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Swordsmanship By Hans Medievalism: In A Song Lecküchner of Ice And Fire And Lecküchner, Hans Game Of Thrones Boydell & Brewer/Boydell Carroll, Shiloh Press Boydell & Brewer/D. S. 9781783272914 Brewer Translated by Jeffrey L. 9781843844846 Forgeng. 443 b/w 192 pages illustrations hardcover 488 pages $39.95 paperback Publish Date: 3/1/2018 $25.95 catalog page: 2 Publish Date: 3/1/2018

catalog page: 4 Game of Thrones is famously inspired by the Middle Ages - but how NEW IN PAPERBACK. A vivid modern translation of authentic is the world it presents? a medieval sword fighting manual.

This book explores George R. R. Martin’s and HBO’s Completed in 1482, Johannes Lecküchner’s Art of approaches to and beliefs about the Middle Ages Combat with the Langes Messer is among the most and how those beliefs fall into traditional important documents on the combat arts of the medievalist and fantastic literary patterns. It Middle Ages. The Messer was a single-edged, one- analyzes how the drive for historical realism affects handed utility sword peculiar to central Europe, the books’ and show’s treatment of men, women, but Lecküchner’s techniques apply to cut-and- people of colour, sexuality, and imperialism. And thrust swords in general. Not only is this treatise how it has in turn come to define the ‘real’ Middle the single most substantial work on the use of one- Ages for many of its readers and viewers. handed swords to survive from this period, but it is

also the most detailed explanation of the SHILOH CARROLL teaches in foundational two-handed sword techniques of the the writing centre at great fourteenth-century master Johannes Tennessee State University. Liechtenauer. The lavish manuscript consists of She has published and over four hundred illustrations with explanatory presented many papers on the text. work of George R.R. Martin, and others on fantasy and popular culture. Johannes Lecküchner (or

Hans Lebkommer; ca. 1430s –

1482) was a 15th century

German cleric and fencing

master. JEFFREY L. FORGENG

is curator of Arms and Armor

and Medieval Art at the Worcester Art Museum,

and teaches as Adjunct Professor of History at

Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

The History of William Magnetic North: Marshal Conversations with Tomas Bryant, Nigel Venclova Boydell & Brewer/Boydell Hinsey, Ellen and Press Venclova, Tomas 9781783273034 Boydell & Translated By Nigel Brewer/University of Bryant. 4 line Rochester Press illustrations. 9781580469265 264 pages Rochester Studies in East paperback & Central Europe $24.95 424 pages Publish Date: 4/1/2018 paperback catalog page: 5 $24.95 Publish Date: 1/1/2018 NEW IN PAPERBACK. The first modern translation catalog page: 7 of the medieval biography of England’s greatest knight, William Marshal. NEW IN PAPERBACK. Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and The career of William Marshal (1146/47-1219), literature to expand our understanding of the who rose from being the penniless, landless significance of this important Lithuanian writer. younger son of a middle-ranking nobleman to be regent of England, is one of the most extraordinary Taking the form of an extended interview, akin to stories of the Middle Ages. A central figure in the works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz reigns of no fewer than four kings, Henry II, Richard and Aleksander Wat’s classic My Century, this title Lionheart, John and Henry III, he was regarded as looks to Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, to the greatest knight who ever lived. We are recount his life of resistance in Soviet occupied fortunate that his biography, written partly at his Lithuania and Eastern Europe. Interlacing postwar dictation and completed shortly after his death, history, dissidence, and literature, Magnetic North has survived albeit in only one manuscript. It is the provides an in-depth account of ethical choices and only portrait of a twelfth-century knight’s life that artistic resistance to totalitarianism over a half we have and gives detailed information about a century, spanning Venclova’s life from 1937 knight’s martial training and vivid pictures of his life onward. Venclova, who personally knew Czeslaw in war - and, very notably, in tournaments - in the Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna late 12th and early 13th centuries. It gives a Akhmatova, Arthur Miller, and many others, was vigorous account of events, full of detail and also one of the five founding members of the passionate comment and frequent flashes of Lithuanian Helsinki Group, one of the first human humour. And it gives revelatory insights into the rights organizations in Eastern Europe. attitudes and perceptions of the time, especially into the experience and nature of warfare. TOMAS VENCLOVA Is a Lithuanian poet, writer, NIGEL BRYANT is well known for his lively and scholar, and translator. accurate versions of medieval French works. His He is Professor Emeritus translations of Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval and all of Slavic Languages and its continuations and of the extraordinary Literatures at Yale University. ELLEN HINSEY is the Arthurian romance Perceforest have been major author of numerous works of poetry, essay, and achievements. literary translation. Her most recent book is Mastering the Past: Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and the Rise of Illiberalism. A.E. Housman Hero of Achebe And Friends at the Hidden Life Umuahia: The Making Of Vincent, Edgar A Literary Elite Boydell & Ochiagha, Terri Brewer/Boydell Press Boydell & Brewer/James 9781783272419 Currey 45 b/w illus. 23.4 x 15.6 9781847011961 416 pages 10 b/w illustrations hardcover 216 pages $34.95 paperback Publish Date: $24.95 2/16/2018 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 catalog page: 8 catalog page: 8.1

Drawing on Housman’s published letters and on 81 NEW IN PAPERBACK. significant new finds, Edgar Vincent conjures up a new Housman, created out of his reactions to the This is the first in-depth scholarly study of the events of his life as he experienced them. literary awakening of the young intellectuals who became known as Nigeria’s first-generation writers A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was both a celebrated in the post-colonial period. Terri Ochiagha’s poet and the foremost classicist of his day. As a research focuses on Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, seemingly inaccessible, aloof man, Housman never Chike Momah, Christopher Okigbo and set out to be a professional poet, yet poetry Chukwuemeka Ike, and also discusses the poured out of him and became his monument. His experiences of Gabriel Okara, Ken Saro-Wiwa and renowned A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems were I.C. Aniebo, in the context of their education in the born of an inner crisis, sparked by a profound but 1930s, 1940s and 1950s at Government College, unreciprocated attachment for a fellow Umuahia. The author provides fresh perspectives undergraduate. Until now, Housman has remained on Postcolonial and World literary processes, a hidden personality, held in the public mind as colonial education in British Africa, literary prim and grim. This biography reveals by contrast a representations of colonialism and Chinua man of many facets, one companionable in small Achebe’s seminal position in African literature. She groups, generous to a fault, and always on the demonstrates how each of the writers used this lookout for humour and fun. Drawing on very particular education to shape their own Housman’s published letters and on 81 significant visions of the world in which they operated and new finds, Edgar Vincent conjures up a new examines the implications that this had for African Housman, created out of his reactions to the literature as a whole. events of his life as he experienced them. It weaves together his scholarly life and the biographical TERRI OCHIAGHA holds elements in his poetry to examine his emotional one of the prestigious and sexual needs with dispassion and empathy and British Academy uncover his hidden sensibilities and creative world. Newton International Fellowships (2014-16) EDGAR VINCENT’S book Nelson: Love & Fame hosted by the School of (Yale), was shortlisted for the BBC 4 Samuel English, University of Johnson Prize, a New York Times Notable Book and Sussex. She was was one of Atlantic Monthly’s Books of the Year. previously a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

David Godine We Don't Live Here Anymore: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 1 Dubus, Andre Wedding Worries David Godine Dagerman, Stig 9781567926163 David Godine/Verba paperback Mundi $18.95 9781567926156 Publish Date: 4/26/2018 paperback catalog page: 3 $19.95 Publish Date: 3/29/2018 While the collection's opening stories focus on the catalog page: 2 fragile nature of youth, later stories shift to darker struggles of adulthood, such as in Andromache- In Dagerman's last Dubus's first story to appear in The New Yorker novel, by many (1968)-which traces the aftermath of a tragic death considered his best, he during wartime. returns to the setting and the people of his childhood farm. The novel The Winter Father: Collected Short Stories and takes place during the day, and night, when the Novellas, Volume 2 young daughter on the farm marries the Dubus, Andre considerably older village butcher. In a burlesque David Godine and often comical style, reminiscent of Faulkner, 9781567926170 Dagerman explores the eternal themes of Introduction by Richard Russo existential loneliness and a longing for connection paperback through the many characters. It is also here that $18.95 he, for himself, stakes out a different path toward Publish Date: 4/26/2018 inner freedom. catalog page: 4

Richard Russo's introduction to this volume Stig Dagerman was one of the grapples with his complex feelings of reading most prominent Swedish Dubus's work over many decades, but when it authors of the twentieth comes to the much-anthologized masterpiece A century. He became Father's Story, Russo writes: “I won't mince words. prominent in literary circles at It's one of the finest stories ever penned by an an early age; he edited the American.” youth paper Storm at nineteen and became cultural Andre Dubus was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana to editor of the daily newspaper a Cajun-Irish Catholic family. He Arbetaren at twenty-two. He published his first graduated from the University of novel the same year and enjoyed phenomenal Iowa Writers' Workshop and later success during the following five years. At his moved to Massachusetts, where height of fame, soon after divorcing his wife to he taught creative writing at marry the famous actress Anita Bjork, he suddenly Bradford College. His life was fell silent. He was found dead of carbon monoxide marked with personal tragedies, as are those of his inhalation in his car in 1954. He remained popular protagonists - ostensibly ordinary men who are after his death, and his work continues to be widely drawn to addiction and violence as methods to read and translated around the world. distract themselves from their woes.

The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float Mowat, Farley David Godine/Nonpareil 9781567926200 paperback $15.95 Publish Date: 5/31/2018 catalog page: 7

It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life The Last Giants ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Place, Francois Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a David Godine bird. What he found was the worst boat in the 9781567926217 world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy paperback Adventure, despite all that Farley and his $14.95 Newfoundland helpers could do, leaked like a Publish Date: 5/31/2018 sieve. Her engine only worked when she felt like it. catalog page: 8 Typically, on her maiden voyage, with the engine stuck in reverse, she backed out of the harbour After finding a huge tooth on the docks, English under full sail. And she sank, regularly. How Farley explorer Archibald Leopold Ruthmore sets out to and a varied crew, including the intrepid lady who seek the race of giants to whom the tooth belongs married him, coaxed the boat from Newfoundland and discovers nine giants, the survivors of a to Lake Ontario is a marvellous story. The singularly gentle and kindly race. He lives among encounters with sharks, rum-runners, rum and a them for ten months, and on returning home he host of unforgettable characters on land and sea makes a mistake that he regrets forever - he writes make this a very funny book for armchair sailors a book revealing their existence and location. This and landlubbers alike. book has received three major prizes, including the

Grand Prize for Children's Literature. Now Farley Mowat (1921-2014) was a Canadian writer, published for the first time in softcover. environmentalist, and

activist. After serving in the Francois Place is one of France's most beloved military and exploring as a children's book authors. His field technician in remote books, which he both writes and areas of Canada, Mowat illustrates, have won many of published his first book, the country's most prestigious People of the Deer, in awards for children's literature, 1952. Over the next half- including three prix Sorcières, century he published two prix Imaginales, and two prix dozens of titles, and is best Amerigo-Vespucci. He is married known for Never Cry Wolf , an account of his with two children. adventures studying Arctic wolves in northern

Manitoba. Over his long career, Mowat received the Mark Twain Award, the Governor General's

Award for Juvenile Fiction, and the first and only

Lifetime Achievement Award from the National

Outdoor Book Award.

Diamond Book Distributors It's All in Your Head Blanchard, Keith DBD/Wicked Cow Puerto Rico Strong Studios Ayala, Vita / Colon, 9780692918234 Rosa / Franquiz, Namoi Ages 13 to 16 DBD/Lion Forge 208 pages 9781941302903 paperback 160 pages $27.95 paperback Publish Date: $12.99 11/1/2017 Publish Date: catalog page: 0.3 3/27/2018 catalog page: 0.1 IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD is the true story of what makes up your Puerto Rico Strong is a mind. It's the interactive, easy-to-read, comics anthology that stupendously sourced, user's guide to your brain. explores what it means to be Puerto Rican and the This immersive book tackles the questions that diversity that exists within that concept, from keep you up at night: Is your smartphone wrecking today's most exciting Puerto Rican comics creators. your memory? Are believers' and atheists' brains different? Who's smarter: your baby or your dog? All proceeds go to UNIDOS Disaster Relief & Hwo is yuor biarn albe to raed tihs crzay quseotin? Recovery Program to Support Puerto Rico. Neil deGrasse Tyson calls the human brain the most complicated object we know, and there's way too much information, mystery, and discovery to cover in just a book. That's why It's All In Your Head is the centerpiece of a fun, illuminating franchise Saga Volume 8 spanning across digital, experiential, broadcast and Vaughan, Brian K and more-all devoted to the awesomeness of your Staples, Fiona brain. WICKED COW STUDIOS is a new content DBD/Image Comics studio that starts first with book publishing while 9781534303492 securing dynamic, world-class partnerships around Ages 16 And Up its book content simultaneously. Wicked Cow is 152 pages also Derek Jeter's co-founder and co-publisher in paperback Jeter Publishing, their content studio that includes $14.99 a joint venture partnership with publishing giant Publish Date: 1/2/2018 Simon & Schuster. Previously Wicked Cow catalog page: 0.2 managed beloved pop culture brands including Wiffle, The Roberto Clemente Estate, Big League After the traumatic Chew, and the Notorious B.I.G. Estate. events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving KEITH BLANCHARD is the author of two novels, The companions embark on a life-changing adventure Deed and Johnny Appleseed, and has contributed at the westernmost edge of the universe. in various capacities to a wide range of publishing and production enterprises, ranging from The Week to Cosmopolitan, from Rolling Stone to The Drew Carey Show, from The Wall Street Journal to YourTango.com.

Criminal Deluxe Edition Mighty Mouse Volume Volume 1 1: Saving The Day Brubaker, Ed and Phillips, Fisch, Sholly and Sean Marques, Anthony DBD/Image Comics DBD/Dynamite 9781534305410 Entertainment 432 pages 9781524105259 hardcover 120 pages $49.99 paperback Publish Date: 9/12/2017 $19.99 catalog page: 2 Publish Date: 1/16/2018 This oversized deluxe catalog page: 8 hardback edition features CRIMINAL books 1 thru 3 -- COWARD, LAWLESS, and THE DEAD AND THE You're the world's greatest hero, exiled to another DYING. A fantastically-designed and printed book dimension with no way back. Trapped in an alien showcasing the Eisner and Harvey Award-Winning world, where not even the laws of physics work the crime comics from the creators of SLEEPER and way they should. The only person who even INCOGNITO. Also features many extras - including a believes you exist is a young kid whom no one will Criminal short story and the never-before-printed listen to. Yet, you're the shining light that this drab, five-page movie trailer in comics form that cynical world needs to restore its color and life. Oh Brubaker and Phillips created to announce the -- and you're a cartoon mouse. Here comes Mighty series online. A true collector's edition spectacular Mouse to save the day, in his most unexpected from two of the hottest creators in comics, and a adventure yet... right here, in the real world! must-have for any fan!

Criminal Deluxe Edition Project Superpowers: Volume 2 Hero Killers Brubaker, Ed and Browne, Ryan and Phillips, Sean Idelson, Matt DBD/Image Comics DBD/Dynamite 9781534305434 Entertainment 432 pages 9781524105297 hardcover 128 pages $49.99 paperback Publish Date: 9/12/2017 $19.99 catalog page: 3 Publish Date: 1/23/2018 The second oversized catalog page: 10 hardback of the award- winning crime series from Ed Brubaker and Sean Welcome to Phillips is finally here! The first edition has gone Libertyville U.S.A.! Home of too damn many through four printings, in sellout after sellout, and superheroes! Watch out, crime, here comes now the rest of Brubaker and Phillips' noir Captain Battle Jr.! And Sparky! And Tim! Yeah, you masterpiece is collected in the same format. know...Tim! What? You've never heard of them? Collecting BAD NIGHT, THE SINNERS and THE LAST Huh. Well, it's hard to be a sidekick when there is a OF THE INNOCENT - along with short stories, city full of capes running around stopping every behind-the-scenes pieces, art and articles, all misdemeanor with a spandex wrapped flourish. previously uncollected. Divided States of The Walking Dead Hysteria Volume 29 Chaykin, Howard Kirkman, Robert and DBD/Image Comics Adlard, Charlie 9781534303836 DBD/Image Comics 152 pages 9781534304970 paperback 136 pages $16.99 paperback Publish Date: $16.99 1/16/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 12 3/13/2018 catalog page: 38 An America sundered. An America enraged. Recent events have An America terrified. An America shattered by thrown Alexandria greed and racism, violence and fear, nihilism and into turmoil, and now Rick, Dwight, Eugene and tragedy...... and that's when everything really goes Negan all have something to prove. Collects THE to hell. Collects the entire six-issue series by WALKING DEAD #169-174. legendary creator HOWARD CHAYKIN.

The Hard Place Miraculous: Tales of Wagner, Doug and Ladybug and Cat Noir: Rummel, Nic De-Evilize DBD/Image Comics Entertainment, ZAG and 9781534304925 Entertainment, ZAG 128 pages DBD/Action Lab paperback Entertainment $16.99 9781632293121 Publish Date: 192 pages 3/6/2018 paperback catalog page: 35 $9.99 Publish Date: 2/27/2018 After five years in catalog page: 46 prison, AJ GURNEY - one of Detroit's legendary wheelman and the Ladybug and Cat Noir take on more of Hawk ladies' favorite bad boy - is free, and he's decided Moth's akumatized villains. Marinette's great-uncle it's time to go straight. He wants nothing more Wang Cheng, a famous chef, becomes Kung Food. than to be left alone and disappear into anonymity, Taste his soup and you're under his control. Her working at the family garage and drinking beers classmate Max gets turned into Gamer after losing with his Pops on the porch. But during a simple a video game tournament. He creates a giant robot visit to the bank, AJ is recognized by two violent that threatens to destroy all of Paris. Her other bank robbers, and they demand AJ be their driver. quiet classmate, Juleka, transforms into Reflekta. To ensure his compliance, they take a young She is able to turn people into a reflection of female hostage. Unfortunately, she just happens to herself. Will Paris's greatest superheroes be able to be the daughter of a Russian crime lord. AJ now take down Kung Food, Gamer and Refleka in this finds himself pursued by the police and hunted by action-packed volume? SPOTS ON, CLAWS OUT! every asset of the Russian mob. Without a doubt, Collects MIRACULOUS #19-21. he's in a very hard place. Collects issues 1-5. Paper Girls Volume 4 You Have Killed Me - Chiang, Cliff and Softcover Edition Wilson, Matthew Rich, Jamie S. and DBD/Image Comics Jones, Joelle 9781534305106 DBD/Oni Press 128 pages 9781620104361 paperback 192 pages $12.99 paperback Publish Date: $15.99 4/10/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 50 2/27/2018 catalog page: 75 The mind-bending, time-warping The classic graphic adventure from novel collaboration BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues, from the minds behind Lady Killer returns in a new as intrepid newspaper deliverer Tiffany is launched softcover format! Antonio Mercer is a private eye from the prehistoric past into the year 2000! In this by trade, a man bad luck seems to follow, as harrowing version of our past, Y2K was even more evidenced by his newest client-the sister of his of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only former lover, Julie Roman, who's now disappeared. person who can save the future is a 12-year-old girl And Julie's sister, Jessica, is a real piece of work. from 1988. Collects issues 16 through 20! Still, Mercer takes the case, getting entangled in the same family drama that drove him away. Well, maybe not exactly the same, because the Romans Back to Brooklyn have made some... unsavory connections. As the Volume 1 bodies start piling up, Mercer has no choice but to Ennis, Garth and see the case through to its end-or become one of Palmiotti, Jimmy its casualties. DBD/Image Comics 9781607061243 128 pages paperback $14.99 Publish Date: 7/21/2009 catalog page: 53

The controversial over the top crime thriller is finally collected! Big Bob Saetta made the biggest mistake of his life by pissing off his brother, one of the biggest and most brutal crime bosses in New York City. This is the story of two brothers at war, wrapped in a special package of extreme language and hardcore violence. Join award winning writer GARTH ENNIS (Preacher, The Punisher), JIMMY PALMIOTTI (Jonah Hex, Painkiller Jane) and artist MIHAILO VUKELIC on an adrenaline ride that rips the roof off Brooklyn's criminal underworld!

Little Pierrot Vol. 2: Amongst the Stars Varanda, Alberto and Varanda, Alberto DBD/Lion Forge

Algeria Is Beautiful Like America 9781941302613 Grand, Mahi and Burton, Olivia 52 pages DBD/Lion Forge hardcover 9781941302569 $14.99 176 pages Publish Date: 3/6/2018 hardcover catalog page: 112 $24.99 Publish Date: 4/24/2018 Little Pierrot and Mr. Snail's imaginative catalog page: 101 adventures take them to the stars and beyond! They might fly to the moon on the wings of a well- Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from worn book, or cloud-watch with the new girl in her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a Pied- school. Little Pierrot is ever the dreamer, but Mr. Noir, the French term for Christian and Jewish Snail is there to bring him back down to earth. settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother's death, Olivia found some of her grandmother's journals and letters describing her homeland. Now, ten years later, she resolves to travel to Algeria and experience the country for herself; she arrives alone, with her grandmother's postcards and letters in tow, and with but a single phone number in her pocket, of an Algerian Djaffar, who will act as her guide. Olivia's quest to understand her origins will bring her to face questions about heritage, history, shame, friendship, memory, nostalgia, fantasy, the nature of exile, and our unending quest to understand who we are and where we come from.

Dufour Editions Carol yn The Mighty Stream: Poems Forch in Celebration of Martin é was Luther King born Forché, Carolyn and Kay, in Jackie (editors) Detro Dufour Editions/Bloodaxe it, 9781780373928 Michi 192 pages gan in 1950. She has taught at several universities, paperback and is now Director of the Lannan Center for $25 Poetry and Poetics and holds the Lannan Chair in Pub Date: 3/1/2018 Poetry at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her many honours include fellowships from As part of a 50-year the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan anniversary and celebration, this anthology gathers Foundation and the National Endowment for the poets from both sides of the Atlantic to address the Arts; the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima challenges set out by Dr King. When he was Foundation Award, given in 1997 for using her awarded an honorary degree in civil law at poetry as a means to attain understanding, Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther reconciliation, and peace within communities and King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, between communities ; and most recently, Yale speaking without notes, in which he said: ‘There University's Windham-Campbell Prize. Jackie Kay are three urgent and indeed great problems that was an adopted child of Scottish/Nigerian descent we face today…That is the problem of racism, the brought up by white parents in Glasgow. She is one problem of poverty and the problem of war.’ It’s a of Britain's best-known poets, appearing frequently shock to think how little has changed, and that on radio and TV programmes on poetry and Martin Luther King could well be speaking right culture. In 2007 Bloodaxe published Darling: New & here, right now. In the spirit of Dr King and his work Selected Poems, which included almost all of her as a humanitarian and activist, this anthology four previous books of poetry from Bloodaxe, The brings together poems that offer powerful Adoption Papers (1991), Other Lovers (1993), Off testimonies to the urgent issues Dr King defines, Colour (1998) and Life Mask (2005). Her epic poem and represents the polyphony of voices that speak The Lamplighter, adapted for both radio and stage, in resistance to our continuing problems of racism, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008, was followed poverty, and war. by Fiere from Picador in 2011.

Children of Our Age Three Plastic Rooms: A Bakalar, A. M. Novel Dufour Editions/Jantar Hulová, Petra Publishing Dufour Editions/Jantar 9780993377334 Publishing 368 pages 9780993377396 paperback Translated by Alex Zucker $21 196 pages Pub Date: 2/1/2018 paperback $21 Karol and his wife are Pub Date: 2/1/2018 rising stars of the Polish community in London, One of World Literature Today’s 75 notable but Karol is a ruthless entrepreneur whose fortune translations of 2017. A foul-mouthed Prague is built on the backs of his fellow countrymen. The prostitute muses on her profession, aging, and the Kulesza brothers, mentally unstable Igor and his nature of materialism. She explains her world view violent brother Damian, dream about returning to in the scripts and commentaries of her own reality Poland one day. A loving couple, Mateusz and TV series, combining the mundane with fetishism, Angelika, believe against all odds that good things violence, wit, and an unvarnished mixture of vulgar will happen to people like them. Gradually, all and poetic language. “A frighteningly honest novel these lives become dramatically entwined, and – not easy to like, but impossible not to each character will have to decide how far they are appreciate…She is a writer with a true passion for willing to go in pursuit of their dreams. Insightful language… The promise of diversity and growth is and unforgiving, this deeply human and timely exactly what inspires Czech – and now Anglophone story explores how unlikely encounters transform – readers to follow Hulová’s work closely.”—Los lives, the limits of loyalty, and love. Angeles Review of Books.

A.M. Bakalar’s first novel Madame Petra Hulová (born in Prague, Mephisto was published in 2012 12 July 1979) is a Czech writer and was a reader nomination for Hulová holds a degree in the 2012 Guardian First Book culturology from Charles Award. Her second novel Children University in Prague. of Our Age was published in October 2017. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian, The International New York Times, and the LA Review of Books.

The Death of the Perfect 18 Sentence Bankovskis, Pauls Raud, Rein Dufour Editions/Vagabond Dufour Editions/Vagabond Voices Voices 9781908251787 9781908251701 Translated by Leva Lesinska Translated by Matthew 186 pages Hyde paperback 194 pages $29 paperback Pub Date: 2/1/2018 $29 Pub Date: 10/1/2017 Whilst visiting their holiday home in the country, a family discovers a digital camera in their This thoughtful spy novel cum love story is set grandfather’s overcoat. Its presence in his pocket is mainly in Estonia during the dying days of the mysterious – almost as strange as the images on Soviet Union, but also in Russia, Finland, and the camera: pictures he couldn’t possibly have Sweden. A group of young pro-independence taken, from impossible angles, all of which contain dissidents devise a scheme for smuggling copies of blurry suggestions of a humanoid shape. Nearly a KGB files out of the country, and their fates century before, amidst the chaos of the Russian become entangled, through family and romantic Revolution, a Latvian soldier deserts his post and ties, with security services never far behind them. travels by foot, recording his many strange Multiple viewpoints evoke the curious minutiae of experiences in a small journal that he keeps hidden everyday life, offer wry observations on the period in his boot. His encounters lead him to develop through personal experience, and ask universal theories on space, time, freedom, and what it questions about how interpersonal relationships means to be human. Bankovskis’s story explores are affected when caught up in momentous the ways civilization’s many products alienate us historical changes. from the natural world and from ourselves, but yet simultaneously drive us back into nature’s Born in 1961 in Tallinn, Estonia, embrace. Rein Raud is a novelist, journalist, translator and Born in Ligatne, Latvia in academic with expertise on 1973, Pauls Bankovskis is a Japanese literature and prolific writer and novelist. philosophy. His novels, The In decade he has published Brother (2008) and The ten novels, two short story Reconstruction (2012) have been translated into collections, a children's book and a work of non- English, and he himself wrote his work on the fiction. theory of culture, Meaning in Action (2016), in English.

Fox Season and Other Agnieszka Dale is a Polish- Short Stories born London-based author Dale, Agnieszka conceived in Chile. Her short Dufour Editions/Jantar stories, feature articles, Publishing poems and song lyrics were 9780993377310 selected for Tales of the 200 pages Decongested, The Fine Line paperback Short Story Collection, Liars' $21 League London, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3's In Tune Pub Date: 1/1/2018 Live from Tate Modern, and the Stylist website. In 2013 she was awarded the Arts Council England Agnieszka Dale’s TLC Free Reads Award. Her story “The Afterlife of characters want to find Trees” was shortlisted for the 2014 Carve Magazine greatness, but discover Esoteric Short Story Contest and longlisted for the greatness isn’t their thing. But what is? And what is Fish Short Story Prize 2014. great anyway? In “Peek-a-boo,” a mother breastfeeds her child via Skype, at work. In “Hello Poland,” a man reunites with his daughter in a world where democracy has been replaced by user testing. In other short stories, people bow and are bowed to. They feed foxes or go fishing. They kiss the fingers of those they love while counting to ten. Dale writes about being Polish; being outside Poland; being a woman; being visible and invisible; from the East; from the West; from somewhere central. Dale’s world is an intimate kingdom. It’s a happy nation with no distinct nationality, a place where people still try, believe, or just are. “The stories in this impressive debut collection are often quite odd – generally in a good way – with peculiar and perplexing endings that demand a second reading…It is, above all, the anxiety she expresses about our shared future that makes the biggest impact on the reader and keeps her stories – which begin so strikingly – alive beyond their final lines.”—Los Angeles Review of Books.

Moment of Freedom Powderhouse Bjørneboe, Jens Bjørneboe, Jens Dufour Editions/Norvik Dufour Editions/Norvik 9781909408371 9781909408388 Translated by Esther Translated by Esther Greenleaf Murer Greenleaf Murer 224 pages 208 pages paperback paperback $30 $30 Pub Date: 2/1/2018 Pub Date: 2/1/2018

The first novel in the The second novel in acclaimed “History of Bestiality” trilogy. Living high Bjørneboe’s “History of in the Alps in a German principality, our narrator Bestiality” trilogy. The story is told by Jean, a tells us he’s dutifully fulfilling his obligations as a janitor in a mental hospital in southern France. Servant of Justice, though he’s acting as a daily Jean keeps protocols and a written record of witness to injustice masquerading as a court of law. events occurring around him. Also in the hospital One day he notices that the judge is much too are a strange cast of characters, any of whom could engrossed in looking at pornographic photographs have committed the execution-like hanging of an showing various other pillars of the community ex-German SS member around which the plot engaged in a variety of sexual activities with revolves. It’s hospital policy that everyone can give minors. The incident propels him on a mental a lecture and a large portion of the book is taken journey back through his life. But aside from court up with three lectures: the narrator talks about records he has been keeping his own long and witch symptomatology; Lacroix, a Belgian detailed account of man’s cruelty to man in a executioner, offers up a powerful, Foucault-like massive twelve-volume study he calls his History of piece on the history of capital punishment; and the Bestiality. Acknowledging his Germanic past, the acid-dropping Dr. Lefevre discusses heresy and narrator realizes that all his attempts to perceive heretics. order in life lead only to his acceptance of the chaos.

The Silence Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe (9 Bjørneboe, Jens October 1920 – 9 May 1976) Dufour Editions/Norvik was a Norwegian writer 9781909408395 whose work spanned a Translated by Esther number of literary formats. He Greenleaf Murer was also a painter and a 208 pages Waldorf school teacher. paperback Bjørneboe was a harsh and $30 eloquent critic of Norwegian Pub Date: 2/1/2018 society and Western civilization on the whole. He led a turbulent life and As with the first two his uncompromising opinions cost him both an books of this trilogy, obscenity conviction as well as long periods of The Silence also rejects the traditional modes of heavy drinking and bouts of depression, which in fiction to posit instead an essay-like novel of ideas, the end led to his suicide. Jens Bjørneboe's first philosophy, and argumentation. Here the inquiring published work was Poems (Dikt) in 1951. He is narrator explores not just European history but the widely considered to be one of Norway's most crimes committed by Europeans in the name of important post-war authors. Bjørneboe identified colonialism. With his friend Ali, an African himself, among other self-definitions, as an revolutionary intellectual, he discusses the history anarcho-nihilist. During the Norwegian language of colonialism. He becomes totally immersed in struggle, Bjørneboe was a notable proponent of what he perceives as the world’s wickedness. the Riksmål language, together with his equally Despite its presentation of horrors and man’s famous cousin André Bjerke. inhumanity to man, and its grim portrayal of the narrator’s long plunge into depression, The Silence does not depress: it praises man’s immeasurable capacity for good.

Warrior Herdsmen: Life Forgotten Kingdom: Nine with the Dodoth of Years in Yunnan Northern Uganda Goullart, Peter Thomas, Elizabeth Dufour Editions/Eland Marshall 9781780601113 Dufour Editions/Eland 256 pages 9781780601106 paperback 288 pages $34 paperback Pub Date: 2/1/2018 $34 Pub Date: 2/1/2018 Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi The personal journal of a young American woman Kingdom of southwest China. He had a job entirely who lived for six months amongst the Dodoth suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to cattle-herdsmen in Northern Uganda, while they get to know the local traders, merchants, inn- were caught up in an escalating cycle of violence keepers and artisans to decide which to back with a with their age-old rivals, the Turkana tribe. The loan from the cooperative movement. A Russian by tension of this feud was the tradition of cattle birth, due to his extraordinary skill in language and raiding, but it escalated to unprecedented levels of dialects, Goullart made himself totally at home in violence when the then new states of Uganda and Likiang, which had been ruled by Mandarin officials Kenya were drawn in to police these ancient clan descended from ancient dynasties, was visited by frontiers. Thomas’s total immersion in the life of caravans of Tibetan and Burmese traveling this tribe in 1961 takes us with her, as with clarity merchants, and such mysterious highland peoples and a lyrical eye for detail she brings their whole as the Lobos. Through this book we are able to culture alive. Though not an academic, she had travel back to this complex society, which believed spent much time in the field with her mother, who simultaneously and sincerely in Buddhism, Taoism was the world’s leading authority on the Bushman and Confucianism, in addition to their ancient of the Kalahari. Animism and Shamanism.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Peter Goullart was born at (born September 13, 1931) is the start of the 20th an American author. She has century and lived for 30 published fiction and non- years in China, gaining an fiction books and articles on unprecedented insight into animal behavior, Paleolithic the country and its many life, and the Kung Bushmen of peoples. the Kalahari Desert.

Against Miserabilism David Widgery (27 April 1947 – 26 Widgery, David October 1992) was a British Dufour Trotskyist writer, journalist, Editions/Vagabond polemicist, physician, and activist. Voices Widgery was born in Barnet and 9781908251862 grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire. 316 pages He contracted polio as a child and paperback was expelled from sixth form for $36 publishing a magazine. In 1965, Pub Date: 3/1/2018 Widgery met Allen Ginsberg, then visited Watts, where he encountered the civil rights movement, A love letter, out of the followed by Cuba. On return to Britain, he studied past, to a new generation medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School of radicals. It’s a collection of articles by David before writing for the New Statesman and Oz Widgery, who wrote prolifically on matters of magazines, becoming co-editor of Oz during 1971. political and cultural importance from the 1960s till Widgery joined the International Socialists in 1967, the time of his death in 1992. In this collection remaining in the group when it became the writers who knew him introduce and update his Socialist Workers Party in 1977. He began working work for today’s readers. His commentary on at Bethnal Green Hospital in 1972, and later in the healthcare, Black activism and culture, feminism, decade he published his first book, The Left in other civil rights, and the political Left remains Britain, 1956–68. Widgery contributed to Ink, Time relevant. His unique viewpoint as a doctor and Out and City Limits, also writing for New Marxist informs all of his writings. Statesman, Socialist Review, International Socialism and New Society.

Dublin: A New Illustrated The Whisky Dictionary History Ross, Iain Hector Gibney, John Dufour Dufour Editions/Collins Editions/Sandstone Press 9781910985922 9781848893306 Black and white pencil 348 pages drawings. hardcover 350 pages $50 hardcover Pub Date: 2/1/2018 $26 Pub Date: 1/1/2018 Acclaimed historian and guide John Gibney weaves a multitude of tales to Both a celebration of the explain how the city of Dublin developed, from its world of whisky and a window into it. Iain Hector origins to the present day. Unlike other histories, Ross has ranged deep, far, and wide into the this sweeping portrait starts with the prehistoric industry to capture whisky speak in a single guide. settlements from which the city’s two names, He has literally climbed inside the distilling process Dublin and Baile Átha Cliath, are drawn, charting its to feel the heat, savor the aromas, and absorb the growth into the new millennium. Each chapter words that swirl around the making and sharing of brings a different period to life with lavish whisky. Now this language itself has been ‘casked’ artworks, maps, artifacts, and photos. Praise for between the covers of this delightful guide, and Gibney’s previous work: “Gibney’s evocatively whisky enthusiasts the world over can understand, curated objects still contain an undeniable voltage explore and enjoy Scotch in all its wondrous that links their time to ours.”—Irish Voice. diversity.

John Gibney, from Dublin, is Iain Hector Ross is a Education and Outreach Gaelic speaking Officer at Glasnevin Highlander with a Cemetery Museum. He has lifelong love of whisky, lectured at TCD and UCD and Scottish music, and been a research fellow at the folklore. He now works University of Notre Dame and in the industry and is a key figure in the NUI Galway. He worked on the `Historical Walking establishment of the new distillery now under Tours of Dublin' until 2015 and edited the `Decade construction on the island of Raasay. of Centenaries' website developed by History Ireland on behalf of the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht. He has written several successful history books.

Ultima Ora The Sea-Migrations: Kabdebo, Thomas Tahriib Dufour Editions/Salmon Yusuf, Asha Lul Mohamud 9781908836847 Dufour Editions/Bloodaxe 50 pages 9781780373980 paperback Translated by Clare Pollard $21 128 pages Pub Date: 6/1/2017 paperback $36 Dr. Tom Kabdebo has first-hand experience of the Pub Date: 2/1/2018 often cruel reality of life in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, and of the hardships (as Although Asha Lul well as the infinite possibilities) of life as a refugee. Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 He is the author of more than forty books, the years, she is fast emerging as one of the most translator of a further forty books, and has outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful received numerous literary and other awards— woman poet in a literary tradition still largely including the Hungarian Order of Merit, the dominated by men. She is a master of the major Hungarian Laurel Wreath Award for literature, the Somali poetic forms, including the prestigious Péterfy Life Achievement Award, the Füst Grand gabay, by which she presents compelling Prix for translation, and the International Poetry arguments with astonishing feats of alliteration. Prize. Born in Budapest in 1934, he escaped to the The key to her international popularity is in her West from his native Hungary after participation in spirit and message: her poems are classical in the 1956 Revolution, bounced around, and finally construction but they are unmistakably settled in Ireland. contemporary, and they engage passionately with the themes of war and displacement which have Dr Thomas Kabdebo is the touched the lives of an entire generation of author of more than forty Somalis. The mesmerizing poems in this landmark books, the translator of a collection are brought to life in English by award- further forty books, and has winning Bloodaxe poet Clare Pollard. Somali- received numerous literary English dual language edition. and other awards—including the Hungarian Order of Merit, Although Asha Lul Mohamud the Hungarian Laurel Wreath Award for literature, Yusuf has lived in exile in the the Péterfy Life Achievement Award, the Füst UK for 20 years, she is fast Grand Prix for translation, and the International emerging as one of the most Poetry Prize. Born in Budapest in 1934, he escaped outstanding Somali poets. to the West from his native Hungary after participation in the 1956 Revolution.

The Sun of Hereafter: Ebb Vladimir Ilyich Lenin of the Senses Mayakovsky, Vladimir Blandiana, Ana Dufour Editions/Smokestack Dufour Editions/Bloodaxe Books 9781780373843 9780995767515 Translated from the 202 pages Romanian by Paul Derrick paperback and Viorica Patea $24 144 pages Pub Date: 1/1/2018 paperback $36 ‘Never have I wanted to be understood so much as Pub Date: 3/1/2018 in this poem,’ said Mayakovsky of his 3,000 line epic Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Written immediately Ana Blandiana is Romania’s strongest candidate for after the death of Lenin, it proudly and the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the passionately sets the story of the Bolshevik leader’s Ceausescu regime, Blandiana became known for life against the history of capitalism and the her daring poems, defense of ethical values, and a trajectory of Soviet communism. The poem is a refusal to be silenced by totalitarian government. record of the utopian excitement of the early years This new translation combines two earlier of the Revolution - as well a warning that Lenin collections, The Sun of Hereafter (2000) and Ebb of should not become an icon. It was Mayakovsky’s the Senses (2004), both written while Blandiana most significant work; no other book of his was was actively involved in Romania’s integration into ever printed in such large numbers. When he read the European Union. These two books marked a the poem to a packed Bolshoi Theatre in 1930 the turning point in Blandiana’s poetic evolution: they event was broadcast live across the Soviet Union. lead towards a conception of poetry as a reflection Out of print in English for over thirty years, on being, which culminates in My Native Land A4; Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remains relatively unknown in they express a yearning for a state of primordial the west, where Mayakovsky is predominantly purity, and an awareness of destructive forces regarded as a tortured love poet. Based on Dorian which the self must confront. Rottenberg’s 1967 translation, Rosy Carrick’s new Russian-English bilingual edition Ana Blandiana (Born: March 25, re-establishes Mayakovsky’s 1942, Romania) is a Romanian reputation as among the most poet, essayist, and political important political poets of the figure. twentieth century.

Vladmir Mayakovsky (1893- 1930), one of Russia's greatest twentieth-century writers, was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant-garde.

Migrant Shores: Irish, A Blade of Grass: New Moroccan and Galician Palestinian Poetry Poetry Foyle, Naomi (editor) Palacios, Manuela (editor) Dufour Editions/Smokestack Dufour Editions/Salmon Books 9781910669969 9780995767539 138 pages 100 pages paperback paperback $21 $21 Pub Date: 11/1/2017 Pub Date: 3/1/2018

The poems in this collection Brings together, in English and in Arabic, new work trace the steps of migrants from north and south, by poets from the Occupied West Bank and Gaza, male and female, of lighter and darker complexion, from the Palestinian diaspora and from within the young and old, because to exist is to move forward, disputed borders of Israel. Featuring work by Fady as the etymology of the verb “exist” implies. Joudah, Mahmoud Darwish, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Migrant Shores brings together writers from three Deema K. Shehabi, Ashraf Fayadh, Mustafa Abu Atlantic countries, Morocco, Galicia, and Ireland, Sneineh, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marwan Makhoul, aware as they are of the shared ordeal of migration Farid Bitar, Fatena Al Ghorra, Dareen Tatour, and and exile at different times of history. Seven poets Sara Saleh, it celebrates the flourishing cultural from Morocco and another seven from Galicia resistance of the Palestinian people to decades of provided a poem on the topic of migration and displacement, occupation, exile and bombardment. exile, and then fourteen Irish poets translated the Written in free verse and innovative forms, hip-hop Moroccan and Galician poems into English and to rhythms and the Arabic lyric tradition, these poems wrote a response poem. A good number of poems bear witness both to catastrophe and to the have been written expressly for this anthology. powerful determination to survive it. Ashraf Fayadh and Dareen Tatour are both currently Manuela Palacios González imprisoned, respectively in Saudi Arabia and Israel, is Senior Lecturer in English on charges relating to their poetry. Smokestack Literature at the University Books will donate a percentage of Santiago de Compostela of the receipts of this book to (USC) in Spain. She has support their legal fees. directed four research projects on contemporary Naomi Foyle was born in Irish and Galician literature that have been funded London, England, and grew up by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. in Hong Kong, Liverpool and Saskatchewan.

TEN: Poets of the New Karen McCarthy Woolf was Generation born in London to English and Woolf, Karen McCarthy Jamaican parents. She has (editor) been awarded residencies at Dufour Editions/Bloodaxe the literary development 9781780373829 agency Spread the Word, the 160 pages City of El Gouna, Egypt and at paperback the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich in $22 2015 where she responded to an exhibit on Pub Date: 1/1/2018 migration. Having read at a wide variety of national and international venues and festivals, including Presents the work of ten Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Ledbury, the Royal exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. It Festival Hall, Barbican Centre, V&A, Tate Modern is the third anthology from The Complete Works and Science Museum in the UK, as well as in the poetry mentoring scheme, a British program US, Singapore, Sweden and the Caribbean, she is supporting exceptional black and Asian poets known as a compelling presenter of her work. founded by the writer Bernardine Evaristo in 2007. Karen has an active interest in cross-platform Already making a big impact on the British poetry collaboration: her writing has been commissioned scene, poets from the series have included Sarah as an installation, selected for Poems on the Howe, the 2016 winner of both the T.S. Eliot Prize Underground, produced as a poetry/choreography and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year film and dropped from a helicopter over the Award; Mona Arshi, winner of the Forward Prize Houses of Parliament by the Chilean arts collective for Best First Collection 2016; and Warsan Shire, Casagrande. The recipient of an Arts Council who collaborated with Beyoncé on her visual England Award, the Kate Betts Memorial Prize and album, Lemonade in 2016, which featured many of an AHRC scholarship at Royal Holloway, The Shire’s poems. This latest anthology in the Ten University of London, she is researching hybridity in series will not disappoint readers hoping to poetry and how this informs ways in which we discover more exceptional talent. It includes poets might write about nature, the city and the sacred. with even more diverse backgrounds ranging from Somalia and Nigeria through to Jamaica and Macau, and features the first poet from Latin America. The poets included are: Raymond Antrobus, Omikemi Natacha Bryan, Leonardo Boix, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Will Harris, Ian Humphreys, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Momtaza Mehri, Yomi Sode, and Degna Stone.

The Great Plan B A Sailor Went to Sea, Bargielska, Justyna Sea, Sea: Favourite Dufour Rhymes from an Irish Editions/Smokestack Books Childhood 9780995767546 Webb, Sarah Translated from the Polish Dufour Editions/O’Brien by Maria Jastrzebska. 9781847177940 96 pages Illustrated by Steve paperback McCarthy $16 64 pages Pub Date: 4/1/2018 hardcover $27 Bargielska is one of the most distinctive young Pub Date: 1/1/2018 poets writing in Polish today. She has published eight poetry collections, won the Rainer Maria A beautifully illustrated collection of nursery Rilke poetry competition, and twice won the rhymes to treasure, and songs, poems and rhymes Gdynia Literary Prize. Although her work has to share. Enjoy Irish favorites like ‘Brian O’Linn’ and already been translated into six languages, this is ‘I’ll Tell Me Ma’, classics such as ‘My Bonnie Lies the first time her poems have been collected in Over the Ocean’ and ‘Monday’s Child’, silly rhymes English. The Great Plan B introduces English that every child will love like ‘Beans’, ‘Pardon Me’ readers to the work of a poet who examines, with and ‘On Top of Spaghetti’, as well as magical verses forensic precision, the landscapes of quotidian for children written by Oscar Wilde, Oliver St John existence, our disappointments, and humiliations. Gogarty, James Joyce and others. Illustrated by These poems are witty, tongue-in-cheek, both self- Steve McCarthy. Age 6+. deprecating and macabre. Sarah Webb is the author of Born in 1977, poet and the Ask Amy Green and novelist Justyna Bargielska Songbird Café series for young has published seven poetry readers. She worked for many collections and two works years as a children’s bookseller of fiction. She is twice and now combines writing winner of the Gdynia with schools visits, reading and Literary Prize -- in 2010 for her poetry collection giving workshops at festivals, and teaching creative Dwa fiaty (Two Fiats) and in 2011 for her short writing. In 2015, Sarah was awarded the Children’s fiction, Obsoletki (Born Sleeping) -- and, among Books Ireland Award for Outstanding Contribution many other awards, winner of the Rainer Maria to Children’s Books. Rilke poetry competition in 2001.

The Brendan Behan The Irish Writers’ Quotation Book Quotation Book Behan, Brendan Russell, Andrew (editor) Dufour Editions Dufour Editions Somerville Press Somerville Press 9780992736446 9780995523951 Edited by Andrew Russell. 96 pages 96 pages paperback paperback $10 $13 Pub Date: 2017 Pub Date: 2015 We think we’re living in the present, but we’re The Brendan Behan Quotation Book is a new really living in the past. JOHN BANVILLE. Words are collection of Brendan Behan’s best quotations and all we have. SAMUEL BECKETT. Samuel Beckett is a is being published to coincide with the 50th good friend of mine. I don’t know what his plays anniversary of the author’s death. are about, but I enjoy them. BRENDAN BEHAN. If you look at life one way, there’s always call for Brendan Francis Aidan Behan alarm. ELIZABETH BOWEN. Sometimes being Irish (9 February 1923 – 20 March feels like a job you never applied for. ANNE 1964) was an Irish ENRIGHT. A person from Northern Ireland is Republican, poet, short story naturally cautious. SEAMUS HEANEY. Mistakes are writer, novelist, and the portals of discovery. JAMES JOYCE. The trouble playwright who wrote in both with Ireland is that it’s a country full of genius, but English and Irish. He is widely absolutely no talent. HUGH LEONARD. One regarded as one of the doesn’t have to get anywhere in a marriage. It’s not greatest Irish writers and a public conveyance. IRIS MURDOCH. Money does poets of all time. not make you happy, but it quiets the nerves. SEAN O'CASEY. I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. OSCAR WILDE. The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.

Bookworm: A Memoir of Patricia Craig was born Childhood Reading and brought up in Craig, Patricia Belfast. She moved to Dufour Editions/Somerville London in the 1960s, but Press has always retained 9780992736453 strong links with her 206 pages native city. In 1999 she returned with her husband, paperback the painter Jeffrey Morgan, to live in Northern $23 Ireland. She is the author, with Mary Cadogan, of Pub Date: 2015 three critical studies, beginning with You’re a Brick Angela! in 1976. She has written biographies of BOOKWORM is a memoir of Elizabeth Bowen and Brian Moore. Her memoir, childhood reading, which gives fascinating glimpses Asking for Trouble, was published in 2007, and A into the world of children’s books and libraries in Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland, 1950s’ Belfast. It is an engaging and idiosyncratic in 2012. An acclaimed critic and anthologist, she is approach to social and literary history and the the editor of many anthologies including The Ulster author’s lifelong involvement with books and book Anthology, The Belfast Anthology, The Oxford Book collecting. Patricia Craig is, as well as being a of Ireland and The Penguin Book of British Comic leading critic and anthologist, the co-author of the Stories. She is an honorary lecturer at Queen’s unrivalled tour de force and landmark text You’re a University Belfast and is a member of the Seamus Brick, Angela! A New Look at Girls’ Fiction 1839- Heaney Centre for Poetry Advisory Board. 1975, which is an essential source book for anyone interested in girls’ reading and popular culture. Patricia Craig is well known as an author and book critic both in Ireland and the UK, and we are expecting considerable media attention. This book will captivate the attention of readers interested in children’s books, book collecting and Belfast history and topography.

James Joyce and Italo Stanley Price is a Svevo: The Story of novelist and playwright. Friendship He went to school in Price, Stanley Dublin and London, Dufour Editions read history at Somerville Press Cambridge University, 9780992736484 and then worked as a 276 pages journalist in London and New York. He has written paperback four novels, five stage plays, and numerous $32 television plays, two of which Close Relations and Pub Date: 2016 Genghis Cohn have won international awards. He has also written two works of non-fiction, James Joyce left Dublin in 1904, bound for Trieste Somewhere to Hang my Hat, An Irish-Jewish and a job teaching English at the Berlitz School. He Journey and The Road to Apocalypse (with Munro was to live there for the next eleven years. Italo Price). Svevo, born and bred in Trieste, worked there for his family’s marine paint company. He had also written two novels, published privately and unsuccessfully. In 1907, wanting to improve his English to do business with the British Admiralty, Svevo went to Berlitz, where Joyce became his teacher. Svevo was then 46 and Joyce 25. Despite their different backgrounds, Irish Catholic and Triestene Jewish, they had, intellectually, much in common. They admired each other’s writing. Joyce improved Svevo’s English. Svevo helped Joyce stay solvent, and also became the inspiration for Leopold Bloom. In Ulysses, the near father-son relationship between Stephen Dedalus and Bloom in Dublin was very close to that of Svevo and Joyce in Trieste. The two writers lived through the great political and cultural upheavals of the early 20th century, and their story has a fascinating supporting cast – W.B. Yeats and G.B. Shaw, Proust and Hemingway, Freud and Jung, H.G. Wells and T.S. Eliot. Although often living in different cities – Zurich, Paris, London – their friendship survived. When Ulysses was finally published in Paris in 1922, its success enabled Joyce to help Svevo find a publisher for his great comic masterpiece The Confessions of Zeno. European literature owes a great deal to that meeting in Trieste.

Getty Publications Mert & Marcus are reshaping our notion of what is acceptable—not just aesthetically but also technically and conceptually— in a fashion photograph. This lavishly illustrated survey of one hundred years of fashion photography updates and reevaluates this history in five chronological chapters by experts in photography and fashion history. It includes more than three hundred photographs by the genre’s most famous practitioners as well as important but lesser-known figures, alongside a selection of costumes, fashion illustrations, magazine covers, and advertisements.

PAUL MARTINEAU has curated numerous exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum and is the author or coauthor of Herb Ritts: L.A. Style (Getty Publications, 2012), Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs (Getty Publications, 2016), and The Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Martineau, Paul Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Getty Publications Publications, 2016). 9781606065587 9½ × 12 inches. 176 color and 147 duotone illustrations. 368 pages hardcover $65.00 catalog page: 3

In 1911 the French couturier Paul Poiret challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning point in the history of fashion photography. As fashion changed over the next century, so did the photography of fashion. Steichen’s modernist approach was forthright and visually arresting. In the 1930s the photographer Martin Munkácsi pioneered a gritty, photojournalistic style. In the 1960s Richard Avedon encouraged his models to express their personalities by smiling and laughing, which had often been discouraged previously. Helmut Newton brought an explosion of sexuality into fashion images and turned the tables on traditional gender stereotypes in the 1970s, and in the 1980s Bruce Weber and Herb Ritts made male sexuality an important part of fashion photography. Today, following the integration of digital technology, teams like Inez & Vinoodh and calligraphy masterpiece; single-sheet episodes from Albrecht Dürer’s Life of Mary, designed to be either broadsides or a book; early illustrated scientific works; and avant-garde publications. Twentieth-century works reveal the impact of artists’ books on Pop Art, Fluxus, Conceptualism, feminist art, and postmodernism. The selection of books by an international range of artists who have chosen to work with texts and images on paper provokes new inquiry into the nature of art and books in contemporary culture.

