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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS
173028 Ambition, a History: From Vice to
Virtue
173019 Building a New Jerusalem: John
Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds
King, William Casey
Bremer, Francis J.
Ambition today is regarded as the fuel of the American Dream, but
at the time of the nation's founding, it was seen as a dangerous
vice, "a canker on the soul." This engaging book explores ambition's surprising transformation, tracing attitudes from classical
antiquity to early modern Europe to the New World and America's
founding. 256pgs. • 2013
Co-founder of the colony of New Haven, John Davenport has been
neglected in studies that view early New England primarily from a
Massachusetts viewpoint. This volume explores his crucial advocacy for religious reform in England and the Netherlands before his
emigration, his engagement with an international community of
scholars and clergy, and his significant contributions to colonial
America. 440pgs. • 2012
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171215 America Bewitched: Witchcraft after
Salem
Davies, Owen
The story of witchcraft in post-Salem America, Davies reveals, wasn't just a matter of scary fire-side tales, Halloween legends, and
superstitions; it continued to be a matter of life and death. If anything, witchcraft disputes multiplied as hundreds of thousands of
immigrants poured into North America, people for whom witchcraft was still a heinous crime. 384pgs. • 2013
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180134 American Arsenal: A Century of
Waging War
Coffey, Patrick
Examines America's military transformation from an isolationist
state to a world superpower. Beginning with Edison's work on submarine technology, Coffey moves from World War I to the present
conflicts in the Middle East, covering topics from chemical
weapons, strategic bombing, and the nuclear standoff with the
Soviet Union, to "smart" bombs, hand-held anti-aircraft missiles,
and drones. 304pgs. • 2014
◆ • Oxford University • C • $31.95 / $7.98
050556 American Crucible: Race and Nation
in the Twentieth Century
Gerstle, Gary
Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants,
or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of
the "right" ancestry? In this sweeping look at 20th-century America,
Gary Gerstle traces the forces of civic and racial nationalism, arguing
that both have profoundly shaped our society. 454pgs. • 2001
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064234 American Law in the 20th Century
180912 Building the Land of Dreams: New
Orleans and the Transformation of Early
America
Faber, Eberhard L.
In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's
American empire. By the 1820s, its levees packed with cotton and
sugar, the city had become the unquestioned urban capital of the
antebellum South. Examining this remarkable period filled with
ideological struggle, class politics, and powerful personalities, this
narrative biography captures a fascinating city at a crucial turning
point in its history. 456pgs. • 2015
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194402 The Burglary: The Discovery of J.
Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Medsger, Betty
In 1971 a group of activists broke into an FBI office in
Pennsylvania and made off with files that confirmed what many
had long suspected: that J. Edgar Hoover was operating his own
unconstitutional shadow Bureau of Investigation. Medsger, the first
reporter to receive the FBI files, here reveals the destructive power
of excessive government secrecy and spying as well as the potential
power of non-violent resistance. 608pgs. • 2014
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157118 California in the 1930s: The WPA
Guide to the Golden State
Federal Writers Project
Describing the history, culture, and roadside attractions of the
1930s, this New Deal-era guide to California features writing by
luminaries such as San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, composer-writer-hobo Harry Partch, and authors Tillie Olsen and Kenneth
Patchen. 756pgs. • 2013
Friedman, Lawrence M.
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This successor to Friedman's landmark A History of American Law
chronicles the explosion of law over the past century into almost
every aspect of American life, and reveals the extent to which
social transformations have contributed to significant shifts within
the legal system. 722pgs. • 2002
◆ • Yale • P • $40.00 / $8.98
001994 American Revolution Considered as a
Social Movement: Four Lectures
Jameson, J. Franklin
Based on a series of four lectures delivered at Princeton University
in 1925, this landmark volume argues that the most salient feature
of the American Revolution was not the war for independence
from Britain; it was, rather, the struggle between aristocratic values
and those of the common people who tended toward a leveling
democracy. 105pgs. • 1968
101110 The Chinatown Trunk Mystery:
Murder, Miscegenation and Other Dangerous
Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York
City
Lui, Mary Ting Yi
In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of 19-year-old Elsie
Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at
large. Through the lens of this unsolved murder, Mary Ting Yi Lui
offers a fascinating snapshot of social and sexual relations between
Chinese and non-Chinese populations in turn-of-the-century New
York City. 320pgs. • 2007
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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS
135559 Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the
Image of American Democracy
160025 George F. Kennan: An American Life
Dudziak, Mary L.
Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive
access to his archives, Gaddis delivers a revelatory biography of its
troubled mastermind. The result is a remarkably revealing view of
how this greatest of Cold War strategic thinkers came to doubt his
own strategy. 800pgs. • 2011
During the Cold War, American racism was a major concern of US
allies, a chief Soviet propaganda theme, and a stumbling point to
American strategies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Interpreting
postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature, Mary Dudziak argues
that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including
desegregation. 352pgs. • 2011
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✪ 191983 Down for the Count: Dirty
Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy
in America
Gumbel, Andrew
America is unique among established Western democracies in its
inability to run clean, transparent elections. Exploring the tawdry
history of elections in the US -- a chronicle of votes bought, stolen,
suppressed, lost, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated up
to the Supreme Court -- Gumbel explains why we are now experiencing the worst backslide in voting rights in more than a century.
304pgs. • 2016
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Gaddis, John Lewis
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187183 The Great Exception: The New Deal
and the Limits of American Politics
Cowie, Jefferson
In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, the US
government achieved a unique level of equality, using its considerable resources on behalf of working Americans in ways not seen
before or since. If there is to be a comparable battle for collective
economic rights today, Cowie argues, it must build on an understanding of the unique political foundations of the New Deal.
288pgs. • 2016
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185522 The Great Rent Wars: New York,
1917-1929
Fogelson, Robert M.
181212 Five Days in August: How World War
II Became a Nuclear War
Gordin, Michael D.
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because
the atomic bombs forced Japan to surrender. Gordin presents a
different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand
the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies
were almost as stunned by the surrender as the Japanese were by
the attack, and that experts were skeptical about whether the
bomb would work at all. 232pgs. • 2015
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
The story of the landlord-tenant battles of post-World War I New
York. These conflicts, triggered by a housing shortage, prompted
landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and
spurred the state legislature, a conservative body dominated by
upstate Republicans, to impose rent control, a radical and
unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations.
512pgs. • 2013
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143460 The Idea of America: Reflections on
the Birth of the United States
Wood, Gordon S.
JOSEPH J. ELLIS
141845 Founding Brothers:
The Revolutionary Generation
Ellis, Joseph J.
In this landmark work of history, the
National Book Award-winning author of
American Sphinx explores how a group of
greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals -Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin,
Washington, Adams, and Madison -- confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the
course for our nation. 304pgs. • 2002
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✪ 195034 The Quartet: Orchestrating the
Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Ellis, Joseph J.
A gripping and dramatic portrait of one of the most crucial and
misconstrued periods in American history: the years between the
end of the Revolution and the formation of the federal government.
Ellis relates the story of this second American founding and the
men most responsible for it -- George Washington, Alexander
Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. 320pgs. • 2015
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In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, a renowned historian explores the ideological origins of the revolution and the
founders' attempts to forge an American democracy. As Wood
reveals, while the founders hoped to create a virtuous republic of
yeoman farmers and disinterested leaders, they instead gave birth
to a sprawling, licentious, and materialistic popular democracy.
400pgs. • 2011
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055539 Inventing the "Great Awakening"
Lambert, Frank
Beginning in the mid-1730s, supporters and opponents of the
evangelical revival known as the First Great Awakening commented
on the extraordinary nature of what one observer called the "great
ado," with its extemporaneous outdoor preaching, newspaper
publicity, and rallies of up to 20,000 participants. Frank Lambert
offers an overview of this important episode and proposes a new
explanation of its origins. 320pgs. • 2000
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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS
192243 The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of
Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
127769 Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy
of an Infamous Trial
Perlstein, Rick
Miller, James A.
A dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown amid the tumultuous political and economic events of the
1970s. Against a backdrop of melodramas, from the Arab oil
embargo to Patty Hearst to the near-bankruptcy of New York City,
Perlstein examines a turbulent era in which Americans began
thinking about their nation in new ways. 880pgs. • 2014
In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white
women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory
evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight of the defendants
were sentenced to death. This volume explores how this case has
embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and became a
lens for perceptions of race, class, sexual politics, and justice.
296pgs. • 2009
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106747 Making a New Deal: Industrial
Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
NEW EDITION
Cohen, Lizabeth
187194 The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The
Life and Times of George McGovern
Knock, Thomas J.
Examines the process through which ordinary Chicago factory
workers became effective unionists and participants in national
politics. Cohen demonstrates that although these workers may not
have been "political" in traditional terms, they demonstrated their
political loyalties in other ways, overcoming longstanding divisions
in order to mount new kinds of collective action. 494pgs. • 2007
The first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient
critic of the Vietnam War. Knock vividly describes McGovern's harrowing missions over Nazi Germany as a B-24 bomber pilot, and reveals
how his combat experiences motivated him to earn a PhD in history
and stoked his ambition to run for Congress. 544pgs. • 2016
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185643 Marlborough's America
Webb, Stephen Saunders
Scholars have largely characterized the 18th-century AngloAmerican empire as commercial in economics, liberal in politics,
and somnambulant in an era of "salutary neglect." Saunders Webb
here argues that the American provinces, under the spur of war,
became capitalist, coercive, and aggressive, owing to the vigorous
leadership of career army officers trained and nominated by their
captain-general, the first Duke of Marlborough. 608pgs. • 2013
◆ • Yale • C • $100.00 / $12.98
051206 Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era
in Perspective
179935 Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election
of 1940 and the Politics of War
Moe, Richard
Focuses on a turning point in American history: FDR's decision to
seek a third term. Often overlooked between the passage and
implementation of the New Deal and the bombing of Pearl Harbor,
that decision was far from inevitable, but after the Republicans
nominated Wendell Willkie in July 1940, FDR became convinced
that no other Democrat could both maintain the legitimacy of the
New Deal and mobilize the nation for war. 368pgs. • 2013
◆ • Oxford University • C • $29.95 / $6.98
Fried, Richard M.
STUDS TERKEL
Together with coverage of such famous incidents as the ordeal of
the Hollywood Ten and the Alger Hiss case, Fried also portrays a
wealth of little-known but telling episodes involving victims and
victimizers of anti-communist politics at the state and local levels
He reveals the effects of McCarthyism on the lives of thousands of
ordinary people, from teachers and lawyers to college students,
factory workers, and janitors. 243pgs. • 1991
✪ 112409 The Good War: An Oral History
of World War II
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180756 The Oxford
Encyclopedia of American
Cultural and Intellectual
History
Rubin, Joan Shelley & Scott E.
Casper, eds.
This two-volume reference work covers
popular entertainment from minstrel
shows to video games, middlebrow ventures like Chautauqua lectures and book clubs, and preoccupations like "perfectionism" and "wellness" that continue to influence attitudes in the present. It incorporates recent scholarly
insights into the writings of political scientists, philosophers,
feminist theorists, social reformers, and others whose works
have furnished the underpinnings of our civic activities and personal concerns. 1504pgs. • 2013
◆ • Oxford University • C • $395.00 / $129.98
Terkel, Studs
With this Pulitzer Prize-winning volume Terkel expanded his
scope to the global and the historical, producing a masterpiece
of oral history as well as a testament to the experience of war.
As always, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their events through which they lived.
608pgs. • 1997
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✪ 074519 Hard Times: An
Oral History of the Great
Depression
Terkel, Studs
In this unique recreation of one of the
most dramatic periods in modern
American history, Studs Terkel recaptures
the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its
complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, and writers, from
those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, the book reveals how the Depression affected the lives of
those who experienced it. 480pgs. • 2005
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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS
192412 A Savage War: A Military History of
the Civil War
175772 Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers,
Civilians, and the American Way of War
Murray, Williamson & Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
Carr, Matthew
In a masterful narrative that ranges from the first shots fired at
Fort Sumter to the surrender at Appomattox, Williamson Murray
and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh bring every aspect of the battlefield
vividly to life. They paint indelible portraits of Abraham Lincoln,
Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and other major figures whose leadership, judgment, and personal character played
decisive roles in the fate of a nation. 616pgs. • 2016
Opening with an account of General Sherman's decision to turn
his sights on the South's civilian population in order to break the
back of the Confederacy, Matthew Carr shows how this strategy
became the central preoccupation of war planners in the 20th
century and beyond. He offers a stunning and lucid assessment of
the impact Sherman's slash-and-burn policies have had on subsequent wars, including in the Philippines, World War II, Korea,
Vietnam, and elsewhere. 336pgs. • 2015
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✪ 033676 Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender,
& Citizenship in the Early Republic
190855 Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade
Made America
Burgett, Bruce
Andreas, Peter
Drawing on texts ranging from George Washington's Farewell
Address and Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard to Hannah
Foster's The Coquette and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of
a Slave Girl, Burgett shows how the sentimental literary culture of
the early republic relied on readers' affective, passionate, and
embodied responses to fictive characters and situations in order to
produce political effects. 213pgs. • 1998
Far from being a new and unprecedented danger to America, the
illicit underside of globalization is actually an old American tradition. As Andreas shows, it goes back not just decades but centuries, and its impact has been decidedly double-edged, subverting
US laws but also helping to fuel America's evolution from a remote
British colony to the world's pre-eminent superpower. 352pgs. •
2013
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051197 Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves:
Race, War, and Monument in NineteenthCentury America
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At the same time that the Civil War challenged the nation to reexamine the meaning of freedom, Americans began to erect public
monuments as never before. Looking at monuments built and
unbuilt, Savage shows how an old image of black slavery was perpetuated while a new image of the common white soldier was
launched in public space. 270pgs. • 1997
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HAWAII
127620 Colonizing Hawai'i:
The Cultural Power of Law
Merry, Sally Engle
043132 Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the
Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of
Revolution
Breen, T. H.
Reveals how indigenous Hawaiian law was
displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American
law as global movements of capitalism,
Christianity, and imperialism swept across
the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of
discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns,
work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of
Hawai'i. 364pgs. • 1999
The great Tidewater planters of 18th-century Virginia who were
among the fathers of the American Revolution were also anxious
tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, transAtlantic shipping risks, and uneasy relations with English agents. T.
H. Breen's study of their world examines the value-laden relationships that led from agrarian experience to political protest, and
finally to a break with a political and economic system they
believed threatened both their personal independence and their
honor. 216pgs. • 2001
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150514 Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last
Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First
Imperial Venture
135480 The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea
Party's Revolution and the Battle over
American History
Siler, Julia Flynn
Lepore, Jill
Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Siler
brings to life the clash between the aboriginal Polynesian population of Hawaii and the relentlessly expanding capitalist powers who
arrived in the wake of Captain Cook. Portraits of royalty, rogues,
sugar barons, and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the
Hawaiian kingdom's rise and fall. 415pgs. • 2013
A distinguished historian's wry and bemused look at American history as seen by the far right, from the "rant heard round the
world" that launched the Tea Party to the Texas School Board's
adoption of a social-studies curriculum that teaches that the United
States was established as a Christian nation. 232pgs. • 2011
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ANTH ROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY
105020 Ancient Wine: The Search for the
Origins of Viniculture
100409 Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The
Astronomy of Lost Civilizations
McGovern, Patrick E.
Krupp, Edwin C.
The first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the earliest
stages of vinicultural history and prehistory, which extends back
into the Neolithic period and beyond. Elegantly written and richly
illustrated, it opens new chapters in the fascinating story of wine
by drawing upon recent archaeological discoveries, molecular and
DNA sleuthing, and the texts and art of long-vanished cultures.
365pgs. • 2007
An authoritative survey of astroarchaeology, by the director of the
Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Krupp explores ancient and
prehistoric observatories from sites in China and Babylonia to
Scotland and Peru. He retells sky god myths from many cultures,
discusses astronomy's influence on funerary rites, and profiles
such sacred places as Stonehenge and the kivas of the Southwest.
With 208 illustrations. 416pgs. • 2003
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049130 The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Whitley, James
An up-to-date synthesis of current research on the material culture
of Archaic and Classical Greece, eras whose rich and diverse material has provoked admiration and wonder, but seldom analyzed as
a key to understanding Greek civilization. Whitley uses material
evidence to address central historical questions for which literary
evidence is often insufficient. 484pgs. • 2001
◆ • Dover • P • $21.95 / $8.98
142186 The Incas
Morris, Craig & Adriana von Hagen
The most up-to-date and authoritative account available of the
Incas, covering their political system, economy, religion, architecture, art, and technology. The authors explore not just famous sites
such as Machu Picchu but all the major regional settlements.
Includes 49 full-color and 140 black-and-white illustrations.
256pgs. • 2012
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126296 Before Scotland: The Story of
Scotland Before History
Moffat, Alistair
This story of early Scotland follows the movement of hunter-gatherers north, the growth of fishing, and the establishment of farming.
The author also covers cultural evolution in Scotland, and the
roles played by megalith builders, Celts, Picts, and others. 352pgs.
• 2005
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190410 The Oxford Handbook of the
European Bronze Age
Harding, Anthony & Harry Fokkens, eds.
This comprehensive survey of a pivotal period in prehistory ranges
over settlements, burials, hoards and hoarding, monumentality,
rock art, cosmology, gender, and trade, and includes a series of
articles on specific technologies and crafts such as transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, and weighing. Its geographical coverage
spans from Ireland to Russia, and from Scandinavia to Sicily and
Greece. 984pgs. • 2013
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055322 Bioarchaeology: Interpreting
Behavior from the Human Skeleton
Larsen, Clark Spencer
Human remains recovered from archaeological sites can help us
interpret lifetime events such as disease, physiological stress,
injury and violent death, physical activity, tooth use, diet, and
demographic history of once-living populations. The first comprehensive synthesis of the emerging field of bioarchaeology, this volume will be a unique resource for students and researchers interested in biological and physical anthropology or archaeology.
461pgs. • 1999
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084955 Culture in Practice: Selected Essays
Sahlins, Marshall
Collects Sahlins's academic and political writings from the 60s
through the 90s. Opens with his early general studies of culture,
economy, and human nature, moves to his reportage on the war in
Vietnam and the antiwar movement, the event that most strongly
affected his thinking about cultural specificity, and offers his more
globally aware works on indigenous peoples, especially those of
the Pacific islands. 646pgs. • 2000
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126033 Life among the Anthros and Other
Essays
EDITED BY FRED INGLIS
Geertz, Clifford
Clifford Geertz was perhaps the most influential anthropologist
of our time, but his influence extended far beyond his field to
encompass many facets of contemporary life. In this collection
of pieces from the New York Review of Books, he writes eloquently and arrestingly about such figures as Gandhi, Foucault,
and Genet, and on topics as varied as Islam, globalization, feminism, and the failings of nationalism. 304pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $46.95 / $29.98
051374 Negara: TheatreState in 19th Century Bali
Geertz, Clifford
The 19th-century Balinese state did not specialize in tyranny, conquest, or effective
administration; instead, it emphasized spectacle. Here Geertz applies his widely influential method of cultural interpretation to
the myths, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols
of a precolonial state, one which defies easy conceptualization
by the standard Western approaches to understanding politics.
256pgs. • 1980
▲ • Princeton • P • $47.95 / $24.98
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053836 Prehistory of the Americas
SECOND EDITION
Fiedel, Stuart J.
164540 Rough and Tumble: Aggression,
Hunting, and Human Evolution
Pickering, Travis Rayne
Describes how different regions of the New World evolved, affected
by a variety of factors ranging from population growth to climate
change. Discussion of the development of American archaeology
from the early European encounters with native Americans to the
"new" archaeology is also included. 400pgs. • 1992
◆ • Cambridge • P • $59.99 / $34.98
125651 Primates and Philosophers: How
Morality Evolved
Argues that the advent of ambush hunting marked a milestone in
human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that
allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. Pickering
challenges the traditional link between aggression and human predation, however, arguing that aggressive attack was a hopeless tactic for early human hunters, who were small, weak, and slow-footed in comparison with their prey. 224pgs. • 2013
◆ • California • C • $49.95 / $8.98
De Waal, Frans
In this provocative book, a primatologist argues that modern-day
evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world,
emphasizing our "selfish" genes. Science has thus exacerbated our
reciprocal habits of blaming nature when we act badly and labeling the good things we do as "humane." 232pgs. • 2009
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ARCH ITECTU RE
108721 Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of
St. Denis and Its Art Treasures
186326 The Buildings and Designs of Andrea
Palladio
Panofsky, Erwin
Scamozzi, Ottavio Bertotti
Incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin
Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968. Gerda PanofskySoergel has updated the commentary in the light of new material,
and has obtained some additional photographs. The illustrations
include a new ground plan and a new section of the chevet of the
Abbey Church, both drawn under the supervision of Sumner
McKnight Crosby. 315pgs. • 1979
In 1776, architect and scholar Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi began
recording and analyzing Palladio's designs. The result, presented as a
single volume for the first time in English, documents the complete
works of Palladio, from his well-known villas of the Veneto to lesserknown engineering structures like bridges. 328pgs. • 2014
▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $22.98
125653 Architecture: Elements, Materials,
Form
Prina, Francesca
With beautiful color photographs on virtually every page, this book
provides an easy-to-use visual grammar of the nearly infinite variety with which the elements of architecture have been used in
buildings across the ages and around the world, from Western
Europe and Greece to the Americas, the Middle East, China, Japan,
India, and Africa. 408pgs. • 2009
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167892 Great Houses of England and Wales
Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh
Showcasing some of the most splendid examples of English art and
architecture, from medieval stone to the beauties of the English
Renaissance, the classical grandeur of the 18th century, and the
excesses of High Victorian taste, this volume includes work by
such masters as Inigo Jones, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Thomas
Chippendale, William Kent, Robert Adam, and Lancelot "Capability"
Brown. 424pgs. • 2014
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170376 Great Houses of London
Stourton, James
180169 The Battle for the Life and Beauty of
the Earth: A Struggle Between Two WorldSystems
Alexander, Christopher, et al.
In recent years, writes Christopher Alexander, our buildings
have become progressively more sterile, rarely providing the
kind of environment in which people are emotionally nourished, genuinely happy, and deeply contented. Here he introduces a way of building that includes the best current practices,
enriched by a range of new processes that support the houses,
communities, and health of all who inhabit the Earth. 528pgs.
• 2012
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Marvels of English architecture, London's grandest houses are
almost entirely unknown. From the romantic 17th-century
Ashburnham House, nestling in the shadow of Westminster Abbey,
through the splendid 18th-century aristocratic palaces of the West
End, to the curious and quirky arts and crafts houses of Holland
Park and Kensington, to the exuberant postmodern interiors of the
last 30 years, each house has a story to tell. 352pgs. • 2012
▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $65.00 / $29.98
041481 A History of Architectural Theory:
From Vitruvius to the Present
Kruft, Hanno-Walter
This comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural
theory researches, organizes, and analyzes the major statements of
architectural theorists over the last 2,000 years. 706pgs. • 1994
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186956 The Japanese House Reinvented
Jodidio, Philip
Though Japanese architects have to contend with very particular
constraints, from tiny plots in crowded urban contexts to everpresent seismic threats, their innovative solutions to the creation of
space and stable structures, combined with their close attention to
materials, technology, and natural light, have resulted in homes
that are internationally admired. This survey, illustrated with color
photographs and plans, is a powerful demonstration of Japan's
enduring commitment to design innovation. 304pgs. • 2015
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167843 The Landscape Imagination:
Collected Essays of James Corner 1990-2010
Corner, James
Cormer's highly influential writings of the 1990s, together with a
post-millennial series of built projects such as New York's High
Line, prove that the best way to address the problems facing our
cities is to embrace their industrial past. Collecting Corner's writings from the early 1990s through 2010, this volume addresses
critical issues in landscape architecture and reflects on how his
writings have informed his built work. 320pgs. • 2014
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $60.00 / $25.98
192079 Prefabulous World: Energy-Efficient
and Sustainable Homes Around the Globe
Koones, Sheri
The rising cost of fuel and the growing commitment to protecting the
environment have sparked exciting innovations in prefab home construction. With floor plans, multiple exterior and interior images, and
an extensive resource section listing architects, builders, and suppliers, this book reveals how living in a beautiful, well-built, energy-efficient home is achievable for us all. 300pgs. • 2014
◆ • Harry N. Abrams • C • $35.00 / $7.98
065872 Remarkable Structures: Engineering
Today's Innovative Buildings
Lyall, Sutherland
Explores the critical collaboration between architect and engineer
through discussion of 25 innovative recent projects from around
the world. Each project is accompanied by detailed architectural
and engineering drawings, color photographs, and an explanatory
text that describes the process of design and construction.
224pgs. • 2002
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✪ 165147 The Story of Modern Architecture
Favole, Paolo
Architecture's most diverse period, Modernism encompasses
structures as varied as the Sydney Opera House and the Empire
State Building. Chronologically arranged and it including some of
20th century's most exciting buildings, this volume sorts through
the numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural
styles of the era. 144pgs. • 2012
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100322 Visions of Heaven: The Dome in
European Architecture
Stephenson, David
Showcases more than 120 images of domes from the 2nd to the
20th century, including the Roman Pantheon, the Byzantine
churches of Turkey, the great domes of the Renaissance, the decorative cupolas of the Baroque and the Rococo ages, and a 19thcentury synagogue in Hungary. Stephenson's brilliantly calibrated
exposures present the complex geometrical structures as they have
never been seen before. 192pgs. • 2005
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✪ 194159 Visual Tips for Eco Living
Costa, S., et al., eds.
From solar roofs to sinks that flush the toilet by recycling their
gray water, there are any number of strategies for transforming a
home into a sustainable "eco-house." This book is a complete
guide to the structural features and interior and exterior elements
that can make a house healthy both for its residents and for the
environment. 492pgs. • 2015
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NEW YORK CITY
186391 The Dakota
Alpern, Andrew
Arguably the best-known residential address in the world, the
Dakota is home to dozens of New York City's most famous
artists, performers, and executives. Andrew Alpern here tells the
fascinating story of how Singer sewing magnate Edward Clark
dared to build an apartment building luxurious enough to coax
the city's wealthy from their mansions downtown to what were
then the swamplands of the Upper West Side. 224pgs. • 2015
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118304 New York 2000:
Architecture and Urbanism
Between the Bicentennial
and the Millennium
Stern, Robert A. M., et al.
New York City demands the best in innovative architectural design, balancing the
pressure to build with the need to preserve the historic fabric of the city. Stern
and his colleagues document the milestones in the city's architectural history -- the development of Battery Park City, the
rebirth of Harlem and Times Square, the creation of the cultural
precinct around the new MoMA, and the reclaiming of the
waterfront along the East and Hudson Rivers as recreational
parkland. 1520pgs. • 2006
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167715 Prospect Park: Olmsted and Vaux's
Brooklyn Masterpiece
Colley, David P. & Elizabeth Keegin Colley
Right in the heart of one of the nation's most densely populated
urban areas sits an idyllic realm of graceful meadows, dense
woods, placid lakes, and fresh air. Presenting a wealth of archival
and newly commissioned photography and insightful text, this volume traces the park's colorful history from its creation in the mid19th century to its decline and subsequent restoration. 208pgs. •
2013
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ART & DESIGN
183887 21st-Century Portraits
194360 Allen Jones Works
Mullins, Charlotte
Lambirth, Andrew
With more than 150 illustrations by 50 artists, this volume
explores new developments in the representation of the human
form and face as well as the continuing appeal of commissioned
portraiture. The contributors include Sophie Calle, Lucian Freud,
Leibovitz, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, Thomas Struth, and many
others. 240pgs. • 2014
Tackling issues of gender and power, Allen Jones established his
reputation in the 1960s as a Pop artist. Since then he has
remained true to his these roots, developing a rich vein of imagery
and exploring the boundaries between commercial and fine art.
The first publication to survey his career, this volume covers his
fine art as well as his work for the theater, ballet, and film.
140pgs. • 2006
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025452 After the End of Art: Contemporary
Art & the Pale of History
182418 Antonio López
Danto, Arthur C.
Solana, Guillermo
Represents a reformulation of his original insight that art ended in
the 60s, showing how art has deviated from the narrative course
defined originally in the Renaissance, covering art history, pop art,
the future of museums, and people's art. 239pgs. • 1997
Antonio López is hyper-realism's greatest living exponent, and one
of the finest painters of the past hundred years. Published on the
occasion of the artist's landmark exhibition at the Museo ThyssenBornemisza in Madrid, this generous overview constitutes a selfportrait of a genuine icon of contemporary painting. 264pgs. •
2011
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038543 Art and Illusion: A Study in the
Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Gombrich, E. H.
A classic that explores the meeting ground between science and
the humanities, Art and Illusion examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of
visual perception information and learning. 466pgs. • 2000
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✪ 194156 The A to Z of Mod
Hewitt, Paolo & Mark Baxter
✪ 195250 Art Deco Ceramics in Britain
Casey, Andrew
Combining visual savvy with cultural anthropology, this guide to
the many aspects of Mod style takes an alphabetical approach
to one of the most enduring youth cults. Beginning with A bout
de souffle and ending with Zoot Money, authors and Mod
experts Paolo Hewitt and Mark Baxter touch on every facet of
the movement. 304pgs. • 2012
Focusing on the art deco ceramics that were produced by the
British pottery industry during the late 1920 and early 1930s, this
volume features high-quality new photographic and archival illustrations including advertising and company publicity material.
280pgs. • 2007
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✪ 194155 Fashion Muse:
The Inspiration Behind
Iconic Design
Mancoff, Debra N.
Examining the many iterations a muse
can take -- Greek goddess, fairy-tale
princess, wife, lover, supermodel,
celebrity, and artist -- this volume
presents pairings both familiar and
surprising, including the first couturier Charles Frederick Worth
and his wife; Elsa Schiaparelli and the Surrealists; Yves Saint
Laurent and Piet Mondrian; Oleg Cassini and Jacqueline
Kennedy; and Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy.
208pgs. • 2014
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✪ 195254 John Bates: Fashion Designer
Lester, Richard & Marit Allen
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s John Bates dominated the
British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on
what the UK wore. 176pgs. • 2008
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185810 Art Nouveau Documents: Modern
Applied Arts 1902-1908
Pudor, Heinrich & Horst Makus
Reprints the contents of Heinrich Pudor's lavish landmark magazine Documents of Modern Applied Arts, which was originally
published from 1902-1908. The 1,200 illustrations present
more than 1,500 individual artistic items from the German and
international art nouveau movements, including furniture,
metal, glass, ceramics, and jewellery as well as textile, poster,
and book art. 256pgs. • 2012
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189401 The Art Nouveau Poster
Weill, Alain
The most comprehensive survey to date, featuring an informative and accessible text and more than 400 illustrations from
Britain, the Continent, and the US. A final chapter looks at the
revival of interest in the 1960s following major retrospective
exhibitions of Alphonse Mucha and Aubrey Beardsley, and features work from the psychedelic era. 304pgs. • 2015
▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $50.00 / $21.98
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GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMICS
171173 Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of
172916 Ghost World
Clowes, Daniel
New York
Delany, Samuel R. & Mia Wolff
Acclaimed science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany's autobiographical graphic novel, drawn by Mia Wolff, about how he met a
homeless man, Dennis, who became his partner. Wolff's pen-andink work not only expressionistically represents the characters'
"body language" and the bustling New York setting, but is also
filled with impish art references and visual puns. 72pgs. • 2013
◆ • Fantagraphics • C • $14.99 / $5.98
Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book
Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this quasi-autobiographical
graphic novel follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid
and Becky, who are facing the prospect of growing up, and more
importantly, growing apart. 80pgs. • 2001
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188199 Peanuts Every Sunday 1961-1965
Schulz, Charles M.
188235 Cartoons for Victory
FOREWORD BY BOB DOLE
Bernard, Warren, ed.
