of cutting-edge research in the field. In chapters packed with illustrations, Steven Vogel explains how architects and building engineers are drawing lessons from prairie dogs, termites, and even sand dollars in order to heat and cool buildings more efficiently; Julian Vincent goes to the very building blocks of nature, revealing how different structures and arrangements of molecules have inspired the development of some fascinating new materials, such as wa- terproof clothing based on shark skin; Tomonari Akamatsu shows how sonar technology has been greatly improved through detailed research into dolphin communication; Yoseph Bar-Cohen delves into the ways that robotics engineers have learned to solve design problems through reference to human musculature; Jeannette Yen explores how marine creatures have inspired a new generation of underwater robots; and Robert Allen shows us how cooperative behavior between birds, fish, and insects has inspired technological innovations in fields ranging from Web hosting to underwater exploration. A readable yet authoritative introduction to a field that is at the forefront of design and technology—and poised to become even more important in the coming decades as population pressures and climate change make the need for efficient technological solutions more acute—Bulletproof Feathers offers adventurous readers a tantalizing peek into the future, by way of our evolutionary past.

Robert Allen is professor of biodynamics and control at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, and the founding editor of the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics: Learning from Nature.

general interest 5 Jack Fuller What Is Happening to News The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism

cross America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plum- A meting even as opinion-soaked Web outlets like the Huffing- ton Post thrive. Meanwhile, nightly news programs shock viewers with stories of horrific crime and celebrity scandal, while the smug sarcasm and shouting of pundits like Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann domi- “This is one of the most interesting, inno- nate cable television. Is it any wonder that young people are turning vative, and important new books on jour- away from the news entirely, trusting comedians like Jon Stewart as nalism in ten years, and it could not come their primary source of information on current events? at a better time for practicing journalists, In the face of all the problems plaguing serious news, What Is the new cadre of citizen journalists in Happening to News explores the crucial question of how journalism lost development, and the public affairs com- its way—and what is responsible for the ragged retreat from its great munity as a whole. It will not only serve traditions. Veteran editor and newspaperman Jack Fuller locates the as a guide to journalists as the author surprising sources of change where no one has thought to look before: intends, but also as an important guide in the collision between a revolutionary new information age and a for the general public, now faced with the human brain that is still wired for the threats faced by our prehistoric need to sort through the messages that ancestors. Drawing on the recent discoveries of neuroscience, Fuller bombard them every day.” explains why the information overload of contemporary life makes us —Bill Kovach, founding chairman of the dramatically more receptive to sensational news, while rendering the Committee of Concerned Journalists staid, objective voice of standard journalism ineffective. Throw in a growing distrust of experts and authority, ably capitalized on by blogs May 224 p. 6 x 9 and other interactive media, and the result is a toxic mix that threat- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26898-9 Cloth $25.00/£13.00 ens to prove fatal to journalism as we know it. CURRENT EVENTS MEDIA STUDIES For every reader troubled by what has become of news—and wor- ried about what the future may hold—What Is Happening to News not only offers unprecedented insight into the causes of change but also clear guidance, strongly rooted in the precepts of ethical journalism, on how journalists can adapt to this new environment while still providing the information necessary to a functioning democracy.

Jack Fuller is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers, serving as editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune 6 general interest and as president of the Tribune Publishing Company. 2nd PROOF ❍✔ MARY ❍ ALICE

Vivian Gussin Paley vivian The Boy on the gussin Beach paley Building Community through Play

our-year-old Eli plays in the sand on the beach, playing fireman, protector, and scout, battling waves and defeating invis- the boy on the beach Fible monsters. But then a new playmate, Marianne, arrives with her doll, and the boy’s stories adapt to accommodate hers: the fireman building community saves the doll from drowning, but then the doll’s mother and father through play put it safely to bed. What can the richly imagined, impressively adaptable fantasy world of these children tell us about childhood, development, educa- “Her books . . . should be required read- tion, and even life itself? For fifty years, educator Vivian Gussin Paley ing wherever children are growing. Paley has been exploring such questions—by paying close attention to the does not presume to understand preschool imagery, language, and lore of young children. With The Boy on the children, or to theorize. Her strength lies Beach she continues to do so, using her time-honored method of letting equally in knowing that she does not know children tell the stories of their play in their own words, revealing the and in trying to learn. She avoids the ar- developing logic and learning that enable them to create meaning rogance of adult to small child; of teacher from the complicated world around them. Combining those careful to student; of writer to reader.” accounts of make-believe with gentle but incisive analysis and a series —Penelope Leach, New York Times of letters between Paley and a fellow teacher in Taiwan, The Boy on the

Beach reveals the ways that children use their powers of invention to “Paley’s argument, against which there develop the flexibility needed to form a society based on friendship, is no argument, only ignorance, is that fantasy, and fairness—an ideal that all educators should foster. child’s ‘play’ is a foundation of educa- Full of wonderful, inimitable stories from the classroom, The Boy tion, revealing of and creating social and on the Beach is vintage Paley, a wise and delightful reminder of the imaginative skills. But as every educator importance of play and the enduring appeal of stories. or parent of a young child knows, the American craze for standardized testing Vivian Gussin Paley worked for nearly forty years as a preschool and kinder- garten teacher and is the author of thirteen books about young children, has squeezed out time and funding for including, most recently, A Child’s Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play. the arts, physical education, and ‘play.’ ” —Bob Blaisdell, Chicago Tribune

April 96 p. 51/4 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64503-2 Cloth $17.00/£11.00 EDUCATION

general interest 7 M. G. Harasewych and Fabio Moretzsohn The Book of Shells A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred of the World’s Most Significant Seashells

ho among us hasn’t marveled at the diversity and beauty of shells? Or picked W one up, held it to our ear, and then gazed in wonder at its shape and hue? Many a lifelong shell collector has cut teeth (and toes) on the beaches of the Jersey Shore, the Outer June 656 p., 2400 color plates 71/2 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31577-5 Banks, or the coasts of Sanibel Island. Some have Cloth $55.00 even dived to the depths of the ocean. But most of NATURE SCIENCE CUSA us are not familiar with the biological origin of shells, their role in explaining evolutionary history, and the incredible variety of forms in which they come. Shells are the external skeletons of mollusks, an ancient and diverse phylum of invertebrates that are in the earliest fossil record of multicellular life over 500 million years ago. There are over 100,000 kinds of recorded mollusks, and some estimate that there are over a million more that have yet to be discovered. Some breathe air, others live in fresh water, but most live in the ocean. They range in size from a grain of sand to a beach ball and in weight from a few grams to several hundred pounds. And in this lavishly illustrated volume, they finally get their full due.

8 general interest The Book of Shells offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most intriguing mollusk shells, each chosen to convey the range of shapes and sizes that occur across a range of species. Each shell is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the shell’s range, distribution, abundance, habitat, and features. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each shell and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Matchless Cone, for instance, or Conus cedonulli, was one of the rarest shells collected during the eighteenth century. So much so, in fact, that a specimen in 1796 was sold for more than six times as much as a painting by Vermeer at the same auction. But since the advent of scuba diving, this shell has become far more accessible to collectors—though not without certain risks. Some species of Conus produce venom that has caused more than thirty known human deaths. The Zebra Nerite, the Heart Cockle, the Indian Babylon, the Junonia, the Atlantic Thorny Oyster—shells from habitats spanning the poles and the tropics, from the highest mountains to the ocean’s deepest recesses, are all on display in this definitive work.

M. G. Harasewych is research zoologist and curator of marine mollusks at the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian Institution in Wash- ington, D.C., which houses one of the world’s largest mollusk collections. He has discovered and described dozens of new genera and species, written widely for scientific journals and periodicals, and is the author ofShells: Jewels from the Sea. Fabio Moretzsohn has a doctorate in zoology and is a researcher for the Harte Research Institute in Texas. He has discovered a few new species of mollusks and is a coauthor of the Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells.

general interest 9 Harvey G. Cohen Duke Ellington’s America

ew American artists in any medium have enjoyed the lasting international cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz Fstandards such as “Mood Indigo” and “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership of the stellar big band he toured and performed with for decades after most big bands folded, Ellington represented a singular, pathbreaking force in music over the course of a half-century. At the same time, as one of the most prominent black public figures in history, Ellington demonstrated leadership on questions of civil rights and America’s role in the “An excellent piece of cultural history, world. grounded in fantastic sources, including With Duke Ellington’s America, Harvey G. Cohen paints a vivid Duke Ellington’s papers and scrapbooks, picture of Ellington’s life and times, taking him from his youth in the and interviews with his players and other black middle-class enclave of Washington, D.C., to the heights of world- jazzmen, a treasure trove that future wide acclaim. Mining extensive archives, many never before available, scholars will mine for decades. Cohen plus new interviews with Ellington’s friends, family, band members, rightfully places Ellington in the forefront and business associates, Cohen illuminates his constantly evolving ap- of African American desires for freedom, proach to composition, performance, and the music business—as well dignity, and cultural equality, while also as issues of race, equality, and religion. Ellington’s own voice, mean- offering a fascinating account of the while, animates the book throughout, giving Duke Ellington’s America an nature of his creative genius.” intimacy and immediacy unmatched by any previous account. —Lewis Erenberg, author of Swingin’ the Dream: By far the most thorough and nuanced portrait yet of this towering Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth figure,Duke Ellington’s America highlights Ellington’s importance as a of American Culture figure in American history as well as in American music.

May 720 p., 12 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11263-3 Harvey G. Cohen, a cultural historian, is associate professor of cultural and Cloth $40.00/£26.00 creative industries at King’s College London. MUSIC AMERICAN HISTORY

10 general interest Martin Preib The Wagon and Other Stories from the City

artin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Depart- ment—a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie po- M liceman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Over the course of countless hours driving the wagon through the city streets, claiming corpses and taking them to the morgue, arresting drunks and criminals and hauling them to jail, Preib put pen to paper to record his experiences. Inspired by Preib’s daily life as a policeman, The Wagon and Other Stories from the City chronicles the outer and inner lives of both a Chicago cop and the city itself. The book follows Preib as he transports body bags, forges an un- “From its aptly noirish title on, Martin likely connection with his female partner, trains a younger officer, and Preib’s The Wagon and Other Stories from finds himself among people long forgotten—or rendered invisible—by the City has the rightness of authenticity the rest of society. Preib recounts how he navigates the tenuous laby- about it. From the perspective of a cop, he rinths of race and class in the urban metropolis, such as a domestic fashions a compelling view of the Chicago disturbance call involving a gang member and his abused girlfriend Algren once called ‘the dark city.’ There’s or a run-in with a group of drunk yuppies. As he encounters the real a unique quality to his stories, which and imagined geographies of Chicago, the city reveals itself to be not manage to be broodingly meditative even just a backdrop, but a central force in his narrative of life and death. as their narrative drive keeps you turning Preib’s accounts, all told in his breathtaking prose, range from noir- pages.” like reports of police work to streetwise meditations on life and darkly —Stuart Dybek humorous accounts of other jobs in the city’s service industry. Here, Preib’s universe of police officers, criminals, and victims—and every- May 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 one in between—comes alive in ways that readers will long remember. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67980-8 Cloth $20.00/£13.00 LITERATURE true crime Martin Preib is an officer with the Chicago Police Department. His essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and Tin House.

general interest 11 Julian Pepperell Fishes of the Open Ocean A Natural History and Illustrated Guide With Illustrations by Guy Harvey

etween the surface of the sea and depths of two hundred meters lies a remarkable range of fish, generally known as

March 272 p., 370 color plates 9 x 11 pelagics, or open-ocean dwellers. These creatures are among ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65539-0 B Cloth $35.00/£22.50 the largest, fastest, highest-leaping, and most migratory fish on the NATURE entire planet. Beautifully adapted to their world, they range from tiny anz Copublished with University of New South drift fish and plankton-straining whale sharks to more streamlined Wales Press predators such as tuna, marlin, sailfish, and wahoo. Fishes of the Open Ocean, from leading marine biologist and world authority on the subject Julian Pepperell, is the first book to comprehensively describe these fishes and explore the complex and often fragile world in which they live. In what will be the definitive book on the subject for years to come—and, with over three hundred color images, the most lavishly produced as well—Pepperell details the environment and biology of every major species of fish that inhabits the open ocean, an expanse that covers 330 million cubic miles and is the largest aquatic habitat on the Earth. The first section of the book introduces the various evolutionary forms these fish have taken, as well as the ways in which specific species interact and coevolve with others in the food web. A chapter on commercial and sport fisheries explores the human element in this realm and considers such issues as sustainability, catch-and-release initiatives, and the risks of extinction. Flying fish, great white sharks, sardines, mackerel, chinook salmon, giant sunfish—virtually every fish of the open ocean gets its due in this essential resource, a book that will enthrall anglers, mariners, conservationists, and newcomers to the subject alike.

The second section of the book provides species accounts of open- ocean dwellers organized by group, with overviews and general descriptions that are inclusive of range and distribution, unique physi- ological and morphological attributes, and the role of each species within its ecosystem. Global distribution maps, original illustrations from renowned artist and scientist Guy Harvey, and truly stunning images from some of the world’s leading underwater photographers round out this copiously illustrated volume.

Julian Pepperell is one of the best-known marine biologists in the world and a leading authority on marlin, sailfish, tuna, and sharks. He has conducted research on these fishes in partnership with governments across the globe for over thirty years and is an adjunct professor at a number of universities. He is past president of the Australian Society for Fish Biology and recipient of the prestigious Conservation Award from the International Game Fish Association. Guy Harvey is a unique blend of artist, scientist, diver, angler, and conservationist. In 1999 he collaborated with the Oceanographic Center of Nova Southeastern University to create the Guy Harvey Research Institute, providing scientific information for effective conservation and restoration of fish biodiversity.

general interest 13 Claude S. Fischer Made in America A Social History of American Culture and Character

ur nation began with the simple phrase, “We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, Oor 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today? With Made in America, Claude S. Fischer draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to answer that question by tracking the evolution of American character and culture over “Made in America is a book rich in its find- three centuries. He explodes myths—that contemporary Americans ings and judicious in its interpretations. are more mobile and less religious than their ancestors, or that they’re Fischer has uncovered a lot of things that more focused on money and consumption—and reveals instead how even those of us who have long studied greater security and wealth have only reinforced the independence, the United States didn’t know, and he egalitarianism, and commitment to community that characterized our has also expertly shown that many of the people from the earliest years. Skillfully drawing on personal stories of things we thought we knew are simply representative Americans, Fischer shows that, as affluence and social wrong. The book will make any reader progress have allowed more people to participate fully in cultural and wiser and more careful in thinking about political life, what it means to be an American has broadened—yet at this strange country in which we live.” the same time has retained a surprising continuity with much earlier —Robert N. Bellah notions of American character. Firmly in the vein of such classics as The Lonely Crowd and Habits of April 528 p. 6 x 9 the Heart—yet challenging many of their conclusions—Made in America ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25143-1 Cloth $35.00/£22.50 takes readers beyond the simplicity of headlines and the actions of AMERICAN HISTORY elites to show us the lives and aspirations of ordinary Americans, from the settling of the colonies to the settling of the suburbs.

Claude S. Fischer is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of many books, including Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years and America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone, 1880–1940.

14 general interest Svetlana Boym Another Freedom The Alternative History of an Idea

rom political debates about global free markets to local free lunches, today the word “freedom” is in danger of becoming Fa distorted and tired cliché. In Another Freedom, Svetlana Boym explores the rich history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece through the present day, suggesting that our attempts to imagine freedom should occupy the space of not only “what is” but also “what if.” Beginning with notions of sacrifice and the emergence of a public sphere for politics and art, Boym expands her account to include the relationships between freedom and liberty, modernity and terror, political dissent and creative estrangement, and love and free- “In this new and incredibly ambitious dom of the other. While depicting a world of differences, Boym affirms account of the anatomy of freedom, lasting cross-cultural solidarities with the commitment to passionate Svetlana Boym works through the specif- thinking that reflection on freedom requires. ics of historical, aesthetic, and cultural Another Freedom is filled with stories that illuminate our own sense narratives, moving effortlessly from of what it means to be free, and it assembles a truly remarkable cast of large movements to human relationships characters: Warburg and Euripides, Pushkin and Tocqueville, Kafka and back again. Another Freedom is an and Osip Mandelshtam, Arendt and Heidegger, and an imagined engaging and imaginative philosophical encounter between Dostoevsky and Marx on the streets of Paris. What experiment, at once intellectually grip- are the limits of freedom and how can it be imagined anew? Reflecting ping and moving, intensely relevant to upon her experience as a Leningrad native transplanted to the United the contemporary condition, and a major States, Boym dares to ask whether American freedom can be trans- work of dazzling scholarship.” ported across the national border. With these questions in mind, Boym —Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck College, attempts to reinvent freedom as something “infinitely improbable” University of London —yet nevertheless still possible. By offering a fresh look at the strange history of this idea and May 376 p., 19 halftones, 2 line drawings opening a new arena of inquiry, Another Freedom delivers a nuanced 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06973-9 portrait of freedom’s unpredictable occurrences and unexplored plots, Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 one whose repercussions will be felt well into the future. PHILOSOPHY

Svetlana Boym is the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Compara- tive Literature at Harvard University, as well as an associate of the Graduate School of Design. A writer, theorist, and media artist, she is the author of The Future of Nostalgia, among other publications.

general interest 15 Sebastian Edwards Left Behind Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

he political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. T Despite abundant resources—and a history of productiv- ity and wealth—in recent decades the region has fallen further and further behind developed nations, surpassed even by other developing economies in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. In Left Behind, Sebastian Edwards asks why the nations of Latin America have failed to share in the fruits of globalization and forcefully “Sebastian Edwards’s book is a must read highlights the dangers of the recent turn to economic populism in the for anyone interested in the economy of region. He begins by detailing the many ways Latin American govern- Latin America—past, present, and future. ments have stifled economic development over the years through ex- No one knows Latin America better than cessive regulation, currency manipulation, and thoroughgoing corrup- Edwards. And the experience of Latin tion. He then turns to the neoliberal reforms of the early 1990s, which America offers lessons for every develop- called for the elimination of deficits, lowering of trade barriers, and ing country about what to do and what to privatization of inefficient public enterprises—and which, Edwards avoid.” argues, held the promise of freeing Latin America from the burdens of —Martin Feldstein the past. Flawed implementation, however, meant the promised gains of globalization were never felt by the mass of citizens, and growing June 296 p. 6 x 9 frustration with stalled progress has led to a resurgence of populism, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18478-4 Cloth $29.00/£18.50 exemplified by the economic policies of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. ECONOMICS POLITICAL SCIENCE But such measures, Edwards warns, are a recipe for disaster; instead, he argues, the way forward for Latin America lies in further market reforms, more honestly pursued and fairly implemented. As the global financial crisis has reminded us, the risks posed by failing economies extend far beyond their national borders. Putting Latin America back on a path toward sustained growth is crucial not just for the region but for the world, and Left Behind offers a clear, concise blueprint for the road ahead.

Sebastian Edwards is the Henry Ford II Professor of International Business Economics in the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

16 general interest Edited by Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein Law and Happiness

ince the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good Slife. But it is only in recent years that the study of happiness— or “hedonics”—has developed into a formal field of inquiry, cutting across a broad range of disciplines and offering insights into a variety of crucial questions of law and public policy. Law and Happiness brings together the best and most influential thinkers in the field to explore the question of what happiness is—and what factors can be demonstrated to increase or decrease it. Martha C. Nussbaum offers an account of the way that hedonics can productively Contributors be applied to psychology; Cass R. Sunstein considers the unexpected relationship between happiness and health problems; Matthew Adler Matthew Adler, Mark A. Cohen, Paul and Eric A. Posner view hedonics through the lens of cost-benefit anal- Dolan, Jonathan Haidt, Christopher K. ysis; David A. Weisbach considers the relationship between happiness Hsee, Selin Kesebir, George Loewen- and taxation; and Mark A. Cohen examines the role that crime—and stein, Martha C. Nussbaum, Andrew J. fear of crime—can play in people’s assessment of their happiness; and Oswald, Tessa Peasgood, Eric A. Posner, other distinguished contributors take similarly innovative approaches Nattavudh Powdthavee, J. Patrick Seder, to the topic of happiness. Betsey Stevenson, Cass R. Sunstein, The result is a kaleidoscopic overview of this increasingly promi- Ningyu Tang, Peter A. Ubel, David A. nent field, offering surprising new perspectives and incisive analyses Weisbach, Justin Wolfers, Fei Xu that will have profound implications for the law and our lives. April 352 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67600-5 Eric A. Posner is the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 Chicago Law School. He is the author or coauthor of several books, includ- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67601-2 ing The Perils of Global Legalism. Cass R. Sunstein is administrator of the White Paper $25.00s/£16.00 ECONOMICS House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, on leave from Harvard Law School.

general interest 17 Scott L. Montgomery The Powers That Be Global Energy for the Twenty-first Century and Beyond

asoline prices are high and rapidly climbing. Oil and natural gas reserves are dwindling, while demand is poised to G skyrocket, as developing nations around the world lead their citizens into the modern energy economy. Meanwhile, the grave threat of catastrophic climate change looms ever larger, and energy worries are at an all-time high—just how will we power our future? With The Powers That Be, Scott L. Montgomery cuts through the hype, alarmism, and confusion to give us a straightforward, informed “Scott L. Montgomery has written a account of where we are now, and a map of where we’re going. Starting much-needed book about global energy with the inescapable fact of our current dependence on fossil fuels— for a general nonfiction audience. He which supply 80 percent of all our energy needs today—Montgomery approaches the issue with humanistic clearly and carefully lays out the many alternative energy options avail- nuance and offers a refreshing voice of able, ranging from the familiar, like water and solar, to such nascent clarity and composure on this topic.” but promising sources as hydrogen and geothermal power. What is —Saleem H. Ali, author of crucial, he explains, is understanding that our future will depend not Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future on some single, wondrous breakthrough; instead, we should focus on developing a more diverse, adaptable energy future, one that draws

July 408 p., 12 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9 on a variety of sources—and is thus less vulnerable to disruption or ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53500-5 failure. Cloth $35.00/£22.50 SCIENCE An admirably evenhanded and always realistic guide, Montgomery enables readers to understand the implications of energy funding, research, and politics on a global scale. At the same time, he doesn’t neglect the ultimate connection between those decisions and the average citizen flipping a light switch or sliding behind the wheel of a car, making The Powers That Be indispensable for our ever-more energy-conscious age.

Scott L. Montgomery is a consulting geologist, independent scholar, and the author of The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science and Science in Translation, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

18 general interest Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson The Atlas of World Hunger

arlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be “making sure that people are able to get enough Eto eat.” The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domestically and internationally, millions of people are hungry. In 2006 the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations counted 850 million hungry people worldwide, but as food prices soared, an additional “The Atlas of World Hunger paints a com- 100 million or more who were vulnerable succumbed to food insecurity. prehensive picture of hunger in our time. If hunger were simply a matter of food production, no one would Bassett and Winter-Nelson thoroughly go without. There is more than enough food produced annually to examine the roots of hunger and poverty provide every living person with a healthy diet, yet so many suffer from and incontrovertibly show their associa- food shortages, unsafe water, and malnutrition every year. That’s be- tion. By devising a new scale to measure cause hunger is a complex political, economic, and ecological phenom- hunger vulnerability and by naming the enon. The interplay of these forces produces a geography of hunger multiple causes of hunger and poverty that Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson illuminate in this around the globe, from local to interna- empowering book. The Atlas of World Hunger uses a conceptual frame- tional levels, the Atlas provides an outline work informed by geography and agricultural economics to present a for solutions that will reduce the roster of hunger index that combines food availability, household access, and hungry people from one billion today to nutritional outcomes into a single tool—one that delivers a fuller un- zero as soon as possible.” derstanding of the scope of global hunger, its underlying mechanisms, —Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, cofounder of Partners In Health and the ways in which the goals for ending hunger can be achieved. The first depiction of the geography of hunger worldwide, the May 216 p., 103 color plates, 47 halftones, Atlas will be an important resource for teachers, students, and anyone 3 line drawings, 35 tables 81/2 x 11 else interested in understanding the geography and causes of hunger. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03907-7 Cloth $45.00/£29.00 This knowledge, the authors argue, is a critical first step toward elimi- CURRENT EVENTS REFERENCE nating unnecessary suffering in a world of plenty.

Thomas J. Bassett is professor of geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author or coauthor of six books. Alex Winter- Nelson is professor of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

general interest 19 Edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner The Studio Reader On the Space of Artists

he image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist’s studio. Ex- T amples abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever since Andy Warhol declared his art space a “factory,” artists have begun to envision themselves as the leaders of production teams, and their sense of what it means to be in the studio has altered just as dra- Contributors matically as their practices. Glenn Adamson, Svetlana Alpers, Art The Studio Reader pulls back the curtain from the art world to re- & Language, John Baldessari, Alice veal the real activities behind artistic production. What does it mean to Bellony-Rewold, Mary Bergstein, be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist’s practice? Walead Beshty, Andrea Bowers, Daniel How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, Buren, Rochelle Feinstein, David J. their own lives? This forward-thinking anthology features an all-star Getsy, Rodney Graham, Amy Granat, array of contributors, ranging from Svetlana Alpers, Bruce Nauman, Karl Haendel, Rachel Harrison, Lynn and Robert Storr to Daniel Buren, Carolee Schneemann, and Buzz Lester Hershman, Caroline A. Jones, Spector, each of whom locates the studio both spatially and concep- Kimsooja, Suzanne Lacy, Thomas tually—at the center of an art world that careens across institutions, Lawson, Shana Lutker, Annika Marie, markets, and disciplines. Courtney Martin, Carrie Moyer, Bruce A companion for anyone engaged with the spectacular sites of art Nauman, Michael Peppiatt, David at its making, The Studio Reader reconsiders this crucial space as an Reed, Lane Relyea, David Robbins, actual way of being that illuminates our understanding of both artists Judith Rodenbeck, Joe Scanlan, and the world they inhabit. Brenda Schmahmann, Carolee

Schneemann, Katy Siegel, Howard Mary Jane Jacob is professor of sculpture and executive director of exhibitions Singerman, Michael Smith, Buzz at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and coeditor of Buddha Mind Spector, Frances Stark, Robert Storr, in Contemporary Art and Learning Mind: Experience into Art. Michelle Grabner is professor in and chair of the Department of Painting and Drawing at the Barry Schwabsky, Charline von Heyl, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and codirector of The Suburban, a gal- Marjorie Welish, James Welling, lery in Oak Park, Illinois. Brian Winkenweder, John Wood

June 328 p., 67 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38959-2 Cloth $68.00x/£44.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38961-5 Paper $25.00/£16.00 ART

20 general interest Edited by W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen Critical Terms for Media Studies

ommunications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and dis- Cciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics. Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary “Critical Terms for Media Studies offers not media. Edited by two outstanding scholars in the field, W. J. T. Mitch- simply a collection of critical terms, but a ell and Mark B. N. Hansen, and featuring a team of distinguished paradigm-shifting rethinking of the field contributors—including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker, and itself. It represents an extremely impor- Bernard Stiegler—Critical Terms for Media Studies offers diverse oppor- tant approach to media in the twenty-first tunities for students to understand the language that underpins much century, one that will become increasing- of new media. The essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, not ly relevant as the ubiquity of new media only emphasize the ways in which technology changes our understand- and new technologies make the questions ing of mediation, but also help to articulate issues important to media it raises more and more pressing. The practitioners, such as the obsolescence of the body and the changing book is a definitive and defining state- role of memory. Mitchell and Hansen have organized these essays into ment about the future shape and direction three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe of media studies.” —Charlie Gere, sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a Lancaster University broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” invites inquiry into language that describes the systems that allow a medium to function. March 368 p., 4 halftones, 6 line drawings 6 x 9 A compelling reference work for the twenty-first century and the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53254-7 media that form our experience within it, Critical Terms for Media Stud- Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53255-4 ies will engage and deepen anyone’s knowledge of one of our most Paper $27.50s/£18.00 important new fields. MEDIA STUDIES LITERARY CRITICISM

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of nine books published by the University of Chicago Press, including What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Mark B. N. Hansen is professor of literature and arts of the moving image at Duke University. He is the author of New Philosophy for New Media, among other titles. general interest 21 Mark Monmonier No Dig, No Fly, No Go How Maps Restrict and Control

ome maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities Sfrom flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek to regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating

Praise for From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse a chemical plant, or painting a house anything but regulation colors. Meadow It is this aspect of mapping—its power to prohibit—that celebrated

“An entertaining and enlightening geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in No Dig, No Fly, No Go. excursion.” Restrictive mapping has been indispensable in settling the Ameri- —Boston Globe can West, claiming slices of Antarctica, protecting fragile ocean fisheries, and keeping sex offenders away from playgrounds. But it “Mark Monmonier is an able populariser of has also been used for opprobrium: during one of the darkest mo- academic geography, and an expert guide ments in American history, cartographic exclusion orders helped to the bureaucratic, legal and political send thousands of Japanese Americans to remote detention camps. hierarchies that determine how places Tracing the power of prohibitive mapping at multiple levels—from acquire, change and lose their names.” regional to international—and multiple dimensions—from property —Economist to cyberspace—Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influ-

ence our experience, from homeownership and voting to taxation and “Mark Monmonier’s boyishly infectious airline travel. A worthy successor to his critically acclaimed How to Lie history of (principally American) top- with Maps, the book is replete with all of the hallmarks of a Monmonier onyms maps out the sexism, racism and classic, including the wry observations and witty humor. imperialism through which we have come Written for anyone who votes, owns a home, or aspires to be an to know our landscapes.” —Times Literary Supplement informed citizen, No Dig, No Fly, No Go will change the way we look at maps forever.

May 216 p., 63 halftones, 19 line drawings 6 x 9 Mark Monmonier is distinguished professor of geography at Syracuse Universi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53467-1 ty’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the author of many Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 books, including, most recently, Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53468-8 Paper $18.00/£11.50 and Chart Environmental Change and From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow, also SCIENCE published by the University of Chicago Press.

22 general interest Massimo Pigliucci Nonsense on Stilts How to Tell Science from Bunk

ecent polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, despite it being one R of science’s best-established findings. More and more parents are refusing to vaccinate their children for fear it causes autism, though this link has been consistently disproved. And about 40 percent of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated, despite near consensus in the scientific community that manmade climate change is real. Why do people believe bunk? And what causes them to embrace such pseudoscientific beliefs and practices? Noted skeptic Massimo “A refreshingly original excursion over the Pigliucci sets out to separate the fact from the fantasy in this entertain- unmarked territory separating science ing exploration of the nature of science, the borderlands of fringe from pseudoscience and nonscience, science, and—borrowing a famous phrase from philosopher Jeremy Nonsense on Stilts is a thoughtful exami- Bentham—the nonsense on stilts. Presenting case studies on a number nation of the tumultuous terrain between of controversial topics, Pigliucci cuts through the ambiguity surround- the two and a primer on how one tells the ing science to look more closely at how science is conducted, how it is difference.” disseminated, how it is interpreted, and what it means to our society. —Kendrick Frazier, The result is in many ways a “taxonomy of bunk” that explores the editor of Skeptical Inquirer intersection of science and culture at large. No one—not the public intellectuals in the culture wars between May 336 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66785-0 defenders and detractors of science nor the believers of pseudoscience Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66786-7 themselves—is spared Pigliucci’s incisive analysis. In the end, Nonsense Paper $20.00/£13.00 on Stilts is a timely reminder of the need to maintain a line between SCIENCE expertise and assumption. Broad in scope and implication, it is also ultimately a captivating guide for the intelligent citizen who wishes to make up her own mind while navigating the perilous debates that will affect the future of our planet.

Massimo Pigliucci is professor of philosophy at the City University of New York. He has written many books, including, most recently, with Jonathan Kaplan, Making Sense of Evolution, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

general interest 23 Stanley Greenberg Architecture under Construction With a Foreword by Joseph Rosa

ies van der Rohe once commented, “Only skyscrapers under construction reveal their bold constructive Mthoughts, and then the impression made by their soaring skeletal frames is overwhelming.” Never has this statement resonated “These magnificent photographs capture more than in recent years, when architectural design has undergone the romance of construction sites with the a radical transformation, and when digital imaging systems now allow precision and poetry and insistent prob- us to construct buildings that would have been impossible just a few ing curiosity we have come to expect from years ago. Yet at the same time, the mystery of what lies underneath Stanley Greenberg. For lovers of photog- these manufactured surfaces is now more overwhelming than ever raphy, architecture, city life, or simply the before. physical world, this book is a must-have.” In Architecture under Construction, acclaimed photographer Stanley —Phillip Lopate Greenberg excavates the skeletons of some of our most iconoclastic buildings, spurring on a continued engagement with those intention- ally (World Trade Center) and accidentally (Charles DeGaulle Airport March 120 p., 80 halftones 11 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30642-1 Terminal) destroyed that furthers our fascination with what makes Cloth $45.00/£29.00 ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY buildings stand up, and what makes them fall down. In stunning photographs, Greenberg captures the complex mystery and beauty found in the transitory moments before the outside of a building covers up the structures that hold it together. As designs for new buildings are revealed and architects and engineers challenge each other with provocative new forms and equally audacious ideas, Greenberg documents his own interest in this new architecture. Framed by a historical and critical essay by Joseph Rosa, the Art Institute of Chicago’s curatorial chair, and an afterword by the author, the eighty captivating and thought-provoking images collected here— which focus on some of the most high-profile design projects of the past decade, including buildings designed by Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, and Renzo Piano, among others—are not to be missed by anyone with an eye for the almost invisible foundations that continue to define our relationship with the built world.

Stanley Greenberg is the author of Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City and Waterworks: A Photographic Journey Through New York’s Hidden Water System. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. 24 general interest Kate L. Turabian Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers Fourth Edition Revised by Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, and the University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff

igh school, two-year college, and university students all need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent re- ◆ search paper—and for decades, Kate L. Turabian’s Student’s Complete coverage of Chicago, MLA, and H APA citation styles, including electronic Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them develop this critical sources skill. Now the team behind Chicago’s respected The Craft of Research has renewed this classic for today’s generation. Designed for less-advanced ◆ Helpful tip boxes and examples writers than Turabian’s Manual for Writers this book introduces students throughout to the art of defining a topic, doing high-quality research, and writing an engaging college paper. ◆ Guidelines for the presentation of quantitative data Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams have organized the Student’s Guide in three sections. Part 1, “Writing Your Paper,” guides Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, students through the research process with discussions of choosing and Publishing and developing a topic, validating sources, planning arguments, writing drafts, avoiding plagiarism, and presenting numerical evidence. April 304 p., 21 line drawings, 6 tables 65/8 x 93/8 Part 2, “Citing Sources,” explains why citation is important and in- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81630-2 Cloth $39.00s/£25.00 cludes sections on the three major styles—Chicago, MLA, and APA— ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81631-9 Paper $15.00/£9.50 all with full coverage of electronic source citation. Part 3, “Style,” REFERENCE covers all matters of style, from punctuation to spelling to presenting titles, names, and numbers. With the authority and clarity long associated with the name Tura- bian, the fourth edition of Student’s Guide is both a solid introduction to the research process and a convenient handbook to the best practices of writing college papers. Classroom-tested and filled with relevant examples and tips, this is a reference that students, and their teachers, will turn to again and again.

Gregory G. Colomb is professor of English at the University of Virginia. Joseph M. Williams (1933–2008) was professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. Together Colomb and Williams are the authors (with Wayne C. Booth) of the best-selling guide The Craft of Research. general interest 25 “The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series that has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today.” —Billy Collins

Romey’s Order Medicine Show atsuro riley tom yuill

From Chord From Veritas

Come the marrow-hours when he couldn’t sleep, Imagining Heaven as Istanbul, or a beach south of Istanbul, the boy river-brinked and chorded. Where your friends are preparing an apartment for you And your Beloved. And sleeping fathers, babies plump Mud-bedded himself here in the root-mesh; bided. And shining as good faith, memory in the faithful heat. Sieved our alluvial sounds— You and she in the fastening-unfastenings of heat. And poetry Just capers in the leafy thoughts above. Just Orpheus exhausted Romey’s Order is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an Now but coughing little plaints. Just memory rewritten, invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set along- Honey, just like Louis Armstrong’s voice, like some side a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. Big happy face. Just living, living, Honey, just believe, As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey Don’t understand so much. Just come to bed, she says. urgently records—and tries to order—the objects, inscape, injuries, and idiom of his “blood-home” and childhood world. In Medicine Show, inner conflict is wonderfully realized in the Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to transform clash of down-home plain speech and European high culture “every burn-mark and blemish,” to “bind our river-wrack and utterances. Freely translating and adapting Catullus (Latin), leavings,” Romey seeks to forge finally (if even for a moment) Villon (Middle French), Corbière (French), Hikmet (Turk- a chord in which he might live. Intently visceral, aural, oral, ish), and Orpheus (Greek), and placing them alongside Jag- Atsuro Riley’s poems bristle with musical and imaginative ger and Richards, skinheads, and psalms, Tom Yuill’s book pleasures, with storytelling and picture-making of a new and mirrors an old-style hawking of wares, with all the charm and wholly unexpected kind. absurdity that results when high culture meets pop, when city “The best literature forces you out of your old eyes, and meets small town, and when provincialism confronts urban- that’s what happens here. Atsuro Riley’s Romey’s Order is deep ity. Here, the poems talk to one another, one poem nudging craft—brilliant and consuming and thoroughly strange. the cusps of many others, those poems touching still others’ When you put this book down, American poetry will be dif- circumferences. Yuill, by invoking the Rolling Stones as mus- ferent than when you picked it up.”—Kay Ryan, United States es and as background music, offers cover versions of Shake- Poet Laureate speare, Keats, and Dylan Thomas, ultimately giving us a new kind of verse, funneled through the languages and rhythms Atsuro Riley was brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry. His of his masters’ voices. work has appeared in Poetry, Threepenny Review, and The McSweeney’s “Tom Yuill’s Medicine Show almost bursts its seams with its Book of Poets Picking Poets. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and canny exuberance. Raucous, uncouth, elegiac, filial, tender, the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine. polished, and rough, these poems pay homage to lost parents, whether the biological mother and father or the poetic ances- april 64 p. 6 x 9 tors, Catullus, Villon, and Hikmet. Yuill wrings his own tunes ISBN-13: 978-0-226-71942-9 Cloth $45.00x/£29.00 from Texas stomp, the Rolling Stones, and the lyric masters of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-71944-3 English. He’s reinventing fireworks.”—Rosanna Warren Paper $14.00/£9.00 poetry Tom Yuill is a lecturer in liberal arts at Metropolitan College, Boston University, and associate professor of literature and creative writing at the New England Institute of Art.

april 72 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-97164-3 Cloth $45.00x/£29.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-97165-0 Paper $14.00/£9.00 poetry

26 general interest Reginald Gibbons Slow Trains

not available yet. Overhead will place at correction stage Chicago Poems and Stories

ew people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet’s eye, and capture what it’s F really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience—a chance encounter with a veteran on Belmont Avenue, the grimy majesty of the downtown L tracks, domestic violence in a North Side brownstone, the wide-eyed wonder of new arrivals at O’Hare, and much more—these new and selected poems and stories by Reginald Gibbons celebrate the heady mix of elation “This is some of the most beautiful writ- and despair that is city life. With Slow Trains Overhead, he has rendered ing I’ve encountered in a long time. With a living portrait of Chicago as luminously detailed and powerful as Reginald Gibbons as our guide, we find those of Nelson Algren and Carl Sandburg. ourselves in the nooks and crannies of Gibbons takes the reader from museums and neighborhood life Chicago, in garages, on street corners, to tense proceedings in Juvenile Court, from comically noir-tinged in apartment buildings, and in the city’s scenes at a store on Clark Street to midnight immigrants at a gas sta- neglected institutions, like juvenile court. tion on Western Avenue, and from a child’s piggy bank to nature in In this stunning collection of prose and urban spaces. For Gibbons, the city’s people, places, and historical poetry, Gibbons captures intimate and reverberations are a compelling human array of the everyday and the poignant stories that have as their back- extraordinary, of poverty and beauty, of the experience of being one drop this large, anonymous metropolis. among many. Penned by one of its most prominent writers, Slow Trains Anyone who has an investment in the Overhead evokes and commemorates human life in a great city. urban experience will find themselves “The poems and stories in Reginald Gibbons’s Slow Trains Overhead drawn to Slow Trains Overhead.” are a constantly surprising tour through the loveliness and desperation —Alex Kotlowitz, author of Never a City So Real: of Chicago. By their attentive listening, they pay homage to the city’s A Walk in Chicago uncountable souls wherever they are to be found—on the map, on the street, at home, in the solitary mind’s eye. This is a necessary, enliven- April 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ing book by a keen observer with an open spirit who makes impas- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29058-4 Cloth $20.00/£13.00 sioned music out of the most ordinary encounters, without cynicism or LITERATURE sentimentality.”—Rosellen Brown

Reginald Gibbons is a poet, fiction writer, translator, and essayist. At North- western University, he is professor of English and classics, director of the Cen- ter for the Writing Arts, and codirector of the MA/MFA Program in Creative Writing. His most recent poetry collection, Creatures of a Day, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award. general interest 27 Matthew Jesse Jackson The Experimental Group Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

he most comprehensive story of unofficial postwar Soviet art yet to appear in any language, The Experimental Group takes as Tits point of departure a subject of strange fascination: the life and work of renowned conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. “Matthew Jesse Jackson combines vast art Kabakov’s art—iconoclastic installations, paintings, illustrations, historical and theoretical erudition with and texts—delicately experiments with such issues as history, mortal- a rare ability to understand the specific ity, and disappearance, and here exemplifies a much larger narrative social milieus and psychological motives about the work of the artists who rose to prominence just as the Soviet that govern individual artistic strategies. Union began to disintegrate. By placing Kabakov and his conceptu- His book offers a fascinating—and at the alist peers in line with our own contemporary perspective, Matthew same time precise—description of the Jesse Jackson suggests that the art that emerged in the wake of Stalin Moscow artistic scene during the times of belongs neither entirely to its lost communist past nor to a future free the cold war.” from socialist nostalgia. Instead, these artists and the work they pro- —Boris Groys, New York University duced are inextricably part of a transnational art world for which the Soviet Union is largely a memory, fading fast.

March 336 p., 54 color plates, 86 halftones Though remembrance tends to paint the past in broadly heroic 81/2 x 101/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38941-7 tones, The Experimental Group leaves aside the art-hero in order to ex- Cloth $55.00s/£35.50 plore the everyday activities of individuals who circulated in a cultural ART environment that ultimately unmade the Soviet Union. Encompassing most of the nonconformist art world that emerged between the late 1950s and mid-1980s, Jackson’s narrative builds outward from the life and art of Kabakov to the multimedia undertakings of the Moscow Conceptual Circle, bringing into focus a forgotten avant-garde that flourished in the shadow of the official Soviet art establishment. Lavishly illustrated in full color, and including many rare and previously unpublished documentary images, The Experimental Group is not only a vital contribution to a neglected chapter in the history of twentieth-century art but also a brilliant illumination of the life and work of one of its most remarkable figures.

Matthew Jesse Jackson is assistant professor of visual arts and art history at the University of Chicago, as well as cofounder of Our Literal Speed, the 28 general interest international art history as practice and performance collective. Josiah McElheny The Light Club On Paul Scheerbart’s The Light Club of Batavia

aul Scheerbart (1863–1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on Psuch icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass as a medium for expressionist architecture and moved by tales of the fantastic, Scheer- bart envisioned the sublime through a series of futurist milieus composed entirely of crystalline, colored glass architecture. In 1912, Scheerbart published The Light Club of Batavia, a novelette about the formation of a club dedicated to building a glass spa for Including bathing—not in water, but in light—at the bottom of an abandoned ◆ A Small, Silent Utopia, an Introduction by Josiah McElheny mineshaft. Translated here into English for the first time, this rare story serves as a point of departure for Josiah McElheny, who, with an ◆ The Light Club of Batavia: A Ladies Novelette by Paul Scheerbart, esteemed group of collaborators, offers a fascinating array of respons- translated from the German by es to this enigmatic work. Wilhelm Werthern

The Light Club makes clear that the themes of utopian hope, desire, ◆ From the Shadows, a poem by Gregg and madness in Scheerbart’s tale represent a part of modernism’s lost Bordowitz and Ulrike Müller project: a world that would have looked entirely different from the one ◆ The Club of Visionaries, a play by we now inhabit. In his compelling introduction, McElheny describes Andrea Geyer

Scheerbart’s life as well as his own enchantment with the artist, and ◆ The Light Spa in the Mine, a short story he explains the ways in which The Light Club of Batavia inspired him by Josiah McElheny to produce art of uncommon breadth. The Light Club also features ◆ About Scheerbart by Georg Hecht, inspired writings from Gregg Bordowitz and Ulrike Müller, Andrea translated from the German by Barbara Geyer, and Branden W. Joseph, as well as translations of original texts Schroeder by and about Scheerbart. A unique response by one visionary artist ◆ On Scheerbart, an essay by Branden to another, The Light Club is an unforgettable examination of what it W. Joseph might mean to see radical potential in the readily transparent. May 104 p., 8 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51457-4 Josiah McElheny is a New York–based contemporary artist, performance artist, Cloth $25.00s/£16.00 and filmmaker best known for his use of glass with other materials. He has ART LITERATURE written for such publications as Artforum and Cabinet, is a contributing editor to BOMB, and was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur fellowship.

general interest 29 “Memorial Mania is an important Memorial Mania and much-needed book, one that Public Feeling in America complements the existing litera- Erika Doss ture on memorials with richness and originality, and also forges In the past few decades, thousands of issues in visibly public contexts. new territory. Erika Doss’s excel- new memorials to executed witches, vic- Doss shows how this desire to me- lent and highly polemical critique tims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, morialize the past disposes itself to of its resurgence furthers one of along with those that pay tribute to civil individual anniversaries and personal rights, organ donors, and the end of American studies’ most noteworthy grievances, to stories of tragedy and communism, have dotted the American trauma, and to the social and political traditions.” landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though agendas of diverse numbers of Ameri- —Michelle Bogart, until now, less the subject of serious cans. By offering a framework for un- Stony Brook University inquiry, are temporary memorials: derstanding these sites, Doss engages spontaneous offerings of flowers and the larger issues behind our culture July 488 p., 161 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-15938-6 candles that materialize at sites of tragic of commemoration. Driven by heated Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 and traumatic death. In Memorial Mania, struggles over identity and the politics AMERICAN HISTORY ART Erika Doss argues that these memorials of representation, Memorial Mania is a underscore our obsession with issues testament to the fevered pitch of public of memory and history, and the urgent feelings in America today. desire to express—and claim—those

Erika Doss is professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism.

“La voz a ti debida is the greatest Love Poems by Pedro Salinas Spanish love poem of the twentieth My Voice Because of You and Letter Poems to Katherine century, and Willis Barnstone, one Pedro Salinas of our greatest living translators, Translated and with an Introduction by Willis Barnstone loses none of the beauty, purity, and With a Foreword by Jorge Guillén and an Afterword by Enric Bou light of the Spanish original in his outstanding translation. Excellent.” When Pedro Salinas’s 1933 collection these poems were written during and —Sergio Waisman, of love poems, La voz a ti debida, was after the composition of La voz and, George Washington University introduced to American audiences in though disguised as prose, have all the Willis Barnstone’s 1975 English transla- rhythms and sounds of lineated lyric April 256 p., 3 halftones, tion, it was widely regarded as the great- poetry. Taken together, the poems and 1 line drawing 6 x 9 est sequence of love poems written in letters are a history, a dramatic mono- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73426-2 Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 any language in the twentieth century. logue, and a crushing and inevitable Now, seventy-five years after its original ending to the story of a man consumed POETRY publication, the reputation of the po- by his love and his art. ems and its multifaceted writer remains Bolstered by an elegant foreword untarnished. A portrait of their era, the by Salinas’s contemporary, the poet poems, from a writer in exile from his Jorge Guillén, and a masterly afterword native civil war–torn Spain, reemerge by Salinas scholar Enric Bou that con- in our time. siders the poet and his legacy for twen- In this new facing-page bilingual ty-first-century world poetry,Love Poems edition, Barnstone has added thirty- by Pedro Salinas will be cause for celebra- six poems written in the form of letters tion throughout the world of verse and from Salinas to his great love, Kather- beyond. ine Whitmore. Discovered years later,

Pedro Salinas (1891–1951) was a poet, scholar, and literary critic who taught extensively in Europe and the United States. He is the author of nine books of poems, as well as a novel, short stories, plays, essays, and criticism. Willis Barnstone is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Portuguese Emeritus at Indiana University. He is the 30 special interest author, translator, or editor of more than fifty publications. Robert B. Pippin Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy

riedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. His highly unusual style and insistence F on what remains hidden or unsaid in his writing make pinning him to a particular position tricky. Nonetheless, certain readings of his work have become standard and influential. In this major new interpretation of Nietzsche’s work, Robert B. Pippin challenges various traditional views of Nietzsche, taking him at his word when he says that “There have been literally hundreds of his writing can best be understood as a kind of psychology. works on Nietzsche published over the Pippin traces this idea of Nietzsche as a psychologist to his admi- last thirty years, but none of them ap- ration for the French moralists: La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Stendhal, proach him in quite the way Robert Pippin and especially Montaigne. In distinction from philosophers, Pippin does here. The result of long and deep shows, these writers avoided grand metaphysical theories in favor of reflection on Nietzsche’s philosophical reflections on life as lived and experienced. Aligning himself with this project, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First project, Nietzsche sought to make psychology “the queen of the sci- Philosophy does not attempt to reduce all ences” and the “path to the fundamental problems.” Pippin contends philosophical theorizing to psychology, that Nietzsche’s singular prose was an essential part of this goal, so he but instead suggests that Nietzsche’s organizes the book around four of Nietzsche’s most important images philosophical thinking, like that of the and metaphors: that truth could be a woman, that a science could be French moralistes before him, was driven gay, that God could have died, and that an agent is as much one with by a desire to understand how human be- his act as lightning is with its flash. ings think about their lives and why they Expanded from a series of lectures Pippin delivered at the Collège think about their lives in the ways that de France, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy offers a brilliant, they do.” novel, and accessible reading of this seminal thinker. —Alan D. Schrift, Grinnell College

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philoso- June 152 p. 6 x 9 phy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66975-5 Cloth $29.00s/£18.50 of nearly a dozen books, including, most recently, Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: PHILOSOPHY Rational Agency as Ethical Life.

special interest 31 Praise for the German edition Walter Benjamin “Steiner’s dual focus on text and An Introduction to His Work and Thought context offers a fruitful and illumi- Uwe Steiner nating introduction to Benjamin’s Translated by Michael Winkler challenging writings.” —Paragraph Seven decades after his death, German and theology. Walter Benjamin reveals Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary the essential coherence of its subject’s “The book offers much to those long critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) thinking while also analyzing the con- continues to fascinate and influence. troversial or puzzling facets of Benja- familiar with Benjamin’s reception, Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehen- min’s work. That coherence, Steiner as well as to those looking for a sive and sophisticated introduction to contends, can best be appreciated by sound introduction.” the oeuvre of this intriguing theorist. placing Benjamin in his proper context —Monatshefte Acknowledged only by a small circle as a member of the German philosophi- of intellectuals during his lifetime, Ben- cal tradition and a participant in con- May 248 p. 6 x 9 jamin is now a major figure whose work temporary intellectual debates. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77221-9 As Benjamin’s writing attracts Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 is essential to an understanding of modernity. Steiner traces the development more and more readers in the English- PHILOSOPHY of Benjamin’s thought chronologically speaking world, Walter Benjamin will through his writings on philosophy, be a valuable guide to this fascinating literature, history, politics, the media, body of work. art, photography, cinema, technology,

Uwe Steiner is professor in and chair of the Department of German Studies at Rice Univer- sity and the author or editor of numerous books in German. Michael Winkler is professor emeritus of German studies at Rice University.

“This is an original work, well Toward a Rhetoric of Insult crafted into flowing continuous Thomas M. Conley exposition. Readers will gladly seize on this fresh contribution From high school cafeterias to the floor what exactly makes up a rhetoric of and find here a stimulating and of Congress, from The Daily Show to ev- insult prompts Conley to range across heartening extended essay leading ery comments section on the Internet, the vast and splendidly colorful history through an entertaining, virtuoso insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous of offense. Taking in Monty Python, meditation to a typically construc- cultural practice with a long and earthy Shakespeare, Eminem, Cicero, Henry history. And yet, this most human of Ford, and the Latin poet Martial, Con- tive proposal. Conley, who holds a human behaviors has rarely been the ley breaks down various types of insults, distinguished record of thoughtful subject of organized and comprehen- examines the importance of audience, and humane writing, has charmed sive attention—until Toward a Rhetoric and explores the benign side of abuse. me into merriment with this thor- of Insult. Viewed through the lens of In doing so, Conley initiates readers oughly engaging book.” the study of rhetoric, insult, Thomas into the world of insult appreciation, —John Henderson, M. Conley argues, is revealed as at once enabling us to regard insults not solely University of Cambridge antisocial and crucial for human rela- as means of expressing enmity or dis- tions, both divisive and unifying. dain, but as fascinating aspects of hu- June 176 p., 10 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 Explaining how this works and man interaction. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11477-4 Cloth $55.00x/£35.50 Thomas M. Conley is professor in the Department of Communication at the University ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11478-1 of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Rhetoric in the European Tradition, also Paper $17.00s/£11.00 published by the University of Chicago Press. PHILOSOPHY

32 special interest Robert G. McCloskey The American Supreme Court Fifth Edition Revised by Sanford Levinson

elebrating its fiftieth anniversary, Robert G. McCloskey’s classic work on the Supreme Court’s role in constructing the U.S. CConstitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation’s highest court. For this new fifth edition, Sanford Levinson extends McCloskey’s magisterial treatment to address the Court’s most recent decisions. Praise for the first edition As in prior editions, McCloskey’s original text remains unchanged. “The best general book on the Court in In his historical interpretation, he argues that the strength of the years. . . . Criticism of the Court will surely Court has always been its sensitivity to the changing political scene, as once again be heard. We will be fortunate well as its reluctance to stray too far from the main currents of public if some of it matches Mr. McCloskey’s sentiment. In two revised chapters, Levinson shows how McCloskey’s in thoughtfulness, responsibility, and approach continues to illuminate developments since 2005, including penetration.” the Court’s decisions in cases arising out of the war on terror, which —Gerald Gunther, range from issues of civil liberty to tests of executive power. He also New York Times Book Review discusses the Court’s skepticism regarding campaign finance regulation; its affirmation of the right to bear arms; and the increasingly The Chicago History of American Civilization important nomination and confirmation process of Supreme Court justices, including that of the first Hispanic justice, Sonia Sotomayor. July 368 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55686-4 The best and most concise account of the Supreme Court and its Cloth $55.00x/£35.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55687-1 place in American politics, McCloskey’s wonderfully readable book Paper $19.00x/£12.50 is an essential guide to the past, present, and future prospects of this AMERICAN HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE institution.

Robert G. McCloskey was professor of government at Harvard University. He is the author of American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise. Sanford Levinson is the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Constitutional Faith and Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It).

special interest 33 “This book offers an extraordi- How Philosophy Became Socratic narily rich, illuminating, thought- A Study of Plato’s Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic provoking, and original account Laurence Lampert of Protagoras, Charmides, and the Republic in particular and of Plato’s dialogues show Socrates at dif- it gradually took the form that came Socrates’ thought as a whole. ferent ages, beginning when he was to dominate the life of the mind in the Even—and especially—when one about nineteen and already deeply im- West. The reader accompanies Socrates disagrees with this stimulating mersed in philosophy and ending with as he breaks with the century-old tra- and daring work, one learns a great his execution five decades later. By pre- dition of philosophy, turns to his own deal from it. It is a remarkably senting his model philosopher across path, gradually enters into a deeper a fifty-year span of his life, Plato leads understanding of nature and human ambitious book, one that attempts his readers to wonder: does that time nature, and discovers a successful way to put forth an interpretation of period correspond to the development to transmit his wisdom to the wider Plato’s entire corpus and its role in of Socrates’ thought? In this magiste- world. Focusing on the final and most Western civilization.” rial investigation of the evolution of So- prominent step in that process and of- —Peter Ahrensdorf, crates’ philosophy, Laurence Lampert fering detailed textual analysis of Plato’s Davidson College answers in the affirmative. Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic, How The chronological route that Plato Philosophy Became Socratic charts Socrates’ July 448 p. 6 x 9 maps for us, Lampert argues, reveals gradual discovery of a proper politics to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47096-2 shelter and advance philosophy. Cloth $55.00s/£35.50 the enduring record of philosophy as

PHILOSOPHY Laurence Lampert is emeritus professor of philosophy at Indiana University–Purdue Univer- sity Indianapolis. He is the author of four books, including Leo Strauss and Nietzsche, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche.

The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity “Pangle’s close textual analysis in Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws time and again sheds new light on Thomas L. Pangle passages that scholars have been citing for years. His interpretive The Spirit of the Laws—Montesquieu’s influence of liberal institutions and the lens helps to make sense of them huge, complex, and enormously influ- spread of commercial culture, would ential work—is considered one of the secularize human affairs. At the same in ways that genuinely advance our central texts of the Enlightenment, time, Pangle uncovers Montesquieu’s knowledge of Montesquieu’s own laying the foundation for the liberally views about the origins of humanity’s project, the rise of liberal moderni- democratic political regimes that were religious impulse and his confidence ty, and the contemporary dilemmas to embody its values. In his penetrating that political and economic security of secularism.” analysis, Thomas L. Pangle brilliantly would make people less likely to sacri- —Sharon Krause, argues that the inherently theological fice worldly well-being for otherworldly Brown University project of Enlightenment liberalism is hopes. With the interest in the theo- made more clearly—and more conse- logical aspects of political theory and May 208 p. 6 x 9 quentially—in Spirit than in any other practice showing no signs of diminish- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64549-0 work. ing, this book is a timely and insightful Cloth $32.50s/£21.00 In a probing and careful read- contribution to one of the key achieve- POLITICAL SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY ing, Pangle shows how Montesquieu ments of Enlightenment thought. believed that rationalism, through the

Thomas L. Pangle is the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Leo Strauss: An Intro- duction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy and Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham, among other titles.

34 special interest Nucleus and Nation “It is not easy to write a gripping narrative of the technical details, Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India institutional arrangements, and Robert S. Anderson interpersonal relationships within scientific institutions and between In 1974 India joined the elite roster of their patron Jawaharlal Nehru—in the nuclear world powers when it exploded first half of the twentieth century be- political powers, but Robert Ander- its first nuclear bomb. But the techno- fore focusing on the evolution of the son has pulled it off. Nucleus and logical progress that facilitated that feat large and complex scientific communi- Nation is a complex, wide-ranging, was set in motion many decades before, ty—especially Vikram Sarabhi—in the and engaging work.” as India sought both independence later part of the era. By contextualiz- —Benjamin Zachariah, from the British and respect from the ing Indian debates over nuclear power University of Sheffield larger world. Over the course of the within the larger conversation about twentieth century, India metamor- modernization and industrialization, April 736 p., 16 halftones, 1 map, phosed from a marginal place to a seri- Anderson homes in on the thorny is- 9 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01975-8 ous hub of technological and scientific sue of the integration of science into Cloth $60.00s/£39.00 innovation. It is this tale of transforma- the framework and self-reliant ideals of SCIENCE tion that Robert S. Anderson recounts Indian nationalism. In this way, Nucleus in Nucleus and Nation. and Nation is more than a history of nu- Tracing the long institutional and clear science and engineering and the individual preparations for India’s first Indian Atomic Energy Commission; it nuclear test and its consequences, An- is a unique perspective on the history derson begins with the careers of India’s of Indian nationhood and the politics renowned scientists—Meghnad Saha, of its scientific community. Shanti Bhatnagar, Homi J. Bhabha, and

Robert S. Anderson is professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

The Paradoxes of Integration “J. Eric Oliver makes an important new contribution to the scholarship Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multiethnic America of racial politics in this revealing ac- J. Eric Oliver count which explores social capital and racial difference in order to il- The United States is rapidly changing larly for America’s white majority. But from a country monochromatically di- when whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asian lustrate the contradictions between vided between black and white into a Americans actually live in integrated integration and intergroup tensions multiethnic society. The Paradoxes of In- neighborhoods, they feel less racial rein contemporary American society.” tegration helps us to understand Ameri- sentment. Paradoxically, this racial tol- —Susan Welch, ca’s racial future by revealing the com- erance is usually also accompanied by Pennylvania State University plex relationships among integration, feeling less connected to their commu- racial attitudes, and neighborhood life. nity; it is no longer “theirs.” Basing its May 216 p., 2 maps, 43 line drawings J. Eric Oliver demonstrates that findings on our most advanced means 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-62662-8 the effects of integration differ tre- of gauging the impact of social environ- Cloth $54.00x/£35.00 mendously depending on which geo- ments on racial attitudes, The Paradoxes ISBN-13: 978-0-226-62663-5 graphical level one is examining. Liv- of Integration sensitively explores the Paper $18.00s/£11.50 ing among people of other races in a benefits and at times, heavily borne POLITICAL SCIENCE larger metropolitan area corresponds costs, of integration. with greater racial intolerance, particu-

J. Eric Oliver is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America’s Obesity Epidemic and Democracy in Suburbia.

special interest 35 “Filibustering offers an impressive Filibustering theory of obstruction that under- A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate cuts conventional wisdom on the Gregory Koger filibuster and provides a more complete analysis of this important In the modern Congress, one of the Filibustering explains how and why topic than has previously been highest hurdles for major bills or nomi- obstruction has been institutionalized available either in one source or nations is gaining the sixty votes neces- in the U.S. Senate over the last fifty collectively.” sary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. years, and how this transformation af- —Bruce I. Oppenheimer, But this wasn’t always the case. Both cit- fects politics and policy making. Koger Vanderbilt University izens and scholars tend to think of the also traces the lively history of filibus- legislative process as a game played by tering in the U.S. House during the Chicago Studies in American Politics the rules in which votes are the critical nineteenth century and measures the commodity—the side that has the most effects of filibustering—bills killed, June 272 p., 51 line drawings, 14 tables 6 x 9 votes wins. In this comprehensive vol- compromises struck, and new issues ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44964-7 ume, Gregory Koger shows, on the con- raised by obstruction. Unparalleled in Cloth $72.00x/£46.50 trary, that filibustering is a game with the depth of its theory and its combina- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44965-4 Paper $24.00s/£15.50 slippery rules in which legislators who tion of historical and political analysis, think fast and try hard can triumph Filibustering will be the definitive study POLITICAL SCIENCE AMERICAN HISTORY over superior numbers. of its subject for years to come.