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Heyday Birds of Berkeley James, Oliver Ransoming Pagan Babies: Heyday The Selected Writings of 9781597144070 Warren Hinckle 5.5 x 8.5. with 25 full- Hinckle, Warren color illustrations Heyday 80 pages 9781597144162 hardcover paper over 6 x 9 board 552 pages $25.00 hardcover Publish Date: 2/1/2018 $35.00 catalog page: 7 Publish Date: 2/1/2018 catalog page: 3 This charming, full-color field guide to 25 birds easily found in Berkeley From his galvanizing exposés in Ramparts magazine proves that even the city’s avian residents are a to his hand in inventing gonzo, Warren Hinckle little quirky. Meticulously detailed illustrations upended twentieth-century investigative reporting capture each bird’s distinctive physicality and and gave it new provocation and zest. In the first temperament. A Burrowing Owl faces you in a full- career-spanning collection of writings by this key on head shot, perhaps having just raised its raspy, figure of American journalism, Ransoming Pagan chattering alarm call as you trespass on its last Babies contains an astonishing thematic sweep: remaining Bay Area foothold at the Marina. The Joseph Mitchell–esque portraits of old San Anna’s Hummingbird gives you a coy backward Francisco and its characters; insightful reporting on glance to assess if you’ve properly admired its conflicts in Selma, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam; flashy throat feathers, maybe having just forays into local politics; and piercing depictions of performed its signature J-shaped courtship dive. a Bay Area riven by inequality and assassination. Even in composition, each bird is strikingly Reading Hinckle drops the reader into the heart of individual, whether depicted in mid-dive or history—and, just as importantly, it’s fun. Hinckle creeping into frame. While descriptions of wrote about his subjects with bluster, tenacity, identification and vocalizations are straight- heart, and a desire for adventure and justice. This forward, author-illustrator Oliver James takes a book is the first to capture his swashbuckling delightfully creative approach to his write-ups of energy and expansive talent in a single volume. each species. A joy to read and pore over, Birds of Berkeley will enchant readers far beyond the city WARREN J. HINCKLE III was limits with its findings gleaned from painstaking born October 12, 1938, in and patient wildlife observation. San Francisco. He was executive editor of OLIVER JAMES was born in Ramparts magazine from Berkeley in 1991. He started 1964 to 1969, and he watching birds in his cofounded Scanlan’s magazine in 1970. He later backyard on Colusa Avenue served as editor for City of San Francisco, Frisco, at age five and never turned and The Argonaut. He wrote regularly for the San back. Since then he has competed in national Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, birding tournaments, worked as a birding tour and the San Francisco Independent, and was the guide, and joined ornithological research teams author of numerous books. He died in San from Peru to Alaska. He graduated from Berkeley Francisco on August 25, 2016. High School in 2009 and Wesleyan University in 2014 with a degree in biology and environmental studies. Press, 2014). California Fights Back: The Golden State in the Age of Trump Schrag, Peter Heyday 9781597144476 A Heyday Broadside. 5 x 7 112 pages paperback $7.99 Publish Date: 1/1/2018 Coyote at the Big Time: A California Indian 123 catalog page: 13 Risling, Lyn Heyday Veteran journalist Peter Schrag argues that 9781597144308 California’s role in the era of Donald Trump is 6 x 6. 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Counting from Three Strikes criminal sentencing law, and virtual one clapperstick up to ten stars twinkling above the prohibition of bilingual education in public schools. gathering, Coyote explores indigenous cultural Schrag points to the state’s shifting demographics traditions, including songs, dances, hand games, and the erosion of the Republican Party in the art—and, of course, delicious food. Lyn Risling’s wake of Proposition 187 as two major reasons beautiful illustrations depict the diversity of behind California’s shift to the left. It is particularly traditions that continue to thrive throughout the pertinent, then, that a state that formerly state. 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His publications she was a recipient of the Community Spirit Award include When Europe Was a Prison from First Peoples Fund for her artwork and Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, commitment to her Native culture and community. 1940-41, Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools, and Paradise Lost: California’s Experience, America’s Future. Cooking the Native Our Dishonest President Way: Chia Café Los Angeles Times Collective Editorial Board Drake, Barbara / Heyday Sisquoc, Lorene / 9781597144339 Torres, Craig / Sanchez, New introduction by Abe / McCarthy, Daniel Publisher and Editor-in- / Mouriquand, Leslie / Chief of the L.A. Times, Small, Deborah Davan Maharaj, and Heyday Nicholas Goldberg, 9781597144186 Opinion Editor of the L.A. Photographs by Times. 5 x 7 Deborah Small. 8.5 x 11. full-color photographs 112 pages throughout. 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Kent State University Press The Faun’s Bookshelf: C. S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters Baseball Goes West: The Starr, Charlie W. Dodgers, the Giants, and Kent State University Press the Shaping of the Major 9781606353493 Leagues 5 1/2 x 8 ½. notes, biblio., index. Foreword by Mitchell, Lincoln A. Devin Brown. Kent State University Press 128 pages 9781606353592 paperback 6 x 9. illustrations, notes, $16.95 index. Publish Date: 10/1/2018 288 pages catalog page: 9 hardcover $39.95 C. S. Lewis’s theory of myth is key to everything he Publish Date: 11/1/2018 knew to be true. catalog page: 4 While visiting with Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the How the Dodgers’ and Giants’ historic moves to Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie notices a California revitalized baseball. bookshelf filled with such titles as Nymphs and Their Ways and Is Man a Myth? Beginning with Following the 1957 season, two of baseball’s most these imaginary texts, Charlie W. Starr offers a famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New comprehensive study of C. S. Lewis’s theory of York Giants, left the city they had called home since myth, including his views on Greek and Norse the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers mythology, the origins of myth, and the went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San implications of myth on thought, art, gender, Francisco. Those events have entered baseball lore, theology, and literary and linguistic theory. For and indeed the larger culture, as acts of betrayal Lewis, myth represents an ancient mode of thought committed by greedy owners Walter O’Malley of focused in the imagination—a mode that became the Dodgers and Horace Stoneham of the Giants. the key that ultimately brought Lewis to his belief The departure of these two teams, but especially in Jesus Christ as the myth become fact. Beginning the Dodgers, has not been forgotten by those with a foreword by Lewis scholar Devin Brown, The communities. This is one side of the story. Baseball Faun’s Bookshelf goes on to discuss the many Goes West seeks to tell another side. Lincoln A. books Lewis imagined throughout his writings— Mitchell argues that the moves to California, books whose titles he made up but never wrote. second only to Jackie Robinson’s debut in 1947, forged Major League Baseball (MLB) as we know it Charlie W. Starr is an expert today. By moving two famous teams with national on C. S. Lewis’s handwriting reputations and many well-known players, MLB and the author of Light: C. S. benefited tremendously, increasing its national Lewis’s First and Final Short profile and broadening its fan base. Story. Starr has lectured on Lewis and Tolkien for two Lincoln A. Mitchell is a scholar and decades, consulted on the writer in New York City. He is an dating and transcription of hundreds of Lewis adjunct research scholar at manuscripts, and written dozens of popular and Columbia University’s Arnold A. scholarly articles on Lewis as well as chapters for Salesman Institute of War and several books on Lewis and Tolkien. Peace Studies and the author of four books.

then on the series progresses in real time. Funky Winkerbean placed Batiuk at the forefront of a new genre in comic art history. His bold characterizations and dramatic plots are engaging for his readers—teens, parents, and educators alike—because they are universal stories that people can identify with. Realizing there are many comic strips for readers interested in a fantasy world, Batiuk provides an alternative by creating stories that are powerful, real, and inspiring. My job is to present stories that will interest and engage readers, he says. In doing so, I try to make The Complete Funky Winkerbean - Volume 7, the humor authentic and natural so that my 1990–1992 characters are reacting just as the reader might. I Batiuk, Tom think that mixing humor with serious and real Kent State University Press themes heightens the readers’ interest. Following 9781606353370 his own muse has roused a fervent following for 10 x 7 1/2. Foreword by Terri Libenson. Black Batiuk. Funky has become an untouchable comic Squirrel Books strip, even if its creator does do work that’s 512 pages different from the other comics on the comics hardcover page, said Brendan Burford, general manager, $45.00 syndication, at King Features. Publish Date: 1/1/2018 catalog page: 22 Tom Batiuk is a graduate of Kent State University. Follow award-winning cartoonist Tom Batiuk as he His Funky Winkerbean and chronicles the lives of the students and teachers at Crankshaft comic strips are the fictitious Westview High School. Fans will enjoy carried in more than 700 the progression of Funky’s subtle evolution from newspapers throughout gags to situational humor to behavioral humor. the United States. He was Comic strips are, in my opinion, short editorials on recognized as one of the our lives. so thank you for your daily efforts to three finalists in the cartooning category of the observe daily living. —David M. Hutchings, Denver, 2008 Pulitzer Prize awards competition for the Colorado. I’ve enjoyed Funky Winkerbean for so series of daily comic strips that chronicled the many decades I’ve lost count. I first remember death of longtime character Lisa Moore. His being drawn into it during the story line when an Complete Funky Winkerbean series and Roses in early Les Moore was getting into emotional trouble December: A Story of Love and Alzheimer’s were for using his real- life relationship experience as finalists for the 2016 Eisner Awards. fodder for his fiction. I identified! —Richard Rockman, Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Sometimes you just outdo yourself! —Carolyn Schuldt, Peoria, Illinois. In this seventh volume, we see the changes in tone that now characterize Funky Winkerbean. Funky becomes more of a reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues in a thought-pro voking and sensitive manner. In 1992 Tom Batiuk did something even more radical: he rebooted and restructured the strip, establishing that the characters had graduated from high school. From Cadence Fugue Figure Stephenson, Hannah Green, Michael McKee Kent State University Press Kent State University Press 9781606353509 9781606353561 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Wick Poetry Chapbook series Five #9 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Winner of the 2017 Stan and Tom 32 pages Wick Poetry Prize, Khaled Mattawa, Judge. Wick paperback Poetry Chapbook series #24 $7.00 96 pages Publish Date: 3/1/2018 paperback catalog page: 23 $15.00 Publish Date: 9/1/2018 Having children fundamentally disrupts and catalog page: 23.1 remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially The book states plainly that both its speaker and expands. Our already-fraught human experience of the speaker’s mother have suffered near- deadly time is shredded and magnified. Cadence captures head injuries (when I woke up in the hospital thirty the poet’s point of view as a new mother, reveling years after you did, my head: / rotting pear), in a position of heightened vulnerability and resulting in loss of memory. However, rather than ferocity. The poems in this chapbook are let a taxonomy like family curse sit unquestioned, breathless, hyperattentive to others’ needs, and Green writes toward the fugues (i.e., the condition equally in love with earthliness and repulsed by the of having one’s identity questioned) by making a monstrousness we enact/bear witness to. The kind of fugue (i.e., interweaving song). Johnathan central tenets of this chapbook: ideas of the body, Culler writes that the fundamental characteristic of pregnancy, and motherhood; how becoming a the lyric . . . is not the description and parent destabilizes the self; local anxieties (What if interpretation of a past event, but the iterative and my child doesn’t eat enough? How will I ever sleep utterable performance of an event in the lyric again?) and global anxieties (How do we respond present, in the special ‘now’ of lyric articulation. to these tumultuous times, full of such hate, The lyric in Fugue Figure allows the unspeakable racism, and xenophobia? How do we help?); and past to be uttered in the lyric present, and the form the ever-deepening desire to protect those who of diptychs and triptychs through the book place are (increasingly) threatened. disparate lyric utterances together on the same page. While lyric addresses allow the reader to Hannah Stephenson is a reach toward the speaker’s unknowns, the poet and editor living in triptychs and diptychs allow the reader to reach Columbus, Ohio (where toward the unnamable place between left and she also runs a literary right signifiers, both adding to the vital enigma of event series called Paging the poems. Fugue Figure comes to terms with the Columbus). In addition to self as a permeable thing, already acted upon and Cadence, she is the author laden with self-inflicted presuppositions of curse. of In the Kettle, the Shriek And in the wake of all the phenomena acting upon (Gold Wake Press) and the speaker’s life and family, what else can one do? series coeditor of New Poetry from the Midwest Michael McKee Green is the author of the micro- (New American Press). chapbook Blue Portrait, as well as the recipient of Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The an Academy of American Poets College Prize. In Huffington Post, 32 Poems, Vela, The Journal, and 2016, his poem A Remit won the Tom and Phyllis Poetry Daily. Burnam Poetry Scholarship. Currently, he is an MFA candidate at Boise State University.

Minnesota Historical Society Press The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Soo Fariista / Come Sit Land Became U.S. Down: A Somali Property American Cookbook Case, Martin Wariyaa: Somali Youth Minnesota Historical in Museums Society Press Minnesota Historical 9781681340906 Society Press 6 x 9, 12 B&W PHOTOS, 9781681340852 NOTES, INDEX Foreword by Osman 224 pages Mohamed Ali. 8 x 10, 50 paperback COLOR PHOTOS, 70 $17.95 RECIPES, INDEX, BIBLIOGRAPHY Publish Date: 3/1/2018 224 pages catalog page: 14 paperback $24.95 How making treaties for land cessions with Native Publish Date: 5/1/2018 American nations transformed human relationships catalog page: 10 to the land and became a profitable family business. This accessible guide celebrates a vibrant food culture that crisscrosses national and regional The story of western expansion is a familiar one: borders, inviting all comers to relish comforting U.S. government agents, through duplicity and and flavorful meals, Somali American style. force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this Somali Americans celebrate a shared heritage at framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. mealtime. No matter what country they first called Land cession treaties were essentially the act of home, no matter how they found their way to supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the Minnesota, members of this community come land with a property relationship. And property is together over shaah, bur, and xalwad (that is, tea, the organizing principle upon which U.S. society is beignets, and sweets). Realizing how quickly based. U.S. signers represented the relentless traditions can change in a culture on the move, interests that drove treaty making: corporate and Somali American students set out to preserve their individual profit, political ambition, and culinary legacy by interviewing family members, assimilationist assumptions of cultural superiority. researching available and alternative ingredients, The lives of these men illustrate the assumptions and testing kitchen techniques. In Soo Fariista / inherent in the property system—and the dynamics Come Sit Down, seventy recipes for everything by which it spread across the continent. In this from sambusa (stuffed pastry) to suqaar (curry book, for the first time, Case provides a stew) to canjeero (flat bread) to shushumow (fried comprehensive study of the treaty signers, sweet dough) honor memories and flavors from exposing their business ties and multigenerational East Africa with adjustments for American realities. interrelationships through birth and marriage.

The members of Wariyaa: Somali Youth in Martin Case, freelance researcher and writer, was a Museums are high school students from across the key participant in the development of Why Treaties Twin Cities metro area who explore cultural Matter, a collaboration of the Minnesota Indian preservation and history through food. Osman Affairs Council, the Minnesota Humanities Center, Mohamed Ali is founder and executive director of and the Smithsonian Institute. the Somali Museum of Minnesota.

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Patrick Nagatani was born on August 19, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, just days after the atomic bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where his father’s family lived. Nagatani’s parents were imprisoned in various US internment camps during World War II. His family’s ordeal would influence Nagatani’s artwork throughout his career and his examination of social and political themes, including the nuclear industry. Nagatani was Buried Cars: Excavations from Stonehenge to the professor emeritus of the Department of Art & Art Grand Canyon History at the University of New Mexico where he Nagatani, Patrick and Traugott, Joseph taught from 1987 to 2007. His numerous books Museum of New Mexico Press include Nuclear Enchantment and the recently 9780890136355 published The Race: Tales in Flight and Nuclear 38 color and black-and-white photographs, 17 Enchantment. Joseph Traugott retired as curator figures. 8 x 10 of twentieth century art at the New Mexico 116 pages Museum of Art in 2013 after a thirty-year career, hardcover including curator positions held at the University of $34.95 New Mexico’s Jonson Gallery, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, and University Art Museum. An This book is a sci-fi artistic creation from the mind independent curator and writer, he is the author of of internationally recognized photographer and eight books on New Mexico art, among them New multimedia artist Patrick Nagatani (1945–2017). Mexico Art through Time: Prehistory to the The book presents the mysterious recovery of Present, Visualizing Albuquerque, Sole Mates: twenty-nine automobiles buried at power sites Cowboy Boots and Art, and The Art of New Mexico: around the world. The photographs document How the West Is One. archaeological findings—at Stonehenge, New Mexico’s Very Large Array, and Chaco Canyon, to name a few locales. The protagonist is Japanese archaeologist Ryoichi (Nagatani’s alter ego) who excavates the twentieth-century vehicles. The book includes chapters explaining the paradoxical aspects of the project and sixty images of the buried car excavations.

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Northwestern University Press author of The Madonnas of Leningrad, Yoors’s story is a luminous and inspiring account of Hidden Tapestry: Jan resilience, resourcefulness, and love. “ Debra Dean Yoors, His Two Wives, has written that unique book that is scholarly, and the War That historically important, well researched, relevant to Made Them One the art world as well as the academic and general Dean, Debra population, full of vibrant and fascinating Northwestern characters, beautifully written, and somehow— University Press almost improbably—true.” —Ann Hood, author of 9780810136830 The Books That Matter Most and An Italian Wife. 6 × 9. 24 BW IMAGES. 312 pages DEBRA DEAN is the best- paperback selling author of a short- $19.95 story collection and two Publish Date: 4/1/2018 novels, The Mirrored World catalog page: 1 and The Madonnas of Leningrad—the latter a Hidden Tapestry reveals the unforgettable story of New York Times Editors’ Flemish American artist Jan Yoors—childhood Choice and #1 Booksense vagabond, wartime Resistance fighter, and Pick. She lives in Miami and polyamorous urban bohemian. At the peak of his teaches at Florida fame in the 1970s, Yoors’s photographs and vast International University. tapestries inspired a dedicated following in his adopted Manhattan. Though his intimate friends guessed the rough outline of his colorful life, Hidden Tapestry is first to detail his astonishing secrets. At twelve, Jan’s life took an extraordinary and unexpected turn when he wandered into a Roma encampment on the outskirts of his native Antwerp just as the place was being raided. Rather than return home, Jan fled with the Roma and continued to live on- and-off with them and with his own family for several years. As an adult in German-occupied France, Yoors joined the Resistance. Defying repeated arrests and torture by the Gestapo, he worked first as a saboteur and later escorted Allied soldiers trapped behind German lines across the Pyrenees to freedom. After the war, he married childhood friend Annabert van Wettum and embarked on his career as an artist. When a friend of Annabert’s, Marianne Citroen, modeled for Yoors, the two began an affair, which led the three to form a polyamorous unit that would last for the rest of their lives. Moving to New York, the trio became part of the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in the 1950s, Marianne being presented as Annabert’s sister. Told in arresting detail by Debra Dean, best-selling Collected Stories BRUNO SCHULZ (1892–1942) Schulz, Bruno was a Polish Jew born in Northwestern Drohobycz, at the time a city in University Press Austrian Galicia. He published 9780810136601 two volumes of short fiction Translated from the during his life. Killed by a Nazi Polish by Madeline G. officer in German- occupied Levine. Foreword by Drohobycz, Schulz achieved Rivka Galchen. 6 × 9 posthumous fame as one of the 280 pages most influential European fiction writers of the paperback twentieth century. MADELINE G. LEVINE is Kenan $17.95 Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita at the Publish Date: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her 3/1/2018 translations from the Polish include The Woman catalog page: 5 from Hamburg and Other True Stories by Hanna Krall, Bread for the Departed by Bogdan Collected Stories is an authoritative new Wojdowski, and four volumes of prose by Czeslaw translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, Milosz, including Beginning with My Streets: Essays whose work has influenced writers as various as and Recollections and Milosz’s ABC’s. RIVKA Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran GALCHEN is the author of three books, including Foer, Philip Roth, Danilo Kiš, and Roberto Bolaño. the novel Atmospheric Disturbances. A frequent Schulz’s prose is renowned for its originality. Set contributor to the New Yorker, the London Review largely in a fictional counterpart of his hometown of Books, and the New York Times, she has been of Drohobycz, his stories merge the real and the awarded numerous prizes and fellowships and was surreal. The most ordinary objects—the wind, an included on the New Yorker’s 20 under 40 list of article of clothing, a plate of fish—can suddenly fiction writers. appear unfathomably mysterious and capable of illuminating profound truths. As Father, one of his most intriguing characters, declaims: Matter has been granted infinite fecundity, an inexhaustible vital force, and at the same time, a seductive power of temptation that entices us to create forms. This comprehensive volume includes all of Cinnamon Shops, restoring the original Polish title to Schulz’s most famous collection (sometimes titled The Street of Crocodiles in English), and The Sanatorium under the Hourglass. 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The Tale of the Humanities Translation Prize is awarded annually Missing Man: A Novel to a previously unpublished translation that strikes Ahtesham, Manzoor the delicate balance between scholarly rigor, Northwestern aesthetic grace, and general readability, as judged University Press by a rotating committee of Northwestern faculty, 9780810137585 distinguished international scholars, writers, and Translated from the public intellectuals. The Prize is organized by the Hindi by Jason Global Humanities Initiative, which is jointly Grunebaum and supported by Northwestern University’s Buffett Ulrike Stark. 6 × 9 Institute for Global Studies and Kaplan Institute for 308 pages the Humanities. paperback $19.95 MANZOOR AHTESHAM is an Publish Date: Indian writer who was born in 8/1/2018 Bhopal. He is the author of five catalog page: 6 novels and several short-story collections in Hindi, many of Inaugural Winner of the Global Humanities which have received accolades Translation Prize. The Tale of the Missing Man and awards. In 2003, Ahtesham (Dastan-e Lapata) is a milestone in Indo-Muslim was honored by the government literature. A refreshingly playful novel, it explores of India for his contributions to literature. JASON modern Muslim life in the wake of the 1947 GRUNEBAUM and ULRIKE STARK received a partition of India and Pakistan. Zamir Ahmad Khan National Endowment of the Arts grant to translate suffers from a mix of alienation, guilt, and The Tale of the Missing Man. They are both based postmodern anxiety that defies diagnosis. His wife in the Department of South Asian Languages and abandons him to his reflections about his Civilizations at the University of Chicago. childhood, writing, ill-fated affairs, and his hometown of Bhopal, as he attempts to unravel the lies that brought him to his current state (while weaving new ones). A novel of a heroic quest gone awry, The Tale of the Missing Man artfully twists the conventions of the Urdu romance, or dastan, tradition, where heroes chase brave exploits that are invariably rewarded by love. The hero of Ahtesham’s tale, living in the fast-changing city of Bhopal during the 1970s and ’80s, suffers an identity crisis of epic proportions: he is lost, missing, and unknown both to himself and to others. The result is a twofold quest in which the fate of protagonist and writer become inextricably and ironically linked. The lost hero sets out in search of himself, while the author goes in search of the lost hero, his fictionalized alter ego. New York magazine cited the book as one of the world’s best untranslated novels. In addition to raising important questions about Muslim identity, Ahtesham offers a very funny and thoroughly self- reflective commentary on the modern author’s difficulties in writing autobiography. The Global Hallaj: Poems of a Martyr, to date the most thorough study in English Sufi Martyr of the verse of al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, a al-Hallaj, Husayn seminal figure of Islamic mysticism. Ernst provides ibn Mansur a rigorous introduction to Hallaj’s writings, Northwestern followed by carefully crafted translations based on University Press his insightful readings of more than a hundred 9780810137356 poems ascribed to this early Sufi poet. —Th. Emil Translated from the Homerin, author of Principles of Sufism. Arabic by Carl W. Ernst.. 6 × 9 HUSAYN IBN MANSUR AL-HALLAJ was born in the INCHES. ninth century and became a major writer and 216 pages thinker of the Sufi movement. CARL W. ERNST is paperback William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of $18.95 Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina Publish Date: at Chapel Hill, and codirector of the Carolina Center 7/1/2018 for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim catalog page: 7 Civilizations. He is the author of How to Read the Qur’an: A New Guide, with Select Translations and Inaugural Winner of the Global Humanities many other scholarly works. Translation Prize. Hallaj is the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, an early Sufi mystic. Despite his execution in Baghdad in 922 and the subsequent suppression of his work, Hallaj left an enduring literary and spiritual legacy that continues to inspire readers around the world. In Hallaj, Carl W. Ernst offers a definitive collection of 117 of Hallaj’s poems expertly translated for contemporary readers interested in Middle Eastern and Sufi poetry and spirituality. Ernst’s fresh and direct translations reveal Hallaj’s wide range of themes and genres, from courtly love poems to metaphysical reflections on union with God. In a fascinating introduction, Ernst traces Hallaj’s dramatic story within classical Islamic civilization and early Arabic Sufi poetry. Setting himself apart by revealing Sufi secrets to the world, Hallaj was both celebrated and condemned for declaring: I am the Truth. Expressing lyrics and ideas still heard in popular songs, the works of Hallaj remain vital and fresh even a thousand years after their composition. They reveal him as a master of spiritual poetry centuries before Rumi, who regarded Hallaj as a model. This unique collection makes it possible to appreciate the poems on their own, as part of the tragic legend of Hallaj, and as a formidable legacy of Middle Eastern culture.. ‘Before Rumi there was Hallaj.’ Carl Ernst makes this astute observation in his Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Atmospheric Embroidery: The Iphigenia Plays: Poems New Verse Translations Alexander, Meena Euripides Northwestern University Northwestern University Press Press 9780810137608 9780810137233 6.125 × 8.5. TriQuarterly Translated by Rachel Books Hadas. 5 × 8. 104 pages Northwestern World paperback Classics $17.95 184 pages Publish Date: 6/1/2018 paperback catalog page: 8 $18.95 Publish Date: 6/1/2018 In this haunting collection of poems we travel catalog page: 10 through zones of violence to reach the crystalline depths of words—Meena Alexander writes So At the heart of Iphigenia’s enduring story are an landscape becomes us, / Also an interior space ambitious, opportunistic, and indecisive leader and bristling with light. At the heart of this book is the the daughter whose life he is willing to sacrifice. In poem cycle Indian Ocean Blues, a sustained The Iphigenia Plays, poet Rachel Hadas offers a meditation on the journey of the poet as a young new generation of readers a graceful, clear, and child from India to Sudan. There are poems powerful translation of Euripides’s two spellbinding inspired by the drawings of children from war-torn (and very different) plays drawn from this legend: Darfur and others set in New York City in the Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia among the present. These sensual lyrics of body, memory, and Taurians. Even for readers unfamiliar with Greek place evoke the fragile, shifting nature of dwelling mythology or drama, these plays are suspenseful, in our times. “Alexander’s language is precise, her poignant, and haunting. Euripides’ ability to evoke syntax is pellucid, and her poems address all of the emotion and raise difficult questions has long senses, offering a simultaneous richness and engaged viewers and readers alike. Taken together, simplicity.” —A. E. Stallings. the two plays illuminate timeless human conflicts, showcasing individuals and families ensnared by MEENA ALEXANDER, the fury of war, of politics, of religion, and of described in The ambition. Euripidean characters are always second- Statesman (India) as guessing themselves; now new readers can also undoubtedly one of ponder their dilemmas. the finest poets in contemporary times, EURIPIDES (c. 484–406 B.C.E.) is the author of was, along with Aeschylus and Birthplace with Buried Stones, Quickly Changing Sophocles, one of the great River, Raw Silk, and Illiterate Heart (winner of the tragic dramatists of ancient PEN Open Book Award), all published by Greece. RACHEL HADAS, TriQuarterly/Northwestern. She is also the author professor of English at Rutgers of an acclaimed autobiography, Fault Lines, and a University–Newark, is the author collection of essays, Poetics of Dislocation, and the of many books of poetry, essays, and translations, editor of Name Me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect including Questions in the Vestibule and Strange on Writing. She is Distinguished Professor of Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and English at the City University of New York and Poetry. She is the editor (with Peter Constantine, teaches at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Edmund Keeley, and Karen Van Dyck) of the Center. anthology The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. Dulce: Poems Robert Walser: A Castillo, Marcelo Companion Hernandez Walser, Robert Northwestern University Northwestern Press University Press 9780810136960 9780810137127 The Drinking Gourd Edited by Samuel Chapbook Poetry Prize - Frederick and Valerie Chris Abani, John Alba Heffernan. 6 × 9. Cutler, Reginald Gibbons, 264 pages Susannah Young-ah paperback Gottlieb, Ed Roberson, $39.95 and Mathew Shenoda, Series Editors. Publish Date: 6/1/2018 48 pages catalog page: 31 paperback $9.95 The Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878—1956) is Publish Date: 4/1/2018 now recognized as one of the most important catalog page: 11 European authors of the modernist period, having garnered high praise from such prominent voices The poems in Dulce are at once confession and as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and J. M. Coetzee. elegy that admit the speaker’s attempt and Robert Walser: A Companion is the first possible failure to reconcile intimacy toward comprehensive guide to Walser’s work in English. another and toward the self. The collection asks: The twelve essays in this collection examine what’s the point in any of this?—meaning, what’s Walser’s literary output, historical milieu, and the use of longing beyond pleasure; what’s the use idiosyncratic writing process, addressing aspects of of looking for an origin if we already know the his biography; discussing the various genres in ending? Surreal and deeply imagistic, the poems which he wrote (the novel, short prose, drama, map a parallel between the landscape of the lyric poetry, and letters); and analyzing his best- border and the landscape of sexuality. Marcelo known novels and short Hernandez Castillo invites the reader to confront stories alongside lesser- and challenge the distinctions of borders and known but no less categories, and in doing so, he obscures and fascinating poems, plays, negates such divisions. He allows for the possibility and prose pieces. of an and in a world of either/or.

MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASTILLO SAMUEL FREDERICK is an associate professor of was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, German at the Pennsylvania State University. He is and crossed the border through the author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Tijuana with his family at the age Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert of five. He is a Canto Mundo Stifter. VALERIE HEFFERNAN is a senior lecturer in fellow and the first German studies at the National University of undocumented student to Ireland, Maynooth. She is the author of graduate from the University of Provocation from the Periphery. Robert Walser Re- Michigan’s M.F.A. program. He examined. teaches at Sacramento State University and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. author location: Sacramento CA

A South Side Girl’s Founded in 1989 by Luis J. Rodríguez in Chicago, Tia Guide to Love & Sex: Chucha Press is one of the country’s leading cross- Poems cultural small presses. It is the publishing wing of Del Valle, Mayda Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the Northwestern San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. University Press/TIA CHUCHA PRESS 9781882688562 6 × 9. 80 pages paperback $19.95 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 catalog page: 44

MAYDA DEL VALLE is the author of The University As a child of Puerto Rican migrants on Chicago’s of Hip Hop and a winner of the 2016 Drinking South Side, Mayda Del Valle writes poetry that is Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize from Northwestern part Spanish and English, part hip-hop and salsa, University Press. She appeared on six episodes of part Nas and Sonia Sanchez, part Shakespeare and the HBO series Russell Simmons Presents Def John Leguizamo. It is inherited history as well as Poetry, and was a contributing writer and original traditions remixed and invented. Del Valle creates cast member of the Tony Award winning Def autobiographical narratives that utilize spoken Poetry Jam on Broadway. A gifted performer, Del word poetry and music, intended equally for the Valle has read her work at venues all over the page and for live performance. Rooted in the world, including the White House. aesthetics of hip-hop and the urban Latino experience, the poems here explore themes of healing, transformation, and the recovery of ancestral memory in the modern-day diaspora. The beauty of this collection is that the poet manages to curate the flow such that the reader can DJ the poems—arrange their own set and thus, to borrow a phrase from that system, spin their own performance. “This brilliant collection of poems charts the story of immigration, of family, of place, politics, identity, and the complex nomadic hybrid diasporic identities of the twenty-first century. It flirts dangerously with access—at once surprising readers with unexpected slant rhymes, colloquial turns of phrase juxtaposed at seeming odds and even the occasional dip into cliché—all aimed at establishing a larger conversation with a more varied audience than lyric poetry. With poems that are funny, elegiac, political and textured by bomba, salsa and hip-hop, this is a vivid, beautiful, breathtaking, moving and profound book. I can’t recommend it enough.”—Chris Abani, author of

Sanctificum and GraceLand.

Ohio University Press Marta: A Novel Orzeszkowa, Eliza A Death in Bali: A Jenna Murphy Mystery Ohio University Press Tingley, Nancy 9780821423134 Ohio University Press/Swallow Press Series: Polish and 9780804011969 Polish American 328 pages Studies hardcover 224 pages $26.95 hardcover Publish Date: 3/1/2018 $32.95 catalog page: 5 Publish Date: 7/1/2018 Intrepid young curator-cum-private eye Jenna catalog page: 7 Murphy—whom readers first met in A Head in Cambodia—goes to the tourist town of Ubud to Eliza Orzeszkowa was a trailblazing Polish novelist study early 20th century Balinese painting. But her who, alongside Leo Tolstoy and Henryk Sienkiewicz, first discovery when she arrives in Indonesia is the was a finalist for the 1905 Nobel Prize in literature. speared body of expat artist Flip Hendricks. She Of her many works of social realism, Marta (1873) soon is working with an old friend, a detective for is among the best known, but until now has not the Ubud police force, to seek the killer. Jenna been available in English. An easy peer of The suspects the motive for the killing has to do with Awakening and A Doll’s House, the novel was well Flip’s paintings. Detective Wayan Tyo is not so sure. ahead of the English literature of its time in Is Jenna right, or are there other forces at work in attacking the ways the labor market failed women. this paradise overrun with tourists? The threats to Suddenly widowed, the previously middle-class Jenna’s safety pile up, until she can no longer deny Marta Świcka is left penniless and launched into a that her life is in danger. Her entanglement with grim battle for her survival and that of her small various men only clouds her judgment and daughter. As she applies for job after job in complicates the situation. A Death in Bali is the Warsaw―portrayed here as an every-city, an second volume in the Jenna Murphy Mystery unforgiving commercial landscape that could be Series. Nancy Tingley draws on her own extensive any European metropolis of the time―she is told experience as a scholar of Asian art to bring the time after time that only men will be hired, that armchair traveller another adventure with the men need jobs because they are fathers and heads indefatigable Jenna, as well as an immersive, inside of families. Marta burns with Orzeszkowa’s view of the art world. feminist conviction that sexism was not just an annoyance but a threat to the survival of women Nancy Tingley is an and children. independent art historian and consultant Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910) with a specialty in Asian is one of the most prolific and art. She has worked esteemed Polish nineteenth- extensively in the art century prose writers. She was world and as a museum nominated twice for the Nobel curator. Most recently, Prize in Literature: in 1905 and she curated Arts of in 1909. Her influence on the Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea, Polish literary life was jointly organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, enormous. She inspired Stefan Żeromski, Houston, and The Asia Society, New York. Władysław Reymont, Maria Dąbrowska, and many author location: Sausalito CA Polish female writers with her writing and her social justice work. Dolores Huerta Stands Inventing Pollution: Strong: The Woman Coal, Smoke, and Who Demanded Justice Culture in Britain since Brill, Marlene Targ 1800 Ohio University Press Thorsheim, Peter 9780821423301 Ohio University Press Series: Biographies for 9780821423110 Young Readers 35 320 pages 136 pages paperback paperback $26.95 $14.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 7/1/2018 1/11/2018 catalog page: 10 catalog page: 16

Today, we know Dolores Huerta as the cofounder, with Cesar Chavez, of the National Farmworkers "Inventing Pollution is a valuable reminder that air Association, which later became the United Farm pollution was causing environmental, medical, and Workers of America. We know her as a tireless political controversies long before it became a advocate for the rights of farmworkers, Mexican focus for protests and regulations in the 1960s. By American immigrants, women, and LGBTQ tracing the many responses to 'smoke pollution' in populations. And we know her as the recipient of the first industrial nation over the past two the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack centuries, Peter Thorsheim has established himself Obama in 2012. Before all that, though, Huerta was as a leading environmental historian of modern a child in the farming community of Stockton, Britain. His book will be of wide interest on both California, and then a teenager whose teachers sides of the Atlantic."—William Cronon, author of underestimated her because she was Chicana. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the When she became a teacher herself, she witnessed Ecology of New England and Uncommon Ground: her students coming to school shoeless and Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. hungry. Many took days off from school to work in the farm fields to help feed their families. What Peter Thorsheim is an assistant professor of history could she do to help them? A young mother at the at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. time, Huerta quit her teaching job to organize their parents. That began her journey to educate a nation about who produces our food and the conditions under which they work. Dolores Huerta Stands Strong follows Huerta’s life from the mining communities of the Southwest where her father toiled, to the vineyards and fields of California, and across the country to the present day. As she worked for fair treatment for others, Dolores earned the nation’s highest honors. More important, she found her voice.

Marlene Targ Brill is an award-winning author of books for all ages. She especially seeks to write women into history and tell stories of the undersung.

Beep: Inside the Requiem and Poem Unseen World of without a Hero Baseball for the Blind Akhmatova, Anna Wanczyk, David Ohio University Ohio University Press/Swallow Press Press/Swallow Press 9780804011952 9780804011891 78 pages 224 pages paperback hardcover $12.95 $26.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 2/1/2018 1/9/2018 catalog page: 20 catalog page: 18 Anna Akhmatova previously announced (1889–1666) is one of Russia’s greatest poets, and perhaps the greatest In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of woman poet in the history of Western culture. The blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of two long poems included in this volume are the America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to beep major works of Akhmatova’s majestic maturity. three times per second like a troubling EKG and Both express her response to life under the with bases that buzz, beep baseball is both Stalinist Terror: Requiem, a single, heart-rending innovative and intensely competitive. And when cry; Poem Without a Hero, a symphonic, highly the best beep baseball team in America, the Austin allusive work linking Stalinist Leningrad with Tsarist Blackhawks, takes on its international rival, Taiwan Petersburg, whose composition occupied the poet, Homerun, no one’s thinking about disability. What obsessively, over the last twenty-five years of her we find are athletes playing their hearts out for a life. The achievement of these two masterpieces, championship. Wanczyk follows teams around the under conditions of officially imposed silence and world and even joins them on the field to produce terrible suffering, verifies a prophecy made even a riveting inside narrative about the game and its before the Revolution by her friend the poet players. Can Austin’s Lupe Perez overcome his Mandelstam, that she would become “a symbol of temper and lead his team to victory? Can Ethan Russia’s grandeur.” D.M. Thomas brings the two Johnston, kidnapped and intentionally blinded as a poems together for the first time in one volume in child in Ethiopia, find a new home in beep English. His version of Poem Without a Hero is the baseball? Will Taiwan’s MVP Ching-kai Chen—the first ever complete and full-scale English verse looker who is suspected of having better vision translation. He employs all his poetic talent in than he claims—keep up his incredible play as he uniquely impressive and powerful versions that pay fights legal troubles at home? Do players come to full attention to the kaleidoscopic variety of effects terms with their blindness through the game, or of the originals. His introduction and notes does it inflame their close-to-the-surface concisely and absorbingly pinpoint the problems frustration about their disability? Beep is the first facing the English translator of Akhmatova’s book about blind baseball. poetry.

David Wanczyk grew up a Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) is Red Sox fan and once gave an iconic figure of twentieth- up twenty-seven runs in an century Russian literature and one inning before realizing he’d of her era’s great poets. Her work never make it to Fenway has been translated into many Park—or varsity. He’s coped with that by writing on languages. novel sports. Robert Mugabe Albert Luthuli Onslow, Sue and Plaut, Vinson, Robert Trent Martin Ohio University Press Ohio University Press 9780821423288 9780821423240 Series: Ohio Short Histories Series: Ohio Short Histories of Africa 11 of Africa 12 224 pages 208 pages paperback paperback $14.95 $14.95 Publish Date: 8/1/2018 Publish Date: 6/1/2018 catalog page: 26 catalog page: 25 In an excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is an African of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the leader who sharply divides opinion. As man and important but largely forgotten story of Albert leader he has come to embody the contradictions Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize winner and of his country’s history and political culture: as a president of the African National Congress from symbol of African liberation, he remains respected 1952 to 1967. One of the most respected African and revered by many on the African continent; this leaders, Luthuli linked South African antiapartheid heroic status contrasts sharply, in the eyes of his politics with other movements, becoming South detractors, with repeated cycles of gross human Africa’s leading advocate of Mahatma Gandhi’s rights violations, capital flight, and mass emigration nonviolent civil disobedience techniques. He also precipitated by the policies of his government, and framed apartheid as a crime against humanity and his demonic image in Western media. In this short thus linked South African antiapartheid struggles biography, intended for a general audience, Sue with international human rights campaigns. Unlike Onslow and Martin Plaut explain Mugabe’s previous studies, this book places Luthuli and the formative experiences as a child and young man; South African antiapartheid struggle in new global his role as an admired Afro-nationalist leader in the contexts, and aspects of Luthuli’s leadership that struggle against white settler rule; and his were not previously publicly known: Vinson is the evolution into a political manipulator and first to use new archival evidence, numerous oral survivalist. They also address the emergence of interviews, and personal memoirs to reveal that political opposition to his leadership and the Luthuli privately supported sabotage as an uneasy period of coalition government. Ultimately, additional strategy to end apartheid. This they reveal the complexity of the man who led multifaceted portrait will be indispensable to Zimbabwe for its first four decades of students of African history and politics and independence. nonviolence movements worldwide.

Sue Onslow is Deputy Director of the Institute of Robert Trent Vinson is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study Cummings Associate Professor of History, Africana at the University of London. She has written widely Studies and International Relations at the College on British foreign policy and decolonization, and of William and Mary. He is the author of The southern Africa in the Cold War era. Martin Plaut is Americans Are Coming!: Dreams of African Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa. Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study at the University of London. He was Africa editor, BBC World Service News, until 2013. He has since published three books on South Africa and Eritrea.

Hip-Hop in Africa: Dr. Msia Kibona Prophets of the City Clark is an Assistant and Dustyfoot Professor of African Philosophers Studies Howard Clark, Msia Kibona University. Her Ohio University Press research focuses on 9780896803190 African migration & 312 pages identity, as well as on hip hop’s intersections with paperback social change & politics in Africa. She also produces $29.95 the Hip Hop African blog & monthly podcast hosted Publish Date: at hiphopafrican.com. The blog and podcast are 5/1/2018 also used as forms of pedagogy in the course she catalog page: 28 developed, Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa.

Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msia Kibona Clark examines some of Africa's biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps us understand specifically African narratives of social, political, and economic realities. Clark looks at the use of hip-hop in protest, both as a means of articulating social problems and as a tool for mobilizing listeners around those problems. She also details the spread of hip-hop culture in Africa following its emergence in the United States, assessing the impact of urbanization and demographics on the spread of hip-hop culture. Hip-Hop in Africa is a tribute to a genre and its artists as well as a timely examination that pushes the study of music and diaspora in critical new directions. Accessibly written by one of the foremost experts on African hip-hop, this book will easily find its place in the classroom.

Orca Book Publishers Harry's Hiccups Little, Jean Swimming With Seals Orca Book Publishers De Vries, Maggie 9781459815629 Orca Book Publishers Illustrated by Joe 9781459813212 Weissmann. 4 - 8 Illustrated by Janice years. Kun. 4 - 8 years. 32 pages 32 pages hardcover hardcover $19.95 $19.95 Publish Date: 4/3/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 9 4/10/2018 catalog page: 8 Harry tries and tries to get rid of his hiccups. He tries drinking a glass of water upside down, he tries Ally isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she putting an ice-cold key down his back, he gleefully lives far, far away, on the other side of the country, tries eating a spoonful of sugar. But nothing works! with her gram and great-aunt. But one summer Ally In this charming picture book, written by children's goes to stay with her aunt and uncle in the big city literature legend Jean Little and illustrated by by the ocean and gets to spend time with her award-winning illustrator Joe Weissmann, Harry is mom. While exploring the shore, watching whales afflicted with a case of the hopeless hiccups. It's from the boat dipping into the salty water, Ally not until Harry has a surprise encounter with a finds out something important: her mother loves to different sort of neighbor that it seems like Harry swim as much as she does. This is a very personal might finally get some relief...hiccup, hiccup... story. Ally is based on the author's niece, Jeanie, Editorial Reviews Book Description Poor Harry has and Ally's mother is based on the author's sister, a case of the hopeless hiccups! Sarah, who went missing from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver in 1998. Jeanie is like a seal Born in Taiwan, celebrated in the water, and Sarah was just the same, but they children's author Jean Little grew never got to swim together. In this story, they do. up in Ontario and graduated from Swimming with Seals is a story that was written for the University of Toronto with an the thousands of children who long to live with honors degree in English. A their birth parents and will never fully understand member of the Order of Canada, Little has received why they can't. six honorary degrees and was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Her books have Maggie de Vries is the author of many books for won numerous awards, including a Canada Council children and one book for adults. She teaches in Children's Literature Award (now known as the the Creative Writing Program at UBC, runs writing Governor General's Literary Award, a CLA Book of workshops, and coaches and the Year, the Little, Brown Children's Book Award, mentors writers. Janice Kun is the Vicky Metcalf Award and a Boston Globe-Horn an illustrator whose work is a Book Honor Award. Joe Weissmann was born in distinctive multimedia blend of Austria and came to Canada at the age of eleven. drawing, collage, digital and He studied art at the Museum of Fine Arts and photographic elements. Concordia University in Montreal and taught illustration at Sheridan College for six years. An award-winning illustrator, Joe works for book and magazine publishers in Canada and the United States.

Whale Child The Walking Bathroom Simpson, Caroll Grant, Shauntay (Artist) Orca Book Orca Book Publishers/Nimbus Publishers/Heritage Publishing House Publishing 9781771085564 9781772031638 Illustrated by Erin 5 - 8 years. Coastal Spirit Tales Bennett Banks. 4 - 8 32 pages years. paperback 32 pages $12.95 hardcover Publish Date: 1/9/2018 $22.95 catalog page: 13 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 17 Whale Child tells the story of a little girl who is separated from her family and village after a It's Halloween, and Amayah doesn't have a natural disaster. Escaping the shoreline in a canoe, costume to wear to school. She dressed as a ghost she is swept far out to sea but discovers that she is for the last three years in a row, witches are not alone. A gray whale is quietly guiding her to a overdone, and fairies are not her style. She wants secluded bay where many of her kind have to be something different, something creative, gathered to welcome the new generation. Here, something no one else in the world has ever been the gray whale gives birth to a daughter, and when in the history of Halloween... The Walking the baby whale draws her first breath, she absorbs Bathroom is the newest book from award-winning the spirit of the lost little girl. As one, the whale author and poet Shauntay Grant, with fun, eye- and the girl find their way back to the girl's village, catching artwork from Erin Bennett Banks. This where the girl, now strengthened by the spirit of imaginative tale is bound to inspire some unique the whale, is reunited with her family. Editorial costumes and become a Halloween favorite! Reviews Book Description New in paperback: An enchanting picture book inspired by the mythical Shauntay Grant is a writer and natural world of the Pacific coast of North and performance artist. She America. is the author of several award-winning books for Caroll Simpson is the children and served as author and illustrator of Halifax's poet laureate from Coastal Spirit Tales, an 2009 to 2011. Her other acclaimed series of honors include a Poet of children's picture books Honour prize from Spoken that celebrates and takes Word Canada and a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in inspiration from the art, Writing and Publishing. She currently teaches mythology and creative writing at Dalhousie University. For more environment of the Pacific Northwest, as well as information, visit www.shauntaygrant.com. Erin board books for younger children, including Bennett Banks's distinct artistic style has earned Creatures of the Land and Sky and Creatures of the her recognition in The New York Times, the Sea. Caroll is also an educator who taught Oppenheim Toy Portfolio and the Gustavus Myers Indigenous art and drama to elementary Center. She is the illustrator of several books for schoolchildren for over twenty years. She lives in children and currently lives in Charleston, South Granisle, British Columbia. Carolina.

Ten Cents a Pound Black Chuck Tran-Davies, Nhung McDonell, Regan Orca Book Orca Book Publishers Publishers/Second 9781459816305 Story Press 12 - 16 years. 9781772600568 304 pages Illustrated by Josée paperback Bisaillon. 7 - 10 years. $14.95 24 pages Publish Date: 4/3/2018 hardcover catalog page: 41 $18.95 Publish Date: Psycho. Sick. Dangerous. 4/18/2018 Réal Dufresne's reputation precedes him. When catalog page: 22 the mangled body of his best friend, Shaun, turns up in a field just east of town, tough-as-hell Réal A young girl and her mother have a loving, blames himself. But except for the nightmares, all passionate conversation with each other. The girl is Ré remembers is beating the living crap out of torn between her desire to stay home with her Shaun the night of his death. Shaun's girlfriend, family and the familiarity of their village, and her sixteen-year-old Evie Hawley, keeps her feelings desire to go to school and discover the world locked up tight. But now she's pregnant, and the beyond the mountains that surround them. Every father of her baby is dead. And when Réal looks to time the girl insists that she will stay, her mother her to atone for his sins, everything goes sideways. repeats that she must go, that there is more to life Fast. The tighter Evie and Réal get, the faster things than the labor in the coffee trees. seem to fall apart. And falling in love might just be the card that knocks the whole house down.

Regan McDonell studied writing at the University of Victoria with poets Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier, and then promptly put the Nhung N. Tran-Davies is a physician and founder of pen down to pursue a the Children of Vietnam Benevolent Foundation. career in textile and She has been a speaker at the UN's International graphic design. Now the Organization for Migration conference in Geneva creative director at a Toronto-based marketing as part of its I am a Migrant campaign to help agency, Regan spends her days designing apparel reduce hate speech and promote tolerance. Josée for kids, and her nights writing fiction for teens. Bisaillon has illustrated more than twenty-five children's books, created numerous editorial illustrations for magazines and newspapers and been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award twice. She lives outside of Montréal, Québec, with her family.

Oxford University Press British, to his presidency, when he dealt with Native Americans as a head of state would with a The Indian World of foreign power, using every means of diplomacy and George persuasion to fulfill the new republic's destiny by Washington: The appropriating their land. By the end of his life, First President, the Washington knew more than anyone else in First Americans, America about the frontier and its significance to and the Birth of the the future of his country. The Indian World of Nation George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the Calloway, Colin G. most revered American and the Native Americans Oxford University whose story has been only partially told. Calloway's Press biography invites us to look again at the story of 9780190652166 America's beginnings and see the country in a 624 pages whole new light. hardcover $34.95 Colin G. Calloway is the John Publish Date: Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of 4/2/2018 History and Native American catalog page: 1 Studies at Dartmouth University. His previous books A biography of America's founding father and those include A Scratch of the Pen on whose land he based the nation's future. and A Victory with No Name.

George Washington dominates the narrative of the nation's birth, yet American history has largely forgotten what he knew: that the country's fate depended less on grand rhetorical statements of independence and self-governance than on land-- Indian land. While other histories have overlooked the central importance of Indian power during the country's formative years, Colin G. Calloway here gives Native American leaders their due, revealing the relationship between the man who rose to become the most powerful figure in his country and the Native tribes whose dominion he usurped. In this sweeping new biography, Calloway uses the prism of Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time--Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Little Turtle--and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he returns them to their rightful place in the story of America's founding. The Indian World of George Washington spans decades of Native American leaders' interaction with Washington, from his early days as surveyor of Indian lands, to his military career against both the French and the

World War II at Sea: A The Third Revolution: Xi Global History Jinping and the New Symonds, Craig L. Chinese State Oxford University Press Economy, Elizabeth 9780190243678 Oxford University Press Contains over 100 9780190866075 photographs and 23 maps 352 pages 792 pages hardcover hardcover $27.95 $34.95 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 Publish Date: 5/2/2018 catalog page: 3 catalog page: 2 In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar The first truly global narrative account of the Elizabeth Economy provides an incisive look at the maritime history of World War II. world's most populous country. Inheriting a China burdened with slowing economic growth, rampant Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the corruption, choking pollution, and a failing social Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of welfare system, President Xi has reversed course, the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation rejecting the liberalizing reforms of his Neptune (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison predecessors. At home, the Chinese leadership has Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds ranks reasserted the role of the state into society and among the country's finest naval historians. World enhanced Party and state control. Beyond its War II at Sea is a narrative of the entire war and all borders, Beijing has recast itself as a great power of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and and has maneuvered itself to be an arbiter--not seas between 1939 and 1945. Here are the major just a player--on the world stage. Through an engagements and their interconnections: the U- exploration of Xi Jinping's efforts to address top boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the policy priorities--fighting corruption, controlling the Atlantic; the miracle evacuation from Dunkirk and internet, reforming state-owned enterprises, the scuttling of the French Navy; the pitched improving the country's innovation capacity, battles for control of Norway fjords and Mussolini's reducing the country's air pollution, and elevating Regia Marina; the rise of the Kidö Butai and Pearl its presence on the global stage--Economy Harbor; the landings in North Africa and New identifies the tensions, shortcomings, and Guinea, then on Normandy and Iwo Jima. Symonds successes of Xi's first five years in office. offers indelible portraits of the great naval leaders- -FDR and Churchill (self-proclaimed Navy men), Karl Elizabeth C. Economy is the Dönitz, François Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Yamamoto, Louis Mountbatten, and William Director of Asia Studies at the Halsey--while acknowledging the countless seamen Council on Foreign Relations. and officers of all nationalities whose lives were An expert on Chinese domestic lost during the greatest naval conflicts ever fought. and foreign policy, her most World War II at Sea is history on a truly epic scale. recent book, with Michael Levi, is By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Craig L. Symonds is the Ernest J. Quest is Changing the World. King Distinguished Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College and also Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he taught for thirty years. Orca: How We Came to A Lab of One's Own: Know and Love the Science and Suffrage in Ocean's Greatest the First World War Predator Fara, Patricia Colby, Jason M. Oxford University Press Oxford University Press 9780198794981 9780190673093 304 pages 392 pages hardcover hardcover $24.95 $29.95 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 Publish Date: 6/1/2018 catalog page: 8 catalog page: 4 Many extraordinary Drawing on interviews, official records, private female scientists, archives, and his own family history, Jason M. doctors, and engineers tasted independence and Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking responsibility for the first time during the First story of how people came to love the ocean's World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara greatest predator. Historically reviled as dangerous reveals how suffragists including Virginia Woolf's pests, killer whales were dying by the hundreds, sister, Ray Strachey, had already aligned even thousands, by the 1950s--the victims of themselves with scientific and technological whalers, fishermen, and even the US military. In progress, and that during the dark years of war the Pacific Northwest, fishermen shot them, they mobilized women to enter conventionally scientists harpooned them, and the Canadian male domains such as science and medicine. Fara government mounted a machine gun to eliminate tells the stories of women including mental health them. But that all changed in 1965, when Seattle pioneer Isabel Emslie, chemist Martha Whiteley, a entrepreneur Ted Griffin became the first person co-inventor of tear gas, and botanist Helen Gwynne to swim and perform with a captive killer whale. Vaughan. Women were carrying out vital research The show proved wildly popular, and he began in many aspects of science, but could it last? Fara capturing and selling others, including Sea World's examines how the bravery of these pioneers, first Shamu. Orca is the definitive history of how temporarily allowed into a closed world before the the feared and despised killer became the beloved door slammed shut again, paved the way for orca--and what that has meant for our relationship today's women scientists. with the ocean and its creatures. Patricia Fara lectures in the history of science at Jason M. Colby is an Cambridge University, where environmental and international she is a Fellow of Clare College. historian at the University of She is the President of the Victoria. Born in Victoria, British British Society for the History of Columbia, and raised in the Science (2016-18) and her prize- Seattle area, he worked as a winning book, Science: A Four commercial fisherman in Alaska Thousand Year History (OUP, and Washington State. He is the 2009), has been translated into nine languages. author of The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and US Expansion in Central America.

Paris à Table: 1846 The Oxford Illustrated Briffault, Eugène History of the Third Oxford University Press Reich 9780190842031 Gellately, Robert Translated by J. Oxford University Press Weintraub. 9780198728283 272 pages Edited by Robert hardcover Gellately. Oxford $24.95 Illustrated History Publish Date: 4/2/2018 384 pages catalog page: 11 hardcover $39.95 Paris à Table: 1846 is an Publish Date: 6/3/2018 essential text in the catalog page: 12 history of gastronomy, along with Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste and Dumas's Dictionary of At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no Cuisine. Its author, Eugène Briffault, was well- accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a known in his day as a theater critic and chronicler corporal in a shattered army, without money or of contemporary Paris, but also as a bon-vivant, prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in celebrated for his ability to quaff a bell jar full of autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces champagne in a single draft and well-qualified to against the Soviet Union, and in December, the write authoritatively about the culinary culture of Germans were at the gates of Moscow and Paris. Focusing on the manners and customs of the Leningrad. At that moment, Hitler appeared-- dining scene, Briffault takes readers from the however briefly--to be the most powerful ruler on opulence of a meal at the Rothschilds' through the planet. Given this dramatic turn of events, it is every social stratum down to the student on the little wonder that since 1945 generations of Left Bank and the laborer eating on the streets. He historians keep trying to explain how it all surveys the restaurants of the previous generation happened. This richly illustrated history provides a and his own--from the most elegant to the lowest readable and fresh approach to the complex dive--along with the eating habits of the history of the Third Reich, from the coming to bourgeoisie, the importance and variety of power of the Nazis in 1933 to the final collapse in banquets, the institutional meal, and even the 1945. Using photographs, paintings, propaganda plight of people who do not dine, artists and images, and a host of other such materials from a intellectuals who fell on hungry times. He records wide range of sources, including official the specialties, the décor, the patrons, and the documents, cinema, and the photography of restaurateurs and their waiters. A fine storyteller, contemporary amateurs, foreigners, and the Allied Briffault collected culinary anecdotes, from the armies, it distills our ideas about the period and tantrums of a king deprived of his spinach to the provides a balanced and accessible account of the tragedy of the friendliest pig that was ever seen. whole era. The volume includes the humorous drawings of the caricaturist Bertall that cleverly reinforce the witty Robert Gellately is Earl Ray Beck and ironic tone of the text. Professor of History at Florida State University. His publications Eugène Briffault (1799-1854) was an editor, include the widely acclaimed journalist, theater critic, and man of letters. As a Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age chronicler of contemporary Paris, he contributed to of Social Catastrophe and many anthologies and periodicals of his day and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi was an acquaintance of many of the important Germany, 1933-1945. literary figures of the time. Behind the Lawrence The American Military: A Legend: The Forgotten Concise History Few Who Shaped the Glatthaar, Joseph T. Arab Revolt Oxford University Press Walker, Philip 9780190692810 Oxford University Press 152 pages 9780198802273 hardcover 320 pages $18.95 hardcover Publish Date: 8/1/2018 $34.95 catalog page: 14 Publish Date: 4/7/2018 catalog page: 13 In The American Military: A Concise History, Joseph T. E. Lawrence became world-famous as Lawrence T. Glatthaar explores this relationship from its of Arabia, after helping Sherif Hussein of Mecca origins in the thirteen colonies to today's ongoing gain independence from Turkey during the Arab conflicts in the Middle East. During the Revolt of 1916-18. His achievements, however, Revolutionary War, tension grew between local would have been impossible without the unsung militias and a standing army. The Founding Fathers efforts of a forgotten band of fellow officers and attempted to strike a balance, enshrining an army, spies. This groundbreaking account by Philip navy, and a well-regulated Militia in the Walker interweaves the compelling stories of Constitution. The US soon witnessed the rise of a Colonel Cyril Wilson and a colourful supporting cast professional military, a boon to its successes in the with the narrative of Lawrence and the desert War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. campaign. These men's lost tales provide a However, after the Civil War, the US soon learned remarkable and fresh perspective on Lawrence and that the purpose of a peacetime army is to prepare the Arab Revolt. While Lawrence and others blew for war. When war did arrive, it arrived with a up trains in the desert, Wilson and his men carried vengeance, gutting the trenches of the Great War out their shadowy intelligence and diplomatic with effective innovations: tanks, planes, machine work. His deputies rooted out anti-British soldiers guns, and poison gas. The US embraced the who were trying to sabotage the revolt. technology that would win both world wars and Meanwhile, Lieutenant Lionel Gray, a cipher change the nature of battle in the Second World officer, provided a gateway into unknown aspects War. The nuclear era brought encounters defined of the revolt through his previously unpublished by stalemate--from the Cold War conflicts of Korea photographs and eyewitness writings. Wilson's and Vietnam to the the wars in Afghanistan and crucial influence underpinned all these missions Iraq. Since 9/11, the US has been frustrated by and steadied the revolt on a number of occasions unconventional warfare, including terrorism and when it could have collapsed. Without Wilson and cyberwar, largely negating the technological his circle there would have been no Lawrence of advantage it had held. Glatthaar examines all these Arabia. Wilson's band mostly fell through the challenges, looking to the future of the U.S. military cracks of history into obscurity. Behind the and its often proud and complicated legacy. Lawrence Legend reveals their vital impact and puts Lawrence's efforts into context, and helping to Joseph T. Glatthaar is set the record straight for one of the most Stephenson Distinguished beguiling and iconic characters of the twentieth Professor of History at the century. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the author of Philip Walker is a retired archaeologist and eight books. historian who spent many years as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments with English Heritage. Reconstruction: A Concise Making Oscar Wilde History Mendelssohn, Guelzo, Allen C. Michele Oxford University Press Oxford University 9780190865696 Press 176 pages 9780198802365 hardcover 304 pages $18.95 hardcover Publish Date: 5/1/2018 $24.95 catalog page: 15 Publish Date: 7/1/2018 The era known as catalog page: 27 Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the Witty, inspiring, and nation politically after the Civil War but in little charismatic, Oscar else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the Johnson over just what to do with the South. world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, given him the legitimacy that life denied him. which was sympathetic to the former Confederacy Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of and allowed repressive measures such as the black young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post- codes, would ultimately lead to his impeachment Civil War America. This ground-breaking revisionist and the institution of Radical Reconstruction. In history shows how Wilde's tumultuous early life this concise history, award-winning historian Allen embodies the story of the Victorian era as it C. Guelzo delves into the constitutional, political, tottered towards modernity. Riveting and original, and social issues behind Reconstruction to provide Making Oscar Wilde is a masterful account of a life a lucid and original account of a historical moment like no other. that left an indelible mark on the American social fabric. Michele Mendelssohn is a literary critic and cultural Allen C. Guelzo is Henry R. historian. She is Associate Luce Professor of the Civil War Professor of English Era and Director of Civil War Literature at Oxford Era Studies at Gettysburg University. She earned her College. Three-time winner of doctorate from Cambridge the Lincoln Prize, he is the University and was a author of Abraham Lincoln: Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. Her Redeemer President, Lincoln's previous books include Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Emancipation Proclamation: and Aesthetic Culture and two co-edited The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short collections of literary criticism, Alan Hollinghurst Introduction, Fateful Lightning: A New History of and Late Victorian Into Modern (shortlisted for the the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Gettysburg: 2017 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize). The Last Invasion, which won the Guggenheim- She has published in The New York Times, The Lehrman Prize in Military History. Guardian, African American Review, Journal of American Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature, and Victorian Literature and Culture.