Snoopy steals the spotlight in these carefully color-restored 1960s
Peanuts comic strips. 288pgs. • 2015
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Revealing how Superman, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and other
characters helped fight the propaganda war in World War II, this
volume showcases wartime work by Charles Addams (The Addams
Family), Harold Gray (Little Orphan Annie), Harvey Kurtzman (Mad
magazine), Will Eisner, and many other known cartoonists. More
than 90 percent of the cartoons and comics in this book have never
been reprinted since their first publication. 258pgs. • 2015
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155091 Dr. Seuss and Co. Go to War: The
World War II Editorial Cartoons of America's
Leading Comic Artists
171180 Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and
His Dead Friend and Other Classic Comics
Rodrigues, Charles
"Black as sin and decay and perversion" is how National
Lampoon editor Tony Hendra described the work of Charles
Rodrigues. Given carte blanche by the magazine's young editors,
Rodrigues produced a 20-year tsunami of hilarious self-contained comic strips, themed gag spreads, and serials that boggled
the mind and challenged all sense of decency and propriety.
192pgs. • 2013
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Schiffrin, Andre
A collection of more than 300 cartoons from the World War II
era, including more than 100 by Dr. Seuss, 50 cartoons by the
New Yorker's Saul Steinberg, and works by Al Hirschfeld, Carl
Rose, and Mischa Richter. 280pgs. • 2009
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172950 Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons
O'Connor, Flannery & Kelly Gerald, ed.
The first book devoted to the author's work in the visual arts, this
volume focuses on O'Connor's most prolific period as a cartoonist, drawing for high school and college publications in the early
1940s. These images lampooned student life and the impact of
World War II on the home front, but also served as a way to
experiment with techniques that she would later deploy in her
fiction. 120pgs. • 2012
171181 Willard Mullin's Golden Age of
Baseball Drawings, 1934-1972
Mullin, Willard
The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American
sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their
respective fields -- Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in
one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff,
Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the other -- and Mullin was there, straddling
both fields, recording every major player and event in the mid20th-century history of baseball. 200pgs. • 2013
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✪ 194899 Audubon's Aviary: The Original
Watercolors for the Birds of America
191805 August Macke and Switzerland
Olson, Roberta
August Macke (1887-1914) is regarded as one of the most outstanding figures of the Blaue Reiter movement. The first publication to shed light on Macke's affinity for the country, this volume
offers a revealing overview of how place and landscape informed
not only the artist's subject matter but also his style. 192pgs. •
2013
This deluxe, slipcased volume presents all of the dazzling watercolors that Audubon painted for the creation of his famous engravings. These powerful paintings -- all newly photographed using
state-of-the-art techniques -- possess a startling immediacy, vibrancy, and fluidity that link natural history, art, and a respect for the
environment. 448pgs. • 2012
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151003 Beckmann and America
172385 Beuys Voice
Anfam, David
Durini, Lucrezia De Dominizio
Max Beckmann (1884-1950) spent the last three years of his life
in the US, and the vastness of the American continent, with its
unending landscapes and roads and its vast cities embodying energetic modernist optimism, propelled him into an extraordinary fervor of productivity. This volume looks at these decisive final years,
which produced so many key works for the Expressionist master.
280pgs. • 2012
This book, published to mark the 90th anniversary of the birth of
the German painter and sculptor Joseph Beuys (1921-1986),
includes hundreds of illustrations from the historical archive of
Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, together with historical background
information that is fundamental to understanding his thinking and
work. 960pgs. • 2011
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✪ 194163 The Book of Bock
WORLD OF ART
152896 The Art of
Mesoamerica: From Olmec to
Aztec
WORLD OF ART
Miller, Mary Ellen
Höhne, Frank
With clients that include BMW Mini, Nike, and Aveda, as well as a
broad range of German newspapers and magazines, Frank Höhne
has established himself as one of Germany's leading illustrators.
This hilarious visual journey captures the delight and strange
humor that radiate from his work. 160pgs. • 2012
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The fifth edition of this standard work
incorporates new color images and extensive updates based on the latest research
and discoveries. The revisions include a
rewritten and extended chapter on Teotihuacan; updated analysis of the links between the Olmecs and the Maya; a discussion
of new discoveries at the heart of the Aztec capital; and much
more. 288pgs. • 2012
175968 The Calder Family and Other Critters:
Portraits and Reflections
Davidson, Sandra Calder
In this unique and beautiful work, Sandra Calder Davidson
remembers growing up as the daughter of Alexander Calder and
his wife Louisa and celebrates the family -- children and grandchildren -- that grew out of their loving home. 112pgs. • 2013
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✪ 170601 Art Since 1960
WORLD OF ART
Archer, Michael
185502 Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of
the World
Cullen, Deborah & Elvis Fuentes, eds.
Extensively revised and expanded since it was first published,
Michael Archer's acclaimed book is brought fully up to date in
this third edition. A completely new section maps the developments since 2000, ensuring that the book remains an indispensable source of information on the evolution of contemporary
art. 288pgs. • 2014
Unprecedented in scope, this beautiful book offers an authoritative
examination of the modern history of the Caribbean through its
artistic culture. Featuring 500 color illustrations of artworks from
the late 18th through the 21st century, it explores modern and
contemporary art, ranging across the region and in time from the
Haitian revolution to the present. 496pgs. • 2012
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052681 Black Art: A Cultural
History (Second Edition)
194361 Chris Orr: The Multitude Diaries
WORLD OF ART
Powell, Richard J.
A visual invitation to explore the imagination of a master printmaker. A prodigious draftsman, Orr introduces in his drawings a cast
of characters, artifacts, and symbols that appear and reappear
against fictional and real backdrops, whether river, street, or skyline. This visual invitation to explore the imagination of a master
printmaker presents 240 of the artist's drawings from the last two
decades. 240pgs. • 2008
The African diaspora has generated a wide
array of artistic achievements, from blues to
reggae, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa
Tanner to the video installations of Keith
Piper. Powell's study concentrates on the
works of art themselves and on how they use black culture as
both subject and context. 272pgs. • 2002
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028673 Buddhist Art & Architecture
WORLD OF ART
Fisher, Robert E.
Buddhism is the single common thread uniting the Asian world,
from India to South-East Asia and through Central Asia to China,
Korea and Japan. The author describes all the Buddhist schools
and cultures and explains their imagery, from Tibetan cosmic
diagrams and Korean folk art to early Sri Lankan sites and
Japanese Zen gardens. 216pgs. • 1993
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038541 The Clash of Gods: A
Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art
REVISED & EXPANDED EDITION
Mathews, Thomas F.
Between the third and sixth centuries, the ancient gods, goddesses,
and heroes who had populated the imagination of humankind for
a millennium were replaced by a new imagery of Christ and his
saints. Thomas Mathews explores the many different, often surprising, artistic images and religious interpretations of Christ during
this period. 237pgs. • 1999
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112798 Classical Greece and the Birth of
Western Art
173025 Earthly Visions: Theology and the
Challenge of Art
Stewart, Andrew
Gorringe, Timothy J.
What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its
contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? Andrew Stewart examines Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture of the fifth and
fourth centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the period. 376pgs. • 2008
Argues that great art can function as a "secular parable," leading
viewers to reflect on the reality and presence of God in the world.
Gorringe examines representative secular paintings of the most
significant types (mythological themes, genre painting, portraiture,
landscape, still life, abstract art), showing how each can point
toward God, whether by envisaging an alternative future, by creating aesthetic delight, or by teaching us to see things differently.
264pgs. • 2011
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185172 The Complete Jacob Lawrence:
Painting, Drawings, and Murals (19351999), A Catalogue Raisonné
Nesbett, Peter T. & Michelle DuBois, eds.
This two-volume set, the result of six years of research by the
Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project, identifies, authenticates, and documents more than 900 paintings, drawings, and
murals created by Jacob Lawrence, more than half of which
were discovered by the project. It includes essays by eight distinguished art historians who consider the ways in which
Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences.
360pgs. • 2003
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173017 Dancing Around the Bride: Cage,
Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and
Duchamp
Basualdo, Carlos & Erica F. Battle, eds.
This fascinating book explores the interwoven lives, radical art,
and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of
America's most important postwar artists: composer John Cage,
choreographer Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Jasper Johns
and Robert Rauschenberg. It traces the relationships among these
artists by mapping their intersections and examining the depth of
their artistic exchanges. 432pgs. • 2013
◆ • Yale • C • $55.00 / $9.98
123332 Das Universum Klee
Scholz, Dieter, et al.
With his highly individual yet universal pictorial language, Paul
Klee became one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Encompassing all of his creative phases, this volume features more
than 200 works from the artist's visionary and poetic pictorial
worlds, uniquely blending the abstract with the figural. (Text in
German only.) 368pgs. • 2008
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186954 The Dinner Party: Restoring Women
to History
Chicago, Judy, et al.
The official publication celebrating a feminist art masterpiece.
Published to coincide with Judy Chicago's 75th birthday and a
nationwide series of events and exhibitions, the book features
newly commissioned photography and two new essays by Chicago,
along with essays by art historian Frances Borzello and historian
Jane Gerhard, and a Foreword by museum director Arnold
Lehman. 288pgs. • 2014
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190856 The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
SECOND EDITION
Kelly, Michael
An unparalleled reference resource that surveys the full breadth of
critical thought on art, culture, and nature, from classical philosophy to contemporary critical theory. Spanning six volumes and 815
articles, this edition has been updated and expanded to reflect the
rapidly evolving character of the discipline. 3288pgs. • 2014
◆ • Oxford University • C • $1,195.00 / $399.98
✪ 171970 Erik Parker: Colorful Resistance
Ramirez-Montagut, Monica
With deep roots in alternative comics, illustration, and graffiti,
internationally acclaimed artist Erik Parker's work bridges underground culture and the pop-surrealism movement. This volume
presents his intense compositions, which originate from word
clusters, viscera-like forms, and animated figurines and aggressively take on the issues of the day. 256pgs. • 2012
◆ • Rizzoli • C • $75.00 / $20.98
132132 A General Theory of Visual Culture
Davis, Whitney
What is cultural about vision -- or visual about culture? This systematic analysis of visuality, drawing on art history, aesthetics, the
psychology of perception, the philosophy of reference, and vision
science, as well as visual-cultural studies in history, sociology, and
anthropology. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $62.95 / $36.98
108727 Hans Holbein
Bätschmann, Oskar & Pascal Griener
One of the most versatile and admired painters of the Northern
Renaissance, Hans Holbein the Younger worked for leading
patrons in Switzerland before settling in England as court
painter to Henry VIII. This richly illustrated book -- the first
comprehensive monograph on the artist in more than 40 years
-- commemorates the 500th anniversary of Holbein's birth.
256pgs. • 1999
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194363 Henry Moore: Work - Theory Impact
Lichtenstern, Christa
In this authoritative survey, Christa Lichtenstern establishes
Moore's place in 20th-century art history, exploring the sculptor's
guiding principles and his artistic development, from his study of
Greek antiquity and his fascination with early Italian sculpture to
his interest in English heritage and culture. 472pgs. • 2008
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177670 Here's Your Irony Back: Political
Works 1975-2013
Pettibon, Raymond
A pioneer of Southern California underground culture, Raymond
Pettibon has blurred the boundaries of "high" and "low," from the
deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. Rich in detail, his obsessively worked
drawings function as acute reflections on contemporary society.
212pgs. • 2013
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $60.00 / $34.98
142017 A Humument: A Treated Victorian
Novel
FIFTH EDITION
Phillips, Tom
039490 The Language of Ornament
WORLD OF ART
Trilling, James
This introduction to the art of decorative patterning, of equal value
to craftworkers, collectors, and students of art history, analyzes the
historical importance of ornament across the world, whether in
the monumental architecture of Mycenean Greece or the inlaid
vessels of Zhou Dynasty China, in the bronze mirrors of early Celtic
Britain, or the carved and woven ornament of Native Americans.
224pgs. • 2001
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194364 Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 19101940
Locke, Adrian
In the mid-1960s, artist Tom Phillips took a forgotten 19th-century
novel and began doctoring and decorating the pages to create
something new. This new edition incorporates Phillip's latest revisions and reworkings, and celebrates a 45-year-old artistic enterprise that is still an active work in progress. 384pgs. • 2012
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $13.98
✪ 071291 Illuminations in the Robert
Lehman Collection
Hindman, Sandra
The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in this collection represent the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the 14th to the 16th century.
All the illuminations from the Lehman Collection are reproduced
in color, and copious comparative illustrations supplement the
extensive catalogue entries. 256pgs. • 1998
▲ • Princeton • C • $175.00 / $56.98
185489 Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and
Russian Icons from the Menil Collection
Illustrated with some 150 striking images, this volume explores the
artistic changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution, the government's role in employing artists to promote its reforms, the emergence of a native modernism, and the remarkable contribution of
European and American artists and intellectuals, including
Eisenstein, Trotsky, and André Breton, to Mexico's cultural renaissance. 208pgs. • 2013
◆ • Royal Academy of Arts • C • $55.00 / $16.98
185772 Minimalism and After: Tradition and
Tendencies of Minimalism from 1950 to Today
Wiehager, Renate
This classic presentation of minimalist and postminimalist tendencies from the 1960s to the present day features 190 artists, including 40 who were not included in the original 2006 edition, and
provides some 600 images of their work. A new essay by Renate
Wiehager offers an account of the century-long development of
abstract art from Adolf Hoelzel's 1906 class at the Stuttgart
Academy to the present. 632pgs. • 2010
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Carr, Annemarie Weyl
160123 Nature Morte
Comprising more than sixty works, the Menil collection of
Byzantine and related icons spans twelve hundred years, and
encompasses a number of distinct cultures, including Greek,
Balkan, and Russian. In this volume, the first publication to survey
this diverse collection, leading scholars explore the history and
meaning of these remarkable works, as well as their continuing
power to surprise and impress. 168pgs. • 2011
Petry, Michael
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✪ 194888 In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse
and the Birth of Modernist Art
Roe, Sue
Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other
forms, contemporary artists have drawn on the still life tradition to
create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional
poignancy. Among the artists represented here are John Currin,
Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Gary Hume, Jeff Koons, Beatriz
Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Marc Quinn, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Cy
Twombly. Includes 400 illustrations. 288pgs. • 2013
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133962 On Vision and Colors & Color Sphere
Schopenhauer, Arthur & Philipp Otto Runge
In the early years of the 20th century, among the studios, salons,
dance halls, and galleries of Montmartre, Pablo Picasso joined the
likes of Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani,
Constantin Brancusi, and Gertrude Stein in revolutionizing artistic
expression. Sue Roe here offers a remarkable group portrait of the
men and women who profoundly changed the arts of painting,
sculpture, dance, music, literature, and fashion. 384pgs. • 2015
◆ • Penguin • C • $29.95 / $7.98
For Schopenhauer, vision was subjective and characterized by
processes that cross over into the territory of philosophy. Runge's
Color Sphere and essay on "The Duality of Color" contained one of
the first attempts to depict a comprehensive and harmonious color
system in three dimensions. By bringing these two visionary color
theories together, this volume uncovers their enduring influence
on our own perception of color and the visual world. 168pgs. •
2010
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✪ 194162 Out of the Box!: Brand
Experiences Between Pop-Up and Flagship
Klanten, R. & K. Bolhofer
The strong influence of e-commerce and the digital realm is
forcing brands to rethink the traditional presentation of their
wares in conventional stores. This volume shows architects,
brand managers, graphic designers, and interior designers how
they can effectively establish their brands in order to create
unforgettable emotional experiences for discerning, internetminded customers. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Gestalten Verlag • C • $78.00 / $19.98
✪ 165213 Susan Rothenberg: Moving in
Place
Auping, Michael
A retrospective volume ranging from Rothenberg's earliest horse
paintings through her spinning figures of the 1980s and early
1990s to her most recent series of paintings of dismembered puppets, this book highlights the key compositional strategies in this
distinctive artist's work. 100pgs. • 2009
◆ • Prestel • C • $45.00 / $21.98
163345 Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and
Thirties New York
186454 Paths to Abstraction 1867-1917
Haskell, Barbara
Maloon, Terence, ed.
The first major assessment in 30 years of the work of "American
Scene" artist Reginald Marsh (1898-1954). Covering his art and
photography, it puts Marsh's exuberant depictions of urban daily
life within the context of the economic uncertainty of 1930s
America and the work of fellow artists who shared his interest in
the New York scene. 176pgs. • 2012
Filled with full-page reproductions as well as stunning details of
some of the most influential abstract paintings of the 19th and
early 20th centuries, this volume follows the broad and diverse
ways that painters such as Whistler, Monet, Cezanne, Denis,
Vuillard, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and Braque learned from each
other as they embarked on an entirely new kind of expression.
296pgs. • 2011
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✪ 195255 Peter Thomson and Son: MidVictorian Furniture Designs for the Student
and the Artisan
Martin, J. & C. Martin
A comprehensive guide to the design and construction of furniture,
recognizing Peter Thomson's outstanding contributions to furniture design. 636pgs. • 2010
◆ • Antique Collector's Club • C • $125.00 / $24.98
✪ 134240 Roman Eyes: Visuality and
Subjectivity in Art and Text
Elsner, Jas
Drawing upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and
wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes, Jas Elsner seeks
to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing. The astonishing picture
that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed
art. 376pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • C • $80.00 / $47.98
104543 Surrealism: Desire Unbound
Mundy, Jennifer & Dawn Ades, eds.
Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition of international surrealism, this lavishly illustrated catalogue explores
desire in surrealist art in both words and images. Key works by
such artists as Duchamp, Magritte, Ernst, Dali, de Chirico,
Giacometti, Bellmer, Oppenheim, and Cahun are illustrated and
discussed, as are surrealist films and photographs by Man Ray,
Brassaï, and others. 352pgs. • 2001
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076180 Terry Frost: Six Decades
Gooding, Mel & Isabel Carlisle
Terry Frost was one of Britain's most distinguished and exuberant
abstract painters. This book, which includes 50 color illustrations,
accompanied a retrospective exhibition of his work mounted at the
Royal Academy of Arts, London, in honor of his 85th birthday.
80pgs. • 2000
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173029 Translating Truth: Ambitious Images
and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval
France and England
Kumler, Aden
This beautifully illustrated book examines how manuscript paintings collaborated and, at times, competed with texts as they translated the rudiments of Christian belief as well as complex theological teachings to new audiences. In the illuminations in these
books, the author argues, elite laypeople were offered an ambitious vision of spiritual excellence and a greater role in the pursuit
of their salvation. 290pgs. • 2011
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039574 The Voices of Silence
Malraux, André
A comprehensive psychological history of art from a variety of cultures by one of the eminent thinkers of the 20th century.
Dismissing orthodox classifications, Malraux illuminates all great
periods of art, individual artists, and particular works, as he
explores the haunting metaphysical problems inherent in the
nature of creation. 661pgs. • 1978
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142074 Winckelmann's Images from the
Ancient World: Greek, Roman, Etruscan and
Egyptian
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
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Assembled by the father of modern art history, this landmark 1767
publication features more than 200 fine engravings of ancient
monuments. The first English-language version of this classic represents not only a fascinating panorama of images from ancient
civilizations but also a major contribution to the literature of art
history. 176pgs. • 2010
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133910 Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern
Chinese Power
Xuetong, Yan
What will China look like in the future? And what will China's rise
mean for the rest of world? Providing new insights into the thinking of one of China's leading foreign policy figures, this book will
be essential reading for anyone interested in China's rise or in
international relations. 312pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $27.98
144004 Aphrodite's Island: The European
Discovery of Tahiti
177698 The Bhagavad Gita: A New
Translation
Flood, Gavin & Charles Martin, trans.
A devotional, literary, and philosophical masterpiece of unsurpassed beauty and imaginative relevance, the Bhagavad Gita has
inspired, among others, Mahatma Gandhi, J. Robert
Oppenheimer, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, and Aldous
Huxley. This new verse translation combines the skills of leading Hinduist Gavin Flood with the stylistic verve of poet and
translator Charles Martin. 224pgs. • 2012
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $25.95 / $6.98
Salmond, Anne
181137 Bhagavad Gita: A Biography
A bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific
island that has figured so powerfully in European imaginings about
sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of "savages."
Salmond surveys this shared history, furnishing rich insights into
Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full
extent of European fascination with Tahiti. 544pgs. • 2010
Davis, Richard H.
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Richard Davis tells the story of this venerable and enduring
book, from its origins in ancient India to its reception today as
a spiritual classic that has been translated into more than 75
languages. He looks at the devotional traditions surrounding the
divine character of Krishna and traces how the Gita traveled
from India to the West, where it found admirers in such figures
as Emerson, Thoreau, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Aldous
Huxley. 256pgs. • 2014
▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $15.98
111376 The Camphor Flame: Popular
Hinduism and Society in India
Fuller, C. J.
ASIAN RELIGIONS IN PRACTICE
127035 Asian Religions in
Practice: An Introduction
Lopez, Donald S., ed.
Accessible, clear, and concise overviews of
the religions of Asia, providing both historical context and insightful analysis of
Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam,
Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto,
and Bon, as well as many local traditions.
240pgs. • 1999
▲ • Princeton • P • $38.95 / $18.98
104834 Buddhism in Practice
Popular Hinduism is shaped by the worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings -- a proverbial total of 330 million gods and
goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and
humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of contemporary Indian society.
360pgs. • 2004
▲ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $25.98
✪ 194955 Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
Dasgupta, Rana
The first literary portrait of one of the 21st century's fastest-growing megalopolises, this volume bears witness to the extraordinary
transmogrification of India's capital, but it also offers a glimpse of
what capitalism will become in the coming post-Western world.
The story of Delhi, Dasgupta reveals, is a parable for where we are
all headed. 480pgs. • 2014
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ABRIDGED EDITION
Lopez, Donald S., ed.
This anthology, first published in 1995, illustrates the vast scope
of Buddhist practice in Asia, past and present. Re-released in a
slimmer but still extensive edition, it presents a selection of 35
translated texts, each preceded by a substantial introduction by
its translator. 464pgs. • 2007
▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $24.98
081156 Religions of Asia in Practice: An
Anthology
192377 Chogyam Trungpa: His Life and
Vision
Midal, Fabrice
Master of meditation, artist, poet, social visionary, Trungpa was all
these and more. Midal, by steering his way between conventional
Western biography and traditional Tibetan hagiography, has succeeded in painting a detailed portrait of the Tibetan lama regarded
as one of the most influential forces in bringing Buddhism to the
West. 576pgs. • 2012
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Lopez, Donald S., ed.
Brings together important selections from Buddhism in India,
China, Tibet, and Japan to give an overview of how religions
have been lived by ordinary and extraordinary people throughout Asia. Includes ritual manuals, hagiographical and autobiographical writings, popular commentaries, instructions to children, poetry, and folktales. 760pgs. • 2002
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104729 The I Ching: Or Book of Changes
158584 The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
Baynes, Cary F. & Richard Wilhelm, trans.
Buswell, Robert & Donald Lopez
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both
Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the
human mind to place itself within the universe. This is the
renowned Wilhelm / Baynes translation in the Bollingen Library.
806pgs. • 1967
The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism
ever produced in English, this volume provides encyclopedic coverage of the most important terms, concepts, texts, authors,
deities, schools, monasteries, and geographical sites from across
the history of Buddhism. It covers terms from all of the canonical
Buddhist languages and traditions, from Sanskrit, Pali, and Tibetan
to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. 1304pgs. • 2013
▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $11.98
170265 Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the
Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism
◆ • Princeton • C • $65.00 / $35.98
Heine, Steven
038404 A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
An examination of the "the koan of koans" -- a brief conversation
in which a monk asks Master Zhaozhou whether or not a dog has
Buddha-nature -- which is considered to be the single best-known
and most widely circulated koan record of the Zen school that
offers existential release from anxiety to attain spiritual illumination. 304pgs. • 2013
A classic text, providing a rich overview of the schools of Chinese
thought, carefully weighing the influences of Confucianism,
Taoism, and Buddhism, and making available a wide range of primary sources. 856pgs. • 1969
◆ • Oxford University • P • $31.95 / $9.98
192375 Opening the Treasure of the
Profound: Teachings on the Songs of Jigten
Sumgon and Milarepa
Gyaltshen, Khenchen Konchog & Khenmo Trinlay Chodron
Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen learned to sing vajra songs at his
mother's knee. Later, he learned of their profound meaning from
masters of Tibetan Buddhism, which allowed him to experience
their depth in solitary retreat. This volume brings this tradition
into a Western context by translating songs composed by iconic
Buddhist figures and explaining them in contemporary terms.
320pgs. • 2013
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038605 A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli & Charles A. Moore, eds.
In this volume, a standard reference for more than 50 years, a
leading Indian philosopher and an American scholar bring together enough of the philosophical wisdom of ancient and modern
India to enable students of Indian philosophy with no familiarity
with Sanskrit to become acquainted with India's profound contributions to world thought. 684pgs. • 1957
▲ • Princeton • P • $57.50 / $28.98
175964 Stillness, Insight, and Emptiness:
Buddhist Meditation from the Ground Up
Dorjee, Lama Dudjom
In Tibetan Buddhism, developing a consistent and sustained meditation practice is the first step toward discerning the true nature of reality. This volume encapsulates the Buddha's teaching in terms that are
accessible and encouraging for beginning meditators, covering topics
from establishing a proper meditation posture to realizing the luminous and spacious qualities of the mind. 192pgs. • 2013
◆ • Shambhala • P • $19.95 / $6.98
CLASSICAL STU DI ES
129507 Aesopic Conversations: Popular
Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention
of Greek Prose
Kurke, Leslie
What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost
entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past.
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him,
Kurke offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have
actually looked like in the ancient world. 504pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $24.98
180125 After Thermopylae: The Oath of
Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian
Wars
Cartledge, Paul
The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE, which involved the largest
number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause,
decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece.
Why, then, has this pivotal battle been so overlooked? Paul
Cartledge here masterfully reopens one of the great puzzles of
ancient Greece to discover what happened on the field of battle
and, just as important, what happened to its memory. 216pgs.
• 2013
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114251 Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day
116539 Epigrammata
Matyszak, Philip
Martial
This entertaining guide provides all the information a tourist needs
for a journey back in time to ancient Rome in AD 200. Here is
advice on what to see on each of the city's famous seven hills, what
to take to a fancy dinner party (dining robe, your own napkin, and
indoor shoes) and where to find the best markets and public
baths. 43 illustrations, 11 in color. 144pgs. • 2008
Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin
poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams.
(Latin text.) 492pgs. • 1922
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088515 Archaic and Classical Greece: A
Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation
Crawford, Michael H. & David Whitehead
Collects a representative selection of ancient sources on the history, institutions, society and economy of the Greek world from c.
750 to 338 BC — a period that witnessed the evolution of the
polis, a form of political community which combined aspects of
city and state in a physical and psychological unity unparalleled
before or since. 660pgs. • 1983
◆ • Oxford University • C • $90.00 / $39.98
105175 The Homeric Hymn to Demeter:
Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive
Essays
Foley, Helene P., ed.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or
early sixth century BCE, is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. Helene Foley
presents the Greek text and an annotated translation of this poem,
together with selected essays that illuminate the Hymn's structure
and artistry, its role in the religious life of the ancient world, and
its meaning for the modern world. 320pgs. • 1993
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104391 A New History of Classical Rhetoric
041244 Casina
Kennedy, George A.
Plautus, Titus Maccius
The Latin text of one of the liveliest of ancient comedies. The introduction and notes discuss the background of Roman comedy and
make the reader continually aware of the conditions of an actual
stage performance. 241pgs. • 1976
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $23.98
133728 Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
Foster, Benjamin & Karen Polinger Foster
The story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements to
the Arab conquest. With illustrations of important works of art and
architecture in every chapter, the narrative traces the rise and fall
of successive civilizations and peoples in Iraq over the course of
millennia, from the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the
Persians, Seleucids, Parthians, and Sassanians. 312pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton • P • $25.95 / $16.98
099122 Egypt and the Egyptians
Brewer, Douglas J. & Emily Teeter
A comprehensive introduction to this most rich and complex of
early societies. From high politics to the concerns of everyday
Egyptians, the book explores every aspect of Egyptian culture and
society, including religion, language, art, architecture, cities, and
mummification. Archaeological and documentary sources are
combined to give the reader a unique and expansive view of a
remarkable ancient culture. 280pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $49.99 / $23.98
110267 Emotion, Restraint, and Community in
Ancient Rome
Kaster, Robert A.
Examines the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions,
interacted with the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late
Republic and early Empire. By considering how various Roman
forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of displeasure that shaped society in constructive ways, the
book casts new light both on the Romans and on cross-cultural
understanding of emotions. 264pgs. • 2005
This extensive revision and abridgment of Kennedy's The Art of
Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World,
and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors provides a comprehensive history of the subject, one that is destined to be the standard work in the field. 336pgs. • 1994
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167374 The Odyssey
TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN MITCHELL
Homer
In words of great poetic power, Stephen Mitchell's translation
brings Odysseus and his adventures vividly to life as never before.
His muscular language keeps the diction close to spoken English,
yet its rhythms re-create the oceanic surge of the ancient Greek.
432pgs. • 2013
◆ • Atria • C • $35.00 / $7.98
049629 Religions of Rome, Volume 2: A
Sourcebook
Beard, Mary, et al.
Presents a range of documents illustrating religious life in the
Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire (both
visual evidence and texts in translation), exploring major themes
and problems of Roman religion (such as sacrifice, the religious
calendar, divination, and prediction). Each document has an introduction, explanatory notes, and bibliography. 416pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $44.99 / $28.98
180944 The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
Ober, Josiah
Why did Greece reach such heights in the classical period -- and
why only then? And how, after "the Greek miracle" had endured
for centuries, did the Macedonians soundly defeat the Greeks,
seemingly bringing an end to their glory? Drawing on newly available evidence, Josiah Ober offers a major new history of classical
Greece. 464pgs. • 2015
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049096 Africa and Africans in the Making of
the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
087374 Reversing Sail: A History of the
African Diaspora
SECOND EDITION
Thornton, John
Gomez, Michael A.
Focusing on the causes and consequences of the slave trade in
Africa, Europe, and the New World, Thornton examines the
dynamics that made slaves so invaluable to the European colonizers. 340pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $24.98
A concise examination of the migrations and dispersals of African
peoples from antiquity to the modern era. It explores the experiences of Africans in the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds before
1492, as well as their enslavement and involuntary migration to
the New World empires of the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French,
and English. 248pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $19.98
087776 Africa Since 1800
FIFTH EDITION
Oliver, Roland & Anthony Atmore
PHOTOGRAPHY
This edition covers events up to the middle of 2003 and takes into
account fresh perspectives brought about by the end of the Cold
War and the new global situation following the 9/11. It is also
explores demographic trends, the ravages of diseases such as AIDS
and malaria, and conflicts waged by warlords. 414pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $23.98
087440 African Archaeology
Phillipson, David W.
A lucid and fully illustrated account of African archaeology from prehistory and the origins of humanity to the age of European colonization, this volume spans the entire continent from the Mediterranean to
the Cape of Good Hope and demonstrates the relevance of archaeological research to the understanding of Africa today. 406pgs. • 2005
✪ 195631 Calvin Dondo:
Hodhii Zimbabwe
Dondo, Calvin
This first monograph to be devoted
to a contemporary Zimbabwean
photographer. Foremost among the
talents that have brought Calvin
Dondo international recognition is
the ability to put into his work the
respect he has for the individual identities of those he captures
on film, as he reveals the nature of Zimbabwe today. 144pgs. •
2014
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✪ 195630 Congo on the
Road
057222 African Art in Transit: The
Production of Value and Mediation of
Knowledge in the African Art Trade
Turconi, Angelo
Steiner, Christopher B.