Gregory Koger is assistant professor of political science at the University of Miami. Previ- ously, he worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“While the economy is well covered Front Page Economics by the news media, that coverage Gerald D. Suttles, with Mark D. Jacobs has not been subjected to the level of scholarly scrutiny warranted by In an age when pundits constantly de- uncovers dramatic changes between its importance as an aspect of public cry bias in the media, we have naturally the ways the first and second crashes affairs. Carefully researched and become skeptical of the news. But the were reported. In the intervening clearly written, Front Page Economics bluntness of such critiques masks the half-century, an entire new economic offers an insightful analysis of the much more sophisticated way in which language had arisen and the practice the media frame important stories. In of business journalism had been com- business beat and the explanatory Front Page Economics, Gerald D. Suttles pletely altered. Both of these transfor- strategies its journalists employ.” delves deep into the archives to exam- mations, Suttles demonstrates, allowed —James S. Ettema, ine coverage of two major economic journalists to describe the 1987 crash Northwestern University crashes—in 1929 and 1987—in order in a vocabulary that was normal and fa- to systematically break down the way miliar to readers, rendering it routine. June 240 p., 12 line drawings, 13 figures 6 x 9 newspapers normalize crises. A subtle and probing look at how ideolo- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78198-3 Poring over the articles generated gies are packaged and transmitted to the Cloth $37.50s/£24.00 by the crashes—as well as the people in casual newspaper reader, Front Page Eco- AMERICAN HISTORY SOCIOLOGY them, the writers who wrote them, and nomics brims with important insights ap- the cartoons alongside them—Suttles plicable to our current economic crisis.

Gerald D. Suttles is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Chicago and adjunct professor of sociology at Indiana University. He is the author of several books published by the University of Chicago Press, including The Man-Made City: The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago.

36 special interest Why Europe? Praise for the German edition The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path “Michael Mitterauer, the Viennese medievalist, has written a great Michael Mitterauer Translated by Gerald Chapple book. . . . Mitterauer has something to teach even veteran historians.” Why did capitalism and colonialism its origins in rye and oats. These new —Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why crops played a decisive role in remak- were parliamentarian and democratic ing the European family, he contends, “An outstanding work of nonfiction forms of government founded there? spurring the rise of individualism and both conceptually and in its wealth What factors led to Europe’s unique po- softening the constraints of patriarchy. of surprising details.” sition in shaping the world? Thorough- Mitterauer reaches these conclusions —Rheinischer Merkur ly researched and persuasively argued, by comparing Europe with other cul- Why Europe? tackles these classic ques- tures, especially China and the Islamic June 400 p. 6 x 9 tions with illuminating results. world, while surveying the most impor- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53253-0 Michael Mitterauer traces the roots tant characteristics of European society Cloth $49.00s/£31.50 of Europe’s singularity to the medieval as they took shape from the decline of EUROPEAN HISTORY era, specifically to developments in ag- the Roman empire to the invention of riculture. While most historians have the printing press. Along the way, Why located the beginning of Europe’s spe- Europe? offers up a dazzling series of cial path in the rise of state power in novel hypotheses to explain the unique the modern era, Mitterauer establishes evolution of European culture.

Michael Mitterauer is professor of social history at the University of Vienna and the author of numerous books, including A History of Youth. Gerald Chapple is associate professor of German at McMaster University.

Fireworks “An excellent book. Fireworks bene- Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History fits from the tremendous temporal, Simon Werrett geographic, linguistic, and archival scope of Werrett’s research. It will Fireworks are synonymous with celebra- same time, it uncovers the dynamic make a real contribution to the tion in the twenty-first century. But relationships that developed among history of art, science, technology, pyrotechnics—in the form of rockets, the many artists and scientists who pro- and early modern Europe, not just crackers, wheels, and bombs—have ex- duced pyrotechnics. In so doing, the separately but together.” ploded in sparks and noise to delight book demonstrates the critical role that audiences in Europe ever since the Re- pyrotechnics played in the development —Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University naissance. Here, Simon Werrett shows of physics, astronomy, chemistry and that, far from being only a means of physiology, meteorology, and electrical entertainment, fireworks helped foster science. May 392 p., 16 color plates, 36 halftones 6 x 9 advances in natural philosophy, chem- Richly illustrated and drawing on ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89377-8 istry, mathematics, and many other a wide range of new sources, Fireworks Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 branches of the sciences. takes readers back to a world where py- HISTORY SCIENCE Fireworks brings to vibrant life the rotechnics were both divine and magi- many artful practices of pyrotechni- cal and reveals for the first time their cians, as well as the elegant composi- vital contribution to the modernization tions of the architects, poets, painters, of European ideas. and musicians they inspired. At the

Simon Werrett is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington.

special interest 37 “A remarkable achievement, an The Modulated Scream essay in intellectual and social Pain in Late Medieval Culture history of the highest quality. The Esther Cohen Modulated Scream will become a standard point of reference for In the late medieval era, pain could explained it, and meted it out, Cohen scholars wishing to find their way be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, discovers that pain was imbued with through the dense thicket of medi- or truth. It could be encouragement multiple meanings. While interpreting eval pain perception.” to lead a moral life, a punishment for pain was the province only of the rari- —Robert Mills, wrongdoing, or a method of healing. fied elite, harnessing pain for religious, King’s College London Exploring the varied depictions and moral, legal, and social purposes was descriptions of pain—from martyrdom a practice that pervaded all classes of May 384 p., 5 halftones 6 x 9 narratives to practices of torture and medieval life. In the overlap of these ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11267-1 surgery—The Modulated Scream attempts contradictory attitudes about what pain Cloth $49.00s/£31.50 to decode this culture of suffering in was for—how it was to be understood EUROPEAN HISTORY the Middle Ages. and who should use it—Cohen reveals Esther Cohen brings to life the ca- the distinct and often conflicting cul- cophony of howls emerging from the tural traditions and practices of late written record of physicians, torturers, medieval Europeans. Ambitious and theologians, and mystics. In consider- wide-ranging, The Modulated Scream is ing how people understood suffering, intellectual history at its most acute.

Esther Cohen is a research fellow at the Scholion Center and professor of medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“A book rich and profound that Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages shines light on a fundamental Houari Touati aspect of Islamic civilization.” Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane —L’histoire, on the French edition In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers economic and cultural conditions that embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as made the rihla possible. Houari Touati june 304 p., 1 map 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80877-2 surveyors, emissaries, and educators. tracks the compilers of the h a d ı¯ t h , who Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 On these journeys, voyagers not only in- culled oral traditions linked to the HISTORY teracted with foreign cultures—touring Prophet, the linguists and lexicologists Greek civilization, exploring the Middle who journeyed to the desert to learn East and North Africa, and seeing parts Bedouin Arabic, the geographers who of Europe—they also established both mapped the Muslim world, and the stu- philosophical and geographic bound- dents who ventured to study with holy aries between the faithful and the hea- men and scholars. Travel, with its costs, then. These voyages thus gave the Is- discomforts, and dangers, emerges in lamic world, which at the time extended this study as both a means of spiritual from the Maghreb to the Indus Valley, a growth and a metaphor for progress. coherent identity. Touati’s book will interest a broad Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages range of scholars in history, literature, assesses both the religious and philo- and anthropology. sophical aspects of travel, as well as the

Houari Touati is a director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. Lydia G. Cochrane has translated numerous works from the Italian and the French for the University of Chicago Press.

38 special interest I’ve Got to Make My Livin’ “I’ve Got to Make My Livin’ is a splendid study of the historical Black Women’s Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago interplay of city space, race, class, Cynthia Blair gender, and sexual politics during the industrial era. In this engag- For many years, the interrelated his- titutes as conscious actors and historical tories of prostitution and cities have agents; prostitution, she argues here, ing work, Cynthia Blair creates a perked the ears of urban scholars, but was an arena of exploitation and abuse, compelling portrait and persua- until now the history of urban sex work as well as a means of resisting middle- sive argument for black women’s has dealt only in passing with questions class sexual and economic norms. Blair participation in the underground of race. In I’ve Got to Make My Livin’, ultimately illustrates just how powerful sexual economy.” Cynthia Blair explores African Ameri- these norms were, offering stories about —Elizabeth Clement, can women’s sex work in Chicago dur- the struggles that emerged among University of Utah ing the decades of some of the city’s black and white urbanites in response most explosive growth, expanding not to black women’s increasing visibility in Historical Studies of Urban America just our view of prostitution, but also the city’s sex economy. Through these of black women’s labor, the Great Mi- powerful narratives, I’ve Got to Make July 312 p., 15 halftones, 10 maps, 9 tables 6 x 9 gration, black and white reform move- My Livin’ reveals the intersecting racial ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05598-5 ments, and the emergence of modern struggles and sexual anxieties that un- Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 sexuality. derpinned the celebration of Chicago AMERICAN HISTORY Focusing on the notorious sex as the quintessentially modern twenti- districts of the city’s south side, Blair eth-century city. paints a complex portrait of black pros-

Cynthia Blair is associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Mom “Ranging from Gold Star Mothers through natural childbirth, Mom The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America makes the case for treating the Rebecca Jo Plant decades from the 1920s through the early ’60s as one period of In the early twentieth-century United caregiving, childbirth, and women’s sweeping change. This is essential States, to speak of “mother love” was political roles, Mom vividly brings to to invoke an idea of motherhood that life the varied groups that challenged reading for all historians who are served as an all-encompassing identity, older ideals of motherhood, including interested in the gender politics of rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and male critics who railed against female modern America.” infused with powerful social and po- moral authority, psychological experts —Sonya Michel, litical meanings. Sixty years later, main- who hoped to expand their influence, coeditor of Mothers of stream views of motherhood had been and women who wished to be defined a New World: Maternalist Politics transformed, and Mother found herself as more than wives and mothers. In her and the Origins of Welfare States to blame for a wide array of social and careful analysis of how motherhood psychological ills. Here, Rebecca Jo came to be viewed as a more private and March 264 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67020-1 Plant traces this huge turn through sev- partial component of modern female Cloth $37.50s/£24.00 eral key moments in American history identity, Plant ultimately engages the AMERICAN HISTORY and popular culture. question of what it means to be a woman Exploring such topics as maternal in American civic and social life.

Rebecca Jo Plant is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

special interest 39 “Written with simple elegance and Puerto Rican Citizen brilliantly engaged with the politics History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century of dignity and recognition, Puerto New York City Rican Citizen is a powerful work of Lorrin Thomas original scholarship that should attract a broad readership among By the end of the 1920s, just ten years minates the rich history of a group that academic and general audiences after the Jones Act first made them full- is still largely invisible to many scholars. alike.” fledged Americans, more than 45,000 At the center of Puerto Rican Citizen are —David Gutierrez, native Puerto Ricans had left their Puerto Ricans’ own formulations about University of California, homes and entered the United States, political identity, the responses of activ- San Diego citizenship papers in hand, forming ists and ordinary migrants to the failed one of New York City’s most complex promises of American citizenship, and Historical Studies of Urban and unique migrant communities. In their expectations of how the Ameri- America Puerto Rican Citizen, Lorrin Thomas for can state should address those failures. Complicating our understanding of the June 352 p., 20 halftones 6 x 9 the first time unravels the many ten- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79608-6 sions—historical, racial, political, and discontents of modern liberalism, of Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 economic—that defined the experi- race relations beyond black and white, AMERICAN HISTORY ence of this unique group of American and of the diverse conceptions of rights citizens before and after World War II. and identity in American life, Thomas’s Building its incisive narrative from book transforms the way we understand a wide range of archival sources, inter- this community’s integral role in shap- views, and first-person accounts of Puer- ing our sense of citizenship in twenti- to Rican life in New York, this book illu- eth-century America.

Lorrin Thomas is assistant professor of history at Rutgers–Camden University.

“New World Gold will be an impor- New World Gold tant amalgam of work in disparate Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in genres, rarely united: economic Early Modern Spain theory and literary criticism. Elvira Vilches Vilches has mastered both. She has written a provocative cultural The discovery of the New World was practices, and intellectual pursuits on analysis of colonial wealth and initially a cause for celebration. But both sides of the Atlantic. money.” the vast amounts of gold that Colum- Elvira Vilches examines economic —Karen Graubart, bus and other explorers claimed from treatises, stories of travel and conquest, University of Notre Dame these lands altered Spanish society. The moralist writings, fiction, poetry, and influx of such wealth contributed to drama to reveal that New World gold ul- May 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 the expansion of the Spanish empire, timately became a problematic source ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85618-6 but it also raised doubts and insecuri- of power that destabilized Spain’s sense Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 ties about the meaning and function of trust, truth, and worth. These cultur- HISTORY LITERARY CRITICISM of money, the ideals of court and cial anxieties, she argues, rendered the vility, and the structure of commerce discovery of gold paradoxically disas- and credit. New World Gold shows that, trous for Spanish society. Combining far from being a stabilizing force, the economic thought, social history, and flow of gold from the Americas created literary theory in transatlantic contexts, anxieties among Spaniards and shaped New World Gold unveils the dark side of a host of distinct behaviors, cultural Spain’s Golden Age.

Elvira Vilches is associate professor of Spanish and early modern studies at North Carolina State University.

40 special interest This Is Enlightenment Contributors Edited by Clifford Siskin and William Warner Ian Baucom, John Bender, Ann Blair, Peter de Bolla, Knut Ove Debates about the nature of the En- With essays addressing infrastruc- Eliassen, Anne Fastrup, Lisa lightenment date to the eighteenth ture and genres, associational practices Gitelman, John Guillory, Yngve century, when Immanuel Kant himself and protocols, this volume establishes Sandhei Jacobsen, Adrian addressed the question, “What is En- mediation as the condition of possibility lightenment?” The contributors to this for enlightenment. In so doing, it not Johns, Helge Jordheim, Paula ambitious book offer a paradigm-shift- only answers Kant’s query; it also poses McDowell, Michael McKeon, ing answer to that now-famous query: its own broader question: how would Maureen McLane, Robert Enlightenment is an event in the his- foregrounding mediation change the Miles, Mary Poovey, Arvind tory of mediation. Enlightenment, they kinds and areas of inquiry in our own Rajagopal, Bernhard Siegert, argue, needs to be engaged within the epoch? This Is Enlightenment is a land- Peter Stallybrass, and newly broad sense of mediation intro- mark volume with the polemical force duced here—not only oral, visual, writ- and archival depth to start a conversa- Michael Warner ten, and printed media, but everything tion that extends across the disciplines that intervenes, enables, supplements, that the Enlightenment itself first con- June 568 p., 24 halftones, or is simply in between. figured. 2 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76147-3 Clifford Siskin is the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English and American Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 Literature at New York University. William Warner is professor of English at the University ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76148-0 of California, Santa Barbara. Paper $27.50s/£18.00 HISTORY

Rethinking France Praise for Les Lieux de mémoire Les Lieux de mémoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories “The grandest, most ambitious Edited by Pierre Nora effort to dissect, interpret, and cel- Translation directed by David P. Jordan ebrate the French fascination with their own past.” The fourth and final volume in Pierre museum, and Pierre Larousse’s Grand —Los Angeles Times Nora’s monumental series document- dictionnaire, an important touchstone of cultural memory. Other essays range ing the history and culture of France “A magnificent achievement. . . . It is takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven in topic from the creation of the Na- not only a work of history, it is also essays collected here consider the texts tional Archives, a curiously organized and places that make up the collec- catacomb of manuscripts, to Annales, something of a historical document tive memory of the history of France, a publication begun in 1929 that pro- itself.” a country whose people are extraordi- foundly revitalized the study of history —New Republic narily conscious of history and their in France. Taken together, these richly place in it. Distinguished contributors detailed essays fully explore the multi- JUNE 504 p., 77 halftones 61/2 x 91/4 look at the medieval Grands chroniques faceted ways France has institutional- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-59135-3 Cloth $99.00x/£64.00 de France and the monasteries and chan- ized its history and are, along with the celleries that produced them, the estab- rest of Les Lieux de mémoire, a crucial EUROPEAN HISTORY lishment of Versailles as a historical part of that process.

Pierre Nora is editorial director at Éditions Gallimard. Since 1977, he has been directeur d’études at the École des hautes études en science sociales. He has directed the editorial work on Les Lieux de mémoire since 1984. David P. Jordan is the LAS Distinguished Professor of French History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Transforming Paris and The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre.

special interest 41 “In The Figural Jew, Sarah Hammer- The Figural Jew schlag deftly brings together intel- Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought lectual history, literary analysis, Sarah Hammerschlag and philosophical argument in a wonderfully insightful and engag- The rootless Jew, wandering discon- order to rethink the foundations of po- ing account of the role the figure nected from history, homeland, and litical identity. Blanchot and Derrida, in of the Jew plays within twentieth- nature, was often the target of early turn, used the figure of the Jew to call century French philosophy. She twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric into question the very nature of group also makes a vital philosophical aimed against modern culture. But af- identification. By chronicling this evo- ter World War II, a number of promi- lution in thinking, Hammerschlag ulti- contribution to contemporary nent French philosophers recast this mately reveals how the figural Jew can debates about ethics, alterity, and maligned figure in positive terms and function as a critical mechanism that politics.” in so doing transformed postwar con- exposes the political dangers of mythic —Amy Hollywood, ceptions of politics and identity. allegiance, whether couched in univer- Harvard Divinity School Sarah Hammerschlag explores this salizing or particularizing terms. figure of the Jew from its prewar usage Both an intellectual history and a Religion and Postmodernism series to its resuscitation by Jean-Paul Sartre, philosophical argument, The Figural Jew May 320 p. 6 x 9 Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, will set the agenda for all further consid- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31511-9 and Jacques Derrida. Sartre and Levi- eration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31512-6 nas idealized the Jew’s rootlessness in thought, and continental philosophy. Paper $25.00s/£16.00 Sarah Hammerschlag is assistant professor of Jewish thought in the Department of Religion RELIGION at Williams College.

“Truly distinctive and distinguished. The New Metaphysicals This is a remarkable book simply for recording these fascinating Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination Courtney Bender practitioners and helping readers understand their categories of American spirituality—meaning as- rary spiritual practitioners, Courtney experience in all their complexity. trology, yoga, and the huge number of Bender combines research into the his- But her work does far more than other alternative strains of religion pur- tory of the movement with fieldwork in merely record; it offers a compel- sued by individuals outside of tradition- Cambridge, Massachusetts—a key site ling examination of how we may al organizations—is usually thought to of alternative religious inquiry from think anew about these categories be a product of the postmodern era. Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Aromatherapy, crystals, and an inter- James to today. Through her ethno- and the people—metaphysicals est in one’s aura are supposedly relics graphic analysis, Bender discovers that and scholars alike—for whom they of the narcissism and iconoclasm of a focus on the new, on progress, and on matter. Hilarious and humane all the 1960s. But, as The New Metaphysi- the way spiritualist beliefs intersect with at once: it’s a rare mix, and Bender cals reveals, contemporary American science obscures the historical roots of hits the mark again and again.” spirituality has deep historic roots in spirituality from its practitioners as well —R. Marie Griffith, the nineteenth century and a great deal as from the many scholars who have Harvard Divinity School in common with traditional religious studied it. Perceptive, persuasive, and at movements: it turns out the New Age is times gently humorous, The New Meta- May 272 p. 6 x 9 getting on in years. physicals will greatly broaden our under- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04279-4 To explore the world of contempo- standing of religion in America. Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04280-0 Courtney Bender Paper $25.00s/£16.00 is associate professor of religion at Columbia University and the author of Heaven’s Kitchen: Living with Religion at God’s Love We Deliver, also published by the University RELIGION SOCIOLOGY of Chicago Press.

42 special interest Authors of the Impossible “This is a quietly earth-shattering project that constitutes a logical The Paranormal and the Sacred next step in the development of Jeffrey J. Kripal Kripal’s thinking over the course of his career and grows directly out of Most scholars dismiss research into the humorist Charles Fort; astronomer, com- paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivo- puter scientist, and ufologist Jacques Esalen. In Kripal we have a clas- lous pursuit for the paranoid or gull- Vallée; and philosopher Bertrand sic Romantic thinker/writer who is ible. Even historians of religion, whose Méheust. Through incisive analyses of formulating—in a conscious meld of work naturally attends to events beyond these thinkers, Kripal ushers the reader the subjective and objective that is the realm of empirical science, have into a beguiling world somewhere be- the hallmark of Romantic writing— shown scant interest in the subject. But tween fact, fiction, and fraud. The cul- his own distinctive and highly the history of psychical phenomena, Jef- tural history of telepathy, teleportation, frey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped and UFOs; a ghostly love story; the oc- original Biographia Spiritualis.” source of insight into the sacred, and cult dimensions of science fiction; cold —Victoria Nelson, author of The Secret by tracing that history through the last war psychic espionage; galactic colo- Life of Puppets two centuries of Western thought we nialism; and the intimate relationship can see its centrality to the field of re- between consciousness and culture all May 320 p., 4 halftones 6 x 9 ligious study. come together in Authors of the Impos- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45386-6 Kripal grounds his study in the sible, a dazzling and profound look at Cloth $37.50s/£24.00 work of four major figures in the his- how the paranormal bridges the sacred RELIGION tory of paranormal research: psychical and the scientific. researcher Frederic Myers; writer and

Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He is the author of several books, including Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion and The Serpent’s Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion.

“Anne Blackburn’s close reading Locations of Buddhism of the life and monastic career of Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka Hikkaduve Sumangala, perhaps the most influential Buddhist monk of Anne M. Blackburn low-country Lanka, makes a unique contribution to our understanding Modernizing and colonizing forces prising stability in the central religious brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan activities of Hikkaduve and the Bud- of nineteenth-century religious cul- Buddhists both challenges and oppor- dhists among whom he worked. At the ture on this small but historically tunities. How did Buddhists deal with same time, they developed new institu- important island nation.” social and economic change; new forms tions and forms of association, drawing —John Clifford Holt, of political, religious, and educational on precolonial intellectual heritage as Bowdoin College discourse; and Christianity? And how well as colonial-period technologies did Sri Lankan Buddhists, collaborat- and discourse. Advocating a new way Buddhism and Modernity series ing with other Asian Buddhists, re- of studying the impact of colonialism April 256 p., 3 halftones, 1 map 6 x 9 spond to colonial rule? To answer these on colonized societies, Blackburn is ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05507-7 questions, Anne M. Blackburn focuses particularly attuned here to human ex- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 on the life of leading monk and educa- perience, paying attention to the habits RELIGION tor Hikkaduve Sumangala (1827–1911) of thought and modes of affiliation that to examine more broadly Buddhist life characterized individuals and smaller- under foreign rule. scale groups. Locations of Buddhism is a In Locations of Buddhism, Blackburn wholly original contribution to the study reveals that during Sri Lanka’s crucial of Sri Lanka and the history of Bud- decades of deepening colonial control dhism more generally. and modernization, there was a sur-

Anne M. Blackburn is associate professor of South Asian and Buddhist studies at Cornell University and the author of Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture. special interest 43 “Steinzor and Shapiro present an The People’s Agents and the Battle to Protect eminently readable account of how thirty years of conscious neglect the American Public have decimated the regulatory Special Interests, Government, and Threats to Health, Safety, and the Environment programs that protect our health, Rena Steinzor and Sidney Shapiro safety, and environment, and they offer innovative suggestions for Reasonable people disagree about the of overlooked causes. Steinzor and Sha- revitalizing the civil service and reach of the federal government, but piro discover that unrelenting funding developing positive metrics to alert there is near-universal consensus that it cuts, a breakdown of the legislative pro- society to the need for stronger should protect us from such dangers as cess, an increase in the number of po- governmental action.” bacteria-infested food, harmful drugs, litical appointees, a concurrent loss of —Thomas O. McGarity, toxic pollution, crumbling bridges, and experienced personnel, chaotic White University of Texas at Austin unsafe toys. And yet, the agencies that House oversight, and ceaseless political shoulder these responsibilities are in attacks on the bureaucracy all have con- June 256 p., 6 line drawings, 2 tables shambles; if they continue to decline, tributed to the broken system. But while 6 x 9 lives will be lost and natural resources the news is troubling, the authors also ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77202-8 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 will be squandered. In this timely book, propose a host of reforms, including a LAW Rena Steinzor and Sidney Shapiro take new model for measuring the success of a hard look at the tangled web of prob- the agencies and a revitalization of the lems that have led to this dire state of civil service. The People’s Agents and the Bat- affairs. tle to Protect the American Public is an urgent It turns out that the agencies are and compelling appeal to renew Ameri- not primarily to blame and that regula- ca’s best traditions of public service. tory failure actually stems from a host

Rena Steinzor is professor at the University of Maryland Law School and the author of Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids. Sidney Shapiro is University Chair in Law and associate dean for research and development at Wake Forest University. He is coauthor of several books, including Sophisticated Sabotage: The Intellectual Games Used to Subvert Responsible Regulation.

“Invitation to Law and Society is Invitation to Law and Society an excellent addition to the field. An Introduction to the Study of Real Law Refreshingly lucid, Calavita offers Kitty Calavita a thought-provoking introduction and fruitful resource—one that Law and society is a rapidly growing cipline are collectively engaged in a should be read through from start interdisciplinary field that turns on its subversive exposé of law’s public my- to finish.” head the conventional, idealized view thology. While surveying prominent is- —Laura Beth Nielsen, of the “law” as a magisterial abstrac- sues and distinctive approaches to the Northwestern University tion. Kitty Calavita’s Invitation to Law use of the law in everyday life, as well as and Society brilliantly brings to life the its potential as a tool for social change, Chicago Series in Law and Society ways in which law shapes and manifests this volume provides a view of law that

May 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 itself in the institutions and interac- is more real but just as compelling as ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08996-6 tions of human society, while inviting its mythic counterpart. In a field of in- Cloth $45.00x/£29.00 the reader into conversations that inquiry that has long lacked a sophisti- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08997-3 Paper $15.00s/£9.50 troduce the field’s dominant themes cated yet accessible introduction to its LAW SOCIOLOGY and most lively disagreements. ways of thinking, Invitation to Law and Deftly interweaving scholarship Society will serve as an engaging and in- with familiar personal examples, Ca- dispensable guide. lavita shows how scholars in the dis-

Kitty Calavita is Chancellor’s Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Law and Society, and Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of several volumes, including, most recently, Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe. 44 special interest Peter M. Tiersma Parchment, Paper, Pixels Law and the Technologies of Communication

echnological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society—perhaps none T more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large em- pires, the memorializing of private legal transactions, and the broad distribution of judicial precedents and legislation. Yet each of these technologies has its shadow side: written or printed texts easily become “Peter M. Tiersma’s historical perspective static, and the textual practices of the legal profession can frustrate is invaluable, his analysis of the pres- ordinary citizens, who may be bound by documents whose implications ent eye-opening, and his recommenda- they scarcely understand. tions for the future provocative. No one I know of is in a better position than he to Parchment, Paper, Pixels offers an engaging exploration of the im- analyze the topics treated in this volume pact of three technological revolutions on the law. Beginning with the and to explore their implications for the invention of writing, continuing with the mass production of identical practice of law.” copies of legal texts brought about by the printing press, and ending —Edward Finegan, with a discussion of computers and the Internet, Peter M. Tiersma University of Southern California traces the journey of contracts, wills, statutes, judicial opinions, and other legal texts through the past and into the future. June 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80306-7 Though the ultimate effects of modern technologies on our legal Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 system remain to be seen, Parchment, Paper, Pixels offers readers an LAW insightful guide as to how our shifting forms of technological literacy have shaped and continue to shape the practice of law today.

Peter M. Tiersma is professor of law at Loyola Law School in California. He is the author of Legal Language and Frisian Reference Grammar and coauthor of Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice.

special interest 45 “This is an important, innovative Family, Law, and Community book that addresses some of the Supporting the Covenant hottest topics in family law. Brinig Margaret F. Brinig brings impressive skills and a sophisticated command of the law to In the wake of vast social and economic parent visitation, and domestic violence. the task of assessing and reform- changes, the nuclear family has lost its She concludes that conventional legal ing family policy. Her fresh insights dominance, both as an ideal and in reforms and the social programs they are bound to provoke debate.” practice. Some welcome this shift, while engender ignore social capital: the trust —Barbara Woodhouse, others see civilization itself in peril— and support given to families by a com- Emory University but few move beyond ideology to de- munity. Traditional families generate velop a nuanced understanding of how much more social capital than nontra- May 288 p., 14 halftones, 26 tables families function in society. In this pro- ditional ones, Brinig concludes, which 6 x 9 vocative book, Margaret F. Brinig draws leads to clear rewards for their children. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07499-3 Cloth $49.00s/£31.50 on research from a variety of disciplines Firmly grounded in empirical research, to offer a distinctive study of family dy- Family, Law, and Community argues that LAW namics and social policy. family policy can only be effective if it Concentrating on legal reform, is guided by an understanding of the Brinig examines a range of subjects, importance of social capital and the ad- including cohabitation, custody, grand- vantages held by families that accrue it.

Margaret F. Brinig is the Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law and associate dean for faculty research at Notre Dame Law School. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, From Contract to Covenant: Beyond the Law and Economics of the Family.

“Shaham draws attention to a The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts subject that has been noted by Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law diverse scholars but insufficiently Ron Shaham addressed in full, and he brings a wealth of material and issues Islam’s tense relationship with moder- sicians and architects, and females, par- together in a single place. This is a nity is one of the most crucial issues of ticularly midwives. From there, he fo- significant contribution to studies our time. Within Islamic legal systems, cuses on the case of Egypt, tracing the of the role of expert witnesses in with their traditional preference for country’s reform of its traditional legal legal systems as well as to Islamic eyewitness testimony, this struggle has system along European lines beginning scholarship at large.” played a significant role in attitudes in the late nineteenth century. Return- ing to a broader perspective, Shaham —Lawrence Rosen, toward expert witnesses. Utilizing a Princeton University uniquely comparative approach, Ron draws on a variety of legal and histori- Shaham here examines the evolution of cal sources to place the phenomenon April 304 p. 6 x 9 the role of such witnesses in a number of expert testimony in cultural con- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74933-4 of Arab countries from the premodern text. A truly comprehensive resource, Cloth $50.00s/£32.50 period to the present. The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts will LAW Shaham begins with a history of be sought out by a broad spectrum of expert testimony in medieval Islamic scholars working in history, religion, culture, analyzing the different roles gender studies, and law. played by male experts, especially phy-

Ron Shaham is a senior lecturer in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University and the author of Family and the Courts in Modern Egypt.

46 special interest An Ethics of Interrogation “No other book can be said to do what this one does, that is, provide Michael Skerker a philosophy of interrogation that Turn on your television and you’re legal consequences of different modes relies on a right to silence limited bound to run across the concept of of arrest, interrogation, and detention. by the right to a relatively just interrogation, whether it’s on CNN or These topics raise serious questions legal order. This is sure to start an CSI. But despite daily mentions of the about the morality of keeping secrets interesting discussion among phi- practice in the media, you’re unlikely and the differences between state power losophers, lawyers, and scholars of to find informed commentary on its at home and abroad. Thoughtful consid- criminal justice.” moral implications. Moving beyond the eration of these subjects leads Skerker to narrow focus on torture that has char- specific policy recommendations for law —Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology acterized most work on the subject, An enforcement, military, and intelligence Ethics of Interrogation is the first book to professionals. May 280 p. 6 x 9 fully address this complex issue. Whether secrets can be elicited ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76161-9 In doing so Michael Skerker con- from unwilling subjects in a morally Cloth $49.00s/£31.50 fronts a host of philosophical and legal upright manner may be the defining di- LAW PHILOSOPHY issues, from the right to privacy and lemma of our historical moment, mak- the privilege against compelled self-in- ing Skerker’s profound investigation into crimination to prisoner rights and the this pressing issue essential reading.

Michael Skerker is assistant professor in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the U.S. Naval Academy.

What Is a Person? “Smith has addressed a crucial and unanswered question in social Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good theory and philosophy and has from the Person Up done so from an entirely original Christian Smith angle. Given a century of philosophical underdevelopment in the What is a person? This fundamental and relativism. Smith then builds on question is a perennial concern of phi- the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony discipline, an author like Smith losophers and theologians. But, Chris- Giddens, and William Sewell to demon- and a book like this one are more tian Smith here argues, it also lies at the strate the importance of personhood to important than ever. What Is a Per- center of the social scientist’s quest to our understanding of social structures. son? is destined to be something of interpret and explain social life. In this From there he broadens his scope to a classic.” ambitious book, Smith presents a new consider how we can know what is good —George Steinmetz, model for social theory that does justice in personal and social life and what so- University of Michigan to the best of our humanistic visions of ciology can tell us about human rights people, life, and society. and dignity. July 544 p., 3 line drawings, 1 table Finding most current thinking on Innovative, critical, and construc- 6 x 9 personhood to be confusing or mislead- tive, What Is a Person? offers an inspir- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76591-4 Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 ing, Smith finds inspiration in the work ing vision of a social science committed SOCIOLOGY PHILOSOPHY of the critical realists. Drawing on their to pursuing causal explanations, in- ideas, he constructs a theory of per- terpretive understanding, and general sonhood that forges a middle path be- knowledge in the service of truth and tween the extremes of positivist science the moral good.

Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, and executive director of the Center for Social Re- search at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers and Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture.

special interest 47 “The originality of Both Hands Both Hands Tied Tied lies not just in its rich case study interview materials—in poor Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-Wage Labor Market women’s voices and the trajectories Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer of their work and home lives—but in its careful tying of those materi- Both Hands Tied studies the working Personal Responsibility and Work Op- als to shifting national, state, and poor in the United States, focusing portunity Reconciliation Act and other local economic policies.” in particular on the relation between like-minded reforms—laws that ended —Micaela di Leonardo, welfare and low-wage earnings among the entitlement to welfare for those Northwestern University working mothers. Grounded in the ex- in need and provided an incentive for perience of thirty-three women living them to return to work. Arguing that April 264 p., 16 halftones, in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, it this reform came at a time of gendered 8 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 tells the story of their struggle to bal- change in the labor force and profound ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11405-7 Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 ance child care and wage-earning in shifts in the responsibilities of family, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11406-4 poorly paying and often state-funded firms, and the state, Both Hands Tied Paper $22.50s/£14.50 jobs with inflexible schedules—and the provides a stark but poignant portrait SOCIOLOGY moments when these jobs failed them of how welfare reform afflicted poor, and they turned to the state for addi- single-parent families, ultimately erod- tional aid. ing the participants’ economic rights Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer and affecting their ability to care for here examine the situations of these themselves and their children. women in light of the 1996 national

Jane L. Collins is the Evjue Bascom Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry, among other titles. Victoria Mayer is assistant professor of sociology at Colby College.

“This is a fantastic collection of Politics and Partnerships essays—one of the few edited volumes I have seen where the whole The Role of Voluntary Associations in America’s Political Past and Present is much greater than the sum of the Edited by Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie individual parts. One of the book’s strengths is its interdisciplinary Exhorting people to volunteer is part Bringing together a diverse set of dis- nature: the editors have assembled of the everyday vocabulary of American ciplinary approaches, Politics and Part- a unique set of perspectives, politics. Routinely, members of both nerships is a thorough examination of approaches, and studies at differ- major parties call for partnerships be- the place of voluntary associations in ent historical periods.” tween government and nonprofit or- political history and an astute investiga- —Christopher Marquis, ganizations. These entreaties increase tion into contemporary experiments in Harvard Business School dramatically during times of crisis, and reshaping that role. The essays here re- the voluntary efforts of ordinary citi- veal the key role nonprofits have played March 352 p., 3 halftones, zens are now seen as a necessary supple- in the evolution of both the workplace 17 line drawings, 13 tables 6 x 9 ment to government intervention. and welfare and illuminate the way the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10996-1 government’s retreat from welfare has Cloth $55.00x/£35.50 But despite the ubiquity of the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10997-8 idea of volunteerism in public policy radically altered the relationship be- Paper $19.00s/£12.50 debates, analysis of its role in Ameri- tween nonprofits and corporations. SOCIOLOGY can governance has been fragmented.

Elisabeth S. Clemens is professor of sociology and Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. Doug Guthrie is professor of sociology at New York University with a joint appointment in the Department of Management and Organization at the Stern School of Business.

48 special interest Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes “This is a very good comparative case study of two different types Emotional Rhythms in Social Movement Groups of organizations and a beautifully Erika Summers Effler written, engaging work of participant observation.” Why do people keep fighting for social conditions, internal conflict, and fluc- —Jonathan Turner, causes in the face of consistent failure? tuations in financial resources create University of California, Riverside Why do they risk their physical, emo- a backdrop of daily frustration—but tional, and financial safety on behalf of watching an addict relapse or an in- Morality and Society Series strangers? How do these groups survive mate’s execution are much more dev- high turnover and emotional burnout? astating setbacks. Summers Effler finds April 240 p., 4 line drawings, 4 tables that overcoming these obstacles, recov- 6 x 9 To explore these questions, Erika ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18865-2 Summers Effler undertook three years ering from failure, and maintaining Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 of ethnographic fieldwork with two the integrity of the group require a con- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18866-9 Paper $23.00s/£15.00 groups: the anti–death penalty activists stant process of emotional fine-tuning, STOP and Catholic Workers, who strive and she demonstrates how activists do SOCIOLOGY to alleviate poverty. In both communi- this through thoughtful analysis and a ties, members must contend with prob- lucid rendering of their deeply affect- lems that range from the broad to the ing stories. intimately personal. Adverse political

Erika Summers Effler is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.

Living the Drama “Living the Drama tackles a substan- tive topic, engages in key theoreti- Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner-City Boys cal debates, employs a distinctive David J. Harding comparative approach, gives ample voice to its subjects, and enriches For the middle class and the affluent, spaces safe, neutral, or dangerous. Con- local ties seem to matter less and less sequently, Harding discovers, social re- our knowledge of poor youth.” these days, but in the inner city, your lationships are determined by residen- —Claude S. Fischer, life can be irrevocably shaped by what tial space. Older boys who can navigate University of California, Berkeley block you live on. Living the Drama takes the dangers of the streets serve as role April 336 p., 5 line drawings, 6 tables a close look at three neighborhoods in models, and friendships between peers 6 x 9 Boston to analyze the many complex grow out of mutual protection. The ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31664-2 ways that the context of community impact of community goes beyond the Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31665-9 shapes the daily lives and long-term realm of same-sex bonding, Harding Paper $25.00s/£16.00 prospects of inner-city boys. reveals, affecting the boys’ experiences SOCIOLOGY David J. Harding studied sixty ad- in school and with the opposite sex. A olescent boys growing up in two very unique glimpse into the world of urban poor areas and one working-class area. adolescent boys, Living the Drama paints In the first two, violence and neighbor- a detailed, insightful portrait of life in hood identification are inextricably the inner city. linked, as rivalries divide the city into

David J. Harding is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and assistant research scientist at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

special interest 49 “This extensive compendium of criti- Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency cal ideas, information, and narra- Edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, tive accounts makes for an absorb- and Jeremy Walton ing reading experience. Beyond

its cogency for present debates, Global events of the early twenty-first This book investigates the shifting it might well serve as a histori- century have placed new stress on the boundaries between military and civil cal marker for future researchers, relationship among anthropology, gov- state violence; perceptions and effects likely to become as important as an ernance, and war. Facing prolonged of American power around the globe; expression of a certain epoch of an- insurgency, segments of the U.S. mili- the history of counterinsurgency doc- tary have taken a new interest in an- trine and practice; and debate over thropological relevance to events thropology, prompting intense ethical culture, knowledge, and conscience in as Reinventing Anthropology has and scholarly debate. Inspired by these counterinsurgency. These wide-rang- been in the context of the 1960s.” issues, the essays in Anthropology and ing essays shed new light on the fraught —George Marcus, Global Counterinsurgency consider how world of Pax Americana and on the University of California, Irvine anthropologists can, should, and do ethical and political dilemmas faced by respond to military overtures, and they anthropologists and military personnel April 408 p., 5 halftones, 3 tables articulate anthropological perspectives alike when attempting to understand 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42993-9 on global war and power relations. and intervene in our world. Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42994-6 John D. Kelly is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Beatrice Jauregui Paper $25.00s/£16.00 is visiting fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India. Sean T. Mitchell is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Jeremy Walton is assistant ANTHROPOLOGY CURRENT EVENTS professor of religion at New York University.

Making War in Côte d’Ivoire Mike McGovern

There is no civil war in Côte d’Ivoire. knowledge of a region—its history, Even though a failed coup attempt in languages, literature, and popular 2002 led to five years of violent clashes, culture—can yield meaningful insights the dispatch of 11,000 peacekeepers to into political decision making. Putting the country, and the deaths of thousands this theory into action, he examines an of people, the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire array of issues from the micro to the has taken place in a grey area between macro, including land tenure disputes, peace and war. What keeps this perpet- youth boredom, organized crime at ually tense, dismal, and destructive situ- the national and local levels, and the ation simmering? In this groundbreak- international cocoa trade. Drawn from ing book, Mike McGovern suggests the McGovern’s experience working for a answer lies in understanding war as a conflict resolution think tank and the process, not a series of events, and that political access that position gave him, rather than focus on the role of politi- Making War in Côte d’Ivoire will be the June 240 p., 12 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 cal institutions, we should be paying at- definitive work on the Ivorian conflict ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51459-8 tention to the flawed and unpredictable and an innovative example of how an- Cloth $75.00x people within them. thropology can address the complexi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51460-4 Paper $25.00s McGovern argues that only deep ties of politics. ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES Mike McGovern CUSA is assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University. Copublished with C. Hurst and Co.

50 special interest 2nd PROOF ❍✔ MARY ❍ ALICE

Nostalgia for the Future “Nostalgia for the Future is an evocative and topical study that is clearly West Africa After the Cold War the product of a mature, long-term Charles Piot engagement with contemporary Togo, the anthropological and Since the end of the cold war, Africa a national pastime and the preponder- has seen a dramatic rise in new politi- ance of cybercafés and Western Union historical literature on the country, cal and religious phenomena, includ- branches signals a widespread desire and the theoretical debates that ing an eviscerated privatized state, to connect to the rest of the world, Nos- have been central to anthropology neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a re- talgia for the Future makes clear that the over the past fifteen years.” surgence in accusations of witchcraft, a cultural and political terrain that un- —Mariane C. Ferme, culture of scamming and fraud, and, in derlies postcolonial theory has shifted. University of California, Berkeley some countries, a nearly universal wish In order to map out this new terrain, to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Piot enters into critical dialogue with a July 216 p., 16 halftones 6 x 9 Togo, Charles Piot argues that a novel host of important theorists, including ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66964-9 cultural politics is remaking one of the Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Deleuze, Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66965-6 world’s poorest regions and new critical and Mbembe. The result is a deft inter- Paper $20.00s/£13.00 tools are required to make sense of this weaving of rich observations of Togo- ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES moment. lese life with profound insights into the In a country where playing the U.S. new, globalized world in which that life State Department’s green card lottery is takes place.

Charles Piot is professor in the departments of cultural anthropology and African and African American studies at Duke University. He is the author of Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Belonging in an Adopted World “Brilliantly nuanced and beautifully Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption written, Belonging in an Adopted World is ethnographically stun- Barbara Yngvesson ning. Barbara Yngvesson is an

Since the early 1990s, transnational of the abandoned child into an adopt- eloquent narrator, and her analy- adoptions have increased at an as- able resource for nations that give and sis will be clear and accessible to tonishing rate, not only in the United receive children in adoption, this vol- anyone ready to think afresh about States, but worldwide. In Belonging in ume examines the ramifications of such citizenship and family life.” an Adopted World, Barbara Yngvesson gifts, especially for families created —Carol Greenhouse, offers a penetrating exploration of the through adoption and, later, the adopt- Princeton University consequences and implications of this ed adults themselves. Bolstered by an unprecedented movement of children, account of the author’s own experience Chicago Series in Law and Society usually from poor nations to the afflu- as an adoptive parent, and fully attuned ent West. Yngvesson illuminates how to the contradictions of race that shape June 248 p., 16 halftones, 2 line drawings, 9 tables 6 x 9 the politics of adoption policy has pro- our complex forms of family, Belonging ISBN-13: 978-0-226-96446-1 foundly affected the families, nations, in an Adopted World explores the fictions Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 and children involved in this new form that sustain adoptive kinship, ultimately ISBN-13: 978-0-226-96447-8 Paper $20.00s/£13.00 of social and economic migration. exposing the vulnerability and contin- ANTHROPOLOGY LAW Starting from the transformation gency behind all human identity.

Barbara Yngvesson is professor of anthropology at Hampshire College, the author or coauthor of two previous volumes, and an associate editor at American Anthropologist.

special interest 51 3rd PROOF ❍✔ MARY ❍ ALICE

“Chalfin’s meticulous, innovative, Neoliberal Frontiers and theoretically sophisticated ac- An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa count of changing customs regimes Brenda Chalfin in contemporary Ghana offers a compelling and revealing analysis In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin as the engine for changes in state sov- of customs practices as a window presents an ethnographic examina- ereignty. onto the nature of modern state- tion of the day-to-day practices of the Ghana has served as a model of re- craft, the procedures and effects of officials of Ghana’s Customs Service, form for the neoliberal establishment, neoliberalism, and the complex and exploring the impact of neoliberal remaking it an ideal site for Chalfin to contradictory faces of sovereignty structuring and integration into the explore why the restructuring of a state global economy on Ghanaian sovereign- on the global periphery portends shifts in twenty-first-century Africa.” ty. From the revealing vantage point of that occur in all corners of the world. —Daniel Jordan Smith, the customs office, Chalfin discovers Brown University At once a foray into international politi- a fascinating inversion of our assump- cal economy, politics, and political an- tions about neoliberal transformation: thropology, Neoliberal Frontiers is an in- Chicago Studies in Practices of bureaucrats and local functionaries, Meaning novative interdisciplinary leap forward government offices, checkpoints, and for ethnographic writing, as well as an June 304 p., 24 halftones, 3 maps, registries are typically held to be the eloquent addition to the literature on 1 figure, 3 tables 6 x 9 targets of reform, but Chalfin finds that postcolonial Africa. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10059-3 Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 these figures and sites of authority act ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10061-6 Paper $23.00s/£15.00 Brenda Chalfinis associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida and the author of Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES Indigenous Commodity.

“It would be impossible to constrain The Craft of Scientific Communication my appreciation for this book, Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross which will find eager reception wherever the need for teaching sci- The ability to communicate in print E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross have entific writing is being addressed. and person is essential to the life of a combined their many years of experi- The Craft of Scientific Communica- successful scientist. But since writing is ence in the art of science writing to tion continues in the scholarly tra- often secondary in scientific education analyze published examples of how and teaching, there remains a signifi- the best scientists communicate. Or- dition of the authors and promises cant need for guides that teach scien- ganized topically with information on to add a refreshing wealth of prag- tists how best to convey their research the structural elements and the style of matic advice and illustration to any to general and professional audiences. scientific communications, each chap- bookshelf dedicated to effective The Craft of Scientific Communication will ter draws on models of past successes contemporary scientific writing.” teach science students and scientists and failures to show students and —Patrick Logan, alike how to improve the clarity, cogency, practitioners how best to negotiate the University of Rhode Island and communicative power of their world of print, online publication, and words and images. oral presentation. Chicago Guides to Writing, In this remarkable guide, Joseph Editing, and Publishing Joseph E. Harmon is a senior editor/writer at Argonne National Laboratory. Alan G. Gross April 240 p., 21 halftones, is professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. 12 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 They are the coauthors of The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour, also published by the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31661-1 University of Chicago Press. Cloth $55.00x/£35.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31662-8 Paper $20.00s/£13.00 REFERENCE SCIENCE

52 special interest Lucius Annaeus Seneca Anger, Mercy, Revenge

Translated by Robert A. Kaster and Martha C. Nussbaum Natural Questions

Translated by Harry M. Hine photo © calidus

ucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE to 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic Anger, Mercy, Revenge

philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor May 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. Here, with ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74841-2 L Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 the publication of Anger, Mercy, Revenge and Natural Questions, the Uni- CLASSICS PHILOSOPHY versity of Chicago Press proudly inaugurates the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a fresh and compelling series of new English- language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited Natural Questions by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and May 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74838-2 Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca—whose Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 works have been highly praised by modern authors from Erasmus to CLASSICS PHILOSOPHY Emerson—to his rightful place among those classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. Anger, Mercy, Revenge comprises three key writings: the moral essays On Anger and On Clemency—which were penned as advice for the then Forthcoming volumes in the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca young emperor Nero—and the Apocolocyntosis, a brilliant satire lam- On Benefits pooning the end of the reign of Claudius. Natural Questions is a stand- alone treatise in which Seneca compiles and comments on the physical The Letters (in two volumes) sciences of his day, offering us a valuable look at the ancient scientific The Consolations and Other Short mind at work. Both volumes introduce the Latinless reader to the writ- Moral Essays ings of one of the ancient world’s most fascinating—and acclaimed— The Tragedies (in two volumes) philosophical figures, making them perfect for the undergraduate student and lay scholar alike.

Robert A. Kaster is professor of classics and the Kennedy Foundation Profes- sor of Latin Language and Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome, among other titles. Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and the author of From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law, among other titles. Harry M. Hine is honorary professor in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. special interest 53 “This is a big and ambitious volume, The Emergence of the Classical Style in beautifully written by one of the leading new voices in the field of Greek Sculpture Greek visual art. From its rich and Richard Neer challenging introduction on the In the fifth century BCE, an artis- In this ambitious work, Richard theory of interpretation to its bril- tic revolution occurred in Greece, as Neer draws on recent work in art histo- liant reading of the Tyrranicides, sculptors developed new ways of repre- ry, archaeology, literary criticism, and this work is unlike any other in its senting bodies, movement, and space. art theory to rewrite the story of Greek field.” The resulting “classical” style would sculpture. He provides new ways to un- —James I. Porter, prove influential for centuries to come. derstand classical sculpture in Greek University of California, Irvine Modern scholars have traditionally de- terms, and carefully analyzes the rela- scribed the emergence of this style as tionship between political and stylistic june 296 p., 10 color plates, a steady march of progress, culminat- histories. A much-heralded project, The 130 halftones, 12 line drawings Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek 81/2 x 11 ing in masterpieces like the Parthenon ISBN-13: 978-0-226-57063-1 sculptures. But this account assumes Sculpture represents an important step Cloth $59.00s/£38.00 the impossible: that the early Greeks in furthering our understanding of the CLASSICS ART were working tirelessly toward a style of ancient world. which they had no prior knowledge.

Richard Neer is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities, Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he is also a coeditor of Critical Inquiry. He is the author of several previous volumes on Greek art and archaeology.

“Cook and Tatum offer compelling African American Writers and conclusions alongside insightful Classical Tradition interpretations of important liter- William W. Cook and James Tatum ary and rhetorical texts. Erudite but

never pedantic, judicious but never Constraints on freedom, education, tures of ancient Greece and Rome, from compromising, this book exhibits and individual dignity have always the time of slavery and its aftermath to the highest standards of literary been fundamental in determining who the civil rights era through the present, scholarship.” is able to write, when, and where. Tak- the authors offer a sustained and lively —John T. Hamilton, ing the singular instance of the African discussion of the life and work of Phillis Harvard University American writer to heart, William W. Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Cook and James Tatum here argue that Ellison, and Rita Dove, among other ac- April 456 p. 6 x 9 African American literature did not claimed poets, novelists, and scholars. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78996-5 develop apart from canonical Western Assembling this brilliant and diverse Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 literary traditions but instead grew out group of African American writers at AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES of those literatures, even as it adapted a moment when our reception of classi- CLASSICS and transformed the cultural traditions cal literature is ripe for change, the au- and religions of Africa and the African thors paint an unforgettable portrait of diaspora along the way. our own reception of “classic” writing, Tracing the interaction between especially as it was inflected by Ameri- African American writers and the litera- can racial politics.

William W. Cook is professor emeritus of English and African and African American studies at Dartmouth College. James Tatum is professor emeritus of classics at Dartmouth. They are both the authors of numerous previous volumes.

54 special interest Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason Text and Documents F. A. Hayek Edited by Bruce Caldwell

Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason Hayek argues that the vast number is a series of fascinating essays on the of elements whose interactions create study of social phenomena. How to best social structures and institutions make and most accurately study social interac- it unlikely that social science can predict tions has long been debated intensely, precise outcomes. Instead, he contends, and there are two main approaches: the we should strive to simply understand positivists, who ignore intent and be- the principles by which phenomena lief and draw on methods based in the are produced. For Hayek, this modesty sciences; and the nonpositivists, who of aspirations went hand in hand with argue that opinions and ideas drive ac- his concern over widespread enthusi- tion and are central to understanding asm for economic planning. As a result, April 344 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32109-7 social behavior. F. A. Hayek’s opposi- these essays are relevant to ongoing de- Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 tion to the positivists and their claims bates within the social sciences and to ECONOMICS to scientific rigor and certainty in the discussion about the role government study of human behavior is a running can and should play in the economy. theme of this important book.

F. A. Hayek (1899–1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and cowin- ner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. Bruce Caldwell is a research professor of economics and director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.

Social Security “Social Security is innovative, interesting, and important. Gokhale A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives delivers on the promise in the Jagadeesh Gokhale title, providing a new appraisal of a variety of plans to reform Social Many of us suspect that Social Secu- analyze six prominent Social Security rity faces eventual bankruptcy. But the reform packages—two liberal, two cen- Security that will appeal to a wide government projects its future finances trist, and two conservative—to demon- range of readers, including policy using outdated methods. Employing a strate how far they would restore the makers in Congress and the White more up-to-date approach, Jagadeesh program’s financial health and which House and economists concerned Gokhale here argues that the program population groups would be helped or with retirement income.” faces insolvency far sooner than previ- hurt in the process. —Dale Jorgenson, ously thought. Arguments over Social Security Harvard University To assess Social Security’s fate have raged for decades, but they have more accurately under current and al- taken place in a relative informational April 374 p., 34 line drawings, ternative policies, Gokhale constructs a vacuum; Social Security provides the 25 tables 6 x 9 detailed simulation of the forces shap- necessary bedrock of analysis that will ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30033-7 Cloth $55.00s/£35.50 ing American demographics and the prove vital for anyone with a stake in ECONOMICS economy to project their future evolu- this important debate. tion. He then uses this simulation to

Jagadeesh Gokhale is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Fiscal and Genera- tional Imbalances: New Budget Measures for New Budget Priorities.

special interest 55 “Dramatically interdisciplinary, The War on Words The War on Words gives us a new Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in America vision of periodicity and offers vital Michael T. Gilmore new readings of canonical works in nineteenth-century American How did slavery and race impact Ameri- from Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” to literature. Gilmore’s book is as can literature in the nineteenth centu- Henry James’s The Bostonians. Combin- deeply learned as it is creative.” ry? In this ambitious book, Michael T. ing historical knowledge with ground- —Robert A. Ferguson, Gilmore argues that they were the car- breaking readings of some of the classic Columbia University riers of linguistic restriction, and writ- texts of the American past, The War on ers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Words places Lincoln’s Cooper Union June 344 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 Crane wrestled with the demands for address in the same constellation as ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29413-1 silence and circumspection that accom- Margaret Fuller’s feminism and Thom- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 panied the antebellum fear of disunion as Dixon’s defense of lynching. Arguing LITERARY CRITICISM AMERICAN HISTORY and the postwar reconciliation between that slavery and race exerted coercive the North and South. pressure on freedom of expression, Proposing a radical new interpre- Gilmore offers here a transformative tation of nineteenth-century American study that alters our understanding of literature, The War on Words examines nineteenth-century literary culture and struggles over permissible and imper- its fraught engagement with the right to missible utterance in works ranging speak.

Michael T. Gilmore is the Paul Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature at Brandeis University.

“A work of sound scholarship and Death in Babylon striking erudition, broad in scope Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient and of remarkable depth and originality, Death in Babylon is a Vincent Barletta beautifully written book, clear yet Though Alexander the Great lived heroism, villainy, and death. But Bar- complex, subtle yet convincing.” more than seventeen centuries before letta also shows that texts ostensibly —E. Michael Gerli, the onset of Iberian expansion into celebrating the conqueror were haunt- University of Virginia Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed ed by failure. Examining literary and large in the literature of late medieval historical works in Aljamiado, Castil- May 296 p., 2 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03736-3 and early modern Portugal and Spain. ian, Catalan, Greek, Latin, and Portu- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 Exploring little-studied chronicles, chi- guese, Death in Babylon develops a view LITERARY CRITICISM valric romances, novels, travelogues, of empire and modernity informed by and crypto-Muslim texts, Vincent Bar- the ethical metaphysics of French phe- letta shows that the story of Alexander nomenologist Emmanuel Levinas. A not only sowed the seeds of Iberian novel contribution to the literature of empire but foreshadowed the decline empire building, Death in Babylon proof Portuguese and Spanish influence vides a frame for the deep mortal anxi- in the centuries to come. ety that has infused and given shape to Death in Babylon depicts Alexan- the spread of imperial Europe from its der as a complex symbol of Western very beginning. domination, immortality, dissolution,

Vincent Barletta is associate professor of Iberian studies in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University.

56 special interest Living Liberalism “Reading Living Liberalism puts you in the presence of a kind of genuine Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain greatness. Hadley gives a drama to Elaine Hadley Victorian liberalism that one can’t help identify with and gives today’s In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism have been absent from commentary on was a practical politics: it had a party, it the liberal subject. Living Liberalism ar- liberalism a sort of existential informed legislation, and it had adher- gues that the properties of liberalism— pathos. Superb.” ents who identified with and expressed citizenship, the vote, the candidate, —Bruce Robbins, it as opinion. It was also the first British and reform, among others—were de- Columbia University political movement to depend more on veloped in response to a chaotic and people than property, and on opinion antagonistic world. In exploring how May 400 p., 6 halftones 6 x 9 rather than interest. But how would political liberalism imagined its impact ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31188-3 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 these subjects of liberal politics actually on Victorian society, Hadley reveals an european HISTORY live liberalism? entirely new and unexpected prehistory To answer this question, Elaine of our modern liberal politics. A major Hadley focuses on the key concept of revisionist account that alters our sense individuation—how it is embodied in of the trajectory of liberalism, Living politics and daily life and how it is ex- Liberalism revises our understanding of pressed through opinion, discussion, the presumption of the liberal subject. and sincerity. These are concerns that

Elaine Hadley is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago.

Teaching Children Science Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890–1930 Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

In the early twentieth century, a curric- tives that encouraged primarily women ulum known as nature study flourished teachers to explore nature in and be- in major city school systems, streetcar yond their classrooms. Sally Gregory suburbs, small towns, and even rural Kohlstedt brings to vivid life the instruc- one-room schools. This object-based tors and reformers who advanced na- approach to learning about the natural ture study through on-campus schools, world marked the first systematic at- summer programs, textbooks, and pub- tempt to introduce science into elemen- lic speaking. Within a generation, this tary education, and it came at a time highly successful hands-on approach when institutions such as zoos, botani- migrated beyond public schools into cal gardens, natural history museums, summer camps, afterschool activities, and national parks were promoting the and the scouting movement. Although May 384 p., 30 halftones 6 x 9 idea that direct knowledge of nature the rich diversity of nature study classes ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44990-6 would benefit an increasingly urban eventually lost ground to increasingly Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 and industrial nation. standardized curricula, Kohlstedt lo- EDUCATION AMERICAN HISTORY The comprehensive history of this cates its legacy in the living plants and once pervasive nature study movement, animals in classrooms and environmen- Teaching Children Science emphasizes the tal field trips that remain central parts scientific, pedagogical, and social incen- of science education today.

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt is professor in and director of the Program in History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota.

special interest 57 Contributors Materials and Expertise in Early Christoph Bartels, Matthew Modern Europe D. Eddy, Adrian Johns, Ursula Between Market and Laboratory Klein, Seymour H. Mauskopf, Edited by Ursula Klein and E. C. Spary Agusti Nieto-Galan, Barbara Orland, Markus Popplow, It is often assumed that natural philoso- Here, the contributors tell the Hannah Rose Shell, phy was the forerunner of early modern stories of metals, clay, gunpowder, pig- Pamela H. Smith, E. C. Spary natural sciences. But where did these ments, and foods, and thereby demon- sciences’ systematic observation and ex- strate the innovative practices of tech- perimentation get their starts? In Ma- nical experts, the development of the April 408 p., 21 halftones, terials and Expertise in Early Modern Eu- consumer market, and the formation 1 line drawing, 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43968-6 rope, the laboratories, workshops, and of the observational and experimental Cloth $50.00s/£32.50 marketplaces emerge as arenas where sciences in the early modern period. By SCIENCE EUROPEAN HISTORY hands-on experience united with high- exploring the hybrid expertise involved er learning. In an age when chemistry, in the making, consumption, and pro- mineralogy, geology, and botany inter- motion of various materials, the book sected with mining, metallurgy, phar- offers an original perspective on im- macy, and gardening, materials were portant issues in the history of science, objects that crossed disciplines. medicine, and technology.

Ursula Klein is senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Sci- ence and the author of Experiment, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century. E. C. Spary is a lecturer in the history of eighteenth-century medicine at the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine at University College, London, and the author of Utopia’s Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution.