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary Winchester, Simon Oxford University Press 9780198814399 On Truth 304 pages Blackburn, Simon paperback Oxford University Press $14.95 9780190867218 Publish Date: 8/14/2018 144 pages catalog page: 28 paperback $12.95 The greatest enterprise of its kind in history, was Publish Date: 7/2/2018 the verdict of British prime minister Stanley catalog page: 29 Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 Truth is not just a recent topic of contention. pages and nearly two million quotations, it was Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from Why is the truth important? Who decides what the the efforts of hundreds of ordinary and truth is? Is there such a thing as objective, eternal extraordinary people who made it their mission to truth, or is truth simply a matter of perspective, of catalogue the English language in its entirety. In linguistic or cultural vantage point? In this concise The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester book Simon Blackburn provides an accessible celebrates this remarkable feat, and the fascinating explanation of what truth is and how we might characters who played such a vital part in its think about it. The first half of the book details execution, from the colourful Frederick Furnivall, several main approaches to how we should think cheerful promoter of an all-female sculling crew, to about, and decide, what is true. These are James Murray, self-educated son of a draper, who philosophical theories of truth such as the spent half a century guiding the project towards correspondence theory, the coherence theory, fruition. Along the way we learn which dictionary deflationism, and others. He then examines how editor became the inspiration for Kenneth those approaches relate to truth in several Grahame's Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, and contentious domains: art, ethics, reasoning, why Tolkien found it so hard to define walrus. religion, and the interpretation of texts. Written by the bestselling author of The Surgeon of Blackburn's overall message is that truth is often Crowthorne and The Map That Changed the World, best thought of not as a product or an end point The Meaning of Everything is an enthralling that is 'finally' achieved, but--as the American account of the creation of the world's greatest pragmatist thinkers thought of it--as an ongoing dictionary. process of inquiry. The result is an accessible and tour through some of the deepest and thorniest Simon Winchester, OBE, is a questions philosophy has ever tackled British writer, journalist, and broadcaster. As a journalist he Simon Blackburn was previously covered major events, including the Bertrand Russell Professor Bloody Sunday and the of Philosophy at the University Watergate Scandal. He is the of Cambridge. He is currently a author of Atlantic: A Vast Ocean Fellow of Trinity College, of a Million Stories, The Cambridge and also Professor of Philosophy at UNC Professor and the Madman, The Chapel Hill. His previous works include Think: A Map that Changed the World, and A Crack in the Compelling Introduction to Philosophy and Edge of the World, all of which have been New Practical Tortoise Raising and other Philosophical York Times bestsellers. Essays. Think Again: How to Mafia Life: Love, Death, Reason and Argue and Money at the Heart of Sinnott-Armstrong, Organized Crime Walter Varese, Federico Oxford University Press Oxford University Press 9780190627126 9780190868932 256 pages 288 pages paperback paperback $12.95 $19.95 Publish Date: 7/2/2018 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 30 catalog page: 41

Our personal and political worlds are rife with The Japanese Yakuza. The Chinese Triads. The arguments and disagreements, some of them petty Sicilian Cosa Nostra. The Calabrian N'Drangheta. and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and The New York Mafia. The Russian Vory -v -Vakone. understand the opposition is epidemic today, from Today, mafias operate across the globe, with countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians hundreds of thousands of members and billions of pandering to their base. Social media has produced dollars in revenue. From Hong Kong to New York, a virulent world where extreme positions these vast organizations spread their tentacles into dominate. There is much demonization of the politics, finance and everyday life. But what is it like other side, very little progress is made, and the end to belong to the Mafia? How do you join? What result is further widening of positions. How did this does it do to your loved ones? How do you make it happen, and what might be done to address it? to the top? And what happens if you break the Walter Sinnott-Armstrong says there is such a thing rules? Criminologist Federico Varese draws on a as a good argument: Reasonable arguments can lifetime's research to give us access to some of the create more mutual understanding and respect, world's most secretive societies. Mixing reportage and even if neither party is convinced by the other, with case studies and historical insights, this is the compromise is still possible. Think Again shows the story of mafia as it really is: filled with boredom importance of good arguments and reveals and drama, death and disaster, ambition and common misunderstandings. In clear, lively, and betrayal. Infiltrating initiation ceremonies from practical prose, and with plentiful examples from Russia to England, visiting exclusive gambling clubs politics, popular culture, and everyday life, Sinnott- in Macau and Mafia summits in Dubai luxury Armstrong explains what defines an argument, hotels, Varese builds up a unique picture of life in identifies the components of good arguments as the mafia from the inside. well as fallacies to avoid, and demonstrates what good arguments can accomplish. Armed with these Federico Varese is tools, readers will be able to spot bad reasoning Professor of Criminology and bad arguments, and to advance their own at the University of views in a forceful yet logical way. These skills Oxford. He is the author of could even help repair our tattered civic culture. Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman New Territories. Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University. He is co-instructor of the Coursera online course Think Again. Decoding Reality: The Nobody's Girl Friday: Universe as Quantum The Women Who Ran Information Hollywood Vedral, Vlatko Smyth, J. E. Oxford University Press Oxford University Press 9780198815433 9780190840822 240 pages 328 pages paperback hardcover $12.95 $29.95 Publish Date: 4/8/2018 Publish Date: 4/2/2018 catalog page: 44 catalog page: 46

In this engaging and mind-stretching account, Looking back on her Vlatko Vedral considers some of the deepest career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with questions about the Universe and considers the pride, Women owned Hollywood for twenty years. implications of interpreting it in terms of She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% information. He explains the nature of information, of film industry employees were women, 25% of all the idea of entropy, and the roots of this thinking screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM in thermodynamics. He describes the bizarre behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as effects of quantum behaviour -- effects such as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers 'entanglement', which Einstein called 'spooky Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood action at a distance', and explores cutting edge was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the work on harnessing quantum effects in hyperfast country in terms of gender equality and quantum computers, and how recent evidence employment. The first comprehensive history of suggests that the weirdness of the quantum world, Hollywood's high-flying career women during the once thought limited to the tiniest scales, may studio era, Nobody's Girl Friday covers the impact reach into the macro world. Vedral finishes by of the executives, producers, editors, writers, considering the answer to the ultimate question: agents, designers, directors, and actresses who where did all of the information in the Universe shaped Hollywood film production and style, led come from? The answers he considers are their unions, climbed to the top during the war, exhilarating, drawing upon the work of and fought the blacklist. Based on a decade of distinguished physicist John Wheeler. The ideas archival research, author J.E. Smyth uncovers a challenge our concept of the nature of particles, of formidable generation working within the time, of determinism, and of reality itself. This American film industry and brings their voices back edition includes a new foreword from the author, into the history of Hollywood. reflecting on changes in the world of quantum information since first publication. J. E. Smyth is Professor of History at the University of Vlatko Vedral studied Warwick and author or editor undergraduate theoretical of Reconstructing American physics at Imperial College Historical Cinema from London, where he also Cimarron to Citizen Kane received a PhD for his work (2006), Edna Ferber's on 'Quantum Information Hollywood (2009), Hollywood Theory of Entanglement'. Since June 2009, Vedral and the American Historical has held the position of Professor of Quantum Film (ed., 2012), Fred Information Science at the University of Oxford. He Zinnemann and the Cinema also holds a professorship in Physics at the National of Resistance (2015), and the BFI classics University of Singapore. monograph on From Here to Eternity (2015). Most of 14th Street Is Euler's Pioneering Gone: The Equation: The most Washington, DC Riots beautiful theorem in of 1968 mathematics Walker, J. Samuel Wilson, Robin Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780198794929 9780190844790 200 pages 208 pages hardcover hardcover $19.95 $24.95 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 Publish Date: 4/2/2018 catalog page: 48 catalog page: 47 In 1988 The In the devastating aftermath of Martin Luther Mathematical King's assassination, a community already plagued Intelligencer, a quarterly mathematics journal, by poor living conditions, unfair policing, and carried out a poll to find the most beautiful segregation broke into chaos. These riots brought theorem in mathematics. Twenty-four theorems well-documented tragedy and heartbreak--not only were listed and readers were invited to award each among the families of those who lost their lives but a 'score for beauty'. While there were many worthy also among those who lost their homes, competitors, the winner was 'Euler's equation'. possessions, jobs, and businesses. There was anger, What is it that makes Euler's identity, e]iPi + 1 = 0, fear, and anxiety throughout the city of so special? In Euler's Pioneering Equation Robin Washington, DC, from the White House to the Wilson shows how this simple, elegant, and residential neighborhoods of the capital. There was profound formula links together perhaps the five an excruciating dilemma for President Lyndon most important numbers in mathematics, each Johnson. He was outraged by the violence in the associated with a story in themselves: the number streets, but he also keenly aware that African 1, the basis of our counting system; the concept of American citizens who joined the riots had zero, which was a major development in legitimate grievances that his civil rights initiatives mathematics, and opened up the idea of negative did little to address. J. Samuel Walker's Most of numbers; *p an irrational number, the basis for the 14th Street is Gone takes an in-depth look at the measurement of circles; the exponential e, causes and consequences of the Washington, DC associated with exponential growth and riots of 1968. Walker's timely and sensitive logarithms; and the imaginary number i, the square examination of a community, a city, and a country root of -1, the basis of complex numbers. Following rocked by racial tension, violence, and frustration a chapter on each of the elements, Robin Wilson speaks not only to this nation's past but to its discusses how the startling relationship between present. them was established, including the several near misses to the discovery of the formula. J. Samuel Walker is a prize- winning historian who has Robin Wilson was formerly published books on topics that Professor of Mathematics at the include President Truman and Open University and was the use of the atomic bomb, the Gresham Professor of Three Mile Island nuclear Geometry. He is currently accident, and the creation of President of the British Society March Madness. for the History of Mathematics, and has written and edited over forty books. Halal Food: A History Deposition 1940-1944: Armanios, Febe and A Secret Diary of Life in Ergene, Bogaç Vichy France Oxford University Press Werth, Léon 9780190269050 Oxford University Press 376 pages 9780190499549 hardcover Translated by David $29.95 Ball. Publish Date: 5/1/2018 344 pages catalog page: 52 hardcover $34.95 Food trucks Publish Date: 5/2/2018 announcing halal catalog page: 56 proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know Historians agree: the diary of Léon Werth (1878- what this means, other than cheap lunch? Middle 1955) is one of the most precious--and readable-- Eastern historians Febe Armanios and Bogaç pieces of testimony ever written about life in Ergene provide an accessible introduction to halal France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy (permissible) food in the Islamic tradition, exploring regime. Werth was a free-spirited and what halal food means to Muslims and how its unclassifiable writer. He is the author of eleven legal and cultural interpretations have changed in novels, art and dance criticism, acerbic political different geographies up to the present day. reporting, and memorable personal essays. He was Historically, Muslims used food to define their Jewish, and left Paris in June 1940 to hide out in his identities in relation to co-believers and non- wife's country house in Saint-Amour, a small village Muslims. Food taboos are rooted in the Quran and in the Jura Mountains. His short memoir 33 Days prophetic customs, as well as writings from various recounts his struggle to get there. Deposition tells periods and geographical settings. As in Judaism of daily life in the village, on nearby farms and and among certain Christian sects, Islamic food towns, and finally back in Paris, where he draws traditions make distinctions between clean and the portrait of a Resistance network in his impure, and dietary choices and food preparation apartment and writes an eyewitness report of the reflect how believers think about broader issues. insurrection that freed the city in August, 1944. Covering practices from the Middle East and North Africa to South Asia, Europe, and North America, Léon Werth (1878- this timely book is for anyone curious about the 1955) was a history of halal food and its place in the modern prominent French- world. Jewish writer, art critic, and close Febe Armanios is Associate friend to Antoine de Professor of History at Saint-Exupéry. A well-known commentator on Middlebury College and French society during both World Wars, Werth the author of Coptic spent the years of the Second World War in hiding Christianity in Ottoman from the Nazis, composing Déposition. David Ball is Egypt (OUP, 2011). Bogaç Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Ergene is Professor of History at the University of Literature at Smith College. His translations include Vermont. He is the author of Local Court, Provincial a Henri Michaux anthology that won the MLA's Society and Justice in the Ottoman Empire and co- prize for literary translation, and Diary of the Dark author of The Economics of Ottoman Justice. Years, 1940-1944, winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction.

Lives of the Eminent Dog Whistle Politics: How Philosophers Coded Racial Appeals Diogenes Laertius Have Reinvented Racism Oxford University Press and Wrecked the Middle 9780190862176 Class Translated by Pamela Haney López, Ian Mensch. Edited by Oxford University Press James Miller. 9780190841805 720 pages 320 pages hardcover paperback $45.00 $17.95 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 catalog page: 57 catalog page: 58

Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. But long Initially published in 2013, Ian Haney-Lopez's Dog before our own day of self-help books offering Whistle Politics offers a sweeping account of how twelve-step programs to attain happiness, the politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle appeals to persuade white voters to support of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten variety of ideas and examples to follow. This their own interests. As he shows, such appeals tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an generate middle-class enthusiasm for political anthology, a grab bag of maxims and anecdotes candidates who promise to crack down on crime, that generations of Western readers have happily curb undocumented immigration, and protect consulted for entertainment as well as edification, against Islamic infiltration, but ultimately vote in ever since the Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, favor of corporations and the rich. Rejecting any first compiled in the third century AD, came to simple story of malevolent and obvious racism, prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it Haney-López links the two central themes that remains a crucial source for much what we know dominate American politics today: the decline of about the origins of philosophy in Greece, covering the middle class and the Republican Party's a larger number of figures and a longer period of increasing reliance on white voters. The book has time than any other ancient source. This new proven to be remarkably prescient. Donald Trump's edition of the Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, in 2016 campaign was built almost entirely around a faithful and fluent translation by Pamela Mensch, dog whistle politics, and he won the presidency is the first rendering of the complete text into because of it. This new edition of Dog Whistle English in nearly a century. Politics updates the book by a substantial new chapter on Trump that examines his appeal and Diogenes Laërtius (3rd century AD) was a places his campaign in the historical context that biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is the first edition of Dog Whistle Politics so definitively known about his life, but his surviving perceptively uncovered. Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of Greek Ian Haney López is the John H. Boalt Professor of philosophy. Pamela Mensch is a translator of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. An ancient Greek whose works include The Landmark incisive voice on race and identity since the Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, Herodotus' publication of his path-breaking book White by Law Histories, and Plutarch's The Age of Caesar: Five (1996), he remains at the forefront of Roman Lives. James Miller is Professor of Liberal conversations about racial politics in modern Studies and Politics and Faculty Director of Creative America. He has been a visiting professor at both Publishing & Critical Journalism at the New School Yale and Harvard Law Schools. for Social Research. American Discontent: Supernatural: Death, The Rise of Donald Meaning, and the Power Trump and Decline of of the Invisible World the Golden Age Routledge, Clay Campbell, John L. Oxford University Press Oxford University Press 9780190629427 9780190872434 232 pages 240 pages hardcover hardcover $27.95 $24.95 Publish Date: 6/29/2018 Publish Date: 6/1/2018 catalog page: 70 catalog page: 62 Humans are existential The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other animals. We are all fully aware of our fragility, in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an transience, and potential cosmic insignificance. Our entirely different kind of candidate than voters ability to ponder the big questions about death and were used to seeing. He was the first true outsider meaning and the anxiety that these questions can to win the White House in over a century and the provoke have motivated us to be a species not only wealthiest populist in American history. Democrats concerned about survival, but also about our and Republicans alike were left scratching their significance. The quest for transcendent meaning is heads-how did this happen? In American one reason why humans embrace the Discontent, John L. Campbell contextualizes Donald supernatural. Children naturally see the world as Trump's success by focusing on the long- magical, yet when humans reach full cognitive developing economic, racial, ideological, and development they are still drawn to supernatural political shifts that enabled Trump to win the White beliefs and ideas that defy the laws of physics. Even House. Campbell argues that Trump's rise to power those who consider themselves secular or atheists was the culmination of a half-century of deep, are seduced by supernatural belief systems. Clay slow-moving change in America, beginning with the Routledge, an experimental psychologist, asserts decline of the Golden Age of prosperity that that belief or trust in forces beyond our followed the Second World War. The worsening understanding is rooted in our fear of death and economic anxieties of many Americans reached a need for meaning. In Supernatural: Death, tipping point when the 2008 financial crisis and Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, he Barack Obama's election, as the first African reveals just how universal supernatural thinking is, American president, finally precipitated the worst and how this kind of thinking is adaptive and even political gridlock in generations. Grounded in the healthy. underlying economic and political changes in America that stretch back decades, American Clay Routledge is a professor Discontent provides a short, accessible, and and psychological scientist at nonpartisan explanation of Trump's rise to power. North Dakota State University who studies human John L. Campbell is Class of 1925 motivation. Much of his work Professor in the Department of focuses on how people Sociology at Dartmouth College grapple with existential and Professor of Political Economy questions and fear about in the Department of Business and death and meaning. He regularly publishes his work Politics at the Copenhagen in academic journals and writes for the public on a Business School. range of topics related to psychology, academia, and broader social issues. Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Birds in the Ancient Special Forces, and the World: Winged Words Secret Pursuit of British Mynott, Jeremy Foreign Policy Oxford University Press Cormac, Rory 9780198713654 Oxford University Press 528 pages 9780198784593 hardcover 416 pages $39.95 hardcover Publish Date: 8/5/2018 $27.95 catalog page: 80 Publish Date: 7/10/2018 catalog page: 74 Birds pervaded the ancient world, impressing British leaders use spies and Special Forces to their physical presence on the daily experience and interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and imaginations of ordinary people and figuring deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread prominently in literature and art. They provided a misinformation designed to divide and discredit fertile source of symbols and stories in myths and targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and folklore and were central to the ancient rituals of Northern Ireland. It has instigated whispering augury and divination. Jeremy Mynott's Birds in the campaigns and planted false evidence on officials Ancient World illustrates the many different roles working behind the Iron Curtain, tried to ferment birds played in culture: as indicators of time, revolution in Albania, blown up ships to prevent weather and the seasons; as a resource for the passage of refugees to Israel, and secretly hunting, eating, medicine and farming; as domestic funnelled aid to insurgents in Afghanistan and pets and entertainments; and as omens and dissidents in Poland. MI6 has launched cultural and intermediaries between the gods and humankind. economic warfare against Iceland and We learn how birds were perceived - through Czechoslovakia. It has tried to instigate coups in quotations from well over a hundred classical Congo, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Greek and Roman authors, all of them translated elsewhere. Through bribery and blackmail, Britain freshly into English, through nearly 100 illustrations has rigged elections as colonies moved to from ancient wall-paintings, pottery and mosaics, independence. Britain has fought secret wars in and through selections from early scientific Yemen, Indonesia, and Oman--and discreetly used writings, and many anecdotes and descriptions Special Forces to eliminate enemies from colonial from works of history, geography and travel. Malaya to Libya during the Arab Spring. In Disrupt Jeremy Mynott acts as a stimulating guide to this and Deny, Rory Cormac tells the remarkable true rich and fascinating material, using birds as a prism story of Britain's secret scheming against its through which to explore both the similarities and enemies, as well as its friends. the often surprising differences between ancient conceptions of the natural world and our own. Dr Rory Cormac is an Associate Professor of International Jeremy Mynott is the author of Relations at the University of Birdscapes: Birds in Our Nottingham. A Fellow of the Royal Imagination and Experience Historical Society and a leading (2009), a book exploring the expert among a new generation variety of human responses to of intelligence historians, he birds, described by The specialises in British covert operations and the Guardian as “the finest book secret pursuit of foreign policy. He has published ever written about why we widely on intelligence and security issues and watch birds.” regularly appears on radio and television. Hannah Mary Tabbs and Democracy: A Life the Disembodied Torso: Cartledge, Paul A Tale of Race, Sex, and Oxford University Press Violence in America 9780190866273 Gross, Kali Nicole 416 pages Oxford University Press paperback 9780190860011 $19.95 232 pages Publish Date: 4/1/2018 paperback catalog page: 90 $18.95 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 NEW IN PAPERBACK. catalog page: 84 Ancient Greece first NEW IN PAPERBACK. coined the concept of democracy, yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details not only the rudiments of modern democratic surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the society but the entire Western tradition of anti- crime and ensuing trial--which spanned several democratic thought. In Democracy, Paul Cartledge months--were featured in the national press. The provides a detailed history of this ancient political trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as illicit system. Authoritative and accessible, Cartledge's sex, adultery, and domestic violence in the black book will be regarded as the best account of community to public attention. At the same time, ancient democracy and its long afterlife for many the mixed race of the victim and one of his years to come. assailants exacerbated anxieties over the purity of whiteness in the post-Reconstruction era. In Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso, Professor of Greek Culture historian Kali Nicole Gross uses detectives' notes, Emeritus at the University of trial and prison records, local newspapers, and Cambridge. He is an honorary other archival documents to reconstruct this citizen of modern Sparta and ghastly whodunit crime in all its scandalous detail. holds the Gold Cross of the In doing so, she gives the crime context by Order of Honor awarded by the analyzing it against broader evidence of police President of Greece. His treatment of black suspects and violence within the previous books include The black community. Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 1997, 2002), The Spartans (Random Kali Nicole Gross is Professor House, 2004), Alexander the Great (Random of African American Studies at House, 2005), Thermopylae (Random House, 2007), Wesleyan University. She is Ancient Greece (OUP, 2009), and After also the author of Colored Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of Amazons: Crime, Violence, the Graeco-Persian Wars (OUP, 2013). and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910. Her work has been featured on NPR and in The Washington Post, Jet, and Ebony. No Shortcuts: Organizing Realpolitik: A History for Power in the New Bew, John Gilded Age Oxford University Press McAlevey, Jane F. 9780190864330 Oxford University Press 408 pages 9780190868659 paperback 272 pages $21.95 paperback Publish Date: 5/1/2018 $19.95 catalog page: 95 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 catalog page: 91 NEW IN PAPERBACK.

NEW IN PAPERBACK. Since its coinage in mid-19th century Germany, Realpolitik has proven both elusive and protean. To The crisis of the progressive movement is so some, it represents the best approach to evident that nothing less than a fundamental meaningful change and political stability in a world rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. buffeted by uncertainty and rapid transformation. Today's progressives now work for professional To others, it encapsulates an attitude of cynicism organizations more comfortable with the inside and cold calculation, a transparently self-justifying game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout policy exercised by dominant nations over weaker. the West), where they are outmatched and Remolded across generations and presupposed to outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now its political and ideological moment, Realpolitik focus on the narrowest possible understanding of remains a touchstone for discussion about the interests of their members, and membership statecraft and diplomacy. It is a freighted concept. continues to decline in lockstep with the narrowing Historian John Bew explores the genesis of of their goals. Meanwhile, promising movements Realpolitik, tracing its longstanding and enduring like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter lack relevance in political and foreign policy debates. sufficient power to accomplish meaningful change. Bew's book uncovers the context that gave birth to Why do progressives in the United States keep Realpolitik--that of the fervor of radical change in losing on so many issues? In No Shortcuts, Jane 1848 in Europe. He explains its application in the McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but conduct of foreign policy from the days of Bismarck lack the organized power to enact significant onward. Lastly, he illuminates its translation from change, to outlast their bosses in labor fights, and German into English, one that reveals the uniquely to hold elected leaders accountable. She ultimately Anglo-American version of realpolitik--small r-- concludes that, in order to win, progressive being practiced today, a modern iteration that movements need strong unions built from bottom- attempts to reconcile idealism with the pursuit of up organizing strategies that place the power for national interests. Lively, encyclopedic, and utterly change in the hands of workers and ordinary original, Realpolitik: A History illuminates the life people at the community level. and times of a term that has shaped and will continue to shape international relations. Jane F. McAlevey is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Labor and John Bew teaches Worklife Program at Harvard history and foreign Law School. A longtime organizer policy at the War in the environmental and labor Studies Department at movements, she is the author of King's College London. Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Verso).

The Age of Em: Work, Oxford Roald Dahl Love, and Life when Dictionary: From Robots Rule the Earth aardvark to zozimus, a Hanson, Robin real dictionary of Oxford University Press everyday and extra-usual 9780198817826 words 448 pages Dahl, Roald paperback Oxford University Press $14.95 9780192736482 Publish Date: 6/5/2018 288 pages catalog page: 99 paperback $15.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK. Publish Date: 7/10/2018 catalog page: 103 Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly NEW IN PAPERBACK. smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same For the first time in paperback, this Oxford Roald connections on a fast computer, and you have a Dahl Dictionary takes readers aged 8+ on a phizz- robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em whizzing, splendiferous, fantabulous journey deep to do some job and copy it a million times: an army into the language of Roald Dahl's bestselling of workers is at your disposal. When they can be children's stories. This is a dictionary which will made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will develop language and literacy skills by igniting the displace humans in most jobs. In this new creativity in all readers and writers everywhere. economic era, the world economy may double in Lots of dictionaries tell you what an 'alligator' is, or size every few weeks. Some say we can't know the how to spell 'balloon' but they won't explain the future, especially following such a disruptive new difference between a 'ringbeller' and a technology, but Professor Robin Hanson sets out to 'trogglehumper', or say why witches need 'gruntles' prove them wrong. Applying decades of expertise eggs' or suggest a word for the shape of a 'Knid'. in physics, computer science, and economics, he This dictionary does all those things. All the words uses standard theories to paint a detailed picture that Roald Dahl invented are here, like of a world dominated by ems. 'biffsquiggled' and 'whizzpopping' to remind you what means what, but that is not all. You'll also Robin Hanson is an associate find out where words came from, rhyming words, professor of economics at synonyms and lots of alternative words for words George Mason University, and a that are overused. This is the world's first Roald research associate at the Future Dahl Dictionary from the word experts at Oxford of Humanity Institute of Oxford University Press. University. Professor Hanson has master's degrees in physics and Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – philosophy from the University of Chicago, nine 23 November 1990) was a British years experience in artificial intelligence research novelist, short story writer, poet, at Lockheed and N.A.S.A., a doctorate in social and screenwriter. Dahl rose to science from California Institute of Technology, prominence in the 1940s, with 2800 citations, and sixty academic publications, in works for both children and economics, physics, computer science, philosophy, adults, and became one of the and more. He blogs at OvercomingBias.com, and world's best-selling authors. He has pioneered the field of prediction markets since has been referred to as ‘one of the greatest 1988. storytellers for children of the 20th century’. Copyright: What Neil Weinstock Netanel is Pete Kameron Endowed Everyone Needs to Know Chair in Law, University of California, Los Angeles Netanel, Neil Weinstock and author of Copyright's Paradox. Oxford University Press 9780199941162 What Everyone Needs to Know 240 pages paperback $16.95 Publish Date: 8/2/2018 catalog page: 112

Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and entertainment companies, but it now impacts everyone who uses the Internet or consumes cultural expression on a computer, mobile phone, or personal tablet. Copyright has come to be immensely controversial as well. For instance, the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), copyright-industry backed legislation met its defeat at the hands of a popular outcry spearheaded by Google, Wikipedia, and other online aggregators of content and information. SOPA and other such initiatives would target the massive online piracy that threatens the economic viability of newspapers, movie studios, record labels, and book publishers. But the copyright industries' arguably heavy-handed response threatens to chill the free-wheeling wellspring of online creativity, expression, and ready access to information upon which we have all come to rely. To navigate the shoals of these opposing, equally dim prospects is a complex undertaking. No less daunting, even for the educated layperson, is to understand the legal framework, policy arguments, industry economics, legislative proposals, and judicial decisions that fuel the copyright debate. In Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know, law professor Neil Weinstock Netanel guides readers through the murky dynamics of modern copyright law, answering questions about topics such as the new challenges posed by the digital environment, copyright and piracy in the global marketplace, and proposals for future reform.

Very Short Introductions The English Language: A Very Short Introduction ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions Horobin, Simon series from Oxford University Press contains Oxford University Press hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. 9780198709251 These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to Very Short Introductions get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert 152 pages authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new paperback ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and $11.95 challenging topics highly readable. Publish Date: 3/25/2018 catalog page: 117 Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction The English language is Warner, Marina spoken by more than a billion people throughout Oxford University Press the world. But where did English come from? And 9780199532155 how has it evolved into the language used today? Very Short In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin Introductions investigates how we have arrived at the English we 152 pages know today, and celebrates the way new speakers paperback and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. $11.95 Engaging with contemporary concerns about Publish Date: 5/1/2018 correctness, Horobin considers whether such catalog page: 116 changes are improvements, or evidence of slipping standards. What is the future for the English Marina Warner digs language? Will Standard English continue to hold into a rich hoard of fairy tales in all their brilliant sway, or we are witnessing its replacement by and fantastical variations, in order to define a newly emerging Englishes? genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Drawing on a Simon Horobin is glittering array of examples, from classics such as Professor of English Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Language and Literature Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, at the University of and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to Oxford and a Fellow of modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Magdalen College. He Snow White, Warner forms a persuasive case for has written extensively on the history, structure, fairy tale as a crucial repository of human and uses of the English language. He is the author understanding and culture. of How English Became English (OUP, 2016), Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013), and books on the Marina Warner is a history of English, and the language of Chaucer. Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy, as well as the author of numerous award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales. In 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize, and in 2013 she was awarded a Sheykh Zayed Prize. Lakes: A Very Short The History of Physics: Introduction A Very Short Vincent, Warwick F. Introduction Oxford University Press Heilbron, J. L. 9780198766735 Oxford University Press Very Short Introductions 9780199684120 160 pages Very Short paperback Introductions $11.95 184 pages Publish Date: 4/1/2018 paperback catalog page: 117 $11.95 Publish Date: Outlines the essential 3/25/2018 features of lake environments and their biology, catalog page: 118 offering an up-to-date view of lake ecosystems. Vincent traces the origins of lake science Introduces us to Islamic astronomers and (limnology) from the seminal work of Francois Forel mathematicians calculating the size of the earth on Lake Geneva at the edge of the Swiss Alps, to while their caliphs conquered much of it; to modern approaches such as environmental medieval scholar-theologians investigating light; to sensors, satellite observations, stable isotope Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, analysis, and DNA-based technologies which are measuring, and trying to explain, the universe. used to probe the microbial life support systems that lead from sunlight to fish.

Warwick Vincent is professor John Heilbron was educated of biology at Laval University in at the University of California, Quebec City, Canada, where he Berkeley, in physics and teaches limnology (lake history and began teaching at science) and oceanography. He the University of Pennsylvania also holds the Canada in 1964. He returned to Research Chair in Aquatic Berkeley in 1967, where he Ecosystem Studies and is rose to become professor of former director of the history and vice chancellor. interuniversity Centre for After retiring in 1994 Heilbron Northern Studies. He is especially known for his taught sporadically at Caltech and Yale, and lived work on Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems, and much mostly around Oxford, where he has been Senior of his current research is on lakes, rivers, and Research Fellow at Worcester College and the coastal seas in the Canadian North. His books Oxford Museum for History of Science. He has include Microbial Ecosystems of Antarctica (CUP, written several books for Oxford University Press, 1988) and Polar Lakes and Rivers (OUP, 2008), with including Galileo (2010) and Love, Literature, and Johanna Laybourn-Parry. Dr. Vincent has received the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy several awards and distinctions including the Revisited (2013), with Finn Aaserud. Ramon Margalef Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) for education at all levels, from graduate student training to public outreach. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. The European Union: A Very Short Introduction - 4th edition Pinder, John and Usherwood, Simon Decadence: A Very Oxford University Short Introduction Press Weir, David 9780198808855 Oxford University Very Short Press Introductions 9780190610227 152 pages Very Short paperback Introductions $11.95 152 pages Publish Date: paperback 3/30/2018 $11.95 catalog page: 118 Publish Date: 4/2/2018 catalog page: 120 In this fully updated fourth edition, Pinder and Usherwood cover the migrant crisis and the UK's Explores the conflicting attitudes towards decision to leave the Union, set in the context of a modernity present in decadent culture by body that is now involved in most areas of public examining the difference between aesthetic policy. Discussing how the EU continues to draw in decadence--the excess of artifice--and social new members, they conclude by considering the decadence, which involves excess in a variety of future of the Union and the choices and challenges forms, whether perversely pleasurable or that may lie ahead. gratuitously cruel.

Simon Usherwood is Reader in Politics at the University of Surrey, where he specializes David Weir is Professor in the study of Emeritus of Comparative Euroscepticism, and in UK-EU Literature at Cooper Union, relations. As well as where he taught literature, publishing widely in these linguistics, and cinema for 30 areas, he has also been a years. He has published books frequent contributor to public debate, through the on Jean Vigo, James Joyce, media, social media, and numerous public speaking William Blake, orientalism, events. Since 2016, he has been a Senior Fellow of anarchism, and decadence. the UK in a Changing Europe programme. John Pinder was Honorary Professor at the College of Europe, and Chairman of the Federal Trust, London. He was the author of The Building of the European Union (Third edition, OUP, 1998).

The U.S. Constitution: Organised Crime: A A Very Short Very Short Introduction Introduction Bodenhamer, David J. Antonopoulos, Oxford University Georgios A. and Press Papanicolaou, 9780195378320 Georgios Very Short Oxford University Introductions Press 144 pages 9780198795544 paperback Very Short $11.95 Introductions Publish Date: 144 pages 4/12/2018 paperback catalog page: 121 $11.95 Publish Date: 4/22/2018 Explores the major themes that have shaped catalog page: 122 American constitutional history: federalism, the balance of powers, property, representation, Using examples from across the globe, the authors equality, rights, and security. Informed by the analyse the different cultural traditions of latest scholarship, this book places constitutional organised crime, such as the Mafia, Yakuza, and history within the context of American political and Triads, and also the nature of organised crime, social history. from arms trafficking and drug dealing to extortion.

Georgios A. David J. Bodenhamer is the Antonopoulos is founding Executive Director Professor of of The Polis Center, Professor Criminology at of History, and Adjunct Teesside University. Professor of Informatics at He has been visiting scholar at a number of IUPUI. Bodenhamer is author universities in the UK, Greece, Croatia, and the or editor of twelve books in Netherlands. He is an associate of the Cross-Border American legal and Crime Colloquium, editor-in-chief of the journal constitutional history and in the new field of spatial Trends in Organised Crime, and member of the humanities, which applies geospatial technologies editorial boards of the journals Global Crime, to humanities disciplines. He is also co-editor of a Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of Money two book series with Indiana University Press and Laundering Control, and the British Journal of the IJHAC: A Journal of the Digital Humanities. Criminology. From 2010 to 2014 he was Chair of the North-east branch of the British Society of Criminology, and in 2014 he served as executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organised Crime (IASOC). Georgios Papanicolaou is Reader in Criminology at Teesside University UK. He has studied law and penal sciences at the University of Athens, Greece, and Criminology at the University of Edinburgh.

The Philosophy of The Hellenistic Age: A Religion: A Very Very Short Short Introduction Introduction Bayne, Tim Thonemann, Peter Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780198754961 9780198746041 Very Short Very Short Introductions Introductions 144 pages 152 pages paperback paperback $11.95 $11.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 4/22/2018 4/22/2018 catalog page: 123 catalog page: 124

Introduces the field of philosophy of religion, and Opens up the history and culture of the vast engages with some of the most burning questions Hellenistic world, from the death of Alexander the that philosophers discuss. Considering how religion Great (323 BC) to the Roman conquest of the should be defined, and whether we even need to Ptolemaic kingdom (30 BC). be able to define it in order to engage in the philosophy of religion, he goes on to discuss whether the existence of God matters. Exploring Peter Thonemann teaches the problem of evil, Bayne also debates the Greek and Roman history at connection between faith and reason, and the Wadham College, Oxford. He related question of what role reason should play in is the author of The religious contexts. Shedding light on the Maeander Valley: A Historical relationship between science and religion, Bayne Geography from Antiquity to finishes by considering the topics of reincarnation Byzantium (2011), the winner and the afterlife. of the Anglo-Hellenic League's prestigious Runciman Prize 2012, and co- Tim Bayne is Professor of author (with Simon Price) of The Birth of Classical Philosophy at Monash University Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (2010). (Melbourne), having taught His most recent book is an introduction to previously at Macquarie Hellenistic coinage, The Hellenistic World: Using University, the University of Coins as Sources (2015). He writes regularly on all Western Ontario, the University aspects of Greek and Roman history and culture for of Manchester and the the Times Literary Supplement. University of Oxford. He has published widely in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion, and is the author of The Unity of Consciousness (OUP, 2010) and Thought: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2013).

Veterinary Science: A Development: A Very Very Short Short Introduction Introduction Goldin, Ian Yeates, James Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780198736257 9780198790969 Very Short Very Short Introductions Introductions 144 pages 144 pages paperback paperback $11.95 $11.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 5/22/2018 4/22/2018 catalog page: 126 catalog page: 125 Considers the contributions that education, health, Introduces the field of veterinary science, covering gender, equity, and other dimensions of human the history of its scientific and clinical aspects from well-being make to development, and discusses early practices to recent challenges such as the why it is also necessary to include the role of outbreak of BSE and antibiotic resistance, and institutions and the rule of law as well as considering the differences between human sustainability and environmental concerns. medicine and veterinary medicine. Ian Goldin is Director of the Oxford Martin Dr James Yeates is Chief School at the University Veterinary Officer of the of Oxford, and Professor RSPCA. He is a practicing of Globalization and member of the Royal College Development. From of Veterinary Surgeons and 2001 to 2006, he was Official Veterinarian. He has Vice President of the World Bank and the Bank's served on the Council of the Director of Development Policy. Following the end British Veterinary of apartheid, Ian was economic adviser to Association, the Council of President Mandela and Chief Executive of the the Society of Practising Development Bank of Southern Africa Previously, Veterinary Surgeons; Ian was Principle Economist at the EBRD and Head Scientific Committee of the British Small Animal of Programmes at the OECD Development Centre. Veterinary Association; and UK Equine Disease Ian has received wide recognition including having Coalition. He is the author of Animal Welfare in been knighted by the French Government for his Veterinary Practice (Wiley Blackwell, 2013). services to development, and nominated Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. His books include Is the Planet Full? (OUP, 2014), Divided Nations (OUP, 2013), and Globalisation for Development (OUP, 2012).

Marx: A Very Short Comparative Introduction - 2nd Literature: A Very edition Short Introduction Singer, Peter Hutchinson, Ben Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780198821076 9780198807278 Very Short Very Short Introductions Introductions 152 pages 160 pages paperback paperback $11.95 $11.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 5/1/2018 5/22/2018 catalog page: 127 catalog page: 128

In this new edition, Singer explores whether Marx Outlining the complex history and competing remains relevant to the twenty-first century, and if theories of comparative literature, Ben Hutchinson so, how. Does the fact that eight billionaires now offers an accessible means of entry into a own as much as the bottom half of the world's notoriously slippery subject. Ultimately, he places population give support to Marxist thinking? Does comparative literature at the very heart of literary the ease with which conservative politicians can criticism, for as George Steiner once noted, to read win over working class voters by appealing to is to compare. nationalism undermines Marx's view of class struggle and the inevitability of victory for the Ben Hutchinson is Professor proletariat? Singer ponders key questions such as of European Literature at the these, and also discusses the place of the internet University of Kent. He is a as a productive force when analyzed in Marxist Fellow of the Academia theory. He concludes with an assessment of Marx's Europaea, a Philip legacy, asking if there is any realistic prospect of Leverhulme Prize winner, and replacing capitalism with a better system of a Member of the Executive production and distribution in the twenty-first Committee of the British century. Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), as well as Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp a regular contributor to Professor of Bioethics in the newspapers including the Times Literary University Center for Human Supplement (TLS) and the Literary Review. His Values at Princeton University, publications include Rilke's Poetics of Becoming a position that he now (2006), W. G. Sebald. Die dialektische Imagination combines with the position of (2009), Modernism and Style (2011), and Lateness Laureate Professor at the and Modern European Literature (2016). University of Melbourne. An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country's highest civilian honor. His books include Animal Liberation (1975; Bodley Head, 2015), Practical Ethics (1979; CUP, 2011), The Life You Can Save (Picador, 2010), and The Most Good You Can Do (Yale University Press, 2015). Geophysics: A Very Genomics: A Very Short Introduction Short Introduction Lowrie, William Archibald, John M. Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780198792956 9780198786207 Very Short Very Short Introductions Introductions 144 pages 144 pages paperback paperback $11.95 $11.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 5/22/2018 5/22/2018 catalog page: 129 catalog page: 130

Describes the Shows how the internal and external processes that affect the field of genomics is on the cusp of another planet, as well as the principles and methods of quantum leap; the implications for science and geophysics used to investigate them. He explains society are profound. how analysis of the seismic waves produced in earthquakes reveals the internal structure of the John Archibald is a Earth. Distinguished University Research Professor in the William Lowrie was elected professor of geophysics Department of at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Biochemistry & Molecular Zurich, Switzerland, in 1974, where he taught and Biology at Dalhousie researched until retirement in 2004. His research University in Nova Scotia, activity involved interpreting the Earth's magnetic Canada, and a Senior Fellow of the Canadian field in the geological past from the magnetizations Institute for Advanced Research, Program in of dated rocks. The results were applied to the Integrated Microbial Biodiversity. He is currently an solution of geologic-tectonic problems, and to Associated Editor for Genome Biology & Evolution, analysis of the polarity history of the geomagnetic and an Editorial Board member of several journals, field. He has authored 135 scientific articles, and including Current Biology, BMC Biology, and his books include Fundamentals of Geophysics Environmental Microbiology. Dr. Archibald's (Cambridge University Press, second edition 2007); scientific interests revolve around the diversity and and A Student's Guide to Geophysical Equations evolution of microbial eukaryotes and their (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has been organelles. He has written more than 100 scientific President of the European Union of Geosciences publications and is the author of One Plus One (1987-9), and Section President and Council Equals One: Symbiosis and the Evolution of member of the American Geophysical Union (1998- Complex Life (Oxford University Press, 2014). In 2002). Lowrie was elected Fellow of the American recognition of his scientific achievements, Dr. Geophysical Union in 1990 and Member of the Archibald was elected to the College of New Academia Europaea in 2000. Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (2016-2021).

The Anthropocene: Applied A Very Short Mathematics: A Very Introduction Short Introduction Ellis, Erle C. Goriely, Alain Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780198792987 9780198754046 Very Short Very Short Introductions Introductions 144 pages 144 pages paperback paperback $11.95 $11.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 5/22/2018 4/22/2018 catalog page: 131 catalog page: 132

Explains the science behind the Anthropocene and Presents a compact yet comprehensive view of the the many proposals about when to mark its field of applied mathematics, and explores its beginning: The nuclear tests of the 1950s? The relationships with (pure) mathematics, science, and beginnings of agriculture? The origins of humans as engineering. a species?

Alain Goriely joined the Erle C. Ellis is Professor of Department of Geography and Environmental Mathematics at the Systems at the University of University of Arizona Maryland, Baltimore County shortly after receiving his (UMBC). His research Ph.D. from the University investigates the ecology of of Brussels. In 2010, he human landscapes at local to moved to the University of global scales towards informing sustainable Oxford as the Chair of Mathematical Modelling. He stewardship of the biosphere in the Anthropocene. is currently the Director of the Oxford Centre for He teaches environmental science and landscape Industrial and Applied Mathematics. At the ecology at UMBC, and has taught ecology at scientific level, he is an applied mathematician with Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Ellis is a broad interests in mathematics, mechanics, member of the Anthropocene Working Group of sciences, and engineering, which led him to the Subcommission of Quaternary Stratigraphy of collaborate closely with researchers from many the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the disciplines. His current research includes the scientific steering committee of the Global Land mechanics of biological growth and its applications Programme, formerly of the International to plants and physiology; the modelling of new Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), now of photovoltaic devices; the foundations of elasticity; its successor organization, Future Earth, and a the modelling of cancer; the mechanics of the senior fellow of the Breakthrough Institute. human brain; and more generally the development of mathematical methods for applied sciences.

Viruses: A Very Short Southeast Asia: A Introduction Very Short Crawford, Dorothy H. Introduction Oxford University Rush, James R. Press Oxford University 9780198811718 Press Very Short 9780190248765 Introductions Very Short 160 pages Introductions paperback 144 pages $11.95 paperback Publish Date: $11.95 5/22/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 133 6/12/2018 catalog page: 134 Demonstrates how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling of their Offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary intricate structures, Crawford demonstrates how overview of Southeast Asia from the era of these tiny parasites are by far the most abundant indigenous kingdoms to the present's independent life forms on the planet. nation states. Paints a broad-brush portrait of contemporary Southeast Asia as a community of diverse societies and nation states as well as a Dorothy H. Crawford was geopolitical theater-of-action nested between India Professor of Medical and China and enmeshed in global economic traffic Microbiology at the patterns, power matrixes, and environmental University of Edinburgh from forces. Helps grasp Southeast Asia's great diversity 1997-2010 and Assistant of ethnicities, religions, and political systems, often Principal for Public little understood by Western audiences. Understanding of Medicine from 2005-2011. She was James R. Rush is Professor of elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh History at Arizona State and of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001 University, where he has and received an OBE for services to medicine and taught for twenty-six years. higher education in 2005. She is the author of The He has served as Director of Invisible Enemy (OUP, 2000); Deadly Companions Arizona State University's (OUP, 2007); Virus Hunt (OUP, 2013); and Ebola Program for Southeast Asian (OUP, 2016). Studies and as a consultant to the Asia Society, El Colegio de Mexico, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Opium to Java: Revenue Farms and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910; Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia; and The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia.

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Criminology: A Very Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction Short Introduction: A Newburn, Tim Very Short Oxford University Press Introduction 9780199643257 Newman, Richard S. Very Short Oxford University Introductions Press 144 pages 9780190213220 paperback Very Short $11.95 Introductions Publish Date: 144 pages 6/26/2018 paperback catalog page: 135 $11.95 Publish Date: Crime is big news. From murder to theft to drug 6/1/2018 gangs, crime and criminal justice affect the lives of catalog page: 136 millions of people worldwide. Hardly surprisingly, crime has been pushed high up the public policy Examines the key people, themes, and ideas that agenda across the world. But how can we measure animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and crime, or evaluate the effectiveness of preventative nineteenth-centuries in the United States and measures? Does the threat of prison reduce internationally. Filled with portraits of key someone's likelihood of reoffending, or would abolitionists - including Frederick Douglass, William rehabilitation be more constructive? In this Very Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint Short Introduction Tim Newburn considers how we L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and can study trends in crime and use them to inform Angelina Grimké - the book highlights abolitionists' preventative policy and criminal justice. Analyzing focus on social and political action. the history of the subject, he reflects on our understanding of crime and responses to crime in earlier historical periods. Considering trends in Richard S. Newman is crime in the developed world, Newburn discusses Professor of History at the its causes, exploring the relationship between Rochester Institute of drugs and crime, analyzing what we know about Technology His books include why people stop offending, and looking at both The Transformation of formal and informal responses to crime. Newburn American Abolitionism and concludes by discussing what role criminology can Freedom's Prophet: Bishop plausibly be anticipated to have in crime control Richard Allen, the Black and politics, and what its limits are. Founding Fathers, and the AME Church. He is the former director of the Tim Newburn is Professor of Social Library Company of Philadelphia. Policy and Criminology, and Head of Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is a former President of the British Society of Criminology (2005-08) and was elected an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 2005. In 2009, together with two colleagues, he was appointed Official Historian on Criminal Justice. Terrorism: A Very Demography: A Very Short Introduction Short Introduction Townshend, Charles Harper, Sarah Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780198809098 9780198725732 Very Short Very Short Introductions Introductions 176 pages 144 pages paperback paperback $11.95 $11.95 Publish Date: 8/1/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 137 8/1/2018 catalog page: 138 Examines the historical, ideological, and local roots of terrorist violence. Starting from the question of Considers the way in which the global population why terrorists find it so easy to seize public has evolved over time and space. Sarah Harper attention, this new edition analyzes the emergence discusses the theorists, theories, and methods of terrorism as a political strategy, and discusses involved in studying population trends and the objectives which have been pursued by users movements. She then looks at the emergence of of this strategy from French revolutionaries to new demographic sub-disciplines and addresses Islamic jihadists. some of the future population challenges of the 21st century. Charles Townshend is Emeritus Professor of International Sarah Harper is Professor of History at Keele University. He Gerontology at Oxford has held fellowships at the University, Director of the National Humanities Center in Oxford Institute of Ageing, North Carolina and the and Director of the Clore Woodrow Wilson International Programme on Population- Center in Washington, DC. His Environment Change. She is most recent books are Easter Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and 1916: the Irish rebellion (2005), When God Made author of Migration, Ageing and the Environment Hell: the British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the for the UK government Foresight Programme on Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 (2010), Desert Hell: the Global Migration. She is also the Director of the British invasion of Mesopotamia (2011), and The Royal Institute, London. Sarah is the author and Republic: the Fight for Irish Independence, 1918- editor of several books including Ageing Societies: 1923 (2013). Myths, Challenges and Opportunities (Hodder Arnold, 2006); the International Handbook of Ageing and Public Policy (Edward Elgar, 2014); and How Population Change will Transform our World (OUP, 2016). She is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Population Ageing (Springer).

American Cultural The Great God Pan History: A Very Short and Other Horror Introduction Stories Avila, Eric Machen, Arthur Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780190200589 9780198813163 Very Short Edited by Aaron Introductions Worth. Oxford 160 pages World's Classics paperback Hardback Collection $11.95 448 pages Publish Date: hardcover 8/1/2018 $22.95 catalog page: 139 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn catalog page: 140 Monroe, or the fireside chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, In the final decade of the nineteenth century, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that Arthur Machen produced a seminal body of tales of populate American cultural history. From the occult horror, spiritual and physical corruption, and Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to malignant survivals from the primeval past which Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the horrified and scandalized late-Victorian readers. history of American culture tells us how previous Machen's weird fiction has influenced generations generations of Americans have imagined of storytellers, from H. P. Lovecraft to Guillermo themselves, their nation, and their relationship to Del Toro - and it remains no less unsettling today. the world and its peoples. This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American Arthur Machen is a significant culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic figure in supernatural groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role literature of the late- of culture in relation to broader social, political, nineteenth and early- and economic developments. Across the lines of twentieth centuries. His work, race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as which mixes Gothic horror language, region, and religion, diverse Americans with fin-de-siecle mysticism, have forged a national culture with a global reach, has influenced writers and inventing stories that have shaped a national film-makers (notably H. P. identity and an American way of life. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen King, and Alan Moore). From the beginning of his literary Eric Avila is Professor of History, career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the Chicano Studies, and Urban humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious Planning at UCLA. An urban and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent cultural historian, he is the works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this author of Popular Culture in the veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and Age of White Flight: Fear and usually a combination of all three. Aaron Worth is Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston and The Folklore of the University, having previously taught courses in Freeway: Race and Revolt in the English and American literature at Brandeis Modernist City. University.

The Mabinogion The Complete Fairy Davies, Sioned Tales Oxford University Perrault, Charles Press Oxford University 9780198815242 Press Translated by 9780198817970 Sioned Davies. Translated by Oxford World's Christopher Betts. Classics Hardback Oxford World's Collection Classics 336 pages 256 pages hardcover hardcover $24.95 $19.50 Publish Date: Publish Date: 6/26/2018 7/1/2018 catalog page: 141 catalog page: 142

Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an This translation by Christopher Betts captures the intriguing interpretation of British history--these tone and flavor of Perrault's world, and the are just some of the themes embraced by the delightful spirit of the originals. anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 Mabinogion. Sioned Davies' lively translation – 16 May 1703) was a French recreates the storytelling world of medieval Wales author and member of the and re-invests the tales with the power of Académie Française. He laid the performance. foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his Sioned Davies is Chair of works derived from pre-existing Welsh at Cardiff University. folk tales. The best known of his Her special interest is the tales include Le Petit Chaperon interplay between literacy Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon and the oral tradition, (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), La Belle together with the au bois Dormant (The Sleeping Beauty), and Barbe performance aspects of Bleue (Bluebeard). Some of Perrault's versions of medieval Welsh narrative. old stories have influenced the German versions Her publications include Crefft y Cyfarwydd, a published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 study of narrative techniques in the Mabinogion, years later. The stories continue to be printed and The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, and a co- have been adapted to opera, ballet (such as edited volume, The Horse in Celtic Culture: Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty), theatre, and Medieval Welsh Perspectives. film. Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th- century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. Christopher Betts was a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Warwick until retirement. He has translated Montesquieu's Persian Letters for Penguin, and Rousseau's Social Contract and Jean de La Fontaine's Selected Fables for Oxford World's Classics. Frankenstein: or `The The Scarlet Pimpernel Modern Prometheus': Orczy, Emma The 1818 Text Oxford University Press Shelley, Mary 9780198791225 Wollstonecraft Edited by Nicholas Daly. Oxford University Oxford World's Classics Press 304 pages 9780198814047 paperback Edited by Nick Groom. $13.95 Oxford World's Publish Date: Classics Hardback 3/11/2018 Collection catalog page: 144 320 pages hardcover This edition places The $22.95 Scarlet Pimpernel within the context of the elite Publish Date: and popular literature of the turn of the century. 6/1/2018 Orczy's novel is close in kin to such contemporary catalog page: 143 political thrillers as Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1907); tales that channeled contemporary Published for the 200th anniversary, this edition, concerns about refugees and enemies within. based on the original 1818 text, explains in detail the turbulent intellectual context in which Shelley Baroness Emma Magdolna was writing, and also investigates how her novel Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála has since become a byword for controversial Emmuska Orczy de Orci (23 practices in science and medicine, from September 1865 – 12 manipulating ecosystems to vivisection and genetic November 1947) was a modification. Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright, and artist of noble origin. She is most known for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley her series of novels featuring (née Godwin; 30 August the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy 1797 – 1 February 1851) was Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who transforms an English novelist, short into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking story writer, dramatist, escape artist, establishing the hero with a secret essayist, biographer, and identity into popular culture. Nicholas Daly is travel writer, best known for Professor of Modern English and American her Gothic novel Literature at University College Dublin. He has also Frankenstein: or, The taught at Trinity College Dublin, Wesleyan Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and University, and Dartmouth College. A member of promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic the Royal Irish Academy, he serves on the advisory poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her boards of the Journal of Victorian Culture, Novel, father was the political philosopher William and the Irish University Review. Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

The Interesting The Odyssey Narrative Homer Equiano, Olaudah Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780198736479 9780198707523 Translated by Edited by Brycchan Anthony Verity. Carey. Oxford Introduction by World's Classics William Allan. 432 pages Oxford World's paperback Classics. $12.95 384 pages Publish Date: paperback 3/1/2018 $12.95 catalog page: 145 Publish Date: 4/22/2018 This new edition includes an introduction surveying catalog page: 146 the recent debates about Equiano's birthplace and identity, and showing how the book achieved its This elegant and compelling new translation is increasingly central position among the great accompanied by a full introduction and notes that works of eighteenth-century literature. guide the reader in understanding the poem and the many different contexts in which it was performed and read. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, Homer is best known as the was a freed slave of Igbo author of the Iliad and the extraction from the eastern Odyssey. He was believed by part of present-day Nigeria, the ancient Greeks to have who supported the British been the first and greatest of movement to end the slave trade. His the epic poets. Author of the autobiography, published in 1789, helped in the first known literature of creation of the Slave Trade Act 1807 which ended Europe, he had a lasting the African slave trade for Britain and its colonies. effect on the Western canon. Brycchan Carey is an expert in the cultural history Anthony Verity is a classical scholar and of slavery and its abolition. He is the author of educationalist whose appointments include Head From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the of Classics at Bristol Grammar School, Headmaster Birth of American Antislavery, 1658-1761 (Yale UP, of Leeds Grammar School, and Master of Dulwich 2012), and British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of College from 1986 to 1995. His translations for Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760- Oxford World's Classics include Theocritus, Idylls, 1807 (Palgrave, 2005). His most recent collection, Pindar, The Complete Odes, and the Iliad. William Quakers and Abolition, co-edited with Geoffrey Allan is McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Plank, was published by the University of Illinois Classical Languages and Literature at University Press in 2014. College, Oxford. His previous publications include The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy (2000), Euripides: The Children of Heracles (2001), Euripides: Medea (2002), Euripides: Helen (2008), Homer: The Iliad (2012), and Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2014). Gothic Tales Autobiography Doyle, Arthur Conan Mill, John Stuart Oxford University Oxford University Press Press 9780198734307 9780198759607 Oxford World's Edited by Mark Classics. Philp. Oxford Introduction by World's Classics Darryl Jones. 320 pages 592 pages paperback paperback $15.95 $14.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 5/22/2018 8/1/2018 catalog page: 148 catalog page: 147 This edition of the Autobiography includes This collection brings together over thirty of Conan additional manuscript materials from earlier drafts Doyle's best gothic tales. Darryl Jones's which demonstrate the conflicting imperatives that introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan influenced Mill's choice of exactly what to say Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who about some of the most significant episodes and became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British relationships in his life. Mark Philps introduction imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and explores the forces that led Mill to write the life shows the ways in which these found articulation and points to the tensions in the text and in Mill's in that most anxious of all literary forms, the life. Gothic. John Stuart Mill, (20 May Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) British philosopher, was a Scottish physician and political economist and civil writer who is most noted for his servant. He was an fictional stories about the influential contributor to detective Sherlock Holmes, social theory, political which are generally considered theory and political milestones in the field of crime economy. He has been fiction. He is also known for called 'the most influential writing the fictional adventures of a second English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth character he invented, Professor Challenger, and century'. Mark Philp is Emeritus Fellow of Oriel for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. College, Oxford. His recent books include Political He was a prolific writer whose other works include Conduct (Harvard UP, 2007) and Reforming Ideas in fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, Britain (CUP, 2013). For Oxford World's Classics he poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. Darryl has edited Paine's Rights of Man, Common Sense, Jones is Professor of English and Dean of the and Other Political Writings, Godwin's An Enquiry Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at concerning Political Justice and with Frederick Trinity College Dublin, where he has taught since Rosen, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Utilitarianism 1994. He has held Visiting Professorships at and Other Essays. Dartmouth College, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, and Tongji University, Shanghai.

The Art of Rhetoric His Excellency Eugene Rougon Aristotle Zola, Emile Oxford University Press Oxford University Press 9780198724254 9780198748250 Translated by Robin Waterfield. Edited by Harvey Edited by Brian Nelson. Oxford World's Classics Yunis. Oxford World's Classics 416 pages 320 pages paperback paperback $14.95 $14.95 Publish Date: 6/26/2018 Publish Date: 7/1/2018 catalog page: 150 catalog page: 149 His Excellency Eugene Rougon (1876) is the sixth The new translation of the text is accompanied by novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart an introduction discussing the political, cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power philosophical, and rhetorical background to and in the upper echelons of French Second Empire Aristotle's treatise, as well as the composition and society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on transmission of the original text and an account of the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Aristotle's life. Eugene Rougon, the vice-Emperor.

Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Émile François Zola (2 Greek philosopher and scientist April 1840 – 29 born in Stagira of Chalkidiki, September 1902) was a next to the Macedonian French writer, the most Kingdom in the north part of important exemplar of the Greek world. His father, the literary school of Nicomachus, died when naturalism and an Aristotle was a child, important contributor whereafter Proxenus of to the development of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained political liberalization of France and in the there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BCE). His exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted writings cover many subjects – including physics, army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse. aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, Brian Nelson is Emeritus Professor of French linguistics, politics and government – and Studies and Translation Studies at Monash constitute the first comprehensive system of University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Western philosophy. Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has been editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies since 2002. His publications include The Cambridge Companion to Zola (CUP, 20017), Zola and the Bourgeoisie (Palgrave Macmillan, 1983), and translations of Earth, The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, Pot Luck, and The Ladies' Paradise for Oxford World's Classics. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Translation in 2015. His most recent critical work is The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature (CUP, 2015).

On the Soul: and The Railway Children Other Psychological Nesbit, E. Works Oxford University Aristotle Press Oxford University 9780192744456 Press Oxford Children's 9780199588213 Classics Translated by Fred D. 320 pages Miller Jr. Oxford paperback World's Classics $7.95 352 pages Publish Date: paperback 7/19/2017 $14.95 catalog page: 152 Publish Date: 7/24/2018 Family! Friendship! catalog page: 151 Adventure! Mystery! Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis have their lives turned upside down when their This new translation brings together all of father mysteriously has to go away. The railway Aristotle's extant and complementary psychological becomes the centre of their new life, but little do works, and adds as a supplement ancient they know what wonders and changes it will bring testimony concerning his lost writings dealing with to them - maybe even the answer to Father's the soul. The introduction by Fred D. Miller, Jr. disappearance . . . Oxford Children's Classics explains the central place of the soul in Aristotle's present not only the original and unabridged story natural science, the unifying themes of his of The Railway Children in a beautiful new edition, psychological theory, and his continuing relevance but also help you to discover a whole world of new for modern philosophy and psychology. adventures with a vast assortment of recommendations and activities. Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist E. Nesbit was born in London in born in Stagira of Chalkidiki, next 1858. Her father died when she to the Macedonian Kingdom in was four years old and she spent the north part of the Greek much of her childhood travelling world. His father, Nicomachus, around England, France, died when Aristotle was a child, Germany, and Spain with her whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus mother and sister Mary, in an became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's attempt to cure Mary of Academy in Athens and remained there until the tuberculosis. Elizabeth married age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BCE). His writings cover Hubert Bland in 1880 and they went on to become many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, two of the founding members of the Fabian metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, Society. She wrote many stories and poems for theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and both children and adults, including the much-loved government – and constitute the first Five Children and It, The Story of the Treasure comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Seekers, and The Railway Children. Elizabeth Nesbit Fred D. Miller, Jr. is Research Professor in the died in 1924 and is buried in Kent. Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona at Tucson, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. Inside the Mind of The Rohingyas Inside Vladimir Putin Myanmar's Hidden Eltchaninoff, Michel Genocide Oxford University Ibrahim, Azeem and Press/Hurst Yunus, Muhammad 9781849049337 Oxford University 224 pages Press/Hurst paperback 9781849049733 $19.95 256 pages Publish Date: 5/1/2018 paperback catalog page: 170 $19.95 Publish Date:2/1/2018 What does the head of the Kremlin think about? What are his hopes and aims for the lands According to the United Nations, Myanmar's bordering Russia, for Europe, and even the world? Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted In January 2014, the Kremlin sent its senior civil minorities in the world. Only now has the media servants, governors and party bigwigs a special turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a New Year's present: philosophy books, by 19th and country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San 20th century Russian thinkers. This reading list is Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have been not optional: the president himself has cited these visible for years. For generations, this Muslim authors in landmark speeches, and they need to group has suffered routine discrimination, violence, understand what he means. The most persistent of arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion, and other the bunch will find these great works strangely abuses by the Buddhist majority. As horrifying familiar, full of the national leader's role in an massacres have unfolded in 2017, international 'authentic' democracy, the importance of being human rights groups have accused the regime of conservative, the urgency of rooting morality in complicity in an ethnic cleansing campaign against religion, and the historic struggle of the Russian them. Authorities refuse to recognise the people against the timeless hostility of the West. Rohingyas as one of Myanmar's 135 national races, President Putin is the man who manages and denying them citizenship rights in the country of manipulates these existential anxieties. And since their birth and severely restricting many aspects of the annexation of Crimea, the need to decrypt his ordinary life, from marriage to free movement. In vision for the nation-propelled by the Kremlin's this updated edition, Azeem Ibrahim chronicles the Eurasian neo-imperialists and prophets of 'Russian- events leading up to the current, final cleansing of way' conservatism--has become more pressing the Rohingya population, and issues a clarion call than ever. In this revealing and engrossing book, to protect a vulnerable, little known Muslim Michel Eltchaninoff invites us inside the psyche of minority. the Russian president for a better understanding of his doctrine and geopolitical vision. He offers Azeem Ibrahim has a PhD from answers to an urgent question for our 21st century the University of Cambridge. world: what is Vladimir Putin He has been a Research Fellow thinking? with the International Security Program at the Kennedy School Michel Eltchaninoff is an award- of Government at Harvard, a winning French writer who has World Fellow at Yale, Fellow lived in Moscow. He is the and member of the board of directors at the editor-in-chief of the monthly Institute for Social Policy Understanding, and an Philosophie magazine. Adjunct Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. Boko Haram Nigeria's Vintage Humour: The Islamist Insurgency Islamic Wine Poetry of Comolli, Virginia Abu Nuwas Oxford University Rowell, Alex Press/Hurst Oxford University 9781849046619 Press/Hurst 208 pages 9781849048972 paperback 224 pages $17.95 hardcover Publish Date: $27.95 4/1/2018 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 Northern and central Nigeria are engulfed Abu Nuwas, the pre- in a violent insurgency campaign waged by eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. was loved and reviled in equal measure for his 'Boko Haram', and more recently, its splinter group lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute 'Ansaru'. From its inception an inward-looking, nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram, and clergy, and the extraordinary range and virtuosity even more so Ansaru, have now showed clear signs of his literary talent. Vintage Humour contains of regionalization, expanding their operations approximately 120 translations, each replicating across West Africa and forging links with al-Qaeda the monorhyme scheme of the originals, with affiliated groups. Boko Haram's stated aim is to commentary where appropriate, a brief history of Islamize Africa's most populous country but, like the poet's life and times, and a glossary of the key earlier Nigerian Islamist groups, of which there is a themes, motifs, and running jokes of the poems long tradition in the Sahel, the discontent themselves. Based on extensive research with both prompting young Nigerians and other young West Arabic and English source materials, Vintage African Muslims to join the insurgency is rooted in Humour is an illuminating collection, of interest to more than just religious orthodoxy and cannot be both general and informed readers with an interest disentangled from their economic, social and in Islamic studies, Arabic literature, and the history political marginalization. But what is the real of Iraq and the Middle East. magnitude of the threat? What can foreign partners do to support Abuja? How effective is the Alex Rowell is a writer and translator based in current government's strategy in tackling the Beirut, Lebanon, where he has contributed to insurgency? And, more importantly, are the root media including The Daily Beast, The causes of the insurgency being addressed and the Economist, the BBC, and NOW Lebanon. His foundations for a durable peace being established? classical Arabic poetry translations have previously been published in the literary journal of the Virginia Comolli is the Research American University of Beirut. Fellow for Security and Development at The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London.

A Field Guide to the Islamic Monuments in Street Names of Cairo: The Practical Central Cairo Guide (New Revised Davies, Humphrey 7th Edition) and Lababidi, Lesley Williams, Caroline Oxford University Oxford University Press/The American Press/The American University in Cairo University in Cairo Press Press 9789774168567 9789774168550 240 pages 316 pages Vinyl paperback paperback $39.95 $29.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 7/14/2018 4/21/2018 catalog page: 175 catalog page: 176

A Field Guide to the Street Names of Cairo lists Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an more than five hundred current and three hundred uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand former appellations. Current street names are years of building activity. No other Islamic city can listed in alphabetical order, with an explanation of equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its what each commemorates and when it was first historical and architectural development with such recorded, followed by the same for its clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first predecessors. An index allows the reader to trace visually by nineteenth-century western artists then streets whose names have disappeared or that intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art have never achieved more than popular status. specialists, now awaits the delight of the general visitor. This new, fully revised edition of a popular Humphrey Davies is the and handy guide continues to walk the visitor translator of a number of around two hundred of the city's most interesting Arabic novels, including The Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent Yacoubian Building by Alaa restoration initiatives and newly opened Al Aswany (AUC Press, monuments. 2004). He has twice been awarded the Saif Ghobash- Caroline Williams, with Banipal Prize for Arabic graduate degrees in Literary Translation. Lesley Middle Eastern history Lababidi is the author of Cairo Practical Guide (AUC from Harvard and Islamic Press, 2011, 17th ed.), Cairo's Street Stories: art and architecture from Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, the American University in Gardens, and Sidewalk Cafés (AUC Press, 2008), Cairo, has been a frequent and Cairo: The Family Guide (AUC Press, 4th ed., resident/visitor of Cairo since 1961. 2010). An active and well-traveled blogger, she currently lives between Cairo, Beirut, and Lagos.

Tutankhamun: An Fractured Destinies: A Artist's Coloring Book Novel Navarro, Dominique al-Madhoun, Rabai Oxford University Oxford University Press/The American Press/The American University in Cairo University in Cairo Press Press 9789774168628 9789774168536 Translated by Paul Illustrated by Starkey. Dominique Navarro. 264 pages 32 pages paperback paperback $18.95 $9.95 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 181 catalog page: 178 Palestinian-Armenian Ivana eloped with a British A Tutankhamun coloring book! Embark on a doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and colorful journey to reveal the hidden treasures of emigrated to England. Over half a century later, her the famous ancient Egyptian pharaoh, daughter Julie has been tasked with her dying wish: Tutankhamun! Explore the extraordinary to take her ashes back to their old home in Acre. decorations of his elaborate tomb, spectacular With her husband Walid, they leave London and funerary mask, ornate throne, dazzling jewelry, and embark on a journey back to their country of birth. more as you color the intricate artwork, revealing Written in four parts, each as a concerto insights into the young king's life. Make movement, Rabai al-Madhoun's pioneering new Tutankhamun your own! Embellish and add your novel explores Palestinian exile, with all its complex personal touch to the black-and-white line loyalties and identities. Broad in scope and drawings to transform them into a unique colorful sweeping in its history, it lays bare the tragedy of artwork, to frame and display in your home. Use everyday Palestinian life. your imagination to color, or follow the coloring tips and suggestions accompanying each art panel, Rabai al-Madhoun is a including techniques for adding texture, shading, Palestinian writer and and depth. Appealing to all ages, ideal for adults to journalist, born in al-Majdal, in unwind and relax, and fun to share with the whole southern Palestine in 1945. His family. family went to Gaza during the Nakba in 1948 and he later Dominique Navarro is an studied at Cairo and Emmy Award winning art Alexandria universities, before being expelled from director, natural history Egypt in 1970 for his political activities. He is the artist, and writer. She is the author of the acclaimed The Lady from Tel Aviv, author and illustrator of the which was shortlisted for the International Prize for AUC Press Nature Foldouts Arabic Fiction in 2010, and has worked for a series as well as Egypt's number of Arabic newspapers and magazines, Wildlife: Past and Present including al-Quds al-Arabi, Al-Hayat, and Al-Sharq and Ancient Egypt: An Artist's Coloring Book (both Al-Awsat. He currently lives in London, in the UK. AUC Press, 2016). As a trained forensic artist, she Paul Starkey, professor emeritus of Arabic at produces illustrations and sculptural Durham University, won the 2015 Saif Ghobash reconstructions of unidentified persons and Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. ancient archaeological remains. She currently works in Egypt as an epigraphic artist. The Unexpected Love Tales of Yusuf Tadros: Objects of Dunya A Novel Noor: A Novel Esmat, Adel Haddad, Rana Oxford University Oxford University Press/The American Press/The American University in Cairo University in Cairo Press Press 9789774168604 9789774168611 Translated by Mandy 240 pages McClure. paperback 216 pages $18.95 paperback Publish Date: $17.95 3/1/2018 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 catalog page: 183 catalog page: 184

Aspiring photographer Dunya Noor discovers early Tales of Yusuf Tadrus is set in the Egyptian Delta on that her curious spirit, rebellious nature, and town of Tanta, and tells the story of a young Coptic very curly hair are a recipe for disaster in 1980s artist from a humble background. It provides an Syria. And at the tender age of thirteen, she is intimate glimpse into Egyptian Christian life, and exiled to live with her grandparents in England. carefully tells of the struggles faced by an artist Many years later in London, she meets Hilal, the who seeks to remain true to his calling. Written son of a humble tailor from Aleppo and no match with sensitivity and honesty, it addresses an array for Dunya, daughter of the great heart surgeon of social issues in Egypt's rapidly changing Joseph Noor. But, dreamy, restless Dunya falls in landscape, from fundamentalism to emigration. love with Hilal and they decide to return to Syria together, embarking on a journey that will change Born in the Gharbiya them both forever. Rana Haddad's vivid and Governorate of Egypt in 1959, satirical debut novel captures the essence of life Adel Esmat graduated in under the Assad dictatorship, in all its rigid philosophy from the Faculty of absurdity. With humor and an unexpected Arts of Cairo's Ain Shams playfulness, this is a story of love and light against University in 1984. He lives in the forces of conservatism and oppression. Tanta, in the Nile Delta, and works as a library specialist in the Egyptian Ministry Rana Haddad grew up in Lattakia, Syria, moved to of Education. Mandy McClure is the translator of the UK as a teenager, and studied English Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She (AUC Press, 2008) and co-translator of The has since worked as a journalist for the BBC, C4, Traditional Crafts of Egypt (AUC Press, 2016). She CNN and Al Jazeera, among others, and has also lives in Cairo. published poetry. The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor is her first novel.

Abraham Lincoln and OXFORD ACADEMIC TITLES – a selection from Karl Marx in Dialogue Oxford’s new Academic offerings Kulikoff, Allan Oxford University Subhuman: The Moral Press Psychology of Human 9780190210809 Attitudes to Animals Dialogues in History Kasperbauer, T.J. 152 pages Oxford University Press paperback 9780190695811 $18.95 248 pages Publish Date: hardcover 1/18/2018 $35.00 Publish Date: 1/2/2018 Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx in Dialogue intersperses short selections How do we decide from the two writers from their voluminous works, what animals deserve opening with an introduction that puts the ideas of and how we ought to the two men in the broad context of nineteenth- treat them? To what extent are our attitudes century thought and politics. The volume excerpts towards animals embedded in our subconscious Lincoln's and Marx's views on slavery (they both and immune to reason? The foundations of our opposed it for different reasons), the Civil War moral attitudes to animals are more complex than (Marx claimed the war concerned slavery and many may appreciate. Subhuman takes an should have as its goal abolition; Lincoln insisted interdisciplinary approach to these questions, that his goal was just the defeat of the drawing from research in philosophy, Confederacy), and the opportunities American free neuroscience, psychology, law, history, sociology, men had to gain land and economic independence. economics, and anthropology, to unearth Through this volume, readers will gain a firmer surprising revelations about human relationships understanding of nineteenth-century labor with animals. T.J. Kasperbauer argues provocatively relations throughout the Atlantic world: slavery that behind our positive and negative attitudes to and free labor; the interconnections between animals is an enduring concern that animals pose a slave-made cotton and the exploitation of English threat to our humanness. Kasperbauer sets forth proletarians; and the global impact of the American new and fascinating ways of thinking about our Civil War. moral obligations to animals, and how we might correct them. Allan Kulikoff is the Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at the T.J. Kasperbauer is a Visiting Researcher in the University of Georgia. He is the author of several Department of Philosophy at George Washington books, including The Agrarian Origins of American University. He has published widely on the Capitalism. relevance of moral psychology to animals and the environment, covering topics such as climate change, sustainability, animal de-extinction, and animal welfare.

Neuroexistentialism: The Complete Lyrics of Meaning, Morals, and Alan Jay Lerner Purpose in the Age of McHugh, Dominic and Neuroscience Asch, Amy Caruso, Gregg and Oxford University Press Flanagan, Owen 9780190646738 Oxford University Press 632 pages 9780190460730 hardcover 376 pages $45.00 paperback Publish Date: 3/1/2018 $35.00 Publish Date: 2/26/2018 Alan Jay Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of the most beloved musicals in Existentialisms arise when the foundations of Broadway and Hollywood history. Most notably, being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come with composer Frederick Loewe he created under assault. In the first-wave of existentialism, enduring hits such as My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot, writings typified by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and and Brigadoon. In The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Nietzsche concerned the increasingly apparent Lerner, editors and annotators Dominic McHugh inability of religion, and religious tradition, to and Amy Asch bring all of Lerner's lyrics together support a foundation of being. Second-wave for the first time, including numerous draft or existentialism, personified philosophically by alternate versions and songs cut from the shows. Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir, developed in Compiled from dozens of archival collections, this response to similar realizations about the overly invaluable resource and authoritative reference optimistic Enlightenment vision of reason and the includes both Lerner's classic works and numerous common good. The third-wave of existentialism, a discoveries, including his unproduced MGM movie new existentialism, developed in response to Huckleberry Finn, selections from his college advances in the neurosciences that threaten the musicals, and lyrics from three different versions of last vestiges of an immaterial soul or self. Given the Paint Your Wagon. This collection also includes increasing explanatory and therapeutic power of extensive material from Lerner's two most neuroscience, the mind no longer stands apart ambitious musicals: Love Life, to music by Kurt from the world to serve as a foundation of Weill, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which Lerner meaning. This produces foundational anxiety. In wrote with Leonard Bernstein. Neuroexistentialism, a group of contributors that includes some of the world's leading philosophers, Dominic McHugh is Senior Lecturer in Musicology neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and legal and Director of Performance at the University of scholars, explores the anxiety caused by third-wave Sheffield. His publications include the existentialism and possible responses to it. books Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Together, these essays tackle our Lady and Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters. He neuroexistentialist predicament, and explore what regularly appears on BBC TV and radio and has the mind sciences can tell us about morality, love, acted as a consultant to the Sydney Opera House's emotion, autonomy, consciousness, selfhood, free production of My Fair Lady, directed by Julie will, moral responsibility, law, the nature of Andrews. Amy Asch is a musical theatre researcher criminal punishment, meaning in life, and purpose. and archivist. She compiled and annotated The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II and has Gregg D. Caruso is Associate Professor of done projects for the estate of Irving Berlin, the Philosophy at SUNY Corning. Owen Flanagan is estate of Jonathan Larson (Rent), the Rodgers & James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke Hammerstein Organization, and the Library of University. Congress. She is a longtime employee of Playbill and lives in New York. The Tumbleweed Soren Kierkegaard: Society: Working and Subjectivity, Irony, & the Caring in an Insecure Crisis of Modernity Age Stewart, Jon Pugh, Allison J. Oxford University Press Oxford University 9780198785224 Press 240 pages 9780190868666 paperback 280 pages $21.95 paperback Publish Date: 3/4/2018 $19.95 Publish Date: Soren Kierkegaard: 3/1/2018 Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity In The Tumbleweed examines the thought of Soren Kierkegaard, a Society, Allison Pugh offers a moving exploration of unique figure, who has inspired, provoked, sacrifice, betrayal, defiance, and resignation, as fascinated, and irritated people ever since he people cope in a society where relationships and walked the streets of Copenhagen. At the end of jobs seem to change constantly. Based on eighty in- his life, Kierkegaard said that the only model he depth interviews with parents who have varied had for his work was the Greek philosopher experiences of job insecurity and socio-economic Socrates. This work takes this statement as its status, Pugh finds most seem to accept job point of departure. Jon Stewart explores what insecurity as inevitable but still try to bar that Kierkegaard meant by this and to show how insecurity from infiltrating their home lives. Rigid different aspects of his writing and argumentative expectations for enduring connections and strategy can be traced back to Socrates. The main uncompromising loyalty in their intimate focus is The Concept of Irony, which is a key text at relationships, however, can put intolerable strain the beginning of Kierkegaard's literary career. on them, often sparking instability in the very social Although it was an early work, it nevertheless ties they yearn to protect. By shining a light on how played a determining role in his later development we prepare ourselves and our children for an and writings. Indeed, it can be said that it laid the uncertain environment, Pugh gives us a detailed groundwork for much of what would appear in his portrait of how we compel ourselves to adapt later famous books such as Either/Or and Fear and emotionally to a churning economy, and what Trembling. commitment and obligation mean in an insecure age. Jon Stewart is Associate Professor at the Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, at the University of Allison J. Pugh is Professor of Sociology at the Copenhagen. He is the editor of the University of Virginia. Her book Longing and series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark Culture won the William J. Goode Book Award from and Danish Golden Age Studies. He is the coeditor the American Sociological Association Section on of the Kierkegaard Studies Sociology of the Family, and the Distinguished Yearbook and Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Contribution Award from the ASA Section on Series. Children and Youth.

Why Does Inequality Readers' Liberation Matter? The Literary Agenda Scanlon, T. M. Rose, Jonathan Oxford University Press Oxford University Press 9780198812692 9780198723554 192 pages The Literary Agenda hardcover 208 pages $25.00 paperback Publish Date: 3/4/2018 $20.00 Publish Date: Inequality is widely 3/11/2018 regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. The Literary Agenda is Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands a series of short for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it polemical monographs about the importance of can be unclear what reason people have for literature and of reading in the wider world and objecting to the difference between what they about the state of literary education inside schools have and what others have, as opposed simply to and universities. Some of the most important wanting to be better off. This book examines six political battles of the twenty-first century have such reasons. Inequality can be objectionable been fought--and will be fought--over the right to because it arises from a failure of some agent to read. Will it be adequately protected by give equal concern to the interests of different constitutional guarantees and freedom of parties to whom it is obligated to provide some information laws? Or will it be restricted by very good. It can be objectionable because it involves or wealthy individuals and very powerful institutions? gives rise to objectionable inequalities in status. It And given increasingly sophisticated methods of can be objectionable because it gives the rich publicity and propaganda, how much of what we unacceptable forms of control over the lives of read can we believe? This book surveys the history those who have less. It can be objectionable of independent sceptical reading, from antiquity to because it interferes with the procedural fairness the present. It tells the stories of heroic efforts at of economic institutions, or because it deprives self-education by disadvantaged people in all parts some people of substantive opportunity to take of the world. It analyzes successful reading part in those institutions. Inequality can be promotion campaigns throughout history objectionable because it interferes with the (concluding with Oprah Winfrey) and explains why fairness of political institutions. Finally, inequality they succeeded. It also explores some disturbing in wealth and income can be objectionable because current trends, such as the reported decay of it is unfair: the institutional mechanisms that attentive reading, the disappearance of produce it cannot be justified in the relevant way. investigative journalism, 'fake news', the growth of Scanlon's aims is to provide a moral anatomy of censorship, and the pervasive influence of these six reasons, and the ideas of equality that advertisers and publicists on the media--even on they involve. scientific publishing.

T. M. Scanlon attended Princeton University (BA in Jonathan Rose, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Philosophy, 1962), studied at Oxford, Brasenose History, Drew University Jonathan Rose is William College, 1962-63, and then at Harvard University R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. (PhD in Philosophy, 1968). Scanlon taught He edits the journal Book History, and he was the philosophy at Princeton 1966-1984, then at founding president of the Society for the History of Harvard from 1984 until his retirement in 2016. Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP).

Portraits from Life Consuming Identities: Modernist Novelists Visual Culture in and Autobiography Nineteenth-Century San Boyd Maunsell, Jerome Francisco Oxford University Press Lippert, Amy DeFalco 9780198789369 Oxford University Press 304 pages 9780190268978 hardcover 408 pages $25.00 hardcover Publish Date: $34.95 3/18/2018 Publish Date: 4/2/2018

What happens when Along with the rapid novelists write about their own lives directly, in expansion of the memoirs and autobiographies, rather than in market economy and industrial production novels? How do they present themselves, and what methods, such innovations as photography, do their self-portraits reveal? In a series of lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial biographical case studies, Portraits from Life revolution in nineteenth-century society. The examines how seven canonical Modernist writers - proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, and technologies transformed public values and Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, and perceptions, and its legacy was as significant as the Edith Wharton - depicted themselves in their print revolution that preceded it. Consuming memoirs and autobiographies during the first half Identities explores the significance of the pictorial of the twentieth century. Drawing on a range of revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San life-writing sources in this innovative group Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush. In portrait, Jerome Boyd Maunsell reconstructs the their correspondence, diaries, portraits, and periods during which these authors worked on reminiscences, thousands of migrants to the city by their memoirs, often towards the end of their lives, the Bay demonstrated that visual media and shows how memoirs and autobiographies are constituted a central means by which people just as artful as novels. The seven portraits in the navigated the bewildering host of changes taking book also create a rich network of encounters, as hold around them in the second half of the many of these writers knew each other, and wrote nineteenth century, from the spread of capitalism about each other in their reminiscences. and class formation to immigration and urbanization. Images themselves were inextricably Jerome Boyd Maunsell is a writer and critic based associated with these world-changing forces; they in London. His first book was a biography of Susan were commodities, but as representations of Sontag, published by Reaktion in 2014, and his people, they also possessed special cultural essays have also appeared, among other qualities that gave them new meaning and publications, in frieze and the Times Literary significance. Supplement. He received his BA from St Catherine's College, Oxford, his MA from UCL, and his PhD Amy DeFalco Lippert is an Assistant Professor of from King's College London. He was a Research American History and the College at the University Fellow in the Centre for Life-Writing Research at of Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on the King's before taking up a Leverhulme Early Career cultural and social history of the United States in Fellowship in the Department of English and the 19th century, particularly Americans' mass Creative Writing at Kingston University, London. production, consumption, and interaction with visual imagery and problems of perception.

Kafka's The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives Vineyards, Rocks, and Hammer, Espen Soils: The Wine Lover's Oxford University Press Guide to Geology 9780190461447 Maltman, Alex Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit Oxford University Press 304 pages 9780190863289 paperback 256 pages $29.95 hardcover Publish Date: 4/2/2018 $34.95 Publish Date: 4/2/2018 Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, Jurassic, basalt, moraine, notoriously difficult manifestation of European flint, alluvial, magma: literary modernism, and one of the most what are these words and what do they have to do emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the with wine? The answers are here in this book. They story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has are geological terms that reflect a bond between no recollection of committing and whose nature is wine and the land. Understanding geology, never revealed to him. The novel is often however, is tricky. Geological concepts are interpreted theologically as an expression of radical obscure; processes can be imperceptibly slow, nihilism and a world abandoned by God. It is also invisible, and unimaginably ancient. The read as a parable of the cold, inhumane rationality terminology is formidable, such that even the of modern bureaucratization. Like many other names of common rocks carry an air of mystery. novels of this turbulent period, it offers a tragic Geology is introduced plainly, starting with basic quest-narrative in which the hero searches for principles, all in the context of wine. The emphasis truth and clarity (whether about himself, or the is on the kinds of processes that shape vineyards, anonymous system he is facing), only to fall into and on the minerals, rocks and soils that host the greater and greater confusion. This collection of vines. Geological words now commonly seen in nine new essays and an editor's introduction brings wine writings are systematically explained. You will together Kafka experts, intellectual historians, learn the stories behind some of the names, the literary scholars, and philosophers in order to human face of geology. The book also explores explore the novel's philosophical and theological how the geology-wine connection manifests in the significance. finished product and evaluates its importance, particularly in the contexts of minerality, terroir, Espen Hammer is a Professor of Philosophy at and wine taste. The fact is that geology is Temple University, Philadelphia. A former increasingly being promoted in the world of wine; Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University the aim here is to help it be properly understood. of Frankfurt, he has held professorships at the University of Essex (UK) and the University of Oslo, Alex Maltman is Emeritus Professor of Earth Norway, and been a Visiting Professor at the Sciences at Aberystwyth University, in Wales, U.K. University of Pennsylvania and the New School for Alongside a long and decorated research and Social Research. He is the author of numerous teaching career in Geology, for over forty years he books and articles. has grown vines and made wine as a hobby.

The Story of Collapsing The Confucian Four Stars Black Holes, Books for Women: A Naked Singularities, New Translation of the and the Cosmic Play of Nu Sishu and the Quantum Gravity Commentary of Wang Joshi, Pankaj S. Xiang Oxford University Pang-White, Ann A. Press Oxford University Press 9780198818878 9780190460891 240 pages 328 pages paperback paperback $19.95 $29.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 5/1/2018 4/15/2018 This volume brings the first English translation of This book journeys into one of the most fascinating the Confucian classics, Four Books for Women, to intellectual adventures of recent decades - the English-speaking world with extensive understanding and exploring the final fate of commentary by the compiler, Wang Xiang, and massive collapsing stars in the universe. The issue annotations by the translator. Written by women is of great interest in fundamental physics and for women's education, the Confucian Four Books cosmology today, from both the perspective of for Women spanned the 1st to the 16th centuries, gravitation theory and of modern astrophysical and encompassed Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women, observations. This is a revolution in the making and Song Ruoxin's and Song Ruozhao's Analects for may be intimately connected to our search for a Women, Empress Renxiaowen's Teachings for the unified understanding of the basic forces of nature, Inner Court, and Madame Liu's (Chaste Widow namely gravity that governs the cosmological Wang's) Short Records of Models for Women. As a universe, and the microscopic forces that include female counterpart to the famous Sishu (Four quantum phenomena. According to the general Books) compiled by Zhu Xi, Wang Xiang's N?? sishu theory of relativity, a massive star that collapses was an indispensable primer for women's catastrophically under its own gravity when it runs education from its publication in the 16th century out of its internal nuclear fuel must give rise to a until the beginning of the 20th century. This work space-time singularity. Such singularities are provides an invaluable look at the long-standing regions in the universe where all physical history and evolution of Chinese women's writing, quantities take their extreme values and become education, identity, and philosophical discourse, arbitrarily large. The singularities may be covered along with their struggles and triumphs, across the within a black hole, or visible to faraway observers millenniums and numerous Chinese dynasties. This in the universe. Thus, the final fate of a collapsing volume also comes with a substantial main massive star is either a black hole or a visible naked introduction, additional introductions preceding singularity. each of the four books, and other helpful resources to acclimate the reader to the historical and Dr Pankaj S. Joshi works as a Senior Professor with cultural background in which each book is situated, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, to illustrate why these women wrote and how they Mumbai. His research is in the fields of gravitation empower women, and to bring the women to life and cosmology and he has published more than as real, living people. 150 research papers as well as monographs and books on the subject. Ann Pang-White is Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Asian Studies at the University of Scranton.

Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park The Birth of the Royal Brewery American Horror Film Strangleman, Tim Rhodes, Gary D. Oxford University Press Oxford University 9780190645090 Press/Edinburgh Oxford Oral History Series University Press 352 pages 9781474430869 hardcover 384 pages $34.95 paperback Publish Date: 9/1/2018 $29.95 Publish Date: Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a 2/1/2018 well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and Although early enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and cinema has long been a key area of research in film restaurants. During their breaks they could explore studies, the origin and development of the horror acres of parkland planted with hundreds of trees film has been a neglected subject for what is and thousands of shrubs. Imagine after work a arguably one of the world's most popular film place where employees could play over thirty genres. Using thousands of primary sources and sports, join one of the theater groups or dozens of long-unseen illustrations, The Birth of the American other clubs. Imagine a place where at the end of a Horror Film examines a history that begins in working life you could enjoy a company pension colonial Salem, taking an interdisciplinary approach from a scheme you had never contributed a penny to explore the influence of horror-themed to. Imagine working in buildings designed by an literature, theatre and visual culture in America, internationally renowned architect whose brief was and how that context established an amorphous to create a building that would last a century or structural foundation for films produced between two. This is no fantasy or utopian vision of work 1895 and 1915. Exhaustively researched, bridging but just some aspects of the working conditions scholarship on Horror Studies and Early Cinema, enjoyed by employees at the Guinness brewery The Birth of the American Horror Film is the first established at Park Royal West London in the mid- major study dedicated to this vital but often 1930s. In this book, Tim Strangleman tells the story overlooked subject. of the Guinness brewery at Park Royal, showing how the history of one plant tells us a much wider Gary D. Rhodes, Ph.D. is MA Convener for Film story about changing attitudes and understandings Studies at The Queen's University in Belfast, about work and the organization in the twentieth Northern Ireland. and early twenty-first centuries. Drawing on extensive oral history interviews with staff and management as well as a wealth of archival and photographic sources, the book shows how progressive ideas of workplace citizenship came into conflict with the pressure to adapt to new expectations about work and its organization.

Tim Strangleman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, and past President of the Working Class Studies Association. He has researched and written on a wide range of work places and industries, examining work culture, attachment, and loss. Radical Romantics: Nordic Genre Film: Small Prophets, Pirates, and Nation Film Cultures in the the Space Beyond Global Marketplace Nation Gustafsson, Tommy and Ford, Talissa J. Kaapa, Pietari (editors) Oxford University Oxford University Press/Edinburgh Press/Edinburgh University University Press Press 9781474426121 9781474431149 Edinburgh Critical Traditions in World Cinema Studies in 288 pages Romanticism paperback 192 pages $39.95 paperback Publish Date: 3/1/2018 $29.95 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 Taking a transnational approach to the study of contemporary genre production, Nordic Genre Film Engaging with the critical frameworks of cultural discusses a range of internationally celebrated geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field examples from the increasingly popular 'Nordic of oceanic studies Radical Romantics reformulates noir' genre, from TV shows and films like The theories of colonization and empire in the Bridge (2011) and Insomnia (1997) to high concept Romantic period. 'video generation' productions such as Iron Sky (2012). Conceptualising Nordic genre film as an Talissa Ford is Associate Professor at Temple industrial and cultural phenomenon, other University in Philadelphia, PA. contributions focus on road movies, the horror film, autobiographical films, the quirky comedy, musicals, historical epics and pornography. Highlighting the similarities and differences between Nordic countries, as well as their often diverse production modes, this book works at the intersection of film and cultural studies to combine industrial perspectives and an in-depth discussion of specific films with a broad historical perspective on the production, distribution and reception of contemporary genre cinema.

Tommy Gustafsson is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Literature at Linnaeus University. He is the author of Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films (2014) and co-editor of Transnational Ecocinema: Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation (with Pietari Kääpä, 2013). Pietari Kääpä is Lecturer in Media and Communications at University of Stirling.

Hollywood and the American Cinema in the Great Depression: Shadow of 9/11 American Film, Politics McSweeney, Terence and Society in the Oxford University 1930s Press/Edinburgh Morgan, Iwan and University Press Davies, Philip John 9781474431958 Oxford University 352 pages Press/Edinburgh paperback University Press $39.95 9781474431927 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 296 pages paperback American Cinema in the $39.95 Shadow of 9/11 is a Publish Date: 3/1/2018 ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a contemporary American film. Through a dynamic dream factory producing escapist movies to critical analysis of the defining films of the distract the American people from the greatest turbulent post-9/11 decade, the volume explores economic crisis in their nation's history. But while and interrogates the impact of 9/11 and the 'War many films of the period conform to this on Terror' on American cinema and culture. In a stereotype, there were a significant number that vibrant discussion of films like American Sniper promoted a message, either explicitly or implicitly, (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Spectre (2015), The in support of the political, social and economic Hateful Eight (2015), Lincoln (2012), The Mist change broadly associated with President Franklin (2007), Children of Men (2006), Edge of Tomorrow D. Roosevelt's New Deal programme. At the same (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), noted time, Hollywood was in the forefront of challenging authors Geoff King, Guy Westwell, John Shelton traditional gender roles, both in terms of movie Lawrence, Ian Scott, Andrew Schopp, James representations of women and the role of women Kendrick, Sean Redmond, Steffen Hantke and many within the studio system. With case studies of others consider the power of popular film to actors like Shirley Temple, Cary Grant and Fred function as a potent cultural artefact, able to both Astaire, as well as a selection of films that reflect reflect the defining fears and anxieties of the politics and society in the Depression decade, this tumultuous era, but also shape them in compelling fascinating book examines how the challenges of and resonant ways. the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them. Terence McSweeney is Lecturer in the School of Media Arts and Technology, Southampton Solent Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies and University. Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History at University College London. Philip John Davies, Director of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, is the former President of the European Association for American Studies, and has also served as Chair of the American Politics Group of the UK, Chair of the UK Council of Area Studies Associations and Chair of the British Association for American Studies.

Hong Kong Neo-Noir Arabian Drugs in Early Medieval Mediterranean Yau, Esther and Medicine Williams, Tony Amar, Zohar and Lev, Efraim Oxford University Oxford University Press/Edinburgh University Press Press/Edinburgh 9781474432122 University Press Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and 9781474431989 Culture Edinburgh Studies in 296 pages East Asian Film paperback 208 pages $39.95 paperback Publish Date: 3/1/2018 $39.95 Publish Date: For more than one thousand years Arab medicine 3/1/2018 held sway in the ancient world, from the shores of Spain in the West to China, India and Sri Lanka The first comprehensive collection on Hong Kong (Ceylon) in the East. This book explores the impact neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong of Greek (as well as Indian and Persian) medical Kong has developed its own unique version of noir heritage on the evolution of Arab medicine and since the late 1940s, while drawing upon and pharmacology, investigating it from the perspective enriching global neo-noir cinemas. With a range of of materia medica - a reliable indication of the contributions from established and emerging contribution of this medical legacy. Focusing on the scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong main substances introduced and traded by the Kong neo-noir, its styles and contemporary Arabs in the medieval Mediterranean - including manifestations, and its connection to mainland Ambergris, camphor, musk, myrobalan, nutmeg, China before and after the 1997 Handover. Case sandalwood and turmeric - the authors show how studies include classics such as The Wild, Wild Rose they enriched the existing inventory of drugs (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997), influenced by Galenic-Arab pharmacology. Further, Exiled (2007) and Shinjuku Incident (2008). It they look at how these substances merged with the provides a fresh look at the careers of iconic figures development and distribution of new technologies Johnnie To, Jackie Chan and Fruit Chan. By and industries that evolved in the Middle Ages such examining the films of emigre Shanghai directors, as textiles, paper, dyeing and tanning, and with the the cool women killers, the hybrids and noir new trends, demands and fashions regarding cityscapes, Hong Kong Neo-Noir explores the spices, perfumes, ornaments (gemstones) and complex connections between a vibrant cinema foodstuffs some of which can be found in our and global noir. modern-day food basket.

Esther C. M. Yau teaches cinema studies in the Zohar Amar is Professor at the Department of Land School of Humanities at The University of Hong of Israel Studies and Archeology; and Director of Kong. Tony Williams is Professor and Area Head of the Unit on the History of Medicine at Bar-Ilan Film Studies, English Department, southern Illinois University, Israel. Efraim Lev is a Professor at the University at Carbondale. Department of Israel Studies; and Head, The Interdisciplinary Center for the Broader Application of Genizah Research at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Gaston Bachelard: A Semiramis' Legacy Philosophy of the The History of Persia Surreal According to Kotowicz, Zbigniew J. Diodorus of Sicily Oxford University Stronk, Jan Press/Edinburgh Oxford University University Press Press/Edinburgh 9781474432238 University Press 224 pages 9781474432559 paperback Edinburgh Studies in $29.95 Ancient Persia Publish Date: 624 pages 3/1/2018 paperback $44.95 Publish Date: Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) was a seminal figure 3/1/2018 in contemporary French philosophy. Together with Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem and Jean Presents and contextualises extracts from the Cavaill?s, he shaped the 'French epistemological' Historical Library of Diodorus There are only a few school of philosophy of science. In France, detailed histories of Persia from Ancient Greek Bachelard is a towering presence; in the English- historiography that have survived time. Diodorus of speaking world, he is little known. Now, Zbigniew Sicily, a first century BC author, is the only one to Kotowicz gives us the first English language, in- have written a comprehensive history (the depth presentation of the entire spectrum of Bibliotheca Historica or Historical Library) in which Bachelard's work: epistemology, poetic imagination more than cursory attention is paid to Persia. The and temporality. And he explores an old Bibliotheca Historica covers the entire period from philosophical tradition that Bachelard's thought Persia's prehistory until the arrival of the Parthians opens up - atomism - a doctrine that has been from the East and that of Roman power almost forgotten and is much misunderstood throughout Asia Minor and beyond from the West, around 750 years after Assyrian rule ended. Zbigniew Kotowicz is Research Fellow at the Centre Diodorus' contribution to our knowledge of Persian for Philosophy of Science of the University of history is therefore of great value for the modern Lisbon. He spent 15 years working as a clinical historian of the Ancient Near East and in this book psychologist and psychotherapist, mostly with R. D. Jan Stronk provides the first complete translation Laing's Philadelphia Association. Subsequently, he of Diodorus' account of the history of Persia. He took a doctorate in philosophy at the University of also examines and evaluates both Diodorus' Warwick. He was Wellcome Research Fellow in the account and the sources he used to compose his History of Medicine in the Department of History, work, taking into consideration the historical, Goldsmiths, University of London. political and archaeological factors that may have played a role in the transmission of the evidence he used to acquire the raw material underlying his Bibliotheca.

Hobbes and Modern Political Thought Zarka, Yves Charles Oxford University Press/Edinburgh University Press 9781474433464 278 pages paperback $39.95 Publish Date: 3/1/2018

Discover how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought: liberalism originates in the Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; Hobbesian interest and contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the comportment of economic actors; and state sovereignty returns anew in the servility of the state.

Yves Charles Zarka is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universite Paris Descartes (Sorbonne), the general editor of Oeuvres de Hobbes (Vrin), and has also published La decision metaphysique de Hobbes (Vrin). He edits the journal Cites (PUF) and, among his works on contemporary political philosophy, has recently published Refaire l'Europe (PUF), Refonder le cosmopolitanisme (PUF), and L'inappropriabilite de la Terre (Armand Colin). James Griffith is Assistant Professor in the History of Political Thought at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts.

Penn State University Press better This joyfully written book is a fascinating look at the challenges and behaviors shared by The Hidden Life of creatures from bacteria to larvae to parasitic fungi, Life: A Walk through a potted hyacinth to the author herself, and all the Reaches of Time those in between. “We are lucky to have shared Thomas, Elizabeth some time on Earth with Elizabeth Marshall Marshall Thomas. Like a shaman of words, she connects us Penn State University as if by magic with other worlds hidden on our own Press planet. . . . Reading her is like looking through a 9780271081014 telescope and realizing that the brightness you see Animalibus: Of actually happened long, long ago and has taken all Animals and Cultures. this time to reach your own eyes.” —Carl Safina, 1 illustration. 5.5 × author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and 8.5 Feel." 200 pages hardcover Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, $22.95 an anthropologist and Publish Date: 3/1/2018 animal behaviorist, has catalog page: 4 published thirteen previous books, including the New An iconoclast and best-selling author of both York Times bestseller The nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Hidden Life of Dogs, has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing Dreaming of Lions, The Tribe about the cultures of animals such as lions and of Tiger, The Old Way, and The Hidden Life of Deer wolves, dogs, deer, and humans In this She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture look at the commonality of life on our planet from the littlest microbes to the largest lizards Inspired by the idea of symbiosis in evolution— that all living things evolve in a series of cooperative relationships—Thomas takes readers on a journey through the progression of life Along the way she shares the universal likenesses, experiences, and environments of “Gaia’s creatures,” from amoebas in plant soil to the pets we love to proud primates and Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers on the African savanna Fervently rejecting “anthropodenial,” the notion that nonhuman life does not share characteristics with humans, Thomas instead shows that paramecia can learn, plants can communicate, humans aren’t really as special as we think we are—and that it doesn’t take a scientist to marvel at the smallest inhabitants of the natural world and their connections to all living things A unique voice on anthropology and animal behavior, Thomas challenges scientific convention and the jargon that prevents us all from understanding all living things

Baskind pursues key questions of Jewish identity: What links artistic representations of the ghetto to the Jewish diaspora? How is art politicized or depoliticized? Why have Americans made such a strong cultural claim on the uprising? Vibrantly illustrated and vividly told, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture shows the importance of the ghetto as a site of memory and creative struggle and reveals how this seminal event and locale served as a staging ground for the forging of Jewish American identity.

Samantha Baskind is Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University and author of Jewish Artists and the Bible in The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture Twentieth-Century America, Baskind, Samantha also published by Penn State Penn State University Press University Press. 9780271078700 30 color/57 b&w illustrations. 7.5 × 9.5 288 pages hardcover $44.95 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 7

On Passover eve, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged the now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics. Samantha Baskind explores seventy years’ worth of artistic representations of the ghetto and revolt to understand why they became and remain touchstones in the American mind. Her study includes iconic works such as Leon Uris’s best- selling novel Mila 18, Roman Polanski’s Academy Award–winning film The Pianist, and Rod Serling’s teleplay “In the Presence of Mine Enemies,” as well as accounts in American Jewish Yearbook and the New York Times, the art of Samuel Bak and Arthur Szyk, the poetry of Yala Korwin and Charles Reznikoff, and others. In probing these works, George Sand Medieval Studies and the Reid, Martine Ghost Stories of M. R. Penn State University James Press Murphy, Patrick J. 9780271081069 Penn State University Translated with an Press introduction by Gretchen 9780271077727 van Slyke. 1 illustration. 5 3 illustrations. 6 × 9 × 8 264 pages 264 pages hardcover hardcover $29.95 $29.95 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 catalog page: 19 catalog page: 9 Montague Rhodes James authored some of the The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, most highly regarded ghost stories of all time— born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, classics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, remains one of France’s most infamous and My Lad” that have been adapted many times over beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless for radio and television and have never gone out of translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reid’s print. But while James is best known as a fiction Montuses Award–winning biography of Sand is writer and storyteller, he was also a provost of now available in English. Drawing on recent French King’s College, Cambridge, and Eton College, and a and English biographies of Sand, as well as her legendary and influential scholar whose pioneering novels, plays, autobiographical texts, and work in the study of biblical texts and medieval correspondence, Reid creates the most complete manuscripts, art, and architecture is still relevant portrait possible of a writer who was both today. In Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of celebrated and vilified in her time. Reid M. R. James, Patrick J. Murphy argues that these contextualizes Sand within the literature of the twin careers are inextricably linked. James’s nineteenth century, unfolds the meaning and research not only informed his fiction but also importance of her chosen pen name, and pays reflected his anxieties about the nature of careful attention to Sand’s political, artistic, and academic life and explored the delicate divide scientific expressions and interests. The result is a between professional university men and erratic candid, even-handed, and illuminating hobbyists or antiquaries. Murphy shows how representation of a remarkable woman in detailed attention to the scholarly inspirations remarkable times. behind James’s fiction provides considerable insight into a formative moment in medieval Martine Reid is Professor of studies as well as into James’s methods as a master French Language and stylist of understated horror. During his life, James Literature at Versailles Saint- often claimed that his stories were mere Quentin-en-Yvelines entertainments—pleasing distractions from a life University. She is the editor of largely defined by academic discipline and several critical editions of restraint—and readers over the years have been George Sand’s work, including content to take him at his word. Mademoiselle Merquem and La Petite Fadette, the latter also published by Penn Patrick J. Murphy is Associate State University Press. Gretchen van Slyke is Professor of English at Miami Professor of French at the University of Vermont. University (Oxford, Ohio).

Graphic Reproduction: and a section of discussion exercises and questions A Comics Anthology make it a perfect teaching tool. “This collection of Johnson, Jenell (editor) comic narratives gives voice to non-normative, Penn State University marginalized, and, in some cases, stigmatized Press stories in the arena of human reproduction. By 9780271080949 sharing these rich stories, assumptions are Afterword by Susan challenged, biases are exposed, and stigma is lifted. Merrill Squier. Graphic These are stories of resistance to silence, norms, Medicine Series. 171 and expectations. These are stories that return color illustrations. 7 × voice, and the collection is an important 10 contribution to Graphic Medicine.” —MK Czerwiec, 224 pages author of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care paperback Unit 371. $26.95 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 catalog page: 36

This comics anthology delves deeply into the messy and often taboo subject of human reproduction.

Featuring work by luminaries such as Carol Tyler, Alison Bechdel, and Joyce Farmer, Graphic Jenell Johnson is Mellon-Morgridge Professor of Reproduction is an illustrated challenge to the Humanities and Associate Professor of dominant cultural narratives about conception, Communication Arts at the University of pregnancy, and childbirth. The comics here expose Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of American the contradictions, complexities, and confluences Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History. around diverse individual experiences of the entire reproductive process, from trying to conceive to child loss and childbirth. Jenell Johnson’s introduction situates comics about reproduction within the growing field of graphic medicine and reveals how they provide a discursive forum in which concepts can be explored and presented as uncertainties rather than as part of a prescribed or expected narrative. Through comics such as Lyn Chevley’s groundbreaking “Abortion Eve,” Bethany Doane’s “Pushing Back: A Home Birth Story,” Leah Hayes’s “Not Funny Ha-Ha,” and “Losing Thomas & Ella: A Father’s Story,” by Marcus B. Weaver- Hightower, the collection explores a myriad of reproductive experiences and perspectives. The result is a provocative, multifaceted portrait of one of the most basic and complicated of all human experiences, one that can be hilarious and heartbreaking. Featuring work by well-known comics artists as well as exciting new voices, this incisive collection is an important and timely resource for understanding how reproduction intersects with sociocultural issues. The afterword strategies to the growing taste on the West Coast for the work of Diego Rivera. They consider the impact of various political shifts on art collecting, from reactions against the “American exceptionalism” of the Monroe Doctrine to the aesthetic biases of government-sponsored art academies in Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, and Havana. The final three chapters focus on living collectors such as Roberta and Richard Huber, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and Estrellita B. Brodsky. A thorough and definitive account of the changing course of private and public collections and their important connection to underlying political and cultural relations between the United States and Latin American countries, this volume gives a rare glimpse into the practice of collecting from the collectors’ own point of view. In addition to the editor, contributors to this volume are Miriam The Americas Revealed: Collecting Colonial and Margarita Basilio, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Vanessa K. Modern Latin American Art in the United States Davidson, Anna Indych- Lopez, Ronda Kasl, Gabriel Sullivan, Edward J. (editor) Perez-Barreiro, Berit Potter, Delia Solomons, Penn State University Press Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt, Mari Carmen Ramirez, and 9780271079523 Joseph Rishel. “Latin American art cannot be The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art understood only from archives and national Collecting in America Series. Co-published with The collections in Latin American countries: the Frick Collection. 48 color/16 b&w illustrations. 8 × institutional and private collections developed in 10 the United States are fundamental. This book 224 pages proves that with extraordinary excellence.” — hardcover Andrea Giunta, author of Avant-Garde, $69.95 Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Publish Date: 6/1/2018 Sixties. catalog page: 43

In The Americas Revealed, distinguished curator and art historian Edward Sullivan brings together a vibrant group of essays that explore the formation, in the United States, of public and private collections of art from the Spanish- and Edward J. Sullivan is Helen Gould Sheppard Portuguese-speaking Americas. The contributors to Professor of the History of Art at New York this volume trace the major milestones and University. He is the author of more than thirty emerging approaches to collecting and presenting books and exhibition catalogues. Spanish Colonial and modern Latin American art by museums, galleries, private collections, and corporations from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In chronicling the roles played by determined collectors from New York to San Francisco, the essays examine a range of subjects from MoMA’s mid-twentieth-century acquisition Robert the Devil: Meyerbeer’s esteemed 1831 opera. Framed by a The First Modern thoughtful introduction and thorough bibliography, English Translation this accessible translation renders the original of Robert le Diable, octosyllabic rhymed couplets of the metrical Old an Anonymous French romance in energetic free verse. “Samuel French Romance of Rosenberg is one of the most accomplished and the Thirteenth capable translators of Old French texts working Century today.” —Norris J. Lacy, editor of Lancelot–Grail: Rosenberg, Samuel The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate N. (translator) in Translation. Penn State University Press 9780271080161 Samuel N. Rosenberg is 6 × 9 Professor Emeritus of French 168 pages and Italian at Indiana paperback University. $19.95 Publish Date: 2/1/2018 catalog page: 47

The First Modern English Translation of Robert le Diable.

Samuel Rosenberg, one of the premier translators of Old French, presents in this volume the first modern English-language version of the thirteenth- century French romance Robert le Diable, a tale of supernatural birth and spiritual redemption. Robert is born after his mother, a childless noblewoman, secretly calls upon Satan to help her conceive. His wicked behavior as a boy and, later, as a destructive young man is so brutal that one day Robert prevails upon his mother to reveal the secret of his birth and thus the source of his wickedness. Upon learning the truth, he leaves his privileged home in Normandy to seek salvation. Robert’s lengthy penance—under the aegis of the Pope and a pious hermit—begins with his acting as a mute fool in the Roman Emperor’s court and ends with his sainthood. In between he plays the hero’s role in defeating the Turks in battle and turns down the hand of the Emperor’s daughter in marriage, choosing instead to return to the hermit’s abode. The legend of Robert le Diable was extraordinarily influential in the seven hundred years after its creation, generating new versions and adaptations in various languages, ranging from sixteenth-century English adaptations by Wynken de Worde and Thomas Lodge to Giacomo Heroine of the Harlem special value to scholars and readers interested in Renaissance and African American literature and art and American Beyond: Gwendolyn history and cultural studies. “This superbly edited Bennett’s Selected collection will introduce many readers to a more Writings versatile and accomplished Gwendolyn Bennett Bennett, Gwendolyn than they have known before. It includes the Penn State University unpublished political poetry that extends her range Press and impact, making her a key figure of the 1930s.” 9780271080970 —Cary Nelson, author of Repression and Recovery: Edited by Belinda Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Wheeler and Louis J. Cultural Memory, 1910–1945. Parascandola. 7 illustrations. 6 × 9 Gwendolyn B. Bennett 248 pages (July 8, 1902 – May 30, paperback 1981) was an American $24.95 artist, writer, and Publish Date: 6/1/2018 journalist who catalog page: 52.1 contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Negro Life, which Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have chronicled cultural been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem advancements during the Renaissance and a strong advocate for racial pride Harlem Renaissance. Though often overlooked, she and the rights of African American women. Heroine herself made considerable accomplishments in of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond presents poetry and prose. She is perhaps best known for key selections of her published and unpublished her short story "Wedding Day", which was writings and artwork in one volume. From poems, published in the first issue of Fire!! Bennett was a short stories, and reviews to letters, journal dedicated and self-preserving woman, respectfully entries, and art, this collection showcases known for being a strong influencer of African- Bennett’s diverse and insightful body of work and American women rights during the Harlem rightfully places her alongside her contemporaries Renaissance. Throughout her dedication and in the Harlem Renaissance— figures such as Zora perseverance, Bennett raised the bar when it came Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Countee to women's literature, and education. One of her Cullen. It includes selections from her monthly contributions to the Harlem Renaissance was her column “The Ebony Flute,” published in literary acclaimed short novel "Poets Evening"; it Opportunity, the magazine of the National Urban helped the understanding within the African- League, as well as newly uncovered post-1928 American communities, resulting in many African- work that proves definitively that Bennett Americans coming to terms with identifying and continued writing throughout the following two accepting themselves. Belinda Wheeler is Associate decades. Bennett’s correspondence with canonical Professor of English at Claflin University and the figures from the period, her influence on Harlem editor of several books, most recently A arts institutions, and her political writings, reviews, Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature. and articles show her deep connection to and Louis J. Parascandola is Professor of English at Long lasting influence on the movement that shaped her Island University, Brooklyn, and the editor of early career. An indispensable introduction to one several books, most recently Amy Jacques Garvey: of the era’s most prolific and passionate minds, this Selected Writings from the Negro World, 1923– reevaluation of Bennett’s life and work deepens 1928. our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance and enriches the world of American letters. It will be of Religion Around for how the soundscape and spirituality of those Billie Holiday religious sources shaped her artistry. What Fessenden, Tracy emerges is a rich and compelling portrait at the Penn State intersection of Holiday’s personal history, American University Press Catholicism, blues and jazz culture, and the 9780271080956 currents of race and gender in American life.” — Religion Around Judith Weisenfeld, author of New World A-Coming: Series. 5.5 × 8.5 Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great 248 pages Migration. hardcover $34.95 Tracy Fessenden is Steve Publish Date: and Margaret Forster 4/1/2018 Professor in the School of catalog page: 53 Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Soulful jazz singer Arizona State University and Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique the author of Culture and sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue Redemption: Religion, the that includes such resonant songs as “Strange Secular, and American Literature. Fruit” and “God Bless the Child.” Holiday and her music were also strongly shaped by religion, often author location: Tempe AZ in surprising ways. Religion Around Billie Holiday examines the spiritual and religious forces that left their mark on the performer during her short but overwhelmingly influential life. Mixing elements of biography with the history of race and American music, Fessenden explores the multiple religious influences on Holiday’s life and sound, including her time spent as a child in a Baltimore convent, the echoes of black Southern churches in the blues she encountered in brothels, the secular riffs on ancestral faith in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Jewish songwriting culture of Tin Pan Alley. Fessenden looks at the vernacular devotions scholars call lived religion—the Catholicism of the streets, the Jewishness of the stage, the Pentecostalism of the roadhouse or the concert arena—alongside more formal religious articulations in institutions, doctrine, and ritual performance. Insightful and compelling, Fessenden’s study brings unexpected materials and archival voices to bear on the shaping of Billie Holiday’s exquisite craft and indelible persona. Religion Around Billie Holiday illuminates the power and durability of religion in the making of an American musical icon. “With beautiful prose and nuanced analysis, Fessenden navigates the reader through the religious landscape that shaped Holiday’s life and career and tunes our ear to listen SUNY Press New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Adriaen van der Donck: A Essays on Slavery, Dutch Rebel in Resistance, Abolition, Seventeenth-Century Teaching, and Historical America Memory van den Hout, J. Singer, Alan J. SUNY Press/Excelsior SUNY Press Editions 9781438469706 9781438469218 7 x 10. 6 x 9. 18 bw photos, 7 160 pages maps. paperback 225 pages $21.95 hardcover Publish Date: 5/1/2018 $27.95 catalog page: 9 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 catalog page: 3 In this book Alan J. Singer discusses the history of race and racism in the United States, emphasizing This book tells the compelling story of the young the continuing significance of slavery’s past in legal activist Adriaen van der Donck (1618–1655), shaping our present. Each chapter addresses a whose fight to secure the struggling Dutch colony different theme in the history of slavery and the of New Netherland made him a controversial but abolitionist struggle in the United States, with a pivotal figure in early America. At best, he has been focus on events and debates in New York State. labeled a hero, a visionary, and a spokesman of the Chapters examine the founders of the new nation people. At worst, he has been branded arrogant and their views on slavery and equality; African and selfish, thinking only of his own ambitions. The American resistance; how abolitionists moved from wide range of opinions about him testifies to the the margins to the center of political debate; key fact that, more than three centuries after his players in the anti-slavery struggle such as David death, Van der Donck remains an intriguing Ruggles, Solomon Northup, Harriet Tubman, character. J. van den Hout follows Van der Donck Frederick Douglass, William Seward, and Abraham from his war-torn seventeenth-century childhood Lincoln; celebrations of freedom; as well as and privileged university education to the New ongoing racism. Interspersed throughout the text World, as he attempted to make his mark on the are teaching notes that explore primary source fledgling fur trading settlement. When he became documents and resources. The book draws on the embroiled in the politics of Manhattan, he took the latest scholarship to address and correct historical colonists’ complaints against their Dutch West myths about both New York State before, during, India Company administrators to the highest level and after the American Civil War, especially the of government in the Dutch Republic, in what pro-slavery, anti-civil rights stance of New York became a fight for his adopted homeland and a Copperhead Democrats in Congress, and the crucial bicontinental showdown. role of Black and White abolitionists in ending slavery in the United States and challenging racial J. van den Hout is an independent scholar who lives injustice. in California. This is her first book. Alan J. Singer is Professor of author location: California Education at Hofstra University and the author of New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth , also published by SUNY Press.