African art means one thing to the villagers who create it and use it in
ritual and performance, another to Muslim middlemen, and something
else to buyers and collectors. This richly detailed volume explores the
economic networks that transfer art objects from their site of use and
production in Africa to their point of consumption in galleries and
shops in Europe and America. 236pgs. • 1994
◆ • Cambridge • P • $67.00 / $23.98
044867 African Civilizations: An
Archaeological Perspective
A traveler and photographer in Africa
shares his remarkable images of everyday life in Congo. The result of many
journeys in this multifaceted country, it
documents his encounters along the
road: the Yaka chief in ceremonial dress,
the chief of the Pende and Chokwe in
prestigious attire, the Emperor of the Lunda on his throne, a
family photo of the Kitawala sect. 240pgs. • 2015
◆ • Stichting • C • $65.00 / $29.98
✪ 195633 Sammy Baloji: Memoire/Kolwezi
Baloji, Sammy
SECOND EDITION
Connah, Graham
Re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa over the last 4,000 years, focusing on archaeological research into two key factors -- urbanism and state formation -- in seven main areas of Africa. 356pgs. • 2001
◆ • Cambridge • P • $54.99 / $36.98
For the past ten years Sammy Baloji has been capturing the
memories, hopes, and imaginings of the people of the mines of
Katanga, the economic heart of Congo, where the relationship
between the mining industry and the population could almost
be said to resemble that between parent and child. 168pgs. •
2014
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190844 Rome's Revolution: The Birth of an
Empire
Alston, Richard
130216 Some Talk of Alexander: A Journey
through Space and Time in the Greek World
In this authoritative new account of an epoch that still haunts us
today, Richard Alston digs beneath the high politics of Cicero,
Caesar, Antony, and Octavian to reveal the experience of the common Roman citizen and soldier. He portrays the revolution as the
crisis of a brutally competitive society, both among the citizenry
and among the ruling class whose legitimacy was under threat.
336pgs. • 2015
Do "the classics" still have relevance? Or are they just an outdated repository of class vanity, racial prejudice, and pedantic
obscurantism. In this personal journey through Greek history,
Frederic Raphael springs to the defense of a much-maligned
but bracingly elitist world. Includes more than 100 illustrations.
336pgs. • 2006
Raphael, Frederic
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Harris, Edward M.
189868 Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Vol. 2: Greek Athletic Identities and Roman
Sports and Spectacle
Drawing on modern legal theory, the author examines the nature
of "open texture" in Athenian law and reveals that the Athenians
were much more sophisticated in their approach to law than many
modern scholars have assumed. At the same time, the book studies the weaknesses of the Athenian legal system and how they contributed to Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War. 470pgs. •
2013
From the identity of Greek athletes and the place of Greek games
in the Roman era to forms, functions, and venues of Roman spectacles, this volume contains eleven articles and chapters of enduring importance to the study of ancient Greek and Roman sport, a
field located at a crucial intersection of social history, archaeology,
literature, and other aspects of those cultures. 488pgs. • 2014
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169751 The Rule of Law in Action in
Democratic Athens
Scanlon, Thomas F., ed.
CU LTU RAL STU DI ES
125737 American Archives: Gender, Race,
and Class in Visual Culture
Smith, Shawn Michelle
A provocative account of how photography and science joined
forces in the 19th century to offer an idea of what Americans
looked like -- or "should" look like. Smith's varied sources, which
include middle-class portraits, baby pictures, and mugshots, as
well as literary, scientific, and popular texts, enable her to demonstrate how new visual paradigms posed bodily appearance as an
indicator of interior "essence." 302pgs. • 1999
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $23.98
142614 A Nation of Outsiders: How the White
Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in
Postwar America
Hale, Grace Elizabeth
At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters
like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's
Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob
Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee. In this vividly written cultural history,
Hale sheds light on why so many white middle-class Americans
chose to re-imagine themselves as outsiders. 400pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $31.95 / $6.98
133136 Living in the Eighties
Troy, Gil & Vincent J. Cannato, eds.
Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" that
revived America's economy, reoriented American politics, and
restored Americans' faith in their country. Others see the decade
as a new "Gilded Age," selfish, superficial, glitzy, greedy, divisive,
and destructive. This multifaceted exploration brings together a
variety of voices from different political persuasions, generations,
and vantage points. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $25.95 / $12.98
190447 The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial
Studies
Huggan, Graham, ed.
This reference work reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary
nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past and the contemporary
globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they
pursue, and the editorial comments that accompany them constitute a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant field. 752pgs. • 2013
◆ • Oxford University • C • $150.00 / $69.98
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✪ 111183 The Purchase of Intimacy
Zelizer, Viviana A.
Reveals how we use economic activity to create, maintain, and
renegotiate important ties -- especially intimate ties -- to other
people.
Through a host of compelling examples, Zelizer shows us why
price is central to three key areas of intimacy: sexually tinged relations; health care by family members, friends, and professionals;
and household economics. 356pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.95 / $27.98
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✪ 160884 After the Music Stopped: The
Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work
Ahead
Blinder, Alan S.
A masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar
American history happened, what the government did to fight it,
and what we must do to recover from it. With bracing clarity,
Blinder chronicles the perfect storm of events beginning in 2007,
from the bursting of the housing bubble to the implosion of the
bond bubble, and how events in the US spread throughout the
global economy. 528pgs. • 2013
▲ • Penguin • P • $18.00 / $5.98
125773 The Company of Strangers: A Natural
History of Economic Life
Seabright, Paul
An original account of the emergence of the economic institutions
that manage not only markets but also the world's myriad other
affairs. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, history,
psychology, and literature, Seabright explores how our evolved
ability of abstract reasoning has allowed institutions like money,
markets, and cities to provide the foundation of social trust.
368pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $12.98
160188 The Cost Disease: Why Computers
Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't
Baumol, William J.
Tracing the fast-rising prices of health care and education in the
US and other major industrial nations, Baumol finds the underlying cause to lie in the very nature of providing labor-intensive services. Once we understand the "cost disease," he argues, effective
responses will become readily apparent. 272pgs. • 2012
189277 The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
Carr, Nicholas
Exploring the impact of automation from a human perspective, this
volume examines the personal as well as the economic consequences of our growing dependence on computers. Drawing on
psychological and neurological studies that underscore how tightly
people's happiness and satisfaction are tied to performing hard
work in the real world, Carr reveals how shifting our attention to
computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented.
304pgs. • 2014
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111349 The Great Contraction 1929-1933
Friedman, Milton & Anna Jacobson Schwartz
One of the most influential books of 20th century economics. It
marshals massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the
authors' claim that steady control of the money supply is profoundly important to the management of the nation's economy,
especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations. 320pgs. •
2008
▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $13.98
157447 The Great Escape: Health, Wealth,
and the Origins of Inequality
Deaton, Angus
Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have
transformed our lives, one of the foremost experts on economic
development and on poverty takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations,
and he addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind.
362pgs. • 2013
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◆ • Yale • C • $40.00 / $5.98
135560 Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures
Still Threaten the World Economy
ROBERT J. SCHILLER
Rajan, Raghuram G.
154376 Finance and the Good Society
One of the few economists to warn of the global financial crisis
before it hit warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits
us. He shows how the individual choices that collectively brought
about the economic meltdown were rational responses to a flawed
global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are
out of step with the dangers those risks pose. 272pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $7.98
089122 Foundations of Dynamic Economic
Analysis: Optimal Control Theory and
Applications
Caputo, Michael Ralph
Presenting a thorough introductory exposition of optimal control
theory, this work differs from the existing texts on the subject in its
emphasis on the economic interpretation of the mathematics and
the qualitative properties of the solutions. 592pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $69.99 / $41.98
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Shiller, Robert J.
In this important and timely book, Shiller argues that, rather
than condemning finance, we need to reclaim it for the common good. He makes a powerful case for recognizing that
finance, far from being a parasite on society, is one of the most
powerful tools we have for solving our common problems and
increasing general well-being. 312pgs. • 2013
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180922 Irrational
Exuberance
REVISED AND EXPANDED THIRD EDITION
Shiller, Robert J.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist who
warned of both the tech and housing bubbles now cautions that signs of irrational
exuberance among investors have only
increased since the 2008-9 financial crisis.
With high stock and bond prices in the US, and rising housing
prices in many countries, the post-subprime boom may yet be
another illustration of Shiller's argument that psychologically
driven volatility is an inherent characteristic of all asset markets. 392pgs. • 2015
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ECONOM ICS
160487 I Am Not Master of Events: The
Speculations of John Law and Lord
Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea
Bubbles
Neal, Larry
Two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time were instigated by
two acquaintances: the Mississippi Bubble, on which John Law at
first made a vast fortune and gained sway over French finances;
and the South Sea Bubble, launched by Law and Thomas Pitt, Jr.,
Lord Londonderry, his main partner in England. This book tells the
story of these two financial schemes from the letters and accounts
of two leading personalities. 232pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $55.00 / $7.98
105002 The Ordinary Business of Life: A
History of Economics from the Ancient World
to the Twenty-First Century
Backhouse, Roger E.
While some regard economics as a modern invention, Backhouse
shows that the origins of contemporary economic thought can be
traced back to the ancients. Taking us from Homer to the frontiers
of game theory, this book presents an engrossing history of economics, what Alfred Marshall called "the study of mankind in the
ordinary business of life." 384pgs. • 2004
▲ • Princeton • P • $41.95 / $31.98
125748 Organizing America: Wealth, Power
and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
Perrow, Charles
How did a nation once committed to individual freedom, family
firms, public goods, and decentralized power become transformed
in one century into a society dominated by vast corporations?
Writing in the tradition of Max Weber, Perrow concludes that the
driving force of our history is not technology, politics, or culture,
but the rise of large, bureaucratic organizations. 272pgs. • 2005
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189749 The Oxford Handbook of PostKeynesian Economics Vol. 2: Critiques and
Methodology
Harcourt, G. C. & Peter Kriesler, eds.
This two-volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to
which post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These areas include theories of accumulation, distribution, pricing, money and finance, international trade and capital
flows, the environment, methodological issues, criticism of mainstream economics and post-Keynesian policies. 528pgs. • 2013
✪ 192443 Phishing for Phools: The
Economics of Manipulation and Deception
Akerlof, George A. & Robert J. Shiller
Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has
been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by
an invisible hand. Two Nobel Prize-winning economists here deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that as long as
there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our
psychological weaknesses and ignorance through manipulation
and deceit. 288pgs. • 2016
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $9.98
163931 The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle: A History
and Analysis of Con Artists and Victims
Frankel, Tamar
A century after Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme,
con artists are still able to dazzle wealthy, educated individuals and
sophisticated institutions and convince them to hand over huge
sums of money. How? After years of close study of hundreds of
cases, the author explains the striking patterns that emerge and
the common characteristics of the con artists and their victims.
224pgs. • 2012
◆ • Oxford University • C • $38.95 / $7.98
038570 The Three Worlds of Welfare
Capitalism
Esping-Andersen, Gosta
This new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the
functioning of advanced Western societies distinguishes three
major types of welfare state, connecting them with variations in the
historical development of different countries. It argues that current
economic processes are shaped not by autonomous market forces
but by the nature of states and state differences. 248pgs. • 1990
▲ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $27.98
169755 Wrong: Nine Economic Policy
Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them
Grossman, Richard S.
Sheds light on the poor thinking behind nine of the worst economic policy mistakes of the past 200 years, missteps whose outcomes
ranged from appalling to tragic. Grossman tells the story behind
each debacle -- from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, to Japan's
lost decade of the 1990s, to the American subprime crisis -explaining why the policy was adopted, how it was implemented,
and its short- and long-term consequences. 288pgs. • 2013
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✪ 195023 1924: The Year That Made Hitler
Range, Peter Ross
The story of the year that Hitler spent locked away from society, in
prison and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall
Putsch. Peter Ross Range richly depicts the stories and scenes of a
year vital to understanding the man and the brutality he wrought in
a war that changed the world forever. 336pgs. • 2016
◆ • Little, Brown • C • $28.00 / $5.98
181665 The Age of Revolution: Europe,
1789-1848
Hobsbawm, Eric
This magisterial installment in Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world outlines, with intellectual daring and
aphoristic elegance, the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of
new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences,
and ideologies. 416pgs. • 1988
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✪ 130162 Alternatives to Hitler: German
Resistance under the Third Reich
Mommsen, Hans
Traces the complex history of the German Resistance from the
ascent of the Nazi Party to the July 1944 attempted assassination of
Hitler. Informed by four decades of research and written by the
premier historian of the German Resistance, the book constitutes
the definitive work on those tens of thousands of Germans who
fought the Third Reich from within. 320pgs. • 2003
◆ • Princeton • C • $60.00 / $19.98
156926 Black Germany: The Making and
Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 18841960
Aitken, Robbie & Eve Rosenhaft
This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany's
black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II. Including an in-depth
account of the impact of Nazism and its aftermath, it offers a fresh
critical perspective on narratives of "race" in German history.
379pgs. • 2013
043021 The Causes of the English Civil War:
The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University
of Oxford, 1987-1988
Russell, Conrad
The most in-depth account to date of the origins of one of the
most significant events in British history. Drawing heavily on
research in printed and unpublished sources, Russell highlights
the constitutional problem of multiple kingdoms within Britain; the
religious problem of competing theologies within and outside a
state church; and the economic problem of the inadequacy of
royal revenue. 236pgs. • 1990
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RUSSIAN & SOVIET
131727 Death and Redemption: The Gulag
051198 In the Shadow of Revolution: Life
and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the
Barnes, Steven
Second World War
A fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Soviet Union's
vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons in
the structuring of Soviet society. Drawing on newly opened
archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as memoirs by actual
prisoners, Barnes shows how the Gulag was integral to the Soviet
goal of building socialism. 368pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton • P • $47.95 / $31.98
175805 Fear and the Muse Kept Watch: The
Russian Masters -- From Akhmatova and
Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein -under Stalin
McSmith, Andy
Fitzpatrick, Sheila & Yuri Slezkine, eds.
A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of
the 20th century. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal
dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these women
document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped
Russia. 443pgs. • 2000
▲ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $31.98
169362 Leningrad: Siege and Symphony:
The Story of the Great City Terrorized by
Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by
Shostakovich
Moynahan, Brian
Can great art be produced in a police state? In this dazzling
exploration of one of the most contradictory periods of literary
and artistic achievement in modern history, Andy McSmith evokes
the lives of more than a dozen brilliant artists and writers, revealing how they pursued their art -- often at great personal risk -under Stalin's regime. 344pgs. • 2015
▲ • New Press • C • $27.95 / $11.98
111702 How Russia Shaped the Modern
World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to
Bolshevism
Marks, Steven G.
Moving from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Beijing and Berlin,
London and Luanda, Mexico and Mississippi, Marks conducts an
intellectual tour of the Russian exports that shaped the 20th century. The result is a richly textured and stunningly original
account of the extent to which Russia -- as an idea and a producer of ideas -- has contributed to the world we live in. 408pgs. •
2004
In this magisterial account of one of the most tragic periods in
history, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's
most famous work against the backdrop of the siege of Leningrad
and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. Weaving
Shostakovich's own story and those of many others into the context of Stalin's purges and the brutal Nazi invasion, he relates how
the music and the defiance it inspired provided a rare beacon of
light for the watching world. 496pgs. • 2014
◆ • Grove Press • C • $30.00 / $6.98
128383 The Russian Moment in World
History
Poe, Marshall T.
Is Russian history nothing more than one big inevitable failure?
In this provocative and elegantly written short history, Marshall
Poe takes us beyond the Soviet haze deep into the nation's fascinating past, finding it to be not at all inevitable, and in key
respects remarkably successful. 136pgs. • 2006
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192238 Christendom Destroyed: Europe
1517-1648
THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF EUROPE
Greengrass, Mark
180926 Empire and Revolution: The Political
Life of Edmund Burke
Bourke, Richard
From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual
and intellectual upheavals of the 16th century, as Luther's challenge to church authority shook the foundations of Christianity,
and as dynastic rivalries and military changes fundamentally
altered the relations between ruler and ruled. Mark Greengrass's
magnum opus, this volume fosters a deeper understanding of
Europe's identity today. 752pgs. • 2014
Edmund Burke grappled with the significance of the British
Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American
colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three
European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a
central protagonist in the debate on the French Revolution. This
volume offers a vivid reconstruction of the major concerns of this
outstanding statesman, orator, and philosopher. 1032pgs. • 2015
▲ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $19.98
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187554 The Coming of the French Revolution
Lefebvre, Georges
180450 The Four Horsemen: Riding to
Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Stites, Richard
This landmark work, first published in 1939, details what happened
in France during the first year of the French Revolution. Placing the
"common people" at the center of his analysis, Lefebvre emphasizes
the class struggles within France and the significant role they played in
the coming of the Revolution. 280pgs. • 2015
IRELAND
In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth
from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia, and national independence to the
Greeks. Stites sets these stories side-by-side, allowing him to compare
events and movements and illuminate such topics as the transfer of
ideas and peoples across frontiers, the formation of an international
revolutionary community, and the appropriation of Christian symbols
and language for secular purposes. 456pgs. • 2014
039576 Black '47 and Beyond: The Great
Irish Famine in History, Economy, and
Memory
✪ 192402 Germaine de Staël: A Political
Portrait
▲ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
◆ • Oxford University • C • $36.95 / $8.98
O'Grada, Cormac
Fontana, Biancamaria
Central to Irish and British history, European demography, and
the story of American immigration, the Great Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from
the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe,
the book highlights economic and sociological features of the
famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part
played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by
migration. 302pgs. • 2000
Germaine de Staël is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker, yet she was
also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution.
Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked
aspect of Staël's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique
experience as a political actor in a world where women had no
place. 312pgs. • 2016
▲ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $23.98
136890 Ireland: The Politics
of Enmity 1789-2006
Bew, Paul
An analysis of the changing ideological passions of the modern Irish question, firmly
grounded in the context of changing social
and economic realities. The book reassesses
all the key leaders of Irish nationalism -Tone, O'Connell, Butt, Parnell, Collins, and
de Valera -- alongside key British political leaders such as Peel
and Gladstone in the 19th century and Winston Churchill and
Tony Blair in the 20th. 632pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $43.95 / $26.98
146066 Irish Nationalists and the Making of
the Irish Race
Nelson, Bruce
English observers constructed the "native" and Catholic Irish as
uncivilized and savage, while in the US Irish immigrants were
often portrayed in terms that had been applied mainly to
enslaved Africans and their descendants. This volume examines
how the Irish created their own identity in the context of slavery
and abolition, empire, and revolution, not only in Ireland, but
in the US, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. 348pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $55.00 / $24.98
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104826 A History of Modern Germany:
Volume 3: 1840-1945
Holborn, Hajo
This concluding volume of a three-volume reassessment of the last
five centuries of German history covers the period of nationalism
and imperialism, from the abortive efforts by popular forces to
found a liberal national state and Bismarck's German unification
through the expansionist programs of William II and Hitler's
attempt at world conquest. 846pgs. • 1982
◆ • Princeton • P • $69.95 / $29.98
192347 Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for
Justice
Ryback, Timothy W.
The remarkable story of the German prosecutor who, in 1933,
risked everything in an attempt to prosecute the first perpetrators
of the Holocaust. Though Hartinger's efforts were only a temporary
roadblock to the Nazis, the evidence he compiled played a key role
in the Nuremberg tribunal and struck a lasting blow for justice.
288pgs. • 2014
▲ • Knopf • C • $26.95 / $5.98
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✪ 058371 The Italian Renaissance: Culture
and Society in Italy
✪ 061970 The Movement of the Free Spirit
Burke, Peter
A fiercely partisan examination of the heretical and millenarian
movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority in
Europe from the 1200s into the 1500s. Although Vaneigem discusses a number of different movements, his main emphasis is
on the various manifestations of the Movement of the Free Spirit
in northern Europe. 302pgs. • 1994
This social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy
during the 15th and 16th centuries, and analyzes the ways of
thinking and seeing that characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. 305pgs. • 1999
Vaneigem, Raoul, et al.
◆ • Zone Books • C • $38.95 / $15.98
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085333 The Italian Renaissance Reader
Bondanella, Julia C. & Mark Musa, ed.
A single-volume introduction to the major intellectual figures of
the Italian Renaissance, including Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti,
Pico della Mirandola, Leonardo da Vinci, Castiglione,
Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Francesco Guicciardini, Benvenuto
Cellini, and Giorgio Vasari. 416pgs. • 1987
181086 Out of Ashes: A New History of
Europe in the Twentieth Century
Jarausch, Konrad H.
This sweeping history explores the paradoxes of 20th-century history, shedding new light on why the European encounter with
modernity led to cataclysm, inhumanity, and self-destruction, but
also to social justice, democracy, and peace. 880pgs. • 2015
▲ • Princeton • C • $39.50 / $21.98
▲ • Meridian • P • $18.00 / $4.98
049084 Italy: A Short History
SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
Hearder, Harry & Jonathan Morris
A concise but comprehensive account of Italian history from the
Ice Age to the present, intended for both students of Italian history
and culture and the general reader. Hearder places the main political developments in Italian history in their economic and social
context, and shows how these related to the peaks of artistic and
cultural endeavor. 288pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $16.98
189889 Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de
Siècle France: From Anarchism to Action
Française
McGuinness, Patrick
This exploration of the relationship between poetry and politics in
France in the last decade of the 19th century demonstrates the
connections between the anti-Symbolist reaction of the École
romane of 1891 (in which Charles Maurras first made his name),
and the far-right cultural politics of Action Française in the early
20th century. 304pgs. • 2015
◆ • Oxford University • C • $95.00 / $42.98
✪ 194889 Jane Austen's England
Adkins, Lesley & Roy Adkins
A cultural snapshot of everyday life in the world of Jane Austen.
Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many
previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy
and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people,
discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions. 448pgs. • 2013
◆ • Viking • C • $27.95 / $6.98
169442 Man's Estate: Landed Gentry
Masculinities, 1660-1900
French, Henry & Mark Rothery
Drawing on more than 4,000 letters from 19 landed families
across England, this volume illuminates the ways in which masculine norms were produced through everyday interactions and judgments. It concentrates on four important periods in the life-course
for the reproduction of these masculine values: schooling, university, foreign travel, and marriage and family life. 304pgs. • 2012
◆ • Oxford University • C • $125.00 / $71.98
180672 The Month That Changed the World July 1914
Martel, Gordon
Much time and ink has been spent trying to identify the person or
state responsible, or to explain the underlying forces that
"inevitably" led to war in 1914. Dissatisfied with these explanations, Gordon Martel has gone back to the contemporary diplomatic, military, and political records to investigate the twists and
turns of the crisis afresh, with the aim of establishing just how the
catastrophe really unfurled. 416pgs. • 2014
SCOTLAND
185549 Enlightenment's Frontier: The
Scottish Highlands and the Origins of
Environmentalism
Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton
The 18th-century Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory
for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society.
But as Johnson shows, when improvement schemes foundered,
northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about
overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to
economic growth. 368pgs. • 2013
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $12.98
152901 Scotland: A
Concise History
FOURTH EDITION
MacLean, Fitzroy
Continuously in print for more than 40
years and renowned for the authority
and wit with which it disentangles the
complex threads of Scotland's rich history, this classic work has been brought
up to date with recent events along the path to Scottish independence. More than 240 illustrations provide a rich visual
record of Scotland's art, craftsmanship, and intellectual life.
260pgs. • 2012
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173247 Pointblank Directive: Three Generals
and the Untold Story of the Daring Plan That
Saved D-Day
✪ 092903 Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the
British Constitution
Keeney, L. Douglas
Explores six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820,
demonstrating how the incidents brought people into politics by
evoking familiar stories of sex, treachery, and betrayal. Clark's
unique blend of sexual, women's, political, and constitutional histories reveals the ways scandal can transform democratic institutions. 328pgs. • 2003
Where was the German air force on D-Day? Why was it unable to
mount a single effective combat mission against the invasion
forces? L. Douglas Keeney here carefully reconstructs the events in
the air war that led up to D-Day, painting an in-depth portrait of
the lives and times of the aviation pioneers who swept the skies of
France clean of the Luftwaffe. 304pgs. • 2012
◆ • Osprey • C • $27.95 / $7.98
150713 The Politics of Authenticity: Radical
Individualism and the Emergence of Modern
Society
Berman, Marshall
Focusing on 18th-century Paris, where a distinctively modern form
of society was just coming into its own, Berman shows how the
ideal of authenticity -- of a self that could organize the individual's
energy and direct it toward his own happiness -- articulated 18thcentury man's deepest responses to this brave new world, and his
most ardent hope for a new life in it. 352pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • P • $24.95 / $8.98
180983 Prague, Capital of the Twentieth
Century: A Surrealist History
Sayer, Derek
Ranging across 20th-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and
surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history
describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways
of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. 624pgs. •
2015
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $13.98
158685 Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual
History of the French Revolution from The
Rights of Man to Robespierre
Israel, Jonathan
In recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was
brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture -almost anything but notions like liberty or equality, Drawing widely
on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was
set in motion by radical 18th-century doctrines, how these ideas
divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological
blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the
Revolution. 888pgs. • 2014
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $17.98
187209 The Right Wrong Man: John
Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes
Trial
Douglas, Lawrence
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence
Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the trial of 89-yearold John Demjanjuk, a Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US
citizen accused of collaborating in Nazi genocide. The result is
both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust
trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the law's
effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern
history. 352pgs. • 2016
▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $11.98
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155058 Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The
Frankfurt School Contribution to the War
Effort
Laudani, Raffaele, et al.
During the Second World War, three prominent members of the
Frankfurt School -- Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto
Kirchheimer -- worked as intelligence analysts for the OSS, the
wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book brings together their
most important intelligence reports on Nazi Germany, most of
which are published here for the first time. 704pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $52.50 / $29.98
127008 Sex after Fascism: Memory and
Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany
Herzog, Dagmar
This history of sexual attitudes and practices in 20th-century
Germany investigates such issues as contraception, pornography,
and theories of sexual orientation. It also demonstrates how
Germans made sexuality a key site for managing the memory and
legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust. 368pgs. • 2007
▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $22.98
189898 Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration
Camps
Buggeln, Marc
Going beyond sociohistorical "reconstructions" that dominate
Holocaust studies, this volume combines cultural history with
structural history, drawing relationships between social structures
and individual actions. It considers the testimony of both perpetrators and victims, and adopts the biographical approach as the only
possible way to approach the destruction of the individual in the
camps. 352pgs. • 2015
◆ • Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $39.98
✪ 194895 The Spanish Armada
Hutchinson, Robert
Popular history holds that the defeat of the Spanish Armada was
a David-versus-Goliath victory snatched by plucky and outnumbered English forces. In this tightly written and fascinating new
history, Robert Hutchinson explodes this myth, revealing the
true destroyers of the Spanish Armada: inclement weather and
plain bad luck. 432pgs. • 2014
◆ • Thomas Dunne • C • $32.99 / $7.98
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✪ 195013 Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and
Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister
Hutchinson, Robert
Over the course of his controversial career, Cromwell amassed
a fortune through bribery and high-interest loans to members
of the Tudor court, becoming the most hated man in England
and ultimately suffering grisly execution outside the Tower of
London. Rich in incident and colorful detail, Robert
Hutchinson's narrative history gives readers the real inside look
into the life of the protagonist of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and
Bring Up the Bodies. 368pgs. • 2014
◆ • St. Martin's • P • $17.99 / $5.98
182296 The War in the West Vol. 1: The Rise
of Germany, 1939-1941
Holland, James
A masterful book that redefines our understanding of the opening
years of World War II. Beginning with the lead-up to the outbreak
of war in 1939 and ending in the middle of 1941 on the eve of the
Nazi invasion of Russia, this is a landmark history of the war on
land, in the air, and at sea. 512pgs. • 2015
✪ 195020 Went the Day Well?: Witnessing
Waterloo
Crane, David
An astonishing hour-by-hour chronicle that begins with the day
before the battle and continues to its aftermath. Switching perspectives between Britain and Belgium, prison and palace, poet and
pauper, lover and betrothed, husband and wife, David Crane paints
a picture of a summer when everything changed. 384pgs. • 2015
◆ • Knopf • C • $30.00 / $5.98
177406 A Wicked Company: The Forgotten
Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
Blom, Philipp
The remarkable story of Baron Thierry Holbach's Parisian salon,
an epicenter of freethinking where figures such as Denis Diderot,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace
Walpole, and Benjamin Franklin embodied a radicalism in
European thought so uncompromising and bold that its bracing,
liberating, humanist vision has still not been fully realized.
384pgs. • 2012
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104372 An Accented Cinema: Exilic and
Diasporic Filmmaking
127078 From Caligari to Hitler: A
Psychological History of the German Film
Naficy, Hamid
Kracauer, Siegfried
An engaging overview of an important trend, the work of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced filmmakers living in the
West. Treating creativity as a social practice, Naficy demonstrates
that these films are in dialogue not only with the home and host
societies but also with audiences, many of whom are also situated
astride cultural fault lines. 368pgs. • 2001
Kracauer's pioneering book, which examines German history from
1921 to 1933 in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel, broke new ground in
exploring the connections between film aesthetics, the prevailing
psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving
social and political reality of the time. 432pgs. • 2004
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192078 Altman
Altman, Kathryn Reed & Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan
For decades, Robert Altman fascinated audiences with pioneering films -- among them M•A•S•H, Nashville, The Player, and
Gosford Park -- that combined technical innovation with subversive, satirical humor and impassioned political engagement.
The first authorized visual biography of the iconoclastic director, this volume includes photographs and ephemera, many
from private family albums, as well as personal recollections of
the director. 336pgs. • 2014
◆ • Harry N. Abrams • C • $40.00 / $12.98
185843 A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film
Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present
Day
Jacoby, Alexander
An essential guide to more than 150 filmmakers, including such
masters as Kinji Fukasaku, Juzo Itami, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi
Miike, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Yoji Yamada. Each entry
includes a critical summary and filmography. 432pgs. • 2008
◆ • Stone Bridge • P • $22.95 / $12.98
167836 Hollywood Frame by Frame: The
Unseen Silver Screen in Contact Sheets, 19511997
Longworth, Karina
Presents hundreds of never-before-published photos from the sets
of some of the greatest films of the 20h century. Hollywood's
biggest stars are here caught with their guard down, behind the
scenes of movie classics from Some Like It Hot and Breakfast at
Tiffany's to Taxi Driver and The Silence of the Lambs. 208pgs. •
2014
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $30.00 / $7.98
164050 Hollywood Left and Right: How
Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Ross, Steven J.
With a cast of larger-than-life figures from American cinema -including Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson,
George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda,
Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold Schwarzenegger -- this
volume reveals how the film industry's engagement in politics has
been longer, deeper, and more varied than most people would
imagine. 512pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $7.98
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170618 Moments That Made the Movies
Thomson, David
In his first fully illustrated work, film historian and critic David
Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of
moments from 72 films across a 100-year-plus span. Includes
more than 250 illustrations in color and black-and-white. 304pgs.
• 2014
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119738 Myth, Mind and the Screen:
Understanding the Heroes of Our Time
Izod, John
This systematic attempt to apply Jungian theory to the analysis of
films covers 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Silence of the Lambs, and
The Piano as well as a variety of cultural icons such as Madonna
and Michael Jackson. Through these examples, Izod demonstrates
how Jungian theory can bring new tools to film and media studies.