“Alan Rocke’s Image and Reality Image and Reality does so many things vividly and Kekulé, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination convincingly: it shows how visual Alan J. Rocke images led chemistry step by step to the reality of the microscopic Chemists in the nineteenth century were sibilities, Rocke uses a variety of sources, world; how simple portrayals of the faced with a particular problem: how to including private correspondence, dialogic of substitution and combina- depict the atoms and molecules beyond grams and illustrations, scientific papers, tion were reified; brings to our at- the direct reach of our bodily senses. and public statements to investigate tention the imaginative, neglected In visualizing this microworld, these their ability to not only imagine the in- scientists were the first to move beyond visibly tiny atoms and molecules upon work of Williamson and Kopp; and high-level philosophical speculations which they operated daily, but to build takes a critical look at Kekule’s day- regarding the unseen. In Image and Re- detailed and empirically based pictures dream. And it beautifully delineates ality, Alan J. Rocke focuses on the com- of them. These portrayals of “chemical the essential place the imagination munity of organic chemists in Germany structures” gradually became an ac- has in science. A rewarding, lively to provide the basis for a fuller under- cepted part of science and are now re- picture of chemistry in formation.” standing of the nature of scientific cre- garded as one of the defining features —Roald Hoffmann, ativity. of chemistry. In telling this fascinating Nobel laureate in chemistry Arguing that visual mental images story, Rocke also suggests that imagistic assisted many of these scientists in think- thinking is often at the heart of creative Synthesis ing through old problems and new pos- thinking in all fields.

May 416 p., 44 halftones, Alan J. Rocke is the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History at Case Western Reserve 3 line drawings 6 x 9 University and the author of several books, including, most recently, Nationalizing Science: ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72332-7 Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry. Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 SCIENCE HISTORY

58 special interest On Sunspots Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner Translated and with an Introduction by Eileen Reeves and Albert Van Helden

Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, and On Sunspots collects the correspon- especially his observation of sunspots, dence that constituted the public de- caused great debate in an age when bate, including the first English transla- the heavens were thought to be perfect tion of Scheiner’s two tracts as well as and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Galileo’s three letters, which have previ- Jesuit mathematician, argued that sun- ously appeared only in abridged form. spots were planets or moons crossing in In addition, Eileen Reeves and Albert front of the Sun. Galileo, on the other Van Helden have supplemented the cor- hand, countered that the spots were on respondence with lengthy introductions, or near the surface of the Sun itself, and extensive notes, and a bibliography. The May 368 p., 108 halftones, he supported his position with a series result will become the standard work on 2 line drawings 6 x 9 of meticulous observations and mathe- the subject, essential for students and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70715-0 matical demonstrations that eventually historians of astronomy, the telescope, Cloth $100.00x/£64.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70716-7 convinced even his rival. and early modern Catholicism. Paper $40.00s/£26.00

Eileen Reeves is professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. Albert Van SCIENCE HISTORY Helden is professor of the history of science at Utrecht University and the translator of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Biology and Ideology from Descartes Contributors to Dawkins Denis R. Alexander, Peter Edited by Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers Harrison, Nikolai Krementsov, Edward J. Larson, Alister E. Over the course of human history, the perts to examine the varied ways science McGrath, Erika Lorraine Mi- sciences, and biology in particular, have has been used and abused for nonscien- lam, Ronald L. Numbers, Peter often been manipulated to cause im- tific purposes from the fifteenth cen- Hanns Reill, Shirley A. Roe, mense human suffering. For example, tury to the present day. Featuring an es- biology has been used to justify eugenic say on eugenics from Edward J. Larson Nicolaas Rupke, Michael Ruse, programs, forced sterilization, human and an examination of the progress of Sujit Sivasundaram, Jonathan experimentation, and death camps, all evolution by Michael Ruse, Biology and R. Topham, Paul Weindling in an attempt to support notions of Ideology examines uses both benign and racial superiority. By investigating the sinister, ultimately reminding us that May 448 p., 30 halftones, past, the contributors to Biology and Ide- ideological extrapolation continues 1 line drawing 6 x 9 ology from Descartes to Dawkins hope to today. An accessible survey, this collec- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-60840-2 better prepare us to discern ideological tion will enlighten historians of science, Cloth $95.00x/£61.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-60841-9 abuse of science when it occurs in the their students, practicing scientists, and Paper $35.00s/£22.50 future. anyone interested in the relationship SCIENCE HISTORY Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. between science and culture. Numbers bring together fourteen ex-

Denis R. Alexander is director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St Ed- mund’s College, University of Cambridge, and has worked in the biological research community for the past forty years. Ronald L. Numbers is the Hilldale Professor of History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and coeditor of When Science and Christianity Meet, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 59 Harry Collins Tacit and Explicit Knowledge

uch of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we Mknow how to ride a bike when we can’t explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called “tacit knowledge” by physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, but here Harry Collins analyzes the term, and the behavior, in much greater detail, often departing from Polanyi’s treatment. In Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, Collins develops a common conceptual language to bridge the concept’s disparate domains by explaining “Tacit knowledge is one of the most impor- explicit knowledge and classifying tacit knowledge. Collins then teases tant concepts of current scholarship in apart the three very different meanings, which, until now, all fell under the humanities. Ambitious and important, the umbrella of Polanyi’s term: relational tacit knowledge (things Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well- we could describe in principle if someone put effort into describing written and original book.” them), somatic tacit knowledge (things our bodies can do but we can- —Robert P. Crease, Stony Brook University not describe how, like balancing on a bike), and collective tacit knowledge (knowledge we draw that is the property of society, such as the rules for language). Thus, bicycle riding consists of some somatic tacit June 200 p., 3 halftones, 7 line drawings, 6 tables 6 x 9 knowledge and some collective tacit knowledge, such as the knowledge ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11380-7 Cloth $32.50s/£21.00 that allows us to navigate in traffic. The intermixing of the three kinds SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY of tacit knowledge has led to confusion in the past; Collins’s book will at last unravel the complexities of the idea. Tacit knowledge drives everything from language, science, education, and management to sports, art, and our interaction with technology. In Collins’s able hands, it also functions at last as a framework for understanding human behavior in a range of disciplines.

Harry Collins is distinguished research professor of sociology and director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science at Cardiff University. He is coauthor of Rethinking Expertise and Dr. Golem: How to Think about Medicine, and the author of Gravity’s Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

60 special interest The Mind of the Chimpanzee Contributors Ecological and Experimental Perspectives Sylvia Amsler, Benjamin Beck, Dora Biro, Mollie Bloomsmith, Edited by Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Stephen R. Ross, Sarah F. Brosnan, Josep Call, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa With a Foreword by Jane Goodall Susana Carvalho, Frans B. M. De Waal, Ian Gilby, Brian Understanding the chimpanzee mind is lection aims to understand how chim- Hare, Misato Hayashi, Satoshi akin to opening a window onto human panzees learn, think, and feel, so that Hirata, Kimberly Hockings, consciousness. Many of our complex researchers can not only gain insight William Hopkins, Victoria cognitive processes have origins that into the origins of human cognition, Horner, Tatyana Humle, Susan can be seen in the way that chimpan- but also crystallize collective efforts to Lambeth, Elizabeth V. Lon- zees think, learn, and behave. The Mind protect wild chimpanzee populations of the Chimpanzee brings together scores and ensure appropriate care in captive sdorf, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, of prominent scientists from around the settings. With a breadth of material on William McGrew, Alicia Melis, world to share the most recent research cognition and culture from the lab and John Mitani, David B. Morgan, into what goes on inside the mind of the field, The Mind of the Chimpanzee is Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, our closest living relative. a first-rate synthesis of contemporary Michio Nakamura, Lisa Parr, Intertwining a range of topics—in- studies of these fascinating mammals Jaine Perlman, Stephen R. cluding imitation, tool use, face recog- that will appeal to all those interested nition, culture, cooperation, and recon- in animal minds and what we can learn Ross, Steve Schapiro, Katie ciliation—with critical commentaries from them. Slocombe, Claudia Sousa, on conservation and welfare, the col- Crickette M. Sanz, Marissa

Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf is the director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Con- Sobolewski, Michael Toma- servation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and a faculty member of the Com- sello, Masaki Tomonaga, Felix Stephen R. Ross mittee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. supervises Warneken, Andrew Whiten, behavior and cognitive research at the Fisher Center and chairs the Chimpanzee Species Survival Plan of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Tetsuro Matsuzawa directs the Roman M. Wittig, Richard Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University. Wrangham, Klaus Zuberbuhler

Biology’s First Law May 464 p., 144 halftones, 31 line drawings, 19 tables 81/2 x 11 The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49278-0 Cloth $125.00x/£81.00 Evolutionary Systems ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49279-7 Daniel W. McShea and Robert N. Brandon Paper $49.00s/£31.50 SCIENCE Life on earth is characterized by three law unifies the principles and data of striking phenomena that demand ex- biology under a single framework and “The ZFEL will be obvious to some, planation: adaptation—the marvelous invites a reconceptualization of the heretical to others, so the book will fit between organism and environment; field of the same sort that Newton’s be controversial. But at the same diversity—the great variety of organ- First Law brought to physics. time, the argument is rich enough isms; and complexity—the enormous Biology’s First Law shows how the intricacy of their internal structure. ZFEL can be applied to the study of to convince a skeptic, provided that Natural selection explains adaptation. diversity and complexity and exam- skeptic is open-minded. A novel But what explains diversity and com- ines its wider implications for biology. contribution of far-reaching impor- plexity? Daniel W. McShea and Robert Intended for evolutionary biologists, tance in evolutionary biology.” N. Brandon argue that there exists in paleontologists, and other scientists —Michael Foote, evolution a spontaneous tendency to- studying complex systems, and written University of Chicago ward increased diversity and complex- in a concise and engaging format that ity, one that acts whether natural selec- speaks to students and interdisciplin- July 184 p., 2 halftones, tion is present or not. They call this ary practitioners alike, this book will 5 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 tendency a biological law—the Zero- also find an appreciative audience in ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56225-4 Cloth $55.00x/£35.50 Force Evolutionary Law, or ZFEL. This the philosophy of science. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56226-1 Paper $20.00s/£13.00 Daniel W. McShea is associate professor of biology, with a secondary appointment in philosophy, and Robert N. Brandon is professor of philosophy, with a secondary appointment SCIENCE in biology, both at Duke University. special interest 61 “The Cybernetic Brain is a rich, ambi- The Cybernetic Brain tious, and highly original work— Sketches of Another Future and a gently hopeful one. Pickering Andrew Pickering weaves analysis and advocacy together across the book, and his Cybernetics—roughly, the study of ’60s counterculture all come into play vision of what a nonmodern world systems—is often thought of as a grim as Pickering follows the history of cy- might look like—or in fact, has science of control. But as Andrew Pick- bernetics’ impact on the world, from looked like—is novel and compel- ering reveals in this beguiling book, contemporary robotics and complexity ling and will substantially extend a much more lively and experimental theory to the Chilean economy under our understanding of contemporary strain of cybernetics can be traced from Salvador Allende. What underpins this the 1940s to the present. fascinating history, Pickering contends, technoculture.” The Cybernetic Brain explores a is a shared but unconventional vision of —Fred Turner, the world as ultimately unknowable, a Stanford University largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, place where genuine novelty is always emerging. Thus, Pickering avers, the April 560 p., 60 halftones, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford 28 line drawings 6 x 9 Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their sin- history of cybernetics provides us with ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66789-8 gular work in a dazzling array of fields. an imaginative model of open-ended Cloth $55.00s/£35.50 Psychiatry, engineering, management, experimentation in stark opposition to SCIENCE politics, music, architecture, educa- the modern urge to achieve domination, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the tion over nature and each other.

Andrew Pickering is professor and chair of sociology at the University of Exeter. He is the author of several books, including Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics and The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

“A superb review of the complex Law in the Laboratory laws, regulations, and generally accepted procedure that relate to A Guide to the Ethics of Federally Funded Science Research Robert P. Charrow the conduct of biomedical research in the United States. Law in the The National Institutes of Health and with Robert P. Charrow’s Law in the Lab- Laboratory should be required the National Science Foundation to- oratory, they have a readable and enter- reading for deans or heads of gether fund more than $40 billion of taining introduction to the major ethi- research, for academic faculty, for research annually in the United States cal and legal considerations pertaining federal regulators, and for graduate and around the globe. These large to research under the aegis of federal students as a part of their introduc- public expenditures come with strings, science funding. For any academic including a complex set of laws and whose position is grant funded, or for tion to legal and ethical aspects of guidelines that regulate how scientists any faculty involved in securing grants, biomedical research.” may use NIH and NSF funds, how feder- this book will be an essential refer- —Katherine High, ally funded research may be conducted, ence manual. And for those who want University of Pennsylvania and who may have access to or own the to learn how federal legislation and product of the research. regulations affect laboratory research, July 336 p., 3 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10164-4 Until recently, researchers have Charrow’s primer will shed light on the Cloth $80.00x/£51.50 had little instruction on the nature of often obscured intersection of govern- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10165-1 these laws and how they work. But now, ment and science. Paper $29.00s/£18.50 SCIENCE LAW Robert P. Charrow is a lawyer who has served on a presidential election committee, as principal deputy general counsel in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as vice chair of the Clinical Research Interest Group of the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association, and as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Institute of Virology at the University of Maryland.

62 special interest Marx at the Margins “Anderson may just have provided the burgeoning Marx industry with On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies another major focus for its research Kevin B. Anderson and debates. Marx at the Margins reveals a dimension of Marx that In Marx at the Margins, Kevin B. Ander- class, but nationalism, race, and ethnic- son uncovers a variety of extensive but ity, as well. is very little known and even less neglected texts by Marx that cast what Marx at the Margins ultimately ar- understood. This is an incredibly we thought we knew about his work in gues that despite his overarching cri- innovative, interesting, and ter- a startlingly different light. Analyzing tique of capital, Marx created a theory ribly important book—one that will a variety of Marx’s writings, including of history that was multilayered and greatly benefit anyone interested journalistic work written for the New not easily reduced to a single model of in ideas.” York Tribune, Anderson presents us with development or revolution. Through —Bertell Ollman, a Marx quite at odds with our conven- highly informed readings of work rang- New York University tional interpretations. Rather than pro- ing from Marx’s unpublished 1879–92 viding us with an account of Marx as an notebooks to his passionate writings May 316 p. 6 x 9 exclusively class-based thinker, Ander- about the antislavery cause in the Unit- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01982-6 son here offers a portrait of Marx for ed States, this volume delivers a ground- Cloth $66.00x/£42.50 the twenty-first century: a global theo- breaking and canon-changing vision of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01983-3 Paper $22.50s/£14.50 rist whose social critique was sensitive Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively POLITICAL SCIENCE to the varieties of human social and his- debate in Marxist scholarship and be- torical development, including not just yond.

Kevin B. Anderson is professor of sociology and political science at the University of Cali- fornia, Santa Barbara, and coauthor of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Paul Brinkman

The so-called “Bone Wars” of the Reconsidering the fossil specula- 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker tion, the museum displays, and the me- Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in dia frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into a frenzy of fossil collection and discov- the American public consciousness, ery, may have marked the introduction Paul Brinkman takes us back to the of dinosaurs to the American public, birth of dinomania, the modern obses- but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, sion with all things Jurassic. Featuring which took place around the turn of engaging and colorful personalities and the twentieth century, brought the pre- motivations both altruistic and ignoble, July 312 p., 31 halftones, historic beasts back to life. These later The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows 8 line drawings 6 x 9 expeditions—which involved new com- that these later expeditions were just ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07472-6 Cloth $49.00s/£31.50 petitors hailing from leading natural as foundational—if not more so—to SCIENCE AMERICAN HISTORY history museums in New York, Chicago, the establishment of paleontology and and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that the budding collections of museums as would be reconstructed into the colossal the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. skeletons that thrill visitors today in mu- With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, seum halls across the country. this is science at its most swashbuckling.

Paul Brinkman is a research curator at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh.

special interest 63 A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings Gabrielle Suchon The Other Voice in Early Edited and Translated by Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin

Modern Europe During the oppressive reign of Louis ties, which entitle them equally to es- XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1623–1703) sentially human prerogatives, and she was the most forceful female voice displays her breadth of knowledge as she in France, advocating women’s free- harnesses evidence from biblical, classi- dom and self-determination, access to cal, patristic, and contemporary secular knowledge, and assertion of authority. sources to bolster her claim. Forgotten may 448 p., 6 halftones 6 x 9 This volume collects Suchon’s writing over the centuries, these writings have ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77920-1 from two works—Treatise on Ethics and been gaining increasing attention from Cloth $95.00x/£61.50 Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life feminist historians, students of phi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77921-8 Paper $35.00s/£22.50 Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments losophy, and scholars of seventeenth- PHILOSOPHY EUROPEAN HISTORY (1700)—and demonstrates her to be century French literature and culture. an original philosophical and moral This translation, from Domna C. Stan- thinker and writer. ton and Rebecca M. Wilkin, marks the Suchon argues that both women first time these works have appeared in and men have inherently similar intel- English. lectual, corporeal, and spiritual capaci-

Domna C. Stanton is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Rebecca M. Wilkin is assistant professor of French at Pacific Lutheran University.

“The Other Voice series is a timely contribution to our understanding of the nature and extent of the participation of women and pro- Debate of the Romance of the Rose feminist supporters in early modern Christine d e Pizan European culture and society. . . . Edited and Translated by David F. Hult This series highlights the interest In 1401 Christine de Pizan (1365– works he or she produces. of early modern women’s liter- 1430?), one of the most renowned and In Debate of the “Romance of the Rose,” ary lives, allowing wives, sisters, prolific woman writers of the Middle David F. Hult collects, along with the and mothers to step out from the Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of debate documents themselves, letters, shadows and assume the place that Lille criticizing the highly popular and sermons, and excerpts from other works is rightfully theirs on the literary widely read Romance of the Rose for its of Pizan, including one from City of La- stage.” blatant and unwarranted misogynistic dies—her major defense of women and —Pollie Bromilow, depictions of women. The debate that their rights—that give context to this Journal of European Studies ensued, over not only the merits of the debate. Here, Pizan’s supporters and treatise but also the place of women detractors are heard alongside her own April 384 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 in society, started Europe on the long formidable, protofeminist voice. The ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67012-6 path to gender parity. Pizan’s criticism resulting volume affords a rare look at Cloth $95.00x/£61.50 sparked a continent-wide discussion the way people read and thought about ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67013-3 Paper $35.00s/£22.50 that is still alive today in disputes about literature in the period immediately LITERATURE EUROPEAN HISTORY art and morality, especially the civic re- preceding the era of print. sponsibility of a writer or artist for the

David F. Hult is professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley, and the editor or coeditor of six books.

64 special interest Europe and the Euro Edited by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi

It is rare for countries to give up their To that end, Europe and the Euro looks currencies and thus their ability to in- at a number of important issues, includ- fluence such critical aspects of their ing the effects of the euro on reform of economies as interest and exchange goods and labor markets; its influence National Bureau of Economic rates. Yet ten years ago a number of Eu- on business cycles and trade among Research Conference Report ropean countries did exactly that when members; and whether the single cur- April 472 p., 81 line drawings, they adopted the euro. Despite some rency has induced convergence or di- 71 tables 6 x 9 dissent, there were a number of argu- vergence in the economic performance ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01283-4 ments in favor of the euro: it would fa- of member countries. While adoption Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 cilitate exchange of goods, money, and of the euro may not have met with the ECONOMICS people by decreasing costs; it would expectations of optimists, the benefits increase trade; and it would enhance have been many, and there is reason to efficiency and competitiveness at the believe that the euro is robust enough international level. to survive recent economic shocks. This A decade is an ideal time frame volume is an essential reference on to evaluate the success of the euro and both the first ten years of the euro and whether it has lived up to expectations. the workings of a monetary union.

Alberto Alesina is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Univer- sity and the program director for political economy at the NBER. Francesco Giavazzi is professor of economics at Bocconi University in Milan, president of the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research, and a research associate at the NBER.

China’s Growing Role in World Trade Edited by Robert C. Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei

In less than three decades, China has opportunities for U.S. firms. grown from playing a negligible role in Bringing together an expert group world trade to being one of the world’s of contributors, China’s Growing Role in largest exporters, a substantial im- World Trade undertakes an empirical National Bureau of Economic porter of raw materials, intermediate investigation of the effects of China’s Research Conference Report outputs, and other goods, and both a new status. The essays collected here February 608 p., 104 line drawings, recipient and source of foreign invest- provide detailed analyses of the micro- 126 tables 6 x 9 ment. Not surprisingly, China’s eco- structure of trade, the macroeconomic ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23971-2 nomic dynamism has generated con- implications, sector-level issues, and for- Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 siderable attention and concern in the eign direct investment. This volume’s ECONOMICS United States and beyond. While some careful examination of micro data in analysts have warned of the potential light of established economic theories pitfalls of China’s rise—the loss of jobs, eliminates a number of misconcep- for example—others have highlighted tions, overturns some conventional wis- the benefits of less expensive goods and dom, and documents data patterns that services purchased by U.S. consumers enhance our understanding of issues along with new market and investment related to China’s trade.

Robert C. Feenstra holds the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics at the University of California, Davis, and he directs the International Trade and Investment Program at the NBER. Shang-Jin Wei is the N. T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy at Columbia University, and he directs the NBER Working Group on the Chinese Economy.

special interest 65 Reforming the Welfare State Recovery and Beyond in Sweden Edited by Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert H. Topel

Over the course of the twentieth cen- to current concerns over capitalism. National Bureau of Economic tury, Sweden carried out one of the Research Conference Report Bringing together leading econo- most ambitious experiments by a capi- mists, Reforming the Welfare State ex- April 352 p., 75 line drawings, talist market economy in developing a amines Sweden’s policies in response 54 tables 6 x 9 large and active welfare state. Sweden’s to the mid-1990s crisis and the impli- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26192-8 Cloth $99.00x/£64.00 generous social programs and the eco- cations for the subsequent recovery. ECONOMICS nomic equality they fostered became an Among the issues investigated are the example for other countries to emulate. way changes in the labor market, tax Of late, Sweden has also been much dis- and benefit policies, local government cussed as a model of how to deal with fi- policy, industrial structure, and inter- nancial and economic crisis, due to the national trade affected Sweden’s recov- country’s recovery from a mid-1990s ery. The way that Sweden addressed its banking crisis. At that time econo- economic challenges provides valuable mists debated whether the welfare state insight into the viability of large welfare caused Sweden’s crisis and should be states, and more broadly, into the way reformed—a debate with clear parallels modern economies deal with crisis.

Richard B. Freeman is a research associate of the NBER and holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. Birgitta Swedenborg is research director of the Center for Business and Policy Studies in Sweden. Robert H. Topel is the Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Professor in Urban and Labor Economics in the Booth Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and a research associate at the NBER.

Agglomeration Economics Edited by Edward L. Glaeser

When firms and people are located Agglomeration Economics brings to- near each other in cities and in indus- gether a group of essays that examine trial clusters, they benefit in various the reasons why economic activity con- National Bureau of Economic ways, including by reducing the costs tinues to cluster together despite the Research Conference Report of exchanging goods and ideas. One falling costs of moving goods and trans- might assume that these benefits would mitting information. The studies cover a April 376 p., 61 line drawings, 87 tables 6 x 9 become less important as transporta- wide range of topics and approach the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29789-7 tion and communication costs fall. Par- economics of agglomeration from dif- Cloth $99.00x/£64.00 adoxically, however, cities have become ferent angles. Together they advance our ECONOMICS increasingly important and even within understanding of agglomeration and its cities, industrial clusters remain vital. implications for a globalized world.

Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he also serves as director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He is a research associate and director of the Urban Economics working group at the NBER.

66 special interest Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Relationship to Youth Employment Edited by Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise

Many countries have social security tive analysis from twelve countries and National Bureau of Economic systems that are currently financially examines the issue of age in the labor Research Conference Report unsustainable. Economists and policy force. A notable group of contributors makers have long studied this problem analyzes the relationship between in- April 376 p., 161 line drawings, 63 tables 6 x 9 and identified two key causes. First, as centives to retire and the proportion ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30948-4 declining birth rates raise the share of of older persons in the workforce, the Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 older persons in the population, the effects that reforming social security ECONOMICS ratio of retirees to benefits-paying em- would have on the employment rates of ployees increases. Second, as falling older workers, and how extending labor mortality rates increase lifespans, retir- force participation will affect program ees receive benefits for longer than in costs. Dispelling the myth that employ- the past. Further exacerbating the situ- ing older workers takes jobs away from ation, the provisions of social security the young, this timely volume challeng- programs often provide strong incen- es a raft of existing assumptions about tives for people to leave the labor force. the relationship between old and young Social Security Programs and Retire- people in the workforce. ment around the World offers compara-

Jonathan Gruber is professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Program on Health Care at the NBER, where he is a research associate. David A. Wise is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is area director of the Health and Retire- ment programs, director of the Program on the Economics of Aging, and a research associate, all at the NBER.

International Differences in Entrepreneurship Edited by Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar

Often considered one of the major try’s institutional differences and cul- forces behind economic growth and tural considerations can affect the role National Bureau of Economic development, the entrepreneurial firm that entrepreneurs play in its economy. Research Conference Report can accelerate the speed of innovation Developing an understanding of the April 360 p., 52 line drawings, and dissemination of new technologies, origins of entrepreneurs as well as the 80 tables 6 x 9 thus increasing a country’s competitive choices they make and the complexity ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47309-3 Cloth $99.00x/£64.00 edge in the global market. As a result, of their activities across countries and ECONOMICS cultivating a strong culture of entrepre- industries is of central importance to neurial thinking has become a primary this volume. In addition, contributors goal throughout the world. consider how environmental factors of In spite of this, there has been lit- individual economies, such as market tle systematic research or comparative regulation, government subsidies for analysis to show how the growth of en- banks, and support for entrepreneurial trepreneurship differs among countries culture affect industry and the impact in various stages of development. Inter- that entrepreneurs have on growth in national Differences in Entrepreneurship developing nations. fills this void by explaining how a coun-

Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School and director of the Entrepreneurship Working Group at the NBER. Antoinette Schoar is the Michael Koerner ’49 Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and a research associate of the NBER. special interest 67 American Universities in a Global Market Edited by Charles T. Clotfelter

In recent years, America’s position of ideas, generous governmental support, leadership in the world has been chal- and a tradition of decentralized friend- lenged in many ways. One significant ly competition. They also explore the National Bureau of Economic shift is that the country’s position as advantages of holding a dominant posi- Research Conference Report the preeminent global leader in higher tion in this marketplace and examine education, particularly in the fields of the current state of American higher June 512 p., 72 line drawings, 85 tables 6 x 9 science and technology, has come into education in a comparative context, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11044-8 question. American Universities in a Glob- placing particular emphasis on how Cloth $99.00x/£64.00 al Market comprises eleven studies ad- market forces affect universities. Other ECONOMICS dressing the variety of issues crucial to essays explore the differences in quality understanding this change. The studies among students and institutions around examine various factors that contribut- the world and shed light on the singular ed to America’s success in higher educa- aspects of American higher education. tion, including openness to people and

Charles T. Clotfelter is the Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy, professor of economics and law, and director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke University. He is a research associate of the NBER.

Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk Edited by Deborah Lucas

The U.S. government is the world’s discount rates, and value at risk—to largest financial institution, providing these types of obligations. National Bureau of Economic credit and assuming risk through di- This book contains new research, Research Conference Report verse activities. But the potential cost both empirical and methodological, on April 272 p., 38 line drawings, and risk of these actions and obliga- the measurement and management of 29 tables 6 x 9 tions remains poorly understood and these costs and risks. The analyses en- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49658-0 Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 only partially measured. Government compass a broad spectrum of federal budgetary and financial accounting ECONOMICS programs, including housing, catas- rules, which largely determine the in- trophe insurance, student loans, social formation available to federal decision security, and environmental liabilities. makers, have only just begun to address Collectively, the contributions gathered these issues. Recently, however, there in Measuring and Managing Federal Fi- has been a push to rethink how these nancial Risk demonstrate that the logic programs are valued and accounted for, of financial economics can be a useful and some progress has been made in tool for studying a range of federal ac- applying modern valuation methods— tivities. such as options pricing, risk-adjusted

At the time this work was completed, Deborah Lucas was the Donald C. Clark HSBC Profes- sor of Consumer Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a research associate of the NBER.

68 special interest Research Findings in the Economics of Aging Edited by David A. Wise

The baby boom generation’s entry into the effects of such programs on those old age has led to an unprecedented decisions. Furthermore, the volume increase in the elderly population. The also offers in-depth analysis of the ef- social and economic effects of this shift fects of retirement plans, employer National Bureau of Economic are significant, and in Research Findings contributions, and housing prices on Research Conference Report in the Economics of Aging, a group of lead- retirement. It explores well-established April 504 p., 106 line drawings, ing researchers takes an eclectic view of relationships among economic circum- 126 tables 6 x 9 the subject. Among the broad topics stances, health, and mortality, as well as ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90306-4 discussed are work and retirement be- the effects of poverty and lower levels Cloth $115.00x/£74.50 havior, work disability, and their rela- of economic development on health ECONOMICS tionship to the structure of retirement and life satisfaction. By combining the and disability policies. While the choice micro and the macro, this latest volume of when to retire is made by individu- continues the tradition of expanding als, those decisions are influenced by a the research agenda both through the set of incentives, including retirement questions it asks and the empirical do- benefits and health care, and this vol- main it examines. ume includes cross-national analyses of

David A. Wise is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and area director for Aging and Health Studies at the NBER.

Shared Capitalism at Work Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options Edited by Douglas L. Kruse, Richard B. Freeman, and Joseph R. Blasi

The historical relationship between cap- firms. The contributors focus on four National Bureau of Economic ital and labor has changed immensely main areas: the fraction of firms that Research Conference Report in the past few decades. One particu- participate in shared capitalism pro- larly noteworthy development is the rise grams in the United States and abroad, June 464 p., 22 line drawings, 94 tables 6 x 9 of shared capitalism, a system in which the factors that enable these firms to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05695-1 workers have become partial owners of overcome classic free rider and risk Cloth $99.00x/£64.00 their firms and thus, in effect, both em- problems, the effect of shared capital- ECONOMICS ployees and stockholders. Profit-sharing ism on firm performance, and the im- arrangements and gain-sharing bonus- pact of shared capitalism on worker es, which tie compensation directly to a well-being. This volume provides es- firm’s performance, also reflect this new sential studies for understanding the attitude toward labor. increasingly important role of shared Shared Capitalism at Work analyzes capitalism in the modern workplace. the effects of this trend on workers and

Douglas L. Kruse is professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University and a research associate of the NBER. Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and is a research associate of the NBER. Joseph R. Blasi is professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University and a research associate of the NBER.

special interest 69 2nd PROOF ❍✔ MARY ❍ ALICE

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2009, Volume 10 Edited by Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern

The Innovation Policy and the Economy science and technology on economic series provides a forum for research on growth. Issues covered in Volume 10 National Bureau of Economic the interactions among public policy, are the effect of alternative methods for Research Innovation Policy and the innovation process, and the econ- offering incentives for innovation, inno- the Economy omy. The distinguished contributors vation policy and entrepreneurship in March 176 p., 2 line drawings, to this volume cover all types of policy international perspective, and the im- 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47333-8 that affect the ability of an economy pact of university patenting and licens- Cloth $58.00x/£ 37.50 to achieve scientific and technological ing activities on university research. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47334-5 progress—or that affect the impact of Paper $20.00x/£13.00 ECONOMICS Joshua Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the finance and entrepreneurial management units, and a research associate of the NBER. Scott Stern is associate professor of management strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a research associate of the NBER.

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2009, Volume 6 Edited by Lucrezia Reichlin and Kenneth West

The International Seminar on Macro- tions between 1890 and 2001; systemic economics has met annually in Europe risk taking and the U.S. financial crisis; National Bureau of Economic for thirty years. The papers included the Feldstein-Horioka fact; the puzzle Research International Seminar on Macroeconomics in this volume discuss defaults, under- of the real exchange rate of nontrad- writers, and sovereign bond markets able goods; and methods of assessing March 500 p., 60 line drawings 6 x 9 between 1815 and 2007; openness and external equilibrium in low-income ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70749-5 Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 the rise and fall of stock market correla- countries. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70750-1 Paper $50.00x/£32.50 Lucrezia Reichlin is professor of economics at London Business School. Kenneth West is the Ragnar Frisch Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a ECONOMICS research associate of the NBER.

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009, Volume 24 Edited by Daron Acemoglu and Michael Woodford

The NBER Macroeconomics Annual pro- age cycles and how they can be driven vides a forum for important debates by the interaction of heterogeneous National Bureau of Economic in contemporary macroeconomics beliefs and equilibrium leverage, the Research Macroeconomics Annual and major developments in the theory validity of alternative explanations of March 440 p., 41 line drawings 6 x 9 of macroeconomic analysis and policy the recent increase in foreclosures on ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00209-5 that include leading economists from residential mortgages, the credit rating Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 a variety of fields. The papers and ac- crisis, quantitative implications for the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00210-1 Paper $60.00x/£39.00 companying discussions in NBER Mac- evolution of the U.S. wage distribution, ECONOMICS roeconomics Annual 2009 address lever- and noisy business cycles. Daron Acemoglu is the Charles P. Kinderberger Professor of Applied Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a research associate of the NBER. Michael Woodford is the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and a research associate of the NBER. 70 special interest 3rd PROOF ❍✔ MARY ❍ ALICE

Osiris, Volume 25 Expertise and the Early Modern State Edited by Eric H. Ash

This newest annual edition of Osiris to the construction of early modern em- Osiris brings together a variety of scholars to pires and economies. The state, on the july 350 p. 63/4 x 10 consider a topic of increasing interest other hand, performed a similar func- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02939-9 in the history of science: expertise. Fo- tion for scientists, giving them much of Paper $33.00x/£21.50 cusing specifically on the role expertise the status and resources they needed SCIENCE HISTORY has played in the support, legitimation, to further their work. A penetrating, and growth of the state since early mod- multifaceted investigation, this volume ern times, Expertise and the Early Modern will be required reading for historians State reveals how scientific expertise of science and early modern political and practical knowledge were crucial development.

Eric H. Ash is associate professor of history at Wayne State University and the author of Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England.

The Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 18 Edited by Ilya Somin and Todd J. Zywicki

Supreme Court Economic Review is an in- it brings together apply explicit or im- Supreme Court Economic Review terdisciplinary journal that provides a plicit economic reasoning to the analy- June 300 p. 61/8 x 91/4 forum for scholarship in law and eco- sis of legal issues before the court, with ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76762-8 nomics, public choice, and constitu- special attention to Supreme Court Cloth $50.00x/£32.50 tional political economy. Its approach decisions, judicial process, and institu- LAW ECONOMICS is broad-ranging and the contributions tional design.

Ilya Somin is an assistant professor at George Mason University School of Law. Todd J. Zywicki is the George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law and senior scholar of the Mercatus Center, both at George Mason University.

The Supreme Court Review 2009 Edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson, David A. Strauss, and Geoffrey R. Stone

For forty-nine years, the Supreme Court of American law. Recent volumes have Supreme Court Review Review has been lauded for providing considered such issues as the 2000 presi- 1 1 authoritative discussion of the Court’s dential election, cross burning, feder- June 400 p. 6 /8 x 9 /4 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36255-7 most significant decisions. The Review alism and state sovereignty, the United Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 is an in-depth annual critique of the States v. American Library Association case, LAW Supreme Court and its work, one that failed Supreme Court nominations, and strives to keep on the forefront of the numerous First and Fourth amendment origins, reforms, and interpretations cases.

Dennis J. Hutchinson is a senior lecturer in law and the William Rainey Harper Professor in the College, master of the New Collegiate Division, and associate dean of the College at the University of Chicago. David A. Strauss is the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Geoffrey R. Stone is the Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. special interest 71 Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Seventy-fifth Edition, 2010–2011 Edited by Elizabeth A. Kaye and Jeffrey J. Makos

JUly 304 p. 81/2 x 11 This annual volume offers the most Requirements for Certification is a valuable ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42862-8 complete and current listings of the resource, making much-needed knowl- Cloth $55.00x/£35.50 requirements for certification of a wide edge available in one straightforward EDUCATION range of educational professionals at volume. the elementary and secondary levels.

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000–2001 edition. Jeffrey J. Makos is a freelance writer and editor based in Chicago.

Practical Healthcare Epidemiology Third Edition Edited by Ebbing Lautenbach, Keith F. Woeltje, and Preeti N. Malani

In recent years, issues of infection con- prevention, who provide clear, sound trol, patient safety, and quality of care guidance on infection control for the have become increasingly prominent in full range of patients in all types of health-care facilities. Practical Healthcare health-care facilities, including those Epidemiology takes a practical, hands-on in settings with limited resources. It will approach to these issues, addressing all be a powerful resource for practitioners aspects of infection surveillance, pre- in any branch of medicine or public vention, and infection control in clear, health who are involved in infection straightforward terms. This fully re- prevention and control, whether they vised third edition brings together the are experienced in health-care epide- expertise of more than fifty leaders in miology or new to the field. health-care epidemiology and infection June 400 p. 81/2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47102-0 Ebbing Lautenbach is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Cloth $185.00x/£120.00 associate professor of epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, medicine and senior scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Keith F. Woeltje is associate professor of medicine in infectious diseases at the Washington University School of Medicine and the medical director of infection prevention for BJC HealthCare in St. Louis. Preeti N. Malani is associate professor of medicine in the divisions of infectious diseases and geriatric medicine at the University of Michigan and a research scientist at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System’s Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center.

72 special interest now in paperback John R. Lott, Jr. More Guns, Less Crime Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws Third Edition

n its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott, Jr.’s More Guns, Less Crime drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. OMore than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws: despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute Lott’s More than 100,000 copies sold simple, startling conclusion that more guns mean less crime. Relying “A compelling book with enough hard evi- on the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever conducted dence that even politicians may have to on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws, the book directly chal- stop and pay attention. More Guns, Less lenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns, crime, and Crime is an exhaustive analysis of the violence. For this third edition, Lott brings his data fully up to date, effect of gun possession on crime rates.” incorporating recent research and changes in the law and answering a —James Bovard, Wall Street Journal range of critics. “John Lott documents how far ‘politically correct’ vested interests Studies in Law and Economics are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them.

MAY 472 p., 87 line drawings, 77 tables 6 x 9 Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful, scholarly ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49366-4 approach to a highly controversial issue.”—Milton Friedman Paper $18.00/£11.50 CURRENT EVENTS “Lott’s pro-gun argument has to be examined on the merits, and its chief merit is lots of data. . . . If you still disagree with Lott, at least you will know what will be required to rebut a case that looks pretty near bulletproof.”—Peter Coy, Business Week “By providing strong empirical evidence that yet another liberal policy is a cause of the very evil it purports to cure, he has permanently changed the terms of debate on gun control. . . . Lott’s book could hardly be more timely. . . . A model of the meticulous application of economics and statistics to law and policy.”—John O. McGinnis, National Review

John R. Lott, Jr., is the author of Freedomnomics and Are Predatory Commitments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe?, the latter also published by the Univer- sity of Chicago Press.

74 paperbacks Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce Wild Justice The Moral Lives of Animals

cientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthro- Spomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. With Wild Justice, Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce unequivo- cally challenge this long-held view. Marrying years of behavioral and cognitive research with compelling and moving anecdotes, Bekoff and Pierce reveal that animals ex- hibit a broad repertoire of moral behaviors, including fairness, empa- thy, trust, and reciprocity. Animals, in short, are incredibly adept social beings, relying on rules of conduct to navigate intricate social networks “Humans think of themselves as the only that are essential to their survival. Ultimately, Bekoff and Pierce draw moral animals. But what about . . . the rat the astonishing conclusion that there is no moral gap between humans who refuses to shock another to earn a and other species: morality is an evolved trait that we unquestionably reward, and the magpie who grieves for share with other social mammals. her young? Cognitive animal behavior- “This provocative and well-argued view of animal morality may ist Bekoff and philosopher Pierce argue surprise some readers as it challenges outdated assumptions about that nonhuman animals also are moral animals. . . . Written as much for other academics as for interested lay beings—with not just building blocks or readers, this lucid book is highly recommended.”—Library Journal precursors of morality but the real deal. “The authors contend that, in order to understand the moral The research gathered here makes a com- compass by which animals live, we must first expand our definition pelling case that it is time to reconsider of morality to include moral behavior unique to each species. Stud- yet another of the traits we have claimed ies done by the authors, as well as experts in the fields of psychology, as uniquely our own.” —Discover human social intelligence, zoology, and other branches of relevant science excellently bolster their claim.”—Publishers Weekly April 208 p., 8 halftones 6 x 9 “Wild Justice makes a compelling argument for open-mindedness ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04163-6 Paper $17.00/£11.00 regarding nonhuman animals.”—New Scientist SCIENCE Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04161-2 Marc Bekoff has published numerous books, including The Emotional Lives of Animals, and has provided expert commentary for many media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, and the BBC. Jessica Pierce has taught and written about philosophy for many years. She is the author of a number of books, including Morality Play: Case Studies in Ethics.

paperbacks 75 Three Parker Novels by Richard Stark

With a new Foreword by Dennis Lehane The Green Eagle Score The Black Ice Score The Sour Lemon Score

arker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark’s eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in Phardboiled noir. The University of Chicago Press has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this series to print “The Parkers read with the speed of pulp for a new generation of readers to discover—and become addicted to. while unfolding with an almost Nabok- This season’s offerings include volumes 10–12 in the series. ovian wit and flair. . . . Original editions In The Green Eagle Score, Parker takes on an Air Force payroll job in of these books, and even later reprints, upstate New York, with inside help. But the ice is thinner than Parker change hands for scores of hundreds of likes to think—someone’s wife’s psychiatrist enters the scene and dollars on the Net, and it’s excellent to nearly foils his best-laid heist. have them readily available again—not so much masterpieces of the genre, just In The Black Ice Score, a small African nation asks Parker to steal masterpieces, period.” their diamonds back—and restore their national wealth to its rightful —Richard Rayner, owners. Too many people want in on the score, including a group that Los Angeles Times decides to snatch Parker’s woman. They thought they were buying an advantage, but what they get is a predated death certificate. The Green Eagle Score The Sour Lemon Score features a bank robbery that goes like clock- April 184 p. 51/2 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77108-3 work until one of Parker’s partners gets too greedy for his own good. Paper $14.00 One of the darkest novels in the series, this caper proves the adage that MYSTERY cobe no one crosses Parker and lives. The Black Ice Score “Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.”—Elmore Leonard April 168 p. 51/2 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77109-0 “Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with Paper $14.00 mystery the swag.”—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly cobe “Richard Stark is the Prince of Noir.”—Martin Cruz-Smith The Sour Lemon Score

April 168 p. 51/2 x 8 Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77110-6 (1933–2008), a prolific author of noir crime fiction. In 1993 the Mystery Paper $14.00 Writers of America bestowed the society’s highest honor on Westlake, naming mystery him a Grand Master. cobe

76 paperbacks Tom Vanderbilt Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America

n the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the Oblueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time in which we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten’s stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century. “This is a crucial and dazzling book. Mas- terful, and for me at least, intoxicating. “A genuinely engaging book, perhaps because Vanderbilt is skillful It reminds us of the absurd and sinister at conveying his own sense of engagement to the reader.”—Los Angeles ways humans have attempted to ensure Times their survival, and, without ever oversim- “A retracing of Dr. Strangelove as ordinary life.”—Greil Marcus, plifying, it manages to be a ridiculously Bookforum entertaining read.” “A fascinating political and cultural analysis of ‘cold war architec- —Dave Eggers ture’: a vast array of structures from missile silos to small towns built to test the effectiveness of an atomic blast, presidential fallout shelters, April 240 p., 80 halftones, 7 line drawings nuclear waste dumps, monoliths like the windowless PacBell building 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-84694-1 in Los Angeles, and countless motels and diners named ‘Atomic.’” Paper $17.00/£11.00 HISTORY ARCHITECTURE —Publishers Weekly Previously published by Princeton Architectural Press “Exploring buried traces of the cold war in America . . . Vanderbilt ISBN: 978-1-56898-305-9 finds a vast, secret, and now largely abandoned landscape.”—Architecture “Survival City, by taking us on a tour of important places we’ve probably never seen, is both a call to preserve cold war history and a valuable reminder of the continual impact of nuclear weapons on the Ameri- can cultural and physical landscape.”—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Tom Vanderbilt is the New York Times best-selling author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). His work on design, technology, science, and culture has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Nation, London Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, and others.

paperbacks 77 Sophocles Oedipus the King

Translated and with an Introduction by David Grene

vailable for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders A Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore’s Complete Greek Tragedies have been the preferred choice of millions of readers—for personal libraries, individual study, and classroom use. This new, stand-alone edition of Sophocles’ searing tale of jealousy, rage, and revenge will continue the tradition of the University of Chicago Press’s classic series. “This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.” “These authoritative translations consign —Kenneth Rexroth, Nation all other complete collections to the wastebasket.” “The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affect- —Robert Brustein, edly poetic; their idiom is contemporary. . . . They have life and speed New Republic, on David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s and suppleness of phrase.”—Times Education Supplement Complete Greek Tragedies “Grene is one of the great translators.”—Conor Cruise O’Brien, Sunday Times March 88 p. 51/4 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76868-7 “These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility Paper $8.00/£5.00 repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most aca- CLASSICS LITERATURE demically flawless rendering is dead.”—Warren D. Anderson,American Oxonian “The critical commentaries and the versions themselves . . . are fresh, unpretentious, and above all, functional.”—Commonweal

David Grene (1913–2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought and coedited the University of Chicago Press’s prestigious series The Complete Greek Tragedies.

78 paperbacks Randall Jarrell Pictures from an Institution A Comedy

eneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting B devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire— and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker’s razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College mischievously—but with mischief “This is a searching novel about a mean nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic lady novelist writing a mean novel about heroine herself. a college where she is spending a year “A most literate account of a group of most literate people by a teaching creative writing. It portrays a writer of power. . . . A delight of true understanding.”—Wallace Stevens savage, lethal-tongued bluestocking, “I’m greatly impressed by the real fun, the incisive satire, the close- pitilessly intent on pinning down her ness of observation, and in the end by a kind of sympathy and human colleagues as specimens in her already warmth. It’s a remarkable book.”—Robert Penn Warren gruesome collection. . . . Mr. Jarrell is “Move over Dorothy Parker. Pictures . . . is less a novel than a series on the side of the angels. His is a divine of poisonous portraits, set pieces, and endlessly quotable put-downs. meanness, and he exposes his female Read it less for plot than sharp satire, Jarrell’s forte.”—Mary Welp writing devil punitively, matching her stream of poisonous wisecracks with a “One of the wittiest books of modern times.”—New York Times series of coruscating cracks of his own “The father of the modern campus novel, and the wittiest of them worthy of Dorothy Parker at her most all. Extraordinary to think that ‘political correctness’ was so deliciously hilarious and deadly.” dissected fifty years ago.”—Noel Malcolm,Sunday Telegraph —Francis Steegmuller, “A sustained exhibition of wit in the great tradition. . . . Immensely New York Times Book Review and very devastatingly shrewd.”—Edmund Fuller, Saturday Review April 296 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39375-9 Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) is the author of six volumes of poetry and the re- Paper $16.00/£10.50 cipient of the National Book Award for Poetry in 1961. Pictures from an Institu- fiction tion is his only novel.

paperbacks 79 Mike Royko Early Royko Up Against It in Chicago With a new Foreword by Rick Kogan

ombining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago C institution—in Jimmy Breslin’s words, “the best journalist of his time.” Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago will restore to print the legendary columnist’s first writings, which chronicle 1960s Chicago with the moral vision, ironic sense, and razor-sharp voice that would remain Royko’s trademark. This collection of early columns from the Chicago Daily News ranges Praise for One More Time: The Best of from witty social commentary to politically astute satire. Some of the Mike Royko and For the Love of Mike pieces are falling-down funny and others are tenderly nostalgic, but all “Full of astonishments, and the greatest display Royko’s unrivaled skill at using humor to tell truth to power. of these is Royko’s technical mastery as From machine politicians and gangsters to professional athletes, from a writer.” well-heeled Chicagoans to down-and-out hoodlums, no one escapes —Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker Royko’s penetrating gaze—and resounding judgment. Early Royko features a memorable collection of characters, including such well- “Royko was one of the most respected and known figures as Hugh Hefner, Mayor Richard J. Daley, and Dr. Martin admired people in the business, by read- Luther King. But these boldfaced names are juxtaposed with Royko’s ers and colleagues alike. . . . Savor his beloved lesser-knowns from the streets of Chicago: Mrs. Peak, Sylvester work while you can.” “Two-Gun Pete” Washington, and Fats Boylermaker, who gained fame —Jonathan Yardley, for leaning against a corner light pole from 2 a.m. Saturday until noon Washington Post Book World Sunday, when his neighborhood tavern reopened for business. Accompanied by a foreword from Rick Kogan, this new edition

May 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 will delight Royko’s most ardent fans and capture the hearts of a new ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73077-6 generation of readers. As Kogan writes, Early Royko “will remind us Paper $16.00/£10.50 LITERATURE HUMOR how a remarkable relationship began—Chicago and Royko, Royko and Chicago—and how it endures.”

Mike Royko (1932–97) worked as a daily columnist for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. His Pulitzer Prize–winning 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, and For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko, the latter two published by the University of Chicago Press.

80 paperbacks David Lee Nature’s Palette The Science of Plant Color

ature’s Palette is a highly illustrated, immensely entertaining exploration of the science of plant color. Beginning with N potent reminders of how deeply interwoven plant colors are with human life and culture—from the shifting hues that told early humans when fruits and vegetables were edible to the indigo dyes that signified royalty for later generations—David Lee moves easily through details of pigments, the evolution of color perception, the nature of light, and dozens of other topics. Through a narrative peppered with anecdotes of a life spent pursuing botanical knowledge around the world, he reveals the profound ways that efforts to understand and exploit plant color have influenced every sphere of human life. “Lee’s book is packed with many gems from botanical and social history. . . . His “Nature’s Palette is a spacious book, full of wonder and wonders, paean provides a compelling case that in which the scientific and the personal, the poetic and the histori- botany is full of intellectual challenges, cal, come together in the most delightful way—it is a pure pleasure to many shamefully neglected.” read.”—Oliver Sacks —Philip Ball, “Lee takes his readers through the social history, ecology, evolu- Nature tion and biochemistry of plant color. Lee makes no apologies for his unabashedly personal approach, and his love and enthusiasm for the May 384 p., 438 color plates, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings 6 x 9 subject shine through on every page.”—Sandra Knapp, Times Literary ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47053-5 Paper $22.50/£14.50 Supplement SCIENCE GARDENING “A great book that will leave you looking at leaves and petals with Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47052-8 renewed admiration.”—New Scientist “The book is beautifully illustrated. . . . The science in the book is solid, but is presented in a clear, nonintimidating fashion. Nature’s Palette will appeal to a wide audience.”—Choice

David Lee is professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University and research collaborator at Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami.

paperbacks 81 Ellen Prager Chasing Science at Sea Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

hasing Science at Sea immerses readers in the world of those who regularly go to sea—aquanauts living underwater, Cmarine biologists seeking unseen life in the deep ocean, and tall-ship captains at the helm, among others—and tells the fascinating tale of what life, and science, is like at the mercy of Mother Nature. “Prager’s book brings alive the moments of wonder, surprise, enlightenment, frus- With passion and wit, well-known marine scientist Ellen Prager tration, humor, camaraderie and danger shares her stories as well as those of her colleagues, revealing that in involved in fieldwork on and beneath the the field ingenuity and a good sense of humor are as essential as water, waves. . . . Her book assembles anecdotes sunblock, and GPS. Filled with firsthand accounts of the challenges from colleagues such as marine biolo- and triumphs of dealing with the extreme forces of nature and the gists, geologists and engineers. Their unpredictable world of the ocean, Chasing Science at Sea is a unique tales range from divers chasing parrotfish glimpse below the waterline at what it is like—and why it is impor- poo with plastic bags to oceanographers tant—to study, explore, and spend time in one of our planet’s most seeing an actual step in the surface of fascinating and foreign environments. the sea at the edge of the Gulf Stream. “As an unorthodox handbook for would-be ocean scientists, this In bringing these briny tales together, title is invaluable.”—Booklist Prager explores some of their common “Prager . . . uses breezy, accessible prose to evoke the beauty and themes to convey why many of us study magic of the underwater world.”—Wall Street Journal the ocean—and why it matters.” “With tongue only slightly in cheek, Prager offers advice for any —Jon Copley, Times Higher Education field scientist: always bring spare pencils and be prepared for things to go wrong, from pirates to valuable equipment getting lost or damaged. . . . Focused on adventure rather than in-depth science, this entertaining May 178 p., 4 color plates, 28 halftones 6 x 9 book will appeal most to casual and younger readers.”—Publishers Weekly ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67874-0 Paper $13.00/£8.50 SCIENCE Ellen Prager is currently the chief scientist at the world’s only undersea re- Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67870-2 search station, Aquarius Reef Base in the Florida Keys, and a freelance writer. Among her publications are The Oceans and Furious Earth: The Science and Nature of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis, a series of children’s books including Sand, Volcano, and Earthquakes with the National Geographic Society; and a children’s novel, Adventure on Dolphin Island.

82 paperbacks Authors of the Storm Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction Gary Alan Fine

In Authors of the Storm, Gary Alan Fine often shaped as much by social and cul- offers an inside look at how meteo- tural factors inside local offices as they rologists and forecasters predict the are by approaching cumulus clouds. weather. Through field observation “Fine engages his reader by skill- and interviews, Fine finds a supremely fully describing the human side of hard-working, insular clique of profes- weather forecasters who must contend sionals who often refer to themselves as with having to produce timely, accurate a “band of brothers.” In Fine’s skilled forecasts under the stress of meeting a hands, we learn their lingo, how they complexity of organizational demands. “read” weather conditions, how fore- . . . A highly recommended book for casts are written, and, of course, how both scholars and everyone who has an those messages are conveyed to the interest in the weather.”—Choice public. Weather forecasts, he shows, are June 280 p., 3 halftones, 1 map 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24953-7 Gary Alan Fine is professor of sociology at Northwestern University and the author of Paper $24.00s/£15.50 numerous books, including Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity; SOCIOLOGY SCIENCE With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture; and Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-24952-0 Games as Social Worlds, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Intimacies “In this fascinating and disturbing book, two writers with prose and Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips intellectual styles that are at once

Two gifted and highly prolific intellec- to realize its most exciting and innova- famously identifiable and intimately tuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, tive relational potential. Persuasive and personal celebrate the possibility of here engage in a fascinating dialogue provocative, Intimacies is a rare oppor- relationships that defy identity and about the problems and possibilities of tunity to listen in on two brilliant think- undo personality. . . . Bersani and human intimacy. Their conversation ers as they explore new ways of thinking Phillips at once dream of shattering takes as its point of departure psycho- about the human psyche. the ego and, in their own distinct analysis and its central importance “This is a beautifully crafted book, voices, display its miraculous, to the modern imagination—though one that underscores how the social life equally important is their shared sense of the psyche is a matter of risk, wager, tragicomic persistence.” that by misleading us about the impor- suspense, excitation, bodies, talk, and —Stephen Greenblatt tance of self-knowledge and the danger all manner of things both dangerous of narcissism, psychoanalysis has failed and sustaining.”—Judith Butler May 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04345-6 Leo Bersani is professor emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. He is Paper $12.00s/£8.00 the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and PSYCHOLOGY Art and Homos. Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst, visiting professor in the Department of Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04351-7 English at York University, the general editor of Penguin Modern Classics’s Freud translations, and the author of twelve books, including Going Sane and Side Effects.

paperbacks 83 Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy Muhsin S. Mahdi With a Foreword by Charles E. Butterworth

In this work, Muhsin S. Mahdi—widely the writings of and about Alfarabi has be- regarded as the preeminent scholar of come essential reading for anyone inter- Islamic political thought—distills more ested in medieval political philosophy. than four decades of research to offer “This is the magisterial work of an an authoritative analysis of the work of extraordinary scholar. Muhsin Mahdi Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political has spent a lifetime editing, translating, philosophy. Mahdi, who also brought to and interpreting Alfarabi. In Mahdi’s light writings of Alfarabi that had long presentation, Alfarabi becomes one of been presumed lost or were not even the greatest minds of the Middle Ages, known, presents this great thinker as a whose original ideas on philosophy philosopher who sought to lay the foun- and religion, on theology and jurispru- April 288 p. 6 x 9 dations for a new understanding of re- dence, are relevant to contemporary ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50187-1 Paper $30.00s/£19.50 vealed religion and its relation to the discussions.”—Joel L. Kraemer, Univer- PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE tradition of political philosophy. sity of Chicago Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50186-4 This philosophical engagement with

Muhsin S. Mahdi (1926–2007) was the James R. Jewett Professor Emeritus of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. He published the critical Arabic editions of many of Alfarabi’s works, as well as the definitive edition of the Thousand and One Nights and a pathbreaking study of Ibn Khaldun’s philosophy of history.

Law & Capitalism What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor

Recent high-profile corporate scan- that a disparate blend of legal and non- dals—such as those involving Enron in legal mechanisms have supported eco- the United States, Yukos in Russia, and nomic growth around the world. Livedoor in Japan—demonstrate chal- “Two of the world’s best scholars lenges to the legal regulation of busi- in law and economic development have ness practices in capitalist economies. teamed up to explain how different Setting forth a new analytic framework governments try to promote economic for understanding these problems, Law growth. . . . The ‘institutional autop- and Capitalism examines contemporary sies’—case studies of firm-level scandals corporate governance crises in six coun- around the world like Enron—engage tries. the reader and draw the general out of March 272 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52528-0 Using comparative case studies that the particular. You enjoy this book as Paper $25.00s/£16.00 address the United States, China, Ger- you learn from it.”—Robert Cooter, Uni- LAW ECONOMICS many, Japan, Korea, and Russia, Curtis versity of California, Berkeley Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52527-3 J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor argue

Curtis J. Milhaupt is the Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and professor of comparative corporate law at Columbia Law School. He is the author of Global Markets, Domestic Institutions. Katharina Pistor is the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

84 paperbacks Alain L. Locke “A superb, eye-opening biography. . . . Why has it taken so long for a The Biography of a Philosopher definitive biography of Locke to Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth appear, when works on comparable black intellectuals abound? Alain L. Locke, in his famous 1925 an- “The current neglect of Alain thology The New Negro, declared that “the Locke should not make us skeptical of It’s a backstory that sheds light pulse of the Negro world has begun to the claim made by [Harris and Moles- on a practical truth: Fascinating beat in Harlem.” The first biography of worth], who call him ‘the most influen- subjects for biographies can be the this extraordinarily gifted philosopher tial African American intellectual born most difficult to take on.” and writer, Alain L. Locke narrates the between W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin —Carlin Romano, untold story of his profound impact on Luther King, Jr.’ They are right.”—New Philadelphia Inquirer twentieth-century America’s cultural and Republic intellectual life. The heart of this narra- “This is the definitive biography of May 448 p., 21 halftones 6 x 9 tive illuminates Locke’s heady years in the towering cultural critic and pioneer- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31777-9 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 1920s New York City and his forty-year ing Afro-American philosopher Alain career at Howard University, where he Locke. The intellectual subtlety and metic- BIOGRAPHY AMERICAN HISTORY helped spearhead the adult education ulous work of Leonard Harris and Charles Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31776-2 movement of the 1930s and wrote on top- Molesworth forever puts Locke on our ics ranging from the philosophy of value academic radar screen!”—Cornel West to the theory of democracy.

Leonard Harris is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Charles Molesworth is professor of English at Queens College in New York.

Colored Property State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America David M. P. Freund

In Colored Property, David M. P. Freund ernment’s powerful yet still-hidden role shows how federal intervention spurred in the segregation of U.S. cities, Colored a dramatic shift in the language and Property presents a dramatic new vision logic of racial integration in residential of metropolitan growth, segregation, neighborhoods after World War II— and white identity in modern America. away from invocations of a mythical “A creative, vital entry point to ex- racial hierarchy and toward talk of mar- plore the tangle of federal mortgage kets, property, and citizenship. financing, housing reform, and deep- Freund traces the emergence of a seated racism. . . . This well-written, powerful public-private alliance that much-needed study brings together the facilitated postwar suburban growth realms of urban history, race relations, across the nation with federal pro- and economic opportunity.”—Choice grams that significantly favored whites. “Freund’s book unravels the ties Historical Studies of Urban America Then, showing how this national story that bound (and bind) race and prop- May 496 p., 13 halftones, 4 maps, played out in metropolitan Detroit, he erty, and, in the process, shows how that 5 line drawings 6 x 9 demonstrates how whites learned to linkage altered white racial ideals and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26276-5 Paper $24.00s/£15.50 view discrimination not as an act of rac- politics in postwar America.”—Andrew ism but as a legitimate response to the Wiese, Journal of American History AMERICAN HISTORY needs of the market. Illuminating gov- Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-26275-8

David M. P. Freund is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park.

paperbacks 85 Narration Four Lectures Gertrude Stein With an Introduction by Thornton Wilder and a new Foreword by Liesl M. Olson

Newly famous in the wake of the pub- the nature of history and its recording, lication of her groundbreaking Auto- and the inventiveness of the English biography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude language—in particular, its American Stein delivered her Narration lectures variant. Stein also discusses her ambiva- to packed audiences at the University lence toward her own literary fame as of Chicago in 1935. Stein had not been well as the destabilizing effect that no- back to her home country since depart- toriety had on her daily life. Restored to ing for France in 1903, and her remarks print for a new generation of readers to reflect on the changes in American cul- discover, these vital lectures will delight “Gertrude Stein meant [these ture after thirty years abroad. students and scholars of modernism lectures] to be provocative and In Stein’s trademark experimental and twentieth-century literature. playful, and most importantly, to prose, Narration reveals the legendary “Narration is a treasure waiting to give pleasure.” writer’s thoughts about the energy and be rediscovered and pirated by jolly ma- —Liesl M. Olson, mobility of the American people, the rauders of sparkling texts.”—Catharine from the Foreword effect of modernism on literary form, Stimpson, New York University

May 80 p. 6 x 8 Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was one of the most important American literary modernists. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77154-0 She is the author of many books, including The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Paper $14.00s/£9.00 Three Lives. LITERATURE

Mark Twain God’s Fool Hamlin Hill

After laughing their way through his life make his humorous output all the classic and beloved depictions of nine- more surprising and admirable. teenth-century American life, few read- “Certainly one of the most reliable ers would suspect that Mark Twain’s last and readable books in the whole huge years were anything but happy and joy- library of Twain biographical studies. ful. They would be wrong. As Hamlin Hill makes sense of a confusing and Hill reveals in Mark Twain: God’s Fool, often contradictory set of data. This is contrary to the myth perpetrated by a notable, graceful, convincing book.” his literary executors, Twain ended his —New Republic life as a frustrated writer plagued by “Fills a great, long-standing need 1 1 April 336 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 paranoia. He suffered personal trage- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33647-3 for a thoroughly researched book Paper $20.00s/£13.00 dies, got involved in questionable busi- about Mark Twain’s twilight years. . . . ness ventures, and was a demanding BIOGRAPHY Splendidly, grippingly written and ex- and controlling father and husband. cellently documented. . . . Likely to be As Hill’s book demonstrates, the diffi- a standard work for as long as anyone cult circumstances of Twain’s personal can foresee.”—Choice

Hamlin Hill (1931–2002) taught at the University of New Mexico, the University of Chicago, and Texas A&M University, where he led the Department of English until 1989. He is the author or editor of many volumes, several of which center on Mark Twain, Twain’s work, and American humor.

