Recently Published Spring 2015 Contents General Interest 1 Special Interest 32 Paperbacks 87 The Wild Cat Book Irina Baronova and Distributed Books 120 Everything You Ever Wanted the Ballets Russes to Know about Cats de Monte Carlo Fiona Sunquist and Mel Sunquist Author Index 200 With Photographs by Terry Whittaker Victoria Tennant ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78026-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16716-9 Cloth $35.00/£24.50 Cloth $55.00/£38.50 Title Index 202 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14576-1 Subject Index 204 Ordering Inside Information back cover Planet of the Bugs The Getaway Car Evolution and the Rise of Insects A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Scott Richard Shaw Miscellany ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16361-1 Donald E. Westlake Cloth $27.50/£19.50 Edited and with an Introduction by Levi Stahl E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16375-8 With a Foreword by Lawrence Block ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12181-9 Paper $18.00/£12.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12195-6 The Cultural Lives of Pressed for Time Whales and Dolphins The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism Cover illustration: Map from the collection of John Taylor, Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell Madison. Permission courtesy of Delta Air Lines, Atlanta. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89531-4 Judy Wajcman Cloth $35.00/£24.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-19647-3 Cover design by Alice Reimann E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18742-6 Cloth $24.00/£17.00 Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan CAITLIN O’CONNELL Elephant Don The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse eet Greg. He’s a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. He’s been the intimidating, yet sociable don of his posse of M friends—including Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, and Freddie Fredericks—but one arid summer the tide begins to shift, and the third-ranking Kevin starts to get ambitious, seeking a higher position within this social club. But this is no ordinary tale of gangland betrayal —Greg and his entourage are bull elephants in Etosha National Park, Namibia, where, for the last twenty years, Caitlin O’Connell has been a keen observer of their complicated friendships. In Elephant Don, O’Connell, one of the leading experts on elephant “There surely is no one better than communication and social behavior, takes us inside the little-known O’Connell to tell the stories of the animals world of African male elephants, a world that is steeped in ritual, she knows so well, to see how what they where bonds are maintained by unexpected tenderness punctuated by actually do meshes with extant models violence. Elephant Don tracks Greg and his group of bulls as O’Connell and theories, and what it’s really like to tries to understand the vicissitudes of male friendship, power struggles, conduct this sort of research with a team and play. A frequently heart-wrenching portrayal of commitment, of incredibly dedicated researchers, all of loyalty, and affection between individuals yearning for companion- whom also are unique individuals. I will ship, it vividly captures the incredible repertoire of elephant behavior share this book widely. It is that good.” —Marc Bekoff, and communication. Greg, O’Connell shows, is sometimes a tyrant author of Wild Justice: and other times a benevolent dictator as he attempts to hold on to his The Moral Lives of Animals position at the top. Though Elephant Don is Greg’s story, it is also the story of O’Connell and the challenges and triumphs of field research APRIL 256 p., 44 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10611-3 in environs more hospitable to lions and snakes than scientists. Cloth $26.00/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10625-0 Readers will be drawn into dramatic tales of an elephant society NATURE at once exotic and surprisingly familiar, as O’Connell’s decades of close research reveal extraordinary discoveries about a male society not wholly unlike our own. Surely we’ve all known a Greg or two, and through this book we may come to see them in a whole new light. Caitlin O’Connell is a faculty member at Stanford University School of Medi- cine. She is the author of the acclaimed science memoir The Elephant’s Secret Sense, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and the Smithsonian channel documentary Elephant King. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Globe, National Geographic, and Discover, among many others. She lives in San Diego. general interest 1 MARY MORTON and GEORGE SHACKELFORD Gustave Caillebotte The Painter’s Eye hough largely out of the public eye for more than a century, Gustave Caillebotte (1848–94) has come to be recognized as Tone of the most dynamic and original artists of the impres- sionist movement in Paris. His paintings are favorites of museum- goers, and recent restorations of his work have revealed more color, texture, and detail than was visible before while heightening interest in all of Caillebotte’s artwork. This lush companion volume to the JUNE 272 p., 150 color plates 91/2 x 12 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26355-7 National Gallery of Art’s major new exhibition, coorganized with the Cloth $60.00/£42.00 Kimbell Art Museum, explores the power and technical brilliance of ART his oeuvre. The book features fifty of Caillebotte’s strongest paintings, includ- Exhibition Schedule ing post-conservation images of Paris Street, Rainy Day, along with The ♦ National Gallery of Art Floorscrapers and Pont de l’Europe, all of which date from a particularly Washington, DC June 28–October 4, 2015 fertile period between 1875 and 1882. The artist was criticized at the time for being too realistic and not impressionistic enough, but he was ♦ Kimbell Museum Fort Worth, TX a pioneer in adopting the angled perspective of a modern camera to November 8–February 14, 2016 compose his scenes. Caillebotte’s skill and originality are evident in the book’s reproductions, and the essays offer critical insights into his inspiration and subjects. Mary Morton is curator and head of the Department of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art. George Shackelford is senior deputy director at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. BOSTON. RTS, RTS, TION C BOSTON , 1884. PRIVATE COLLE, 1884. PRIVATE , 1884. MUSEUM OF FINE A RTS, RTS, DOG MAN AT HIS BATH MAN AT D GALLO AND HISD GALLO R RICHA PH ©2014, MUSEUM OF FINE A RA GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE,GUSTAVE PHOTOG 2 general interest CAILLEBOTTE,GUSTAVE PHILIP BALL Invisible The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen f offered the chance—by cloak, spell, or superpower—to be invis- ible, who wouldn’t want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea Iof stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. As esteemed science writer Philip Ball reveals in this book, the story of invisibility is not so much a matter of how it might be achieved but of why we want it and what we would do with it. In this lively look at a timeless idea, Ball provides the first compre- hensive history of our fascination with the unseen. This sweeping nar- Praise for the UK edition rative moves from medieval spell books to the latest nanotechnology, from fairy tales to telecommunications, from camouflage to ghosts to “As a harvest of fascinating facts delivered the dawn of nuclear physics and the discovery of dark energy. Along with sharp wit and insight, it is hard to the way, Invisible tells many unusual and little-known stories about fault. And like all good works of cultural medieval priests who blamed their misdeeds on spirits; the Cock Lane history, it reveals how extraordinary the ghost, which intrigued both Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens; ordinary is when viewed from a different the attempts by Victorian scientist William Crookes to detect physic angle.” —Telegraph forces using tiny windmills; novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s belief that he was unseen when in his dressing gown; and military efforts to “Invisible is the kind of book I really enjoy. hide tanks and ships during WWII. Bringing in such voices as Plato and For one thing, the writing is crisp and Shakespeare, Ball provides not only a scientific history but a cultural often witty (a virtue not as common as it one—showing how our simultaneous desire for and suspicion of the should be among nonfiction works). For invisible has fueled invention while raising a host of moral questions. another it is packed with abstruse infor- In this unusual and clever book, as sight meets insight, Ball makes mation. Most crucially, Ball’s extensive visible how our fantasies about being unseen—and seeing the unseen— research, rather than being a parade of reveal surprising truths about who we are. intellectual swank, works to encourage connections and make the reader think, Philip Ball is a freelance writer who lives in London. His many books include Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything and Serving the Reich: The another experience that is rarer than it Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler, both also published by the University might be.” of Chicago Press. —Observer APRIL 336 p., 70 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23889-0 Cloth $27.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23892-0 SCIENCE HISTORY COBE/EU general interest 3 MARGARET DOODY Jane Austen’s Names Riddles, Persons, Places n Jane Austen’s works, a name is never just a name.