250pgs. • 2001
◆ • Cambridge • C • $118.00 / $54.98
✪ 074521 Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of
Radical Media Criticism
McChesney, Robert Waterman & Ben Scott
Demonstrates that, like the corporations themselves, criticism of
media monopolies has a long tradition. Featuring the work of
Upton Sinclair, C. Wright Mills, Walter Lippmann, Noam Chomsky,
and many others, this provocative anthology charts such topics as
the consolidation of ownership, the role of advertising, and the
corruptions of profit. 448pgs. • 2004
▲ • New Press • P • $19.95 / $7.98
112149 Revolution!: The Explosion of World
Cinema in the '60s
Cowie, Peter
Discusses the themes, trends, and creative innovations of the
1958-1969 period. Cowie focuses on those filmmakers -- including Antonioni, Bergman, Cassavetes, Fellini, Godard, Kurosawa,
and Truffaut -- who set the creative and intellectual standard by
which today's finest films are judged. 304pgs. • 2006
◆ • Faber & Faber • P • IMPORT / $5.98
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185699 Flowers and Herbs of Early America
Griffith, Lawrence
Drawing on years of archival research and field trials in Colonial
Williamsburg's gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, Lawrence
Griffith documents 56 species of flowers and herbs and provides
details on how they were cultivated and used. For each plant, an
elegant period hand-colored engraving, watercolor, or woodcut is
presented along with glorious new photographs by Barbara
Temple Lombardi. 304pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $30.00 / $14.98
185648 The Making of the English Gardener:
Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560-1660
Willes, Margaret
In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the
restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in
England, making it a leading player in the European horticultural
game. Packed with illustrations from the herbals, design treatises,
and practical manuals that inspired the creators of that revolution,
this volume enthrallingly charts how England's garden grew.
336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $12.98
✪ 195249 Garden's Quintessence
Jan Joris Landscape Architects
189373 Oxford College Gardens
Since its creation in 1977, Jan Joris has become one of the main
garden design firms in Western Europe, renowned for its trendsetting projects in a timeless and contemporary style. This beautiful
book features 20 exceptional Joris gardens in lush settings.
256pgs. • 2012
Richardson, Tim & Andrew Lawson
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189371 Great Garden Design: Contemporary
Inspiration for Outdoor Spaces
Hodgson, Ian
Comprising garden rooms, ornamental details, styles and planting
ideas, this book will appeal to every forward-looking garden
owner, whether they manage a small or medium sized garden, a
roof terrace, balcony, or courtyard space. It offers cutting-edge
solutions for those seeking an entirely new look as well as key
details that can make all the difference. 176pgs. • 2015
▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $40.00 / $16.98
The gardens of Oxford's colleges are surprisingly varied in style,
age and size, ranging from the ancient mound in the middle of
New College to fine modernist designs. In this volume, Tim
Richardson's elegant text combines with Andrew Lawson's glorious
photographs to reveal the full charm of Oxford's college gardens.
320pgs. • 2015
▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $60.00 / $21.98
✪ 195191 Planting Paradise: Cultivating the
Garden, 1501-1900
Harris, Stephen
Drawing on the superb collection of botanical illustrations in the
Plant Sciences Department and Bodleian Library, University of
Oxford, this beautifully-illustrated volume charts the evolution of
thinking about the cultivation of gardens from the 16th to the 19th
centuries, and shows how the garden became a symbol of human
interactions within the botanical world. 152pgs. • 2011
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162210 The Age of the Democratic
Revolution: A Political History of Europe and
America, 1760-1800
104818 Earthquakes in Human History: The
Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions
Palmer, R. R. & David Armitage
Ranging from an examination of temblors mentioned in the Bible,
to a richly detailed account of the 1906 catastrophe in San
Francisco, to Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, to the
Peruvian earthquake in 1970 (the Western Hemisphere's greatest
natural disaster), this book is an unequaled testament to a natural
phenomenon that can be not only terrifying but also threatening to
humankind's fragile existence. 278pgs. • 2007
In this magisterial account of the great revolutionary era in which
the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being,
Palmer traces the clash between an older form of society, marked
by legalized social rank and hereditary or self-perpetuating elites,
and a new form of society that placed a greater value on social
mobility and legal equality. 800pgs. • 2014
Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle & Donald Theodore Sanders
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055656 The Brenner Debate:
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic
Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Aston, T. H. & C. H. E. Philpin, eds.
A scholarly presentation of a variety of points of view concerning
the debate about the transition from feudalism to capitalism stirred
by Brenner's bold article of 1976. Covers a very wide range in
time, place, and approach. 339pgs. • 1987
◆ • Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $28.98
112185 The Cambridge Illustrated History
of Warfare: The Triumph of the West
087656 Ecological Imperialism: The
Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
NEW EDITION
Crosby, Alfred W.
Arguing that the displacement and replacement of the native
peoples in the temperate zones by European settlers was more
a matter of biology than military conquest, Crosby examines
how the spread of European disease, flora, and fauna went
hand in hand with the growth of populations. In this new edition, Crosby revisits his now classic work and the global historical importance of European ecological expansion. 390pgs. •
2004
▲ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $19.98
REVISED EDITION
Parker, Geoffrey
A unique account of Western warfare from antiquity to the present
day. Treats all aspects of the subject: the development of warfare
on land, sea and air; weapons and technology; strategy and
defense; discipline and intelligence; mercenaries and standing
armies; cavalry and infantry; chivalry and Blitzkrieg; guerilla
assault and nuclear arsenals. It ranges in scope from the Greek
victory at Marathon to the jungle warfare of Vietnam and the
strategic air attacks of the Gulf War. 432pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $25.98
125826 The City of Man
Manent, Pierre
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✪ 194897 Operation Nemesis:
The Assassination Plot That Avenged the
Armenian Genocide
Bogosian, Eric
In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual
and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected
the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. But
in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, he contends, we
have, paradoxically, lost a sense of what it means to be human.
248pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $23.98
111506 The Craft of International History:
A Guide to Method
Trachtenberg, Marc
A practical guide to the historical study of international politics,
grounded in the author's more than forty years' experience as a
working historian. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical
research -- that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and
interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history.
266pgs. • 2006
▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $21.98
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A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. Casting fresh light on both
one of the great crimes of the 20th century and one of history's
most remarkable acts of vengeance, Eric Bogosian sets the
killings in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history, and
captures in vivid color the history of an era that was rife with
political struggles and massacres. 384pgs. • 2015
◆ • Little, Brown • C • $28.00 / $7.98
181128 "They Can Live in
the Desert but Nowhere Else":
A History of the Armenian
Genocide
Suny, Ronald Grigor
A century after it took place, the Armenian
genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions
of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts
through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide
an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of
1915-16 were committed. 520pgs. • 2015
▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $17.98
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127086 Famine: A Short History
Ó Gráda, Cormac
Combining powerful storytelling with the latest evidence from economics and history, Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound
consequences of famine over the past five millennia, from ancient
Egypt to the killing fields of 1970s Cambodia, from the Great
Famine of 14th-century Europe to the famine in Niger in 2005.
344pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $16.98
✪ 173023 History in the Making
Elliott, J. H.
140838 Power over Peoples: Technology,
Environments and Western Imperialism, 1400
to the Present
Headrick, Daniel R.
An examination of Western imperialism's complex relationship
with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ventured
down the coast of Africa to America's conflicts in the Middle East
today. Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies from
muskets and galleons to jet planes and smart bombs, and sheds
light on the factors that have led to victory in some cases and
defeat in others. 416pgs. • 2012
▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
Drawing on his own experiences as a renowned historian of Spain,
Europe, and the Americas, Elliott provides a deft and sharp analysis of the work that historians do and how the field has changed
since the 1950s. He offers acute observations on such topics as the
history of national and imperial decline, political history, biography, and art and cultural history. 264pgs. • 2012
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185824 How Revolutionary Were the
Bourgeois Revolutions?
Davidson, Neil
Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the
concept of the bourgeois revolution has recently come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this volume, Neil Davidson systematically examines the approaches taken
by a wide range of thinkers to explain the causes and outcomes of
revolutions from the Reformation to decolonization. 818pgs. •
2012
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111591 Military Power: Explaining Victory
and Defeat in Modern Battle
Biddle, Stephen
In warfare, do states with the largest, best equipped, IT-rich militaries invariably win? In this landmark reconception of battle and
war, Stephen Biddle argues that force employment is central to
modern war, and has become increasingly important since 1900 in
a world of ever more lethal weaponry. 337pgs. • 2006
▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $20.98
187243 The New Deal: A Global History
Patel, Kiran Klaus
The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context,
this volume compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by
other countries around the globe -- not just in Europe but also in
Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. 456pgs. • 2016
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $20.98
125560 Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How
Humans Took Control of Climate
Ruddiman, William F.
Did human involvement in climate change only begin with the
industrial revolution, as is commonly believed? William
Ruddiman's provocative book argues that humans have actually
been changing the climate for some 8,000 years -- as a result of
the invention of agriculture. 240pgs. • 2010
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190868 Reinterpreting Exploration: The West
in the World
Kennedy, Dane, ed.
The essays in this volume focus on exploration's instrumental role
in shaping a European sense of exceptionalism and its iconic
importance in defining the terms of cultural engagement with
other peoples. The contributors address such key themes as exploration's contribution to European imperial expansion, Western scientific knowledge, Enlightenment ideas and practices, and metropolitan print culture. 256pgs. • 2014
◆ • Oxford University • P • $26.95 / $13.98
044899 The Rise and Fall of the Plantation
Complex: Essays in Atlantic History
SECOND EDITION
Curtin, Philip D.
In their Atlantic colonies, Europeans developed a form of plantation agriculture quite different from the agricultural system used at
home. Much more than an economic order, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. The essays in this
volume illuminate the intercontinental impact of the plantation system. 236pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $24.98
162129 Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Gikandi, Simon
Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies,
and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings,
personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the
violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of
taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how
slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of
the time. 392pgs. • 2014
▲ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $16.98
125548 Sovereignty and Revolution in the
Iberian Atlantic
Adelman, Jeremy
This bold new look at the New World empires of Spain and
Portugal argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic
world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal from the start.
It offers a new understanding of Latin American and Atlantic history, one that blurs traditional distinctions between the "imperial"
and the "colonial." 408pgs. • 2009
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181746 Tambora: The Eruption That Changed
the World
180986 The Work of the Dead: A Cultural
History of Mortal Remains
Wood, Gillen D'Arcy
Laqueur, Thomas W.
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed
the most destructive wave of extreme weather the Earth had witnessed in thousands of years. Tracing Tambora's global and historical reach, Wood relates how the volcano's three-year climate
change regime sparked the first worldwide cholera pandemic,
expanded opium markets in China, and plunged the US into its
first economic depression. 312pgs. • 2015
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body
should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavengers, yet
even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body
still matters -- for individuals, communities, and nations. This
ambitious history offers a compelling and richly detailed account
of how and why the living have cared for the dead from antiquity
to the 20th century. 736pgs. • 2015
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181344 Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
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Hoffman, Philip T.
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Why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese,
Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced?
Rejecting conventional explanations -- such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution -- Hoffman argues that if
key variables had been different, Europe would not have achieved
critical military innovations, and another power could have
become master of the world. 288pgs. • 2015
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J EWISH STU DI ES
028941 The Autobiography of a SeventeenthCentury Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life
of Judah
162312 The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History
of Jewish Life in East Europe
Cohen, Mark R., ed.
The first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the
shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of isolated, ramshackle
Jewish villages stricken by poverty and pogroms, Petrovsky-Shtern
argues that, in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl
was a thriving Jewish community as vibrant as any in Europe.
448pgs. • 2014
Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the
early modern Italian Jewish community, well-known to contemporary European Christians as well as to Jews. This complete translation of his autobiography provides a wealth of historical material
about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the
plague of 1630-1631, the influence of kabbalistic mysticism, and a
host of other subjects. 308pgs. • 1989
▲ • Princeton • P • $47.95 / $28.98
112783 A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian
Relations
Kessler, Edward & Neil Wenborn, eds.
This pioneering reference work offers a focus for the study and
understanding of Jewish-Christian relations internationally, both
within and between Judaism and Christianity. It includes more than
700 entries -- covering events, institutions, movements, people,
places and publications -- contributed by more than 100 internationally renowned scholars. 544pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $22.98
✪ 181328 German Jewry and the Allure of
the Sephardic
Efron, John M.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, as German Jews struggled for
legal emancipation and social acceptance, they embarked on a
program of cultural renewal, giving a special place to the
Sephardim of medieval Spain, whom they depicted as morally,
intellectually, and aesthetically superior to the Polish
Ashkenazim. John Efron here examines in depth the special
allure Sephardic aesthetics held for German Jewry. 352pgs. •
2015
Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan
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✪ 130886 History Lessons: The Invention of
American Jewish Heritage
Wenger, Beth S.
Jewish tradition and American culture did not converge seamlessly; it was American Jews themselves who consciously created this
idea of an American Jewish heritage and cemented it in the popular imagination. Wenger here examines how Jews in the US collectively wove themselves into the narratives of the nation and came
to view the American Jewish experience as a unique chapter in
Jewish history. 296pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.95 / $38.98
105085 Imperialism and Jewish Society 200
B.C.E. to 640 C.E.
Schwartz, Seth
This provocative history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity
marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of
Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Schwartz reaches some startling
conclusions -- foremost among them that the Christianization of
the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of
medieval and modern Jewish life. 336pgs. • 2004
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✪ 105160 The Jewish Century
✪ 105465 The Question of Zion
Slezkine, Yuri
Rose, Jacqueline
Slezkine argues that the ancient Jews were, in effect, among the
world's first free agents. Traditionally belonging to a social and
anthropological category known as "service nomads," an outsider
group specializing in the delivery of goods and services, these
exemplary ancients are now model moderns. 438pgs. • 2006
How did Zionism take shape as an identity? And why does it seem
so immutable? Analyzing the messianic fervor of Zionism, Rose
argues that it colors Israel's most profound self-image to this day.
She also explores the message of dissidents, who, while believing
themselves the true Zionists, warned from the outset against the
dangers of Jewish statehood. 208pgs. • 2005
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144063 Living with Antisemitism: Modern
Jewish Responses
Reinharz, Jehuda, ed.
A collection of 22 essays by distinguished scholars on the Jewish
response to antisemitism worldwide over the past 200 years. The
articles cover such diverse regions as Argentina, the Arab World,
Poland, Germany, and the United States. 510pgs. • 1988
◆ • Brandeis • P • $40.00 / $19.98
181032 Maimonides: Life and Thought
Halbertal, Moshe
126095 The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Heilman, Samuel C. & Menachem Friedman
From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel
Schneerson built the Lubavitcher movement from a small Hasidic
sect into a powerful force in Jewish life. The authors paint a vivid
portrait of the Rebbe, showing how he reinvented himself from an
aspiring electrical engineer into a charismatic leader who believed
that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic emissaries could transform the
world. 382pgs. • 2010
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Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar
of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound
and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible
introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical
sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition. 400pgs. • 2015
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $14.98
✪ 160477 Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of
Modernity
Feiner, Shmuel
The "German Socrates," Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the
most influential Jewish thinker of the 18th and 19th centuries. This
volume, the first full, human portrait of this fascinating man, provides a vivid sense of Mendelssohn's daily life as well as of his
philosophical endeavors. 248pgs. • 2010
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181031 No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
Wisse, Ruth R.
In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of the
most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity -- as well as
the brilliance of comic writers like Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel,
Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, she
draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish
humor into being -- and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience alike. 296pgs. • 2015
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
111471 The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race,
and American Identity
Goldstein, Eric L.
What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the
categories of black and white? Goldstein traces the often tumultuous encounters with race experienced by Jews from the 1870s
through World War II, when they became vested as part of
America's white mainstream and abandoned the practice of
describing themselves in racial terms. 307pgs. • 2007
▲ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $18.98
125781 A Short History of the Jews
Brenner, Michael
The most learned yet broadly accessible book available on the subject.
Brenner takes readers from the mythic wanderings of Moses to the
unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust; from the Babylonian exile to
the founding of the modern state of Israel; and from the Sephardic
communities under medieval Islam to the shtetls of eastern Europe
and the Hasidic enclaves of modern-day Brooklyn. 472pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
180993 Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink:
Jewish Manuscript Illumination
Epstein, Marc Michael, ed.
The first comprehensive survey of Jewish illuminated manuscripts
from the Middle Ages to the present day. Magnificently illustrated
with pages from hundreds of manuscripts -- including hand-illustrated versions of the Bible, the Haggadah, the prayer book, marriage documents, and other beloved Jewish texts -- it offers surprising new perspectives on Jewish life, and presents the books of the
People of the Book as never before. 288pgs. • 2015
▲ • Princeton • C • $60.00 / $33.98
188401 The Star and the Stripes: A History of
the Foreign Policies of American Jews
Barnett, Michael N.
How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they
tribal -- a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or
are they prophetic -- a light unto nations, working to repair the
world? Rooted in the understanding of how history shapes a political community's sense of the world, this volume is a bold reading
of the past, present, and possible future foreign policies of
American Jews. 368pgs. • 2016
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033679 To the Other Shore: The Russian
Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America
Cassedy, Steven
Documents how some Jewish intellectuals, while still in Russia,
came to be indoctrinated in Russian revolutionary beliefs, nihilism,
and populism, and how they propagated these beliefs in their
adopted country. 197pgs. • 1997
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187184 Trouble in the Tribe: The American
Jewish Conflict over Israel
191156 What Is Talmud?: The Art of
Disagreement
Waxman, Dov
Dolgopolski, Sergey
More than ever before, American Jews are arguing about Israeli
policies, and many, especially younger ones, are becoming uncomfortable with Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Dov Waxman
argues that Israel is fast becoming a source of disunity for
American Jewry, and that a new era of American Jewish conflict
over Israel is replacing the old era of solidarity. 328pgs. • 2016
Redefines the place of the Talmud and its study, both traditional
and academic, in the intellectual map of the West, arguing that
Talmud is a scholarly art of its own and represents a fundamental
intellectual discipline, not a mere application of logical, grammatical, or even rhetorical arts for the purpose of textual hermeneutics. 320pgs. • 2009
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◆ • Fordham • C • $85.00 / $30.98
LATI N AM ERICAN & CARI BBEAN STU DI ES
105005 Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition,
Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the AfroBrazilian Candomblé
180963 Sea of Storms: A History of
Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from
Columbus to Katrina
Matory, James Lorand
Schwartz, Stuart B.
With counterparts in Nigeria, the Benin Republic, Haiti, Cuba,
Trinidad, and the US, Candomblé is a religion of spirit possession,
dance, healing, and blood sacrifice. Vividly combining history and
ethnography, Matory spotlights a so-called "folk" religion defined
not by its closure or internal homogeneity but by the diversity of its
connections to classes and places often far away. 376pgs. • 2005
The cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz
examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers
of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced
the region's history, from the rise of plantations, to slavery and its
abolition, to migrations, racial conflict, and war. 472pgs. • 2015
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169367 Empire's Crossroads: A History of
the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present
Day
127325 Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan
Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
Gibson, Carrie
Gleijeses, Piero
A vivid, panoramic view of this complex region and its rich history.
At every step of her expansive story, Gibson wields fascinating
detail to combat the myths that have romanticized the region.
448pgs. • 2014
The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw
the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also
a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution
engineered by US intervention. 464pgs. • 1992
▲ • Princeton • P • $62.50 / $29.98
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104985 Race in Another America: The
Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
Telles, Edward E.
The most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the controversial
subject of race relations in Brazil, a country often hailed as a more
racially harmonious society than the US. Telles shows that although
there is in fact far more mixing of races in Brazil, exclusion
remains a serious problem. 324pgs. • 2006
▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $21.98
087138 The Third Wave of Democratization in
Latin America: Advances and Setbacks since
1978
Hagopian, Frances & Scott Mainwaring, eds.
Offers a comprehensive overview of the advances as well as the
setbacks in the post-1978 wave of democratization that witnessed a
sea change in Latin America from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which openly authoritarian regimes are
the rare exception. In nine case studies, the contributors offer
insight into what causes and sustains democracy. 432pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $26.98
LINGU ISTICS & LANGUAGES
109407 The Ancient Languages of Asia and
the Americas
128124 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of
Language
Woodard, Roger D., ed.
THIRD EDITION
Crystal, David
Each chapter in this survey focuses on an individual language or,
in some instances, a set of closely related varieties. Providing a full
descriptive presentation, each one examines the writing system or
systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. 263pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $62.00 / $39.98
This thoroughly revised edition incorporates the major developments in language study which have taken place since the mid
1990s. Two main new areas have been added: the rise of electronic communication, and the crisis affecting the world's languages,
of which half are thought to be so seriously endangered that they
will die out this century. 524pgs. • 2010
▲ • Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $27.98
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041229 Elementary Modern Standard Arabic,
Volume 1: Pronunciation and Writing; Lessons
1-30
134285 How Many Languages Do We Need?:
The Economics of Linguistic Diversity
Abboud, P. F., ed.
Ginsburgh, Victor & Shlomo Weber
The Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Course is the premier
introduction, for the English-speaking student, to the active written
language of the contemporary Arab world. Volume 1 is complete
in itself and presents a practical introduction to the writing system
of Arabic and to its pronunciation. Each lesson contains a text, a
vocabulary, grammar, and drills including oral and written comprehension passages. 634pgs. • 1983
What are the specific advantages and disadvantages of linguistic
diversity and how does it influence social and economic progress?
This book examines linguistic diversity as a global social phenomenon and considers what degree of linguistic variety might result in
the greatest economic good. 256pgs. • 2011
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136865 The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole
Languages
Siegel, Jeff
In addressing the emergence of contact languages, the author
looks at research on processes of second language acquisition and
use, including simplification, overgeneralization, and language
transfer. He shows how these processes can account for many of
the characteristics of pidgins and creoles, and proposes linguistic
and sociolinguistic constraints on their application in language
contact. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • C • $170.00 / $46.98
087435 English Syntax: An Introduction
Radford, Andrew
An abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the
Structure of English, the text offers a concise, accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of
Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, it leads students through a range of topics in
English syntax. 396pgs. • 2004
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104982 The Languages of China
Ramsey, S. Robert
"A comprehensive and accurate account that places China's linguistic diversity in a meaningful historical, geographical, and
social context. Ramsey has succeeded admirably in achieving this
end" -- The Journal of Asian Studies. 355pgs. • 1989
▲ • Princeton • P • $52.00 / $29.98
190439 The Oxford Handbook of the History
of Linguistics
Allan, Keith, ed.
In this volume leading scholars from around the world examine
the history of linguistics from its ancient origins to the present.
They consider every aspect of the field, from language origins to
neurolinguistics, explore linguistic traditions East and West, chronicle centuries of explanations for language structures, meanings,
and usage, and look at how linguistics has been has been applied
in practice. 896pgs. • 2013
◆ • Oxford University • C • $175.00 / $99.98
190452 Time: Language, Cognition and
Reality
Jaszczolt, Kasia M. & Louis de Saussure, eds.
In this volume, linguists and philosophers from all over the world
examine recent work on the representation of temporal reference; the
interaction of the temporal information from tense, aspect, modality,
temporal adverbials, and context; and the representation of the temporal relations between events and states, as well as between facts,
propositions, sentences, and utterances. 352pgs. • 2013
◆ • Oxford University • C • $125.00 / $34.98
LITERARY CRITICISM & BIOGRAPHY
039701 Anatomy of Criticism
Frye, Northrop
In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and
rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from
ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary criticism as
a total history rather than a linear progression through time.
383pgs. • 2000
▲ • Princeton • P • $41.95 / $20.98
032078 Ancient Literary Criticism: The
Principal Texts in New Translations
✪ 117622 The Cambridge Introduction to
Zora Neale Hurston
King, Lovalerie
Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary
works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural south and in the
Caribbean. This introductory book explores her artistic achievements, her staunch individualism, her penchant for drama, her
sometimes controversial politics, her philosophical influences, and
her views on gender relations. 160pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $9.98
Russell, D. A., et al., eds.
Provides principal texts by Aristotle, Horace, Tacitus, and Homer
in translation, giving a fair and intelligible view of ancient literary
criticism and its development, all supplemented with brief introductions and explanatory notes. 607pgs. • 1988
◆ • Oxford University • P • $143.00 / $53.98
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136856 Death and the Author: How D. H.
Lawrence Died, and Was Remembered
111173 A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature
and the Real World
Ellis, David
Dickstein, Morris
Centered around a dramatic account of D. H. Lawrence's last days,
and of the often bizarre events which followed his death, David
Ellis offers a series of reflections about what it is like to have a disease for which there is no cure, the appeal of alternative medicine,
the temptation of suicide for the terminally ill, the diminishing role
of religion in modern life, and many other matters. 224pgs. •
2008
Examines a wide array of 20th-century writers, from realists like
Dreiser and Wharton, through modernists like Kafka and Beckett,
to inventive postwar writers like Bellow, Grass, Philip Roth, and
García Márquez. Dickstein argues that fiction will always yield rich
insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of
historical understanding. 304pgs. • 2005
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185493 Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and
Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of
History
Cheyette, Bryan
Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, Cheyette
elaborates a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures. Among the authors he examines
are Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi,
Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward
Said, Zadie Smith, and Muriel Spark. 320pgs. • 2014
◆ • Yale • C • $55.00 / $7.98
162332 Moral Imagination: Essays
Bromwich, David
In this volume, one of America's premier cultural critics explores
the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these
faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and the reality of justice. These wide-ranging essays address thinkers and topics from Gandhi and Martin Luther King on nonviolent resistance,
to the dangers of identity politics, to the psychology of the heroes
of classic American literature. 376pgs. • 2014
◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $15.98
038520 The New Princeton Encyclopedia of
Poetry and Poetics
176809 E. E. Cummings: A Life
Preminger, Alex & T. V. Brogan, eds.
Cheever, Susan
A comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its
subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. This completely revised edition includes new entries by Camille
Paglia, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Elaine Showalter, Houston
Baker, and Andrew Ross, and new coverage of cultural criticism,
discourse, feminist poetics, and Chicano poetry. 1383pgs. • 1993
A major reassessment of the life and work of one of America's
preeminent 20th-century poets, Cheever's biography traces the
evolution of an artist whose writing was at the forefront of an
America in transition. Includes 28 pages of black-and-white
images. 240pgs. • 2014
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187308 The Epic Hero
Miller, Dean A.
A comprehensive guide to epic heroes and the richly imaginative
tales they inhabit. Drawing on diverse disciplines, including classics, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, this product of
twenty years' scholarship provides a detailed typology of the hero
in Western myth: birth, parentage, familial ties, sexuality, character,
deeds, death, and afterlife. 520pgs. • 2000
BERTOLT BRECHT
192025 The Partnership:
Brecht, Weill, Three Women,
and Germany on the Brink
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181451 Kafka: The Years of Insight
Stach, Reiner
This volume of the acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz
Kafka tells the story of the writer's final years. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and
works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming
in for extreme close-ups of Kafka's personal life, then pulling back
for panoramic shots of a wider world scarred by World War I, disease, and inflation. 696pgs. • 2015
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
142609 The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the
Revival of the Bardic Arts
Schuchard, Ronald
Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming
preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's literary life, Ronald Schuchard provides a historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the
poet's lifelong attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the
bardic arts of chanting and musical speech. 528pgs. • 2008
Katz, Pamela
The first book to tell the full story of
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's impulsive,
combustible partnership, one of the most
important creative collaborations of the
past century. It is also the first to give full
credit to the three women -- actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene
Weigel and writer Elizabeth Hauptmann -- whose creative gifts
contributed enormously to their masterworks. 480pgs. • 2015
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✪ 150628 Brecht and Method
Jameson, Fredric
A dissection of the intricate connections between Brecht's
drama and his politics. Jameson sees Brecht's method as a
multi-layered process of reflection and self-reflection, reference, and self-reference, which tears open a gap for individuals
to situate themselves historically, to think about themselves in
the third person, and to use that self-projection in history as a
basis for judgment. 280pgs. • 2011
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MILTON
185912 Aspects of Subjectivity: Society and
Individuality from the Middle Ages to
Shakespeare and Milton
Low, Anthony
Examining The Wanderer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Everyman, The Faerie Queene, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost, Low
considers the experience of loneliness and exile, the development
of sacramental confession, the abolition of Purgatory and the traditional Christian solidarity with the ancestral dead, the role of
conscience in the development of self, and the rise in
Shakespeare and Milton of a typically modern sense of
autonomous individuality and subjectivity. 263pgs. • 2003
◆ • Duquesne • C • $60.00 / $9.98
✪ 148146 Literature and Politics in
Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew
Marvell, Marchamont Nedham
Worden, Blair
A fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets
of the Puritan Revolution. Blair Worden reconstructs the political
contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses
the influence on their work of Oliver Cromwell and of
Marchamont Nedham, the pioneering journalist and close friend
of Milton whose writings are shown to be intimately linked to
Marvell's. 456pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $23.98
185906 Melville and Milton: An Edition and
Analysis of Melville's Annotations on Milton
160473 The Milton
Encyclopedia
Corns, Thomas N., ed.
The articles in this comprehensive reference
cover each poem and prose work by John
Milton; the life of Milton and the members of
his family; all events and all contemporary
and historical figures mentioned significantly
in his writings; every book of the Bible in its
relation to Milton's own work; printers, booksellers, and publishing history; the critical and editorial traditions; illustrators; and
those whose own writing was shaped by Milton's influence.
424pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $165.00 / $21.98
185917 Spiritual Architecture
and Paradise Regained:
Milton's Literary Ecclesiology
Simpson, Ken
While far less critical attention has been given
to Paradise Regained as compared to
Paradise Lost and other works in Milton's
canon, it might be argued that Paradise
Regained may be read as a full and culminating expression of Milton's views on the doctrine of the church,
the nature of the Word, prophecy and vocation, and apocalypticism. Simpson's provocative and unique examination will
become an indispensable study, offering new views of this somewhat neglected poem. 256pgs. • 2007
◆ • Duquesne • C • $70.00 / $22.98
Grey, Robin
Two decades ago, Herman Melville's marked and annotated copy
of John Milton's poetry first came to light. Featuring a Foreword
by John Bryant, the present volume brings together Melville and
Milton scholars in order to illuminate the important artistic connections between these two major authors. 240pgs. • 2004
◆ • Duquesne • C • $70.00 / $12.98
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036928 The Science of Sacrifice: American
Literature & Modern Social Theory
✪ 111807 Shakespeare
Mizruchi, Susan L.
One of the most important works in the history of literary criticism, this passionate essay pioneered a new, historicist approach
to cultural artifacts by arguing that they should be judged not by
conventions imported from another time and place, but by the
effectiveness of their response to their own historical and cultural
context. 86pgs. • 2008
An interdisciplinary investigation uncovers a time in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is
basic to sociality. 436pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton • C NDJ • $90.00 / $55.98
166736 The Shadow of a Great Rock: A
Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
Herder, Johann Gottfried
▲ • Princeton • C • $20.95 / $7.98
Bloom, Harold
✪ 122041 Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The
True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth
The King James Bible, Harold Bloom contends in the opening
pages of this illuminating literary tour, stands at "the sublime summit of literature in English." Distilling the insights acquired from
his career as a brilliant critic and teacher, he offers readers a magisterial and perceptive reading of the King James Bible as a literary
masterpiece. 320pgs. • 2011
Convincingly argues that if the plays and poems of "Shake-speare"
were discovered today, we would see them for what they are -shocking political works written by a court insider, someone
whose status and anonymity shielded him from repression in an
unstable time of armada and reformation. 352pgs. • 2010
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172658 Strindberg: A Life
Prideaux, Sue
Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser -- Strindberg was all these, and yet he is largely known, in
Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater"
who led playwriting out of the drawing room into the snakepit of
psychological warfare. This biography, supported by extensive new
research, describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the
great figures in world literature. 352pgs. • 2013
◆ • Yale • P • $30.00 / $6.98
✪ 152573 The Task of the Critic: Terry
Eagleton in Dialogue
Eagleton, Terry & Matthew Beaumont
This comprehensive volume of interviews covers both Eagleton's
life and the development of his thought and politics. Lively and
insightful, it will appeal to anyone interested in the evolution of
radical politics, modernism, cultural theory, the history of ideas,
sociology, semantic inquiry, and the state of Marxist theory.
224pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • P • $29.95 / $6.98
181474 Think Again: Contrarian Reflections
on Life, Art, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law,
and Education
Fish, Stanley
From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times
columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate.