86 paperbacks The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession “James Brundage tells us a new law book cost on average about thirty- Canonists, Civilians, and Courts five Bolognese pounds, more than James A. Brundage some houses. Today’s students, scholars, and lawyers will welcome James A. Brundage’s The Medieval Ori- by 1250, as lawyers trained in Roman this very learned and much more gins of the Legal Profession traces the his- and canon law became professionals in tory of legal practice from its genesis in every sense of the term. A sweeping ex- affordable volume.” ancient Rome to its rebirth in the early amination of the centuries-long power —John Hudson, Middle Ages and eventual resurgence struggle between local courts and the Times Literary Supplement in the courts of the medieval church. Christian church, secular rule and re- April 560 p., 5 halftones 6 x 9 By the end of the eleventh centu- ligious edict, The Medieval Origins of the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07760-4 ry, Brundage argues, renewed interest Legal Profession will be a resource for the Paper $35.00s/£22.50 in Roman law combined with the rise professional and the student alike. EUROPEAN HISTORY LAW of canon law of the Western church to “This book . . . has been forty years Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-07759-8 trigger a series of consolidations in the in the making, and given its richness, the profession. Brundage demonstrates reader can be grateful for those decades that many features that characterize le- of research.”—Review of Metaphysics gal advocacy today were already in place

James A. Brundage is the Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Law at the University of Kansas. He is the author of nine books, including Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Scientific Perspectivism Ronald N. Giere

Many people assume that the claims of to scientific observation, conjecturing scientists are objective truths. But Sci- that the output of scientific instru- entific Perspectivism argues that the acts ments is perspectival. Furthermore, as of observing and theorizing are both Giere posits, complex scientific prin- matters of perspective—which makes ciples—such as Maxwell’s equations scientific knowledge contingent. Using describing the behavior of both the the example of color vision in humans electric and magnetic fields—by them- to illustrate how his theory of “perspec- selves make no claims about the world, tivism” works, Ronald N. Giere argues but models based on those principles that colors do not actually exist in ob- can be used to make claims about spe- jects; rather, color is the result of an in- cific aspects of the world. teraction between aspects of the world “Clear and engaging.”—Peter Lip- and the human visual system. ton, Science Giere extends this argument into “A wonderful volume: insight- June 160 p., 12 color plates, a general interpretation of human 29 line drawings 6 x 9 ful, compact, and readable.”—Evan ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29213-7 perception and, more controversially, Selinger, Quarterly Review of Biology Paper $18.00s/£11.50 SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY Ronald N. Giere is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Minnesota, a former Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29212-0 director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, and a past president of the Philosophy of Science Association. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently, Science without Laws, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

paperbacks 87 The Vanishing Present Wisconsin’s Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife Edited by Donald M. Waller and Thomas P. Rooney

The growth of industry, cities, and ag- versity. A fitting tribute to the home riculture in temperate regions around state of Aldo Leopold and John Muir, the globe has displaced species and The Vanishing Present is an accessible and stressed, as well as polluted, ecosys- timely case study of a significant ecosystems. The Vanishing Present examines tem and its response to environmental how human pressures in one state— change. Wisconsin—are rearranging its ecol- “Waller and Rooney show that they ogy. By focusing on this revealing case are not just top-notch biologists, but study, the authors draw broad conclu- rare visionaries, too. Every region of sions about the nature and extent of North America needs such a work, not ecological change, reflecting a diversity only in scope but in quality as well.” of approaches and drawing important —Dave Foreman, executive director of March 544 p., 16 color plates, lessons on how best to conserve the 43 halftones 6 x 9 the Rewilding Institute and author of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87173-8 dwindling habitats that sustain biodi- Rewilding North America Paper $27.50s/£18.00 Donald M. Waller is professor of botany and environmental studies at the University of NATURE Wisconsin–Madison. Thomas P. Rooney is assistant professor of biological sciences at Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-87171-4 Wright State University.

A Natural History of Time Pascal Richet Translated by John Venerella

For most of history, people trusted my- ulation in the entire history of Western thology or religion to provide an answer thought that bears upon the question to the pressing question of the earth’s of the earth’s antiquity. The wonderful age, even though nature abounds with thing is that he succeeds in changing clues. In A Natural History of Time, geo- what might have been dry recitation physicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinat- into an almost Dickensian world of ing story of how scientists and philoso- characters in conflict and in love.”— phers examined those clues and from William Bryant Logan, Globe and Mail them built a chronological scale that “The story of how the age of the has made it possible to reconstruct the earth was determined is a marvelous history of nature itself. concatenation of red herrings and The quest for time is a story of in- presuppositions from which the truth “Geology and natural science buffs genuity and determination, and like a eventually emerges. . . . I cannot imag- will discover a rich, baroquely em- geologist, Pascal Richet carefully peels ine a better attempt at such a broad bellished birthday cake to dig into back the strata of that history, giving sweep through science and history. and enjoy.” us a chance to marvel at each layer and . . . Richet’s natural history is—dare I truly appreciate how far our knowl- say it?—timely.”—Richard A. Fortey, —Publishers Weekly edge—and our planet—have come. Times Literary Supplement

May 481 p., 12 halftones, “Richet is fascinated by every spec- 27 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-71288-8 Pascal Richet is professor of geophysics at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. He is Paper $22.50/£14.50 the author of, among other books, The Physical Basis of Thermodynamics. John Venerella is the translator of A Naturalist’s Guide to the Tropics, also published by the University of SCIENCE HISTORY Chicago Press. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71287-1

88 paperbacks Worlds Before Adam “Magisterial. . . . A thoroughly engaging and utterly sympathetic The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform treatment of the notable figures Martin J. S. Rudwick who laid the foundation for modern geology in the period between The first detailed account of the recon- “Rudwick has restored geology to struction of prehuman history of the its rightful historical place at the heart 1820 and 1845, their inspirations earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick’s Worlds Be- of modern scientific culture.”—Ralph and intellectual triumphs, and their fore Adam picks up where his celebrated O’Connor, Science stubbornly held misconceptions. Bursting the Limits of Time leaves off. “A masterly exploration of the . . . With their highly individualistic Rudwick takes readers from the post- nineteenth-century roots of this par- flair and immense erudition, this Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to ticular scientific revolution.”—Douglas volume and its predecessor are the early years of Britain’s Victorian Palmer, New Scientist not just essential reading for any age, chronicling the staggering discov- “Rudwick’s books are myth-bust- eries geologists made during the peri- ers. . . . Rudwick highlights an underap- scientist; they are also landmark od. Ultimately, Rudwick reveals geology preciated, glorious advance in human volumes in the history of ideas and to be the first of the sciences to investi- thought, the documentation of which a brilliant scholarly achievement.” gate the historical dimension of nature, is a rather glorious achievement itself.” —Keith Thomson, a model that Charles Darwin used in —Victor R. Baker, Nature Times Higher Education developing his evolutionary theory. March 648 p., 125 halftones, Martin J. S. Rudwick is a research associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of 40 line drawings 7 x 10 Science at the University of Cambridge and professor emeritus of history at the University ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73129-2 of California, San Diego. He is the author of Bursting the Limits of Time, The Meaning of Fos- Paper $35.00s/£22.50 sils, The Great Devonian Controversy, Scenes from Deep Time, and Georges Cuvier, all published by the University of Chicago Press. SCIENCE HISTORY Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73128-5

The Enlightenment and the Book “Discerningly illustrated, at once scholarly and accessible, this is Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century an essential addition not only to Britain, Ireland, and America eighteenth-century studies but Richard B. Sher also to the history of the book.” —Atlantic In this magisterial history, Richard B. ranging from accumulating profits to

Sher breaks new ground for our under- advancing human knowledge. June 842 p., 45 halftones, standing of the Enlightenment and the “A major achievement.”—Times Lit- 16 line drawings, 7 tables 6 x 9 forgotten role of publishing during that erary Supplement ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75253-2 Paper $35.00x/£22.50 period. The Enlightenment and the Book “This is an exceptional piece of EUROPEAN HISTORY seeks to remedy the common misper- work. It is both an astonishing accumu- Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75252-5 ception that such classics as The Wealth lation of informative detail and a mul- of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson tiplicity of lively interconnected nar- were made by their authors alone. To the ratives of authors, books, booksellers, contrary, Sher shows how the process of printers and other subjects. It is a very bookmaking during the late eighteenth useful reference book, with its nearly century involved complex partnerships 150 pages of tables and bibliographies; between authors and their publishers. it is also an engaging and stimulating Similarly, Sher demonstrates that pub- read.”—Antonia Forster, Review of Eng- lishers were involved in the project of lish Studies bookmaking for a variety of reasons,

Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History at the New Jersey Institute of Tech- nology. He is the author of Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh.

paperbacks 89 Victorian Popularizers of Science Designing Nature for New Audiences Bernard Lightman

Victorian Popularizers of Science focuses market for scientific knowledge, ten- on the journalists and writers who wrote sions between religion and science, and about science for a general audience the complexities of scientific authority in the second half of the nineteenth in nineteenth-century Britain. century. Bernard Lightman examines “Bernard Lightman’s excellent Vic- more than thirty of the most prolific torian Popularizers of Science combines an and influential popularizers of the day, unusually comprehensive sweep with investigating how they communicated strikingly meticulous research. In so do- with their audience. By focusing on ing, it makes a compelling case for the a forgotten coterie of science writers, importance of the legions of self-con- Lightman offers new insights into the scious popularizers.”—Gowan Dawson, role of women in scientific inquiry, the Times Literary Supplement “The book is a substantial work of scholarship rather than a casual Bernard Lightman is professor of humanities at York University, Toronto, editor of the journal Isis, editor of Victorian Science in Context, and coeditor of Science in the Marketplace, read, and it offers much for histori- all published by the University of Chicago Press. ans of science as well as students of popular writing.” —Jon Turney, Times Higher Education

April 528 p., 68 halftones, 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48119-7 Paper $38.00s/£24.50 SCIENCE Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48118-0 Protogaea Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Edited and Translated by Claudine Cohen and Andre Wakefield

Claudine Cohen and Andre Wake- the work within its historical context. “Historically, this is a very influ- field offer the first English translation “Protogaea gives us a much fuller ential book that has finally been of Protogaea, a central text in natural picture of science and culture in the brought out of obscurity for readers philosophy and an ambitious account territories of the Holy Roman Empire of English. Essential.” of terrestrial history. Written between at a crucial time in its history. Cohen —Choice 1691 and 1693, and first published long and Wakefield are to be commended after Leibniz’s death in 1749, Protogaea for their hard work in making it pos- May 204 p., 15 halftones 6 x 9 reemerges in this bilingual edition with sible for the Protogaea to reach the audi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11301-2 an introduction that carefully situates ence it deserves.”—H-Net Review Paper $35.00s/£22.50 SCIENCE Claudine Cohen is professor of the history of science at the École des hautes études en sci- Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-11296-1 ences sociales, Paris, and the author of The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Andre Wakefield is associate professor of history at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and the author of The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice, also recently published by the University of Chicago Press.

90 paperbacks Clement Greenberg Between the Lines “De Duve is an expert on theoretical aesthetics and thus well suited to Including a Debate with Clement Greenberg reassess the formalist tenets of the Thierry d e Duve late American art critic’s theory on Translated by Brian Holmes art and culture. . . . De Duve’s close Clement Greenberg (1909–94), cham- dispensable resource for students, schol- readings of Greenberg . . . contain pion of abstract expressionism and ars, and enthusiasts of modern art. much of interest, and the author modernism—of Pollock, Miró, and “In this compelling study, Thierry clearly enjoys matching wits with Matisse—has been esteemed by many de Duve reads Greenberg against the ‘the world’s best known art critic.’” as the greatest art critic of the second grain of the famous critic’s critics— —Library Journal half of the twentieth century, and pos- and sometimes against the grain of sibly the greatest art critic of all time. the critic himself. By reinterpreting April 160 p. 6 x 9 This volume, a lively reassessment of Greenberg’s interpretations of Pollock, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17516-4 Greenberg’s writings, features three Duchamp, and other canonical figures, Paper $17.00s/£11.00 approaches to the man and his work: de Duve establishes new theoretical co- ART Greenberg as critic, doctrinaire, and ordinates by which to understand the theorist. The book also features a tran- uneasy complexities and importance of scription of a debate between de Duve Greenberg’s practice.”—John O’Brian, and Greenberg that took place at the editor of Clement Greenberg: The Collected University of Ottawa in 1987. Clement Essays and Criticism. Greenberg Between the Lines will be an in- Thierry de Duve is a Belgian art historian, critic, and curator, as well as director of studies at l’Ecole des beaux-arts, Paris. His publications in English include Kant After Duchamp and Pictorial Nominalism. Brian Holmes is a theorist, writer, and translator based in Paris.

The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn “Somfai’s book has been in print in Hungarian for some years now, and Instruments and Performance Practice, Genres and Styles it is no exaggeration to say that it László Somfai has changed dramatically the man- Translated by the author in collaboration with Charlotte Greenspan ner in which not only Haydn, but to a In this landmark publication, the the context of eighteenth-century nota- great extent Mozart and Beethoven most comprehensive study written on tion, and provides specific suggestions as well, are played in that coun- Haydn’s keyboard sonatas, a leading for playing ornaments, improvising, try. My own interpretations have Haydn scholar presents novel ideas, slurring, and dynamics. He also inves- benefited enormously from Somfai’s corrects misconceptions, and offers tigates Haydn’s sonata genres within work, and every serious student of new hypotheses on long-debated issues their historical context and discusses of early music research. the problems of establishing a chro- this repertoire should consider this László Somfai begins with a thor- nology of their composition. Finally, study essential.” ough study of Haydn’s keyboard instru- Somfai analyzes the organization and —Malcolm Bilson, ments and their development. After style of each musical form. The book Cornell University recommending instruments appropri- includes an index listing the sonatas by May 416 p., 220 musical examples ate for modern use, he discusses perfor- date of first publication and an exten- and figures 65/8 x 93/8 mance practice and style, explains the sive bibliography. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76813-7 peculiarities of Haydn’s manuscripts in Paper $45.00s/£29.00 MUSIC László Somfai, former head of the Bartók Archives in Budapest and professor emeritus Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76814-4 of musicology at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, is a leading authority on Haydn’s keyboard music. Charlotte Greenspan, now an independent scholar, has taught music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Cornell University.

paperbacks 91 “Individuum und Cosmos is one of The Individual and the Cosmos in Cassirer’s short provocative works and has been regarded as a classic Renaissance Philosophy in Renaissance studies ever since Ernst Cassirer Translated and with an Introduction by Mario Domandi its publication.” —Political Studies This provocative volume, one of the Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance most important interpretive works on Philosophy discusses the importance of 1 1 April 216 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 the philosophical thought of the Re- fifteenth-century philosopher Nicholas ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09607-0 Paper $17.00s naissance, has long been regarded as Cusanus, the concepts of freedom and a classic in its field. Ernst Cassirer here necessity, and the subject-object prob- PHILOSOPHY CUSA examines the changes brewing in the lem in Renaissance thought. early stages of the Renaissance, tracing “This fluent translation of a schol- the interdependence of philosophy, lan- arly and penetrating original leaves guage, art, and science; the newfound little impression of an attempt to show recognition of individual consciousness; that a ‘spirit of the age’ or ‘spiritual and the great thinkers of the period— essence of the time’ unifies and ex- from da Vinci and Galileo to Pico della presses itself in all aspects of society or Mirandola and Giordano Bruno. The culture.”—Philosophy

Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) was a philosopher and historian of philosophy. He taught at Friedrich Wilhelm University and the University of Hamburg, where he was Leo Strauss’s dissertation advisor, before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933. In exile, he lectured at the universities of Oxford, Gothenburg, Yale, and Columbia. His better-known works include the three-volume Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and The Myth of the State.

“A work of stunning originality. Engineering the Revolution . . . An important contribution to a variety of fields.” Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815 —Ted Porter Ken Alder

“A triumph. It deserves to be read Engineering the Revolution documents of meritocracy, and our interpretation the forging of a new relationship be- of the Enlightenment and the French widely, and not just as an inquiry tween technology and politics in Revo- Revolution. into the origins of modern France.” lutionary France, and the inauguration “In the history of technology, one —Donald MacKenzie, of a distinctively modern form of the of the very best books is Ken Alder’s En- London Review of Books “technological life.” Here, Ken Alder gineering the Revolution, about the ways rewrites the history of the eighteenth in which new engineering practices April 496 p., 32 halftones, 3 maps 6 x 9 century as the total history of one par- both emerged from and shaped the ide- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01264-3 ticular artifact—the gun—by offering a als of the French Revolution.”—Peter Paper $24.00s/£15.50 novel and historical account of how ma- Galison, American Scientist EUROPEAN HISTORY terial artifacts emerge as the outcome “Ken Alder’s study of the relations of political struggle. By expanding the between artifacts, technical life, and “political” to include conflict over ma- politics constitutes a model study in its terial objects, this volume rethinks the genre.”—Terry Shinn, Social Studies of nature of engineering rationality, the Science origins of mass production, the rise

Ken Alder is the Milton H. Wilson Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World and The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession.

92 paperbacks Criminal Intimacy Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality Regina Kunzel

In Criminal Intimacy, Regina Kunzel the fissures beneath modern sexuality explores the sexual lives of prisoners itself. and the sexual culture of prisons over Drawing on a wide range of sourc- the past two centuries—along with the es—as well as depictions of prison life impact of a range of issues, including in popular culture—Kunzel argues for race, class, and gender; sexual violence; the importance of the prison to the his- prisoners’ rights activism; and the HIV tory of sexuality and for the centrality epidemic—ultimately discovering a of ideas about sex and sexuality to the world whose surprising plurality reveals modern prison.

Regina Kunzel is professor of history; professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies; and the Paul R. Frenzel Land Grant Chair in Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization “Criminal Intimacy is simply the best of Social Work, 1890–1945. book on the history of sexuality that I’ve read in some time.” —David Halperin

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Schools Betrayed “Kathryn Neckerman’s analysis provides a welcome antidote to Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education much of the historical literature on Kathryn M. Neckerman American education, which rarely examines actual policy choices. Inner-city schools suffered from far with rising African American migration fewer problems a century ago, when by segregating schools and denying . . . Segregation did harm blacks, black children in most northern cities black students equal resources—and as this fine book shows.” attended school alongside white chil- it deepened because of techniques for —Journal of American History dren. In Schools Betrayed, Kathryn M. managing failure that only reinforced Neckerman tells the story of how and inequality. june 240 p., 25 line drawings, why these schools came to serve black “One of those rare books that will 14 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56961-1 children so poorly. become a standard reference not only Paper $22.50s/£14.50 Focusing on Chicago public schools for social scientists, historians, and EDUCATION SOCIOLOGY between 1900 and 1960, Neckerman school officials, but for educated lay Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56960-4 compares the circumstances of blacks readers as well. . . . No previous study and white immigrants, groups that had has provided a more definitive analysis similarly little wealth and status yet end- of why so many black youngsters and ed up with vastly different educational their parents have lost faith in the pub- outcomes. That difference, she argues, lic schools.”—William Julius Wilson stemmed from officials’ decision to deal

Kathryn M. Neckerman is executive director of the Center for Health and the Social Sci- ences at the University of Chicago.

paperbacks 93 Distributed books Reaktion Books 95 Seagull Books 109 British Library 123 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 129 Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University 131 WhiteWalls 131 Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago 132 McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College 133 Royal Collection Publications 134 American Meteorological Society 137 Chicago Architectural Club 138 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 139 CK Photo 143 KWS Publishers 144 Intellect Books 146 Association of American University Presses 156 The Karolinum Press, Charles University Prague 157 Prickly Paradigm Press 158 Liverpool University Press 159 University of Wales Press 166 University of Exeter Press 169 Campus Verlag 172 University of Scranton Press 174 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 177 Front Forty Press 185 University of Alaska Press 186 Center for the Study of Linguistic Information 191 Amsterdam University Press 194 Philip Carr-Gomm A Brief History of Nakedness

s one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had no idea that there was any shame in their lack A of clothes; they were perfectly confident in their birthday suits among the animals of the Garden of Eden. All was well until that day when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and went scrambling for fig leaves to cover their bodies. Since then, lucra- tive businesses have arisen to provide many stylish ways to cover our nakedness, for the naked human body now evokes powerful and often contradictory ideas—it thrills and revolts us, signifies innocence and sexual experience, and often marks the difference between nature and May 256 p., 100 color plates, 25 halftones society. In A Brief History of Nakedness, psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-647-6 traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Cloth $29.95 history Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing NSA the ways in which the naked body has been denigrated in the media, A Brief History of Nakedness reveals the ways in which religious teachers, politicians, protesters, and cultural icons have used nudity to enlighten or empower themselves as well as entertain us. Among his many examples, Carr-Gomm discusses how advertisers and the media employ images of bare skin—or even simply the word “naked”—to garner our attention, how mystics have used nudity to get closer to God, and how political protesters have discovered that baring all is one of the most effective ways to gain publicity for their cause. Carr-Gomm investigates how this use of something as natural as nakedness actually gets under our skin and evokes complicated emotional responses. From the naked sages of India to modern-day witches and Chris- tian nudists, from Lady Godiva to Lady Gaga, A Brief History of Naked- ness surveys the touching, sometimes tragic, and often bizarre story of our relationships with our naked bodies.

Philip Carr-Gomm is a writer and psychologist. He is the author of many books, including The Book of English Magic and Sacred Places: Sites of Spiritual Pilgrimage from Stonehenge to Santiago de Compostela. He also the leads the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.

Reaktion Books 95 Barbara Wyllie Vladimir Nabokov

est known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel Lolita, Vladi- mir Nabokov (1899–1977) is celebrated as one of the most Bdistinctive literary stylists of the twentieth century. In Vladimir Nabokov, Barbara Wyllie presents a comprehensive account of the life and works of the writer, from his childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia and his earliest stories to The Original of Laura—a novel written almost entirely on index cards and published for the first time in 2009, perhaps against Nabokov’s wishes. This literary biography investigates the author’s poetry and prose, in both Russian and English, and examines the relationship between Nabokov’s extraordinary erudition and the themes that recur through- Critical Lives out his works. His expertise as a specialist in butterflies complemented his wide knowledge of Russian and Western European culture, phi- February 192 p., 30 halftones 5 x 77/8 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-660-5 losophy, and history, and informed the themes of transformation Paper $16.95 and transcendence that dominate his work. Wyllie traces his lifelong biography NSA preoccupations with time, memory, and mortality across both his Russian and English works, and she illuminates his distinctive style through detailed analysis of his major novels. Wyllie assesses his poetry and prose alongside Nabokov’s own autobiography, letters, and critical writings—as well as The Original of Laura—in order to create a complete and updated picture of the writer in the context of his works. Vladimir Nabokov presents a fascinating portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most eclectic, prolific, and controversial authors. It is an essential read for fans of Nabokov and scholars of twentieth-century English and Russian literature.

Barbara Wyllie is deputy editor of the Slavonic and East European Review. She is the author of Nabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction.

96 Reaktion Books Phil Baker William S. Burroughs

long with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs (1914–97) is an iconic figure of the Beat genera- A tion. In William S. Burroughs, Phil Baker investigates this cult writer’s life and work—from small-town Kansas to New York in the ’40s, Mexico and the South American jungle, to Tangier and the writing of Naked Lunch, to Paris and the Beat Hotel, and ’60s London—alongside Burroughs’s self-portrayal as an explorer of inner space, reporting from the frontiers of experience. After accidentally shooting his wife in 1951, Burroughs felt his destiny as a writer was bound up with a struggle to come to terms with Critical Lives the “Ugly Spirit” that had possessed him. In this fascinating biogra- 7 phy, Baker explores how Burroughs’s early absorption in psychoanaly- june 192 p., 30 halftones 5 x 7 /8 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-663-6 sis shifted through Scientology, demonology, and Native American Paper $16.95 biography mysticism, eventually leading Burroughs to believe that he lived in an NSA increasingly magical universe, where he sent curses and operated a “wishing machine.” His lifelong preoccupation with freedom and its opposites—forms of control or addiction—coupled with the globally paranoid vision of his work can be seen to evolve into a larger ecological concern, exemplified in his idea of a divide between decent people, or “Johnsons,” and those who impose themselves upon others, wreck- ing the planet in the process. Drawing on newly available material, and rooted in Burroughs’s vulnerable emotional life and seminal friendships, this insightful and revealing study provides a powerful and lucid account of his career and significance.

Phil Baker is a freelance writer who lives in London. He is the author of The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History and has reviewed for a number of papers, including the Sunday Times, Observer, and Times Literary Supplement.

Reaktion Books 97 Stéphane Mallarmé Roger Pearson

This concise biography of Stéphane tential. It represents, argues Pearson, a Mallarmé (1842–98) blends an account fundamental response to the metaphys- of the poet’s life with a detailed analy- ical mystery of the human condition sis of his poetic theory and practice. “A and the desire to make sense of it for poet on this earth must be uniquely a others. A poet turns everyday banality poet,” he declared at the age of twenty- into prospects of mystery; and a poet, in two—but what is a poet’s life and what Mallarmé’s conception, is able to bring is a poet’s function? Through his poems all human beings together in height- and prose and the example of his life, ened awareness and understanding of Mallarmé provided answers to these the “magnificent act of living.” questions. This incisive and engaging biogra- In Stéphane Mallarmé, Roger Pear- phy tells the story of a fascinating and son explores the relationship among unique voice in French poetry, one that Critical Lives Mallarmé’s life, his philosophy, and his was often overshadowed by other Sym- writing. To Mallarmé, being a poet con- bolist writers. It is an essential read for april 192 p., 38 halftones 5 x 77/8 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-659-9 sists of a continuous, lifelong investiga- students of literature and nineteenth- Paper $16.95 tion of language and its expressive po- century France. biography Roger Pearson NSA is professor of French at the University of Oxford. His publications include Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art and Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Trans- lation of Silence. He is also the author of Voltaire Almighty, which was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography.

Constantin Brancusi Sanda Miller

Acknowledged as one of the major 2003, a comprehensive catalogue, which sculptors and avant-garde artists of the made the bulk of Brancusi’s private cor- twentieth century, Constantin Brancusi respondence public for the first time, (1876–1957) was also one of the most was published by the Centre Pompidou elusive, despite his fame. His mysterious to accompany a retrospective on Bran- nature was not only due to his upbring- cusi’s work. ing in Romania—which, at the time, was In Constantin Brancusi, Sanda Miller still regarded by much of Europe as a employs these extensive new resources backward country haunted by vampires to better assess Brancusi’s life and work and werewolves—but also because Bran- in relation to each other, providing cusi was aware that myth and an aura of valuable and innovative insights into his otherness appealed to the public. relationships with friends, collectors, His self-mythology remained in- dealers, and lovers. Miller’s perceptive Critical Lives tact until the publication of Brancusi in book allows Brancusi to finally take his

April 192 p., 38 halftones 5 x 77/8 1986 by Romanian artists Alexandre Is- rightful place among the most impor- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-652-0 trati and Natalia Dumitresco, who made tant of the intellectual personalities who Paper $16.95 available a small selection of the archive shaped twentieth-century modernism. biography of Brancusi’s correspondence. And in NSA Sanda Miller is a senior lecturer in fashion writing and culture at Southampton Solent Uni- versity. Her previous books include Constantin Brancusi: A Survey of His Work and The Dark Night of the Soul: Ana Maria Pacheco. 98 Reaktion Books Caviar A Global History Nichola Fletcher

Served up with a mother of pearl Russia, Iran, Europe, and America—and spoon and alongside a crystal flute of investigates how the industry has con- champagne, caviar is the ultimate cu- tributed to the decline of the sturgeon linary symbol of wealth, luxury, and population, the fish most associated decadence. But how did tiny fish eggs— with caviar. As Fletcher details, many ef- which many might regard as an un- forts are underway to create sustainable wanted, throwaway food—become such sturgeon farming, which would make it an international delicacy? In Caviar, possible to enjoy caviar with a clear envi- renowned food writer Nichola Fletcher ronmental conscience. answers this curious question, examin- Featuring vibrant illustrations and ing the rise of caviar as an indulgence many fascinating anecdotes, Caviar also and its effect on the lives of the people offers advice on purchasing and serving who seek and sell it today. caviar. This is the perfect food book for Edible Fletcher takes the reader on a tour everyone in need of a little opulence April 144 p., 40 color plates, of the main areas of caviar production— and glamour. 20 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-650-6 Nichola Fletcher is the vice-chair of the Food Trust of Scotland and a member of the Guild Cloth $15.95 of Food Writers. Her book Nichola Fletcher’s Ultimate Venison Cookery was the recipient of the cooking Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best single subject cookbook in the world in 2008. NSA She is the author of several other books, including 1001 Foods You Must Eat Before You Die.

Cake A Global History Nicola Humble

Be it a birthday or a wedding—let them to imitate the form of a bicycle wheel, eat cake. Encased in icing, crowned to the American Lady Baltimore cake, with candles, emblazoned with con- likely named for a fictional cake in a gratulatory words—cake is the ultimate 1906 novel by Owen Wister. She also de- food of celebration in many cultures tails the role of cake in literature, art, around the world. But how did cake and film—including Miss Havisham’s come to be the essential food marker of imperishable wedding cake in Great a significant occasion? In Cake, Nicola Expectations and Marcel Proust’s made- Humble explores the meanings, leg- leine of memory—as well as the art and ends, rituals, and symbolism attached architecture of cake-making itself. to cake through the ages. Featuring a large selection of Humble describes the many na- mouthwatering images, as well as many tional differences in cake-making tech- examples and recipes for some particu- Edible niques, customs, and regional histo- larly unusual cakes, Cake will provide ries—from the French gâteau Paris-Brest, many sweet reasons for celebration. April 144 p., 40 color plates, 20 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 named for a cycle race and designed ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-648-3 Cloth $15.95 Nicola Humble is professor of English literature at Roehampton University. She is the au- cooking thor of Culinary Pleasures: Cookbooks and the Transformation of British Food, as well as Victorian NSA Heroines: Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art.

Reaktion Books 99 Milk A Global History Hannah Velten

Milk—“It does a body good.” It’s diffi- scientific processes was even less natural cult to deny the truth of the American than today—known then as “the white Dairy Council’s former advertising cam- poison,” it was bacteria-ridden, mixed paign. From birth, milk is the sustaining with additives to make it look like milk and essential food of all mammals. It is after the cream was removed, filled with the first food we ever taste. And yet, de- chemicals to promote its shelf life, and spite that natural relationship to milk, extremely watered down. the majority of the world’s population Now that milk is considered a staple cannot digest it in the form most often of a healthy and balanced diet in the available to adults—cow’s milk. West, Velten investigates how and why In Milk, Hannah Velten explores conceptions of milk have shifted in the the myths and misconceptions sur- public consciousness, from the science Edible rounding the ubiquitous drink. Modern of nutrition to the dairy industry’s adver- milk processing produces a safe, clean tising campaigns. This highly illustrated April 144 p., 40 color plates, 20 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 beverage that is very different from pure exploration of one of the most funda- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-656-8 milk straight from the cow. Nonetheless, mental foods and drinks also includes Cloth $15.95 there are many advocates of raw milk recipes for ice cream, milkshakes, and cooking who long for the days before pasteuriza- even milk paint. Milk will surprise and NSA tion, homogenization, and standardiza- entertain in equal measure. tion. Yet milk in the time before these

Hannah Velten is a former agricultural journalist and the author of Cow, also published by Reaktion Books.

Lion Deirdre Jackson

Although the lion is not the largest, between the pages of medieval manu- fastest, or most lethal animal, its posi- scripts, lions have often represented dition as king of beasts has rarely been vinity, dignity, and danger. challenged. Since Paleolithic times, In Lion, Deirdre Jackson paints a lions have fascinated people, and due fresh portrait of this regal beast, draw- to its gallant mane, knowing eyes, and ing on folktales, the latest scientific re- distinctive roar, the animal continues search, and even lion-tamers’ memoirs, to beguile us today. as well as other little-known sources, to Majestic, noble, brave—the lion tell the story of lions famous and anony- is an animal that has occupied a great mous, familiar and surprising. place in the human imagination, in- Jackson summarizes the latest spiring countless myths, lore, and leg- findings of field biologists and offers Animal ends. As well, this creative relationship in-depth analyses of works of art, litera- May 224 p., 60 color plates, has abounded in visual culture—paint- ture, oral traditions, plays, and films. 40 halftones 53/8 x 71/2 ed on wood and canvas, chiseled in She is a peerless guide on a memorable ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-655-1 stone, hammered in metal, and tucked visual and cultural safari. Paper $19.95 nature Deirdre Jackson is a project officer in the catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the NSA British Library and a former research associate at the University of Oxford. She is also the author of Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts.

100 Reaktion Books Robert Irwin Camel

distinct symbol of the desert and the Middle East, the camel was once unkindly described as “half snake, half folding A bedstead.” But in the eyes of many the camel is a creature of great beauty. This is most evident in the Arab world, where the camel has played a central role in the historical development of Arabic society—where an elaborate vocabulary and extensive literature have been devoted to it. In Camel, Robert Irwin explores why the camel has fascinated so many cultures, including those cultivated in locales where camels are not indigenous. He traces the history of the camel from its origins millions of years ago to the present day, discussing such matters of Animal contemporary concern as the plight of camel herders in Sudan’s war- May 224 p., 60 color plates, 40 halftones torn Darfur region, the alarming increase in the population of feral 53/8 x 71/2 camels in Australia, and the endangered status of the wild Bactrian in ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-649-0 Paper $19.95 Mongolia and China. Throughout history, the camel has been appreci- nature NSA ated worldwide for its practicality, resilience, and legendary abilities of survival. As a result it has been featured in the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Poussin, Tiepolo, Flaubert, Kipling, and Rose Macaulay, among others. From East to West, Irwin’s Camel is the first survey of its kind to examine the animal’s role in society and history throughout the world. Not just for camel aficionados, this highly illustrated book, con- taining over one hundred informative and unusual images, is sure to entertain and inform anyone interested in this fascinating and exotic animal.

Robert Irwin is a former lecturer in medieval history at the University of St Andrews. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and India and is a leading expert on Arab culture. He is the author of numerous books, including The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature and For Lust of Knowledge: The Orientalists and Their Enemies.

Reaktion Books 101 Paul Atkinson Computer

he pixelated rectangle we spend most of our day staring at in silence is not the television, as many long feared, but the Tcomputer—the ubiquitous portal of work and personal lives. At this point, the computer is so common we don’t even notice it. It is difficult to envision that not that long ago it was a gigantic, room-sized structure accessed only by a few, inspiring as much awe and respect as fear and mystery. Now that the machine has decreased in size and increased in popular use, the computer has become a prosaic appliance, little more noted than a toaster. These dramatic changes, from the Objekt daunting to the ordinary, are captured in Computer, by design historian Paul Atkinson. June 256 p., 40 color plates, 60 halftones 6 x 82/5 Atkinson chronicles the changes in physical design of the com- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-664-3 Paper $27.00 puter and shows how these changes are related to shifts in popular computer science NSA attitude. Atkinson is fascinated by how the computer has been represented and promoted in advertising. For example, in contrast to ads from the 1970s and ’80s, today’s PC is very PC—genderless, and largely status-free. Computer also considers the role of the computer as a cultural touchstone, as evidenced by its regular appearance in popular culture, including the iconography of the space age, HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, James Bond’s gadgetry, and Star Wars and Star Trek. Computer covers many issues ignored by other histories of computing, which have focused on technology and the economics involved in their production, but rarely on the role of fashion in the physical design and promotion of computers and their general reception. The book will appeal to professionals and students of design and technology as well as those interested in the history of computers and how they have shaped—and been shaped by—our lives.

Paul Atkinson is a reader in design in the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University.

102 Reaktion Books Edward M. Spiers A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons

ollowing the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax letters that appeared in their wake, the threat posed by the widespread accessibil- Fity of chemical and biological weapons has continually been used to stir public fear and opinion by politicians and the media alike. In A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons, Edward M. Spiers cuts through the scare tactics and hype to provide a thorough and evenhanded examination of the weapons themselves—the various types March 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 and effects—and their evolution from World War I to the present. ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-651-3 Cloth $35.00 Spiers describes the similarities and differences between the two history NSA types of weapons and how technological advancements have led to tactical innovations in their use over time. As well, he gives equal attention to the international response to the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons, analyzing global efforts aimed at restraining their use, such as deterrence and disarmament, and the effectiveness of these approaches in the twentieth century. Using Iraq as a case study, Spiers also investigates its deployment of chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq War and the attempts by the international community to disarm Iraq through the United Nations Special Commission and the U.S.-led war in 2003. A timely and balanced historical survey, A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons will be of interest to readers studying the proliferation and use of chemical and biological warfare and the reactions of the international community throughout the last several decades.

Edward M. Spiers is professor of strategic studies and the Pro-Dean of Re- search in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Leeds. He is the author of many books, including Weapons of Mass Destruction: Prospects for Proliferation, and has contributed to publications such as Intelligence and National Security, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Defence Analysis.

Reaktion Books 103 A History of Diplomacy Jeremy Black

In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jer- mental organizations in diplomatic emy Black investigates how a form of relations is assessed—from the United courtly negotiation and information- Nations to Amnesty International and gathering in the early modern period Human Rights Watch—and the chal- developed through increasing global- lenges facing diplomacy in the future ization into a world-shaping force in are identified and investigated. A His- twenty-first-century politics. The mo- tory of Diplomacy presents a detailed and narchic systems of the sixteenth centu- engaging study of the ever-changing ry gave way to the colonial development role of international relations. The of European nations—which in turn aims, achievements, and failures of were shaken by the revolutions of the foreign diplomacy are presented along eighteenth century—and the rise and with their complete historical and cul- progression of multiple global interests tural background. February 296 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-696-4 led to the establishment of the modern- This is an essential read for stu- Cloth $35.00s day international embassy system. dents and scholars of history and for- history In this book, Black charts the eign policy and will be of interest to NSA course and evolution of diplomacy in anyone intrigued by the forces that each of its incarnations. As well, the have shaped international relations. role of modern inter- and nongovern-

Jeremy Black is professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is the author of more than eighty books, including Maps and Politics, Why Wars Happen, War since 1945, Britain since the Seventies, and Altered States: America since the Sixties, all published by Reaktion Books.

Wasteland with Words A Social History of Iceland Sigurdur Gylfi Magnússon

Iceland is an enigmatic island country one of the poorest in Europe—grew marked by contradiction: part of Eu- to become a disproportionately large rope, yet separated from it by the Atlan- economic power in the late twentieth tic Ocean; seemingly inhospitable, yet century, while retaining its strong sense home to more than 300,000. Wasteland of cultural identity. Bringing the story with Words explores these paradoxes to up to the present, he assesses the recent uncover the mystery of Iceland. economic and political collapse of the In Wasteland with Words Sigurdur country and how Iceland has coped. Gylfi Magnússon presents a wide-rang- Throughout Magnússon seeks to chart ing and detailed analysis of the island’s the vast changes in this country’s his- history, examining the evolution and tory through their impact and effect on transformation of Icelandic culture the Icelandic people themselves. May 272 p., 40 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-661-2 while investigating the literary and Up to date and fascinating, Waste- Cloth $39.95s historical factors that created the rich land with Words is a comprehensive study history cultural heritage enjoyed by Icelanders of the island’s cultural and historical NSA today. Magnússon explains how a nine- development, from tiny fishing settle- teenth-century economy based on the ments to a global economic power. industries of fishing and agriculture—

Sigurdur Gylfi Magnússon is the chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research at the Reykjavik Academy. He is the author of many books, including Microhistory—Conflicting Paths and The History War: Essays and Narratives on Ideology. 104 Reaktion Books Water and Art David Clarke

Restless, protean, fluid, evanescent— parallels within contemporary Chinese despite being a challenge to represent art, which draws on a cultural tradition visually, water has gained a striking in which water has an essential pres- significance in the art of the twentieth ence and is used as both a subject and century. This may be due to the fact a medium. The book features a wealth that it allows for a range of metaphori- of images by artists from East and West, cal meanings, many of which are par- including Fu Baoshi, Shi Tao, Wei Zixi, ticularly appropriate to the modern Fang Rending, Leonardo da Vinci, Ber- age. Water is not merely a subject of nini, Turner, Géricault, Klee, Matisse, contemporary art, but also a material Monet, Picasso, Mondrian, and Kand- increasingly used in art-making, giving insky. it a distinct dual presence. Fast-paced, accessible, and compre- June 256 p., 20 color plates, 90 halftones 59/10 x 79/10 Water and Art probes the ways in hensive, Water and Art will appeal to the ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-662-9 which water has gained an unprece- specialist and the general reader alike, Paper $35.00s dented prominence in modern Western offering fresh perspectives on familiar art art and seeks to draw connections to its artists as well as an introduction to oth- NSA depiction in earlier art forms. David ers who are less well known. Clarke looks across cultures, finding

David Clarke is professor of fine arts at the University of Hong Kong. He has written several books, including Hong Kong x 24 x 365: A Year in the Life of a City and Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization, the latter also published by Reaktion Books.

The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art François Quiviger

During the Renaissance, new ideas proof representation, which were evolving gressed alongside new ways of commu- throughout the sixteenth century, and nicating them, and nowhere is this more explains how this shaped early modern visible than in the art of this period. In notions of art, spectatorship, and artis- The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance tic creation. Art, François Quiviger explores the ways Featuring many beautiful images in which the senses began to take on a by artists such as Dürer, Leonardo da new significance in the art of the six- Vinci, Titian, Pontormo, Michelangelo, teenth century. The book discusses the and Brueghel, The Sensory World of Ital- presence and function of sensation in ian Renaissance Art presents a compre- Renaissance ideas and practices, inves- hensive study of Renaissance theories tigating their link to mental imagery— of art in the context of the actual works June 224 p., 40 color plates, namely, how Renaissance artists made they influenced. Beautifully illustrated 60 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 touch, sound, and scent palpable to and extensively researched, it will ap- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-657-5 the minds of their audience. Quiviger peal to students and scholars of art his- Cloth $27.00s points to the shifts in ideas and theories tory. art NSA François Quiviger is a librarian at the Warburg Institute, London. He is the author of several books, including Imagining and Composing Stories in the Renaissance and Seeing and Looking in the Renaissance.

Reaktion Books 105 Abandoned Images Film and Film’s End Stephen Barber

Broadway Avenue in downtown Los An- ently undergoing a process of profound geles contains an extraordinary collec- transformation in both how movies are tion of twelve abandoned film palaces, made and how they are watched. Bar- all built between 1910 and 1931. In most ber explores what this means for the cities such a concentration of original cinematic experience: Are movies losing cinema houses would have been de- some essential element of their identity molished long ago—but in a city whose and purpose, and can the distinctive aura identity is inseparable from the film of film survive when the specialized ven- industry, the buildings have survived ues required to display movies have been mainly intact, some of their interiors comprehensively overhauled or erased? dilapidated and gutted and others trans- Barber also forecasts the future of film, formed and reimagined as churches or revealing how its distinctive and flexible February 192 p., 75 halftones nightclubs. Stephen Barber’s Abandoned nature will be vital to its survival. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-645-2 Images takes us inside these remarkable Featuring many evocative images Paper $24.95s structures in order to understand the alongside insightful reflections on the film studies birth and death of film as both a me- role of film and its viewing in the global NSA dium and a social event. culture, Abandoned Images will be of in- Due to the rise of digital filmmak- terest to all those engaged in contempo- ing and straight-to-DVD and on-demand rary developments in film, visual media, distribution, the film industry is pres- and digital arts.

Stephen Barber is professor in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University. He is the author of many books, including The Art of Destruction: The Films of the Vienna Action Group and Projected Cities, the latter also published by Reaktion Books.

Imprint and Trace Handwriting in the Age of Technology Sonja Neef Translated by Anthony Mathews

Today, writing by hand seems a nearly persistently singular, original, and au- archaic process. Almost all of our writ- thentic as a trace or line. Throughout its ten communication is digital—our let- history, from the first prehistoric hand- ters are sent via e-mail or text message, print, and through the innovations of our manuscripts are composed using stylus, quill, and printing press, hand- word processors, our journals are blogs, writing has revealed an interweaving, and we sign checks to pay bills with the ever-changing relationship between im- push of a button. Sonja Neef believes print and trace. Even today, in the age that what we have lost in our modern of the digital revolution, the trace of technological conversation is the duc- handwriting is still an integral part of tus—the physical and material act of communication, whether etched, pho- 1 1 June 272 p., 80 halftones 5 /2 x 8 /2 handwriting. tographed, pixilated, or scanned. ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-653-7 Cloth $40.00s In Imprint and Trace Neef argues, Imprint and Trace presents an es- media studies however, that handwriting throughout sential reevaluation of the relationships NSA its history has always been threatened between handwriting and technology, with erasure. It exists in a dual state: and between the various imprints and able to be standardized, repeated, cop- traces that define communication. ied—much like an imprint—and yet

Sonja Neef lectures in European media and culture at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, 106 Reaktion Books Germany. Anthony Mathews is an associate lecturer at Open University. Photography and Africa Erin Haney

A land comprising more than fifty na- of astonishing and rare images, Erin tions and innumerable cultural and Haney brings together some of the geographic variations, from harsh des- most vibrant examples captured in the ert to lush jungle, Africa has long been continent. From royal portraiture in a favorite subject for photographers. the nineteenth-century Cape Coast to Since the advent of the medium in the staged vignettes of old Cairo streets to first half of the nineteenth century, a apartheid-era South African resistance myriad of photographers—both indig- photography, this book illustrates the enous and immigrant, amateur and fascinating and long-standing relation- professional, explorer and colonist, ship between Africa and the photo- naturalist and artist—have recorded in- graph. trepid expeditions, documented flora A powerful and celebratory in- Exposures and fauna, and chronicled the transfor- sight into Africa’s relationship with the June 144 p., 20 color plates, mations of the cultural landscape. photograph, Photography and Africa will 60 halftones 71/2 x 82/3 Photography and Africa investigates appeal to those interested in the pho- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-382-6 the many themes that intertwine the tography and culture of Africa and how Paper $29.95s photographs with the circumstances the two have interacted and informed photography african studies NSA of their creation. Presenting a wealth each other over time.

Erin Haney is a visiting scholar at the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution and a curator and author working on several projects dealing with historical and contemporary photographers from Africa.

Now in Paperback Insomnia A Cultural History Eluned Summers-Bremner

This cultural, historical, and scientific Insomnia reveals, important questions exploration of sleeplessness by Eluned linger about the role of the pharmaceu- Summers-Bremner begins with the lit- tical industry and the effectiveness of erature of ancient times, and finds its such treatments. sufferers in prominent texts such as the “Summers-Bremner’s account of Iliad, the Odyssey, the Mesopotamian literary usages of insomnia, from Gil- epic Gilgamesh, and the Bible. Moving gamesh to García Márquez, is a rich one, to Romantic and Gothic literature, sufficient to make the case that insom- she shows how sleeplessness continued nia is a recurrent theme in Western to play a large role as the advent of culture.”—Wall Street Journal street lighting in the nineteenth cen- February 176 p., 15 halftones “A whimsical tour of the history of 1 1 tury inspired the fantastical blurring 5 /2 x 8 /2 how different cultures have viewed not ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-654-4 of daytime reality and night visions, only insomnia but also the night itself, Paper $19.95s and authors connected insomnia to sleep, dreams, darkness, and activities history the ephemeral worlds of nightmares that occur in the dark.”—New England NSA and the sublime. Meanwhile, insomnia Journal of Medicine Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-317-8 has been variously categorized by the “Summers-Bremner’s excellent ac- medical community as a manifestation count of insomnia shows that the con- of a deeper psychological or physical sideration of our waking moments is in- malady. Today’s medical solutions tend dicative of the changing ways we think to involve prescription drugs—but, as about life.”—Financial Times Magazine Eluned Summers-Bremner is a senior lecturer in the English department at the University of Auckland. Reaktion Books 107 Now in Paperback The Abu Ghraib Effect Stephen F. Eisenman

The photographs of torture at Abu motif’s appearance in imperial Greek Ghraib prison aroused worldwide and Roman Art, in the sculpture and condemnation—or did they? Opinion painting of Michelangelo, and in Ba- polls showed that most citizens of the roque paintings of saints and martyrs. United States were unmoved by the im- The author also describes the equally ages. One reason for this relative lack of long history of artistic protest against a public outcry may be the nature of the the formula by such diverse artists as Abu Ghraib pictures themselves and William Hogarth, Francisco Goya, what Stephen F. Eisenman terms “the Pablo Picasso, Ben Shahn, and Leon Abu Ghraib effect.” By showing prison- Golub. ers engaging in sexual acts, Eisenman The Abu Ghraib Effect reveals how asserts, the photos make the men look February 142 p., 66 halftones the pathos formula has dulled public 51/2 x 81/2 like enthusiastic participants in their responses to images of torture, and also ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-646-9 own interrogation and torture. Fur- urges a more effective use of political Paper $14.95 ther, these scenes repeat an ancient ste- images in the fight against the so-called current events reotype: the “pathos formula,” in which “war on terror.” NSA victims of war are shown welcoming Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-309-3 “Eisenman’s concepts and ques- their own punishment. tions constitute a challenging discourse In this highly original analysis, on politics and art.”—Art in America Eisenman shows the pathos formula at “This brilliantly argued volume work in the Abu Ghraib photos, and he should be read by all art historians.” describes its long history, exploring the —Art Book

Stephen F. Eisenman is professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern Univer- sity. He is also the author of The Temptation of Saint Redon and Gauguin’s Skirt.

Now in Paperback Spicing Up Britain The Multicultural History of British Food Panikos Panayi

From the arrival of Italian ice cream that Britain has become a country of vendors and German pork butchers, to vast ethnic diversity, in which people the rise of Indian curry as the national of different backgrounds—but still dish, Spicing Up Britain uncovers the British—are united by their readiness fascinating history of British food over to sample a wide variety of foods pro- the last 150 years. Panikos Panayi shows duced by other ethnic groups. Taking in how a combination of immigration, in- changes to home cooking, restaurants, creased wealth, and globalization have grocery shops, delis, and cookbooks, transformed the eating habits of the Panayi’s flavorful account will appeal English from a culture of stereotypi- to a wide range of readers interested in march 288 p., 50 halftones 6 x 9 cally bland food to a flavorful interna- ethnic cooking, food history, and the ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-658-2 tional cuisine. social history of Britain. Paper $25.00s Along the way, Panayi challenges “Wearing his twin hats of foodie cooking NSA preconceptions about British identity and social historian, Panikos Panayi Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-373-4 and raises questions about multicul- can appal as well as engender salivation turalism and the extent to which other on his tour d’horizon of the multicultural cultures have entered British society history of British food.”—Washington through the portal of food. He argues Times

Panikos Panayi is professor of European history at De Montfort University. His father was a 108 Reaktion Books Cypriot pastry chef working in London. Thomas Bernhard Prose Translated by Martin Chalmers

“His manner of speaking, like that of all the subordinated, excluded, was awkward, like a body full of wounds, into which at any time anyone can strew salt, yet so insistent, that it is painful to listen to him.” —from “The Carpenter”

he Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931–89) is acknowledged as one of the major writers of our Ttime. The seven stories in this collection capture Bernhard’s distinct darkly comic voice and vision—often compared to Kafka and Musil—commenting on a corrupted world. First published in German in 1967, these stories were written at “What is extraordinary about Bernhard the same time as Bernhard’s early novels Frost, Gargoyles, and The Lime is that his relentless pessimism never Works, and they display the same obsessions, restlessness, and disarm- seems open to ridicule; his world is so ing mastery of language. Martin Chalmers’s outstanding translation, powerfully imagined that it can seem to which renders the work in English for the first time, captures the essen- surround you like little else in literature.” —New Yorker tial personality of the writing. The narrators of these stories lack the strength to do anything but listen and then write, the reader in turn Seagull World Literature becoming a captive listener, deciphering the traps laid by memory— and the mere words, the never-ending words with which we try to pin it May 162 p. 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-56-9 down. Words that are always close to driving the narrator crazy, yet, as Cloth $17.00/£11.00 Bernhard writes, “not completely crazy.” fiction IND “Bernhard’s glorious talent for bleak existential monologues is second only to Beckett’s, and seems to have sprung up fully mature in his mesmerizing debut.”—Publishers Weekly, on Frost “The feeling grows that Thomas Bernhard is the most original, concentrated novelist writing in German. His connections . . . with the great constellation of Kafka, Musil, and Broch become ever clearer.” —George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement, on Gargoyles

Thomas Bernhard 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.

Seagull Books 109 Jean-Paul Sartre Typhus

Translated by Chris Turner

et in Malaya during the British protectorate, Sartre’s Typhus centers on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former Sdoctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nightclub singer, whose partner succumbs to the typhus epidemic sweeping the country. Though it does not shy from the explosive issues of colonialism and race that are implicit in its setting, Typhus is both a turbulent love story The French List in the best traditions of Western popular cinema and an existentialist tale of moral redemption that shares many fascinating parallels with

May 212 p. 6 x 71/2 Albert Camus’ novel The Plague. ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-42-2 Cloth $19.95/£13.00 Jean-Paul Sartre penned the screenplay Typhus in 1943–44 on a drama IND commission for French filmmakers Pathé, who were planning a postwar production. However, the film was never made, though Yves Allé- gret’s 1953 filmThe Proud Ones retains some distant echoes of Sartre’s original script. The script was lost for nearly sixty years before being rediscovered and published in French in 2007. This first English publication will be essential for fans of Sartre and twentieth-century French literature and postwar film. “One of the most brilliant and versatile writers as well as one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century.”—Times (UK) “Jean-Paul Sartre dominated the intellectual life of twentieth- century France to an extraordinary degree.”—Tom Bishop, New York Times

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.

110 Seagull Books Jean Baudrillard Carnival and Cannibal, Or The Play of Global Antagonism

Translated by Chris Turner

n Carnival and Cannibal, distinguished French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) reflects on many of his most important I ideas concerning the significance of language and the relation- “A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the ship between the technological and the social. post-Marxist left.” In this, one of his final works, Baudrillard identifies two fatal —New York Times modes in which the world is currently engaged: the carnival and the cannibal, arguing essentially that contemporary society is transfixed by “The most important French thinker of the the spectacle of its own cultural creation and self-consumption. Revisit- past twenty years.” —J. G. Ballard ing his most important concepts—such as reversibility, simulation, parody, and symbolic exchange—through the exploration of these two The French List dominant modes, Baudrillard delivers a blistering diagnosis of globalization, as inflicted on the world by the richer nations. March 98 p. 41/4 x 7 In the companion essay “Ventriloquous Evil,” Baudrillard medi- ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-20-0 tates on our present system of global technological and ideological Cloth $15.00/£9.50 philosophy domination, which has eradicated human accountability. Baudrillard IND argues that “this entire electronic, cybernetic revolution is perhaps merely a piece of animal cunning that humanity has found in order to escape itself.” A brilliant synthesis of some of Baudrillard’s most remarkable and influential ideas,Carnival and Cannibal is a timely and formidable exploration of a humanity that has cannibalized the human.

Jean Baudrillard’s many works include The System of Objects, Simulacra and Simu- lation, Utopia Deferred, and Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, the last also published by Seagull Books. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

Seagull Books 111 Hans Magnus Enzensberger A History of Clouds 99 Meditations Translated by Martin Chalmers and Esther Kinsky

n these ninety-nine meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine Iin everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking—a pair of scissors, perhaps—is both a small, human victory and a quiet reminder of our own ephemeral nature. He sets his quotidian reflections against a broad historic and political backdrop—the The German List cold war and its accompanying atomic threat, the German student revolt, would-be socialism in Cuba, China, and Africa, and World War april 164 p. 5 x 81/2 II as experienced by the youthful poet. ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-45-3 Cloth $18.00/£11.50 Enzensberger’s poems are conversational, skeptical, and serene; poetry IND they culminate in the extended set of observations that gives the collection its title. Clouds, alien and yet symbols of human life, are for En- zensberger at once a central metaphor of the Western poetic tradition and “the most fleeting of all masterpieces.” “Cloud archaeology,” writes Enzensberger, is “a science for angels.” “After reading this wonderful volume of poetry one would like to call Enzensberger simply the lyric voice of transience.”—Sueddeutsche Zeitung “With this book Enzensberger reveals himself both as a spokesman of persistence and as a decelerator.”—Neue Zuercher Zeitung

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, often considered Germany’s most important living poet, is also the editor of the book series Die Andere Bibliothek and the founder of the monthly TransAtlantik. His books include Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems and Civil Wars: From L. A. to Bosnia. 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. Esther Kinsky is a literary translator and the author of the novel Sommerfrische. She has translated poetry by Angelus Silesius, Else Lasker-Schueler, and Wolf Wondratschek, among others.

112 Seagull Books André Gorz Ecologica

Translated by Chris Turner

riting in 2007, French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) was remarkably prophetic, foretelling the W international economic meltdown of 2008: “The real economy is becoming an appendage of the speculative bubbles sustained by the finance industry—until that inevitable point when the bubbles burst, leading to serial bank crashes and threatening the global system of credit with collapse and the real economy with a severe, prolonged depression.” This prescient article is collected in Ecologica alongside many of Gorz’s final writings and interviews, which together offer a practical and often pathbreaking set of solutions to our current “Gorz’s work was always within the economic and political problems. Utopian tradition—a label he welcomed In his writings Gorz condemns the speculative global economic but which was used pejoratively by his system and anatomizes its terminal crisis. Advocating an exit from opponents. . . . Many of his derided early capitalism through the self-limitation of needs and the networked warnings about globalization and envi- use of the latest technologies, he outlines a practical, democratically ronmental degradation have become com- based solution to our current predicament. Compiled by Gorz himself, monplace discourses in political debates Ecologica is intended as a final distillation of his work and thought, a today. Ultimately, Gorz’s Utopianism was guide to the survival of our planet. It is a work of political, rather than expressed in a very practical sense—we scientific ecology—Gorz argues that the key to planetary survival is never know how far along the road we are not a surrender to environmental experts and eco-technocrats, but a if we have no idea of the destination.” switch to non-consumerist modes of living that would amount to a type —Independent of cultural revolution. The French List “To my mind the greatest of modern French social thinkers.” —Herbert Gintis, author of Schooling in Capitalist America

March 186 p. 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-41-5 André Gorz, also known by his pen name Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and Cloth $19.95/£13.00 French social philosopher. Also a journalist, Gorz was the editor of Les Temps CURRENT EVENTS philosophy modernes and cofounded Le Nouvel Observateur, a leftist weekly, in 1964. His IND other books include Socialism and Revolution and Farewell to the Working Class. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

Seagull Books 113 Tzvetan Todorov Memory as a Remedy for Evil Translated by Gila Walker With Photographs by Naveen Kishore

an humanity be divided into good and evil? And if so, is it possible for the good to vanquish the evil, eradicating it from C the face of the earth by declaring war on evildoers and bringing them to justice? Can we overcome evil by the power of memory? In Memory as a Remedy for Evil, Tzvetan Todorov answers these questions in the negative, arguing that despite all our efforts to the contrary, we Praise for Imperfect Garden cannot be delivered from evil. “Written very much in the spirit of Mon- In this work on evil, memory, and justice, Todorov examines the taigne. . . . A wide-ranging meditation on uses of memory and the spate of memorial laws in France in order to the open-endedness of human life, on show how memory has failed as a remedy against evil and how efforts the freedom and the sociability that are to come to grips with past evil through trials and punitive justice have its only givens, and on the minimal ethic failed as well. Todorov locates the fatal flaw of all these approaches in of autonomy and responsibility to others our erroneous relationship with evil as alterity, the distinction that we that they ought to inspire. . . . Todorov draw between ourselves and others that allows us to imagine ourselves harbors no illusions about the mix of in the appealing role of hero and victim and confine others to the role good and bad that enters into the fabric of of villain and criminal. all that is human.” Similarly, in his analysis of the South African Truth and Reconcili- —New Republic ation Commission and Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Todorov

argues in favor of restorative justice, which “seeks not to punish but “It is comforting to read an intelligent to restore relations that should never have been interrupted” between defence of liberal humanism. Like the au- former perpetrators and former victims. thors he focuses on, Todorov is tolerant, understanding and wise.” Memory as a Remedy for Evil is a powerful and timely work that asks —Observer that we recognize the good and evil within each of us and reminds us that only by coming to terms with evil and trying to understand it can The French List we hope to tame it.

Tzvetan Todorov is the author of The Conquest of America, Mikhail Bakhtin, On March 92 p., 20 halftones 41/4 x 61/4 Human Diversity, Facing the Extreme, Imperfect Garden, Hope and Memory, and ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-43-9 Cloth $15.00s/£9.50 The New World Disorder, among others. Gila Walker has translated more than Philosophy a hundred works from French, including texts by Jacques Derrida, François IND Julienne, Yves Bonnefoy, and Georges Didi-Huberman.