Participation and the Essays on the Mystery: Transpersonal Foundations of Ethics Essays in Psychology, Lewis, C. I. Education, and Religion SUNY Press Ferrer, Jorge N. 9781438464923 SUNY Press 6 x 9. Edited by John 9781438464862 Lange. 6 x 9. 1 table, 1 figure. 266 pages 386 pages paperback paperback $22.95 $29.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 1/2/2018 1/2/2018 catalog page: 33 catalog page: 66

Participation and the Mystery is both an C. I. Lewis, one of America’s greatest philosophers, introduction to and expansion of Jorge N. Ferrer’s was tremendously influential in the fields of logic groundbreaking work on participatory spirituality, and epistemology. However, it was to ethics that which holds that human beings are active he devoted the last years of his life. His approach cocreators of spiritual phenomena, worlds, and to ethics was not merely as an academic pursuit, even ultimates. After examining the impact of his but as the deepest and most fundamental work since the publication of Revisioning challenge of human life, older than philosophy Transpersonal Theory , Ferrer discusses the itself: how should one respond to the necessity of relationship between science and transpersonal action, and cope with the imposed, unforgiving psychology, the nature of a fully embodied imperatives of self-governance? Drawing from spirituality, and the features of integral spiritual volumes of Lewis’s hand-inscribed notes and practice. The book also introduces a participatory drafts, John Lange has assembled a version of philosophy of education and applies it to the Lewis’s final book, Essays on the Foundations of academic teaching of mysticism and a novel Ethics , bringing to light his desire to locate and approach to embodied spiritual inquiry. Critically articulate those moral realities which he found to engaging the influential work of Stanislav Grof, Ken be part of an enlightened common sense, a Wilber, and A. H. Almaas, Ferrer concludes with an common sense to be expected in an evolved, self- original solution to the problem of religious governing, rational human nature.. pluralism that affirms the ontological richness of religious worlds while avoiding the extremes of Clarence Irving Lewis (April 12, perennialism and contextualism, offering a hopeful 1883 – February 3, 1964), usually vision for the future of world religion. cited as C. I. Lewis, was an contemporary spirituality, and religious studies. American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual Jorge N. Ferrer is Professor of pragmatism. First a noted logician, East-West Psychology at the he later branched into California Institute of Integral epistemology, and during the last Studies. He is the author of 20 years of his life, he wrote much on ethics. The Revisioning Transpersonal New York Times memorialized him as a leading Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality authority on symbolic logic and on the philosophic and the coeditor, with Jacob H. Sherman, of The concepts of knowledge and value. John Lange is Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Professor of Philosophy at Queens College, City Studies , both also published by SUNY Press. University of New York, and the author of several books. author location: San Francisco CA Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, Truth of the Russian and Scientific Imagination Revolution, The: The Stamos, David N. Memoirs of the Tsar's SUNY Press Chief of Security and His 9781438463902 Wife 6 x 9. 8 figures. Globachev, Konstantin 602 pages Ivanovich and paperback Globacheva, Sofia $36.95 Nikolaevna Publish Date: 1/2/2018 SUNY Press catalog page: 70 9781438464626 6 x 9. 66 bw photos, 3 In 1848, almost a year and a half before Edgar Allan maps. Translated by Vladimir G. Marinich. Poe died at the age of forty, his book Eureka was 364 pages published. In it, he weaved together his scientific paperback speculations about the universe with his own $29.95 literary theory, theology, and philosophy of Publish Date: 1/2/2018 science. Although Poe himself considered it to be catalog page: 85 his magnum opus, Eureka has mostly been overlooked or underappreciated, sometimes even Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev was to the point of being thought an elaborate hoax. chief of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, in Remarkably, however, in Eureka Poe anticipated at Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in the two years least nine major theories and developments in preceding the 1917 Russian Revolution. This book twentieth-century science, including the Big Bang presents his memoirs—translated in English for the theory, multiverse theory, and the solution to first time—interposed with those of his wife, Sofia Olbers’ paradox. In this book—the first devoted Nikolaevna Globacheva. The general’s writings, specifically to Poe’s science side—David N. Stamos, which he titled The Truth of the Russian a philosopher of science, combines scientific Revolution, provide a front-row view of Tsar background with analysis of Poe’s life and work to Nicholas II’s final years, the revolution, and its highlight the creative and scientific achievements tumultuous aftermath. Globachev describes the of this text. He examines Poe’s literary theory, political intrigue and corruption in the capital and theology, and intellectual development, and then details his office’s surveillance over radical activists compares Poe’s understanding of science with that and the mysterious Rasputin. His wife takes a more of scientists and philosophers from his own time to personal approach, depicting her tenacity in the the present. Next, Stamos pieces together and struggle to keep her family intact and the family’s clarifies Poe’s theory of scientific imagination, flight to freedom. Her descriptions vividly portray which he then attempts to update and defend by the privileges and relationships of the noble class providing numerous case studies of eureka that collapsed with the empire. Translator Vladimir moments in modern science and by seeking G. Marinich includes biographical information, insights from comparative biography and illustrations, a glossary, and a timeline to psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and contextualize this valuable primary source on a key evolution. period in Russian history.

David N. Stamos teaches Major General Konstantin philosophy at York University in Ivanovich Globachev was chief of Toronto. He is the author of the Okhrana. Vladimir G. Marinich several books, including Darwin is Professor Emeritus of History at and the Nature of Species, also Howard Community College in published by SUNY Press. Columbia, Maryland. Mountains, Rivers, and Mexico's Nobodies: The the Great Earth: Reading Cultural Legacy of the Gary Snyder and Dogen Soldadera and Afro- in an Age of Ecological Mexican Women Crisis Arce, B. Christine Wirth, Jason M. SUNY Press SUNY Press 9781438463582 9781438465425 6 x 9. photos, 32 bw 6 x 9. SUNY series in photos, 0 maps, 0 Environmental tables, 0 figures. SUNY Philosophy and Ethics. series, Genders in the 174 pages Global South. paperback 350 pages $20.95 paperback Publish Date: 1/2/2018 $27.95 catalog page: 88 Publish Date: 1/2/2018 catalog page:92 Meditating on the work of American poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth- Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with century Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dogen, Jason gender and blackness to revise traditional M. Wirth draws out insights for understanding our interpretations of Mexicanness. relation to the planet’s ongoing ecological crisis. He discusses what Dogen calls the Great Earth and Winner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical what Snyder calls the Wild as being comprised of Monograph Book Prize presented by the the play of waters and mountains, emptiness and International Association of Hispanic Feminine form, and then considers how these ideas can Literature and Culture. México’s Nobodies illuminate the spiritual and ethical dimensions of examines two key figures in Mexican history that place. The book culminates in a discussion of earth have remained anonymous despite their democracy, a place-based sense of communion proliferation in the arts: the soldadera and the where all beings are interconnected and all beings figure of the mulata. B. Christine Arce unravels the matter. This radical rethinking of what it means to stunning paradox evident in the simultaneous inhabit the earth will inspire lovers of Snyder’s erasure (in official circles) and ongoing fascination poetry, Zen practitioners, environmental (in the popular imagination) with the nameless philosophers, and anyone concerned about the people who both define and fall outside of global ecological crisis. traditional norms of national identity. The book traces the legacy of these extraordinary figures in Jason M. Wirth is Professor of popular histories and legends, the Inquisition, Philosophy at Seattle University. ballads such as La Adelita and La Cucaracha, iconic He is the author of Schelling’s performers like Toña la Negra, and musical genres Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, such as the son jarocho and danzón . This study is Imagination and The Conspiracy of the first of its kind to draw attention to art’s crucial Life: Meditations on Schelling and role in bearing witness to the rich heritage of His Time ; the translator of The blacks and women in Ages of the World by F. W. J. contemporary México. Schelling; and the coeditor (with Patrick Burke) of The Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, B. Christine Arce is Assistant and the Question of Nature. Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the author location: Seattle WA University of Miami. Diasporic Blackness: The Ronald W. Walters and the Life and Times of Arturo Fight for Black Power, Alfonso Schomburg 1969-2010 Valdés, Vanessa K. Smith, Robert C. SUNY Press SUNY Press 9781438465142 9781438468662 6 x 9. 9 bw photos. 6 x 9. 14 bw photos. SUNY 202 pages series in African American paperback Studies. $20.95 343 pages Publish Date: 1/2/2018 paperback catalog page: 94 $34.95 Publish Date: 2/1/2018 A Black Puerto Rican–born scholar, Arturo Alfonso catalog page: 97 Schomburg (1874–1938) was a well-known collector and archivist whose personal library was From his leadership of the first modern lunch the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in counter sit-ins at age twenty to his work on African Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He American reparations at the time of his death at was an autodidact who matched wits with age seventy-two, Ronald W. Walters (1938–2010) university-educated men and women, as well as a was at the cutting edge of African American prominent Freemason, a writer, and an institution- politics. A preeminent scholar, activist, and media builder. While he spent much of his life in New commentator, he was founding chair of the Black York City, Schomburg was intimately involved in Studies Department at Brandeis, where he shaped the cause of Cuban and Puerto Rican the epistemological parameters of the new independence. In the aftermath of the Spanish- discipline. Walters was an early strategist of Cuban-American War of 1898, he would go on to congressional black power and a longtime advocate cofound the Negro Society for Historical Research of a black presidential candidacy. His writings on and lead the American Negro Academy, all the the politics of race in America both predicted the while collecting and assembling books, prints, constraints on President Obama in advancing pamphlets, articles, and other ephemera produced African American interests and anticipated the by Black men and women from across the Americas emergence of the white nationalism found in the and Europe. His curated library collection at the Tea Party and Donald Trump insurgency. In this New York Public Library emphasized the presence fascinating book, Robert C. Smith combines history of African peoples and their descendants and biography to offer an overview of the last half throughout the Americas and would serve as an century of black politics in America through the indispensable resource for the luminaries of the lens of the life and work of the man often Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes described as the W. E. B. Du Bois of his time. and Zora Neale Hurston. This first book-length examination of Schomburg’s life as an Afro-Latino Robert C. Smith is Professor of suggests new ways of understanding the Political Science at San intersections of both Blackness and latinidad. Francisco State University. His many books include African Vanessa K. Valdés is American Leadership, Associate Professor of coauthored with Walters, and Spanish and Portuguese at What Has This Got to Do with the City College of New York, the Liberation of Black People? City University of New York. She is the editor of Let Spirit Speak! Cultural author location: San Francisco CA Journeys through the African Diaspora. Hip Hop Beats, American Stranger: Indigenous Rhymes: Modernisms, Modernity and Hip Hop Hollywood, and the in Indigenous North Cinema of Nicholas Ray America Scheibel, Will Mays, Kyle T. SUNY Press SUNY Press 9781438464121 9781438469461 6 x 9. 19 bw photos. 6 x 9. 7 bw photos. SUNY series, Horizons of SUNY series, Native Cinema. Traces. 258 pages 160 pages paperback paperback $27.95 $24.95 Publish Date: 1/2/2018 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 127 catalog page: 115 How does cinema culture imagine one of its Expressive culture has always been an important favorite figures, the rebel? The reputation of the part of the social, political, and economic lives of American director Nicholas Ray provides a Indigenous people. More recently, Indigenous particularly notable example. Most famous for people have blended expressive cultures with Hip Rebel Without a Cause, Ray has since been Hop culture, creating new sounds, aesthetics, canonized as a rebel auteur and celebrated for movements, and ways of being Indigenous. This seeking a personal vision and signature style under book documents recent developments among the the industrial pressures of Classical Hollywood Indigenous Hip Hop Generation. Meeting at the during its late studio period. In American Stranger, nexus of Hip Hop Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Will Scheibel reconstructs how Ray’s reputation Critical Ethnic Studies, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous developed over time, analyzing the different Rhymes argues that Indigenous people use Hip Hop historical practices of modernism that set new culture to assert their sovereignty and challenge horizons for artistic rebellion in postwar cinema. settler colonialism. From rapping about land and Drawing on biographical legends, interviews, film water rights from Flint to Standing Rock, to reviews, articles in both national newspapers and remixing traditional beading with Hip Hop international film magazines, and star promotion aesthetics, Indigenous people are using Hip Hop to and publicity, Scheibel examines the contexts in challenge their ongoing dispossession, disrupt which Ray’s reputation was constructed. racist stereotypes and images of Indigenous people, contest white supremacy and Will Scheibel is Assistant heteropatriarchy, and reconstruct ideas of a Professor in the English progressive masculinity. Department at Syracuse University, where he teaches Kyle T. Mays is Assistant film and screen studies. He is Professor in the the coeditor (with Steven Department of African Rybin) of Lonely Places, American Studies and the Dangerous Ground: Nicholas American Indian Center, Ray in American Cinema. UCLA.

author location: Los Angeles CA Text/ures of Iraq: Tawny One, The: Soma, Contemporary Art from Haoma, and Ayahuasca the Collection of Oded Clark, Matthew Halahmy SUNY Press/Muswell Hill Halahmy, Oded / Vali, Press Murtazi / Pasti, Sara J. 9781908995223 SUNY Press/Samuel 6.14 x 9.21. Dorsky Museum of Art 295 pages 9780998207520 paperback 8 x 10. 6 figures. $25.95 106 pages Publish Date: 9/30/2017 paperback catalog page: 143 $30.00 Publish Date: 3/15/2017 The identity of the plant known as soma in ancient catalog page: 138 India and as haoma in the Zoroastrian tradition has, for around 250 years, exercised the wits and Text/ures of Iraq presents work by New York-based imagination of scores of scholars. This plant is sculptor Oded Halahmy, a Jewish native of praised in the highest terms—as a kind of deity—in Baghdad, alongside that of eight contemporary both Zoroastrian and Vedic texts that date from artists from Iraq: Hayder Ali, Amal Alwan, around 1,700–1,500 BCE. It is said to provide Mohammed al Hamadany, Ismail Khayat, Hanaa health, power, wisdom, and even immortality. It Malallah, Hassan Massoudy, Naziha Rashid, and has been variously identified by researchers as a Qasim Sabti. Gathering works that reference Iraq’s nonpsychoactive plant, as a medicine, as merely literary past in an effort to better understand the water, as alcoholic, as a narcotic, as a stimulant, region’s present, the book finds its constituent and as a psychedelic. Currently, the three most artists celebrating their country as a pastoral idyll, supported theories are that soma/haoma was where people of different beliefs, cultures, and either fly-agaric mushrooms, ephedra, or Syrian ethnicities peacefully coexisted for centuries, while rue. The author suggests that the ritual drink was also mourning the gradual, more recent fraying of based on analogues of ayahuasca , using a variety Iraqi culture. of plants, some of which he identifies in the book. Oded Halahmy currently lives in New York City and Old Jaffa, Israel. His sculptures are in the collection Dr. Matthew Clark has spent of the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn many years in India and is Museum, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, as currently a Research Associate well as many other public and private collections at the School of Oriental and worldwide. Sara J. Pasti is the Neil C. Trager African Studies, University of Director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at London. the State University of New York at New Paltz. Murtazi Vali is a critic and curator based in Sharjah, UAE and Brooklyn. He regularly publishes in international art periodicals and has contributed to publications for both commercial galleries and nonprofit institutions around the world. He is a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute and a lead tutor of Campus Art Dubai 5.0. Ursula Morgan is the Coordinator of Exhibitions and Programs of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience Luke, David SUNY Press/Muswell Hill Press 9781908995148 6.14 x 9.21. 298 pages paperback $25.95 Publish Date: 9/30/2017 catalog page: 144

What is the evidence that psi experiences are experienced more frequently in non-ordinary states of consciousness? David Luke addresses this question, which is beyond the scope of materialist science, with a synthesis of scientific research on anomalous experiences occurring under the influence of psychedelics from the perspective of neuroscience, psychology, parapsychology, anthropology, and transpersonal studies. This is a comprehensive exploration of chemically mediated extra ordinary human experiences, including synesthesia, extra-dimensional percepts, out-of- body-experiences, near-death experiences, entity encounter experiences, sleep paralysis, mediumship, clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition. The author explores the implications for our understanding of consciousness and areas for further research.

Dr. David Luke is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich and has studied techniques of consciousness alteration from South America to India, from the perspective of scientists, shamans, and Shivaites.

Syracuse University Press Graves of Upstate New York: A Guide to 100 Fanny Palmer: The Life Notable Resting Places and Works of a Currier & D'imperio, Chuck Ives Artist Syracuse University Press Rubinstein, Charlotte 9780815610977 Streifer 6 x 9. 109 black and white Syracuse University Press illustrations 9780815610953 392 pages Edited by Diann Benti. 11 paperback x 11 $27.95 424 pages Publish Date: 03/15/18 hardcover catalog page: 4 $60.00 Publish Date: 04/16/18 Graves of Upstate New York presents a fascinating catalog page: 1 look at the lives and deaths of 100 legendary Americans who are laid to rest in Upstate New As one of Currier & Ives's leading artists, Frances York. D'Imperio takes readers on a journey across (Fanny) Bond Palmer (1812-1876) was a major the state, visiting an array of famous New York lithographer whose prints found their way into grave sites, from Mark Twain, Harriet Tubman, and homes, schools, barns, taverns, business offices, James Fenimore Cooper to Helen Hayes, Lucille yacht clubs, and elsewhere, reaching a mass Ball, four US presidents, a Kentucky Derby-winning audience during her day. Her life was a true horse, and the most famous one-legged tap dancer American fable-the story of an immigrant who in the world. D'Imperio tells the story of each came to the United States to start a new life for individual, along with photographs and detailed herself and her family and rose to the top of her information about the cemetery. From West Point profession. In Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of to Lake Placid to Buffalo and all points north, south, a Currier & Ives Artist, Rubinstein chronicles the east, and west, Graves of Upstate New York offers details of Palmer's life, situating her work as the a cultural tour across the great expanse of Upstate product of her own merit rather than as an New York in search of its famous residents and achievement of Currier & Ives, and portraying the their lasting legacies. artist as an enterprising professional and one of the most versatile and prolific lithographers of her day. Largely ignored by art historians because of her Chuck D'Imperio is the author status as a graphic artist and as an employee of of several books about famous male publishers, Palmer's work was Upstate New York. His most nonetheless a staple in nineteenth-century culture. recent titles include Unknown Museums of Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein Upstate New York: A Guide (1922-2013) was an artist, to 50 Treasures and A Taste scholar, and art educator. of Upstate New York: The People and Stories Diann Benti is a supervising behind 40 Food Favorites. librarian at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Author location: San Marino CA (Diann Benti)

The Rebels and Other Jerusalem Stands Alone Short Fiction Shukair, Mahmoud Power, Richard Syracuse University Press Syracuse University Press 9780815611035 9780815635864 Translated from the Arabic Edited by James by Nicole Fares. MacKillop. 6 x 9 96 pages 232 pages paperback paperback $19.95 $24.95 Publish Date: 05/15/18 Publish Date: 04/16/18 catalog page: 7 catalog page: 6 By turns bleak, nostalgic, and lighthearted, An accomplished novelist, short story writer, and Jerusalem Stands Alone explores the playwright, Richard Power (1928-1970) was most interconnected lives of its mostly Palestinian cast. well-known for his 1969 novel The Hungry Grass. This series of quick moving vignettes tells the story While many of his stories were published in the of occupied Jerusalem-tales of the daily tribulations leading literary journals of the day, his premature and personal revelations of its narrators. The death prevented his work from gaining the fame it stories, entwined around themes of family and deserved. Gathered together for the first time, identity, diverge in viewpoint and chronology but Power's subtle and poignant stories capture the ultimately unite to reveal the tapestry of daily lives of urban and rural dwellers in Ireland at Palestinian Jerusalem. The settings evoke the past- the turn of the twentieth century. Coming of age, churches, alleys, and people who are gone but the tensions between tradition and modernity, and whose spirits yearn to be remembered. The romantic love are some of the themes in these characters are sons and mothers, soldiers and beautifully vivid tales. Power explores the wives, all of whom unveil themselves in sometimes interiority of an Irish mother and the thorny poignant, sometimes bittersweet memories. As its navigation of an adolescent girl's coming of age history rises up through the present struggles and with pathos and humor. This memorable collection, hopes of its people, the deepest, most personal thoughtfully arranged and introduced by James layers of Jerusalem are revealed. MacKillop, gives new life to an undeservedly neglected writer for fans and scholars of the Irish Mahmoud Shukair is a short story tradition. Palestinian writer of short stories and novels for adults and Richard Power was born in teenagers. He is the author of Ireland. He worked as a forty-five books, six television civil servant in Dublin and series, and four plays. His stories earned an MFA from the have been translated into Iowa Writers Workshop. several languages, including English, French, He is the author of The German, Chinese, Mongolian, and Czech. In 2011, Hungry Grass as well as he was awarded the Mahmoud Darwish Prize for numerous short stories Freedom of Expression. He has spent his life and plays. James MacKillop is the author of Fionn between Beirut, Amman, and Prague and now lives mac Cumhaill: Celtic Myth in English Literature, and in Jerusalem. Nicole Fares teaches world literature Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, and is coeditor of at the University of Arkansas and is a doctoral An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama. candidate in comparative literature and cultural studies. She has translated novels, short stories, and poetry from Arabic to English, including the novel 32, by Sahar Mandour. Moroccan Folktales Contemporary Iraqi El Koudia, Jilali Fiction: An Anthology Syracuse University Mustafa, Shakir (editor) Press Syracuse University 9780815611011 Press 6 x 9 9780815611028 200 pages 6 x 9 paperback 232 pages $19.95 paperback Publish Date: 02/15/18 $19.95 catalog page: 8 Publish Date: 02/15/18 catalog page: 9 new in paperback New in paperback. Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of The first anthology of its kind in the West, utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls Contemporary Iraqi Fiction gathers work from and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds sixteen Iraqi writers, all translated from Arabic into and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories English. Shedding a bright light on the rich diversity to be savored, studied, or simply treasured. Varied Iraqi experience, Shakir Mustafa has included genres include anecdotes, legends, and animal selections by Iraqi women, Iraqi Jews now living in fables, and some tales bear strong resemblance to Israel, and Christians and Muslims living both in European counterparts, for example Aamar and his Iraq and abroad. While each voice is distinct, they Sister (Hansel and Gretel) and Nunja and the White are united in writing about a homeland that has Dove (Cinderella). All capture the heart of Morroco suffered under repression, censorship, war, and and the soul of its people. In an enlightening occupation. Many of the selections mirror these introduction, El Koudia mourns the loss of the teller grim realities, forcing the writers to open up new of tales in the marketplace, and he makes it clear narrative terrains and experiment with traditional that storytelling, born of memory and oral forms. Muhammad Khodayyir's surrealist portraits tradition, could vanish in the face of mass and of his home city, Basra, in an excerpt from electronic media. Basriyyatha and the magical realism of Mayselun Hadi's Calendars both offer powerful expressions of Jilali El Koudia is an acclaimed Moroccan literary the absurdity of everyday life. Themes range from critic, writer, and translator. He is the author of childhood and family to war, political oppression, Moroccan Short Stories and the translator of many and interfaith relationships. Mustafa provides Moroccan literary works. biographical sketches for the writers and an enlightening introduction, chronicling the evolution of Iraqi literature.

Shakir Mustafa is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Boston University. He coedited A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: An Introductory Course.

Emirate, Egyptian, The Paradox of Repression Ethiopian: Colonial and Nonviolent Experiences in Late Movements Nineteenth-Century Harar Kurtz, Lester R. and Ben-Dror, Avishai Smithey, Lee A. (editors) Syracuse University Press Syracuse University Press 9780815635840 9780815635826 6 x 9 6 x 9. 5 figures 352 pages 368 pages paperback paperback $39.95 $34.95 Publish Date: 03/15/18 Publish Date: 03/15/18 catalog page: 17 catalog page: 18

In October 1875, two months after the takeover of Political repression often paradoxically fuels the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force popular movements rather than undermining numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to resistance. When authorities respond to strategic occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub in the Horn nonviolent action with intimidation, coercion, and of Africa. In doing so, they turned this sovereign violence, they often undercut their own legitimacy, emirate into an Egyptian colony that became a precipitating significant reforms or even focal meeting point of geopolitical interests, with governmental overthrow. Brutal repression of a interactions between Muslim Africans, European movement is often a turning point in its history: powers, and Christian Ethiopians. In Emirate, Bloody Sunday in the March to Selma led to the Egyptian, Ethiopian, Ben-Dror tells the story of passage of civil rights legislation by the US Turco-Egyptian colonial ambitions and the Congress, and the Amritsar Massacre in India processes that integrated Harar into the global showed the world the injustice of the British system of commerce that had begun enveloping Empire's use of force in maintaining control over its the Red Sea. This new colonial era in the city's colonies. Activists in a wide range of movements history inaugurated new standards of government, have engaged in nonviolent strategies of repression society, and religion. Drawing on previously management that can raise the likelihood that untapped Egyptian, Harari, Ethiopian, and repression will cost those who use it. The Paradox European archival sources, Ben-Dror reconstructs of Repression and Nonviolent Movements brings the political, social, economic, religious, and scholars and activists together to address multiple cultural history of the occupation, which included dimensions and significant cases of this building roads, reorganizing the political structure, phenomenon, including the relational nature of and converting many to Islam. nonviolent struggle and the cultural terrain on which it takes place, the psychological costs for Avishai Ben-Dror is a research agents of repression, and the importance of fellow at the Harry S. Truman participation, creativity, and overcoming fear, Institute for the Advancement of whether in the streets or online. Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a lecturer in the Lester R. Kurtz is professor of sociology at George Department of History, Mason University. He is the editor of the three- Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at volume Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and the Open University of Israel. He is also an adjunct Conflict. Lee A. Smithey is associate professor of lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. sociology at Swarthmore College. He is the author of Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland.

First Taste of Robert J. Turpin is assistant Freedom: A Cultural professor of history at Lees- History of Bicycle McRae College in North Marketing in the Carolina. United States Turpin, Robert Syracuse University Press 9780815635918 6 x 9 224 pages paperback $27.95 Publish Date: 05/15/18 catalog page: 24

The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in the United States in the 1830s, the bicycle reached its height of popularity in the 1890s as it evolved to become a popular form of locomotion for adults. Two decades later, ridership in the United States collapsed. As automobile consumption grew, bicycles were seen as backward and unbecoming-particularly for the white middle class. Turpin chronicles the story of how the bicycle's image changed dramatically, shedding light on how American consumer patterns are shaped over time. Turpin identifies the creation and development of childhood consumerism as a key factor in the bicycle's evolution. In an attempt to resurrect dwindling sales, sports marketers reimagined the bicycle as a child's toy. By the 1950s, it had been firmly established as a symbol of boyhood adolescence, further accelerating the declining number of adult consumers. Tracing the ways in which cycling suffered such a loss in popularity among adults is fundamental to understanding why the United States would be considered a car culture from the 1950s to today. As a lens for viewing American history, the story of the bicycle deepens our understanding of our national culture and the forces that influence it.

Temple University Press Jr., Marian Wright Edelman, Delbert S. Elliott, Carol Emig, Jeff Faux, Ron Grzywinski, Michael P. Jeffries, Healing Our Divided Lamar K. Johnson, Celinda Lake, Marilyn Society: Investing in Melkonian, Gary Orfield, Diane Ravitch, Laurie America Fifty Years Robinson, Herbert C. Smitherman, Jr., Joseph after the Kerner Report Stiglitz, Dorothy Stoneman, Kevin Washburn, Harris, Fred and Curtis, Valerie Wilson, Gary Younge, Julian E. Zelizer, and Alan (editors) the editors. Temple University Press 9781439916032 6 x 9. 9 tables, 54 figures. An Eisenhower Foundation Book 480 pages paperback $24.95 Publish date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 1 FRED HARRIS is a former U. S. Senator, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of New A fiftieth anniversary look back at the Kerner Mexico, and the last surviving member of the Report. Kerner Commission. He is the author of The New Populism and co-editor of Quiet Riots: Race and In 1968, the Kerner Commission concluded that Poverty in the United States: The Kerner Report America was heading toward two societies, one Twenty Years Later. ALAN CURTIS is President and black, one white—separate and unequal. Today, CEO of The Eisenhower Foundation. He was America’s communities are experiencing increasing Executive Director of President Jimmy Carter’s racial tensions and inequality, working-class Urban Policy Group and is editor of American resentment over the unfulfilled American Dream, Violence and Public Policy and Patriotism, white supremacy violence, toxic inaction in Democracy, and Common Sense: Restoring Washington, and the decline of the nation’s America's Promise at Home and Abroad. He is example around the world. In Healing Our Divided replicating the Quantum Opportunities model that Society, Fred Harris, the last surviving member of graduates at-risk youth from high school in low- the Kerner Commission, along with Eisenhower income communities. Foundation CEO Alan Curtis, re-examine fifty years later the work still necessary towards the goals set author location: Albuquerque NM (Fred Harris) forth in The Kerner Report. This timely volume unites the interests of minorities and white working- and middle-class Americans to propose a strategy to reduce poverty, inequality, and racial injustice. Reflecting on America’s urban climate today, this new report sets forth evidence-based policies concerning employment, education, housing, neighborhood development, and criminal justice based on what has been proven to work— and not work. Contributors include: Oscar Perry Abello, Elijah Anderson, Anil N.F. Aranha, Jared Bernstein, Henry G. Cisneros, Elliott Currie, Linda Darling- Hammond, Martha F. Davis, E. J. Dionne,

Who Will Speak for America? Feldman, Stephanie and Popkin, Nathaniel (editors) Temple University Press 9781439916247 6 x 9. 8 figures, 4

halftones STEPHANIE FELDMAN is the author of the novel 238 pages The Angel of Losses, a Barnes & Noble Discover paperback Great New Writers selection and winner of the $19.95 Crawford Fantasy Award. Her stories and essays Publish date: have appeared in Asimov's Electric Literature, The 7/1/2018 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Maine catalog page: 4 Review, The Rumpus, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

NATHANIEL POPKIN is the author or co-author of Forty American writers mark a vital new age of five books, including the novel Everything is protest and possibility. Borrowed and Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City

(Temple). He is a literary critic and essayist whose The editors and contributors to Who Will Speak for work appears in the Wall Street Journal, Kenyon America? are passionate and justifiably angry Review, and other publications. He is the fiction voices providing a literary response to today’s review editor at Cleaver Magazine. political crisis. Inspired by and drawing from the work of writers who participated in nationwide

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Charles E. Hires and the Drink The Supernatural in that Wowed a Nation: The Society, Culture, and Life and Times of a History Philadelphia Entrepreneur Waskul, Dennis and Double, Bill Eaton, Marc (editors) Temple University Press Temple University Press 9781439915912 9781439915257 5.25 x 8.5. 11 color photos, 1 6 x 9. 13 halftones table, 1 figure, 17 halftones 262 pages 270 pages paperback paperback $34.95 $24.95 Publish date: 7/1/2018 Publish date: 5/1/2018 catalog page: 9 catalog page: 5 Demonstrating the value of serious academic An effervescent biography of Charles Elmer Hires, inquiry into supernatural beliefs and practices. the Philadelphia pharmacist who introduced root beer to the American public. In the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us. But Introduced at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and despite their popularity, scholars often dismiss powered by an historic advertising campaign, Hires such beliefs in the uncanny as inconsequential, or Root Beer—launched 10 years before Coca-Cola— even embarrassing. The editors and contributors to blazed the trail for development of the American The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History soft drink industry. Its inventor, Charles Elmer have made a concerted effort to understand Hires, has been described as a tycoon with the soul encounters with ghosts and the supernatural that of a chemist. In addition to creating root beer, have long persisted and flourished. Featuring Hires, a devoted family man and a pillar of the folkloric researchers examining the cultural value Quaker community, became a leading importer of of such beliefs and practices, sociologists who botanical commodities, and an authority on the acknowledge the social and historical value of the vanilla bean. Starting from scratch, he also built supernatural, and enthusiasts of the mystical and one of the world’s largest condensed milk uncanny, this volume includes a variety of experts companies. Charles E. Hires and the Drink that and interested observers using first-hand Wowed a Nation chronicles the humble origin and ethnographic experiences and historical records. meteoric business success of this extraordinary entrepreneur. Author Bill Double uses published DENNIS WASKUL is a interviews, correspondence, newspaper reports, Professor of Sociology magazine articles, financial data, and a small family and Distinguished archive to tell this story of native ingenuity. Here, Faculty Scholar at the rough-hewn capitalism of the gilded age, the Minnesota State evolution of the neighborhood drugstore, the rise University, Mankato, of advertising in creating mass markets, and the and former president of the Society for the Study emerging temperance movement all come of Symbolic Interaction. He has authored, co- together in a biography that, well, fizzes with authored, or edited a variety of books, including entrepreneurial spirit. (with Michele Waskul) Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life (Temple). MARC EATON BILL DOUBLE is a Philadelphia-based freelance is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ripon writer and author of Philadelphia's Washington College, in Wisconsin. Square.

The Possessive GEORGE LIPSITZ is a Professor Investment in of Black Studies and Sociology Whiteness: How at the University of California, White People Profit Santa Barbara. His previous from Identity Politics - books include How Racism Twentieth Takes Place and A Life in the Anniversary Edition Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Lipsitz, George Culture of Opposition (both Temple University Temple). Lipsitz serves as Chair Press of the boards of Directors of 9781439916391 the African American Policy Forum and of the 6 x 9. Woodstock Institute and is senior editor of the 448 pages comparative and relational ethnic studies journal paperback KALFOU. $32.95 Publish date: 7/1/2018 author location: Santa Barbara CA catalog page: 19

The twentieth anniversary edition of a widely influential book—now updated to address racial privilege in the age of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Donald Trump.

George Lipsitz’s classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. In this twentieth anniversary edition, Lipsitz provides a new introduction and updated statistics; as well as analyses of the enduring importance of Hurricane Katrina; the nature of anti- immigrant mobilizations; police assaults on Black women, the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray; the legacy of Obama and the emergence of Trump; the Charleston Massacre and other hate crimes; and the ways in which white fear, white fragility, and white failure have become drivers of a new ethno- nationalism. As vital as it was upon its original publication, the twentieth anniversary edition of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness is an unflinching but necessary look at white supremacy.

University of Arizona Press A Natural History of the Mojave Desert Pushing Our Limits: Walker, Lawrence R. Insights from and Landau, Frederick Biosphere 2 H. Nelson, Mark University of Arizona University of Press Arizona Press 9780816532629 9780816537327 paperback paperback $29.95 $22.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 03/27/2018 02/27/2018 catalog page: 4 catalog page: 2 The Mojave Desert has a rich natural history. Mark Nelson, one Despite being sandwiched between the larger of the eight crew Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts, it has enough members locked in Biosphere 2 during its first mountains, valleys, canyons, and playas for any closure experiment, offers a compelling insider’s eager explorer. Ancient and current waterways view of the dramatic story behind the mini-world. carve the bajadas and valley bottoms. This diverse Nelson clears up common misconceptions about topography gives rise to a multitude of habitats for the 1991–1993 closure experiment as he presents plants and animals, many of which are found the goals and results of the experiment and the nowhere else in the world. A Natural History of the implications of the project for today’s global Mojave Desert explores how a combination of environmental challenges and for reconnecting complex geology, varied geography, and changing people to a healthy relationship with nature. climate has given rise to intriguing flora and fauna—including almost 3,000 plant species and Dr. Mark Nelson was a about 380 terrestrial vertebrate animal species. Of member of the eight- these, one quarter of the plants and one sixth of person biospherian crew the animals are endemic. The authors, who, for the first two-year combined, have spent more than six decades living closure experiment. He is a in and observing the Mojave Desert, offer a founding director and the scientifically insightful and personally observed chairman of the Institute of understanding of the desert. They invite readers to Ecotechnics and has understand how the Mojave Desert looks, sounds, worked for decades in closed ecological system feels, tastes, and smells. They prompt us to research, ecological engineering, the restoration of understand how humans have lived in this desert damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and where scant vegetation and water have challenged orchardry, and wastewater recycling. He is the humans, past and present. author of The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time and co-author of Lawrence R. Walker is a professor of plant ecology Space Biospheres and Life Under Glass: The Inside at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the Story of Biosphere 2. (co)author or (co)editor of nine previous books, including The Biology of Disturbed Habitats. Frederick H. Landau is a research associate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Walker and Landau have twenty-five years of scientific collaboration that includes projects in Nevada, New Zealand, and Puerto Rico. All They Will Call You The Real Horse: Hernandez, Tim Z. Poems University of Arizona Matuk, Farid Press University of Arizona 9780816537372 Press Camino del Sol 9780816537341 paperback Camino del Sol $16.95 paperback Publish Date: $16.95 01/23/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 9 02/27/2018 catalog page: 10 All They Will Call You is the harrowing account A sustained address to the poet’s daughter, The of the worst airplane disaster in California’s history, Real Horse takes its cues from the child’s which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, unapologetic disregard for things as they are, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens— calling forth the adult world as accountable for its farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. flaws and as an occasion for imagining otherwise. government. Outraged that media reports omitted Offering a handbook on the possibilities of the only the names of the Mexican passengers, verse line, this collection is precise in its figuring, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem searching in its intellect, and alert in its music. Here that went on to become one of the most important lyric energy levitates into constellations that hold protest songs of the twentieth century, Plane their analytic composure, inviting readers into a Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee). It was an attempt shared practice of thinking and feeling that to restore the dignity of the anonymous lives interrogates the confounding intersections of whose unidentified remains were buried in an gender, race, class, and national status not as unmarked mass grave in California’s Central Valley. abstract concepts but as foundational intimacies. For nearly seven decades, the song’s message Matuk’s interrogations of form cut a path through would be carried on by the greatest artists of our the tangle of a daughter’s position as a natural- time, including Pete Seeger, Dolly Parton, Bruce born female citizen of the First World and of the Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez, yet the poet’s position as a once-undocumented question posed in Guthrie’s lyrics, Who are these immigrant of mixed ethnicity whose paternity is friends all scattered like dry leaves? would remain unavoidably implicated in patriarchy. Rejecting unanswered—until now. Combining years of nostalgia for homelands, notions of embodied painstaking investigative research and masterful value (self-made or otherwise), and specious ideas storytelling, award-winning author Tim Z. of freedom, these luminously multifaceted poem Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from sequences cast their lot with the lyric voice, testimony, historical records, and eyewitness trusting it to hold a space where we might follow accounts, reconstructing the incident and the lives the child’s ongoing revolution against the behind the legendary song. patrimony of selfhood and citizenship.

Tim Z. Hernandez is a poet, Farid Matuk is the author novelist, and performance of THIS ISA NICE artist whose awards include NEIGHBORHOOD and MY the 2006 American Book DAUGHTER LA CHOLA. Award, the 2010 Premio THIS ISA NICE Aztlan Prize in Fiction, and NEIGHBORHOOD was the James Duval Phelan Award from the San awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Arab Francisco Foundation. American Book Awards. Bright Raft in the Laura Méndez de Cuenca: Afterweather: Poems Mexican Feminist, 1853– Foerster, Jennifer E. 1928 University of Arizona Press Bazant, Mílada 9780816537334 University of Arizona Sun Tracks 82 Press paperback 9780816537631 $16.95 Translated and with a Publish Date: 02/20/2018 foreword by Mary K. catalog page: 11 Vaughan. paperback In her dazzling new book, Jennifer Elise Foerster $32.00 announces a frightening new truth: the continent is Publish Date: 03/27/2018 dismantling. Bright Raft in the Afterweather travels catalog page: 15 the spheres of the past, present, future, and eternal time, exploring the fault lines that signal Laura Méndez de Cuenca—poet, teacher, editor, the break of humanity’s consciousness from the writer, and feminist—dared to bypass the cultural earth. Featuring recurring characters, settings, and traditions of her time. In the early 1870s, when motifs from her previous book, Leaving Tulsa, conservative religious thought permeated all Foerster takes the reader on a solitary journey to aspects of Mexican life, she was one of very few the edges of the continents of mind and time to women to gain admission to an extraordinary discover what makes us human. Along the way, the constellation of male poets, playwrights, and author surveys the intersection between natural novelists, who were also the publicists and landscapes and the urban world, baring parallels to statesmen of the time. She entered this world the conflicts between Native American peoples and through her poetry, intellect, curiosity, Western colonizers, and considering how assertiveness, but her personal life was fraught imagination and representation can both destroy with tragedy: she had a child out of wedlock by and remake our worlds. Foerster’s captivating poet Manuel Acuña, who killed himself shortly language and evocative imagery immerse the thereafter. She later married another poet, Agustín reader in a narrative of disorientation and Fidencio Cuenca, and had seven other children. All reintegration. Each poem blends Foerster’s refined but two of her children died, as did Agustín. As a use of language with a mythic and environmental penniless young widow facing social rejection, lyricism as she explores themes of destruction, Laura became a teacher and an important force in spirituality, loss, and remembrance. Mexico’s burgeoning educational reform program. She moved abroad—first to San Francisco, then St. Jennifer Elise Foerster received Louis, then Berlin. In these places where she was her MFA in Writing from not known and women had begun to move Vermont College of Fine Arts confidently in the public sphere, she could walk and her BFA from the Institute freely, observe, mingle, make friends across many of American Indian Arts in Santa circles, learn, think, and express her opinions. Fe, New Mexico. From 2008- 2010, Jennifer was a Wallace Mílada Bazant is a prolific Stegner Fellow in Poetry at author, editor, and professor at Stanford University. Jennifer grew up living El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C., in internationally, and now lives in San Francisco Zinacantepec, Mexico. while concurrently pursuing her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. author location: San Francisco CA University of Arkansas Press Narcissus Americana: Poems The Man in Song: A Mossotti, Travis Discographic University of Arkansas Biography of Johnny Press Cash 9781682260555 Alexander, John M. 94 pages University of paperback Arkansas Press $17.95 9781682260517 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 296 pages catalog page: 4 paperback $36.95 Winner, 2018 Miller Publish Date: 4/16/2018 Williams Poetry Prize. Narcissus Americana sings catalog page: 1 and scraps and wrestles its way across various landscapes—abandoned quarries, art museums, There have been many books written about Johnny lavish homes, and tar pits—in a quest to attain a Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine more complex vision of what it means to be Cash's incredible life through the lens of the songs upwardly mobile. These poems question the he wrote and recorded. Music journalist and usefulness of wealth and ownership as markers of historian John Alexander has drawn on decades of success. Taking wine fridges and fake flowers as studying Cash's music and life, from his difficult emblems of capitalism’s failure to assuage human depression-era Arkansas childhood through his loneliness, the speakers in these poems find joy in death in 2003, to tell a life story through songs shared meals and glasses of wine, and use familiar and obscure. In discovering why Cash moments of mutual attention to challenge notions wrote a given song or chose to record it, Alexander of class in America. Intimacy is on display in introduces readers anew to a man whose primary Cruising Altitude, where the speaker finds a consideration of any song was the difference music sublime communion between two disparate makes in people's lives, and not whether the song worldviews during an in-flight conversation with his would become a hit. The Man in Song connects father. Sharply written, and with an eye for form, treasured songs to an incredible life. these poems engage with heavy inquiry but also It explores the intertwined experience and know better than to take themselves too seriously, creativity of childhood trauma. It rifles through the making it possible for, say, dungeons to share discography of a life: Cash's work with the space with donuts, as in the poem Rancho La Brea. Tennessee Two at Sam Phillips's Sun Studios, the unique concept albums Cash recorded for Travis Mossotti has worked and Columbia Records, the spiritual songs, the albums volunteered over the last recorded live at prisons, songs about the love of his decade alongside his wife (a life, June Carter Cash, songs about murder and carnivore biologist) with U.S. death and addiction, songs about ramblers, and government, university and even silly songs. nonprofit organizations on data collection, animal captures/ John Alexander is a lifelong historian of all things releases and lab work for various endangered Johnny Cash and country music. He was Senior species recovery efforts all across North America. Music Editor at Reader’s Digest and a college Mossotti serves as Poet-in-Residence at the professor, and he is currently a songwriter, music Endangered Wolf Center in St. Louis. producer, and senior editor at the Brooklyn Eagle. Alexander lives in Brooklyn. The Blueness of the Aunt Sammy’s Radio Evening: Selected Poems Recipes: The Original 1927 of Hassan Najmi Cookbook and Najmi, Hassan Housekeeper’s Chat University of Arkansas Nordstrom, Justin Press University of Arkansas 9781682260500 Press Translated by Mbarek Sryfi 9781682260616 and Eric Sellin. Food and Foodways 70 pages 277 pages paperback paperback $17.95 $29.95 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 Publish Date: 6/25/2018 catalog page: 7 catalog page: 8

This selection of Hassan Najmi’s poems, translated From the 1920s through the 1940s, American by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an kitchens had a welcome guest in Aunt Sammy, a excellent introduction to the work of one of creation of the US Department of Agriculture and Morocco’s foremost poets and to a school of its Bureau of Home Economics. Through the radio modern verse emerging in the Arab World. Scenes program Housekeeper’s Chat, Aunt Sammy gave of late night cityscapes, lonely interiors, awe- lively advice on food preparation, household inspiring desert wastes, and seaside vistas are chores, parenting and children, and gender found within the exquisitely subtle lyric moods and dynamics as she encouraged women to embrace nuances of Najmi’s ars poetica, providing insight the radio and a host of modern consumer into the geographical, political, and linguistic household products. The recipes she shared were ferment that have made Morocco an exciting hub gathered, in 1927, into a cookbook that became a of creative activity in the twenty-first century. valuable household manual for tens of thousands of Americans. Aunt Sammy’s Radio Recipes revives Hassan Najmi, born in Ben the famous cookbook and joins it with extensive Ahmed in 1960, now resides in excerpts from the accompanying radio broadcasts, Rabat. He is the author of two providing a fascinating study of how a witty and novels and ten poetry charming fictionalized personae became one of the collections. His poetry has early celebrity chefs of the radio age. been translated into more than ten languages and he has Justin Nordstrom is associate professor of history himself translated many poets at Penn State’s Hazleton campus. He is the author into Arabic, including Giuseppe Ungaretti, Sophia of Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and de Mello Breyner Andresen, Philippe Jaccottet, American Print Culture in the Progressive Era. Yannis Ritsos, and Anna Akhmatova. Mbarek Sryfi, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, has translated fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including three books, two from Arabic and one from French. Eric Sellin, professor emeritus at Tulane University, is the author or editor of nine books of poetry written in English and French and many translations published in anthologies and journals. Since his retirement from teaching in 2001, Sellin has been translating poetry and writing essays on the art and theory of translation. Chop Suey and Sushi from LA Sports: Play, Sea to Shining Sea: Games, and Chinese and Japanese Community in the City Restaurants in the United of Angels States Wilson, Wayne and Arnold, Bruce Makoto / Wiggins, David K. Tunç, Tanfer Emin / University of Arkansas Chong, Raymond Douglas Press University of Arkansas 9781682260524 Press 376 pages 9781682260609 paperback Food and Foodways $26.95 320 pages Publish Date: paperback 2/15/2018 $29.95 catalog page: 11 Publish Date: 6/15/2018 catalog page: 9 LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing The essays in Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to nature of sport in one of America’s most Shining Sea fill gaps in the existing food studies by fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a revealing and contextualizing the hidden, local range of topics, including the history of car racing histories of Chinese and Japanese restaurants in and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the United States. The writers of these essays show the power of the Mexican fan base in American how the taste and presentation of Chinese and soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie Japanese dishes have evolved in sweat and and Mack Robinson, the importance of the hardship over generations of immigrants who Showtime Lakers, the origins of Muscle Beach and became restaurant owners, chefs, and laborers in surfing, sport in Hollywood films, and more. the small towns and large cities of America. These vivid, detailed, and sometimes emotional Wayne Wilson is vice president for education portrayals reveal the survival strategies deployed in services at the LA84 Foundation, where he is Asian restaurant kitchens over the past 150 years responsible for digital library development, and the impact these restaurants have had on the research projects, conference planning, and the culture, politics, and foodways of the United foundation’s coaching and education program. He States. is the coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Sport History. David K. Wiggins is professor of sport Bruce Makoto Arnold is a historian specializing in history in the School of Recreation, Health, and American and Asian cultural history, particularly Tourism at George Mason University. He is the the areas of childhood, education, and foodways. former editor of Quest and the Journal of Sport He is assistant professor of education and History and was recently elected president of the childhood history at the Ohio State University in North American Society for Sport History. Columbus, Ohio. Tanfer Emin Tunç is an associate professor in the department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She specializes in American social history, cultural studies, women’s and gender studies, and transnational American studies. Raymond Douglas Chong is president of Generations, LLC in Sugar Land, Texas.

Undoing Mediterranean Magowan, Kim Editors of Warscape University of Arkansas University of Arkansas Press/Moon City Press Press/Upset Press 9780913785782 9781937357986 paperback 92 pages $14.95 paperback Publish Date: 3/1/2018 $21.00 catalog page: 27 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 29 In Kim Magowan’s aptly titled debut short-story The Mediterranean Sea has become a harrowing collection, Undoing, characters are frequently gauntlet for hundreds of thousands of refugees and caught with their eyes on the past, trying to discern migrants each year. Through the intimacy and where it all went wrong, whether that concerns a immediacy of fiction, poetry, photography and marriage that survives infidelity only to fade later reportage, Mediterranean explores these turbulent into oblivion or the premature termination of an journeys. Lyric fiction by Edwidge Danticat, Maaza affair. A young girl hopes to make sense of her Mengiste, Boubacar Boris Diop, and Chika Unigwe seduction by the father of the child she babysits, hones in on the dislocation that marks individual while a new wife surveys her youthful indiscretions passages. Mario Badagliacca’s haunting photos of for clues as to how to forge an emotional bond found objects recovered from capsized vessels with her anorexic stepdaughter. Through it all, serve as a visual guide to communal tragedy. struggles become universal, perhaps inevitable. Poems by Jehan Bseiso and Ali Jimale Ahmed strain Characters often reappear: older, wiser, seeking to with memory and loss, while Hassan Ghedi Santur’s break the cycle of dysfunction. The ultimate effect narrative reporting on African migration brings us is a feeling of community, of shared mistakes, inside Europe’s detention centers and camps leaving the individuals lonely but not alone. In this through the eyes of those he meets there, holding way, Magowan’s collection moves well beyond the continent to blistering account for the systems reflection. Ignoring the wreckage of their it has built and the people it has failed. Evoking the respective pasts, her characters are willing to look sustenance of home, the book also includes recipes ahead, to try again. Indeed, there is much pain and from migrants along with stories connecting them lasting harm to go around, but these are curious, to the places they left behind. Finally, resilient people, open to the idea that the Mediterranean offers an in-depth syllabus solutions, not just the problems, lie within. providing additional avenues for study through compelling literature, theory, art, and film. Kim Magowan’s debut novel, The Light Source, is forthcoming from 7.13 Books. Her fiction has appeared in Atticus Review, Cleaver, The Gettysburg Review, Hobart, Moon City Review, New World Writing, Word Riot, and other journals. She lives in San Francisco and teaches in the Department of Literatures and Languages at Mills College. author location: San Francisco CA, Oakland CA (Mills College)

University of Hawaii Press voyagers who took hold of the old story and sailed deep into their ancestral past. Hawaiki Rising: Hokulea, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance Low, Sam University of Hawaii Press 9780824877352 6 x 9. 64 b&w Sam Low served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific from illustrations 1964 to 1966 and earned a PhD in anthropology 344 pages from Harvard in 1975. He produced the award- hardcover winning film, The Navigators: Pathfinders of the $29.99 Pacific, and is the author of many articles on the Publish Date: 1/31/2018 canoe, and her meaning to Polynesians. He has catalog page: 0.1 sailed aboard Hōkūle‘a on three voyages, from 1999 to 2007. Attuned to a world of natural signs—the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells—Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by stone-age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century, this story had been lost and Polynesians had become an oppressed minority in their own land. Then, in 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe—Hōkūle‘a—was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hōkūle‘a. They speak of growing up at a time when their Hawaiian culture was in danger of extinction; of their vision of sailing ancestral sea-routes; and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hōkūle‘a capsized in a raging storm. We join a young Hawaiian, Nainoa Thompson, as he rediscovers the ancient star signs that guided his ancestors, navigates Hōkūle‘a to Tahiti, and becomes the first Hawaiian to find distant landfall without charts or instruments in a thousand years. Hawaiki Rising is the saga of an astonishing revival of indigenous culture by White Métisse Hideyoshi and Rikyu Lefèvre, Kim Nogami, Yaeko University of Hawaii University of Hawaii Press Press 9780824867263 9780824872670 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Translated 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Translated by Mariko Nishi LaFleur by Jack A. Yeager. and Morgan Beard. 352 pages 368 pages paperback paperback $24.99 $28.00 Publish Date: 5/31/2018 Publish Date: 3/31/2018 catalog page: 2 catalog page: 3

In this evocative memoir, Kim Lefèvre recounts her Nogami Yaeko’s compelling novel of political childhood and adolescence growing up in colonial intrigue in sixteenth-century Japan depicts the Viet Nam. As a little girl living with her Vietnamese intertwined lives of two iconic historical figures. mother, she doesn’t understand the reactions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi rose through the ranks from a others toward her, their open mistrust, contempt, common foot soldier to become the military ruler and rejection. Though she feels no different from of Japan but struggled to win respect among the those around her, she comes to understand that to cultured nobility. He found both a friend and an Vietnamese she is living proof of her mother’s invaluable political advisor in Sen no Rikyu, Japan’s moral downfall, a constant and unwelcome most respected tea master. A wealthy merchant in reminder of a child conceived with a French soldier his own right, Rikyu’s talent for tea ceremony out of wedlock. As anticolonial sentiment grows in propelled him into the ruler’s court. Deftly an atmosphere of rising nationalism, Lefèvre’s balancing Hideyoshi’s love of ostentatious display situation becomes increasingly precarious. Set with the ideals of simplicity and rusticity embodied within a tumultuous period of Franco-Vietnamese in the way of tea, Rikyu commands respect from history—resistance and revolt, World War II and loyal students and court nobles alike. As the story the Japanese invasion, the first war for opens, the two men are several years into their independence against the French—White Métisse friendship, and tensions have begun to build. offers a unique view of watershed events and Hideyoshi pursues his quest to unify Japan, and his provides insights into the impact of upheaval and ego grows with every victory. Rikyu watches his open conflict on families and individuals. Lefèvre’s friends exiled and pardoned according to story captures the instability and daily humiliations Hideyoshi’s whims and longs for freedom from the of her life and those of other marginalized excess and intrigue of court life. Nogami explores members of society. the dynamic politics of conquest, the delicate connections of the human soul, and the power of Born in Viet Nam in the 1930s, speech and silence in her elegant psychological Kim Lefèvre is a memoirist, portrait of two powerful men. novelist, and translator who has lived in France since 1960. Jack Nogami Yaeko (1885–1985) A. Yeager is professor of French was the author or translator studies and women’s and gender of fifty-seven volumes of studies at Louisiana State published works. Among her University in Baton Rouge. best-known novels are Meiro (The Labyrinth, 1956), Hideyoshi to Rikyu (Hideyoshi and Rikyu, 1963), and Mori (The Wood, 1986).

Hawaii's Russian Asian Traditions of Adventure: A New Look at Meditation Old History Eifring, Halvor (editor) Mills, Peter R. University of Hawaii Press University of Hawaii Press 9780824876678 9780824876654 6 x 9. 16 b&w illustrations. 6 x 9. 312 pages 312 pages paperback paperback $29.00 $28.00 Publish Date: 1/31/2018 Publish Date: 4/30/2018 catalog page: 29 catalog page: 27.1 Meditation has flourished in different parts of the In the early 1800s thousands of American and world ever since the foundations of the great European traders arrived in Hawai'i to lay in civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the supplies for the long trip east or to take on formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their Hawaiian sandalwood, which commanded a high heritage to ancient India and China. This volume price in China. In response to this developing global brings together for the first time studies of the economy in the Pacific, Russia expanded its trading major traditions of Asian meditation as well as outposts as far as western Kaua'i and together with material on scientific approaches to meditation. It Kaua'i chiefs began planning the construction of seeks to identify the cultural and historical Fort Elisabeth in Waimea in 1816. A year later, the peculiarities of Asian schools of meditation while structure was abandoned by the Russians, but, as recognizing basic features of meditative practice Peter Mills argues convincingly, a long and across cultures, thereby taking the first step toward significant history of the fort remains to be told, a framework for the comparative study of even after its Russian one had ended. Seeking to meditation. The book, accessibly written by redress the imbalance that exists between the scholars from several fields, opens with chapters colonized and the colonizers in Pacific that discuss the definition and classification of historiography, Mills examines the fort and its meditation. These are followed by contributions on place in the history of Kaua'i under paramount Yoga and Tantra, which are often subsumed under chief Kaumuali'i and in relation to the expanding the broad label of Hinduism; Jainism and Sikhism, kingdom of Kamehameha and his successors. His Indian traditions not usually associated with work exposes how Hawaiians have been ignored in meditation; Buddhist approaches found in their own history and challenges commonly held Southeast Asia, Tibet, and China; and the assumptions such as Kamehameha's unification of indigenous Chinese traditions, Daoism and Neo- the Islands in 1810 and the victimization of Confucianism. The final chapter explores recent Kaumuali'i by representatives of the Russian- scientific interest in meditation, which, despite its American Company. Using hundreds of firsthand Western orientation, remains almost exclusively accounts in combination with field archaeology, concerned with practices of Asian origin. Mills shows that the fort was originally built and used by Halvor Eifring is professor of Hawaiians as a heiau (ritual Chinese at the University of temple). Oslo and general secretary of the Acem International School Peter R. Mills is assistant of Meditation, Oslo. professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i-- Hilo.