This volume assembles nearly 100 of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a substantial new Introduction
that explains his intention in writing these pieces and offers an
analysis of why they provoked so much reaction. 448pgs. • 2015
▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $16.98
172620 Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring
Composition
Douglas, Mary
Found in the Bible and in writings from as far afield as Egypt,
China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, the literary technique
known as ring composition is too widespread to have come from a
single source. Focusing on ring composition in the Iliad, the Book
of Numbers, and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Mary Douglas
examines the technique, its principles, and its functions in a crosscultural manner. 192pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • P • $25.00 / $9.98
LITERATU RE, POETRY & DRAMA
180905 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
188144 A Brief History of Seven Killings
Carroll, Lewis & Mark Burstein, ed.
James, Marlon
This beautiful new edition features rarely-seen illustrations by
Salvador Dalí that illuminate the surreal yet curiously logical and
mathematical realm into which Alice famously falls. In an
Informative and wide-ranging introduction, Carroll expert Mark
Burstein discusses Dalí's connections with Carroll, his treatment of
the symbolic figure of Alice, and the mathematical nature of
Wonderland. 136pgs. • 2015
In December 1976, seven gunmen stormed into a house in
Kingston, Jamaica, wounding singer Bob Marley, his wife, his manager, and several other people. In this mesmerizing novel, Marlon
James recreates that dangerous and unstable time, deftly tracing
the lives of a host of unforgettable characters, from gunmen, drug
dealers, and one-night stands to CIA agents -- and even ghosts.
704pgs. • 2014
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▲ • Riverhead • C • $30.00 / $7.98
081080 Before Night Falls: A Memoir
169119 Brown Dog: Novellas
Arenas, Reinaldo
Harrison, Jim
Recounts the author's stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken
childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for
Castro, through his suppression as a writer, imprisonment as a
homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his
subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York.
336pgs. • 1994
Brown Dog, a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian,
has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades
since his first appearance. This volume gathers all the Brown Dog
novellas, including one never-published one, into one volume,
making it the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison's
irresistible Everyman. 544pgs. • 2014
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✪ 169788 The Bestiary, or Procession of
Orpheus
✪ 194887 The Buried Giant
TRANSLATED BY X. J. KENNEDY
Apollinaire, Guillaume
With the Romans have long departed and Britain steadily
declining into ruin, an elderly couple decide that now is the
time for them to set off across their troubled land of mist and
rain to find the son they can scarcely remember. Kazuo
Ishiguro's first novel in a decade tells a luminous story about
the act of forgetting and the power of memory, a resonant tale
of love, vengeance, and war. 336pgs. • 2015
Since it was first published in 1911, Guillaume Apollinaire's first
book of poems has charmed readers with its celebrations of animals, birds, fish, insects, and the mythical poet Orpheus. X. J.
Kennedy's translation follows Apollinaire in casting the poems into
rhymed stanzas, suggesting music and sudden closures while
remaining faithful to their sense. 96pgs. • 2011
Ishiguro, Kazuo
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✪ 122150 The Changeling
157759 Collected Later Stories
Oe, Kenzaburo
Updike, John
In this novel by the Nobel laureate, Kogito Choko, a writer in his
early sixties, begins a far-ranging search to understand what drove
his estranged brother-in-law and friend to suicide. His quest takes
him from the forests of southern Japan to the washed-out streets of
Berlin, where he confronts the ghosts from both his own past and
that of his lifelong, but departed, friend. 480pgs. • 2010
The second of two volumes in this definitive collection includes 84
classic stories that display the virtuosic command of character,
dialogue, and sensual description for which Updike was known.
800pgs. • 2013
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LIBRARY OF AMERICA
035768 American Poetry: The Nineteenth
157763 The Cool School: Writing from
Century Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman
America's Hip Underground
Hollander, John, ed.
O'Brien, Glenn, ed.
This landmark two-volume anthology gathers over 1,000 poems
by nearly 150 poets. Volume 1 includes generous selections from
Poe, Emerson, Bryant, Longfellow, and Whitman. "There is simply
nothing else like it in print" -- Helen Vendler, The New Republic.
1098pgs. • 1993
Drawing on memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters,
essays, and song lyrics, editor Glenn O'Brien has created an
unparalleled literary mix tape bringing together Henry Miller,
Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Lenny Bruce, William
S. Burroughs, Bob Dylan, Annie Ross, Norman Mailer, Terry
Southern, Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs, and dozens of others.
500pgs. • 2013
▲ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
035835 The American Revolution: Writings
from the War of Independence
Rhodehamel, John, ed.
Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda, brings
together over 120 pieces by more than 70 participants to create a
unique literary panorama of the War of Independence. 878pgs.
• 2001
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $18.98
085401 Americans in Paris: A Literary
Anthology
▲ • Library of America • C • $27.95 / $9.98
092588 Poets of the Civil War
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
McClatchy, J. D., ed.
With selections ranging from Whitman and Melville to popular
favorites like "Barbara Frietchie" and "All Quiet Along the Potomac,"
this volume also includes the work of Henry Timrod, Sidney Lanier,
Julia Ward Howe, and many others. 250pgs. • 2005
▲ • Library of America • C • $20.00 / $7.98
Gopnik, Adam, ed.
085412 Reporting Civil Rights, Vol. 2:
American Journalism 1963 to 1973
Paris has been many things to many Americans: a traditionbound bastion of old world Europe, a hotbed of revolutionary
ideologies, and a space in which to cultivate an openness to life
thought impossible at home. Including stories, letters, memoirs,
and reporting, the text distills 3 centuries of writing about what
Henry James called "the most brilliant city in the world." 650pgs.
• 2004
The second in a two-volume anthology which brings together
nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports, book excerpts, and
features by 151 writers, including Baldwin, Penn Warren,
Halberstam, Parks, Kempton, Poston, Sitton, and Moody.
Together they comprise a firsthand chronicle of a tumultuous era
and its key events. 986pgs. • 2003
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043709 Baseball: A Literary Anthology
Dawidoff, Nicholas, ed.
A lively mix of stories, memoirs, poems, news reports, and insider accounts about all aspects of the great American game, from
its pastoral 19th-century beginnings to its apotheosis as the
undisputed national pastime. 721pgs. • 2002
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
170503 The Civil War Told by Those Who
Lived It: (Four-Volume Boxed Set)
Library of America Staff
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035817 Reporting Vietnam, Vol. 1: American
Journalism, 1959-1969
Library of America Staff
25 years after the last American troops withdrew from Vietnam,
this unique anthology, drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books, brings together the work
of over 80 remarkable writers to create an unprecedented mosaic view of America's longest war and its impact on an increasingly fractured American society. 858pgs. • 1998
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
Simpson, Brooks D., ed.
The definitive firsthand narrative of our nation's greatest conflict,
now in a four-volume collector's boxed set. As a special feature,
each box includes four pull-out posters featuring full color maps
by expert Civil War cartographer Earl McElfresh. 3624pgs. •
2014
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177582 The Collected Plays of Arthur Miller:
Boxed Set
Miller, Arthur
The essential American playwright in a three-volume deluxe collector's boxed set. Includes All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The
Crucible, A View from the Bridge, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy,
The American Clock, The Archbishop's Ceiling, The Last Yankee,
Broken Glass, Finishing the Picture, and many other works.
2750pgs. • 2015
▲ • Library of America • C • $115.00 / $61.98
✪ 195007 The Faraway Nearby
Solnit, Rebecca
An exploration of how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her
own stories -- of her mother and her decline from memory
loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness -- Solnit revisits fairytales
and stories about arctic explorers, Che Guevara among the
leper colonies, and Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein, about
warmth and coldness, pain and kindness, decay and transformation, making art and making self. 272pgs. • 2013
◆ • Viking • C • $25.95 / $5.98
182170 Collected Short Fiction
Naipaul, V. S.
No writer has rendered our postcolonial world as acutely or
prophetically, nor given its upheavals such a hauntingly human
face, as V. S. Naipaul. All of the Nobel Prize winner's stunning
short fiction is here collected in one volume, with an Introduction
by the author. 440pgs. • 2011
▲ • Everyman's Library • C • $25.00 / $5.98
035759 Complete Plays 1932-1943
O'Neill, Eugene
This third and final volume of the first complete collection of
Eugene O'Neill's dramatic writings contains eight plays, including
the crowning achievements of his career. Includes: Ah,
Wilderness!, Days Without End, A Touch of the Poet, More Stately
Mansions, The Iceman Cometh, Hughie, Long Day's Journey into
Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten, as well as "Tomorrow,"
O'Neill's only published short story. 1007pgs. • 1988
▲ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $15.98
✪ 195114 The Complete Poetry
Angelou, Maya
Timeless and prescient, this definitive compendium will warm the
hearts of Maya Angelou's most ardent admirers even as it introduces new readers to the legendary poet, activist, and teacher -- a
phenomenal woman for the ages. 336pgs. • 2015
◆ • Modern Library • C • $30.00 / $8.98
189266 The Death of Ivan Ilyich and
Confession
TRANSLATED BY PETER CARSON
Tolstoy, Leo
159729 The Letters of Ernest Hemingway,
1923-1925
Spanier, Sandra, et al., eds.
These letters illuminate Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the
legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s, as well as the
development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos. Striving to "make it new," he
emerges from the tutelage of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to
forge a new style, gaining recognition as one of the most formidable talents of his generation. 604pgs. • 2013
▲ • Cambridge • C • $40.99 / $16.98
GOETHE
187138 The Essential Goethe
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. In addition
to the works for which he is most famous, including Faust Part
I and the lyric poems, the volume features important literary
works that are rarely published in English -- including the dramas Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso and the
novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. 1056pgs. • 2016
▲ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $19.98
✪ 162202 Faust I and II: The
Collected Works, Volume 2
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
A renowned translator's versions, completed just before his death,
of Tolstoy's most spiritual and most existential works. Unlike so
many previous translations that have tried to smooth out Tolstoy's
rough edges, Peter Carson presents a translation that captures the
verisimilitude and psychological realism of the original Russian
text. 224pgs. • 2013
◆ • Liveright • C • $23.95 / $5.98
163777 Echo's Bones
Capturing the sense, poetic variety, and tonal
range of the German original in present-day
English, Stuart Atkins's translation presents
the formal and rhythmic dexterity of Faust in
all its richness and beauty, without recourse
to archaisms or interpretive elaborations.
Featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this is the
definitive English version of a timeless masterpiece. 360pgs. •
2014
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $7.98
Beckett, Samuel
Considered by Beckett's editor to be too imaginatively playful, too
allusive, and too undisciplined for inclusion in his 1933 collection
More Pricks than Kicks, "Echo's Bones" (not to be confused with
the poem and collection of poems of the same title) remained
unpublished for nearly eight decades. This little-known story is
here introduced by Beckett scholar Mark Nixon, who situates the
work in terms of its biographical context and textual references.
128pgs. • 2014
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✪ 071776 Early Verse Drama and Prose
Plays: The Collected Works, Volume 7:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Contains eight of his plays, including prose plays, tragedies, and
comedies, written between 1771 and 1787, that demonstrate
his versatility in experimenting with new forms of dramatic
expression, allowing insight into his development as a writer.
298pgs. • 1988
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038608 The Lives of Animals
Coetzee, J. M.
A renowned novelist employs fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. In his fable,
presented as a Tanner Lecture at Princeton University, Coetzee
immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a
writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a
prestigious university. 127pgs. • 2001
▲ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $16.98
187218 Living on Paper: Letters from Iris
Murdoch, 1934-1995
✪ 194890 The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef
Jerky, and Death
Whitehead, Colson
A longtime neighborhood poker player, Colson Whitehead was
given a $10,000 stake and an assignment from the online magazine Grantland to see how far he could get in the World Series
of Poker. The result was this brilliant, hilarious, weirdly profound, and ultimately moving portrayal of the human condition,
by the acclaimed author of The Underground Railroad.
256pgs. • 2014
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Murdoch, Iris
194705 Notes from a Dead House
This first major collection of Murdoch's most compelling and
interesting personal letters offers a rounded self-portrait of one of
the 20th century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than
760 letters, fewer than 40 of which have been published before,
the book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her
days as a schoolgirl to her last years. 688pgs. • 2016
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
▲ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $20.98
166755 Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy
Tales
Schwitters, Kurt
Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his
Dadaist collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the
same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were
turning the genre upside down and inside out. This volume, translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, is the first collection of these
subversive, little-known stories in any language. 256pgs. • 2014
▲ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $6.98
✪ 192218 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky of
the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized
autobiographical account of penal servitude in Siberia. His story,
which revealed imprisonment as a tragedy both for the inmates
and for Russia, is also a profound meditation on freedom.
336pgs. • 2015
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✪ 157880 The Only Game in Town: Sports
Writing from the New Yorker
Remnick, David, ed.
Since its inception, the New Yorker has been home to some of the
toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around.
Featuring brilliant reportage and analysis, profound profiles of
pros, and tributes to the amateur in all of us, this volume features
contributions by A. J. Liebling, Roger Angell, John Updike, John
McPhee, Don DeLillo, Ring Lardner, and many more. 512pgs. •
2010
◆ • Random House • C • $30.00 / $9.98
Blake, William
This new facsimile edition of Blake's iconoclastic work includes a
plate-by-plate guide to the texts, interlinear figures, and larger
designs in a commentary accompanying the transcript of each
reproduced plate. An introduction explores the book's literary and
historical background, Blake's printing process, and the book's
anonymous initial publication. 184pgs. • 2011
◆ • Bodleian Library • P • $25.00 / $9.98
✪ 173342 Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man
182168 Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence
Poirot, Luis
Pablo Neruda wrote often about the natural world and the beloved
objects he surrounded himself with. In this beautiful edition of
photographer Luis Poirot's classic work -- featuring new scans
from newly made prints -- we come to know the poet's world
through his poems, his houses, the wonderful things he collected,
and his friends. Includes 84 photographs. 192pgs. • 2004
◆ • W. W. Norton • P • $35.00 / $5.98
Sassoon, Siegfried
An evocation of the Edwardian age that has remained in print since
its publication in 1928. It was the first volume of a classic trilogy,
completed by Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's
Progress, that charted the destruction of the world for which
Sassoon fought as an officer in the First World War. 320pgs. •
1999
◆ • Faber & Faber • P • IMPORT / $7.98
194743 Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and
Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians
Colarusso, John, ed. & trans.
The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek
mythology is to Western civilization. In a new Introduction to this
edition, folklorist Adrienne Mayor reflects on these tales both in
terms of the fascinating warrior culture they depict and the influence they had on Greco-Roman mythology. 456pgs. • 2016
▲ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $10.98
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177965 A Place in the Country
Sebald, W. G.
The last of the great writer's major works to be translated into
English, this is Sebald's meditation on six artists and writers who
shaped his creative mind. The beautiful hardcover edition includes
more than 40 pieces of art and 6 full-color gatefolds, all as originally selected and laid out by the author. 240pgs. • 2014
▲ • Random House • C • $26.00 / $5.98
105182 The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin
P'Ing Mei: The Gathering, Vol. 1
Roy, David Tod, trans.
An unabridged and annotated translation of the first volume of the
anonymous 16th-century Chinese novel, the story of the domestic
life of the corrupt and voracious Hsi-men Ch'ing, his six wives and
concubines. 714pgs. • 1997
▲ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $26.98
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171947 The Raven
092587 Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems
Reed, Lou & Lorenzo Mattotti
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Roethke, Theodore
This gorgeous book of art and poetry shares its title with Lou
Reed's 2003 album and further explores his fascination with Poe's
work. Reed's poetically streetwise sensibility and style works in
surprising harmony with Poe's dark chronicles of terror and
despair, just as Lorenzo Mattotti's vivid and enigmatic paintings
perfectly complement Reed's haunting interpretation of Poe's
vision. 188pgs. • 2012
From the recollections of his youth in Michigan to the visionary
longings of the poems written just before his death, Theodore
Roethke embarked on a quest to restore wholeness to a self that
seemed irreparably broken. This gathering of Roethke's works
includes several of his poems for children, as well as a generous
sampling from his notebooks. 200pgs. • 2005
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191154 Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian
Americana
024391 The Romance of the Rose
Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun
English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous
dream allegory composed in the 13th century, have come to rely
on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old
French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English is
available again, this time in a third edition with an updated critical
apparatus. 450pgs. • 1971
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Albright, Carol Bonomo & Joanna Clapps Herman, eds.
For more than 30 years, the journal Italian Americana has been
home to writers who have sparked an extraordinary literary explosion in Italian-American culture. This volume offers the very best
from those pages: sixty-three pieces -- fiction, memoir, poetry,
story, and interview -- that range widely in style and sentiment,
tracing the arc of an immigrant culture's coming of age in
America. 350pgs. • 2008
192339 Second Variety and Other Classic
Stories
Dick, Philip K.
A collection of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the
years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include "Second
Variety," "Foster," "You're Dead." and "The Father-Thing," among
many others. 414pgs. • 2002
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MATH EMATICS
187139 The Best Writing on Mathematics
2015
185945 The Concept of Probability in the
Mathematical Representation of Reality
Pitici, Mircea, ed.
Reichenbach, Hans
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices
alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, this volume
makes available a wide range of articles not easily found anywhere
else -- and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them.
392pgs. • 2016
A student and friend of Albert Einstein, Hans Reichenbach was one
of the most influential advocates of the idea that the estimation of
probabilities as limits of relative frequencies lay at the foundation
of science. His lucid and original doctoral thesis, never before
translated, shows the early focus of his thought on the interdependence of physics, probability, and epistemology, even before
the appearance of the quantum theory. 384pgs. • 2008
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131637 The Calculus of Friendship: What a
Teacher and a Student Learned about Life
while Corresponding about Math
180877 Creating Symmetry: The Artful
Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns
Strogatz, Steven
Farris, Frank A.
The story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a
student, as chronicled through more than 30 years of letters.
Compiled by one of the participants, the volume reveals a unique
relationship based almost entirely on a shared love of calculus.
184pgs. • 2011
Featuring more than 100 stunning color illustrations and requiring
only a modest background in math, this lavishly illustrated book
provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing
mathematics of symmetry. As you progress through the book,
you'll learn how to create breathtaking art images of your own.
248pgs. • 2015
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127105 The Crest of the Peacock: NonEuropean Roots of Mathematics
104875 The Essential John Nash
Joseph, G. G.
Presents the full range of Nash's diverse contributions not only to
game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to pure mathematics -- from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations -- in which he commands even greater acclaim among academics. In an afterword, Nash describes his current work and discusses an error in one of his papers. 244pgs. • 2007
A multicultural tour that ranges from the Ishango Bone of central
Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern
mathematics. Joseph traces the deep influence that the Egyptians
and Babylonians had on the Greeks, the major contributions of the
Arabs, and the achievements of the great civilizations of India and
China. 610pgs. • 2010
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181189 E: The Story of a Number
PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY
Maor, Eli
Kuhn, Harold W. & Sylvia Nasar, eds.
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181214 The Fascinating World of Graph
Theory
Benjamin, Arthur, et al.
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds
in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are
all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this
informal and engaging history, designed for readers with only a
modest background in mathematics, Eli Maor portrays the curious
characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. 248pgs. • 2015
What is the shortest route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit
a number of cities in one trip? What is the smallest number of colors needed to fill in any map so that neighboring regions are
always colored differently? With applications in biology, computer
science, transportation science, and other areas, graph theory
encompasses some of the most beautiful formulas in mathematics
-- and some of its most famous problems. 344pgs. • 2015
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154686 The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the
Search for the Impossible
PAUL J. NAHIN
Fortnow, Lance
✪ 147276 Chases and Escapes: The
Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion
Nahin, Paul J.
Draws upon game theory, geometry, linear algebra, and targettracking algorithms to trace the development of modern pursuit
theory from its classical analytical beginnings to the present day.
Along the way, Nahin enlivens his mathematical discussions with
fun facts and captivating stories. 272pgs. • 2012
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194711 An Imaginary Tale: The Story of
(The Square Root of Minus One)
PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY
Nahin, Paul J.
Relates the 2,000-year-old history of one of the most elusive
numbers in mathematics, the square root of minus one.
Addressing both scholarly and general readers, Nahin weaves
entertaining historical facts and mathematical discussions into
his tale, including the application of complex numbers and
functions to important problems such as Kepler's laws of planetary motion. 296pgs. • 2016
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158700 Will You Be Alive Ten Years from
Now?: And Numerous Other Curious
Questions in Probability
Nahin, Paul J.
What are the chances of a game-show contestant finding a
chicken in a box? Is the Hanukkah dreidel a fair game? These
are just some of the one-of-a-kind probability puzzles that
acclaimed popular math writer Paul Nahin offers in this lively
and informative book. With his characteristic wit, audacity, and
insight, Nahin demonstrates why seemingly simple probability
problems can stump even the experts. 256pgs. • 2013
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The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not in all of mathematics. Fortnow provides a nontechnical introduction to the problem, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and
beyond. 192pgs. • 2013
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145548 Guesstimation 2.0: Solving Today's
Problems on the Back of a Napkin
Weinstein, Lawrence
The ability to guesstimate on your feet is an essential skill to have
in today's world, whether you're trying to distinguish between a
billion-dollar subsidy and a trillion-dollar stimulus, a megawatt
wind turbine and a gigawatt nuclear plant, or parts-per-million and
parts-per-billion contaminants. Using an eclectic array of problems, this volume reveals the simple and effective techniques needed to estimate virtually anything. 377pgs. • 2012
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107133 How Mathematicians Think: Using
Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to
Create Mathematics
Byers, William
Mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs
as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and
paradox. In this unique examination of this less-familiar aspect of
mathematics, Byers reveals that mathematics is a profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results.
416pgs. • 2007
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133727 Impossible: Surprising Solutions to
Counterintuitive Conundrums
Havil, Julian
The author of Nonplussed! offers another medley of the utterly
confusing, profound, and unbelievable -- all of it mathematically
irrefutable. He gathers entertaining problems from probability and
statistics along with an eclectic variety of conundrums and puzzlers
from other areas of mathematics, including classics of abstract
math like the Banach-Tarski paradox. 264pgs. • 2011
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111758 An Invitation to Modern Number
Theory
Miller, Steven J. & Ramin Takloo-Bighash
Introduces many of the central problems, conjectures, results, and
techniques of the field, such as the Riemann Hypothesis, Roth's
Theorem, the Circle Method, and Random Matrix Theory. 503pgs.
• 2006
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181050 John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and
Legacy
Havil, Julian
The first contemporary biography to take an in-depth look at the
multiple facets of Napier's story: his privileged position as the son
of influential Scottish landowners; his reputation as a magician
who dabbled in alchemy; his interest in agriculture; his involvement with a notorious outlaw; his staunch anti-Catholicism; his
interactions with such peers as Kepler and Tycho Brahe; and, most
notably, his estimable mathematical legacy as the inventor of logarithms. 296pgs. • 2014
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182128 Magical Mathematics: The
Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic
Tricks
Diaconis, Persi & Ron Graham
Reveals the secrets of amazing, fun-to-perform card tricks -- and
the profound mathematical concepts behind them. The authors are
mathematicians as well as skilled performers with decades of professional experience between them. Each card trick introduces a
new concept, and taken together they bring readers to the cutting
edge of today's mathematical knowledge. 264pgs. • 2015
104358 Mathematics and Plausible
Reasoning: Volume I: Induction and Analogy
in Mathematics
Polya, G.
The author of How to Solve It explains how to become a "good
guesser." Using a variety of clever examples from a wide range of
human activities, Polya explores techniques of guessing, inductive
reasoning, and reasoning by analogy, and the role they play in the
most rigorous of deductive disciplines. 296pgs. • 1990
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041129 Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected
Readings
SECOND EDITION
Benacerraf, Paul & Hilary Putnam
The 20th century has witnessed an unprecedented "crisis in the
foundations of mathematics," and this collection brings together
the seminal articles in the philosophy of mathematics by Russell,
Quine, Gobels, and other major thinkers. It is a substantially
revised version of the edition first published in 1964 and includes
a revised bibliography. 600pgs. • 1983
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111174 Radon Transforms and the Rigidity of
the Grassmannians
Gasqui, Jacques & Hubert Goldschmidt
Provides the first unified examination of the relationship between
Radon transforms on symmetric spaces of compact type and the
infinitesimal versions of two fundamental rigidity problems in
Riemannian geometry. Its primary focus is on the spectral rigidity
problem. 376pgs. • 2004
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145683 Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and
Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics
Banks, Robert B.
What is the length of the seam on a baseball? To go from point A to
point B in a downpour of rain, should you walk slowly, jog moderately, or run as fast as possible to get least wet? In this sequel to
Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, Banks presents another collection of puzzles for readers interested in sharpening their thinking and mathematical skills. 304pgs. • 2012
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180927 Mathematics and Art: A Cultural
History
Gamwell, Lynn
Gamwell's demonstration of how mathematical ideas are embodied in the visual arts will enlighten anyone interested in the complex intellectual pursuits, personalities, and cultural settings that
connect these two vast disciplines. Throughout, she describes the
personalities and cultural environments of a multitude of mathematicians and artists, from Gottlob Frege and Benoît Mandelbrot to
Max Bill and Xu Bing. 576pgs. • 2015
187268 Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The
Autobiography of Martin Gardner
Gardner, Martin
Martin Gardner's informal, recreational approach to mathematics
delighted countless readers and inspired many to pursue careers
in mathematics and the sciences. His illuminating autobiography is
a disarmingly candid self-portrait of the man Stephen Jay Gould
called our "single brightest beacon" for the defense of rationality
and sound science against mysticism and anti-intellectualism.
288pgs. • 2015
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187117 The Age of the Vikings
Winroth, Anders
Challenging the familiar image of the Vikings, Winroth argues that
their chieftains were no more violent than men like Charlemagne,
who committed atrocities on a far greater scale. He shows how the
Vikings seized on the opportunities made possible by the invention
of the longship, using it to venture to Europe for plunder, to open
new trade routes, and to settle in lands as distant as Russia,
Greenland, and the Byzantine Empire. 320pgs. • 2016
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✪ 126045 The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary
Life in the Middle Ages
Fossier, Robert
A compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Robert Fossier vividly describes how
these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death,
including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion,
and the natural world. 400pgs. • 2010
061732 The First English Empire: Power and
Identities in the British Isles, 1093-1343
Davies, R. R.
Traces the roots of the United Kingdom and its future to the middle
ages, examining England's conquest and colonization of the outer
zones of the British Isles, when Edward I set out to subjugate his
Celtic neighbors. 224pgs. • 2002
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111444 Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the
Central Middle Ages
Geary, Patrick J.
To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the
Roman catacombs. In this revised edition, Geary considers the
social and cultural context of these acts, asking how the relics
were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of
medieval Christians. 248pgs. • 1991
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038897 Communities of Violence:
Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages
Nirenberg, David
133693 A Tale of Two Monasteries:
Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth
Century
Jordan, William Chester
Focusing on attacks against minorities in 14th-century France and
the Crown of Aragon, Nirenberg argues that these attacks -- ranging from massacres to verbal assaults against Jews, Muslims, lepers, and prostitutes -- were often perpetrated not by irrational
masses laboring under inherited ideologies and prejudices, but by
groups that deliberately manipulated and reshaped the available
discourses on minorities. 301pgs. • 1998
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171073 Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval
Ireland: The English of Louth and Their
Neighbours, 1330-1450
Smith, Brendan
Medieval Ireland is associated in the public imagination with the
ruined castles and monasteries that remain prominent in the Irish
landscape. This volume examines how the society that produced
these monuments developed over the course of a turbulent century, focusing particularly on county Louth, situated on the coast
north of Dublin and adjacent to the earldom of Ulster. 272pgs. •
2013
The first book to systematically compare two of the most important
ecclesiastical institutions of the 13th century: Westminster Abbey
and the abbey of Saint-Denis. By illuminating the complex relationships the abbots and their institutions shared with each other and
with the kings and social networks that supported and exploited
them, Jordan paints a vivid portrait of medieval society and politics. 296pgs. • 2011
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✪ 081154 Women in Purple: Rulers of
Medieval Byzantium
Herrin, Judith
Byzantine empresses Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora restored
the veneration of icons, which ensured its influence for centuries
to come. Herrin examines how these women exercised imperial
sovereignty with skill and ruthless tactics, undermining competitors and governing like men, negotiating with the likes of
Charlemagne, Roman popes, and the great Arab caliph Harun al
Rashid. 328pgs. • 2002
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174386 Best of Enemies: A History of US and
Middle East Relations, Part One: 1783-1953
125726 A Brief History of the Late Ottoman
Empire
Filiu, Jean-Pierre
Hanioglu, M. Sukru
Narrated in graphic-novel format, this even-handed narrative of the
relationship between the US and the Middle East ranges from the
heyday of Mediterranean piracy in the late 18th century to the rise
of oil as an international driver of power. 120pgs. • 2012
At the turn of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire straddled
three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated 30 million people living within
its borders. This volume gives scholars and general readers a concise history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, turbulent
years marked by enormous social changes. 264pgs. • 2010
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041162 A History of Islamic Societies:
Second Edition
✪ 194886 The Nile: A Journey Downriver
Through Egypt's Past and Present
Lapidus, Ira M.
Wilkinson, Toby
Incorporates the origins and evolution of Islamic societies and
brings into focus the historical processes that gave shape to the
manifold varieties of contemporary Islam, and surveys the growing
influence of the Islamist movements within national states.
1000pgs. • 2002
A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most
acclaimed Egyptologists, this volume reveals how the Nile brought
life to an ancient civilization and its successors. Wilkinson introduces us to a cast of colorful characters, from the godlike
pharaohs who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality,
to the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have fallen
under Egypt's spell. 320pgs. • 2014
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187232 Isis: A History
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Gerges, Fawaz A.
The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. Fawaz Gerges
shows how decades of dictatorship, poverty, and rising sectarianism in the Middle East, exacerbated by foreign intervention, led to
the rise and growth of ISIS -- and why addressing those problems
is the only way to ensure its end. 384pgs. • 2016
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125542 Princeton Readings in Islamist
Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to
Bin Laden
Euben, Roxanne Leslie & Muhammad Qasim Zaman
This anthology of key primary texts provides an unmatched introduction to Islamist political thought from the early 20th century to the
present. It brings into relief the commonalities in Islamist arguments
about gender, democracy, and violence, but also reveals political and
theological disagreements among thinkers who are often grouped
together and dismissed as extremists. 536pgs. • 2009
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✪ 175774 Syria: A Century of War
McHugo, John
The collapse of Syria into civil war has spawned a regional crisis
whose reverberations grow louder with each passing month. In
this timely account, John McHugo seeks to contextualize the headlines, providing broad historical perspective and a richly layered
analysis of a country few in the United States know or understand.
320pgs. • 2015
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✪ 028805 Bartok & His World
Laki, Peter, ed.
Provides new insights into the life of the Hungarian musician, with
essays that discuss his works in a historical and cultural context,
show the extremes of the composer's reception in Hungary, and
survey the often mixed reviews from his American years. 314pgs.
• 1995
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✪ 194891 Billie Holiday: A Musical
Biography
Szwed, John
The first biography to move beyond the tragic details of the
singer's life and focus on her extraordinary musical talent.
Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the
last decade, John Szwed considers how Holiday's life inflected her
art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, her
signature songs, and her legacy. 240pgs. • 2015
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✪ 173043 Cosima Wagner: The Lady of
Bayreuth
Hilmes, Oliver
A fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima
Wagner, illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, mistress and later wife
of Richard Wagner. The first biography to make use of the available documentation at Bayreuth, it explores the achievements of
this remarkable and obsessive woman while illuminating a hidden
chapter of European cultural history. 400pgs. • 2011
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194702 Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Teachout, Terry
The greatest jazz composer of the 20th century was an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest
friends, claimed to understand. This volume peels away countless
layers of Ellington's evasion and public deception to tell the unvarnished truth about the creative genius who inspired Miles Davis to
say, "All the musicians should get together one certain day and get
down on their knees and thank Duke." 496pgs. • 2014
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189355 Giacomo Puccini and His World
179466 Sinatra 100
Senici, Emanuele & Arman Schwartz, eds.
Pignone, Charles, et al.