114 Seagull Books Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Nationalism and the Imagination

ayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and post- G colonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida’s On Grammatology and her groundbreaking essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” Spivak has often focused on subaltern, margin- alized women and the role essentialism in feminist thought can play in uniting women from divergent cultural backgrounds. In Nationalism and the Imagination, Spivak expands on her previous postcolonial scholarship, employing a cultural lens to examine the rhetorical underpin- nings of the idea of the nation-state. “Spivak has probably done more long-term In this gripping and intellectually rigorous work, Spivak specifi- political good in pioneering feminist and cally analyzes the creation of Indian sovereignty in 1947 and the tone postcolonial studies within global aca- of Indian nationalism, bound up with class and religion, that arose in demia than almost any of her theoretical its wake. Spivak was five years old when independence was declared, colleagues.” and she vividly writes: “These are my earliest memories: Famine and —Terry Eagleton blood on the streets.” As well, she recollects the songs and folklore that were prevalent at the time in order to examine the role of the mother “Spivak’s is a unique voice of courage tongue and the relationship between language and feelings of national and conceptual ambition that addresses identity. She concludes that nationalism colludes with the private public life from the perspective of psychic sphere of the imagination in order to command the public sphere. reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through Originally given as an address at the University of Sofia in Bul- which we emerge as subjects of freedom.” garia, Nationalism and the Imagination provides powerful insight into —Homi K. Bhabha the historical narrative of India as well as compelling ideas that speak to nationalist concerns around the world. Also included in this book april 92 p. 41/4 x 7 is the discussion with Spivak that followed the speech, making this an ISBN-13: 978-1-905422-93-7 essential and informative work for scholars of postcolonialism. Cloth $15.00s/£9.50 cultural Studies IND Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities and director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her other books include In Other Worlds, The Post-Colonial Critic, and A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason.

Seagull Books 115 Letters to Madeleine Tender as Memory Guillaume Apollinaire Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith Edited by Laurence Campa

Letters to Madeleine collects for the first the letters reveal intimate and little- time in English the remarkable letters known aspects of Apollinaire’s person- and poems sent by French poet Guil- ality—from his childhood and tastes to laume Apollinaire to his fiancée, Mad- his grandest aesthetic ideas. eleine Pagès, during World War I. Writing about the letters in his bi- This fascinating correspondence ography of Apollinaire, Francis Steeg- bears witness to the typical yet deeply muller noted, “Nowhere, is there a more idiosyncratic experience of Apollinaire ‘living picture’ of a poet in a war . . . at an especially crucial moment of his or, outside of Stendhal, a more vivid pic- The French List existence as man and artist. Apollinaire ture of war itself.” Letters to Madeleine is a shares with Madeleine his thoughts on moving portrait of a poet facing one of 1 2 June 624 p., 22 halftones 7 /2 x 8 /3 art and literature from Racine to Tol- humanity’s starkest realities, and it will ISBN-13: 978-1-905422-92-0 Cloth $30.00/£19.50 stoy, and at the same time he uniquely be of interest to not only fans of Apol- documents the daily life of a soldier at linaire but those interested in personal literature IND the front during the Great War. As well, accounts of World War I as well.

Guillaume Apollinaire’s (1880–1918) works include The Decaying Enchanter, The Bestiary, The Spirits, and Caligrams. He is credited with coining the term “surrealism.” Donald Nicholson-Smith has translated many works from the French.

Correspondence Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann Translated by Wieland Hoban

Paul Celan (1920–70) is one of the best- dence forms a moving testimony of known German poets of the Holocaust; the discourse of love in the age after many of his poems, admired for their Auschwitz, with all the symptomatic spare, precise diction, deal directly disturbances and crises caused by their with its stark themes. Austrian writer conflicting backgrounds and their Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–73) is rec- hard-to-reconcile designs for living—as ognized as one of post–World War II a woman, as a man, as writers. In addi- German literature’s most important tion to the almost two hundred letters, novelists, poets, and playwrights. It the volume includes an important ex- seems only appropriate that these two change between Bachmann and Gisèle contemporaries and masters of lan- Celan-Lestrange, who married Celan The German List guage were at one time lovers, and that in 1951, as well as letters between Paul they shared a lengthy, artful, and pas- Celan and Swiss writer Max Frisch. 1 June 442 p., 23 halftones 6 x 7 /2 sionate correspondence. “Scarcely more breathlessly and ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-44-6 Cloth $24.95/£16.00 Collected here for the first time desperately can two lovers ever have literature in English are their letters written be- struggled for words.”—FAZ, on the Ger- ind tween 1948 and 1961. Their correspon- man edition

Paul Celan was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Romania; he lived in France and wrote in German. His works are collected in English in Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual German/English Edition and Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, among other books. Ingeborg Bachmann is the author of Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina, and Simultan, among others. Wieland Hoban has translated several works from the German. 116 Seagull Books Change Mo Yan Translated by Howard Goldblatt

In Change, Mo Yan—China’s foremost “If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo novelist—personalizes the political and Yan. Like Kafka, Yan has the ability to social changes in his country over the examine his society through a variety of past few decades in a novella disguised lenses, creating fanciful, Metamorphosis- as autobiography (or vice versa). Unlike like transformations or evoking the most historical narratives from China, numbing bureaucracy and casual cruel- which are pegged to political events, ty of modern governments.”—Publishers Change is a representative of “people’s Weekly, on Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a history,” a bottom-up rather than top- Laugh down view of a country in flux. By mov- “As shrewd as he is captivating, Mo ing back and forth in time and focusing Yan is dedicated to explicating the suf- on small events and everyday people, fering and resilience of ordinary peo- Yan breathes life into history by describ- ple and to telling a darn good story.” What Was Communism? ing the effects of larger-than-life events —Booklist, on Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for 1 on the average citizen. a Laugh April 108 p. 4 /4 x 7 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-48-4 Mo Yan has published dozens of short stories and novels in Chinese. His other works in- Cloth $15.00/£9.50 clude The Garlic Ballads; The Republic of Wine; Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh; Big Breasts Fiction Wide Hips; and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out. Howard Goldblatt is research professor of IND Chinese at the University of Notre Dame and founding editor of Modern Chinese Literature.

Bait, and Other Stories Mahasweta Devi Translated and with an Introduction by Sumanta Banerjee

Unlike most of Mahasweta Devi’s works, against an exploitative establishment as which focus on Bengali tribes and the a result of abuse by a politician and his rural dispossessed, the four stories col- cohorts in “Body,” and an unemployed lected in Bait are located in the urban middle-class youth discovers himself and suburban criminal underworld, after his first “test” killing in the dark and form an unusual segment of Devi’s story “Killer.” oeuvre. This collection of fascinating and The first story, “Fisherman,” is unsettling stories is anchored by an in- about a man who recovers the bodies depth introductory essay by cultural of young boys from the village pond so historian Sumanta Banerjee, who has that the police can pass them off as vic- firsthand familiarity with the settings tims of drowning. “Knife,” on the other and situations from his crime-reporting hand, is a tongue-in-cheek account past. Banerjee contextualizes the stories What Was Communism? of the liminal cultural world of West within the development of the growing April 180 p. 41/4 x 7 Bengal, which borders Bangladesh. A criminal underworld in Bengal today. ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-49-1 young woman makes her own protest Cloth $17.00/£11.00 fiction Mahasweta Devi is one of India’s foremost writers. Her other novels include Mother of 1084 ind and Chotti Munda and His Arrow. Sumanta Banerjee is a cultural historian and the author of many books, including The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Calcutta and Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal, both published by Seagull Books. Seagull Books 117 The Queen of Jhansi Mahasweta Devi Translated by Sagaree Sengupta and Mandira Sengupta

Lakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, a leg- into an independent young leader. endary Indian heroine, led her troops Devi’s resulting work traces the against the British in the uprising of history of the growing resistance to the 1857, which is now widely described as British, while building a detailed picture the first Indian War of Independence. of Lakshmibai as a complex, spirited, The image of the young warrior queen full-blooded woman who wears her long who died on the battlefield but not tresses unbound, prefers male attire on in the minds of her people captured horseback, and is a cool-headed and far- the imagination of novelist Mahasweta sighted leader of men, full of warm con- Devi, who undertook extensive research cern for her soldiers, as well as a mother that encompassed family reminiscence, who worries about her infant son’s oral literature, local histories, and more well-being. Simultaneously a history, a Seagull World Literature traditional sources. From these she wove biography, and an imaginative work of a very personal history of a heroine—an fiction, this book is a valuable contribu- unusual woman, widowed at an early May 344 p. 5 x 81/2 tion to the reclamation of history and ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-53-8 age, who grew from a free-spirited child historiography by feminist writers. Cloth $21.95/£14.00 Mahasweta Devi is one of India’s foremost writers. Her other novels include Mother of 1084 fiction IND and Chotti Munda and His Arrow. Sagaree Sengupta teaches South Asian languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She collaborated on this translation with her mother, Mandira Sengupta, an artist who maintains an active interest in her native Bengali literature despite her long residence abroad.

Back in Print Fear of Mirrors Tariq Ali

In this novel from esteemed political family’s betrayal. Written with deep po- writer Tariq Ali, a father, Vlady, loses litical insight and sensitivity, Fear of Mir- his job when he refuses to renounce so- rors relates the extraordinary history of cialist beliefs in the newly unified Ger- Central Europe from the perspective of many—and as a result wants to explain those on the other side of the cold war. to his alienated son what their family’s “Ali folds his drama around the long and passionate involvement with tight, cultlike atmosphere of Commu- communism has really meant. The sto- nist Party life, peopled by idealists who ry he tells is of Ludwik, a Polish secret find their lives encumbered by betray- agent, and Gertrude, Vlady’s mother, als, power grabs, and corruption and whose desire for Ludwik is matched only who, in the post-Communist era, must Seagull World Literature by her devotion to the communist ideal. come to terms with their complicity with

May 332 p. 6 x 71/2 As the plot unfolds through the politi- Stalinism. . . . This is a valuable book, ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-15-6 cal upheavals of the twentieth century, especially for those interested in the Cloth $21.95/£14.00 Vlady describes the hopes aroused by current thinking of the European left.” fiction the Bolshevik revolution and discovers —Publishers Weekly IND the almost unbearable truth about the Previously published by Arcadia books ISBN: 978-1-900850-10-0 Tariq Ali is a writer, filmmaker, and a longtime political activist and campaigner. He has written over a dozen books on world history and politics, including The Clash of Fundamen- talisms, Bush in Babylon, Rough Music, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Axis of Hope, as well as five novels and scripts for both stage and screen. 118 Seagull Books Young Light Ralf Rothmann Translated by Wieland Hoban

In Young Light, novelist Ralf Rothmann his stressed, exhausted mother to paints a delicate portrait of a twelve- their suspicious neighbors, the adults year-old boy named Julian growing up remind him of his own powerlessness in a mining community in 1960s Ger- rather than offering encouragement; many. The book covers only a few sum- but his little sister Sophie proves his mer weeks, following Julian’s gradual most devoted ally, gently standing up to social and sexual awakening amidst his their mother’s fits of rage. As the novel parents’ financial and marital prob- progresses, Julian becomes increasingly lems. Avoiding any overt drama in the aware of the weaknesses and failures of description of the boy’s predicaments the adults; despite his difficulties in un- and observations, Rothmann instead derstanding what goes on around him, creates a quiet sense of hope and new one senses a wisdom and integrity that beginnings. His subtle, restrained prose sets him apart from many of the other Seagull World Literature captures the unarticulated, yet increas- characters in his life. Rothmann’s re- ingly conscious feelings of the boy as freshingly unpretentious style offers May 336 p. 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-54-5 he approaches the end of childhood, the perfect medium for this portrait of Cloth $21.95/£14.00 but still remains very remote from the ambivalent youthful consciousness. fiction adult world he sees around him. From IND

Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist, whose novels have been translated into several languages. His most recent novel translated into English was Knife Edge. Wieland Hoban is a British composer who lives in Germany. He has translated several works from the German, including many by Theodor W. Adorno.

The Kyoto List Michael S. Koyama

If it takes only a few rogue financiers to cerned by the financial environment collapse the economy, can one earnest born in the near-meltdown of 2008. In investment officer save the dollar from The Kyoto List, the dollar comes under collapse? Ken Murai, the protagonist an attack far greater than the raid by of this fast-paced novel by Michael S. George Soros that famously brought Koyama, is a young officer in the Japa- down the British pound in 1992. This nese ministry of finance who one day is a timely thriller about a race against discovers a plot by one of his superi- time to save the seemingly moribund ors to organize a group, known as the dollar before hostile forces destroy it— Kyoto List, of corrupt officials, bankers, and the worldwide financial system that businessmen, and journalists from the depends on it. United States, Europe, and Asia. The Koyama paints an exciting and List plans to wreck the world’s financial entertaining expert’s portrait of the system—and grab enormous wealth for lawless financial interests that have the Seagull World Literature itself in the process. power to devastate global economies This exhilarating novel of high for the sake of a market that measures May 338 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-58-3 finance was written by an economics ethics only in profits. Cloth $21.95/£14.00 insider fascinated and gravely con- fiction IND Michael S. Koyama is the nom de plume of an economist with degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern University. He recently retired as professor of economics and Asian studies at a major university in the United States where he held an en- dowed chair. He specialized in macroeconomics, economic institutions, and the Japanese economy. He is also the author of the novel Operation Hard-Landing, which dealt with the Japanese economic bubble. Seagull Books 119 My Father, the Germans and I Essays, Lectures, Interviews Jurek Becker Edited by Christine Becker

Jurek Becker (1937–97) is best known ther the political ideology of East Ger- for his novel Jacob the Liar, which follows many or the capitalist market forces of the life of a man who, like Becker, lived West Germany. The remains of fascism in the Lódz ghetto during the German in postwar Germany, and the demise of occupation of Poland in World War Socialism, as well as racism and xeno- II. Throughout his career, Becker also phobic violence, were topics that per- wrote nonfiction, and the essays, lec- petually interested Becker. However, tures, and interviews collected in My Fa- his writings, as evidenced in this col- ther, the Germans and I share a common lection, were never pedantic, but always thread in that they each speak to Beck- entertaining, retaining the sense of hu- er’s interactions with and opinions on mor that made his novels so admired. The German List the social, political, and cultural condi- My Father, the Germans and I gives tions of twentieth-century Germany. expression to an exceptional author’s April 274 p. 5 x 81/2 Becker, who lived in both German perception of himself and the world and ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-47-7 states and in unified Germany, was pas- to his tireless attempt to bring his own Cloth $24.95s/£16.00 sionately and humorously active in the unique tone of linguistic brevity, irony, european history IND political debates of his time. Becker and balance to German relations. never directly aligned himself with ei-

Jurek Becker was one of the few novelists of Jewish heritage in post–World War II Germany. He is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Jacob the Liar, Sleepless Days, and Bron- stein’s Children. Christine Becker edited her husband’s collection of letters Your Nonpareils.

Biography A Game Max Frisch Translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte

In this play by Swiss playwright and nov- and how much is in fact predetermined elist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behav- by our own limited, conditioned selves. ioral researcher named Kürmann is giv- The play’s central idea—that our lives en the opportunity to start his life over are nothing but a self-conscious play at any point he chooses and change his with imaginary identities—is brilliantly decisions and actions in matters both captured in Biography’s dramaturgical serious and mundane. He could save form, which sets up a theater rehearsal his marriage, become politically active, as the metaphor for the endless pos- take better care of his health, or even sibilities and variables of the game of change the color of his living-room fur- life. niture. Despite his intention to apply the Frisch’s own revised, dramatically The German List wisdom he has acquired with age, Kür- heightened version of his play cele- mann finds himself inexorably trapped brates not only the theater as a form of April 128 p. 5 x 81/2 in the same decisions. Ultimately prov- self-expression but also the human con- ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-46-0 ing fatal, Kürmann’s life-game inter- dition in all its potential and limitations Paper $12.00/£8.00 rogates how much of our own path is as it showcases both comic and tragic drama shaped by seemingly random factors IND outcomes that define all our lives. Max Frisch (1911–91) was one of the giants of twentieth-century literature, achieving fame as a novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist. His works include Andorra, I’m Not Stiller, A Wilderness of Mirrors, and Man in the Holocene. Birgit Schreyer Duarte is a freelance drama- turge, theater director, and translator. 120 Seagull Books Circus Girl Photographs by Saibal Das and Text by Nola Rae

Circuses provide surreal, fantastic en- behind her, her paw touching the girl’s tertainment. At times magical and at shoulder affectionately. But both wear a others chilling, the circus is a world of solemn look. In another, the girl sits on fantasy and spectacle for the viewer, but her props, staring silently at the snack for the performer, a career in the circus packets strewn on the ground. The gi- often brings with it a nomadic, lonely ant marquee is empty. life. In Circus Girl, photographer Saibal Internationally renowned mime Das captures beautiful and unusual im- artist Nola Rae provides a haunting ac- ages of circus girls, photographs which companying text that poetically com- 1 1 evoke this sense of darkness and resig- ments on the transient wanderings of June 146 p., 79 halftones 9 /2 x 9 /2 nation that underlies the otherworldly ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-33-0 the circus performers who often yearn Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 feats they perform under the big top. for a conventional family life while don- photography For instance, in one photograph, a ning their costumes and taking hold of IND circus girl whose act involves a lioness the trapeze. Rae gives voice to the cir- is seen sitting in front of a mirror put- cus girls, articulating the thoughts too ting on her makeup. The lioness that often hidden by the brilliant illusion of she usually whips in the ring stands stage lights.

As a staff photographer at India Today, Saibal Das spent considerable time covering the United Liberation Front of Asom insurgency and the ethnic fight between the Nagas and the Kukis. He also documented many important sociopolitical events in Nepal, Bangla- desh, and Bhutan. Nola Rae is an internationally renowned mime artist.

Eternal Performance Taziyah and Other Shiite Rituals Edited by Peter j. Chelkowski

Over the centuries, observances of Mu- religion in the sixteenth century. harram, the first month of the Islamic As Peter J. Chelkowski describes in calendar, have traveled far from their Eternal Performance, many of these rituals origins at Karbala—a windswept des- were exported to other lands over time. ert plain that is now a town in present- They crossed boundaries and cultures day Iraq—where, according to tradi- from Iran and Iraq to Lebanon, the In- tion, Hussein, the beloved grandson of dian subcontinent, North America, and Prophet Muhammad, was brutally put the Caribbean. Yet all Muharram rituals, to death together with seventy-two of his no matter where or how they are per- male companions on the tenth day of formed, have their origins in Karbala. the month. For this reason, Muharram The transformation and transmission of is synonymous with both the first month these observances to their present-day Enactments and the tenth day. Hussein’s passion forms around the world are the result and death are considered the ultimate of the intersection of multiple races, example of sacrifice for Shia Muslims, religions, and artistic traditions. Eternal June 364 p., 90 halftones 6 x 9 and scores of rituals devoted to Mu- ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-51-4 Performance explores the social, political, Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 harram have developed during the last cultural, artistic, and religious signifi- religion thirteen centuries—especially in Iran, cance of Muharram rituals for millions IND where Twelver Shi’ism became the state of global observers.

Peter J. Chelkowski is professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York Univer- sity. He is the author of Mirror of the Invisible World and Ta’ziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran, among other works.

Seagull Books 121 Guilty Males and Proud Females Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival Fabrizio Ferrari

Guilty Males and Proud Females is the first “ritual women.” Conversely, as part of complete study on the Bengali gajan fes- the festival, women display their gen- tival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village erative power and provoke the jealousy god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The of men by ritually mocking conception gajan is the dramatic representation of and delivery. The outcome of the ritual an hierogamy—the marriage of a god is that their suffering is acknowledged and goddess—and a recreation of the and transformed into power. life-cycle of earth. As Fabrizio Ferrari Much more than an ethnography explains, one of the most fascinating of Bengali popular religion, Guilty aspects of the gajan is its approach to Males and Proud Females contributes to gender. The central deity of the gajan is new studies on gender transformation a goddess identified with the earth. To in the Bengal region and will be of in- June 224 p., 13 halftones 6 x 9 please such a goddess, male devotees terest to scholars of South Asian reli- ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-52-1 Cloth $35.00x/£22.50 must acknowledge the pain they inflict gions, folklore, and gender studies. towards the female world and become sociology religion IND Fabrizio Ferrari is a lecturer in the Department of Religion at the University of Chester. He is the author of Ernesto de Martino on Religion: The Crisis and the Presence and the editor of Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia: Disease, Possession and Healing, among other books.

Logic in a Popular Form Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal Sumanta Banerjee

Taking its title from Karl Marx’s descrip- practice—are fluid and constantly inno- tion of religion as the world’s “logic in vating. Banerjee argues that they repre- a popular form,” this book explores the sent an alternative stream running par- hidden logic behind popular religions allel to, and often challenging, the more in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta strictly structured beliefs and practices Banerjee examines cross-religious cults of the Indian religious establishments, and the construction of Bengali myths whether Hindu, Islamic, or Christian. and beliefs about godlings and spirits, Logic in a Popular Form brings to light approaching them as popular inventions many significant aspects of the multifac- that attempt to make sense of human eted phenomenon of popular religion existence in the face of an overwhelm- in Bengal, while tracing the impact of ing and often hostile environment. urbanization, colonialism, and national- June 242 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-55-2 These religious manifestations of ism. Banerjee reexamines the relevance Cloth $35.00x/£22.50 popular logic—ranging from Kali to of the beliefs and rituals that continue religion Radha–Krishna to Satyapir to Tantric to survive in Bengali society today. IND Sumanta Banerjee is a cultural historian who specializes in research into popular culture, particularly of the colonial period. He is the author of many books, including The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Calcutta and Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal, both published by Seagull Books.

122 Seagull Books Patrick Leary The Punch Brotherhood Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London

eep in the recesses of the British Library sits a long oval dining table of plain deal, its battered surface scored with Dinitials carved around the edge. This unprepossessing piece of furniture was once the most famous table in London: the Punch table, where the staff of one of history’s most successful and influential humor and satire magazines gathered every week for dinner, brandy, May 184 p., 30 halftones 61/2 x 91/2 and cigars in order to plan their weekly issue—a tradition that lasted ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0923-3 Cloth $40.00s for nearly 150 years. Founded by Henry Mayhew and Mark Lemon in european History Humor CUSA 1841, Punch coined the use of “cartoon” to designate a comic drawing and featured some of the best-known cartoonists of the age, including John Tenniel, E. H. Shepard, Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird), and Oli- ver Pont, as well as some of the Victorian era’s most celebrated writers. The “Punch” Brotherhood takes the reader inside this institution and brings to life the tightly knit community of writers, artists, and proprietors who gathered around the famous table. Their tumultuous, uninhibited conversations—spiced with jokes and gossip—come to life in Patrick Leary’s entertaining account. Based on the little-known and unpublished diary of Punch writer Henry Silver, the book also includes extensive research among unpublished letters, meeting minutes, and business records. Highlighting the role of talk in the understanding of nineteenth-century print culture, and shedding new light on the careers of such literary giants as Charles Dickens and William Make- peace Thackeray, this book vividly demonstrates how oral culture permeated and shaped the realm of print, from the dining tables of exclusive men’s clubs to the alleyways of Fleet Street.

Patrick Leary is president of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and a visiting scholar in the Department of History at Northwestern Univer- sity. He is also creator and webmaster for Victoria Research Web, founder and manager of VICTORIA: The Electronic Conference for Victorian Studies, and founder and manager of SHARP-L: The Electronic Conference for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

British Library 123 The Image of the World 20 Centuries of World Maps Updated Edition Peter Whitfield

Though technology has changed the scientific maps of worlds that are still tools of navigation available to us, maps being explored, such as the ocean floor. are still the irreplaceable foundation of In addition, Whitfield examines the his- place and orientation. In this updated tory of world mapmaking through these edition of The Image of the World, map outstanding individual examples. He expert Peter Whitfield guides read- discusses each map in relation to the ers through a collection of some of religious, political, social, or economic the most extraordinary examples of climate in which it was produced and May 160 p., 70 color plates maps—both visually stunning and his- considers what these maps reveal about 103/10 x 111/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5089-1 torically revealing. the perceptions of their makers. Paper $30.00 An enormous variety of maps from The Image of the World returns to history the last two thousand years are repro- print a gorgeous and informative book CUSA duced here in attractive, large-scale col- that will appeal to map collectors, histo- or illustrations. These fascinating and rians, and armchair explorers alike. vibrant maps include Bishop Isidore “Whitfield uses a wonderful selec- of Seville’s seventh-century design for tion of world maps to explain the flow a circular world map, the elaborately of ideas through the ages.”—Time, on decorated manuscript maps of the sev- the first edition enteenth and eighteenth centuries, and

Peter Whitfieldis former director of Stanfords International Map Centre in London. He is the author of many books, including London: A Life in Maps, also published by the British Library.

The Diamond Sutra The Story of the World’s Earliest Dated Printed Book Frances Wood and Mark Barnard

The Buddhist text known as the Dia- This beautifully designed book, mond Sutra is believed to be the oldest the first to focus solely on the Diamond surviving printed book in the world. Sutra, features a full-color reproduction Made in 868 AD and written in Chinese, of the work, along with an account of the text contains a significant dialogue the discovery of the Sutra by Sir Aurel on perception and is one of the most Stein in May 1907 in a hidden cave on important sacred works of the Buddhist the edge of the Gobi Desert. The book faith. The Diamond Sutra was hidden for extensively discusses the content of the centuries in a cave in northwest China, Sutra and also describes the invention and it was created from seven strips of of paper in China and the origins of June 112 p., 60 color plates yellow-stained paper that were printed Far Eastern printing. It reveals how the 3 7 /10 x 10 from carved wooden blocks and pasted Sutra was originally made and the con- ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5090-7 Cloth $32.50s together to form a scroll over five me- servation work that the British Library ters long. The oldest dated example of employs to preserve it. history CUSA wood block printing—produced some The Diamond Sutra is a stunning six hundred years before Gutenberg’s book for anyone curious about the ear- movable type printing in Europe—it is liest origins of printing and the sacred clearly the product of a mature printing foundations of Buddhism. industry in China.

Frances Wood is head of the Chinese section at the British Library. Mark Barnard is manager of the Conservation Section at the British Library and is currently undertaking the 124 British Library conservation of the Diamond Sutra. Book Makers British Publishing in the Twentieth Century Iain Stevenson

Book Makers presents an absorbing in- lisher William Heinemann; Jonathan sider account of the changing environ- Cape, publisher of Ian Fleming’s James ment of British book publishing during Bond series; Allen Lane, founder of the twentieth century. Iain Stevenson Penguin Books; Paul Hamlyn; and me- has worked for some of Britain’s most dia mogul Robert Maxwell. The result well-known publishers, and he uses his is a fascinating tale of creative genius, personal experience to accurately de- individual endeavor, occasional subter- tail how the industry grew from a small, fuge, and futuristic vision that over the elite trade to a world-class business with century have made British book pub- enormous cultural influence. lishing incredibly successful—and that Organized chronologically by de- continue to further its central role to- cade, Book Makers considers not only day. Enlivened with Stevenson’s spirited April 272 p., 30 halftones 67/10 x 96/10 fiction and general trade publishing, anecdotes about his experiences, Book ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0961-5 but also academic, scientific, children’s, Makers will be entertaining reading for Cloth $40.00s technical, and professional publishing. anyone concerned with the history of european history Stevenson profiles many key figures in publishing and the future of the book. CUSA the industry, such as educational pub-

Iain Stevenson is professor of publishing at University College, London. He has worked in publishing for over thirty years at such publishers as Longman, Macmillan, and Wiley, and he was on the Council of the Publishers Association. He founded the environmental publisher Belhaven Press, and his current research is centered upon the application of new technology in publishing.

Now in Paperback The British Book Trade An Oral History Edited by Sue Bradley

At the end of the twentieth century, the views recorded by National Life Stories British publishing industry underwent and accessible through the British Li- radical changes: the old family firms were brary Sound Archive, this oral history is being replaced by conglomerates, while full of chatty anecdotes and fun, gossipy the ending of the Net Book Agreement, stories of the era. which had set prices between publishers These lively and engaging accounts and booksellers, gave shops new freedom offer a rare insider portrait of a signifi- to compete by cutting prices. The book cant time in publishing. To anyone with trade has been poised at the center of an interest in the book industry, this col- British culture since printing began, and lection offers many lively and illuminat- thus the stories collected here speak not ing tales. March 320 p. 67/10 x 96/10 just to the publishing industry but to a “An entertaining, informative and ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5091-4 wider portrait of the times. often very funny compilation.”—Literary Paper $22.50s Drawn from the Book Trade Lives Review history collection of in-depth oral history inter- CUSA Cloth ISBN: 978-0-7123-4957-4 Sue Bradley directed the seven-year recording project Book Trade Lives at the British Library, upon which this volume is based. British Library 125 William Caxton and Early Printing in England Lotte Hellinga

William Caxton (c. 1415–92) laid the first sixty years of printing in England foundations of publishing in Eng- by placing Caxton, his contemporaries, land—he not only introduced the and other early publishers in the broad printing press to England, but was also context of the history of book produc- the first English book retailer. In 1473 tion between the middle of the fif- he printed Britain’s first book—Recuyell teenth century and the Reformation. of the Historyes of Troye—and thus estab- Although many of the early printers in lished the printing and book industry England, Caxton included, had experi- in the country. His best known publi- ence of the nascent printing industry in cations are Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Europe—notably the French, German,

June 224 p., 20 color plates, the Golden Legend, and Malory’s Morte and Dutch printers—printing and pub- 80 halftones 67/10 x 96/10 D’Arthur. He also translated historical lishing in England quickly developed a ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5088-4 works and romances and wrote prefaces unique character of its own. Cloth $45.00s to his books. As publisher of more than This readable and highly illus- European History cusa one hundred publications, Caxton es- trated account is a fascinating history tablished a new readership for major of the birth and growth of an industry works in English. with a very significant place in British William Caxton and Early Printing in history. England takes a fresh approach to the

Lotte Hellinga is former deputy keeper at the British Library and has published almost two hundred books and articles on the history of the book.

Electronic Beowulf Student Edition Edited by Kevin Kiernan and Programmed by Ionut Emil Iacob

One of the oldest and most significant references to print editions, access to an works of Western literature, the epic interlinear translation, and options for poem Beowulf survived from 1000 AD a variety of desktop arrangements. In within a single manuscript, known as addition to the image-based edition of the Nowell Codex or Cotton Vitellius A. Beowulf, the CD-ROM provides facsimi- xv, currently held by the British Library. les of the entire composite codex as well February 1 CD-ROM with booklet This student edition of Electronic Beowulf as the eighteenth-century transcripts ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5101-0 brings that crucial historic manuscript and nineteenth-century collations that Compact Disc $45.00x to the desktop of anyone studying the rescued much of the text from damage literature work. sustained after a 1731 fire in the Cotton cusa Electronic Beowulf includes a huge Library. database of digital images and pres- With its many tools for mastering ents new strategies designed to help the Anglo-Saxon verse, Electronic Be- students learn the language, grammar, owulf will be indispensible for scholars and meter of the poem. The interactive and students of Old English and epic interface device gives easy access to a literature. range of student features, with cross-

Kevin Kiernan is emeritus professor of English at the University of Kentucky and author of Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript and The Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf. Ionut Emil Iacob is assistant professor of mathematical sciences at Georgia Southern University and has contributed to a large number of publications on image-based electronic editions of manuscripts. 126 British Library The British Library The Essential Shakespeare Live The Essential Shakespeare Live Encore

he British Library and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) join forces to publish this remarkable audio treasury of Tlive Shakespearian performances. Selected from an extensive collection of recordings made by the British Library Sound Archive, each of these two-CD sets offer scenes and speeches from some of the most celebrated Shakespeare productions in the history of the RSC ompany. The extracts cover almost half a century of productions, from The Essential Laurence Olivier as Coriolanus in 1959 to Ian McKellen as King Lear Shakespeare Live in 2007. Both The Essential Shakespeare Live and The Essential Shakespeare available 2 Compact Discs with booklet Live Encore also include booklets that reproduce the play-text of each ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0524-2 Compact Disc $25.00 recorded extract in full along with introductions by Gregory Doran, literature cusa Chief Associate Director of the RSC. The Essential Shakespeare Live features such notable actors of stage The Essential and screen as Judi Dench, Peter Brook, John Barton, Peggy Ashcroft, Shakespeare Live Alan Howard, Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen, Alan Rickman, Anthony Encore Sher, Donald Sinden, Robert Stephens, Patrick Stewart, Janet Suzman, February 2 Compact Discs with booklet and David Warner. Among the plays included in the set are King Lear, ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5100-3 Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well that Ends Compact Disc $25.00 literature Well, Henry V, and Richard III. cusa On The Essential Shakespeare Live Encore the roll-call of prestigious portrayals runs from Paul Robeson’s legendary Othello in 1959 to David Tennant’s highly-acclaimed Hamlet in 2008. Among the other memorable productions are Peter Hall’s Henry IV Part 1, Trevor Nunn’s The Winter’s Tale, John Barton’s The Merchant of Venice, Adrian Noble’s Mac- beth, Sam Mendes’s Troilus and Cressida, and the recent Histories cycle of Michael Boyd. Notable actors include Ian Holm, David Suchet, Juliet Stevenson, Ian Richardson, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Russell Beale, Har- riet Walter, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen. British Library 127 Bird Songs and Animal Sounds from the British Library

Beautiful Bird Songs Sounds of the Deep Countryside Birds from Around the World An Exploration of Life in Our Seas An Audio Guide to the Bird Songs ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0543-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0526-6 of the British Countryside 2 Compact Discs $25.00x Compact Disc $15.00x ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0590-7 CUSA CUSA Compact Disc $15.00x CUSA Bird Sounds of British Birdsounds Madagascar on CD British Mammals The Definitive Audio Guide to Birds An Audio Introduction An Audio Guide to the Island’s to the Mammals of Britain in Britain Unique Birds ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0589-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0534-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0512-9 Compact Disc $15.00x Compact Disc $15.00x 2 Compact Discs $25.00x CUSA CUSA CUSA Coastal Birds Bird Mimicry Songs of Garden Birds An Audio Guide to Bird Sounds A Remarkable Collection of The Definitive Audio Guide of the British Coastline to British Garden Birds Imitations by Birds ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0588-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0529-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0519-8 Compact Disc $15.00x Compact Disc $15.00x Compact Disc $15.00x CUSA CUSA CUSA Vanishing Wildlife Rainforest Requiem Dawn Chorus A Sound Guide to Britain’s Recordings of Wildlife in the A Sound Portrait of a British Endangered Species Woodland at Sunrise Amazon Rainforest ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0528-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0513-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0520-4 Compact Disc $15.00x Compact Disc $15.00x Compact Disc $15.00x CUSA CUSA CUSA

128 British Library The Original Rules of Tennis Edited by the Bodleian Library With an Introduction by John Barrett

The pristine grass and white uniforms first championship at Wimbledon was of Wimbledon and the aggressive hard held in 1877, followed soon after by the courts of the U.S. Open have inspired first American tournament in 1880. tens of thousands of amateur tennis Published in association with the players in North America. Millions of All England Lawn Tennis Club—better people watch the tournaments each known as Wimbledon—this attractive, year on television, and the stars of re- collectible book examines the history cent decades are household names, but of the rules of tennis from their first relatively few people know the history codification to the present day. Includ- of the game. In the Middle Ages and ed is a fascinating introduction by John the Renaissance it was a jeu de paume, a Barrett—the BBC’s longtime “voice of game played at French and English roy- tennis,” who played in twenty-one con- 1 al courts with hands rather than rack- secutive Wimbledon Championships— june 64 p., 30 halftones 4 x 6 /8 ets. The modern game, however, dates ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-318-1 that looks at the circumstances of the Cloth $12.00 from 1874, when Major Walter Clopton composition of the first rules, their sports Wingfield developed a variation on the scope, and evolution. The Original Rules NAM game for the amusement of his house- of Tennis is a must for spectators and guests in Wales. After he laid out the players alike. basic rules, tennis spread quickly—the

John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning William Poole

John Aubrey (1626–97) was one of the gin of fossils. In addition, Aubrey was best-connected scholars and antiquar- a keen mathematician and an early do- ies in the great decades of the British nor to the Ashmolean Museum of Art scientific revolution. He is remembered and Archaeology and to the Bodleian as a pioneering historian and the father Library. of English life-writing, whose Brief Lives Extensively illustrated, John Aubrey remains a lasting portrait of a genera- and the Advancement of Learning presents tion of eminent thinkers and nobles. all of Aubrey’s varied interests and pur- But Aubrey’s intellectual interests were suits in their intellectual milieu. Pub- much broader. He was one of the first lished to celebrate the three hundred Fellows of the Royal Society, and he was and fiftieth anniversary of the Royal acquainted with leading scientists of Society, this is the first accessible and june 112 p., 75 color plates 1 4 the generation of Robert Hooke and illustrated guide to Aubrey’s many di- 7 /5 x 9 /5 ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-319-8 Isaac Newton. Aubrey championed verse achievements as a biographer, Paper $45.00s Hooke’s geological theories, radical for natural philosopher and scientist, and biography the time, that proposed the organic ori- antiquary. NAM

William Poole is a fellow of New College, University of Oxford, and he is currently editing the correspondence of John Aubrey.

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 129 Crossing Borders Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures Edited by Piet v a n Boxel and Sabine Arndt

Crossing Borders tells the intriguing but images from the Hebrew holdings at largely unfamiliar story of the exchange the Bodleian Library—one of the larg- of culture and knowledge between Jews est and most important collections of and non-Jews in the Muslim and Chris- Hebrew manuscripts worldwide. The tian worlds during the late Middle Ages art includes Christian codex frag- as part of the preparation of Hebrew ments from the third century, a copy of manuscripts. The book is composed of Moses Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah ten narratives, each of which brings to signed by Maimonides himself, a thir- light a different aspect of Jewish life in a teenth-century German Jewish prayer non-Jewish medieval society, highlight- book, and lavishly illuminated Spanish ing the practical cooperation, social in- Bible manuscripts from the fifteenth teraction, and religious toleration that century. This exquisitely illustrated February 128 p., 80 color plates was surprisingly common between the book takes a fascinating look at the 72/10 x 98/10 groups involved in the early enterprise often-ignored role of Jews in the writ- ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-313-6 Paper $50.00s of book production. ten transmission of culture and science throughout medieval Europe. religion Alongside the narratives, Crossing NAM Borders is beautifully illustrated with

Piet van Boxel is Hebraica and Judaica curator at the Bodleian Library, a librarian at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and a fellow in early Judaism and the origins of Christianity. Sabine Arndt studied Hebrew, Aramaic, and Jewish studies in Heidelberg, Amsterdam, and Tel Aviv. She is a lecturer in Old Testament studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

A Digital Facsimile of Terence’s Comedies Edited by Bernard J. Muir and Andrew J. Turner

Roman playwright Publius Terentius facsimile of the entire manuscript and Afer, best known as Terence, was highly a new transcription specially prepared regarded in the second century BC for for this publication. Users can navigate his six comedies, including Adelphoe, easily through the plays and the accom- which focused on child-rearing, and An- panying illustrations of the complete dria, which contained messages about facsimile. They can also zoom in on the moderation and charity. Due to the illustrations at the beginning of each fact that Terence’s plays often carried scene, which are based on earlier Caro- a moral lesson, they remained popular lingian models that were themselves de- into the early modern period, and even rived from late antique illustrations. Martin Luther suggested the plays be This interactive digital facsimile used for instruction in schools. makes readily available to scholars and Among the treasures of the Bodle- students of classical drama and early July 1 DVD-ROM ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-324-2 ian Library is a mid-twelfth-century man- modern culture an extremely valuable DVD-ROM $100.00x uscript that illustrates all six of Terence’s teaching and research tool, as well as a Institutional Site License comedies alongside explanatory notes. facsimile of a beautiful and fascinating ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-328-0 This DVD-ROM presents a complete document of the High Middle Ages. $325.00xx literature Bernard J. Muir is professor of medieval studies at the University of Melbourne; he is best NAM known for his digital facsimile editions of major Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscripts and DVDs focusing on Latin palaeography and the medieval scriptorium. Andrew J. Turner lectures in classical studies and, along with Muir, coedited the hagiographical writings of 130 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Eadmer of Canterbury. Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break Sabine Eckmann

American artist Sharon Lockhart is intimate in their focus on everyday situ- well known for her formally strict and ations while reflective of broader global conceptually precise films and photo- conditions through their historically graphs. Lunch Break, her newest solo ex- grounded approach. Sharon Lockhart, Outside AB Tool Crib: Matt, Mike, Carey, Steven, John, Mel and Karl, 2008. Chromogenic print, ed. 6 + 2 APs, 491/16 x 627/8”. hibition, is the product of more than a To accompany the exhibition, this Courtesy of the artist. year spent at the Bath Iron Works ship- catalog from the Mildred Lane Kemper yard in Bath, Maine, observing and en- Art Museum includes over one hun- February 160 p., 100 color plates gaging with shipbuilders during breaks dred images in full color, essays by ex- 83/4 x 113/4 from their daily routines. The resultant hibition curator Sabine Eckmann and ISBN-13: 978-0-936316-29-1 two film installations and three series art historian Matthias Michalka, and an Paper $40.00/£26.00 of photographs present images that are interview with Lockhart conducted by art devoid of sentiment yet deeply humane, filmmaker James Benning.

Sabine Eckmann is director and chief curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also teaches in the Department of Art His- tory and Archaeology. She is the author or editor of several books, including The Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures, Thaddeus Strode: Absolute and Nothings, and Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany.

Re-announcing Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and Other Solar Myths Edited by John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis

available 144 p., 70 color plates Sun Ra (1914–93)—self-proclaimed graphics and design were essential to 61/2 x 91/2 visionary extraterrestrial of the “Angel his message of self-determination. The ISBN-13: 978-0-945323-15-0 Race,” prophetic jazz band leader and influence of Sun Ra’s openness to new Paper $25.00/£17.50 composer, and lyrical proponent of technologies and experimentation, his MUSIC ART Afro-futurism—was one of the most sense of personal identity as a construct influential figures of twentieth-century rather than a given, and his playful at- music. Though many of his fans are fa- titude towards history and mythmaking miliar with the philosophical and spiri- are all evidenced by the remarkable tual dimensions of Sun Ra’s work, most writers and artists who have contrib- remain blissfully unaware of how artists uted to this volume, including Pedro have continued to explore time and Bell, My Barbarian, Dave Muller, and (outer) space through the invention Charlemagne Palestine. A refreshing and composition of his legacy. reconsideration of the impact of Sun The remarkable illustrations and Ra’s life on American history and visual essays in Traveling the Spaceways con- culture, Traveling the Spaceways is an un- front the visual manifestation of Sun forgettable look at the Ra persona in Ra’s philosophy and demonstrate how the context of contemporary art.

John Corbett is a widely recognized jazz scholar and a former artistic director of the Berlin Jazz Festival. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Anthony Elms is an artist and writer. He is editor of WhiteWalls and assistant director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Terri Kapsalis is a Chicago-based writer, performer, and founding member of Theater Oobleck. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum 131 WhiteWalls Reg Saner Living Large in Nature A Writer’s Idea of Creationism

n Living Large in Nature, Reg Saner—regarded as one of America’s greatest nature writers—employs his lucid and unpretentious Istyle to offer his unique take on the fundamentalist advocates of creationism and intelligent design. Rather than combat fundamental- ists with the latest research in evolutionary biology and cutting-edge astronomy, Saner interweaves a creative mix of memoir and intellec- March 160 p., 1 color plate 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-08-5 tual critique to expose the irreligious and immoral aspects of militant Cloth $25.00/£16.00 nature creationism and—by the end—to offer instead his own worldview, an existence grounded in a reverence and respect for nature but free from religious dogma. Along the way readers meet the author as a five-year-old creationist, attend his laughable and losing debate with a creationist spokesman, learn the theological reason for deities on the ceiling, hike into the scriptural geology of the Grand Canyon, encounter creationism’s relation to Pinocchio’s nose, and receive satirical suggestions for a deity upgrade. “Living Large in Nature is articulate, courageous, and beautifully written. Philosophically, scientifically, and aesthetically informed, the book recounts and analyzes a nonfundamentalist way of seeing and being that is deeply spiritual but non-dogmatic. This is an essential cultural work, a deeply important and challenging book of our time and place.”—Elizabeth Dodd, Kansas State University

Reg Saner is the author of four books of poetry and three books of nonfiction, including, most recently, The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World, also published by the Center for American Places.

132 Center for American Places Housing Washington Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area Edited by Richard Longstreth

Since the early nineteenth century, in our nation’s capital, from the early an unusually rich and varied array of nineteenth century to the present. By fo- housing stock has been created in the cusing on a wide variety of mainstream Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. patterns and interweaving the threads Washington has harbored numerous of convention and change as well as private-sector initiatives to develop those of race and class, this book offers model housing projects, and it has also a fresh perspective on metropolitan been a proving ground for federal poli- dwelling places and breaks new ground cies crafted to improve living conditions in urban studies and architectural and for households of middle and moderate planning history. income. In addition, the large, middle- “While a collection such as Housing April 400 p., 150 halftones, class African American population has Washington might fall prey to too much 35 line drawings 8 x 10 left a distinct imprint on the metropoli- localism, this one has the advantage of ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-07-8 Cloth $49.50s/£32.00 tan area’s domestic landscape, develop- both deeply enriching the Washington- urban studies architecture ing its own options for housing in city area story and connecting it to larger and suburb alike. elements of thinking and practice.” Profusely illustrated, with thirteen —Howard Gillette, author of Camden chapters by fourteen esteemed authors, After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Housing Washington examines the sto- Post-Industrial City ried legacy of residential development

Richard Longstreth, professor of American studies and director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at George Washington University, is the author of numerous acclaimed books on the architectural history of the United States.

First Hand Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection Edited by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher

During the nineteenth century Joseph College, First Hand examines drawings Becker and thirteen of his colleagues from the Becker Archive, the largest served as artist-reporters for Frank Les- private collection of Civil War period lie’s Illustrated Newspaper. These Special drawings, offering its readers a unique Artists, as they were called, drew and opportunity to view nearly 130 works of sent back for publication images detail- art which have never been seen publicly. ing the Civil War and the Indian Wars, Essays from editors Judith Bookbinder available 274 p., 118 color plates, the construction of the railroads and and Sheila Gallagher and a number of 91 halftones 101/2 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-892850-15-7 the transatlantic telegraph cable, the eminent American historians provide Paper $50.00s/£32.50 Chinese in the West, and the Great Chi- extensive commentary on the images, art american history cago Fire, among other milestones in including a discussion revealing how American history. newspaper editors altered the original Published to coincide with an ex- images before publication in their at- hibition of the same name at Boston tempts to shape public opinion.

Judith Bookbinder teaches in the Department of Fine Arts at Boston College and is the author of Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Medicine. Sheila Gallagher is an artist, independent curator, and associate professor of fine arts at Boston College.

Center for American Places 133 mcMullen Museum of Art, Boston College Victoria & Albert Art & Love Edited by Jonathan Marsden

The Victorian era is unquestionably through more than four hundred beau- one of the high points in the history of tifully produced full-color illustrations. British art—and the culture of that pe- In addition to the many artworks, both riod was defined, as much as anything, familiar and little-known, that Victo- by the artistic tastes of Queen Victoria ria and Albert collected, the book also and her beloved Prince Albert. From features the monarchs’ own creations, Victoria’s accession in 1837 to Albert’s from paintings, drawings, and etchings death in 1861, Buckingham Palace was to the loving souvenir albums they as- known as “the headquarters of taste,” sembled to record their travels and april 480 p., 476 color plates and in a time when royal patronage was commemorate the major events of their 91/4 x 101/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-21-6 still essential to a successful artistic ca- lives. Cloth $59.95s reer, the pair enthusiastically collected Opening a window onto the lives art paintings, sculpture, jewelry, and furni- of two people as passionate about art as usca ture from a wide range of British and they were about each other, Victoria & European artists. Albert will be a comprehensive resource Victoria & Albert presents the for scholars of British art and the royal highlights of that extensive collection family.

Jonathan Marsden is Deputy Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art and Director Designate of the Royal Collection.

Passionate Patrons Victoria & Albert and the Arts Leah Kharibian

Throughout the twenty-four years of bert’s collecting, including formal por- their marriage, Queen Victoria and traits, specially commissioned jewelry, Prince Albert were enthusiastic sup- costumes created for fancy dress balls, porters of British art, commissioning a books, sheet music, and more. Sculp- large number of works and purchasing tures the pair purchased for each other countless others across a wide range as birthday gifts—as well as original of styles and media. Passionate Patrons sketches and drawings they made—of- april 192 p., 200 color plates 61/2 x 71/2 offers a concise introduction to the fer a more intimate view of the central ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-33-9 scope of Victoria and Albert’s connois- role that art played in their loving mar- Cloth $14.95 seurship, tracing their evolving tastes riage. A condensed, accessible version art through the entire history of Victorian of the more extensive Victoria & Albert, usca art. this pocket guide serves as an introduc- The volume matches an explanation to their collection and will please tory text with more than two hundred any reader who loves the Victorian full-color illustrations that reveal the era—and the royal couple who were at remarkable scope of Victoria and Al- its heart.

Leah Kharibian is an independent art historian and writer.

134 Royal Collection Publications Dutch Landscapes Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Jennifer scott

Dutch artists dominated the genre of where the wildly different landscape landscape painting in the seventeenth inspired new approaches and themes, century, and Dutch Landscapes brings to- from Arcadian wilderness to the lively gether more than one hundred lavish activity of the Roman streetscape. And color images of their beautiful paint- then there was the sea—the source of ings, which remain popular with art the Netherlands’ prosperity—which lovers and museum-goers today. painters captured in all its drama and The volume is dominated by stun- power. ning evocations of the landscape of Hol- The authors’ accessible notes to land—its manmade lowlands and rich- each picture link the paintings and ex- ly foreboding skies—populated with plore their relationships, their shared peasants at their labors and aristocrats approaches, and their many innova- may 176 p., 100 color plates 81/4 x 10 riding off to the hunt. But Dutch artists tions; the result is a book that brings ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-25-4 didn’t limit themselves to views of their to life the Dutch Golden Age in all its Paper $32.95s homeland: they also ventured to Italy, glory. art usca Desmond Shawe-Taylor is Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. Jennifer Scott is an assistant curator of paintings at the Royal Collection and coauthor of Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting.

Julia Margaret Cameron * Roger Fenton Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection Sophie Gordon

The early days of photography in Brit- to establish photography as an impor- ain were marked by a plethora of artis- tant, independent art form. tic experiments and innovations, both Julia Margaret Cameron * Roger Fen- by professional artists and talented am- ton offers beautiful reproductions of ateurs. But two photographers from the photos by Cameron from Queen Victo- Victorian era stand out from the pack: ria’s own collection, alongside Fenton’s Julia Margaret Cameron and Roger images of Windsor Castle and the royal Fenton. Cameron’s fancy-dress recre- children. Together, they offer an unex- july 64 p., 35 color plates ations of scenes from myth and history pected glimpse into the life of the royal 101/4 x 101/4 and Fenton’s photographs from the family and the artistic world of Victo- ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-19-3 Cloth $24.50 battlefields of the Crimean War set new rian England. standards for technique—and helped photography usca Sophie Gordon is curator of the Royal Photograph Collection and has published widely on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography.

Royal Collection Publications 135 Marcus Adams Royal Photographer Lisa Heighway

In high society of 1920s England, Mar- ing through his last royal sitting thirty cus Adams was far and away the leading years later. photographer of children, with a port- The Royal Photograph Collection folio that could have served as a who’s holds the most comprehensive collec- who of the next generation of the so- tion of those royal portraits, and Mar- cial, cultural, and political elite. At the cus Adams brings together nearly one height of his success, the royal family hundred and fifty of his charming, ro- commissioned him to make portraits of mantic images. Fans of British history april 120 p., 146 color plates 8 x 8 their children, starting with the infant will be enchanted and surprised by this ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-20-9 Princess Elizabeth and her mother, the unusually intimate glimpse of the royal Cloth $14.95 Duchess of York, in 1926 and continu- family through the generations. photography usca Lisa Heighway is assistant curator of the Royal Photograph Collection.

The Royal Portrait Image and Impact Jennifer Scott

A fresh assessment of the importance of Holbein, Van Dyck, Zoffany, Landseer, portraiture in the image-making of mon- and Freud, among many others. Each of archs from Richard II to the present day, the six chapters opens with a quotation this book covers a far wider timescale and is structured around specific key im- than any previous studies of the subject, ages that are discussed in particular de- and is the first to focus on royal portrai- tail, while the final chapter investigates ture in the Royal Collection. the new role of portraiture in the age Starting with the stylized royal por- of photography and global media cover- traits of the early kings, it covers works by age.

May 200 p., 175 color plates Jennifer Scott is an assistant curator of paintings at the Royal Collection and coauthor of 10 x 81/4 Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting. ISBN-13: 978-1-905686-13-1 Cloth $38.50s art usca

136 Royal Collection Publictions Robert Henson Weather on the Air A History of Broadcast Meteorology

rom low humor to high drama, TV weather reporting over the decades has encompassed an enormous range of styles and F approaches, triggering chuckles, infuriating the masses, and at times even saving lives. In Weather on the Air, meteorologist and science journalist Robert Henson covers it all—the people, technology, science, and show business that combine to deliver the weather to the public each day. The first comprehensive history of its kind,Weather on the Air explores the many forces that have shaped weather broadcasts over the years, including the long-term drive to professionalize weathercasting, June 304 p., 6 color plates, 75 halftones the complex relations between government and private forecasters, 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-878220-98-1 and the effects of climate-change science and the Internet on today’s Paper $40.00/£26.00 broadcasts. Dozens of photos and anecdotes accompany Henson’s Science history more than two decades of research to document the evolution of weathercasts, from their primitive beginnings on the radio to the high- gloss, graphics-laden segments we watch on television every morning. This engaging study will be an invaluable tool for students of broadcast meteorology and mass communication and an entertaining read for anyone fascinated by the public face of weather.

Robert Henson is a science writer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a contributing editor to Weatherwise magazine. His other books include The Rough Guide to Weather and The Rough Guide to Climate.

American Meteorogical Society 137 Adaptive Governance and Climate Change Ronald D. Brunner and Amanda H. Lynch

While recent years have seen undeni- proaches—the treaties and accords that able progress in the acknowledgment have proved disappointingly ineffective of both the dangers of climate change thus far—and towards a more flexible, and the importance of working to miti- multi-level approach. Based in the prin- gate it, little has actually been done. ciples of adaptive governance—which Emissions continue to rise, and even are designed to produce programs that the ambitious targets set by interna- adapt quickly and easily to new infor- tional accords fall far short of the dras- mation and experimental results—such tic cuts that are needed to prevent ca- an approach would encourage diversity tastrophe. and innovation in the search for solu- With Adaptive Governance and Cli- tions, while at the same time pointedly mate Change, Ronald D. Brunner and recasting the problem as one in which Amanda H. Lynch argue that we need every culture and community around March 344 p., 23 halftones 6 x 9 the world has an inherent interest. ISBN-13: 978-1-878220-97-4 to take a new tack, moving away from Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 reliance on centralized, top-down ap- science Ronald D. Brunner is a policy scientist specializing in the integration of theory and practice. Amanda H. Lynch is head of Monash Climate and a professor in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Monash University.

Envisioning the Bloomingdale 5 Concepts Edited by Clare Lyster With a Foreword by Mohsen Mostafavi and an Introduction by Michael Wilkinson

February 123 p., 82 line drawings, In 2007 the Chicago Architectural This book includes a catalog and photos, illustrations, and maps 9 x 9 Club directed an exhibition to explore review of twenty-six design proposals ISBN-13: 978-0-9819918-2-5 for the Bloomingdale Line as well as Paper $25.00s/£16.00 strategies for the reappropriation of an underutilized freight train line on the essays from invited contributors that architecture north side of Chicago known as the discuss the role of architecture in the Bloomingdale Line. The goal of the design and execution of infrastructural exhibition was to generate awareness work and explore the interface between of the future value of the freight line as architecture, landscape, engineering, a public amenity and to draw attention and ecological practice in the design of to the design process that would enable postindustrial landscapes. this to happen.

Clare Lyster is an architect, founding principal of Clare Lyster Urbanism and Architec- ture, and assistant professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

138 American Meteorological Society Chicago Architectural Club When You Travel in Iceland You See a Lot of Water A Travelbook Including a Discussion Between Tumi Magnússon and Roman Signer Roman Signer

Iceland’s remote location and unforgiv- the book mixes personal snapshots ing climate may seem like insurmount- with anecdotes, reminiscences, and hu- able obstacles for visitors. But for a morous observations about travel, the certain strain of traveler—awed by the natural world, the differences between rough landscape, the shooting geysers, Switzerland and Iceland, and—as with and the volcanic craters—the first visit any conversation between artists—the to Iceland is just the start of a long love difficulties of making art, no matter affair with the island nation. where one calls home. When You Travel Swiss artist Roman Signer is just in Iceland You See a Lot of Water is thus a that sort of traveler, and this book is travel book unlike any other, one whose May 64 p., 35 color plates 6 x 8 his love letter to its harsh charms. Cre- authors simultaneously invite you along ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-299-5 ated in conjunction with Icelandic art- on a journey and extend a hand in Cloth $39.00s ist Tumi Magnússon, his close friend friendship. travel art UK/EU and frequent traveling companion,

Roman Signer is a Swiss artist and the author of Roman Signer: Vernissage, also published by Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess.

Bastokalypse M. S. Bastian and Isabelle L. With an Essay by Konrad Tobler

This stunning volume represents the and contemporary graphic novels. The culmination of a decade-long col- resulting work is alternately terrifying laboration between two Swiss graphic and amusing, reflecting the horrors artists, M. S. Bastian and Isabelle L. and surprises of the world as they reach Bastokalypse reproduces the thirty-two us day by day through the media. large black-and-white canvases of their The thirty-two parts of this 168- monumental graphic sequence of the foot long painting are gathered in an same name; together the panels tell oversized sixty-four-plate concertina a story of apocalypse and the end of folder, with an essay on apocalyptic mo- the world that amalgamates images in- tifs by art critic Konrad Tobler printed spired by a wide range of eras and art on the verso. The result is as much an June 128 p., 72 halftones 10 x 151/2 examples, including medieval Tuscan art object as it is a book, as unusual and ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-296-4 mosaics, Renaissance panels, baroque thrilling in its own way as the images it Cloth $49.00s engravings, Meiji-era Japanese prints, contains. art UK/EU M. S. Bastian has worked in New York, Paris, and other cities; he currently lives and works in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Isabelle L. has worked as a publicist and lives in Biel/Bienne.

Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 139 The Music of Pipilotti Rist’s Pepperminta Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Pipilotti rist, Anders Guggisberg, and Roland Widmer

For more than two decades, Swiss artist The Music of Pipilotti Rist’s “Pepper- Pipilotti Rist has been acclaimed for her minta” is a brief illustrated volume de- works in a variety of media, including signed to accompany the film and its film and audio-video installations. Her memorable soundtrack, created by Rist first venture into full-length motion pic- with musician Anders Guggisberg and tures, Pepperminta, premiered at the 2009 DJ Roland Widmer. It features full-color Venice film festival, telling the charming, reproductions of film stills alongside an whimsical story of a young lady who has interview with Rist and brief texts that February 64 p., 25 color plates, set out on a quixotic quest to rid human- set the images and music in context. 1 compact disc 51/2 x 5 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-300-8 ity of bad moods and dull routine. Cloth $39.00s Pipilotti Rist lives and works in Switzerland and has been making art since 1986. Music UK/EU Anders Guggisberg lives and works in Zürich and has been working with Rist since 1995. Roland Widmer is a Swiss musician, sound designer, and DJ.

Jan Krugier My Journey with Art: Interviews with Caroline Kesser Caroline Kesser

Jan Krugier (1928–2008) was a re- Krugier details the evolving path of his nowned European artist, collector, and postwar career in art, beginning with gallery owner who over the course of his own paintings and moving on to the his five-decade career amassed one of opening of his own galleries in Geneva the world’s most important and impres- in 1962 and in New York in 1966, and his sive private collections of twentieth-cen- subsequent work mounting exhibitions tury art. This book presents a series of for such artists as Alberto Giacometti, interviews that art critic Caroline Kes- Giorgio Morandi, and Oskar Schlem- ser conducted with Krugier just before mer. Throughout, Krugier’s passion for his death. art comes through, augmented by his Kesser leads Krugier through a fas- intimate knowledge of every aspect of its production. The result is a guided JUNE 150 p., 40 color plates, cinating account of his life—from his 20 halftones 6 x 9 birth in Poland through his experience tour of twentieth-century art—and the ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-719-8 in World War II in the Polish resistance tale of an extraordinary life lived in its Cloth $39.00s and his survival of Auschwitz. Then service. art UK/EU Caroline Kesser is a publicist and art critic in Zürich who writes regularly for Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

140 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess Underdog Suite Photographs and Collages 1998−2009 Cat Tuong Nguyen With Essays by Burkhard Meltzer and Nadine Olonetzky

Over the past ten years, Vietnam-born rors Nguyen’s own unusual approach to Swiss photographer Cat Tuong Nguyen art, Underdog Suite presents nearly the has gained international recognition complete oeuvre of this extraordinary for his highly individual, intelligent, young artist. Far from a mere mono- and poetic work. Nguyen’s photos con- graphic overview, it is, rather, a book- front viewers with strange, humorous, shaped self-portrait of an artist who re- and mysterious images, challenging acts with great intelligence and lyrical them to investigate their everyday real- sensitivity to his everyday world—and ity. The first book to collect Nguyen’s reflects this sensibility and curiosity in art, Underdog Suite brings together in his stunning images. one volume his photographs, collages, A beautiful and unusual book, Un- and unique painted-over magazine pic- derdog Suite introduces the work of this February 316 p., 545 color plates, 10 halftones 8 x 101/2 tures. rapidly emerging artist to a larger audi- ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-237-7 Arranged in an unconventional ence. Cloth $75.00s and highly original manner that mir- photography UK/EU Cat Tuong Nguyen was educated as a photographer at the School of Art and Design, Zürich. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at the Fotomuseum Winterthur and the Helmhaus Zürich, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and the Forum of Pho- tography in Cologne, among other museums and galleries in Switzerland and France.