Five Faces of Japanese Locked Door and Other Feminism: Crimson and Stories Other Works de Guzman-Lingat, Rosario Sata, Ineko University of Hawaii University of Hawaii Press Press/Ateneo De Manila 9780824866143 University Press 5.5 x 8.5. 9789715507844 269 pages Translated by Soledad S. paperback Reyes. 5 x 7. $28.00 272 pages Publish Date: 3/31/2018 paperback catalog page: 30 $35.00 Publish Date: 12/31/2017 This exquisite collection of short fiction by Sata catalog page: 54.2 Ineko (1904–1998) offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of women rarely dignified in The Locked Door and Other Stories collects Rosario fiction: glamorous café waitresses, feisty de Guzman-Lingat’s short stories chosen for the communist activists, a tortured novelist, a soldier’s various ways they explore the female experience in wife, and single women in Japan’s Korean colony. all its complexity. They feature women as Her delicately penned portraits challenge the tired, protagonists who, despite life’s numerous blows, erotic tropes of the geisha and schoolgirl, while refuse to give in, as they strive mightily to make delving into the dilemmas women themselves sense of their lives fraught with difficulties. There faced in their personal and professional are no happy endings in Lingat’s fiction. There is relationships. The stories and novella translated only a steadfast, clear-eyed view of what it means here span a period of two decades and the most to live in an unjust system where women find important events and themes in twentieth-century themselves victims. The “locked door” is history. symptomatic of the almost impenetrable barrier that women must force open to gain their Sata Ineko (1904–1998) was one freedom. of the most prominent and prolific writers of twentieth- Rosario de Guzman Lingat century Japan. (1924-1994) wrote prodigiously from the 1960’s to the 1970’s, producing novels and short stories for popular magazines, scripts for television dramas, essays and occasional poetry. Literary critic Soleded S. Reyes describes Lingat as a truly significant Filipino writer, underscoring her “superb understanding of human weakness and foibles” and her “consistent and passionate mining of key events in her nation’s history, both historical and psychological.” She wrote for popular magazines and utilized the character types and situations employed by her peers, yet impressed her unique vision upon these conventions.

University of Iowa Press Miss Stephen's Apprenticeship: How The Promise of Failure: Virginia Stephen Became One Writer's Virginia Woolf Perspective on Not Brackenbury, Rosalind Succeeding University of Iowa Press McNally, John 9781609385514 University of Iowa Press Series: Muse Books 9781609385750 118 pages 144 pages paperback paperback $19.95 $19.95 Publish Date: 3/15/2018 Publish Date: 6/15/2018 catalog page: 5 catalog page: 4 During the years leading up to her marriage with The Promise of Failure is part memoir of the Leonard Woolf in 1912, the year in which she writing life, part advice book, and part craft book; finished The Voyage Out and sent it to be published sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching, but by her cousin at Duckworth’s, the future Virginia always honest. McNally uses his own life as a Woolf was teaching herself how to be a writer. blueprint for the writer’s daily struggles as well as While her brothers were sent first to private the existential ones, tackling subjects such as when schools, then to Cambridge to be educated, to quit and when to keep going, how to deal with Virginia Stephen and her sister Vanessa were depression, what risking something of yourself informally educated at home. With this means, and ways to reenergize your writing background, how did she know she was a writer? through reinvention. What McNally illuminates is What were her struggles? How did she teach how rejection, in its best light, is another element herself? What made Miss Stephen into the author of craft, a necessary stage to move the writer from Virginia Woolf? Miss Stephen’s Apprenticeship one project to the next, and that it’s best to see explores these questions, delving into Virginia rejection and failure on a life-long continuum so Woolf ’s letters and diaries, seeking to understand that you can see the interconnectedness between how she covered the distance from the wistful I failure and success, rather than focusing on failure only wish I could write, to the almost casual as a measure of self-worth. statement, the novels are finished. These days, the trajectory of a writer very often starts with John McNally is the author or studying for an MFA. In Woolf ’s case, however, it’s editor of seventeen books, instructive to ask: How did a great writer, who had including The Boy Who no formal education, invent for herself the Really, Really Wanted to framework she needed for a writing life? How did Have Sex: The Memoir of a she know what she had to learn? How did she Fat Kid and Vivid and make her own way? Novelist Rosalind Brackenbury Continuous: Essays and explores these questions and others, and in the Exercises for Writing Fiction (Iowa). McNally divides process reveals what Virginia Woolf can give to his time between Winston-Salem, North Carolina, young writers today. and Lafayette, Louisiana. He teaches at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Rosalind Brackenbury has written several novels and collections of poetry, including her latest novel author location: Forest Grove OR Paris Still Life. She currently lives in Key West, Florida.

How to Live, What to Do: The Fix Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wells, Lisa Wallace Stevens University of Iowa Press Richardson, Joan 9781609385477 University of Iowa Press Series: Iowa Poetry Prize 9781609385491 70 pages Series: Muse Books paperback 132 pages $19.95 paperback Publish Date: 4/15/2018 $19.95 catalog page: 7 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 6 Proceeding from Hélène Cixous’s charge to kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from How to Live, What to Do is an indispensable breathing, The Fix forges that woman’s reckoning introduction to and guide through the work of a with her violent past, with her sexuality, and with a poet equal in power and sensibility to Shakespeare future unmoored from the trappings of domestic and Milton. Like them, Stevens shaped a new life. These poems of lyric beauty and unflinching language, fashioning an instrument adequate to candor negotiate the terrain of contradictory describing a completely changed environment of desire—often to darkly comedic effect. In fact, extending perception through his poems to encounters with strangers in dive bars and on align what Emerson called our axis of vision with highway shoulders, and through ekphrastic the universe as it came to be understood during his engagement with visionaries like William Blake, lifetime, 1879–1955, a span shared with Albert José Clemente Orozco, and the Talking Heads, this Einstein. Projecting his own imagination into book seeks the real beneath the dissembling spacetime as a priest of the invisible, persistently surface. Here, nothing is fixed, but grace arrives by cultivating his cosmic consciousness through diving into the complicated past in order to find a reading, keeping abreast of the latest discoveries of way to live, now. Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Louis de Broglie, and others, Stevens pushed the boundaries of Lisa Wells is a poet and nonfiction writer who lives language into the exotic territories of relativity and in Tucson, Arizona. Her work has appeared in Best quantum mechanics while at the same time New Poets, the Believer, Denver Quarterly, honoring the continuing human need for belief in Rumpus, Third Coast, and the Iowa Review. some larger order. His work records how to live, what to do in this strange new world of experience, seeing what was always seen but never seen before. Joan Richardson, author of the standard two-volume critical biography of Stevens and coeditor with Frank Kermode of the Library of America edition of the Collected Poetry and Prose, offers concise, lucid captures of Stevens’s development and achievement.

Joan Richardson is distinguished professor of English, comparative literature, and American studies at the graduate center at the City University of New York.

High Ground Coward For Single Mothers Mountain, Alicia Working as Train University of Iowa Conductors Press Wolfson, Laura Esther 9781609385453 University of Iowa Press Series: Iowa Poetry 9781609385811 Prize 144 pages 100 pages paperback paperback $19.95 $19.95 Publish Date: 6/1/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 10 4/15/2018 catalog page: 8 Laura Esther Wolfson’s literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Alicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a collection maps a new queer landscape through basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With place in it; and her search for a form to hold the a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain stories that emerge from what she has lived, nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative observed, overheard, and misremembered. In modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to Proust at Rush Hour, when her lungs begin to follow. High Ground Coward offers fists full of soil, collapse and fail, forcing her to give up an exciting leftovers for breakfast, road trip as ritual, twins of and precarious existence as a globetrotting lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms simultaneous interpreter, she seeks consolation by with hunger-inducing detail, its speakers asking us reading Proust in the original while commuting by to consider what it will take to satisfy our own subway to a desk job that requires no more than a appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish minimal knowledge of French. In For Single one another. Ferocious, even the softest part, Mothers Working as Train Conductors she gives Mountain shows us a way to fall in love with away her diaphragm and tubes of spermicidal jelly wanting, leaving us ravenous, but gradually. to a woman in the Soviet Union who, with two Bearing witness to identity formation in solitude unwanted pregnancies behind her, needs them and communion, High Ground Coward is an more than she does. The Husband Method has her almanac of emotional and relational seasons. translating a book on Russian obscenities and gulag Mountain’s speakers question the meaning of slang during the dissolution of her marriage to the inheritance, illness, violence, mythology, and family Russian-speaker who taught her much of what she architecture. Whether Mountain is at work knows about that language. In prose spangled with revealing the divinity of doubt, the entanglement pathos and dusted with humor, Wolfson transports of devotion, or the dominion that place holds over us to Paris, the Republic of Georgia, upstate New us, High Ground Coward heralds a thrilling poetic York, the Upper West Side, and the corridors of the debut. United Nations, telling stories that skewer, transform, and inspire. Alicia Mountain is a poet and scholar in the PhD program at the University of Denver. Mountain has Laura Esther Wolfson’s writings have appeared in been a writer in residence at the Virginia Center for the Bellingham Review, Columbia Journal, the Creative Arts, an Idyllwild Arts Fellow, and a Gettysburg Review, Poetry Daily, rumpus.net, Pushcart Prize nominee. Mountain lives in Denver, Superstition Review, Sun, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. Colorado. She lives in New York City. author location: Denver CO

University of Missouri Press Before Journalism Schools: How Gilded Age The Life of Mark Reporters Learned the Twain: The Early Years, Rules 1835–1871 Sumpter, Randall S. Scharnhorst, Gary University of Missouri University of Missouri Press Press 9780826221599 9780826221445 Journalism in Mark Twain and His Perspective: Continuities Circle series. 25 and Disruptions series. illustrations 212 pages 724 pages hardcover hardcover $35.00 $36.95 Publish Date: 6/1/2018 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 4 catalog page: 1 Randall Sumpter questions the dominant notion Over three volumes, Gary Scharnhorst elucidates that reporters entering the field in the late the life of arguably the greatest American writer nineteenth century relied on an informal and reveals the alchemy of his gifted imagination. apprenticeship system to learn the rules of This is the first multi-volume biography of Samuel journalism. Drawing from the experiences of more Clemens to appear in over a century. All Clemens than fifty reporters, he argues that cub reporters biographers since then have either tailored their could and did access multiple sources of narratives to fit a single volume or focused on a instruction, including autobiographies and memoirs particular aspect of Clemens’s life; this new, of journalists, fiction, guidebooks, and trade comprehensive biography is plotted from magazines. Arguments for professional journalism beginning to end. The first volume follows Clemens did not resonate with the workaday journalists from his childhood in Missouri to his work in examined here. These news workers were more printshops, his career as a Mississippi River pilot, concerned with following a personal rather than a his writing stint in Nevada, and his trip to Europe professional code of ethics and implemented their and the Holy Land, and ends with his move east to own work rules. Some of those rules governed Buffalo, New York. With dozens of Twain delinquent behavior. While scholars have traced biographies available, what is left unsaid? On some of the connections between beginning average, a hundred Clemens letters and a couple of journalists and learning opportunities, Sumpter his interviews surface every year. Scharnhorst has shows that much more can be discovered, with located numerous documents, including some implications for understanding the development of which have been presumed lost. journalistic professionalism and present-day instances of journalistic behavior. Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the Randall S. Sumpter is an University of New Mexico. He is the Associate Professor of author or editor of fifty books, Communication at Texas including Mark Twain on Potholes A&M University. He lives in and Politics: Letters to the Editor. College Station, Texas. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. author location: Albuquerque NM

Aristocracy in America: Francis Joseph Grund (September From the Sketch-Book 19, 1805 – September 29, 1863) of a German Nobleman was a German-born American Grund, Francis Joseph journalist and author who wrote University of Missouri such works as The Americans in Press Their Moral, Social, and Political 9780826221568 Relations (1837). Grund was born in Reichenberg, Edited and with an Bohemia. His parents were Wenzel Grund, a introduction by Armin furrier, and Anna Weber Grund. The family was Mattes. Studies in Roman Catholic. Reportedly, he studied at the Constitutional Vienna Polyteknik and at the University of Vienna, Democracy series. and is said to have worked as a teacher in Rio de 416 pages Janeiro before coming to the United States. He hardcover spoke several languages, including German, $40.00 English, and French. In 1827, at the age of 21, Publish Date: 6/1/2018 Grund was working as a mathematics teacher in catalog page: 5 Boston. That same year, he failed to get a University of Pennsylvania professorship, and Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of ended up teaching mathematics at a military the most influential journalists in America in the academy. From 1828–1833 he taught at a private three decades preceding the Civil War. He also school in Boston. After this, Grund primarily wrote several books, including this fictional, satiric worked as a journalist and editor, writing for such travel memoir in response to Alexis de newspapers as Standard, the German-language Der Tocqueville’s famous Democracy in America. In Pennsylvanisch Deutsche, Mercury and Evening Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy Journal, Public Ledger, and Sun. He published inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation several books, including The Americans in Their South may have been willing to accept their poorer Moral, Social, and Political Relations (1837) and neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as Aristocracy in America: From the Sketch-Book of a social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds German Nobleman (1839). In his writings and light on the nature of the struggle between public speeches, Grund campaigned in favor of aristocracy and democracy that loomed so large in various politicians, including Martin van Buren, early republican Americans’ minds. Armin Mattes William Henry Harrison, and James Buchanan. The provides a thorough account of Grund’s dynamic Buchanan administration hired him as a special engagement in American political life, and brings to agent who was sent to Europe in order to report on light many of Grund’s reflections on American political and commercial developments there. social and political life previously published only in Armin Mattes is preparing a Habilitation at the German. Mattes shows how Grund’s work can Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and is the expand our understanding of the emerging author of Citizens of a Common Intellectual democratic political culture and society in the Homeland: The Transatlantic Origins of American antebellum United States. Democracy and Nationhood. He lives in Bad Saulgau, Germany.

We Met in Paris: Grace Guillaume: A Life Frick And Her Life With Guillaume, Robert (with Marguerite Yourcenar David Ritz) Howard, Joan E. University of Missouri University of Missouri Press Press 9780826221612 9780826221551 26 illustrations 35 illustrations 240 pages 488 pages paperback hardcover $24.95 $45.00 Publish Date: 11/1/2017 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 catalog page: 8 catalog page: 6 “The magic that has always characterized the life Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all and work of Robert Guillaume vibrates on the over the world to the distinguished French author pages of this book. His talent and his values mark Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning him as a man for all seasons.”—Sidney Poitier. translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Guillaume: A Life is the autobiography of esteemed Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Broadway, Hollywood, and television star Robert Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her Guillaume. The book goes beyond the recounting relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work of a long and successful career to examine the shows Frick as a person of substance in her own forces that shaped the man: family, religion, race, right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at and class. From a child longing for his mother’s love once intimate and scrupulously documented. It to a man unsure of the meaning of love for many of contains a great deal of new information that will the women in his life, from a young performer disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may struggling to succeed on Broadway and in even shock some of her scholars and fans. Hollywood to a grief-stricken father watching his son die of AIDS, Robert Guillaume tells what it was Joan E. Howard is the like to realize celebrity and what he sacrificed in director of Petite Plaisance, the process. Readers will savor the success story of the former home of this artist who achieved great recognition and Marguerite Yourcenar and fame, but who never lost sight of his beginnings. Grace Frick, and is the Guillaume is a revealing and poignant author of From Violence to autobiography of an extraordinary and Vision: Sacrifice in the distinguished American thespian. Works of Marguerite Yourcenar. She divides her Robert Guillaume (born Robert time between Augusta and Peter Williams; November 30, Northeast Harbor, Maine. 1927 – October 24, 2017) was an American actor, known for his role as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night and as Benson on the TV series Soap and the spin-off Benson, as well as for voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King.

Mark Twain in A Tale of Two Paradise: His Colonies: What Really Voyages To Bermuda Happened in Virginia Hoffmann, Donald and Bermuda? University of Bernhard, Virginia Missouri Press University of Missouri 9780826221469 Press Mark Twain and His 9780826221452 Circle series. 60 234 pages illustrations paperback 208 pages $26.95 paperback Publish Date: $24.95 1/29/2018 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 catalog page: 10 Written for general as well as academic audiences, A Tale of Two Colonies examines the existing Bermuda clearly served as a space in which Twain sources on the colonies, sets them in a could explore the intersection between his life as a transatlantic context, and weighs them against celebrity (the white suit and the nickname King circumstantial evidence. From diplomatic were incorporated into his repertoire between his correspondence and maps in the Spanish archives second and third trips) and his role as a traveler. to recent archaeological discoveries at Jamestown, Mark Twain in Paradise is, above all, a kind of Bernhard creates an intriguing history. To weave source-book of Bermuda scenes and experiences, together the stories of the two colonies, which are many of which would remain obscure if not for fraught with missing pieces, she leaves nothing [Hoffman’s] methodical unpacking.—Studies in unexamined: letters written in code, adventurers' American Fiction. For Mark Twain, it was love at narratives, lists of Africans in Bermuda, and the first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the minutes of committees in London. Biographical Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from details of mariners, diplomats, spies, Indians, the Holy Land and found them much to his liking. Africans, and English colonists also enrich the One of the most isolated spots in the world, narrative. While there are common stories about Bermuda offered the writer a refuge from his both colonies, Bernhard shakes myth free from harried and sometimes sad existence on the truth and illuminates what is known--as well as mainland, and this island paradise called him back what we may never know--about the first English another seven times. Hoffmann has plumbed the colonies in the New World. voluminous Mark Twain scholarship and Bermudian archives to faithfully re-create turn-of- Virginia Bernhard, Professor the- century Bermuda, supplying historical and Emerita of History at the biographical background to give his narrative University of St. Thomas in texture and depth. He offers insight into Bermuda’s Houston, Texas, is the author natural environment, traditional stone houses, and or editor of seven books. Her romantic past, and he presents dozens of most recent book is Slaves illustrations, both vintage and new, showing that and Slaveholders in Bermuda, much of what Mark Twain described can still be 1616–1782 (University of seen today. Missouri Press). She lives in Houston. Donald Hoffmann is the author eleven books on architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri. E. Franklin Frazier and Black The Philosopher and the Bourgeoisie Storyteller: Eric Voegelin Teele, James E and Twentieth-Century University of Missouri Press Literature 9780826221506 Embry, Charles R 184 pages University of Missouri paperback Press $25.00 9780826221520 Publish Date: 1/29/2018 The Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Politics When E. Franklin Frazier was 208 pages elected the first black president of the American paperback Sociological Association in 1948, he was $25.00 established as the leading American scholar on the Publish Date: 1/29/2018 black family and was also recognized as a leading theorist on the dynamics of social change and race Throughout his philosophical career, Eric Voegelin relations. By 1948 his lengthy list of publications had much to say about literature in both his included over fifty articles and four major books, published work and his private letters. Many of his including the acclaimed Negro Family in the United most trenchant comments regarding the analysis of States. Frazier was known for his thorough literature appear in his correspondence with critic scholarship and his mastery of skills in both history Robert Heilman, and, through his familiarity with and sociology. With the publication of Bourgeoisie that exchange, Charles Embry has gained Noire in 1955 (translated in 1957 as Black extraordinary insight into Voegelin’s literary views. Bourgeoisie), Frazier apparently set out on a The Philosopher and the Storyteller is the first different track, one in which he employed his skills book-length study of the literary dimensions of in a critical analysis of the black middle class. The Voegelin’s philosophy—and the first to use his book met with mixed reviews and harsh criticism philosophy to read specific novels. Bringing to bear from the black middle and professional class. Yet a thorough familiarity with both Voegelin and great Frazier stood solidly by his argument that the black literature, Embry shows that novels—like myths, middle class was marked by conspicuous philosophy, and religious texts—participate in the consumption, wish fulfillment, and a world of human search for the truth of existence, and that make-believe. While Frazier published four reading literature within a Voegelinian framework additional books after 1948, Black Bourgeoisie exposes the existential and philosophical remained by far his most controversial. Given his dimensions of those works. status in American sociology, there has been surprisingly little study of Frazier's work. In E. Charles R. Embry is Professor of Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie, a group of Political Science at Texas A&M distinguished scholars remedies that lack, focusing University–Commerce. He is on his often-scorned Black Bourgeoisie. This in- the editor of Robert B. Heilman depth look at Frazier's controversial publication is and Eric Voegelin: A Friendship relevant to the growing concerns in Letters, 1944–1984 and about racism, problems in our coeditor of Philosophy, cities, the limitations of Literature, and Politics: Essays affirmative action, and the Honoring Ellis Sandoz, both promise of self-help. available from the University of Missouri Press.

James Teele is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Boston University.

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Alou: My Baseball Journey Alou, Felipe (with Peter Kerasotis) University of Nebraska Press 9781496201522

Foreword by Pedro Martínez. 6 x 9. 35 Felipe Alou serves as the special assistant to the photographs, 1 general manager for the San Francisco Giants. He is illustration an inductee in both the Canadian and the Latino 336 pages Baseball Hall of Fame and lives with his wife, Lucie, hardcover in Boynton Beach, Florida. Peter Kerasotis is an $29.95 author and journalist who has won ten Associated Publish Date: 4/1/2018 Press Sports Editor awards, six Football Writers catalog page: 1 Association of America awards, and seven Florida Sports Writers Association awards. Pedro Martínez In this extraordinary autobiography, Alou tells of is a Hall of Fame pitcher and fellow Dominican. his real dream: to become a doctor. An uncle was funding his university education when an author location: San Francisco CA improbable turn of events intervened at the 1955 Pan American Games. There as a track and field athlete, Alou was pressed into service on the baseball field to replace a player sent home for disciplinary reasons. A scout noticed Alou and offered him two hundred pesos to sign a pro contract. Knowing his father owed the grocer exactly two hundred pesos, Alou signed. Battling racism in the United States and political turmoil in his home country, Alou persevered, paving the way for younger brothers Matty and Jesús and scores of other Dominicans. Alou played seventeen years in the Major Leagues, accumulating more than two thousand hits and two hundred home runs, and then managed another fourteen—four with the San Francisco Giants and ten with the Montreal Expos, where he became the winningest manager in franchise history. Alou became a special friend of Roberto Clemente, roomed with Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, and Joe Torre, and suffered the tragic death of his firstborn son. Alou’s pioneering journey is embedded in the history of baseball, the Dominican Republic, and a remarkable family.

American Colossus: the best American player ever. American Colossus Big Bill Tilden and the is a thorough account of his life, bringing a much- Creation of Modern needed look back at one of the world’s greatest Tennis athletes and a person whose story is as relevant as Hornblum, Allen M. ever. University of Nebraska Press Allen M. Hornblum is a 9780803288119 former criminal justice Foreword by John administrator and college Newcombe. 6 x 9. 30 professor. He is the author of photographs, index several books, including The 520 pages Invisible Harry Gold: The Man hardcover Who Gave the Soviets the $39.95 Atom Bomb and Acres of Publish Date: Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison. 3/1/2018 John Newcombe is a former tennis great from catalog page: 3 Australia who won twenty-six Grand Slam championships, including singles titles in three Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Bill Wimbledons, two U. S. Opens, and two Australian Tilden were the legendary quartet of the Golden Opens. Age of Sports in the 1920s. They transformed their respective athletic disciplines and captured the imagination of a nation. The indisputable force behind the emergence of professional tennis as a popular and lucrative sport, Tilden’s on-court accomplishments are nothing short of staggering. The first American-born player to win Wimbledon and a seven-time winner of the U.S. singles championship, he was the number 1 ranked player for ten straight years. A tall, flamboyant player with a striking appearance, Tilden didn’t just play; he performed with a singular style that separated him from other top athletes. Tilden was a showman off the court as well. He appeared in numerous comedies and dramas on both stage and screen and was a Renaissance man who wrote more than two dozen fiction and nonfiction books, including several successful tennis instructions books. But Tilden had a secret—one he didn’t fully understand himself. After he left competitive tennis in the late 1940s, he faced a lurid fall from grace when he was arrested after an incident involving an underage boy in his car. Tilden served seven months in prison and later attempted to explain his questionable behavior to the public, only to be ostracized from the tennis circuit. Despite his glorious career in tennis, his final years were much constrained and lived amid considerable public shunning. Tilden’s athletic accomplishments remain, as he is arguably American Detective: Third Degree: The Triple Behind the Scenes of Murder That Shook Famous Criminal Washington and Changed Investigations American Criminal Justice Reppetto, Thomas A. Seligman, Scott D. University of Nebraska University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books Press/Potomac Books 9781640120228 9781612349947 6 x 9. 20 photographs, 6 x 9. 25 photographs, 7 index illustrations, 1 table, 1 312 pages chronology, index hardcover 216 pages $34.95 hardcover Publish Date: 6/1/2018 $29.95 catalog page: 8 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 catalog page: 9 From the Roaring Twenties to the 1970s, detectives once reigned supreme in police departments Part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and across the country. In this tightly woven slice of part landmark legal case, The Third Degree is the true crime reportage, Thomas A. Reppetto offers a true story of a young man’s abuse by the behind-the-scenes look into some of the most Washington police and an arduous, seven-year notable investigations to occur during the golden journey through the legal system that drew in age of the detective in American criminal justice. Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver From William Burns, who during his heyday was Wendell Holmes, John W. Davis, and J. Edgar known as America’s Sherlock Holmes, to Thad Hoover. The ordeal culminated in a sweeping Brown, who probed the notorious Black Dahlia Supreme Court ruling penned by Justice Louis murder in Los Angeles, to Elliott Ness, who cleaned Brandeis that set the stage for the Miranda up the Cleveland police but failed to capture the warning many years later. Scott D. Seligman argues Mad Butcher who decapitated at least a dozen that the importance of the case hinges not on the victims, American Detective offers an indelible defendant’s guilt or innocence but on the portrait of the famous sleuths and investigators imperative that a system that presumes innocence who played a major role in cracking some of the until proven guilty provides protections against most notorious cases in U.S. history. coerced confessions.

Thomas A. Reppetto is a Scott D. Seligman is a writer former commander of and historian. He is the author detectives in the Chicago of several books, including Police Department and Tong Wars: The Untold Story earned a doctorate from of Vice, Money, and Murder in Harvard University. He New York’s Chinatown and served as professor, dean, The First Chinese American: and vice president at the The Remarkable Life of Wong John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York Chin Foo. His articles have City. From 1979 to 2005 he was the head of the appeared in the Washington Citizens Crime Commission of New York City and Post, the Seattle Times, and the China Business was named New York State Governor’s Law Review, among other publications. Enforcement Executive of the Year in 1986.

I Held Lincoln: A tells the story of a Union sailor’s remarkable Union Sailor's odyssey as he twice escapes from a Confederate Journey Home prison, only to later find himself a player at Ford’s Quest, Richard E. Theater at one of the most crucial events in University of American history. Nebraska Press/Potomac Richard E. Quest is the founding president and Books executive director of the charitable nonprofit 9781612349497 organization Books in Homes USA, Inc. He is a 6 x 9. 15 former history teacher, has held administrative illustrations, 2 positions in public education, and was a dean and maps associate vice president of several colleges. Quest 216 pages is a member of the Loudoun County Civil War hardcover Round Table and is a guide at the Ball’s Bluff $24.95 Battlefield Regional Park in Virginia. He recently Publish Date: 5/1/2018 relocated to northern Virginia. catalog page: 12

Lt. Benjamin Loring (1842–1902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no grand strategies. Loring was a sailor who just wanted to return home, where the biggest story of his life awaited him. Covering almost a year of Loring’s service, I Held Lincoln describes the lieutenant’s command of the gunboat USS Wave, the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, the surrender of his ship, and his capture by the Confederates. He was incarcerated in Camp Groce, a deadly Confederate prison where he endured horrific conditions and abuse. Loring attempted to escape, evading capture for ten days behind enemy lines, only to be recaptured just a few miles from freedom. After an arduous second escape, he finally reached the safety of Union lines and gained his freedom. On the night of April 14, 1865, Loring attended Ford’s Theater and witnessed one of the single most tragic events in American history: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. After the shot rang out, Loring climbed into the presidential box and assisted the dying president, helping to carry him across the street to the Peterson House. Using Loring’s recently discovered private journal, Richard E. Quest tells this astonishing lost story, giving insight into a little- known Confederate prison camp during the last days of the Civil War and providing much-deserved recognition to a man whose journey was nearly lost to American history. Gleaned from the actual documents of Lt. Benjamin Loring, I Held Lincoln The Pitcher and the Trujillo All-Stars uniforms. The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Dictator is an extraordinary story of race, politics, Paige's Unlikely and some of the greatest baseball players ever Season in the assembled, playing high-stakes baseball in support Dominican of one of the Caribbean’s cruelest dictators. Republic Smith, Averell Ace University of Nebraska Press 9781496205490 6 x 9. 14 photographs, 6 illustrations, 2 tables, 1 appendix, index 232 pages hardcover Averell Ace Smith is a political consultant and $26.95 lifelong baseball fanatic. He is a thirty-year veteran Publish Date: 4/1/2018 of state and national politics and has directed catalog page: 16 winning campaigns from district attorney to president of the United States. He has been Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training profiled in the Los Angeles Times, the New in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he Republic, and the San Francisco Chronicle. and five of his teammates, including Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, were lured to the Dominican author location: Kentfield, CA San Francisco CA Republic with the promise of easy money to play a short baseball tournament in support of the country’s dictator, Rafael Trujillo. As it turned out, the money wasn’t so easy. After Paige and his friends arrived on the island, they found themselves under the thumb of Trujillo, known by Dominicans for murdering those who disappointed him. In the initial games, the Ciudad Trujillo all-star team floundered. Living outside the shadow of segregation, Satchel and his recruits spent their nights carousing and their days dropping close games to their rivals, who were also stocked with great players. Desperate to restore dis cipline, Trujillo tapped the leader of his death squads to become part of the team management. The American players believed they might be lined up and shot if they lost the tournament. When Paige’s team ultimately rallied to win, it barely registered with Trujillo, who a few months later ordered the killings of fifteen thousand Haitians at the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Paige and his teammates returned to the states to face banishment from the Negro Leagues, but ironically they barnstormed across America wearing their The Integration of the Great Plains Literature Pacific Coast League: Pratt, Linda Ray Race and Baseball on University of Nebraska the West Coast Press/Bison Books Essington, Amy 9780803290709 University of Discover the Great Plains Nebraska Press - RICHARD EDWARDS, 9780803285736 series editor. 5 x 8. 16 6 x 9. 14 photographs, photographs, 1 map, 1 appendix, index index 200 pages 174 pages paperback paperback $19.95 $14.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 3/1/2018 6/1/2018 catalog page: 21 catalog page: 17 Great Plains Literature is an exploration of While Jackie Robinson’s 1947 season with the influential literature of the Plains region in both the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African United States and Canada. It reflects the American to play in the Major Leagues in the destruction of the culture of the first people who modern era, the rest of Major League Baseball was lived there, the attempts of settlers to conquer the slow to integrate while its Minor League affiliates land, and the tragic losses and successes of moved faster. The Pacific Coast League (PCL), a settlement that are still shaping our modern world Minor League with its own social customs, of environmental threat, ethnic and racial practices, and racial history, and the only legitimate hostilities, declining rural communities, and sports league on the West Coast, becomes one of growing urban populations. In addition to featuring the first league in any sport to completely writers such as Ole Edvart Rölvaag, Willa Cather, desegregate all its teams. Although far from a and John Neihardt, who address the epic stories of model of racial equality, the Pacific Coast states the past, Great Plains Literature also includes created a racial reality that was more diverse and contemporary writers such as Louis Erdrich, Kent adaptable than in other parts of the country. The Haruf, Ted Kooser, Rilla Askew, N. Scott Momaday, Integration of the Pacific Coast League describes and Margaret Laurence. This literature the evolution of the PCL beginning with the encompasses a history of courage and violence, league’s differing treatment of African Americans aggrandizement and aggression, triumph and and other nonwhite players. Between the 1900s terror. It can help readers understand better how and the 1930s, team owners knowingly signed today’s threats to the environment, clashes with Hawaiian players, Asian players, and African Native people, struggling small towns, and rural American players who claimed that they were migration to the cities reflect the same forces that Native Americans, who were not officially banned. were important in the past. In the post–World War II era, with the pressures and challenges facing desegregation, the league Linda Ray Pratt is a professor gradually accepted African emeritus of English at the American players. University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the former executive vice Amy Essington is an instructor president and provost of the in the history department at University of Nebraska system. California State University, She is the author of Matthew Fullerton. Arnold Revisited.

The Kid and Me: A Novel Phoebe Apperson Hearst: Turner, Frederick A Life of Power and University of Nebraska Politics Press/Bison Books Nickliss, Alexandra M. 9781496206893 University of Nebraska 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Press/Bison Books 208 pages 9781496202277 paperback 6 x 9. 20 photographs, $19.95 index Publish Date: 8/1/2018 632 pages catalog page: 22 hardcover $39.95 In The Kid and Me, Publish Date: 5/1/2018 Frederick Turner deftly re-creates the Lincoln catalog page: 23 County War in what was then New Mexico Territory. The 1878 war pitted an established In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and faction led by James Dolan against new arrivals in Politics Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first the county led by John Tunstall and Alexander biography of one of the Gilded Age’s most McSween. When Tunstall and McSween opened a prominent and powerful women. A financial dry-goods store in 1876 in a direct challenge to manager, businesswoman, and reformer, Phoebe Dolan’s monopoly on the dry-goods business, Apperson Hearst was one of the wealthiest and trouble was inevitable. Both the Dolan and the most influential women of the era and a Tunstall-McSween factions garnered supporters, philanthropist, almost without rival, in the San including lawmen, criminal gangs, and ranch hands. Francisco Bay Area. Hearst was born into a humble, The ambush and murder of Tunstall by a local middle-class family in rural Missouri in 1842, yet sheriff ’s posse loyal to Dolan sparked a wave of she died a powerful member of society’s urban revenge killings and bloody reprisals in which Billy elite in 1919. Most people know her as the mother the Kid—one of Tunstall’s ranch hands—played a of William Randolph Hearst, the famed newspaper prominent role. Narrated by George Coe, an aged mogul, and as the wife of George Hearst, a mining veteran of New Mexico’s Lincoln County War but tycoon and United States senator. By age forty- now a devout painter of village churches, The Kid eight, however, Hearst had come to control her and Me tells what it felt like to ride alongside Billy husband’s extravagant wealth after his death. She the Kid, whom Coe both admired and greatly shepherded the fortune of the family estate until feared. Gang loyalty, extreme violence, political her own death, demonstrating her intelligence and corruption in the highest places, and profound skill as a financial manager. Hearst supported a moral ambiguity characterize number of significant urban reforms in the Bay this tale of what made the Area, across the country, and around the world, American West wild. giving much of her wealth to organizations supporting children, health reform, women’s rights Frederick Turner is the author and well-being, higher education, municipal policy or editor of several books, formation, progressive voluntary associations, and including The Go-Between: A urban architecture and design, among other Novel of the Kennedy Years and endeavors. 1929: A Novel of the Jazz Age. Alexandra M. Nickliss is an instructor of history at City College of San Francisco.

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The Killing of Chief Crazy Left Handed, Son of Old Horse, Bison Classic Man Hat: A Navajo Edition Autobiography - Bison Clark, Robert A. (editor) Classic Edition University of Nebraska Left Handed Press/Bison Books University of Nebraska 9781496200570 Press/Bison Books Edited And With A New 9781496205155 Introduction By Robert A. Recorded by Walter Dyk. Clark. Commentary By Foreword by Edward Sapir. Carroll Friswold. 5 1/2 x 8 New Introduction by 1/2. 12 photographs, Jennifer Denetdale. 6 x 9 index 354 pages 144 pages paperback paperback $24.95 $19.95 Publish Date: 8/1/2018 Publish Date: 8/1/2018 catalog page: 25 catalog page: 24 With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse is a story of envy, Handed tells of his birth in the spring of 1868 when greed, and treachery. In the year after the Battle of the cottonwood leaves were about the size of [his] the Little Big Horn, the great Oglala Sioux chief thumbnail, of family chores such as guarding the Crazy Horse and his half-starved followers finally sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. surrendered to the U.S. Army near Camp Robinson, As he grows older, his account turns to life in the Nebraska. Chiefs who had already surrendered open: nomadic cattle-raising, farming, trading, resented the favors he received in doing so. When communal enterprises, tribal dances and the army asked for his help rounding up the Nez ceremonies, lovemaking, and marriage. As Left Perces, Crazy Horse’s reply was allegedly Handed grows in understanding and stature, the mistranslated by Frank Grouard, a scout for accumulated wisdom of his people is revealed to General George Crook. By August rumors had him. He learns the Navajo lifeway, which is spread that Crazy Horse was planning another founded on the principles of honesty, uprising. Tension continued to mount, and Crazy foresightedness, and self-discipline. Horse was arrested at Fort Robinson on September 5. During a scuffle Crazy Horse was fatally wounded Left Handed (Navajo) (1868–?) was a by a bayonet in front of several witnesses. Here the Diné man who was born at Hweéldi killing of Crazy Horse is viewed from three widely (the Bosque Redondo prison camp), differing perspectives—that of Chief He Dog, the where the American military held victim’s friend and lifelong companion; that of Navajos from 1863 to 1868, and then William Garnett, the guide and interpreter for returned to the Navajo homeland with Lieutenant William P. Clark, on special assignment his family. At the time of Walter Dyk’s interviews to General Crook; and that of Valentine about his life, he was positioned as an elder who McGillycuddy, the medical officer who attended had lived well and prospered. Walter Dyk (1899– Crazy Horse in his last hours. 1972) was a linguist who studied under Edward Sapir. He studied Navajo language and published Robert A. Clark is the editor in chief of Washington Old Mexican. Jennifer Denetdale (Diné/Navajo) is State University Press and the former publisher of the first Diné/Navajo to earn a PhD in history and is the Arthur H. Clark Co. imprint. Carroll Friswold an associate professor of American studies at the (1897–1969) was a collector and historian of the University of New Mexico. Plains Indian wars. The Lewis and Clark When We Were Expedition Day by Day Ghouls: A Memoir of Moulton, Gary E. Ghost Stories University of Nebraska Wallen, Amy E. Press/Bison Books University of Nebraska 9781496203830 Press 6 x 9. 2 illustrations, 13 9780803296954 maps, index American Lives - 768 pages TOBIAS WOLFF, series paperback editor. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. 5 $29.95 photographs Publish Date: 4/1/2018 294 pages catalog page: 26 paperback $19.95 In May 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Publish Date: 3/1/2018 their Corps of Discovery set out on a journey of a catalog page: 29 lifetime to explore and interpret the American West. The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day When Amy E. Wallen’s southern, blue-collar, follows this exploration with a daily narrative of peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, their journey, from its starting point in Illinois in Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned 1804 to its successful return to St. Louis in seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, September 1806. This accessible chronicle, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the presented by Lewis and Clark historian Gary E. world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When Moulton, depicts each riveting day of the Corps of We Were Ghouls follows Wallen’s recollections of Discovery’s journey. Drawn from the journals of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and the two captains and four enlisted men, this slipped through her fingers, rendering her volume recounts personal stories, scientific memories unclear. Were they a family of grave pursuits, and geographic challenges, along with robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre- vivid descriptions of encounters with Native Incan grave site indicates? Are they, as the author’s peoples and unknown lands and discoveries of new mother posits, hideous people? Or is Wallen’s species of flora and fauna. This modern reference memory out of focus? In this quick-paced and brings the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted to life in a new way, from the first hoisting of the memories to clarify the nature of her family and by sail to the final celebratory dinner. extension her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. means to be a good human, When We Were Sorensen Professor Emeritus of Ghouls links the fear of loss and mortality to American History at the University childhood ideas of permanence. of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the editor of the Journals of the Lewis Amy E. Wallen is associate and Clark Expedition, available from director at the New York State the University of Nebraska Press. Moulton is the Writers Institute and teaches recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the creative writing at the American Historical Association and the University of California, San Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award Diego Extension. Her first from the University of Nebraska. novel, Moon Pies and Movie Stars, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

Awu's Story: A Novel Stray Mintsa, Justine Matambo, Bernard University of Nebraska Farai Press University of 9781496206930 Nebraska Press Translated and with an 9781496205582 Introduction by Cheryl Foreword by Kwame Toman. Foreword by Dawes. African Poetry Thérèse Kuoh - Book - KWAME Moukoury. 5 1/2 x 8 DAWES, series editor. 1/2 6 x 9 138 pages 96 pages paperback paperback $17.95 $17.95 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 30 catalog page: 33

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, villages in Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African the Fang region of northern Gabon must grapple Poets. with the clash of tradition and the evolution of customs throughout modern Africa. With this Zimbabwean writer Bernard Farai Matambo’s tension in the background, the passionate, deft, poems in Stray favor a prose-shaped line as they and creative seamstress Awu marries Obame, after uncover the contradictory impulses in search of he and his beloved wife, Bella, have been unable to emotional and intellectual truth. Stray not only conceive. Because all three are reluctant captures the essence of identity but also participants in this arrangement, theirs is an eloquently articulates the pain of displacement and emotionally fraught existence. Through speaks to the vulnerability of Africans who have heartbreaking and disastrous events, Awu grapples left their native continent. This collection delicately with long-standing Fang customs that counter her examines the theme of migration—migration in a desire to take full control of her life and home. literal, geographic sense; migration of language Supplemented with a foreword and critical from one lexicon to another; migration of a poem introduction highlighting Justine Mintsa’s toward prose—and the instability of the creative importance in African literature, Awu’s Story is an experience in the broader sense. essential work of African women’s writing and the only published work to meditate this deeply on Bernard Farai Matambo is some of the Fang’s most cherished legends and an assistant professor of oral history. creative writing at Oberlin College. His prose and Justine Mintsa is a Gabonese poetry have appeared in author and, before her several publications, retirement in 2016, was an including Copper Nickel, English professor at Omar New Orleans Review, Bongo University in Libreville. Ohioana Quarterly, She has also worked in Pleiades, and Plume. Gabon’s Ministry of Culture and the Arts for sixteen years. In 2012 Mintsa was named advisor to Gabon’s prime minister and head of the Department of Education and Culture. Flight to the Top of the Colonial Suspects: World: The Adventures of Suspicion, Imperial Rule, Walter Wellman and Colonial Society in Bristow, David L. Interwar French West University of Nebraska Africa Press Keller, Kathleen 9780803296787 University of Nebraska 6 x 9. 18 photographs, 5 Press illustrations, 4 maps, index 9780803296916 392 pages France Overseas: Studies in hardcover Empire and Decolonization $29.95 - A. J. B. JOHNSTON, JAMES Publish Date: 7/1/2018 D. LE SUEUR, and TYLER STOVALL, series editors. 6 catalog page: 35 x 9. 1 map, index 270 pages In his day Walter Wellman (1858–1934) was one of hardcover America’s most famous men. To his $55.00 contemporaries, he seemed like a character from a Publish Date: 4/1/2018 Jules Verne novel. He led five expeditions in search catalog page: 64 of the North Pole, two by dogsled and three by dirigible airship, and in 1910 made the first attempt A Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air—which the self- Senegalese student—what did they have in styled expert on aerial warfare saw as a mission of common? They were all suspicious persons kept world peace. He endured hardships, cheated death under surveillance by French colonial authorities in on more than one occasion, and surrounded West Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. Colonial himself with a team of assistants as eccentric and Suspects looks at the web of surveillance set up by audacious as he was. In addition to his daring the French government during the twentieth adventures, Wellman became a nationally known century as France’s empire slipped into crisis. As political reporter and unofficial spokesman for the French West Africa and the French Empire more McKinley and Roosevelt administrations. He was generally underwent fundamental transformations not the first newspaper-sponsored adventurer, but during the interwar years, French colonial more than any of his predecessors he turned authorities pivoted from a stated policy of exploration into a real-time media event, and his assimilation to that of association. Surveillance of reputation both flourished and suffered because of both colonial subjects and visitors traveling it. Wellman lived during a time of rapid social and through the colonies increased in scope. The effect technological change, when explorers were racing of this change in policy was profound in a culture of to fill in the last remaining blank spots on the map suspicion became deeply ingrained in French West and when aviation promised to fulfill humanity’s African society. Increasingly, French officials—in greatest hopes and darkest fears. Flight to the Top the colonies and at home—reacted in short-sighted of the World is a window into Wellman’s time and ways as both perceived and real backlash occurred illuminates many of its dreams and contradictions. with respect to communism, pan-Africanism, anticolonialism, black radicalism, and pan-Islamism. David L. Bristow is an associate director at the Nebraska State Kathleen Keller is an Historical Society, where he associate professor of serves as the journal editor of history at Gustavus Nebraska History and book Adolphus College. editor for the society’s scholarly and popular books. Waterman: The Life David Davis is the author of a and Times of Duke number Showdown at Kahanamoku Shepherd’s Bush: The 1908 Davis, David Olympic Marathon and the University of Three Runners Who Nebraska Press Launched a Sporting Craze; 9781496206008 Play by Play: Los Angeles 6 x 9. 34 Sports Photography, 1889–1989; and Marathon photographs, index Crasher: The Life and Times of Merry Lepper, the 354 pages First American Woman to Run a Marathon. His paperback work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, $19.95 Smithsonian, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Publish Date: Times, and in three anthologies, including The Best 5/1/2018 American Sports Writing. He lives in Los Angeles. catalog page: 88

NEW IN PAPERBACK. Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their splashes in the pool, Kahanamoku emerged from the backwaters of Waikiki to become America’s first super star Olympic swimmer. The original human fish set dozens of world records and topped the world rankings for more than a decade. Kahanamoku used his Olympic renown to introduce the sport of surf-riding, an activity unknown beyond the Hawaiian Islands, to the world. No American athlete has influenced two sports as profoundly as Kahanamoku did, and yet he remains an enigmatic and underappreciated figure: a dark-skinned Pacific Islander who encountered and overcame racism and ignorance long before the likes of Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson. Kahanamoku’s connection to his homeland was equally important. He was born when Hawaii was an independent kingdom; he served as the sheriff of Honolulu during Pearl Harbor and World War II and as a globetrotting Ambassador of Aloha afterward. In Waterman award-winning journalist David Davis examines the remarkable life of Duke Kahanamoku, in and out of the water.

University of Nevada Press All In: The Spread of Gambling in Under the Western Twentieth-Century Sky: Essays on the United States Fiction and Music of Cohen, Jonathan D. Willy Vlautin and Schwartz, David Campbell, Neil G. (editors) University of Nevada University of Nevada Press Press 9781943859580 9781943859603 10 b/w photographs Series: Gambling 248 pages Studies Series paperback 360 pages $34.95 paperback Publish Date: $34.95 2/15/2018 Publish Date: 3/30/2018 catalog page: 1 catalog page: 3

This original collection of essays by experts in the Gambling, the risky enterprise of chance, is one of field weave together the first comprehensive America’s favorite pastimes. Office March Madness examination of Nevada-born Willy Vlautin’s novels brackets, a day at the race track, a friendly wager, and songs, as well as featuring 11 works of art that the random ridiculous Super Bowl prop bet, bingo accompany his albums and books. Brutally honest, night, or the latest media frenzy over the Powerball raw, gritty, down to earth, compassionate and jackpot—all emphasize the ubiquity of this major affecting, Willy Vlautin’s writing evokes a power in economic force and cultural phenomenon. not only theme, but in methodology. Vlautin’s Approximately 70 percent of Americans regularly novels, The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete and engage in some form of betting, amounting to over The Free (2006-2014) chart the dispossessed lives $140 billion in combined casino and lottery of young people struggling to survive in difficult revenue every year. A hundred years ago, however, economic times and in regions of the U.S. West and legal gambling was a rarity in the United States. A Pacific Northwest traditionally viewed as affluent fresh take on the history of modern American and abundant. Yet as his work shows, are actually gambling, All In provides a closer look at the highly stratified and deprived. Likewise, Vlauntin’s shifting economic, cultural, religious, and political songs, penned as lead singer of the Americana conditions that facilitated gambling’s expansion band Richmond Fontaine chart a related territory and prominence in American consumerism and of blue-collar landscapes of the American West and popular culture. Northwest with a strong emphasis on narrative and affective soundscapes evocative of the similar Jonathan D. Cohen worlds defined in his novels. is a PhD Candidate at the Corcoran Neil Campbell is emeritus Department of the professor of American Studies History at the at the University of Derby, University of United Kingdom. He has Virginia. David G. Schwartz is the director of the published several books on Center for Gaming Research and an instructor at American Studies and much of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written his well-known work covers the several books on gambling, and is also editor of the New West. University of Nevada Press’s Gambling Series.

The End of Eden: Crush: The Triumph of Agrarian Spaces and California Wine the Rise of the Briscoe, John California Social Novel University of Nevada Beers, Terry Press University of Nevada 9781943859498 Press 552 pages 9781943859566 hardcover 252 pages $34.95 hardcover Publish Date: 9/4/2018 $49.95 catalog page: 12 Publish Date: 5/31/2018 Look. Smell. Taste. catalog page: 9 Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France The story of the Joad family’s journey from their could be made in California. A dream dashed four ravaged farm in dustbowl Oklahoma to the storied times in merciless succession until it was ultimately paradise of California helped inform a nation about realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that the brutality, poverty, and vicious competition tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, among fellow immigrants desperate for work. But California wines took their place as the leading Steinbeck is only one successor to a rich and wines of the world. For the first time, Briscoe tells esteemed literary tradition in California. Drawing the complete and dramatic story of the ascendancy on history and cultural theory, The End of Eden of California wine in vivid detail. He also profiles traces the rise of the California social novel, its the larger story of California itself by looking at it embrace of the agrarian dream, and its from an entirely innovative perspective, the state ambivalence about technology and the seen through its singular wine history. With development it enables. dramatic flair and verve, Briscoe not only recounts the history of wine and winemaking in California, Terry Beers is professor of he encompasses a multidimensional approach that English at Santa Clara takes into account an array of social, political, University, where he has cultural, legal, and winemaking sources. Elements taught since 1986. He is the of this history have plot lines that seem scripted by author or editor of five a Sophocles, or Shakespeare. It is a fusion of wine, previous books on California personal histories, cultural, and socioeconomic literature. He lives in north aspects. Crush is the story of how wine from Monterey County, California. California finally gained its global due. Briscoe recounts wine’s often fickle affair with California, author location: Santa Clara CA, Monterey CA now several centuries old, from the first harvest and vintage, through the four overwhelming catastrophes, to its amazing triumph in Paris.

John Briscoe is a San Francisco poet, author, and lawyer. A noted wine and food writer, he is the author of Tadich Grill: The Story of San Francisco’s Oldest Restaurant. author location: Novato CA (office in San Francisco CA) University of New Mexico Press Geeks, Genes, and the Evolution of Asperger Syndrome Falk, Dean and Schofield, Eve Penelope University of New Mexico Press 9780826356925 6 × 9. 10 drawings, 19 halftones 256 pages paperback

Into the Great White Sands $24.95 Varjabedian. Craig (photographs) Publish Date: 3/1/2018 University of New Mexico Press catalog page: 15 9780826358301 Essays by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Dennis In this unusual book an evolutionary anthropologist Ditmanson & Jim Eckles. 12 × 9.5. 91 color plates, 1 and her coauthor/granddaughter, who has map Asperger syndrome, examine the emergence and 156 pages spread of Asperger syndrome and other forms of hardcover high-functioning autism. The authors speak to $39.95 readers with autism, parents, teachers, clinicians, Publish Date: 3/1/2018 psychologists, psychiatrists, other health-care catalog page: 4 providers, autism researchers, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, paleoanthropologists, and Award-winning photographer Craig Varjabedian people who simply enjoy reading about science. has spent decades photographing the many moods Using the latest findings regarding brain evolution of the magnificent and ever-changing landscape of and the neurological, genetic, and cognitive New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument. underpinnings of autistic individuals at the high His photographs reveal snow-white dunes of end of the spectrum, Falk theorizes that many gypsum, striking landforms, storms and stillness, characteristics associated with Asperger syndrome panoramic vistas and breathtaking sunsets, are byproducts of the evolution of advanced intricate wind-blown patterns in the sand, ancient mental processing. She explores the origins of autism, whether it is currently evolving, how it animal tracks, exquisite desert plants, and also the people who come to experience this place that is at differs in males and females, and whether it is a once spectacular yet subtle. Varjabedian’s global phenomenon. Additionally, Eve Schofield, evocative color images provide the reader with an who was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome as a almost palpable sense of this extraordinary place. child, provides firsthand accounts of what it is like to grow up as an Aspie. Craig Varjabedian is a renowned photographer and Dean Falk is the Distinguished Research Professor author. His most recent UNM of Anthropology and the Hale G. Smith Professor of Press book, Landscape Dreams, Anthropology at Florida State University and a A New Mexico Portrait, won the Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research prestigious New Mexico– in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Eve Penelope Schofield Arizona book award. earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing and publishing from Bath Spa University in Bath, England.

Rain Scald: Poems Atsitty, Tacey M. University of New Mexico Press 9780826358677 Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series. 6 × 9. 88 pages paperback $18.95 Publish Date: 2/1/2018 catalog page: 21 L

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 In this innovative debut collection, Tacey M. Families Open Their Doors Atsitty employs traditional, lyric, and experimental Arnold, Jeanne E. / Graesch, Anthony P. / Ragazzini, verse to create an intricate landscape she invites Enzo/ Ochs, Elinor readers to explore. Presented in three sections, University of New Mexico Press Tséyi’, Gorge Dweller, and Tóhee’, the poems 9781938770128 negotiate between belief and doubt, self and The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. 10 × 10. family, and interior and exterior landscapes. 390 color photos, 3 halftones “Narrative, lyric, and deeply human, Tacey’s poems 180 pages open to a world of folk and spirit where so few of paperback us have ever dwelled. Her songs waste no words. $24.95 Her stories are the stuff of hallowed ground. It is Publish Date: 8/1/2017 with a wonder of word and image that she shows catalog page: 16 us the strength and beauty of the Diyin Diné’é

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Prize. An unflinching view of the American family, Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné, is from Cove, AZ. She is a with all its stresses and joys on display. It’s full of recipient of the Truman Capote Creative Writing intriguing data. - The New York Times. Using Fellowship, the Corson- archaeological approaches to human material Browning Poetry Prize, Morning culture, Life at Home in the Twenty- First Century Star Creative Writing Award, offers unprecedented access to the middle-class and the Philip Freund Prize. She American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of holds bachelor’s degrees from no-limits photography and many kinds of never- Brigham Young University and before-acquired data about how people actually the Institute of American Indian live their lives at home. Arts and an MFA in Creative

Writing from Cornell University. Jeanne E. Arnold is a professor emerita of Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab anthropology at the University of California, Los Orchard Review, Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Angeles. Anthony P. Graesch is an associate Schooner, Crazyhorse, New Orleans Review, New professor of anthropology at Connecticut College. Poets of the American West Anthology, and other Photographer Enzo Ragazzini's work has been publications. Her first book is Rain Scald (UNM featured at exhibitions throughout Europe and Press, 2018). She lives in Utah. North America. Elinor Ochs is a Distinguished

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A Song of Dismantling: Cosas: Folk Art Poems Travels in Mexico Pérez, Fernando Niemann, Linda University of New Grant Mexico Press University of New 9780826358516 Mexico Press Mary Burritt 9780826358752 Christiansen Poetry 5.5 × 8. 21 halftones, Series. 6 × 9. 2 maps 88 pages 296 pages paperback paperback $18.95 $19.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 2/1/2018 2/1/2018 catalog page: 22 catalog page: 23

The fragile opulence of Fernando Pérez’s first Love and friendship, art and craft, language and collection lyrically glides, processing absence . . . to culture are the subjects of this look back at one transport the reader deep into the languageless woman’s experiences in Mexico over a period of horizons of exilic consciousness. - —J. Michael twenty years. What first propels Linda Grant Martine z, author of Heredities: Poems. In this Niemann south are the migrants she encounters in dynamic debut collection, Fernando Pérez employs her job as a railroad brakeman in the Southwest. lyric and nonce forms to interrogate identity She decides to learn Spanish, and in Mexico she politics and piece together a complex family soon meets some surprising kindred spirits. An history. The book embodies fragmentation in form admirer of craft and expertise, Niemann seeks out and story, exploring how migration affects individual artists who make exquisite things— relationships between people of different Otomi papermakers, the families who produce the generations. Pérez invites readers on the journey famous ceramics of Mata Ortiz, the man in as his family story unfolds over time and distance. Michoacán who knows how to fashion full-size jaguar thrones in bent cane. Some of her searches Fernando Pérez teaches at Bellevue College. His lead her to tiny villages and to artists who seldom poems have been widely published in literary get to meet their own fans. Niemann wonders if journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Más she is experiencing an ordinary shopaholic’s Tequila Review, Exquisite Corpse, and Hinchas de obsession or if this is something more. The Poesia. something more reveals itself as the connection of one artist to another.

Linda Grant Niemann is a professor of English at Kennesaw State University. Her most recent book is Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century. She lives in Marietta, Georgia.

MINE: Essays Robert Duncan and Viren, Sarah the Pragmatist University of New Sublime Mexico Press Maynard, James 9780826359544 University of New River Teeth Literary Mexico Press Nonfiction Prize 9780826358899 Winner. 5.5 × 8. Recencies Series: 176 pages Research and paperback Recovery in $19.95 Twentieth-Century Publish Date: 3/1/2018 American Poetics. catalog page: 25 6.125 × 9.25. 1 halftone “With wonderfully precise and evocative prose, 248 pages Sarah Viren takes us deeply into her search for her hardcover very self. . . . MINE is not only moving, it is $65.00 instructive and nourishing in a way that only art Publish Date: 5/1/2018 can deliver. This book is a gem.” —Andre Dubus III, catalog page: 38 author of House of Sand and Fog This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about “Maynard illuminates how Duncan’s encounters being given a man’s furniture while he’s on trial for with Pragmatist process-philosophy helped murder and follows with essays that question catalyze one of the richest, most groundbreaking corporeal, familial, and intellectual forms of bodies of poetic art created since 1940.” —Robert ownership. What does it mean to believe that a Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley. This hand, or a child, or a country, or a story belongs to book is a treasure trove of archival gems that you? What happens if you realize you’re wrong? Maynard has unearthed in his many years of Mining her own life and those of others, Sarah residence among the poet’s papers. - Stephen Viren considers the contingencies of ownership Fredman , editor of A Concise Companion to alongside the realities of loss in this debut essay Twentieth-Century American Poetry. This study collection. examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan’s poetry and poetics. The author’s Sarah Viren is a writer, overriding concern is Duncan’s understanding of translator, and former excess in relation to poetry and the philosophies of newspaper reporter. A Alfred North Whitehead, William James, and John graduate of the University of Dewey. Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, she teaches at James Maynard is the curator of Arizona State University. the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo. His edition of Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose received the Poetry Foundation’s 2014 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. He is currently editing a volume of Duncan’s uncollected prose.