An international roster of music specialists offer a variety of new
critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing
discussions of all of Puccini's operas from Manon Lescaut (1893)
to Turandot (1926), the volume aims to resituate him at the heart
of early 20th-century musical modernity. 360pgs. • 2016
An entertainer of mesmerizing talent, charisma, and style, Frank
Sinatra is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, an
Academy Award-winning actor, and a cultural icon. The ultimate
Sinatra gift, this volume features more than 400 illustrations in
color and black-and-white, as well as interviews and conversations
with friends, family, and colleagues. 288pgs. • 2015
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181639 Mozart: A Life
Johnson, Paul
A concise, illuminating biography, focusing on Mozart's wondrous
output and his uncanny gift for instrumentation. In addition to his
insights into Mozart's music, Johnson also challenges the many
myths that have followed in his wake, including those about the
composer's health, wealth, religion, and relationships. 178pgs. •
2013
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182160 Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune:
Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791
185568 Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah:
The Unsettling History of the World's Most
Beloved Choral Work
Marissen, Michael
In this pioneering study, a respected musicologist examines
Handel's masterwork and uncovers a disturbing message of antiJudaism buried within its joyous celebration of the divinity of
Christ. Discovering previously unidentified historical source materials has enabled the author to investigate the circumstances that
led to the creation of the Messiah and to expose the hateful sentiments masked by musical artistry. 232pgs. • 2014
Wolff, Christoph
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This fresh look at the life of Mozart during his imperial years discusses the major biographical and musical implications of his
appointment as "Imperial-Royal Chamber Composer." It explores
Mozart's "imperial style" through his major compositions -- keyboard, chamber, orchestral, operatic, and sacred -- and focuses
on the large, unfamiliar works that he left incomplete. 256pgs. •
2012
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185809 Reading Dance: A Gathering of
Memoirs, Reportage, Criticism, Profiles,
Interviews, and Some Uncategorizable Extras
Gottlieb, Robert, ed.
Robert Gottlieb's anthology of the literature of dance -- by far the
largest such project ever attempted -- is both inclusive and personal, the result of decades of reading. With its huge range of content
accompanied by Gottlieb's incisive running commentary, this mammoth volume will be a source of pleasure and instruction for anyone who loves dance. 1360pgs. • 2008
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125551 Thayer's Life of Beethoven:
Volume I
Forbes, Elliot, ed.
In compiling this classic biography, Alexander Wheelock Thayer
spoke with Beethoven's surviving friends, gathered anecdotes,
and sifted hundreds of documents, generating a wealth of detail
and stimulating a mass of Beethoven scholarship. In this edition, Elliot Forbes, one of the foremost Beethoven scholars of
our time, has used his new material to bring the Life up to date
without sacrificing Thayer's text. 632pgs. • 1992
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129503 Thayer's Life of Beethoven:
Volume II
Forbes, Elliot, ed.
The second volume of a major revision of Alexander Wheelock
Thayer's classic 18th-century biography of the great composer.
542pgs. • 1967
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✪ 194905 22 Ideas That Saved the English
Countryside: The Campaign to Protect Rural
England
Waine, Peter, et al.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England is one of the world's
longest running environmental groups, marshalling the conservation movement in England since 1926. This book celebrates
the achievements of the CPRE and associated groups in
bequeathing to the present generation a countryside that
remains a repository of beauty and tranquility, despite 300 years
of sustained development and population growth. 224pgs. •
2016
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180908 American Zoo: A Sociological Safari
Grazian, David
Trading in his tweed jacket for a zoo uniform and a pair of muddy
work boots, Grazian introduces us to zookeepers and animal
rights activists, parents and toddlers, and the other human primates that make up the zoo's social world. He shows how the
world of the zoo reflects how we project our own prejudices and
desires onto the animal kingdom, and invest nature with meaning
and sentiment. 344pgs. • 2015
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105220 Atlantic Shorelines: Natural History
and Ecology
190840 A Field Guide to the Reptiles of
Thailand
Bertness, Mark D.
Parr, John W. K., et al.
An introduction to the natural history and ecology of shoreline
communities on the East Coast of North America. Bertness examines how distinctive communities of plants and animals are generated on rocky shores and in salt marshes, mangroves, and soft
sediment beaches. 431pgs. • 2006
The definitive and most comprehensive resource for herpetologists, naturalists, and conservationists working in Thailand. It contains an account of every species, complete with nomenclature,
color illustrations, and range maps of known locations. The
accounts include discussion of behavior, morphological measurements, and habitat, as well as the most current information on
conservation status. 320pgs. • 2015
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✪ 135579 The Cryosphere
Marshall, Shawn
Encompassing the Earth's snow and ice masses, the cryosphere is
a critical part of our planet's climate system, and one that is especially at risk from climate change and global warming. This volume provides an essential introduction to the subject written by
one of the world's leading experts in Earth-system science.
312pgs. • 2011
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104665 Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection
and the Re-Enchantment of the World
◆ • Oxford University • C NDJ • $125.00 / $59.98
✪ 195253 Frogs: And Other Amphibians
Starosta, Paul & Teddy Moncuit
A photographic window on the incredibly vibrant world of
frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. The creatures depicted
here are positively jewel-like, their colors further enhanced by
being photographed against a black background. Teddy
Moncuit's text provides a precise and passionate account of
these animals' fantastic adaptation strategies. 192pgs. • 2006
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Levine, George
126242 Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire
The word "Darwinian" has been taken to signify a disenchanted
world driven by chance and heartless competition. Countering the
pervasive view that the facts of Darwin's world must lead to a disenchanting vision of it, Levine shows that Darwin's ideas and writings offer an alternative form of enchantment, a world rich with
meaning and value. 304pgs. • 2006
Wildlife photographer and writer Tui De Roy has spent her life
exploring the Galapagos and recording their secrets. Here, in
spectacular full-color images and her own words, she shares her
intimate knowledge of the islands and her deep love and respect
for the natural wonders they conceal. 168pgs. • 2010
De Roy, Tui
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✪ 133215 Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden
History of Animal Life
088601 Iguanas: Biology and Conservation
Brasier, Martin
Leading experts offer a clear and accessible account of the latest
research on the evolution, behavioral ecology, and conservation of
these increasingly endangered creatures. Illustrated with photographs, maps, tables, and figures, this volume will be the definitive
resource for anyone interested in iguanas. 373pgs. • 2004
Hidden in the depths of the early history of life is a great mystery:
something happened around the beginning of the Cambrian period
that produced many of the precursors of animals we know today -yet scientists don't really know what provided that spark. In this
vibrantly written book, a leading paleontologist takes us into the
deep, dark ages of the Precambrian to explore the enigma.
288pgs. • 2010
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093067 The Economics of Climate Change:
The Stern Review
Alberts, Allison, et al., eds.
◆ • California • C • $85.00 / $39.98
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
104750 Life in the
Undergrowth
Stern, Nicholas
Attenborough, David
An independent and comprehensive analysis of the economic
aspects of this crucial issue, compiled by a former Chief
Economist of the World Bank. Will be a starting point for students
of the economics and policy implications of climate change, as
well as for economists, scientists, and policy makers involved in all
aspects of climate change. 712pgs. • 2007
This beautifully illustrated book by a veteran naturalist offers a rare glimpse into
the secret life of invertebrates, the
world's tiniest -- and most fascinating -creatures. 288pgs. • 2006
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✪ 181307 The Extreme Life of the Sea
Palumbi, Stephen R. & Anthony R. Palumbi
The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in
unusual environments. This volume takes readers to the absolute
limits of the ocean world, in a look at the fastest and deepest, the
hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. 240pgs. • 2015
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $7.98
039725 The Life of Birds
Attenborough, David
The renowned filmmaker treks through rain forests and
deserts, through city streets and isolated wilderness, to bring us
a panorama of every aspect of birds' lives -- from their songs to
their search for food, from their eggs and nests to their mastery
of the air. Beautifully illustrated with more than a hundred color
photographs. 320pgs. • 1998
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180879 Better Birding: Tips, Tools, and
Concepts for the Field
BIRDS
173200 The Passenger Pigeon
Armistead, George L. & Brian L. Sullivan
Featuring hundreds of stunning photos and composite plates
throughout, this volume simplifies identification by organizing the
birds you see into groupings and offering strategies specifically
tailored to each group. Skill-building focuses not just on traditional elements such as plumage, but also on creating a context
around each bird, including habitat, behavior, and taxonomy.
360pgs. • 2015
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145728 Birds of Central Asia: Kazakhstan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Afghanistan
Schweizer, Manuel, et al.
The first field guide to the avian population of this fascinating
part of the world. From ground jays, larks, and raptors to warblers, nuthatches, and snowfinches, this comprehensive guide
covers 618 species -- including all residents, migrants, and
vagrants -- and its 143 superb plates depict every species and
many distinct plumages and races. 336pgs. • 2012
Fuller, Errol
At the start of the 19th century, passenger pigeons were perhaps
the most abundant birds on the planet, with flocks so large and
so dense that they blackened the skies, blotting out the sun for
days at a time. This stunningly illustrated book tells the astonishing story of a bird species that, like the tyrannosaur, the mammoth, and the dodo, has become an icon of extinction. 184pgs.
• 2014
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141666 Petrels, Albatrosses, and StormPetrels of North America: A Photographic
Guide
Howell, Steve N. G.
Among the most beautiful yet least known of all the world's birds,
these enigmatic and fast-flying seabirds can be hard to differentiate, particularly from a moving boat. Useful worldwide, not just
in North America, this photographic guide combines insightful
text and hundreds of full-color images to aid in the identification
of these remarkable birds. 520pgs. • 2012
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111184 Birds of Chile
Jaramillo, Alvaro
158627 Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology
since Darwin
Birkhead, Tim
The essential guide to the birds of Chile, covering all 473 known
species breeding in or visiting the country. Includes 97 color
plates with succinct text and maps on facing pages for quick reference and easy identification. 288pgs. • 2003
◆ • Princeton • C • $75.00 / $52.98
138979 A Guide to the Birds of Western
Africa
Demey, Ron & N. Borrow
An engaging and authoritative illustrated history of modern
ornithology. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and indepth interviews, it reveals how research on birds has contributed more to our understanding of animal biology than the
study of just about any other group of organisms. 544pgs. •
2014
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154547 The World's Rarest Birds
Covers the birds of all western African countries, from Senegal and
southern Mauritania east to Chad and the Central African Republic
and south to Congo. It describes 1,285 species, illustrated with 147
original color plates comprising more than 3,000 figures and depicting almost all the species included. 816pgs. • 2002
◆ • Princeton • C • $150.00 / $64.98
127041 Parrots of the World
Forshaw, Joseph Michael
Covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots.
It features 146 superb color plates, as well as detailed, facing-page
species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status. 336pgs. • 2010
Hirschfeld, Erik, et al.
Today, 571 bird species are classified as critically endangered or
endangered, and a further four exist only in captivity. This landmark book features stunning photographs of 500 of these species
as well as paintings of the 75 species for which no photos are
known to exist. 352pgs. • 2013
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154661 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees
SECOND EDITION
More, David & John White
✪ 130377 The Importance of Species:
Perspectives on Expendability and Triage
Kareiva, Peter M. & Simon A. Levin, ed.
This guide to nearly 2,000 tree species and cultivars found in
North America and Europe includes precise paintings of leaves,
needles, bark, blossoms, fruits, nuts, and cones; shows deciduous
trees in both full leaf and winter; and describes the native range of
each species, the date of its introduction into cultivation, and other
key facts. 832pgs. • 2013
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Given the limited resources for conservation efforts, there is a
compelling need for scientists to help conservation practitioners
set priorities and identify species most in need of urgent attention.
The contributors to this volume provide scientific approaches and
analyses for asking what we can expect from losing (or gaining)
individual species. 440pgs. • 2002
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INSECTS
187124 The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide
to North America's Bees
109445 Dragonflies and Damselflies of
California
Wilson, Joseph S. & Olivia Messinger Carril
Manolis, Tim
The most comprehensive and accessible guide to bee species in
the US and Canada, this volume features more than 900 full-color
photos. Ideal for amateur naturalists and experts alike, it gives
detailed accounts of every bee family and genus in North
America, describing key identification features, distributions,
diets, nesting habits, and more. 288pgs. • 2015
A complete guide to California's abundant Odonata. Species
accounts discuss identification in the field and in the hand,
behavior, habitat associations, geographic distribution, and flight
season. Includes 40 vivid full-color plates as well as supplemental black-and-white drawings. 400pgs. • 2003
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162194 Beetles of Eastern North America
Evans, Arthur V.
The most comprehensive full-color guide to the remarkably
diverse and beautiful beetles of the US and Canada east of the
Mississippi River. Lavishly illustrated with over 1,500 stunning
color images, it covers 1,406 species in all 115 families that
occur in the region, and features an authoritative text by noted
beetle expert Arthur V. Evans. 544pgs. • 2014
131528 Ecology of Butterflies in Europe
Settele, Josef, et al.
Due to the attractiveness of butterflies and their usefulness as
model systems for biological questions, there has been a considerable amount of material written on butterfly biology, largely in
Europe. This book, which synthesizes all relevant knowledge in
the field, will be a must for those making use of this taxonomic
group as a model system. 526pgs. • 2009
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Williams, Paul H., et al.
194778 Following the Wild Bees: The Craft
and Science of Bee Hunting
The first comprehensive guide to North American bumble bees in
more than a century. Richly illustrated with color photographs,
diagrams, range maps, and graphs of seasonal activity patterns,
this guide allows amateur and professional naturalists to identify
all 46 species found north of Mexico and to understand their
ecology and changing geographic distributions. 208pgs. • 2014
A delightful illustrated foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an
exhilarating outdoor activity that was once practiced widely but
which few people know about today. Thomas Seeley, a world
authority on honey bees, vividly describes the history and science
behind this lost pastime and shows how anyone can do it.
184pgs. • 2016
162215 Bumble Bees of North America
Seeley, Thomas D.
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111171 The Butterflies of Hong Kong
Bascombe, Mike, et al.
Hong Kong has a marvelously rich butterfly fauna, contained
within a relatively small area. This complete and up-to-date handbook on the identification, systematics, biology and ecology of its
butterflies includes keys, full color plates and line drawings identifying males and females, as well as eggs and pupae. 664pgs. •
1999
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✪ 194734 Silent Sparks: The Wondrous
World of Fireflies
Lewis, Sara
Firefly expert Sara Lewis dives into the fascinating world of fireflies, revealing the latest discoveries about these beloved insects.
From the meadows of New England and the hills of the Great
Smoky Mountains, to the rivers of Japan and mangrove forests of
Malaysia, this beautifully illustrated and accessible book uncovers
remarkable, dramatic stories of birth, courtship, romance, sex,
deceit, poison, and death among fireflies. 240pgs. • 2016
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127125 Life on a Young Planet: The First
Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
Knoll, Andrew H.
Presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of
biological novelty, Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life
from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian
explosion. 304pgs. • 2004
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127683 The Long Thaw: How Humans Are
Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's
Climate
Archer, David
Shows how just a few centuries of fossil-fuel use will cause not
only a climate storm that will last a few hundred years, but dramatic climate changes that will endure for thousands. By comparing the global warming projection for the next century to natural
climate changes of the distant past, and then looking into the
future far beyond the usual scientific and political horizon of the
year 2100, Archer reveals the hard truths of the long-term climate
forecast. 192pgs. • 2010
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✪ 105071 Marine Mammals of the North
Atlantic
173988 The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient
Forests of the Northeast
Kinze, Carl Christian
Kershner, Bruce & Robert T. Leverett
A field guide to the region's whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals,
and other ocean-going mammals, featuring distribution maps and
250 color illustrations. The comprehensive, readable text provides
the most up-to-date information on the behavior, reproduction,
feeding, habitat, and migration of 51 different species. 192pgs. •
2003
The 134 sites featured in the book showcase the most magnificent
and inspiring forests in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New
Hampshire, and Maine. The book offers practical details on where
to go, how to get there, and what to see -- including little-known
trails that lead to some of the Northeast's oldest, tallest, and
biggest trees. 288pgs. • 2004
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167928 Nocturne: Creatures of the Night
Scott, Traer
Bats, big cats, flying squirrels, tarantula, owls, kangaroo mice,
giant moths, several species of snakes, and a Madagascar hissing
cockroach are only a few of the animals illuminated in these lushly
detailed portraits. Seventy-five full-color photographs of forty different species are accompanied by informed but accessible
descriptions of each animal's habits and habitats. An Introduction
provides insight into how Scott captures her astonishing images.
128pgs. • 2014
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157438 Primates of the World: An Illustrated
Guide
Petter, Jean-Jacques
This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers
nearly 300 species, from the pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar
to the mountain gorillas of Africa. Organized by region and spanning every family of primates on Earth, it features 72 color plates,
facing-page descriptions of key features of each family, and 86
color distribution maps. 192pgs. • 2013
141729 Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast:
A Natural History
Gracie, Carol
Featuring more than 500 full-color photos in a stunning largesized format, this book delves deep into the life histories, lore, and
cultural uses of more than 35 harbingers of spring, ranging from
old favorites to lesser-known species. 290pgs. • 2012
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181231 T. rex and the Crater of Doom
FOREWORD BY CARL ZIMMER
Alvarez, Walter
Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt.
Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to
the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Geologist
Walter Alvarez, one of the four Berkeley scientists who discovered
the first evidence for the giant impact, tells the story of the scientific detective work that uncovered the truth about the extinction of
the dinosaurs. 208pgs. • 2015
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166855 Trees of Eastern North America
✪ 194266 Rainforest
Nelson, Gil, et al.
Blackwell, Lewis
With their verdant plant life and diverse animal species, there are
no places on Earth more mysterious, complex, and unknown than
tropical rainforests. Combining stunning photographs by leading
nature photographers with an inspiring text by Lewis Blackwell,
this volume reveals the breathtaking beauty of these remarkable
ecosystems. 264pgs. • 2014
Covering 825 species, more than any comparable field guide,
this volume is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and
easiest to use book of its kind. It covers all the native and naturalized trees of the eastern US and Canada as far west as the
Great Plains, including species found only in tropical and subtropical Florida and northernmost Canada. 720pgs. • 2014
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162293 Trees of Western North America
136028 Seeds, Sex, and Civilization: How the
Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World
Thompson, Peter & Stephen Harris
This absorbing scientific detective story brings to life the
eccentrics, explorers, amateurs, and dedicated professionals -including Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and the brilliant
Russian geneticist Nikolai Vavilov -- who discovered what seeds do
and how they work. Includes 42 color and 8 black-and-white illustrations. 280pgs. • 2010
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $29.95 / $6.98
Spellenberg, Richard, et al.
Covering 630 species, this field guide presents all of the native
and naturalized trees of the western US and Canada as far east
as the Great Plains. It includes thousands of meticulous color
paintings, while the easy-to-read descriptions present details of
size, shape, growth habit, bark, leaves, flowers, fruit, flowering
and fruiting times, habitat, and range. 560pgs. • 2014
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✪ 117432 Wave-Swept Shore: The Rigors of
Life on a Rocky Coast
Koehl, Mimi
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With 87 stunning color photographs, this book tells the story of
one stretch along the Pacific coast, introducing the mollusks,
crabs, grasses, starfish, kelp, and other animals and plants that
live there, and explaining how they function and flourish in a
harsh environment of waves, sand, and rocks. 179pgs. • 2006
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126185 What's Eating You?: People and
Parasites
191747 When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest
Mass Extinction of All Time
Kaplan, Eugene H.
REVISED EDITION
Benton, Michael J.
Informative, frequently lurid, and hugely entertaining, this beautifully illustrated book narrates the author's rue and harrowing tales
of adventures with parasites, and provides a parasitologist's
insights into the intimately interwoven lives of human and animal
hosts and their uninvited guests. 320pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $10.98
At the end of the Permian period, 251 million years ago, 90 percent of
life was destroyed, including saber-toothed reptiles and vast numbers
of fish and other marine species. Was the end-Permian event caused
by the impact of a huge meteorite or comet, or by prolonged volcanic
eruption? This volume, now revised and updated, surveys the evidence
and provides a tentative verdict. 336pgs. • 2015
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $9.98
PH I LOSOPHY
191352 Ambiguity and the Absolute:
Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question
of Truth
Chouraqui, Frank
Although both Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty criticize the traditional
concept of truth as objectivity, they both find that rejecting it does
not solve the problem. Chouraqui suggests their investigations of
the question of truth lead them to conceive of being as the process
of self-falsification by which indeterminate being presents itself as
determinate. 304pgs. • 2013
◆ • Fordham • C • $70.00 / $16.98
190086 Analogies and Theories: Formal
Models of Reasoning
Gilboa, Itzhak, et al.
The book describes formal models of reasoning that are aimed at
capturing the way that economic agents -- and decision makers in
general -- think about their environment and make predictions
based on their past experience. The focus is on analogies (casebased reasoning) and general theories (rule-based reasoning),
and on the interaction between them, as well as between them and
Bayesian reasoning. 160pgs. • 2015
021352 Collected Dialogues of Plato
Plato
This edition of Plato's dialogues and letters includes editorial notes
prefacing each dialogue as well as an introductory essay on Plato's
philosophy and writing. 1743pgs. • 1989
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✪ 036906 Contesting Spirit: Nietzsche,
Affirmation, Religion
Roberts, Tyler T.
Examines the place of religion in Nietzsche's thought and
Nietzsche's thought as a site of religion, arguing that his conceptualization of an affirmative self requires interrogating the ambiguities that mark his criticisms of asceticism and mysticism. 230pgs.
• 1998
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185948 Bonds of Freedom: Simone de
Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics
Arp, Kristana
This complete analysis of Beauvoir's distinctive and innovative
approach to existentialism shows her true importance as a
philosopher. It places Beauvoir's ethics within the larger context of
her other writings and political views, providing the first balanced
portrait of Beauvoir's intellectual legacy. 256pgs. • 2001
◆ • Open Court • P • $19.95 / $7.98
185944 Bullshit and Philosophy: Guaranteed
to Get Perfect Results Every Time
POPULAR CULTURE AND PHILOSOPHY
Reisch, George A., et al., eds.
Bullshit studies received a tremendous boost from the pioneering
work of Harry G. Frankfurt, yet Frankfurt's seminal theses opened
up more questions than they answered. This volume offers searching examinations of hitherto unidentified and unanalyzed species
of bullshit, as well as acute observations on the impact of bullshit
in politics, science, the courtroom, and the classroom. 288pgs. •
2006
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ARISTOTLE
038551 The Complete Works
of Aristotle, Volume 2: The
Revised Oxford Translation
Barnes, Jonathan, ed.
The Oxford Translation, originally published between 1912 and 1954, is universally recognized as the standard English
version of Aristotle. This revised edition
contains the substance of the original,
slightly emended in light of recent scholarship. 1256pgs. •
1984
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041127 The Politics and The Constitution of
Athens
REVISED STUDENT EDITION
Aristotle
Provides the necessary materials for a full understanding of his
work as a political scientist, and places it in the context of his
ethical theory and science of nature. 279pgs. • 1996
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✪ 038472 Concluding
Unscientific Postscripts to
Philosophical Fragments,
Volume 1
HONG, HOWARD V. & EDNA H. HONG, EDS. &
TRANS.
Kierkegaard, Soren
Intended by Kierkegaard to be his concluding work as an author, these essays deal
with what it takes to be a real Christian and examine the truth
of Christianity as an objective issue. 630pgs. • 1992
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038394 Fear and Trembling / Repetition:
Kierkegaard's Writings, VI
Kierkegaard, Soren
Kierkegaard discusses the profound implications of the unity of
personhood and of identity within change -- the repetition that
creates the rebirth of God in the heart of man, brings the eternal into the present, and allows the past to retain its meaning.
420pgs. • 1983
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105131 Parables of Kierkegaard
Oden, Thomas C., ed.
In this captivating selection of his stories, we find some of the
most brilliant, witty, and edifying parables ever written in the
tradition of Western thought. In concentrated form, they seek to
accomplish what his entire authorship sought to do, namely, to
entice -- even seduce -- his readers into a more profound
awareness of themselves. 216pgs. • 1989
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✪ 038480 Philosophical
Fragments / Johannes
Climacus
Kierkegaard, Soren
Written under the pseudonym Johannes
Climacus, Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking, exploring the
implications of venturing beyond the
Socratic understanding of truth. 371pgs. • 1985
▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $26.98
038892 Works of Love
Kierkegaard, Soren
An illuminating analysis of the forms and sources of love. Love
as feeling and mood is distinguished from works of love, love of
the lovable from love of the unlovely, preferential love from love
as the royal law, love as mutual egotism from triangular love,
and erotic love from self-giving love. 561pgs. • 1998
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182088 The Continuum Companion to
Epistemology
Cullison, Andrew, ed.
An essential reference tool for anyone working in contemporary
epistemology. The essays, written by an international team of
experts, explore current and historical work in the area, and, most
valuably, examine promising new directions in the field. Includes
an A to Z of key terms and concepts. 352pgs. • 2012
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✪ 157335 Enigmas of Identity
Brooks, Peter
Many of us are uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite
or because of that failure, we keep searching for identity, making it
up, trying to authenticate it. This wide-ranging book draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of
the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation.
232pgs. • 2013
▲ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $12.98
✪ 180919 The Enlightenment: History of an
Idea
Ferrone, Vincenzo
In this concise and powerful book, a leading historian of the
Enlightenment provides a bracing interpretation of this watershed
period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of
the era have long been hopelessly confused, Ferrone argues that it
is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded
in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the
Enlightenment was -- and why it is still relevant today. 232pgs. •
2015
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182049 Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed
Kanterian, Edward
A lucid and critical introduction to Frege's logic as he developed it
in his groundbreaking first book, Conceptual Notation. It guides
the reader directly to the core of Frege's philosophy, as well as to
some of the most pertinent issues in the contemporary philosophy
of language, logic, mathematics, and mind. 264pgs. • 2012
◆ • Continuum • P • $25.95 / $10.98
✪ 133873 The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays
for How We Live Now
Levine, George Lewis, ed.
Bringing together distinguished historians, philosophers, scientists,
and writers including Frans de Waal, Adam Phillips, and Rebecca
Stott, this book shows that secularism is not a mere denial of religion but a vision of a natural world that is far richer and more satisfying than the one promised by religion. 272pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.95 / $16.98
✪ 033317 The Liberating Power of Symbols:
Philosophical Essays
Habermas, Jurgen
These essays engage with a wide range of 20th-century thinkers,
displaying an appreciation for various intellectual traditions.
Includes explorations of the work of Ernst Cassirer, Karl Jaspers,
and Gershom Scholem. 130pgs. • 2001
◆ • MIT • P • $22.00 / $9.98
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✪ 148149 Making the Social World: The
Structure of Human Civilization
Searle, John R.
Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The
Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role
of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." He
explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and
over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of
human social institutions. 224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $19.95 / $8.98
140091 Metareasoning: Thinking about
Thinking
Cox, Michael T. & Anita Raja, eds.
The capacity to think about our own thinking may lie at the heart
of what it means to be both human and intelligent. In this volume,
leading authorities offer a variety of perspectives -- drawn from
philosophy, cognitive psychology, and computer science -- on reasoning about the reasoning process. 352pgs. • 2011
◆ • MIT • C • $45.00 / $7.98
125765 Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up
Idealists
191166 On the Commerce of Thinking: Of
Books and Bookstores
Nancy, Jean-Luc
A philosopher's examination of the particular communication of
thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. In evoking the peddler who, in times
past, plied the streets with books and pamphlets literally hanging
off him, Nancy emphasizes the sensuality of this commerce and
reminds us that this form of consumerism is like no other, one
that ends in an experience -- reading -- that is the beginning of a
limitless dispersion, metamorphosis, and dissemination of ideas.
84pgs. • 2009
◆ • Fordham • P • $27.00 / $9.98
128341 Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the
Problem of Evil
Kahn, Paul W.
Focusing on the existential roots of evil rather than on the occasions for its appearance, Kahn argues that evil originates in man's
flight from death. As his interpretations of Genesis lead him to
inquiries into a variety of modern forms of evil -- including slavery,
torture, and genocide -- he urges us to see that the opposite of evil
is not good, but love: while evil would master death, love would
transcend it. 248pgs. • 2010
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Neiman, Susan
In this profound and powerful book, Susan Neiman reclaims the
vocabulary of morality -- good and evil, heroism and nobility -- as
a lingua franca for the 21st century. In constructing a framework
for taking responsible action, she reaches back to the 18th century
to retrieve values that were esteemed by the thinkers of the
Enlightenment. 480pgs. • 2009
▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $18.98
064379 Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Methods,
and Point
Hare, Richard M.
A continuation of the enterprise that the author began with The
Language of Morals and Freedom and Reason. In the present
work, Hare has fashioned, out of the logical and linguistic theses
of his earlier books, a full-scale but readily intelligible account of
moral argument. 252pgs. • 1982
◆ • Oxford University • P • $62.50 / $27.98
✪ 084891 Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution,
Connectionism, and Moral Cognition
Casebeer, William D.
Argues that we can articulate a fully naturalized ethical theory
using concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
Casebeer's goal is to show that we have "softly fixed" human
natures, that these natures are evolved, and that our lives go well
or badly depending on how we satisfy the functional demands of
these natures. 224pgs. • 2003
◆ • MIT • C • $40.00 / $9.98
040455 On Beauty and Being Just
Scarry, Elaine
Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer,
Plato, Proust, and Iris Murdoch, Scarry writes an elegant, passionate
manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work. She not
only defends beauty from recent political arguments against it but
also argues that beauty continually renews our search for truth and
presses us toward a greater concern for justice. 144pgs. • 2001
▲ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $8.98
049458 Outlines of Scepticism
Sextus Empiricus
The fullest extant account of ancient scepticism, this work is also
one of our most copious sources of information about other
Hellenistic philosophies. The first part contains an elaborate exposition of the Pyrrhonian variety of scepticism; the second and third
parts argue against "dogmatism" in logic, epistemology, science,
and ethics. 248pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $23.98
RICHARD RORTY
049064 Philosophical Papers, Volume 3:
Truth and Progress
Rorty, Richard
In this eagerly awaited volume, Rorty continues to defend a
pragmatist view of truth and deny that truth is a goal of inquiry,
engaging with the work of many of today's most innovative
thinkers. Rorty also touches on problems in contemporary feminism and considers issues connected with human rights and
cultural differences. 355pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $22.98
125799 Philosophy and the
Mirror of Nature
Rorty, Richard
In this volume, which hit the philosophical
world like a bombshell when it was first published, Rorty argued that the questions about
truth posed by Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and
modern epistemologists and philosophers of
language were unanswerable and, moreover,
were irrelevant to serious social and cultural
inquiry. The book remains a must-read for its insight into what
philosophers can and cannot do to help us understand and
improve the world. 472pgs. • 2008
▲ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $23.98
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190157 The Oxford Handbook of Causation
Beebee, Helen, et al.
Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy, as well as
in other fields of enquiry, such as biology, physics, and the law.
This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of
the field, as well as a history of the causation debate from the
ancient Greeks to the logical empiricists. 806pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $180.00 / $99.98
189737 The Oxford Handbook of Medieval
Philosophy
Marenbon, John, ed.
The fullest, most wide-ranging and up-to-date survey of medieval
philosophy available. All four traditions -- Greek, Latin, Islamic
and Jewish -- are considered, and the Latin tradition is traced from
late antiquity through to the 17th century and beyond. 848pgs. •
2012
◆ • Oxford University • C • $170.00 / $79.98
149652 The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy
and Neuroscience
Bickle, John, ed.
Reflecting current work in the discipline, this volume considers
the nature of explanation in neuroscience; whether and how neuroscience is reductionistic; the consequences of research on the
neurobiology of learning and memory, perception and sensation,
neurocomputational modeling, and neuroanatomy; the burgeoning
field of neuroethics and the neurobiology of motivation that
increasingly informs it; the neurophilosophy of subjectivity, and
much more. 652pgs. • 2009
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192336 Being and Nothingness: An Essay in
Phenomenological Ontology
190150 The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy
of Mind
McLaughlin, Brian, et al.