Davos Joël Tettamanti With Text by Walter Keller

Davos is known worldwide as one of the a rising star in Swiss art circles whose most beautiful and exclusive skiing re- photographs have been exhibited sorts in the world—and as the site of the throughout the world. As the accompa- annual World Economic Forum’s sum- nying essay by curator Walter Keller ex- mit of global leaders. The photographs plains, Tettamanti’s work presents the in this beautifully produced collection resort as an open-ended location whose change our viewpoint on the mountain meanings aren’t—despite its fame— city, revealing its familiar chalets and in any way predetermined. Instead, he ski runs, but also its empty valleys and asks the viewer to experience the city in underlying infrastructure. its totality, paying attention to the land- This unexpected look at Davos scape, climate, people, dreams, and de- comes via the lens of Joël Tettamanti, bris alike. February 136 p., 87 color plates 9 x 111/2 Joël Tettamanti was born in Cameroon, grew up in Lesotho, and lives in Switzerland. ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-298-8 Cloth $59.00s Walter Keller is an art critic, curator, and publisher. photography UK/EU

Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 141 Building Bern A Guide to Contemporary Architecture 1990−2010 Edited by Werner Huber

Like many cities around the world, the graphs, floor plans and section views, Swiss capital, Bern, has seen a stunning and boxes of key facts and figures. A amount of new development and con- separate section focuses on a selection struction in recent years. A vast number of earlier twentieth-century buildings of new buildings have been erected, now regarded as classics, while an in- while existing ones have been refur- troductory essay links contemporary ar- bished or transformed for new uses. chitectural achievements with the long This handy pocket guide highlights history of building in Bern. the most important and interesting of The result is a book that celebrates those new buildings, ranging from the the city’s admirable melding of old and historic town center to the suburbs. new, making Building Bern the perfect The eighty entries feature short critical companion for a trip to Switzerland’s February 240 p., 131 color plates, essays about each building, accompa- capital. 9 maps, 171 line drawings 4 x 7 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-722-8 nied by specially commissioned photo- Paper $35.00s Werner Huber is an editor with the Swiss architecture and design magazine Hochparterre, architecture headquartered in Zürich. UK/EU

Finding Buildings Chalk Drawings by Marianne Burkhalter Edited by Burkhalter Sumi Architects With an Essay by Astrid Staufer

The work of designing a building— homes, as well as large-scale urban re- even the largest and most technically development projects. advanced structure—begins with the Each of these chalk drawings re- most basic of elements: a sketch. This veals the germ of an idea, their blurred beautifully produced volume reproduc- lines and simplicity rendering them es more than one hundred such initial more intimate and immediate than sketches, drawn in chalk, by renowned technical draftsmanship—closer in Swiss architect Marianne Burkhalter. A feel to the decision-making process of a cofounder of Burkhalter Sumi Archi- solitary artist choosing among many op- tects, she has designed a wide range of tions and sorting out problems. In their February 224 p., 100 color plates acclaimed public and private buildings, beauty and tension, they bring the work 10 x 13 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-297-1 including hotels, offices, and private of architectural design to stunning life. Cloth $60.00s Marianne Burkhalter has worked as an architect since 1970. In 1984 she founded Burkhalter architecture Sumi Architects with Christian Sumi. UK/EU

142 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess Art and Artistic Research Music, Visual Art, Design, Literature, Dance Edited by Corina Caduff, Fiona Siegenthaler, and Tan Wälchli

Artistic research is a new approach to gether eighteen essays on various as- making art that began in visual art and pects of this technique, considering its has recently expanded to performing development, its spread from English- arts, film, writing, and design. An artist speaking countries throughout much of begins a project by acting as more of a Europe, and what it might have to con- researcher than an artist, and only once tribute to the art world and to society he’s acquired a detailed understanding at large. A wide-ranging, theoretically of a particular topic does he begin the informed collection, Art and Artistic Re- more commonly understood practice search will be an essential starting point of making art. for future discussions of this promising Art and Artistic Research brings to- movement. Zürich University of the Arts Corina Caduff is a professor at the Zürich University of the Arts and has been a visiting Yearbook professor at the University of Chicago. Fiona Siegenthaler is an art historian and research assistant at the Zürich University of the Arts. Tan Wälchli is a visiting researcher in the February 320 p., 30 color plates, Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. 120 halftones 61/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-293-3 Cloth $49.00s art UK/EU

Caral: The First Civilization in the Americas La primera civilización de América Ruth Shady and Christopher Kleihege

Located in the Supe Valley of Peru and illuminating text in English and Span- dating to 3000 BC, Caral is the earliest ish by Shady captures the mystery and civilization in the Americas. Although beauty of one of the world’s oldest cities. Caral predates the Incas and Zapotecs, Nearly two hundred color photographs it remains less well known than other document Caral’s many impressive pyr- archaeological sites like Machu Picchu. amids, plazas, and other constructions. Discovered in 1905, Caral was initially These photographs portray the intri- February 168 p., 182 color plates, 5 1 considered a curiosity and largely for- cate layout of the city in the context of 1 map 13 /8 x 12 /8 ISBN-13: 978-9972-33-792-5 gotten. But in 1994 Peruvian anthro- the stunning landscape of the Andes. Cloth $125.00s/£86.50 pologist and archaeologist Ruth Shady Caral presents a fascinating and ancient history photography embarked on comprehensive excava- dramatic window into the ancient world tions, bringing to light the full import and will prove essential to anyone curi- of Caral. ous about the earliest origins of civiliza- This book of breathtaking photo- tion in the Americas. graphs by Christopher Kleihege and

Ruth Shady has directed the Special Archaeological Project Caral-Supe and currently serves as the president of the Consejo Internacional de Monumentos y Sitios-Peru (the In- ternational Council of Monuments and Sites-Peru). Christopher Kleihege lives in Chicago and has been photographing Caral since 2006.

Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 143 CK Photo Elaine Gordon Intimate Terms The Possession The Pygmalion Complex

WS Publishers announces their new Astor Place Genre Fic- tion series, a reintroduction of forgotten classics of mystery, K romance, science fiction, and the western published since World War II. To introduce the series, KWS presents three works by romance writer Elaine Gordon: Intimate Terms (1988); The Possession “Intimate Terms is going to give Jackie (1998); and her newest work, The Pygmalion Complex, published here for Collins a run for her money.” the first time. —New York Post In Intimate Terms, Dolph Robicheck abandons his career as a con- Astor Place Genre Fiction cert pianist to become the protégé of a wealthy industrialist, learning his way around the financial world and spending a number of years as one of Europe’s wealthiest bachelors. But Dolph’s world changes Intimate Terms when he marries his boss’s daughter, Alahna. What follows is the story March 300 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-9842260-1-6 of Alahna’s innocence clashing—and ultimately blending—with her Cloth $30.00x/£19.50 husband’s unorthodox lifestyle. ISBN-13: 978-0-9842260-2-3 Paper $14.95/£9.50 The Possession begins with sixteen-year-old Tatianna North learn- Romance ing that she has been sold by her family to one of the wealthiest men The Possession in Europe. After a few years, Tatianna is freed and moves to New York,

March 300 p. 6 x 9 where she finds herself at the center of a daring public relations cam- ISBN-13: 978-0-9842260-3-0 paign. Her fame leads to her eventual kidnapping and domination by Cloth $30.00x/£19.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-9842260-4-7 a man whose will is even stronger than her own. Paper $14.95/£9.50 Romance In The Pygmalion Complex, Romana leaves her home in Chicago and moves to New York when she learns that her husband is divorcing The Pygmalion her to marry his pregnant mistress. She meets Kent Cunningham, a Complex fashion designer who recognizes, under Romana’s somewhat dowdy March 300 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-9842260-5-4 suburban exterior, both her beauty and her potential. The two eventu- Cloth $30.00x/£19.50 ally fall in love, but their love is thwarted by an insurmountable hurdle. ISBN-13: 978-0-9842260-6-1 Paper $14.95/£9.50 Romance Elaine Gordon was raised in south Florida and now lives in Chicago. Formerly a photographer’s model and an interior designer, she is now a wife, mother, 144 KWS Publishers and an avid sportswoman. Campus Dictionary of International Security Edited by Paul Cornish, Andrew Dorman, and Caroline Soper

The wave of recent arrests of terrorist With the Campus Dictionary of Inter- suspects around the United States has national Security—the first volume in a led many across the globe to wonder new series of specialized dictionaries whether terrorist activity really has de- from KWS—international security ex- creased in the eight years since 9/11. perts Paul Cornish, Andrew Dorman, Terrorist networks are still prominent and Caroline Soper assemble a group around the world, and some believe that of notable contributors to provide an they are more powerful than ever. With overview of the key concepts of and the so many plots foiled and so many more ongoing debates surrounding interna- still looming, international security has tional security. Designed specifically for become one of the most important is- undergraduate students, this dictionary sues not just for the Obama administra- covers a wide range of topics, including Campus Student Dictionaries tion but for governments around the intelligence, legislation, technology, world. and military operations. June 500 p. 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-9842260-7-8 Paul Cornish is the head of the International Security Program and the Carrington Profes- Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 sor of International Security at Chatham House: The Royal Institute of International ISBN-13: 978-0-9842260-8-5 Affairs, London. Andrew Dorman is a senior lecturer at King’s College and an associate Paper $30.00s/£19.50 fellow at Chatham House. Caroline Soper is the editor of International Affairs, the journal of Reference political science Chatham House.

The Walls Are Talking Wallpaper, Art and Culture Dominique Heyse-Moore, Gill Saunders, Christine Woods, and Trevor Keeble

Inherently ephemeral and often over- Manchester and the Victoria and Al- looked, wallpaper had by the late twen- bert Museum in London, The Walls Are tieth century become a bit of a joke in Talking situates these unique creations the decorative arts, a cliché with con- alongside antique papers and explains notations of kitsch. But over the past how the latter have been adapted and decade or so, a number of contempo- subverted to convey meanings wildly rary avant-garde artists have created in- different from what their original de- stallations with backdrops of specially signers intended. Featured are wall- designed wallpaper to explore themes paper designs from more than thirty such as warfare, racism, gender, and renowned artists, including Damien sexuality. Hirst, Sonia Boyce, Thomas Demand, February 152 p., 115 color plates, Published to accompany exhibi- Robert Gober, Abigail Lane, Francesco 15 halftones 9 x 11 tions at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Simeti, and Niki de St. Phalle. ISBN-13: 978-0-9842260-0-9 Cloth $50.00s/£32.50

Dominique Heyse-Moore is assistant curator of textiles and wallpapers at the Whitworth art Gallery in Manchester. Gill Saunders is senior curator of prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Christine Woods is curator of wallpapers at the Whitworth Gallery. Trevor Keeble is associate director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University. KWS Publishers 145 Allister Mactaggart The Film Paintings of David Lynch Challenging Film Theory

ne of the most distinguished filmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is firmly Orooted in fine art. He was motivated to make his first film as a student because he wanted a painting that “would really be able to move.” Most existing studies of Lynch, however, fail to engage fully with the complexities of his films’ relationship to other art forms.The “Allister Mactaggart’s singular achieve- Film Paintings of David Lynch fills this void, arguing that Lynch’s cin- ment is to freely bring the affect and the ematic output needs to be considered within a broad range of cultural emotion of viewing Lynch’s films to the references. questions of how they can be studied. The Film Paintings of David Lynch crosses Aiming at both Lynch fans and film studies specialists, Allis- the boundaries of how we experience ter Mactaggart addresses Lynch’s films from the perspective of the different forms of art and breaks down relationship between commercial film, avant-garde art, and cultural generic criticism and methodological theory. Individual Lynch works—The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin conventions, and in doing this it presents Peaks, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire— us with fresh ways of thinking about are discussed in relation to other films and directors, illustrating that psychoanalysis and aesthetics in cultural the solitary, or seemingly isolated, experience of film is itself socially, writing. Rather than offering Lynch newly culturally, and politically important. The Film Paintings of David Lynch cut and dried, it enables us in our turn to offers a unique perspective on an influential director, weaving together value our seeing and our feeling of this a range of theoretical approaches to Lynch’s films to make exciting remarkable body of work.” new connections among film theory, art history, psychoanalysis, and —Adrian Rifkin, cinema. Goldsmiths, University of London

Allister Mactaggart is a senior lecturer at the Directorate of Art and Design, Chesterfield College and an associate lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan Uni- May 224 p., 20 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-332-5 versity. He teaches film studies and art history, specializing in David Lynch, Paper $25.00 psychoanalysis, and visual culture. film studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA

146 Intellect Books Edited by John Berra Directory of World Cinema Japan

rom the revered classics of Akira Kurosawa to the modern mar- vels of Takeshi Kitano, the films that have emerged from Japan Frepresent a national cinema that has gained worldwide admiration and appreciation. The Directory of World Cinema: Japan provides an insight into the cinema of Japan through reviews of significant titles and case studies of leading directors, alongside explorations of the cultural and industrial origins of key genres. Directory of World Cinema As the inaugural volume of an ambitious new series from Intellect documenting world cinema, the directory aims to play a part in mov- February 350 p., 50 color plates 7 x 10 ing intelligent, scholarly criticism beyond the academy by building a ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-335-6 Paper $25.00 forum for the study of film that relies on a disciplined theoretical base. film studies It takes the form of an A–Z collection of reviews, longer essays, and UK/EU/ANZ/SEA research resources, accompanied by fifty full-color film stills highlighting significant films and players. The cinematic lineage of samurai war- riors, yakuza enforcers, and atomic monsters take their place alongside the politically charged works of the Japanese new wave, making this a truly comprehensive volume.

John Berra is a writer and researcher specializing in contemporary film studies. He is the author of Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production, also published by Intellect, and he is currently editing Intellect’s forthcoming Directory of World Cinema: American Independent.

Intellect Books 147 Pop Up Popular Music Since 1945 Anthony May and Cory Messenger

In film, television, and advertising, a Pop Up uses the recorded song as few bars from a pop song can evoke a a point of entry to a discussion of the moment in time—a singular intersec- interwoven musical, industrial, techno- tion of personal memory and public logical, and social histories of the twen- history—with unparalleled intensity. In tieth century. It is a book about histori- the years after World War II, the record- cal change that focuses on the music ing industry ushered in a new version itself, exploring not only the musical of popular music, supplanting the big significance of songs from “Tennessee bands and crooners that had dominated Waltz” to “Hot in Herre” but also the the airwaves and dance halls of previous cultural transformations that made decades. In its various forms—singles, them possible. A serious but accessible albums, and compact discs—the sale of book, Pop Up offers an engaging analy- June 304 p. 7 x 9 pop music on disc became a central fea- sis of an irresistibly appealing genre of ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-232-8 Paper $25.00s ture of Western life until the shift to the music. mp3 in the new millennium. music UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Anthony May is a lecturer in cultural and media studies at the School of Arts at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Cory Messenger teaches in the School of Music at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. He also teaches courses in media and music at Griffith University.

Visual Cultures James Elkins

Visual Cultures is the first study of the Martin Jay or Jean Baudrillard, as well place of visuality and literacy in specific as a critique of local histories of visual- nations around the world, featuring ity, as in Third Text and other postco- authoritative, insightful essays on the lonial studies. The content is not only value accorded to the visual and the analytic, but also historical, tracing verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, changes in the significance of visual Ireland, and Slovenia. and verbal literacy in each nation. Vi- Focusing on the national instead sual Cultures also explores questions of of the global, distinguished art critic national identity, and the many issues James Elkins offers a critique of general Elkins raises suggest a wealth of promis- histories of visuality, such as those of ing avenues for future research.

James Elkins is the E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, March 160 p., 60 halftones 7 x 9 and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-307-3 Paper $25.00s art UK/EU/ANZ/SEA

148 Intellect Books Cinema and Landscape Film, Nation and Cultural Geography Edited by Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner

The notion of landscape is a complex in an exploration of screen aesthetics one, but it has been central to the art and national ideology, film form and and artistry of the cinema. After all, cultural geography, cinematic repre- what is the French new wave without sentation and the human environment. Paris? What are the films of Sidney Written by well-known cinema scholars, Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, this volume both extends the existing and Spike Lee without New York? Cin- field of film studies and stakes claims to ema and Landscape frames contempo- overlapping, contested territories in the rary film landscapes across the world, humanities and social sciences.

Graeme Harper is professor of creative writing and director of research at the University March 264 p., 15 halftones 7 x 9 of Wales, Bangor. He is founding coeditor of the journal Studies in European Cinema and ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-309-7 associate founding editor of the Creative Industries Journal, both published by Intellect. Paper $25.00s Jonathan Rayner is a senior lecturer in English and film at the University of Sheffield. His film studies previous books include The Naval War Film: Genre, History, National Cinema and Contemporary UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Australian Cinema.

Don’t Look Now British Cinema in the 1970s Edited by Paul Newland

While postwar British cinema and the tant filmmakers and sheds light on the British new wave have received much genres of experimental film, horror, scholarly attention, the misunderstood and rock and punk films, as well as rep- period of the 1970s has been compara- resentations of the black community, tively ignored. Don’t Look Now uncovers shifts in gender politics, and adapta- forgotten but richly rewarding films, tions of television comedies. The con- including Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now tributors ask searching questions about and the films of Lindsay Anderson and the nature of British film culture and Barney Platts-Mills. This volume of- its relationship to popular culture, tele- fers insight into the careers of impor- vision, and the cultural underground. June 256 p., 10 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-320-2 Paul Newland is a lecturer in film studies in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Paper $35.00x Television at Aberystwyth University. film studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA French Costume Drama of the 1950s Fashioning Politics in Film Susan Hayward

When political and civil unrest threat- overlooking a very important period of June 376 p., 20 halftones 7 x 9 ened France’s social order in the 1950s, political cultural history. French Costume ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-318-9 Paper $45.00x French cinema provided audiences a Drama of the 1950s redresses this bal- unique form of escapism from such ance, exploring a diverse range of films film studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA troubled times: a nostalgic look back to including Guitry’s Napoléon, Vernay’s the France of the nineteenth century, Le Comte de Monte Cristo, and Becker’s with costume dramas set in the age of Casque d’Or to expose the political cul- Napoleon and the Belle Époque. Film tural paradox between nostalgia for a critics, however, have routinely dis- lost past and the drive for moderniza- missed this period of French cinema, tion.

Susan Hayward’s principal areas of research are French film studies and French cultural studies. She is the editor of the journal Studies in French Cinema, also published by Intellect. Intellect Books 149 New Irish Storytellers Narrative Strategies in Film DÍÓg O’Connell

With the success of such films as the American colleagues. Díóg O’Connell Oscar winner Once, Irish film has been traces the creative output of Irish film- getting well-deserved international at- makers today back to 1993, the year the tention recently. New Irish Storytellers Irish Film Board was reactivated, rein- examines storytelling techniques and vigorating film production after a hia- narrative strategies in contemporary tus of seven years. Reflecting on this key Irish film. Revealing defining patterns and distinctive era in Irish cinema, this within recent Irish cinema, this book book explores how film gave expression explores connections between Irish cin- to tensions and fissures in the new Ire- ematic storytellers and their British and land. April 176 p., 14 halftones, 4 graphs 7 x 9 Díóg O’Connell is a lecturer in the School of Business and Humanities at Dun Laoghaire ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-312-7 Institute of Art, Design & Technology in Ireland. Paper $25.00x

film studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA The Danish Directors 2 Dialogues on the New Danish Fiction Cinema Edited by Mette Hjort, Eva Jørholt, and Eva Novrup Redvall

Over the last two decades, the New in which Danish filmmakers have been Danish Cinema has established itself able to develop their practice—and to as an important source of cinematic thrive. Featuring interviews with semi- renewal and innovation. Following in nal directors such as Anders Thomas the footsteps of the critically acclaimed Jensen, Annette K. Olesen, and Lone first volume, The Danish Directors 2 pro- Scherfig, The Danish Directors 2 will ap- vides a practitioner’s perspective on the peal to film students, scholars, and ci- social, cultural, and economic milieus nephiles alike.

Mette Hjort is chair professor and head of visual studies at Lingnan University in Hong June 224 p., 30 halftones 7 x 9 Kong. Eva Jørholt is associate professor of film studies at the University of Copenhagen. Eva ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-271-7 Novrup Redvall is currently writing a PhD thesis at the University of Copenhagen. Paper $25.00x film studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Studies in French Cinema UK Perspectives 1985–2010 Edited by Will Higbee and Sarah Leahy

June 304 p., 24 halftones 7 x 9 Studies in French Cinema looks at the de- Jill Forbes, Susan Hayward, Phil Powrie, ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-323-3 velopment of French screen studies in Keith Reader, Carrie Tarr, and Ginette Paper $35.00x the United Kingdom over the past twen- Vincendeau. film studies ty years and the ways in which innova- Covering a wide range of key films UK/EU/ANZ/SEA tive scholarship in the UK has helped —contemporary and historical, popu- shape the field in English- and French- lar and auteur—the volume provides speaking universities. This seminal text an invaluable overview of the state of is also a tribute to six key figures within French cinema and French film studies, the field who have been leaders in re- at the beginning of the twenty-first cen- search and teaching of French cinema: tury.

Will Higbee is a senior lecturer in film studies and codirector of the Centre for Research in Film Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Matthieu Kassovitz. Sarah Leahy is a senior lecturer in French and film at Newcastle University. She is the author ofCasque 150 Intellect Books d’or. Together they are associate editors of Studies in French Cinema. Unmapping the City Perspectives of Flatness Edited by Alfredo Cramerotti

Unmapping the City, the first title in the cityscape through a flat texture of lines new Intellect series Critical Photogra- and bold color tones, they draw the phy, features photographs shot between reader into a conversation about the 2004 and 2008 in fourteen different cit- interplay between reality and its rep- ies around the world. The images are resentation. This volume significantly linked by their shared attempts to de- challenges and expands the critical fine a two-dimensional approach to a discourse on photography and text and three-dimensional built reality, and to will be of interest to artists, curators, address spatial representation and ur- photographers, architects, and critical Critical Photography banity through art. In representing the theorists. June 128 p., 64 color plates 9 x 9 Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator, and artist based in Derby. His recent publications ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-316-5 include Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform Without Informing, also published by Intellect. Paper $25.00s photography UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Searching for Art’s New Publics Edited by Jeni Walwin

Drawing on contributions from prac- own agendas to the work. Bridging the March 160 p., 50 color plates 7 x 9 ticing artists, writers, curators, and gap between practice and theory, this ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-311-0 academics, Searching for Art’s New Publics exciting book touches on issues of rela- Paper $35.00x explores the ways in which artists seek tional aesthetics, but also offers an illus- art UK/EU/ANZ/SEA to involve, create, and engage with new trated artist-based approach. Searching and diverse audiences—from passers- for Art’s New Publics will appeal to stu- by encountering and participating in dents studying fine art (especially those the work unexpectedly, to professionals with an interest in cross-disciplinary from other disciplines and members of work and public art) and those study- particular communities who bring their ing curating.

Jeni Walwin is an independent curator and writer. She is the director of Reading’s public art program Artists in the City and for many years has worked for the Contemporary Art Society.

Christoph Schlingensief Art without Borders Edited by Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa Scheer With a Foreword by Alexander Kluge

The work of acclaimed German artist of Schlingensief’s hybrid practice, and Christoph Schlingensief spans three an interview with Schlingensief himself decades and a diverse range of fields, provides the reader with insight into including film, television, activism, op- past and present projects. The book era, and theater. Christoph Schlingensief: will be an essential resource for artists, Art without Borders is the first book to curators, students, and academics in be published in English on Schlingen- the fields of theater and performance sief’s groundbreaking, politically en- studies, film studies, cultural studies, gaged body of work. Leading scholars German studies, political activism, and May 176 p., 30 halftones 7 x 9 in the field offer a critical assessment art history. ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-319-6 Paper $35.00x Tara Forrest is a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. art Anna Teresa Scheer is a performer and theatre director who worked in Berlin from 1992 to UK/EU/ANZ/SEA 2006, including a period at the Volksbühne, where Christoph Schlingensief was in-house director. Intellect Books 151 The Propaganda of Peace The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process Greg McLaughlin and Stephen Baker

When political opponents Ian Paisley to accept this startling change. The Pro- and Martin McGuiness were confirmed paganda of Peace analyzes this incident as First Minister and Deputy First Min- and others in a wider study of the role ister of a new Northern Ireland execu- of the media in conflict resolution and tive in May 2007, a chapter was closed transformation. With analysis of factual on Northern Ireland’s troubled past. A and fictional media forms, The Propa- dramatic realignment of politics had ganda of Peace proposes a radically dif- brought these irreconcilable enemies ferent theoretical and methodological together—and the media played a sig- approach to the media’s role in report- June 176 p., 9 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-272-4 nificant role in persuading the public ing and representing. Paper $35.00x Greg McLaughlin lectures in media and journalism at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. media studies Stephen Baker UK/EU/ANZ/SEA He is the author of The War Correspondent. lectures in media and cultural studies at the University of Northampton.

TV Formats Worldwide Localising Global Programs Albert Moran

February 224 p. 7 x 9 Since around 2003, the growth of in- the emergence of an important, excit- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-306-6 terest in the genre of reality shows has ing, and challenging area of television Paper $35.00x come to dominate the field of televi- studies. Topics explored include reality media studies sion studies. However, the focus on this TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, tal- UK/EU/ANZ/SEA genre has tended to sideline the even ent shows, and fiction serials, as well as more significant emergence of the broadcaster management policies, pro- program format as a central mode of duction decision chains, and audience business and culture in the new televi- participation processes. This seminal sion landscape. TV Formats Worldwide work will be of considerable interest to redresses this balance and heralds media scholars worldwide.

Albert Moran is a senior lecturer in media at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. His current research covers international trade in TV formats, media geographies, and Austra- lian screen history. Artist-Teacher A Philosophy for Creating and Teaching G. James Daichendt

Is an artist-teacher a mere professional pius, Johannes Itten, Victor Pashmore, who balances a career—or does the Richard Hamilton, Arthur Wesley Dow, duality of making and teaching art and Hans Hoffmann—illustrate the merit a more profound investigation? artist-teacher in various contexts. This Rejecting a conventional understand- book offers a revelation of the complex ing of the artist-teacher, this book sets thinking processes artists utilize when April 160 p., 12 halftones 7 x 9 out to present a robust history from the teaching, and a reconciliation of the ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-313-4 classical era to the twenty-first century. artistic and educational enterprises as Cloth $50.00x Particular pedagogical portraits— complementary partners. education UK/EU/ANZ/SEA featuring George Wallis, Walter Gro-

G. James Daichendt is associate professor and exhibitions director in the Department of Art 152 Intellect Books at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California. Context Providers Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts Margot Lovejoy, Christiane Paul, and Victoria Vesna

Context Providers explores the ways in collaborative creative process, blurring which digital art and culture are chang- boundaries between disciplines. Context ing the creative process and our ways Providers considers the work of media of constructing meaning. The authors artists today who are directly engaging introduce the concept of artists as con- the scientific community through col- text providers—people who establish laboration, active dialogue, and chal- networks of information in a highly lenging creative work.

Margot Lovejoy is a media artist and professor emerita of visual arts at Purchase College, State University of New York, and the author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age. Christiane Paul is associate professor and director of graduate media studies at The New March 320 p., 70 halftones 7 x 9 School, New York, and adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum of Ameri- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-308-0 can Art and director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization dedicated to digital art. Paper $35.00x Victoria Vesna is a media artist, professor in the Department of Design and Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts, and director of research at the Art, Media, and technology media studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA program at Parsons The New School of Design.

The Mobile Nation España cambia de piel (1954–1964) Tatjana Pavlovic

The last five years have witnessed a surge decade to change the face of Spain. June 256 p., 15 halftones 7 x 9 in publications on Spanish cinema and Drawing from the methodologies of ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-324-0 Spanish cultural studies, but the subject literature, film studies, cultural studies, Cloth $45.00x of consumer culture in Spain has been feminist theory, and history, The Mobile cultural studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA neglected until now. The Mobile Nation: Nation explores consumer culture in España cambia de piel (1954–1964) pres- Spanish media, mass tourism, and the ents the first systematic treatment of this national auto industry from 1954 to crucial period during Spain’s transition 1964 and offers valuable insight into to modernity and highlights the forces postmodern Spain’s transformation and that converged during this dramatic trends.

Tatjana Pavlovic is associate professor of Spanish at Tulane University.

Phenomenology’s Material Presence Video, Vision and Experience Gabrielle A. Hezekiah

Phenomenology’s Material Presence draws Merleau-Ponty—to produce a richly on recent work in phenomenology, em- textured and poetic essay that brings bodiment, and cinema and extends the them into conversation. Through a field by examining metaphysical pres- meditation on three experimental vid- ence in postcolonial cinema. Where eos by Trinidadian filmmaker Robert other scholarship has assimilated in- Yao Ramesar, this book makes the case sight from individual phenomenologi- that video performs an act of phenom- cal thinkers, Phenomenology’s Material enological inquiry. Phenomenology’s Ma- Presence utilizes the methods of these terial Presence extends our theorizing in February 96 p., 24 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-310-3 thinkers—Heidegger, Husserl, and both film studies and philosophy. Paper $35.00x

Gabrielle A. Hezekiah is an independent scholar who has written widely on cinema. She has film studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA taught film studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of the West Indies. Intellect Books 153 Media, Markets and Public Spheres European Media at the Crossroads Edited by Jostein Gripsrud and Lennart Weibull

Using a sample of European newspa- and changes in media policies, this pers and their TV listings as a stepping book explores how and why the media stone, Media, Markets and Public Spheres decisively influence most aspects of so- presents an overview of changes in Eu- ciety. Media, Markets and Public Spheres ropean public spheres over the last fifty will be useful to students in media and years. With in-depth analyses of struc- communication studies and European tural changes in press and broadcast- studies, as well as for those studying so- ing, changing relations between media, ciology and political science.

Jostein Gripsrud is professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. Lennart Weibull is professor of media research in the Depart- ment of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Gothenburg. Changing Media, Changing Europe

February 224 p., 7 halftones, 26 tables, 15 graphs 7 x 9 Reinventing Public Service Television ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-305-9 Paper $35.00x for the Digital Future Mary Debrett media Studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Since the 1980s there has been much Future draws on fifty interviews with June 256 p. 7 x 9 speculation about the demise of public media industry and academic special- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-321-9 service television, initially because of ists from four countries to discuss how Cloth $45.00x the advent of cable and satellite televi- public service broadcasting institutions media studies sion and the variety of entertainment are responding to the changes in digi- UK/EU/ANZ/SEA channels they offer. While the prolifer- tal media. This seminal work offers su- ation of global niche media might seem perior insights into the constraints and to accelerate the demise of public tele- possibilities of the public service system vision, in reality, public broadcasters and its prospects for survival in the age are undergoing a reinvention. Reinvent- of on-demand media. ing Public Service Television for the Digital

Mary Debrett is a lecturer in media industries at La Trobe University in Australia. She has worked as a senior editor for Television New Zealand and as a freelance documentary maker and researcher.

Cultural Quarters Principles and Practice Second Edition Simon Roodhouse

The much-praised Cultural Quarters re- ies (from Bolton; Birmingham, England; turns in a revised edition, offering new Ireland; and Vienna), Cultural Quarters case studies and new chapters on the positions the emergence of specific cul- economics of cultural quarters and the tural areas within a historical and social importance of historic buildings. This context and explores the economics of

June 170 p., 8 halftones, 6 maps, definitive text provides a conceptual maintaining these districts. The book of- 3 tables, 4 drawings 7 x 9 context for cultural quarters through a fers a concise illustration of how cultural ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-158-1 detailed discussion of urban design and practice is maintained and expanded Paper $35.00x planning. Drawing on several case stud- within an urban environment. urban studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Simon Roodhouse’s research explores the relationship between the arts and industry. He is the editor of the Creative Industries Journal, also published by Intellect. 154 Intellect Books The Philosophical Actor A Practical Meditation for Practicing Theatre Artists Donna Soto-Morettini

There have been many books published from the first great essay by Diderot on acting, actor training, and practical to the exhaustive system described by theories for preparing for a role, but Stanislavski. With wide appeal to ac- none of these books have ever looked tors, directors, acting students, acting philosophically at the language and the teachers, and trainers, Donna Soto- concepts that we use when we talk about Morettini draws from twenty-five years acting. The Philosophical Actor is the first of experience as an acting teacher and attempt to grapple with the fundamen- director to introduce innovative ways of tal questions of truth, art, and human thinking about acting. nature unexamined in past treatments, June 224 p., 3 halftones, 4 tables Donna Soto-Morettini has served as director of drama for the Royal Scottish Academy of 7 x 9 Music and Drama and a writer, freelance director, and performance coach. She is also the ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-326-4 Paper $30.00x author of Popular Singing. drama philosophy Drawing UK/EU/ANZ/SEA The Enactive Evolution of the Practitioner Patricia Cain With a Foreword by James Elkins and Claire Petitmengin

Despite recent technological changes between a variety of disciplines in order June 180 p., 134 illustrations 7 x 9 that have digitized many forms of ar- to find out what happens when we draw. ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-325-7 Paper $35.00x tistic creation, the practice of drawing, Instead of the finite event of producing art in the traditional sense, has remained an artifact, drawing is a process and an UK/EU/ANZ/SEA constant. However, many publications end in itself. By synthesizing enactive about this subject rely on discipline- thinking and the practice of drawing, dependent distinctions to discuss this volume provides valuable insights drawing’s function. Drawing redefines into the creative mind and will appeal drawing more holistically as an enactive to scholars and practitioners alike. phenomenon and makes connections

Patricia Cain is an artist and honorary research fellow of the Humanities Advanced Tech- nology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow.

Confronting Theory The Psychology of Cultural Studies Philip Bell

Confronting Theory presents a critique of few, if any, have empirical implications what has come to be known as theory that students can evaluate. By consid- in cross-disciplinary humanities edu- ering the educational implications of cation. Rather than dismissing theory cultural theory, Confronting Theory will writing as pretentious and abstract, empower students with arguments, not Confronting Theory examines its princi- just opinions, about the increasingly pal concepts from the perspective of idealist and irrelevant anti-realist curri- May 160 p. 7 x 9 academic psychology and shows that cula they confront in their humanities ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-317-2 although many of these analyses sound education in today’s universities. Paper $30.00x like revolutionary psychological theory, cultural studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Philip Bell has published several books on television and media culture. Intellect Books 155 Now in Paperback Art, Community and Environment Educational Perspectives Edited by Glen Coutts and Timo Jokela

Art, Community and Environment investi- ine topics such as urban art, commu- gates wide-ranging issues raised by the nity participation, local empowerment, interaction between art practice, com- and the problem of ownership. Featur- Readings in Art and Design munity participation, and the environ- ing rich illustrations and informative Education ment, both natural and urban. This case studies from around the world, Art, February 328 p., 128 color plates volume brings together a distinguished Community and Environment addresses 9 x 7 group of contributors from the United the growing interest in this fascinating ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-257-1 States, Australia, and Europe to exam- discipline. Paper $35.00x ART Glen Coutts is a reader in art and design education at the University of Strathclyde. Timo UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Jokela is professor of art education at the University of Lapland. Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84150-189-5

Now in Paperback Art Education in a Postmodern World Collected Essays Edited by Tom Hardy

Readings in Art and Design This volume presents a series of papers theory informs the polemical debate Education concerned with the interrelations be- concerning new directions in educa- tween the postmodern and the present tion. Contributors shed new light on April 164 p., 8 halftones 7 x 9 state of art and design education. Span- a postmodern view of art in education ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-302-8 Paper $35.00x ning a range of thematic concerns, the with emphasis upon difference, plural- book reflects upon existing practice and ity, and independence of mind. Ulti- ART UK/EU/ANZ/SEA articulates revolutionary prospects po- mately, the book provides detailed in- Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84150-146-8 tentially viable through a shift in educa- sights into the contemporary art world tive thinking. and expands the debate over art educa- Throughout the book, postmodern tion.

Tom Hardy has been an art and design teacher in secondary schools for many years and has led art departments in inner-city, mixed, single-sex, and selective schools. He trained as a painter at Hornsey College of Art, and before teaching he worked as a professional composer and freelance designer.

Association of American University Presses Directory 2010 Association of American University Presses

February 245 p. 6 x 9 This comprehensive directory offers and separate entries for each member ISBN-13: 978-0-945103-23-3 detailed information on the publish- press. Contact information for AAUP Paper $25.00x/£16.00 ing programs and personnel of the 133 partners is also included. Each press’s reference members of the Association of Ameri- entry provides telephone numbers and can University Presses. Its features in- e-mail addresses for its key staff mem- clude a subject guide indicating which bers as well as details about its editorial presses publish in specific disciplines; program. guidelines for submitting manuscripts;

156 Intellect Books association of American University Presses Saturnin “A delicious dry humour and an imaginative flair that makes it Zdenek Jirotka much more than just the ‘Czech Translated by Mark Adrian Corner Jeeves.’ Owing more to Jerome K. On its initial publication in Czech and intrusive relatives, such as Aunt Jerome than to P. G. Wodehouse, in 1942, Saturnin was a best-seller, its Catherine, the “Prancing Dictionary of the writing is rich in homespun gentle satire offering an unexpected— Slavic Proverbs.” wisdom and casual asides that take if temporary—reprieve from the grim Enlivened with new, full-color illus- on a life of their own, leading the reality of the German occupation. trations by Czech graphic artist Adolph reader up charming byways of ir- In the years since, the novel has been Born, Saturnin will warm the heart of relevance. . . . A surprising number hailed as a classic of Czech literature, any fan of literary comedy. and this translation makes it available “At a time when Czechoslovakia of belly-laughs for a novel that is to English-language readers for the first was deep in the grip of the Nazi occu- more than half a century old.” time—which is entirely appropriate, for pation, one form of resistance was to —Adam Preston, author Zdenek Jirotka clearly modeled put the world created by invasion out Times Literary Supplement his light comedy on the English masters of your mind and create another. Was Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse. it, perhaps, a Wodehousian influence— available 263 p. 6 x 91/5 The novel’s main character, Saturnin, a a reluctance to acknowledge the evil ISBN-13: 978-80-246-0683-5 Cloth $30.00/£19.50 “gentleman’s gentleman” who obviously of the outside world?”—Elin Murphy, fiction owes a debt to Wodehouse’s beloved Wooster Sauce, the Journal of the P. G. Wo- CZE/SVK Jeeves, wages a constant battle to pro- dehouse Society tect his master from romantic disaster

Zdenek Jirotka (1911–2003) is the author of radio plays, novels, and short stories. Mark Adrian Corner is a part-time lecturer at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel. He is the author or translator of several books.

Mathematics for Economists Made Simple Viatcheslav V. Vinogradov

As the field of economics becomes ever “For non-mathematicians who just more specialized and complicated, so use math in their professional activity does the mathematics required of econ- I believe this is a very helpful source omists. With Mathematics for Economists, of knowledge, and also a very efficient expert mathematician Viatcheslav V. reference.”—Elena Kustova, Saint Pe- Vinogradov offers a straightforward, tersburg State University practical textbook for students in eco- “Extremely well done. It provides nomics—for whom mathematics is not a wonderful resource for students in a scientific or philosophical subject but mastering the mathematics needed for a practical necessity. Focusing on the serious study of economics. The author most important fields of economics, the has wisely decided to put emphasis on book teaches apprentice economists understanding over abstract proofing, march 300 p. 6 x 9 to apply mathematical algorithms and which for economists would be more of ISBN-13: 978-80-246-1657-5 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 methods to economic analysis, while an intellectual luxury than of practical economics mathematics abundant exercises and problem sets al- use.”—Jaroslav Kmenta, University of cze/svk low them to test what they’ve learned. Michigan

Viatcheslav V. Vinogradov is a researcher at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and a consultant to the World Bank.

Karolinum Press, Charles University Prague 157 An Anthropological Theory of the Corporation Ira Bashkow

Corporations today control a command- Integrating studies in legal history, ing share of the world’s capital, many economic sociology, and the cultural even surpassing governments in scale. economy of finance, Bashkow explains While much criticism has been leveled why we must improve upon oversimpli- at the privileges corporations enjoy as fied producer–consumer–nation state “legal individuals,” anthropologists models of capitalist political economy. also know there is nothing unusual or This is especially important if we are inherently wrong about the personifica- to understand how our own thinking tion of collectivities. An Anthropological may be influenced by the growing de- Theory of the Corporation proposes a new pendence that scholars—like so many anthropological framework for under- others—have come to feel on rising

April 94 p. 41/2 x 7 standing the investor-owned corpora- corporate stock prices for the financial ISBN-13: 978-0-9794057-9-2 tion, focusing on the way it organizes health of their universities and their Paper $12.95/£8.50 property and articulates the world of own fragile financial security. anthropology business with finance.

Ira Bashkow is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.

The Great Debate about Art Roy Harris

In this lucid and insightful essay, re- of the individual. The third is the “con- nowned linguist Roy Harris reflects ceptual” view of art, which insists that on the early nineteenth-century doc- what counts is the idea that inspired a trine of “art for art’s sake.” Attacked by work, not the physical execution. But, Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended as Harris shows, the tacit assumptions by Théophile Gautier and E. M. Forster, which once supported this debate and it influenced movements as diverse as these positions have now collapsed. futurism and Dada. Over the past two “Art” as a coherent category has implod- April 104 p. 41/2 x 7 ISBN-13: 978-0-9842010-0-6 centuries, three main positions have ed, leaving behind a historical residue Paper $12.95/£8.50 emerged. The “institutional” view de- of empty questions that contemporary art clares art to be a status conferred upon society can no longer answer. The Great certain works by the approval of influen- Debate about Art provides much-needed tial institutions. The “idiocentric” view signposts for understanding this sorry gives absolute priority to the judgment state of affairs.

Roy Harris is emeritus professor of general linguistics at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow of St Edmund Hall. He has also held university teaching posts in Hong Kong, Boston, and Paris.

158 Prickly Paradigm Press Faye Hammill Sophistication A Literary and Cultural History

n an era obsessed with celebrity and glamour, sophistication ranks among the most desirable of human qualities, but it was I not always so. The very word “sophistication” was once a negative term, signifying falsification, speciousness, perversion, or adulteration. Now, it positively glitters, carrying meanings of worldliness and refine- ment. Through a series of close readings of some of the essential texts of sophistication, Faye Hammill explores the developments in taste and ideology that account for this striking change. At the same time, Sophistication demonstrates that traces of older meanings linger—that “Hammill’s highly original work has im- hints of “sophistry” persist in even our most modern conceptions of pressive breadth—roughly from the eigh- the sophisticated. teenth century to the present—and covers Spanning more than two centuries of sophistication, this lively a remarkable number of the essential account features rereadings of canonical writers from the eighteenth literary texts on the topic, from Richard century to the present, including Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Fanny Brinsley Sheridan and Jane Austen to Burney, Austen, Henry James, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Nabokov, and di Sofia Coppola.” Lampedusa. A complementary examination of lesser-known writers —Aaron Jaffe, reveals that the development of modern sophistication is intimately University of Louisville connected with the evolution of middlebrow culture. From there,

Hammill moves on to consider sophistication as expressed in contem- May 256 p., 10 halftones 6 x 9 porary magazines, films, and Web sites. Drawing on words and images ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-232-8 Cloth $39.95s from such diverse sources as Noël Coward, Vanity Fair, Sofia Coppola, literary criticism NAM and the New Yorker, Sophistication ultimately demonstrates that a preoccupation with—or a performance of—sophistication links unexpected works, disrupting the boundary between seriousness and frivolity.

Faye Hammill is a lecturer at Strathclyde University. Her previous publications include Women, Celebrity and Literary Culture between the Wars and Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada, 1760–2000.

Liverpool University Press 159 Frank O’Hara Now New Essays on the New York Poet Edited by Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery

The work of Frank O’Hara (1926–66) ist with a demanding engagement with is central to any consideration of twen- currents in European and American tieth-century American poetry. Frank modernism. O’Hara Now, the first collection of essays The book includes coverage of to be dedicated to O’Hara in nearly two O’Hara moods that have rarely been decades, asks why O’Hara remains so discussed in the criticism to date, in- important to twenty-first-century read- cluding boredom, hatred, and nihilism. ers and writers of poetry. For many, Throughout, there is a powerful sense O’Hara’s distinctive appeal depends that fresh readings of O’Hara are cru- on his witty depictions of urban experi- cial to understanding his continuing ence, his relationship to the painters of influence, making it essential reading abstract expressionism, and the exhila- for scholars and students of American april 256 p. 6 x 9 rating immediacy of his poetic voice. poetry. ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-231-1 Cloth $85.00x Yet these approachable qualities coex- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-233-5 Paper $29.95s Robert Hampson is professor of modern literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. poetry He is coeditor of The New British Poetries, 1970–1990: The Scope of the Possible and Ford Madox NAM Ford: A Re-Assessment. Will Montgomery has held lecturing positions at Southampton Uni- versity and at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2007 he took an RCUK Fellowship in Poetry and Poetics at Royal Holloway.

Malcolm Lowry From the Mersey to the World Edited by Bryan Biggs and Helen Tookey

Malcolm Lowry (1909–57), the influ- and author Michael Turner—reveal ential British author and adventurer Lowry’s global presence and adventur- best known for his cult classic novel ous spirit, while contributors from the Under the Volcano, described Liverpool United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, and as “that terrible city whose main street Mexico reflect both on Lowry’s “voy- is the ocean.” Lowry was born on the age that never ends” and on their own Wirral side of the river Mersey, and his journeys. Accompanying full-color il- relationship to the Merseyside of his lustrations demonstrate Lowry’s influ- youth informs all of his writing, while ence on contemporary visual artists. Liverpool itself always held tremendous Malcolm Lowry will be an indispensable significance for him—even though he companion for anyone interested in the left it, never to return. legacy of this remarkably cosmopolitan February 160 p., 40 color plates, creative icon. 16 halftones 6 x 9 Published to coincide with Lowry’s ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-228-1 centenary, Malcolm Lowry showcases a “Under the Volcano is probably the Cloth $34.95s variety of creative and critical approach- novel that I have read the most times in literary Criticism es to Lowry and his work. Contributions my life. I would like not to have to read NAM from international scholars, creative it any more but that would be impos- writers, and visual artists—including sible, for I shall not rest until I have dis- Lowry’s biographer, Gordon Bowker; covered where its hidden magic lies.”— poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan; Gabriel García Márquez

Bryan Biggs is artistic director of the Bluecoat, Liverpool’s oldest arts center. Helen Tookey is a freelance writer and published poet. 160 Liverpool University Press Nuclear Papers David Owen

Published in advance of the 2010 Inter- high-ranking U.S. officials. Offering governmental Review Conference of fascinating insight into the culture of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of secrecy in the upper echelons of gov- Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Papers makes ernment and a forceful polemic on available for the first time newly de- nuclear weapons policy, David Owen ar- classified government correspondence gues convincingly that progress toward from David Owen’s tenure as Foreign the elimination of nuclear weapons can Secretary of the United Kingdom, in be made by skillfully tying the events of which capacity he worked closely with thirty years ago to the present.

David Owen was Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979. He was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party and has held a number of senior international appointments. His many books include In Sickness and in Power and The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power. February 320 p., 6 maps 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-227-4 Cloth $49.95s political science european history The Beat Goes On NAM Liverpool, Popular Music and the Changing City Edited by Marion Leonard and Rob Strachan

In 2001 the Guinness Book of Records contributions from experts in popular June 256 p., 65 color plates, declared Liverpool the “City of Pop” music history, cultural geography, eth- 45 halftones 7 x 83/4 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-189-5 for producing more hit records than nography, and musicology, alongside Cloth $95.00x any other city. The Beat Goes On is a essays and interviews with Liverpool ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-190-1 historical account of popular music in musicians and rare archival images, Paper $39.95s Liverpool that explores the contextual, this volume offers an interdisciplinary music NAM creative, and geographical factors that exploration of the city’s unique place in have contributed to the city’s status as a the realm of popular music. major center of musical creativity. With

Marion Leonard is a senior lecturer and Rob Strachan is a lecturer in the School of Music, both at the University of Liverpool.

Invisible Men The Secret Lives of Police Constables in Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool Joanne Klein

Invisible Men is the most comprehensive of great change in both the life of the study to date of the lives and work of city and the nature of police methods English police constables on foot patrol and training. in the early part of the twentieth centu- “This is an excellent book. It is well ry. Joanne Klein has plumbed previous- written and extremely interesting, fill- june 256 p. 6 x 9 ly unstudied archives of police departing a gap in a historical literature which ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-235-9 ments in Manchester, Birmingham, and is dominated by official and institu- Cloth $95.00x Liverpool to offer a fascinating insider’s ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-236-6 tional perspectives, by illuminating the Paper $34.95x view of the working-class men charged daily and working lives of constables.” european history with protecting the citizens of these —Lucinda McCray Beier, Appalachian political science rapidly growing cities during a period State University NAM

Joanne Klein is associate professor of history at Boise State University. Liverpool University Press 161 Inside the Death Drive Excess and Apocalypse in the World of the Chapman Brothers Edited by Jonathan Harris

Tate Liverpool Critical Forum Inside the Death Drive assesses the work of and aesthetic aspects of the Chapmans’ brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman, who graphic, sculptural, and installation march 272 p., 50 color plates, for the last seventeen years have created artifacts. In addition, the book consid- 20 halftones 7 x 83/4 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-192-5 profoundly disturbing and challenging ers other artists who have attempted to Paper $49.95s art, enraging some viewers and reduc- deal with modern horror. Featuring a

art ing others to hysterics. Essays by leading rare, specially commissioned interview NAM figures in the field address their oeuvre with Jake Chapman and seventy repro- from a variety of critical standpoints, ductions of the Chapmans’ work, this examining psychoanalytic, political, volume highlights the controversial role semiotic, pop-cultural, philosophical, that transgression plays in modern art.

Jonathan Harris is director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts at the Univer- sity of Liverpool. He is the author of many books.

Lewis’s Fifth Floor A Department Story Stephen King

Established more than 150 years ago, at Photographer Stephen King reveals the the height of the golden age of depart- hidden canteen where the young Beat- ment stores, Lewis’s department store les played staff parties at Christmas; the in Liverpool is a city institution, a retail intricate mosaics that have become reg- phenomenon, and the subject of count- istered historic works; the breathtaking February 160 p., 150 color plates 10 x 7 less urban legends. scale of what was at one time the world’s ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-246-5 Lewis’s Fifth Floor presents a stun- largest hair salon; and even Jacob Ep- Cloth $65.00x ning collection of photographs from stein’s iconic statue The Spirit of Liver- photography the “lost” fifth floor of the store, which pool Resurgent—together representing a NAM was sealed off more than thirty years ago strikingly well-preserved image of shop- and hasn’t been seen by the public since. ping’s glamorous past.

Stephen King is an award-winning photographer.

“Animal Alterity is an engaging, Animal Alterity intelligent study which is percep- Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal tively and accessibly theorized, and Sherryl Vint refreshingly innovative.” —Peter Wright, Edge Hill University Animal Alterity uses readings of science engineering, factory farming, species fiction texts to explore how animals are extinctions, and increasing evidence Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & central to our perception of humanity. of animal intelligence, emotions, and Studies Arguing that the academic field of ani- tool use. Mapping the complex terrain mal studies and the popular genre of of human relations with nonhuman March 256 p. 6 x 9 science fiction share a number of criti- animals, this book offers an important ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-234-2 Cloth $95.00x cal concerns, Sherryl Vint expresses an intervention into the contentious ongo- urgent need to reconsider the human- ing discussions of the post-human. literary criticism NAM animal boundary in a world of genetic

Sherryl Vint is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, and Sci- 162 Liverpool University Press ence Fiction and coeditor of Science Fiction Film and Television. Poetry and Translation “Informative as well as argued, polemical as well as seeking out The Art of the Impossible common ground, and written in a Peter Robinson no-nonsense, clear style, Poetry and Translation shows quite simple In Poetry and Translation, acclaimed gual editions, for example—resisting poet and translator Peter Robinson the temptation to identify a single an- things to be complex and more nu- examines the art of translation as prac- swer. A peerless resource for readers anced than thought but has also a ticed by poets and others, and how the and students of poetry, translation, and refreshing directness about dealing various practices of translating have classical and modern languages, this with things that have often been continued in parallel with the writing volume offers a unique perspective on made to seem too complex to deal of original poetry. Rather than engag- the interactive processes of reading and with.” ing in a formal theoretical debate, Po- writing poetry whether in one’s native —Patrick McGuinness, etry and Translation instead raises issues language or in translation. for discussion—the character of bilin- University of Oxford

Peter Robinson is a poet, translator, and professor of English at the University of Reading. Poetry and . . . His recent books include Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations, The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba, and Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni, the last published by February 256 p. 6 x 9 the University of Chicago Press. The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson was published in 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-218-2 Cloth $95.00x poetry Photo-texts NAM Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image Andy Stafford

In today’s image-saturated society, the oral as it is with visual and written Contemporary French & photograph and text live side-by-side, culture. That text-image collaborations Francophone Cultures engaged in a complex collaboration. give space to the spectral traces of spo- May 256 p. 6 x 9 Andy Stafford critically examines this ken human discourse suggests that the ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-052-2 interplay in Photo-texts, taking nine case key element of the photo-text is its radi- Cloth $95.00x studies from the 1990s French-speaking cal provisionality—that it is inherently Photography Literary Criticism world and looking at the interaction be- unstable and ever-changing. This path- NAM tween nonfictional written texts (cap- breaking study offers a vital resource tion, essay, fragment, poem) and pho- for scholars in contemporary French tographic images. The “photo-text,” as and francophone cultures. he defines it, is concerned as much with

Andy Stafford is a senior lecturer in French at the University of Leeds.

Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality The Anxiety of Theory Jane Hiddleston

In Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality, their theoretical discourse because they Jane Hiddleston explores poststructur- write simultaneously about problems of alist anxiety about how to theorize cultural identification and exile in the postcoloniality and cultural difference. postcolonial epoch. A remarkable con- Many so-called poststructuralist think- tribution by a leading scholar, this vol- Postcolonialism across the ers have addressed questions of post- ume demonstrates how poststructural- Disciplines colonialism and cultural domination. ist reflections on postcolonialism leave april 256 p. 6 x 9 However, in Hiddleston’s analysis, these theory itself, perplexingly, at sea. ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-230-4 thinkers cannot maintain neutrality in Cloth $95.00x political Science Jane Hiddleston is a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and fellow of Exeter NAM College. Her previous books include Assia Djebar: Out of Africa, also published by Liverpool University Press. Liverpool University Press 163 Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France Approaches from the Left Jeremy AheArne

Studies in Social and Political French intellectuals have always de- untarily entangled within them. Thought fined themselves in political terms, The book consists of a series of typically as opponents to a corrupt gov- case studies exploring policy domains may 256 p. 6 x 9 ernment—but challenging state author- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-245-8 from religion and secularization to Cloth $95.00x ity is not the only way intellectuals in educational reform and the media. It religion France have exerted political influence. explores the political engagement of NAM Jeremy Ahearne here invokes a neglect- intellectuals such as Pierre Bourdieu, ed dimension of French intellectuals’ Michel de Certeau, and André Mal- practice, where instead of denouncing raux, and will be required reading for the worlds of government and public scholars of French political and social policy, French intellectuals become vol- history.

Jeremy Ahearne is a reader in French at the University of Warwick and the author of Michel de Certeau.

Argentina’s Partisan Past Nationalism and the Politics of History Michael Goebel

Liverpool Latin American Studies Argentina’s Partisan Past is a challeng- Eschewing the notion of any straight- ing new study of the use of national forward relationship between cultural july 256 p. 6 x 9 history and identity for political pur- customs and political practices, the ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-238-0 poses in twentieth-century Argentina. study provides a more nuanced frame- Cloth $95.00x Based on extensive study of primary work for understanding the interplay history political science NAM and published sources, it analyzes how between politics and narratives about nationalist views about what it meant to national history. The book is a valuable be Argentine were built into the coun- resource for both students of Argentine try’s long protracted crisis of liberal de- history and those interested in the ways mocracy from the 1930s to the 1980s. nationalism has shaped our world.

Michael Goebel is the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

“A clever exploration of the cultural Representing Epilepsy history of this condition, based Jeannette Stirling on an effective interdisciplinary approach.” Representing Epilepsy, the latest volume in times as by the science of Western medi- —Maria Vaccarella, Liverpool University Press’s acclaimed cine. Stirling also explores narratives of King’s College London Representations series, is the first book epilepsy in works as diverse as David Cop- that looks at the cultural and literary his- perfield and The X-Files, drawing out the Representations: Health, tory of epilepsy, a condition that afflicts many ideas of social disorder, tainted Disability, Culture and Society at least 50 million people worldwide. bloodlines, sexual deviance, spiritual- june 256 p. 6 x 9 Jeannette Stirling argues that neuro- ism, and criminality they depict. This ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-237-3 logical discourse about epilepsy from pathbreaking book will be required read- Cloth $95.00x the late nineteenth century through ing for disability studies scholars and for medicine science NAM the mid-twentieth century was forged anyone seeking a better understanding as much by cultural conditions of the of this very common condition.

Jeannette Stirling is a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Learning Development at the 164 Liverpool University Press University of Wollongong. Orosius Seven Books of History against the Pagans Edited and Translated by A. T. Fear

Orosius’s Seven Books of History against that it remained an immensely popular Translated Texts for Historians the Pagans provides a Christian interpre- and standard work of reference on an- tation of history from God’s creation of tiquity in the medieval world. Available april 384 p. 6 x 8 the world to the period of the Gothic at- now in English translation for the first ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-473-5 Cloth $95.00x tacks on the Roman Empire in the early time since 1936, this key work of histori- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-239-7 fifth century. By the end of that centu- cal and geographical reference in the Paper $39.95x ry, Orosius’s work was already a classic, medieval world will delight scholars of classics and its Christian perspective ensured early Christianity and pagan history. NAM

A. T. Fear is a lecturer in classics at the University of Manchester.

Now in Paperback Ambrose of Milan Political Letters and Speeches Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz with the assistance of Carole Hill

The episcopate of Ambrose of Milan be free to govern his church without april 432 p. 53/4 x 81/4 (374–97 CE) is crucial to understanding imperial interference. Now available in ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-243-4 the developing relationship between the paperback, this collection of Ambrose’s Paper $39.95x church and the Roman Empire in late writings is the tenth volume of his pub- history NAM antiquity. As bishop of Milan, Ambrose lished collection of letters, and it also Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85323-829-4 clashed frequently with the highest lev- includes extant uncollected letters and els of imperial authority, in large part funeral orations for emperors Valentin- due to his ardent belief that he should ian II and Theodosius I.

J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz is emeritus professor of classics at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of many books, including The Decline and Fall of the Roman City.

Now in Paperback Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery Edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz, and Anthony Tibbles

As Britain’s main port for the eigh- roster of leading scholars in the field, teenth-century slave trade, Liverpool is sets Liverpool in the wider context of crucial to any study of slavery. And as transatlantic slavery. The contributors the engine behind Liverpool’s rapid tackle a range of issues, including Af- growth and prosperity, slavery left an rican agency, slave merchants and their indelible mark on the history of the city. society, and the abolitionist movement, Now available in paperback, this collec- always with an emphasis on the human tion of essays, boasting an international impact of slavery. april 320 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-244-1 David Richardson is professor of economic history at the University of Hull and coeditor Paper $34.95x of Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity, and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Suzanne history Schwarz is professor of history at Liverpool Hope University and the author of Slave NAM Captain: The Career of James Irving. Anthony Tibbles was formerly Keeper of the Merseyside Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84631-066-9 Maritime Museum. Liverpool University Press 165 We Are the Real Time Experiment 20 Years of FACT Edited by Mike Stubbs and Karen Newman

Foundation for Art & Creative Over the past twenty years FACT (Foun- volume that commemorates the twen- Technology dation for Art and Creative Technology) tieth anniversary of FACT by revisiting has expanded from a small, Liverpool- some of the pioneering projects that February 208 p., 100 color plates based agency to an international leader helped shape the course of the develop- 8 x 10 in art, research, and creative technol- ment of new media art. And at the same ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-229-8 Cloth $29.95x ogy, through exhibits, installations, time that the editors look with pride to commissions, and a variety of published past accomplishments, they take pains art NAM works. to suggest directions for the innova- We Are the Real Time Experiment is a tions and ideas of the future as well. beautifully produced, highly illustrated

Mike Stubbs is director of FACT, where Karen Newman is a curator.

For Women, For Wales, and For Liberalism Women in Liberal Politics in Wales 1880–1914 Ursula Masson

This much-needed history remembers the countless efforts that these deter- those women in Wales who—at the end mined women made toward achieving of the nineteenth century and in the equality, comparing and contrasting years before World War I—fought for their agenda with that of their English and won their right to vote and to hold counterparts and defining those as- public office. Ursula Masson documents pects that were distinctly Welsh.

Ursula Masson (1945–2008) taught history at the University of Glamorgan.

Gender Studies in Wales

April 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2253-6 Paper $25.00x Gendering Border Studies Women’s studies NSA/AU/nz Edited by Henrice Altink, Chris Weedon, and Jane Aaron

Gender Studies in Wales The study of borders has recently under and borders has been approached dergone significant transitions, reflect- in their field and describe what they May 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ing the transformation of the world expect from future research. This book ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2170-6 Paper $35.00x political map as well as changes in the will be of interest to scholars of border ways boundaries themselves function. studies, gender studies, social anthro- gender studies NSA/AU/nz In Gendering Border Studies, sixteen es- pology, international politics, compara- tablished scholars from a variety of dis- tive literature, and Welsh studies. ciplines examine how the issue of gen-

Henrice Altink is a lecturer in history at the University of York. Chris Weedon is chair of the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. Jane Aaron is professor of English at the University of Glamorgan.

166 Liverpool University Press University of Wales Press Herbert Williams Phil Carradice

Born in Trefechan, Aberystwyth in and assessing the literary significance 1932, Herbert Williams is one of Wales’s of his numerous works of biography, fic- most celebrated and distinguished writ- tion, poetry, and history. What results is ers. In this engaging book—part biog- not just the tale of one man’s struggle raphy, part critical reader—Phil Carra- to express his emotions through his dice leads readers on an extended tour writing but also a revealing inquiry into of Williams’s prolific career, touching how and why writers write. on Williams’s motivations for writing

Phil Carradice is the host of “The Past Master” on BBC Radio Wales and the author of several books, including, most recently, The Black Chair.

