FOREIGN RIGHTS EDITION ChiCago FALL BOOKS 2011 Fall 2011 Guide to Subjects African American Law 31 Studies 12 Literary Criticism 20, African Studies 68 48–51, 53, 64 American History 1, Literature 2, 10–11 18, 38–41, 60 Mathematics 71 Anthropology 35, 62, Media 52 68–69 Medicine 39 Architecture 47 Music 21, 56 Art 3, 19–20, 36, 48, 70 Nature 4–5, 8–9, 17 Asian Studies 56, Philosophy 43–46, 53, 61–62 64, 67, 70 Biography 3, 37 Photography 4–5, 8–9, 52 Business 23 Poetry 26–27 Classics 2, 42, 46, 53 Political Science 12–13, Criminology 71–72 24, 30, 32–34, 44, 67 Current Events 52, 56 Psychology 34, 54 Economics 22, 34, 62, Reference 13, 25 71–72 Religion 47, 53, 60–64 Education 54–55 Science 6, 14–16, 23, European History 22, 34, 36, 43, 45, 57–59 42, 69–70 Sociology 30, 32, 43, Film Studies 56 63–67, Gay & Lesbian Travel 10, 15 Studies 50, 60, 63 History 7, 16–17, 28, 30, 36–39, 42, 44, 51, Cover design by Alice Reimann Catalog design by Mary Shanahan 54, 57–59, 61, 66 Di Av D Welky The Thousand-Year Flood The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937 n the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters Icrested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood’s seventy-fifth anniversary,The Thousand-Year Flood is the first comprehensive history of one of the “David Welky has done a prodigious job of most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky first shows reminding us about the horror inflicted by how decades of settlement put Ohio valley farms and towns at risk and the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937. At its how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he heart, The Thousand-Year Flood is a Great tells the gripping story of the river’s inexorable rise: residents fled to Depression story not unlike the Dust Bowl refugee camps and higher ground, towns imposed martial law, prison- tragedy. His scholarship is impeccable. ers rioted, Red Cross nurses endured terrifying conditions, and FDR Highly recommended!” —Douglas Brinkley, dispatched thousands of relief workers. In a landscape fraught with author of The Great Deluge dangers—from unmoored gas tanks that became floating bombs to powerful currents of filthy floodwaters that swept away whole towns— NMROvE bE 384 p., 18 halftones, 2 maps people hastily raised sandbag barricades, piled into overloaded row- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-88716-6 Cloth $27.50/£18.00 boats, and marveled at water that stretched as far as the eye could see. AMERICAN HISTORY In the flood’s aftermath, Welky explains, New Deal reformers, utopian dreamers, and hard-pressed locals restructured not only the flood- stricken valleys, but also the nation’s relationship with its waterways, changes that continue to affect life along the rivers to this day. A striking narrative of danger and adventure—and the mix of heroism and generosity, greed and pettiness that always accompany disaster—The Thousand-Year Flood breathes new life into a fascinating yet little-remembered American story. David Welky is associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas and the author of Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression and The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II. general interest 1 Translated by RicHMOnD LattiMORe The Iliad of Homer Newly Updated With a new Introduction and Notes by Richard Martin Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus and its devastation. or sixty years, that’s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore’s faithful translation—the gold stan- F dard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore’s Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving thepoem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore’s elegant, fluent “Perhaps closer to Homer in every way verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable than any other version made in english.” fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin —Peter Green, has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new New Republic generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line “The feat is so decisive that it is reason- notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, able to foresee a century or so in which information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary apprecia- nobody will try again to put the Iliad in tion. A glossary and new maps round out the book. english verse.” —Robert Fitzgerald The result is a volume that actively invites new readers into Homer’s poem, helping them to understand the worlds in which he and his “each new generation is bound to pro- heroes lived—and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for duce new translations. [lattimore] has centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating done better with nobility, as well as with rage of Achilleus. accuracy, than any other modern verse Richmond lattimore (1906–84) was a poet, translator, and longtime profes- translator. in our age we do not often find sor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. Richard Martin is the Antony and Isabelle a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet Raubitschek Professor of Classics at Stanford University. and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation.” —Hugh lloyd-Jones, New York Review of Books S EpTEMbER 528 p., 2 maps 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47048-1 Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47049-8 Paper $15.00/£9.50 LITERATURE CLASSICS 2 general interest FAcR n O MORMAndo Bernini His Life and His Rome culptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) was the last of the universal Sartistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contem- poraries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and buildings that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall tourists. It is perhaps not surprising that this artist who defined the Ba- roque should have a personal life that itself was, well, baroque. As “Franco Mormando’s fascinating book is a Franco Mormando’s dazzling biography reveals, Bernini was a man welcome addition to the Bernini litera- driven by many passions, possessed of an explosive temper and a ture. it is both a biography of the artist hearty sex drive, and he lived a life as dramatic as any of his creations. and a portrait of Roman Baroque culture. Drawing on archival sources, letters, diaries, and—with a suitable Though written for a general audience, skepticism—a hagiographic account written by Bernini’s son (who it reveals an impressive command of the portrays his father as a paragon of virtue and piety), Mormando leads specialist scholarship—in art history, us through Bernini’s feuds and love affairs, scandals and sins. He sets literature, and history. Mormando wears Bernini’s raucous life against a vivid backdrop of Baroque Rome, bus- his learning lightly, writing with anima- tling and wealthy, and peopled by churchmen and bureaucrats, popes tion, carefully pacing his anecdotes, and and politicians, schemes and secrets. making the whole as entertaining as it is The result is a seductively readable biography, stuffed with stories informative.” and teeming with life—as wild and unforgettable as Bernini’s art. No —Pamela Jones, one who has been bewitched by the Baroque should miss it. University of Massachusetts, Boston Franco Mormando is associate professor of Italian at Boston College and the NMROvE bE 416 p., 43 halftones 6 x 9 author of several books. 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Among the spine- and in Relics, world-renowned less wonders captured in macrophotos zoologist and photographer Piotr are giraffe weevils, tiger beetles, ant Naskrecki leads readers on an un- lions, shovel-snouted lizards and even a believable journey through those ghost-crab, dancing. Small is beauti- lingering traces of a lost world. ful—and powerful, too.” With camera in hand, he travels —Patti Hagan, Wall Street Journal the globe to create a words-and- pictures portrait of our planet like no other, a time-lapse tour NMROvE bE 384 p., 414 color plates 91/4 x ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56870-6 that renders Earth’s colossal Cloth $45.00/£29.00 NATURE pHOTOGRApHY age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years.