Food Sovereignty the Navajo Oshara Revisited: The Way: Cooking with Tall Archaic Period in Woman Northern New Mexico Frisbie, Charlotte J. Chapin, Nicholas University of New Mexico University of New Press Mexico Press 9780826358875 9780912535166 With Recipes by Tall Woman Maxwell Museum of and assistance from Augusta Anthropology, Sandoval. 6 × 9. 45 halftones Anthropological Papers 384 pages 10. 8.5 × 11, 31 black paperback and white photographs, $34.95 6 illustrations,. 19 maps, 15 diagrams Publish Date: 4/1/2018 264 pages catalog page: 48 paperback $17.75 Around the world, indigenous peoples are Publish Date: 6/1/2017 returning to traditional foods and methods to catalog page: 56 reestablish healthy lifeways to combat contemporary diseases such as diabetes and In this volume, Nick Chapin presents his obesity. Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way is the investigation of the sites investigated by Cynthia first book to focus on the dietary practices of the Irwin-Williams between 1966 and 1973 and again Navajos from the earliest known times into the in the early 1980s as part of the Anasazi Origins present and relate them to the Navajo Nation’s Project in northwestern New Mexico. Her primary participation in the Food Sovereignty movement. goal was to determine the cultural and temporal Charlotte J. Frisbie documents the traditional foods history of use in that region by Archaic hunter- and recipes of a Navajo woman and her family over gatherers, with a focus on subsistence, technology, almost a century. She uses fieldwork as well as and demography. She defined this as the Oshara historical research to trace the transition from the Tradition, but, regrettably, she never completed a days when Navajos first gathered and hunted for final report on her research. Nick devoted several most of their sustenance, through times when dry years of research into the collections and archival farming and livestock—mainly sheep and goats— records she amassed. This monograph presents an became dominant, and on to a time when their up-to-date synthesis of that research, framed in diet was dominated by highly processed foods. contemporary theoretical and methodological Frisbie not only provides a historical overview of terms. It concludes by situating the Oshara the Navajo diet and reflections on the current Tradition in a region-wide context, underscoring its international Food Sovereignty movement but also importance and continuing relevance for explores Tall Woman’s own story, including many contemporary Archaic period research in the of her traditional Navajo recipes. Southwest.

Charlotte J. Frisbie is a professor Nicholas Chapin began working emerita of anthropology at as an archaeologist over thirty Southern Illinois University, years ago. He has worked Edwardsville. Her earlier works extensively in the desert west include Tall Woman: The Life Story of North America and currently of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman lives in San Francisco, c. 1874–1977 and Navajo California. Blessingway Singer: The Autobiography of Frank Mitchell, 1881–1967. author location: San Francisco CA University of Oklahoma Press Record of Regret: A Novel Ned Christie: The Creation Xi, Dong of an Outlaw and Cherokee University of Oklahoma Hero Press Mihesuah, Devon Abbott 9780806160009 University of Oklahoma Translated by Dylan Levi Press King. VOLUME 7 IN THE 9780806159102 CHINESE LITERATURE 23 B&W ILLUS. 6 x 9 TODAY BOOK SERIES. 6 x 272 pages 9 hardcover 240 pages $29.95 paperback Publish Date: 3/1/2018 $24.95 catalog page: 1 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 5 Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Be careful trying to place blame, or it might come Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr’s death back to you, middle-schooler Ceng Guangxian’s for a crime he did not commit? For more than a father warns him after the first time his good century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even intentions end in ruin. Yet time and again as serious historians have produced largely fictitious Guangxian comes of age, bad luck and his own accounts of Ned Christie’s life. Now, in a tour de desires for a bigger, better future wreak havoc force of investigative scholarship, Devon Abbott upon his family, fortune, and social reputation, Mihesuah offers a far more accurate depiction of leaving him scrambling to find the causes of the Christie and the times in which he lived. In 1887 mishaps that define his life. Dong Xi’s Record of Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Maples was shot and Regret, here in its first English translation, killed in Tahlequah, Indian Territory. As Mihesuah introduces readers to a masterpiece of recounts in unsurpassed detail, any of the criminals contemporary Chinese literature, and to the in the vicinity at the time could have committed unparalleled tragicomic style of one of China’s the crime. Yet the federal court at Fort Smith, most celebrated writers. Set in the wake of China’s Arkansas, focused on Christie, a Cherokee Nation Cultural Revolution, the novel follows Guangxian councilman and adviser to the tribal chief. Christie from his hapless days as a student at Number Five evaded capture for five years. His life ended when Middle School to adulthood as a lonely, middle- a posse dynamited his home—knowing he was aged man. inside—and shot him as he emerged from the burning building. More than a biography, Ned Dong Xi, the pen name of Tian Christie traces the making of an American myth. Dailin, is the award-winning author of four novels. He is a Devon Abbott Mihesuah, an writer in residence at Guangxi enrolled citizen of the Choctaw University for Nationalities, Nation, is Cora Lee Beers Price China. Dylan Levi King is a Professor in International Cultural freelance writer and translator. Understanding at the University of His short fiction has been Kansas. A past Editor of the published in The Walrus, Grain, and Prairie Fire. American Indian Quarterly, she is the author of numerous award-winning books.

Franciscan Reservations, Frontiersmen: How Removal, and Reform: Three Adventurers The Mission Indian Charted the West Agents of Southern Kittle, Robert A. California, 1878–1903 University of Mathes, Valerie Sherer Oklahoma Press and Brigandi, Phil 9780806160979 University of 14 B&W ILLUS., 5 Oklahoma Press MAPS. 6 x 9 9780806159997 300 pages 15 B&W ILLUS., 1 hardcover MAP, AND 1 TABLE. 6 $29.95 x 9 Publish Date: 344 pages 5/1/2018 hardcover catalog page: 6.1 $36.95 Publish Date: 6/1/2018 NEW IN PAPERBACK. The adventures of Franciscan catalog page: 15 friars Pedro Font, Juan Crespí, and Francisco Garcés encompassed the remote Sierra Gorda highlands of Inseparable from the history of the Indians of Mexico, deserts of the American Southwest, and Southern California is the role of the Indian agent— coastal California. Yet their names and deeds are a government functionary whose chief duty was, little known. Following a harrowing transatlantic according to the Office of Indian Affairs, to induce voyage from Spain, all three friars traveled through his Indian to labor in civilized pursuits. Offering a uncharted lands, finding themselves beset by portrait of the Mission Indian agents of the late raiding Indians, marauding bears, starvation, and nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, scurvy. Recording daily events of the 1775–76 Reservations, Removal, and Reform reveals how colonizing expedition of Juan Bautista de Anza, individual agents interpreted this charge, and how Font’s legacy includes some of the earliest accurate their actions and attitudes affected the lives of the maps of California between San Diego and San Mission Indians of Southern California. This book Francisco Bays. Garcés, a missionary, developed tells the story of the government agents, both close relationships with Indians in Sonora and special and regular, who served the Mission Indians California and brokered dozens of peace from 1850 to 1903, with an emphasis on seven agreements before being killed in a Yuma uprising. regular agents who served from 1878 to 1903. Crespí traveled up the California coast with Father Junípero Serra, keeping meticulous journals of the Valerie Sherer Mathes is a faculty member at City expedition to the San Francisco Bay area, College of San Francisco and author or editor of Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and northern several books, including Helen Hunt Jackson and reaches of California’s central valley. Her Indian Reform Legacy. Phil Brigandi, an independent scholar who specializes in the history Robert A. Kittle is an award- of Southern California, is author of several books, winning journalist who served including, with Valerie Sherer Mathes, A Call for for nearly two decades as the Reform: The Southern California Indian Writings of editorial page editor of the San Helen Hunt Jackson. Diego Union-Tribune. Now an independent historian, he lives author location: San Francisco CA (Valerie Sherer in La Jolla, California. Mathes) - City College

Author location: La Jolla CA The Control War: The Brotherhood in Combat: Struggle for South How African Americans Vietnam, 1968–1975 Found Equality in Korea Clemis, Martin G. and Vietnam University of Maxwell, Jeremy P. Oklahoma Press University of Oklahoma 9780806160092 Press 8 MAPS. 6 x 9 9780806160061 400 pages 2 TABLES. 6 x 9 hardcover 224 pages $39.95 hardcover Publish Date: $29.95 4/1/2018 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 20 catalog page: 21

The Vietnam War—a conflict defined by an ever- African American leaders such as Frederick evolving mixture of conventional and guerrilla Douglass long advocated military service as an warfare and mass politics—has often been called a avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. war without fronts. In fact, Vietnam had a Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not multitude of fronts, as insurgents and officially end until President Harry Truman issued counterinsurgents wrestled for control throughout an executive order in 1948. What followed, at 44 provinces, 250 districts, and more than 11,000 home and in the field, is the subject of hamlets. In The Control War, Martin G. Clemis Brotherhood in Combat, the first full-length, focuses on South Vietnam, where a highly complex interdisciplinary study of the integration of the politico-military struggle fragmented the battlefield American military and during the Korean and along countless divergent points of conflict as both Vietnam Wars. Using a wealth of oral histories from sides sought spatial and political hegemony. black and white soldiers and marines who served in Complicating the conventional view that the one or both conflicts, Jeremy P. Maxwell explores Vietnam War was about winning hearts and minds, racial tension— pervasive in rear units, but Clemis argues that both sides were more relatively rare on the front lines. His work reveals interested in asserting control over the people— that in initially proving their worth to their white and resources—of the countryside. As in other brethren on the battlefield, African Americans revolutionary civil conflicts, the key to winning changed the prevailing attitudes of those ranking political power in South Vietnam was to control the officials who could bring about changes in policy. physical world of territory, population, and Brotherhood in Combat also illustrates the schism resources, as well as the ideational world of over attitudes toward civil-military relations that political organization and long-term legitimacy. developed between blacks who had entered the Revealing the unique spatiality of the Vietnam War, service prior to Vietnam and those who were The Control War analyzes the ways that both sides drafted and thus brought revolutionary ideas from of the conflict conceptualized and used geography the continental United States to the war zone. and the environment to serve strategic, tactical, and political ends. Jeremy P. Maxwell is the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Postdoctoral Fellow of the Dale Martin G. Clemis is Assistant Professor of History Center for the Study of War and Society at the and Government at Valley Forge Military College University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. and a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.

Pioneers of Freedom’s Racial Promotion: How Press Frontier: African Agents for Buffalo Bill, Americans in the P. T. Barnum, and the Twentieth-Century World’s Columbian West Exposition Created Ruffin II, Herbert G. Modern Marketing and Mack, Dwayne A. Dobrow, Joe (editors) University of University of Oklahoma Press Oklahoma Press 9780806160108 9780806159768 16 COLOR AND 38 Foreword by Quintard B&W ILLUS. 6.125 X Taylor. 18 B&W ILLUS., 9.25 3 MAPS, AND 5 400 pages TABLES. 6 x 9 hardcover 424 pages $32.95 paperback Publish Date: 6/1/2018 $34.95 catalog page: 27 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 31 The average American today is bombarded with as many as 5,000 advertisements a day. The Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of sophisticated and persuasive marketing tactics that the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. companies use may seem a recent phenomenon, With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning but Pioneers of Promotion tells a different story. In interest in the history of the African American this lively narrative, business history writer Joe West—an interest reflected in the remarkable Dobrow traces the origins of modern American range and depth of the works collected in marketing to the late nineteenth century when Freedom’s Racial Frontier. Editors Herbert G. Ruffin three charismatic individuals launched an industry II and Dwayne A. Mack have gathered established that defines our national culture. Transporting and emerging scholars in the field to create an readers back to a dramatic time in the late 1800s, anthology that links past, current, and future Dobrow spotlights a trio of men who reshaped our generations of African American West scholarship. image of the West and earned national fame: John The volume’s sixteen chapters address the African M. Burke of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, Tody Hamilton American experience within the framework of the of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Moses P. Handy West as a multicultural frontier. The result is a of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. fresh perspective on western-U.S. history, centered on the significance of African American life, culture, Joe Dobrow, a communications professional for and social justice in almost every trans-Mississippi thirty years, is the author of Natural Prophets: state. From Health Foods to Whole Foods—How the Pioneers of the Industry Changed the Way We Eat Herbert G. Ruffin II is Associate Professor of History and Reshaped American Business. and Chair of African American Studies at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Dwayne A. Mack is Professor and holds the Carter G. Woodson Chair in African American History at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. Quintard Taylor is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Weaving Chiapas: Views of Rome: A Greek Maya Women’s Lives in Reader a Changing World Serfass, Adam (editor) Apreza, Yolanda Castro University of Oklahoma / Woodcock, Charlene Press / Antsetik A. C., K’inal 9780806157931 (editors) 6 B&W ILLUS. AND 2 University of Oklahoma MAPS. 6 x 9 Press 336 pages 9780806159836 paperback 16 COLOR AND 31 $29.95 B&W ILLUS. AND 1 Publish Date: 1/1/2018 MAP. 6 x 9 catalog page: 36 288 pages paperback Who were the ancient Romans? Views of Rome $29.95 addresses this question by offering a collection of Publish Date: 2/1/2018 thirty-five annotated excerpts from Greek prose catalog page: 35 authors. As Adam Serfass explains in his introduction, these authors’ characterizations of In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large the Romans run the gamut from fellow Hellenes, indigenous population lives in rural communities, civilizers, and peacemakers to barbarians, boors, many of which retain traditional forms of and warmongers. Although many of the authors governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these featured in this volume—including Augustus, communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, Cassius Dio, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Eusebius, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was Josephus, Julian, Libanius, Plutarch, Polybius, to join together to market textiles of high quality in Strabo, and the writers of the New Testament—are both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas important sources for Roman civilization, their offers a rare view of the daily lives, memories, and written works are rarely presented in accessible hopes of these rural Maya women as they strive to Greek- language editions. These authors wrote in a retain their ancient customs while adapting to a variety of styles and dialects, and this collection rapidly changing world. Originally published in enables readers to experience the range of Spanish in 2007, this book captures firsthand the expression the Greek language makes possible. voices of these Maya artisans, whose experiences, Views of Rome is divided into five parts spanning including the challenges of living in a highly early Rome through late antiquity. Within these patriarchal culture, often escape the attention of parts, each prose selection is prefaced with a mainstream scholarship. description of the featured author and the larger work from which the excerpt is drawn, as well as Yolanda Castro Apreza is a cofounder, along with suggestions for further reading in English. Micaela Hernández Meza, of K’inal Antsetik, A.C. Charlene M. Woodcock is retired as an acquisitions Adam Serfass is Professor of Classics at Kenyon editor at the University of California Press and has College in Gambier, Ohio. His research focuses on been a volunteer with the Jolom Mayaetik the social, economic, and religious history of weavers’ cooperative since 2000. K’inal Antsetik, ancient Rome. A.C., a Mexican nonprofit organization that supports economic self-help projects throughout Chiapas, facilitated the Spanish edition of this volume.

So Rugged and Weapons of the Lewis Mountainous: Blazing and Clark Expedition the Trails to Oregon and Garry, Jim California, 1812–1848 University of Bagley, Will Oklahoma Press University of Oklahoma 9780806160511 Press 28 B&W ILLUS. 6 x 9 9780806159799 212 pages 21 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS. paperback 7 X 10 $24.95 484 pages Publish Date: paperback 1/1/2018 $34.95 catalog page: 37.1 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 catalog page: 37 NEW IN PAPERBACK. When Meriwether Lewis began shopping for supplies and firearms to take NEW IN PAPERBACK. The story of America’s on the Corps of Discovery’s journey west, his first westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and stop was a federal arsenal. For the following fable. Illustrated with photographs and historical twenty-nine months, from the time the Lewis and maps, So Rugged and Mountainous is the first of a Clark expedition left Camp Dubois with a cannon projected four-volume history, Overland West: The salute in 1804 until it announced its return from Story of the Oregon and California Trails. This the West Coast to St. Louis with a volley in 1806, sweeping series describes how the Road across the weapons were a crucial component of the Plains transformed the American West and became participants’ tool kit. In this encyclopedic reference an enduring part of its legacy. And by showing that Jim Garry describes the arms and ammunition the overland emigration would not have been possible expedition carried and the use and care those without the cooperation of Native peoples and weapons received. Blending original research with tribes, it places American Indians at the center of a lively narrative, Weapons of the Lewis and Clark trail history, not on its margins. Expedition will be invaluable to historians and weaponry aficionados. Will Bagley is an independent historian who has written widely about overland emigration, frontier Jim Garry is author of This Ol’ Drought Ain’t Broke violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons, Us Yet (But We’re All Bent Pretty Bad): Stories of including Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young the American West and The First Liar Never Has a and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, which Chance: Curly, Jack, and Bill (and Other Characters has won numerous awards. of the Hills, Brush, and Plains).

Beyond Bear's Paw: The The Glamour Factory: Nez Perce Indians in Inside Hollywood’s Big Canada Studio System Greene, Jerome A. Davis, Ronald L. University of Oklahoma University of Press Oklahoma Press 9780806160450 9780806160306 18 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP. 6.125 X 9.25 6 x 9 464 pages 264 pages paperback paperback $24.95 $21.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 3/1/2018 3/1/2018 catalog page: 41.1 catalog page: 38.1 NEW IN PAPERBACK. In its heyday Hollywood’s big studio system mirrored the corporate ideology that NEW IN PAPERBACK. In fall 1877, Nez Perce catapulted the United States into economic (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. prominence. By the mid-1920s power was Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across consolidated into four major studios: Metro- Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces Goldyn-Mayer, Paramount, Fox, and Warner Bros., headed for the Canadian border. But the army all appropriating the assembly line approach of the caught up with them at the Bear’s Paw Mountains, Detroit automobile manufacturers. The Glamour and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph Factory is the story of the motion picture business, and most of his people surrendered. While the told with the help of hundreds of insiders—from wrenching tale of Chief Joseph and his followers is stars, directors, and producers to stuntmen, legendary, nearly three hundred Nez Perces hairstylists, makeup artists, and publicists— who escaped— fleeing into Canada. Drawing on watched and contributed to the industry while unexplored Canadian and U.S. sources, Beyond magic was being made. Much of this story is drawn Bear’s Paw describes the Nez Perces’ struggle for from the Southern Methodist University Oral freedom, and their ultimate cultural renewal. History Collection on the Performing Arts, which the author founded. Jerome A. Greene, retired Research Historian for the Ronald L. Davis is Professor of History Emeritus at National Park Service, is the Southern Methodist University, where he served as author of numerous books, Director of both the Oral History Program on the including Lakota and Performing Arts and the De Golyer Institute for Cheyenne: Indian Views of American Studies. He has written many books in the Great Sioux War, 1876– the performing arts in the United States, including 1877 and Morning Star John Ford: Hollywood’s Old Master. Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

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Set the World on Fire: Dangerous Minds: Black Nationalist Women Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Global Struggle and the Return of the for Freedom Far Right Blain, Keisha N. Beiner, Ronald University of Pennsylvania University of Press Pennsylvania Press 9780812249880 9780812250596 288 pages 224 pages hardcover hardcover $34.95 $24.95 Publish Date: 2/26/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 1 2/22/2018 catalog page: 3.1 In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to began to suggest that liberal democracy had Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having workers around black nationalist causes. In the late banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had 1940s, from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy now buried communism, and the result would be Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter- an end of major ideological conflicts, as liberal writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, norms and institutions spread to every corner of which would relocate 13 million black Americans to the globe. With the Brexit vote in Great Britain, the West Africa. Gordon, Allen, and Jacques Garvey--as resurgence of right-wing populist parties across the well as Maymie De Mena, Ethel Collins, Amy European continent, and the surprising ascent of Ashwood, and Ethel Waddell--are part of an Donald Trump to the American presidency, such overlooked and understudied group of black hopes have begun to seem hopelessly naïve. The women who take center stage in Set the World on far right is back, and serious rethinking is in order. Fire, the first book to examine how black In Dangerous Minds, Ronald Beiner traces the nationalist women engaged in national and global deepest philosophical roots of such right-wing politics from the early twentieth century to the ideologues as Richard Spencer, Aleksandr Dugin, 1960s. eaders who demanded and Steve Bannon, to the writings of Nietzsche and equal recognition and Heidegger—and specifically to the aspects of their participation in global civil thought that express revulsion for the liberal- society. democratic view of life.

Keisha N. Blain teaches history Ronald Beiner is Professor of at the University of Pittsburgh. Political Science at the University of Toronto and author of numerous books, including Political Philosophy: What It Is and Why It Matters.

Bitterroot: The Life and Undercurrents of Power: Death of Meriwether Aquatic Culture in the Lewis African Diaspora Stroud, Patricia Tyson Dawson, Kevin University of Pennsylvania University of Press Pennsylvania Press 9780812249842 9780812249897 416 pages 384 pages hardcover hardcover $39.95 $45.00 Publish Date: 3/12/2018 Publish Date: 2/23/2018 catalog page: 4 catalog page: 8

In America's early national period, Meriwether Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Lewis was a towering figure. Selected by Thomas Africans were adept swimmers, divers, and canoe Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the makers. They lived along riverbanks, near lakes, or Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by close to the ocean. In those waterways, they Jefferson with the governorship of the entire became proficient with the diverse skills associated Louisiana Territory. Yet within three years, plagued with life near the water. As slaves in the Americas, by controversy over administrative expenses, Lewis West Africans brought these skills with them. found his reputation and career in tatters. En route Indeed, according to Kevin Dawson’s examination to Washington to clear his name and to be of water culture in the African diaspora, the reimbursed, he died mysteriously in a crude cabin aquatic abilities of people of African descent often on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. Was he a surpassed those of Europeans and their suicide, felled by his own alcoholism and mental descendants from the age of discovery until well instability? So most historians have concluded. into the nineteenth century. As Dawson argues, the Patricia Tyson Stroud reads the evidence to posit history of slavery has largely been one chronicled another, even darker, ending for Lewis. Stroud uses on the fields of the New World, whether tobacco, Lewis's find, the bitterroot flower, with its sugar, indigo, rice, or cotton. However, most nauseously pungent root, as a symbol for his plantations were located near waterways to reputation as a purported suicide. This judgment facilitate the transportation of goods to market, can even be found in the memoir Thomas Jefferson and large numbers of agricultural slaves had ready wrote prefacing the short account of Lewis's access to water in which to sustain their abilities historic expedition published five years after his and interests. Swimming and canoeing provided death. Without investigation of any kind, Jefferson, respite from the monotony of agricultural bondage Lewis's mentor from boyhood, reiterated and brief moments of bodily privacy. In some undocumented charges of Lewis's serious instances, enslaved laborers exchanged their depression and alcoholism. Because of the ex- expertise for privileges, including wages, president's prestige, these charges have entered opportunities to work free of direct white the canon of Lewis's biography. supervision, and even in rare circumstances, freedom. Patricia Tyson Stroud is an independent scholar. She is author of Kevin Dawson teaches history at Thomas Say: New World Naturalist, the University of California, The Emperor of Nature: Charles- Merced. Lucien Bonaparte and His World, and The Man Who Had Been King: The author location: Merced CA American Exile of Napoleon’s Brother Joseph. Backroads Pragmatists: Slavery's Capitalism: A Mexico's Melting Pot and New History of American Civil Rights in the United Economic Development States Beckert, Sven and Flores, Ruben Rockman, Seth University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Press Press 9780812224146 9780812224177 360 pages 416 pages paperback paperback $24.95 $27.50 Publish Date: 5/28/2014 Publish Date: 1/1/2018 catalog page: 11.1 catalog page: 14

NEW IN PAPERBACK. Backroads Pragmatists is the NEW IN PAPERBACK. During the nineteenth first examination of the influence of Mexican social century, the United States entered the ranks of the reform on the United States. Flores illustrates how world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At postrevolutionary Mexico's experiments in the same time, the nation sustained an expansive government and education shaped American race and brutal system of human bondage. This was no relations from the New Deal through the mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for destruction of Jim Crow. Like the United States, slavery's centrality to the emergence of American Mexico is a country of profound cultural capitalism in the decades between the Revolution differences. In the aftermath of the Mexican and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Revolution (1910-20), these differences became Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not the subject of intense government attention as the whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, Republic of Mexico developed ambitious social and rather, the impossibility of understanding the educational policies designed to integrate its nation's spectacular pattern of economic multitude of ethnic cultures into a national development without situating slavery front and community of democratic citizens. To the north, center. American capitalism--renowned for its Americans were beginning to confront their own celebration of market competition, private legacy of racial injustice, embarking on the path property, and the self-made man--has its origins in that, three decades later, led to the destruction of an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent Jim Crow. Backroads Pragmatists is the first book to notion that human beings could be legally owned show the transnational cross-fertilization between and compelled to work under force of violence. these two movements. In molding Mexico's ambitious social experiment, postrevolutionary reformers adopted pragmatism from John Dewey Sven Beckert is Laird Bell and cultural relativism from Franz Boas, which, in Professor of History at Harvard turn, profoundly shaped some of the critical University. Seth Rockman is intellectual figures in the Associate Professor of History at Mexican American civil rights Brown University. movement.

Ruben Flores teaches American studies at the University of Kansas.

University of Pittsburgh Press The Wall Stavans, Ilan Lake Michigan University of Pittsburgh Borzutzky, Daniel Press University of Pittsburgh 9780822965282 Press Pitt Poetry Series. 6 x 9 9780822965220 120 pages Pitt Poetry Series. 6 x 9 paperback 88 pages $15.95 paperback Publish Date: 2/1/2018 $15.95 catalog page: 3 Publish Date: 2/1/2018 catalog page: 2 “Performative, associative, allusive, harrowing, this poem is a In Lake Michigan, profoundly informed investigation and an entirely National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky personal, supremely articulate howl of the heart writes in direct response to a history of police against division and separation. Ilan Stavans is one abuse targeted at African Americans and carried of the necessary sayers-out of our time.” —Jane out at Homan Square, a secret interrogation facility Hirshfield. “Stavans magisterially recreates our on the west side of Chicago. “I am vehemently world increasingly ripped apart by physical, protective of my native city—its rollicking history emotional, and economic divisions. His words and gritty glories are legion. But it is also vitally transmute the lives of borderland denizens sweltering, blade-edged and murderous, with struggling to survive and whose screams are never brown people squarely in its gunsights. Borzutzky’s heard.” —Frederick Luis Aldama. “Evocative. . . It surreal and terrifying lakeside dreamscape— couldn’t be more pertinent.” —Noam Chomsky. sparked by the real-world specter of the city’s infamous ‘blacksite’ interrogation warehouse—is Ilan Stavans is Lewis- deftly crafted and chilling in its proximity to the Sebring Professor of real.” —Patricia Smith. Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Daniel Borzutzky is a poet Culture at Amherst and translator, and the College. He is a author of The Performance renowned essayist, of Becoming Human, cultural critic, and translator. Stavans has authored, winner of the 2016 coauthored, or edited many works of fiction, National Book Award for nonfiction, graphic novels, and anthologies. He is Poetry. His other books include In the Murmurs of the editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino the Rotten Carcass Economy, Memories of my Literature, and hosts the NPR podcast In Contrast. Overdevelopment, and The Book of Interfering Bodies. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia won the 2017 National Translation Award. Other translations include Raúl Zurita’s The Country of Planks; and Song for His Disappeared Love and Jaime Luis Huenun’s Port Trakl. He lives in Chicago.

I Would Lie to You if I Could: Interviews with Ten What We Did While We American Poets Made More Guns deNiord, Chard (editor) Barresi, Dorothy University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh 9780822965343 Press Pitt Poetry Series. 6 x 9 9780822965237 232 pages Pitt Poetry Series. 6 x 9 paperback 104 pages $18.95 paperback Publish Date: 3/1/2018 $15.95 catalog page: 5 Publish Date: 2/1/2018 catalog page: 8 I Would Lie to You if I Could contains interviews with nine eminent contemporary American poets The poems in What We Did While We Made More (Natasha Trethewey, Jane Hirshfield, Martín Guns investigate the place where economic failure Espada, Stephen Kuusisto, Stephen Sandy, Ed meets a widening acculturation of violence—a kind Ochester, Carolyn Forché, Peter Everwine, and of Great Acceleration of soul extinction set in this Galway Kinnell) and James Wright’s widow Anne. It spectacularly uneasy moment in American history. presents conversations with a vital cross section of Cutting, comic, sorrowful, at times terrified, at poets representing a variety of ages, ethnicities, times resolute, the poems tilt along the high cliff’s and social backgrounds. The poets testify to the edge of identity anxiety and American moral demotic nature of poetry as a charged language uncertainty, where each of us plays our part in the that speaks uniquely in original voices, yet appeals business of dispossession or resistance. Building universally. As individuals with their own themselves out of jazzed-up verbal velocities and transpersonal stories, the poets have emerged wounded (in)sincerity, the poems counsel onto the national stage from very local places with resilience against all forms of battery, mortal, news that witnesses memorably in social, personal, spiritual, financial. They are pattern-makers in the and political ways. They talk about their poems and dark. They talk back to God. They take into development as poets self-effacingly, honestly, and themselves what cannot be taken back: the news insightfully, describing just how and when they that forty-six million Americans have slipped below were hurt into poetry, as well as why they have the poverty line; that guns discharge monstrously pursued writing poetry as a career. banal virility; that a black woman pulled over for a routine traffic violation dies by strangulation in her Chard deNiord is the poet jail cell; that we buy and sell the myth of the laureate of Vermont and American Dream as though our lives depended on author of six books of poetry, it. most recently Interstate and The Double Truth. He also Dorothy Barresi is the author of edited a book of essays and four previous books of poetry, interviews with seven senior winner of an American Book American poets (Galway Award, winner of the Barnard Kinnell, Donald Hall. Maxine New Women Poets Prize, and the Kumin, Jack Gilbert, Ruth Stone, Lucille Clifton, recipient of two Pushcart Prizes. Robert Bly) titled Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, She is professor of English and Stapled Songs: Conversations and Reflections on creative writing at California Twentieth Century American Poets. deNiord is a State University, Northridge. professor of English and creative writing at Providence College and a trustee of the Ruth Stone author location: Northridge CA Trust. Cape Verdean Blues The Once and Future Barbosa, Shauna Muse: The Poetry and University of Pittsburgh Poetics of Rhina P. Press Espaillat 9780822965213 Kang, Nancy and Torres- Pitt Poetry Series. 5.75 x Saillant, Silvio 8.5 University of Pittsburgh 96 pages Press paperback 9780822965428 $15.95 Latino and Latin Publish Date: 2/1/2018 American Profiles. 6 x 9 catalog page: 11 248 pages paperback The speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle $28.95 walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa Publish Date: 5/1/2018 interrogates encounters and the weight of their catalog page: 32 space. Grounded in bodily experience and the phenomenology of femininity, this collection The Once and Future Muse presents the first major provides a sense of Cape Verdean identity. It study of the life and work of Dominican-born uniquely captures the essence of Sodade, as it bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. refers to the Cape Verdean American experience, Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary and also the nostalgia and self-reflection one celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into navigates through relationships lived, lost, and the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative imagined. And its layers of unusual imagery and obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on sound hold the reader in their grip. “In Cape family and employment responsibilities, to her Verdean Blues, Shauna Barbosa’s voice is oracular triumphant return to the poetry spotlight decades and shapeshifting. Candid as a family friend, but later when she reclaimed her former prestige with with a fortuneteller’s gravity, the poems in this a series of award-winning poetry collections. The debut are full of lyric innovations that cut through authors define Espaillat’s place in American letters alleyways in the mind to achieve a numinous with attention to her formalist aesthetics, Hispanic beauty. There’s nothing weary here. These blues Caribbean immigrant background, poetic are alive with wit and swagger.” —Gregory Pardlo, community-building, bilingual ethos, and Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Digest. domestically-minded woman-of-color feminism. Addressing the temporality of her oeuvre—her Shauna Barbosa’s poems have publishing before and after the splitting of appeared or are forthcoming in American literature into distinct ethnic segments— Lenny Letter, Virginia Quarterly this work also highlights the demands that the Review, the Awl, Colorado social transformations of the 1960s placed on Review, No Tokens Journal, the literary artists, Atlas Review, PANK, and others. critics, and She received her MFA from readers alike. Bennington College. Nancy Kang is author location: Los Angeles CA assistant professor of multicultural and diaspora literatures at the University of Baltimore. Silvio Torres-Saillant is professor of English and Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. University of Tennessee Press The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon Late Night, Early May, Cedrick Morning: Stories University of Tennessee Wier, Allen Press University of Tennessee 9781621903291 Press printed case 9781621903321 $34.95 paperback Publish Date: 9/1/2017 $24.95 catalog page: 13 Publish Date: 10/1/2017 catalog page: 10 Cedrick May’s The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon offers a While Allen Wier is complete look at the literary achievements of one perhaps best known as a of the founders of African American literature. prizewinning novelist, he is also a master of the Born into slavery on the Lloyd plantation in 1711, short story, an art he has perfected over four Jupiter Hammon became the first African American decades. Late Night, Early Morning contains writer to be published in the present-day United twenty-two of Wier’s tales: the stories in his first States at the age of forty- nine. It has been decades collection (Things About to Disappear), six since a collection of Hammon’s work has appeared, uncollected stories, and seven stories that became and May’s intensive research has yielded two part of his four novels. Richly textured and often additional poems, adding new layers to his works lyrical, with intense images and diverse subjects, and life that, until now, have gone unexplored. The these stories feature indelible characters who most comprehensive volume on Hammon’s works imprint themselves onto readers’ minds. A man to date, The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon with no family finds the abandoned corpse of an carefully reconstructs the historical, political, infant and adopts the dead baby as his son. A Texas social, and religious contexts that shaped his essays laborer, while repairing hen houses, learns that the and poems throughout the late eighteenth century. stench of the egg ranch is the smell of money. In This attentive reconstruction, which takes full 1862 Louisiana, a runaway slave comes face to face account of Hammon’s prose works as well as his with a white sharecropper’s wife who may turn more well-known poetry, gives readers provides a him in, but something unexpected momentarily radical re-reading of Hammon as a much more unites them. An American widow in Mexico as a complex and intellectually curious commentator on photographer meets a florist from Texas who his historical and political period, while providing widens her angle of view. After discovering an ample evidence of his literary importance and underground cavern, a man lives his entire life in artistic integrity. Cedrick May’s fresh presentation an imagined world shaped from stalactites and and insightful reevaluation of Hammon’s life and stalagmites. Allen Wier’s skillfully written and writings will change the way Hammon is studied compassionate stories reveal the shimmering and appreciated among literary scholars and moments in day-to-day life. readers alike. This edition will become the definitive one for many years to come. ALLEN WIER has taught at Carnegie-Mellon, Hollins, the CEDRICK MAY is associate University of Alabama, University professor of African American of New Orleans’s Edinburg literature at the University of Workshop, Florida International, Texas at Arlington. He is the the University of Texas, and the author of Evangelism and University of Tennessee. Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835. University of Utah Press careers and seeks to understand why a project that once held such promise ended in disillusionment and is little more than a footnote in their illustrative biographies. Swensen’s in-depth research and interpretation helps make sense of what they did and places them alongside others who were also exploring the particular qualities of the Mormon village at that time. High-echelon photojournalism isn’t what’s thought of in the work of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams. Yet the Three Mormon Towns project is that — and more. Two confident veteran photographers in 1954 went in, captured remarkable images, crafted a story for Life, roiled the rural Mormon residents who opened their doors, and stirred a hornet’s nest that affected the later work of each artist. James

In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Swensen’s study is a wondrous testament to the and the Three Mormon Town Collaboration, 1953- sometimes fearsome consequence of fieldwork and 1954 the costs of collaboration. —Paul Starrs, author of Swensen, James R. Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the University of Utah Press American West. Although this collaborative project 9781607816287 is not well known today, it illuminates a pivotal era 227 illustrations. 9 x 10 in the history of rural Utah and Mormonism and 432 pages showcases the immense talent of Adams and paperback Lange. Three Mormon Towns deserves to be $34.95 remembered and commemorated. Thanks to this Publish Date: 6/1/2018 book it will be. —Brian Q. Cannon, coauthor of The catalog page: 1 Awkward State of Utah.

An in-depth exploration of nearly forgotten work James R. Swensen is by two of the twentieth century’s most important associate professor of photographers. art history and the history of photography Although photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel at Brigham Young Adams were contemporaries and longtime friends, University. He is the most of their work portrays contrasting subject author of Picturing matter. Lange’s artistic photodocumentation set a Migrants: The Grapes of new aesthetic standard for social commentary; Wrath and New Deal Adams revealed nature’s wonders with an unfailing Documentary eye and preeminent technical skill. That they joined Photography. together to photograph Mormons in Utah in the early 1950s for Life magazine may come as a surprise. In a Rugged Land examines the history and content of the two photographers’ forgotten collaboration, Three Mormon Towns. Looking at Adams’s and Lange’s photographs, extant letters, and personal memories, In a Rugged Land provides a window into an important moment in their

Sex and Death on the Finding Stillness in a Western Emigrant Noisy World Trail: The Biology of Richman, Jana Three American University of Utah Press Tragedies 9781607816263 Grayson, Donald K. 5.5 x 8.5 University of Utah 104 pages Press paperback 9781607816010 $15.95 36 illustrations, 7 Publish Date: 6/1/2018 maps. 6 x 9 catalog page: 5 288 pages paperback Moving through the $29.95 settings of her life—red Publish Date: 4/1/2018 rock canyons, aspen forests, mountains, and catalog page: 3 cities—Jana Richman probes her internal landscape to ask how we can find stillness in our world. In During the winter of 1846–1847, members of the essays both personal and profoundly universal, Donner Party found themselves stuck in the snows Richman eschews quick and easy answers for quiet of the Sierra Nevada on their journey to California, reflections on questions: In a culture demanding losing many in their group to severe cold and that every voice be heard, how do we make sense starvation. Those who survived did so by of the resulting roar? What if we all sat in stillness cannibalizing their dead comrades. Today the for a while? In these wide-ranging personal essays, Donner Party may be the most famous of American Richman travels exterior and interior terrain overland emigrant groups, but it was not the only through fear, kindness, ignorance, darkness, one to face extreme conditions. Ten years after the wildness, compassion, solitude, loneliness, and Donner Party, two groups sponsored by the more—always asking how external geography Mormon Church, the Willie and Martin handcart informs our internal landscapes. From the companies, ran into similar difficulties. Caught in monsoonal rains in the carved slot canyons of the early winter storms in Wyoming, 200 members of Escalante to the eroticism of dirt on skin in a those two companies died along the trail. The remote slice of the Grand Canyon; from the plights of these emigrant groups have been defiance of academic authority to the curled, addressed by different historians in different ways; arthritic fingers of her mother and grandmothers, this book is the first to examine the tragedies in Richman burrows into the realities that make us terms of biology. Grayson shows that who lived human and fallible and blessed. Inspired by such and who died can largely be explained by age, sex, masters of the personal essay as E.B. White and and family ties, exploring the implications of M.F.K. Fisher, Richman adds a unique, deeply human biology in situations marked by extreme intimate, and often humorous voice of reflection cold and famine. His results are surprising and not on human experience. Time with these genuine, always intuitive as he investigates who survived inclusive pieces is time well spent. these life-threatening situations. Jana Richman is the author of Donald K. Grayson is professor in a memoir and two novels. the Department of Anthropology Born and raised in Utah’s west and the Quaternary Research desert, she currently lives in Center at the University of Escalante, Utah, where foot Washington. travel is her preferred method of commuting and exploring.

Turkey's July 15th Coup: Her Mouth As What Happened and Why Souvenir Yavuz, M. Hakan and Balci, Gibbons, Heather Bayram (editors) June University of Utah Press University of Utah 9781607816065 Press Utah Series in Middle East 9781607816300 Studies. 6 x 9 Foreword by Jericho 360 pages Brown. Agha Shahid paperback Ali Poetry Prize. 5.5 x $24.95 8.5 Publish Date: 3/1/2018 77 pages catalog page: 15 paperback $14.95 On July 15, 2016, a faction of the Turkish military Publish Date: attempted to overthrow the government of 6/1/2018 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish catalog page: 16 government blamed the unsuccessful coup on Gülenists, adherents of an Islamist movement led In a startling voice propelled by desire and by Fethullah Gülen. They had helped elect Erdogan desperation on the verge of laughter, these poems and his AK Party, with the goal of bringing an leap from the mundane to the sublime, from ostensibly soft version of Islam into the secular begging to bravado, from despair to reverie, Turkish government. Gülenists had steadfastly revealing the power that comes from hanging on increased their representation in the military, by a thread. Poet Heather June Gibbons conjures police, judiciary, and elsewhere. This volume belief in the absence of faith, loneliness in the focuses on the historical and sociopolitical contexts digital age, beauty in the face of absurdity—all of the Gülen Movement’s origins and ascendancy through the cataract of her sunglasses’ cracked along with its possible role in the failed coup. Yavuz lens. In this debut collection, she shows us a world and Balci are among the first international scholars so turbulent, anxious, and beautiful we know it to have studied the movement, from its nascent must be ours. Under pressure, these poems sing. stages in Turkey. The contributors include scholars who have researched the movement in Turkey, Heather June Gibbons Central Asia, and the Balkans. The result is a was born in Utah and comprehensive, timely assessment of Gülenist grew up on an island in activities, the movement’s social and political Washington State. She networks, and the institutions that supported it as is the author of the it became an international economic and poetry collection Her educational force. Mouth as Souvenir, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize M. Hakan Yavuz is and forthcoming from the University of Utah Press. professor of political Heather teaches creative writing at San Francisco science at the State University, and in public schools as a University of Utah. Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop, a He has published youth education non-profit. She lives in San widely on Islam, Francisco. nationalism, the Kurdish question, and modern Turkish politics. Bayram Balci is a researcher at the author location: San Francisco CA Centre for Research and International Studies (CERI-Sciences Po) in Paris. University Press of Florida cake, sofrito bloody marys, and anticuado, an old- fashioned made with rum. With stunning Coconuts and Collards: photographs that showcase the geographic Recipes and Stories diversity of the island and the vibrant ingredients from Puerto Rico to the that make up Puerto Rican cuisine, this cookbook is Deep South a moving story about discovering our roots through Diaz, Von the foods that comfort us. It is about the foods that University Press of remind us of family and help us bridge childhood Florida and adulthood, island and mainland, birthplace and 9780813056654 adopted home. 7 1/4 x 9 1/4. 75 color photos 192 pages hardcover $28.00 Publish Date: 3/13/2018 catalog page: 1

When her family moved from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Von Diaz traded plantains, roast pork, and VON DIAZ is a writer and radio producer based in Malta for grits, fried chicken, and sweet tea. New York. Her work has been featured on NPR, Brimming with humor and nostalgia, Coconuts and American Public Media, StoryCorps, WNYC, The Collards is a recipe-packed memoir of growing up Splendid Table, PRI’s The World, The Kitchn, and Latina in the Deep South. The stories center on the BuzzFeed. women in Diaz's family who have used food to nourish and care for one another. Inspired by her grandmother's 1962 copy of Cocina Criolla--the Puerto Rican equivalent of the Joy of Cooking--Diaz celebrates traditional recipes while fusing them with her own family history and a contemporary southern flair. Diaz's funche recipe is grits kicked up with coconut milk. White beans make the catfish corn chowder creamy and give it a Spanish feel. The pinchos de pollo--chicken skewers-- feature guava BBQ sauce, which doubles as the sauce for adobo-coated ribs. Diaz innovates for modern palates, updating and lightening recipes and offering vegetarian alternatives. For the chayotes rellenos (stuffed squash), she suggests replacing the picadillo (sauteed ground beef) with seitan or tofu. She offers alternatives for difficult- to-find ingredients, like substituting potatoes for yucca and yautia--root vegetables typically paired with a meat to make sancocho. Diaz's version of this hearty stew features chicken and lean pork. And because every good Puerto Rican meal ends with drinks, desserts, and dancing, Diaz includes recipes for besitos de coco (coconut kisses), rum The Mojito Voices from Mariel: Oral McPherson, Heather Histories of the 1980 Cuban University Press of Boatlift Florida/Seaside Publishing García, José Manuel 9780942084870 University Press of Florida 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. 25 b/w illus., 9780813056661 37 recipes 6 x 9. 46 b/w photos 88 pages 192 pages paperback hardcover $12.95 $24.95 Publish Date: 3/27/2018 Publish Date: 3/20/2018 catalog page: 2 catalog page: 3

Celebrate the mojito! This book spotlights a Between April and September 1980, more than favorite Caribbean cocktail that has won a place in 125,000 Cuban refugees fled their homeland, bars and eateries across the globe. Food writer seeking freedom from Fidel Castro's dictatorship. Heather McPherson details everything you need to They departed in boats from the port of Mariel and know to make mojito masterpieces, plus flavor- braved the dangerous 90-mile journey across the packed variations for every occasion. The basic Straits of Florida. Told in the words of the ingredients are simple--rum, lime, mint, sugar, and immigrants themselves, the stories in Voices from club soda. McPherson gives readers the rundown Mariel offer an up-close view of this international on these five key elements and explains how to crisis, the largest oversea mass migration in Latin make the classic Bacardi mojito, the drink that American history. Former refugees describe what it started it all. But she doesn't stop there. She adds was like to gather among thousands of dissidents and swaps ingredients like seasonal fruits, herbs, on the grounds of the Peruvian embassy in Cuba, and different rums to show that this versatile where the movement first began. They were beverage knows no bounds. Recipes include a spicy abused by the masses who protested them as they mango mojito with jalapenos, an exotic basil lychee made their way to the Mariel harbor, before they mojito, a sweet and savory peach and rosemary were finally permitted to leave the country by mojito, a moonshine lemonade mojito, and even a Castro in an attempt to disperse the civil unrest. hot mojito tea. And it's more than just a drink. The They waited interminably for boats in oppressive cocktail’s refreshing flavors make for sensational heat, squalor, and desperation at the crowded tent dinners and desserts, too. Readers will enjoy camp known as El Mosquito. They embarked on recipes for mojito grilled shrimp salad; mojito vessels overloaded with too many passengers and marinated pork tenderloin with roasted pineapple battled harrowing storms on their journeys across chutney; duck breast mojito empanadas; and the open ocean. Author Jose Manuel Garcia, who mojito strip steak with pico de gallo. The book emigrated on the Mariel boatlift as a teenager, features mojito-inspired sweet treats such as ice describes the events that led to the exodus and pops, frozen custard, cheesecake, cookies, ice box explains why so many Cubans wanted to leave the pie, and sugar-kissed meringues. island.

HEATHER MCPHERSON is a past JOSÉ MANUEL GARCÍA is associate president of the Association of Food professor of Spanish and Latin Journalists and former food editor American studies at Florida and restaurant critic for the Orlando Southern College. He wrote the Sentinel. She has edited and script for the international award- authored various cookbooks. winning documentary Voices From Mariel and is the author of La literatura cubanoamericana y su imagen. Phil Gernhard, Record Man The Annotated Old DeYoung, Bill Fourlegs: The University Press of Florida Updated Story of the 9780813056777 Coelacanth 6 x 9. 25 b/w illus. Bruton, Mike 176 pages University Press of hardcover Florida $24.95 9780813064642 Publish Date: 3/20/2018 8 1/2 x 8 1/2. 800 catalog page: 5 b/w and color illus. 328 pages A go-getting, red-headed college kid eager to break paperback into the music business, Phil Gernhard produced a $29.95 handful of singles for South Carolina doo-wop Publish Date: 3/6/2018 group Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs. One of catalog page: 9 these songs, Stay, reached number one on the charts in 1960. Gernhard was just 19 years old. Phil When scientist JLB Smith published Old Fourlegs: Gernhard, Record Man is the story of a self-made The Story of the Coelacanth in 1956, he created an music mogul who created nearly fifty years' worth international sensation. A dramatic account of the of chart-topping songs. From a tiny office and discovery of a creature thought to have been studio in Florida, he co-wrote the Royal extinct for 65 million years, the book brought Guardsmen's Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, America's science into the living rooms of thousands. It was fastest-selling single of 1966. He revived the career published in six English editions and translated into of singer Dion DiMucci with the ballad Abraham, ten foreign languages. The Annotated Old Fourlegs Martin and John--a million seller. He discovered brings this incredible story back to life for today’s and produced hit records for Lobo, Jim Stafford, readers. Smith's famous account begins with the and the Bellamy Brothers. Through a long finding of a strange fish off the coast of South collaboration with music business icon Mike Curb, Africa by a local fisherman. As large as a person, he launched to fame many others, including the fish had fins like arms and vicious snapping country superstars Tim McGraw and Rodney jaws. Smith became certain that what had been Atkins. In Nashville and Los Angeles, Phil Gernhard caught was the legendary coelacanth, previously was a legend. Yet Gernhard's private life was known only through fossils. The book follows crumbling. He battled physical and emotional Smith’s obsessive drive to track down other demons that he simply couldn't overcome, specimens and to learn more about this struggling with alcoholism, drug addiction, and a extraordinary fish that has lived on Earth from the bad past with his father. He filed for his fourth era of the dinosaurs to modern times. The divorce just months before taking his own life in Annotated Old Fourlegs features a facsimile reprint 2008. Through interviews with Gernhard's of the original book with extensive margin notes, musicians, business partners, family members, and providing insights on JLB Smith, updates on ex-wives, Bill DeYoung offers an intimate portrait coelacanth research, and comments on the of a brilliant yet troubled man who channeled his coelacanth's influence on contemporary culture. talent, ego, and ambition into the success of others. MIKE BRUTON is the former director of the JLB Smith BILL DEYOUNG is the author of Institute of Ichthyology, now Skyway: The True Story of the South African Institute for Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge Aquatic Biodiversity. and the Man Who Brought It Down. Anna Madgigine Jai Dancing in Blackness: Kingsley: African Princess, A Memoir Florida Slave, Plantation Osumare, Halifu Slaveowner University Press of Schafer, Daniel L. Florida University Press of Florida 9780813056616 9780813056531 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 20 b/w 6 x 9 | 24 b/w photos, 4 illus. maps 352 pages 208 pages hardcover paperback $34.95 $19.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 4/6/2018 3/6/2018 catalog page: 10.1 catalog page: 11

REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION. Florida Dancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining In this revised and expanded edition of Anna moments in the story of black dance in America. In Kingsley’s remarkable life story, Daniel Schafer this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what draws on new discoveries to prove true the blackness and dance have meant to her life and longstanding rumors that Anna Madgigine Jai was international career. Osumare's story begins in originally a princess from the royal family of Jolof in 1960s San Francisco amid the Black Arts Senegal. Captured from her homeland in 1806, she Movement, black militancy, and hippie became first an American slave, later a slaveowner, counterculture. It was there, she says, that she and eventually a central figure in a free black chose dance as her own revolutionary statement. community. Anna Kingsley’s story adds a dramatic Osumare describes her experiences as a young chapter to the history of the South, the state of black dancer in Europe teaching jazz ballet and Florida, and the African diaspora. establishing her own dance company in Copenhagen. Moving to New York City, she danced DANIEL L. SCHAFER is Professor with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company and took of History Emeritus and part in integrating the programs at the Lincoln University Distinguished Center. After doing dance fieldwork in Ghana, Professor at the University of Osumare returned to California and helped develop North Florida. He is the author of Oakland’s black dance scene. Osumare introduces several books, including readers to some of the major artistic movers and Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the shakers she collaborated with throughout her Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, career, including Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Emancipator and Thunder on the River: The Civil Jean-Leon Destine, Alvin Ailey, and Donald War in Northeast Florida. McKayle.

HALIFU OSUMARE, professor emerita of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, is the author of The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop.

author location: Davis CA / Sacramento CA Dirty Harry's America: The Final Mission: Clint Eastwood, Harry Preserving NASA's Callahan, and the Apollo Sites Conservative Backlash Westwood, Lisa / Street, Joe O'Leary, Beth / University Press of Donaldson, Milford Florida Wayne 9780813064710 University Press of 6 x 9. Illus. Florida 280 pages 9780813064741 paperback 6 x 9 | Illus. $24.95 208 pages Publish Date: 3/27/2018 paperback catalog page: 14.1 $24.95 Publish Date: 4/1/2018 NEW IN PAPERBACK. Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry catalog page: 15.1 became the prototype for a new kind of movie cop- antihero in pursuit of his own vision of justice. The NEW IN PAPERBACK. The Final Mission explores Dirty Harry series helped cement Eastwood and his key facilities and landing sites linked to the Apollo character, Harry Callahan, as central figures in program, now abandoned, and calls for their 1970s and 1980s Hollywood cinema. In Dirty preservation. Beginning with the initiation of the Harry's America, Joe Street argues that the movies space race, the authors trace the history of shed critical light on the culture and politics of the research, training, and manufacturing centers that post-1960s era and locates San Francisco as the contributed to lunar exploration. From the early symbolic cultural battleground of the time. Across rocket test stands of Robert H. Goddard, to the entire series, conservative anger and moral astronaut instruction at Meteor Crater, to human outrage confront elitist liberalism and moral and primate experiments at Holloman Air Force relativism. Paying particular attention the films, Base, innumerable places proved critical to representation of crime, family and community, developing the equipment for exploring space, sexuality, and race, Street maintains that through surviving the journey, and returning to Earth safely. referencing real events and political struggles, the Despite their significance to the history of human films themselves became active participants in the spaceflight, many landmarks face the threat of culture wars. Unapologetic carrier of right and damage or destruction. might, Harry Callahan becomes America's Ur- conservative: 'unbending, moral, incorruptible, and Lisa Westwood is director of cultural resources at most important, always right. Long after the series, ECORP Consulting, Inc., and a professional Callahan's legacy remains strong in American archaeologist. Beth Laura O’Leary, professor political discourse, cinema, and pop culture, and he emerita of anthropology at New Mexico State continues to shape Eastwood's later political and University, is coeditor of Handbook of Space cinematic career. Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage. Milford Wayne Donaldson is president of the firm Architect JOE STREET is senior lecturer in Milford Wayne Donaldson, FAIA. He is chairman of American history at Northumbria the national Advisory Council on Historic University. He is the author of Preservation and the former state historic The Culture War in the Civil preservation officer for the state of California. Rights Movement.

Ulysses Unbound: A Impossible Returns: Reader's Companion to Narratives of the Cuban James Joyce's Ulysses - Diaspora 3rd edition Lopez, Iraida H. Killeen, Terence University Press of University Press of Florida Florida 9780813064666 9780813064727 6 x 9. Illus. The Florida James Joyce 312 pages Series. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | paperback 18 b/w illus. $24.95 272 pages Publish Date: 5/29/2018 paperback catalog page: 29 $28.00 Publish Date: 2/13/2018 “This challenging, exquisitely written book is a catalog page: 26.1 must for those fascinated by those who left the island in the pursuit of their freedom. An Ideal for readers new to Ulysses and written with a engrossing read. . . . Highly recommended.” — depth of knowledge that scholars have found Choice. “An outstanding contribution to the field of invaluable, Ulysses Unbound is a clear and diasporic writings in general, and the Cuban comprehensive guide to James Joyce’s masterpiece diaspora in particular. . . . It reminds the reader from one of the foremost Dublin-based Joyce how closely related the personal and political are. experts. Terence Killeen discusses the novel’s It recognizes that there are many ways of eighteen episodes individually. For each episode, returning, and how the co-presence of the past and Killeen provides a brief narrative summary along the present are remembered and articulated.”— with an account of the corresponding parts of Hispania. “Essential. . . . Elegantly weave[s] through Homer’s Odyssey. He also analyzes the unique style narrations of different genres and create[s] a more of every episode, in recognition of the novel’s comprehensive definition of the one-and- a-half remarkable stylistic diversity. Broader Commentary generation of Cuban-Americans and of the lasting sections look at each episode’s principal themes effects of forced migrations in general.”—Cuba and function within the context of the overall Counterpoints. “Captures, in critical form, the development of the work. Annotations help explain struggles and aspirations of an entire generation of some of the main characters and historical events Cuban immigrants, and at the same time in the book, illuminating the real people who deconstructs the reality of what had been figured provided so much of the book’s material. as an impossibility: the search, the reconstruction Glossaries define many of the foreign language and remedy of the losses suffered due to exile and terms that pepper the text. This guide also features displacement.”—Casa de las Américas. an overall reading of Ulysses, a brief account of “Outstanding. Insightful, sensitive, well Joyce’s life, and a description of the novel’s documented, and informed by current debates eventful textual and publishing history. Accessible about diasporas, exile, transnationalism, and and authoritative, Ulysses Unbound is an identity.”—Jorge Duany, author of Blurred Borders. indispensable companion for both students and specialists. IRAIDA H. LÓPEZ is professor of Spanish and Latino/a and Latin American studies at Ramapo TERENCE KILLEEN is research scholar at the James College of New Jersey. Joyce Centre in Dublin. He is also a journalist with the Irish Times.

Known for My Work: to establish a rigid economic inequality in the African American Ethics Industrial Revolution. From the late antebellum from Slavery to Freedom era through Reconstruction, labor organizing in the Morgan, Lynda J. 1930s and 1940s, the civil rights movement of the University Press of 1960s and 1970s, and the reparations movement Florida of the twenty-first century, Morgan offers an 9780813064697 unprecedented view of African America. What 6 x 9 emerges from the literature is a clear critique of 208 pages racism, an embrace of self-defense, and the belief paperback that they deserved reparations for lost labor. $21.95 Enslaved laborers thought for themselves, Publish Date: 6/26/2018 imagined themselves, and made themselves. catalog page: 31.1 Moreover, their descendants share this moral legacy as a foundation for citizenship and participation in democracy. “Demonstrates that the ‘emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping religious, educational, and cultural institutions as well as labor and political organizations.” - Peter Rachleff, editor of Starving Amidst Too Much and Other IWW Writings on the Food Industry. “Shows how far off the mark arguments are that claim that black Americans generally have internalized LYNDA J. MORGAN, professor of history at Mount inferiority and engage in self-defeating behaviors.” Holyoke College, is the author of Emancipation in - William A. Darity Jr., coeditor of Boundaries of Virginia’s Tobacco Belt, 1850–1870. Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of

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Lynda Morgan looks beyond slavery's legacy of racial and economic inequality and counters the idea that slaves were unprepared for freedom. By examining African American social and intellectual thought, Morgan highlights how slaves built an ethos of 'honest labor’ and collective humanism. As moral economists, slaves and their descendants insisted that economic motives formed the foundation of their exploitation and made sophisticated arguments about the appropriate role of labor in a just and democratic society.