Writers of Wales

May 192 p., 20 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2192-8 Identity and Politics in Britain Paper $25.00x biography Edited by Duncan Tanner, Andrew Edwards, Wil Griffith, nsa/au/nz Chris Williams, and Matthew Cragoe

Devolution—the process by which a volution in the United Kingdom, en- Politics and Society in Wales central government transfers powers hancing academic and popular under- 1 1 to smaller local levels—has become a standing of this process, highlighting June 336 p. 6 /4 x 9 /4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2264-2 source of increasing debate in political its significance for the evolving British Paper $25.00x science circles around the world. The identity, and generating new debates political science critical essays in Identity and Politics in over the history and future of devolved nsa/au/nz Britain take on the crucial issue of de- governance.

Duncan Tanner is director of the Welsh Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs. Andrew Edwards and Wil Griffith teach Welsh history and archaeology at the University of Bangor. Chris Williams is professor of history at Swansea University. Matthew Cragoe is professor of history at the University of Sussex.

The Dialogue of the Government of Wales George Owen Edited by John Gwynfor Jones

In 1594 George Owen—a historian and for their enlightened policies. This new May 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 geologist from Pembrokeshire—wrote edition, edited by Welsh historian John ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2229-1 The Dialogue of the Government of Wales, a Gwynfor Jones, contains an updated Cloth $70.00x commentary on the Welsh government version of the text, numerous explana- history nsa/au/nz after the Acts of Union. The study de- tory notes, and a lengthy introduction. tailed the methods used by Henry VII It is ideal for anyone interested in the and Henry VIII to maintain law and legal institutions of sixteenth-century order, praising the Tudor monarchs Wales.

John Gwynfor Jones was professor of Welsh history at Cardiff University.

University of Wales Press 167 Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales Ethnicity, Gender and Economy in Ruthin, 1282–1348 Matthew Frank Stevens

Much scholarship has been done on gap, drawing on a case study of the Welsh and English cities after the Black Denbighshire town of Ruthin to dis- Death, but until now no serious attempt cuss the significance of ethnicity, gen- has been made to understand what they der, and social status in the network of were like in the seventy-five or so years small Anglo-Welsh urban centers that preceding the pandemic. In Urban As- emerged in North Wales following the similation in Post-Conquest Wales, Mat- English conquest of 1282. thew Frank Stevens fills this research

Matthew Frank Stevens is a research officer at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

May 224 p., 2 maps 61/4 x 91/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2249-9 Cloth $70.00x Grasslands of Wales european History A Survey of Lowland Species-rich Grasslands, 1987–2004 NSA/AU/NZ D. P. Stevens, S. L. N. Smith, t. H. Blackstock, s. d. s. Bosanquet, and p. s. stevens

Pioneering the use of the National Veg- land grasslands of Wales at the end of etation Classification for describing the twentieth century, detailing the dis- and mapping vegetation at a regional tribution, concentration, and physical June 336 p., 350 color plates, scale, this comprehensive volume pro- and environmental characteristics of 25 maps, 50 tables, 70 figures vides a unique account of the plant each species. 71/2 x 10 communities in the species-rich low- ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2255-0 Cloth $85.00x Before his death in 2007, D. P. Stevens coordinated the Lowland Grassland Survey of Wales nature and served as a researcher at the Terrestrial Science Group of the Countryside Council for NSA/AU/NZ Wales. S. L. N. Smith, T. H. Blackstock, S. D. S. Bosanquet, and P. S. Stevens work at the Ter- restrial Science Group of the Countryside Council for Wales.

Habitats of Wales A Comprehensive Field Survey, 1979–1997 T. H. Blackstock, E. A. Howe, j. P. Stevens, C. R. Burrows, and p. S. Jones

Habitats of Wales presents the findings coastlands. For each of the habitats, of a major field survey undertaken in the authors provide distribution maps, the latter part of the twentieth century information on habitat fragmentation across the rural landscapes of Wales. and connectivity, and the debates sur- Among the major types of terrestrial rounding land-use planning and na- habitat discussed are the woodlands, ture conservation. June 240 p., 100 color plates, grasslands, heathlands, mires, and 40 maps, 40 tables, 60 figures 71/2 x 10 T. H. Blackstock is head of the Terrestrial Science Group of the Countryside Council for ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2257-4 Wales, where E. A. Howe, J. P. Stevens, C. R. Burrows, and P. S. Jones all serve as researchers. Cloth $85.00x nature NSA/AU/NZ 168 University of Wales Press The Classical Greek House “This book will make a major contribution to the study of the Janett Morgan Greek house. The author . . . goes a long way in calling for a new Did homes in ancient Greece have kitch- of what home meant to different com- methodological approach to sifting ens and bathrooms? If so, why have ar- munities in the ancient Greek world. By chaeologists had such troubles finding employing textual analysis alongside ar- through the source materials for their remains? What did the concepts chaeological scholarship, The Classical house and household structure in of home and house mean to the ancient Greek House seeks to explain some of the Greece.” Greeks? This book offers an illuminat- contradictions that previous approach- —Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, ing reappraisal of domestic space in es have left unresolved. Of value to stu- University of Edinburgh classical Greece. Beginning with the dents and academics alike, Morgan’s premise that we must cease to view the work offers an exciting new perspective Bristol Phoenix Press—Greece and classical Greek house through the lens on relations between men and women, Rome Live of contemporary Western notions, Ja- public and private, and between home nett Morgan provides a fresh evaluation and city in the ancient world. April 160 p., 12 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-74-7 Janett Morgan is a lecturer in Greek archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Cloth $75.00x ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-75-4 Paper $24.00s Ancient History archaeology NSA

After Virgil The Poetry, Politics and Perversion of Roman Epic Robert Cowan

What constitutes an epic? Are epics all cus, Statius, and Silius Italicus, among Bristol Phoenix Press—Greece and about kings and battles and glorifying others, investigating how these poets Rome Live the victors? And why do women so rare- employed both myth and history to May 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ly appear in epics? These are questions explore the relationships between the ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-61-7 that Virgil’s successors explored in their gods and mortals, tyranny, civil war, is- Cloth $75.00x poetry in the 120 years after the Aeneid sues of gender, and, above all, what it ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-62-4 achieved its status as a classic and set meant to be Roman under the emper- Paper $24.00s the standard for Roman epic. ors. Cowan dedicates each chapter to classics NSA In After Virgil—the first general a single theme and explains how these introduction in English devoted to the later poets imitated, interpreted, re- post-Virgilian epic—Robert Cowan sur- acted against, and even perverted those veys the works of Lucan, Valerius Flac- standards laid down by the Aeneid.

Robert Cowan is the Fairfax Tutorial Fellow in Latin Literature at Balliol College and lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of Oxford.

University of Exeter Press 169 British South Asian Theatres A Documented History Edited by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell

British South Asian theater has been an extensive series of interviews on the one of the most significant features history of British theater, these essays of diasporic artistic activity through- document the presence of South Asians out the world in the last thirty years, on the British stage, from magicians of yet its remarkable achievements have the nineteenth century to the perform- been largely ignored by mainstream ers of today. A companion DVD en- media and scholars. With British South hances the text, showcasing historical Asian Theatres, Graham Ley and Sarah documents, programs, designs, photo- Dadswell aim to reverse such neglect. graphs, and clips from recordings of Drawing on unpublished archives and rehearsals and productions.

Exeter Performance Studies Graham Ley is professor of drama and theory at the University of Exeter and the author of A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater. Sarah Dadswell is a research fellow in the May 320 p., 1 DVD 61/4 x 91/4 Department of Drama at the University of Exeter. ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-832-4 Cloth $100.00x ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-833-1 Paper $32.50s Reading the Cinematograph drama The Cinema in British Short Fiction 1896–1912 NSA Edited by Andrew Shail

Exeter Studies in Film History Reading the Cinematograph pairs eight cinema in British short fiction at the short stories about the cinema—includ- turn of the twentieth century. Andrew May 336 p., 40 halftones 61/4 x 9 1/4 ing works by such notables as Rudyard Shail has devised a marvelous format for ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-853-9 Kipling and Sax Rohmer—with eight the occasion: eight stories, reprinted in Cloth $95.00x ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-854-6 new essays from leading film and liter- full and accompanied by their original Paper $34.00x ary scholars like Tom Gunning and An- illustrations, followed by valuable criti- Literary Criticism Film Studies drew Higson to reveal the influence that cal commentary by eminent film schol- NSA film and fiction had on one another in ars and framed by Shail’s indispensable Britain at the beginning of the twentieth historical/critical introduction and sure century. editorial hand. A work of impeccable “As entertaining as it is edifying, and imaginative scholarship.”—Maria Reading the Cinematograph showcases the DiBattista, Princeton University transformative presence—and role—of

Andrew Shail is a lecturer in film at Newcastle University.

Making Sense of Greek Art Edited by Viccy Coltman

This volume of ten essays by classicists, production, cultural identity, and desire. art historians, and archaeologists traces “The book promises to be a substan- the changing reception of Greek art tive contribution to reception studies over the centuries, from its early days in relation to Greek art.”—Jas’ Elsner, during the Archaic period in Greece up University of Chicago through the mid-nineteenth century. “This is a significant contribution Organized chronologically, the essays to the field and could well be made the May 288 p., 70 halftones 61/2 x 91/2 study a variety of pieces, including sculp- textbook for a second-level Greek art ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-830-0 tures, paintings, mirrors, and mosaics, course.”—Robin Osborne, University of Cloth $95.00x and reveal a surprising overlap in the Cambridge art classics recurring themes of originality and re- NSA

Viccy Coltman is a senior lecturer in the history of art at the University of Edinburgh. 170 University of Exeter Press Victory Over the Sun “This project brings the highest possible standard of scholarship aleksei kruchenykh to bear on avant-garde cultural Edited and Translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Sarah Dadswell production.” The futurist opera Victory Over the Sun— of the text, accompanied by a number —Maria Gough, Harvard University written by Aleksei Kruchenykh and first of essays from international contribu- performed in St. Petersburg in Decem- tors such as Laurence Senelick and Exeter Performance Studies ber 1913—was central to the Russian John E. Bowlt that offer new insights avant-garde, important for its libretto, into the practice and history of Russian June 288 p., 32 color plates, its fragmentary, modernistic score, and theater in the first half of the twentieth 60 halftones 61/2 x 91/2 its innovative sets and costumes. This century. ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-839-3 book features an excellent translation Cloth $90.00x music Rosamund Bartlett is a fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre at the Uni- nsa versity of Oxford. Sarah Dadswell is a research fellow in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter.

The Earliest Advocates of the English Bible The Texts of the Medieval Debate Edited by Mary Dove

The debate over whether to translate and that laid the groundwork for the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies the Bible into English—which erupted eventual publication of the King James during the late 1300s and lasted well Bible. June 288 p. 63/4 x 93/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-852-2 into the 1500s—is one of the most sig- “This is an important body of texts Cloth $100.00x nificant in English cultural, literary, that needs to be available in a conve- religion Medieval History and religious history. With The Earliest nient modern format. These materials NSA Advocates of the English Bible, Mary Dove are of fundamental significance for the brings together in one place the key English debate about translation of re- Middle English texts—most of which ligious materials into the vernacular in are not available in any other edition— the early fifteenth century.”—Vincent that argued in favor of the translation Gillespie, University of Oxford

Mary Dove was professor in the School of English at the University of Sussex.

Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Volume 1: Text, Music and Image from Machaut to Ariosto Edited by Yolanda Plumley, Giuliano di Bacco, and Stefano Jossa

From the Middle Ages onward, writers, naissance, manipulated the memory of Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe artists, and composers have evoked ca- their readers. The essays in this multi- nonical works from the distant or more disciplinary volume offer a wide array June 288 p., 20 halftones 61/4 x 91/4 recent past, in some cases in order to of scholarship on the role of memory ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-851-5 Cloth $110.00x demonstrate respect for tradition, in and citation in the cultural production Medieval History others merely to enrich their own proof the late Middle Ages and early Re- NSA ductions. But whatever their reasons, naissance, examining both renowned they all, explains Citation, Intertextuality and less well-known works from France, and Memory in the Middle Ages and Re- England, and Italy.

Yolanda Plumley is director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter and a reader in medieval music and culture. Giuliano Di Bacco is a research fellow in medieval studies at the University of Exeter. Stefano Jossa is a lecturer in Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London. University of Exeter Press 171 “This will clearly do for Cornwall John Betjeman and Cornwall and Betjeman what Payton’s earlier Philip Payton work did for Cornwall and Rowse. . . . It is a terrific subject.” Quintessentially English, Sir John Celtic identity that he wove during so- —David Cannadine, University of London Betjeman was an outsider in England journs in Ireland, the other Celtic coun- and doubly so in his adopted home of tries, and even Australia. Here eminent

July 256 p., 12 halftones 61/4 x 91/4 Cornwall, where, as he was the first to Cornish studies scholar Philip Payton ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-847-8 admit, he was a foreigner. Nonetheless, provides a lively new account of the life Cloth $90.00x as this book describes, the former Poet of one of Britain’s most beloved poets, ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-848-5 Paper $27.50x Laureate strove to acquire a veneer of offering new insights into his work and Biography literary criticism Cornishness, discovering his own Welsh his defining lifelong relationship with NSA ancestry and cultivating an alternative Cornwall.

Philip Payton is professor of Cornish and Australian studies and director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus.

Cornish Studies, Volume 17 Edited by Philip Payton and Shelley Trower

This volume—the latest in the acclaimed munities. Also included are wider com- Cornish Studies series—addresses is- parative discussions on topics such as sues of sustainability and the china clay access to higher education in Cornwall, region of mid-Cornwall, with articles contemporary Cornish music, St. Piran on landscape, literature, archaeology, and the cult of the saints, and issues of Cornish Studies political culture, and sustainable com- authenticity at Cornish heritage sites.

February 240 p., 6 halftones 6 x 9 Philip Payton is professor of Cornish and Australian studies and director of the Institute of ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-849-2 Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus. Shelley Trower is a research Paper $32.50x fellow also at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus. european history NSA

Frames of Friction Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention Carsten Junker

In Frames of Friction, Carsten Junker the ways in which African American maps out a dazzling panorama of criti- authors and speakers from the 1920s to cal cultural debates from the twentieth the 1970s debated critical topics with century to explore the ways in which their white and Jewish contemporaries African American speakers and writers in order to emphasize the dialogic na- established their authority and gained ture of the essay form. Ultimately, Junk- recognition. Taking into account the er homes in on the genre of essay itself, latest ideas from gender studies and arguing that it is repeatedly questioned African American studies, as well as and reconstituted during times of so- current essay theory, Junker juxtaposes cial change.

May 300 p. 51/2 x 83/8 Carsten Junker is assistant professor of English-speaking cultures/American studies and a ISBN-13: 978-3-593-39099-4 research fellow at the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies at the University Paper $49.00x/£31.50 of Bremen. African American Studies Literary criticism

172 University of Exeter Press Campus Verlag Multiple Antiquities–Multiple Modernities Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures Edited by GÁbor Klaniczay and Michael Werner

Antiquity, as the term has been under- being considered. In this volume, histo- stood and used over the centuries by rians from a wide range of specialties scholars, political and religious figures, offer a comparative assessment of the and ordinary citizens, is far from a sin- multiple perceptions of antiquity that gle, monolithic concept. Rather than have shaped modern European cul- reflecting a stable, shared understand- tures and national identities, deploying ing about the past and its meaning, the a new methodological approach, histoire idea of antiquity is instead varying and croisée, which considers these questions multiple, taking on different meanings in light of the development of cultural and deployed to different effects de- diversity across Europe. pending on the context in which it is

Gábor Klaniczay is professor of medieval history at the Central European University and May 450 p. 51/2 x 83/8 permanent fellow at the Collegium Budapest. Michael Werner is professor of modern ISBN-13: 978-3-593-39101-4 European cultural history at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and research Paper $69.00x/£44.50 director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. history Unsettling History Archiving and Narrating in Historiography Edited by Sebastian Jobs and Alf Lüdtke

In recent decades, scholars working in of impartiality, are the product of estab- postcolonial history have successfully lished interests and subject to various challenged the primacy of Western his- practices of selection, cataloguing, and toriography and its Eurocentric world- preservation. Narrating, too, is more view. With Unsettling History, a group complicated than it might at first seem, of historians extend that challenge to especially as the range of genres avail- two central components of work in his- able to historians for presenting their tory: archiving and narrating. Archival findings has expanded in recent years. resources, they argue, despite their air

Sebastian Jobs is a postdoctoral research fellow at the graduate school in Rostock. Alf Lüdtke is an honorary professor of the history of everyday life at the University of Erfurt.

May 330 p. 51/2 x 83/8 ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38818-2 Reproductive Technologies as Global Form Paper $49.00x/£31.50 Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices, history and Transnational Encounters Edited by Michi Knecht, Maren Klotz, and Stefan Beck

In the thirty years since the first “test- and cultures, taking special account May 320 p. 51/2 x 83/8 tube baby,” in-vitro fertilization and of how they are linked to aspirations ISBN-13: 978-3-593-39100-7 Paper $54.00x/£35.00 other methods of reproductive assis- towards modernity—and how they conscience tance have become a common aspect of tribute to an ongoing reconfiguration family life and medicine in developed of the boundaries of knowledge and nations—and, increasingly, through- human agency. The resulting volume out the world. This collection brings offers both a current snapshot of the together ethnographic studies of how cultural state of reproductive technolo- these reproductive technologies are de- gies and a plethora of provocative ques- ployed across a wide variety of nations tions for the future.

Michi Knecht is a senior researcher and lecturer, Maren Klotz is a research fellow, and Stefan Beck is professor in the Department of European Ethnology, all at Humboldt University Berlin. Campus Verlag 173 Christopher Shannon Bowery to Broadway The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema

efore Johnny Depp and Public Enemies, there was The Public Enemy. James Cagney’s 1931 portrayal of the Irish American Bgangster Tommy Powers set the standard for the Hollywood gangster and helped to launch a golden age of Irish American cinema. In the years that followed several of the era’s greatest stars, such as Spencer Tracy, Bing Crosby, Pat O’Brien, and Ginger Rogers, assumed

march 200 p., 10 halftones 6 x 9 Irish American roles—as boxers, entertainers, priests, and working ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-200-1 Cloth $25.00/£16.00 girls—delighting audiences and at the same time providing a fresh film studies perspective on the Irish American experience in America’s cities. With Bowery to Broadway, Christopher Shannon guides readers through a number of classic films from the 1930s and ’40s and investigates why films featuring Irish American characters were so popular among American audiences during a period when the Irish were still stereotyped and scorned for their religion. Shannon considers films such as Angels with Dirty Faces, Gentleman Jim, Kitty Foyle, Going My Way, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, showing that the Irish American characters in the films were presented as inhabitants of an urban village—simultaneously traditional and modern, and valuing communal solidarity over individual advancement. As a result, these characters—even those involved in criminal activity—resonated deeply with countless Ameri- cans in search of the communal values that were rapidly being lost to the social dislocation of the Depression and the increasing nationaliza- tion of life under the New Deal.

Christopher Shannon is professor of history at Christendom College.

174 University of Scranton Press The State As Parent “The State As Parent is a substan- tive and invaluable contribution to Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family contemporary debates about the Laurence Reardon family.” —William E. May, Much of modern political and social to mass movements and the ever-grow- Catholic University of America thought tends to take for granted the ing power of the state. Turning a criti- fact that traditional conceptions of the cal eye on the individualist thought of June 300 p. 6 x 9 family—with their accompanying du- John Locke and the collectivist thought ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-203-2 ties and privileges—are an inherent im- of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reardon Paper $28.00s/£18.00 position on individual freedom. With shows how they facilitated departures political science The State As Parent, Laurence Reardon from traditional, family-based notions draws on a long philosophical tradition of society—and how the result has led to explain that that assumption is incor- to a fundamental conflict between the rect—that the family remains the most historic internal obligations of the fam- effective way to balance the desire for ily and the egalitarian requirements of individual freedom with the continuing the modern state. need for communal obligations. Penetrating and sure to be contro- The waning of traditional institu- versial, The State As Parent will be essen- tions, Reardon argues, has left the soli- tial for students of political philosophy, tary individual much more susceptible ethics, and social organization.

Laurence Reardon is visiting assistant professor of political science at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, North Carolina.

The Metaphysics of Media Toward an End of Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality Peter K. Fallon

In The Metaphysics of Media, award-win- dominant form of media supported par- ning media critic Peter K. Fallon tack- ticular ways of understanding the world, les the complicated question of how a from the ascendance of reason that fol- succession of dominant forms of media lowed the development of alphabets to have supported—and even to some the obliteration of space and time that extent created—different conceptions we associate with electronic communi- of reality. To do so, he starts with the cations. Fallon concludes with a hard basics: a critical discussion of the very look at the mass ignorance that prevails idea of objective reality and the various today despite (or perhaps because of) postmodern responses that have tend- the sea of information with which con- ed to dominate recent philosophical temporary life is surrounded. available 275 p. 6 x 9 approaches to the subject. From there, A stirring, philosophically rich ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-202-5 he embarks on a survey of the evolution investigation, The Metaphysics of Media Paper $27.00x/£17.50 of communication through four major offers not only a clear picture of where media studies eras: orality, literacy, print, and elec- our society has been but also a road tricity. map to a more engaged, informed, and Within each era, Fallon argues, the fully human future.

Peter K. Fallon is associate professor of journalism at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

University of Scranton Press 175 Religion, Fundamentalism, and Violence An Interdisciplinary Study and Dialogue Edited by Andrew L. Gluck

June 275 p. 6 x 9 In Religion, Fundamentalism, and Vio- accounting for the violence in Hindu ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-204-9 lence, Andrew L. Gluck brings together religious traditions, an informative Paper $27.00x/£17.50 distinguished scholars to address a look at the Israeli-Palestinian tensions religion fiercely debated topic: the intersection of more recent times, and an essay on of religion and violence. Among the the Catholic just war theory. Each chap- contributions is an anthropological ter is followed by a commentary and re- analysis of the violence associated with ply, making this volume indispensable the Abrahamic monotheistic religions for students and scholars of the history of the Middle East, a compelling essay of religions.

Andrew L. Gluck is the author of Damasio’s Error and Descartes’ Truth: An Inquiry into Conscious- ness, Metaphysics, and Epistemology, also published by the University of Scranton Press.

The Sephardic Legacy Unique Features and Achievements Henry Toledano

June 275 p. 6 x 9 Fundamentally different from other, culture in Spain would not have been ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-205-6 more prominent Jewish traditions and possible without the stimulus and in- Paper $25.00x/£16.00 experiences, the Sephardic tradition spiration of Islamic civilization. Along religion has long served to bind together the the way, Toledano covers such topics as various Jewish communities of the Med- the flourishing of Jewish culture and iterranean basin. In The Sephardic Leg- science, Hebrew poetry, the systematic acy, Henry Toledano immerses readers codification of Jewish law, Jewish phi- in the medieval historical context that losophy, and the impact of Islamic civi- gave rise to the Sephardic tradition, lization on the development of critical arguing that the golden age of Jewish biblical exegesis.

Henry Toledano is professor emeritus of Hebrew, Arabic, and Jewish studies at Hofstra University.

Realism for the 21st Century A John Deely Reader John Deely Edited by Paul Cobley

available 465 p. 6 x 9 Realism for the 21st Century is a collection as a pragmatic realist, featuring his ear- ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-148-6 of thirty essays from John Deely—a ma- ly essays on our relation to the world af- Paper $30.00x/£19.50 jor figure in contemporary semiotics ter Darwinism; crucial articles on logic, philosophy and an authority on scholastic realism semiotics, and objectivity; overviews of and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. philosophy after modernity; and a new The volume tracks Deely’s development essay on “purely objective reality.”

John Deely holds the Rudman Chair in Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Paul Cobley is a reader in communications at London Metropolitan University.

176 University of Scranton Press Why People Need Plants Edited by Carlton Wood and Nicolette Habgood

We live surrounded by the beauty—and biodiversity, conservation, economics, the bounty—of the botanical world, genetic modification, and many more— but rarely do we stop to think seriously all aimed at demonstrating the impor- about all the roles plants play, many tance of plants to nearly every aspect of of them crucial to life on earth. After human life and society. A collaboration reading Why People Need Plants, however, between the Open University and the we won’t be likely to take the earth’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with as- flora for granted ever again. sistance from the Royal Horticultural Accessible and wide-ranging, Why Society, the book will inform—and People Need Plants covers such topics as surprise—plant lovers, gardeners, and food production, biofuels, medicine, students of all levels of knowledge.

Carlton Wood and Nicolette Habgood are science staff tutors at the Open University. july 240 p., 200 color plates 71/2 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-425-0 Paper $28.00

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The Kew Plant Glossary An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Identification Terms Henk J. Beentje

This accessible, comprehensive glos- panied by full definitions and detailed sary covers all the descriptive terms for illustrations to aid in identification, all plants that one is likely to encounter in laid out in a clear, easy-to-use fashion. botanical writing, including everything It will be indispensable for plant scien- from magazine articles to plant field tists, conservationists, horticulturists, guides, scientific papers, and mono- gardeners, writers, and anyone working graphs. An essential companion, it with plant descriptions, plant identifi- presents 3,600 botanical terms, accom- cation keys, floras, or field guides.

Henk J. Beentje is a botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with considerable field experience in Africa and Madagascar.

May 220 p., 3000 line drawings 6 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-422-9 Paper $30.00s

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 177 Wilson’s China A Century On Mark Flanagan and Tony Kirkham

Edwardian botanist Ernest Wilson was glass-plate photos of turn-of-the-cen- the foremost plant collector of his gen- tury Sichuan Province, Mark Flanagan eration, singlehandedly responsible for and Tony Kirkham set out to retrace introducing more than one thousand Wilson’s footsteps—and with the help plant species to Western gardens, many of Chinese guides and local knowledge, of them collected during his extensive they have created new versions of Wil- travels in China. son’s photos. The resulting then-and- Wilson’s China draws on Wilson’s now presentation offers fascinating in- writings and the authors’ own travels in sight into the widespread change—and

February 256 p., 220 color plates, the wild areas of China today to deliver remarkable continuity—in China over 50 halftones 91/2 x 11 a fascinating account of the pioneer- a century, and serves as an informative, ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-394-9 ing botanist’s travels and adventures. appreciative homage to one of history’s Cloth $46.00s Armed with copies of Wilson’s own greatest plant hunters. nature travel CMUSA Mark Flanagan is Keeper of the Gardens at Windsor Great Park. Tony Kirkham is head of the Arboretum and horticultural services at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

The Art of Plant Evolution W. John Kress and Shirley Sherwood

This beautiful mix of art and science of- ferns, fungi, conifers, algae, mosses, and fers a breathtaking look at the way that a rich bounty of flowering plants; ac- contemporary scientific discoveries are companying each painting is up-to-date changing our understanding of plants evolutionary information—drawn from and plant evolution. Nearly one hun- recent DNA analysis—plus observations dred and fifty paintings, by eighty-four by each of the artists and details about artists, are reproduced in full color to modern plant classification. Written for present a sweeping overview of the evolu- the nonspecialist, The Art of Plant Evolu- tion of plants worldwide. The paintings tion is sure to enchant inquisitive green cover a wide range of plants, including thumbs and gardeners.

W. John Kress is curator and research scientist at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Shirley Sherwood has been collecting contemporary botanical drawings for nearly February 320 p., 200 color plates twenty years; her collection is arguably the world’s most important private collection of 83/4 x 111/2 twentieth-century botanical art. ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-421-2 Cloth $53.00x ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-417-5 Paper $41.00s nature art CMUSA

178 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew New Trees Recent Introductions to Cultivation John Grimshaw and Ross Bayton

This comprehensive volume, commis- remarkable amount of information in sioned by the International Dendrol- a fashion accessible to amateurs as well ogy Society, covers more than eight as specialists. More than one hundred hundred tree species that have been line drawings and nearly six hundred introduced to cultivation in the United photographs—many portraying rarely Kingdom, Europe, and North America seen trees—offer aids to identification. in recent decades. Up until now there Introductory chapters covering conser- has been no comparable source of infor- vation and modern techniques of tree- mation. Featuring horticultural notes growing, and a comprehensive glossary from a network of growers and enthu- and bibliography, round out the volume siasts, backed up by data from recent and make New Trees incomparable—and scientific studies, the book presents a indispensable.

February 992 p., 580 color plates, John Grimshaw is an authority on tree cultivation, a prominent member of the Internation- 100 line drawings 72/5 x 11 al Dendrology Society, and the author of The Gardener’s Atlas. Ross Bayton has a doctorate ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-173-0 in palm taxonomy and is the curator of a large succulent plant collection at Hare Hatch Cloth $163.00x Sheeplands, an independent garden center and nursery in Berkshire, United Kingdom. nature science CMUSA

Peonies of the World Taxonomy and Phytogeography Hong De-Yuan

In China, the cultivated tree peony is taxonomic revision of the genus based known as the King of Flowers, while in on extensive field observations, popula- ancient Greece the herbaceous peony tion sampling, examination of a large was dubbed the Queen of Herbs—a quantity of specimens, and statistical reminder that the genus Paeonia has analysis of characteristics. The book’s been one of the most important and taxonomic revision has resulted in the popular groups of plants in the world recognition of thirty-two new species, for millennia, coveted in East and West which will make it an essential volume alike for both its ornamental and me- for plant taxonomists and horticultur- dicinal purposes. This fully up-to-date alists, as well as more adventurous gar- monograph contains a comprehensive deners.

Hong De-Yuan is professor of the State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary april 300 p., 80 line drawings, 40 maps 72/5 x 11 Botany at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, chair of the Life ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-392-5 Science Division at the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the dean of the Cloth $148.50x School of Life Science, Zhejiang University. nature gardening CMUSA

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 179 Pocket Guide to Rhododendron Species J. F. j. McQuire and M. L. A. Robinson

This guidebook highlights the most by succinct descriptions of such charac- important morphological features rel- teristics as flower color, height, and leaf evant to the recognition and identifica- characteristics—which are crucial aids tion of virtually every currently cultivat- to identification when rhododendrons ed species of rhododendron. The more are not in bloom. Fully up to date, Pocket than seven hundred photographs in the Guide to Rhododendron Species is certain volume present detailed illustrations of to become the standard field guide to every aspect of the plants, accompanied these flowers.

J. F. J. McQuire is a renowned amateur grower who has studied and photographed rhododendrons for thirty-five years. The late M. L. A. Robinson was chairman of the Royal Horti- cultural Society’s Rhododendron, Camellia, and Magnolia Group.

February 704 p., 700 color plates 5 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-148-8 Cloth $97.00x The Genus Jasminum in Cultivation gardening science Peter Green and Diana Miller CMUSA Edited by Martyn Rix

Botanical Magazine Monograph This highly illustrated guidebook de- and expensive—perfumes. tails every species of jasmine that is cul- Nearly every cultivated species is February 166 p., 65 color plates, tivated in gardens, as well as the genus’s illustrated by either a contemporary 1 18 line drawings 7 x 9 /2 habitat and distribution in the wild and or antique botanical painting, as well ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-011-5 Cloth $54.50s its propagation. An additional chapter as detailed line drawings and close-up focuses on the uses of jasmine scent in gardening science photographs. The result is the ultimate CMUSA the perfume industry, explaining why it reference to this perennially popular has long been an important ingredient garden staple. in some of the world’s most exclusive—

Peter Green was Keeper of the Kew Herbarium and Deputy Director of Kew Gardens. Diana Miller is a horticultural botanist and Keeper of the Royal Horticultural Society Herbarium.

Systematics and Conservation of African Plants Proceedings of the 18th AETFAT Congress, Yaoundé, Cameroon Edited by Xander v a n d e r Burgt

An edited volume based on the pro- sustainable use of African plants. Top- ceedings of the eighteenth Association ics covered include recent advances in for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of reproductive biology, vegetation, and Tropical Africa Congress held in Yaoun- Podostometaceae in Africa. A separate dé, Cameroon, Systematics and Conser- section on African floras reflects the vation of African Plants includes one present state of knowledge and prog- march 882 p. 6 x 91/2 hundred research papers in separate ress towards our understanding and ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-388-8 sections on taxonomy, phytogeography, documentation of the plants of Africa. Cloth $165.00x ethnobotany, and the conservation and nature science CMUSA Xander van der Burgt is a botanist in the Wet Tropics of Africa Section, based in the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 180 Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew Heather Angel’s Wild Kew Heather Angel

Wildlife photographer Heather Angel in the spring to the buzzing bees of spent an entire year photographing Kew summer, the parakeets of autumn to Gardens, focusing not on the familiar the courting swans of winter. The re- flowers and trees but on the remarkable sulting book is a beautiful celebration array of animals that make the plants of of Kew’s place in the natural world— Kew their homes. Through all seasons, and of the many surprises awaiting the Angel’s photographs show how Kew of- patient, attentive visitor. February 128 p., 500 color plates fers a haven to wildlife, from baby birds 91/2 x 71/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-402-1 Heather Angel is a wildlife photographer and past president of the Royal Photographic Paper $16.50 Society who has mounted solo exhibitions around the world. nature photography CMUSA

The Wild Flora of Kew Gardens A Cumulative Checklist from 1759 Tom Cope

The Wild Flora of Kew Gardens details all The book notes the past and pres- plants that have ever been recorded ent distribution of wild species within growing in a wild state within Kew Gar- the Gardens, and demonstrates how dens or its periphery, and all natives the wild flora of the Kew estate has cultivated in formal beds or other plant- changed over its 250 years. A new addi- ings, since the first records of 1759. tion to the United Kingdom’s growing Nearly 2,000 taxa are documented list of regional floras, this book offers a and illustrated, with citation of litera- comprehensive look at the plant life of ture records and herbarium specimens Kew Gardens. and accompanying color photographs.

Tom Cope is a botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and has contributed accounts of February 311 p., 150 color plates, grasses to several major floras, including Pakistan, Somalia, Arabia, Egypt, southern tropi- 3 maps 6 x 9 cal Africa, and Madeira. ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-401-4 Paper $49.50sp nature science CMUSA Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew A Souvenir Guide Clive Langmead

Kew Gardens is one of the most beloved tecture, plants, wildlife, art, science, places in the entire United Kingdom and conservation give a fully rounded and an extremely popular destination picture of the Gardens and the variety for visitors from abroad. This guidebook of activities and research they support. is the perfect preparation for a visit: its The book’s abundant illustrations re- fold-out maps present a variety of sea- veal the many varying pleasures that sonal walks and point out the ten most Kew offers to visitors of all ages in all February 96 p., 200 color plates 91/2 x 71/2 popular attractions in the Gardens, seasons, an incomparable treasure for ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-414-4 while chapters on Kew’s history, archi- plant-lovers and garden enthusiasts. Paper $8.00

Clive Langmead is the author of several books, including A Passion for Plants: The Life and Nature gardening CMUSA Vision of Ghillean Prance.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 181 Official Guide to the Marianne North Gallery Sixth Edition Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Marianne North, a Victorian adven- Kew Gardens. Republished here for the turess, set out in 1871 on an ambitious first time in eighty-five years, the sixth expedition to make a pictorial record edition of the official guide to the Mari- of the tropical and exotic plants of anne North gallery remains an instruc- the world. In the course of her travels, tive guide to the unique collection of North produced more than eight hun- paintings by Marianne North and her dred paintings of plants, which are now gallery in which they are displayed. housed in the gallery she had built at

February 208 p., 1 map 5 x 71/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-424-3 Cloth $20.00s art nature CMUSA Following in Darwin’s Footsteps Aileen O’Riordan and Pat Triggs

This compact biographical look at boyhood capacity for observation, his Charles Darwin recounts key episodes voyage on the Beagle, and—in clear, ac- in the master scientist’s life in a way cessible fashion—his theory of evolu- designed to interest and appeal to pri- tion. Charming illustrations and fun mary school children. Eight thematic activities make this a book the whole chapters cover such topics as Darwin’s family can enjoy together.

May 40 p. 71/2 x 91/2 Aileen O’Riordan is an experienced children’s writer. Pat Triggs is a visiting fellow at the ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-420-5 Paper $8.00 Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. children’s biography CMUSA

Kew at Wakehurst A Children’s Guide Miranda Ma c Quitty

Wakehurst Place is the country estate ning combination of maps, fun facts, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and and activities—not to mention forty is also the home of Kew’s Millennium stickers! Designed for children between Seed Bank, the largest wild plant seed the ages of seven and eleven, the book bank in the world. Kew at Wakehurst is tailors its suggested activities to the sea- March 96 p., 300 color plates the first official guidebook for children sons and is the perfect accompaniment 71/2 x 91/2 visiting Wakehurst Place, a beautifully to any visit. ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-415-1 illustrated, full-color book that is a win- Paper $8.00 children’s nature Miranda MacQuitty is a biologist and the author of several general interest science titles CMUSA and children’s books. 182 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Flora of the Cayman Islands George R. ProctOr Revised Edition

The three islands comprising the Cay- Proctor’s classic first edition. Accessible man Islands (Grand Cayman, Little and informative, this field guide satis- Cayman, and Cayman Brac) support fies the needs of the professional bota- 415 native taxa, twenty-nine of which nist, while providing the nonexpert and are uniquely Caymanian, in a land ecotourist with an attractive introduc- area little over 100 square miles. This tion to the unique endemic flora of the full-color edition of Flora of the Cayman Cayman Islands. Islands is a total revision of George R.

George R. Proctor is an experienced botanist.

July 768 p., 400 color plates, 250 line drawings 6 x 91/5 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-403-8 Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Paper $125.00x nature science Phillip Cribb and Johan Hermans CMUSA

Madagascar is one of the world’s prime are found in almost every habitat on February 456 p., 750 color plates 6 x 91/5 locations for orchids, which make up the island, from the mountains to the ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-158-7 the largest family of flowering plants on coasts, and this field guide—the first of Cloth $99.00x the island. Madagascar is home to near- its kind, fully illustrated with color pho- nature science ly one thousand different species of or- tographs and packed with details to aid CMUSA chids—which make up nearly ten per- identification—is an invaluable tool for cent of the island’s flora—nearly nine researchers and ecotourists visiting the hundred of them endemic. Orchids island.

Phillip Cribb is the former curator of the Orchid Herbarium at Kew and a leading specialist on the taxonomy and conservation of orchids. Johan Hermans is an honorary research associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana Including the Okavango Delta Alison Heath and Roger Heath

Northern Botswana and the surround- trate key identification features, while ing regions are home to a rich diver- detailed information on habitat, flow- sity of plants, and this ambitious field ering period, and uses of the various guide offers detailed accounts of more species flesh out the accounts. It is an than 550 flowering herbs, trees, shrubs, invaluable tool for researchers, wildlife ferns, grasses, and sedges. More than managers, and amateur botanists alike. two thousand color photographs illus- February 588 p., 2000 color plates 6 x 91/5 Alison and Roger Heath are amateur botanists and wildlife photographers. ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-183-9 Cloth $114.00x

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 183 Poisonous Plants A Guide for Childcare Providers Elizabeth A. Dauncey With Contributions by Leonard Hawkins and Katherine Kennedy

This handy guidebook is the result of a tered in the home, garden, and country- sixteen-year collaboration between the side, together with a summary of likely Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the symptoms should they inadvertently be Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital Poisons touched or eaten. Photographs of the Unit. Written with both botanical and plants are included to aid identifica- toxicological authority, the book offers tion, and a brief guide to safe plants concise details of the 130 most poison- offers suggestions for the creation of a ous plants that are likely to be encoun- hazard-free garden.

Elizabeth A. Dauncey is a plant toxicologist who has worked with Kew Gardens and the Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital Poisons Unit since 1992.

june 160 p., 200 color plates 6 x 91/5 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-406-9 Paper $25.00 nature parenting and childcare CMUSA Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman Helen Pickering and Annette Patzelt

This compact volume is a thorough identification in the field. Descriptive guide to the wild plants found in the accounts—including details of habi- small Middle Eastern nation of Oman. A tat, uses, and worldwide distribution— short introduction provides an overview round out the individual entries, while a of Oman’s geography and remarkable glossary of botanical terms, a bibliogra- environmental diversity, followed by a phy, and an index of scientific and ver- catalog of more than 250 common spe- nacular names combine to make this an cies of plants, enhanced by color pho- invaluable reference. tographs designed to assist with quick

Helen Pickering is a plant photographer. Annette Patzelt is head of research at the new Oman Botanical Garden.

February 268 p., 500 color plates 6 x 91/5 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-177-8 Cloth $58.00x

nature science CMUSA Also Available from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Flora of Tropical Flora of Tropical Flora of the Guianas East Africa East Africa Series A: Phanerogams Lamiaceae (Labiatae) Malvaceae Fascicle 27 Edited by H. J. Beentje Edited by H. J. Beentje 71. Cyrillaceae, 79. Theophrastaceae, and S. A. Ghazanfar and S. A. Ghazanfar 86. Habdodendraceae, 90. Proteaceae, ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-372-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-189-1 100. Combretaceae, 113. Dichapetal- Paper $140.00x Paper $82.50x aceae, 167. Limnocharitaceae, 432 p., 150 line drawings 6 x 9 CMUSA 174 p., 60 line drawings 6 x 9 CMUSA 168. Alismataceae Edited by M. J. Jansen-Jacobs ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-418-2 Paper $73.00x 184 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 214 p., 90 halftones and line drawings, 1 map 6 x 9 CMUSA Also Available from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The Plants of Dom, The Plants of Mefou CITES Orchid Checklist Bamenda Highlands, Proposed National Park, Volume 5, Bulbophyllum Cameroon Central Province, Edited by A. Sieder, H. Rainer, A Conservation Checklist and M. Kiehn Cameroon ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-225-6 Martin Cheek, Yvette Harvey, A Conservation Checklist Paper $33.00x 1 and Jean-Michel Onana Jean-Michel Onana, 416 p. 6 x 9 /2 CMUSA ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-398-7 Emma Fenton, and Yvette Harvey Paper $58.00x 162 p., 50 color plates, 24 line drawings, ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-400-7 4 maps 81/2 x 111/2 CMUSA Paper $66.00x 225 p., 50 color plates, 6 line drawings, 4 maps 8 x 113/4 CMUSA

The Plants of Fosimondi- Flora Zambesiaca Cultivo de Orquídeas Bechati in the Lebialem Volume 12 Part 2 por Semillas Highlands of Cameroon Dioscoreaceae, Taccaceae, Growing Orchids from Seed A Conservation Checklist Burmanniaceae, Pandanaceae, Spanish-language Edition Yvette Harvey and Velloziaceae, Colchicaceae, Philip Seaton and Barthelemy Tchiengue Liliaceae, Smilacaceae Margaret Ramsey ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-423-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-399-4 Edited by Jonathan Timberlake Cloth $25.00s Paper $58.00x ISBN-13: 978-1-84246-193-8 96 p., 100 color plates 71/2 x 91/2 CMUSA 150 p., 50 color plates, 4 maps, Paper $97.00x 3 6 line drawings 8 x 11 /4 CMUSA 214 p., 52 line drawings 6 x 9 CMUSA

Front Forty Profiles No. 1 Mark McGinnis

The first in a series of accessible and ing preconceptions of popular issues affordable art books from Front Forty in political and social spheres while Press, Front Forty Profiles No. 1 features instigating reflection on a given topic. the designs/illustrations of artist Mark Accompanying McGinnis’s work is an McGinnis—whose work has appeared interview with the artist conducted by in solo exhibitions in both Chicago and art writer and critic Victor Cassidy and Los Angeles and has been featured in an essay on McGinnis’s technique and the New York Times and Business Week. inspiration by Carlo Vinti. Also includ- McGinnis uses icons, drawing, and ed with the first volume of the Profiles printmaking processes to captivate and series is a limited edition icon sticker by communicate with his audience, his the artist. poignant, simplified images often skew- May 144 p., 80 color plates 7 x 9 Mark McGinnis is a designer and illustrator living in New York City. ISBN-13: 978-0-9825458-0-5 Paper $20.00s/£13.00 art

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 185 Front Forty Press The Changing Arctic Landscape Ken Tape

Though it’s generally understood that and glaciers, the images show the star- any landscape changes over time—par- tling effects of climate change and hu- ticularly as the number of people it sup- man encroachment. In addition, each ports increases—these changes occur section presents a short biography of a over such a span of time that they go pioneering scientist who was instrumen- more or less unnoticed. With The Chang- tal in both obtaining the antique pho- ing Arctic Landscape, photographer Ken tographs and advancing the study of march 132 p., 41 color plates, Tape sets changes in the landscape in arctic ecosystems, as well as interviews 30 halftones 11 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-080-4 stark relief, pairing decades-old photos with scientists who have spent decades Cloth $35.00/£22.50 of the arctic landscape of Alaska with working in Alaska for the United States nature photography photos of the same scenes taken in the Geological Survey. The Changing Arctic present. Landscape is thus simultaneously an ac- The resulting volume is a stunning count of what we’ve learned, what we’ve reminder of inexorable change; divided lost, and what is left to us to preserve. into sections on vegetation, permafrost,

Ken Tape was raised in Fairbanks and has been studying and photographing the arctic for the past decade.

On Sea Ice W. F. Weeks

Covering more than 7 percent of the became widespread. Weeks delves into earth’s surface, sea ice is crucial to the both micro-level characteristics—inter- functioning of the biosphere—and is a nal structure, component properties, key component in our attempts to un- and phase relations—and the macro- derstand and combat climate change. level nature of sea ice, such as salinity, With On Sea Ice, geophysicist W. F. Weeks growth, and decay. He also explains the delivers a natural history of sea ice, a mechanics of ice pack drift and the re- fully comprehensive and up-to-date ac- cently observed changes in ice extent count of our knowledge of its creation, and thickness. change, and function. An unparalleled account of a natu- The volume begins with the earli- ral phenomenon that will be of increas- est recorded observations of sea ice, ing importance as the earth’s tempera- from 350 BC, but the majority of its in- ture rises, On Sea Ice will unquestionably May 600 p., 354 graphs and figures formation is drawn from the period af- be the standard for years to come. 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-079-8 ter 1950, when detailed study of sea ice Cloth $85.00/£55.00 W. F. Weeks is a geophysicist who has long studied the ice covers of the polar oceans. science

186 University of Alaska Press The Land Beyond A Memoir Jack Ives

Geologist Jack Ives moved to Canada in the issues of environmental awareness 1954, and soon after he played an in- and conservation that are inextricably strumental role in the establishment of intertwined with life in the North. Mix- the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Labo- ing personal impressions of key figures ratory in central Labrador-Ungava. of the postwar scientific boom with the This fascinating account of his fifty- intellectual drama of field research,The plus years living and working in the Land Beyond is a memorable depiction arctic is simultaneously a lighthearted, of a life in science. winning memoir and a call to action on

Jack Ives has lived and worked in the North for more than fifty years, writing several books and receiving numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship. He currently lives in Ottawa with his family. March 200 p., 16 color plates, 52 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-077-4 Paper $29.95/£19.50 Globalization of the Circumpolar North biography Edited by Lassi Heininen and Chris Southcott

The circumpolar north has long been renewed prominence, Globalization of the May 200 p. 6 x 9 the subject of conflicting national aspi- Circumpolar North brings together an ar- ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-078-1 Paper $24.95/£16.00 rations and border disputes, and with ray of scholars to explore the effects of the end of the cold war and the com- this increased attention, from the new political science ing era of potential resource scarcity, opportunities offered by globalization its importance will only grow over the to the potential damage to long-isolat- next several decades. Anticipating that ed northern communities and peoples.

Lassi Heininen is a political scientist and senior scientist at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. Chris Southcott is professor of sociology at Lakehead University on Thunder Bay, Ontario, and associate researcher at the Northern Research Institute, Whitehorse, Yukon.

Before the Storm A Year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941–1942 Fredericka Martin Edited and with supplemental material by Raymond Hudson

From June of 1941 through the follow- radical change. A government-ordered ing summer, Fredericka Martin lived evacuation of all Aleuts from the island with her husband, Dr. Samuel Beren- in the face of World War II, which Mar- berg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alas- tin recounts in her journal, proved but ka. During that time, Martin delved into the first step in a long struggle by Native the complex history of the Unangan peoples to gain independence, and, as people, and Before the Storm draws from editor Raymond Hudson explains, Mar- her personal accounts of that year and tin came to play a significant role in the May 425 p., 30 halftones 7 x 10 her research to present a fascinating effort. ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-076-7 Paper $39.95s/£26.00 portrait of a time and a people facing anthropology Fredericka Martin (1905–92) was a nurse and an advocate for the indigenous Aleut popula- native american studies tion during her time in the Pribilof Islands. Raymond Hudson lived in the Aleutian Islands for nearly thirty years. He currently lives in Middlebury, Vermont. University of Alaska Press 187 Treadwell Gold An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin Sheila Kelly

A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was accounts from the sons and daughters a featured stop on steamship cruises, a of the miners, machinists, hoist opera- rich, up-to-date town that was the most tors, and superintendants who together prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its dug and blasted the gold that made wealth, however, was founded on the Treadwell rich. Alongside these stories remarkably productive gold mines on are vintage photos that capture both Douglas Island, and when those were the industrial vigor of the mines and depleted in the early decades of the the daily lives that made up Treadwell twentieth century, Treadwell sank into society. The book will fascinate anyone relative obscurity. interested in Alaska history or the ro- Treadwell Gold presents first-person mance of gold mining’s past.

March 200 p., 80 halftones 7 x 10 Sheila Kelly has been studying Treadwell for more than twenty years. She lives in Seattle. ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-075-0 Cloth $35.00/£22.50 History

Natalia Shelikov Edited by Dawn Lea Black and Alexander Petrov

Rasmuson Library Historic This volume makes available for the swathe of northern leaders—were cru- Translation series first time in English a variety of primary cial to the growth of Alaska’s economy, source materials relating to the life and as well as to the welfare of the Native March 250 p., 10 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-073-6 work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering people, in whose life and culture she Paper $24.95/£16.00 nineteenth-century Russian American took a strong interest. The letters, peti- Biography businesswoman. As a principal of the tions, and personal documents present- Russian-American Company, Shelikov ed here will be indispensable for stu- worked in Alaska, and her business acu- dents of Alaska and nineteenth-century men and wide-ranging connections— women’s history. including the empress of Russia and a

Dawn Lea Black is a former teacher and businesswoman who currently owns and manages a family estate in Kodiak, Alaska. Alexander Petrov is a historian at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Plants That We Eat Nauriat Nigiñaqtaut Anore Jones

April 200 p., 60 halftones 7 x 10 Plants That We Eat is a handy, easy-to- comers to the North how to recognize ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-074-3 use guide to the abundant edible plant which plants are safe to eat. Organized Paper $24.95/£16.00 life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of by seasons, from spring greens through nature knowledge that have kept the Iñupiat summer berries to autumn roots, the people healthy, the book uses photo- book also features an appendix identi- graphs and descriptions to teach new- fying poisonous plants.

Anore Jones is a botanist and the author of Iqaluich: Fish That We Eat.

188 University of Alaska Press Innocents in Dry Valleys An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958–59 Colin Bull

In the summer of 1958, physicist Colin that first, shoestring expedition, bring- Bull, along with a biologist and two un- ing a dry wit—and a clear appreciation dergraduate geology students from Vic- of youthful bravado—to accounts of toria University of Wellington, launched adverse conditions, recurrent dangers, an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Vic- funding snafus, and bureaucratic med- toria Land, Antarctica—the first of what dling. Innocents in Dry Valleys is a win- has become an annual expedition spanning account of a landmark expedition, ning the past fifty years. With Innocents sure to interest scientists and armchair in Dry Valleys Bull recounts the story of explorers alike.

Colin Bull is a geophysicist who served as a senior lecturer in physics at Victoria University and later was the director of the Institute of Polar Studies at Ohio State University. February 267 p., 81 color plates, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 2 graphs, 1 line drawing 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-071-2 D is For Dog Team Paper $25.00/£16.00 science D is For Denali

Ken Waldman “A one-man Prairie Home Companion.” For nearly fifteen years, writer and mu- a collection of poems, songs, and il- —Shepherd Express Weekly, sician Ken Waldman has been touring lustrations that is sure to delight kids Milwaukee as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet, combining of all ages. A companion volume, D is old-time Appalachian-style string-band for Denali, aimed at older children and February 60 p., 48 halftones, music with original poetry and Alaska teens, comes with the book; the result- 5 drawings 6 x 9 storytelling. The book-and-CD set D is ing package will be a fireside treasure ISBN-13: 978-0-9816758-1-7 for Dog Team is his first children’s book, for the whole family. Paper $14.00/£9.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-9816758-2-4 Compact Disc $15.00/£9.50 Ken Waldman has lived in Alaska for nearly twenty-five years and has performed all over the ISBN-13: 978-0-9816758-3-1 United States. Paper w/CD $20.00/£13.00

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Now in Paperback Recent Mammals of Alaska Stephen O. Ma c Donald and Joseph A. Cook

From the polar bear and the gray wolf mation, status, habitat, and fossil histo- February 399 p., 110 maps, to the walrus and river otter, there are ry. Appendices include quick-reference 50 line drawings 7 x 10 115 species of mammals in Alaska that listings of mammal distribution by re- ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-072-9 Paper $45.00/£29.00 have never been fully cataloged until gion, specimen locations, conservation now. Biologists Stephen O. MacDonald status, and the incidence of Pleistocene science and Joseph A. Cook have compiled here mammals. The guide is generously il- Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-047-7 the first comprehensive guide to all of lustrated with line drawings by Alaska Alaska’s mammals, big and small, en- artist W. D. Berry and includes several dearing and ferocious. maps indicating populations and loca- Detailed entries for each species in- tions of species. clude distribution and taxonomic infor-

Stephen O. MacDonald is a curator at the Museum of Southwestern Biology, mammals division. Joseph A. Cook is a professor at the University of New Mexico and a curator at the Museum of Southwestern Biology, mammals division. University of Alaska Press 189 Now in Paperback The Sea Woman Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten

This study offers an in-depth examina- beings, such as Sedna, the sea woman. tion of the role of shamanism in mod- As the authors document here, despite ern Inuit art and culture. Inuit shamans the current domination of Christianity, derived their healing skills and power contemporary Inuit life and culture is over natural elements from their abil- still powerfully shaped by the shaman ity to communicate with supernatural tradition.

Frédéric Laugrand is professor in the Department of Anthropology and CIÉRA at the Uni- versité Laval in Quebec. Jarich Oosten is professor in the Department of Cultural Anthro- pology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. February 160 p., 200 color plates 8 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-011-8 Paper $29.95/£19.50 ANTHROPOLOGY Now in Paperback Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-026-2 An Aleutian Ethnography Lucien Turner Edited by Ray Hudson

February 256 p., 50 halftones 6 x 9 Lucien Turner was a pioneering nine- sion in three Aleut communities, reveal ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-039-2 teenth-century ethnographer whose valuable insights into Aleutian cultures Paper $26.95/£17.50 study of Aleut communities surpassed and the outsiders who lived among anthropology the work of all of his contemporaries, them in the nineteenth century. Care- Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-028-6 and his rare writings are collected fully edited by Ray Hudson, An Aleutian here for the first time. Turner’s admit- Ethnography is an essential resource for tedly fragmentary ethnographic notes, scholars of American history and his- which chronicle his complete immer- tory of anthropology alike.

Lucien Turner was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer. Ray Hudson lived in the Aleutian Islands for nearly thirty years. He currently lives in Middlebury, Vermont.

Now in Paperback Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist Will Troyer

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer em- describes experiences such as being in barked on a thirty-year career that in- the midst of a herd of 40,000 caribou. cluded positions such as fish and game Bear Wrangler is an absorbing tale of warden and manager of the Kodiak one man’s experience as an authentic February 256 p., 25 halftones 6 x 9 Island brown bear preserve. Troyer’s pioneer in the last vestiges of American ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-044-6 engaging prose affirms his passionate wilderness. Paper $19.95/£13.00 connection to the natural world, as he BIOGRAPHY NATURE Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-043-9 Will Troyer worked for thirty years in Alaska for the U.S. Department of the Interior. He is also the author of Into Brown Bear Country and From Dawn to Dusk: Memoirs of an Amish- Mennonite Farm Boy. 190 University of Alaska Press Now in Paperback Ultimate Americans Point Hope, Alaska: 1826–1909 Tom Lowenstein

The third volume in a series on Point lizing elements of alcohol and disease February 368 p., 30 halftones 7 x 10 Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans ex- among Native populations, as well as ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-038-5 amines the first encounters between cultural collisions and the eventual Paper $36.95/£24.00 the native Tikigaq people and Anglo- mutual assimilation of the groups. An ANTHROPOLOGY Americans during the nineteenth cen- in-depth historical chronicle, Ultimate Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-027-9 tury. Tom Lowenstein investigates the Americans will be invaluable reading for interactions between Alaska Native, historians, ethnographers, and anthro- commercial whalemen, and missionar- pologists alike. ies in Point Hope, charting the destabi-

Tom Lowenstein is the author of Ancestors and Species: New and Selected Ethnographic Poetry; Ancient Land, Sacred Whale; and The Things That Were Said of Them.

Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms Donald E. Knuth

Donald E. Knuth has been making foun- sign of new algorithms. Nearly thirty of dational contributions to the field of Knuth’s classic papers are collected in computer science for as long as comput- this book and brought up to date with er science has been a field. His award- extensive revisions and notes on subse- winning textbooks are often given cred- quent developments. The papers cover it for shaping the field, and his scientific numerous discrete problems, such as papers are widely referenced and stand assorting, searching, data compression, as milestones of development for a wide theorem proving, and cryptography, as variety of topics. The present volume, well as methods for controlling errors the seventh in a series of his collected in numerical computations. papers, is devoted to his work on the de-

Donald E. Knuth is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science emeritus at Stanford University. CSLI Lecture Notes

February 453 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-583-6 Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-582-9 Conversations with L’Heureux Paper $35.00x/£22.50 John L’Heureux computer science

In this sequence of revealing interviews sation then leads to an assessment of February 200 p. 6 x 9 conducted by Dikran Karagueuzian, contemporary fiction—its virtues and ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-601-7 award-winning novelist John L’Heureux vices and its distinguished practitio- Cloth $27.00s/£17.50 considers his long and fruitful career ners. Finally, L’Heureux recalls his thir- literary criticism as a fiction writer, providing insights teen years as director of the Stanford into his craft and explaining how his Writing Program and offers opinions approach to the novel differs from his on what can and cannot be taught in a approach to short stories. The conver- creative writing course.

John L’Heureux is professor emeritus in the Department of English at Stanford University. He has served as a staff editor of the Atlantic and is the author of sixteen books of poetry and fiction. University of Alaska Press 191 CSLI Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages Edited by DaniÈle Godard

Fundamental Issues in the Romance Lan- tax, semantics, and discourse for each CSLI Lecture Notes guages compares six Romance languag- language. The up-to-date analyses in es—Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, this volume make it essential for under- February 420 p. 6 x 9 Portuguese, and Romanian—and sum- graduate and graduate students as well ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-587-4 marizes the last thirty years of scholar- as scholars of each language. Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-586-7 ship in the fields of morphology, syn- Paper $32.50x/£21.00 Danièle Godard is a senior researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in linguistics France.

Modal Logic for Open Minds Johan v a n Benthem

CSLI Lecture Notes In Modal Logic for Open Minds, Johan axiomatics, and then covers more ad- van Benthem provides an introduction vanced topics, such as expressive power, February 350 p. 6 x 9 to the field of modal logic, outlining its computational complexity, and intelli- ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-599-7 Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 major ideas and exploring the numer- gent agency. Many of the chapters are ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-698-7 ous ways in which various academic followed by exercises, making this vol- Paper $30.00x/£19.50 fields have adopted it. Van Benthem ume ideal for undergraduate and grad- philosophy Logic begins with the basic theories of modal uate students in philosophy, computer logic, examining its relationship to lan- science, symbolic systems, cognitive sci- guage, semantics, bisimulation, and ence, and linguistics.

Johan van Benthem is University Professor of pure and applied logic at the University of Amsterdam, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and the Weilun Visiting Professor of Humanities at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Logic and Pragmatism Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati Edited by Claudia Arrighi, Paola CantÚ, Mauro de Zan, and Patrick Suppes

Logic and Pragmatism features a number here for the first time in English—focus of the key writings of Giovanni Vailati on Vailati’s significant contributions to (1863–1909), the Italian mathemati- the field of pragmatism. Accompanying cian and philosopher renowned for his these pieces are introductory essays by work in mechanics, geometry, logic, the volume’s editors that outline the CSLI Lecture Notes and epistemology. The selections in traits of Vailati’s pragmatism and pro- February 350 p. 6 x 9 this book—many of which are available vide insights into the scholar’s life. ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-591-1 Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 Claudia Arrighi is an independent researcher. Paola Cantú is a postdoctoral researcher at ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-590-4 the University of Nancy. Mauro De Zan teaches philosophy and history in Crema, Italy, and Paper $30.00x/£19.50 president of the Centro Studi Giovanni Vailati. Patrick Suppes is the Lucie Stern Professor philosophy logic of Philosophy emeritus at Stanford University.

192 CSLI Reality Exploration and Discovery “This book is an invitation to sit and participate in a long dinner that Pattern Interaction in Language and Life never was, a dinner that would Edited by Linda Ann Uyechi and Lian-Hee Wee have lasted till dawn the next day, where friends and colleagues of The twenty-five papers presented here and students in a career spanning over K. P. Mohanan would have shared examine the interactions between lin- three decades. their thoughts about how his guistic structure and sound patterns “The volume is an excellent sam- tireless explorations inspired and across a diverse set of languages. The pling of linguistic research at the cut- integrating theme of this volume is the ting edge and a fitting tribute to Mo- recharged their own spirits.” influence of K. P. Mohanan’s philoso- hanan, whose work has helped shape —John Goldsmith, phy of inquiry, derived not only from the current face of our discipline.”— University of Chicago his rich body of work but also from the Morris Halle, Massachusetts Institute CSLI Lecture Notes fresh perspectives and intellectual vital- of Technology ity that he has shared with colleagues available 438 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-589-8 Linda Ann Uyechi is a lecturer in the Department of Music at Stanford University. Lian-Hee Cloth $70.00x/£48.50 Wee is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-588-1 Hong Kong Baptist University. Paper $35.00x/£22.50 linguistics

Grammar, Geometry, and Brain Jens Erik Fenstad

This original study considers the effects tics—combines current formal seman- CSLI Lecture Notes of language and meaning on the brain. tics with a geometric structure in order Jens Erik Fenstad—an expert in the to trace how common nouns, proper- February 120 p. 6 x 9 fields of recursion theory, nonstandard ties, natural kinds, and attractors link ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-593-5 Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 analysis, and natural language seman- with brain dynamics. ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-592-8 Paper $27.50x/£18.00 Jens Erik Fenstad is professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the University linguistics mathematics of Oslo.