The study of the mind has always been one of the main preoccupations of philosophers, and has been a booming area of research in
recent decades, with remarkable advances in psychology and neuroscience. This volume will be an invaluable resource for
advanced students and scholars of philosophy, and also for
researchers in neighboring disciplines. 680pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $180.00 / $89.98
119792 Philosophical Writings
Berkeley, George
George Berkeley was a university teacher, a missionary, and later a
Church of Ireland bishop, whose overriding philosophical objective was to counteract objections to religious belief that arose from
the new philosophies associated with the Scientific Revolution.
This edition provides texts from the full range of Berkeley's contributions to philosophy, together with an Introduction that sets his
work in its historical and philosophical contexts. 386pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $23.98
✪ 021426 The Philosophy of Mind: Classical
Problems Contemporary Issues
Beakley, Brian et al., eds.
Follows the development of thinking in five broad problem areas-the mind/body problem, mental causation, associationism/connectionism, mental imagery, and innate ideas--over 2500 years of philosophy. Ranges from Plato and Descartes to Fodor and the PDP
research group, showing how many of the current concerns in the
philosophy of mind and cognitive science are firmly rooted in history. 433pgs. • 1992
◆ • MIT • P • $40.00 / $14.98
131862 The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce
through the Present
Talisse, Robert & Scott Aikin
This anthology includes works by the founders of pragmatism,
including Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, as well
as seminal writings by mid-20th-century pragmatists such as
Sidney Hook, C. I. Lewis, Nelson Goodman, Rudolf Carnap, Wilfrid
Sellars, and W. V. O. Quine. Each selection is a stand-alone piece -not an excerpt or book chapter -- and each is presented fully
unabridged. 496pgs. • 2011
Sartre, Jean-Paul
▲ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $26.98
Sartre's major philosophical statement, in a lucid translation by
Hazel Barnes. Included is a key to special terminology, covering
both the technical terms coined by Sartre and familiar words to
which he assigned special meanings. 640pgs. • 2001
▲ • Citadel • P • $19.95 / $5.98
192337 Essays in
Existentialism
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Ranging over philosophy, metaphysics,
semantics, and existentialism, these essays,
including "The Problem of Nothingness,"
"The Role of the Image in Mental Life," and
"Essays in Aesthetics," contain in a nutshell
the essentials of Sartre's metaphysical speculation. 448pgs. • 2000
▲ • Citadel • P • $15.95 / $5.98
180943 The Praise of Folly
Erasmus, Desiderius
A Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, Erasmus was one of the
most important figures of the Renaissance. Originally written to amuse
his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth,
and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians
and the foibles that make us all human, while ultimately reaffirming
the value of Christian ideals. 224pgs. • 2015
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $6.98
185947 The Relevance of Charles Peirce
Freeman, Eugene, ed.
The essays in this volume provide ample evidence of the breadth,
originality and vitality of Peirce's thought, and at the same time
highlight the power of his basic notions for illuminating current
philosophical issues. 412pgs. • 1999
◆ • Open Court • P • $18.95 / $6.98
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117309 The Retreat of Reason: A Dilemma in
the Philosophy of Life
Persson, Ingmar
The ancient Greeks thought that a life led in accordance with reason would also be the happiest or most fulfilling. Starting from this
perspective, Persson arrives at conclusions that are very different;
by exploring the irrationality of our attitudes to time, our identity,
and our responsibility, he shows that the aim of living rationally
conflicts not only with the aim of leading the most fulfilling life,
but also with the moral aim of promoting the just distribution of
fulfillment for all. 504pgs. • 2008
181257 Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The
Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells
Us about Right and Wrong
Edmonds, David
Would you kill one man in order to save five? As Edmonds shows,
answering the moral conundrum known as the Trolley Problem is
far more complex -- and important -- than it appears at first sight.
In the course of his explorations he provides an entertaining and
informative tour through the history of moral philosophy. 240pgs.
• 2015
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182056 Starting with Kant
Ward, Robin & Andrew Ward
An accessible introduction to Kant's metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and moral philosophy. Kant's position in these fields is compared and contrasted with the thinking of other philosophers of
his day, thus highlighting the originality of his seminal ideas.
192pgs. • 2012
BERNARD WILLIAMS
✪ 111210 The Sense of the
Past: Essays in the History of
Philosophy
◆ • Continuum • P • $21.95 / $7.98
125695 Therapy of Desire: Theory and
Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
Nussbaum, Martha C.
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a
detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with
issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this engaging book,
Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers who were committed to a
therapeutic paradigm, including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus
Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca. 600pgs. • 2009
Williams, Bernard & Myles Burnyeat,
ed.
The first collection ever published of
Williams's essays on the history of philosophy. The subjects range from the sixth century BC to the 20th AD, from Homer to
Wittgenstein by way of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes,
Hume, Sidgwick, Collingwood, and Nietzsche. 416pgs. • 2006
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129913 Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy:
Essays for P. M. S. Hacker
Glock, Hans-Johann & John Hyman, eds.
Peter Hacker is one of the most notable interpreters of Wittgenstein's
work, a powerful and sophisticated exponent of Wittgensteinian ideas,
and a distinguished historian of the analytic tradition. In this volume,
leading philosophers and Wittgenstein scholars offer specially written
essays in honor of Hacker. 296pgs. • 2009
111394 Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in
Genealogy
Williams, Bernard
What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in
our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? Writing with
his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity,
Bernard Williams explores the value of truth and finds it to be
both less and more than we might imagine. 344pgs. • 2004
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PHOTOGRAPHY
177699 The American Barn
Plowden, David
A master documentarian's tribute to the American barn in 130
duotone photographs, capturing the evocative beauty of these honest and vital structures as they are left to decay or converted to
other uses. 160pgs. • 2003
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $50.00 / $9.98
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189233 Arresting Time: Erich Lessing,
Reportage Photography, 1948-1973
Crawford, Alistair
Born in 1923 in Vienna, Lessing became a photo-reporter for
Associated Press in 1947, and in 1951 he became one of the earliest members of the legendary Magnum photo cooperative, covering such events as the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. This monumental book is a tribute to Lessing's talent as a photojournalist and a
visual record of a time of turmoil and great change. 456pgs. •
2005
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182415 Lewis Hine: From the Collections of
George Eastman House
186952 Cuba
Milstein, Jeffrey
Photographer Jeffrey Milstein delves deep into the beauty, soul,
and the extremes of Cuba's urban life, the character of its people, the atmosphere of the region, and the country's visual
attractions and landscape. 128pgs. • 2010
◆ • Monacelli • C • $25.00 / $7.98
171294 Cuba in Revolution
Nordstrom, Alison
This beautifully produced volume, which includes a complete facsimile of Hine's 1932 volume Men at Work, has been compiled
from the collection of the George Eastman House, to whom Hine's
son bequeathed his archive. It includes both well-known series
and recently discovered early works, plus rare family photographs,
ephemera, and a detailed chronology. 264pgs. • 2012
◆ • D.A.P. • C • $65.00 / $26.98
Sanders, Mark, ed.
From Constantino Arias's portraits of poverty and wealth in prerevolutionary Havana to images of the dead Che Guevara in
Bolivia, this volume offers an epic photo-narrative of the Cuban
Revolution. In the array of photographs by both known and
anonymous photographers, iconic pictures of Che by Alberto
Korda and Rene Burri are complemented by snapshots of Fidel
Castro playing golf or hunting in the Soviet Union. 480pgs. •
2014
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $75.00 / $29.98
✪ 194158 A Different Kind of Order: The ICP
Triennial
Lehan, Joanna, et al.
Highlighting the increasing overlay of networked reality onto the
human experience of the world, this volume identifies some of the
new types of imagery that are beginning to coalesce into a 21st-century digital vernacular. Created by 27 international artists, these works -photographs, films, videos, installations, performances, and other
media -- reflect the growing influence of new paradigms associated
with digital image making and networking. 192pgs. • 2013
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183976 Elliot Erwitt Snaps
✪ 183810 Lines, Marks, and Drawings:
Through the Lens of Roger Ballen
Subler, Craig Allen & Christine Mullen Kreamer
Roger Ballen, who began his career taking portraits of rural
Afrikaaners in their homes, has moved toward more staged sets,
embellishing his photographs with expressionistic graffiti-type
drawings. This retrospective follows the development of line and
drawing in Ballen's body of work, which is often characterized by
complex interior arrangements of people, animals, and furnishings. 128pgs. • 2013
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✪ 194973 Living Shrines of Uyghur China
Ross, Lisa
Lisa Ross's ethereal photographs of Islamic holy sites were created over the course of a decade on journeys to China's
Xinjiang region. These monumental images show shrines created during pilgrimages, many of which have been maintained
continuously over several centuries; visitation to the tombs of
saints is a central aspect of daily life in Uyghur Islam, and its
pilgrims ask for intercession for physical, mental, and spiritual
ailments. 128pgs. • 2013
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Flowers, Charles, et al.
The first comprehensive monograph covering the complete career
of Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928), one of the leading photographers of his
generation and an influential member of the Magnum photographic agency since 1954. 240pgs. • 2013
◆ • Phaidon Press • C • $49.95 / $24.98
192340 In Color
Davidson, Bruce
Davidson's personal selections from his lesser-known color
archive, covering a period of nearly 60 years. His subjects range
from the Shah of Iran to Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer,
from the New York City subway and Katz's Delicatessen to Welsh
coalfields, Mexico, India, and Patagonia. 280pgs. • 2015
◆ • Steidl • C • $85.00 / $45.98
✪ 192244 Lee Miller in Fashion
Conekin, Becky E.
Fashion model, surrealist artist, muse, photographer, war correspondent -- Lee Miller defies categorization. The first book to
examine how her career as a model and fashion photographer,
this volume illuminates her life story and links it to international
fashion history. Includes striking archival fashion photographs as
well as contact sheets, memos, and Miller's published illustrations.
224pgs. • 2013
083184 The Lost Border: The Landscape of
the Iron Curtain
Rose, Brian
Photographer Brian Rose began shooting the borderlands between
East and West -- from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic -- in the early
1980s, while the Cold War was still hot, and has been taking pictures of this eerie terrain ever since. This portfolio documents the
gradual disintegration of the Berlin Wall and the busy reclamation
of what was -- and in places still remains -- a scarred and brutalized landscape. 144pgs. • 2004
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $40.00 / $21.98
182416 Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in
History
Quimby, Sean, et al.
America's first female war correspondent, Margaret Bourke-White
was also something of a media star, as well as a favorite pin-up
among US forces. Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the
1930s and '40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet
Union, and the UK, this volume presents 150 classic photographs
alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals. 191pgs. • 2013
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134227 The Most Beautiful Villages of Greece
Ottaway, Mark
From the terra cotta and ocher of the Ionian Islands to the brilliant blues and whites of the Aegean, the villages of Greece and its
islands are incomparable. From north to south through the mainland and the Peloponnese, and from west to east through the
islands, the 285 full-color photographs in this volume capture
Greece's blend of intimacy and grandeur. 224pgs. • 2011
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $9.98
167719 The Public Library: A Photographic
Essay
Dawson, Robert
For two decades, Robert Dawson has crisscrossed the country
documenting hundreds of these invaluable but often endangered
institutions. Featuring essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne
Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and others, this volume
presents a wide selection of his photographs -- from the majestic
reading room at the New York Public Library to Allensworth,
California's one-room Tulare County Free Library built by former
slaves. 192pgs. • 2014
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✪ 194154 Siberia: In the Eyes of Russian
Photographers
167877 Terminal Bar: A Photographic Record
of New York's Most Notorious Watering Hole
Nadelman, Stefan
In 1972, Shelly Nadelman began a ten-year run bartending -- and
shooting photographs -- at one of New York City's most notorious
dives: the Terminal Bar, located across the street from the Port
Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square. Featuring 900 photographs accompanied by Nadelman's reminiscences, this volume
captures a raucous chapter in the life of the city that never sleeps.
176pgs. • 2014
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185486 Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs
of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha
Rosler, and Philip-Lorca Dicorcia
Bussard, Katherine A.
Revolutionizing the history of street photography, this volume
explores the work of four American photographers whose careers
in fashion, photojournalism, conceptual art, and contemporary art
are not usually associated with the genre. Illustrated with more
than 100 images, it provides an interpretation of a body of work
that has captured sites of commerce, dispossession, desire,
demonstration, power, and spectacle. 232pgs. • 2014
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $18.98
Bendavid-Val, Leah
Siberia spans numerous time zones and features enormously varied geography, and its inhabitants range from nomads and
shamans to urbanites surrounded by boutiques, museums, and
opera houses. Spanning some 130 years, this collection of images
by more than 50 Russian photographers conveys Siberia's enormity and diversity while bringing the region into concrete, human
focus. 240pgs. • 2013
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✪ 154639 The Crooked Timber of
Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
SECOND EDITION
Berlin, Isaiah
In this volume, Berlin reveals the links between the ideas of the
past and the social and political cataclysms of the 20th century:
between the Platonic belief in absolute Truth and the lure of
authoritarianism; between the reactionary ideologue Joseph de
Maistre and 20th-century fascism; between the romanticism of
Schiller and Byron and the militant nationalism that convulses
the modern world. 472pgs. • 2013
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126941 The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry
into the Condition of Victimhood
Fassin, Didier
Now taken for granted, the concept of psychic trauma came into being
only at the end of the 19th century and for a long time was treated
with suspicion. This volume tells the story of how the traumatic victim
became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself
became an unassailable moral category. 304pgs. • 2009
190818 History of Political Theory: An
Introduction: Volume I: Ancient and Medieval
Klosko, George
An introduction to the main figures in the history of Western political theory and their most important works, this first of two volumes traces the development of political theory from ancient
Greece through the Reformation. It examines the political theory of
the Greek polis and the Hellenistic period, the rise of Christian
political theory, and developments throughout the Middle Ages.
412pgs. • 2012
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128576 Hobbes and the Law of Nature
Zagorin, Perez
Because Hobbes is commonly held to be primarily a theorist of
sovereignty, political absolutism, and unitary state power, the significance of his moral philosophy is often underestimated. Zagorin
here reveals Hobbes's originality as a moral philosopher and his
importance as a thinker who subverted and transformed the idea
of natural law. 176pgs. • 2009
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122385 Identity and Violence: The Illusion of
Destiny
087236 Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of
the Peace
Sen, Amartya
Brett, Annabel S., ed. & Marsilius of Padua
In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that
the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as
much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the
reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen
presents an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move
toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward
brutality and war. 240pgs. • 2007
Marsilius of Padua offers a detailed analysis and explanation of human
political communities, before going on to attack what he sees as the
obstacles to peaceful human coexistence - principally the contemporary papacy. Brett's authoritative rendition of the Defensor Pacis is the
first new translation in English for fifty years. 638pgs. • 2005
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180996 The Importance of Being Civil: The
Struggle for Political Decency
Hall, John A.
Civility is desirable and possible, but can this fragile ideal be guaranteed? Combining historical and comparative evidence with social
and moral theory, Hall examines how the nature of civility has fluctuated in the last three centuries, how it became lost, and how it
was reestablished in the 20th century following the two world
wars. He also considers why civility is currently breaking down
and what can be done to mitigate this threat. 272pgs. • 2015
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126956 Justice: Rights and Wrongs
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $23.98
189707 The Oxford Handbook of
Philosophy of Criminal Law
Deigh, John & David Dolinko, eds.
The first comprehensive handbook in the field, this volume covers the field's major topics, including limits to criminalization,
obscenity and hate speech, blackmail, the law of rape, attempts,
accomplice liability, causation, responsibility, justification and
excuse, duress, provocation and self-defense, insanity, punishment, the death penalty, mercy, and preventive detention and
other alternatives to punishment. 544pgs. • 2011
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189734 The Oxford Handbook of Political
Philosophy
Wolterstorff, Nicholas
Estlund, David M., ed.
Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with
humankind, Wolterstorff not only offers a rich and compelling
philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious
discourse and human rights. He argues that no secular account of
natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic
account. 416pgs. • 2010
Includes 22 articles by leaders in the field on both perennial and
emerging topics of keen interest to contemporary political philosophers. In addition to longstanding issues such as authority, equality,
freedom, and democracy, there are articles on topics such as race,
historical injustice, deliberation, money and politics, global justice,
and ideal and non-ideal theory. 432pgs. • 2012
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104365 The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an
Age of Terror
Ignatieff, Michael
There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than trying to
win the war against terror without losing our democratic souls.
Ignatieff confronts this challenge head-on, offers an impeccably
argued case for how to balance security and liberty in the face of
the threat posed by terrorism. 232pgs. • 2005
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039660 Princeton Readings in Political
Thought: Essential Texts since Plato
Cohen, Mitchell & Nicole Fermon, eds.
Presents 44 selections -- key articles, book excerpts, essays, and
speeches -- that have shaped our understanding of Western society
and politics. The selections range from classical times (Thucydides,
Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero), to the ideas of such 20th-century political
philosophers and ideologists as Lenin, Freud, Malcolm X, Leo Strauss,
Nozick, Habermas, and Foucault. 740pgs. • 1996
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✪ 181332 Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
189664 Sex and Social Justice
Fawcett, Edmund
Nussbaum, Martha C.
This engrossing history traces liberalism's ideals, successes, and
failures through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and
American thinkers and politicians, ranging from the early 19th
century to the present. It provides vital historical and intellectual
background for hard thinking about liberal democracy's future.
496pgs. • 2015
In this volume, Nussbaum charts a feminism that is deeply concerned with the urgent needs of women who live in hunger and
illiteracy or under unequal legal systems, as well as with the pursuit of social justice in the sexual sphere and the issue of equal
rights for lesbians and gay men. 488pgs. • 2000
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190952 Libertarian Free Will: Contemporary
Debates
Palmer, David, ed.
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191175 A Society Adrift: Interviews and
Debates, 1974-1997
Castoriadis, Cornelius
A collection of new essays on the libertarian position on free will and
related issues that focuses specifically on the views of Robert Kane, the
leading contemporary defender of this view. Kane contributes a final
essay, replying to the criticisms offered by the other contributors and
developing his view in new directions. 224pgs. • 2014
For Castoriadis, a political thinker, militant, economist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher, questions of how to understand the world
and life in society were intertwined with his own life and activism.
This posthumous collection of interviews is a lively, direct introduction to the thinking of a writer who never abandoned his radically critical stance. 240pgs. • 2010
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POLITICAL SCI ENCE
101107 After Hegemony: Cooperation and
Discord in the World Political Economy
Keohane, Robert O.
Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power,
such as the US after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Keohane analyzes the institutions, or "international regimes,"
through which cooperation has taken place in the world political
economy and describes the evolution of these regimes as American
hegemony has eroded. 312pgs. • 2005
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050192 The Ambiguous Legacy: U. S. Foreign
Relations in the "American Century"
Hogan, Michael J., ed.
Essays assess American foreign policy over the course of the 20th
century, discussing such topics as the American conception of the
national interest, the tension between democracy and capitalism,
and the significance of race in US foreign relations. 534pgs. •
1999
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175305 Change They Can't Believe In: The
Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America
181072 The Hidden Agenda of the Political
Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions
and Why We Won't Admit It
Weeden, Jason & Robert Kurzban
Challenging our cherished notions about what motivates us, this
book explores how self-interest divides the public on a host of
issues, from abortion and the legalization of marijuana to samesex marriage, immigration, affirmative action, and income redistribution. The authors show how we engage in unconscious rationalization to justify our political positions, portraying our own views
as wise, benevolent, and principled while casting our opponents'
views as thoughtless and greedy. 376pgs. • 2014
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092911 Is America Breaking Apart?
Hall, John A. & Charles Lindholm
Combines analytical strategies from a variety of different disciplines to examine past and recent challenges to the stability of US
society. The authors argue that the strength and promise of
America's institutions, especially in their ability to accommodate
difference and reduce conflict, will ultimately resolve the deep
moral tensions that threaten America's social fabric. 182pgs. •
2001
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Parker, Christopher S. & Matt A. Baretto
Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens
concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who
refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not
white? The authors offer an alternative argument: that the Tea Party
is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in
American politics that is fueled by a fear that the country is being
stolen from "real Americans." 400pgs. • 2014
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169808 The Democracy Project: A History, a
Crisis, a Movement
Graeber, David
This journey through the idea of democracy provocatively reorients our understanding of pivotal historical moments -- from the
birth of Athenian democracy and the founding of the US to the
global revolutions of the 20th century and the rise of a new generation of activists -- and extracts their lessons for today. 352pgs. •
2013
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✪ 195029 Freedom of Speech: Mightier
Than the Sword
Shipler, David K.
Focusing on recent free speech controversies across the nation,
and anchored in personal stories -- sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar -- Shipler's
investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the
willingness to listen expose troubling instabilities in the very
foundations of American democracy. 352pgs. • 2015
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126028 The Other Alliance: Student Protest
in West Germany and the United States in the
Global Sixties
Klimke, Martin
Revising the standard narratives of American and West German
social mobilization, Klimke demonstrates the strong transnational
connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic.
Using previously classified documents and original interviews, he
examines the channels of cooperation between the movements and
the reactions these relationships provoked from the US government. 368pgs. • 2009
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190440 The Oxford Handbook of Political
Ideologies
Freeden, Michael, et al.
The first comprehensive volume to offer a state-of-the-art investigation of both the nature of political ideologies and their main
manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented
by a mixture of the range of theories that illuminate the field,
combined with an appreciation of the changing complexity of
concrete ideologies and the emergence of new ones. 800pgs. •
2013
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190388 The Oxford Handbook of Political
Science
Goodin, Robert E., ed.
A comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions;
political behavior; comparative politics; international relations;
political economy; law and politics; public policy; contextual
political analysis; and political methodology. 1312pgs. • 2009
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154713 Political Bubbles: Financial Crises
and the Failure of American Democracy
✪ 193690 Strangers in Their Own Land:
Anger and Mourning on the American Right
McCarty, Nolan, et al.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell
Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble" -- policy
biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability.
Demonstrating how political bubbles helped create the 2008 financial crisis, this book shows how such patterns have occurred
repeatedly throughout US history. 368pgs. • 2013
Why do the people who would seem to benefit most from "liberal"
government intervention abhor the very idea? Finding lives ripped
apart by stagnant wages, a loss of home, and an ever-elusive
American dream, Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of
the sociology of emotion to help us understand what it feels like to
live in "red" America. 288pgs. • 2016
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125553 Politics of the Veil
Scott, Joan Wallach
In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of
"conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools.
Proponents of the law, which was largely aimed at Muslim girls
wearing headscarves, insist it upholds France's values of secular
liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. In this volume, Scott lays out an explosive refutation of this view. 224pgs. • 2010
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125693 Power and Plenty: Trade, War and
the World Economy in the Second Millennium
Findlay, Ronald & Kevin O'Rourke
The first full account of world trade and development over the
course of the last millennium. The authors show how the expansion and contraction of the world economy has been directly tied
to the two-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and
peace have been critical determinants. 624pgs. • 2009
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125974 The Rise and Fall of Modern
American Conservatism: A Short History
038524 Suburban Warriors: The Origins of
the New American Right
McGirr, Lisa
Broadens our understanding of the roots of popular conservatism
by introducing us to women hosting coffee klatches for Barry
Goldwater; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing
against sex education; new arrivals drawn to Orange County's
mushrooming evangelical churches; and other elements of the
conservative "base." 395pgs. • 2001
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125527 Unequal Democracy: The Political
Economy of the New Gilded Age
Bartels, Larry M.
A searching analysis of the political causes and consequences of
America's growing income gap. The disparity in income, Bartels
shows, is not simply the result of economic forces, but is the product of broad-reaching policy choices in a political system increasingly dominated by partisan ideologies and the interests of the
wealthy. 344pgs. • 2010
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Farber, David
192352 Wages of Rebellion
This concise and accessible history provides rare insight into how
conservatives captured the American political imagination by
claiming moral superiority, downplaying economic inequality, and
embracing nationalism. It traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against New Deal liberalism, to its breathtaking resurgence under Ronald Reagan, to the debacle of the election of Barack Obama. 308pgs. • 2010
Hedges, Chris
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Drawing on an ambitious overview of prominent philosophers, historians, and literary figures, Hedges reveals not only the harbingers of a coming crisis but also the nascent seeds of rebellion. His
message is clear: popular uprisings in the US and around the
world are inevitable in the face of environmental destruction and
wealth polarization. 304pgs. • 2015
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PSYCHOLOGY & COGN ITIVE SCIENCE
039697 Ariadne's Clue: A Guide to the
Symbols of Humankind
Stevens, Anthony
From the ancient symbol of the serpent to the archetypal masculine and feminine, from the primordial landscape of the savannah
to the mysterious depths of the sea, Stevens traces a host of common symbols back through time to reveal their psychodynamic
functioning and their deep-rooted effects on the lives of modern
men, women, and children. 465pgs. • 2001
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066129 The Cognitive Neurosciences III
THIRD EDITION
Gazzaniga, Michael S., ed.
Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. This third
edition continues to chart new directions in the study of the biologic underpinnings of complex cognition -- the relationship
between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind. 1385pgs. •
2004
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104809 The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
104898 Memory: The Key to Consciousness
Young, Allan
Over the past two decades, memory research has accelerated, leading
to an explosion of new knowledge about the brain. Focusing on cutting-edge research in behavioral science and neuroscience, this volume is a primer of our current scientific understanding of the
mechanics of memory and learning. 280pgs. • 2007
In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon
newly discovered. Rather, it is a "harmony of illusions," a cultural
product gradually put together by the practices, technologies, and
narratives with which it is diagnosed, studied, and treated and by
the various interests, institutions, and moral arguments mobilizing
these efforts. 328pgs. • 1997
Thompson, Richard F. & Stephen A. Madigan
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181126 Madness in Civilization: A Cultural
History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud,
from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
Scull, Andrew
Today, mental disturbance is commonly viewed through a medical
lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through
religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or
social explanations. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this volume
paints a vivid and often harrowing portrait of the different ways
that cultures around the world have interpreted and responded to
the seemingly irrational, psychotic, and insane. 432pgs. • 2015
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039684 Jung on the Active Imagination
Jung, C. G.
All creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama,
poetry) can trace their roots to C. G. Jung's early work on
active imagination, a concept he developed between the years
1913 and 1916, following his break with Freud. This volume
offers a collection of Jung's writings on active imagination, gathered together for the first time. 198pgs. • 1997
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039580 Psychological Types
ERICH NEUMANN
Jung, C. G.
111632 Amor and Psyche:
The Psychic Development of
the Feminine: A Commentary
on the Tale by Apuleius
One of the most important of Jung's works,
rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The chapters that give general descriptions of the
types and definitions of Jung's principal
psychological concepts are key documents
in analytical psychology. 608pgs. • 1976
Neumann, Erich
The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from
the second-century Latin novel The Golden
Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of
classical literature. Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the narrative, Neumann shows how the contest between
the mortal maid Psyche and the great goddess Aphrodite yields surprising and valuable insights into the psychic life of women.
192pgs. • 1971
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181464 The Great Mother: An Analysis of
the Archetype
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039570 Psychology and the Occult
HULL, R. F. C., TRANS.
Jung, C. G.
Includes "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult
Phenomena"; "The Psychological Foundations of Belief in
Spirits"; "The Soul and Death"; "Psychology and Spiritualism";
and other key writings. 167pgs. • 1977
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Neumann, Erich
180956 The Quotable Jung
Examines how the feminine has been experienced and
expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time.
Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and
tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the feminine is seen as
an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual consciousness to the ungraspable matrix symbolized by the Great
Mother. 432pgs. • 2015
The single most comprehensive collection of Jung quotations
ever assembled, this volume presents hundreds of the most representative selections from the vast array of his books, essays,
correspondence, lectures, seminars, and interviews, as well as
the celebrated Red Book, in which Jung describes his own fearsome confrontation with the unconscious. 376pgs. • 2015
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RELIGION
173042 Augustine and the Jews: A Christian
Defense of Jews and Judaism
✪ 163728 Font of Life: Ambrose,
Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism
Fredriksen, Paula
Wills, Garry
Now featuring a new Postscript, this updated edition of Paula
Fredriksen's critically acclaimed study traces the social and
intellectual forces that led to the development of Christian antiJudaism, and shows how and why Augustine challenged this tradition. 528pgs. • 2010
No two men were more influential in the early Church than
Ambrose, the powerful Bishop of Milan, and Augustine, the
philosopher from provincial Africa who would write The
Confessions and The City of God. Highlighting the often uncomfortable relationship between the two church fathers, Wills
explores the mystery and meanings of the sacrament of baptism
and brings long overdue attention to an unjustly neglected landmark of early Christianity. 208pgs. • 2012
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145855 Sin: The Early History of an Idea
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Fredriksen, Paula
Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing
range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of
the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, a historian of religion tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas
about God no less than about humanity. 208pgs. • 2012
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189676 Asceticism
Wimbush, Vincent L. & Richard Valantasis, eds.
From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon
throughout history. In this volume, more than 40 preeminent
scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines analyze asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern,
African, Asian, and North American settings. 672pgs. • 2002
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185505 Christ Child: Cultural Memories of a
Young Jesus
Davis, Stephen J.
In the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Jesus not only performs
miracles while at play but also gets enmeshed in a series of interpersonal conflicts, in the course of which he curses to death children and
teachers who rub him the wrong way. In this innovative book, Davis
explores how ancient readers would have used texts, images, places,
and other reference points from their own social world to understand
the Christ child's curious actions. 432pgs. • 2014
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128461 The Disenchantment of the World: A
Political History of Religion
Gauchet, Marcel
This new interpretation of Western society and its relation to religion interprets Western history as a movement away from religious
society, one that began with prophetic Judaism, gained momentum
in Christianity, and eventually led to the rise of the modern political state. 272pgs. • 1999
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✪ 194733 The Hebrew Bible: A Critical
Companion
Barton, John, ed.
Brings together scholars from across a variety of disciplines to
provide a concise and accessible guide to the Hebrew Bible.
Covering every major genre of book in the Old Testament, it provides in-depth discussions of major themes such as human nature,
covenant, creation, ethics, ritual and purity, sacred space, and
monotheism. 632pgs. • 2016
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160510 In God's Shadow: Politics in the
Hebrew Bible
Walzer, Michael
In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer
reports his findings after decades of thinking about the politics of
the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to nuance while engagingly straightforward, Walzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and
the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their
views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war,
the authority of kings and priests, and the experience of exile.
256pgs. • 2012
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193502 John Calvin's Institutes of the
Christian Religion: A Biography
Gordon, Bruce
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, which argued for
the majesty of God and for justification by faith alone, decisively
shaped Calvinism as a major religious and intellectual force in
Europe and elsewhere. Bruce Gordon provides an essential biography of Calvin's influential and enduring theological masterpiece,
tracing the diverse ways it has been read and interpreted from
Calvin's time to today. 304pgs. • 2016
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182093 John's Gospel and Intimations of
Apocalyptic
Williams, Catrin H. & Christopher C. Rowland, eds.
187388 Fields of Blood: Religion and the
History of Violence
Armstrong, Karen
A renowned scholar of religion examines how and in what measure
religions came to absorb modern belligerence, and considers the
prospects for peace among believers of different faiths. With unprecedented scope, Armstrong looks at the whole history of each tradition,
surveying not only Christianity and Islam, but also Buddhism,
Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Judaism. 528pgs. • 2014
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the balance by exploring the ways in which the apocalyptic literature of Second Temple Judaism contributed to the theology and
outlook of John's Gospel. 344pgs. • 2014
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✪ 160189 The Late Medieval English Church:
Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with
Rome
190941 Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and
Archaeology
Bernard, G. W.