Morgan considers how slaves evaluated the violence, coercions, and deceits employed by slaveholders as means to maintain power, as well as the ways in which fugitive slaves active in the abolition movement stressed to nonslaveholding audiences how they were complicit in a regime fraught with moral decay. She also points to the racial rhetoric of Jim Crow architects and how it was readily identified as elaborating on slave-era racial propaganda in new ways for an old reason: University Press of Kansas purveyor of purloined pages, and acquire a wealth of knowledge about the antique prints he favored. Torn from Their Told by an author devoted to the preservation of Bindings: A Story of books, the story is propelled by an informed Art, Science, and curiosity and just outrage from its suspenseful the Pillaging of opening to its ironic conclusion—the ultimate fate American of Kindred’s spoils. University Libraries McDade, Travis Travis McDade is curator of University Press of law rare books at the Kansas University of Illinois College of 9780700626366 Law. A leading expert on 10 photographs, 6 crimes against rare books, x 9 maps, documents, and other 240 pages printed cultural heritage hardcover resources, he is the author of $24.95 three previous books on the Publish Date: subject: Disappearing Ink: The 5/1/2018 Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon catalog page: 2 College Library; Thieves of Book Row: New York’s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who McDade’s account of Robert Kindred’s book- Stopped It; and The Book Thief: The True Crimes of pillaging spree in university libraries across the Daniel Spiegelman. United States is a well-told narrative that reads like an Elmore Leonard novel. McDade’s dramatic tale of book theft, mutilation, and cultural destruction is firmly grounded in archival sources, field research, and interviews and will appeal to a wide range of readers. Mark Rose, professor emeritus of English, University of California, Santa Barbara.. In 1980, an antique print dealer was going broke from competition and lack of supply. Then he discovered all the high-quality antique prints he could ever want—for free—on the shelves of American university libraries. Torn from Their Bindings tells the story of Robert Kindred’s brazen theft of irreplaceable antique illustrations and maps from academic libraries across the country—a crime spree that left the irredeemable wreck of countless rare books in its wake. Travis McDade’s account of Kindred’s pillaging and the paper trail that led to his capture unfolds with the drama of a true crime page-turner— whose pages are replete with the particulars of archival treasures, library science, print preservation, and the history bound up in the cultural heritage plundered by Kindred. Along the way we observe the nature and methods of the book thief, defacer of priceless volumes and

Magic Bean: The marketing, and indeed the bean itself, during the Rise of Soy in twentieth century. All come in for scrutiny as Roth America traces the ups and downs of the soybean’s journey. Roth, Matthew Along the way, he uncovers surprising University Press of developments, including a series of catastrophic Kansas explosions at soy-processing plants in the 1930s, 9780700626342 the widespread production of tofu in Japanese 24 illustrations, 6 x American internment camps during World War II, 9. CultureAmerica the decades-long project to improve the blandness 344 pages of soybean oil, the creation of new southern paperback soybean varieties named after Confederate $24.95 generals, the role of the San Francisco Bay Area Publish Date: counterculture in popularizing soy foods, and the 5/1/2018 discovery of soy phytoestrogens in the late 1980s. catalog page: 5 We also encounter fascinating figures in their own right, such as Yamei Kin, the Chinese American who Magic Bean is compelling, comprehensive, and promoted tofu during World War I, and African timely. Matthew Roth has provided a well- American chemist Percy Lavon Julian, who played a examined study of soy’s place within a long century critical role in the story of synthetic human of changing agriculture, food, diet, and culture. In hormones derived from soy sterols. A thoroughly the process, he offers an original and admirably engaging work of narrative history, Magic Bean: wide-ranging account of soy for our time. Benjamin The Rise of Soy in America is the first R. Cohen, author of Notes from the Ground: comprehensive account of the soybean in America Science, Soil, & Society in the American over the entire course of the twentieth century. Countryside. Magic Bean tells the stories of a diverse cast of women and men who promoted the Matthew Roth is an soybean as devotedly as John Chapman did the independent scholar who apple, and explains how a food often billed as a lives in Philadelphia and is a meat substitute became a linchpin of animal staff member of the agriculture. Kendra Smith-Howard, author of Pure University of Pennsylvania’s and Modern Milk: An Environmental History Since Andrea Mitchell Center for 1900. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Study of Democracy. soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farming, culture, and cuisine is the story Matthew Roth tells in Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America. The soybean’s journey from one continent into the heart of another was by no means assured or predictable. In Asia, the soybean had been bred and cultivated into a nutritious staple food over the course of centuries. Its adoption by Americans was long in coming—the outcome of migration and innovation, changing tastes and habits, and the transformation of food, farming, breeding, California at War: wartime restrictions with patriotic zeal and did not The State and the foresee the retreat into suspicion, loyalty oaths, People during and unwarranted surveillance, all of which set the World War I stage for the beginnings of the modern security North, Diane M. state. California at War raises important questions T. about what happens when a nation goes to war. 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Day by day, week by He is a former chief historian of week, these documents chart the political path, the National Park Service. and the insurmountable differences, that led directly—but not inevitably—to the American Civil War. At issue in these debates is the nature of the U.S. Constitution with regard to slavery. Editor Dwight Pitcaithley provides expert guidance through the speeches and discussions that took place over the Secession Winter (1860–1861)—in Congress, eleven state conventions, legislatures in Tennessee and Kentucky, and the Washington Peace Conference of February 1861. The anthology brings to light dozens of solutions to the secession crisis proposed in the form of constitutional amendments—90 percent of them carefully designed to protect the institution of slavery in different ways throughout the country. 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The profits, it turned out, were going to support the Contras, despite an explicit ban by Congress. In the firestorm that erupted, shocking details emerged, raising the prospect of impeachment, and the American public confronted a scandal as momentous as it was confusing. At its center was President Ronald Reagan amid a swirl of questions about illegal wars, consorting with terrorists, and the abuse of presidential power. Yet, despite the enormity of the issues, the affair dropped from the public radar due to media overkill, years of legal wrangling, and a vigorous campaign to forestall another Watergate. As a result, many Americans failed to grasp the scandal's full import. Through exhaustive use of declassified documents, previously unavailable investigative materials, and wide- ranging interviews, Malcolm Byrne revisits this largely forgotten and misrepresented episode. 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Vulture: The Private Twain at Sea: The Life of an Unloved Bird Maritime Writings of Fallon, Katie Samuel Langhorne University Press of New Clemens England/ForeEdge Twain, Mark 9781512602494 University Press of New 248 pages England/UPNE paperback 9781512601510 $19.95 304 pages Publish Date: paperback 2/16/2018 $19.95 catalog page: 7 Publish Date: 5/1/2018 catalog page: 9 NEW IN PAPERBACK. Turkey vultures, the most widely distributed and Samuel Clemens (1835–1910) repeatedly traversed abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet, the ocean during his globetrotting life. A keen are found from central Canada to the southern tip observer, the man who recast himself as Mark of Argentina, and nearly everywhere in between. Twain was fascinated by seafaring. This book Despite being ubiquitous, recognizable, and vitally compiles selections ranging from his first voyage in important to the food chain and the ecosystem, 1866—San Francisco to Hawaii—to his this huge, familiar bird has historically been circumnavigation of the world by steamship 1897. shunned, feared, reviled, and thoroughly Despite his background as a brown water mariner, misunderstood. In Vulture: The Private Life of an Twain was out of his element on the ocean. His Unloved Bird, Katie Fallon follows a year in the life writings about being at sea (as well as feeling at of a typical North American turkey vulture. sea) reflect both a growing familiarity with Comprising research, interviews with world- voyaging and an enduring sense of amazement. renowned experts on raptors and vultures, and Twain’s shipboard observations capture his interest time spent with the animals themselves, Vulture and amusement in the blue water mariners he examines all aspects of the bird’s natural history, encountered, with their salty subculture and its place in the ecosystem, and the history of its individual quirks. Twain at Sea collects the author’s often unlucky contact with humans. essays and travelogues on the maritime world in one volume, including excerpts from Roughing It, Katie Fallon is the author of the The Innocents Abroad, A Tramp Abroad, Following nonfiction books Vulture: The the Equator, and other sources. Private Life of an Unloved Bird (University Press of New England, MARK TWAIN was born forthcoming 2017) and Cerulean Samuel Langhorne Clemens Blues: A Personal Search for a in the village of Florida, Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, Missouri, in 1835. He worked 2011). Katie’s first children’s four years on a Mississippi book, Look, See the Bird! is steamboat, frequently forthcoming from Hatherleigh Press (2017). traveled overseas, and wrote about all of his voyages. In between these pursuits, he invented the American novel with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died in Redding, Connecticut, in 1910. ERIC PAUL ROORDA is professor of history at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. Black Power, Jewish Riverain Politics: Reinventing the Haug, James Alliance in the 1960s University Press of New Dollinger, Marc England/Oberlin University Press of New 9780997335521 England/Brandeis FIELD Poetry Series 9781512602579 80 pages Brandeis Series in American paperback Jewish History, Culture, and $16.95 Life Publish Date: 3/3/2018 272 pages catalog page: 15.1 paperback $35.00 Winner of the 2017 Publish Date: 6/5/2018 FIELD Poetry Prize. catalog page: 13.1 Oberlin College Press has always championed the In this provocative critique, Marc Dollinger charts prose poem, publishing such stellar examples as the transformation of American Jewish political Russell Edson’s The Tunnel, Beckian Fritz culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the Goldberg’s Egypt from Space, and Jeffrey Jeffrey early postwar years to the rise and influence of Skinner's 2016 prize-winner Chance Divine. James Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows Haug’s Riverain is a masterful addition to that list. how, in a period best known for the rise of black From the deadpan pastoral of Cows Are a Good anti-Semitism and the breakdown of the black- Idea to quizzical fables like Silent River, this Jewish alliance, black nationalists enabled Jewish collection is mysterious, hilarious, and utterly activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political unpredictable. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet James agenda and express it in more visible forms of Tate described Haug’s previous collection as Jewish identity—including the emancipation of marvelous poems, ones that help us see what Soviet Jews, the development of a new form of might have been or could have been, in a world full American Zionism, the opening of hundreds of of light. These new prose poems are equally Jewish day schools, and the creation of revitalized revelatory, illuminating the natural world, worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy. This contemporary culture, and New England study of postwar American Jewish life challenges metaphysics in witty and heartbreaking ways. much of the historiography describing the motivations for and limits on Jewish involvement in JAMES HAUG’s previous various social protest movements, and it poetry collections include undermines commonly held beliefs about the Legend of the Recent Past, nature of the black-Jewish alliance and the course Walking Liberty, and The of American Jewish liberalism since the mid-1960s. Stolen Car. He is a visiting lecturer in the MFA MARC DOLLINGER is the author Program for Poets and of Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Writers at the University Liberalism in Modern America, of Massachusetts–Amherst, and serves as an editor and co-editor of California Jews for UMass Press’s Juniper Poetry Prize. and American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader. 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Hillman’s prior books Williams recalled that its biting satire targeting the include Practical Water and Seasonal Works with corruption of the court, the church, and society Letters on Fire, which received the Griffin Prize for and driven by comic double entendre made them Poetry. Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days is a laugh out loud and amused them tremendously as visionary and critically important work for our time. they worked on the translation. In Williams’s hands, the novella becomes a daring modernist BRENDA HILLMAN is an experiment with the poetry of prose and the activist, writer, editor, American idiom. This edition includes Williams’s as- and teacher. She has yet unpublished running commentary on the published nine collections narrative, and an illuminating introduction from of poetry, all from editor Jonathan Cohen that contextualizes the Wesleyan University work in Williams’s canon. Press, including Practical Water, for which she won the Los Angeles Times PEDRO ESPINOSA (1578–1650) Book Award for Poetry. Hillman serves on the was a Golden Age Spanish poet faculty of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, and fiction writer whose works California, as the Olivia Filippi professor of poetry. include a famed 1605 anthology of contemporary poets called author location: Moraga CA Las flores de poetas ilustres de España (Flowers of Spain’s Illustrious Poets).

Inquisition Typescript of the Ali, Kazim Second Origin University Press of Pedrolo, Manuel de New University Press of England/Wesleyan New 9780819577627 England/Wesleyan Wesleyan Poetry 9780819577429 Series Translated by Sara 104 pages Martín. Foreword by paperback Kim Stanley $15.95 Robinson Publish Date: 184 pages 3/6/2018 paperback catalog page: 18 $17.95 Publish Date: During the 1982 air strikes on Beirut, Faiz Ahmed 3/6/2018 Faiz asked his friend Mahmoud Darwish Why aren’t catalog page: 19 the poets writing this war on the walls of the city? Darwish responded, Can’t you see the walls falling Manuel de Pedrolo’s widely acclaimed post- down? Queer, Muslim, American, Kazim Ali has apocalyptic novel, which includes a foreword by always navigated complex intersections and Kim Stanley Robinson, tells the story of two interstices on order to make a life. In this children who survive the brutal destruction of scintillating mixture of lyrics, narrative, fragments, Earth by alien explorers. The protagonists, Alba and prose poem, and spoken word, he answers Dídac, retreat to the forest, then journey to the longstanding questions about the role of the poet rubble of Barcelona to rescue and preserve the or artist in times of political or social upheaval, remnants of human civilization in the city’s although he answers under duress. An inquisition is bombed libraries and cultural institutions. In the dangerous, after all, especially to Muslims whose absence of the rule of law and social norms, the poetry and art and spiritual life has always children create a utopian world of two that honors depended not on the Western ideal of a known knowledge and interracial love, to become a new God or definitive text but on the concepts of Adam and Eve and try to bring about the world’s abstraction, geometry, vertigo. Someone always second origin. A bestseller and required reading for asks ‘where are you from,’ Ali writes, and I want to secondary school students in Catalonia, Typescript say ‘a body is a body of matter flung/from the far of the Second Origin is indispensable to understand corners of the universe and I am a patriot/of how a region of Spain whose language, culture, and breath of sin of the endless clamor/out the institutions were targeted and punished by window.’ Ali engages history, politics, and the Francisco Franco. dangerous regions of the uncharted heart in this visceral new collection. MANUEL DE PEDROLO was born in L'Aranyó (Lleida), Poet, editor, and prose Eastern Catalonia, in 1918 writer KAZIM ALI was born and died in Barcelona in in the United Kingdom to 1990. A prolific writer in all Muslim parents of Indian genres, Pedrolo experimented with new forms and descent. He received a BA content. He fought on the side of the Republican and MA from the University during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), and was of Albany-SUNY, and an MFA from New York a critic of the repressive policies of Franco’s regime University. (1939–1975), which included censorship of the Catalan language. Interview in Animal Musicalities: Weehawken: The Burr- Birds, Beasts, and Hamilton Duel as Told in Evolutionary Listening the Original Documents Mundy, Rachel Syrett, Harold C. and University Press of New Cooke, Jean G. (editors) England/Wesleyan University Press of New 9780819578068 England/Wesleyan Music/Culture 9780819578273 264 pages With an introduction hardcover and conclusion by $29.95 Willard M. Wallace. Publish Date: 6/5/2018 200 pages catalog page: 21 paperback $18.95 How conflicts between science and the humanities Publish Date: 6/5/2018 have shaped our understanding of the line catalog page: 19.1 between art and animal behavior

The Broadway sensation Hamilton has sparked Over the past century and a half, the voices and renewed interest in the historical figures of bodies of animals have been used by scientists and Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. This closely music experts as a benchmark for measures of annotated thread of documents provides a riveting natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces account of the lead-up to and aftermath of their music’s taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird disastrous duel. From the summer of 1804, we guides to show how animal song has become the have the fiery correspondence between Hamilton starting point for enduring evaluations of species, and Burr, notes and accounts from their seconds- races, and cultures. By examining the influential in-command, and other documents that provide an efforts made by a small group of men and women immediate sense of the personalities and times. to define human diversity in relation to animal The introduction and conclusion provide a concise voices, this book raises profound questions about and informative perspective on the parallel lives of the creation of modern human identity, and the Hamilton and Burr and of the duel’s lasting impacts foundations of modern humanism. on American history. This is the perfect summary of the events that inspired the hit musical—a great RACHEL MUNDY is an resource for teachers and students and the perfect assistant professor of gift for history buffs. music in the arts, culture, and media HAROLD C. SYRETT (1913 1984) was president of program at Rutgers Brooklyn College, professor of American history at University in Newark. Columbia University and executive editor of the 26- She specializes in volume Papers of Alexander Hamilton. JEAN G. twentieth-century sonic COOKE is assistant editor of the multi-volume culture with interests at Papers of Alexander Hamilton. WILLARD M. the juncture of music, the history of science, and WALLACE (1911 2000) was an American historian animal studies. Mundy’s current work relocates who taught at Wesleyan University from 1945 to contemporary posthumanism and critical 1981. His numerous books include Soul of the Lion philosophy as the refrain of a century-long and Connecticut’s Dark Star of the Revolution. encounter with changing boundaries between species, race, and culture.

The Life of Poetry On Being Ill with Notes Rukeyser, Muriel from Sick Rooms University Press of New Woolf, Virginia and England/Paris Press Stephen, Julia 9780963818331 University Press of New 6 x 9 England/Paris Press 256 pages 9781930464131 paperback Notes from Sick Rooms $16.95 by Julia Stephen. 5 x 8 Publish Date: Available 160 pages now paperback catalog page: 24 $16.00 Publish Date: Available The Life of Our century's lost classic about now American culture, the essential saving force of catalog page: 24.1 poetry, and how it can improve the quality of life in the United States. On Being Ill originally published in 1930, Notes from Sick Rooms in 1883. This new publication of Originally published in 1949, reissued in 1974, and On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents brought back into print by Paris Press in 1996. Virginia Woolf and her mother Julia Stephen in Observing that poetry is a natural part of our textual conversation for the first time in literary pastimes and rituals, Muriel Rukeyser explores the history. In the poignant and humorous essay On vital force of poetry and the arts in American Being Ill, Virginia Woolf observes that though culture. She opposes elitist attitudes and addresses illness is a part of every human being's experience, Americans' fear of feeling, which contribute to a it is not celebrated as a subject of great literature devaluation of poetry and the arts in the U.S. in the way that love and war are embraced by Multicultural and interdisciplinary, this collection of writers and readers. Notes from Sick Rooms essays makes an irrefutable case for the centrality addresses illness from the caregiver's perspective. of poetry in American life. With clarity, humor, and pathos, Julia Stephen offers concrete and useful information to Paris Press publishes groundbreaking yet caregivers today. overlooked literature by women. The Press values work in all genres that is daring in style and in its courage to speak truthfully about society, culture, history, and the human heart. Paris Press was founded in 1995 to bring Muriel Rukeyser's collection of essays, The Life of Poetry, back into print.

MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980) is one of our country's most influential yet neglected VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) is one of the great writers. She published fifteen literary geniuses of the twentieth century. JULIA collections of poetry, plays, STEPHEN (1846-1895), Virginia Woolf's mother, translations, children's books, worked as a vocational nurse throughout her adult and several works of nonfiction. life.

Open Me Carefully: Sisters: An Anthology Emily Dickinson's Freeman, Jan / Intimate Letters to Wojcik, Emily / Bull, Susan Huntington Deborah (editor) Dickinson University Press of Dickinson, Emily New England/Paris University Press of New Press England/Paris Press 9781930464124 9780963818362 paperback Edited by Ellen Louise $20.95 Hart and Martha Nell catalog page: 25.6 Smith paperback This collection of $19.95 stories, memoirs, and catalog page: 25.4 poems celebrates the unique and complex world of sisters. The unbreakable link between sisters can For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s be at once sweet and loving, fierce and cruel. From 36 year correspondence to her neighbor and sister- childhood to old age, rivalry to devotion, hysterical in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled laughter to tears of grief, the irrevocable bonds in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a between sisters create a heartwarming and dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s compelling journey. Sisters is for anyone who life and work, overcoming a century of censorship knows sisters, wishes they had a sister, adores her and misinterpretation. This remarkable own sister, or would, on occasion, like to trade her correspondence brings to light Susan Huntington sister in. Fiction, essays, poems, & a play by Joyce Dickinson as the central source of the poet’s Armor, Margaret Atwood, Joan Baez, Claire passion and inspiration, and as her primary reader Bateman, Simone de Beauvoir, Robin Becker, Jane and literary companion. Gone is Emily as the Bowles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lan Samantha Chang, precious recluse spinster of Amherst. Here is Emily Marilyn Chin, Catherine Chung, Lucille Clifton, Clare in her own words — humorous, playful, passionate, Coss, Edwidge Danticat, Sadie & Bessie Delany, Rita and fully alive. Dove, Delia Ephron, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Glass, Barbara L. Greenberg, Jane Hirshfield, Cynthia Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) Hogue, Beverly Jensen, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ana is the most popular American Maria Jomolca, Mary Karr, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, poet in U.S. history. Her Tsipi Keller, Barbara Kingsolver, Maxine Kumin, poetry continues to be as Jeanne M. Leiby, Audre Lorde, Grace Paley, groundbreaking today as Dorothy Parker, Martha Rhodes, Muriel Rukeyser, when it was written. Myra Shapiro, Ali Smith, Misty Urban, Alice Walker, Dickinson objected to Wendy Wasserstein, C.D. Wright, Daisy Zamora. editorial changes to her poems, such as those made by The Springfield Republican. Instead she Jan Freeman is the author of collected her finished work in hand-sewn fascicles, Blue Structure, Simon Says, and in that way published her poetry as she nominated for the National wanted it to appear on the page. Susan Huntington Book Critics Circle Award; Dickinson, Emily Dickinson’s sister-in-law and her Hyena; and Autumn closest friend from childhood, was Dickinson’s Sequence. She is the recipient primary reader and the recipient of her drafts, of the 1993 Cleveland State poems, letter-poems, and letters, which are Poetry Center award. collected in Open Me Carefully.

Houdini: A Musical The Orgy: An Irish Journey Rukeyser, Muriel of Passion and University Press of New Transformation England/Paris Press Rukeyser, Muriel 9781930464056 University Press of New paperback England/Paris Press $14.95 9780963818324 catalog page: 25.8 Preface by Sharon Olds paperback Houdini: A Musical was $14.95 performed in Lenox, MA catalog page: 25.9 in 1973, with Christopher Walken starring as Houdini. This previously Originally published in 1965. Those who have unpublished verse-drama presents the life of traveled know the experience of extended time world-renowned escape artist and illusionist, Harry and sharpened perception. Muriel Rukeyser's Houdini. Part biography, part fantasy, the musical account of Puck Fair — the last existing pagan leads us from Houdini’s childhood in Appleton, festival of the goat — captures just that state of Wisconsin (picking up pins with his eyelids) to his consciousness. Set in County Kerry, Ireland, The acts under water and his travels abroad. With Orgy evokes this great American poet's journey of pathos and playfulness, song and dance, Muriel sensual and psychological transformation in the Rukeyser introduces us to Houdini’s wife Bess and midst of a lush account of Irish culture and his mother Cecilia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the tradition. poet’s own Marco Bone. Throughout this remarkable work written over thirty years, Rukeyser invites readers to overcome whatever fears entrap us and — through the life of Harry Houdini — she shows us what it means to claim the physical, political, and societal freedom that is our birthright. Muriel Rukeyser (1913- 1980) is one of our country's most influential yet overlooked writers. She published fifteen collections of poetry, plays, translations, children's books, and several works of nonfiction.

Solitude of Self A Children's History Stanton, Elizabeth of Portugal Cady Luís de Carvalho, University Press of Sérgio New University Press of England/Paris New England/Tagus Press 9781933227795 9781930464018 Illustrated by paperback António Salvador. $10.95 Translated by Ines catalog page: 25.91 Lima. 52 pages Speech originally presented to Congress in 1892. hardcover Throughout Solitude of Self, Elizabeth Cady Stanton $20.00 reflects on solitude and its integral relationship to Publish Date: 7/5/2017 self-reliance and equality. She asserts that we face catalog page: 27 our most challenging moments alone, and that it is the birthright of every person to be prepared for This colorful book, the first history of Portugal for these moments — regardless of gender, race, very young readers published in English, narrates religion, or wealth. If we are equally educated and the exciting history of one of the oldest nations in equally trained on all fronts of life, then, says Europe from the time of the ancient Lusitanians to Stanton, we can call upon our inner resources the contemporary moment. Written for when we need them most. elementary and middle school students, this history has been placed on the Plano Nacional de Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leitura, a national education initiative sponsored (1815-1902) was the co- by Portugal's Ministry of Education. founder of the women's suffrage movement in the Now in its fourth edition in Portugal, A Children's United States and worked History of Portugal was written by prize-winning side by side with Susan B. author SÉRGIO LUÍS DE CARVALHO, director of the Anthony for over fifty Museu do Pão [Bread Museum] in the Serra da years. She has been cast in Estrela and author of numerous books of fiction history's shadows and is long overdue recognition and non-fiction. ANTÓNIO SALVADOR is a book for her essential role in fighting for equal rights for illustrator in Portugal. INÊS LIMA is a PhD candidate women in the U.S. Of her long-standing in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory at UMass relationship with Susan B. Anthony, Stanton said, “I Dartmouth. forged the thunderbolts, she fired them.”

The Small Door of Darling Nova Your Death Cundieff-Pexa, Melissa St. Germain, Sheryl University Press of New England/Autumn House University Press of 9781938769306 New 72 pages England/Autumn paperback House $17.95 9781938769276 Publish Date: 3/8/2018 104 pages catalog page: 29.1 paperback $17.95 Winner of the Autumn House Poetry Contest, Publish Date: selected by Alberto Rios (2017). 3/6/2018 catalog page: 29 This debut collection is musical, haunting, and bubbling with life. Cundieff’s poems deal with loss Poet Sheryl St. Germain's collection gracefully and and change through images that are startling in honestly chronicles the deep grief of losing a child. their originality. These poems will stay with you; they will remind you what poems can do. This honest and haunting collection of poems follows the loss of the poet’s only son to heroin MELISSA CUNDIEFF addiction. St. Germain takes us through the stages received an MFA in poetry of her grief and offers no false promises or simple from Vanderbilt University, answers. These narrative-driven poems are a where she was the compelling and compassionate look into addiction recipient of an Academy of and its effect on a family. American Poets Prize. Her poems appear or are SHERYL ST. GERMAIN’s forthcoming in places such poetry books include as Best of the Net, Crab Making Bread at Orchard Review, Ninth Midnight, How Heavy Letter, Four Way Review, the Breath of God, The TriQuarterly, The Adroit Journal, and Tongue: A Journals of Journal of Writing and Art. She has published a Scheherazade, and Let it chapbook, Futures With Your Ghost. Originally Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems. She has from Texas, she lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. written two memoirs, Swamp Songs: the Making of an Unruly Woman, and Navigating Disaster: Sixteen Essays of Love and a Poem of Despair. She co- edited, with Margaret Whitford, Between Song and Story: Essays for the Twenty-First Century, and with Sarah Shotland Words Without Walls: Writers on Violence, Addiction and Incarceration. She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chatham University and is co-founder of the Words Without Walls program. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

Paper Sons Carry You Lam, Dickson Simmons, Glori University Press of New England/Autumn House University Press of New 9781938769283 England/Autumn House 256 pages 9781938769290 paperback 200 pages $17.95 paperback Publish Date: 3/6/2018 $17.95 catalog page: 30 Publish Date: 3/6/2018 catalog page: 30.1 Winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Contest, selected by Alison Hawthorne Deming (2017). Winner of the Autumn House Fiction Contest, This memoir details a first-generation Chinese selected by Amina Gautier (2017). immigrant growing up in the projects of San Francisco. In this collection, we learn about Chinese Carry You is an intense read, a linked collection of history, gangs, graffiti, and the secret violence that finely intertwined stories expertly dealing with the can occur within a family. intricate nature of blame, complicity, duty, and war. These stories are masterful without being DICKSON LAM’s work heavy-handed. Each story in this collection is a has appeared in satisfaction.—Amina Gautier. StoryQuarterly, the Kenyon Review Online, GLORI SIMMONS is the author Hyphen Magazine, The of Suffering Fools, (stories) and Normal School, PANK, Graft, (poems). A former The Good Men Project, Stegner Fellow, she has The Rumpus, and Kartika received numerous awards for Review. He holds MFA her poetry and fiction and has degrees in creative writing from the University of taught throughout the Bay Houston and Rutgers-Newark. Currently, Lam is an Area. She currently lives in Oakland, California, and Assistant Professor of English at Contra Costa is the director of the Thacher Gallery at the College University of San Francisco. author location: Contra Costa CA author location: San Francisco CA

The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water E Block Barnett, Cameron Perrott, Mark University Press of New England/Autumn House University Press 9781938769269 of New 96 pages England/Autumn paperback House $17.95 9780615758022 Publish Date: 11/7/2017 Introduction by catalog page: 31 Adam Gopnik. 104 pages Cameron Barnett's debut poetry collection, paperback selected by Ada Limón as winner of the 2017 Rising $35.00 Writer Contest. Publish Date: 5/7/2013 catalog page: 32 Cameron Barnett’s poetry collection, The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water (winner of the 2017 Rising Stunning images of a once somber place. Some of Writer Contest), explores the complexity of race Perrott’s work is at San Francisco Museum of and the body for a black man in today’s America. Modern Art.

CAMERON BARNETT In 2005 photographer Mark Perrott learned that earned his MFA in poetry Pittsburgh’s Western Penitentiary, located just at The University of downriver from the city center, was about to close. Pittsburgh, where he was He requested permission to visit the 1885 Gothic poetry editor for Hot sandstone structure, and ended up touring the site Metal Bridge literary with a former Pennsylvania Department of magazine and co- Corrections administrator. They walked through coordinator of the Pitt spaces of confinement and institutional Speakeasy Reading organization like the Mess Hall, Laundry, Series. His honors include the O’Donnell Award for Commissary, Chapel, Death Row, and the Excellence in Poetry from Duquesne University and cellblocks. The Academy of American Poets Graduate Poetry Award from The University of Pittsburgh. He lives A native to the Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he works as a area, MARK PERROTT has middle school language arts teacher, and is an worked as a professional associate poetry editor for Pittsburgh Poetry photographer since 1971. Review. The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water is his His work includes first book. portraiture and corporate photography for annual reports and commissions for black and white portraits of families and children. In the early eighties, he gave his attention to the life and death struggle of Pittsburgh's steel industry, with a special emphasis on the Jones & Laughlin steel mill and its Blast Furnace Department, informally known as Eliza. Photographs from this project were used to create the book Eliza, published in 1989, by Howell Press.

Surge Vigilance Is No Adnan, Etel Orchard University Press of New England/Nightboat White, Hazel 9781937658854 University Press of 56 pages New paperback England/Nightboat $12.95 9781937658823 Publish Date: 3/6/2018 112 pages catalog page: 35 paperback $16.95 A new volume of aphoristic prose and philosophical Publish Date: poetry from Etel Adnan, whose work The New York 5/1/2018 Times recently described as the meditative heir to catalog page: 37.1 Nietzsche’s aphorisms, Rilke’s Book of Hours and the verses of Sufi mysticism. She writes: Reality is An experimental poem sequence inspired by a messianic/apocalyptic/ my soul is my terror. famous garden now in ruin.

Born in 1925 in Beirut, ETEL In Vigilance Is No Orchard, Hazel White records her ADNAN has written more than haunting romance with the Valentine Garden, a dozen books of poetry, created by landscape architect Isabelle Greene in fiction, and essays. A two- the foothills of Santa Barbara, California. Jealous of volume collection, To look at its maker’s power to affect a dynamic experience the sea is to become what one of space, White tries to make language play is: An Etel Adnan Reader, was faithfully in the game coursing between the body published in 2014. She is a and Greene’s fiercely stirring landscape. Both the recipient of a PEN Oakland- poems and the constructed landscape they Josephine Miles Award, the California Book Award, describe are complex and explorative, never a Lambda Book Award, and a Chevalier des Arts et simplified. Instead their interests are survival, des Lettres. She lives in Paris and Sausalito, forage and repair, the act of making, accumulation California. and overflow that results in flowering and eventually gives way to loss. author location: Sausalito CA HAZEL WHITE is the author of the poetry collection Peril as Architectural Enrichment. She grew up on farms in England and now lives in San Francisco.

author location: San Francisco CA

Don't Let Them See Fluxo-Floema Me Like This Hilst, Hilda Gibson, Jasmine University Press of New University Press of England/Nightboat New 9781937658847 England/Nightboat Translated by Alexandra 9781937658830 Joy Forman 96 pages 326 pages paperback paperback $16.95 $16.95 Publish Date: Publish Date: 5/1/2018 7/3/2018 catalog page: 38.1 catalog page: 38 A visceral new translation of Hilda Hilst’s radical An incendiary debut poetry collection that tears first novel. into the thick skin of political malaise through to the guts of history. Fluxo-Floema is a detective novel of sorts— pornographic, scatological, and spiritual—that In Don’t Let Them See Me Like This, Jasmine Gibson ultimately references the failure and success of explores myriad intersectional identities in relation writing. It’s about vocabulary, astrology, to The State, disease, love, sex, failure, and dramaturgy, science, a story within a story within a triumph. Speaking to those who feel disillusioned story. It’s a celestial map to social interaction and by both radical and banal spaces and the failure of connection, a crafted examination of inspired/informed by moments of political crisis: the distortions of religion and piety. Here we, the Hurricane Katrina, The Jena Six, the extrajudicial reader, visit nonsense, pathos, violence, and the executions of Black people, and the periods of flights of fancy of human coexistence. insurgency that erupted in response, this book acts as a synthesis of political life and poetic form.

HILDA HILST (1930–2004) was born in Jaú, a small town in the state of São Paulo. A graduate of law JASMINE GIBSON is a Philly jawn based in Brooklyn. from the University of São Paulo, she dedicated She spends her time thinking about sexy things like herself to literary creation from 1954 to her death. psychosis, desire, and freedom. She is the author of She is recognized as one of the most important and the chapbook Drapetomania. controversial names in Brazilian contemporary literature and received some of Brazil’s most prestigious literary prizes. ALEXANDRA JOY FORMAN is the author of Tall Slim & Erect: Portraits of the American Presidents and translator of Saga of Brutes by Ana Paula Maia. She lives in Rio de Janeiro.

Threat Come Close Rest Coleman, Aaron Little, Margaree University Press of New University Press of New England/Four Way England/Four Way 9781945588044 9781945588105 Stahlecker Selections Stahlecker Selections 72 pages 60 pages paperback paperback $15.95 $15.95 Publish Date: 3/6/2018 Publish Date: 3/6/2018 catalog page: 39.1 catalog page: 40.1

A stunning debut A debut collection collection that interrogates what it means to be unfolding from the discovery of one man’s body in black and male in America. the desert along the U.S./ Mexico border.

In his debut collection, Aaron Coleman writes an Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the American anthem for the 21st century, a full- human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, throated lyric composed of pain, faith, lust and Margaree Little was working for a humanitarian vulnerability. Coleman’s poems comment on and mission near Tucson when, along with a group of interrogate the meaning of home and identity for a volunteers, she found the unidentified dead body black man in America, past and present. Guided by of a man, who a medical examiner would later a belief system comprising an eclectic array of estimate died at least six months before. This invented saints—Trigger, Seduction, Doubt and discovery serves as the jumping-off point to a Who—Coleman’s quest finds answers in the stunning, elegiac series of poems commemorating natural world where [t]he trees teach me how to an imagined, unknown life. Anchored by Little’s break and keep on living. keen eye and unsparing self-reflection, this collection asks us to examine how a single life can AARON COLEMAN is the affect so many others. author of St. Trigger and winner of the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar and Cave Canem Fellow, he received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and is a

Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in their Comparative MARGAREE LITTLE received her BA from Brown Literature PhD program. University and MFA from Warren Wilson College. The recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and various fellowships, scholarships and residencies, Little teaches creative writing at Kenyon College.

The Affliction: A The Will of the Novel in Stories Unseen Young, C. Dale Lynge, Hans University Press of University Press of New England/Four New Way England/International 9781945588068 Polar Institute 198 pages 9780996748025 paperback 17 illus., 6 x 8 ½. $17.95 160 pages Publish Date: paperback 3/6/2018 $20.00 catalog page: 43.1 Publish Date: 11/7/2017 Renowned poet C. catalog page: 26.1 Dale Young’s debut novel opens with an incredible story from a possibly-supernatural conman that The first English translation of a seminal changes everything. Greenlandic novel.

A novel told in short stories, The Affliction is an Two brothers learn their father was murdered by astounding fiction debut by an award-winning poet their stepfather. Upon learning this, they both full of memorable characters across America and depart on journeys of self-discovery leading them the Caribbean. Young beautifully weaves together to the extremes of traditional Greenlandic culture the elaborate stories of many while holding and, finally, transcendence. together a clear focus: people are not always as they seem. HANS LYNCE (September 6, 1906, Nuuk, Greenland - July 2, 1988, Haderslev, Denmark) was born in Nuuk, Greenland in 1906 and died in 1988. He was an author, dramatist, painter, politician, printmaker, and sculptor. Trained as a catechist, tuberculosis forced him to abandon his calling in 1931, beginning a new career as artist and author while also becoming involved in the political forum. He participated in the delegation for negotiations with the Greenlandic Parliamentary Committee. C. DALE YOUNG practices medicine and teaches in Lynge's writing claims its motifs from the ancient the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Inuit world, expressing a strong admiration for Writers. The author of four poetry collections, most traditional indigenous life and for Greenland's recently The Halo (Four Way Books 2016), this is his participation in the modernization of the first novel. He has received fellowships from the Greenlandic people. As a visual artist, Lynge also National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon belongs to the country's finest, contributing to the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the formation of Greenlandic Folk Art. Rockefeller Foundation. He lives in San Francisco. author location: San Francisco CA

Barren Island Century Worm Zoref, Carol Fredson, Todd University Press of New University Press of New England/New Issues England/New Issues Poetry Poetry & Prose & Prose 9781936970575 9781936970537 5 x 8. AWP Award for 98 pages the Novel paperback 428 pages $16.00 paperback Publish Date: 4/10/2018 $18.00 catalog page: 44.1 Publish Date: 10/31/2017 Century Worm wrestles catalog page: 44 with the threshold between witness and participation living amid ethnic and political Winner of the AWP Award for the Novel, selected violence in West Africa’s Ivory Coast. by Paul Harding. How does one remember a world that literally no longer exists? How do the moral Century Worm confronts the impact of Western imperatives to do so correspond to the personal colonial policies and the sundering of nostalgia as needs that make it possible? Told from the point- the collection’s speaker recalls living amid ethnic of-view of Marta Eisenstein Lane on the occasion of and political violence in West Africa’s Ivory Coast. her 80th birthday, Barren Island is the story of a Drawing on human rights reports and personal factory island in New York's Jamaica Bay, where the experience, Century Worm wrestles with the city's dead horses and other large animals were ethical complexities of the lyric speaker at that rendered into glue and fertilizer from the mid-19th threshold between witness and participation. century until the 1930's. The island itself is as Century Worm’s concern with the contours of central to the story as the members of the Jewish, belonging, with intimate relationship across Greek, Italian, Irish, and African-American factory distances, and with negotiating globalized subject families that inhabit it, including those who live positions align it with the work of Fady Joudah and their entire lives steeped in the smell of burning Idra Novey. Its documentarian aspects find kinship animal flesh. The story begins with the arrival of in the recent poetry of Craig Santos Perez, Layli the Eisenstein family, immigrants from Eastern Long-Soldier, and Solmaz Sharif. Europe, and explores how the political and social upheavals of the 1930's affect them and their Todd Fredson is a poet, a neighbors in the years between the stock market critic, and a translator of Afro- crash of October 1929 and the start of World War II francophone and West African ten years later. Labor strife, union riots, the New literature. He is the author of Deal, the World's Fair, and the struggle to save two poetry collections, European Jews from the growing threat of Nazi Century Worm (New Issues terror inform this novel as much as the explosion of Poetry & Prose, forthcoming civil and social liberties between the two World 2018) and The Crucifix-Blocks Wars. (Tebot Bach, 2012), which won the Patricia Bibby First Carol Zoref is a fiction writer and Book Award. He has made French to English essayist. She teaches at Sarah translations of two books by Ivorian poet Josué Lawrence College and New York Guébo, Think of Lampedusa (African Poetry Book University. She lives in New York Series, University of Nebraska Press, 2017) and My City. country, tonight (Action Books, 2016).

Oil Spells The Icelandic Cure Stancek, Claire Marie Moyer, J. D. University Press of New University Press of New England/Omnidawn England/Omnidawn 9781632430557 9781632430519 104 pages 72 pages paperback paperback $17.95 $6.95 Publish Date: 4/3/2018 Publish Date: 4/3/2018 catalog page: 46 catalog page: 47

Counter-conjurations Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize. that query whether poetry itself might be a violent entrance of In the year 2021, Jane Tokugawa leads a U.S. language into the world. delegation from the Centers for Disease Control to investigate a new retroviral gene therapy approved Oil Spell gathers many of today’s dark energies— in Iceland, a shining nation churning out Olympic US drone strikes, environmental disaster—and medalists, chess masters, and brilliant artists. As asks: what kind of tool is poetry to mirror these Tokugawa learns more about the Hratthníf violences? Oil Spell animates diverse influences— protocol from head scientist/founder Ásdís Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals, environmental Lúthersdóttir, she begins to question the motives reports of extinction and endangerment, and the of some of her delegation’s members. Hratthníf Pakistani government assessments of drone strikes. (fast knife) is curing diseases and mental illness, Oil Spell performs the ways in which narratives of changing lives for the better. But who controls it? loss and narratives of everyday joy curl into one What are the limits? As the true mission of her another and mutually contaminate. The beauty delegation becomes clear, Tokugawa makes a that results is a troubled reflection, like a rainbow decision that will affect millions of lives. in a slick of oil.

Claire Marie Stancek is also the author of MOUTHS (2017). With Daniel Benjamin, she co-edited Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016). With Lyn Hejinian and Jane J. D. Moyer lives in Oakland, California, with his Gregory, she edits Nion Editions. She is currently wife, daughter, and mystery-breed dog. He writes completing a PhD in English at the University of science fiction, produces electronic music in two California, Berkeley, where she teaches classes on groups (Jondi & Spesh and Momu), runs a record literature and creative writing. Originally from label (Loöq Records), and blogs at jdmoyer.com. outside Toronto, Ontario, she now lives in His previous stories have appeared in Strange Berkeley, California. Horizons and Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores. He is currently working on his first novel, The Sky author location: Berkeley CA Woman.

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Ghost Of Strata Nguyen, Diana Khoi Chrusciel, Ewa University Press of New University Press of New England/Omnidawn England/Omnidawn 9781632430526 9781632430564 The Omnidawn Open 80 pages 88 pages paperback paperback $17.95 $17.95 Publish Date: 4/3/2018 Publish Date: 4/3/2018 catalog page: 49 catalog page: 47.1 Prose poems that Winner of the animate an exile’s Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize. memories in a scattered universe.

Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or “In Ewa Chrusciel’s first book in English, Strata, an un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned exile’s memories are . . . at once a rapture of attention, unidirectional reaching across time, possession (of being possessed) and defeatingly space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, untotalizable. Strata is . . . a tumultuous revelation and strangers. By working with, in, and around the of how much of the past there still is, right here in photographs that her brother left behind (from the near flight of letters, and of the burn of being in which he cut himself out before his death), Nguyen time at all, the difficulty of catching up with oneself wrestles with what remains: memory, physical in a universe that is never one, but always voids, and her family captured around an empty scattered. Strata is a book of concuspiscences, of space. combings for pleasures, yes, but even more for the Sacred Book it wants to be. In its every line, it shows that the rhapsodic is the right approach to the truth about the world.” —from the foreword by Calvin Bedient. Praise for Ewa Chrusciel’s poetry: “With a wonderful insistence, each phrase in Ewa Chrusciel’s prose poetry can be experienced as a moment of transition, of what Emerson would have called a darting aim. Whenever we visited, my grandfather would put his chair on the road and wait, Chrusciel writes. Kraina na Bosaka. We were the apparition of deer. Pray, why chase each stalk Born in Los Angeles, DIANA KHOI NGUYEN is a poet of wounded light?” —Tony Brinkley, Boston and multimedia artist whose work has appeared Review. widely in literary journals such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, PEN America, and EWA CHRUSCIEL is a bilingual The Iowa Review, among others. A winner of the poet and a translator. Her two 92Y's Discovery / Boston Review 2017 Poetry previous books in English (besides Contest, she is a PhD candidate in creative writing this reprint of Strata) are Of at the University of Denver. Annunciations and Contraband of Hoopoe. She has also published three books in Polish: Tobo ek, Sopi ki (2009), Furkot. She is an associate professor of creative writing and poetry at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire. I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean Lawson, Shayla University Press of New England/Saturnalia 9780989979788 80 pages paperback $16.00 Publish Date: 3/15/2018 catalog page: 49.1

In Shayla Lawson’s second collection, she spins her unique brand of soulful lyrics.

Each poem of I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean riffs on a Frank Ocean song, paying homage to the man but also investigating oceans, The Ocean, and the similarity between heartbreak and break beats by blending Frank Ocean’s musical catalog with personal narrative and social critique. I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean builds upon historicized representations of Ocean’s career in ekphrasis, carefully examining the intent of each composition as a metaphoric parallel to Black American legibility.

SHAYLA LAWSON is the author of A Speed Education in Human Being and the chapbook PANTONE. She grew up in the bluegrass state and has always carried a fondness for oceans. Her work has appeared in print and online at Tin House, GRAMMA, ESPN, Salon, The Offing, Guernica, Colorado Review, Barrelhouse, & MiPOesias. author location: Portland OR

Wayne State University Press Meet Behind Mars Simms, Renee The Official Report on Wayne State University Human Activity Press hunter, kim d. 9780814345122 Wayne State Made in Michigan Writers University Press Series 9780814345207 160 pages Made in Michigan paperback Writers Series $18.99 216 pages Publish Date: 3/12/2018 paperback catalog page: 8 $18.99 Publish Date: Renee Simms’s debut short story collection, Meet 4/16/2018 Behind Mars, is a revealing look at how geography, catalog page: 7 memory, ancestry, and desire influence our personal relationships. In many of her stories, Dystopic fairy tales told through the lens of media Simms exposes her own interest in issues and capitalism run amok. concerning time and space. For example, in Rebel Airplanes, an L.A. engineer works by day on city The Official Report on Human Activity by kim d. sewers and by night on R-C planes that she yearns hunter, which is neither official nor a report, is a to launch into the cosmos. The character-driven short collection of long stories that are linked by stories in Meet behind Mars offer beautiful insight reoccuring characters and their personal struggles into the emotional lives of caretakers, auto in societies rife with bigotry, in which media workers, dancers, and pawn shop employees. In technology and capitalism have run amok. These High Country, a frustrated would-be novelist stories approach the holy trinity of gender, race, considers ditching her family in the middle of the and class at a slant. They are concerned with the desert. In Dive, an adoptee returns to her adoptive process and role of writing intertwined with the home, still haunted by histories she does not know. roles of music and sound. The four stories range Simms writes from the voice of women and girls from the utterly surreal—a factory worker seeking who struggle under structural oppression and recognition for his writing gives birth to a small draws from the storytelling tradition best black elephant with a mysterious message on its represented by writers like Edward P. Jones, whose hide—to the utterly real—a nerdy black teen’s characters have experiences that are specific to summer away from home takes a turn when he black Americans living in the late twentieth and encounters half-white twins on the run from the twenty-first centuries. police. Prominently known as a Detroit poet, hunter creates illusions and magic while pulling Renee Simms is an assistant back the curtain to reveal humanity—the good, professor of African American bad, and absurd. studies and contributing faculty to English studies at University kim d. hunter has published of Puget Sound. Her work has two collections of poetry: been widely published, borne on slow knives and edge appearing in Callaloo, of the time zone. His poetry Southwest Review, North appears in Rainbow Darkness, American Review, Salon, and What I Say, Black Renaissance elsewhere. Noire, 6X6 #35, and elsewhere. author location: Seattle WA Comic Venus: Women that persists even today. Wagner delves into the and Comedy in idea of women's delicate sensibilities, which American Silent Film presumably prevented them from being funny, and Wagner, Kristen in chapter two traces ideas about feminine beauty Anderson and what a woman should express versus what Wayne State these comedic women did express, as Wagner University Press notes, comediennes challenged the assumption 9780814341025 that beauty was a fundamental component of ideal 304 pages femininity. In chapter three, Wagner discusses how paperback comediennes such as Clara Bow, Marie Dressler, $29.99 and Colleen Moore used humor to gain recognition Publish Date: and power through performances of sexuality and 3/5/2018 desire. Women comedians presented sexuality as catalog page: 18 fun and playful, suggesting that personal relationships could be fluid rather than stable. For many people the term silent comedy conjures Chapter four examines silent comediennes' up images of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Buster relationships to the modern world and argues that Keaton's Stoneface, or Harold Lloyd hanging these women exemplified modernity and new precariously from the side of a skyscraper. Even womanhood. The final chapter of Comic Venus people who have never seen a silent film can brings readers to understand comediennes and recognize these comedians at a glance. But what their impact on silent-era cinema, as well as their about the female comedians? Gale Henry, Louise lasting influence on later generations of funny Fazenda, Colleen Moore, Constance Talmadge- women. Comic Venus is the first book to explore these and numerous others were wildly popular the overlooked contributions made by during the silent film era, appearing in countless comediennes in American silent film. Those with a motion pictures and earning top salaries, and yet, taste for film and representations of femininity in their names have been almost entirely forgotten. comedy will be fascinated by the analytical As a consequence, recovering their history is all the connections and thoroughly researched histories of more compelling given that they laid the these women and their groundbreaking foundation for generations of funny women, from movements in comedy and Lucille Ball to Carol Burnett to Tina Fey. These stage. women constitute an essential and neglected sector of film history, reflecting a turning point in Kristen Anderson Wagner women's social and political history. Their talent has written extensively on and brave spirit continues to be felt today, and silent comedy. She teaches Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American film studies in Northern Silent Film seeks to provide a better understanding California. of women's experiences in the early twentieth century, and to better understand and appreciate author location: Northern California the unruly and boundary-breaking women who have followed. The diversity and breadth of archival materials explored in Comic Venus illuminate the social and historical period of comediennes and silent film. In four sections, Kristen Anderson Wagner enumerates the relationship between women and comedy, beginning with the question of why historically women weren't seen as funny or couldn't possibly be funny in the public and male eye, a question Wisdom in Nonsense: Broad Sympathies in a Invaluable Lessons from Narrow World: The My Father Legacy of W.E.B. Du O'Neill, Heather Bois Wayne State University Staton-Taiwo, Sandra Press/University of Alberta Wayne State University Press Press/Broadside Lotus 9781772123777 Press 64 pages 9780940713260 paperback 90 pages $10.95 paperback Publish Date: 2/5/2018 $20.00 catalog page: 37 Publish Date: 2/5/2018 catalog page: 38 Wry and witty stories of unconventional mentors show the foundation of O’Neill’s writing life. Broad Sympathies in a Narrow World: The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois by Dr. Sandra Staton-Taiwo is a Acclaimed novelist Heather O’Neill structures her collection of poetic reflections on the public and book around ten key lessons she learned in private life of an American intellectual giant. For childhood from her father. Wryly humorous and more than half of the 20th Century, Dr. W.E.B. Du generous, she shares memories and stories that Bois (1868 - 1963) was a major voice in every illustrate why it is good to steal things, why one significant debate concerning political policies and should learn to play the tuba, and why one should strategies impacting the lives of African Americans never keep a journal. Her unusual mentors went and other people of color. As the first African well beyond her janitor father to include ex-bank American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard, and then a co- robbers and homeless men. These eccentric founder of the National Association for the teachers taught her about the circuitous alleyways Advancement of Colored People, and editor of its of semantics and the depth of moral philosophy. journal, The Crisis, Du Bois's life's work as a scholar, O’Neill’s intimate recollections make Wisdom in writer, and political spokesperson rendered him Nonsense the perfect companion to her widely the most prestigious African American leader in the praised debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals United States. He also enjoyed international (HarperCollins). Co-published with Canadian acclaim for his leading role in the movements for Literature Centre/Centre de independence of African nations and Pan-African littérature canadienne. unity. Staton-Taiwo's poems celebrate the greatness of Dubois's political vision and Heather O’Neill is a novelist, engagement, while intuiting the unhappy lives of poet, short-story writer, the women who lived in his shadow. Several poems screenwriter, and essayist. Her assess 21st century race relations in the U.S. in the work has been shortlisted for light of DuBois's 20th century insights. many prestigious awards. She lives in Montreal, Quebec. Dr. Sandra Staton-Taiwo is a resident of Montgomery, AL. She earned her doctorate in African American Literature from Howard University in 2001. Dr. Staton-Taiwo has taught English literature and creative writing at several colleges, and is presently a faculty member at Alabama State University. West Virginia University Press a three-mile hole through a sandstone mountain near the town of Gauley Bridge for the Union The Book of The Dead Carbide and Carbon Corporation. The company was Rukeyser, Muriel building an electrometallurgical plant nearby, West Virginia University which needed an unlimited supply of power and Press silica, and the tunnel was determined to be the 9781946684219 cheapest and most efficient source of both. A dam Introduction by would be built to divert a powerful column of the Catherine Venable New River underground and down a gradually Moore. 4.72 x 7.48. 3 sloping tunnel to four electrical generators; the images, 1 map ground-up silica rock harvested during excavation 144 pages would be fed into the furnace in Alloy. Three- paperback quarters of the workers were migratory blacks $17.99 from the South who lived in temporary work Publish Date: 2/1/2018 camps, with no local connections or advocates. catalog page: 3 Turnover on the job was rapid. By some reports, conditions were so dusty that the workers’ drinking Written in response to the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel water turned white as milk, and the glassy air sliced disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, at their eyes. 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Published for the first time alongside persons, making it the worst industrial disaster in photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who US history.' - CATHERINE VENABLE MOORE, from accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, the introduction to Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an the Dead. introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best Muriel Rukeyser (1913– American Essays. If Rukeyser had left us only The 1980) was a prolific Book of the Dead and The Life of Poetry, she would American writer and have made a remarkable contribution to American political activist. In 1935 literature. But the range and daring of her work, its her first collection of generosity of vision, its formal innovations, and its poetry, Theory of Flight, level of energy are unequalled among twentieth- won the Yale Younger century American poets. —Adrienne Rich, Poets Prize, and she introduction to Muriel Rukeyser, Selected Poems. went on to publish Muriel Rukeyser’s words are a painful, haunting twelve more volumes of memorial to an American crime. Catherine Venable poetry. She received a Moore’s graceful essay sets the work in its time National Institute of Arts and Letters award, a and place, and ties it to today’s struggles. — Guggenheim Fellowship, the Levinson Prize for Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature: A Politics Poetry, and the Shelley Memorial Award, among for the Anthropocene. 'HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW: other accolades. Beginning in June of 1930, three thousand men dug

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The Narrative of her husband was killed during the Civil War, she Lucy Ann Lobdell: received a widow’s pension. Ostracized and A Woman’s Case eventually hospitalized in 1880, she underwent for Equality torturous treatment until she confessed to a doctor Ohliger, Lisa that she was a man in all that the name implies, a Macchia (editor) self-serving report the doctor used to promote his Westholme career. Whether Lucy was a lesbian, cross dresser, Publishing or transgender, we don’t know from the historical 9781594163029 record, but as Lisa Macchia Ohliger demonstrates 6 halftones. 5.5 x in The Narrative of Lucy Ann Lobdell: A Woman’s 8.5 Case for Equality, Lucy embodied the nascent 128 pages women’s rights movement. At the same time, and hardcover not far from where Lucy lived and went to school, $22.00 Amelia Bloomer was advocating the right for Publish Date: women to wear pants and was publishing the 5/1/2018 feminist newspaper, The Lily, while Susan B. catalog page: 2 Anthony was pushing for land rights and equal pay for women. All of these issues are found in Lucy’s First time this text will be available since the 1850s. account. Lucy’s life is an illustration of the historical Published in 1855, the complete text of a rare significance and destructive power of gender in autobiography by a woman who was persecuted society, and her narrative bears painful witness to for living in a traditional masculine role. the clash between taboo and survival.

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The Massachusetts Bay colony’s new Management from North governor, William Phips, had established a special Carolina State University, and court to try the suspected witches and the trials an M.A. in history from Kent State University. He is were well under way. No new arrests had taken author of An Ordinary Soldier: Christopher Hite of place for nearly six weeks and residents had every Bedford, Pennsylvania and the Continental Army reason to believe the crisis soon would be over. and Sustainable Genealogy: Separating Fact from However, a middle-aged woman in nearby Andover Fiction in Family Legends. He lives in Providence, lay gravely ill. Her husband suspected witchcraft as Rhode Island. the cause and invited some of the afflicted girls from Salem Village to the town, thinking they could determine whether his suspicions were valid. Not surprisingly, they confirmed his supposition. The first person these girls accused in Andover—a frail and elderly widow bereaved by a series of family tragedies over the previous three years—not only confessed, but stated that there were more than three hundred witches in the region, five times more than the number of suspects already in jail. This touched off a new wave of accusations, confessions, and for- mal charges. Before the witchcraft crisis ended, forty-five residents of Andover found themselves jailed on suspicion of witchcraft—more than the combined total of suspects from Salem Village and the town of Salem. Of these, three were hanged and one died while awaiting execution. Based on extensive primary source research, In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692, by historian and The Doan Gang: The While most of the gang escaped to Canada, several Remarkable History were caught and executed, while one of the of America’s Most leaders, Moses Doan, died in a spectacular shoot- Notorious Loyalist out. 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Fascism means war; the character of a Fascist State is fairly well known. Once it is