Meaning, Form, and Body Edited by Fey Parrill, Vera Tobin, and Mark Turner

Meaning, Form, and Body brings together ing and language and the human body. February 350 p. 6 x 9 renowned figures in the field of cogni- Among the numerous topics discussed ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-595-9 Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 tive linguistics to discuss two related are grammatical constructions, concep- ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-594-2 research areas in the study of linguis- tual integration, and gesture. Paper $35.00x/£22.50 tics: the integration of form and mean- linguistics Cognitive science

Fey Parrill is the Robson Junior Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. Vera Tobin is a lecturer in the Department of Cognitive Sci- ence at Case Western Reserve University. Mark Turner is Institute Professor and professor of cognitive science at Case Western Reserve University and the founding director of the Cognitive Science Network.

CSLI 193 Ostrannenie Edited by Annie v a n d e n Oever

Coined by the Russian formalist Victor Striking, provocative, and incisive, Shklovsky in 1917, ostrannenie, or “mak- the essays by the distinguished film ing it strange,” has become one of the scholars in this volume reveal the range central concepts of modern artistic and depth of a concept that for nearly a practice, ranging over movements that century has been changing the trajec- include Dada, postmodernism, epic the- tory of theoretical inquiry. ater, and science fiction, as well as our Contributors: Ian Christie, Domin- response to the arts. Ostrannenie has ique Chateau, Yuri Tsivian, Frank Kes- come to resonate deeply in film studies, sler, Laurent Jullier, Miklós Kiss, Emile where it entered into dialogue with the Poppe, László Tarnay, Barend van Heu- Brechtian concept of Verfremdung, the sden, András Bálint Kovács, Annie van Freudian concept of the uncanny, and den Oever, and Laura Mulvey. Derrida’s concept of différance. European Film Studies— Key Debates Annie van den Oever lectures in film studies at the University of Groningen.

February 144 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-079-6 Paper $29.95s film studies CUSA

From Grain to Pixel The Archival Life of Film in Transition Giovanna Fossati

Film is in a state of rapid change: the up-to-date account of the transforma- transition from analog to digital is pro- tion in motion picture archiving over foundly affecting not just filmmaking the last decades. She forces us to recon- and film distribution but a number of sider the nature of the moving image other facets of the industry, including and prepare for a new era of commu- the ways in which films are archived. In nication and preservation.”—Tom Gun- From Grain to Pixel—the first volume in ning, University of Chicago the new Framing Film series from Am- “Scholarly research on film and sterdam University Press—Giovanna media is profoundly influenced by the Fossati brings together scholars and way in which moving images are pre- archivists to discuss their theories on served and made accessible for scrutiny. Framing Film digitization and to propose new possi- This fact alone should make Fossati’s bilities for future archives. book mandatory reading for all gradu- February 336 p., 31 color plates, “Fossati does more than simply ate courses in the field.”—Paolo Cher- 25 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-139-7 give the most thoughtful, thorough and chi Usai, Haghefilm Foundation Paper $45.00x Giovanna Fossati is curator at the Netherlands Film Museum in Amsterdam and a lecturer film studies at the University of Amsterdam. CUSA

194 Amsterdam University Press The Prosecutor and the Judge Benjamin Ferencz and Antonio Cassese— Interviews and Writings Heikelina Verrijn Stuart and Marlise Simons

Earlier this year, the Praemium Erasmi- tee for the Prevention of Torture, and anum Foundation bestowed its annual chairman of the UN Commission of In- award—the Erasmus Prize—on Benja- quiry into Violation of Human Rights min Ferencz and Antonio Cassese, two and Humanitarian Law in Darfur. Cass- pioneers in the field of international ese is currently the president of the Spe- law. Ferencz, a leading American pros- cial Court for Lebanon. ecutor, author, and lecturer, was pres- In The Prosecutor and the Judge, ent at the American war crimes trials Heikelina Verrijn Stuart and Marlise in Dachau and was the chief prosecutor Simons provide in-depth, revealing in the Einsatzgruppen trials in Nurem- interviews with these two advocates of burg. Like Ferencz, Cassese was a key international law. Supplementing the April 200 p. 63/10 x 91/2 figure in the development of interna- interviews are several key articles writ- ISBN-13: 978-90-8555-023-5 tional criminal law, serving as the first ten by Ferencz and Cassese that high- Paper $29.95s president of the International Criminal light the two men’s achievements and law Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and set the development of international CUSA president of the European Commit- law in context.

Heikelina Verrijn Stuart is a Dutch-British lawyer and philosopher of law and a member of the Advisory Council of Foreign Affairs. Marlise Simons is a correspondent for the New York Times.

Forces of Form The Vrolik Museum Laurens d e Rooy and Hans v a n d e n Bogaard

Established around the private collec- sand specimens of human and animal tions of Gerardus Vrolik (1775–1859) anatomy, embryology, pathology, and and his son Willem (1801–63), the Vro- congenital anomalies housed at the lik Museum in Amsterdam has since museum. its founding in the nineteenth century Forces of Form brings this collection been one of the most admired exposi- back into the limelight, exploring the tions of anatomy in all of Europe. Sci- museum’s rich history and displaying in entists and physicians from all over the color illustrations 150 of the museum’s world travel to gaze upon the five thou- most fascinating specimens.

Laurens de Rooy works in the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at the Amsterdam February 144 p., 150 color plates Medical Center and is curator of the Vrolik Museum. Hans van den Bogaard is a freelance 91/2 x 11 photographer. ISBN-13: 978-90-5629-552-3 Cloth $39.95s

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Amsterdam University Press 195 Of Reynaert the Fox Text and Facing Translation of the Middle Dutch Beast Epic Edited by André Bouwman and Bart Besamusca Translated by Thea Summerfield

An entertaining reworking of the most This charming volume is the first popular branch of the Old French tale bilingual edition of the tale, featuring of Reynard the Fox, the mid-thirteenth facing pages with an English transla- century Dutch epic Van den vos Reyn- tion by Thea Summerfield, making the aerde is one of the earliest long literary undisputed masterpiece of medieval works in the Dutch vernacular. Sly Rey- Dutch literature accessible to a wide naert and a cast of other comical wood- international audience. Accompanying land characters find themselves again the critical text are an introduction, in- and again caught up in escapades that terpretative notes, an index of names, a often provide a satirical commentary complete glossary, and a short introduc- on human society. tion to Middle Dutch. February 368 p., 6 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-024-6 André Bouwman is keeper of Western manuscripts at the Leiden University Library. Bart Paper $29.95s Besamusca is a senior lecturer in medieval Dutch literature in the Department of Dutch at literature Utrecht University. CUSA

Darwin Meets Einstein On the Meaning of Science Frans W. Saris

Why do humans engage in scientific er in conversation a number of great research? For some, it’s simply a career. minds—Charles Darwin, Baruch Spi- Others are drawn to science for its po- noza, Niko Tinbergen, Francis Bacon, tential financial rewards. And still oth- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Franz Kaf- ers do it out of competitiveness—to be ka, and Albert Einstein—to answer the the first in their field. But in Darwin question: why science? With selections Meets Einstein, Frans W. Saris argues that like “Diary of a Physicist,” “The Scien- in our postmodern times we have lost tific Life,” “The Mother of All Knowl- the meaning of science—that science is edge,” and “Science Through the Look- not about competition, nor about creating Glass of Literature,” Darwin Meets ing wealth, nor about the joy of discov- Einstein will entertain its readers and ery. Science is for survival—the survival ultimately encourage them to reconsid- 3 1 March 176 p. 6 /10 x9 /2 of humans, the survival of life. er the meaning—and the purpose—of ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-058-1 Paper $35.00s In this accessible collection of es- science. says and columns, Saris brings togeth- science CUSA Frans W. Saris is professor of physics and dean of mathematics and natural sciences at Leiden University.

196 Amsterdam University Press Discourses on Social Software Edited by Jan v a n Eijck and Rineke Verbrugge

Can computer science solve our social pher, and a number of researchers from problems? With Discourses on Social Soft- various other academic fields, this col- ware, Jan van Eijck and Rineke Verbrug- lection details the many ways in which ge suggest it can, offering the reader a the seemingly abstract disciplines of fascinating introduction to the innova- logic and computer science can be used tive field of social software. Compiling to analyze and solve contemporary so- a series of discussions involving a logi- cial problems. cian, a computer scientist, a philoso-

Jan van Eijck is professor of computer science and computational linguistics at the CWI Amsterdam and Utrecht University. Rineke Verbrugge is professor of logic and cognition at the University of Groningen.

Texts in Logic and Games

February 248 p. 63/10 x 91/2 How to Study Art Worlds ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-123-6 On the Societal Functioning of Aesthetic Values Paper $54.00x computer science Hans v a n Maanen CUSa

While numerous studies over the years ie, and Niklas Luhmann, among others, February 256 p. 63/10 x 91/2 have focused on the ways in which art to examine the philosophical debates ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-152-6 Paper $35.00s functions in our society, How to Study Art surrounding aesthetic experience— art Worlds is the first to examine it in light and then traces the consequences that CUSA of the organizational aspects of the each of these approaches has had and art world. Van Maanen delves into the continues to have on organizations in works of such sociologists as Howard S. the art world. Becker, Pierre Bourdieu, George Dick-

Hans van Maanen is professor of art and society at the University of Groningen.

American Multiculturalism after 9/11 Transatlantic Perspectives Edited by Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul

This groundbreaking volume examines found cultural implications. the evolution of multiculturalism in the “The thirteen new essays assembled United States and Europe since the cata- in this book make many fresh and often clysmic events of 9/11. The essays in this surprising contributions to understand- collection offer a variety of perspectives, ing the theoretical issues surrounding each highlighting the undiminished multiculturalism, the effects of the ter- relevance of key issues such as immigra- rorist attacks of 2001 on debates about tion, assimilation, and citizenship, while American ethnic diversity and national simultaneously pointing to unresolved unity, and European and transatlantic American Studies conflicts over universalism, religion, perspectives on migration and religious and tolerance. Most importantly, this in- difference.”—Werner Sollors, author of February 224 p. 63/10 x 91/2 valuable volume shows that the struggle Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-144-1 over multiculturalism is not limited to American Culture Paper $39.95s the political domain, but also has pro- american studies CUSA Derek Rubin lectures in American studies at Utrecht University. Jaap Verheul is associate professor of history and director of the American Studies Program at Utrecht University. Amsterdam University Press 197 Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction Diah Ariani Arimbi

Reading Contemporary Indonesian Mus- the identities, roles, and status of Mus- lim Women Writers looks at the work of lim women in Indonesia. In addition, four writers—Titis Basino P. I., Ratna Diah Ariani Arimbi focuses on issues of Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy, authenticity, representation, and power and Helvy Tiana Rosa—paying particu- in these authors’ works and details how lar attention to questions of how gender each woman challenged perceptions of is constructed and in turn constructs Muslim women in Islamic societies.

Diah Ariani Arimbi lectures in English literature at the Airlangga University in Surabaya, Indonesia. February 240 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-089-5 Paper $52.50x women’s studies Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa literary criticism CUSA Colonial Legacies and Post-colonial Challenges Edited by Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa, and Richard Roberts

March 368 p. 63/10 x 91/2 Muslim family law in Africa is as resil- nations. In this fascinating volume, the ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-172-4 ient today as it was during the first part editors bring together a number of es- Paper $59.00x of the twentieth century when millions says that address key questions relating religion law of Africans were subject to French and to Islamic law in Africa, document- CUSA British colonial administrations. And ing the struggles that Muslims have though these administrations have endured over the years and revealing been gone for decades, their legacies Islamic law’s place within the multi- continue to haunt Islamic legal schools, cultural nation-states of contemporary scholars, and practices in many African Africa.

Shamil Jeppie is associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the Univer- sity of Cape Town. Ebrahim Moosa is associate professor in the Department of Religion at Duke University. Richard Roberts is professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. “A highly instructive and quietly provocative way to make sense of this financial crisis is to read this Aftershocks collection of disciplined but open- Economic Crisis and Institutional Choice ended reflections on both by some Edited by Anton Hemerijck, Ben Knapen, and Ellen v a n DoornE of the world’s best economists and social scientists. Whatever you Although it would be premature to pre- and leading figures from business and think about the crisis now you will sume to identify the exact repercussions banking—that reflect on the origins rethink upon encountering their of the current economic crisis, it is clear of the crisis as well as the possible so- trenchant but nuanced reactions.” that it will have profound effects in the cial, economic, and political transfor- —Charles Sabel, political, economic, and social spheres. mations it may engender. Among the Columbia Law School Written in the midst of the deepest many contributors are Barry Eichen- economic crisis since the Great Depres- green, Tony Atkinson, David Soskice,

February 288 p. 63/10 x 91/2 sion, Aftershocks contains twenty-four Nancy Birdsall, Amitai Etzioni, Helmut ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-192-2 essays—based on interviews with schol- Schmidt, and Jacques Delors. Paper $39.95s ars, prominent European politicians, economics political science CUSA Anton Hemerijck is director of WRR, a Dutch government think tank, where Ben Knapen is a council member. Ellen van Doorne is a strategy advisor at the Dutch Ministry of General 198 Amsterdam University Press Affairs. Austronesian Soundscapes Performing Arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia Edited by Birgit Abels

In Austronesia—the region that stretch- al studies and musical analysis, Austro- es from Madagascar in the west to Eas- nesian Soundscapes will fill this research ter Island in the east—music plays a gap, offering a comprehensive analysis vital role in both the construction and of traditional and contemporary Aus- expression of social and cultural iden- tronesian music and, at the same time, tities. Yet research into the music of investigating how music reflects the Austronesia has hitherto been sparse. challenges that Austronesian cultures Drawing together contemporary cultur- face in this age of globalization.

Birgit Abels is a cultural musicologist at the University of Amsterdam and at the Interna- tional Institute for Asian Studies in Amsterdam.

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Modernization, Tradition and Identity june 392 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-085-7 The Kompilasi Hukum Islam and Legal Practice Paper $47.50x in the Indonesian Religious Courts music CUSA Euis Nurlaelawati

Drawing on Max Weber’s approach to le- classic Islamic legal texts—known as ICAS Publications gal rationalization—which stimulated a the fiqh—and shows their significance 3 1 transfer from the patrimonial tradition in Indonesian state and Islamic family February 304 p. 6 /10 x 9 /2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-088-8 of law to a more systematic and rational law, how they are interpreted by judges Paper $49.95x legal code—Modernization, Tradition and to justify deviations from state legisla- Religion Identity investigates how and why Islam- tion, and the role they play in debates CUSA ic justice in Indonesia has evolved over between Muslim scholars and religious the years. Euis Nurlaelawati delves into court judges.

Euis Nurlaelawati is a senior lecturer in Islamic law at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta.

State, Society and International Relations in Asia Edited by M. Parvizi Amineh

In this timely volume, M. Parvizi Amineh the global economy. Grounded in the brings together a multitude of studies most recent scholarship, State, Society of modern Asian postcolonial states and International Relations in Asia covers and societies. This part of the world has several large-scale global concerns, in- undergone major transitions over the cluding nationalism, democratization, ICAS Publications past decade and is quickly becoming a corruption, religious tension, globaliza- major player in international policy and tion, and regionalization. February 328 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-5356-794-4 M. Parvizi Amineh is professor of international relations at Webster University, senior Paper $59.00x research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, and a senior lecturer at the political science International School for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. CUSA

Amsterdam University Press 199 Identity in Crossroad Civilisations Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia Edited by Erich Kolig, Vivienne SM. Angeles, and Sam Wong

The contributors to this timely volume China, India, Japan, the Philippines, discuss the role that ethnicity, nation- and New Zealand, and reveal how new, alism, and the effects of globalization amalgamated identities have material- have played in the emergence of new ized as a result of these communities’ identities in Asia. Challenging Samuel willingness to adapt to the changing Huntington’s popular yet controversial economic, political, and social climates thesis of the “clash of civilizations,” the brought on by globalization. essays examine communities in Bhutan,

Erich Kolig is a retired social anthropologist from New Zealand. Vivienne SM. Angeles is assistant professor in the Department of Religion at La Salle University. Sam Wong is a lecturer in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. ICAS Publications

February 264 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-127-4 The Paradoxes of Transparency Paper $59.00x Science and the Ecosystem Approach Asian Studies cusa to Fisheries Management in Europe Douglas Clyde Wilson

MARE Publications The International Council for the Ex- toward assessments and methods to ploration of the Sea (ICES)—a network sustain Europe’s fish stocks. This book February 304 p. 63/10 x 91/2 of more than 1,600 scientists from the presents the findings of an extensive so- ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-060-4 nations surrounding the North At- ciological survey of the bureaucracy of Paper $39.50x lantic and the Baltic Sea—has been the council, detailing both its failures science cusa instrumental to the coordination and and the amendments made to Europe’s promotion of invaluable research on Common Fisheries Policy in attempts to the marine ecosystem. But only re- improve and strengthen it. cently has the ICES made major strides

Douglas Clyde Wilson is a senior researcher and the research director at the Innovative Fisheries Management Research Centre at Aalborg University in Denmark.

“This is one of the best books on The New Presence of China in Africa Chinese-African relations from an Edited by Meine Pieter v a n Dijk economic-managerial perspective. It is therefore a must for policy China’s economic and political pres- interest in sub-Saharan Africa could makers, researchers, and students ence in Africa has expanded drastically threaten previous efforts to protect hu- dealing with the influence of China over the past decade, especially in the man rights and to promote democracy in Africa.” sub-Saharan region. Convinced that in the region. The New Presence of China —Diederik de Boer, Western attempts at providing aid to Af- in Africa takes on this controversial is- Maastricht School of Management rica have failed, Chinese officials have sue, offering an overview of the Chinese sought new forms of aid and invested model and evaluating whether it might EADI Publications billions to push further development in serve as an example for future Western Africa. But some in the United States endeavors. February 224 p. 63/10 x 91/2 and around the world fear that China’s ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-136-6 Paper $49.50x Meine Pieter van Dijk is professor of water services management at the UNESCO-IHE Economics Political Science Institute for Water Education in Delft and part-time professor of economics at Erasmus cusa University Rotterdam.

200 Amsterdam University Press Frameworks of Choice Predictive and Genetic Testing in Asia Edited by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner

The first study of its kind in English, political, and economic backgrounds Frameworks of Choice provides a com- of those choosing or choosing not to prehensive overview of predictive and undergo testing; and discusses genetic genetic testing in China, Japan, India, testing in relation to genetic discrimi- and Sri Lanka. The volume sheds light nation, biomedical exploitation, the on the resources available in each of distribution of health care resources, these countries; analyzes the social, and nationalism.

Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner is a reader in social anthropology at the University of Sussex.

April 288 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-165-6 Paper $59.00x The State of Giving Research in Europe science Household Donations to Charitable Organizations CUSA in Twelve European Countries Edited by Pamala Wiepking

The first publication from the newly in twelve European countries: Austria, February 80 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8555-009-9 established European Research Net- Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Paper $19.95x work on Philanthropy, The State of Giv- Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the economics ing Research in Europe provides an over- Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the CUSA view of current philanthropic research United Kingdom.

Pamala Wiepking is assistant professor in the Department of Philanthropic Studies at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Legalising Land Rights Local Practices, State Responses and Tenure Security in Africa, Asia and Latin America Edited by Janine M. Ubink, André J. Hoekema, and Willem J. Assies

Across the globe millions of people live tiques the various programs designed and work on land that they do not—and to counter land tenure regimes in Af- legally cannot—own. And though some rica, Asia, and Latin America, broad- efforts to secure land rights for these ening the scope of knowledge on land individuals have been successful, many tenure reform in these regions and call- others—such as those that emphasize ing for the implementation of new and Leiden University Press titles and registration—have been dis- more effective legislation. Law, Governance, and appointing. Legalising Land Rights cri- Development Research

Janine M. Ubink is a senior researcher in law and governance in Africa at the Van Vollen- February 618 p. 63/10 x 91/2 hoven Institute of Leiden University. André J. Hoekema is professor in legal pluralism at ISBN-13: 978-90-8728-056-7 Amsterdam Law School. Willem J. Assies is an independent researcher. Paper $69.50x law CUSA

Amsterdam University Press 201 City in Sight Dutch Dealings with Urban Change Edited by Jan Willem Duyvendak, Frank Hendriks, and Mies v a n Niekerk

City in Sight presents recent scholar- scholars of urban politics and social his- ship on the various issues facing today’s tory from all over the globe. Dutch metropolitan areas, including “This timely and enlightening immigration and the growing diversity volume highlights the latest urban re- among the urban population, urban search in the Netherlands. City in Sight restructuring and neighborhood re- provides valuable new perspectives on newal, shifts in urban governance, and and insightful analysis of urban trans- the promotion of active citizenship. formations and challenges in Dutch With its wealth of information and up- cities.”—Nancy Foner, Hunter College, to-date research, this text will appeal to City University of New York

NICIS Publications Jan Willem Duyvendak is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Frank Hen- driks is professor of comparative governance at the University of Tilburg. Mies van Niekerk March 312 p. 63/10 x 91/2 is research director at the NICIS Institute in Amsterdam. ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-169-4 Paper $59.00x urban studies CUSA More Machiavelli in Brussels The Art of Lobbying the EU Rinus v a n Schendelen

March 384 p. 63/10 x 91/2 Each year thousands of interest groups Machiavelli in Brussels presents a wealth ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-147-2 appear before the European Union to of information for seasoned profession- Paper $49.95x lobby for legislation and subsidies, some als and novices alike. political science more effectively than others. Packed “An accurate description of the en- CUSA with real cases, examples of good prac- gine room. . . . A manual for those who tice, and successful strategies, this fully want to influence.”—Frits Bolkenstein, revised and rewritten new edition of former European Commissioner

Rinus van Schendelen is professor of political science at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

The EU-Japan Security Dialogue Invisible but Comprehensive Olena Mykal

This volume examines the security dia- tional events—particularly the terrorist logue between Japan and the European attacks of 9/11 and the EU’s proposal to Union since the establishment of the lift its arms embargo on China—have official European Community–Japan strengthened the dialogue over the cooperation efforts in the late 1950s. past decade. Olena Mykal investigates how interna- IIAS Publications Olena Mykal is deputy head of the Department of Foreign Policy Strategies at the National June 320 p. 63/10 x 91/2 Institute of Strategic Studies of Ukraine and assistant professor of political science at the ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-163-2 National University of Kyiv-Mohyla and the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine. Paper $59.00x political science CUSA

202 Amsterdam University Press The EU-Thailand Relations Tracing the Patterns of New Bilateralism Chaiyakorn Kiatpongsan

Since the mid-1990s a new foreign pol- tions. The case study of EU-Thailand icy development known as new bilater- relations shows that—in times when alism has been observable despite the multilateralism is in crisis—foreign pol- widely acknowledged political and eco- icy shifts towards pragmatism and that nomic advantages of multilateralism. the prospects of bilateral engagement, This highly theoretical, in-depth study identity formation, and rhetorical ac- opens discussion of the implications of tion facilitate such behavioral change. new bilateralism for international rela-

Chaiyakorn Kiatpongsan completed his PhD studies at the University of Freiburg.

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Citizenship Policies in the New Europe April 344 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-164-9 Expanded and Updated Edition Paper $59.00x Edited by Rainer Bauböck, Bernhard Perchinig, and Wiebke Sievers political science CUSA

The two most recent enlargements of erature on citizenship in Europe had IMISCOE Research the Europen Union, in May 2004 and largely neglected the recent accession January 2007, have had a significant im- countries. . . . This volume provides the February 464 p. 63/10 x 91/2 pact on contemporary conceptions of first systematic comparison of these im- ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-108-3 Paper $74.50x statehood, nation-building, and citizen- portant cases, thus providing scholars political Science ship within the EU. This volume out- and policy makers with a more complete CUSA lines the citizenship laws in each of the and accurate picture of citizenship poli- twelve new countries as well as in the ac- cies throughout the European Union.” cession states of Croatia and Turkey. —Marc Morjé Howard, Georgetown “Until now, the fast-growing lit- University

Rainer Bauböck is professor of social and political theory at the European University Institute in Florence. Bernhard Perchinig is senior researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Wiebke Sievers is a researcher at the Commission for Migration and Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Doing Good or Doing Better Development Policies in a Globalizing World Edited by Monique Kremer, Peter v a n Lieshout, and Robert Went

What drives development? What new is- ican models—is necessary in a globaliz- sues have arisen due to globalization? ing, interdependent world. And what kind of policies contribute “This volume provides the most to development in a rapidly changing comprehensive analysis available of the world? The studies in Doing Good or Do- core issues on the global development ing Better analyze the different develop- agenda. . . . Both beginners and veter- ment strategies employed on various ans in this field will benefit enormously February 378 p. 63/10 x 91/2 continents, address current challenges, from its insights.”—Martin Rhodes, ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-107-6 and argue that a new approach—one University of Denver Paper $42.50x different from the European and Amer- political Science Economics CUSA Monique Kremer, Peter van Lieshout, and Robert Went are all current or recent members of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). Amsterdam University Press 203 A Continent Moving West? EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe Edited by Richard Black, Godfried Engbersen, Marek Okólski, and Cristina Pantîru

A Continent Moving West? argues that markets and migration-related political the conceptualization of migration as a regulations. one-way or long-term process is becom- The papers in this book contribute ing increasingly inaccurate. Rather, to critical understanding of the east- east-west labor migration in Europe is west migration within the European diverse, fluid, and influenced by the dy- Union after the 2004 enlargement, namics of local and sector-specific labor from new to old member states.

Richard Black is professor of human geography and head of the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Godfried Engbersen is professor of sociology at Erasmus University IMISCOE Research Rotterdam. Marek Okólski is professor of demography and economics at the University of Warsaw and director of the Centre of Migration Research. Cristina Pantîru is a PhD candi- may 416 p. 63/10 x 91/2 date and research officer at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research at the University of ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-156-4 Sussex. Paper $69.95x economics political science CUSA Ethnic Amsterdam Immigrants and Urban Change in the Twentieth Century Edited by Liza Nell and Jan Rath

For years people from all parts of the ties, and constraints of their new host world have gravitated to the city of Am- country, they are at the same time leav- sterdam, and, like elsewhere, their fate ing their ineradicable mark on the cit- has been shaped by the economic, socio- ies in which they settle. This fascinating political, and cultural environments of volume explores how immigrants—in their new homes. But the essays in Eth- bringing with them religion, sports, lan- nic Amsterdam argue that this exchange guage, food, and other aspects of their occurs both ways: while immigrants are native countries—have transformed changed by the customs, opportuni- Amsterdam into a cosmopolitan city.

Liza Nell is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Leiden University. Jan Rath is professor of urban sociology and director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Solidarity and Identity

April 208 p. 63/10 x 91/2 Equal Opportunities and Ethnic Inequality ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-168-7 Paper $39.90x in European Labour Markets anthropology Discrimination, Gender and Policies of Diversity CUSA Edited by Karen Kraal, Judith Roosblad, and John Wrench

IMISCOE Reports Despite laws and policy measures being discrimination, gender, equity policies, developed at the European, national, and diversity management—compares 3 1 February 122 p. 6 /10 x 9 /2 and local levels, job-seeking immigrants several European labor markets, recom- ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-126-7 Paper $34.50x and ethnic minorities still suffer un- mends methods for conducting further equal access and ethnic discrimination. research, and evaluates the effects of economics CUSA This volume—divided into sections on discrimination-combating policies.

Karen Kraal and Judith Roosblad are affiliated with the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. John Wrench is affiliated with the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna and the Centre for Migration and Refugee Stud- 204 Amsterdam University Press ies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. China with a Cut Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music Jeroen d e Kloet

During the 1990s illegally imported no longer tied to the Maoist past. Based IIAS Publications compact discs, known as dakou CDs, on fifteen years of fieldwork in Beijing, 3 1 flooded into China, opening up the Shanghai, and Hong Kong, China with a may 264 p. 6 /10 x 9 /2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-162-5 music world to Chinese youth and in- Cut surveys the music that emerged in Paper $59.00x spiring them to experiment with new 1990s China and makes a case for its in- music sounds and new lifestyles. Quickly, da- volvement in the rise of China as a cul- CUSA kou became the label for a new genera- tural and economic global power. tion of Chinese, a vibrant generation

Jeroen de Kloet is assistant professor of media studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Migration in a Globalised World New Research Issues and Prospects Edited by Cédric Audebert and Mohamed Kamel Doraï

In Migration in a Globalised World, Cédric topics discussed are migration and so- February 224 p. 63/10 x 91/2 Audebert and Mohamed Kamel Doraï cial cohesion, transnationalization and ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-157-1 Paper $39.95x assemble a number of essays from the transnational approach, the migra- leading economists, sociologists, and tion-development nexus, and the blur- sociology CUSA political scientists that examine inter- ring categories of refugees and asylum national migration in light of the grow- seekers. ing effects of globalization. Among the

Cédric Audebert is a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the University of Poitiers, France. Mohamed Kamel Doraï is a researcher at the CNRS at the French Institute of the Near East in Damascus.

Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Edited by Marco Martiniello and Jan Rath

Over the past decade there have been “Martiniello and Rath have assem- significant advances in the field of mi- bled a collection of must-read, though gration and ethnic studies, ranging in hitherto hard-to-find, pieces that any topic from ethnic conflict and discrimi- scholar or student interested in immi- nation to nationalism, citizenship, and gration to Europe and its consequences integration policy. But many of these will want to consult. Collected from a studies are oriented towards the United broad variety of sources, and represent- States, slighting, when not outright ig- ing a diverse set of approaches, theoret- noring, the European perspective. This ical commitments, and disciplines, this volume—the first in a set of four—will book is an essential resource.”—Roger fill this research gap, gathering essays Waldinger, University of California, Los Imiscoe Textbooks that have set a benchmark for research Angeles may 640 p. 63/4 x 91/4 on and in Europe. ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-160-1 Paper $59.95x Marco Martiniello is research director at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, professor at the Institute for Human and Social Sciences, and director of the Center for political Science CUSA Ethnic and Migration Studies at the University of Liége. Jan Rath is professor of urban sociology and director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press 205 General Ordering Information All prices and specifications are subject to change. Months and years indicated in this catalog refer to publication dates. (Delivery in the U.S.A. is 6–8 weeks prior.) The books in this catalog published by the University of Chicago Press are printed on acid-free paper. The University of Chicago Press participates in the Cataloging- in-Publication (CIP) Program of the Library of Congress.

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Witness in Islamic Courts, 46 Bastian/Bastokalypse, 139 Gilmore/The War on Words, 56 Lonsdorf/The Mind of the Chimpanzee, 61 Shail/Reading the Cinematograph, 170 Bauböck/Citizenship Policies in the New Europe, 203 Glaeser/Agglomeration Economics, 66 Lott/More Guns, Less Crime, 74 Shannon/Bowery to Broadway, 174 Baudrillard/Carnival and Cannibal, Or The Play of Global Gluck/Religion, Fundamentalism, and Violence, 176 Lovejoy/Context Providers, 153 Antagonism, 111 Shawe-Taylor/Dutch Landscapes, 135 Godard/Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages, 192 Lowenstein/Ultimate Americans, 191 Becker/My Father, the Germans and I, 120 Sher/The Enlightenment and the Book, 89 Goebel/Argentina’s Partisan Past, 164 Lubrich/Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945, 3 Beentje/Flora of Tropical East Africa, 184 Sieder/CITES Orchid Checklist, 185 Gokhale/Social Security, 55 Lucas/Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk, 68 Beentje/The Kew Plant Glossary, 177 Signer/When You Travel in Iceland You See a Lot 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Sophocles/Oedipus the King, 78 Grimshaw/New Trees, 179 Black/A Continent Moving West?, 204 Martin/Before the Storm, 187 Soto-Morettini/The Philosophical Actor, 155 Gripsrud/Media, Markets and Public Spheres, 154 Black/A History of Diplomacy, 104 Martiniello/Selected Studies in International Migration and Spiers/A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons, 103 Gruber/Social Security Programs and Retirement around Immigrant Incorporation, 205 Black/Natalia Shelikov, 188 the World, 67 Spivak/Nationalism and the Imagination, 115 Masson/For Women, for Wales, and for Liberalism, 166 Blackburn/Locations of Buddhism, 43 Hadley/Living Liberalism, 57 Stafford/Photo-texts, 163 May/Pop Up, 148 Blackstock/Habitats of Wales, 168 Hammerschlag/The Figural Jew, 42 Stark/The Black Ice Score, 76 McCloskey/The American Supreme Court, 33 Blair/I’ve Got to Make My Livin’, 39 Hammill/Sophistication, 159 Stark/The Green Eagle Score, 76 McElheny/The Light Club, 29 Blasi/Shared Capitalism at Work, 69 Hampson/Frank O’Hara Now, 160 Stark/The Sour Lemon Score, 76 McGinnis/Front Forty Profiles No. 1, 185 Bodleian Library/The Original Rules of Tennis, 129 Haney/Photography and Africa, 107 Stein/Narration, 86 McGovern/Making War in Côte D’Ivoire, 50 Bookbinder/First Hand, 133 Harasewych/The Book of Shells, 8 Steiner/Walter Benjamin, 32 McLaughlin/The Propaganda of Peace, 152 Bouwman/Of Reynaert the Fox, 196 Harding/Living the Drama, 49 Steinzor/The People’s Agents and the Battle to Protect the McQuire/Pocket Guide to Rhododendron Species, 180 American Public, 44 Boym/Another Freedom, 15 Hardy/Art Education in a Postmodern World, 156 McShea/Biology’s First Law, 61 Stevens/Grasslands of Wales, 168 Bradley/The British Book Trade, 125 Harmon/The Craft of Scientific Communication, 52 Milhaupt/Law & Capitalism, 84 Stevens/Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales, 168 Brinig/Family, Law, and Community, 46 Harper/Cinema and Landscape, 149 Miller/Constantin Brancusi, 98 Stevenson/Book Makers, 125 Brinkman/The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, 63 Harris/Alain L. Locke, 85 Mitchell/Critical Terms for Media Studies, 21 Stirling/Representing Epilepsy, 164 British Library/Bird Songs, 128 Harris/The Great Debate about Art, 158 Mitterauer/Why Europe?, 37 Stuart/The Prosecutor and the Judge, 195 British Library/The Essential Shakespeare Live, 127 Harris/Inside the Death Drive, 162 Monmonier/No Dig, No Fly, No Go, 22 Stubbs/We Are the Real Time Experiment, 166 British Library/The Essential Shakespeare Live Encore, 127 Harvey/The Plants of Fosimondi-Bechati in the Lebialem Brundage/The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession, 87 Highlands of Cameroon, 185 Montgomery/The Powers That Be, 18 Suchon/A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex, 64 Brunner/Adaptive Governance and Climate Change, 138 Hayek/Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason, 55 Moran/TV Formats Worldwide, 152 Summers-Bremner/Insomnia, 107 Bull/Innocents in Dry Valleys, 189 Hayward/French Costume Drama of the 1950s, 149 Morgan/The Classical Greek House, 169 Suttles/Front Page Economics, 36 Burkhalter/Finding Buildings, 142 Heath/Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana, 183 Muir/Digital Facsimile of Terrence’s Comedies, 130 Tanner/Identity and Politics in Britain, 167 Caduff/Art and Artistic Research, 143 Heighway/Marcus Adams, 136 Mykal/The EU-Japan Security Dialogue, 202 Tape/The Changing Arctic Landscape, 186 Cain/Drawing, 155 Heininen/Globalization of the Circumpolar North, 187 Neckerman/Schools Betrayed, 93 Tettamanti/Davos, 141 Calavita/Invitation to Law and Society, 44 Hellinga/William Caxton and Early Printing in England, 126 Neef/Imprint and Trace, 106 Thomas/Puerto Rican Citizen, 40 Carr-Gomm/A Brief History of Nakedness, 95 Hemerijck/Aftershocks, 198 Neer/The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Tiersma/Parchment, Paper, Pixels, 45 Sculpture, 54 Carradice/Herbert Williams, 167 Henson/Weather on the Air, 137 Timberlake/Flora Zambesiaca Volume 12 Part 2, 185 Nell/Ethnic Amsterdam, 204 Cassirer/The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Heyse-Moore/The Walls Are Talking, 145 Todorov/Memory as a Remedy for Evil, 114 Newland/Don’t Look Now, 149 Philosophy, 92 Hezekiah/Phenomenology’s Material Presence, 153 Toledano/The Sephardic Legacy, 176 Nguyen/Underdog Suite, 141 Celan/Correspondence, 116 Hiddleston/Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality, 163 Touati/Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages, 38 Nora/Rethinking France, 41 Chalfin/Neoliberal Frontiers, 52 Higbee/Studies in French Cinema, 150 Troyer/Bear Wrangler, 190 Nurlaelawati/Modernization, Tradition and Identity, 199 Charrow/Law in the Laboratory, 62 Hill/Mark Twain, 86 Turabian/Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers, 25 O’Connell/New Irish Storytellers, 150 Cheek/The Plants of Dom, Bamenda Highlands, Hjort/The Danish Directors 2, 150 Turner/An Aleutian Ethnography, 190 Cameroon, 185 O’Riordan/Following in Darwin’s Footsteps, 182 Howe/see Blackstock, 168 Ubink/Legalising Land Rights, 201 Chelkowski/Eternal Performance, 121 Oever/Ostrannenie, 194 Uyechi/Reality Exploration and Discovery, 193 Huber/Building Berne, 142 Clarke/Water and Art, 105 Oliver/The Paradoxes of Integration, 35 van Benthem/Modal Logic for Open Minds, 192 Humble/Cake, 99 Clemens/Politics and Partnerships, 48 Onana/The Plants of Mefou proposed National Park, Central van Boxel/Crossing Borders, 130 Hutchinson/The Supreme Court Review 2009, 71 Clotfelter/American Universities in a Global Market, 68 Province, Cameroon, 185 van der Burgt/Systematics and Conservation of African Irwin/Camel, 101 Cohen/Duke Ellington’s America, 10 Owen/Nuclear Papers, 161 Plants, 180 Ives/The Land Beyond, 187 Cohen/The Modulated Scream, 38 Paley/The Boy on the Beach, 7 van Dijk/New Presence of China in Africa, 200 Jackson/The Experimental Group, 28 Collins/Both Hands Tied, 48 Panayi/Spicing up Britain, 108 van Maanen/How to Study Art Worlds, 197 Jackson/Lion, 100 Collins/Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, 60 Pangle/The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montes- van Schendelen/More Machiavelli in Brussels, 202 Jacob/The Studio Reader, 20 Coltman/Making Sense of Greek Art, 170 quieu’s Spirit of the Laws, 34 Vanderbilt/Survival City, 77 Jansen-Jacobs/Flora of the Guianas Series A 27, 184 Conley/Toward a Rhetoric of Insult, 32 Parrill/Meaning, Form, and Body, 193 Velten/Milk, 100 Jarrell/Pictures from an Institution, 79 Cook/African American Writers and Classical Tradition, 54 Pavlovic/The Mobile Nation, 153 Vilches/New World Gold, 40 Jean-Michel Onana/see Cheek, 185 Cope/The Wild Flora of Kew Gardens, 181 Payton/Cornish Studies, Volume 17, 172 Vinogradov/Mathematics for Economists, 157 Jeppie/Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa, 198 Corbett/Traveling the Spaceways, 131 Payton/John Betjeman and Cornwall, 172 Vint/Animal Alterity, 162 Jirotka/Saturnin, 157 Cornish/Campus Dictionary of International Security, 145 Pearson/Stéphane Mallarmé, 98 Waldman/D is For Dog Team, 189 Jobs/Unsettling History, 173 Coutts/Art, Community and Environment, 156 Pepperell/Fishes of the Open Ocean, 12 Waller/The Vanishing Present, 88 Jones/Dialogue of the Government of Wales, 167 Cowan/After Virgil, 169 Pickering/The Cybernetic Brain, 62 Walwin/Searching for Art’s New Publics, 151 Jones/Plants That We Eat, 188 Cramerotti/Unmapping the City, 151 Pickering/Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman, 184 Weeks/On Sea Ice, 186 Junker/Frames of Friction, 172 Cribb/Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar, 183 Pigliucci/Nonsense on Stilts, 23 Werrett/Fireworks, 37 Kammen/Digging Up the Dead, 2 Daichendt/Artist-Teacher, 152 Piot/Nostalgia for the Future, 51 Whitfield/The Image of the World, 124 Kaye/Requirements for Certification, 72 Dauncey/Poisonous Plants, 184 Pippin/Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy, 31 Wiepking/The State of Giving Research in Europe, 201 Kelly/Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, 50 de Duve/Clement Greenberg Between the Lines, 91 Pizan/Debate of the Romance of the Rose, 64 Wilson/The Paradoxes of Transparency, 200 Kelly/Treadwell Gold, 188 de Kloet/China with a Cut, 205 Plant/Mom, 39 Wise/Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, 69 Kesser/Jan Krugier, 140 De Rooy/Forces of Form, 195 Plumley/Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Wood/The Diamond Sutra, 124 Kharibian/Passionate Patrons, 134 Ages and Renaissance, 171 De-Yuan/Peonies of the World, 179 Wood/Why People Need Plants, 177 Kiatpongsan/The EU-Thailand Relations, 203 Poole/John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning, 129 Debrett/Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Wyllie/Vladimir Nabokov, 96 Kiernan/Electronic Beowulf, 126 Future,154 Posner/Law and Happiness, 17 Yan/Change, 117 King/Lewis’s Fifth Floor, 162 Deely/Realism for the 21st Century, 176 Prager/Chasing Science at Sea, 82 Yngvesson/Belonging in an Adopted World, 51 Klaniczay/Multiple Antiquities—Multiple Modernities, 173 Devi/Bait, and Other Stories, 117 Yuill/Medicine Show, 26 Klein/Invisible Men, 161 University of Chicago Press New Publications Spring 2010 TITLE INDEX Abandoned Images/Barber, 106 Discourses on Social Software/Eijck, Verbrugge, 197 Law and Happiness/Posner, Sunstein, 17 The Powers That Be/Montgomery, 18 The Abu Ghraib Effect/Eisenman, 108 Doing Good or Doing Better/Kremer, Lieshout, Went, 203 Law in the Laboratory/Charrow, 62 Practical Healthcare Epidemiology, Third Edition/Lautenbach, Adaptive Governance and Climate Change/Brunner, Lynch, 138 Don’t Look Now/Newland, 149 Left Behind/Edwards, 16 Woeltje, Malani, 70 African American Writers and Classical Tradition/Cook, Drawing/Cain, 155 Legalising Land Rights/Ubink, Hoekema, Assies, 201 The Propaganda of Peace/McLaughlin, Baker, 152 Tatum, 54 Duke Ellington’s America/Cohen, 10 Letters to Madeleine/Apollinaire, 116 Prose/Bernhard, 109 After Virgil/Cowan, 169 Dutch Landscapes/Shawe-Taylor, Scott, 135 Lewis’s Fifth Floor/King, 162 The Prosecutor and the Judge/Stuart, Simons, 195 Aftershocks/Hemerijck, Knapen, van Doorne, 198 The Earliest Advocates of the English Bible/Dove, 171 The Light Club/McElheny, 29 Protogaea/Leibniz, 90 Agglomeration Economics/Glaeser, 66 Early Royko/Royko, 80 Lion/Jackson, 100 Puerto Rican Citizen/Thomas, 40 Alain L. Locke/Harris, Molesworth, 85 Ecologica/Gorz, 113 Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery/Richardson, Tibbles, The Punch Brotherhood/Leary, 123 An Aleutian Ethnography/Turner, 190 Electronic Beowulf/Kiernan, Iacob, 126 Schwarz, 165 The Pygmalion Complex/Gordon, 144 Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy/ The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture/ Living Large in Nature/Saner, 132 The Queen of Jhansi/Devi, 118 Mahdi, 84 Neer, 54 Living Liberalism/Hadley, 57 Rainforest Requiem/The British Library, 128 Ambrose of Milan/Liebeschuetz, 165 Engineering the Revolution/Alder, 92 Living the Drama/Harding, 49 Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers/ American Multiculturalism after 9/11/Rubin, Verheul, 197 The Enlightenment and the Book/Sher, 89 Locations of Buddhism/Blackburn, 43 Arimbi, 198 The American Supreme Court/McCloskey, 33 Envisioning the Bloomingdale/Lyster, 138 Logic and Pragmatism/Arrighi, Cantú, de Zan, Suppes, 192 Reading the Cinematograph/Shail, 170 American Universities in a Global Market/Clotfelter, 68 Equal Opportunities and Ethnic Inequality in European Labour Logic in a Popular Form/Banerjee, 122 Realism for the 21st Century/Deely, 176 Anger, Mercy, Revenge/Seneca, 53 Markets/Kraal, Roosblad, Wrench, 204 Love Poems by Pedro Salinas/Salinas, 30 Reality Exploration and Discovery/Uyechi, 193 Animal Alterity/Vint, 162 The Essential Shakespeare Live/The British Library, 127 Made in America/Fischer, 14 Recent Mammals of Alaska/MacDonald, Cook, 189 Another Freedom/Boym, 15 The Essential Shakespeare Live Encore/The British Library, 127 Making Sense of Greek Art/Coltman, 170 Reforming the Welfare State/Freeman, Swedenborg, Topel, 66 An Anthropological Theory of the Corporation/Bashkow, 158 Eternal Performance/Chelkowski, 121 Making War in Côte D’Ivoire/McGovern, 50 Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future/ Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency/Kelly, Jauregui, An Ethics of Interrogation/Skerker, 47 Malcolm Lowry/Biggs, Tookey, 160 Debrett, 154 Mitchell, Walton, 50 Ethnic Amsterdam/Nell, Rath, 204 Marcus Adams/Heighway, 136 Religion, Fundamentalism, and Violence/Gluck, 176 Architecture under Construction/Greenberg, 24 The EU-Japan Security Dialogue/Mykal, 202 Mark Twain/Hill, 86 Representing Epilepsy/Stirling, 164 Argentina’s Partisan Past/Goebel, 164 The EU-Thailand Relations/Kiatpongsan, 203 Marx at the Margins/Anderson, 63 Reproductive Technologies as Global Form/Knecht, Klotz, Art and Artistic Research/Caduff, Siegenthaler, Wälchli, 143 Europe and the Euro/Alesina, Giavazzi, 65 Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe/Klein, Beck, 173 Art Education in a Postmodern World/Hardy, 156 The Experimental Group/Jackson, 28 Spary, 58 Requirements for Certification/Kaye, Makos, 72 The Art of Plant Evolution/Kress, Sherwood, 178 The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts/Shaham, 46 Mathematics for Economists/Vinogradov, 157 Research Findings in the Economics of Aging/Wise, 69 Art, Community and Environment/Coutts, Jokela, 156 Family, Law, and Community/Brinig, 46 Meaning, Form, and Body/Parrill, Tobin, Turner, 193 Rethinking France/Nora, Jordan, 41 Artist-Teacher/Daichendt, 152 Fear of Mirrors/Ali, 118 Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk/Lucas, 68 Romey’s Order/Riley, 26 Association of American University Presses Directory 2010/ Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar/Cribb, Hermans, 183 Media, Markets and Public Spheres/Gripsrud, Weibull, 154 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Langmead, 181 Association of American University Presses, 156 Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana/Heath, 183 Medicine Show/Yuill, 26 The Royal Portrait/Scott, 136 The Atlas of World Hunger/Bassett, Winter-Nelson, 19 Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman/Pickering, Patzelt, 184 The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession/Brundage, 87 Saturnin/Jirotka, 157 Austronesian Soundscapes/Abels, 199 The Figural Jew/Hammerschlag, 42 Memorial Mania/Doss, 30 Schools Betrayed/Neckerman, 93 Authors of the Impossible/Kripal, 43 Filibustering/Koger, 36 Memory as a Remedy for Evil/Todorov, 114 Scientific Perspectivism/Giere, 87 Authors of the Storm/Fine, 83 The Film Paintings of David Lynch/Mactaggart, 146 The Metaphysics of Media/Fallon, 175 The Sea Woman/Laugrand, Oosten, 190 Bait, and Other Stories/Devi, 117 Finding Buildings/Burkhalter Sumi Architects, 142 Migration in a Globalised World/Audebert, Doraï, 205 Searching for Art’s New Publics/Walwin, 151 Bastokalypse/Bastian, L, 139 Fireworks/Werrett, 37 Milk/Velten, 100 The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush/Brinkman, 63 Bear Wrangler/Troyer, 190 First Hand/Bookbinder, Gallagher, 133 The Mind of the Chimpanzee/Lonsdorf, Ross, Matsuzawa, 61 Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms/Knuth, 191 The Beat Goes On/Leonard, Strachan, 161 Fishes of the Open Ocean/Pepperell, 12 The Mobile Nation/Pavlovic, 153 Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Before the Storm/Martin, 187 Flora of the Cayman Islands/Proctor, 183 Modal Logic for Open Minds/van Benthem, 192 Incorporation/Martiniello, Rath, 205 Belonging in an Adopted World/Yngvesson, 51 Flora of the Guianas Series A: Phanerogams Fascicle 27/ Modernization, Tradition and Identity/Nurlaelawati, 199 The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art/Quiviger, 105 Biography/Frisch, 120 Jansen-Jacobs, 184 The Modulated Scream/Cohen, 38 The Sephardic Legacy/Toledano, 176 Shared Capitalism at Work/Kruse, Blasi, Freeman, 69 Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins/Alexander, Flora of Tropical East Africa/Beentje, Ghazanfar, 184 Mom/Plant, 39 Sharon Lockhart/Eckmann, 131 Numbers, 59 Flora of Tropical East Africa/Beentje, Ghazanfar, 184 More Guns, Less Crime/Lott, 74 Slow Trains Overhead/Gibbons, 27 Biology’s First Law/McShea, Brandon, 61 Flora Zambesiaca Volume 12 Part 2/Timberlake, 185 More Machiavelli in Brussels/van Schendelen, 202 Social Security/Gokhale, 55 The Black Ice Score/Stark, 76 Following in Darwin’s Footsteps/O’Riordan, Triggs, 182 Multiple Antiquities—Multiple Modernities/Klaniczay, Book Makers/Stevenson, 125 For Women, for Wales, and for Liberalism/Masson, 166 Werner, 173 Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World/ Gruber, Wise, 67 The Book of Shells/Harasewych, Moretzsohn, 8 Forces of Form/De Rooy, van den Bogaard, 195 The Music of Pipilotti Rist’s Pepperminta/Rist, Guggisberg, Sophistication/Hammill, 159 Both Hands Tied/Collins, Mayer, 48 Frames of Friction/Junker, 172 Widmer, 140 The Sour Lemon Score/Stark, 76 Bowery to Broadway/Shannon, 174 Frameworks of Choice/Sleeboom-Faulkner, 201 Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa/Jeppie, Moosa, Spicing up Britain/Panayi, 108 The Boy on the Beach/Paley, 7 Frank O’Hara Now/Hampson, Montgomery, 160 Roberts, 198 The State As Parent/Reardon, 175 A Brief History of Nakedness/Carr-Gomm, 95 French Costume Drama of the 1950s/Hayward, 149 My Father, the Germans and I/Becker, 120 The State of Giving Research in Europe/Wiepking, 201 The British Book Trade/Bradley, 125 From Grain to Pixel/Fossati, 194 Narration/Stein, 86 State, Society and International Relations in Asia/Amineh, 199 British South Asian Theatres/Ley, Dadswell, 170 Front Forty Profiles No. 1/McGinnis, 185 Natalia Shelikov/Black, Petrov, 188 Building Berne/Huber, 142 Nationalism and the Imagination/Spivak, 115 Stéphane Mallarmé/Pearson, 98 Front Page Economics/Suttles, Jacobs, 36 Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers/Turabian, 25 Bulletproof Feathers/Allen, 4 A Natural History of Time/Richet, 88 Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages/Godard, 192 Studies in French Cinema/Higbee, Leahy, 150 Cake/Humble, 99 Natural Questions/Seneca, 53 Gendering Border Studies/Altink, Weedon, Aaron, 166 Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason/Hayek, 55 Camel/Irwin, 101 Nature’s Palette/Lee, 81 The Genus Jasminum in Cultivation/Green, Miller, 180 The Studio Reader/Jacob, Grabner, 20 Campus Dictionary of International Security/Cornish, Dorman, Globalization of the Circumpolar North/Heininen, NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2009, Soper, 145 Volume 6/Reichlin, West, 70 The Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 18/Somin, Southcott, 187 Zywicki, 71 Caral: The First Civilization in the Americas/Shady, Kleihege, Grammar, Geometry, and Brain/Fenstad, 193 NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009, Volume 24/Acemoglu, 143 Woodford, 70 The Supreme Court Review 2009/Hutchinson, Strauss, Grasslands of Wales/Stevens, Smith, Blackstock, Bosanquet, Stone, 71 Carnival and Cannibal, Or The Play of Global Antagonism/ Neoliberal Frontiers/Chalfin, 52 Stevens, 168 Survival City/Vanderbilt, 77 Baudrillard, 111 New Irish Storytellers/O’Connell, 150 The Great Debate about Art/Harris, 158 Systematics and Conservation of African Plants/van der Caviar/Fletcher, 99 The Green Eagle Score/Stark, 76 The New Metaphysicals/Bender, 42 Burgt, 180 Change/Yan, 117 Guilty Males and Proud Females/Ferrari, 122 New Presence of China in Africa/van Dijk, 200 Tacit and Explicit Knowledge/Collins, 60 The Changing Arctic Landscape/Tape, 186 Habitats of Wales/Blackstock, Howe, Stevens, Jones, New Trees/Grimshaw, Bayton, 179 Teaching Children Science/Kohlstedt, 57 Chasing Science at Sea/Prager, 82 Burrows, 168 New World Gold/Vilches, 40 The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu’s China with a Cut/de Kloet, 205 Heather Angel’s Wild Kew/Angel, 181 Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy/Pippin, 31 Spirit of the Laws/Pangle, 34 China’s Growing Role in World Trade/Feenstra, Wei, 65 Herbert Williams/Carradice, 167 No Dig, No Fly, No Go/Monmonier, 22 This Is Enlightenment/Siskin, Warner, 41 Christoph Schlingensief/Forrest, Scheer, 151 A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons/Spiers, 103 Nonsense on Stilts/Pigliucci, 23 Toward a Rhetoric of Insult/Conley, 32 Cinema and Landscape/Harper, Rayner, 149 A History of Clouds/Enzensberger, 112 Nostalgia for the Future/Piot, 51 Traveling the Spaceways/Corbett, Elms, Kapsalis, 131 Circus Girl/Rae, 121 A History of Diplomacy/Black, 104 Nuclear Papers/Owen, 161 Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945/Lubrich, 3 Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Housing Washington/Longstreth, 133 Nucleus and Nation/Anderson, 35 Treadwell Gold/Kelly, 188 Renaissance/Plumley, di Bacco, Jossa, 171 How Philosophy Became Socratic/Lampert, 34 Oedipus the King/Sophocles, 78 TV Formats Worldwide/Moran, 152 CITES Orchid Checklist 5/Sieder, Rainer, Kiehn, 185 How to Study Art Worlds/van Maanen, 197 Of Reynaert the Fox/Bouwman, Besamusca, 196 Typhus/Sartre, 110 Citizenship Policies in the New Europe/Bauböck, Perchinig, I’ve Got to Make My Livin’/Blair, 39 Official Guide to the Marianne North Gallery/Royal Botanic Ultimate Americans/Lowenstein, 191 Sievers, 203 Identity and Politics in Britain/Tanner, Edwards, Griffith, Gardens, Kew, 182 Underdog Suite/Nguyen, 141 City in Sight/Duyvendak, Hendriks, van Niekerk, 202 Williams, Cragoe, 167 On Sea Ice/Weeks, 186 Unmapping the City/Cramerotti, 151 The Classical Greek House/Morgan, 169 Identity in Crossroad Civilisations/Kolig, Angeles, Wong, 200 On Sunspots/Galilei, Scheiner, 59 Unsettling History/Jobs, Lüdtke, 173 Clement Greenberg Between the Lines/de Duve, 91 Image and Reality/Rocke, 58 The Original Rules of Tennis/Bodleian Library, The, 129 Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales/Stevens, 168 Colored Property/Freund, 85 The Image of the World/Whitfield, 124 Orosius/Fear, 165 The Vanishing Present/Waller, Rooney, 88 Computer/Atkinson, 102 Imprint and Trace/Neef, 106 Osiris, Volume 25/Ash, 71 Vanishing Wildlife/The British Library, 128 Confronting Theory/Bell, 155 The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy/ Ostrannenie/Oever, 194 Victoria & Albert/Marsden, 134 Constantin Brancusi/Miller, 98 Cassirer, 92 The Paradoxes of Integration/Oliver, 35 Victorian Popularizers of Science/Lightman, 90 Context Providers/Lovejoy, Paul, Vesna, 153 Innocents in Dry Valleys/Bull, 189 The Paradoxes of Transparency/Wilson, 200 Victory Over the Sun/Bartlett, Dadswell, 171 A Continent Moving West?/Black, Engbersen, Okólski, Innovation Policy and the Economy 2009, Volume 10/Lerner, Parchment, Paper, Pixels/Tiersma, 45 Visual Cultures/Elkins, 148 Pantîru, 204 Stern, 70 Passionate Patrons/Kharibian, 134 Vladimir Nabokov/Wyllie, 96 Conversations with L’Heureux/L’Heureux, 191 Inside the Death Drive/Harris, 162 Peonies of the World/De-Yuan, 179 The Wagon and Other Stories from the City/Preib, 11 Cornish Studies, Volume 17/Payton, Trower, 172 Insomnia/Summers-Bremner, 107 The People’s Agents and the Battle to Protect the American The Walls Are Talking/Heyse-Moore, Saunders, Woods, Correspondence/Celan, Bachmann, 116 Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France/Aherne, 164 Public/Steinzor, Shapiro, 44 Keeble, 145 The Craft of Scientific Communication/Harmon, Gross, 52 International Differences in Entrepreneurship/Lerner, Phenomenology’s Material Presence/Hezekiah, 153 Walter Benjamin/Steiner, 32 Criminal Intimacy/Kunzel, 93 Schoar, 67 The Philosophical Actor/Soto-Morettini, 155 The War on Words/Gilmore, 56 Critical Terms for Media Studies/Mitchell, Hansen, 21 Intimacies/Bersani, Phillips, 83 Photo-texts/Stafford, 163 Wasteland with Words/Magnússon, 104 Crossing Borders/van Boxel, Arndt, 130 Intimate Terms/Gordon, 144 Photography and Africa/Haney, 107 Water and Art/Clarke, 105 Cultivo de Orquídeas por Semillas/Seaton, Ramsey, 185 Invisible Men/Klein, 161 Pictures from an Institution/Jarrell, 79 We Are the Real Time Experiment/Stubbs, Newman, 166 Cultural Quarters/Roodhouse, 154 Invitation to Law and Society/Calavita, 44 The Plants of Dom, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon/Cheek, Weather on the Air/Henson, 137 The Cybernetic Brain/Pickering, 62 Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages/Touati, 38 Harvey, Jean-Michel Onana, 185 What Is a Person?/Smith, 47 D is For Dog Team/Waldman, 189 Jan Krugier/Kesser, 140 The Plants of Fosimondi-Bechati in the Lebialem Highlands of What Is Happening to News/Fuller, 6 The Danish Directors 2/Hjort, Jørholt , Redvall, 150 John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning/Poole, 129 Cameroon/Harvey, Tchiengue, 185 When You Travel in Iceland You See A Lot of Water/Signer, 139 Darwin Meets Einstein/Saris, 196 John Betjeman and Cornwall/Payton, 172 The Plants of Mefou proposed National Park, Central Prov- Why Europe?/Mitterauer, 37 Davos/Tettamanti, 141 Julia Margaret Cameron * Roger Fenton/Gordon, 135 ince, Cameroon/Onana, Fenton, Harvey, 185 Why People Need Plants/Wood, Habgood, 177 Dawn Chorus/The British Library, 128 The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn/Somfai, 91 Plants That We Eat/Jones, 188 The Wild Flora of Kew Gardens/Cope, 181 Death in Babylon/Barletta, 56 Kew at Wakehurst/MacQuitty, 182 Pocket Guide to Rhododendron Species/McQuire, Robinson, 180 Wild Justice/Bekoff, Pierce, 75 Debate of the Romance of the Rose/Pizan, 64 The Kew Plant Glossary/Beentje, 177 Poetry and Translation/Robinson, 163 William Caxton and Early Printing in England/Hellinga, 126 Dialogue of the Government of Wales/Jones, 167 Kyoto List/Koyama, 119 Poisonous Plants/Dauncey, 184 William S. Burroughs/Baker, 97 The Diamond Sutra/Barnard, Wood, 124 The Land Beyond/Ives, 187 Politics and Partnerships/Clemens, Guthrie, 48 Wilson’s China/Flanagan, Kirkham, 178 Digging Up the Dead/Kammen, 2 Last Words of the Executed/Elder, 1 Pop Up/May, Messenger, 148 A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex/Suchon, 64 A Digital Facsimile of Terrence’s Comedies/Muir, Turner, 130 Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes/Effler, 49 The Possession/Gordon, 144 Worlds Before Adam/Rudwick, 89 Directory of World Cinema/Berra, 147 Law & Capitalism/Milhaupt, Pistor, 84 Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality/Hiddleston, 163 Young Light/Rothman, 119