New ways of conceiving of the relationship between archaeology
and biblical studies allow the results of a wide cross-section of
excavations and regional studies to contribute to the interpretation
of the biblical text through an elucidation of the lifeways of the
ancient world. By going beyond mere chronology and focusing on
the social organization of biblical society, this volume is a major
methodological breakthrough for the study of the Bible and
archaeology. 1188pgs. • 2013
The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the
lens of the Reformation that transformed it. In this bold and
provocative book, historian George Bernard examines the church
on its own terms, revealing an institution with vibrant faith and
great energy, but also with weaknesses that its own leadership
worked to overcome. 304pgs. • 2012
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105124 The Myth of the Eternal Return:
Cosmos and History
Eliade, Mircea
This founding work of the history of religions makes both intelligible
and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and "primitive" religious cultures. While acknowledging
that a return to the "archaic" is no longer possible, Eliade passionately
insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our
imagination of what it is to be human. 232pgs. • 2005
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160472 Nahum: A New Translation with
Introduction and Commentary
Christensen, Duane L.
Nahum is a book about God's justice; it portrays God as strong,
unyielding, and capable of great anger. In this edition, a renowned
biblical scholar offers a detailed analysis of the Hebrew text and
demonstrates the intricate literary structure and high poetic quality
of the work. 464pgs. • 2009
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160471 The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,
Volume 2: Expansions of the Old Testament
and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical
Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes,
Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works
Charlesworth, James H.
This second of two volumes volume contains expansions of the Old
Testament as well as legends, wisdom and philosophical literature,
prayers, psalms and odes, and fragments of lost Judeo-Hellenistic
works. 1056pgs. • 1985
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190929 Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical
Interpretation
McKenzie, Steven L., ed.
Written by leading scholars in the field, the nearly 120 entries
in this two-volume set offer detailed, comprehensive treatments
of the latest approaches to and methods for interpretation of
the Bible, and provide a single source for authoritative reference overviews of scholarship on some of the most important
topics of study in the field of biblical studies. 1164pgs. • 2013
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190488 The Oxford Handbook of Quaker
Studies
Angell, Stephen W. & Pink Dandelion, eds.
In addition to an in-depth survey of historical readings of
Quakerism, the handbook provides a treatment of the group's key
theological premises and its links with wider Christian thinking.
Quakerism's distinctive ecclesiastical forms and practices are analyzed, and its social, economic, political, and ethical outcomes
examined. 688pgs. • 2013
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108857 The Oxford Handbook of Religion
and Ecology
Gottlieb, Roger S., ed.
The last two decades have seen the birth of a new field of academic study that examines the interaction between religion and ecology. Outlining the dominant dimensions of the field, this handbook
will serve as the definitive overview of the emerging discipline.
662pgs. • 2006
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COPTIC CHRISTIANITY
039809 Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic
Texts of Ritual Power
Meyer, Marvin W. & Richard Smith, ed.
This collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt surveys the
exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and
supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity.
These Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless powers" and evil spirits, spells invoking
thunderous powers, descriptions of fire baptism, and even
recipes from a magical "cookbook." 409pgs. • 1999
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142009 Early Christian Books
in Egypt
Bagnall, Roger S.
Bagnall explains why papyrus manuscripts
have routinely been dated too early, how
the role of Christians in the history of the
codex has been misrepresented, and how
the place of books in ancient society has
been misunderstood. He offers a realistic
reappraisal of the number of believers in Egypt during the early
Christian era, and provides a thorough picture of the economics
of book production during the period. 136pgs. • 2009
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177703 The Poems of Jesus Christ
Barnstone, Willis
Austere and poignant, the teachings of Jesus are wisdom lyrics and
narrative parables rich with garden, animal, and nature imagery.
Translator Willis Barnstone here unveils the essential poetry of the
Gospels by taking the direct speech of Jesus from Mark, Matthew,
Luke, and John and restoring it to its original poetic form.
320pgs. • 2012
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $7.98
✪ 148159 Predestination: The American
Career of a Contentious Doctrine
Thuesen, Peter J.
Argues that far from being only about the age-old riddle of
divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs
and practices -- the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of
purgatory and hell, the extent of God's involvement in human
affairs -- and that it has fueled theological conflicts across
denominations for centuries. 336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $21.95 / $9.98
126055 The Princeton Companion to Jonathan
Edwards
Lee, Sang Hyun, ed.
Comprising 20 essays by leading Edwards scholars, this volume
covers the theologian's view on the Trinity, God and the world,
Christ, and salvation, as well as history, typology, the church, and
the mission to Native Americans. 344pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • C NDJ • $75.00 / $48.98
136941 The Problem of Ritual Efficacy
Sax, William Sturman, et al., eds.
How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions
that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written
explicitly on the topic. In this volume, nine scholars address the
issue, ranging across the fields of history, anthropology, medicine,
and biblical studies. 208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $115.00 / $59.98
✪ 138499 Reading Jesus: A Writer's
Encounter with the Gospels
Gordon, Mary
In an effort to understand whether or not she had "invented a
Jesus to fulfill my own wishes," Mary Gordon determined to read
the Gospels as literature and to study Jesus as a character. What
results is a vibrantly fresh and personal journey through the
Gospels, as Gordon plumbs the central mysteries of the Christian
faith. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Pantheon • C • $24.95 / $7.98
039858 Religions of the United States in
Practice, Vol. 2
McDannell, Colleen, ed.
An anthology of primary sources examines religious behavior in
America, from praying in Pentecostal churches to singing
Hanukkah songs to debating the ordination of women, and
explores faith through action in the 19th and 20th centuries.
472pgs. • 2001
▲ • Princeton • P • $62.50 / $19.98
166235 Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and
Politics in the Book of Revelation
Pagels, Elaine
In this startling and original book, Pagels returns the Book of
Revelation to its historical origin, interpreting it as a scathing
attack on the decadence of Rome in the wake of Rome's occupation of Judea and the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great
Temple. 256pgs. • 2013
▲ • Penguin • P • $17.00 / $4.98
174835 The Sacred Neuron: Discovering the
Extraordinary Links Between Science and
Religion
Bowker, John W.
In this fascinating book, John Bowker shows that reason and emotion work much more closely together in forming opinions and
judgments than has previously been supposed. That faith and belief
are rooted in rationality -- not separate from it -- promises to have
stunning implications for our understanding of human identity,
mind, and consciousness. 240pgs. • 2007
◆ • I. B. Tauris • P • $21.00 / $9.98
✪ 039722 The Secular Mind
Coles, Robert
Traces the shifting relationship of the sacred to the secular, using a
variety of literary sources, including biblical stories about
Abraham and Moses; the writings of St. Paul, Augustine,
Kierkegaard, Darwin, and Freud; and the fiction of George Eliot,
Hardy, Meredith, Flannery O'Connor, and Huxley. 189pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $5.98
190577 Skeptical Theism
Dougherty, Trent & Justin P. McBrayer, eds.
Skeptical theism tackles the problem of evil by proposing a limited
skepticism about the purposes of God, and about our abilities to
determine whether any given instance is truly an example of evil. This
collection of 22 original essays discusses the epistemology of skeptical
theism, conditions of reasonable epistemic access, the implications
for theism, and the implications for morality. 368pgs. • 2014
◆ • Oxford University • C • $120.00 / $49.98
185575 Spiritual Defiance: Building a
Beloved Community of Resistance
Meyers, Robin
During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor,
Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this
provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the
church as a community of believers and calls readers back to the
church's roots as a community of resistance. 168pgs. • 2015
◆ • Yale • C • $26.00 / $8.98
025244 The Still Point: Reflections on Zen &
Christian Mysticism
Johnston, William
A comparison of the principles and the practices of Zen with the
traditional concepts, aims, and results of Christian mysticism. It
explores the bases of Zen and Christian mysticism, rethinks the
basic concepts of Catholic mystical theology in the light of the Zen
experience, and encourages more people to turn to contemplative
prayer. 202pgs. • 1989
◆ • Fordham • P • $40.00 / $7.98
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173030 Transient Apostle: Paul, Travel, and
the Rhetoric of Empire
Marquis, Timothy Luckritz
This re-evaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story explores
the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. It casts Paul's
rhetorical strategies against the background of the Augustan age, when
Rome's wealth depended on conquests abroad, the international commerce they facilitated, and the incursion of foreign customs and peoples they brought about. 216pgs. • 2013
◆ • Yale • C • $60.00 / $8.98
126166 A Very Brief History of Eternity
158670 Why Can the Dead Do Such Great
Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the
Martyrs to the Reformation
Bartlett, Robert
This sweepingly ambitious history by a medieval historian tells the
story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century
days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation.
Drawing on sources from around the Christian world, Bartlett
examines all of the most important aspects of the saints, including
miracles, relics, pilgrimages, shrines, and the saints' role in the
calendar, literature, and art. 816pgs. • 2013
▲ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $23.98
Eire, Carlos
Tracing the idea of eternity from ancient times to the present, Eire
examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions, exploring
how they developed and how they have helped shape individual
and collective self-understanding. 286pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $11.98
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✪ 028802 Antoine Lavoiser -- The Next
Crucial Year: Or, The Sources of His
Quantitative Method in Chemistry
105181 Earth Story: The Forces That Have
Shaped Our Planet
Holmes, Frederic Lawrence
Two centuries ago, scientists began to investigate Earth's history by
examining the rocks beneath its surface. Using this discovery as
their starting point, Simon Lamb and David Sington reveal the fascinating history of Earth from its earliest beginnings to the dawn of
human civilization. Features full-color illustrations and stunning
photography. 240pgs. • 2003
Presents an engaging portrait of a scientist whose innovative experiments would become the cornerstone of modern science as he
discovered that in every operation, there is an equal quantity of
material before and after the operation. 184pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton • C • $47.50 / $29.98
Lamb, Simon & David Sington
▲ • Princeton • P • $52.00 / $27.98
185180 Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the
Invention That Launched the MilitaryIndustrial Complex
111175 Fundamental Papers in Wavelet
Theory
Hiltzik, Michael
Heil, Christopher & David F. Walnut
Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, but that
was only the beginning of its impact. It marked the ascent of Big
Science, the industrial-scale research -- paid for by governments and
corporations -- that has driven the great scientific projects of our time.
Michael Hiltzik's book tells the riveting full story. 528pgs. • 2015
Traces the prehistory and initial development of wavelet theory, a
discipline that has had a profound impact on mathematics,
physics, and engineering. The book covers the interchanges
between these fields during the last 15 years have led to advances
in applications such as image compression, turbulence, machine
vision, radar, and earthquake prediction. 878pgs. • 2006
▲ • Simon & Schuster • C • $30.00 / $7.98
045962 The Construction of Modern Science:
Mechanisms and Mechanics
◆ • Princeton • C NDJ • $120.00 / $75.98
038574 Galactic Astronomy
Westfall, Richard S.
Binney, James & Michael Merrifield
Westfall's introduction to the history of science in the 17th century
examines the "scientific revolution" in terms of the interplay
between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition and mechanical philosophy. 171pgs. • 1978
An illustrated introduction to all astronomical concepts necessary
to understand the properties of galaxies, including magnitudes and
colors, the theory of stellar and chemical evolution, and the measurement of astronomical distances. 796pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $23.98
▲ • Princeton • P • $105.00 / $56.98
162240 The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts
Dark Matter
Freese, Katherine
128356 How Did the First Stars and Galaxies
Form?
Loeb, Abraham
The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe -- from our
bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars -- constitute
only 5 percent of all the matter and energy in the cosmos. This
volume narrates the inside story of the epic quest to solve one of
the most compelling enigmas of modern science: what is the universe really made of? 264pgs. • 2014
▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $9.98
Cosmology seeks to solve the fundamental mystery of our cosmic
origins. At a time when breathtaking technological advances promise a wealth of new observational data on the first stars and galaxies, this book offers a succinct and accessible overview of the field.
216pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
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128622 How Old Is the Universe?
Weintraub, David A.
Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion
years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion?
This volume, which explains how astronomers solved one of the
most compelling mysteries in science, also explores such phenomena as red giants and white dwarfs, gravitational lenses, dark matter, dark energy, and the accelerating universe. 380pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $10.98
132471 How Well Do Facts Travel?: The
Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge
084949 Jesuit Science and the Republic of
Letters
Feingold, Mordechai, ed.
Focusing on the institutional setting of Jesuit science, the contributors
take a new and broader look at the overall intellectual environment of
Jesuit colleges to see how Jesuit scholars taught and worked, to examine the context of the Jesuit response to the new philosophies, and to
chart the Jesuits' scientific contributions. 495pgs. • 2002
◆ • MIT • C • $52.00 / $21.98
✪ 194166 The Lagoon: How Aristotle
Invented Science
Howlett, Peter & Mary S. Morgan, eds.
Leroi, Armand Marie
Facts are far from the bland and rather boring but useful objects
that scientists and humanists produce and fit together to make
narratives, arguments, and evidence. In this volume, diverse studies of the transmission of facts, in fields from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change
the way we see the nature of facts. 488pgs. • 2010
Aristotle looms large over the history of Western thought, but
the subject he loved most was biology. He wrote vast volumes
about animals, describing them, classifying them, studying
where and how they lived and how they developed. Biologist
Armand Marie Leroi revisits Aristotle's writings and the places
where he worked, revealing him as not only the first biologist,
but also one of the greatest. 512pgs. • 2014
◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $22.98
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ALBERT EINSTEIN
181379 Einstein: 100 Years of Relativity
175391 The Meaning of Relativity: Including
Robinson, Andrew
the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric
Field
Published in association with the Albert Einstein Archives at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the book draws on this exceptional resource of Einstein's private papers and personal photographs in order to present the beautiful simplicity at the heart of
Einstein's greatest discoveries, and to explain how his ideas have
continued to influence scientific developments such as lasers, the
theory of the big bang, and "theories of everything." 256pgs. •
2015
▲ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
158707 Einstein and the
Quantum: The Quest of the
Valiant Swabian
Stone, A. Douglas
The untold story of how Einstein -- not Max
Planck or Niels Bohr -- was the driving force
behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid
portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled
with the apparently contradictory nature of
the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics by behaving simultaneously as both
particle and wave. 344pgs. • 2013
▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
129806 Einstein's German
World
Stern, Fritz
Gracefully blends history and biography in a
sequence of finely drawn studies of Germany's
great scientists and of German-Jewish relations
before and during Hitler's regime. Stern's central chapter traces the complex friendship of
Albert Einstein and the Nobel Prize-winning
chemist Fritz Haber, contrasting their responses to German life and
to their Jewish heritage. 271pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
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Einstein, Albert
In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive
paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe
permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert
Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the
Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four lectures constituted an overview of his then-controversial theory of relativity.
200pgs. • 2014
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
180929 Relativity: The Special and the
General Theory
Einstein, Albert
Published on the hundredth anniversary of general relativity, this
handsome edition of Einstein's famous book places the work in
historical and intellectual context while providing invaluable
insight into one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. A special chapter explores the history of the early foreign-language
editions in light of the reception of relativity in different countries. 320pgs. • 2015
▲ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $11.98
180937 The Road to Relativity: The History
and Meaning of Einstein's The Foundation of
General Relativity
Gutfreund, Hanoch & Jürgen Renn
Written in 1915, Einstein's The Foundation of General Relativity
was a watershed in the history of physics and remains an enduring testament to the elegance and precision of Einstein's thought.
This edition presents a beautiful facsimile of Einstein's original
handwritten manuscript, along with an English translation and
insightful page-by-page commentary that places the text in historical and scientific context. 272pgs. • 2015
▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $18.98
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181028 Life's Engines: How Microbes Made
Earth Habitable
Falkowski, Paul G.
The stewards of Earth, microbes transformed the chemistry of our
planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Paul
Falkowski takes readers deep into the microscopic world to
explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible -- and how human life today would cease to exist without
them. 224pgs. • 2015
▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
✪ 051189 Made to Measure: New Materials
for the 21st Century
Ball, Philip
MEDICINE & HEALTH
191878 Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale
of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of
Modern Medicine
Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe
Though he died at forty-eight, Thomas Dent Mütter pioneered
the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools,
and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely
deformed that was considered radical in its time. This mesmerizing biography captures the brilliant and eccentric medical
innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded
the country's most famous museum of medical oddities.
372pgs. • 2014
▲ • Gotham Books • C • $27.50 / $7.98
An introduction to one of today's most exciting areas of scientific
research: materials science. Philip Ball describes how scientists
are inventing thousands of new materials, ranging from synthetic
skin, blood, and bone to substances that repair themselves and
adapt to their environment, that swell and flex like muscles, and
that capture and store the energy of the sun. 458pgs. • 1997
111732 Infectious Disease
Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems
on Disease and of Disease on
Ecosystems
◆ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $16.98
046857 Modern Astrodynamics:
Fundamentals and Perturbation Methods
Bond, Victor R. & Mark C. Allman
Discusses some techniques used to obtain numerical solutions of
the equations of motion for planets and satellites, introducing the
classical two-body problem and solving it by developing six integrals of the motion. 250pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • C • $130.00 / $59.98
125644 The Nature of Space and Time
Hawking, Stephen W. & Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose, like Einstein, refuses to believe that quantum
mechanics is a final theory. Stephen Hawking thinks otherwise,
and argues that general relativity simply cannot account for how
the universe began. Here they explain their positions in a work
based on six lectures and a final debate presented at the Isaac
Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of
Cambridge. 160pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $15.95 / $6.98
104361 The New Science of Strong Materials:
Or, Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
Gordon, J. E.
A revised edition of the classic introduction to the properties of
materials used in engineering. Gordon shows how an in-depth
understanding of the intrinsic strengths (and weaknesses) of materials guides our engineering choices, and allows us to build the
structures that support our modern society. 328pgs. • 2006
▲ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $22.98
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Ostfeld, Richard S., et al.
Gathering thirteen essays by forty leading
experts, this book develops an integrated
framework for understanding where infectious diseases come from, what ecological
factors influence their impact, and how they in turn influence
ecosystem dynamics. 506pgs. • 2008
▲ • Princeton • P • $78.00 / $39.98
✪ 195032 On the Move: A Life
Sacks, Oliver
The autobiography of the brilliantly unconventional physician
and writer who illuminated the many ways that the brain makes
us human. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and
intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America;
his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and
scientists -- Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M.
Edelman, Francis Crick -- who influenced him. 416pgs. • 2015
◆ • Random House • C • $27.95 / $6.98
✪ 195037 Shrinks: The Untold Story of
Psychiatry
Lieberman, Jeffrey A.
The former President of the American Psychiatric Association
traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science to its
maturity as a science-driven profession that saves lives. With
case studies and portraits of the luminaries of the field -- from
Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel -- this is an urgent call to dispel
the stigma of mental illnesses by treating them as diseases
rather than unfortunate states of mind. 352pgs. • 2015
◆ • Little, Brown • C • $28.00 / $5.98
194725 Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101
Incredible Microbes
Roossinck, Marilyn J.
This stunningly illustrated book provides an unprecedented
look at 101 incredible microbes that infect all branches of life
on Earth -- from humans and other animals to insects, plants,
fungi, and bacteria. 272pgs. • 2016
▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $20.98
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190890 The Oxford Encyclopedia of the
History of American Science, Medicine, and
Technology
Slotten, Hugh Richard
Science, medicine, and technology are not static endeavors but
processes, bodies of knowledge, tools, and techniques that are
constantly growing and changing. The entries in this encyclopedia
explore the changing character of science, medicine, and technology in the US; the key individuals, institutions, and organizations
responsible for major developments; and the concepts, practices,
and processes underlying these changes. 1456pgs. • 2014
◆ • Oxford University • C • $395.00 / $199.98
189692 The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy
of Biology
Richards, Robert J. & Michael Ruse, eds.
Surveying the history and current state of the field, this volume
provides analyses of contemporary evolutionary thinking, discusses
genetics and the moral and epistemological foundations of our
understanding of heredity, and considers ecology, behavior, and
morality, as well as religious and feminist perspectives. 656pgs. •
2008
◆ • Oxford University • C • $170.00 / $79.98
✪ 180942 Philosophy of Physics: Space and
Time
Maudlin, Tim
This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and
time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the
conceptual foundations of space-time theory. Maudlin's broad historical overview examines Aristotelian and Newtonian accounts of
space and time, and traces how Galileo's conceptions of relativity
and space-time led to Einstein's special and general theories of
relativity. 200pgs. • 2015
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
036794 Principles of Physical Cosmology
125857 Revolutionizing the Sciences:
European Knowledge
SECOND EDITION
Dear, Peter
An accessible introduction to the origins of modern science,
including such figures as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton.
This second edition further explores the practice and influence of
alchemy, the social standing of early scientists, and the role of
medicine and medical practitioners. 216pgs. • 2009
▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $20.98
052545 Science As Public Culture: Chemistry
and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820
Golinski, Jan
Examines the profound transformations of chemical science in Britain
and Europe during the Enlightenment, locating important discoveries,
significant missteps, and the men who made these happen within the
context of rapidly shifting political and civic circumstances. Appraising
the careers of Joseph Priestley, Humphry Davy, and other prominent
chemists, Golinski shows how their work helped frame the practice of
science as a public enterprise. 342pgs. • 1999
◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $24.98
190585 Science in Wonderland: The Scientific
Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain
Keene, Melanie
In Victorian Britain, writers conveyed the excitement of new scientific discoveries to young readers by concocting charming and
imaginative fairy-tales in which dinosaurs could be dragons and a
drop of water revealed a soup of monsters. Exploring how these
authors reconciled the demands of factual accuracy and fantastical
narratives, Keene asks why fairy tales were chosen as an appropriate form for presenting scientific and technological knowledge to
the young. 256pgs. • 2015
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✪ 194894 The Science of Shakespeare: A
New Look at the Playwright's Universe
Peebles, P.J.E.
Falk, Dan
An overview of today's physical cosmology, shows how observation
has combined with theoretical elements to establish the subject as
a mature science. Discusses recent attempts to understand the origin and structure of the universe. 718pgs. • 1993
Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time, one we now recognize
as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. Dan Falk introduces a cast of Renaissance thinkers, including Thomas Digges,
who published the first English account of the "new astronomy"
and lived in the same neighborhood as Shakespeare; Thomas
Harriot -- "England's Galileo"; and Tycho Brahe, whose observatory-castle stood within sight of Elsinore, and whose family
crest sported the names "Rosencrans" and "Guildensteren."
384pgs. • 2014
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181265 Quotable Feynman
Feynman, Michelle
Carefully selected from Feynman's spoken and written legacy -including interviews, lectures, letters, articles, and books -- the
quotations in this volume range across art, childhood, discovery,
family, imagination, and humor to mathematics, politics, science,
religion, and uncertainty. Together, they vividly demonstrate
Feynman's almost constitutional inability to be anything other than
unconventional, engaging, and inspiring. 432pgs. • 2015
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187188 Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
Jorgensen, Timothy J.
How much do we really know about radiation? And what are its
actual dangers? This accessible blend of narrative history and science describes mankind's extraordinary, thorny relationship with
radiation, and examines how radiation helps and harms our
health. 512pgs. • 2016
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118445 Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History
of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
182175 Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Seife, Charles
A renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author
challenges the claims of the New Atheists, providing a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much
space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in God and
empirical science are not mutually exclusive. 304pgs. • 2014
Charles Seife introduces us to the daring geniuses, villains, and
victims of fusion science: the brilliant and tortured Andrei
Sakharov; the Strangelovean Edward Teller; Ronald Richter, the
secretive physicist whose lies embarrassed an entire country; and
Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, the two chemists behind the
greatest scientific fiasco of the past hundred years. 304pgs. •
2008
Aczel, Amir D.
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SOCIOLOGY & EDUCATION
104765 Creative Destruction: How
Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures
190505 Philosophy of Social Science: A New
Introduction
Cowen, Tyler
Cartwright, Nancy & Eleonora Montuschi, eds.
Through an array of colorful examples, Cowen asks what happens
when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys
native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world,
and if national cultures matter at all. Scrutinizing such manifestations of "indigenous" culture as the steel band ensembles of
Trinidad, Indian handweaving, and music from Zaire, Cowen finds
that they are more vibrant than ever -- thanks largely to cross-cultural trade. 192pgs. • 2004
Distinguished experts explore key aspects of the field, such as
social ontology (what are the things that social science studies?),
objectivity, formal methods, measurement, and causal inference.
Also included are chapters focused on notable subjects of social
science research, such as well-being and climate change. 320pgs.
• 2015
▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
✪ 155822 Living Illegal: The Human Face
of Unauthorized Immigration
Marquardt, Marie Friedmann, et al.
Based on oral histories, individual testimonies, and years of
research into the lives of ordinary migrants, this volume offers
richly textured portraits of real people working, building families, and enriching their communities even as the political climate has grown increasingly hostile. 342pgs. • 2013
▲ • New Press • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 135879 The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Alexander, Michelle
By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating
communities of color, Alexander argues, the US criminal justice
system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, relegating millions to a permanent second-class status even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. 304pgs. • 2010
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044895 Selections in Translation
Weber, Max
A selection of Weber's writings, translated and with critical introductions. Includes extracts reflecting the full range of Weber's
major concerns: the nature of domination in human society, the
role of ideas in history, the social determinants of religion, the origin and impact of industrial capitalism, and the scope and limits of
social science itself. 398pgs. • 1978
◆ • Cambridge • P • $49.99 / $23.98
064504 A Space on the Side of the Road:
Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America
Stewart, Kathleen
Vividly evokes an "other" America that survives precariously
among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and "hollers." To
Kathleen Stewart, this particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy. 243pgs. • 1996
▲ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $21.98
181233 Too Hot to Handle: A Global History
of Sex Education
Zimmerman, Jonathan
The first truly international history of sex education. Examining the
key players who supported and opposed the sex education movement, Zimmerman takes a close look at one of the most debated
and divisive topics in modern education. 216pgs. • 2015
▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $11.98
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111406 American Babylon: Race and the
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187063 A Field Guide to Sprawl
Self, Robert O.
An exploration of the meaning, common building patterns, and
visual culture of sprawl. The book's 75 stunning color aerial photographs, each paired with a definition, convey the impact on the
landscape of excessive development. 144pgs. • 2004
As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax
revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar US: the
rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black
and white histories inextricably joined. Robert Self tells this story
through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history
of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of
suburbanization and home-owner politics. 408pgs. • 2005
▲ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $24.98
169790 Carrot City: Creating Places for
Urban Agriculture
Komisar, June, et al.
Shows how city planning and architecture that considers food production as a fundamental requirement of design can promote
community gardens, greenhouses tucked under raised highways,
edible landscapes in front yards in place of resource-devouring
lawns, living walls that bring greenery into dense city blocks, and
productive green roofs on schools and large apartment blocks that
can be tended and harvested by students and residents alike.
240pgs. • 2011
Hayden, Dolores
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $30.00 / $7.98
181024 The New York Nobody Knows:
Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
Helmreich, William B.
A lifetime New Yorker who teaches university courses about the
city, William Helmreich decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs -- an astonishing 6,000 miles. His encounters along the way
-- with hundreds of New Yorkers from every part of the globe as
well as with several mayors -- are the heart of this captivating and
original book. 480pgs. • 2015
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 195017 Triumph of the
City: How Our Greatest
Invention Makes Us Richer,
Smarter, Greener, Healthier,
and Happier
◆ • Monacelli • C • $50.00 / $12.98
✪ 081162 Cities in the International
Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban
Development in North America and Western
Europe
Savitch, H. V., et al.
Does globalization menace our cities? Looking at the political
responses of ten cities in North America and Western Europe as
they grappled with the forces of global restructuring during the
past thirty years, Savitch and Kantor conclude that cities do have
choices in city building and that they behave strategically in the
international marketplace. 432pgs. • 2002
Glaeser, Edward
A pioneering urban economist explains
why the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future.
Traveling through history and around the globe, Glaeser
reminds us forcefully why we must nurture our cities -- or suffer consequences that will harm us all, no matter where we live.
352pgs. • 2011
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✪ 195134 The Ark Before Noah: Decoding
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Finkel, Irving
The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet is the starting-point
for this groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous
stories in the world. Decoding the ancient cuneiform message
wedge by wedge, Finkel discovers where the Babylonians believed
the ark came to rest and develops a new explanation of how the
old story ultimately found its way into the Bible. 432pgs. • 2014
◆ • Doubleday • C • $30.00 / $5.98
✪ 195133 Dark Invasion : 1915: Germany's
Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist
Cell in America
Blum, Howard
When the US became a trading partner for the Allies early in World
War I, a team of German saboteurs devised a series of "mysterious
accidents" that attacked vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry like J. P. Morgan. Illustrated
with eight pages of black and-white photos, this riveting true-life
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✪ 195155 Days of Rage: America's Radical
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✪ 195139 Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of
the New Yorker
Burrough, Bryan
From the 1930s to the 1960s, Joseph Mitchell was the voice of
New York City, cherished for his intimate sketches of the people
who made the city tick, from Mohawk steelworkers to Staten
Island oystermen, from homeless intellectual Joe Gould to Old
John McSorley, founder of the city's most famous saloon. Kunkel's
biography, based on the thousands of archival pages he left behind
and dozens of interviews, pieces together the life of a beloved and
enigmatic literary legend. 384pgs. • 2015
Revisits the period in the 1970s when native-born radicals smuggled bombs into skyscrapers and detonated them inside the
Pentagon and the Capitol, robbed dozens of banks, and assassinated policemen in New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta. The FBI,
encouraged to do everything possible to undermine the radical
underground, itself broke many laws in its attempts to bring the
revolutionaries to justice -- often with disastrous consequences.
608pgs. • 2015
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✪ 195129 The Divide: American Injustice in
the Age of the Wealth Gap
Taibbi, Matt
Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty, by
a divide that allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy
to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime. Matt
Taibbi conducts a timely, galvanizing journey through both sides of
our new system of justice -- the fun-house-mirror worlds of the
untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. 448pgs. • 2014
◆ • Modern Library • C • $27.00 / $5.98
✪ 195158 The Goddess Pose: The Audacious
Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped
Bring Yoga to the West
Goldberg, Michelle
When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in
Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By
the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced everywhere,
from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar. Michelle Goldberg here
traces the long and eventful life of the extraordinary woman who
ushered in a global craze that continues unabated. 336pgs. •
2015
◆ • Knopf • C • $26.95 / $5.98
✪ 195218 Living in Historic Cairo: Past and
Present in an Islamic City
Daftary, Farhad, et al., eds.
This illustrated book examines Cairo from the first century AH /
seventh century AD to the present, considering the relationships
between the physical layout of the city and its historic buildings, its
economy, and its social, cultural, and religious life. It discusses the
programs of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, both for restoring historic monuments in the district of al-Darb al-Ahmar and for reviving and improving the social and economic life of the old city.
300pgs. • 2010
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✪ 195154 The Religion of Democracy: Seven
Liberals and the American Moral Tradition
Kittelstrom, Amy
Today we commonly associate liberal thought and politics with
secularism, but the role of religion in American politics has been
far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest. Amy Kittelstrom traces the lived connections among seven liberal thinkers -- from John Adams to William James to Jane Addams
-- through the people they knew, what they read and wrote, where
they went, and how they expressed their opinions. 432pgs. •
2015
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✪ 195160 Sicily
Norwich, John Julius
From its beginnings as a Greek city-state to its emergence as a
multicultural trading hub during the Crusades, from the rebellion
against Italian unification to the rise of the Mafia, the story of Sicily
is rich with extraordinary moments and dramatic characters.
Norwich outlines the surprising influence Sicily has had on world
history, and tells the story of one of the world's most kaleidoscopic
cultures in a galvanizing, contemporary way. 400pgs. • 2015
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✪ 195217 Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese
Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collection at
Columbia University
Swergold, Leopold, et al.
Focuses on a group of 22 stone devotional objects and architectural fragments that collectively represent major developments in
Chinese religion and mortuary culture, from the Han dynasty
through the Tang. The major emphasis is on works from the sixth
century, a period of great intellectual ferment and artistic transformation, above all in the Buddhist arts. 126pgs. • 2009
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